Sabine Schut-Kery continues to be delighted with Jojoba De Massa The 11-year-old Portuguese stallion owned by Four Winds Farm is “really fun to work with.” Competing on a cool Saturday early evening with fog creeping down the surrounding hills “Jojo” showed his tendency “to get excited,” she explained “I call it hot flashes!” Sustained relaxation is a work in progress Anticipation made his 3-tempis a little tense in Saturday’s I1 test “But what I still appreciated was that he stayed with me He started calming down a little bit so it didn’t lead to mistakes.” Photo –  Sabine Schut-Kery and Jojoba de Massa (Terri Miller) The Tokyo Olympic Team USA silver medalist was more upset with herself for an off-course step early in the test while leaving them atop the leaderboard and adding to Friday’s Prix St Riding Jojo on a long rein back to the barn, Schut-Kery described her partner of one year as a “really sweet horse who tries really hard.” They concluded Sunday with a 73% in the Freestyle, putting them in good stead for a US Festival of Champions invite San Diego-based Heather Kennedy and Mr Davidoff were second in the PSG and I1 tests The latter test is a better one for the approximately 18-hand 11-year-old Hanoverian owned and brought along by Kennedy since the horse was 6 (Saturday) the trot work was good and it’s getting stronger and the canter work was not as strong as I needed it to be.” They’ve had a circuitous path to this level, with their early years together spent in Mississippi before Kennedy returned to San Diego in 2023. Her current coach, veteran US Olympian Steffen Peters is among the influential friends who’ve helped the pair but the in-the-saddle work has been all hers “From falling flat on his neck when first teaching him flying changes it’s really fun to have it be my own horse.” Nick Wagman and Elizabeth Keadle’s Belvedere NRW finished third both days Anna Yost on Irieno-S (Photo – Terri Miller) College junior Anna Yost and Irieno-S topped the Team and Individual FEI Young Rider tests this weekend The results set them up nicely to once again represent USDF Region VII at the North America Youth Championships this summer Yost developed the 12-year-old KWPN since he was 4 “We’ve grown up and learned everything together,” Yost said after Saturday’s Individual ride Yost is earning a degree in neurobiology at UC Davis, in Northern California. She keeps Irieno with her coach Kathleen Raine at Adventure Farms in Riverside County’s Murrietta “It’s a challenge to study and compete at this level Runner-up Emme Chisholm also rides with Kathleen Raine and David Wightman at Adventure Farms but she keeps and cares for her horse at home in Ramona came by way of Lendon Gray’s Dressage4Kids Foundation “He was super spooky and kind of crazy when we got him and we were told he would not go above 2nd Level.” Their 62.735% reflected an upward trend that thrills the pre-nursing student “Every test he gets better and better and I’m so proud of how far he’s come I would never be able to compete in the FEI levels.” They earned a 61.324% in Friday’s Team test Chisholm describes the bond born of at-home 24/7 care as the source of their great relationship earned a 62.413% in the Individual test for 3rd following Friday’s 60.050% in the Team round But some spookiness in the Individual test contributed to a 58.088% for a 4th rank on Saturday had a spooky Saturday in the Individual test for a 58.265% but Friday’s team test earned a solid 64.545% he has days like this,” Sage said of what will be a drop score in their NAYC pursuit In bringing Sage along from the Childrens division the horse “has taught me how to do all the movements correctly.” Saturday’s FEI Young Rider and Junior Individual judging panel consisted of Hanna-Mari Kiuttu The Pacific Coast CDI is the centerpiece of Kellerhouse Presents’ three-show series at Galway Downs It attracted contenders from throughout the region thanks to reliably excellent show grounds and qualifying opportunities for numerous championships These include the California Dressage Society and USEF Regional and National Championships and the FEI World Breeding Championships for Young Horses The 3* Grand Prix Freestyle offered points toward the new US Open of Dressage set for the Desert International Horse Park this November The Pacific Coast CDI was livestreamed by Horse & Country TV and subscribers can enjoy on-demand videos here. 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Get quick access to your favorite articles Manage alerts on breaking news and favorite drivers Make your voice heard with article commenting Helio Castroneves will drive in the Brazilian Stock Car Pro Series in 2025 having been confirmed in the grid of the category ahead of this weekend's season opener at Interlagos Four-time Indianapolis 500 winner and one of the greatest Brazilian drivers in history Castroneves will combine his new activities on home soil with his United States duties where he is chasing his 5th Indy 500 title which would make him the most winningest driver ever in the history of the Indiana race He will drive the Chevrolet Tracker of RTR Sport a Stock Light team that is making its debut in the Pro Series Castroneves is the biggest addition to the grid in 2025 a year thar marks the introduction of the SUVs in the championship Joining Chevrolet Tracker and Toyota Corolla Cross Mitsubishi returns to the category with the Eclipse Cross “I am very happy with the invitation from Lincoln Oliveira [Brazilian Stock Car's CEO and father of F1 driver Gabriel Bortoleto] and I didn't think twice about accepting especially now that the challenge is doubled with the entry of the new SUV concept" RTR Sport owner Maique Papareli also celebrated: “It is an honor to announce Helio Castroneves as the RTR Sport Team driver for the 2025 Stock Car season Having a name with Helio’s history and talent in our project is the realization of a great dream and a milestone in the team’s trajectory We are very confident that his experience and dedication will bring exceptional results in addition to further boosting the growth of our team in the main category of Brazilian motorsports" Helio's last full season in Brazil was back in 1994 when he was runner-up in the national F3 championship Castroneves started his international career three Daytona 24 Hours triumphs and the 2020 IMSA title Castroneves' full time Stock Car debut this weekend won't be his first experience in the series: his first race in the Brazilian Stock Car was back in 2012 when he competed in the Interlagos Million Race Then he was set to compete in his home town Riberao Preto 2013 round but a crash in practice meant he wasn't able to take part in the race Helio will join other Brazilian motorsport idols in the Stock Car Pro Series' 2025 grid such as two-time champion Rubens Barrichello first ever Formula E champion Nelson Piquet Jr and former F1 driver Ricardo Zonta apart from veterans of the category like three-time champions Daniel Serra and Gabriel Casagrande From Formula 1 to MotoGP we report straight from the paddock because we love our sport In order to keep delivering our expert journalism we want to give you the opportunity to enjoy an ad-free and tracker-free website and to continue using your adblocker Edible Monterey Bay Vintner Ian Brand had been telling me for quite some time that the gnarly old vineyard originally planted by Bill Durney in 1969 (using cuttings from the Mirassou family) was for sale.  