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On Ukraine, the neo-isolationists of the right are fighting the last war.
They warn of a return to the belligerent mood that led to the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003 — never mind that they are warning the wrong country.
If the U.S. launched a large-scale military intervention 20 years ago without adequately calculating the risks or understanding the political and culture contours of the country it would occupy, it is the Russians, not the Ukrainians, the Europeans or us, who are now replicating that mistake.
Giving the Ukrainians Javelin missiles to fire at armored columns encircling their cities is a far cry from taking over a large Middle Eastern country with no clear exit plan.
The idea that the U.S. national mood is disturbingly akin to that of 2003 leaves out something extremely important — September 11.
We wouldn’t have invaded Afghanistan or Iraq if it hadn’t been for the shock of one of the most brazen and destructive attacks on the homeland in American history. It’s not possible for any overseas event playing out on our TV screens to equal the rawness and emotional power of the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
Still, the neo-isolationists, who call themselves realists or “restrainers,” want to believe that we are on the verge of a dangerous escalation in Ukraine. While there have been prominent voices who have called for a no-fly zone that would constitute such an escalation, President Joe Biden has been resolutely against it and the balance of opinion on left and right is opposed as well. Absent a truly game-changing event on the ground in Ukraine, it is simply not a viable option.
What we are talking about, realistically, is ramping up material support to Ukrainians and further sanctions on Russia. Both should be undertaken with care, but neither is tantamount to starting World War III.
As Jacob Heilbrunn noted in a dispatch for Politico from an “emergency” conference held by restrainers in Washington, D.C., their preferred policy approach is basically to allow the Ukrainians to get conquered by the Russians as soon as possible for their own good — that way, the Russians will stop rocketing their cities to rubble.
The citizens of Bucha might find this a very odd form of solicitude. One can only imagine what the restrainer advice would have been to the Greek city states resisting the advances of the Persian empire in the 5th century B.C., to the Carthaginians during the Punic wars, or to the Russians during Napoleon’s invasion.
Submit to your foreign overlords, who seek to occupy or dismember your country and destroy your democratically elected government, is not counsel many nations are ever eager to take.
Indeed, for writers and analysts who style themselves as realists, the restrainers display a profound lack of awareness of how motivated people feel, even when badly outgunned, to defend their culture and their homeland when an invader comes seeking to impose foreign rule.
It is certainly true that Bush administration foreign policy became much too idealistic, bordering on otherworldly, over time. That doesn’t mean that, in reaction, we need to jettison all moral discernment in foreign affairs. Yes, Ukraine is a corrupt and ramshackle democracy, but there can be no doubt about its superiority to Vladimir Putin’s venal dictatorship, or about Russia’s culpability for launching a hideous war of aggression.
To say otherwise is to ignore all the relevant distinctions in this conflict — between who is the aggressor and who is the defender, who hates the West and who wants to join it, who gave up their nukes decades ago and who is making nuclear threats, and by the way, who has been winning against the odds and whose vaunted military machine has been repeatedly embarrassed.
In seeking to avoid the mistake of 2003, the restrainers are making their own mistake of 2022. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/laramieboomerang/opinion/guest_column/its-not-2003-again/article_c94d175a-603c-598d-901d-e8d761f2223c.html | 2022-04-09T14:00:08Z | wyomingnews.com | control | https://www.wyomingnews.com/laramieboomerang/opinion/guest_column/its-not-2003-again/article_c94d175a-603c-598d-901d-e8d761f2223c.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Get to know more about the charming and charismatic Matthew, 11. As much as he is charming, he is equally known for his kind demeanor and love of sharks. Blue is his favorite color, and he is said to be a skilled artist.
Matthew loves to play football and watch YouTube videos in his free time. He is even known to pick up a controller and play video games. Matthew idolizes Superman, and if able to choose powers, flying would be the ultimate choice. Chicken and pizza are a frequent ask when it comes to mealtime. He does well with younger-aged peers. Matthew dreams of spending the day on the beach and going to Disneyland.
He is now in the sixth grade. Matthew is always excited to learn science.
Matthew would do best in a family living in a more urban area, in which he is the youngest child in the home; however, his caseworker will consider all family types. He will need to remain in contact with his sister following placement. Financial assistance may be available for adoption-related services. Matthew lives in Nevada. Child ID: 214495
Child profiles are provided by Raise the Future at www.raisethefuture.org. For more information about waiting children, contact Raise the Future at 800-451-5246.
An approved adoption home study is required to be considered for placement of a child. Children can be placed across state lines, so Wyoming families are encouraged to inquire, regardless of the child’s current state of residence.
For information about becoming an adoptive parent, contact Wyoming Children’s Society at 307-632-7619 or visit www.wyomingcs.org. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/news/a_child_waits/a-child-waits-4-9-22/article_4b54c54d-cce4-58d4-b92c-de1725e716d1.html | 2022-04-09T14:00:20Z | wyomingnews.com | control | https://www.wyomingnews.com/news/a_child_waits/a-child-waits-4-9-22/article_4b54c54d-cce4-58d4-b92c-de1725e716d1.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
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I think this is the busiest week I have had since being elected mayor. I counted 43 meetings this week. This is the week we meet with our treasurer and every city department to go over their budget requests. I love the opportunity to meet with them and learn their priorities and needs for the next fiscal year.
This week, the base is hosting the Global Strike Senior Leader Conference. The leadership of the 8th Air Force and 20th Air Force are all here. I am a Global Strike Civic Leader, and this means I get a chance to attend the meetings and learn all that is happening in our nuclear Air Force.
Last Saturday saw a couple of amazing opportunities. It is prom season, and it costs a lot to attend. Jean Richardson started to collect prom dresses to give out to ladies who needed them 15 years ago. It has become a mission to make prom dresses available to every girl in our city that needs one. ANB Bank donated a showroom so Jean could get the dresses out of her basement. It felt like a boutique when I walked in. A half dozen ladies were there to help the girls find the perfect dress from the almost 400 in inventory. It was great to see the excitement on the faces of the girls getting ready for the big dance.
Later that day, I joined Alf and Ms. Sallee at Lowes, where they were selling raffle tickets to benefit local veterans. Lowes had donated a riding lawn mower and BBQ grill, and Budweiser donated some fun sports equipment. These two folks spend so much time working to help veterans, I can’t say enough about their efforts. All the money goes to their veterans’ projects. (Big disappointment in not winning the riding lawn mower!)
Our Community Recreation and Events (CRE) department consists of our parks, forestry, recreation, facilities, aquatics, golf, Botanic Gardens and cemetery. Teresa Moore and Jason Sanchez are the folks who help direct this huge department. During the recent COVID-19 pandemic, their department took some hits to the budget. With the school district stopping grade school sports programs, their sports participation has skyrocketed. The challenge is to find the resources to help them keep up with the demand of the public to get outdoors and enjoy our programs and facilities. Inflation is not helping.
The City Clerk’s Office is another department that is asking for help to bridge the gap from the old way of doing business to the new way, where everything is online and saved to the cloud. Kris Jones started out as the administrative assistant for the City Council back in my time, and she has been the clerk for a few years now. The big ask is for help in getting the computer software and help to get everything updated and online. We are definitely making progress.
Human Resources’ ask for next year is for software to help with performance appraisals and feedback. With this many full-time employees, using technology is making everyone’s job easier. Darrin Hass, our HR director, is also working to implement Cheyenne U. It is a training program to help our employees get the skills needed to advance their careers and make their current jobs easier. Twenty-five courses, taught by our staff and others, can make a world of difference. In this environment, finding and hiring good employees is a challenge. Our HR department is working hard to make a difference.
Chief Kopper from our fire department shared his priorities for the future. Our city is growing, and this makes meeting our response standards a challenge. Your support of the sixth-penny sales tax will make a huge difference with the three new stations. Replacing Marsha Connour in the office after 40 years of service is going to be the biggest challenge in the next couple of years. Our plan is to hire her replacement early so she can pass on the vast knowledge. Our 91 firefighters are dedicated to the safety of our residents.
Our police department is struggling with the cost of inflation and supply chain shortages. Getting things like ammo and other supplies is getting harder and more expensive. With the growth of the city, “business is getting busier” in police speak. Getting them the needed help, both on the street and in the back office, is the biggest ask. We have 110 officers that work to make our streets safe. Chief Francisco is new to Cheyenne and tells everyone how much he loves our department and city. I gave him back the Kansas City Chiefs jersey – won’t need it anymore, as the Denver Broncos have a new quarterback, and it is time for the blue and orange to win.
Stefanie Boster is our city attorney. She is our newest director and came to us with City Council experience in Casper. The biggest need in our attorney’s office is to hire a new deputy city attorney. The city is growing, and that means too many contracts, MOUs, professional services agreements, resolutions, ordinances and general questions for one attorney. We are looking for an experienced attorney to take the load off Stefanie. Hoping someone out there can fill the bill. I promise, it is a great place to work.
Our planning department is charged with making sure our current development meets our codes, and that we are planning for the way the city will grow in the future. Charles Bloom gave us the outline for his budget needs for the next year, and he gave us a glimpse of what it will take for the planning department to meet the future. One thing I took note of is the need to do a parks and recreation master plan. It was 2006 when our last one was done.
We are blessed to have Tom Cobb as our city engineer. His needs for the next year revolve around hiring the staff needed to keep up with the growth of the city. We want to provide timely customer service, and that will take more help in the near future. We also discussed some of the drainage issues we have targeted over the past year. Good news is we are making progress in this arena.
Our municipal court moved into their new building a few years ago. It is such a nice addition to our downtown. Judge Tony Ross is our senior judge, and he shared that the court is getting busier and busier. The challenge is to add the help to keep up with the volume. It is sad that business is this good.
I think one of the hardest departments to run is our compliance department. Compliance is responsible for nuisance complaints, animal control, our building inspectors and risk management. It is hard to take complaints from the community and get them worked out. Eric Fountain is the director, and he always has a positive attitude and gets the job done.
The last budget meeting of the week was with our IT department. My biggest concern is computer attacks. We are making the investments to make sure our system is safe. Tyler and Dustin make me feel comfortable that they have things under control. One thing they suggested is ongoing cybersecurity training for our staff to make sure we don’t fall prey to a scam.
The Global Strike Senior Leader Conference has been a blast this week. We have been blessed to hear from an expert on China that opened my eyes. A couple of folks who give the command advice on Russia educated the group on Russian history and how it influences today’s leaders. The Chief of Staff of the Air Force, General Brown gave us an update on the state of the Air Force, and challenged us to help the airmen living in our community successfully integrate into our communities.
General Cotton is the commander of this diverse command, and I really enjoyed hearing his vision and understanding what the troops he commands do to protect our nation. Cheyenne is blessed to have F.E. Warren Air Force Base, and I ask our community to look for ways to help make their airmen feel welcomed here.
If you have a question for me, send it to media@cheyennecity.org. I’ll continue to answer them in my future Mayor’s Minute columns. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/opinion/guest_column/mayor-s-minute-budget-requests-means-43-meetings-in-one-week/article_ff5da992-c33b-58fd-b5fe-b60c84b3bd5c.html | 2022-04-09T14:00:51Z | wyomingnews.com | control | https://www.wyomingnews.com/opinion/guest_column/mayor-s-minute-budget-requests-means-43-meetings-in-one-week/article_ff5da992-c33b-58fd-b5fe-b60c84b3bd5c.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
GILLETTE — A group of about 25 people gathered in an old, dusty barn.
Some sat at a table, some on a beam along the wall. Others sat on bales of fleece nearby. Young and old, they ate plates of pork, beans and salads, as a cattle dog ate beneath another table.
They didn’t travel to the historic Edwards Ranch south of Gillette just to eat, however.
They came to shear, and Roy Edwards brought his sheep.
“I learned in a school just like this 26 years ago,” he said, standing at the end of the shearing chutes, as his lunch break came to an end.
For many of those participants, some of whom participate in 4-H and Future Farmers of America, it was their first time trimming wool themselves. It’s an age-old technique, but one that varies and comes with its own challenges.
“They will make a lot of cuts on the sheep, which is what happens, and they’ll tear the fleeces all up, but that’s how you’ve got to learn,” said Ronda Boller, a Campbell County rancher who helped organize the event. “There’s no other way to shear sheep than like this.”
Many a Campbell County sheep throughout the years has been sheared by Australian or New Zealand shearers. The international help would come from their part of the world, where shearing occurs nearly year-round, to Wyoming, where the wool-shearing season is mostly handled in the few months before summer.
The history of shearing sheep runs deep in Campbell County, but the methods vary from those from Down Under. As they say, “there’s more than one way to skin a cat.”
Well, it turns out that saying rings true for giving sheep haircuts.
“Their technique is a lot faster,” Boller said of the wool shearers from Australia and New Zealand.
In Wyoming, shearers would tie down sheep before getting to work on their winter coats. But in Australia and New Zealand, it’s more common to shear “loose,” with the animals unrestrained.
Despite his enthusiasm and willingness to shear again, “loose” proved challenging for Caden Cantu, 14, of Moorcroft, after getting a lesson from Gus Pellatz.
“I’m little. I’m short,” Cantu said.
It’s unclear when a sheep shearing class was last held in Campbell County, but it’s commonly agreed that they have become more rare.
The COVID-19 pandemic made it more difficult for some of those shearers to make the trek across the world to Campbell County, which is partly how Boller and her husband got the idea to organize the class.
When they needed help shearing their own sheep, they realized the shortage of able hands for the job. Soon enough, with a few sponsors on board, they helped arrange the two-day shearing school that the community had the chance to join free.
Wade Kopren led the class along with local shearers. LeeAnn Brimmer taught the wool handling. It was sponsored by Campbell County Woolgrowers Auxiliary, Campbell County 4-H and Edwards Rambouillets.
With the growing scarcity of those privy to the art of wool shearing, a handful of people left the Edwards Ranch Saturday evening two days and a few wool fleeces closer to keeping that art alive. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/rawlinstimes/news/all-the-buzz-sheep-shearing-class-passes-technique-to-new-generation/article_fe025dbf-50f7-5ef5-b548-474b62967276.html | 2022-04-09T14:01:04Z | wyomingnews.com | control | https://www.wyomingnews.com/rawlinstimes/news/all-the-buzz-sheep-shearing-class-passes-technique-to-new-generation/article_fe025dbf-50f7-5ef5-b548-474b62967276.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
CHICAGO, Illinois — Six human skulls that were bound for an address in Iowa were intercepted by Customs agents in Chicago last month. It happened on March 29th at O’Hare Airport, according to a news release from US Customs and Border Patrol.
Customs agents were x-raying a shipment that was heading to Iowa from the Netherlands when they spotted “anomalies”. Further inspection revealed three packages, each containing two human skulls. The six skulls were confiscated and turned over to the CDC to be disposed of.
The concern isn’t the macabre nature of the shipment, but the potential biohazards for the CBP. “Our nation’s food supply is constantly at risk from pests and disease not known to occur in the U.S.,” said LaFonda D. Sutton-Burke with the CBP in Chicago, “These significant interceptions … exemplify CBP’s continued commitment to safeguarding American agriculture.”
This wasn’t the only big biohazard bust for CBP in Chicago last month. On March 8th a canine detected something suspicious in three packages being shipped from Poland. Inside were live moss bathmats that hadn’t been declared through customs. The mats were destroyed using steam sterilization. The CBP says the mats could have introduced non-native plant diseases or insects into the US ecosystem.
Customs and Border Patrol says you should review their information center or contact them online or by phone at 1-877-227-5511 with any questions about an international shipment. | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/news/iowa-news/human-skulls-shipped-to-iowa-intercepted-in-chicago/ | 2022-04-09T14:01:09Z | siouxlandproud.com | control | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/news/iowa-news/human-skulls-shipped-to-iowa-intercepted-in-chicago/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
We’ve had it all the past two weeks: winds clocking in at 60 mph with gusts hitting hurricane velocity, snow blowing horizontally, nippy winter-like wind chills and even balmy spring-like bring-out-the-shorts weather.
Such is April in Wyoming.
In a poem, T.S. Eliot wrote, “April is the cruelest month.”
While his poem “The Waste Land” wasn’t actually referring to the weather, the saying is apropos for Wyoming conditions this time of year. The calendar indicates spring arrived a couple weeks ago, but the weather often tells us otherwise.
I recall a time years ago when I was driving home from Cheyenne about this time of year. The sky was clear and blue, but there was a 50 mph breeze making a significant wind chill. A man was waving, trying to get someone to stop while standing next to his car. He was just in shirt sleeves on a day where a parka was in order.
He was panicked and, since vehicles ahead of me drove on by, I pulled over. As it turned out the man, a visitor from Kentucky, had gotten out of his rental car to take a photo. The view was really quite stunning. Unfortunately, his car door slammed shut and locked while the keys remained in the ignition. The man had accidentally locked himself out.
Being pre-cellphone days, he needed a lift to get help to unlock his car door. I drove him to the nearest public phone so he could call a locksmith for help.
Riding in my truck, I turned the heat on full-blast and he finally stopped shivering.
“Does the wind always blow like this?” he asked.
With a laugh, I explained to him that the breeze is our population control mechanism.
“I bet it works,” he said, not cracking a smile and staring seriously at the road ahead.
Likely it is one factor that turns potential newcomers away, since spring in Wyoming is not for the faint of heart. The change of season from winter to spring is a stutter start here, offering pleasant and mild days, sandwiched between those that are certainly less than delightful.
As a Wyoming native, I know spring is our most trying season. We would rejoice if the prediction from Punxsutawney Phil was true where we would have a mere six more weeks of winter after Groundhog Day. In early February, we know we’re up for a good three months of snow and cold yet.
Two years ago we got a 6-inch dump of heavy, wet snow on June 9. Last year, we had a major blizzard hit Laramie on March 14. There’s one thing about our spring weather: it isn’t boring.
Two weeks ago temperatures soared, getting into the 70s in some parts of the state. It certainly gave me an attack of Spring Fever.
I celebrated the first day of spring this year by combining two activities: hiking and skiing. Dobby, my Australian shepherd, and I enjoyed the overlapping seasons in the Blair area of Pole Mountain.
For those who enjoy non-motorized activities, it’s a great time of year on Pole Mountain when gravel roads are closed to motorized travel. It’s a hiker, cross-country skier, dog-walker and mountain biker’s haven, especially during one of our rare warm spells.
On our outing, I hiked the bare areas, carrying my skis in my pack and skied when the route was covered by snow and significant drifts. I ended up skiing more than I hiked.
I spied bluebirds and chickadees. I noted fresh critter tracks, possibly one set from a passing bobcat, and another from a wandering coyote. I even spotted two moose in the woods. Luckily I saw them first and got Dobby on leash before they caught his interest. We passed without incident, the moose hardly giving us the time of day.
The key to enjoying spring in Wyoming is to remain flexible. There’s opportunity for skiing, cycling and hiking, all in the same week and sometimes in the same day.
Relish the peace when the wind stops, the sun comes out and skies turn blue. Such bouts can be fleeting, but one thing is for certain: The nice weather stretches will gradually outnumber the crummy days.
This is spring in Wyoming. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/rawlinstimes/news/april-weather-in-wyoming-at-least-it-s-not-boring/article_f45a6e74-3b90-5b1c-8b3f-3f246f2c0d17.html | 2022-04-09T14:01:10Z | wyomingnews.com | control | https://www.wyomingnews.com/rawlinstimes/news/april-weather-in-wyoming-at-least-it-s-not-boring/article_f45a6e74-3b90-5b1c-8b3f-3f246f2c0d17.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
EDISON, Neb. (AP) — A wildfire in southern Nebraska fueled by dry conditions and strong winds forced the evacuation of the small village of Edison, destroyed several homes and led to the death of a rural fire chief who was killed in a crash while he was responding to the blaze.
The Nebraska State Patrol called for a mandatory evacuation Thursday night of the Furnas County community of about 130 people about 187 miles southwest of Lincoln as the fire neared the town and spread over 30,000 acres by Friday.
The patrol also said that Elwood Volunteer Fire Chief Darren Krull died after the emergency SUV he was a passenger in collided with a water tanker as smoke from the fire cut visibility to zero. | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/news/nebraska-news/rural-nebraska-fire-chief-dies-in-crash-on-way-to-wildfire/ | 2022-04-09T14:01:15Z | siouxlandproud.com | control | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/news/nebraska-news/rural-nebraska-fire-chief-dies-in-crash-on-way-to-wildfire/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
As the time of year arrives when the “cheep, cheep” sound of cute chicks becomes more common, the Wyoming Department of Health is reminding people that baby birds can sometimes carry harmful germs even though they look clean and healthy.
“There’s no denying that poultry chicks are cute and appealing. They’re soft too. That’s why many people want to photograph, touch, hold or even snuggle with them,” said Matthew Peterson, surveillance epidemiologist with WDH. “Unfortunately, these charming chicks can also have germs on their bodies and in their droppings.”
Baby poultry are recognized as a common source of salmonella, which can cause diarrhea, fever, stomach cramps and other severe symptoms in humans. Some people have an increased risk for severe symptoms: young children, the elderly, pregnant women and people with weakened immune systems.
Wyoming regularly has cases of salmonellosis in humans from contact with live poultry, especially in springtime.
“People in Wyoming are regularly infected with salmonella as part of larger, multistate outbreaks involving baby poultry. It happens every year,” Peterson said. “The germs we’re concerned with are also found where birds live such as in their cages and coops. If someone puts their hands in or near their mouth after handling birds or touching the birds’ environment, they can become infected.”
Tips for handling live birds include:
• Children younger than 5 years of age, elderly or people with weak immune systems shouldn’t handle or touch chicks or other live poultry.
• After touching live poultry or anything in the area where they are found, wash hands thoroughly with soap and water. If soap and water aren’t available, use hand sanitizer.
• Don’t eat or drink around live poultry, touch with the mouth or hold closely to the face.
• Don’t let live poultry inside your house, in bathrooms or in areas where food or drink is prepared, served or stored.
• Clean equipment or materials used in caring for live poultry outside the house, such as cages or feed or water containers.
Peterson said a different bird-related disease has been in the news lately as Wyoming also is seeing highly pathogenic avian influenza spread among domestic and wild birds.
Bird owners should follow guidance from the Wyoming Livestock Board on preventing exposure to wild birds and should report any symptoms among their birds to their veterinarians.
Hunters who handle wild birds should dress game birds in the field when possible, wear gloves when dressing birds, and wash hands with soap and water afterwards. Other individuals should avoid contact with wild birds if possible. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/rawlinstimes/news/chicks-may-be-cute-but-can-spread-ugly-disease/article_3a8cb7be-d93c-5689-afcd-a8970443ff5e.html | 2022-04-09T14:01:22Z | wyomingnews.com | control | https://www.wyomingnews.com/rawlinstimes/news/chicks-may-be-cute-but-can-spread-ugly-disease/article_3a8cb7be-d93c-5689-afcd-a8970443ff5e.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
CASPER — Gov. Mark Gordon announced his reelection bid Monday, offering an upbeat message after a first term dominated by the COVID-19 pandemic and economic challenges.
“I do believe that Wyoming is the best place on the Earth bar none, and I believe Wyoming’s best days are ahead of it,” said Gordon, a moderate Republican. “And that’s because of you: the people of Wyoming.”
Gordon’s time in office has been challenging, and he’s faced criticism from his party’s right wing.
He angered many Wyomingites with a statewide mask mandate enacted during a COVID spike in December 2020. He lifted it four months later.
Midway through 2021, as COVID was surging in the state, Gordon said Wyoming would not implement another statewide mask order or require vaccines. That promise held true.
Despite criticism from Gordon’s right flank, there is not a well-known, hard-line conservative challenging him. Challenging an incumbent is already tough, but time is starting to run out for a formidable candidate to raise money and spread awareness about his or her candidacy.
“It’s way too late,” said Bill Novotny, a county commissioner and political consultant. The primary is in August.
Scott Madsen, a Buffalo City Council member and Gordon supporter who attended Monday’s announcement, said opinions of Gordon in the northern Wyoming town are “fairly positive.” Politicians often have strong support in their hometowns (Gordon grew up on a ranch near Kaycee), but the measures the governor’s office took to combat COVID-19 angered people across the board.
“He wasn’t very well liked during the state of emergency and the mandates,” Madsen said. “He wasn’t fully responsible. I think he was getting bad advice.”
Most recently, Gordon successfully pushed for pay raises for state workers because state agencies are experiencing difficulty hiring and retaining workers.
Gordon’s 2018 primary race was crowded with candidates, and he came out on top with 33.4% of the vote. He beat out five other Republican candidates including the late GOP megadonor Foster Friess and natural resources lawyer Harriet Hageman.
Hageman is now the Donald Trump-endorsed candidate running against Rep. Liz Cheney for Wyoming’s lone House seat.
Gordon coasted to victory in the general election, defeating Democrat Mary Throne.
The 2018 gubernatorial primary sparked calls for changes in Wyoming’s electoral system. Some on the far right pushed for a runoff system so that candidates would need majority support to win, though that effort was ultimately unsuccessful.
Friess also blamed his loss on what’s called “crossover voting,” the practice of Democrats and independents changing their affiliation on primary day, typically to vote for more moderate Republicans. The data does not back up Friess’ claim, but the issue has remained a concern for some with the upcoming midterms.
While Wyoming is a deeply red state with the most Republican legislature in the nation, three of the last six governors were Democrats.
The state Democratic Party has not yet announced a candidate.
Gordon was appointed to serve as Wyoming’s treasurer in 2012 after the death of then-treasurer Joseph Meyer. Two years later, Gordon was elected to the post. He’s also a small businessman and rancher.
The governor was born in New York City and attended college in Vermont. Since moving to Wyoming early in his life, he has predominantly lived in Johnson County.
Most of the crowd in attendance at Gordon’s campaign announcement were supporters and longtime friends of the Gordon family. The entrance to the event was surrounded by Gordon yard signs that read, “Wyoming Right.”
The slogan can be interpreted a number of ways, but it’s meant to send a positive message about the state.
“It’s just Wyoming gets everything right. We do,” said Tom Wiblemo, Gordon’s campaign coordinator.
The slogan matches the message the incumbent delivered Monday. It was positive, hopeful and complimentary of the state’s residents. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/rawlinstimes/news/governor-gordon-says-hell-seek-second-term/article_ab786f92-82f1-5c86-b68d-fd54652910be.html | 2022-04-09T14:01:35Z | wyomingnews.com | control | https://www.wyomingnews.com/rawlinstimes/news/governor-gordon-says-hell-seek-second-term/article_ab786f92-82f1-5c86-b68d-fd54652910be.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
POWELL — Distrustful of the voting machines used across Wyoming and other parts of the country, a group of Park County residents is making a push to review the results of this year’s primary election by hand.
On Tuesday, a roomful of proponents asked Park County commissioners to allow them and other volunteers to effectively audit August’s election by hand counting the votes after the ballots are processed by the machines.
South Fork resident Boone Tidwell, one of the group’s leaders, framed the request as a matter of constitutional rights and predicted some people won’t vote unless ballots are counted by hand.
“Whatever decision you make today, folks, we think will have consequences. Not only here in Park County, but on a state level, and possibly a national level,” Tidwell told commissioners. “There’s a lot of attention on this particular issue right here and what we’re doing here in front of you guys. So we’re asking you to please choose wisely.”
Commissioners postponed a decision to a later meeting, citing a need to get legal advice from Park County Attorney Bryan Skoric.
“We have to get some answers from the county attorney,” said Commission Chairman Dossie Overfield.
Secretary of State Ed Buchanan, who spoke via Zoom, recommended that commissioners consult with Skoric, suggesting that state law does not give the board the power to authorize a hand count. Members of the group, however, pushed back.
“Where in the Constitution does it give you the authority to deny us?” Powell resident and former Park County Republican Party Chairman Larry French pressed Buchanan.
“It’s not me sitting here saying that, ‘I forbid you to do it,’” the secretary responded in part. “I’m pointing out that you probably don’t have, in my opinion, just from looking at this, the statutory authority to do it.”
Tidwell then offered that “statute cannot trump my constitutional right.”
“It’s that simple,” he said, to applause from the crowd.
Commissioners, however, indicated they still have questions, including about how long a hand count might take, what impact it might have on their staff, and whether enough volunteers would show up and the legality of the effort.
Tuesday’s request stemmed from continuing concerns over the 2020 election, which Tidwell described as “the latest wreck.” The angst has played out on a national stage over the past two years, with former Republican President Donald Trump — who drew more than 76% of the votes in Park County but less than 47% nationwide — claiming the election was “rigged” in favor of Democratic President Joe Biden.
A series of lawsuits and other attempts to challenge the results have been unsuccessful and no widespread irregularities have been proven, but mistrust has persisted.
Dave McMillan of Cody, another of the group’s leaders and a Park County Republican Party precinct committeeman, said it’s not a partisan issue.
“There’s not a person I’ve talked to in my area, yet, that has told me they think the elections were fair in 2020,” McMillan told members of the Park County Democratic Party in February. “Nobody has any confidence in this.”
He and Tidwell had approached the party looking for support on a joint effort, but got some pushback from several local Democrats.
“I think that the only lack of integrity is actually in the imagination of those who are preaching lack of integrity,” Cody resident Paul Fees said at the Feb. 5 meeting.
The party members later passed a resolution stating that “the Park County Democrats have confidence in the integrity of the current election system.”
Meanwhile, the Park County Republican Party unanimously passed a resolution at its March 12 convention that calls for publicly observable hand counts of all election results.
The local GOP’s chairman, vice chairman, secretary and multiple precinct committee members attended Tuesday’s meeting in support of the proposal. Tidwell told commissioners that the debate over the validity of the machines won’t be resolved.
“If you are opposed to the voting machines, your preference is that we throw them in a ditch and light them on fire. And if you love the machines, you don’t want anybody to intrude in that environment,” Tidwell said Tuesday. “So we’re at an impasse.”
He said the plan to have all of the ballots run through the voting machines and then hand counted by volunteers was a compromise.
McMillan said the proposal “harms no one and satisfies the concerns of everyone.”
The proposal pitched to commissioners on Tuesday differed from the group’s original vision, which would have involved volunteers receiving and tabulating voters’ ballots before they went into the machine.
Tidwell said they altered the plans after hearing from people who said, “I don’t want you to know my vote.”
He also was clear in acknowledging that the results tabulated by the voting machines will be the official results.
“If our [hand] count comes out different than yours, we’re stuck with it [the machine count],” Tidwell said, “but we’re gonna have a whole lot more information and a whole lot more knowledge and be able to address that moving forward in the future.”
In his remarks to the commissioners and the group, Buchanan suggested that the whole hand count may have to wait until the law is changed. He said he’s repeatedly told people that if they want to return to paper ballots, it’s a policy decision that should be taken up with the Wyoming Legislature.
He also noted a statute that refers to votes being counted by machine, saying that, “Each individual vote shall be determined by the voting equipment and shall not be determined subjectively by human tabulation …”
However, Commissioner Scott Mangold noted that even under the group’s proposal the machines will still be doing the counting.
“We keep talking about statutes, but I think basically this is just sort of an experiment to start with,” Mangold said.
Commissioner Lee Livingston agreed, saying, “if you’re not submitting that as the official results, it’s quite possible that hand counting could be [done].”
“As long as we’re not stepping outside of that [the law], at this point in time, I don’t have a problem with looking at it,” Livingston said.
Overfield said the board needs to get a legal opinion from County Attorney Skoric.
Beyond the legalities, commissioners also had questions about the logistics.
As a test run, the hand count group enlisted the help of about 200 high schoolers in Powell, Cody and Meeteetse, who participated in a mock election a few weeks ago. The group then met at the Park County Library in Cody and calculated the results by hand. (Kanye West won a state Senate race in the Meeteetse area after being written in by a number of students, Tidwell said.)
In its first attempt at counting the 200 ballots, the group took an hour and 20 minutes, French said, but a second try took about 35 minutes. He indicated that a three-person team needed about a minute and a half per ballot.
At that pace — and assuming a similar turnout to the 2018 primary election, in which 8,341 voters participated — it would take more than 600 man hours to hand count all of the results. To get done by a state deadline of 10:30 p.m. on election night, it would take more than 150 volunteers.
By comparison, Park County had 117 election judges in the 2020 general election. Commissioner Joe Tilden questioned whether there would be enough volunteers to conduct the hand count, noting that a number of people who pledged to serve as election judges in 2020 backed out.
“That was before the latest wreck with the 2020 election, Mr. Tilden,” Tidwell said. “And you know, there are a whole lot of people that care now that didn’t care two years ago.”
Tidwell told the Democrats in February that “hundreds” of people would help with the effort.
While Tidwell said there would be zero cost to the county, Commissioner Lloyd Thiel noted that regular election workers would need to stay at the polling places later on election night to monitor the hand counting.
“Maybe there isn’t any more cost, but there’s a hell of a lot more work on these precincts for these election judges to do this experiment, if you will,” Thiel said. “I’m not saying it’s bad, I’m just saying there’s definitely some inconvenience here in the county.”
Tidwell responded, “If it requires a little more time on our part, as a voter, as a judge, as a participant in that process, you owe it to this community to make sure that that is specifically correct.”
While expressing doubts about the legality of hand-counting the vote, Buchanan expressed full support for the group’s general aim of bolstering public confidence in the integrity and accuracy of their elections.
“... I don’t think anybody in the state disagrees that the more things we can do to give greater confidence in elections, the better,” he said. “Because … if people don’t believe in your elections, nothing else matters. It really doesn’t.”
Even before the 2020 election, Buchanan said his office began an audit effort in which it will take a statistically significant sample of ballots cast around the state and then compare them to the vote record generated by the voting machines.
“If those ballots check out, and we know that those actual ballots cast were correctly counted by the machine, then we have our 99-point-whatever [percent] confidence interval in our election,” Buchanan said.
In a Tuesday evening email to commissioners, Park County Democratic Party Chairman Jan Kliewer said he doesn’t want taxpayer dollars to be spent on the hand count and that he thinks the statewide audit planned by Buchanan “would go further to build trust than an experiment in one county.”
“My fear, however, is if the results of 61 lawsuits of voter fraud thrown out nationwide doesn’t inspire confidence, what will?” Kliewer wrote.
During the meeting, County Clerk Colleen Renner noted that the county conducts mandatory public testing of its voting machines ahead of the elections to show how the process works.
Renner said she’s only had two people show up during her eight years as clerk.
“That causes me to believe you’re not questioning it,” she said, as members of the crowd murmured objections. “So if you are questioning it, please come to the public testing.”
