Denny Hamlins confidence in competing for the NASCAR Cup Series championship remains high despite giving up a chance to compete for the win at Kansas Speedway.

On lap 180 of the Hollywood Casino 400, Hamlin was forced to pit under the green flag after hitting the wall off Turn 4. The damage was severe enough to require right-side tires and his Joe Gibbs Racing team to give care to the right-rear fender. But in doing so, it knocked Hamlin off the lead lap and back into the 28th position.

Fortunately, Hamlin and crew chief Chris Gabehart were correct thinking that the race would see more cautions before the checkered flag. After missing out on the free pass to teammate Erik Jones, Hamlin took the wave around under the lap 199 caution, and the final caution on lap 222 allowed him to further make headway through the field. He finished 15th.

Obviously, we damaged the car, and at these tracks, you cant have any damage on the car, Hamlin said. I was fortunate to get a couple cautions there to get us back on the lead lap. That was as far as I could go with the damage that I had; it just hurt the FedEx Camry so bad.

To finish 15th with that damage, that was the best we could probably hope for. Still, definitely had a race-winning car today. Just threw it in the fence.

Hamlin, who had a two-race winning streak going at Kansas, won the second stage Sunday afternoon and led 58 laps. It was the second-most laps led behind Kevin Harvicks 85.

With two races left in the Round of 8, Hamlin is 20 points above the cutline.

We can win every week, he said of his outlook. Every week, were up front. I think we can win next week. We can win the week after that, and we can win the week after that. Not too worried about having to go out there and win because I know we can do it.

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WASHINGTON -- A small but potentially significant group of voters say they remain truly undecided less than three weeks before the Nov. 3 election.

They have been derided as uninformed or lying by those who cannot fathom still being undecided, but conversations with a sampling of these voters reveal a complicated tug of war.

Many, like Amanda Jaronowski, are longtime Republicans who say they're wrestling with what they see as a choice between a Democrat whose policies they cannot stomach and a Republican incumbent whose personality revolts them. Some voted for third-party candidates in 2016 because they were repelled by their choices -- Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton -- and they're thinking of doing so again.

Jaronowski, of suburban Cleveland, supports Trump's policies and fears her business could be gutted if Democrat Joe Biden is elected.

But she says she abhors Trump personally, leaving her on the fence about who will get her vote.

It's a "moral dilemma," Jaronowski said as she paced her home one recent evening after pouring a glass of sauvignon blanc.

"It would be so easy for him [Trump] to win my vote if he could just be a decent human being," she had said earlier during a focus group session.

While polls show there are far fewer on-the-fence voters this year than the unusually high number in 2016, the Trump and Biden campaigns each believe they still can win over numbers that matter.

John Welton, 40, a Presbyterian minister from Winfield, Kan., who has spent much of his career moving from parish to parish, is also undecided. His political views, he said, have been shaped in part by watching how trade deals have hurt once-vibrant manufacturing communities and his congregants' livelihoods, as well as by his own "pro-Second Amendment" views.

Welton said he is turned off by Biden's support for tighter gun restrictions. But he said he is also put off by Trump's bullying and demeaning of opponents on Twitter and his divisive rhetoric.

On the other hand, Welton said he has been pleasantly surprised that Trump has made good on his campaign pledge to bring U.S. troops home from Iraq and Afghanistan, though thousands still remain.

In 2016, Welton ended up voting for Clinton, but barely. He circled the block at his polling place before making a decision. This year, he's hoping a second debate between Trump and Biden will offer him some clarity.

"I remain pretty swayable," he said.

Cathy Badalamenti, 69, an independent from Lombard, Ill., is also struggling with her vote once again. In 2016, she voted for a third-party candidate after twice supporting Democrat Barack Obama.

"I'm not happy with anybody," she said of her choices this time. She said that's especially hard in a family of ardent Trump supporters who have balked at her indecision.

"Believe me, my son, my kids are looking at me and thinking, 'How can you not like Trump?'" she said, describing difficult Sunday night dinners in which she tries to redirect the conversation from politics to the Cubs.

Badalamenti credits Trump for a booming economy before the pandemic, but she said she's turned off by his knee-jerk reactions, worried about his interactions with world leaders, and feeling that he should think more before he speaks and tweets.

Biden worries her, too: "I think he's trying to make a good effort, but at the same time he doesn't know what's -- he's only being told what's going on."