Given all the properties suddenly on the market combined with the generally bearish outlook on the wine industry it felt like a real slog to find a buyer.  Brand had been helping the Massa family find buyers for the grapes and had a notable collection of winemakers purchasing fruit from it the property was purchased by Gilbert and Toby Heller They converted it to organic farming in 1996 and their winemaker made some of the first organic wines in Carmel Valley and the fruit is still producing stellar examples of this wine Toby’s eye-catching sculptures graced the landscape as well as the wine labels.  After the Hellers passed away just one month apart in 2017 noted landowner and farmer Bill Massa purchased the 998-acre estate for his wife Laurie That brought his total land holdings to 7,000 acres the former Heller Estate included an 88-acre vineyard planted to Cabernet Sauvignon Regardless of the buyer’s ultimate motives who is currently enjoying the fresh powder of the Sierras during Ski Week says his role in the vineyard going forward is unclear but he would love to see it preserved—a sentiment shared by winemaker Russell Joyce who grew up in Carmel Valley and is well-versed in its history.  I’d buy the old Durney Vineyard,” says Joyce “We need to preserve our history.”  Joyce puts what money he has (or had) where his mouth is and purchased the old Ventana Vineyard property in Arroyo Seco in 2021 the Marinus Vineyard—the Bordeaux grape love interest of the late Ben Pons of Bernardus fame—is up for sale but not for the reasons motivating the Massa listings Bernardus wants to concentrate on the company’s core strengths “Cabernet sales are trending down and they just want to be done with it,” says Joyce but the new Bernardus president wants to expand production of what’s selling in the marketplace.” Given that there’s Chardonnay and Pinot Noir aplenty in Monterey they should have no trouble acquiring fruit to meet demand.  The Marinus Carmel Valley vineyard for sale consists of 147 Acres across 4 Parcels It is listed for $2,595,000 and includes a residence (1,560 SF) storage warehouse/shop/office (4,380 SF) and an equipment shed (2,400 SF).  Along with the closure of the Massa Tasting room following the sale of the property there’s news to report of the exit of Albatross Ridge from their Carmel Valley Village tasting cottage Corral Wine Company is moving into this sweet space once occupied by Annette Hoff of Cima Collina Some new wineries participating in the Passport program this year include Lago Lomita in the Summit Road area which will honor Passports any day they are open. Rosscienda in Aptos will be open Passport Days only Bargetto will offer a barrel sample on Passport while Big Basin Vineyards invites you to enjoy two empanadas plus a glass of red white or rośe for only $19 (a $29 value): at the downtown Santa Cruz location.  Burrell School Vineyards offers a 20% discount on retail purchases this Saturday and Chaminade Resort & Spa will be open to Passport holders from 12pm-4pm Kings Mountain Vineyards will be pouring at VinoCruz in Soquel including some Adorable French Bakery goodies. Left Bend will pour Saturday at Saratoga Social Club at 14527 Big Basin Wy Burrell School and Ferrari Ranch welcome Passport holders any time they are open Storrs and Windy Oaks require reservations for Passport holders on Celebration days as well as any other days they are open. Windy Oaks Estate offers a three-pack of sparkling Albariño To obtain the current SCMWA Passport, and to see the map showing participating wineries, go to SCMWAPassport Randall Grahm’s latest: Paradise Found  Membership is now available in the “Paradise Found” Wine Club, featuring offerings from the Popelouchum Vineyard Estate on a semi-annual basis, either 6 or 12 bottles per shipment.  You can find all the relevant details regarding Club membership ParadiseClub but if you have a hankering to explore things like Tibouren Ruchè and “Sérine Blanche,” not to mention newly created varieties and blends membership in this Club will afford you the best opportunity to try some bottles that will likely never otherwise be available you might find yourself invited to splendidly exclusive al fresco tasting and dining events forthcoming at Popelouchum.   columnist and judge who contributes regularly to Edible Monterey Bay Los Gatos Magazine and Wine Industry Network Her passion is telling stories about the intriguing characters who inhabit the fascinating world of wine and food Digital EditionText Edition our mission is to celebrate the local food cultures of Santa Cruz and that everyone has a right to healthful We think knowing where our food comes from is a powerful thing website and events will inspire readers to get to know and support our local growers EMB is one of 80+ magazines in the award-winning and beloved Edible Communities family We hope you enjoy all that we have to offer With nearly a decade of esthetician experience Mary Massa felt inspired to create something unique—a space where results-driven treatments meet deep relaxation Her passion lies in providing customized care while fostering a welcoming and body work that leave clients feeling revitalized and truly pampered This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks The action you just performed triggered the security solution There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page Print Marie Massa noticed a neglected strip of public land near her son’s school in 2022 The narrow strip in Lincoln Heights next to the 5 Freeway was filled with weeds and trash but Massa saw a few native buckwheats trying to grow and thought “Native plants could do really well here.”Today Massa spends three mornings