Commissioners didn’t set a date for their next discussion on the requested hand count. The primary election is Aug. 16. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/rawlinstimes/news/group-pushes-to-hand-count-election-results/article_b70c0fa5-eb89-576f-b52c-fc3c2d85263a.html | 2022-04-09T14:01:41Z | wyomingnews.com | control | https://www.wyomingnews.com/rawlinstimes/news/group-pushes-to-hand-count-election-results/article_b70c0fa5-eb89-576f-b52c-fc3c2d85263a.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
CHEYENNE — A jury on Monday found a Cheyenne day care worker guilty of involuntary manslaughter.
Kristina Eileen Croy was charged in Laramie County District Court following the September 2019 death of an 8-month-old girl who was in her care at the time.
Croy pleaded not guilty to the charge in July 2020. Croy was accused of placing the infant in a too-small swaddling device against her mother’s wishes and against state guidelines. She was also accused of directing an employee of her day care to lie to police following the incident and of changing her story about the incident.
The infant, who was referred to during the trial and in court documents as “M.G.,” was identified by family members as Malia Gavagan.
Involuntary manslaughter, a felony, carries a penalty of up to 20 years in prison and/or a $10,000 fine. A sentencing hearing has not yet been scheduled.
The jury came back with the guilty verdict around 4:30 p.m. Monday, following about five hours of deliberation. The trial began March 28, and closing arguments took place Monday morning.
Marcia Bean, the county and prosecuting attorney for Big Horn County, was appointed to prosecute the case.
The victim’s grandmother, Eileen Gavagan, worked for former Laramie County District Attorney Scott Homar and maintains a connection with current Laramie County DA Leigh Anne Manlove, who worked as a prosecutor in Homar’s administration.
Bean said Tuesday that the trial, which she said was delayed by the COVID-19 pandemic and filings by the defendant, was a long time coming. The prosecutor said she was “very happy” that the case was close to a resolution.
“I’m glad for the Gavagans, and I believe that it was an appropriate verdict. The jury worked hard, and so I’m satisfied with how it all came out,” Bean said in an interview.
Eileen Gavagan told the Wyoming Tribune Eagle on Tuesday that “it was very difficult to remain quiet and emotionless” during the roughly five-day trial.
But as the jury’s guilty verdict was read, “finally we could breathe,” she said.
“The family members and those that loved Malia Gavagan are so grateful for the hard work of the prosecution team,” Eileen Gavagan wrote in an email. “We appreciated the jury’s attentiveness in the trial despite the very difficult circumstances and the emotions that arise when hearing about a child’s death, and seeing videos and photos of a deceased child.
“We are grateful that we had this precious child for 8 months (and) 21 days, and we will forever miss her,” she continued. “We hope for healing and peace and look forward to the sentencing hearing.”
Croy’s attorney, Dion Custis, gave a short statement to the WTE on Tuesday.
“It was an incredibly sad case — a very tough case for anyone to consider, including the jury,” he said.
In his opening argument in the trial, Custis called Malia’s death a “tragic accident,” and said Croy had not done anything criminal. Custis said Croy likely wouldn’t have taken the child into her care if she’d known about Malia’s “health issues,” which he said included being born premature and her mother’s use of marijuana while she was pregnant.
Croy’s attorney said the child was taking medication for acid reflux, but that Croy did not know this. He also referred to Malia as having “breathing issues” and “chronic lung disease.”
Custis said there was documentation that the child could not roll over on her own, meaning it would not have been unsafe to place her in a swaddling device, he said.
Regarding the accusation that Croy had changed her version of events, Custis said the day care worker had been “in a frantic state of mind” following the incident.
In Bean’s opening argument, she said Malia’s mother, Julianne Gavagan, stopped using marijuana when she found out she was pregnant.
Bean characterized the infant as “active” and “healthy” immediately before her death.
Croy remains free on bond pending sentencing.
Eileen and Julianne Gavagan also filed a wrongful death lawsuit in May 2021 in Laramie County District Court. The suit, which names Croy and her day care as defendants, has a scheduling conference set for May 9.
The criminal charge stemmed from a Sept. 25, 2019, incident.
The Cheyenne Police Department responded to Cheyenne Regional Medical Center that afternoon, following the report of a deceased infant, according to a probable cause affidavit written by CPD Detective Allison Baca.
Malia Gavagan had been in Croy’s care. Croy operated the day care “It’s a Child’s World They Matter,” which was licensed by the Wyoming Department of Family Services, the affidavit said.
Croy told law enforcement that she’d found Malia at about 1:20 p.m. that day face down on the living room floor. The child was not breathing and had no heartbeat.
Croy said she yelled for her then-18-year-old daughter to call 911.
Croy said that, at about 12:30 p.m., she’d put Malia in a “little sleeper,” which is described in the affidavit as a swaddling device that zips up to the neck with Velcro flaps, restraining a child’s arms. Croy told police she had to use the “swaddler” for prevention of sudden infant death syndrome.
The Mayo Clinic describes SIDS as “the unexplained death, usually during sleep, of a seemingly healthy baby less than a year old.”
Croy said Malia’s mother knew she used the swaddling device, a version of events the parent contradicted.
After putting Malia in the device, Croy put the child on the floor on her back. She described looking over “a couple times” and seeing the infant had “dozed off.”
In at least one instance, Malia had rolled over, which Croy said she didn’t like, so she rolled the child onto her back. When she checked on the child again, Croy said Malia was lying face down and not breathing.
She said another day care employee stayed with the other children – 11 additional small children and infants – as her daughter called 911 and Croy began CPR. At this time, Croy said she heard Malia gurgling and noticed her lips were turning purple.
Croy said that, at the time of the incident, she was in the kitchen cleaning and doing paperwork, moving between the rooms.
Both Croy’s daughter and the second day care employee later contradicted Croy’s account in interviews with law enforcement, according to the affidavit. They said the second day care employee had been at lunch during the incident.
Croy’s daughter said a neighbor had come over to help watch the children while waiting for the employee to return.
The day care employee “immediately reported (in the police interview) that Croy had asked her to lie and say she was there at the time of the incident,” the affidavit said.
Croy contacted a Department of Family Services employee after the incident and asked her to come to the hospital. Croy initially gave the DFS worker similar information to what she provided to law enforcement, though she did not tell the DFS worker she’d found Malia face down, as she’d apparently told law enforcement.
Croy added that, although her home day care had cameras, she did not know if they’d been recording. Croy said she’d noticed the night before that the camera in the living room, where Malia had been at the time of the incident, was pointed toward the ceiling.
In an interview with the DFS worker about a month later, Croy changed her story, according to the affidavit.
She told the DFS worker that Malia could not roll over independently, and when she checked on Malia at one point, the infant’s head was “turned,” and she was not breathing.
Malia’s mother, Julianne Gavagan, told police the infant had no health problems and was not sick on the day she died.
Julianne added that Malia could sit up and “frequently rolled from her back to her stomach,” and had “on occasion” rolled from her stomach to her back, but that it was difficult for her, the affidavit said.
The swaddling device Malia was wearing the day she died had a sewn-in tag indicating it was for babies three to six months old and between 13-18 pounds. It measured 22.5 inches long. Also on the tag were the words: “STOP swaddling when your baby shows signs of rolling over or breaking out of the swaddle.”
At the time of her autopsy, the 8-month-old weighed 19 pounds and was 25 inches long.
An autopsy report concluded Malia died of positional asphyxia, meaning the infant’s position had prevented her from breathing properly.
The DFS worker provided Detective Baca with documentation that showed Croy had been trained in “safe sleep practices,” including that babies should not be swaddled “without a written statement and instructions from physician.”
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POWELL — Members of the Heart Mountain community opened their hearts last week for two members of the community — one who passed away and another who won’t be with them much longer.
Around five dozen tractors lined up on Friday to pay tribute to Tak Ogawa, who passed away Thursday at the age of 96, and Dwight Gilbert, who is coming to the end of his battle with cancer.
The farming community was founded by rugged homesteaders who braved a lot of hardships to establish crops and the life that the community continues to enjoy today. Ogawa was one of the few original homesteaders remaining. He arrived on Heart Mountain in 1949.
Following his death, Ogawa’s neighbors, Eileen and Glenn Musser, called around to those who knew him and suggested they bring their tractors for a little tribute.
The tractors wound up stretching for a couple of miles.
On the border of Ogawa’s original homestead, along Road 20 where it meets Lane 9, those who knew and loved the man came out to show their respects in the way an agricultural community would. The parade went east up Lane 9 toward Ogawa’s house, turned around and drove along one of the fields he farmed until he was 93, growing alfalfa, malt barley, pinto beans and sugar beets.
The friends and family then headed south, all the way to Dwight Gilbert’s iconic home and its yard full of sculptures on Lane 11 and Road 17.
“It was just beyond words for me,” said Craig Ogawa, Tak’s son, who came up from Colorado and led the line of tractors.
When he arrived for the tribute, Craig said there were perhaps 20 tractors lined up, and he was stunned to see that level of support. But by the time the tractors started moving, another 40 had joined.
“Wasn’t that amazing?” said Tak’s daughter, Jenny Ogawa, with a delighted chuckle.
Like Craig, she hadn’t expected such an outpouring for her father.
“I was amazed and awestruck by the number of people who came to show their respects for my dad,” Jenny said, adding that it showed “how far the big heart he gave reached.”
The shared tribute was just as touching for Dwight Gilbert’s wife, Dawn.
“It’s heartwarming. I mean, Dwight is probably the nicest person I’ve ever met. He loves to help everyone. And you get back what you put out,” she said.
Dawn said that people had been out to their property all day to say goodbye to Dwight, but the parade was a complete surprise for him. Dwight’s family only told him he couldn’t take a nap and then wheeled him outside to see it.
“[It was] pretty impressive,” Dwight said, adding, “It was all my friends and neighbors. People I used to associate with every day.”
Dwight has touched many lives.
Among them was former Powell Municipal Airport Manager Debbie Weckler. She got stuck near the Gilberts’ home during a blizzard. Weckler didn’t know the family at the time, but needing help, she knocked on the Gilberts’ door. They invited her inside to warm up, then Dwight plowed a path so Weckler could get home.
“They are so gracious,” Weckler said.
The long parade of tractors made a path south down Road 17 and around the front of the Gilbert home.
When his son-in-law Brandy Pettet passed by, Dwight stood up and saluted him. Many of Dwight’s family members, who were surrounding him in their garage, began to cry.
Desirée Pettet, Dwight’s daughter, said her father served in the Marines, in Vietnam as a medic, and her husband, Brandy, was in the Army for 20 years, serving in Afghanistan.
“Their service is something they’ve always had as a bond,” Desirée said. “That moment for Brandy [when Dwight stood and saluted] will be with him forever.”
Craig and Jenny Ogawa thanked the Mussers for getting everyone together and thanked the members of the Heart Mountain community, who they said were always there for their father throughout his years.
“It was really humbling and touched everyone’s heart,” Craig said, “and the love goes both ways.” | https://www.wyomingnews.com/rawlinstimes/news/miles-long-tribune-parade-of-equipment-honors-farmers/article_304cef7a-f710-5fbe-9e07-404fbffeae89.html | 2022-04-09T14:02:06Z | wyomingnews.com | control | https://www.wyomingnews.com/rawlinstimes/news/miles-long-tribune-parade-of-equipment-honors-farmers/article_304cef7a-f710-5fbe-9e07-404fbffeae89.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
After two years of disruptions, Wyoming students are in the midst of test taking that helps state and federal education departments assess learning – a sign that school is returning to normal.
The Wyoming Department of Education in late March of 2020 canceled all testing for the rest of the semester due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Exams like Wyoming’s Test of Proficiency and Progress, which assess students abilities in English, science and math, were nixed that year.
“We canceled everything and then put in the waiver to waive our state accountability and federal accountability,” said Laurie Hernandez, standards and assessment director at the Wyoming Department of Education.
Testing resumed in spring 2021, but those scores were not used to determine whether or not schools were meeting state and federal accountability standards. The Department of Education submitted an addendum to its compliance plan under the Every Student Succeeds Act, federal law that took the place of the No Child Left Behind Act in 2015.
Identifying low-performing schools is part of the state’s plan; schools that are “partially meeting” or “not meeting expectations” must fill out a school improvement plan. Low-performing schools receive extra support from WDE and are eligible for federal funds. Wyoming’s updated compliance plan pushed low-performance school identification to 2022-23, because at least two years of data are required to determine whether or not schools need additional support, according to WDE Chief Policy Officer Wanda Maloney.
In the interim, schools identified as low-performing in 2018-19 “were held constant,” Maloney said. “Many had started professional development or interventions, and so we wanted [them] to be able to continue to excel and provide them the funding they needed.”
If parents weren’t comfortable sending their kids to school to take tests in Spring of 2021, they were not forced to do so. Normally, testing is mandatory and parents don’t have the option to opt out. Ultimately, 96.6% of students in Wyoming were tested in 2021, only a slight decrease from the 99% that usually participate.
The WDE is still in the process of analyzing test results from 2021, but so far it appears students in Wyoming did not experience severe learning loss reported in many other parts of the country during pandemic education disruptions. “There was a little bit of slip, but not anywhere to the degree that there was nationally,” Hernandez said.
Statewide assessments are underway at many Wyoming schools this year, and Hernandez says so far things have gone smoothly. “We really make sure everybody understands that it’s a snapshot in a moment in time for the student.” | https://www.wyomingnews.com/rawlinstimes/news/statewide-school-testing-returns-to-normal/article_576522b1-ad7e-54fa-8cb7-f850d0932b7e.html | 2022-04-09T14:02:24Z | wyomingnews.com | control | https://www.wyomingnews.com/rawlinstimes/news/statewide-school-testing-returns-to-normal/article_576522b1-ad7e-54fa-8cb7-f850d0932b7e.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
JACKSON — When people spot Joe Cronquist from the chair lift, it’s an event. The surprise of spectators is loud, as if they’d seen a bear or a solar eclipse.
“There he is,” they yell. “It’s the Teton Juggler!”
Even while he’s skiing, the daredevil from Anchorage, Alaska — now a micro-cultural mountain celebrity spotted from terrain park to Thunder moguls while juggling three pink clubs — whoops back.
That hype has nourished Cronquist, 28, through his first season, during which he’s not only defined new limits of the novel sport of “skuggling” (ski-juggling) but also built his brand, indistinguishable from his future.
If each passer-by got to look in Cronquists’ large blue eyes and ask him a question, it would likely be simply: Why?
(It could also be, “Does Jackson Hole ski patrol know about this?” To which his answer is yes, they’ve forged a healthy, trusting relationship.)
But to answer the former, News&Guide spent a day in the natural habitat of the Teton Juggler.
When untangling a motive, the first thing that comes to mind is money.
Cronquist, however, is both an extreme athlete who spends 30 hours a week juggling and an amateur. Or, as he put it, “dirt broke.”
A carpenter by training, he was 23 when he graduated from a five-year professional apprenticeship program in Anchorage, set up with good union jobs for life.
“But I had this inner tension,” he said, “I knew that this next step is going to be a career path where I’m going to be locked in. My dreams that I have, with this spirit of athletics and the freedom of expression, are going to be put in a little bit of jeopardy.”
So in 2017 he started down the Pacific Coast with his girlfriend, Aspen Welker, in a 2003 Ford Econoline cargo van — no itinerary or destination, just an open mind and a slackline.
“I was just backpacking on the side of the road when some homeless guy saw my slackline and he was like, ‘You got to go to this spot.’ And I went to Arcada (California) and met all the highliners. It’s all random like that.”
When Cronquist got his first taste of highlining — walking a thick tightrope hundreds to thousands of feet above canyons or between mountains — there was no looking down, or turning back. The couple kept traveling, and Cronquist kept juggling and slacklining. It’s the hours he’s spent off the mountain, he said, and incremental progress, that have kept him in control and everyone on the mountain injury-free.
“If people could see how much I juggled in the last three years, they’d vomit,” he said.
It was on a winter hike last season, after parking his 20-foot trailer home on a Victor plot, owned by Welker’s father, that the idea of a skuggle routine “overwhelmed” him.
Cronquist worked summer and fall at Cosmic Apple Gardens, waiting for snowfall, before financially “cocooning” to pursue his newfound dream full time.
It works for now, but lacking sufficient health insurance and a year-round income isn’t exactly comfortable.
“I’m risking it,” he said, “big time.”
If clearly not for fortune, does Cronquist skuggle for fame?
The Teton Juggler is the first to say his relationship to outside attention is complicated.
Though he shuns the idea of sponsors, because working in oil fields in Alaska and driving through clear-cut western forests turned him off “industry” writ large, he admits the support would be validating in a sport where he has neither peers nor compensation.
But he couldn’t speak his mind, he said, clad in Clif Bar or Redbull.
He’s thought about wearing other costumes, like the tights and cape of Robin Hood, a character whose skills he deeply identifies with.
But this extraordinary man would still like to be a relatable guy.
So he wears a practical black uniform and bootstraps his brand through unabashed self-promotion: Instagraming sick GoPro edits, tossing out free ‘Teton Juggler’ stickers, and calling out to chairlifts when he senses riders could be more stoked to see him.
His ultimate goal, for financial stability and to share his passion, is creating a camp of “flow arts” based on his youthful “inner fantasy.”
He describes the dream as a community of balance-driven sports like juggling, staff spinning, hula hooping, fans, slacklining, highlining, and a place for self-discovery.
On the last lift up, Cronquist said his wish list for his one-man-show includes LED clubs, a six-foot-tall unicycle and chain saws. When the cold returns he’ll be in hot pursuit of the backflip-over-fire-pit-with-torches skuggle and, yes, the Corbet’s Couloir skuggle.
For now, it’s the end of skuggle season, but for Cronquist and his future followers, it could be the beginning of a skuggle era. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/rawlinstimes/news/teton-juggler-takes-flight/article_02a65d3e-9bc3-58c9-89ff-5d4d1997f024.html | 2022-04-09T14:02:30Z | wyomingnews.com | control | https://www.wyomingnews.com/rawlinstimes/news/teton-juggler-takes-flight/article_02a65d3e-9bc3-58c9-89ff-5d4d1997f024.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
A leading wind farm operator has agreed to pay fines and other fees totaling just over $8 million, plus potentially spending millions of additional dollars, because its operations were linked to the deaths of at least 150 eagles over about a decade.
Partly at issue was whether the energy producer should have applied for permits before its operations killed the birds, or if the business should have taken other actions.
The legal case points up the fact that responsible wind farm owners take additional steps to ensure their operations – including wind turbines, which can extend hundreds of feet into the air while also sweeping lower to the ground – do not kill many birds and other wildlife, a conservation expert told the Wyoming Tribune Eagle.
The federal government contends that ESI Energy Inc., which is affiliated with NextEra Energy, had not heeded federal recommendations regarding its wind farm operations in Wyoming’s Carbon and Laramie counties and in New Mexico.
ESI had agreed to plead guilty to killing and wounding eagles in its wind energy operations, violating the Migratory Bird Treaty Act.
It pleaded guilty to three counts of violating the MBTA, “each based on the documented deaths of golden eagles due to blunt force trauma from being struck by a wind turbine blade” at the operations lacking necessary federal permits.
On Tuesday, the company was sentenced in Cheyenne for those violations, the U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. attorney for Wyoming announced, via a DOJ news release sent by email Wednesday.
ESI faces a fine of $1.86 million, $6.21 million in restitution and a five-year period of probation in which it must adhere to an eagle management plan.
This plan requires up to $27 million in steps “intended to minimize additional eagle deaths and injuries, and payment of compensatory mitigation for future eagle deaths and injuries of $29,623 per bald or golden eagle,” DOJ said. “ESI also must over the next 36 months apply for permits for any unavoidable take of eagles at each of 50 of its facilities where take is documented or, in the case of four facilities not yet operational, predicted.”
The MBTA bars the “taking” of migratory birds without a permit from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. “Taking” includes killing such wildlife.
NextEra disagreed with how the government interpreted the law here, even though it said it signed on to the settlement to “resolve this dispute and focus our attention on continuing to develop, build, and operate emissions-free wind energy centers for a lower carbon America built by good-paying American jobs.”
The company noted that the violations it pleaded guilty to are misdemeanors.
In the company’s legal reasoning, MBTA “does not require a permit to cover unintentional collisions that occur when eagles fly into properly developed wind energy facilities.”
“Unfortunately, the federal government, at odds with many states and a number of federal court decisions, has sought to criminalize unavoidable accidents related to collisions of birds into wind turbines while at the same time failing to address other activities that result in far greater numbers of accidental eagle and other bird mortalities,” the energy firm said.
Its statement was issued by NextEra Energy CEO Rebecca Kujawa.
In a video on its website, NextEra calls itself “the nation’s leader in energy storage” and “the world’s largest generator of wind and solar energy.”
The company would not answer most questions for this story, beyond confirming the location of its operations that were cited by the U.S. Nor would industry groups provide information about steps U.S. companies in general take to avoid inadvertently killing any species of birds.
In Wyoming, NextEra operations mentioned by the DOJ are its Cedar Springs Transmission multi-facility commercial wind power project in Converse County and Roundhouse Renewable Energy facility in Laramie County.
According to NextEra’s website, it has made $729 million in capital investments in Wyoming and it has about 10 employees (or possibly 51, depending on which figure is used) in the state, where it has a 4.6% market share of electricity sold.
The company has a few hundred turbines at those two areas, and their total rated capacity is several hundred megawatts, according to the U.S. Wind Turbine Database, which is partly affiliated with the U.S. Department of the Interior.
At the high end of that power range, that is more electricity than is used in Cheyenne.
Throughout the country, according to the federal database, there are more than 70,000 turbines in 44 states, as well as Guam and Puerto Rico.
The other site involved in the settlement with the government involves ESI’s FPL Energy New Mexico Wind, which DOJ said has wind power facilities in De Baca and Quay counties in that state.
At around the end of December 2020, “two golden eagle carcasses were found near a wind turbine” at this facility, the federal agency said.
Back at the two wind farm sites in Wyoming, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service had told ESI that, by building the turbine operations, it ran the risk of killing golden and bald eagles. Nonetheless, the company did not seek any of the take permits from FWS nor did it take cautionary actions, the government said.
In some instances for some of the facilities, the agency had recommended that there not be any such development.
Some wind farms do take precautions so that they avoid killing birds, which can fly into their turbines, according to the government and an expert who spoke with the WTE. In fact, the government said that ESI by not taking these measures got a leg up on rival energy producers that follow the rules.
“ESI and its affiliates received hundreds of millions of dollars in federal tax credits for generating electricity from wind power at facilities that it operated, knowing that multiple eagles would be killed and wounded without legal authorization, and without, in most instances, paying restitution or compensatory mitigation,” the DOJ said.
FWS and other organizations like the conservancy have guidelines that wind farm operators can follow so they avoid killing birds, said the American Bird Conservancy’s Joel Merriman. Such tools help identify areas where wind farm development would risk harming birds and areas where it is OK.
“There are good resources out there to steer wind energy developers toward the right locations,” said Merriman, director of the bird conservancy’s Bird-Smart Wind Energy Campaign. “We can have wind energy without undue impacts to wildlife.”
Although there are a range of estimates researchers have reached over the years, the bird group estimates that more than half a million birds are killed each year in the U.S. due to wind turbines.
Eagles, for animal-developmental, migration and other reasons, are among the more vulnerable bird and raptor species to getting killed by turbines, Merriman said by phone.
“Eagles are particularly vulnerable to collisions with wind turbines,” he said. “A lot of that is due to the fact that they spend a lot of time on the wing and they are essentially distracted fliers. They hunt while they are flying.” | https://www.wyomingnews.com/rawlinstimes/news/wind-operator-to-pay-8m-in-pact-over-killing-eagles/article_7d66f3d7-c9f0-55a6-bd27-1572242c9ce8.html | 2022-04-09T14:02:43Z | wyomingnews.com | control | https://www.wyomingnews.com/rawlinstimes/news/wind-operator-to-pay-8m-in-pact-over-killing-eagles/article_7d66f3d7-c9f0-55a6-bd27-1572242c9ce8.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
JACKSON — Matt Fagan is a bit resigned to the reality of what’s ahead for the summer of 2022.
“Do I think it’s going to be bumper to bumper at times from Teton Village to the Yellowstone South Entrance? Yes,” said Fagan, the owner of Jackson-based guiding company Buffalo Roam Tours. “Do I think it’s going to be like that this year and the year after and the year after? Yeah.”
But faced with a summer of certain traffic, the result of expected visitation and planned construction projects on roadways in Teton County, Grand Teton and Yellowstone national parks, Fagan and other wildlife guides who spoke with the News&Guide aren’t particularly fazed.
For one, Jackson Hole has become increasingly congested in the past few years as visitation records have been broken year over year. And Fagan and people like Tenley Thompson, the general manager at Jackson Hole EcoTour Adventures, have seen traffic before.
“It’s always something,” Thompson said with a laugh. “We’ve run programs in years where half of the lower loop” — the bottom portion of the figure eight road in Yellowstone — “is on fire.”
“This certainly presents a challenge but it’s not a particularly unique challenge,” Thompson said.
So like the animals they watch in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, wildlife guides are planning to adapt. Thompson sees opportunity: Exploring areas of the parks besides “the greatest hits.”
Fagan, meanwhile, is planning to leave early to beat the traffic.
“It’s not my first rodeo,” Fagan said.
Underpinning the expected adaptations is a slate of construction projects in the national parks and Teton County. Yellowstone National Park has just completed a $28 million renovation of the stretch of road from Tower-Roosevelt to Chittenden Road, a project that closed a stretch of road near Dunraven Pass for two years.
In coming years, it plans to spend another $103 million to complete three projects, aiming to condense delays into a few years rather than spreading it out over a longer time horizon. Those include replacing two 60-or-so-year-old bridges over the Yellowstone and Lewis rivers and repaving 22 miles of the Grand Loop Road between Old Faithful, the park’s iconic geyser, and West Thumb, the western stretch of Yellowstone Lake.
“While we always strive to execute projects in the least impacting way, the Old Faithful to West Thumb and Lewis River Bridge projects will seriously disrupt travel entering and exiting the park’s south entrance,” Yellowstone Superintendent Cam Sholly said in a press release. “Visitors should plan accordingly.”
Those projects come as Grand Teton National Park plans a major construction project of its own: Paving the 1.4-mile gravel section of Moose-Wilson Road, which connects Teton Village with the Moose entrance station. The more southerly park will also improve facilities surrounding its Granite Canyon entrance.
And, while that happens, Teton County is slated to pave the unpaved stretch of Spring Gulch Road.
That leaves Highway 89/26/191 as the main artery connecting Jackson to Yellowstone’s south entrance.
The national parks’ construction projects are also slated to span multiple years.
Jason Williams, the 15-year owner of Jackson Hole Wildlife Safaris who sold the business this winter, said the Moose-Wilson Road closure, combined with the airport closure — planned for April 11 to June 27 — and possible Spring Gulch Road work will likely pinch the southern stretches of the valley.
“That’ll probably be the hardest couple weeks. No Spring Gulch, no Moose-Wilson,” Williams said, adding that the Wyoming Department of Transportation may also be doing some work to prepare for its replacement of the Snake River bridge and intersection of Highway 22 and 390, projects set for 2023.
WYDOT Resident Engineer Bob Hammond wasn’t able to respond to a request for comment before press time.
Heather Overholser, Teton County’s Director of Public Works, and other public works officials were likewise out of office and couldn’t comment on plans for replacing Spring Gulch Road by Tuesday afternoon.
But Williams said the construction projects in Grand Teton and Yellowstone are necessary.
“The ecosystem is pretty dang healthy, but the infrastructure is not because the investment hasn’t kept up with the need for it over the years,” Williams said. “This is really a much-needed infusion into that infrastructure.”
Yellowstone, for example, estimated in 2018 that it had $586 million worth of deferred maintenance projects. Three projects completed since 2020 were supposed to reduce that number by $50 million. The three slated to be completed over the next few years are set to cut another $100-or-so million from that total.
The Yellowstone and Grand Teton work is being funded by the Great American Outdoors Act, a bipartisan bill that established the National Parks and Public Lands Legacy Restoration Fund. That pot of federal cash is funded by revenue from energy development and aimed at addressing national parks’ maintenance needs.
“If we have to sit through a little bit of traffic or anything else so in the long run everybody has a better experience in the parks, that’s well worth it for us,” said Thompson, EcoTour Adventures’ general manager. “Nobody wants the construction, but everybody wants the results.”
Fagan of Buffalo Roam, meanwhile, advised that people buckle up — and be ready to wait.
“Everybody just needs to take their time, take a few deep breaths and look out the window,” Fagan.
The views of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, he said, are “awesome.” And that’s true even in traffic. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/rawlinstimes/news/yellowstone-wildlife-guides-not-concerned-about-congestion/article_f9a2ec7a-0ed1-5128-bc87-c757da2a142b.html | 2022-04-09T14:02:49Z | wyomingnews.com | control | https://www.wyomingnews.com/rawlinstimes/news/yellowstone-wildlife-guides-not-concerned-about-congestion/article_f9a2ec7a-0ed1-5128-bc87-c757da2a142b.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
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CHEYENNE – Early goals and a stingy defense helped Campbell County pick up a 3-1 victory at Cheyenne East on Friday.
The Camels got two goals in the first eight minutes of the match, and held East to 11 shots overall (six on goal).
“That’s been the case all too often recently, if I’m being honest,” East coach Ryan Cameron said of his team’s offensive struggles. “We have to figure out a way to find the ‘kill button,’ and we just haven’t yet. We do a pretty nice job of a build up, but we can’t find that final product and put the ball in the back of the net.
“We work really hard on patterns of play stuff and runs our forwards can make, but there’s got to be a mindset change. They have to be determined to put the ball in the back of the net.”
Campbell County senior Joey Von Aschwege was a thorn in East’s side throughout the match, but especially early. He gained a step on a Thunderbirds defender in the first minute, but he mis-hit his shot with backspin and East starting goalkeeper Connor Fisbeck was able to make the save.
Von Aschwege gave Campbell County a 1-0 lead in the seventh minute when Aldo Baeza’s direct kick hit Fisbeck in the chest and rebounded back into play. The ball went straight to Von Aschwege, who scored easily for a 1-0 lead.
Ever Leyva made it 2-0 Gillette with an eighth minute tally.
“(Von Aschwege) did some things to disrupt us, but we have to figure out a better way to defend him,” Cameron said. “We’ll have to take a huge look at ourselves and see if what we’re doing is good.
“We have to make sure that what we’re doing defensively is the right thing, because we’re surrendering too many goals we shouldn’t be surrendering.”
Von Aschwege stretched the lead to 3-0 with a goal in the 70th.
“A goal against you is frustrating, but you always have to come back with a better mindset and see what you can do better with the next opportunity,” East senior Brian Mead said.
The T-Birds got one goal back in the 77th when Mead’s shot hit off Camels goalkeeper Brady Tompkins and then the crossbar. The ball found the feet of Carlos Moreno, who struck it into the goal before running in to retrieve it and hustling it back to midfield to restart the match and give East more time to work with late.
“Overall, we have to put in more effort and communicate better if we’re going to be dangerous,” Moreno said. “We’re thinking out there too much and second-guessing things instead of being decisive and being dangerous.
“If you’re indecisive, you’re not going to get anywhere. You never know whether you could have gotten to a ball, or what could have happened. You could have scored or gotten more chances.”
East hosts Sheridan at noon today at Okie Blanchard Stadium.
CAMPBELL CO. 3, EAST 1
Halftime: 2-0.
Goals: CC, Von Aschwege (Baeza), 7. CC, Leyva (unassisted), 8. CC, Von Aschwege (unassisted), 70. CE, Moreno (Mead), 77.
Shots: CC 15, CE 11. Shots on goal: CC 6, CE 6. Saves: CC 5 (Thompkins); CE 3 (Fisbeck 1, Wheeler 2).
Corner kicks: CC 4, CE 5. Offsides: CC 1, CE 2. Fouls: CC 3, CE 8. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/wyosports/high_school/cheyenne_east/east-struggles-offensively-in-loss-to-camels/article_8390d004-af09-53d3-bb98-0a10fdde3dc5.html | 2022-04-09T14:03:20Z | wyomingnews.com | control | https://www.wyomingnews.com/wyosports/high_school/cheyenne_east/east-struggles-offensively-in-loss-to-camels/article_8390d004-af09-53d3-bb98-0a10fdde3dc5.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
CHEYENNE – Southeast’s Ryan Clapper and Wheatland’s Rodee Brow were neck-and-neck with Cheyenne East junior Marik Cummings during the 100-meter dash at Friday’s Okie Blanchard Invitational.
Brow even appeared to hold a slight lead on Cummings at one point. However, Cummings pulled away over the final few meters and won in 10.79 seconds. Clapper was second (10.83) and Brow third (10.92).
That Cummings was able to win the race late surprised neither him nor East coach Jesse Blunn. Cummings is a notoriously strong finisher, which has had the Thunderbirds coaches excited about his potential since he arrived on campus.
Getting stronger at the start should help Cummings move into the upper echelon of sprinters in Class 4A. It also could help him take down East’s school record of 10.74 seconds.
“At the end of last season, we knew his first and second steps out of the blocks needed to be better,” Blunn said. “We worked on him pushing the track behind him instead of casting his leg out. That’s paid dividends for him, so we’re able to move on to the next thing, which is pushing off both blocks.
“He’s a great finisher, which is why we have to perfect his block starts. If we can get him out of the blocks faster than everybody, he’ll be finishing ahead of everybody.”
Cummings competed in the 100 and 200 at last spring’s state meet. He wasn’t able to make it out of the preliminaries in the 100, but placed eighth in the 200. Cummings also was part of a fourth-place 4x100 relay team and a fifth-place 4x400 squad.
On Friday, Cummings also won the 200 in 22.48 seconds.
He has finished no worse than second in the 100 in any of East’s three meets this season. He also won the 200 the only other time he ran that event this spring. He had the fastest 100 time in 4A entering Friday’s home meet, and improved upon that, despite a slow start.
The T-Birds also have won two of the three relays he has been a part of.
Cummings started working with Blunn on the position of his blocks and fully driving out of them over the summer. They have continued those efforts since the outdoor track season started last month.
Cummings puts his left leg in front of his right in the blocks. He wants to get more push from his right leg.
“It was a little rough at first, but it’s getting better,” Cummings said. “I’ve already seen improvement. I know as long as I keep working hard, I’ll be able to take time off the clock by starting faster. Blunn wants me to jump out with more power.
“During the indoor season, I felt everything Blunn and I worked on was working really well. It showed me that if I keep listening to him, I’m going to get where I want to be at state.”
There is potential for Cummings to move up the podium at May’s state meet. Four of the sprinters who placed ahead of him in the 200 graduated. So did nine sprinters who posted faster 100-meter qualifying times.
