337 jili Schneider Expands Its Fleet: $390 Million Cowan Systems Deal Supercharges Dedicated ServicesManchester City suffered a humiliating 4-0 defeat at home to Tottenham Hotspur , marking their fifth consecutive loss and plunging their season into crisis. The defeat, City ‘s worst home loss since 2003, has left them eight points behind league leaders Liverpool. The team’s struggles have been exacerbated by the absence of key midfielder Rodri, who is out for the remainder of the season with a knee injury. The defeat leaves City in a precarious position, potentially falling eight points behind Liverpool if the league leaders win at Southampton on Sunday. Adding to the challenge, City faces a daunting trip to Anfield next week. Tottenham took control early, with James Maddison netting twice in just seven minutes during the first half. Pedro Porro added to City’s misery with a strike against his former club, while Brennan Johnson’s late goal sealed the comprehensive victory. This loss is City’s first home defeat from open play since just before the 2022 World Cup, leaving them five points behind leaders Liverpool, who have a game in hand. Despite City’s current struggles, Guardiola recently extended his contract until 2027, committing to reversing the club’s fortunes amid the worst form of his career. “This is a situation we’ve never experienced in my eight years here,” said Guardiola, who joined City in 2016. “We have to face it and break the cycle by winning the next games, starting with the upcoming one. We may see things differently in a few weeks.” Before kick-off, City fans celebrated Rodri’s Ballon d’Or award with a dramatic firelight display, as the midfielder’s name lit up across the Etihad pitch. However, Rodri, who sustained a knee ligament injury in September, remains sidelined for the rest of the season, a significant blow that has contributed to City’s struggles. Despite starting the match strongly, with Guglielmo Vicario denying Erling Haaland twice early on, City faltered when Tottenham launched their first major attack. In the 13th minute, Dejan Kulusevski delivered a pinpoint cross to Maddison, who calmly slotted home. Guardiola acknowledged his team’s vulnerability: “Right now, we are fragile defensively. We started well, as we often do, but couldn’t find the net, and then we conceded. After that, it was difficult for us emotionally.” City’s hopes of a fifth straight Premier League title now hang in the balance as they face a crucial period in the weeks ahead.

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Ohio State is getting close to full strength and is looking forward to a final non-conference foe before diving into its Big Ten schedule. The Buckeyes (8-4) host Indiana State (8-4) on Sunday afternoon in Columbus, Ohio, with another opportunity to get valuable minutes for center Aaron Bradshaw. Bradshaw, who transferred from Kentucky after his freshman year last season, missed seven games while Ohio State investigated an alleged domestic incident at his off-campus apartment. He made his first five shots and finished with 11 points in 18 minutes during the Buckeyes' 85-65 rout of then-No. 4 Kentucky on Dec. 21. "Aaron plays with an intensity and a passion that I thought we missed," Buckeyes coach Jake Diebler said Friday. "And certainly, his size (7-foot-1), rebounding ability, his ability to protect the rim, all of those things were certainly missed. "I'm not going to lie. I didn't anticipate he was going to go 5 for 6 but that spoke to his focus the last couple of weeks to get back out there." While Ohio State was battling the storied Kentucky program, Indiana State was posting a 101-53 win over the University of Health Sciences & Pharmacy. The Sycamores open Missouri Valley Conference play next week. To say it's a giant leap to play Ohio State for the first time in program history is an understatement. "I'm definitely excited. I know the team is super excited because we all think we can play at that level," Indiana State guard Jahni Summers said. "We all know we can play at that level. It will be a big game for us, a huge challenge for sure." The Sycamores are led by Samage Teel, who is averaging 17.5 points per game while shooting 58.2 percent from the field. He also leads the team with 4.3 assists per game. Indiana State has won five in a row and has scored at least 80 points in each of the past six games. Diebler said the Buckeyes need to move past the win over Kentucky. "We know what's coming up here, certainly starting off with a really good Indiana State team," he said. --Field Level Media