a week tending the vibrant flower-filled native habitat garden she created mostly by herself and named the Lincoln Heights California Native Plants Corridor Some people see trash and weeds and walk on by Others rail against the slobs of the world that’s meant spending six to nine hours a week since early 2023 working mostly alone to transform a long trash-filled strip of no-man’s land between Avenue 20 and Interstate 5 in Lincoln Heights into a fragrant colorful habitat of California native plants Tall stems of rosy clarkia, a native wildflower, add to the riot of spring color in the Lincoln Heights California Native Plants Corridor on Avenue 20, south of Broadway. (Christina House / Los Angeles Times) She’s named the garden the Lincoln Heights California Native Plants Corridor and features it on her Instagram page, ave20nativeplants exulting every time she spots a native bee caterpillar or some other creature visiting the space for food or shelter “You see all these horrible things happening in the world,” she said It’s so much and sometimes I can’t handle all this bad news,” Massa said With little fanfare Southern Californians are quietly changing urban landscapes for the better with native plants Lifestyle Native plants have very different needs from fruits and veggies Here’s how to create your own edible habitat garden She fills bags of trash from around her planting strip and calls 311 to have them hauled away She drags 200 feet of hose to water her new plantings a few times a month from a spigot made available by Alliance Susan & Eric Smidt Technology High School next door She’s spent days digging up garbage buried three feet deep in the garden and even muscled an old oven from the planting area to the curb after someone dumped it during the night When graffiti appears on the retaining wall below the freeway, she takes a photo and uploads it to MyLA311 to get it painted over potted up excess seedlings for people to carry home and recruited work parties for really big jobs such as sheet mulching the parkway between the sidewalk and the street to keep weed seeds from blowing into the habitat corridor on the other side of the sidewalk The project started slowly in the fall of 2022 less than a mile from their Lincoln Heights home Massa noticed this long strip of neglected land between the freeway’s retaining wall and the sidewalk walks amid the abundant spring color of the Lincoln Heights California Native Plants Corridor on Avenue 20 (Christina House / Los Angeles Times) “It was full of weedy dried grasses “There were also four planter beds in the parkway [the strip of land between the sidewalk and street] with a few buckwheat and encelias (brittlebush) Conservation Corps came to mow the weeds down they gave a huge horrible buzz cut to the native plants.” When the buckwheats in the parkway got mowed down they blew seeds into the wider planting strip on the other side of the sidewalk and Massa said she noticed some buckwheat seedlings coming up trying to make space for themselves among the weeds ‘Native plants could do really well here,’ and I started developing this idea that the strip would be cool as a native plant garden.” she bought some wildflower seeds and sprinkled them along the corridor to see whether the soil would support their growth she was delighted to find them sprouting in the spring fighting through the weeds along with buckwheat seedlings Native sticky monkey-flowers come in two colors at the Lincoln Heights California Native Plants Corridor: in red and here (Christina House / Los Angeles Times) She wrote a letter to people who lived near the untended land outlining her idea to create a native plant garden to beautify the area and support pollinators She invited neighbors to help her and included her email address ‘We got your letter and this is a cool idea.’” In the spring of 2023, as her wildflowers were sprouting, Massa called the office of Los Angeles Council District 1 and told them about her project She asked them to stop the Conservation Corps from mowing down the emerging plants and requested help from the Conservation Corps to suppress the weeds along the long strip of parkway between the sidewalk and street these inspiring gardens have a lot to gawk at Here’s how to check them out on garden tour fundraisers “The sheet mulching took a looong time,” she said easily get out of their cars and see the corridor.” But she still needed plants. She went to her former boss at the Natural History Museum’s Nature Gardens, native plant guru Carol Bornstein, with her design perennials and annuals that could provide habitat for insects By November she had more than 400 plants, and the help of a friend, Lowell Abellon, who wanted to learn more about native plants. Working about six hours a week, they slowly began adding plants to the 380-foot strip, weeding around each addition as they went. By March they had added about half the plants, but they had to stop before it got too warm. “If you plant them too late, they don’t have time to get good roots down into the ground [before it gets too hot],” she said. “I tried to be on top of the watering, but during the summer about half of them died, so I had to do a lot of replacement planting in the fall.” During the summer, Massa mostly worked alone keeping the newly planted sections of the corridor weeded and watered. Because school was out, she brought her young son to help her each week. Sometimes neighbors with children would join them, she said, giving her son someone to play with, but once or twice, she resorted to offering him $5 for his weeding work. When school resumed in the fall, Massa was ready to start planting again, this time working mostly alone because her friend Abellon had a family emergency that took him out of state. She began in October, planting and weeding the rest of the corridor, including adding 100 plants to replace the ones that died. She hopes her work will inspire others to create their own native plant gardens and even tackle a project like hers, beautifying a neglected public space. But she says it’s important that people understand such work is more than a passion; it’s a long-term commitment. Guerrilla gardeners have great intentions, she said, but it usually takes at least three years for a garden of native plants to get established, and those young plants will need water, whether it’s a nearby water spigot or jerricans of water lugged to the site. “If you just plant and go, you might as well throw the plants in a trash can, because it’s not going to work,” Massa said. “If you don’t water them, if you