Blunn is confident Cummings’ work ethic will carry him to new heights.
“He is one of those kids who never takes reps off,” the coach said. “He does everything full speed. Whatever you tell him to do, he does. He’s earned everything he’s achieving right now.
“He’s a track guy. He loves being out here and getting better, and he does it by outworking everybody. He sets the bar pretty high for our team. Everyone on our team knows he’s our fastest guy, but he is so humble and hard-working.”
Central sweeps Okie Invite titles
The Cheyenne Central girls and boys both won team championships at Friday’s Okie Blanchard Invitational.
Nigeria Wiley-Ramierz won the 100-meter hurdles (15.49 seconds), placed second in the 300 hurdles (51.16) and third in triple jump (34 feet, 5½ inches). She also joined Katie Thomson, Joslyn Siedenburg and Madisyn Baillie on the winning 4x100 relay team (51.37).
Thomson was runner-up in triple jump (34-11) and third in long jump (16-9¾). Baillie took second in the 100 hurdles (16.07) and third in high jump (5-2).
Junior Brinkley Lewis cleared 10-2 to win pole vault, while freshman Karson Tempel won triple jump (35-9¾). Sophomore Emma Hofmeister also placed second in the 1,600 (5 minutes, 45.94 seconds).
The Cheyenne East girls were third, thanks, in part, to wins in the 100, 200 and long jump from sophomore Taliah Morris. She finished the 100 in 12.32, the 200 in 25.48 and posted a long jump mark of 19-2. Morris also joined Nadia Burdett, Bailey Haley and Hannah Romero on the runner-up 4x100 squad (51.83).
The Lady T-Birds 1,600 sprint medley relay team of Romero, Elysiana Fonseca, Ynes Ronnau and Emma Smith won in 4:36.80.
Caydence Eicholtz cleared 9-8 to win pole vault, while Abbie Mickelson was third in shot put (34-4).
Cheyenne South’s quartet of Kaycia Groth, Lexi Taylor, Darby Downham and Rachel Hedum finished second in the girls sprint medley relay (4:53.19).
Burns senior Emma Gonzalez won the 1,600 (5:40.17) and placed second in the 800 (2:30.37).
Central’s boys got wins from junior Richard Prescott in the 110 hurdles (15.28), 300 hurdles (41.59), long jump (21-9¼) and triple jump (44-9½).
The Indians’ quartet of Dylan Teasley, Jacob Silvas, Eric Ross and Bridger Brokaw won the 4x400 (3:35.32). Brokaw joined Will Barrington, Tucker Martino and Zan Read on the winning 4x800 relay team (8:57.16).
Teasley also placed second in the 400 (53.81), while TaVion Taylor-Byrd (high jump) and Hadyn Fleming (discus) also captured second in events.
The East boys placed second. In addition to Cummings’ two wins, the T-Birds had Garet Schlabs win the 400 (53.39) and Connor Parks take first in the 3,200 (11:04.77). Jacob Olson was second in the 3,200 (11:18.98).
Arthur Carrillo heaved the shot put 44-11 to take second.
The Burns boys had senior Jackson Kirkbride take second in triple jump (42-5¼). Kirkbride also joined Jaspur Nusbaum, Spencer Smith and Cooper Lakin on the runner-up 4x400 team (3:43.34). Kirkbride, Lakin, Smith and Conor Manlove took second in the 1,600 sprint medley relay (3:52.37).
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CHEYENNE — Aleah Brooks drove home five runs on two home runs to lift Cheyenne East to 10-5 win over Wheatland during the conference portion of Friday’s doubleheader.
Brooks put East ahead 3-1 in the bottom of the second with a three-run homer that scored Ella Neider and Gracie Oswald. Wheatland responded by tying the game before Emily Schlagel knocked in a run and Brooks’ second homer in the bottom of the fifth scored two. The T-Birds pulled away in the bottom of the sixth.
Brooks also picked up the win in the circle, pitching three innings with zero earned runs and fanning six batters.
East 12 Wheatland 1
Seven batters tallied an RBI as East picked up a 12-1 win in the backend of the twinbill in a four-inning contest.
Brooks was 2 for 2 with 3 RBI and Neider and Rylee Stephenson both drove home two runs. Oswald, Lillian Vallejo, Schlagel, and Bailey Earley all had one RBI. The T-Birds drew four walks and had four hits in the bottom of the third to score six runs and eventually end the game early.
South drops two to Campbell County
Campbell County’s pitchers kept Cheyenne South off-balance as the Camels didn’t allow a hit in a 25-0 win in the first contest of Friday’s doubleheader.
Alyssa Albaugh and Charleigh Mellish split time in the circle for the Bison.
South dropped its second game 30-0 in a four-inning affair. The Camels combined to drive in 23 of those runs while South could only get one hit on the day from Kaelin VanTassell. | https://www.wyomingnews.com/wyosports/high_school/cheyenne_east/prep-softball-east-takes-twinbill-over-wheatland/article_a0e264a1-1b1a-56d8-b4b3-822476a4b6e1.html | 2022-04-09T14:03:38Z | wyomingnews.com | control | https://www.wyomingnews.com/wyosports/high_school/cheyenne_east/prep-softball-east-takes-twinbill-over-wheatland/article_a0e264a1-1b1a-56d8-b4b3-822476a4b6e1.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
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Gunshots from two groups of people fighting outside a Houston-area sports bar early Saturday left one man dead and four other people injured, sheriff's officials said.
Investigators have identified "everybody that was shooting" in the parking lot of Al's Sports Bar just outside western Houston, Harris County sheriff's Sgt. Dennis Wolfford said, though no arrests or charges were immediately announced.
A fight started inside the bar around 12:50 a.m. CT and "spilled out into the parking lot, where multiple people pulled out firearms from both sides of the disagreement," Wolfford said.
"Shots were fired from both sides," he said.
A man died, and two other males and a female were injured and sent to hospitals, the sheriff's office said.
Their names and details about what led to the fight were not immediately released. Wolfford described the conditions of the injured as stable.
Investigators will review "video footage that's here," Wolfford said, without elaborating. They'll eventually contact the district attorney's office to see if charges will be accepted, or if the case will be presented to a county grand jury, he said.
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Rachel Balkovec wins debut as manager of Yankees affiliate
Rachel Balkovec debuted as the first woman to manage a minor league baseball team with a win on Friday night.
Driving the news: Balkovec led the Tampa Tarpons, the Single-A affiliate of the Yankees, to a 9-6 victory against the Lakeland Flying Tigers.
- "I've never heard my name chanted like that," Balkovec said, per MLB.
- "It was so much fun. Again, I just see, it's like I see me sitting in the stands, whatever 15, 20 years ago, and so it's just really cool."
- The Tarpons broke a 4-all tie in the seventh inning on a grand slam by Anthony Garcia, per MLB.
The big picture: Balkovec was named manager of the Tarpons in January.
- The Yankees hired Balkovec in November 2019 as a minor league hitting coach, when she became the first woman named to such a role in the history of professional baseball.
- Balkovec also was the first woman to become a full-time minor league strength and conditioning coach.
What she's saying: "It's been 10 years of just working to this point," Balkovec told reporters before the game.
- "Things have evolved. I was blatantly discriminated against back then. Some people say not to say that, but it's just part of what has happened, and I think it's important to say because it lets you know how much change has happened."
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The Senate confirmed Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court on Thursday, shattering a historic barrier by securing her place as the first Black female justice and giving President Joe Biden a bipartisan endorsement for his promised effort to diversify the high court.
Cheers rang out in the Senate chamber as Jackson, a 51 year-old appeals court judge with nine years experience on the federal bench, was confirmed 53-47, mostly along party lines but with three Republican votes. Presiding over the vote was Vice President Kamala Harris, also the first Black woman to reach her high office.
Biden tweeted afterward that “we’ve taken another step toward making our highest court reflect the diversity of America.” Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer exulted that it was “a wonderful day, a joyous day, an inspiring day — for the Senate, for the Supreme Court and for the United States of America.”
Harris said as she left the Capitol that she was “overjoyed, deeply moved.”
Jackson will take her seat when Justice Stephen Breyer retires this summer, solidifying the liberal wing of the 6-3 conservative-dominated court. She joined Biden at the White House to watch the vote, embracing as it came in. The two were expected to speak, along with Harris, at the White House Friday.
During four days of Senate hearings last month, Jackson spoke of her parents’ struggles through racial segregation and said her “path was clearer” than theirs as a Black American after the enactment of civil rights laws. She attended Harvard University, served as a public defender, worked at a private law firm and was appointed as a member of the U.S. Sentencing Commission.
She told senators she would apply the law “without fear or favor,” and pushed back on Republican attempts to portray her as too lenient on criminals she had sentenced.
Jackson will be just the third Black justice, after Thurgood Marshall and Clarence Thomas, and the sixth woman. She will join three other women, Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Amy Coney Barrett – meaning that four of the nine justices will be women for the first time in history.
Her eventual elevation to the court will be a respite for Democrats who fought three bruising battles over former President Donald Trump’s nominees and watched Republicans cement a conservative majority in the final days of Trump’s term with Barrett’s confirmation. While Jackson won’t change the balance, she will secure a legacy on the court for Biden and fulfill his 2020 campaign pledge to nominate the first Black female justice.
“This is a tremendously historic day in the White House and in the country,” said White House press secretary Jen Psaki after the vote. “And this is a fulfillment of a promise the president made to the country.”
The atmosphere was joyful, though the Senate was divided, as Thursday’s votes were cast. Senators of both parties sat at their desks and stood to vote, a tradition reserved for the most important matters. The upper galleries were almost full for the first time since the beginning of the pandemic two years ago, and about a dozen House members, part of the the Congressional Black caucus, stood at the back of the chamber.
Harris called out the tally, pausing with emotion, and Democrats erupted in loud applause and cheers, Schumer pumping his fists. A handful of Republicans stayed and clapped, but most by then had left.
Despite Republican criticism of her record, Jackson eventually won three GOP votes. The final tally was far from the overwhelming bipartisan confirmations for Breyer and other justices in decades past, but it was still a significant accomplishment for Biden in the 50-50 split Senate after GOP senators aggressively worked to paint Jackson as too liberal and soft on crime.
Statements from Republican Sens. Susan Collins of Maine, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Mitt Romney of Utah all said the same thing — they might not always agree with Jackson, but they found her to be enormously well qualified for the job. Collins and Murkowski both decried increasingly partisan confirmation fights, which only worsened during the battles over Trump’s three picks. Collins said the process was “broken” and Murkowski called it “corrosive” and “more detached from reality by the year.”
Biden, a veteran of a more bipartisan Senate, said from the day of Breyer’s retirement announcement in January that he wanted support from both parties for his history-making nominee, and he invited Republicans to the White House as he made his decision. It was an attempted reset from Trump’s presidency, when Democrats vociferously opposed the three nominees, and from the end of President Barack Obama’s, when Republicans blocked nominee Merrick Garland from getting a vote.
Once sworn in, Jackson will be the second youngest member of the court after Barrett, 50. She will join a court on which no one is yet 75, the first time that has happened in nearly 30 years.
Jackson’s first term will be marked by cases involving race, both in college admissions and voting rights. She has pledged to sit out the court’s consideration of Harvard’s admissions program since she is a member of its board of overseers. But the court could split off a second case involving a challenge to the University of North Carolina’s admissions process, which might allow her to weigh in on the issue.
Judith Browne Dianis, executive director the Advancement Project, a civil rights organization, said Jackson will make the court more reflective of communities that are most impacted by the judiciary.
“The highest court in the land now will have a firsthand perspective of how the law impacts communities of color — via voting rights, police misconduct, abortion access, housing discrimination or the criminal legal system, among other issues,” she said. “This will ultimately benefit all Americans.”
Jackson could wait as long as three months to be sworn in, as the court’s session generally ends in late June or early July. She remains a judge on the federal appeals court in Washington, but she stepped away from cases there when she was nominated in February.
Republicans spent the confirmation hearings strongly questioning her sentencing record, including the sentences she handed down in child pornography cases, which they argued were too light. Jackson declared that “nothing could be further from the truth” and explained her reasoning in detail. Democrats said she was in line with other judges in her decisions.
The GOP questioning in the Judiciary Committee showed the views of many Republicans, though, including Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who said in a floor speech Wednesday that Jackson “never got tough once in this area.”
Democrats criticized the Republicans’ questioning.
“You could try and create a straw man here, but it does not hold,” said New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker at the committee’s vote earlier this week. The panel deadlocked on the nomination 11-11, but the Senate voted to discharge it from committee and moved ahead with her confirmation.
In an impassioned moment during the hearings last month, Booker, who is Black, told Jackson that he felt emotional watching her testify. He said he saw “my ancestors and yours” in her image.
“Don’t worry, my sister,” Booker said. “Don’t worry. God has got you. And how do I know that? Because you’re here, and I know what it’s taken for you to sit in that seat.”
Associated Press writers Lisa Mascaro, Jessica Gresko, Zeke Miller and Farnoush Amiri in Washington and Aaron Morrison in New York contributed to this report. | https://www.federaltimes.com/federal-oversight/2022/04/08/jackson-confirmed-as-first-black-female-high-court-justice/ | 2022-04-09T14:23:47Z | federaltimes.com | control | https://www.federaltimes.com/federal-oversight/2022/04/08/jackson-confirmed-as-first-black-female-high-court-justice/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Albert J. Ellis airport hosts emergency exercise drill
ONSLOW COUNTY, N.C. (WITN) -Albert J. Ellis airport is holding an emergency exercise drill Saturday to test their emergency plan and provide an opportunity for responders to hone their skills.
Airport officials say residents and passengers may notice several emergency vehicles and simulations including smoke, but they should not be concerned.
“Exercises such as these are invaluable tools designed to prepare responders for unlikely event of an aircraft accident. Preparation is key to a timely and effective response.”
According to officials, the FAA requires all commercial service airports to test their response to an aircraft emergency in a full scale drill every three years.
Responders from surrounding fire departments, county emergency services, sheriff deputies, red cross and more will be participating in the exercise.
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Ingredients
- 2 boneless, skinless chicken breasts
- salt and ground black pepper to taste
- 1 tablespoon Dijon mustard
- 4 slices deli Swiss cheese
- 4 slices deli ham
- 2 toothpicks
- ¼ cup all-purpose flour
- 1 egg, beaten
- 1 cup panko bread crumbs
- ⅓ cup grated Parmesan cheese
- cooking spray
Directions
- Step 1
Set 1 chicken breast on a cutting board. Hold a sharp knife parallel to the cutting board and along one long side of the breast; cut chicken breast almost in half, leaving breast attached at one side. Open breast so it lies flat like a book and cover with plastic wrap. Lightly pound with the flat side of a meat mallet to 1/4-inch thickness. Repeat with remaining chicken breast.
- Step 2
Season each chicken breast with salt and pepper. Spread Dijon mustard on top. Place 1 slice of cheese on each breast. Top each with 2 slices of ham and 1 slice of cheese. Roll each breast up and secure with a toothpick.
- Step 3
Place flour in a shallow bowl. Place egg in a second bowl. Mix panko bread crumbs and grated Parmesan in a third bowl.
- Step 4
Preheat an air fryer to 350 degrees
- Step 5
Dip chicken first in flour, followed by egg, and finally roll in the bread crumb mixture. Spray chicken rolls with nonstick spray and let sit for 5 minutes while the air fryer preheats.
- Step 6
Place chicken in the basket of the preheated air fryer and cook for 10 minutes. Spray any chalky spots with nonstick spray again. Cook until chicken is no longer pink in the center, 8 minutes more. | http://www.timescitizen.com/kifg/cooks_corner/air-fryer-chicken-cordon-bleu/article_d48cc0de-b411-11ec-8dba-8f1dad8fe544.html | 2022-04-09T14:42:29Z | timescitizen.com | control | http://www.timescitizen.com/kifg/cooks_corner/air-fryer-chicken-cordon-bleu/article_d48cc0de-b411-11ec-8dba-8f1dad8fe544.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Ingredients
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 3 cloves garlic
- 2 tablespoons capers
- 1 tablespoon anchovy paste
- 1 teaspoon red pepper flakes
- 1 (24 ounce) jar tomato pasta sauce
- ¼ cup water
- 1 cup good-quality crisp white wine
- 2 (6.5 ounce) cans chopped clams, drained with juice reserved
- salt and pepper to taste
- 1 pound dry spaghetti
- ¼ cup freshly grated Parmesan cheese
- Chopped fresh basil leaves or parsley
Directions
- Step 1
Pour olive oil into cold skillet. Add garlic, capers, anchovy paste, and red pepper flakes. Place over medium heat and cook and stir until the oil is infused with the flavors of the mixture, about 5 minutes, taking care not to brown the garlic. Add tomato sauce and rinse jar with 1/4 cup water; add water to skillet. Pour in wine and juice from clams, reserving the clams. Bring to a simmer until slightly reduced and thickened, 7 to 9 minutes.
- Step 2
Bring a large pot of lightly salted water to a boil. Cook spaghetti in the boiling water, stirring occasionally until almost al dente, or about 1 minute less than directed on package. Drain. Return pasta to the pot off heat.
- Step 3
Stir clams into the sauce. Pour sauce over pasta. Stir; cover the pot to allow it to finish cooking off heat and to allow the pasta will absorb some of the sauce, about 3 minutes. Stir in Parmesan cheese. Top with chopped fresh basil and/or parsley. | http://www.timescitizen.com/kifg/cooks_corner/chef-johns-spaghetti-with-red-clam-sauce/article_f1d61e24-b411-11ec-89d5-2b56f4568e3f.html | 2022-04-09T14:42:35Z | timescitizen.com | control | http://www.timescitizen.com/kifg/cooks_corner/chef-johns-spaghetti-with-red-clam-sauce/article_f1d61e24-b411-11ec-89d5-2b56f4568e3f.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Hello everyone! I know Easter is right around the corner and I’m sure everyone has their own meal traditions that they do every year, but I thought I’d throw out there some simple and different recipes to try. For the longest time I kept coming across the PB Noodles and couldn’t quite rap my head around the two being together. Had a co-worker convince me to finally try it, and now it’s one of my kid’s faves and had me make it again. Hope you give these a try and enjoy!
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Whisk 1/4 cup flour, 5 tablespoons sugar, 2 tablespoons cocoa powder, 1 egg, 3 tablespoons milk, 3 tablespoons vegetable oil and a dash of vanilla extract and salt in a large mug until smooth. Microwave until puffed, about 2 minutes.
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Ingredients
- 2 cups quick cooking oats
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- 1 cup brown sugar
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- ¾ cup butter, softened
- 1 (14 ounce) can sweetened condensed milk
- ¾ cup peanut butter
- 1 cup semisweet chocolate chips
Directions
- Step 1
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a 9x13 inch baking pan.
- Step 2
In a large bowl, stir together the oats, flour, brown sugar, salt and baking soda. Cut in the butter to form a crumbly mixture. Reserve 1 1/2 cups of the crumbs, and pat the rest evenly into the bottom of the prepared pan. In a medium bowl, stir together the sweetened condensed milk and peanut butter. Spread evenly over the oatmeal layer. Sprinkle the chocolate chips over the peanut butter layer, then crumble the reserved crust over the top.
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Ingredients
- ½ cup chicken broth
- 1 ½ tablespoons minced fresh ginger root
- 3 tablespoons soy sauce
- 3 tablespoons peanut butter
- 1 ½ tablespoons honey
- 2 teaspoons hot chile paste (Optional)
- 3 cloves garlic, minced
- 8 ounces Udon noodles or spaghetti noodles
- ¼ cup chopped green onions
- ¼ cup chopped peanuts
Directions
- Step 1
Bring a large pot of water to a boil. Add noodles and cook until tender according to package directions. Drain.
- Step 2
Meanwhile, combine chicken broth, ginger, soy sauce, peanut butter, honey, chili paste, and garlic in a small saucepan. Cook over medium heat until peanut butter melts and is heated through. Add noodles, and toss to coat. Garnish with green onions and peanuts. | http://www.timescitizen.com/kifg/cooks_corner/peanut-butter-noodles/article_afd5c6d2-b411-11ec-a371-6f7539edf9aa.html | 2022-04-09T14:43:00Z | timescitizen.com | control | http://www.timescitizen.com/kifg/cooks_corner/peanut-butter-noodles/article_afd5c6d2-b411-11ec-a371-6f7539edf9aa.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
In the latest battle of the coronavirus mutants, an extra-contagious version of omicron has taken over the world.
The coronavirus version known as BA.2 is now dominant in at least 68 countries, including the United States.
The World Health Organization says it makes up about 94% of sequenced omicron cases submitted to an international coronavirus database in the most recent week. And the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says it was responsible for 72% of new U.S. infections last week.
Dr. Wesley Long, a pathologist at Houston Methodist in Texas, said he’s seen BA.2 quickly become dominant in his medical system. At the end of last week, the variant was responsible for more than three-quarters of cases in Houston Methodist hospitals. Less than two weeks earlier, 1% to 3% of cases were caused by BA.2.
“It’s not terribly surprising because it is more contagious” than the original omicron, Long said.
As the variant advances, scientists are learning more about it. But they still don’t know exactly how it will affect the trajectory of the pandemic.
WHAT’S KNOWN
BA.2 has lots of mutations. It’s been dubbed “stealth omicron” because it lacks a genetic quirk of the original omicron that allowed health officials to rapidly differentiate it from the delta variant using a certain PCR test.
One reason BA.2 has gained ground, scientists say, is that it’s about 30% more contagious than the original omicron. In rare cases, research shows it can sicken people even if they’ve already had an omicron infection — although it doesn’t seem to cause more severe disease.
Vaccines appear equally effective against both types of omicron. For both, vaccination plus a booster offers strong protection against severe illness and death.
HAS THE VARIANT PUSHED UP CASES?
Coronavirus cases rose in parts of Europe and Asia when BA.2 became dominant, and some scientists are concerned that the variant could also push up cases across the U.S.
Besides being more contagious, it’s spreading at a time when governments are relaxing restrictions designed to control COVID-19. Also, people are taking off their masks and getting back to activities such as traveling, eating indoors at restaurants and attending crowded events.
At this point, overall coronavirus cases in the U.S. are still on the decline. But there have been upticks in some places, including New York, Arizona and Illinois. Health officials have also noted that case counts are getting more unreliable because of the wide availability of home tests and the fact some people are no longer getting tested.
“We’re entering a phase where increasing cases or waves may be very regional and it may depend a lot on vaccination levels in the community — and not just vaccination levels but timing of the vaccinations,” Long said. “How long ago were they? Did people get boosters? Because we know the immunity to the vaccine wanes a little bit over time.”
Long said he feels “very certain” that cases will eventually go back up in the U.S., whether that’s because of BA.2 or some future variant. “If it’s BA.2,” he said, “it may be more of a wave or a speed bump than a surge.”
For now, COVID-19 hospitalizations and deaths are still trending down nationally.
ARE THERE ANY OTHER VARIANTS TO BE CONCERNED ABOUT?
As the coronavirus continues to evolve, the WHO is tracking other mutants, including hybrids known as “recombinants.”
These include combinations of delta and omicron and hybrids of BA.2 and the original omicron, also known as BA.1.
One recombinant that health authorities are tracking closely is a BA.1-BA.2 hybrid called XE, which was first detected in the United Kingdom in January. About 600 cases have been reported, and scientists believe it may be about 10% more contagious than BA.2.
WHAT SHOULD PEOPLE DO?
The advice from experts remains the same: Take precautions to avoid getting COVID-19.
“The virus is still out there circulating,” Long said. “Vaccination is still your best defense.”
Get the shots if you haven’t already, he said, and get the second booster if you’re eligible because you are 50 or older or have a compromised immune system.
“If cases start going up in your community, think about assessing your risk level,” Long said. “If you stopped masking and stopped worrying about distancing and things … that’s the time to reinstitute those protective measures.”
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Under increasing pressure from lawmakers, the head of the Louisiana State Police put his second-in-command on leave Friday while he faces an internal probe into the erasing of his cellphone data amid the investigation into the deadly 2019 arrest of Black motorist Ronald Greene.
Superintendent Col. Lamar Davis released a statement saying he placed Lt. Col. Doug Cain on paid administrative leave “to eliminate any questions into the integrity of the investigation.”
Cain was among three top state police officials who had their cellphones “sanitized” amid the ongoing probes into Greene’s death, which troopers initially blamed on a car crash at the end of a high-speed chase. But long-withheld body-camera video published by The Associated Press last year instead showed white troopers stunning, punching and dragging Greene as he wailed, “I’m your brother! I’m scared! I’m scared!”
Cain’s refusal to answer questions about the wiping and the fact that he was staying on the job amid the probe frustrated and angered members of a bipartisan legislative committee that has been conducting hearings into the state’s response to Greene’s death and whether there was a cover-up.
“This is an attempt to not be transparent. … If we trusted you we wouldn’t be here right now,” state Rep. Tanner Magee, the Republican chairman of the committee, told Cain in a hearing last month.
“I have nothing to hide,” Cain said. “I didn’t do anything wrong.”
Davis added to the committee’s frustration in a hearing Thursday, telling the panel that the internal probe into Cain’s phone would take several more weeks to complete, and that investigators have yet to interview Cain because “we want to interview everybody else in that process first to make sure we get as much information as possible.”
Magee questioned why it has to be so complicated, saying it should boil down to simple questions: “What’s on the phone and why’d you do it?”
“I do believe in due process, but I do believe that he should be on administrative leave,” said Rep. Denise Marcelle, a Baton Rouge Democrat.
State police have acknowledged that the department also “sanitized” the cellphone of the former head of the agency, Col. Kevin Reeves, after he abruptly retired in 2020 amid AP’s initial reporting on Greene’s death. The agency said it did the same to the phone of another former police commander, Mike Noel, who resigned from a regulatory post last year as he was set to be questioned about the case by lawmakers. Police have said such erasures are policy.
Nearly three years after Greene’s May 10, 2019, death along a rural roadside in northeast Louisiana, no one has been criminally charged.
A federal civil rights investigation into the case has gone on for two and a half years, looking not only at the troopers but whether top brass obstructed justice to protect the officers from prosecution. One supervisor recently told the legislative committee that his bosses instructed him not to give prosecutors the body-camera footage of Greene’s arrest.
Probes have also expanded into a string of other state police beatings of mostly Black motorists. AnAP investigationlast year found Greene’s was among at least a dozen cases over the past decade in which state police troopers or their bosses ignored or concealed evidence of beatings, deflected blame and impeded efforts to root out misconduct.
Union Parish District Attorney John Belton told the legislative committee Thursday that U.S. Justice Department prosecutors have dropped their request for him to hold off on a state prosecution until the federal investigation is complete. He says he is now “moving swiftly” to empanel a special grand jury to pursue possible state charges in the Greene case.
The legislative committee was convened in February after an AP report showed Gov. John Bel Edwards was informed within hours that troopers arresting Greene had engaged in a “violent, lengthy struggle.” Yet the Democrat stayed mostly silent on the case for two years as state troopers told Greene’s family and wrote in reports that he died as the result of a car crash. He has since come to describe the actions of the troopers in Greene’s arrest as criminal and racist. | https://www.wwlp.com/news/ap-national-news/police-official-on-leave-amid-probe-over-ronald-greene-death/ | 2022-04-09T14:52:21Z | wwlp.com | control | https://www.wwlp.com/news/ap-national-news/police-official-on-leave-amid-probe-over-ronald-greene-death/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Which REL subwoofer is best?
No home theater system is complete without a boomy subwoofer. REL is a trusted brand that offers a wide range of subwoofers. Still, it can be tricky to know what kind of subwoofer you might need, and REL offers a handful of configurations and sizes, making your decision even more daunting. However, with a little research, you can find one that works well for your home.
The REL Acoustics HT/1205 12-Inch Subwoofer is a high-end subwoofer that offers vibrational bass tones, bringing any listening experience to life.
What to know before you buy an REL subwoofer
Other hardware
The other speakers you have can help you pick out which subwoofers are best for your setup. If you have surround sound in your home theater, it’s necessary to have a subwoofer. However, depending on how much volume your system pumps out, you may need a larger or smaller subwoofer. Other considerations should include checking if you need an audio receiver, a TV or other devices entirely.
Front-firing vs. down-firing subwoofers
Subwoofers from REL have two varieties of directional speakers or drivers. Most REL subwoofers come with a front-firing driver, which means the speaker faces outward from the subwoofer’s enclosure. Alternatively, some may include down-firing drivers, which project the speaker’s audio downward. People heavily debate the differences between the two styles, especially since subwoofers should produce omnidirectional audio. It’s best to find the right subwoofer for your room, which depends on your setup and existing speaker system.
Room setup
Where you put your subwoofer will make a major difference in the sound. Unsurprisingly, larger rooms require louder overall volumes, while smaller rooms can get away with smaller subwoofers producing less sound. It’s essential to check the product listing to see what size of room works best. In larger rooms, many elect to use two subwoofers at the same time instead of using just one.
What to look for in a quality REL subwoofer
Driver size
The diameter of a subwoofer’s driver or speaker will determine how loudly and clearly it produces low-end audio. Larger subwoofer speakers produce volumes at louder decibels while representing the range of frequencies produced, resulting in a clear, crisp sound. Subwoofers with larger speakers are heavy and take up more space. Most people using speakers at home can get away with something smaller.
The most common driver size in subwoofers ranges from 6 to 15 inches. Some professional live audio subs are as large as 18 or 21 inches.
Power
While peak wattage refers to the amount of power a subwoofer can manage in a single instance, the root refers to how much power a speaker can handle on a more continuous basis. The higher a subwoofer’s peak and RMS power ratings are, the louder they’ll tend to be.
Crossover and phase
Most subwoofers offer crossover and phase control interfaces for fine-tuning your audio alongside other speakers. The crossover control determines what frequencies divert to your subs. Additionally, phase controls make it easier to get the audio aligned for your speakers, which avoids any sonic byproducts produced by latency and phase issues.
How much you can expect to spend on an REL subwoofer
Cheap REL subwoofers can cost as little as $450. You can expect to spend $600-$1,000 on midrange REL subwoofers, while high-end REL subwoofers can cost as much as $3,300.
REL subwoofer FAQ
Are REL subwoofers active or passive?
A. They’re active since they need power to run the included built-in amplifier. Passive subwoofers require another amplifier, meaning you don’t need to plug them into a wall outlet for power. Active subwoofers are called powered subs, and they require power from an external source.
Do REL’s subwoofers sound better than other brands?
A. While REL makes a range of powerful, well-acclaimed subwoofers, it’s hard to say if they’re better than other brands. This is because the audio quality varies from speaker to speaker and from one audio system to another. Whatever brand you go with, it’s important to find a subwoofer that complements your overall sound.
What’s the best REL subwoofer to buy?
Top REL subwoofer
REL Acoustics HT/1205 12-Inch Subwoofer With Long-Throw Driver
What you need to know: This subwoofer features a long-throw driver that works great for small- to medium-sized rooms, and you can easily pair it with a second subwoofer for larger spaces.
What you’ll love: It has a powerful 12-inch front-firing CarbonGlas driver and is suitable for rooms up to 400 square feet. It also has a -6 decibel low-frequency extension at 22 hertz for extra low-end RCA inputs and outputs, Additionally, it has 500 watts at RMS power.
What you should consider: This subwoofer is pretty heavy at 38 pounds.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top REL subwoofer for the money
REL Acoustic HT/1003 10-Inch Subwoofer with Long-Throw Driver
What you need to know: This 10-inch subwoofer packs a punch without costing a fortune. It has a front-facing long-throw driver that can accommodate most rooms and home theater systems.
What you’ll love: This subwoofer offers boomy low frequencies with a low-end extension output at 24 hertz despite a lower price. It also includes standard gain, phase and crossover settings on the rear that you can fine-tune, and it has a 300-watt Class D amplifier.
What you should consider: At this price point, it’s worth upgrading to one of REL’s higher-end subwoofers.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
REL Acoustics T/5x 8-Inch Subwoofer with Down-Firing Driver
What you need to know: This subwoofer offers a booming bass tone, and it has fewer constraints on optimal placement because of its down-firing driver.
What you’ll love: This small subwoofer includes a powerful down-firing driver with an 8-inch diameter, and it’s great for rooms up to 400 square feet. It also features a low-frequency extension of -6 decibels at 32 hertz. You can buy this subwoofer in glossy black or white finishes.
What you should consider: It only uses LFE, low-level and speaker cable inputs.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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Which diamond earrings are best?
If you’ve decided to purchase diamond earrings, there’s a good chance you’re ready to spend some serious cash. They can be expensive, but they’re also diverse in many aspects, so the possibilities are endless. And while expensive jewelry is lovely, you don’t have to break the bank for a classy pair of diamond earrings.
If you’re looking for reasonably priced earrings with an elegant look, Macy’s 1/3-Carat Diamond Stud Earrings in 14-Karat Gold are a top choice. They boast a high-quality round cut and are set in 14-karat gold, which can be either white, yellow or rose gold in color.
What to know before you buy diamond earrings
Cut and shape
Diamond earrings can be cut into many shapes, including emerald, pear, heart, cushion, oval and marquise. If you’re considering stud earrings, the two most popular are brilliant round cut and princess cut.
Brilliant round cut diamonds are typical for stud earrings and have a classic look and design. Princess cut earrings have a square shape that gives diamonds more sparkle and a flashier look.
Clarity
A diamond’s clarity essentially refers to how clean it looks. The fewer blemishes (also known as inclusions) a diamond has, the better its clarity. However, better clarity usually means a higher price tag. There are six main clarity categories:
- Included
- Slightly Included
- Very Slightly Included
- Very, Very Slightly Included
- Internally Flawless
- Flawless
Categories can be further broken down into grades, but most differences in clarity can only be seen at the microscopic level once you reach Very Slightly Included.
Style
The most common diamond earring styles are stud, hoop and drop. Stud earrings are the most versatile and an excellent fashion choice for nearly every occasion. Hoop and drop earrings are flashier and move more, making them look more brilliant, so they’re ideal for formal occasions
What to look for in quality diamond earrings
Carat
A diamond’s carat is a measurement unit used to refer to its weight. Depending on its cut and shape, a diamond can have more weight without appearing larger. Diamonds with a higher carat weight are usually more expensive, but not always, and those with identical weights can vary in price.
Setting
Any time you purchase diamond earrings, they’ll be set in a metal, and it’s up to you to decide which style is for you. Popular settings for earrings include bezel and halo.
- Bezel settings feature diamonds embedded in a metal band, giving them a sleek, smooth look.
- Halo settings surround a large gem with several smaller stones. This draws more attention, since light bounces off all of the stones, giving the earrings added brilliance.