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The executive director of the Manitoba Teachers’ Society is the latest to join a wave of senior managers submitting resignations to the embattled union’s headquarters on Portage Avenue. There are about 70 support and administrative employees who do everything from negotiating teacher contracts to planning professional development for the union’s 16,600 public school teachers. Danielle Fullan Kolton — who has overseen those daily operations since 2020 — will not return to her post after an extended medical leave that began more than 13 months ago. Fullan Kolton, as well as chief financial officer Kim Kummen and Cheryl Chuckry, a former teacher who has spent recent years in various union leadership positions, have announced they are pursuing other professional opportunities in recent weeks, the Free Press has learned. In a memo to staff members Monday, Fullan Kolton described the last year as “deeply transformative,” citing a number of personal health challenges, including multiple surgeries. “These experiences have profoundly impacted me and my family — emotionally and physically — testing our resilience in ways we never anticipated. This journey has led me to reevaluate my priorities and place greater emphasis on the wellbeing of myself and my loved ones,” she wrote, before signing off with her initials and internal nickname, “DFK.” Since 2013, she has worked in various roles at MTS, including education research analyst, staff officer, department head of professional and French language services and assistant general secretary. There have been two different interim executive directors since Fullan Kolton took a leave from her current position in November 2023; Glen Anderson was the latest to be appointed to the position indefinitely. Meantime, union president Nathan Martindale announced Friday that he will not seek re-election when his first term is finished in the spring. Martindale took to social media to explain the decision, which he said was made to support his family. The elected leader said he admired Fullan Kolton, his counterpart on the non-partisan side of the union, for her “unwavering poise and grace under pressure” in a mass email about her departure. The high-profile exits are taking place amid a third-party probe into workplace culture, harassment and morale concerns raised by employees represented by Teamsters Local Union 979. MTS hired Richter Consulting to do a “workplace assessment” at the start of the school year. The contract was announced about a year after Teamsters presented the damning findings of a membership survey with a roughly 65 per cent response rate. At the time, the majority of participants said they had a negative perception of the psychological health and safety of their office, and there was a notable absence of trust and confidence in the senior management team. Teamsters has filed at least a dozen grievances related to what a national spokesman called a “toxic work environment” at the public-sector union whose annual member fees currently total $1,228. Fullan Kolton has not replied to requests for comment on the subject.

TAIPEI: A Chinese film set during the COVID-19 pandemic won the top prizes in Taiwan's prestigious Golden Horse Awards, which saw the highest number of entries from China in recent years despite political tensions. Beijing banned its entertainers from joining Golden Horse - dubbed the Chinese-language "Oscars" - in 2019 after a Taiwanese director voiced support for the island's independence in an acceptance speech in 2018. China claims Taiwan as part of its territory, which the Taipei government rejects, and Chinese A-listers and big commercial productions have largely avoided the event ever since. Despite the sensitivity of the awards, more than 200 Chinese films entered this year's competition, which Taiwan's Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) said was the highest number in "recent years". Acclaimed Chinese filmmaker Lou Ye was awarded best director late Saturday (Nov 23) night for his docu-drama "An Unfinished Film", which was also named best picture. Lou was absent from the ceremony but his wife Ma Yingli read his acceptance speech, describing the film set during China's lockdown of Wuhan in the earliest stages of the pandemic as "the most special directing job I have ever done". Chinese actor Zhang Zhiyong, who also did not attend the awards, won best actor for his performance in Chinese director Geng Jun's same-sex drama "Bel Ami". Hong Kong's Chung Suet-ying was named best actress for her role in "The Way We Talk", which is about the deaf community. Neither "Bel Ami" nor "An Unfinished Film" has been released in China. Ahead of the awards, MAC spokesman Liang Wen-chieh told reporters that these films "may not be able to be screened in mainland China, but they still hope to have a free platform to participate and express themselves". "We welcome (them) very much," he said. "WORK OF CONSCIENCE" After several years absence, Chinese stars began trickling back to the awards in Taipei last year, with actress Hu Ling the first to grace the red carpet since the ban. On Saturday, Geng Jun and some of his cast were among the few Chinese entertainers to join stars and filmmakers from around the region, including Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore and Japan, on the red carpet. While Geng missed out on best director and best picture, his film "Bel Ami" won the awards for best cinematography and best film editing. Despite political tensions, Golden Horse remained a stage for independent Chinese films that have no distribution space on the mainland, Taiwanese film critic Wonder Weng told AFP. "This spirit remains unchanged. I think the Golden Horse Awards have always insisted on being the benchmark" that is open to all subjects, said Weng, who is a board member of Taiwan