don’t weed and pick up trash, people aren’t going to respect the space, especially if you don’t put in the effort to keep it looking good. For a garden to be successful, you have to commit to putting in the work.” Massa’s son goes to another school these days, but she figures she’ll keep up her three-mornings-a-week schedule at the garden for at least another year, until she’s confident the plants are established enough to thrive on their own. For instance, she wants to make sure the narrow leaf milkweed she planted gets big enough to attract endangered monarch butterflies and provide a place for them to lay their eggs and plenty of food for their caterpillars every year. “My hope is that this will become a habitat that’s self-sustaining,” she said, “so I can step away and be OK just picking up trash every once in a while.” Marie Massa is nearly dwarfed by the tallest plants in her Lincoln Heights California Native Plants Corridor. (Christina House / Los Angeles Times) Will she start another project somewhere else? Massa rolled her eyes. “My husband says I can’t take on another project until this one is done, and this one has been a lot of work,” she said, laughing, “buuuut I do actually have my eye on another spot.” And then suddenly she’s serious, talking about this weedy strip on Main Street, not far from where she’s working now. She’s a little embarrassed, struggling to explain why she would want to tackle another lonely, thankless project, but defiant too, because, clearly, this is a mission. “People in this neighborhood don’t seem to know about native plants,” she said, “so maybe I can show them their value, the value of having habitat and space around you that’s beautiful. Maybe it could be a way of educating a new audience about the value of appreciating the environment.” Maybe so. Better watch your back, Johnny Appleseed. Travel & Experiences Subscribe for unlimited accessSite Map Catholic Fundamentalism in America Boisi Center for Religion and American Public Life many aspects of American life underwent dramatic changes—including the Catholic Church and the Second Vatican Council all contributed to a transformed landscape for American Catholics Catholics were moving from tight-knit communities in the city into the suburbs encountering people from other religious traditions Catholics were going to non-Catholic universities and non-Catholics were attending Catholic institutions Catholic traditions such as meatless Fridays and the Latin Mass were going away and theological changes gave rise to a very strong strain of rejection a fundamentalist Catholic movement based on fear and a loss of identity according to Professor of Theology Mark Massa director of the Boisi Center for Religion and American Public Life “Catholic fundamentalists want to go back to a more defined Church where Catholics can have a clear identity that's different from the cultural identity of most people,” said Fr author of the new book Catholic Fundamentalism in America “I define Catholic Fundamentalism as radical anti-modernism “The rise of Catholic Fundamentalism is understandable History only moves in one direction and it's not backwards.” “I wanted to understand what's going on to the right of center in the American Catholic Church Some people label everyone who is conservative a fundamentalist Not everyone right of center is fundamentalist My book is an attempt to tease out what makes a fundamentalist different from a conservative.” He noted there are many books on Protestant Fundamentalism but there’s little to no scholarly examination of Catholic Fundamentalism I'm trying to fill a lacuna in the field,” said Fr who holds a doctorate in church history from Harvard “I want to offer language and nuance that can help others understand who Catholic fundamentalists are and why they're so desperate to find a safe space that doesn't change.” Catholic Fundamentalism in America will be the focus of an April 2 public panel discussion sponsored by the Boisi Center University Historian and Clough Millennium Professor Emeritus in History James O’Toole and historian Randall Balmer of Dartmouth College Massa cites five criteria of Catholic Fundamentalism: sectarian; primitivist; apocalyptic; militant; and use of political monikers Sectarian is a defining feature for fundamentalists since a sect wants to break away and form a close-knit community with high walls around it He says sectarianism is the opposite of Catholicism’s “big tent” ideas of communion and universality Primitivism is a belief that some time in the primitive past the Church achieved its perfect form and cannot be changed and any attempt to change that moment means a fall from grace there is a historical belief that Church doctrine Catholic fundamentalists often speak in terms of apocalyptic urgency: if we give up that one insight for newer insights relies on a binary dogmatism that means it's got to be this or that It's complicated because it's talking about real life.” In part one of Catholic Fundamentalism in America Massa traces the emergence of Catholic Fundamentalism to Cambridge was a charismatic Jesuit priest who would regularly speak at the St He insisted that outside the Church there is no salvation Massa called him “rabidly antisemitic.” Feeney eventually was removed from the Jesuit order and was ex-communicated from the Catholic Church the Slaves of the Immaculate Heart of Mary which he said was the faithful remnant of a Catholic Church mired in heresy Massa writes: “Feeney and his Slaves crafted the paradigm for American Catholic fundamentalism—an anti-modern and sectarian impulse that has been with us ever since.” Subsequent book chapters look at other movements and people Fr Massa cites as examples of Catholic Fundamentalism who was well-known for her broadcasts on the television network EWTN; the website ChurchMilitant.com; Crisis magazine; Fr who founded the Catholic Traditionalist Movement and was a leading proponent of the Latin Mass; and St a community closely connected to the Society of Saint Pius X The book will be distributed this month to cardinals and other attendees of The Way Forward Conference The annual gathering is jointly sponsored by the Boisi Center Fordham University’s Center on Religion and Culture and Loyola University Chicago’s Hank Center for the Catholic Intellectual Heritage Catholic Fundamentalism in America contributes to the work of The Way Forward Conferences which is to help implement Pope Francis’s vision for the Catholic Church “The national hierarchy in the United States is the most resistant hierarchy in the world to