Back
An earring’s back attaches it to the ear in two basic styles.
- Push backs are standard closures for stud earrings, and a simple sliding piece keeps them in place with friction. Push backs are comfortable, but they can loosen over time, so they’re not the most secure.
- Screw backs are also popular and arguably more secure than push backs. They’re not as easy to attach as push-back earrings, but the security makes them worth the effort and time.
How much you can expect to spend on diamond earrings
The sky’s the limit for diamond earrings since there are so many possibilities for cuts, shapes, carat, color and customization. Affordable options range anywhere from $200-$2,000, so anything more than that is considered high-end jewelry.
Diamond earrings FAQ
What does magic size mean?
A. There are three magic sizes: 1/2, 3/4 and 1 carat. The term refers to the magical price jump from fraction sizes to 1 carat or higher.
Does color affect the price of diamond earrings?
A. It can. All things considered, colorless diamonds are more expensive than ones with tints.
What are the best diamonds earrings to buy?
Top diamond earrings
Macy’s 1/3-Carat Diamond Stud Earrings in 14-Karat Gold
What you need to know: These earrings have a stylish stud design, and although they have a classy design, they don’t look too extravagant.
What you’ll love: They have a stunning brilliant round cut and are set in 14-karat white, yellow or rose gold. Each stud has a 1/6-carat weight, and the push back closure makes it easy to put them on.
What you should consider: The carat weights are approximate and may vary by as much as 1/20 of a carat.
Where to buy: Sold by Macy’s
Top diamond earrings for the money
Macy’s 1/10-Carat Diamond Halo Cluster Stud Earrings in Sterling Silver
What you need to know: These earrings are an excellent option for those who want a nice pair of stud earrings to wear casually.
What you’ll love: These round halo cluster earrings have an elegant look and a post back closure. Each stud is set in dazzling sterling silver and has a 1/10 carat weight. Also, they come in a protective velvet box.
What you should consider: Customers complained about the backs being too loose or breaking off easily.
Where to buy: Sold by Macy’s
Worth checking out
Macy’s 1/4-Carat Diamond Hoop Earrings in Sterling Silver
What you need to know: These hoop earrings are an affordable and excellent option if you’re not a fan of stud earrings.
What you’ll love: These earrings feature 1/4-carat round-cut diamonds set in sterling silver. They measure approximately 1 inch in diameter. The clasp is secure, so you don’t have to worry about accidentally pulling them off.
What you should consider: They’re smaller than they look in photos, so if you want something larger than 1-inch hoop earrings, it’s best to look elsewhere.
Where to buy: Sold by Macy’s
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Which Batman watch is best?
A watch can complement any outfit and make you look more stylish. Watches with gold trim and diamond bezels are gorgeous, but they’re usually expensive. If you want a watch you can wear casually every day, and you’re a Batman fan, you can get the best of both worlds.
Many Batman watches are for children, but some fashionable models are for adults. For example, the Fossil Unisex Batman Stainless Steel Quartz Watch is a top choice that any Batman fan would love for its automatic movement and subtle but stylish black-tone case.
What to know before you buy a Batman watch
Who is Batman?
If you’re looking into buying a Batman watch, you probably already know a lot about the character. However, for those who don’t know much about the caped crusader, there’s a bit of history you should be familiar with.
Batman debuted way back in 1939 and is one of the most popular and recognizable DC Comics characters. Tim Burton directed the 1989 film “Batman,” which was a massive success. However, the franchise has seen a resurgence in recent years thanks to Christopher Nolan’s “Dark Knight Trilogy” and the latest reboot, “The Batman,” released this year and directed by Matt Reeves.
Movement
Watches have either mechanical or automatic movement. Mechanical watches must be maintained regularly to keep them accurate, while automatic watches will only be off by a few seconds per year. Automatic or quartz watches use batteries, so occasionally you’ll have to visit a jeweler to replace them, but mechanical watches use an intricate system of gears and coils to keep time.
Type
There are five main types of watches: diving, dress, pilot, driving and minimalist. The most common Batman watches are minimalist, as they have simple designs. However, you can find some diving and dress watches as well. Diving watches are water-resistant and have a durable build, while dress watches are known for having jewels embedded in their movements to reduce friction.
For everyday wear, you’re best going with a diving or minimalist watch, but for business or formal occasions, wear a dress watch.
Size
The case size you want depends on the size of your wrist but can also be a matter of preference. The smaller it is, the more casual it usually looks, while larger watches tend to have a more sophisticated look, and they’re also bulkier. A watch can have a case size anywhere between 1.3 and 1.8 inches (34 to 46 millimeters).
What to look for in a quality Batman watch
Batman design
The world of Batman is so rich and diverse that there are countless possibilities for how a Batman-inspired watch can look. Traditional Batman colors are black and yellow, so most watches either have a black or dark grey color scheme with yellow also in the mix. Also, the Bat logo is what makes a Batman watch pop, so if you want a recognizable watch to show off your love for the comic-book hero, make sure it has the logo on the dial.
Brand
Lesser-known brands manufacture most Batman watches, but some are made by famous designer brands such as Tissot and Invictus. Naturally, those are usually more expensive, but they also have a flashier look and resemble the average office-wear watch more closely.
Bands
Metal bands go great with watches that have more prominent cases and dials. Smaller, casual watches look better with nylon, silicone or canvas bands. They’re more lightweight than metal bands and easier on the wrist, making them more suitable for wearing all day.
Water-resistance
It’s always a good idea to take off your watch when you shower or go swimming, but some Batman watches are water-resistant, so it’s not a big deal if you get them wet. There are certain specifications for how long and deep a watch can be submerged underwater.
For example, a watch may claim that it’s water-resistant for 30 minutes and up to 500 meters. That means you can wear your watch 500 meters below the surface — 1,640 feet, or nearly a third of a mile — for half an hour before water threatens to damage it.
How much you can expect to spend on a Batman watch
Unlike other designer watches, Batman watches are inexpensive. The most you’ll pay for a high-end Batman watch is $300, but you can find several solid options for $100-$250.
Batman watch FAQ
How do I adjust a metal band?
A. To adjust a metal band, you need to take your watch to a jeweler where they’ll remove enough links to make it fit to your liking.
How can I prevent nylon and silicone bands from wearing out?
A. They’ll naturally wear out over time, but you can prolong the process by not exposing them to heat, direct sunlight or moisture.
What’s the best Batman watch to buy?
Top Batman watch
Fossil Unisex Batman Stainless Steel Quartz Watch
What you need to know: This watch is inspired by the latest Batman film, “The Batman,” and is an excellent watch for every type of fan.
What you’ll love: It has a black stainless-steel case and boasts self-winding automatic movement. It comes with three interchangeable straps and never needs batteries. Also, it’s water-resistant up to 164 feet, or 50 meters.
What you should consider: It doesn’t have much color, so if you want something more vibrant, consider other watches.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top Batman watch for the money
Accutime Batman Black Tonal Bracelet Watch
What you need to know: It’s a basic bracelet watch, but it’s deceptively stylish and perfect for casual and business wear.
What you’ll love: The watch has a metal band and measures 7.5 inches long, with the stunning glass case measuring 1.85 inches. It has an analog display, and the black tonal dial makes for an excellent complementary piece to any outfit.
What you should consider: The band can rub off on the skin after extended wear.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
Invicta Men’s DC Comics Batman Stainless Steel Quartz Men’s Watch
What you need to know: It’s inexpensive but has a shiny look perfect for casual business settings.
What you’ll love: The dial sports the classic black and yellow Batman colors, and it has a high-quality stainless-steel band. It’s water-resistant up to 328 feet, or 100 meters, and features a 1.73-inch (44-millimeter) stainless-steel case with an elegant mineral crystal.
What you should consider: It’s a little on the flashy side, so it might not be ideal for casual wear.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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Which HMB supplement is best?
Building muscle involves a consistent workout routine and proper nutrition, but it can be challenging and take time. Many people use protein shakes and other dietary supplements to help them build muscle more quickly.
Hydroxymethylbutyrate is a chemical produced naturally in your body that has gained popularity as a dietary supplement due to its ability to help build muscle. Supplements such as the Tony Horton PowerLife High Impact Plant Protein Powder With HMB let you consume protein and HMB simultaneously.
What to know before you buy an HMB supplement
What HMB is
HMB is produced when your body breaks down leucine, one of the building blocks of protein. According to the National Institutes of Health, it improves protein metabolism in those with muscular dystrophy. HMB also helps with strength, power, muscle damage, mass and delayed onset muscle soreness in athletes. That’s why it’s a popular supplement for building muscle and preventing muscle loss.
How you take an HMB supplement
Many HMB supplements come in capsules. If you have trouble swallowing pills, it’s essential to consider the size of the capsule when choosing an HMB supplement. HMB also can be purchased in powder form and consumed with your protein shake or smoothie. In some cases, you can buy supplements that contain protein and HMB.
HMB vs. creatine
Athletes use both HMB and creatine, and many use them together. But there are minor differences in their effects. HMB is used to prevent muscle breakdown and support muscle recovery. Creatine is primarily used to boost muscle growth.
What to look for in a quality HMB supplement
Flavor
Many powdered HMB supplements come in vanilla or chocolate. In some cases, they taste chalky even after being blended into a shake. Still, in many cases the flavor is comparable to that of traditional protein powder.
Effectiveness and safety
These supplements can be relatively pricey, so before buying, read the reviews and ensure people noticed improvements after using the one you’re considering for several weeks . HMB isn’t known to have serious side effects, but it’s also good to ensure people didn’t feel bad after taking a particular supplement.
Additional ingredients
HMB is more effective when taken with vitamin D3 or creatine. Many supplements contain both HMB and one of these, so you won’t have to take as many supplements each day. If you plan to use HMB after working out, consider buying a supplement that contains protein to boost muscle recovery.
Also, check the bottle to ensure that other ingredients won’t cause you problems, either ethically or physically. Some contain gelatin or HMB derived from animals, and not all are gluten-free.
How much you can expect to spend on HMB supplements
You can expect to spend anywhere from $22-$40 on a 3-month supply of capsules. HMB powder with protein costs $50-$60 for a 2-week supply.
HMB supplement FAQ
Can you take HMB without exercise?
A. According to the NIH, HMB combined with vitamin D3 enhanced muscle strength and physical function in adults without the need for exercise.
What foods have HMB?
A. HMB is present in many meats, vegetables and fruits, specifically alfalfa and catfish. Still, there is significantly higher concentration in HMB supplements.
Is HMB good for older adults?
A. There are conflicting reports on HMB use by older populations, but many consumers agree that these supplements are effective in older people when taken with vitamin D3.
Does HMB increase testosterone?
A. That’s unclear. According to the NIH, people who used both HMB and creatine were found to have increased testosterone levels after 10 weeks of supplementation. There aren’t any notable studies on testosterone levels before and after taking HMB by itself.
What’s the best HMB supplement to buy?
Top HMB supplement
Tony Horton PowerLife High Impact Plant Protein Powder With HMB
What you need to know: This flavored powder is ideal for those who prefer shakes to capsules.
What you’ll love: It’s available in chocolate and vanilla, and it contains both vitamin D3 and a full clinical dose of HMB, so it will provide muscle support even if you don’t exercise daily. It’s vegan, keto-friendly and non-GMO. After taking this daily, users noticed significant improvement in their strength and endurance.
What you should consider: Many users didn’t like the taste, and it’s pretty expensive.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top HMB supplement for the money
What you need to know: After using this for a while, most users noticed a change in their muscle mass. .
What you’ll love: The bottle holds 60 gluten-free capsules, and although they’re large, they’re relatively easy to swallow. They doesn’t contain milk, egg, tree nut, fish, peanut, shellfish or soy.
What you should consider: This only contains HMB, so you won’t notice a difference unless you exercise daily or take a daily vitamin D3 supplement.
Where to buy: Sold by iHerb
Worth checking out
What you need to know: After taking this for at least a month, users noticed a significant difference in their muscle recovery.
What you’ll love: Users felt these were effective when taken daily. The bottle contains a 1-month supply of HMB.
What you should consider: The capsules are relatively large.
Where to buy: Sold by iHerb
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Comparing dog bicycle trailers and dog bicycle carriers
Dogs love to get out and enjoy the day just as much as humans do. If you are going for a bike ride and your dog doesn’t have the energy to run, you don’t need to leave them at home. Instead, equip your bike with a trailer or carrier.
Both are suitable options for bringing along your pooch. However, their vastly different designs may make one superior for your needs.
Dog bicycle trailer
Dog bicycle trailers are fully-enclosed carts that get towed behind you as you ride. They sit low to the ground and feature several large mesh panels that allow for plenty of air flow. Some of these may be openable for access or to let your pooch stick its head out. Most trailers are also equipped with tether attachment points and pockets, and cost between $150-$400.
Dog bicycle trailer pros
One of the biggest advantages to bike trailers is they can accommodate medium and large dogs that would be impossible to put in a carrier. Some models are designed for dogs up to 125 pounds, whereas carriers are only suitable for dogs weighing less than 25 pounds. You can also put two smaller dogs in a trailer together, making them a good choice for those with more than one furry family member.
Because trailers sit so low to the ground, they are easy for dogs to enter and exit without assistance from their owner. This design also makes them very safe and stable. In the unfortunate event of a crash, your dog is more likely to come out uninjured in a trailer because they won’t end up falling very far. Plus, the full enclosure on bike trailers means your dog can’t unexpectedly jump out to chase a squirrel.
Dog bicycle trailer cons
Many of the downsides of dog bike trailers stem from their size. They can be heavy and difficult to tow, especially with the added weight of their precious cargo. Don’t be surprised if your rides suddenly become much more tiresome when towing a trailer.
Trailers can also be problematic when biking through crowded areas with a lot of pedestrians or other cyclists. Some are nearly 3 feet wide, so they require more space on trails and sidewalks than a bike alone.
For those who live in apartments or small homes, the size of bike trailers can make them difficult to store. To mitigate that, many trailers fold up and/or have removable wheels. This can be a bit of a hassle, though, since you’ll need to remove the trailer from your bike every time you want to do this.
Best dog bicycle trailer
PetSafe Happy Ride Aluminum Dog Bike Trailer
With a sturdy aluminum frame and 110-pound weight capacity, this is a good choice for owners of large dogs. It features several mesh panels for airflow, two openings for easy access and has reflectors on the back to help motorists see you. There are also several pockets on the outside to carry treats, toys and anything else your furry friend needs.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Best dog bicycle trailer for the money
Retrospec Rover Waggin’ Pet Bike Trailer
This affordable trailer is ideal for those who have dogs weighing up to 50 pounds and want an affordable option. To keep your pooch safe, it has a nonslip floor, internal tether attachment point and reflectors on the back and wheels.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Dog bicycle trailer worth considering
Schwinn Rascal Bike Pet Trailer
The Rascal is available in two sizes and three bright colors. Conveniently, it can be decoupled from your bike without any tools. The top has a zippered panel with both mesh and solid covers. This will give your dog extra airflow or protect it from the elements as needed.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Dog bicycle carrier
Dog bike carriers are baskets that you attach to your handlebars or the rear cargo rack. They are often modified for both comfort and safety, with features such as adjustable openings, tether attachment points, padding and sometimes even full enclosures. Many also have small pockets to carry valuables, water bottles and other items. Carriers come in a range of styles, from modern nylon and mesh to classic wicker, and cost between $20-$100.
Dog bicycle carrier pros
Dog bike carriers are more versatile than trailers. Many are equipped with removable shoulder straps so they can be used as standard carriers when walking around with your four-legged family member. They also attach to and remove from bicycles quickly, without the need for any tools. This makes them a good choice for those who like to ride solo just as often as they do with their dog.
Bike carriers also keep your dog closer to you, which lets you reach over to pet or comfort them. Also, because of their small size, storage is rarely an issue with carriers.
Dog bicycle carrier cons
The biggest issue many people have with carriers is safety. They are mounted very high off the ground, which can be dangerous in a crash, and most don’t have a full enclosure. The tether and adjustable openings mitigate this issue somewhat, but it still doesn’t make them as safe as trailers.
Carriers are only suitable for small dogs, too. If you have a medium or large breed, they aren’t an option. They may also not be an option for people who have trouble bending over or picking up their pet. Most dogs cannot enter carriers on their own, so you’ll need to be able to lift them up and place them inside the basket. They shouldn’t be taught to jump down on their own either. Otherwise, they may be more likely to do it unexpectedly in the middle of a ride.
Best dog bicycle carrier
Travelin K9 Pet-Pilot Wicker Max Bike Carrier
This charming wicker carrier features a plush sherpa lining and a removable metal enclosure with a sunshade to keep your best friend comfortable on long rides. It’s equipped with a flip-up handle, too, so it can also be used for off-bike carrying.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Best dog bicycle carrier for the money
This bike carrier has all the features your pooch needs for a safe and comfortable ride yet costs much less than other carriers. It has an adjustable opening, two slip pockets and removable plush inner padding. However, it can only accommodate dogs weighing up to 10 pounds.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Dog bicycle carrier worth considering
Travelin K-9 Pet-Pilot Original
Though it’s a bit pricey, the Pet-Pilot Original has a strong steel frame and stays securely in place without swaying as you ride. It also comes with six inserts that let you change its accent color based on your mood.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Should you buy a dog bicycle trailer or a dog bicycle carrier?
Choosing between a trailer and a carrier often comes down to the size of your dog. Those with small dogs will want to opt for a carrier because they are more affordable and convenient. Owners of large dogs, or those who want to take two small dogs on a ride together, will need to buy a trailer.
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GRANTVILLE, Ga. (AP) — Authorities say three people are dead after a robbery at a gun range in Georgia.
The Grantville Police Department said via Facebook that the robbery occurred Friday evening. When officers arrived at the scene around 8 p.m., they discovered the owner of Lock Stock & Barrel Shooting had been killed, along with his wife and grandson.
Some 40 weapons and a video camera were taken. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation is investigating. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives was also called in due to the amount of weapons taken.
The shooting range is in rural Coweta County, about 50 miles (about 80 kilometers) southeast of Atlanta.
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Kids playing with loaded gun leads to fatal shooting of 14-year-old girl, sheriff says
HANCOCK COUNTY, Miss. (WLOX/Gray News) - A 14-year-old girl died in what authorities call an unintentional shooting after a group of kids were playing with a loaded gun.
WLOX reports Hancock County Sheriff Ricky Adam said the shooting occurred earlier this week at a duplex in the Bayside Park community.
According to the sheriff, a 10-year-old and a 15-year-old walked over to a 14-year-old girl and her 10-year-old brother’s home to hang out.
The two kids who were visiting reportedly brought two guns with them, and all four kids then went into a bedroom, according to police.
The sheriff said the guns ended up on a bed when one of the kids picked one up. Thinking it was empty, the juvenile pointed the weapon toward the 14-year-old girl and pulled the trigger.
A shot was fired, and a bullet struck the girl below her left eye. She died instantly, according to the sheriff.
Authorities later identified the teen killed as Alexis Sky Pierson.
The sheriff said the investigation has determined the shooting was not intentional. But the case will be taken to Hancock County Youth Court to decide any charges in the incident.
No adults are currently charged with any crime. However, the sheriff said it’s too soon to tell if any future charges will be filed, and the investigation is ongoing.
Kolby Sims, a neighbor, said he has lived near Pierson for over three years and was with another neighbor outside when the shooting happened. He said they heard a loud thud and thought the children dropped something before all the kids started running out.
Sims said the neighborhood kids often play together, including his younger brother. He said he was devastated once he found out a gunshot caused the noise.
“It just made me sick to my stomach, especially so close to my little brother and me having a son of my own. It hits different,” Sims said.
Alexis’ great-grandmother Polly Boswell described the teen as an angel who loved her family and had the biggest heart.
“She’s been special since she was little. I can’t really describe what it was about her. It’s like she just shined with love. " Boswell said. “There was just something about her that you knew that she was special.”
Alexis, also known as Lexi, was a sixth-grade student at Hancock Middle School. The school district released a statement Wednesday afternoon expressing their profound sadness:
“We extend our sympathy and prayers to the family during this difficult time,” the statement read. “Today, counselors, teachers and other support staff have been, and will continue to be, available to students, staff, and parents. How children react in these situations varies. Children may ask questions about death, be sad or afraid. We encourage parents to listen to their children and if they want to talk, answer his or her questions simply and honestly.”
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Newborn safely surrendered in a Safe Haven Baby Box
CARMEL, Ind. (Gray News) – A baby was safely surrendered this week to a Safe Haven Baby Box in Indiana.
According to the Carmel Fire Department, the baby was taken to the hospital for evaluation and is healthy.
Safe Haven Baby Boxes are used to prevent the illegal abandonment of a newborn and offer a safe place for a mother-in-crisis to leave her infant.
The Safe Haven Baby Box at the Carmel Fire Department is set up in a way that provides complete anonymity to the person who is leaving the baby.
The person opens a door on the side of the department’s building that holds a bassinet, which triggers a silent alarm to alert firefighters that a baby has been placed inside. The exterior door automatically locks to protect the baby.
Authorities said firefighters were able to get to the surrendered newborn in less than a minute and provide it the care it needs before taking it to the hospital by ambulance.
“Our hope is that this baby boy will find a forever loving home the same way and find their forever family as well,” said Fire Chief David Haboush in a Facebook post for Safe Haven Baby Boxes.
According to the organization, 17 babies have been surrendered inside Safe Haven Baby Boxes since the first one was installed in 2016. Safe Haven Baby Boxes are currently available in Indiana, Ohio, Arkansas, Florida, Kentucky and New Mexico.
“Today we celebrate a brave mother’s sacrificial love to give her child a better life,” said Safe Haven Baby Boxes founder Monica Kelsey. “We are proud that these mothers have safely surrendered their infants who we know were so loved.”
If you need help finding a Safe Haven location or to speak to a licensed counselor, call the National Safe Haven crisis hotline at 1-866-99BABY1.
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Unlicensed massage therapist charged with sexually battering client, police say
RUSKIN, Fla. (Gray News) - A man in Florida is facing four counts of sexual battery after he victimized a massage client, according to police.
The Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office (HCSO) said Jose Garcia, 68, claimed to be a massage therapist and has been providing massage services for at least 12 years out of his home in Ruskin, about 27 miles south of Tampa. However, detectives found no evidence that Garcia is a licensed massage therapist. Garcia claimed he received his training in Mexico.
According to the HCSO, a woman suffering from back pain contacted Garcia on March 29 about receiving a massage. The woman booked an appointment with him and drove to his home for the service. Officials said Garcia then sexually battered the victim during the massage.
The HCSO said Garcia admitted to the crimes. He is facing four counts of sexual battery, but more charges could be forthcoming.
Most of Garcia’s clients only speak Spanish, but the HCSO said they have “talented, caring, and bilingual deputies” who are ready to help more potential victims if they come forward.
“This is a man who took advantage of people who came to him seeking help for their ailments,” Hillsborough County Sheriff Chad Chronister said. “Our fear now is that there are more victims out there who may not speak English or know they can come forward to report these crimes.”
Detectives are asking anyone who feels they are a victim of Garcia to contact the HCSO at 813-247-8200.
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A new suitor has entered the Arch Manning sweepstakes.
The 2023 five-star recruit is taking a visit to University of Virginia, per 247Sports. Though it’s widely assumed Manning will end up at an SEC school, he does have some familial connections to the ACC school. His mom, Ellen, went to Virginia, his sister is currently enrolled there and his aunt, Ashley, is also an alum.
Manning is the top-ranked quarterback in the class of 2023 and comes with obvious star power, with Peyton and Eli Manning being his uncles.
Currently enrolled at Isidore Newman High School in New Orleans, Manning is being heavily recruited by Alabama, Georgia, Florida, Ole Miss, LSU and Texas, among others. Last season, he threw for 1,371 yards and 17 touchdowns with just four interceptions in seven games for Newman. He also had 310 yards rushing and scored five touchdowns on the ground.
It would be a shock for him to end up at Virginia, a school that rarely fields a football team that competes for an ACC title — let alone a national title — but with NIL in play and family at the school, stranger things have happened.
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A Staten Island pol is amassing City Council support to formally demand Mayor Eric Adams rehire the 1,430 municipal employees canned for refusing to get vaccinated against COVID-19.
Council Minority Leader Joseph Borelli will be introducing a nonbinding resolution at Thursday’s meeting calling on Adams to rehire workers fired in February for failing to meet a vaccine-mandate deadline requiring proof of at least one shot. The resolution, which already has bipartisan backing from at least seven other Council members, also demands private businesses rehire employees who were fired for failing to get jabbed.
The Staten Island Republican told The Post he believes the Council must deliver an apolitical message that it believes Adams’ decision last month to exempt pro athletes and other performers from the mandate is unfair because rank-and-file workers remain unemployed for snubbing the same rules.
“There has to be equity,” Borelli said. “If we’re willing to tolerate risks for athletes and performers, we must tolerate the same risks for all members of our workforce – be it the private sector or public.”
Other Council members on board include Farah Louis (D-Brooklyn) and David Carr (R-Staten Island).
Adams granted the exemption only after fielding pressure from the Brooklyn Nets, Mets and Yankees. The teams lobbied for the change, saying it was unfair that rules Adams inherited from former Mayor Bill de Blasio allowed unvaccinated visiting athletes to play in city venues, but Nets star Kyrie Irving and other city-based unvaccinated athletes couldn’t play home games.
Paul DiGiacamo, president of the Detectives Endowment Association, said he hopes Borelli’s legislation convinces the mayor to rehire the union’s unvaccinated investigators.
“Any detective who left took years of experience with [them],” he said. “The city is in crisis. We need to bring back the detectives.”
More firings could be coming.
Thousands of city workers who applied for medical or religious accommodations or exemptions from the vaccination requirement have yet to get a decision.
Reps for Mayor Adams and Council Speaker Adrienne Adams (D-Queens) said their offices need to review the resolution before commenting.
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Carnival Cruise Line has informed guests of several changes that will affect guests booked on cruises onboard four different ships on eleven sailings. The changes come after a range of itinerary changes in the last couple of months as ships are repositioned in other cruise areas.
The current round of changes has affected cruises for Carnival Splendor in Alaska, Carnival Miracle in Alaska, Carnival Magic with a changed port on one of its East coast voyages, and Carnival Spirit in the Bahamas.
Itinerary Changes For Carnival Cruise Line Ships
Carnival has notified guests and travel advisors that several itineraries for four different ships have been changed. The eleven itineraries that have been affected are for cruises between May 2022 and November 2023. Carnival has not provided any specific reason for the changes.
Three ships have minor changes, Carnival Splendor, Carnival Magic, and Carnival Spirit. The most changes are for voyages onboard Carnival Miracle, with modifications to eight different sailings in Alaska.
Carnival Splendor
On May 2, 2022, it will be the first cruise in Alaska for Carnival Splendor and the first cruise since the global operation pause. There has been a slight change to the time in port for Juneau. The ship was scheduled to stay in Juneau until 8 PM but will now leave at 5 PM.
During her first cruise in more than two years, the vessel will also be cruising Tracy Arm Fjord, Skagway, Icy Straight Point, Ketchikan, and Victoria, BC.
Carnival Magic
Carnival Magic will be sailing to Saint John, New Brunswick, on July 13, 2023. Instead of sailing to the Bahamas, this cruise will now be a four-night Canada & New England voyage.
Sailing from New York’s Manhattan Cruise Terminal, Carnival Magic will be spending a day at sea, a day in Saint John, New Brunswick, and another day at sea before returning to New York.
It is unclear why Carnival decided to sail to Canada instead of Bermuda on this voyage. Other Bermuda cruises are still scheduled as going ahead as planned.
Carnival Spirit
Sailing from Mobile, Alabama, on November 11, 2023, Carnival Spirit’s 8-day Bahamas cruise has two changes. Instead of visiting Half Moon Cay on November 16, the ship will be here on November 15.
The visit to Nassau, scheduled for November 15, will take place on November 16. The vessel will remain in port from 08:00 AM and leave again at 4:00 PM on both days.
Other ports during the 8-day voyage include Bimini and Freeport, while guests will have the pleasure of spending three full days at sea.
Carnival Miracle
The most changes to itineraries are for Carnival Miracle. The cruise ship will be based out of San Francisco, California, and sail on 10-day cruises to Alaska.
A total of 8 voyages have been changed. Sailing May 31, 2022, from San Francisco, the new itinerary for this voyage includes Cruise Tracy Arm Fjord, Skagway, Juneau, Ketchikan, and Victoria, BC, in that order.
Cruises with a departure date of April 23, 2023, and September 10, 2023, will visit Sitka, Juneau, Skagway, Icy Straight Point, Cruise Tracy Arm Fjord, Ketchikan, Victoria BC, sailing from San Francisco, California.
Cruises departing on May 15, June 12, July 10 and 24, and August 21, 2023, will be visiting Juneau, Skagway, Icy Straight Point, Cruise Tracy Arm Fjord, Victoria BC, sailing from San Francisco, California.
A Record Year for Alaska?
It is unclear why Carnival is making so many changes to its itineraries, especially in Alaska. However, Alaska will be seeing a record number of ships visiting the area this summer. Carnival Cruise Line alone will be sending three ships to the region.
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Cruise ship schedules are packed in Alaska this summer; on some days, Ketchikan and Juneau expect as many as seven ships in port at a time.
Juneau has 639 cruise calls scheduled, Ketchikan is forecast to see 598 cruise calls, and Skagway could see 474 calls. It would make sense that Carnival has decided, or has been asked, to change itineraries for this reason.
As for visitor numbers, if all ships arrive at or near full capacity, which is expected this summer, it will be a record year for the state. Cruise Lines International Association (CLIA) says the ships this summer have a rough capacity of 1.5 million passengers, exceeding pre-pandemic numbers. | https://www.cruisehive.com/carnival-cruise-line-provides-update-on-itinerary-changes-for-four-ships/69624 | 2022-04-09T15:25:01Z | cruisehive.com | control | https://www.cruisehive.com/carnival-cruise-line-provides-update-on-itinerary-changes-for-four-ships/69624 | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Piers Morgan and Katie Price are never far away from the public eye. Both generate considerable amounts of attention with plenty of focus on their respective private lives.
Katie especially is known for her extravagant and often controversial antics which fill her private life. In his latest column in The Sun, Piers Morgan took aim at Katie and offered some frank advice.
Morgan took a prominent aim at her motoring offences and hopes his open letter will act as a wake-up call for the mother of five. Piers said: "You’re a straight talker like me, so let me be brutally frank: you’re spiralling completely out of control, and this won’t end well if you don’t wake the f*** up pretty damn sharpish and pull yourself together."
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In the column, Piers mentions how he finds it increasingly difficult to watch Katie's antics which has included bankruptcy and numerous new plastic surgeries. He then mentions her car crash in Partridge Green last year which left her with a 16-week suspended sentence and a two-year driving ban.
Piers adds this driving offence to a growing list of troubles that have centred around Katie over the past few years. Many of these have left Piers questioning whether his friend is OK and resulting in him writing this column.
The most recent of Katie's decisions to sadden and anger Piers, was her decision to buy a brand new £179,000 pink Ferrari which she shared on her Instagram page. He mentioned that a car as fast as this is the last thing she needs and questions whether she deserved to be buying herself a gift like this.
Piers considered this the last straw, and signed off his piece with: "You may be outraged by this open letter and tell me to shove my concern where the sun doesn’t shine. But whether you want to hear it or not, someone has to tell you some home truths before it’s too late.
"WAKE UP, Katie. Don’t do it for me - do it for your children."
Katie's children are one aspect that Piers is keen to mention, showing the former model in a much more positive light. He frequently refers to how good she is as a mother, especially to Harvey who has special needs and is often the target for many online trolls.
Whether or not Katie will take Piers' message onboard remains to be seen. What is for certain is that Piers will never shy away from a conversation.
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We all love a good bargain, and right now hunting down those daily deals has never been more important. We’ve all begun to feel the impact of the rising cost of living, from the fuel we’re putting in our cars, the monthly cost of the gas and electric bill to the price of our weekly shop, everything is on the up.
So, saving some pennies wherever you can is always an absolute bonus while out at your local supermarket. Of course, there are shops entirely tailored around providing your weekly essentials at discounted prices such as Aldi and Lidl, but what you might not know is that some of the nation’s other favourite stores have some absolute bargains if you know the right places to look.
For Sainsbury’s this comes under the J James range, named after the founder John James Sainsbury and primarily offering meat based goods. A spokesperson for the supermarket stated that this line of products “offers a range of traditional cuts and products with great quality and value”.
Read more: The final verdict on whether B&M, Home Bargains or Poundland is cheaper
In total, Sainsbury's currently has an Aldi price match on 150 fresh own-label and branded products and other grocery and frozen products. In the interest of seeing how much I could save on my weekly shop and putting the value of the J James line to the test, I went out to my local Sainsbury’s and grabbed a selection of discounted items.
I also compared them to the price of their regular Sainsbury’s alternatives. Here’s how I got on.
Aldi’s got some competition
I’ll start off by saying that I was definitely impressed by what I was able to get a hold and how much it cost. In total, I grabbed six items that will provide me with multiple days' worth of meals easily.
Coming in at just £9.01, I was definitely pleased with my haul. First up, I grabbed a packet of eight back bacon rashers for just 83p - now that is a definite steal.
The usual Sainsbury’s range for the same amount of bacon would instead cost you £1.50, so a saving to be sure and a bargain that even a dedicated Aldi shopper couldn't deny. Next, I grabbed some breaded ham (the superior ham variety I might add) costing me just 60p, a massive markdown from the £1.90 alternative.
That was my sandwiches covered for a few days at least, with a bit more cash leftover in my wallet too. I then grabbed a couple items from the fish aisle, getting some cod in parsley sauce at just £2.99, the closest alternative of which I could find was Sainsbury’s own cod mornay which weighed the same but instead cost £4 - so, again, a substantial saving.
While I was there I also got some seafood sticks for just 80p. Whether you love them or hate them, you can’t deny that is a more than fair price, with the alternative from Young’s costing nearly double at £1.40.
Finally, I stopped by the chicken section, managing to get two kyivs for just £1.80, a classic dinner at an absolute steal, with the main Sainsbury’s alternative pricing at £2.30 instead. Winner winner, chicken dinner.
Lastly, I opted for one more sandwich filler, because there’s nothing wrong with some lunchtime variety. I got myself some chicken tikka slices for £1.99, almost an entire pound less than the £2.80 normal Sainsbury’s range.
Verdict
It is safe to say that I left feeling more than happy with the deals I managed to get my hands on today. In total I managed to save £4.89, going to show that even the smallest of price differences really do add up in the end.