'DIFFERENT ATTRIBUTES'

Longtime Republican pollster Frank Luntz, who has been running focus groups with undecided voters throughout the election campaign, including one Thursday night that included Jaronowski, sees a common refrain among many of the undecideds.

"They're judging on two completely different attributes, and they can't decide which is more important to them," he said. "They don't like Trump as a person, but they don't feel badly about his administration or his policies. They really like Joe Biden as a person, but they are so nervous about what he's going to do if he were elected. And so they can't figure out which is more important to them."

With two historically unpopular candidates, the 2016 race produced unusually large numbers of voters -- double digits on the eve of the election -- who told pollsters they were either undecided or planned to vote for third-party candidates. Many of those voters rallied around Trump in the final weeks of the campaign, helping to hand him his victory.

Polls suggest there are far fewer on-the-fence voters this time around, but both campaigns believe they have the edge in an election where every vote could count.

"Frankly, I like our chances with them because President Trump has delivered results," said Nick Trainer, Trump's director of battleground strategy. He said that just like in 2016, those who identify as undecided tend to be right-leaning and support conservative policies such as lower taxes and a strong military.

Biden's campaign, which is ahead in polls nationally and in a number of battleground states, voices similar optimism and argues that those who are undecided historically break for the challenger.

Having so few undecided voters to move "is problematic if your candidate is not leading," said Becca Siegel, the Biden campaign's chief analytics officer. She adds that the campaign's focus on unity and bringing the country together is "extremely persuasive to this group."

The Biden campaign has hope of winning over people like Jaronowski, a guidance counselor who comes from a family of lifelong Republicans.

Jaronowski, 37, who lives in Independence, Ohio, said she ended up supporting Clinton in 2016. Jaronowski said she was repulsed by Trump, who she said she hates "with the fire of a thousand suns." But it was hard nonetheless, she said.

This year, though she opposes Democratic policies, she said she has deep respect for Biden, whom she calls "a very good man."

But she and her husband own a consumer debt-buying company and fear that a President Biden could cancel that debt, which amounts to tens of millions of dollars.

"Voting in Biden, that's a very scary thing personally," she said, adding that the decision would be far easier if she didn't think he was such a good person.

Others are making their own calculations.

Sam Hillyer, 35, an Arkansan who lives in Fayetteville, voted for third-party candidate Gary Johnson in 2016.

This time, he said, "it's down to either Donald Trump; Jo Jorgensen, the Libertarian candidate; or possibly not voting in the presidential and voting for the other candidates." Hillyer, a dispatcher for a trucking company, has written off Biden, convinced that the Democrat would raise taxes and take a more interventionist approach to foreign policy. And, he said, it "doesn't help with all the new kind of shady scandals popping up."

Hillyer said he closely aligns with Jorgensen on most issues but rejects the candidate's support for abortion rights.

Living in a strongly Republican state, he said, gives him more freedom than if he lived in a battleground state with electoral votes that are up for grabs, in which case he would vote for Trump without hesitation to try to stop Biden.

For now, he said, "I go back and forth maybe a couple times a day."

In this Thursday, Oct. 16, 2020, photo undecided voter Rebecca Westrate poses for a photo at her home in Round Lake, Ill. Four years ago, undecided voters late support for Donald Trump helped push him to victory. While there are fewer on-the-fence voters this time around, a small but potentially significant group say they remain truly undecided less than three weeks before the November 3 election. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)

This Friday, Oct. 16, 2020, image provided Amanda Jaronowski shows her in Cleveland, Ohio. The lifelong Republican who lives in the suburbs of Cleveland supports the president's policies and fears her business could be gutted if Democrat Joe Biden wins in November. But she abhors Donald Trump personally, leaving her on the fence. (Joy Lewis Photography via AP)

In this Saturday, Oct. 17, 2020, photo Cathy Badalamenti poses for a portrait in her Lombard, Ill., home. Badalamenti has also struggled with her vote once again. In 2016, the Independent eschewed both Trump and Clinton and voted for a third-party candidate, despite having voting twice for former president Barack Obama. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

In this Friday, Oct. 16, 2020, photo undecided voter Tracye Stewart holds her official Virginia ballot in her office in Richmond, Va., Friday Oct. 16, 2020. Stewart, who voted for Donald Trump in 2016, said that shes more ideologically in line with Trump than Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden. But her regular, and sometimes tearful, conversations with a friend shes known since 3rd grade has given her pause. Stewarts ballot remains on her desk at home unfilled. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)