Pope Francis’s agenda This book can help clarify what’s going on in the contemporary U.S Catholic Church and offer insight into the larger picture of resistance to pluralism and change.” Find details on the April 2 panel and other events at the Boisi Center website. Former Formula 1 superstar confirms second-consecutive LMP2 Rolex 24 appearance with Riley… Former Formula 1 star Felipe Massa has confirmed his second consecutive Rolex 24 Hours at Daytona outing with Riley in LMP2 to Sportscar365 while testing with the team at this weekend’s IMSA-sanctioned test at Daytona International Speedway Massa will contest next year’s IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship season-opener in the No. 74 Oreca 07 Gibson alongside Riley’s unchanged 2025 driver lineup that includes full-season drivers Gar Robinson and Felipe Fraga as well as the team’s Michelin Endurance Cup driver Josh Burdon The same quartet of drivers finished on the LMP2 class podium at this year’s Florida endurance classic in what was Massa’s sports car racing debut “We’re going to race with the LMP2 [car] again “I raced this year for the first time with that car I will do the same next Daytona 24 Hours with the same team who also competes in the Brazilian Stock Car Pro Series where he currently leads the driver’s championship with four rounds remaining said his sports car racing outings in IMSA will likely be limited to yearly Rolex 24 campaigns Daytona is what I’m looking forward to doing 
I’m racing in Brazil in the stock car so we are also fighting for the champion this year there Massa expressed excitement over returning to the LMP2 class at next year’s twice-around-the-clock endurance race “It’s quite a competitive category and the car is also good fun to drive,” he said so [I’m] looking forward to that.” Jonathan Grace is the host of Sportscar365's Double Stint Podcast and a contributor to the web site's IMSA and SRO-sanctioned race coverage A look into the life of AWA tire specialist (and baking pro) Ashley Baily.. Bobby Rahal on improvements to BMW Team RLL's execution after recent misses.. Porsche pegged back in latest revision of IMSA's Balance of Performance.. Alec Udell confirmed as Robert Wickens' co-driver in No A Division of NBCUniversal DISCLAIMER: This site and the products offered are for entertainment purposes only and there is no gambling offered on this site This service is intended for adult audiences No guarantees are made for any specific outcome If you or someone you know has a gambling problem WhiteStar Communications has emerged from nearly 10 years of stealth development to provide its Hyperspace™ Network Overlay Operating System to meet the security needs of enterprises under siege WhiteStar is pleased to announce that former Cisco Systems Sales Executive and Chief Strategist for Global Government Solutions 2025 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- As Netflix attempts to depict in its series "Zero Day" what the global threat of cyber bad actors could do WhiteStar Communications has emerged from nearly ten years of stealth development to provide its Hyperspace™ Network Overlay Operating System to meet the security needs of enterprises under siege While companies struggle to address constant VPN attacks and prepare for the growing threat of quantum computing breaking today's encryption WhiteStar has assembled a team of former Cisco and Motorola veterans who helped build today's internet and cellular infrastructures to address these security challenges WhiteStar has called upon former Cisco Systems Sales Executive and Chief Strategist for Global Government Solutions "I am extremely excited to welcome James Massa to join us as Chief Revenue Officer and to help launch us out of stealth mode into customers' critical networks" "With 33 patents issued protecting our intellectual property and 5 more being processed James has an open field to share what differentiates the WhiteStar Hyperspace™ solution from other technologies!" "Today's best VPNs are inherently vulnerable and today's networks cannot quickly deploy the latest encryption to secure an enterprise from quantum attacks WhiteStar's AI enabled Hyperspace™ solves both of these challenges." "Today's best VPNs inherently are vulnerable to group key discovery and man-in-the-middle attacks while leaving your data in the clear "Even data secured with the vaunted AES-256 symmetric encryption will soon be laid bare under the brute force capabilities of quantum computing." Q-day is the day when quantum computers are used to break todays available encryption having the algorithms alone is not enough to safeguard today's enterprises "Today's networks cannot quickly deploy the latest encryption to secure an enterprise and it takes way too long to ensure protection for an enterprise to update all of the various applications it uses." He continues network overlay operating system that brings the encryption function down into the network layer That is part of what Hyperspace™ uniquely does which allows it to instantly roll an entire enterprise to a new level of encryption protection." "Hyperspace™ has three embedded AI's constantly working to fully address the threats and can lay down encrypted flows by itself This is on top of utilizing dispersive packet technology and the ability to encrypt every packet with a different key." Massa has the background and spent his career being able to explain the technology and business implications of such to nontechnical executives can understand what is required to protect their enterprise from both today's and the post-quantum threat Massa began his career as a computer technologist teaching TCP/IP networking classes at Kennedy Space Center After transitioning to sales of internet technologies he was a key part of 3 successful investor exits including the first Indo-American company to IPO on Nasdaq (Excelan) Massa joined then-startup Cisco Systems which grew from $300M to $26B during his tenure Massa's contributions included growing Cisco's Southeast region sales 360% in 2 years turning around the Cisco Federal organization by growing sales 300% in 3 years and after CEO John Chambers approved Massa's strategy to align Cisco resources to support DoD and National Security related initiatives captured Cisco's first $400M single purchase order sale Massa went on to establishe Cisco's Global Government Alliances which increased global public sector revenues from 5% to 24% of Cisco total revenues created the Global Space and Defense organization and then transitioned to Chief Strategist for the newly created