After breaking a bone in his left thumb performing a three-cone drill during the preseason, the Natick High senior quarterback was forced to sit out the first four weeks of the regular season. “After that, I think I settled in.”During his sophomore year at Natick, LeBlanc stepped in at quarterback when former Daily News All-Star Will Lederman was sidelined with an injury. “Terrific kid, tough as nails, plays multiple positions, doesn’t complain, leads by example, great in the classroom and is everything you want.”“Jake never gets tired,” Natick senior captain Jacob Scoeyink said. The Natick High senior quarterback, who grew up watching Troy Flutie play QB at Natick High, is just happy to be back out on the football field. “Loved having him back out here against Wellesley,” Natick senior captain Aaron Becker said.
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October 09, 2021 23:03 UTC
“Carlos showed great team spirit,” said Ferrari racing director Laurent Mekies. Hamilton’s team mate Valtteri Bottas starts on pole, with Hamilton’s title rival Max Verstappen alongside on the front row for Red Bull. [L1N2R508I]“I did the best I could to help him (Leclerc),” Sainz told reporters. Ricciardo won last month’s Italian Grand Prix with team mate Lando Norris second. “We are going to try to recover, we’re going to try to be aggressive tomorrow, we have to,” he said.
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October 09, 2021 18:56 UTC
VIENNA (Reuters) -Austria’s conservative Chancellor Sebastian Kurz resigned on Saturday to pull his coalition government back from the brink of collapse after the junior party demanded his head because he has been placed under investigation on suspicion of corruption. At the same time, his resignation is more a matter of form than substance in terms of policy. He added that he was proposing Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg, a career diplomat backed by Kurz’s party, take over as chancellor, whom the Greens soon made clear they accepted. Starting in 2016 when Kurz was seeking to take over as party leader, prosecutors suspect the conservative-led Finance Ministry paid for manipulated polling and coverage favourable to Kurz to be published in a newspaper. “Is it enough?” the leader of the liberal Neos party, Beate Meinl-Reisinger, said at a news conference reacting to Kurz’s announcement.
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October 09, 2021 18:13 UTC
BELLINGHAM — Coming into Friday night's game, the Bellingham High football team had one message it wanted to send to the rest of the Tri-Valley League. "We came into this game knowing that we were going to win," Bellingham wide receiver Calvin Polchlopek said. With the win, Bellingham improves to 3-2 overall and 1-0 in the TVL Small. "From the beginning of the week on Monday, I knew that we were going to win," Bellingham senior QB Gavin Elder said. After a statement win Friday night against previously unbeaten Dover-Sherborn, Bellingham isn't giving up its TVL Small crown without a fight.
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October 09, 2021 17:02 UTC
“Starting production is nice, but volume production is the hard part,” Musk told a cheering audience at a festival at the plant site, many of whom livestreamed the speech on social media. Musk said Tesla was worried that recruiting sufficient staff would be an issue, calling for people to apply from “all over Europe”. He said he hoped the battery plant would reach volume production by the end of next year. Fans cheered and laughed when Musk took the stage at sunset, welcoming him like a popstar. “The Tesla factory in Germany will be opened to the public for the first time.
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October 09, 2021 11:39 UTC
ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Pierre Gasly was fastest for AlphaTauri in a wet final practice for the Turkish Grand Prix, with Formula One championship leader Lewis Hamilton, who has a 10-place grid penalty for Sunday’s race, doing only five laps. Hamilton’s main title rival Max Verstappen, two points adrift of the Mercedes driver with seven races remaining, was second fastest for Red Bull with Mexican team mate Sergio Perez third. Gasly’s time of one minute 30.447 seconds compared to Hamilton’s best of 1:23.804 in dry conditions in Friday practice. Hamilton was 18th after a session at the Istanbul Park Circuit that was briefly red-flagged halfway through when the Briton’s future team mate George Russell beached his Williams in the gravel at turn two. The weather forecast for the session is mixed, with possible patches of rain.
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October 09, 2021 10:30 UTC
FRAMINGHAM — Framingham State University expects that 100% of its staff and students will be compliant with the COVID-19 vaccine mandate within a few weeks. As of Monday, 96.2% of FSU students have complied with the requirement, meaning they are either fully vaccinated or have received a religious or medical exemption. Worcester County COVID-19 vaccine tracker:61% of people fully vaccinated"Given the overall circumstances, we consider our vaccination effort to be very successful," Magazu told the Daily News. Seven hundred and ninety-eight staff members are fully vaccinated, while 15 employees have an exemption. Those who are fully vaccinated only need to test when experiencing symptoms or if they are identified as a close contact of someone who tested positive, said Magazu.
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October 09, 2021 09:00 UTC
In this Indian major infra firm, Larsen & Toubro (L&T) emerged as the lowest contender in three packages, i.e., UG-03, UG-04, UG-05 of the Chennai Metro Phase-02 project. Packages Larsen & Toubro (L&T) Financial Bids Tata Projects Ltd. (TPL) Financial Bids UG-03 (KMC to Royapettah) Rs. 1872 Crores Rs. 1945 Crores Rs. 1062 Crores Rs.