This Friday, Oct. 16, 2020, image provided Amanda Jaronowski shows her in Cleveland, Ohio. Jaronowski is part of a small but potentially significant group of voters who say they remain truly undecided less than three weeks before the November 3 election. (Joy Lewis Photography via AP)

In this Saturday, Oct. 17, 2020, photo Cathy Badalamenti poses for a portrait at in her Lombard, Ill., home. Badalamenti has also struggled with her vote once again. In 2016, the Independent eschewed both Trump and Clinton and voted for a third-party candidate, despite having voting twice for former president Barack Obama. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

In this Thursday, Oct. 16, 2020, photo undecided voter Rebecca Westrate poses for a photo at her home in Round Lake, Ill. Four years ago, undecided voters late support for Donald Trump helped push him to victory. While there are fewer on-the-fence voters this time around, a small but potentially significant group say they remain truly undecided less than three weeks before the November 3 election. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)

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DetailsCategory: Local NewsPublished: Tuesday, 20 October 2020 10:07Written by Leah Murray

RCMP issuing a reminder to drivers to adjust their driving habits for the season.

Mounties were called this morning after a vehicle lost control on Yankee Valley Boulevard and crashed through a concrete fence and into a house on the Eastside of the City.

No injuries were reported and RCMP dont believe impairment was a factor in the crash.

Its believed ice and snow on the road likely contributed to the driver of the small SUV losing control. There's no estimate on how much damage was done to the property or an estimate onthe cost for repairs at this time.

Following a very abrupt end to fall and start to winter-like conditions this past weekend, many drivers were caught unprepared. Auto mechanic shops around Airdrie are booked up with appointments for people looking to switch over to their winter tires. The snow and ice and near 0 temperatures can make the roads extremely slippery asthe melting snow and ice freezes and thaws.

RCMP are reminding drivers to slow down as winter driving conditions are in effect and to adjust their estimated travel times accordingly.

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The long-running dispute over the wrought iron Westlinks golf coursefencemay end with nofenceat all, much to the chagrin of Overland Park neighbors whose homes abut the course.

The city councils Community Development Committee took up the controversy which has been brewing since 2013 once again Wednesday night and ended with a recommendation that the fence be torn out.

Neighbors have been pushing to have the deteriorating fence replaced with a similar-looking, 5-foot black powder-coated steel fence. They have said that type of fence would maintain their property value and the looks of the course.

In the past, council members have discussed the possibility of replacing the steel fence with a chain-link one, or even essentially gifting a new fence and its ongoing maintenance to homeowners by putting it on their side of the property lines.

However those previously-rejected options were not on the table at the Wednesday meeting. Committee members entertained the idea of putting a steel fence up on the city-owned golf course property over the period of several years and paying for it out of golf course revenue. But that motion was voted down. Instead, committee members voted to accept the staff recommendation that no fence is needed.

Cost was the main stumbling block for the four-member majority who voted to do away with the fence. Informal estimates put the steel fence at $355,000 to $450,000.

I am not in good conscience able to pay for a half a million dollarfencefrom the general fund in the middle of a pandemic. I dont feel that is good use of taxpayer money, said Councilmember Holly Grummert. She also objected to paying it out of user fees from the golf course fund because it would cause delays in the long list of other maintenance needed.

Chairman Curt Skoog and Councilmembers Chris Newlin and Tom Carignan also voted against thefencereplacement. At the end of the day, when staff is saying they dont need afenceI just cannot support replacing thefence, Skoog said.

Golf course neighbors have campaigned hard for replacement, saying that they bought their homes with the understanding that the fence would remain. Their position is based on the history of the course.

The nine-hole Westlinks course is an island that is considered part of the Sykes/Lady Golf Course near 125th Street and Quivira Road but is across the street. When it was built in 1984, the developer paid part of the cost of the ironfence, then gradually deeded the course back to the city.

Neighbors in the nearby Nottingham by the Green subdivision have complained that the city should have done better at maintaining thefence. They have opposed chain link as an inferior replacement, but have also been against removal of thefencebecause their back yards would become unprotected and are too close to cart paths. The idea of a replacementfenceon their own land also was a no-go because it would interfere with landscaping and otherfenceconnections.