Global Government Solutions business unit Massa left Cisco Systems to form Loom Enterprises "James has a proven track record of building organizations that exceed revenue expectations and a particular set of skills that wins accounts while building high customer loyalty and success" "We are honored to have James help grow our customers by sharing WhiteStar's value proposition that solves the compound cyber challenges facing enterprises both today and into the future." "I am excited to once again be at the leading edge of technology and to be working with a team of top 1% veterans of the internet most of whom I worked with at Cisco as we made the internet safe for democracy." Massa continues "WhiteStar's Hyperspace™ is a unique AI enabled technology that solves an existing set of network access problems no VPN addresses while preparing an organization to avoid the risks of what will be cataclysmic changes brought about by quantum computing breaking current encryption." Massa concludes "The beauty of Hyperspace™ is that this is done without having to impact the existing network infrastructure." Rich Moon, WhiteStar Communications, 1 919-949-2925, [email protected], www.hyperspacenetwork.io Do not sell or share my personal information: ShareSaveCommentBusinessSportsMoneyFelipe Massa’s Case Against FIA, FOM, Bernie Ecclestone Heads To Hearing—What To KnowByYara Elshebiny Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights Yara Elshebiny is a freelance Formula 1 journalistFollow AuthorFeb 25 BRAZIL - NOVEMBER 02: Championship rivals Felipe Massa (L) of Brazil and Ferrari and .. More Lewis Hamilton (R) of Great Britain and McLaren Mercedes shake hands at the drivers end of year photo session prior to the Brazilian Formula One Grand Prix at the Interlagos Circuit on November 2 A year has passed since former Brazilian Formula 1 driver Felipe Massa filed a lawsuit in London against the FIA and Bernie Ecclestone over his 2008 title loss winning the first of his seven world titles by just one point over Massa the Brazilian decided to take legal action against the F1 bosses in light of recent developments He is seeking declarations that the FIA “violated its regulations” by overlooking the ‘crashgate’ incident that occurred earlier in the 2008 season in Singapore which he claims cost him his sole world title He is also seeking compensation for lost prize money and other potential bonuses that could have come his way had he emerged victorious Massa’s grievance stems from the scandal-tainted 2008 Singapore Grand Prix during which he was leading the race until the infamous ‘Crashgate’ incident happened In round 15 of the season at the Marina Bay Street Circuit crashed his Renault into the wall at turn 17 on the 14th lap of the race triggering the safety car that played into his teammate Fernando Alonso’s strategy and positioned the Spaniard for a victory While the Brazilian could have won if not for the crash one might argue that the way the team handled the situation afterward pretty much ended any chance they had to save their race the team performed a botched pit stop that saw Massa leave the pits with the fuel hose still attached to his Ferrari By the time he was pushed back and had the hose removed he found himself in last place and subsequently faced a drive-through penalty for an unsafe release Had the situation been handled better and the pit stop gone smoothly he likely would have finished in the top three Brazilian driver Felipe Massa of Ferrari leaves the pits with the fuel hose intact during the final .. More of Formula One's first-ever night race at the Singapore Grand Prix on September 28 Spain's Fernando Alonso won his first race in a year at the Singapore Grand Prix taking the chequered flag in a drama-filled inaugural night race as a comical error cost Felipe Massa dearly AFP PHOTO / POOL / EUGENE HOSHIKO (Photo credit should read EUGENE HOSHIKO/AFP via Getty Images) A year after the crash and following his dismissal from the Renault outfit during the 2009 season Piquet revealed that he had been instructed by team principal Flavio Briatore and executive director of engineering Pat Symonds to deliberately crash his car during the Singapore race to help out Alonso He said that he was asked if he would be willing to “sacrifice his race for the team by causing a safety car” at a specific area on the track where “it did not have any cranes that would allow a damaged car to be swiftly lifted off the track nor did it have any side entrances to the track.” Renault then responded by accusing Nelson and his father of false allegations claiming that it was a blackmail attempt in order to secure his seat for the remainder of 2009 Renault faced charges of conspiracy on September 4 While Renault pledged to fight the allegations that were set to be heard later that month on September 21 the situation took a turn on September 16 when the outfit said that it would not contest the allegations “The team believes that a mistake has been made Flavio Briatore considered himself to be morally responsible and resigned.” Renault was found guilty of race-fixing and was hit with a suspended disqualification from F1 Briatore faced an indefinite ban from all F1 events and any FIA-sanctioned activities a French court overturned both suspensions Nelson Piquet Jr's car is lifted by crane after he was ordered to crash who managed F1 for four decades before being ousted in 2017 revealed in an interview that he and then FIA president Max Mosley were aware of Piquet’s deliberate accident before the conclusion of the 2008 season He said they did not immediately take action on the matter as they “did not want to damage the image of F1,” although the 94-year-old later told Reuters that he doesn’t recall making such comments “We wanted to protect the sport and save it from a huge scandal," Ecclestone told F1-Insider “That’s why I used angelic tongues to persuade my former driver Nelson Piquet to keep calm for the time being there was a rule that a world championship classification after the FIA ​​awards ceremony at the end of the year was untouchable [Lewis] Hamilton was presented with the trophy and everything was fine “We had enough information in time to investigate the matter we should have cancelled the race in Singapore under these conditions.” This revelation had Massa considering legal options to contest the season’s outcome more than 15 years after Hamilton was declared world champion in Brazil BRAZIL - NOVEMBER 02: Felipe Massa of Brazil and Ferrari looks disappointed on the .. More podium after winning the race but losing