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Leal, Willis guide Nashville to 2-0 victory over DC United

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 22:39:50 GMT

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Randall Leal scored twice in the first half and Joe Willis made it stand up as Nashville SC defeated D.C. United 2-0 on Saturday night.Leal took a pass from Hany Mukhtar in the 18th minute and found the net and he followed with an unassisted goal in the 37th minute to put Nashville up 2-0 at halftime. Leal entered play with one goal on the season.Willis finished with two saves to earn the clean sheet for Nashville (11-5-5). Tyler Miller saved one shot for DC United (7-9-5).Nashville was coming off two straight shutout losses following a club-record 10-match unbeaten streak. The club has never lost three straight and has won all six times following two-match skids.Mukhtar has a goal contribution in seven straight home matches — eight goals, five assists. He has 32 goal contributions in 43 home matches since 2021. Nashville improves to 4-0-2 all-time versus DC United, including a 1-1 draw on the road earlier this season. Nashville is the only team DC United has...

Julio scores late to give Real Salt Lake 1-0 win over Toronto

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 22:39:50 GMT

TORONTO (AP) — Anderson Julio scored in the second minute of second-half stoppage time to rally Real Salt Lake to a 1-0 victory over Toronto FC on Saturday night.The victory extends Real Salt Lake’s club-record unbeaten streak on the road in all competitions to 10. It is the longest unbeaten road run since an 11-match streak by the Portland Timbers spanning the 2012-13 seasons.Real Salt Lake (8-7-6) improves to 2-5-3 all-time on the road against Toronto (3-8-10). Toronto falls to 3-2-6 at home this season. Toronto has surrendered only four goals in 10 home matches with RSL.Julio scored the winner unassisted. It was his second netter of the campaign.Zac MacMath saved three shots to earn the clean sheet for Real Salt Lake. Greg Ranjitsingh had five saves in his third start this season for Toronto. Toronto has dropped a league-high 17 points from winning positions this season.Toronto travels to play Orlando City on Tuesday. Real Salt Lake returns home to host Orlando City on Satu...

Kamungo, Junqua, Paes lead Dallas over LAFC 2-0

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 22:39:50 GMT

FRISCO, Texas (AP) — Bernard Kamungo scored early in the second half, defender Sam Junqua added a late goal and FC Dallas beat Los Angeles FC 2-0 on Saturday night.LAFC (9-5-5) entered the match having won four of its last five match-ups with Dallas (8-7-5), including a 2-1 win at home earlier this season. LAFC has won five of the 10 all-time meetings but just once in Dallas.Kamungo found the net for a second time this season when he took a pass from Nkosi Tafari in the 56th minute to give Maarten Paes the only goal he would need. Junqua’s first netter of the season came in the 90th minute with an assist from Tsiki Ntsabeleng.Paes saved three shots to earn the clean sheet for Dallas. John McCarthy did not make a save for LAFC.Dallas came into the match with a 1-4-0 record in its last five matches, including two straight shutout losses for the first time since August of 2021. The club has never been shut out in three consecutive matches.Dallas improves to 6-1-2 in its last nine...

Torres scores twice, leads Orlando City over Fire 3-1

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 22:39:50 GMT

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Facundo Torres scored a goal in each half to propel Orlando City to a 3-1 victory over the Chicago Fire on Saturday night.Orlando City (8-5-7) has gone unbeaten in six straight matches at home, tying a club record.Orlando City took a 1-0 lead into halftime on a goal by Torres in the 38th minute. Kyle Smith and Martín Ojeda picked up assists on Torres’ sixth netter of the season.Torres struck again in the 55th minute on a penalty kick to stretch Orlando City’s lead to 2-0.Chicago (5-7-8) cut its deficit in half on a PK goal by Xherdan Shaqiri in the 66th minute. It was Shaqiri’s second score of the season.Ramiro Enrique gave Orlando City a two-goal lead again when he took passes from Iván Angulo and Rafael Santos and scored his second goal of the campaign.Pedro Gallese saved two shots for Orlando City. Chris Brady totaled six saves for Chicago.Orlando City, which improved to 4-1-5 in its last 10 matches, beat Chicago for a fourth straight time a...

Corte de Constitucionalidad de Guatemala ordena suspender oficialización de resultados de elecciones generales tras denuncias de partidos políticos

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 22:39:50 GMT

(CNN Español) — La Corte de Constitucionalidad de Guatemala ordenó este sábado al Tribunal Supremo Electoral que suspenda la “calificación y oficialización” de los resultados de las elecciones generales del 25 de junio, hasta que se realice una revisión de los escrutinios en las Juntas Electorales y Departamentales, así como en el Distrito Central, según un comunicado de la Corte.La medida se tomó luego de que nueve partidos políticos presentaran amparos contra el Tribunal Supremo Electoral, denunciando irregularidades en el proceso de revisión de escrutinios, según el comunicado de la Corte de Constitucionalidad.Segunda vuelta presidencial en Guatemala: las propuestas de Sandra Torres y Bernardo Arévalo“En tanto se dilucidan las situaciones”, indica la Corte, el Tribunal “debe suspender la calificación y oficialización de resultados a efecto de que, para la fecha prevista para la segunda vuelta para elección presidencial, todo haya quedado debida...

