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2023-09-25 17:25:11

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The Eastern Washington Eagles are back in familiar territory. After opening the season unranked for the first time 2007, the Eagles jumped back into the national polls following their 27-24 win over then-15th-ranked UC Davis on Saturday night. EWU came in at 19th in the Stats Perform FCS Top 25 media poll and 25th in the AFCA Coaches Poll.

Eastern has taken down ranked opponents in back-to-back weeks to improve to 2-2 overall this season. They beat No. 19 Southeastern Louisiana at home, 40-29 on Sept. 16.

The Eagles have now been ranked in 137 of the last 157 weeks, highlighted by a 57-week streak that ended late in 2015 and a 46-week streak that ended in 2019. They have finished the season ranked 17 times since 1985.

With Eastern Washington’s first appearance this season, the Big Sky gained a seventh ranked team. Montana State, coming off a 40-0 Big Sky shutout of Weber State, led the way at No. 3 behind No. 1 and defending FCS champion South Dakota State and No. 2 North Dakota State, which both had open weeks.

A national media panel selects the Stats Perform FCS Top 25 Poll. A first-place vote is worth 25 points, a second-place vote 24 points, all the way down to one point for a 25th-place vote.

Stats Perform FCS Top 25 Poll (Sept. 25)

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1. South Dakota State (3-0, 0-0 MVFC), 1,398 points (54 of 56 first-place votes)

Previous Ranking: 1; Week 4: No game; Week 5: North Dakota

2. North Dakota State (3-0, 0-0 MVFC), 1,335 (2)

Previous Ranking: 2; Week 4: No game; Week 5: South Dakota

3. Montana State (3-1, 1-0 Big Sky), 1,288

Previous Ranking: 3; Week 4: 40-0 win at then-No. 10 Weber State; Week 5: Portland State

4. Idaho (3-1, 1-0 Big Sky), 1,187

Previous Ranking: 7; Week 4: 36-27 win over then-No. 4 Sacramento State; Week 5: at Eastern Washington

5. William & Mary (4-0, 2-0 CAA), 1,154

Previous Ranking: 5; Week 4: 28-3 win over Maine; Week 5: at Elon

6. Holy Cross (3-1, 1-0 Patriot), 1,089

Previous Ranking: 6; Week 4: 47-7 win over Colgate; Week 5: Harvard

7. Furman (3-1, 1-0 SoCon), 1,044

Previous Ranking: 8; Week 4: 38-14 win over then-No. 21 Mercer; Week 5: No game

8. Sacramento State (3-1, 0-1 Big Sky), 1,011

Previous Ranking: 4; Week 4: 36-27 loss at then-No. 7 Idaho; Week 5: Northern Arizona

9. UIW (3-1, 0-0 Southland), 947

Previous Ranking: 9; Week 4: 63-3 win over North American; Week 5: No game

10. Southern Illinois (3-0, 0-0 MVFC), 913

Previous Ranking: 12; Week 4: No game; Week 5: Missouri State

11. Delaware (3-1, 2-0 CAA), 772

Previous Ranking: 19; Week 4: 29-25 win over then-No. 11 New Hampshire; Week 5: No game

12. North Dakota (2-1, 0-0 MVFC), 704

Previous Ranking: 14; Week 4: No game; Week 5: at South Dakota State

13. Weber State (2-2, 0-1 Big Sky), 601

Previous Ranking: 10; Week 4: 40-0 loss to then-No. 3 Montana State; Week 5: at Northern Colorado

14. New Hampshire (2-2, 0-1 CAA), 591

Previous Ranking: 11; Week 4: 29-25 loss at then-No. 19 Delaware; Week 5: Towson

15. North Carolina Central (3-1, 0-0 MEAC), 505

Previous Ranking: 18; Week 4: 45-3 win over Mississippi Valley State; Week 5: Campbell

16. Villanova (3-1, 1-0 CAA), 494

Previous Ranking: 25; Week 4: 35-9 win over then-No. 17 Rhode Island; Week 5: at UAlbany

17. Western Carolina (3-1, 1-0 SoCon), 479

Previous Ranking: 23; Week 4: 77-21 win over Charleston Southern; Week 5: at The Citadel

18. Montana (3-1, 0-1 Big Sky), 420

Previous Ranking: 13; Week 4: 28-14 loss at Northern Arizona; Week 5: Idaho State

19. Eastern Washington (2-2, 1-0 Big Sky), 358

Previous Ranking: NR; Week 4: 27-24 win at then-No. 15 UC Davis; Week 5: Idaho

20. Florida A&M (3-1, 2-0 SWAC), 346

Previous Ranking: 22; Week 4: 23-10 win over Alabama State; Week 5: at Mississippi Valley State