the World Championship at the Brazilian Formula One Grand Prix at the Interlagos Circuit on November 2 arguing that Massa was a “victim of a conspiracy.” They contended that he has suffered losses amounting to tens of millions of euros in earnings and bonuses due to being deprived of the 2008 title Mr Massa is the rightful 2008 Driver’s Champion and F1 and FIA deliberately ignored the misconduct that cheated him out of that title “Mr Massa is unable to fully quantify his losses at this stage but estimates that they are likely to exceed tens of millions of Euros “This amount does not cover the serious moral and reputational losses suffered by Mr Massa.” Massa’s case revolves around the notion that the FIA could have “promptly investigated” Piquet’s crash before the end-of-year prize-giving ceremony as both Ecclestone and Mosley were aware of it once the awards ceremony for a given year concludes it becomes impossible to overturn the classification from that season Had the Singapore GP race been declared null and void following an investigation it would have meant that Massa would be crowned champion as Hamilton would have lost the six points he earned for finishing in third place This is the only scenario in which Massa could have secured the title If Alonso had simply been disqualified from the Singapore race but the remaining results had stood Hamilton would have moved up to second place ultimately securing the championship over Massa by an additional two points Now Massa is pursuing damages and seeking declarations that the FIA breached its own regulations by the alleged cover-up Brazilian law firm Vieira Rezende Advogados said Felipe Massa filed a lawsuit in the High Court in London England against Formula One Management Limited (FOM) Bernard Charles Ecclestone and the Federation Internationale de L’Automobile (FIA) “Mr Massa is seeking declarations that the FIA breached its regulations by failing to promptly investigate Nelson Piquet Junior’s crash at the 2008 Singapore Grand Prix Mr Massa would have won the drivers’ championship that year “Mr Massa also seeks damages for the significant financial loss he has suffered due to the FIA’s failure in which Mr ­Ecclestone and FOM were also complicit there was 'enough information in time to investigate the matter' in 2008 and 'cancel the race in Singapore' had the results of the 2008 Singapore Grand Prix been cancelled 'Felipe Massa would have become world champion' and that Mr Massa 'was cheated out of the title he deserved' “Attempts to find an amicable resolution have been unsuccessful leaving Mr Massa with no choice but to initiate legal proceedings.” Massa estimates his losses to be around £64 million—equivalent to R$ 435 million or $81 million—for missing out on the 2008 championship The defendants are likely to contend that Massa’s claim is legally unsound as the FIA’s statutes at the time did not allow for revising race results after the season had ended which means his request could be deemed inadmissible Legal precedent also indicates that sporting results are considered final unless a challenge is brought within a specific timeframe failing to file a protest within the 14-day window following the race since the lawsuit focuses on proving a conspiracy—not regarding Piquet’s crash itself but rather an alleged cover-up by the FIA and F1—establishing this in court after more than a decade could prove to be very difficult While Motorsport has reported that the case could be thrown out before it even begins Felipe Massa remains determined to pursue his claim with the first hearings taking place over the last four days in October 2025 Local favorite Evan Beck of Virginia Beach -- ranked No. 5 in the AmateurGolf Mid-Am Rankings -- will play No 13 Bobby Massa in Thursday's 36-hole final at Kinloch Golf Club a former standout at Wake Forest University secured his spot after earning co-medalist honors with Segundo Oliva Pinto might be considered the Cinderella of this dance despite the fact that he is competing in his third U.S Mid-Amateur and advanced to the quarterfinals for the second consecutive time last year.  But Massa has one thing that might make all the difference in a 36-hole match play final at a course as demanding as Kinloch but he hit it by me by 40-50 yards all day," said Jordan Utley who lost to Massa in the round of 16 on a wet day where length made all the difference "He's got an extra gear and is probably the longest player I've ever competed against," added Utley you might remember the commentators' discussion of 36-year-old Massa the personal trainer who finally bowed out to eventual champion Josele Ballester of Spain He is in incredible shape and longer than the average Tour player and can also find narrow fairways The rest of his game holds up under pressure has all the tools in his bag and an envious Mid-Amateur track record -- after gaining his amateur status back -- that includes wins at the most significant events Thomas Invitational at Los Angeles Country Club and the Coleman Invitational at Florida's legendary Seminole Golf Club The winner will receive a "likely" invitation to The Masters Should Beck be the person holding the trophy it will give him one more notch toward a potential spot on the 2025 USA Walker Cup team That position has been held down by Stewart Hagestad an exemption from qualifying for the next 10 U.S Each has been one hole away from defeat throughout the week Both players faced elimination in the round of 16 by going to extra holes with temperatures reaching a high of 80 and mostly cloudy skies Beck's Route#2 Seed (Co-Medalist): Rounds of 68-65R64: Def is a personal trainer who works with golf speed and stability from weekend players to professional athletes This training shows in his driving performance known to be one of the longest players in the field.  