So, I really do recommend that you keep an eye out for the blue packaging of the J James saver rage the next time you visit a Sainsbury’s. While Aldi might be your current go-to, they definitely aren’t the only source for bargains right now.
Be warned Aldi and Lidl, you’ve certainly got some competition.
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The Arlington County Democratic Committee on April 6 joined a chorus of largely Democratic- and left-leaning groups urging a November 2022 special election for all 100 House of Delegates seats.
Under state law, elections held in November 2021 – in which Republicans won back control of the lower house of the legislature – were supposed to be run in districts reconfigured to reflect 2020 Census data. But those data arrived from the federal government too late to allow for boundaries to be redrawn, and elections were held in the districts that date to 2011.
A former Democratic Party of Virginia chair has sued in federal court in an effort to have new elections using the new districts ordered for this fall.
Democrats once were supremely optimistic that would occur, but hopes have faded in recent months.
The desire to hold new elections may be based on the belief that redistricting favors Democrats and might allow them to win back control of the body. But another take on the current situation suggests that, if Democrats are on their way to a national rout in congressional midterm elections this fall as some expect, the party actually could end up losing more seats in swing districts if an election is held.
Under House of Delegates districts approved by the Virginia Supreme Court, Arlington’s legislative delegation will decline from four to three and will see two current members of the delegation – Rip Sullivan and Elizabeth Bennett-Parker – drawn out of Arlington. Dels. Patrick Hope and Alfonso Lopez would be likely to remain in office in the new districts, while the third Arlington district currently has no incumbent occupying it.
State Senate elections are not scheduled until 2023, and that timetable would not be affected by a court ruling on the House races. Based on redistricting, Arlington’s three-member Senate contingent would drop from three to two, with Sen. Janet Howell being drawn out of the county. That leaves incumbents Barbara Favola and Adam Ebbin.
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The data center industry provided $126 billion in capital investment and supported more than 28,000 jobs across Virginia in 2021, according to a new regional report.
The Northern Virginia Technology Council recently released its biennial report on the economic impact of data centers, showing the exponential and continued growth of the industry in the region.
Northern Virginia is by far the largest data center market in the world, nearly double the second largest market, in London. The industry is bigger in the area than the next five largest markets in the U.S. combined, the report says.
Vinay Nagpal, chairman of NVTC’s Data Center Cloud Community of Interest committee, said the industry’s growth in Northern Virginia is continuing at an “astronomical pace.”
Loudoun County continues to dominate the market regionally, with $424.7 million in local tax revenue in 2020, compared to a cost of $32.3 million in demand for county services.
Prince William County is second in the region, with $64.2 million in tax revenue compared to $4.8 million in demand for local service.
“They’re both growing strong with great prospects to keep growing strong,” said Stan Blackwell, a board member of NVTC’s Data Center Cloud Community of Interest committee.
Fletcher Magnum, CEO of Magnum Economics, said that Prince William County data centers generate $13.50 in local tax revenue for every dollar they cost in local services.
Across the state, the industry produces more than $1 billion in local tax revenue plus $174.2 million in state taxes.
Magnum said the annual growth rate of the industry in Northern Virginia was 15% from 2014 to 2021. The next closest market is Dallas-Fort Worth at 10%.
The report says the industry supported 5,550 direct jobs in 2021. Factoring in indirect jobs created throughout the supply chain, the industry supported 28,550 jobs. Adding in construction jobs puts the total at 45,460.
“For every job within a data center, data center activity supports 4.1 jobs throughout the economy,” Magnum said. “Data centers in one region of the state support jobs in other regions of the state.”
In 2021, Northern Virginia data centers supported an estimated 2,300 supply chain jobs throughout the state.
In Prince William, residents have pushed back on the industry as it has expanded outside of designated areas.
Nagpal said development is struggling to keep up with demand for more data centers and cloud storage.
Last year, the industry’s total capital investment across the state was $126 billion. If that investment was represented as a single company, it would rank No. 22 on the Forbes 500 list between Ford and General Motors.
“Everyone understands how large a data center market Northern Virginia is,” Magnum said. “But I don’t think people understand just how large it is.” | https://www.insidenova.com/news/real_estate/report-data-centers-provide-virginia-126b/article_eed99fbc-b771-11ec-a032-bb82396940ea.html | 2022-04-09T15:28:54Z | insidenova.com | control | https://www.insidenova.com/news/real_estate/report-data-centers-provide-virginia-126b/article_eed99fbc-b771-11ec-a032-bb82396940ea.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The dates and schedules are all set, the teams have been realigned throughout the 17 divisions and the water in the 102 pools across the area is slowly being filtered and prepared for the upcoming 2022 summertime Northern Virginia Swimming League season.
When the popular outdoor campaign begins with 9 a.m. Saturday morning meets June 18, two of the four Arlington teams in the league – the Overlee Flying Fish and Donaldson Run Thunderbolts – will be in Division 1 for the second-straight summer.
Overlee has been a mainstay in Division 1, perched there every year dating back to 1962. This summer marks the first time Donaldson Run will be in Division 1 in back-to-back seasons since the 1969 and ’70 seasons. Overlee beat Donaldson Run, 236-184, last summer.
Overall, Overlee finished third in that division last summer with a 3-2 record. The Thunderbolts were fourth at 2-3. The teams meet in an all-Arlington showdown this summer, Saturday, July 16 at Donaldson Run in one of the five regular-season dual matches.
The teams open their seasons June 18, with Donaldson Run at defending Division 1 champion Tuckahoe and Overlee hosting the Langley Wildthings, who move up one spot this summer after winning Division 2 in 2021 with a 5-0 record.
Langley is the lone new addition to Division 1, with McLean pools Chesterbrook and Highlands Swim the other two teams.
Arlington’s Dominion Hills Warriors move up to Division 7 after finishing second with a 4-1 mark in Division 8 last year. The Warriors’ first meet is June 18 at Ravensworth Farm in Springfield, a team that was 3-2 in Division 7 last summer.
The Arlington Forest Tigers remain in Division 9 after going 1-4 there last summer. The Tigers swim at Poplar Heights in Falls Church in their season opener. Poplar Heights finished 3-2 in Division 11 last summer.
The 2022 season will be the first NVSL campaign since 2019 that will not be altered or have restrictions in some way because of the pandemic. That means the league-wide all-star relay carnival will be held for the first time since 2019, this summer on Wednesday, July 13 at Hamlet Swim Club in McLean.
“We are so really excited about this season and finally getting the relay carnival back,” league president Jen Sayasithsena said. “We have the same 102 teams ready to go, we will publish a handbook again this summer for the first time since 2019, and everything is on target. Fingers crossed.”
The one item not yet determined is the site of the league-wide individual all-star competition, which will be held Saturday, July 30. Sayasithsena said a final site will be decided in the next two or three weeks.
Springboard pool in Springfield hosted the past two all-star meets.
Divisional relays are scheduled for Wednesday, July 6 at 17 different sites througout the league, with Overlee hosting Division 1.
The divisions and five-week regular-season schedules also are set for the NVSL diving season, set to open with meets Tuesday evening, June 21.
Overlee will be in Division I, Donaldson Run in Division III, Dominion Hill in Division IV and Arlington Forest in Division V. Overlee is the defending Division I champion. Donaldson Run was 3-2 and tied for second in Division III last summer, Dominion Hills was 2-3 in Division IV and Arlington Forest 0-5 in Division III.
Divisional dive meets are scheduled for all day on Sunday, July 24, with the season-ending league-wide all-star meet Sunday all day, July 31 at Fairfax Station.
NOTE: Many NVSL swimming teams move up and down in divisions from season to season based on win-loss records. The team making the biggest jump from last summer to 2022 is Cottontail of Springfield, jumping five spots from winning Division 13 to Division 8. The team falling the most divisions is Fox Mill Woods of Reston, dropping six spots from Division 8 to 14. | https://www.insidenova.com/sports/arlington-teams-set-for-nvsl-summer-season/article_cf1b0310-b7fc-11ec-960e-b3796d099fd4.html | 2022-04-09T15:29:00Z | insidenova.com | control | https://www.insidenova.com/sports/arlington-teams-set-for-nvsl-summer-season/article_cf1b0310-b7fc-11ec-960e-b3796d099fd4.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The dates and schedules are all set, the teams have been realigned throughout the 17 divisions and the water in the 102 pools across the area is slowly being filtered and prepared for the upcoming 2022 summertime Northern Virginia Swimming League season.
When the popular outdoor campaign begins with 9 a.m. Saturday morning meets June 18, four local teams – the defending champion Tuckahoe Tigers (5-0), the Chesterbrook Tiger Sharks (4-1), the Highlands Swim Whomping Turtles and the Langley Wildthings – will be in Division 1. Chesterbrook finished second last summer with Highlands (1-4) fifth.
Langley won the Division 2 championship last year with a 5-0 record and moves up to Division 1.
In those initial June 18 meets, the first of five regular-season matches, Tuckahoe hosts Donaldson Run of Arlington, Highlands hosts Chesterbrook and Langley is at Overlee.
The 2022 season will be the first NVSL campaign since 2019 that will not be altered or have restrictions in some way because of the pandemic. That means the league-wide all-star relay carnival will be held for the first time since 2019, this summer on Wednesday, July 13 at Hamlet Swim Club in McLean.
“We are so really excited about this season and finally getting the relay carnival back,” league president Jen Sayasithsena said. “We have the same 102 teams ready to go, we will publish a handbook again this summer for the first time since 2019, and everything is on target.”
The one item not yet determined is the site of the league-wide individual all-star competition, which will be held Saturday, July 30. Sayasithsena said a final site will be decided in the next two or three weeks.
Springboard pool in Springfield hosted the past two all-star meets.
Divisional relays are scheduled for Wednesday, July 6 at 17 different sites, with no local pools hosting any meets that day.
“Everything is back this summer, so fingers crossed,” Sayasithsena said.
Division 2 of the summer season includes local pools Kent Gardens, McLean and Hamlet with Division 3 having Vienna Woods. Kent Gardens was the Division 4 champion last summer with a 5-0 mark.
The Oakton Otters head Division 4 along with Vienna Aquatic Club and Cardinal Hill. Oakton finished second in that division last summer at 4-1.
The Dunn Loring Dolphins were the Division 8 champions with a 5-0 mark last summer and have moved up to Division 6. They open the season June 18 at home against Country Club Hills of Fairfax.
The divisions and five-week regular-season schedules also are set for the NVSL diving season, scheduled to open with meets Tuesday evening, June 21.
Dunn Loring, Kent Gardens, Oakton and Vienna Woods are four local teams in Division I this summer with Great Falls in Division II. Oakton won the Division II title last season with a 5-0 record and Kent Gardens was second at 4-1. As a result, each moved up to Division I.
Cardinal Hill was the Division VI tri-champion last summer and is now in Division V.
Divisional dive meets are Sunday, July 24 with the season-ending league-wide all-star meet Sunday, July 31 at Fairfax Station.
NOTE: Many NVSL swimming teams move up and down in divisions from season to season based on win-loss records. The team making the biggest jump from last summer to 2022 is Cottontail of Springfield, jumping five spots from winning Division 13 to Division 8. The team falling the most divisions is Fox Mill Woods of Reston, dropping six spots from Division 8 to 14. | https://www.insidenova.com/sports/summer-season-all-set-for-nvsl-teams/article_3a7206c2-b7fd-11ec-9b24-27350332fd6e.html | 2022-04-09T15:29:06Z | insidenova.com | control | https://www.insidenova.com/sports/summer-season-all-set-for-nvsl-teams/article_3a7206c2-b7fd-11ec-9b24-27350332fd6e.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
ATLANTIC:
Small Craft Advisory in effect from April 10, 1 AM until April 10, 4 PM
SAT: Winds SW 10-15 Knots. Seas 3-4 Feet.
SUN: Winds NW 10-15 Knots. Seas 4-5 Feet.
CHESAPEAKE:
Small Craft Advisory in effect until April 10, 6 PM
SAT: Winds W 15 Knots. Seas ~2 Feet.
SUN: Winds NW 15-20 Knots. Seas ~3 Feet.
DELAWARE BAY:
Small Craft Advisory in effect from April 10, 1 AM until April 10, 6 PM
SAT: Winds SW 5-10 Knots. Seas 3-4 Feet.
SUN: Winds NW 15-20 Knots. Seas 3-4 Feet. | https://www.wboc.com/weather/marine-forecast-for-saturday-april-9-2022/article_b14da0e6-b800-11ec-a0b8-879e92f194e2.html | 2022-04-09T15:40:07Z | wboc.com | control | https://www.wboc.com/weather/marine-forecast-for-saturday-april-9-2022/article_b14da0e6-b800-11ec-a0b8-879e92f194e2.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
We still need the following teams to start up our Niners Nation community Mock Draft: Jaguars, Saints, Patriots, Titans. Please email me at kyle.posey@sbnation.com if you are interested and we will get this bad boy off the ground this weekend.
Jimmy Garoppolo or Trey Lance? Frank Gore on which QB gives the 49ers the best chance to win
“We don’t know what Trey Lance is going to bring,” Gore added. “... In a couple of preseason games, he showed a little glimpse and stuff. But I’d say, right now, Jimmy [gives the 49ers the best chance] because every time he’s out there, they win. He went to the Super Bowl. He went to the playoffs. He’s been in the league for a while, so he understands the offense. He’s smart. Right now, I would say Jimmy.”
It was a weird rookie year for the 2021 third-round selection. San Francisco traded a pair of fourth-round picks to get Sermon, but he could never make consistently make his way onto the field. He played in nine games with most of his contributions coming on special teams. There’s some speculation he was brought in to play in the offense with Trey Lance, but the fact he ran just 41 times as a rookie isn’t a promising sign. He’ll need a strong offseason to carve out a bigger role in 2022.
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Kyle Shanahan would have an awfully tough time passing on Trey Lance’s former teammate at North Dakota State, wide receiver Christian Watson, if he somehow inexplicably fell to the Niners at No. 61. Heck, after Watson dazzled during the 2022 Senior Bowl and then again at the scouting combine, running a 4.36 40-yard time in the process, it wouldn’t be shocking if the 6-foot-4, 208-pound wideout ended up being selected in Round 1.
Dolphins set to work out former Alabama All American linebacker and 49ers first-round pick
Reuben Foster, a former All-American linebacker at Alabama and a San Francisco 49ers first-round pick who hasn’t played in the NFL since 2018 in the wake of a serious knee injury, will audition for the Dolphins on Friday, according to a source close to the team.
San Francisco selected him 31st overall in the 2017 Draft; he dropped from a potential top 20 pick in the wake of a failed, diluted drug test and spring shoulder surgery. Foster blamed food poisoning for forcing him to hydrate to the point that his urine sample was reported as diluted at the NFL Combine.
8 reasons the 49ers need to get a deal done with Deebo Samuel
San Francisco got the ball in Samuel’s hands last season when they needed a big play. The 83-yard screen that sparked a stagnant 49ers offense vs. the Bears sticks out. So does his 43-yard catch vs. the Rams in Week 17 to help send the game to overtime. His rushing touchdown vs. the Cowboys in the wild-card game, his third-and-7 run for 9 yards vs. the Packers to set up the game-winning field goal in the divisional round, and his insane NFC championship TD on a screen pass all jump out as moments the 49ers gave the ball to him when they needed a big play. There were more than that, but those are the big ones. Looking down their roster, it’s hard to envision another player becoming a go-to rushing and receiving threat the way Samuel did. | https://www.ninersnation.com/2022/4/9/23017722/golden-nuggets-mike-mcdaniel-is-bringing-in-reuben-foster-for-a-workout | 2022-04-09T15:40:36Z | ninersnation.com | control | https://www.ninersnation.com/2022/4/9/23017722/golden-nuggets-mike-mcdaniel-is-bringing-in-reuben-foster-for-a-workout | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Amazon is seeking to overturn the historic union victory at one of its New York City warehouses, arguing in a legal filing Friday that union organizers and the National Labor Relations Board acted in a way that tainted the results. It now wants to redo the election.
The e-commerce giant listed 25 objections in the filing obtained by The Associated Press, accusing organizers with the nascent Amazon Labor Union of intimidating workers to vote for the union, a claim an attorney representing the group has called “patently absurd.”
“The employees have spoken,” Eric Milner, the attorney, said in a statement Thursday after Amazon’s initial planned objections were made public in another legal filing.
“Amazon is choosing to ignore that, and instead engage in stalling tactics to avoid the inevitable — coming to the bargaining table and negotiating for a contract” on behalf of the workers, he said.
Warehouse workers in Staten Island cast 2,654 votes — or about 55% — in favor of a union, giving the fledgling group enough support to pull off a victory last Friday.
In one objection, Amazon said organizers “intentionally created hostile confrontations in front of eligible voters,” by interrupting the mandatory meetings the company held to persuade its employees to reject the union drive. In a filing released earlier this month, the company disclosed it spent about $4.2 million last year on labor consultants.
In another objection, Amazon targeted organizers’ distribution of cannabis to workers, saying the labor board “cannot condone such a practice as a legitimate method of obtaining support for a labor organization.” New York legalized the recreational use of marijuana last year for those over 21. Milner, the attorney representing the union, said Amazon is grasping at straws.
Distributing cannabis “is no different than distributing free t-shirts and it certainly did not act to interfere with the election,” he said.
The company also accused organizers of improperly polling workers.
The retailer had initially signaled it planned to challenge the election results because of a lawsuit the NLRB filed in March, in which the board sought to force Amazon to reinstate a fired employee who was involved in the union drive.
Amazon pointed to the lawsuit in one of its objections filed Friday, saying the regional NLRB office that brought the suit “failed to protect the integrity and neutrality of its procedures,” and had created an impression of support for the union by seeking reinstatement for the former employee, Gerald Bryson.
“Based on the evidence we’ve seen so far, as set out in our objections, we believe that the actions of the NLRB and the ALU improperly suppressed and influenced the vote, and we think the election should be conducted again so that a fair and broadly representative vote can be had,” Kelly Nantel, an Amazon spokesperson, said in a statement Friday.
Bryson was fired in the early days of the pandemic after leading a protest calling for the company to do more to protect workers against COVID-19. While off the job during the protest, Bryson got into a dispute with another worker and was later fired for violating Amazon’s vulgar-language policy, according to his attorney Frank Kearl.
The NLRB did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Its spokesperson, Kayla Blado, previously said the independent agency is authorized by Congress to enforce the National Labor Relations Act.
“All NLRB enforcement actions against Amazon have been consistent with that Congressional mandate,” she said.
In other objections, Amazon targeted how the labor agency conducted the election. It said the agency failed to control media presence around the voting area and didn’t have enough staff and equipment, which the company says created long lines and “discouraged many employees from voting in subsequent polling sessions.”
Meanwhile, both Amazon and the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union, a union that spearheaded a separate union drive in Bessemer, Alabama, have filed objections to that election. The final outcome of the union vote in Alabama is still up in the air with 416 outstanding challenged ballots in the balance. Initial results show the union down by 118 votes, with the majority of Amazon warehouse workers rejecting a bid to form unionize.
RWDSU, which filed more than 20 objections, said in its filing Thursday that its objections are “grounds to set the election aside.”
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Amazon is seeking to overturn the historic union victory at one of its New York City warehouses, arguing in a legal filing Friday that union organizers and the National Labor Relations Board acted in a way that tainted the results. It now wants to redo the election.
The e-commerce giant listed 25 objections in the filing obtained by The Associated Press, accusing organizers with the nascent Amazon Labor Union of intimidating workers to vote for the union, a claim an attorney representing the group has called “patently absurd.”
“The employees have spoken,” Eric Milner, the attorney, said in a statement Thursday after Amazon’s initial planned objections were made public in another legal filing.
“Amazon is choosing to ignore that, and instead engage in stalling tactics to avoid the inevitable — coming to the bargaining table and negotiating for a contract” on behalf of the workers, he said.
Warehouse workers in Staten Island cast 2,654 votes — or about 55% — in favor of a union, giving the fledgling group enough support to pull off a victory last Friday.
In one objection, Amazon said organizers “intentionally created hostile confrontations in front of eligible voters,” by interrupting the mandatory meetings the company held to persuade its employees to reject the union drive. In a filing released earlier this month, the company disclosed it spent about $4.2 million last year on labor consultants.
In another objection, Amazon targeted organizers’ distribution of cannabis to workers, saying the labor board “cannot condone such a practice as a legitimate method of obtaining support for a labor organization.” New York legalized the recreational use of marijuana last year for those over 21. Milner, the attorney representing the union, said Amazon is grasping at straws.
Distributing cannabis “is no different than distributing free t-shirts and it certainly did not act to interfere with the election,” he said.
The company also accused organizers of improperly polling workers.
The retailer had initially signaled it planned to challenge the election results because of a lawsuit the NLRB filed in March, in which the board sought to force Amazon to reinstate a fired employee who was involved in the union drive.
Amazon pointed to the lawsuit in one of its objections filed Friday, saying the regional NLRB office that brought the suit “failed to protect the integrity and neutrality of its procedures,” and had created an impression of support for the union by seeking reinstatement for the former employee, Gerald Bryson.
“Based on the evidence we’ve seen so far, as set out in our objections, we believe that the actions of the NLRB and the ALU improperly suppressed and influenced the vote, and we think the election should be conducted again so that a fair and broadly representative vote can be had,” Kelly Nantel, an Amazon spokesperson, said in a statement Friday.
Bryson was fired in the early days of the pandemic after leading a protest calling for the company to do more to protect workers against COVID-19. While off the job during the protest, Bryson got into a dispute with another worker and was later fired for violating Amazon’s vulgar-language policy, according to his attorney Frank Kearl.
The NLRB did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Its spokesperson, Kayla Blado, previously said the independent agency is authorized by Congress to enforce the National Labor Relations Act.
“All NLRB enforcement actions against Amazon have been consistent with that Congressional mandate,” she said.
In other objections, Amazon targeted how the labor agency conducted the election. It said the agency failed to control media presence around the voting area and didn’t have enough staff and equipment, which the company says created long lines and “discouraged many employees from voting in subsequent polling sessions.”
Meanwhile, both Amazon and the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union, a union that spearheaded a separate union drive in Bessemer, Alabama, have filed objections to that election. The final outcome of the union vote in Alabama is still up in the air with 416 outstanding challenged ballots in the balance. Initial results show the union down by 118 votes, with the majority of Amazon warehouse workers rejecting a bid to form unionize.
RWDSU, which filed more than 20 objections, said in its filing Thursday that its objections are “grounds to set the election aside.”
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OXFORD, Ala. (AP) — Native Americans whose ancestors were forced out of the Southeast almost 200 years ago during a purge that cleared the way for white settlers returned Friday for a two-day festival with a name that sums up its purpose: “We have come back.”
A busload of Muscogee (Creek) Nation citizens and others in vans and cars traveled from their homes in Oklahoma and elsewhere for a celebration in the east Alabama city of Oxford, located on what once was part of Arbeka, a Muscogee community dating back 12,000 years. The people who lived there were forced to move west in 1836 during the “Trail of Tears,” a brutal journey of about 700 miles (1,125 kilometers) during which many died.
Land that once was a village inhabited by an estimated 3,000 people is now the site of a city park with sports fields and a walking trail, said RaeLynn Butler, who manages the nation’s historical and preservation department. Tribal citizens gathered there at the start of a two-day event to tell Muscogee stories, sing hymns, explain tribal history and give area residents a chance to meet their leaders.
“We’re trying to reestablish our presence in our homeland,” Butler said.
The Muscogee name for the event is “Reyicepes,” or “We have come back.” With the United States currently considering how to best interpret a history that includes the enslavement of Black people and the mistreatment of other minorities, women and Native Americans, the tribe is hoping to tell its own story, Principal Chief David Hill said.
“If you read the history books now it doesn’t really tell you why and how we were removed with the Trail of Tears,” he said. “We didn’t want to leave. We were forced to leave.”
Once among the largest groups in the Southeast, the Muscogee territory included parts of the present-day states of Alabama, Florida, Georgia and South Carolina. The tribe’s last major fighting force was defeated by U.S. troops at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend about 55 miles (88 kilometers) south of Oxford in 1814, leading to its eventual expulsion from the region.
About 23,000 Muscogee were forced out of the Southeast in all, Butler said, and as many as 4,000 died on a journey that included long stretches of walking and rides on barges and riverboats. The deaths continued once people arrived in Oklahoma because so many were seriously ill after the trip.
With about 96,000 enrolled citizens and headquarters in Okmulgee, Oklahoma, the tribe is now one of the largest in the United States. Groups of Muscogee have made trips to the Southeast to reconnect with the region in recent years, including visits to the Horseshoe Bend battlefield, now a historic site, and Ocmulgee Mounds National Historical Park in Macon, Georgia, Butler said.
The weekend festival is different, she said, because tribal leaders developed the idea on their own and the city welcomed the plan. A partnership between the two got started years ago when municipal officials began developing the park on the old village site, discovered artifacts and notified Muscogee leaders, she said.
While a group from the Muscogee Nation visited the park in 2016 after it opened, most citizens haven’t.
“This is the first time many people coming have been here,” Butler said. “We know these places but we’ve never seen them with our own eyes.”
The nation wants to do more to connect with the local community and Muscogee still living in the South, the principal chief said. The nation already is working on educational programs with area schools, Hill said, and there have been discussions about using city-owned land at the park, which includes a reconstructed mound and interpretative signs, for a cultural center.
“We look at it as, ‘If they can’t come to us, we’ll go to them,’” he said.
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Under increasing pressure from lawmakers, the head of the Louisiana State Police put his second-in-command on leave Friday while he faces an internal probe into the erasing of his cellphone data amid the investigation into the deadly 2019 arrest of Black motorist Ronald Greene.
Superintendent Col. Lamar Davis released a statement saying he placed Lt. Col. Doug Cain on paid administrative leave “to eliminate any questions into the integrity of the investigation.”
Cain was among three top state police officials who had their cellphones “sanitized” amid the ongoing probes into Greene’s death, which troopers initially blamed on a car crash at the end of a high-speed chase. But long-withheld body-camera video published by The Associated Press last year instead showed white troopers stunning, punching and dragging Greene as he wailed, “I’m your brother! I’m scared! I’m scared!”
Cain’s refusal to answer questions about the wiping and the fact that he was staying on the job amid the probe frustrated and angered members of a bipartisan legislative committee that has been conducting hearings into the state’s response to Greene’s death and whether there was a cover-up.
“This is an attempt to not be transparent. … If we trusted you we wouldn’t be here right now,” state Rep. Tanner Magee, the Republican chairman of the committee, told Cain in a hearing last month.
“I have nothing to hide,” Cain said. “I didn’t do anything wrong.”
Davis added to the committee’s frustration in a hearing Thursday, telling the panel that the internal probe into Cain’s phone would take several more weeks to complete, and that investigators have yet to interview Cain because “we want to interview everybody else in that process first to make sure we get as much information as possible.”
Magee questioned why it has to be so complicated, saying it should boil down to simple questions: “What’s on the phone and why’d you do it?”
“I do believe in due process, but I do believe that he should be on administrative leave,” said Rep. Denise Marcelle, a Baton Rouge Democrat.
State police have acknowledged that the department also “sanitized” the cellphone of the former head of the agency, Col. Kevin Reeves, after he abruptly retired in 2020 amid AP’s initial reporting on Greene’s death. The agency said it did the same to the phone of another former police commander, Mike Noel, who resigned from a regulatory post last year as he was set to be questioned about the case by lawmakers. Police have said such erasures are policy.
Nearly three years after Greene’s May 10, 2019, death along a rural roadside in northeast Louisiana, no one has been criminally charged.
A federal civil rights investigation into the case has gone on for two and a half years, looking not only at the troopers but whether top brass obstructed justice to protect the officers from prosecution. One supervisor recently told the legislative committee that his bosses instructed him not to give prosecutors the body-camera footage of Greene’s arrest.
Probes have also expanded into a string of other state police beatings of mostly Black motorists. AnAP investigationlast year found Greene’s was among at least a dozen cases over the past decade in which state police troopers or their bosses ignored or concealed evidence of beatings, deflected blame and impeded efforts to root out misconduct.
Union Parish District Attorney John Belton told the legislative committee Thursday that U.S. Justice Department prosecutors have dropped their request for him to hold off on a state prosecution until the federal investigation is complete. He says he is now “moving swiftly” to empanel a special grand jury to pursue possible state charges in the Greene case.
The legislative committee was convened in February after an AP report showed Gov. John Bel Edwards was informed within hours that troopers arresting Greene had engaged in a “violent, lengthy struggle.” Yet the Democrat stayed mostly silent on the case for two years as state troopers told Greene’s family and wrote in reports that he died as the result of a car crash. He has since come to describe the actions of the troopers in Greene’s arrest as criminal and racist. | https://www.wpri.com/news/us-and-world/police-official-on-leave-amid-probe-over-ronald-greene-death/ | 2022-04-09T15:45:57Z | wpri.com | control | https://www.wpri.com/news/us-and-world/police-official-on-leave-amid-probe-over-ronald-greene-death/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso (AP) — An attack by suspected Islamic extremist rebels on a military unit in Burkina Faso Friday has killed at least 16 security forces and injured many others, the army announced.
A dozen military soldiers and four volunteer fighters who work alongside the army died when their military unit was attacked at 5 a.m. in Namissiguima town in the Center North region, said a statement by the armed forces. An additional 21 soldiers were wounded and equipment was also damaged, said the statement.
Burkina Faso is grappling with rising jihadi violence linked to al-Qaida and the Islamic State group that’s killed thousands and displaced some 2 million people.
This is the latest in a series against the military. At least 40 security forces were killed in the last two weeks of March according to an internal security report for aid groups seen by The Associated Press.
The Friday attack involved a car bomb and was carefully planned, according to security analysts.
“In addition to this being a sign of how (the) security situation continues to deteriorate, it also shows the ability of jihadist groups to carry (out) sophisticated and complex attacks,” said Rida Lyammouri, senior fellow at the Policy Center for the New South, a Moroccan-based organization focused on economics and policy.
“Jihadists control the area just north of where the incident occurred, so they had the time and information to plan this complex attack,” he said.
Civilians living in nearby towns without military support say they’re worried the violence is going to spread. “Namissiguima is the only place that has a military detachment around here,” said a resident of the nearby Kongoussi town who insisted on anonymity for his safety. “We hope the attacks don’t expand.” | https://www.wpri.com/news/us-and-world/suspected-extremist-attack-kills-16-soldiers-in-burkina-faso/ | 2022-04-09T15:46:19Z | wpri.com | control | https://www.wpri.com/news/us-and-world/suspected-extremist-attack-kills-16-soldiers-in-burkina-faso/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
AUSTIN (KXAN) — Nine people were taken to the hospital Friday night after a T-bone crash between two vehicles pushed one of the cars into a food truck and a group of pedestrians in Austin, Texas.
Austin-Travis County EMS said first responders started getting multiple calls about the crash around 8:18 p.m., and by 8:24 p.m., its first ambulance arrived on scene.
A woman who spoke with Nexstar’s KXAN said she was picking up food nearby when she heard the crash.
“We heard a car speeding up, revving up, and then all of a sudden a huge pop, and we came out here as fast as we [could] to find this huge truck hit a tiny little car and made the biggest noise,” Taylor Sezanne recalled.
The force of the impact sent the car toward the crowd, emergency responders said. Photos from the scene show the damaged sedan had come to a stop against a Thai-style ice cream truck.
One of the two vehicles suspected to be involved in a T-bone crash on Barton Springs Road in Austin that sent nine people to the hospital. (KXAN Photo/Tim Holcomb) One of the two vehicles suspected to be involved in a T-bone crash on Barton Springs Road in Austin that sent nine people to the hospital. (KXAN Photo/Tim Holcomb)
Eleven adults were injured, but EMS workers said only nine were taken to the hospital — one of them being the driver of one of the vehicles. Victims were sent to two local hospitals, including two with serious, potentially life-threatening injuries and two others with potentially serious injuries, according to EMS officials.
Two of the patients were declared “trauma alerts,” which Austin-Travis County EMS explained is a classification system used in conjunction with hospitals. It gives hospitals an advance notice that incoming patients may be in need of serious trauma services or an operating room, the agency said.
Two of the injured people declined treatment or transport at the scene, EMS said.
“They may have been a little bit scraped up, but certainly not anything to need any kind of treatment or assessment or transport; they were able to walk away,” said ATCEMS Public Information Officer Capt. Christa Stedman.
In total, nine ambulances, two district commanders and administrative assets responded to the area.
The Austin Police Department is currently investigating, but said it’s too early to determine if any charges would be pending.
“I think that you should never be speeding, especially in the middle of Austin when there’s people walking around,” said Sezanne. “And be extra careful driving, because anything can happen, and it happens within 10 seconds.” | https://www.wwlp.com/news/9-taken-to-hospital-after-car-crashes-into-food-truck-crowd-of-people-in-austin/ | 2022-04-09T15:47:37Z | wwlp.com | control | https://www.wwlp.com/news/9-taken-to-hospital-after-car-crashes-into-food-truck-crowd-of-people-in-austin/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Which hunting blinds are best?
The key to a successful hunt isn’t always gear or marksmanship. Animals are skittish by nature, and when they see a human, they will know that something is brewing. That is why you need a hunting blind.
The pop-up devices act as cover to hide behind and obscure yourself from your target’s view. Several designs and camouflage types are available, but if you want to remain practically invisible, the Primos Hunting Double Bull Surround View Blind is an excellent option.
What to know before you buy a hunting blind
Hard-sided vs. soft-sided
Most people think of a hunting blind as a piece of cloth or a small tent. While that isn’t incorrect, there are also hard-sided blinds. As the name implies, these aren’t made from fabric but plastic. As a result, they are naturally more robust than fabric blinds but not as portable. On the other hand, fabric blinds have excellent mobility but poorly shield you from the elements.
The size of the blind matters
You must consider the size of the blind if you want to guarantee a successful hunt. A smaller one-person blind will be perfect if you are hunting by yourself. But you also need to consider your gear as you’ll need more room when hunting with a recurve bow. If you get a blind that’s too large, you might struggle to break it down and move to a new location quickly.
The camouflage can work against you
There are several camouflage designs available and for a good reason. Animals have different eyesight and smell, and if you use the wrong pattern to blend in, they could easily spot you. For example, if you hunt deer, get a blind you can cover with brush or leaves. A blind pattern doesn’t matter too much for hunting smaller animals like turkeys. Then you’ll need a blind that you can move quickly.