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October 09, 2021 06:45 UTC
(Reuters) -After reuniting with his stinky shoes and wedding ring, Andy Murray was back in business as the former world number one sealed a comfortable 6-3 6-2 win over Frenchman Adrian Mannarino in the first round of the Indian Wells tournament on Friday. Murray was the talk of social media https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/sports/murray-makes-online-plea-help-find-stolen-wedding-ring-2021-10-07 this week as he asked for fans’ help in finding his items that went missing after training for the event in the California desert. The Briton was happy with his performance, firing five aces and striking 19 winners to secure his first victory at the Indian Wells since 2016, but said the missing items dilemma before the match nearly pushed him to contact the police. “I spoke to the lost and found at the hotel… they said they’d found nothing. “I was going to file a police report to try to get them back or increase my chance of getting them back.
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October 09, 2021 05:38 UTC
SHREWSBURY — Two years ago, Algonquin sophomore Caroline Kelly was a part of what ended up being the last ever Division 1 Central girls soccer sectional champions. Now a senior captain, she is trying to lead Algonquin to a deep playoff run in the new statewide tournament. In the second half, clinging to a one-goal lead, Algonquin had some chances. Early in the second half, Algonquin nearly extended its lead when a shot from Kelly went over the crossbar but under the football goal post. More:The top two returning local high school girls soccer players entering this fall"She is a super technical player, she's really quick," Clifford said.
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October 08, 2021 15:22 UTC
1968; from Kwame Brathwaite: Black Is Beautiful (Aperture, 2019). Perhaps no one is more responsible for that than New York City-based photographer Kwame Brathwaite. It was a rejection of the Ebony and Jet “Beauty of the Week” ideal of how Black beauty should be characterized. On Friday, the Detroit Institute of Arts opens a new exhibition Black Is Beautiful: The Photography of Kwame Brathwaite to the public. 1966; from Kwame Brathwaite: Black Is Beautiful (Aperture, 2019).
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October 08, 2021 15:11 UTC
17 Ole Miss Rebels (3-1, 0-1) Saturday at Vaught-Hemingway Stadium in Oxford, Miss. Below, we look at the Arkansas vs. Ole Miss odds and lines, and make our expert college football picks, predictions and bets. Arkansas at Ole Miss odds, spread and linesOdds provided by Tipico Sportsbook; access USA TODAY Sports' betting odds for a full list. Money line: Arkansas +175 (bet $100 to win $175) | Ole Miss -220 (bet $220 to win $100)Arkansas +175 (bet $100 to win $175) | Ole Miss -220 (bet $220 to win $100) Against the spread (ATS): Arkansas +5.5 (-108) | Ole Miss -5.5 (-112)Arkansas +5.5 (-108) | Ole Miss -5.5 (-112) Over/Under (O/U): 66.5 (O: -117 | U: -103)PLAY: Free, daily sports pick'em contests.Play now! Arkansas at Ole Miss odds, lines, picks and predictionsPredictionOle Miss 41, Arkansas 31Ole Miss (-220) will cost you more than two times your potential return, and that's just a little too expensive for my liking.
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October 08, 2021 14:03 UTC
But there were signs of labor market tightness. The unemployment rate of 4.8% was down four-tenths of percentage point from August, while average hourly earnings increased 0.6% from 0.4% in August. But with COVID-19 infections decreasing and schools fully reopened for in-person learning, more people should be able to rejoin the labor force. The smaller household survey from which the unemployment rate is derived showed 183,000 people left the labor force in September. Even though participation remains low, some aspects of the labor market are improving.
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October 08, 2021 14:02 UTC
BENGALURU (Reuters) -India’s Tata Consultancy Services Ltd topped quarterly profit estimates on Friday, boosted by growth in its key banking and financial services segment and a strong demand for digital services during the COVID-19 pandemic. The Mumbai-based company’s consolidated net profit rose 29% to 96.24 billion rupees ($1.28 billion) in the three months to Sept. 30, from 74.75 billion rupees a year earlier. Analysts on average had expected a profit of 96.01 billion rupees, according to Refinitiv data. Consolidated revenue from operations jumped 16.8% to 468.67 billion rupees, with the company’s banking and finance industries-focused unit posting a 14.3% rise compared with a year earlier. TCS said it added five more customers in the $100 million-plus range in the quarter compared with a year earlier, bringing the total to 54.
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October 08, 2021 13:30 UTC
One of my current classes is a course on plastics pollution, which has been very eye opening to me. If you already produce some of the materials, it is easier to produce plastic, and if you produce plastic, it’s beneficial to produce the materials needed. And plastic pollution should also be considered pollution caused by fossil fuels. Plastic pollution isn’t just where it ends up. From its creation to its disposal, plastic pollutes.
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October 08, 2021 13:07 UTC