21. UC Davis (2-2, 0-1 Big Sky), 297

Previous Ranking: 15; Week 4: 27-24 loss to Eastern Washington; Week 5: at Cal Poly

22. UT Martin (3-1, 0-0 Big South-OVC), 241

Previous Ranking: NR; Week 4: 37-21 win at North Alabama; Week 5: Tennessee State

23. Youngstown State (2-1, 0-0 MVFC), 234

Previous Ranking: 24; Week 4: No game; Week 5: at Northern Iowa

24. Rhode Island (2-2, 2-1 CAA), 125

Previous Ranking: 17; Week 4: 35-9 loss at then-No. 25 Villanova; Week 5: Bryant

25. Central Arkansas (2-2, 1-0 UAC), 116

Previous Ranking: NR; Week 4: 52-17 win over Abilene Christian; Week 5: at Southern Utah

Dropped Out: Southeast Missouri (16), Samford (20), Mercer (21)

Others Receiving Votes (schools listed on two or more ballots): Southeast Missouri (1-3, 1-0 Big South-OVC) 103; Fordham (3-1, 0-0 Patriot) 82; Mercer (2-2, 0-1 SoCon) 62; Chattanooga (3-1, 2-0 SoCon) 55; Eastern Illinois (3-1, 0-0 Big South-OVC): 48; Austin Peay (2-2, 1-0 UAC) 33; Samford (1-3, 0-2 SoCon) 29; Tarleton (3-1, 1-0 UAC) 27; Northern Iowa (1-2, 0-0 MVFC) 23; UAlbany (2-2, 0-0 CAA) 22; Harvard (2-0, 1-0 Ivy): 12; Eastern Kentucky (1-3, 0-0 UAC) 7

Stats Perform FCS Top 25 Voters – Stats Perform: Craig Haley, Gary Reasons. Big Sky Conference: Doug Kelly, Tyson Rodgers, Larry Weir. Big South-OVC Football Association: Mike Bradd, Brian Cleary, Kyle Schwartz, Mark Simpson. CAA Football: Matt Harmon, Scott Klatzkin, Rob Washburn. Ivy League: Rick Bender, Craig Larson. Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference: Kendrick Lewis, Patricia Porter-Mayfield. Missouri Valley Football Conference: Dom Izzo, Mike Kern, Randy Reinhardt. Northeast Conference: Sarah Boissonneault, Randy Brochu. Patriot League: Eric Malanoski, Ryan Sakamoto. Pioneer Football League: Cody Bush, Jack Cronin. Southern Conference: Scott Keeler, Andrew Miller, Ralan Wardlaw. Southland Conference: Matthew Bonnette, James Dixon, James Hill. Southwestern Athletic Conference: Ronnie Johnson, Joshua Padilla. United Athletic Conference: Steve East, Tony Jones, Brian Morgan, Jake Withee. National Representatives: Sean Anderson, Zack Carlton, Riley Corcoran, Joe DeLeone, Steven J. Gaither, Sam Herder, Emory Hunt, Kyle Kensing, Brandon Lawrence, Zach McKinnell, Brian McLaughlin, Jon Passman, Omar Rashon Borja, Ryan Roberts, Kent Schmidt, Phil Sokol, Reggie Thomas, Ralph Ventre, Jamie Williams.

Eastern’s next home game is Saturday, September 30 vs. Idaho. It will be Welcome Weekend at Roos Field in Cheney as we welcome students and faculty back to campus. Tickets for Sept. 30 and all EWU Athletics events are available at goeags.com/tickets or via the EWU Athletics Ticket Office at 509-359-6059.

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2023-09-25 17:19:28

The National Hurricane Center continues to track the season’s 16th named storm in Tropical Storm Philippe while keeping tabs on two other systems with a chance to become the season’s 17th.

As of 11 a.m., the center of TS Philippe was located regarding 1,160 miles east of the Caribbean’s northern Leeward Islands moving west at 13 mph with sustained winds of 50 mph. Its tropical-storm-force winds extend out 115 miles.

As the sun rises over the Atlantic this morning, @NOAA‘s #GOESEast satellite is monitoring the remnants of #Ophelia off the East Coast of the U.S. as well as Tropical Storm #Philippe over the central Atlantic.