What to look for in a quality hunting blind
Many windows for optimal coverage
The key to a hunting blind is to remain hidden while having a few of everything around you. Good-quality hunting blinds will have at least one window per side, letting you see 270-degrees. If you don’t have enough windows, you could miss a target or lose sight of it. The size of the blind can also determine the number of windows.
One-way windows
While the number of windows is critical, animals mustn’t see you through it. That is why a good-quality hunting blind will have one-way windows so that you can see out, but the animals can’t see in. It is achieved through special layers and fabrics and gives you the maximum concealment.
Waterproof outer layer
There are few things as irritating when on the hunt as water dripping on your or your gear. To prevent this from happening, a good-quality hunting blind will have a waterproof outer layer or be coated with a water-resistant element. Just remember to air out your blind after every hunt if it got exposed to moisture – otherwise, mold could build up.
How much you can expect to spend on a hunting blind
The average price of a hunting blind will depend on the construction materials, the size and the manufacturer. A hunting blind with few windows can retail for $70-$90, while larger, more complex blinds can retail for $200-$400.
Hunting blind FAQ
How do you secure a hunting blind?
A. You don’t want the slightest of breezes to flap or lift your blind. To secure it to the ground, many blinds come with stakes that you can easily peg into the ground for stability.
What can you use instead of a hunting blind?
A. If you don’t want a square or domed hunting blind, you can opt for a sheet of camouflage fabric to drape over yourself. This will keep you concealed and is highly mobile. You can also invest in a hunting table that has a sleeping bag of sorts on top to remain hidden.
What’s the best hunting blind to buy?
Top hunting blind
Primos Hunting Double Bull Surround View Blind
What you need to know: Animals will find it very difficult to spot you, as this hunting blind features one-way walls. This lets you see your surroundings at 270-degrees, and it has a rear blackout wall too.
What you’ll love: Standing 55 inches by 70 inches, this hunting blind has seven shooting ports, making sure that you can stay on track with the animal’s movements. It comes in a Truth camo pattern, uses the Power Hub framework and weighs 21 pounds.
What you should consider: The blind doesn’t have a floor or groundsheet, so if the exposed ground is of concern to you, it will be better to use your own.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top hunting blind for the money
Guide Gear Deluxe Pop-Up Hunting Ground Blind
What you need to know: Taking on a domed shape, this hunting blind is the perfect size for one to two people. It has three full-zip windows and four smaller shooting holes.
What you’ll love: It is very easy to set up and only weighs nine pounds, so you can move it in a hurry if you have to. It’s weather-resistant and flame-retardant and comes in a fall camo pattern.
What you should consider: Due to its smaller size, it’s best for use with shotgun or rifles, but not for recurve bows.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
Ameristep Care Taker Kick Out Pop-Up Ground Blind
What you need to know: Perfect for two people, the mossy oak country camo pattern hunting blind has two windows on two sides and a zippered entrance.
What you’ll love: Measuring 60 inches high and 55 inches in width and length, the Care Taker features a black ShadowGuard coating on the inside so that animals don’t see your shadow or silhouette. It comes with a carry bag, ground stakes and high wind tie-downs.
What you should consider: You could use this blind for bow hunting, but some users have indicated that you need to tilt the bow slightly for it to fit.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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Which luxury Apple Watch case is best?
The Apple Watch has increased in popularity in recent years, so making a statement with it has never been harder. Fortunately, a high-quality luxury case can solve this problem, whether you’re looking for something to wear to formal occasions or to take on the hiking trail.
Luxury Apple Watch cases come in a variety of materials and perform different functions. A good place to start your search is with the Hatalkin Apple Watch Sports Case.
What to know before you buy a luxury Apple watch case
Check the case’s compatibility
Although this seems obvious, it can be hard to tell if an Apple Watch case will fit your watch just by looking at it. To ensure that you don’t end up having to make a return, check which series your watch is by opening the settings in the Watch app on your iPhone, or try looking on the back of your watch.
Size, look and materials
Like phone cases, some Apple Watch cases are significantly larger than others. Consider what size and look you want before purchasing. For example, if you want something that’s versatile above all else, consider something with a metal case and band that can be worn in a formal environment but doesn’t sacrifice durability or protection. If durability and protection are your biggest concerns, choose one with tougher shockproof materials.
What to look for in a quality luxury Apple Watch case
Case and band combo
High quality Apple Watch cases usually include both a durable case and a luxurious band. Cases that include bands make upgrading your watch a lot easier, and keep the look cohesive. Keep an eye out for cases with integrated bands made from high quality materials such as metal or leather.
Band interchangeability
One of the best features of the Apple Watch is that it can be used in almost any setting, whether it’s formal, casual or somewhere in-between, such as the office. However, not all bands are made for all situations, and being able to easily change them is key to maximizing the versatility of your watch. Your band probably will attach to the case, not the watch, and the best luxury cases make changing bands easy.
Built-in screen protector
High-quality Apple Watch cases often include an integrated screen protector that adds protection. This is especially useful because cases often interfere with the ability to use a screen protector. Cases with built-in screen protectors also tend to add waterproofing.
How much you can expect to spend on a luxury Apple Watch case
High-end cases that don’t include a band cost $40-$60, while cases with integrated bands usually cost more than $60.
Luxury Apple Watch case FAQ
Will using a case cause my Apple Watch to overheat?
A. Although a case may cause some phones to overheat, it is highly unlikely that this will occur with your Apple Watch. Not only is overheating less likely with an Apple Watch than the average cell phone, but Apple Watch cases have gaps to make sure the wheel is usable and the sensor on the back has direct contact with your skin. The gaps let air cool the watch during intense use.
Can I get an Apple Watch case that makes my watch waterproof?
A. If you have an older Apple Watch model that isn’t waterproof, you can purchase a waterproof case. Make sure you read the description of whatever case you choose to avoid swimming too deep for it maintain its seal.
What’s the best luxury Apple Watch case to buy?
Top luxury Apple Watch case
Hatalkin Apple Watch Sports Case
What you need to know: Although this case doesn’t look quite as luxurious as its leather and metal counterparts, it’s made of premium materials and offers the utmost protection for your watch.
What you’ll love: It’s made of shockproof material that can protect your watch from drops and bangs. Each button has a precision cutout that makes it easy to use, even with gloves on, and you don’t need to remove the case to charge the watch. The case has an integrated rubber strap that’s comfortable and durable.
What you should consider: This case and band may be too rugged and bulky for people looking for one they can wear to work or formal events.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top luxury Apple Watch case for the money
What you need to know: This luxurious case provides excellent protection as well as great eye-catching style.
What you’ll love: This case boasts a bejeweled bezel that is sure to draw attention and make a big impression. In addition to the shiny cubic zirconia crystals, this case is entirely silver-plated bronze. There’s a soft silicone layer inside the case that adds further protection for your watch and prevents it from moving around inside the case.
What you should consider: It’s only compatible with the Apple Watch Series 1-3.
Where to buy: Sold by Macy’s
Worth checking out
Gelishi Metal Apple Watch Case
What you need to know: This case is made with high-quality materials and features a sleek black design.
What you’ll love: This case is made from 316L stainless steel, which is the same material Rolex uses in some of its watches. The case and band are made of stainless steel, which retains its shine for years and years. The case also features contrasting rose gold accents.
What you should consider: Because the band that’s included is metal, it’s difficult to adjust.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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Which Radio Flyer tricycle is best?
Before your child has the balance to ride a standard bike, a tricycle introduces them to the fun of pedaling and the thrill of going faster than their legs can take them. If the name Radio Flyer sounds familiar, that’s because it’s the company behind the childhood staple “little red wagon.” But it also makes quality tricycles durable enough to be passed on to others once your child is ready to transition to a big-kid bike.
Its best tricycle is the Radio Flyer Tricycle For Toddlers. It’s designed for kids aged 2-4 and comes in red and pink.
What to know before you buy a Radio Flyer tricycle
Radio Flyer tricycle types
Radio Flyer makes four types of tricycle: big wheel, push, upright and convertible.
- Big wheel tricycles are the classic example. They have high-back reclining seats for comfort and a large front wheel for stability. They’re perfect for young kids transitioning from push models.
- Push tricycles are the smallest variety. They have no pedals and usually have no back. They are powered purely by your child pushing off the ground. These are “baby’s-first” tricycles.
- Upright tricycles are the last stage before big-kid bikes. They typically have no backrest and rely on full pedal power. The only difference between these and regular bikes is the smaller size and third wheel.
- Convertible tricycles are designed to grow with your child, from baby to just shy of standard-bike ready. They start, effectively, as a stroller. Your child sits in the chair and places their feet on stable blocks instead of pedals as you push them with a handle from behind. When they’re ready, you strip away some parts and they become big wheel-like. Once they’ve outgrown that, more pieces come off and it becomes upright-like.
Weight
Radio Flyer tricycles need to carefully balance their weight with the intended age of rider. Too heavy and younger or weaker children won’t have the strength to pedal or push the tricycle along. Too light and it becomes easy to tip over, and thus, a safety hazard.
What to look for in a quality Radio Flyer tricycle
Frame material
Radio Flyer tricycle frames are typically made of metal or plastic.
- Metal frames, usually steel, are typically used for older-leaning models. They are more durable and stable, but also heavier, so it takes more effort to get them moving. They are costlier.
- Plastic frames are typically meant for young-leaning models. They’re small and light so they can easily be pushed around before your child has the dexterity for pedals. They’re also inexpensive, so it doesn’t sting when you notice your child is too big for it three months after purchase.
Adjustable seating
Kids grow fast. Thankfully, many Radio Flyer tricycles have adjustable seating to account for this. They can only adjust so far, but some of the better tricycles have a large enough adjustment range to squeak out an extra year or two, if your child is an average height with average growth speed.
How much you can expect to spend on a Radio Flyer tricycle
Radio Flyer tricycles cost between $30-$200, though most cost $50-$75. Sub-$50 models are plastic and meant for kids who can’t pedal. Models $75-plus are usually multifunction and built to last for years.
Radio Flyer tricycle FAQ
How safe are Radio Flyer tricycles?
A. Most have many safety features that limit accidents as much as possible. For example, some have harnesses that can keep a child from falling out. Many limit how sharp an angle the wheel can be turned to and use wide wheelbases to lower the risk of tipping over. Still, kids are kids, and they may find a way to hurt themselves.
How old should a child be to ride a Radio Flyer tricycle?
A. That depends on which one you’re considering and your child. Most Radio Flyer tricycles are designed with an age range in mind, but this is more of a suggestion if your child is smaller, larger or more advanced than average in some way. That said, stroller tricycles are perfect for any child the right size to fit comfortably in the seat. Other tricycles that require effort on your child’s part can’t be used until they can comfortably walk.
What’s the best Radio Flyer tricycle to buy?
Top Radio Flyer tricycle
Radio Flyer Tricycle For Toddlers
What you need to know: This is the ultimate classic tricycle design.
What you’ll love: The seat is adjustable so your child fits perfectly and continues to fit perfectly as they grow. The frame is made of strong steel and the wheels are made of rubber for a long-lasting, quality ride.
What you should consider: This is among the heavier tricycles, which can make riding difficult for the youngest kids. A few consumers received damaged and clearly used tricycles, and others struggled with assembly.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top Radio Flyer tricycle for the money
Radio Flyer Scoot 2 Pedal Ride-On Bike
What you need to know: This is the perfect first tricycle for your toddler. The plastic construction is surprisingly durable and light enough to be easy to move.
What you’ll love: The pedals fold up so the youngest kids can scoot around, then fold down once they get old enough to really ride. The seat is contoured for comfort.
What you should consider: Some assembly is required and a few consumers reported not receiving the necessary screws. Other parents found it difficult for their children to get around.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
Radio Flyer Pedal And Push Stroll ‘N Trike
What you need to know: This model features a sunshade, snack tray and cupholder and is designed to change as your child grows older.
What you’ll love: It can be used as a stroller for babies to feel like they’re riding or deconstructed down to a standard tricycle. The seat is adjustable to change as your child grows, and it has a three-point safety harness that can be removed once they’re old enough.
What you should consider: There’s no system to prevent young children from changing the front wheel direction with the handles while it’s in stroller mode.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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(TriceEdneyWire.com) - We keep learning more about the attack on the U.S. Capitol. And we keep learning more about the many schemes former President Donald Trump and his team tried to use to overturn the 2020 presidential election.
In some ways, it is discouraging. We know just how badly Trump’s inner circle was corrupted by his desire to keep power at all costs. We had lawyers writing memos about how to break the law and stop Congress from affirming Trump’s defeat. We had members of Congress repeating his lies about a stolen election and trying to take the decision away from the voters.
In other ways, it is encouraging that the truth continues to come out. News stories that expose lies and corruption remind us of the importance of a free press. The investigation by the Jan. 6 select committee reminds us how much we need the checks and balances that are built into our system.
Those checks and balances—like the ability of Congress to conduct oversight of the Executive Branch—are necessary to prevent abuses of power and hold politicians accountable.
But for those protections to work, we must have public officials who are committed to upholding the rule of law. That’s not what we’re seeing from former Trump staffers and advisers. Just the opposite. They are stonewalling the congressional investigation and defying its subpoenas.
And with just a few exceptions, congressional Republicans are not acting honorably. Rather than embracing the search for truth, they try to discredit the investigation. Rather than face up to the anti-democratic rot in their party, they would like to sweep it all under the rug.
Let’s be clear. Trump and his lawbreaking friends are trying to keep Americans from learning the truth about the attack on Congress and the attempt to overthrow the will of the voters.
Specifically, Trump and his supporters are trying to run out the clock. They are counting on their allies taking a majority in the House of Representatives in this year’s elections. And then they’ll shut the investigation down before the full truth can come out.
That would be disastrous for our democracy.
Consider just a few of the things we have learned recently.
When the White House handed over logs of Trump’s calls on the day of the insurrection, there was a seven-hour gap covering the crucial hours before, during, and after the attack on Congress. What violations of law are hiding in that gap?
We also learned that Ginni Thomas, a hard-right activist and wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, was in regular contact with Trump’s chief of staff Mark Meadows in the days and weeks after the presidential election. She embraced even the most extreme and ridiculous far-right conspiracy theories about the election.
She even said she hoped it was true that members of the “Biden crime family,” reporters, and elected officials were being arrested and would be held on barges in Guantanamo Bay to face military trials for sedition. She urged Trump not to concede defeat.
It just so happens that Justice Clarence Thomas was the only Supreme Court justice who backed Trump’s attempt to keep White House records from being shared with the Jan. 6 committee. It was an 8-1 vote. That explains why so many people are now calling on Thomas to resign—or at the very least to recuse himself from any other cases about the insurrection that come before the Court.
We can’t make Clarence Thomas act honorably. But that doesn’t mean we are powerless to protect our democracy.
It was we the people who voted Trump out of power. Trump’s ability to pressure and bully election officials and legislators into joining his corrupt schemes was limited by the fact that he lost in multiple battleground states, not just one. His supporters’ ability to shield him from accountability will be determined in part by what happens in this year’s elections.
When Americans go to the polls this fall to elect members of Congress, we will not only be participating in democracy. We will be determining its future.
Ben Jealous serves as president of People For the American Way | https://www.stlamerican.com/news/columnists/fighting-the-corruption-of-power/article_6931c116-b5fd-11ec-8917-c70ed795be79.html | 2022-04-09T15:55:14Z | stlamerican.com | control | https://www.stlamerican.com/news/columnists/fighting-the-corruption-of-power/article_6931c116-b5fd-11ec-8917-c70ed795be79.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
White people surveyed in the United States in fall 2020 cared less and were even more likely to shun pandemic safety precautions after learning about the disproportionate ways it impacts Black communities and other communities of color, a University of Georgia Department of Social Science & Medicine study concluded.
“When white people in the U.S. were more aware of racial disparities in COVID-19, they were less fearful of COVID-19,” said Allison Skinner-Dorkenoo, assistant professor of psychology at the University of Georgia and a co-author of the study on racial disparities during the pandemic.
“We found evidence of less empathy for people who are vulnerable to COVID-19, and we also found evidence of reduced support for safety precautions to prevent the spread of COVID-19.”
Skinner-Dorkenoo said the study revealed that white people mostly showed less concern about the virus and its impact when they believe it is “not a white people problem.”
According to an earlier study by the Black Coalition Against COVID, the Yale School of Medicine, and the Morehouse School of Medicine, African Americans struggled more than most during the pandemic.
During early 2020, the authors wrote that the average weekly case rate per 100,000 Black Americans was 36.2, compared with 12.5 for white Americans.
In addition, the Black hospitalization rate was 12.6 per 100,000 people, compared with 4 per 100,000 for white people. The death rate was also higher: 3.6 per 100,000 compared with 1.8 per 100,000.
“The severity of COVID-19 among Black Americans was the predictable result of structural and societal realities, not differences in genetic predisposition,” the authors stated.
Although the elevated rates of COVID-19 infection and mortality among people of color in the U.S. do not objectively reduce the risks of infection among white people, they may reduce perceptions of risk by serving as a source of downward comparison, the authors said.
“When people compare themselves to others who are less well off, they feel more satisfied with their current situation,” the authors asserted.
“When confronted with threatening health concerns, people often spontaneously engage in downward comparisons as a means of coping, which has been shown to reduce engagement in health-protective behaviors. Therefore, news stories about COVID-19 racial disparities may facilitate downward comparison among White U.S. residents, reducing the perceived threat of the virus and endorsement of safety precautions.”
They added that awareness of COVID-19 racial disparities could also influence how psychologically distant white U.S. residents feel from COVID-19.
“When people and things are more psychologically distant from us socially, in time, or in space, they seem more abstract and less concerning,” the authors concluded, adding that information about COVID-19 racial disparities might not have the same effect on all white U.S. residents.
They noted that previous research had revealed that U.S. residents who are more knowledgeable about past racial injustices tend to be more aware of and concerned about systemic inequalities and racism in the present.
“These findings suggest that white U.S. residents who are more knowledgeable about the systemic and structural inequalities that led people of color to be harder hit by COVID-19 may also be more concerned about COVID-19 racial disparities,” the authors wrote.
“This line of thinking suggests that systemic knowledge of contributors to COVID-19 racial disparities would be associated with greater concern about COVID-19 and increased support for safety precautions.”
Skinner-Dorkenoo said “This didn’t just happen; it wasn’t just random. It was socially designed to happen this way.”
“I think there is potential to think about educating people about the structural and systemic inequalities. Contextualizing this but giving more information and … really highlighting the injustice of these vulnerabilities.” | https://www.stlamerican.com/your_health_matters/health_news/many-white-people-cared-less-about-covid-19-as-black-community-struggled/article_43b2f7da-b80e-11ec-b77f-cb5f9b14a873.html | 2022-04-09T15:55:20Z | stlamerican.com | control | https://www.stlamerican.com/your_health_matters/health_news/many-white-people-cared-less-about-covid-19-as-black-community-struggled/article_43b2f7da-b80e-11ec-b77f-cb5f9b14a873.html | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
WHAT IS THAT LIKE FOR YOU, CONFIDENCE WISE COMING INTO A RACETRACK EACH WEEKEND AND WHAT ARE YOU SEEING IN THE TEAM IN TERMS OF THEIR MINDSET AND ATTITUDE COMING INTO THE RACETRACK WHEN YOU GUYS ARE PUTTING CARS ON THE TRACK THAT ARE CONTENDERS?
“I think it really dates back for us to last year. I felt like that last 10 races of the year last year, and probably the last 12, kind of getting ready for the playoff stretch we started to elevate our game a little bit more. We realized as a team that we weren’t, necessarily, one of the teams like we were really consistent, but we weren’t one of the teams that would win every week. I felt like towards the end of last year we were one of those teams that could win every week. Obviously, things didn’t come together. Then you go into this year, you start with a new car, got to go through testing, we’ve got to figure out what setups are close. We went through a lot of that adaptation period during the off season, but we started off the season pretty amazing. We were running third at Daytona before we got crashed. I made a mistake at California after we had the lead, you know we had our pit road issues and then was running in the top-five again. I think it’s just kind of been trending that direction. The comfort is there as a team. I feel like our communication is really spot on. We’ve got to work through different issues with this Next Gen car. We go to certain tracks right now and we’re miles off or really close. When we are really close, we know what we are doing. Miles off we’ve got to start throwing things at the car and figure it out. I think just good communication, good teamwork and I feel like we are really clicking right now, which is good. At the same time, there’s a lot of season left.”
WHAT DID IT MEAN TO YOU TO BE PART OF SOMETHING HISTORICAL LIKE THAT FINISIHING TOP FOUR AT DOVER? WHAT WAS IT LIKE AT THE END OF THE RACE TRYING TO HOLD YOUR SPOT AND MAKE SURE THAT YOU GUYS PULLED IT OFF?
“It was pretty amazing. Dover was a crazy day to see that, with the Gen 6 car that was a really good track for us and we knew that going there. Notes wise we knew we would be fast, but I think everyone in the shop was like our setup is the best, no our setup’s the best. We went through that process and I think to show up, last year we had no practice, but to see the speed we had early. Us, on the 24, we took the lead early in the race and then struggled to keep up with the racetrack, as well as our teammates. It was a little bit of a bummer that I finished fourth, but at the same time I was so excited for everyone at Hendrick Motorsports, because that shows so much strength to be able to take four cars and really we were battling ourselves the entire race which was pretty amazing.”
HOW DID MR. HENDRICK TAKE THAT?
“I think it was a sign of strength and what we’ve built with teamwork. The four of us work so closely and so well together that it feeds off of each other. Iron sharpens iron and I feel like we continue to work together and put ourselves further towards the front. It helps when you have teammates that are fast. It helps when you have, if Kyle is really fast at a racetrack, we can look at his setup or I can look at his data and say ok that’s maybe what I need to do different. We’re all capable of getting to that point, it’s just a matter of everyone has their strengths and weaknesses. Fortunately, it’s funny because Chase (Elliott) is so good on road courses, Kyle’s (Larson) so good on the mile and a half’s, Alex (Bowman) is really good on the short-tracks and I’m trying to blend it all together. It’s fun to have people that you can lean on for that.”
WITH THE TRUCK WIN YOU GOT LAST NIGHT, HOW DO YOU FEEL THAT WILL HELP YOU FOR THE RACE COMING UP ON SATURDAY?
“I think it will help me tremendously. I feel like we’re only going to get 20 minutes of practice here, so it’s not like you’re going to have a good idea or good chance of getting in a rhythm. You’re probably going to be in traffic. You’re probably going to be passing somebody, so I don’t have to worry about where are my marks. I can figure out all of that stuff. Obviously, the Next Gen car’s going to have more grip I would think than the truck, so I’m just going to have to drive it a little bit harder. It should be fun and it’s good to do that. I was pretty nervous going in the truck. I hadn’t been in one in a long time, besides a little bit last year. That was a new racetrack and kind of hard to get my bearings and we blew up early in the race. Last night was definitely fun. At the same time I really want to win the Cup race and feel like we were really close last week. We’ve just got to close the deal.”
GM PR | https://speedwaydigest.com/index.php/news/nascar-cup-series-news/68558-chevy-ncs-at-martinsville-william-byron-press-conference-transcript | 2022-04-09T15:55:37Z | speedwaydigest.com | control | https://speedwaydigest.com/index.php/news/nascar-cup-series-news/68558-chevy-ncs-at-martinsville-william-byron-press-conference-transcript | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
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SALT LAKE COUNTY, Utah (ABC4) – A wild scene was caught on camera as a driver runs straight into a motorcyclist, sending him flying into the air.
The Salt Lake County Sheriff’s Office says the suspect, Kenneth Cordova, 34, was arrested on charges of attempted murder for intentionally using his car to hit another person.
Authorities say the incident happened at a Salt Lake County apartment complex on Thursday.
In the video, the victim is seen sitting on a motorcycle outside of an apartment complex. Cordova’s car is seen speeding directly towards the victim, slamming into him moments later.
The impact sent the victim flying into the air, landing on the car’s windshield before eventually falling to the ground. Cordova is seen quickly hopping out of his car while aggressively confronting the victim.
During police questioning, Cordova admitted to intentionally targeting the victim because he allegedly saw him holding a gun minutes before the incident.
Cordova believed the victim “had a hit” on him dating back from 2009. He says he felt, “he had to kill or be killed.”
Authorities say there is no evidence the victim ever possessed a firearm. The victim also says he’s never seen or interacted with Cordova before the incident. The victim was transported to a local hospital. He sustained injuries throughout his body although none were major, according to police reports.
Officials say Cordova is a “multi-state offender, convicted felon and has a history of violent behavior.” He has a criminal history with offenses in Nevada and Arizona, as well.
“The suspect, Kenneth Eugene Cordova, showed complete disregard to human life when striking the victim with his vehicle and then continuing to assault the victim after he was hit by his vehicle,” arresting documents say.
Cordova has been arrested on one charge of attempted murder and is currently booked at the Salt Lake County Jail. | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/news/watch-utah-man-slams-into-motorcyclist-with-intent-to-kill/ | 2022-04-09T15:56:47Z | siouxlandproud.com | control | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/news/watch-utah-man-slams-into-motorcyclist-with-intent-to-kill/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Johnny Sauter (second), Kyle Busch (third), John Hunter Nemechek (fourth) and Ben Rhodes (fifth) led Toyota with top-five finishes in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race at Martinsville Speedway on Thursday night.
Toyota Racing Post-Race Recap
NASCAR Camping World Truck Series
Martinsville Speedway
Race 5 of 23 – 200 Laps, 105 Miles
TOYOTA FINISHING POSITIONS
1st, William Byron*
2nd, JOHNNY SAUTER
3rd, KYLE BUSCH
4th, JOHN HUNTER NEMECHEK
5th, BEN RHODES
6th, CHANDLER SMITH
7th, MATT CRAFTON
10th, TYLER ANKRUM
11th, TY MAJESKI
12th, CHRISTIAN ECKES
13th, STEWART FRIESEN
22nd, TATE FOGLEMAN
23rd, TIMMY HILL
28th, BLAKE LOTHIAN
29th, CHASE PURDY
34th, KADEN HONEYCUTT
*non-Toyota driver
TOYOTA QUOTES
JOHNNY SAUTER, No. 13 Protect The Harvest Toyota Tundra TRD Pro, ThorSport Racing
Finishing Position: 2nd
What did you need in the closing laps to catch William Byron?
“The two-thirds part of the corner, I just couldn't quite cut the corner like I needed to and actually asked (Carl) Joiner (crew chief) to tighten it up there on the first run and I wish I wouldn't have done that because generally if you fire off a little bit free here as the night goes on and get better. Just so proud everybody at ThorSport on this Protect the Harvest Toyota Tundra. That's the first in-house chassis and in-house body for ThorSport. So to come here and run second, it's not exactly what we're looking for, but just need a little bit more turn, but all in all solid night.”
JOHN HUNTER NEMECHEK, No. 4 Mobil 1 Toyota Tundra TRD Pro, Kyle Busch Motorsports
Finishing Position: 4th
How was your race tonight and how was the race track surface?
“The track didn't take any rubber tonight. Just was super slick. We missed the balance a little bit. But my guys worked hard. We made adjustments on it throughout the race. Didn't know exactly which side we're going to be -- being way different than our teammates come in here. So it's something new to try and keep moving forward. So it's another solid finish for us way better than finished in 24th or 25th. Good points day. We did what we needed to do other than win the race. So solid day for the Mobil 1 Toyota Tundra TRD Pro and we’ll go to Bristol next week. I feel like we're starting to build some momentum between the Truck series and the Xfinity series and having some good runs and good finishes so just have to keep it up.”
BEN RHODES, No. 99 Tenda Toyota Tundra TRD Pro, ThorSport Racing
Finishing Position: 5th
What was the biggest challenge for you and the race team tonight?
“Big picture racing and I mean we went for both stages to get the stage points for our season. That's tough to do at a short track like Martinsville. You need a lot of patience and you put yourself in a bad position for the end of the race. You know, you're faster than the guys in front of you, but you're burning your stuff up whether it's not getting air to the brakes or you're not running the line you want to and you're running your tires up. So I hate that we had to race for stages, but at the same time really happy to know that I think we closed the gap up in the points lead. It'd be really nice to have it right now. But that's just part of what makes the Truck Series so unique is we have a short races and different strategies and we had such a bad fast Tendra Toyota Tundra today, I just would have loved to have the win, but there's more races this season and we're going to keep running it smart and trying to race everybody as good as we can. I know I got into my teammate Matt Crafton so I feel really bad about that. I got going really good on the restart, And I meant to pull out and then was like, ‘What do I do with this run?’ I look out to the left side and I wasn't past the line yet and that would be a penalty so I tried to get on the brakes and then I just ran right into the back of him. I look like, well I don't know what I look like, but it didn't look good.”
TRD PR | https://speedwaydigest.com/index.php/news/nascar-truck-series-news/68509-four-tundra-top-five-finishes-round-out-martinsville | 2022-04-09T15:57:22Z | speedwaydigest.com | control | https://speedwaydigest.com/index.php/news/nascar-truck-series-news/68509-four-tundra-top-five-finishes-round-out-martinsville | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Making just his second Truck Series start since his seven-win 2016 campaign, Hendrick Motorsports' William Byron -- driving in this race for Spire Motorsports -- captured his eighth-career Truck victory, and first at Martinsville.
Leading a race-high 94 laps, Byron was able to overcome a 32nd place starting position after qualifying was rained out earlier in the day.
"It was a lot of fun. Great crowd here at Martinsville," Byron said on the FS1 telecast. "I've never won a race at Martinsville -- I struggled here when I was in late models. ...
"Thanks to Spire, all the guys back at their shop. They don't have a lot of guys, but they do it right," he continued.
Zane Smith led all 50 laps in Stage One. Because several drivers stayed out after the conclusion of the first stage, Smith -- who pitted -- had to work his way back up to fourth by the conclusion of Stage Two.
After all of that hard work he was met with a speeding penalty on pit road during the second stage break, and ultimately battled back to finish ninth.
Defending series champion Ben Rhodes won Stage Two and led 47 laps with arguably the best long-run truck on the night. Several late cautions, however, negated his truck's strength, and he settled for a fifth place finish.
Johnny Sauter -- who got tangled up with Hailie Deegan earlier in the evening -- came through the field from a 36th place starting spot to finish second. It was his first Truck start since Daytona in February; Deegan finished 19th.
Running near the front of the field on Lap 133, Stewart Friesen was spun by Christian Eckes after Rhodes pushed him up the track; Friesen wound up 13th, one spot behind Eckes.
Also in the top-five were Kyle Busch in third and John Hunter Nemechek in fourth, who earned his second consecutive top-five finish.
Rounding out the top-10 were Chandler Smith, Matt Crafton, Grant Enfinger, Zane Smith and Tyler Ankrum.
In all, there were 11 cautions for 71 laps and the margin of victory for Byron was 1.138 seconds.
Ben Rhodes regained the points lead over Chandler Smith, and now leads by four points.
The NASCAR Camping World Truck Series returns to action next Saturday on the dirt at Bristol Motor Speedway. Coverage begins at 8 p.m. ET on FS1. | https://speedwaydigest.com/index.php/news/nascar-truck-series-news/68510-cup-regular-william-byron-wins-martinsville-truck-race | 2022-04-09T15:57:28Z | speedwaydigest.com | control | https://speedwaydigest.com/index.php/news/nascar-truck-series-news/68510-cup-regular-william-byron-wins-martinsville-truck-race | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Race Rundown – No. 40 Worldwide Express Chevrolet Silverado
Thompson and the No. 40 team experienced adversity early on in Thursday night’s race at Martinsville, suffering from an electrical issue 13 laps in that caused their Chevrolet Silverado to stall on the frontstretch. Thompson was unable to re-fire the engine, ultimately ending the team’s night.
Thompson on his tough-luck night at Martinsville: “Unfortunately, it was another tough-luck night for our No. 40 Worldwide Express team with an electrical issue bringing our run to an abrupt end. We had a lot of confidence going into the first short track race of the season and we’ll bring that same energy to Bristol next week.”
Niece Motorsports PR | https://speedwaydigest.com/index.php/news/nascar-truck-series-news/68528-dean-thompson-blue-emu-maximum-pain-relief-200-race-recap | 2022-04-09T15:58:07Z | speedwaydigest.com | control | https://speedwaydigest.com/index.php/news/nascar-truck-series-news/68528-dean-thompson-blue-emu-maximum-pain-relief-200-race-recap | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Race Rundown – No. 42 Premier Security Solutions Chevrolet Silverado
Hocevar kept his No. 42 Chevrolet in the top-10 for a majority of the first stage before opting to pit under caution on lap 39 before the stage break, resulting in 14th-place finish in Stage One. After restarting fourth to begin Stage Two, Hocevar made his way into the bottom lane before making the pass to move into third by lap 62. Following a caution on lap 79, he restarted in second before settling for third in Stage Two to earn eight stage points.
Hocevar began to fight a brake issue towards the end of Stage Two and overshot his pit box during the team’s four-tire stop at the stage break. The team worked to remedy the issue during the final stage but it continued to persist, resulting in a 17th-place finish.
Hocevar on his run at Martinsville Speedway: “We had a top-10 Chevrolet Silverado tonight – running third in stage two showed just how much speed we had – but we just lost the brakes at the end. I overshot my pit box when the brake pedal went to the floor and after 10 laps of each run that followed I lost my brakes. I was still able to maintain everyone in front of me, but I wasn’t able to gain on them since I couldn’t drive harder into the corner. This No. 42 team is pretty good on the dirt so we’ll shift our focus to Bristol next week.”
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McAnally-Hilgemann Racing’s Derek Kraus and Colby Howard came away from Martinsville Speedway on Thursday with solid performances in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Blue-Emu Maximum Pain Relief 200.
Kraus battled in the top 10 through much of the race on the historic half-mile track, before finishing 14th in the No. 19 NAPA AUTO CARE Chevrolet Silverado RST.
His finish, combined with bonus points he picked up with a top-10 finish in the first stage of the race, gave him a solid points night. Kraus is 11th in the championship standings, one point out of 10th.
Howard, meanwhile, drove the No. 91 Gates Hydraulics Chevrolet Silverado RST to an 18th-place finish on Thursday – his best result in the first five races this year.
Kraus started 10th on the grid and moved up to finish seventh at the end of the first stage. Pit strategy by other teams shuffled him back in the pack, however, leaving him to deal with heavy traffic and making it tough to get back up front. He battled his way back into the top 10 late in the race, but slipped back in the final laps as he fought tight handling.
After starting 26th, Howard’s team struggled to find a good balance with the handling on his Chevy and opted to pit early and gain track position for the start of the second stage. He battled to get into the top 10, then slipped back and also had to deal with heavy traffic. A late-race pit stop gave him the boost he needed to gain spots late in the race and finish 18th. His performance moved him up four spots to 25th in the standings.