Film Critics Society. Weng said "An Unfinished Film" by Lou, who has previously taken on forbidden subjects such as gay sex and the 1989 Tiananmen protests, was "a work of conscience". Lou's latest offering is about a film crew trying to resume shooting a movie during the Covid-19 pandemic in Wuhan, as the city was placed in an unprecedented lockdown. "Lou put images that are banned or blocked into his work and reminds us that there is a director who is willing to preserve historical images for us to see ... and let us know there is a different voice," Weng said.At the final rounds of the Iowa High School State Football Playoffs, the Siouxland area schools proved that the true meaning of the sport goes beyond the 48 minutes spent on the gridiron. Whether it was Remsen St. Mary’s and West Lyon clinching a state title, Spirit Lake finishing runner-up or Sergeant Bluff-Luton and Hinton falling in the semifinals, the game means the same no matter the stage or the outcome. Not just to the players, who some may have strapped their helmets for the final time, but to the communities that traveled hours to the UNI-Dome. We see the final scores, the individual record setting performances and the teams walking around with a trophy to be displayed back at their respective schools. But what often goes unnoticed, is the bond and lessons that football offers to these young men, that some are not as fortunate to experience. This thought first came to me when speaking with Spirit Lake quarterback Caden Lundt after the team’s loss to West Lyon in the Class2A title game. Not even 30 minutes after possibly playing his last football game ever, the senior leader was brutally honest about what really mattered to him. “You build a lot of relationships throughout the year with a lot of guys that you didn’t think you were going to be close with,” Lundt said. “Those are sometimes the ones that hurt the most to lose. You think about the people that you didn’t really associate with before football and then during football you just become great friends with them. I have been with friends with [Dylan Stecker and Sam Henrickson] for a while so I will stay friends with them. But I might never interact with some of those people again, and that is what stings.” Henrickson, a fellow senior, backed his friends’ thoughts. “We might never all be together again like that,” Henrickson said. “It just stings a lot thinking you might never hang out with those group of guys once again.” This is what makes sports, more specifically football, so special. At a young age, these kids have learned what it is like to put differences and cliques aside for one common goal, to make all the hard work pay off. All of the 5 a.m. workouts, sacrificing time from families and other sports is all worth it when you and your teammates get to the brightest stage. While Spirit Lake may not have left Cedar Falls with a title, the team did get to experience something the other four Siouxland schools received. Total buy in from their respective communities. Whether the stands at the dome were covered in red, blue, yellow, or orange the team recognized the support by their communities who had been behind them all season. “They keep us going,” Remsen St. Mary’s quarterback Landon Waldschmitt said. “They really do.” “It is a great feeling to kind of get our name on the map,” Remsen St. Mary’s running back Keaton Harpenau said. “Showing this state what Remsen St. Mary football is all about.” Through the community support and the brotherhoods created from the sport, what should not get lost from any team no matter where they finished is the work it takes to perform every week. In one of the most demanding sports there is, kids from the Siouxland area learn each week that in order to achieve anything, you are going to need to put in the work. A lesson that will stick with them for the rest of their lives. Few teams get to experience the highs of a state championships, and the ones that do don’t take it for granted. “We have come so far and this is the right way to end our football careers,” Remsen St. Mary’s senior Collin Homan said. “Everything was worth it,” Waldschmitt said. “I just couldn’t imagine doing it with another group of guys.” “Just to know that they can come together in that moment and to finish it just means a lot that these kids got to do that,” Remsen St. Mary’s head coach Tim Osterman said. “They mean a lot to me, as every group does, but this is really cool that they got to finish this way.” I believe in my first season of covering high school football, I learned what the sport means to those that suit up under the lights of their hometown. The relationships, the triumphs, the defeats and all the hours spent working as a team lead to moments that shape who these young men will become. Fall is a special time in Iowa for many reasons, and I’m not just talking about it being the last few months of tolerable weather conditions. It brings us a sport that communities rally around, owning multiple days of our weekend, and allows students to represent their town with pride and learn what it is like to be a team. No matter the outcome of any game, football brings people together.

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