How’d they get that ‘Hijack’ plane so real? They built one

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 22:39:50 GMT

Making “Hijack,” the ambitious AppleTV+ thriller that unfolds over a seven-hour flight from Dubai to London in seven hour-long episodes, meant breaking established traditions.When terrorists take control of the plane, Idris Elba’s Sam Newman is the wild card in the sky: A professional negotiator who is able to control his fears and rightly gauge the dynamics as violence, intimidation and murder add to the horror.The “Hijack” team had a novel notion about to make it all real.“The biggest thing for us,” said director Jim Field Smith, like Elba also an executive producer, “was we’ve got a show that’s set almost exclusively inside of an airplane. There’s two problems with that!“One is to make it engaging dramatically and not dull and flat. The other is to make it feel like you are actually in an airplane moving through the sky.“It was definitely very challenging but we figured out how to solve both issues. We didn’t really want to break this plane apart [for individual scenes]. We wante...

Brown: Reliability must take top priority in energy policies

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 22:39:50 GMT

Commissioners of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) and a host of stakeholders convened on June 20 to discuss the cost and reliability of New England’s electricity. In some respects, this is the “Groundhog Day” of energy policy events because this meeting was the latest in a decade of similar meetings, and it’s déjà vu all over again.While the tone of the meetings may change, the meat of the discussions never do — New England’s energy rates and energy costs are routinely among the nation’s 10 most expensive and every year, the electric grid’s reliability becomes a bigger concern.Ordinarily, the grid is not on the public radar, but disastrous failures in California and Texas in recent years have put it there, and not a moment too soon. Gordon van Welie, the CEO of New England’s grid operator ISO-NE, painted a slightly less dire reliability picture than in years past, while the steward of the nation’s grids, the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC), in M...

Shaken by Shih Tzu’s sudden seizure

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 22:39:50 GMT

Dear Dr. John,Our family has two Shih Tzus, one male and one female. The female, who is almost five, recently freaked us out with some odd behavior. We were at home and suddenly she started drooling heavily, defecated, and seemed out of sorts for a few minutes. We quickly called our vet who had us bring her in. The vet checked her out and found nothing to be out of sorts. We took her home and overall, she seemed to be quiet for the rest of the day. We were told that she probably had an episode of epilepsy, that she would likely be fine, and to keep an eye on her. Should we be concerned and what next? Is her breed prone to epilepsy and should we worry about our other dog? They are not littermates but from the same breeder. C.P.Dear C.P.,There are quite a few dog breeds that are prone to epilepsy but the Shih Tzu is not one of those. Despite that, idiopathic epilepsy, which means there is no specific cause, can happen in any dog breed. Most epileptic seizures in dogs are characterized...

Divine Sweater gives the apocalypse a dream pop beat

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 22:39:50 GMT

Can the sound of an apocalypse be both jarring and beautiful? Absolutely, if it’s scored by Divine Sweater.The Boston band’s track “Two Steps Forward” floats through a dream-pop jam into a kind of feverish saxophone and keyboard breakdown before the instruments fade away. After two seconds of silence, a keyboard riff picks up and Meghan Kelleher sings, “Felt the ground fall through on Commonwealth Avenue/Brighton broke in two down Commonwealth Avenue.”“That part in ‘Two Steps Forward’ is supposed to be the moment when the people realize that the world is ending,” Kelleher told the Herald.The track sits at the center of Divine Sweater’s concept album, the recently released “Down Deep (A Nautical Apocalypse).”Concept albums can bring to mind grandiose, often bloated prog or metal opuses. Instead, “Down Deep” is both more tender and poppier. Kelleher and her bandmates – multi-instrumentalist Sean Seaver, keyboardist Steve Lin, bassist Alex Goldberg and drummer Christ Southiere – get sp...

Time-honored wedding traditions, and what they mean

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 22:39:50 GMT

Weddings are special events that celebrate two individuals’ love for one another. Weddings bring together friends and family to witness couples share vows and devote their lives to each other. Wedding guests recognize that certain components are commonplace in ceremonies and receptions. Perhaps you were once a ring bearer or caught the bouquet?There’s a rich history behind the traditions that feature prominently at many weddings. Here’s a look at traditions past and present and the meaning behind these customs.MarriageThe custom of marriage can be traced back thousands of years to when hunters and gatherers started coming together to form societies and farm land. In order to ensure the success of communities, couplings were developed to produce offspring and maintain households. TTie the knotGetting married is sometimes referred to as “tying the knot.” This stems from the custom of “handfasting,” which is a common practice among various cult...