Rain earlier in the day on Thursday led to NASCAR cancelling practice and qualifying and setting the field by the rulebook, sidelining plans for Jake Garcia to make his series debut in the No. 35 Chevrolet Silverado RST.
Gates Industrial and BBB Industries hosted a special group of NAPA customers at the track. The guests received a VIP experience – including a special tour of the NASCAR garage, a meet-and-greet with the MHR drivers, a tour the inside an MHR hauler and were on the starting grid with the team during pre-race ceremonies. In addition, two VIP guests viewed the race from the MHR pit cart.
Quote – Derek Kraus
“We were just too tight. We had some decent speed in the beginning, but we lost track position and just from there the battle was on.”
Quote – Colby Howard
“We struggled finding a good balance with our Silverado tonight. I think we were going to be pretty good after our last pit stop, but we had our splitter run over and it made us really tight. It was not a horrible day, but would have liked to be better.”
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Final Stage Recap:
· After bringing his No. 4 Tundra down pit road at the stage break, Nemechek restarted the final stage in ninth.
· The 11th and final caution of the night came out on lap 158 with Nemechek scored in sixth, lining up for the final restart behind his Kyle Busch Motorsports (KBM) teammate Chandler Smith on the outside lane.
· Nemechek was side-by-side with Smith as they battled for fourth on lap 165 before being able to make a successful pass with 34 laps to go.
· With the laps dwindling down, Nemechek would eventually get into lap traffic before taking the checkered flag in fourth place.
John Hunter Nemechek, driver of the No. 4 Mobil 1 Tundra TRD Pro for KBM:
How was your race tonight and how was the race track surface?
“The track didn't take any rubber tonight. Just was super slick. We missed the balance a little bit. But my guys worked hard. We made adjustments on it throughout the race. Didn't know exactly which side we're going to be -- being way different than our teammates coming in here. So, it's something new to try and keep moving forward. It's another solid finish for us way better than when we finished in 24th or 25th. Good points day. We did what we needed to do other than win the race. So solid day for the Mobil 1 Toyota Tundra TRD Pro and we’ll go to Bristol next week. I feel like we're starting to build some momentum between the Truck series and the Xfinity series and having some good runs and good finishes, so we just have to keep it up.”
Blue-Emu Maximum Pain Relief 200 Recap
· William Byron picked up his eighth career NASCAR Camping World Truck Series win. Johnny Sauter, Kyle Busch, Nemechek, and Ben Rhodes rounded out the top-five finishers.
· There were 11 cautions for 71 laps. There were nine lead changes among six drivers.
How John Hunter Nemechek's KBM Teammates Fared:
· Kyle Busch, driver of the No. 51 Toyota, finished third.
· Chandler Smith, driver of the No. 18 Toyota, finish sixth.
NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Championship Standings
Nemechek gained three positions in the standings Thursday night and now sits in fifth place, 44 points behind ThorSport Racing driver Ben Rhodes in first.
Next Race
Nemechek and the No. 4 Mobil 1 team head to Bristol (Tenn.) Motor Speedway next week (4/16) for the second running of the Pinty’s Truck Race on Dirt. Live coverage will be on FS1, Motor Racing Network and SiriusXM Saturday at 8pm ET.
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Tyler Ankrum constructed his best effort at Martinsville Speedway in his sixth start at the 0.526-mile bullring as he scored a 10th-place finish on Friday night. The driver of the No. 16 LiUNA! Toyota Tundra TRD Pro earned his second consecutive top-10 finish of the season and earned back-to-back top-10 results for the first time since 2020 to maintain a tie for ninth in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series point standings.
Ankrum started the 200-lap event from the eighth position after weather washed out practice and qualifying. The outside lane dealt Ankrum an uphill battle on the initial start, causing him to slip outside the top-10, but a caution on lap 39 in the opening stage provided him an opportunity to regain positions. Ankrum clawed his way back up to 10th in the five-lap dash to the Stage 1 checkers on lap 50 to earn one point. Under the caution, crew chief Scott Zipadelli brought Ankrum to pit road for four tires, fuel, and a wedge adjustment to improve his tight handling condition in the center of Martinsville’s flat corners.
Stage 2 began with a restart on lap 61 as Ankrum lined up 24th after the top 16 trucks elected to stay on track during the caution. Tight racing and a clogged racetrack prevented Ankrum from advancing, but a caution on lap 79 opened an avenue for the No. 16 team to position themselves to challenge for their top-10 finish. Zipadelli and the LIUNA team brought Ankrum to pit road for the final time under the caution for four tires, fuel, and air pressure adjustments. Ankrum restarted 27th on lap 86 and finished Stage 2 in 23rd on lap 100, but inherited a top-10 position when the majority of the field pitted under the stage caution.
The race’s second half effectively went green on lap 117 with Ankrum in seventh position. A pair of cautions in quick succession saw Ankrum positioned in the outside lane in 10th place, and fall to 13th, but the 21-year-old repossessed those positions on a lap 163 restart. Ankrum utilized the inside lane to full effect by immediately moving to 11th and chased down a top-10 position in the waning laps with outstanding long-run pace. Ankrum claimed the 10th position coming to the white flag and took the checkered flag in 10th for his best result in six starts at Martinsville.
Tyler Ankrum Quote:
“The balance of the truck pretty much stayed the same the entire time. Right after the race, we saw the front brake fans weren’t working, but we had a really good long run truck. It took about five to eight laps for the truck to come in. Just was really tight on restarts, and I would free up as the run went on. Really proud of the guys. This is my first top-10 ever at Martinsville, and this is the first time I’ve ever come to Martinsville and not have a destroyed truck that wasn’t completely wrecked. I’m really proud of our LIUNA Toyota Tundra TRD Pro team. I’m proud of myself to be honest and we’ll get ready for the next race on Bristol dirt.”
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Last month’s 70th running of the Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring Presented by Advance Auto Parts was Bill Auberlen’s 500th race start for BMW, and a milestone win in the IMSA WeatherTech Sports Car Championship’s GT Daytona (GTD) class looked like a realistic possibility.
Auberlen held the GTD lead in the classic endurance race with less than 90 minutes to go on March 19, but a bump-and-run pass for the top spot by the eventual class-winning Ferrari and an unscheduled pit stop due to a mix-up over drive time regulations dropped him and Turner Motorsport co-drivers Robby Foley and Michael Dinan to fourth place at the checkered flag.
Sebring is a huge on every sports car racer’s calendar, but Auberlen may have even more anticipation for his 501st race for BMW than he did for the more numerically celebrated No. 500. Not only is the Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach staged on Auberlen’s home ground in Southern California, the ever-youthful 53-year-old was inducted into the Long Beach Grand Prix Walk of Fame on Thursday morning.
The local recognition for an international career that has produced IMSA records for pole positions (45) and race wins (64) in its top-level series truly resonates with a man whose interest in racing was sparked growing up in nearby Redondo Beach, where his father, Gary, operated a speedometer repair shop.
“It’s almost surreal,” Auberlen said. “Long Beach has always been my home circuit, so it’s kind of a ‘local kid makes good’ thing, and I’m truly honored.”
The hometown boy theme is no joke. Auberlen attended the inaugural Long Beach GP, a Formula 5000 race staged in September 1975 to prove the new street circuit’s worthiness for its Formula 1 debut in March 1976.
He was 6 years old at the time and has vivid memories of the original circuit, which included a steep climb and descent from Ocean Boulevard.
“I was a kid. My dad took me there,” Auberlen recalled. “I had an old-school tape recorder, and I recorded all the cars. I used to listen to the tape of them at home all the time, and I’m pretty sure being there is completely what hooked me on racing. I was really young, but I was mesmerized. And I kept going to Long Beach almost every year since. I think I’ve only missed one.”
In addition to running Speedometer Service, Gary Auberlen raced off-road motorcycles in the desert. Around the same time he took his son to the inaugural Long Beach event, Bill began racing minibikes at the legendary (and now closed) Ascot Park near Gardena.
Bill worked odd jobs around the speedometer shop and helped with his dad’s racing efforts, which shifted from motorcycles to sports cars in the 1980s. Bill made a similar transition and made his IMSA debut in the 1987 Rolex 24 At Daytona in a Porsche 911 he shared with his father.
The rest, as they say, is history. Auberlen harbored open-wheel dreams and was under consideration to replace Dario Franchitti for Hogan Racing in the CART-sanctioned IndyCar series in 1998, but he decided instead to join BMW as a factory-supported driver.
His sports car career took him all over the world, and eventually back to Long Beach, where he earned two of his IMSA wins for BMW Team RLL in 2013 (GT class) and ’15 (GT Le Mans). The 2013 victory remains among Auberlen’s favorite memories.
“The first win was incredible because, not only did we win on my home track, I had all my friends there,” he said. “We took that trophy and went to Hennessy’s Tavern in Redondo Beach. Once word got out that the trophy was there and my whole crew was there, it seems like the whole town came out. Pretty soon the place was packed, and we all celebrated that victory together. It was really neat.”
Auberlen is hoping he has more than one reason to celebrate at Long Beach this weekend – a GTD class race win in addition to the Walk of Fame induction. Alex Zanardi, a two-time IndyCar series champion and Long Beach winner in 1997 and ’98, is this year’s other honoree.
“I’m not going to tell them that they selected the wrong guy, but to be with Alex and among those names on that sidewalk and to be inducted into something that’s so amazing is pretty incredible and humbling, for sure,” Auberlen said. “I’ve been fortunate to have such a good, long career, and we can still bring wins and championships to this day. I owe a big debt of gratitude to all the people and the teams that made it possible.” | https://speedwaydigest.com/index.php/news/racing-news/68514-imsa-s-all-time-winner-is-among-the-newest-inductees-to-the-walk-of-fame-at-his-home-race-in-long-beach | 2022-04-09T16:00:21Z | speedwaydigest.com | control | https://speedwaydigest.com/index.php/news/racing-news/68514-imsa-s-all-time-winner-is-among-the-newest-inductees-to-the-walk-of-fame-at-his-home-race-in-long-beach | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach returns to its traditional place on the motorsports calendar this weekend for the first time since 2019. While much has changed since the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship last took to the streets of Long Beach in April of that year, much remains the same: the unique fusion of exotic race cars and Southern California’s car culture, celebrities aplenty, chamber of commerce weather and a demanding street circuit that punishes the smallest mistake.
With a 27-car field, there figure to be plenty of opportunities for mistakes; solo encounters with unyielding walls to be sure, but also the fender-to-fender, paint-trading, chrome-horn style action that inevitably results when three classes – Daytona Prototype International (DPi), GTD PRO and GT Daytona (GTD) – battle on an 11-turn, 1.968-mile street circuit over 100 minutes. If last September’s race is any gauge, there figures to be a seven-second difference per lap between the pace-setting prototypes and the GT cars. In other words, the half-dozen DPi competitors will need to find ways around their 21 GT counterparts about 10 or more times during the race. Sounds like a recipe for the occasional outbreak of mayhem to me.
Which leads to another feature of the event, namely that race strategy will likely play a crucial role in the finishing order. That strategy requires counting backwards; specifically, gauging at what point in the race a team can make what figures to be its lone scheduled pit stop and have enough fuel and tire life to reach the finish. Ah, if it were only that simple. There’s always the chance (indeed, likelihood at a street circuit like Long Beach) of a wild card or two in the form of full-course yellows.
Should a caution occur a few laps before your ideal pit stop window, do you make your stop while the field is trundling around at reduced speed and then hope there are either additional yellows (during which fuel mileage substantially improves) or that your driver can coax a couple extra laps from the car by conserving fuel? Or do you stick to your original strategy and hope the rest of the race runs yellow-free or that your driver can run down the cars that stopped early and went into fuel-conservation mode?
Teams will also need to adapt to changing track conditions in practice, qualifying and the race itself. For while there is ample practice and qualifying time on the schedule, track conditions are sure to evolve dramatically. As with any street race, the track will start green, dusty and slippery and gain grip by leaps and bounds as the surface “rubbers in” over the course of the weekend. Thus, the grip level in Friday’s morning practice session may vary significantly from the practice later that afternoon, let alone a qualifying session slated to begin at 5:15 p.m. local time.
So much for the theoretical, what about the practical? What can we learn from the past? Cadillac must be a heavy favorite for the overall honors, given that it has won at Long Beach every year since 2017. Action Express’ No. 31 Whelen Engineering Racing Cadillac DPi-V.R will be gunning for a grand slam at The Beach, having won in 2018, ’19 and ’21. Having taken the win in ’17 for Cadillac, Wayne Taylor Racing would like nothing better than to break the Caddy stranglehold now that WTR runs an Acura in the marque’s namesake event.
In contrast to DPi, there’s little history to rely on when it comes to GTD, even less so for the new GTD PRO class. Last year saw the No. 1 Paul Miller Racing Lamborghini Huracan GT3 capture GTD honors ahead of the Porsche 911 GT3 Rs of Pfaff and Wright Motorsports, but it was the first time the class had raced at Long Beach since 2017. And this year, the Miller team is running a BMW M4 GT3 and Pfaff has moved to the GTD PRO class.
Speaking of GTD PRO, Corvette Racing is far and away the most successful single IMSA team in Long Beach history, with eight wins in various GT categories. The No. 3 Corvette C8.R GTD scored an impressive GTD PRO win at the Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring Presented by Advance Auto Parts last month. However, there are five other teams – each representing a different manufacturer – looking to become the first GTD PRO winner at this iconic race, including the No. 9 Pfaff Porsche that won the Rolex 24 At Daytona to start the season.
But, as any observer worth their salt can attest, trying to pick a winner in either GT class is risky business at best, given the depth and ferocity of competition between the world’s leading sports car marques.
Be sure to catch all the action from Long Beach if you cannot attend in person. Qualifying streams live on IMSA.com/TVLive at 8:10 p.m. ET Friday. The race airs live at 5 p.m. Saturday on USA Network and Peacock. And as usual, IMSA Radio has blanket coverage. | https://speedwaydigest.com/index.php/news/racing-news/68515-sleek-exotic-sports-cars-and-southern-cal-culture-make-for-perfect-mash-up | 2022-04-09T16:00:27Z | speedwaydigest.com | control | https://speedwaydigest.com/index.php/news/racing-news/68515-sleek-exotic-sports-cars-and-southern-cal-culture-make-for-perfect-mash-up | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
In this edition of TAG's Corner, Maj. Gen. Greg Knight welcomes Vermont Guardsmen home from their deployments, discusses areas of concern within the Vermont National Guard, and praises Soldiers and Airmen for their continued excellence in state and federal missions.
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Brembo engineers offer a guide to braking for this weekend's Formula 1 Heineken Australian Grand Prix to run at the Melbourne Grand Prix Circuit, April 8-10.
After a two-year absence because of the lockdown in the country due to the pandemic, Formula 1 heads back to Australia. For the 25th time, races will be held at the Albert Park circuit, but this had only happened one other time during the month of April back in 2006. According to Brembo engineers, it is one of those tracks with a medium level of difficulty for brakes.
Since it is usually used for daily traffic, on Friday the track is slippery but, session by session, the asphalt is increasingly rubberized, also improving braking performance. This also translates into greater pad and disc wear, as they reach extremely high temperatures due to the increase in grip.
Fins even on the pads
The vast experience Brembo has accumulated in Formula 1, where they made their début on 1975 with a small supply of cast iron discs for the Ferrari team, has allowed them to prepare a range of solutions for the calipers that contribute to the heat dissipation of the entire braking system.
One of these solutions is the Brembo pads with ventilation holes, something that is anything but simple to achieve because of their small dimensions and the materials the pads are made of, starting with carbon. Thanks to these holes, air circulation is greater and this staves off the overheating of the pads and the calipers themselves. In 2022, the technical regulations ban having these holes in the pads in order to limit the cost of the component, but the teams are already on the hunt for cooling features that will improve this aspect without breaking any rules, such as fins or other processes to at least increase the exchange surface.
An endless range of brake pads for street-legal cars
On pads for street-legal cars, there is no reason to have fins, both because they do not reach the same temperatures as the Formula 1 cars and due to the high cost. Thanks to the experience it has gained in Formula 1 and its partnership with car manufacturers, Brembo is capable of producing over 100 different compounds for street-legal cars which guarantee maximum safety when braking.
The aim is to offer the best solution for each type of vehicle and driving style, both in terms of performance and comfort and guarantee a low noise level. Brembo makes a total of 1,400 different products, which cover over 98 percent of the cars in circulation in Europe.
Seven braking sections, but not for Lauda
On every lap around the Albert Park circuit, the Formula 1 drivers use the brakes seven times, but on three of them, speed reduction doesn’t even reach 55 km/h (34 mph). The brakes are used for less than 9 seconds per lap, which is one of the lowest times of the entire championship along with the Miami track, which will make its début one month from now, and that works out to 12 percent of the duration of the entire Grand Prix.
With three braking sections less than 6/10s of a second, there are just as many that last at least 2 seconds. However, the brakes are not used at all on Turn 5, named after Niki Lauda, the first driver to ever win a GP and a World Championship with Brembo brakes in 1975. On three of the six turns, on the other hand, the drivers are subjected to at least 4 Gs of deceleration.
Lower speed but greater gap on Turn 3
Of the seven braking sections at the Australian GP, two are classified as highly demanding on the brakes, two are of medium difficulty and the remaining three are light.
The most difficult turn for the braking system is the third one, despite the fact that the speeds are lower on the first and eleventh turn. However, on Turn 3, the single-seaters drop 197 km/h (122 mph), going from 301 km/h (187 mph) to 104 km/h (64.6 mph). This takes them 2.55 seconds, during which they travel 121 meters (397 feet), whereas the drivers are subjected to 4.4 Gs of deceleration.
And what about the video games?
Executing the braking section on turn three of Albert Park Circuit in the Formula 1 video game takes a sharp eye and experience. Before the advertisement bridge, it’s best to move to the left side of the track and then hit the brakes at 100 meters (328 feet). Braking too late is pointless, because you’ll end up on the escape road, with the risk of ending up in the gravel. The braking sections coincides with an abrupt downshift all the way to second gear before diving into the turn. | https://speedwaydigest.com/index.php/news/racing-news/68516-brembo-formula-1-brake-facts-for-australia | 2022-04-09T16:00:33Z | speedwaydigest.com | control | https://speedwaydigest.com/index.php/news/racing-news/68516-brembo-formula-1-brake-facts-for-australia | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Andretti Steinbrenner Autosport rookie Devlin DeFrancesco will race on the legendary streets of Long Beach for the first time this weekend in California.
The Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach is the third round of this year’s NTT INDYCAR SERIES. The historic Californian event was first staged as a Formula 5000 race in 1975 and subsequently was the home of Formula 1 in the US from 1976 to 1983.
Indycar racing debuted here in 1984, and the venue became a happy hunting ground for the Andretti family. Mario Andretti won three of the first four races (having previously won the 1977 Formula 1 race), and Michael Andretti also won in 1986.
Andretti Autosport has won five times in Long Beach, including the past three races for DeFrancesco’s current teammates – Alexander Rossi (2018 and 19) and Colton Herta (2021).
INDYCAR teams will hit the track for the opening practice session at 3.15 p.m. for a one-hour practice session on Friday, followed by an 8:45 a.m. session on Saturday morning. Qualifying at Long Beach begins at 12:05 p.m. on Saturday.
After a 9:00 a.m. warm-up session, Sunday’s 85-lap Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach begins at 12:45 p.m. Pacific time.
LONG BEACH SCHEDULE
Friday, April 8
3:15 PM - 4:15 PM: Practice 1
Saturday, April 9
8:45 AM - 9:45 AM: Practice 2
12:05 PM - 1:20 PM: Qualifying
Sunday, April 10
9:00 AM - 9:30 AM: Warm-up
12:45 PM: Round 3 - 85 laps
(Pacific time)
HOW TO WATCH
USA: NBC and Peacock TV
Peacock also will stream all races airing on NBC and will be the exclusive home of INDYCAR practice and qualifying sessions, as well as a new post-race show.
Canada: SportsNet World
International TV: https://www.indycar.com/ways-to-watch/international
HOW TO LISTEN
INDYCAR Radio and Sirius XM – https://www.indycar.com/radio/broadcast-schedule
HOW TO FOLLOW
Website: devlindefrancesco.com
Website: andrettiautosport.com
Website: steinbrennerracing.com
Twitter: twitter.com/devlindefran
Instagram: instagram.com/devlindefran
TRACK
1.968-mile, 11-turn temporary street course (clockwise) in Long Beach, California
PUSH-TO-PASS
200 seconds of total time with a maximum time of 20 seconds per activation.
FIRESTONE TIRE ALLOTMENT
Six sets primary, four sets alternate. Rookie drivers are allowed one extra primary set for Practice 1.
DEVLIN LONG BEACH APPEARANCES
Thursday, April 7, 7:00 p.m.: Jones Soda appearance at Ralphs, 6290 E Pacific Coast Hwy, Long Beach.
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As Formula 1 heads down under, two-time World Champion Emerson Fittipaldi talked with VegasInsider about the introduction of 4 DRS zones and how it would affect the race in Albert Park. Here's what the F1 legend had to say:
4 DRS zones, the new aerodynamic packages - the Australian Grand Prix will be even more competitive
“It will be even more key to be less than a second behind the other guy. I think that’s the key factor, you have to be trying to be less than a second behind all the time to take advantage."
"But, now again, I could see that in both Bahrain and Jeddah, with a new aerodynamic package, they are able to run closer to each other. That’s better racing, I like it.”
“In my opinion, it was a big improvement for a more competitive race, when they are able to run closer. If you remember the last two laps between Max (Verstappen) and (Charles) LeClerc, they did some corners very close to each other. Even the high-speed corners. In the last years, with the old aerodynamic package, you could not do that. Now they can do it.”
“The last few laps of the race, the tires have already been used and they are still challenging each other. I like that. It’s a big improvement.”
“I think it will be the public (who'll benefit the most from 4 DRS Zones).”
Mercedes and Lewis Hamilton will struggle in Australia - they need to sort out the vicious circle they're in
"Mercedes engines are down. They suffered a lot of performance in the first two Grands Prix. We know all the Mercedes teams are having a difficult time."
“Lewis Hamilton had a great race in Bahrain where he got the podium. With that car, Lewis should not be on the podium."
"They are struggling. The speed on the stretch is much lower. When you have less power from the engine, you sacrifice the aerodynamics. And then it’s a compromise of handling, as well."
"Then you go into a vicious circle. You don’t have enough speed on the stretch, you take off some downforce, and then you lose on the corners and then it’s always a difficult compromise.”
“And the one who has a lot of power can put more downforce and then you are still strong on the stretch and much stronger in braking, cornering, saving the tires."
"They (Mercedes) have a huge problem, in my opinion, to solve.”
“The track in Melbourne, Australia is more smooth (than Jeddah). The cars are very sensitive to bumps now and it’s very difficult to get the suspension working over the bumps and not to lose the mechanical grip.”
I see Ferrari and Red Bull running strong in Australia
“It looks like Ferrari is really running strong. They got the best out of the new rules in grip, downforce, and power. And for sure, Red Bull is running strong as well."
"This year it will be between Ferrari and Red Bull."
Thanks again to VegasInsider for this insight. Be sure to check out the entire interview here. | https://speedwaydigest.com/index.php/news/racing-news/68519-emerson-fittipaldi-4-drs-zones-will-make-the-australian-gp-very-competitive | 2022-04-09T16:01:07Z | speedwaydigest.com | control | https://speedwaydigest.com/index.php/news/racing-news/68519-emerson-fittipaldi-4-drs-zones-will-make-the-australian-gp-very-competitive | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
So, you’ve learned all about the plans to bring back the hallowed “GTP” name for the top-level class of the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship starting in 2023.
Now it’s time to study the single-source hybrid system that will be integrated into every LMDh prototype that will compete for the Grand Touring Prototype (GTP) crown in the WeatherTech Championship starting in January with the Rolex 24 At Daytona.
First, a quick definition: A hybrid car utilizes two distinct types of power, generally an internal combustion engine and an electric motor-generator. The system harvests kinetic energy that would otherwise go wasted through heat from braking and stores it to batteries, to be deployed as propulsion energy during acceleration.
The hybrid components are vitally important to IMSA and its constituents for several reasons. One, going hybrid introduces an even greater level of technology to a series that arguably already boasts the most technologically advanced cars that race in North America.
The hybrid system will also create a more fuel-efficient, ecologically friendly race car. And with most of the auto industry worldwide shifting production from fossil-fueled vehicles to electric power, a hybrid system maintains IMSA’s relevance to the original equipment manufacturer (OEM) road car industry.
Oh, and one last thing: The hybrid system is a key component in the convergence of worldwide sports car racing. Next year, IMSA’s new hybrid LMDh cars will also be eligible to compete in the Hypercar class of the FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC), including the 24 Hours of Le Mans, which is organized by the Automobile Club de l’Ouest (ACO). In return, eligible WEC LMH prototypes will compete in the WeatherTech Championship GTP class on level terms with LMDh cars.
The standardized hybrid powertrain consists of a common gearbox casing and internals produced by Xtrac, which incorporates a motor generator unit (MGU) and control electronics supplied by Bosch. The harvested energy is stored in a sophisticated battery pack developed by Williams Advanced Engineering.
If it sounds as simple as bolting a few new parts onto an existing race car … well, it’s not.
“It’s pretty involved; the hybrid system is doing a lot of different things,” IMSA Technical Director Matt Kurdock said. “What I tell people is it’s like having a whole second powertrain in the car. Fuel tank, cooling system, gearbox – the hybrid system has all of that on its own, too.”
It starts with the gearbox casing, which houses the electric motor, which in turn requires dedicated liquid cooling. Since this is a racing application, the casing needs to be made as small and light as possible, while designed to fit multiple chassis and interface with several different internal combustion engine configurations.
“Trying to get an MGU in that space, working with Bosch hand-in-hand, we’re obviously really proud of that work,” said Paul Barton, Xtrac Vice President. “Coupled with that, you start thinking about high voltage lines coming out of the bell housing in a safe way that the teams can service it, that was again a massive challenge. There was a lot of very detailed work around a lot of tight packing constraints.”
The Bosch motor is a versatile tool that will allow teams to tailor its 50-kilowatt (67-horsepower) constant output to the power and torque characteristics of each OEM’s internal combustion engine. The motor’s peak power and regenerative capacity is much higher at 180 kilowatts (241 horsepower).
“Whenever a driver goes full throttle, the hybrid system is designed to give a continuous output of power to fill in that gap between where your internal combustion engine would be and where the prescribed Balance of Performance power limits are for that specific championship,” Kurdock explained.
“The combined power level that is permitted by regulation is going to be between 480 and 520 kilowatts at the wheel (643-697 horsepower). And the fact that we’ve got this method of controlling power and regulating power via torque sensors also promotes convergence to LMH, which is restricted by the same formulas, the same methods. This is why we all collectively – FIA, ACO and IMSA – worked so hard towards this goal.”
The collaboration within the IMSA/WEC/ACO Technical Working Group also helped Williams achieve the requisite capabilities needed from the battery and its management system in a more compact package.
“It’s not a question of whether a battery is more powerful; only if it’s appropriate for the application,” said Doug Campling, Head of Motorsport for Williams Advanced Engineering. “The pack for LMDh is about packing a punch in a smaller package, with a very high charge and discharge rate.
“Working with the constraints of cost-effectiveness and reliability, we still managed to get state-of-the-art technology baked in. And since we were able to tune it right from the get-go and had a good handle on what exactly the use cycle is, it allows things like the use of smaller radiators on the car.”
Watching a 2023 WeatherTech Championship race trackside or on television, you probably won’t notice the new hybrid system in action – unless you catch a glimpse of an LMDh car silently gliding through the pits or the paddock on electric power alone.
But when you imagine the opportunities it offers for your favorite GTP team and drivers to compete for the overall win not only at Daytona, Sebring or anyplace on the WeatherTech Championship calendar, but also at Le Mans, Spa or Fuji, you’ll understand. | https://speedwaydigest.com/index.php/news/racing-news/68521-suppliers-bosch-williams-advanced-engineering-and-xtrac-working-in-concert-to-develop-system-for-all-entries-into-new-2023-class | 2022-04-09T16:01:13Z | speedwaydigest.com | control | https://speedwaydigest.com/index.php/news/racing-news/68521-suppliers-bosch-williams-advanced-engineering-and-xtrac-working-in-concert-to-develop-system-for-all-entries-into-new-2023-class | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Progressive American Flat Track proudly announced today that Rookie of ‘79 and Friends will be the Designated Charity Partner of Progressive AFT for a fifth consecutive season.
The charity traces its origins to, and draws its name from, a special collection of riders and individuals who stepped up to the pinnacle of the sport together in 1979. That legendary crew included some of the greatest motorcycle racers to ever exist, boasting the likes of Scott Parker, Wayne Rainey, Ronnie Jones, Charlie Roberts, Tommy Duma, Jackie Mitchell, Lance Jones, and Johnny Wincewicz among its ranks. Inspired to give back to a sport that gave them so much, the reunited rookies decided three decades after they first faced off to join forces in order to help those who needed it the most.
Now in its 13th year of operation as a 501(c)(3) non-profit charity, Rookies of ‘79 has raised millions of dollars to provide aid to injured riders and their families over the years and has experienced incredible growth during its time as the series’ officially designated charity. Rookies of ‘79 stands ready to answer the call when needed and provides a reassuring presence at all times so that today’s generation of flat track racers can perform at their best knowing someone will always have their back.
“I’ve had the privilege of being on the Board of Directors for the Rookies of '79 for the past few years,” said Tim Estenson, Estenson Racing Team Owner. “Working closely with a group of people with such deep history in the sport and the love of flat track has been amazing. We have one single goal; to be here in a time of need for any flat track rider injured doing what they love, racing. Through the support of our amazing flat track families and the corporate support we’ve gained over the years we’ve been able to continually fulfill our vision.
“Moving into the 2022 season I’m proud to say Progressive American Flat Track has stepped up in a big way, increasing their support to the charity in several areas. This increased support allows us to ensure our ability to be there for our athletes who may be injured during the season. We are honored to continue our partnership as the designated charity of Progressive American Flat Track."
Since its inception, the charity has never turned away a flat track rider seeking aid, providing the help necessary to allow many of them to return to the track rather than end their careers prematurely due to injury.
“Progressive AFT is happy to continue our association with Rookies of ’79 for the 2022 season,” said Gene Crouch, COO of Progressive AFT. “They work tirelessly to provide an important service to the flat track community. As always, we encourage our fanbase to visit their display at one of the races or their website to learn more about their contribution to the sport, and to show them how much we all appreciate their efforts.”
Keep up to date with the Rookie’s of ’79 activity and news at https://www.facebook.com/rookiesof79. For more information, to donate, and to purchase merchandise and memorabilia from its online shop, visit https://www.rookies79.com/. And visit the Rookies tent which will be at all Progressive AFT events this season for your chance to purchase raffle tickets for the 2022 featured motorcycle drawings.
Progressive AFT makes its inaugural visit to I-70 Motorsports Park in Odessa, Missouri, on Saturday, April 23 for the I-70 Half-Mile presented by Indian Motorcycle of Kansas City. Secure your tickets now at https://store.americanflattrack.com/ebooking/ticket/view/id/3775.
The I-70 Half-Mile presented by Indian Motorcycle of Kansas City will premiere on FS1 on Sunday, May 1 starting at 10:00 a.m. ET/7:00 a.m. PT.
For more information on Progressive AFT visit https://www.americanflattrack.com. To score the latest gear for the Progressive American Flat Track fan, visit our official merchandise store at https://store.americanflattrack.com.
How to Watch:
FOX Sports and Facebook are the official homes for coverage of Progressive American Flat Track. For the 2022 season, all 18 races will premiere in one-hour telecasts on FS1 during highly desirable weekend time slots. The complete schedule can be viewed at https://www.americanflattrack.com/events-foxsports. Viewers can watch livestream coverage of every round in the Facebook mobile app, Facebook desktop site or on the Facebook Watch mobile app. To watch the livestream on TV, fans can download the Facebook Watch TV app, or cast to a TV from the Facebook mobile app. Facebook Watch is available through Apple TV, Samsung Smart TV, Amazon Fire TV, Chromecast, and Xbox One. | https://speedwaydigest.com/index.php/news/racing-news/68522-rookies-of-79-and-friends-named-designated-charity-of-progressive-aft-for-fifth-consecutive-season | 2022-04-09T16:01:20Z | speedwaydigest.com | control | https://speedwaydigest.com/index.php/news/racing-news/68522-rookies-of-79-and-friends-named-designated-charity-of-progressive-aft-for-fifth-consecutive-season | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
One of the most pleasant surprises thus far in the 2022 USAC/CRA season has been Apple Valley, California’s Trent Williams. Even though he had not raced in five months and missed the first three races of the year, Williams has finished ninth in all three races he has started, and he has climbed to 16th in the series championship standings.
Last weekend Williams and crew hauled the Victory Boys Performance/Sorrento Homes #52V to the center of the state for a pair of races at Peter Murphy’s Keller Auto Speedway and the Stone Chevrolet Buick GMC Thunderbowl Raceway. It was the first time the series raced at the Thunderbowl since March 2021 and the first time at Keller Auto Speedway since 2018.
With a lap of 16.252 on the 3/8 mile Keller Auto Speedway in Hanford, Williams was the 14th fastest qualifier in the 28 car field. He followed up his qualifying effort by scoring a convincing full straightaway win in his 10-lap heat race. That is despite the fact that he thrilled the crowd by smacking the front chute wall as he took the checkered flag.
The Cal State Fullerton graduate started the 30-lap main in the 14th spot and moved forward five positions to finish ninth for the second time in seven days.
A good night’s rest for Williams and his crew was followed by the short drive to the Thunderbowl Raceway in Tulare for Saturday night’s action. Williams qualified one position better on Saturday in 13th when he stopped the clocks in 16.109.
Williams was once again in the first heat race. However, this time he finished fourth. He started the main event one position better than at Hanford in 13th. Once again, he drove forward to ninth giving his third ninth-place finish in eight days.
Going into the three-race weekend, Williams was 26th in series points. He gained 10 spots and is now 16th despite the fact that he has only been in half of the races.
The schedule has a break the next two weekends, but Williams will return to action on April 23rd with a trip to the Mohave Valley Raceway which is just minutes from the Colorado River in Arizona. One week later on the 30th, the journey to compete will be an hour from Victory Boys Performance headquarters at the world-famous Perris Auto Speedway.