Im hopeful that in your consideration you will look at that history and the understanding that the homeowners have had for over 25 years, said neighbor Eleanor Snookie Krumbiegel. Were hopeful this will have a good result for us and this can be put to rest.

Council members Stacie Gram and Faris Farassati supported thefencereplacement, with funding flexible from the golf fund, possibly over a few years.

To me it comes down to the issue of fairness, Gram said. Do I want to fund thisfenceright now under our current economic conditions? No. But I think its fair to do so.

There was a promise made to these neighbors when that development was put together and I think that makes it different, she said.

Farassati said the idea was a good balance between the city and the homeowners needs. Eventually the economy will improve and more people will return to a course that is an amenity and revenue source for the city, he said. Its the best solution we have had so far.

Thefenceis now headed for discussion by the full city council.

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The construction of the new fence on the Greek-Turkish border in Evros was the least the government could do to make Greek citizens feel safe who are keeping the countrys morale high at such a difficult moment, Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis underlined during his visit to Evros over the weekend.

In March this year, Turkey attempted to asymmetrically invade Greece with the use of tens of thousands of illegal immigrants from Africa, Afghanistan and Pakistan. Turkey had not only falsely told the illegal immigrants that Greeces borders were open, but it also facilitated the transportation of the illegal immigrants and utilized their army to try and tear down Greeces border wall. This damage is currently being repaired.

From February 28 to August 3 this year,over 60,000 illegal immigrants were prevented from entering Greece from the Evros areaon the Greek-Turkish border region.

According toSKAI, many of the illegal immigrants arrested by authorities were seeking political asylum in Greece, claiming they were government officials in Turkey and opponents of the Erdoan government.

The border fence project has a total budget of 62.9 million. It will have a total length of 27 kilometres and eight elevated observatories will be constructed to be used by the Hellenic Army. Moreover, the existing fence will be reinforced with a steel railing measuring 4.3 meters in height, instead of the current 3.5 meters.

The Greek PM noted that the work is advancing rapidly, adding that the project will be completed in April 2021 as planned.

He also had the opportunity to speak to some of the border guards. We would like to thank you for the states support in this difficult task that we have been doing for many years: for the new hiring of colleagues after 18 years. It is really great support for us, said the representative of the border guards, Panagiotis Harelas to the Prime Minister.

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Last weekend was a 3-day-one for federal employees. Because Monday was a bank holiday. Yet it seems that this doesnt go for everybody employed by the United States Postal Service (USPS). I saw several USPS vehicles in different parts of the region on Sunday. And my heart went out to their drivers because here I was headed for lunch and their family had to have Sunday lunch without them.

On Tuesday, I headed for the Lakewood post office shortly after lunch. I wanted to mail a calendar that one of my readers had won in a give-away activity on my public Facebook page. And a handwritten letter to my father, who is currently recovering from surgery in a German sanitorium. There was a line in the lobby of the postal office that reached to the doors. No way would that deter my determination to send off the gift or the letter.

It was a very interesting experience to stand in that line. Normally, Id have expected some annoyed commenting. But this time, everybody was strangely quiet. People kept their distance, and all wore masks. If somebody needed help, such as being pointed to the mailbox, they were accommodated. Inside the business area, there was laughter at the counters. The employees treated every customer with kindness and patience, interspersed with good humor. And getting some very pretty, new Forever stamps added to my pleasant experience.

What was interesting to me was that the one bank holiday had such an impact on the frequency of the post office. It was as if everybody had had the same idea of packing boxes and writing letters over the weekend. And, of course, a lot couldnt be mailed off on Monday. Well, I might want to avoid Mondays and Fridays as well as days after a holiday in the future in order to avoid standing in a line especially in Covid times. But these postal employees cant. They will be seeing these lines every Monday, Friday, and day after a holiday. And this is only their receiving end.

The delivery end is what I saw last Sunday. If there is an extra-load of boxes and envelopes, these people are out on the road even when they should have their day off. Tuesday started off with some thunderstorm from hell, heavy rain, and wind gusts that were ripping off big branches from trees. Did this deter the postal employees from delivering our mail? No. Because they keep doing their work rain or shine, in blistering summer heat, during wet storms, and in bitingly cold weather. When their load is extra-big, they deliver until their work is done. Shortly before I started writing this article, I found somebody on Facebook reporting from Steilacoom that their mail had been delivered around 1930 h on Tuesday. I keep thinking that by that time, I had had a cozy dinner with my husband already, and was chatting with him over a glass of wine very leisurely. And some postal employee was still out there doing their job!