Latest: pic.twitter.com/FNpeAwcndz

— NOAA Satellites (@NOAASatellites) September 25, 2023

“This general motion is expected for the next day or two, with a gradual turn to the northwest by mid-week,” forecasters said. “Little change in strength is forecast during the next few days.”

The system is forecast to remain in the open Atlantic and is no threat to land.

Tropical Storm Philippe cone of uncertainty as of 11 a.m. Monday, Sept. 25, 2023. (NHC)

Meanwhile, the NHC is keeping odds on one system in the far eastern Atlantic and one in the Gulf of Mexico with chances to become the season’s next tropical depression or storm. After Philippe, the next names on the 2023 Atlantic hurricane list are Rina and Sean.

The higher likely of the two is an area of low pressure located several hundred miles southwest of the Cape Verde Islands that has been producing a broad area of showers and thunderstorms.

“Environmental conditions are forecast to be conducive for additional development, and a tropical depression is likely to form within the next few days as the system moves west-northwestward across the central tropical Atlantic,” forecasters said.

The NHC gives it a 30% chance to develop in the next two days and 80% chance in the next week.

Down in the southeastern Gulf of Mexico is another system of disorganized showers and thunderstorms amid a surface trough of
low pressure and an upper-level trough.

“Development, if any, of this system is expected to be slow to occur over the next day or two while it moves slowly westward. The disturbance is expected to move into unfavorable environmental conditions by the middle of the week, ending its chances for development,” forecasters said,

The NHC gives it a 10% chance to develop in the next two to seven days.

Tropical Storm #Philippe is the 17th named storm of the 2023 Atlantic #hurricane season (a subtropical storm formed in Jan). This ties 2023 with 2005 for the 3rd-most Atlantic named storms through September 23 on record, trailing 2020 (23 named storms) and 2021 (18 named storms). pic.twitter.com/Hmpao3fF96

— Philip Klotzbach (@philklotzbach) September 23, 2023

Technically, either system might become the season’s 18th official system as there was an unnamed subtropical storm in January, according to the NHC.

Other than that, every system has spun up to become at least a tropical storm and take a name from the official tropical system alphabet with only five more names before the NHC would have to dive into a supplemental name list. The letters Q, U, X, Y and Z are skipped.

Only 2005 and 2020 went beyond the 21 names of their years’ initial lists, both using letters from the Greek alphabet, a practice that has since been replaced simply with a second set of storm names approved by the World Meteorological Organization beginning with Adria.

The hurricane season runs through Nov. 30.

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2023-09-25 16:16:00

On November 12, 2020, the Charleroi federal judicial police (PJF) were alerted to the opening of an investigation following the report of an Instagram account giving pride of place to terrorism, including messages of support for attack perpetrated once morest Samuel Paty on October 16, 2020 among our French neighbors.

The problematic account belongs to a mother, who has three sons. Among the latter, it turns out that Alimcham (born in 2004) uses this account. The young teenager is already closely monitored by the youth court…

“Advanced” radicalization

Arrested and placed in IPPJ on February 11, 2021, Alimcham also had his family’s computer equipment seized, including two computers, as well as mobile phones and tablets. The in-depth analysis of these different media highlights a worrying activity on the Internet. “There are thousands of video files, photos and even messages sent or received by the defendant. It turns out that the latter often changes accounts, moving from Discord to Telegram or Instagram. In his cell phone, we find a manual for preparing a homemade bomb in Russian. He promotes the Islamic State and incites people to commit terrorist attacks. The radicalization of the accused is advanced,” specifies the federal prosecutor’s office, in charge of the case.

This Monday followingnoon, Alimcham is suspected of having participated in the activities of a terrorist group by being the leader, but also of having broadcast messages and trying to recruit candidates with a view to going to fight in Tajikistan.

For the prosecution, there is no doubt that Alimcham was a leader since the latter went around among his classmates to find candidates for an attack project. “He tried to convince classmates and also gave them advice: not to listen to certain music, practice a combat sport, etc. He had a leadership role and some young people tried to get advice from him. His plan was to go and fight abroad and his plan B was to attack police officers or civilians in Belgium or France with a Kalashnikov. He quickly became radicalized on social networks and tried to rally young people under the age of 16 to his cause, some of them aged 13.”

Not a manager, according to his lawyer

Given the particular seriousness of the facts and Alimcham’s involvement in the case, the federal prosecutor’s office is hoping for a “severe and dissuasive” sentence. Fifty months in prison are required once morest the young man, currently abroad following a family bereavement, without opposing a probationary reprieve.

The defense is requesting a simple reprieve while emphasizing the defendant’s lack of leadership. Judgment on October 23.

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