Williams would like to thank marketing partners Victory Boys Performance and Sorrento Homes for making it possible to race his Maxim Chassis/Shaver Engines #52V during the 2022 season. If you or your business would like to be a partner of the Victory Boys racing endeavors, please call (760) 780-8782 or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Trent Williams PR | https://speedwaydigest.com/index.php/news/racing-news/68524-consistent-williams-rises-to-16th-in-usac-cra-standings-in-three-races | 2022-04-09T16:01:32Z | speedwaydigest.com | control | https://speedwaydigest.com/index.php/news/racing-news/68524-consistent-williams-rises-to-16th-in-usac-cra-standings-in-three-races | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The Eternal City will welcome thousands of fans onto the streets for the first time in two years as the ABB FIA Formula E World Championship arrives for the double-header Rome E-Prix this weekend, Saturday 9 and Sunday 10 April.
Returning fans will have plenty to cheer as DRAGON / PENSKE AUTOSPORT’s Italian driver, Antonio Giovinazzi, makes his home race debut in Formula E.
Street racing hadn't been a part of Roman culture for 62 years prior to Formula E visiting in 2018, and the track uses parts of the old Tre Fontane circuit from the 1920s - with the start line on Via delle Tre Fontane.
The 19-turn 3.385km Circuito Cittadino dell'EUR, one of the longest on the ABB Formula E calendar, is a mix of high-speed corners, tight complex sections and undulations with plenty of opportunities for overtaking.
The 22 all-electric race cars will speed around landmarks including the Palazzo dei Congressi and Piazzale Marconi as the race navigates the iconic Palazzo della Civilta Italiana, known as the "Square Coliseum" with the Ninfeo Park forming part of the circuit’s perimeter. A new update for this year sees the start moved between Turns 3 and 4 with the finish on the approach to Turn 19.
Jean-Eric Vergne came home on the top step in Round 3 in 2020/21 with a calculated drive from fifth to first with Mercedes-EQ’s Stoffel Vandoorne taking the checkered flag in Round 4 - the second of last year’s races.
Edoardo Mortara leads the way in the ABB FIA Formula E Drivers' World Championship after a trio of top six finishes, including a race two win in Diriyah. Silverware and strong points for his ROKiT Venturi Racing teammate Lucas di Grassi in Saudi Arabia helped ensure the Monegasque team had enough on the rest to leave Mexico as Teams' pacesetters, just ahead of Mercedes-EQ.
Reigning champion Nyck de Vries (Mercedes-EQ) is second in the running, having made the top step in the season opener. The Dutchman and leader Mortara are two of only four drivers to have scored points in all three rounds of Season 8 so far - the others? DS TECHEETAH's Jean-Eric Vergne and Avalanche Andretti driver Jake Dennis, who sit sixth and seventh in the standings.
The first three rounds of the 2021/22 ABB FIA Formula E World Championship season have seen three different race winners, including a historic one-two by the TAG Heuer Porsche Formula E Team in the last race, the Mexico City E-Prix, with a maiden victory for the team.
Pascal Wehrlein delivered in style - securing his own maiden victory in the process.The 27-year-old led home a Porsche one-two, with Andre Lotterer in close company and the pair inflicted an extra lap on the rest to rub salt in the wounds, such was the team's strategic success.
Tune in via the CBS Sports Network on April 9th at 8:30 AM ET and on April 10th at 3:30 PM ET.
Connect and follow the ABB FIA Formula E World Championship on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, TikTok and YouTube with @FIAFormulaE #ABBFormulaE. | https://speedwaydigest.com/index.php/news/racing-news/68536-formula-e-returns-with-double-header-in-rome-this-weekend | 2022-04-09T16:01:51Z | speedwaydigest.com | control | https://speedwaydigest.com/index.php/news/racing-news/68536-formula-e-returns-with-double-header-in-rome-this-weekend | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
XITE Energy Racing powered by myenergi will star in one of the world’s most anticipated motorsport series, when Oli Bennett leads his all-electric British squad into this year’s Nitro Rallycross.
Nitro Rallycross (Nitro RX) is the product of Travis Pastrana. Travis is a man who steps out of aeroplanes without a parachute and backflips a motorbike mid-air while jumping across London’s River Thames. When Travis does something, he does it to the absolute extreme.
Welcome to Nitro RX.
This is the place where race cars jump over each other. And then have another car jumping over the top of those two. Travis’s tracks are wild. And they’ve captured the imagination of the sports watching public around the world.
After competing in the maiden NRX season – all based out of America – in 2021, Oli is delighted to be taking XITE \Energy Racing powered by myenergi back for the first full calendar international programme this year.
As well as a schedule taking the racing around the world (see schedule below), Nitro RX will be running the fastest and most exciting electric race cars anywhere on planet earth.
For Oli, XITE Energy and myenergi, it’s a perfect fit.
That electric ambition comes in the form of the FC1-X: a 1070bhp (800kW) battery-powered monster capable of sending Oli and his rivals from the start line to 60mph in 1.4 seconds making it the most powerful vehicle in rallycross.
Oli: “The FC1 is a brutal, fast and exciting electric car and something I cannot wait to race. It’s been built for a job, and the job is extreme. I’m excited to get going!
“We spent time understanding the new FC1 car concept, the series’ marketing ability and its global expansion plans that align with XITE energy and myenergi’s own marketing ambitions. For me it was an easy decision and a perfect way to increase my involvement as a team owner and driver in EV racing.
“For XITE Energy Racing powered by myenergi, this year is a hugely important one in becoming the leading global sports team in off-road EV racing. With the crazy format, the cars and the stars that Nitro provides, it lends itself perfectly to both my racing goals and the team’s brand partners ambitions on the global stage. We want to win, and we want people to watch.
“I’m really looking forward to building a killer team and racing brand this year. We have some huge plans on and off the track and the XITE Energy Racing powered by myenergi team will have the performance to compete for wins. You might be able to tell… we’re really excited!”
And that excitement is mirrored by myenergi.
“At myenergi, we’re pioneers,” said myenergi’s co-founder and CMO Jordan Brompton. “We’re pioneers of new technologies, pioneers of new ideas and pioneers of a better future. Through our sponsorship of XITE Energy Racing in the 2022 Nitro RX season, we’re looking to pioneer a revolutionary new racing format and bring the excitement of off-road EV motorsport to the global stage.
“Over the past 12 months, we’ve built a strong relationship with Oli and the XITE Energy team, taking electric racing and our passion for the planet to the masses. Our two brands really do go hand-in-hand as innovative, forward-thinking businesses looking to drive the future of sustainability.
“We’re confident that Nitro RX is the place to be. The all-electric FC1-X car is redefining EV capability – I can’t wait to see it take to the track emblazoned with the myenergi logo!”
And what does Travis think? He’s delighted to see Oli and the whole XITE Energy Racing powered by myenergi crew in town.
“We are so pumped to have Oli and XITE Energy Racing back for Nitro Rallycross’ first global season,” said Travis.
“Oli was a tough competitor in last year’s Supercar field, so I know he is going to send it in the new FC1-X as he battles in Group E (Electric). With the most power of any car in rallycross, the FC1-X is a beast. It’s primed to take on Nitro RX’s huge jumps and can take anything that these tracks – and the Nitro RX field – dish out.”
Nitro RX starts from one of the most iconic rallycross venues in the world: Lydden Hill in England on June 18/19. From there, it’s an EV odyssey around the world for the next nine months. | https://speedwaydigest.com/index.php/news/racing-news/68539-bennett-xite-and-myenergi-wired-for-wild-nitro-rx-season | 2022-04-09T16:02:25Z | speedwaydigest.com | control | https://speedwaydigest.com/index.php/news/racing-news/68539-bennett-xite-and-myenergi-wired-for-wild-nitro-rx-season | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
The IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship rolls into Southern California this week for the 47th running of the Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach.
The 100-minute “sprint” race for the IMSA sports cars on the famous Long Beach street course that headlines the Saturday card is a completely different kind of challenge than the pair of endurance races that opened the 2022 WeatherTech Championship campaign.
Daytona International Speedway (3.56 miles) and Sebring International Raceway (3.74 miles) are both longer and offer more room for error than Long Beach, which packs 11 corners into less than two miles, all lined by unforgiving concrete walls.
A smaller field somewhat mitigates those tighter confines. With the Le Mans Prototype 2 (LMP2) and Le Mans Prototype 3 (LMP3) classes not racing at Long Beach, 27 cars are expected to take the green flag – roughly half the size of the fields for the Rolex 24 At Daytona (61 entries) and the Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring Presented by Advance Auto Parts (53).
But it’s not as simple as saying, “Half the track length, half the cars. What’s the big deal?”
The absence of the LMP2 and LMP3 classes changes the dynamic of the racing, not only for the six Daytona Prototype international (DPi) cars battling for the overall win, but for the competitors in in the GTD PRO and GT Daytona (GTD) classes that make up the majority of the field.
It gives Long Beach more similarities to the WeatherTech Championship races at Lime Rock Park and VIRginia International Raceway, 2-hour, 40-minute contests where no prototype classes compete and the GT cars are the headliners.
In fact, the brevity of the Long Beach race offers GTD competitors their best opportunity to upstage the theoretically faster GTD PRO runners.
It makes calling strategy absolutely critical, because the race is likely to include only one pit stop for fuel and a mandatory driver change.
“We’ve seen in years past that if one of the Am guys (Silver- or Bronze-rated drivers in a GTD car) get out early by pitting at the beginning of their window before a yellow comes out, they can cycle to the front,” said Corvette Racing’s Jordan Taylor, a three-time series champion who shares the No. 3 Corvette C8.R GTD with Antonio Garcia in the GTD PRO class. “I think a GTD with an Am could win the race outright in the (GT) category. It’s so hard to pass now, especially with ABS (anti-lock braking system used in both GT classes). It’s going to feel like you’re flat out for pretty much all 100 minutes.”
The pit stops are more intense than usual because they often require less than a full fuel fill. GT cars can run approximately 60 minutes on a tank, creating a huge window for being able to complete the race on a single stop.
With a fuel fill sometimes taking as little as 20 seconds at Long Beach, the pressure is on drivers to execute a perfect driver change – in addition to performing error-free on the track.
“There’s a huge emphasis on the pit stop, and it’s something we’ve already been discussing a lot,” said Ben Barnicoat, co-driver of the No. 14 Vasser Sullivan Lexus RC F GT3 in GTD PRO with Jack Hawksworth. “It can make or break your race if something goes wrong in that change. It’s a bit of an ‘own goal’ if you don’t practice stops because, if you make a mistake, it could be hugely important to the overall result.”
Barnicoat hasn’t driven at Long Beach before. The Brit is eager for his maiden race there but also gives the tight street circuit its due respect.
“I’ve run a fair few laps of Long Beach on the (Toyota Racing Development) simulator in Charlotte,” he said, “but these things are always different when you get there in real life. In the simulator, there’s no fear factor that you’re going to clip something and rip a corner off the car or do some damage, which we can’t afford to do on such a short, tight weekend like this. I’m really looking forward to the challenge.”
WeatherTech Championship practices are set for 12:15 and 4:15 p.m. ET Friday, with qualifying for all three classes streaming live on
IMSA.com/TVLive at 8:10 p.m. Saturday’s race airs live at 5 p.m. on USA Network, Peacock and IMSA Radio. Tickets for race weekend are available at
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Payton Freeman is preparing to embark on one of the most hectic stretches of his young career.
The busy week for Freeman begins on Tuesday when he travels to Eldora Speedway for Castrol FloRacing Night in America, which he will then follow up with trips to Volunteer Speedway, Wythe Speedway and Tazewell Speedway on Thursday, Friday and Saturday.
Freeman does not have any experience to his name at any of the upcoming venues, but the prospect of gaining valuable knowledge while also chasing sizable paychecks has him optimistic that next week will be a successful one despite the challenges.
“This involves a lot of work and preparation, but I think it will be good for us,” Freeman said. “Being in a car so many nights in a row can only be helpful and hopefully we’ll be able to learn a lot since these are all new tracks for us.”
Freeman added that each race on the docket will be approached differently than the previous one.
Along with FloRacing putting up a $22,022 paycheck for the winner at Eldora, the race at Volunteer in Bulls Gap, Tennessee will provide Freeman a unique opportunity to gain national exposure as a participant in the inaugural Kyle Larson Presents, FloRacing Late Model Challenge Powered by Tezos.
The two events at Wythe and Tazewell are a part of the Schaeffer’s Oil Spring National Series. Freeman is contesting the full schedule in that division and is currently tied for seventh in the point standings; 34 points behind co-leaders Michael Page and Mark Whitener.
Going from one track to another is something that Freeman expects will put some strain on his equipment. Despite this, Freeman is ready to embrace the challenge and use the positives and negatives from those races to better himself as a driver.
“There will be lots of tires to cut as well as lots of maintenance on the car,” Freeman said. “The biggest thing is that these four races will involve a lot of hard work and preparation. However, I think this is a step in the right direction for us to figure out what we need later down the road.”
Freeman believes that the improvements made to his car over the past couple of months will allow him to maintain the pace that enabled him to claim the Southern All Star Dirt Racing Series title last year.
Only a few weeks removed from a second place run at Boyd’s Speedway, he knows the victories are going to start occurring more frequently and wants to do everything possible to be both physically and mentally prepared to battle up at the front every night.
With these events attracting many of the best dirt late model drivers around the United States, Freeman understands that perfecting the setup and figuring out each track will be imperative towards getting the strong runs he needs to keep momentum going in his favor.
“It would mean a ton to win,” Freeman said. “That would really jumpstart our year. The first one is the hardest to get but hopefully we can turn our luck around here. The competition we’ll be racing against will be tough but we’re going to do the best that we can.”
Freeman will attempt to start his eventful week on a high note when the Castrol FloRacing Night in America season-opener gets going on Tuesday evening.
Payton Freeman would like to thank all of his supporters and partners, including his parents, crew and fans as well as Freeman Plumbing, Coltman Farms, MPM Marketing, Stilo, KRC Power Steering, K1 RaceGear, Schaeffer’s Oil, Base Racing Fuel, SRI Performance, Captial Race Cars, Shelton Trucking, Chattham & Son Tile, Rod Roberts Trucking, Collins Signs, Sweet Victory Apparel, Accu-Force Dyno & Testers, Swift Springs, Penske Racing Shocks and Strange Oval.
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The Hoosier Racing Tire Weekly Championship will put the focus back on weekly racing to determine its five division champions this year.
Series events – such as the Super DIRTcar Series and DIRTcar Northeast Series races – will no longer count toward the Hoosier Racing Tire Weekly points. Only weekly races – and some special events – at DIRTcar sanctioned tracks for the Big Block Modifieds, 358 Modifieds, Sportsman Modifieds, Pro Stocks and 4-Cylinders will tally points toward the championships.
“We really wanted to bring back a home track focus to the Hoosier Racing Tire Weekly Championship, making sure the title represents the drivers who dedicate their time to their local tracks,” said DIRTcar Northeast Series Director Dean Reynolds. “This structure gives an exciting new focus to the championship and makes every weekly show even more important for the drivers and fans now.”
Twenty tracks, spanning across New York, Vermont and Canada, and featuring hundreds of drivers across the five divisions, will be a part of the championship this season.
Last year, more than $47,000 in total between the five divisions last year with Matt Sheppard earning $5,000 for the Big Block title, Mat Williamson earning $3,000 for the Small Block title, Andrew Buff and Chad Jeseo each earning $1,000 for the Sportsman title and Pro Stock title, respectively, and Dante Mancuso earning $500 for the 4-Cylinder title.
To keep up with the 2022 Hoosier Racing Tire Weekly Championship, which will conclude in September, visit DIRTcar.com for weekly updates.
Below you’ll find each track taking part in the championship this year with each division. The participating tracks for the 4-Cylinder will be announced at a later time.
Big Block Modifieds
Albany-Saratoga Speedway (Ballston Spa, NY)
Brewerton Speedway (Central Square, NY)
Land of Legends Raceway (Canandaigua, NY)
Lebanon Valley Speedway (West Lebanon, NY)
Orange County Speedway (Middletown, NY)
Weedsport Speedway (Weedsport, NY)
358 Modifieds
Brockville Ontario Speedway (Brockville, ON)
Can-Am Speedway (LaFargeville, NY)
Autodrome Drummond (Drummondville, QC)
Fulton Speedway (Fulton, NY)
Humberstone Speedway (Port Colborne, ON)
Lebanon Valley Speedway (West Lebanon, NY)
Mohawk International Raceway (Hogansburg, NY)
Ransomville Speedway (Ransomville, NY)
Thunder Mountain Speedway (Lisle, NY)
Weedsport Speedway (Weedsport, NY)
Sportsman Modifieds
Airborne Speedway (Plattsburgh, NY)
Albany-Saratoga Speedway (Ballston Spa, NY)
Bear Ridge Speedway (Bradford, VT)
Brewerton Speedway (Central Square, NY)
Brockville Ontario Speedway (Brockville, ON)
Can-Am Speedway (LaFargeville, NY)
Autodrome Drummond (Drummondville, QC)
Fulton Speedway (Fulton, NY)
Genesee Speedway (Batavia, NY)
Glen Ridge Motorsports Park (Fultonville, NY)
Humberstone Speedway (Port Colborne, ON)
Land of Legends Raceway (Canandaigua, NY)
Merrittville Speedway (Thorold, ON)
Mohawk International Raceway (Hogansburg, NY)
Outlaw Speedway (Dundee, NY)
Ransomville Speedway (Ransomville, NY)
Thunder Mountain Speedway (Lisle, NY)
Weedsport Speedway (Weedsport, NY)
Pro Stocks
Albany-Saratoga Speedway (Ballston Spa, NY)
Can-Am Speedway (LaFargeville, NY)
Autodrome Drummond (Drummondville, QC)
Glen Ridge Motorsports Park (Fultonville, NY)
Lebanon Valley Speedway (West Lebanon, NY)
Mohawk International Raceway (Hogansburg, NY)
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It’s like night and day – literally and figuratively – as the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship drivers prepare for next week’s Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach.
After starting their season with the two longest races of the year – the Rolex 24 At Daytona and Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring Presented by Advance Auto Parts; a total of 36 grinding hours of racing through day and night – they head to one of the two shortest in time, 100 minutes.
Not only that, they go from the distinct high speeds of the Daytona International Speedway road course that encompasses most of the high-banked oval and the bone-jarring bumps of Sebring International Raceway to the Long Beach street course that may be nearly half the length of the first two circuits but carries greater ever-present risk through its concrete-lined twists and turns.
It’s the diversity and challenge of the WeatherTech Championship in a nutshell, one the drivers crave.
“I think the beauty of this championship is exactly this, the variety of tracks and layouts,” said Filipe Albuquerque, co-driver of the No. 10 Konica Minolta Acura ARX-05 along with Ricky Taylor that competes in the Daytona Prototype international (DPi) class. Also on the card at Long Beach are the GTD PRO and GT Daytona (GTD) classes, making for a total of 27 cars fighting for real estate on the tight 1.968-mile temporary street circuit.
“It shows the diversity of the championship,” added Pipo Derani, who shares the No. 31 Whelen Engineering Racing Cadillac DPi-V.R with Tristan Nunez. “You go from Daytona – (a) very big track – to then Sebring – (a) very bumpy track – and then to a street track at California. I think it brings something good for the championship and for the teams to adapt quickly to these changes.
“It’s great to have such a great combination of tracks where you have to keep yourself and your team on your toes and do the best job possible to stay ahead.”
A big part of that approach lies in the true sprint nature of the 100-minute Long Beach race. The risk-versus-reward aspect may be greater but some are willing to take that gamble through bold overtaking maneuvers or different race strategies.
“We’ve seen it in Long Beach in years past – guys taking risks early on and it paying off in the end,” said Jordan Taylor, co-driver of the No. 3 Corvette Racing Chevrolet Corvette C8.R GTD with Antonio Garcia. Taylor is a three-time Long Beach winner, each coming in the prototype class when he drove for Wayne Taylor Racing.
“Historically it has worked, so the risk-reward is decent at a track like Long Beach, especially if you don’t have the fastest car,” Taylor added. “It’s so difficult to pass sometimes that it’s a good place to take that risk.”
Strategy could play a key role in the GTD PRO and GTD classes, particularly in deciding when to pit. The GT3-spec cars in both classes typically can go about 60 minutes on a full tank of fuel. It opens a wide window for teams to select when to pit and factor in the driver change since refilling the tank likely won’t take as long as during a full-fill stop.
Ben Barnicoat will be racing for the first time at Long Beach, but the co-driver of the No. 14 Vasser Sullivan Lexus RC F GT3 with Jack Hawksworth in GTD PRO is well aware of what’s at stake.
“It seems like strategy can play out quite a lot with the fuel on the cars being around 60 minutes but the race being 100 minutes long, that opens up quite a window where you can play around with it,” Barnicoat said. “There’s a lot of options to look at and you can prepare a million ways, but none of us are really going to know what the best thing to be or how we’re going to feel until we’re in the race and see what’s happening on track.”
Practice and qualifying for the Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach take place Friday, April 8. The race airs live at 5 p.m. ET Saturday, April 9 on USA Network, Peacock and IMSA Radio. | https://speedwaydigest.com/index.php/news/racing-news/68555-long-beach-presents-different-challenge-in-tough-schedule | 2022-04-09T16:03:32Z | speedwaydigest.com | control | https://speedwaydigest.com/index.php/news/racing-news/68555-long-beach-presents-different-challenge-in-tough-schedule | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Today Nitro Rallycross, a disruptive new force in motorsports, announced its inaugural global season. The expanded Nitro RX series kicks off June 18-19, 2022 at England’s legendary Lydden Hill Race Circuit for the first of ten races staged in six countries, including Sweden, Finland, Canada and Saudi Arabia. Nitro RX will then bridge the calendar year to culminate in March 2023 with a championship event held in the U.S. A full schedule is listed below.
In 2022-23, Nitro RX is taking its groundbreaking tracks, with huge jumps and steep banked turns, to a host of new settings worldwide. Nitro RX will grow beyond its roots in outdoor dirt tracks, with drivers also set to battle on tarmac, inside stadiums, through street circuits and over snow and ice for a diverse range of race environments.
Travis Pastrana, Nitro RX mastermind and 2021 series champion says, “I’m so excited to see Nitro Rallycross expand into a full worldwide series. This is the action-packed, no limits racing that teams, drivers and fans have been looking for, and going global has been our goal from the beginning. We also have the fantastic opportunity to get things started at historic Lydden Hill, an iconic track that is the birthplace of rallycross and home to some of its biggest moments. We are going back to the beginning and making the changes we think are needed to take the sport to the next level.”
The 2022-23 Nitro RX season will also feature an expanded racing lineup led by the competition debut of the FC1-X, the most powerful vehicle in rallycross. Created by First Corner, LLC, in collaboration with QEV Technologies and Nitro RX, the FC1-X delivers the electric equivalent of 1,070 peak horsepower (800 kW) and accelerates from 0-60 in just 1.4 seconds, launching faster off the line than an F1 car.
Andreas Bakkerud, a highly decorated driver who got an early taste of what the new vehicle is capable of in demo sessions at Race of Champions, says, “The FC1-X blew my mind straight out the box, not only from a performance point of view but also with its toughness given the amount of laps we could do on a frozen lake up north in Sweden. The car itself is very promising to drive, loads of power – just like us rallycross drivers like it. It’s going be a blast going head to head with this new car and to see which team can first find that little detail in performance gain for the first few races.”
The FC1-X will flex its muscles in Nitro RX’s new top Group E division. Just as the legendary Group B cars set the rallycross world ablaze in the 1980s, Nitro RX’s new Group E class is set to make another quantum leap. That inspiration, supercharged by Nitro Circus’ limit-pushing DNA, will show the massive performance potential of electric vehicles unleashed by the fastest rallycross cars ever seen.
Pastrana adds, “I can’t wait to get on the starting line in the FC1-X and see what it can do in the heat of competition. With the car’s game-changing power, Group E will more than live up to the legacy of the Group B’s as it sets a new standard for the sport. This is what Nitro Rallycross is all about: getting the best cars in the hands of the best drivers so they can throw down on the best tracks, anywhere in the world.”
The FC1-X will serve as the A SHOC Energy #GoNitro star car, which returns for 2022-23. Last year, two NASCAR Cup Series champions - Kyle Busch and A SHOC Energy athlete Chase Elliott - put in strong performances in the #GoNitro driver’s seat, with Busch nearly making the podium. As fan engagement spiked, more stars from across the racing world took notice and now a growing lineup is eager to participate, including stars from F1, NASCAR, IndyCar, MotoGP and more.
In addition to the competition debuts of the FC1-X and Group E, Nitro RX 2022-23 will feature an expanded offering of high-impact racing. The iconic Supercar class will return, giving fans a double dose of elite rallycross competition while the developmental NRX Next division is back as well, providing a pathway for the next generation of drivers. Each series stop will also include additional special disciplines offering fans even more wide-open action.
On sale information will be announced shortly, and enthusiasts will also be able to watch the action away from the track through a robust slate of broadcast partners. In 2021, Nitro RX was available in over 200 territories on more than 14 platforms, including an exclusive U.S. partnership with NBCU featuring live coverage on Peacock. Look for more details on Nitro RX’s 2022-23 broadcast plans very soon.
Leading Nitro RX’s roster of commercial partners is innovative energy drink brand A SHOC Energy, who earlier this year announced a strategic alliance with Nitro RX’s parent company, Thrill One Sports & Entertainment. Foundational Nitro RX series partner Yokohama Tire is also set to return with more additions to the sponsorship roster to be announced.
Joe Carr, CEO of Thrill One Sports & Entertainment – Nitro RX’s parent company - says, “We’re thrilled to see Nitro Rallycross step onto the world stage and become a global motorsports property. Expanding to six countries, doubling the event calendar and running through the winter months shows the rising demand for this brand of high-adrenaline, fast-paced racing. We have exciting plans with broadcast and commercial partners that we look forward to sharing as anticipation builds for the 2022-23 season.”
2022–23 NITRO RALLYCROSS CHAMPIONSHIP SCHEDULE*
June 18-19, 2022 // England (Lydden Hill Race Circuit)
July 30-31, 2022 // Sweden
August 27-28, 2022 // Finland
October 1-2, 2022 // Minneapolis, USA
October 29-30, 2022 // Los Angeles, USA
November 12-13, 2022 // Phoenix, USA
December 10-11, 2022 // Saudi Arabia
January 21-22, 2023 // Quebec, Canada
February 4-5, 2023 // Alberta, Canada
March TBA, 2023 // Nitro RX 2022-23 Series Finale // TBA, USA
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Due to unforeseen circumstances the Island X Prix, the second race in Extreme E’s Season 2 calendar, has been postponed until July 2022.
The Island X Prix was scheduled to take place 7-8 May on an Italian military base in the Capo Teulada region in South-West Sardinia, however due to the current global events, the site is now required for training purposes.
In order to complete a five-race championship in 2022, Extreme E intends to host a double-header event in Sardinia during the week commencing 4 July 2022. The first event will take place on Wednesday 6 and Thursday 7 July, with the second on Saturday 9 and Sunday 10 July.
The remaining two events of Season 2 will see the Championship visit South America for the first time. The Copper X Prix in Antofagasta, Chile, will take place on a revised date of 24-25 September, with the Season Finale in Punta del Este, Uruguay, for the Energy X Prix on 26-27 November.
Alejandro Agag, CEO and Founder of Extreme E, said: “Of course it’s a shame to postpone our event, but we are a global series which operates in full cooperation with our hosts and these circumstances are outside of any of our control.
“We are working closely with our Sardinian hosts, along with our teams and our partners, on alternative plans and appreciate everyone’s flexibility as of course we are facing serious matters which must take priority and which put our situation into humble perspective.”
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Four-time Indy 500 winner Rick Mears was honored by the Road Racing Drivers Club in front of a capacity crowd at the April 7 RRDC Evening with Rick Mears Presented by Firestone. The audience included auto racing dignitaries, corporate executives and champion race-car drivers, and was held prior to the running of the 47th Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach at the Hilton Hotel.In attendance were representatives from the NTT INDYCAR SERIES, the IMSA WeatherTech Sports Car Championship and other vintage, amateur and semi-professional series.It was the RRDC's 12th annual banquet honoring auto racing's most influential leaders, and the organization is celebrating its 70th anniversary this year.Originally scheduled for 2020, the event was postponed for two years due to the pandemic.Previous honorees were Dan Gurney, Parnelli Jones, Roger Penske, Jim Hall, Brian Redman, Mario Andretti, Bobby Unser, George Follmer, Emerson Fittipaldi, Johnny Rutherford and David Hobbs. Andretti, Penske and Hall were in the audience to help recognize the newest member of this elite group.On behalf of Firestone Racing, which has been the presenting sponsor of the RRDC "Evenings" for 11 years, Lisa Boggs, Director, Bridgestone Americas Motorsports, said, “I guess the third time is really the charm. Rick is legendary. One of the best to ever pilot an Indy Car. But it’s really his grace and kindness to the fans and to everybody in the sport that sets him apart. That's what a legend really is."RRDC President Bobby Rahal recognized event sponsors Firestone, INDYCAR, Lexus Racing, Arrow McLaren SP, Doug Mockett & Company, Jimmy Vasser's V12 Vineyards, Jeff O'Neill's Robert Hall Winery, and Chris Locke's Checkered Past Productions.A short video written and voiced by Sam Posey, chronicled Mears' career and personality. "Outside the cockpit the quiet Californian drew little attention to himself and then in victory he was subdued – as if for him it was nothing exceptional. And It wasn’t," Posey narrated. "Roger Penske’s confidence in Rick was a testament to the kind of driver he was. All go and no show. After their first season together, Rick never drove for anyone else.""We tried to have this event two years ago, then one year ago," said Rahal. "And now we're here and I want to thank you all for staying the course, not just to come together tonight to honor Rick but also to have a great time amongst friends in the industry that we love so much and care so much about."I'm really pleased and appreciative that Rick didn’t get bored over the last three years and decided not to come. So, thanks, Rick."Rahal continued, "There's no question that Rick, aside from being a four-time Indy 500 champion, was clearly one of the greatest drivers in INDYCAR history. I am privileged to have counted Rick as one of my fellow competitors at the time and I’m really pleased that he’s here tonight to talk racing with all of us."Rahal then "interrogated" Mears on his dynamic career in the style of "Late Night with David Letterman," covering the gamut of Mears' racing history, including the challenges of switching from ovals to road courses, his recovery from his 1984 and 1992 crashes, his longtime and continuing association with Roger Penske, his life-changing decision to finally retire from racing, and 'life lesson's learned' from Bobby Unser.Roger Penske, for whom Mears drove from 1978-1992 and with whom he continues to this day as a member of Team Penske, joined Mears and Rahal on stage, talking about their successes, failures and enduring respect for each other.On receiving this recognition, Mears said, "I’m just honored, honored, honored. This is a great event for a great cause. Just to have all your friends, race friends and peers come together like this is just a great opportunity for me. I don’t know how to explain it; it's just a great feeling."As for the RRDC's third attempt to honor him, "The third time’s the charm," he said. "I’m glad everybody was persistent and came back. It’s a real racer’s deal all the way through."Featured on the patio during the cocktail reception sponsored by INDYCAR was the 1977 Porsche 934.5 which Bruce Canepa, Mears and Monte Shelton took to a podium finish in the 1979 Daytona 24 Hours. The Porsche resides in the Canepa Motorsports Museum in Scotts Valley, California.Auctioned off at the dinner was a selection of photos contributed by some of racing’s leading photographers -- all autographed by Mears -- as well as the massive Randy Owens stage banner, depicting the Gould Charge Special that Mears took to the first of his four Indy 500 wins in 1979 -- and the original artwork that Owens produced for the evening. Also included was a new hard-back edition of the Racemaker Press book, “Rick Mears -- Thanks,” signed by the author, Gordon Kirby, as well as Mears and Penske, a 1:18-scale collectable die-cast model of Mears' Indy 500 winner from 1979, plus original artwork from RACER Magazine's in-house artist Paul Laguette.The dinner's proceeds help support the RRDC's young driver initiatives, including its groundbreaking SAFEisFAST.com program, and the Team USA Scholarship, which the RRDC has backed since 1997.
Rick Mears Honored by RRDC at Long Beach
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Making his return to the Lucas Oil American Sprint Car Series presented by the MAVTV Motorsports Network, Arkansas' Tim Crawley will take the Ronnie Pitts Motorsports No. 1x on the road, but he's not the only Crawley chasing the National Tour, as his youngest son, Landon Crawley, will be competing side-by-side in 2022.
While family members have competed against each other at several events over the years, including siblings Zach and Stephanie Chappell going head-to-head on the National Tour, this marks the first time a Father and Son will be competing full-time with the Lucas Oil American Sprint Car Series.
On racing with/against his son, Tim chuckled a bit as he said, “You know, it’s something that’s just crept up on me. I didn’t see it coming, not really, but it’s progressed fast. It seems like it was just the other day that we were messing with Go-Karts, and now here we are attempting to run this thing together, but we’re all looking forward to it.”
With Tim in the No. 1x, Landon will be in the No. 187, of which Tim is the owner. Hard enough to run a single team, the two-car setup will be, according to Tim, the biggest challenge this season.
“The hardest part is simply going to come down to help. Even with what we’ve done racing together, I’ve got good help; it would just be good to have a couple more hands. When everything goes perfect, and we don’t have any problems with the cars, those nights aren’t too bad, but if either of us has a gremlin on a car, that loads us up.”
Tim is currently eighth in tour standings with four events contested. Landon is 14th and sits fourth in the Brodix National Rookie of the Year standings out of seven tour rookies.
For information and to keep up on both teams, Tim Crawley Racing is at https://www.facebook.com/ timcrawley88. Landon Crawley can be found at https://www.facebook.com/ LCRacingOnline.
The next outing for the Lucas Oil American Sprint Car Series will be Friday, April 22, at Salina Speedway (Salina, Kan.) and Saturday, April 23 at U.S. 36 Raceway (Osborn, Mo.).
The 2022 season will mark the 31st year of competition for the American Sprint Car Series. Spearheaded by the Lucas Oil American Sprint Car Series presented by the MAVTV Motorsports Network, the ASCS Nation includes Regional Tours that encompass both wing and non-wing competition.
For fans unable to attend, the series can be seen live on two platforms, with RaceOnTexas.com on FloRacing.com featuring National Tour events in tandem. Both are subscription-based sites. FloRacing.com is $20 per month, billed annually at $150 per year. RaceOnTexas.com All Access is $39.99 per month.
For other news, notes, and information on any of the tours under the ASCS banner, log onto http://www.ascsracing.com , follow on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter (@LucasOilASCS).
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