The holiday season is coming up. Ill be sending out a whole lot of cards and Christmas gifts in a while. Postal lines will be insanely long, as everybody will be doing the same. Maybe even more than ever, in Covid times, as letters and gifts are a sign that we care about our loved ones who are far away, whom we may not even be able to visit. I should hope that we remember that postal employees are at the receiving end when we bring them our load. We are sending out loving thoughts to our loved ones dont let us do it with impatience or anger against the postal employees, who are trying to keep ahead of the constant flow of mail. And lets wait graciously for our mail if we have to wait. We are in the coziness of our homes while somebody out there is fighting the elements and foregoes the comfort of a family meal to deliver their task.

There are countless other essential workers out there who do theirs so we are seen to in our needs and whims. They have the same needs and whims as we, only theirs might get seen to later. If at all. If we put ourselves into their shoes, we can make their world a little friendlier, too. Even if there is a long line between them and us.

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A senior director in the public works department admits: In terms of war, we are fragile

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19 October 2020 - 18:07 Tom Eaton

Throwing an entire ministry under the bus is difficult at the best of times, but for senior members of the ANC it comes with an almost impossibly long list of challenges: asking taxi bosses for permission to appear in public next to a bus, finding a bus, extinguishing it ...

And thats before the inevitable tender process for identifying the company that will do the actual throwing, usually a catering firm created eight days earlier whose postal address is a wheelie-bin in an abandoned lot apparently owned by two people, one of whom died in 1968, while the other was born last Wednesday.

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Submitted by Susanne Bacon.

Though Ive never been really bad at most of it, I rarely developed a passion for any kind of work-out. As a kid, I was on a treck and field athletics team for about a year. Then I tried myself at gymnastics I felt awkward about the trainer. Then I had a stint at the aero wheel indeed, I was good. Though I didnt do ALL the tricks they show in this little video:

But I was that good that they wanted to train me for championships. It would have meant that my family would have spent their weekends on the road, driving me around. So that didnt happen. It didnt make me upset. Sometimes things just dont happen in life.

School swimming classes started in third grade. I couldnt swim, so my parents flash-taught me at a local swimming pool during the one-week fall vacation that year. We went every day. By the end of the week I was a swimmer. I never was fast, but I got best grades as to style. And I never had a problem with endurance.

I was second best in high jumping in our class in middle school, but a horrible gymnast. I preferred to play soccer with the boys who actually invited me along to be a goalie or an offense. In high school I excelled on the balance beam. I didnt even need a springboard to jump onto it. And I was a passionate ballroom and Latin dancer in my early twenties when I attended a dance school and was even asked to be a freelance partner at classes I hadnt booked.

I made half-hearted attempts at compensatory gymnastics at university. I tried treck. I even bought a new bike at one time. To make a long story short Im a walker. Power walking is fine with me. Long-distance walking, as in German hiking, as well. Mountain hiking not so much. I love loop hiking. So, I dont have to return by the same way.

What has me so wary about sports or working out? Maybe it is because competition has never been a way by which I wanted to express myself. Maybe all this grading in school, being voted on a team because of ones popularity (nerdy me usually was among the last), the embarrassment of failure simply put its mark on me. But I happily climbed trees. And the aero wheel is still something the memory of which I treasure. Because that was ME.

Later, in Stuttgart, Germany, I made walking a daily routine. There were beautiful meadows, lakes, and woods around where I lived, and an hour of walking passed in a jiffy. I continued doing so in Steilacoom. Whats NOT beautiful about walking through town for an hour, seeing things change as the seasons change, chatting with neighborly people over the fence?! Here in Lakewood, I always have to get into the car to start walking somewhere worthwhile. Its a bit of a pain; I have to kick my shin a little harder. Meanwhile, our fitness club membership goes unused because of Covid. So, my husband and I have developed a routine of core training that we promised to do at a specific time during the day. I fail at that more often than not. Its not ME.

I need to find back to my little walking routine again. It makes me happy. It keeps me healthy. Its ME. If you are stuck in a similar rut maybe you have also just been trying out the wrong kind of work-out. Keep trying to find out what makes YOU happy. Sometimes its just a change of scenery that works miracles.

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