A former touring professional Massa's Route#8 Seed: Rounds of 67-68R64: Def View full results for U.S. Mid-Amateur Home  |  Tournaments  |  Courses  |  Equipment  |  Players  |  Rankings  |  About Us  |  Contact Bitterroot Star Bitterroot Valley's best source for local news October 8, 2024 by Editor the Montana based non-profit organization dedicated to providing care support and shelter to teens in crisis in Montana has one less facility in Montana following the closure of the Linda Massa Youth Home in Hamilton last month was rebranded in honor of Linda Massa whose efforts as a founding member of the youth home helped bring structure and security to over 2000 young people during its 22-year run explained the reasoning behind closure of the home “Our referrals had gone way down,” said Wolfe adding that by late summer the home was operating with only three youth in the eight-bed facility The youth who stay in the homes are generally referred to the service from either youth court or from the Child and Family Services Division of Montana Funding does come from the referring service but that is not enough to maintain the home in operation after each of the remaining three youth moved on in mid-September the time had come to close the home’s door Wolfe says that community support of the youth home had never wavered but staffing the home for diminishing numbers would have been a disservice to the community whose largess helped fund an important portion of the home’s operation The decision to close the home was not taken lightly but she said many of the youth who had been placed recently had required a level of mental and legal resources that were hard to obtain in Hamilton but the closure ultimately was a financial decision had been a school teacher prior to beginning the hardware and building supply business which still holds the Massa name and Wolfe said that her mother always had a soft spot for children Massa was one of the founding board members of the youth home and very passionate about helping kids whenever able to even have helped one child would have been worth it all,” said Wolfe It is just a huge honor for her name to be associated with that.” Youth Homes provides places for Montana youth who have experienced abuse or family instability through a variety of housing arrangements including short term crisis shelters therapeutic group homes and long term living The organization also provides foster care adoption and outpatient services which reach hundreds of Montana families yearly has experienced a dramatic change in numbers in recent years said that only several years ago Montana had “one of the largest numbers of youth in the foster care system,” with over 4000 youth in the system A number of changes have led to the decline in numbers that Schaer and other providers have noticed Schaer made it clear that the closure would not mean a disadvantage to those Bitterroot Valley youth who need placement since there are still available locations in nearby Missoula the track record of what the Linda Massa Youth Home accomplished is beyond laudable “The Linda Massa Youth Home has had successes for 20 years,” she said and we don’t want to diminish those successes Those successes are still out there and living their lives and so we are so grateful for the community for the work that they’ve allowed us to do there.” Filed Under: News October 14, 2024 at 8:51 AM I wish you had interviewed the staff who have a much different and more accurate perspective of what happened not accurate and not what happened or why the home closed October 17, 2024 at 10:51 PM Alcoholics Anonymous is open to all who have a desire to stop drinking The Stevensville Al-Anon Family Group meets weekly at 7 p.m Monday at the Stevensville United Methodist Church Enter the church through the Fellowship Hall door next to […] Please update our weekly listing to the following: The Stevensville Al-Anon Family Group meets weekly at 7 p.m Join Summit Independent Living for Art Expressions -- our all-abilities art club -- every Tuesday in 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Hamilton Every 4th Tuesday of the month for the monthly Guild meeting The purpose of the GUILD is to contribute to the growth and knowledge of hand knitting – Bobby Massa is a 36-year-old performance coach from Dallas father of a 14-month-old with another on the way “The guy absolutely sends it out there,” said fellow mid-amateur Andrew von Lossow who played a practice round with Massa last weekend ahead of the 124th U.S You could say Massa practices what he preaches a performance center owned by former NBA player Melvin Sanders Massa teaches his clients how to hit the ball far Everyone from the weekend golfer to the professional athlete Massa helps them unlock their fast-twitch fibers so they can attempt to swing it like Massa who currently cruises at a swift 127 mph swing speed and up to 190 mph ball speed Duke’s Luke Sample got VIP access to the launch – and Massa’s length ultimately wore on the world’s 73rd-ranked amateur where he missed the cut by a shot at Cherry Hills by not only qualifying for match play but dispatching Sample who trailed 1 down through four holes before winning five straight holes “And with me being able to hit it as far as these kids long from a young age as he matured late and was always trying to get the most out of his frame played college golf for Texas-Arlington before graduating and turning pro in 2010 But just five years later he was giving up the game too embarrassed to even play casually with his friends “I couldn’t break 90 to save my life,” Massa said There were many attempts where I didn’t get to finish because I ran out of golf balls 150 yards offline was a cupcake at that time.” everything fell into place with my job,” Massa said Instruction eventually re-ignited Massa’s passion for the sport He began studying the golf swing and started spending more time practicing on his own game and a year after that he played his first tournament in about a half-decade “and I wanted to hopefully get back to where I could play again and just enjoy the process of it … My confidence started to grow and my misses shrunk.” Massa finished second at the Texas State Amateur and last year he reached the quarterfinals of that championship while also Monday-qualifying for the PGA Tour’s AT&T Byron Nelson He’s one of five mid-amateurs to advance to match play at Hazeltine That group included 39-year-old Jimmy Ellis Massa’s Round-of-32 opponent is incoming Stanford freshman TK Chantananuwat who won an Asian Tour event in 2022 to become the youngest player to ever win an OWGR-ranked tournament at 15 years the runner-up in last year’s championship at Sleepy Hollow Country Club eliminated former Clemson University All-American Stephen Behr Jr. a Wake Forest University graduate who is No 32 in the World Amateur Golf Ranking®/WAGR® Mid-Amateur history to play in consecutive finals George Zahringer (2001-02) and Nathan Smith (2009-10) Zahringer is the only competitor from that group to have lost and then returned to win on the back end of the double Beck is vying to be the first medalist/co-medalist to claim the title since Scott Harvey in 2014 Thursday’s champion earns an exemption into the 2025 U.S Open at Oakmont (Pa.) Country Club and a likely invitation to next April’s Masters.“Definitely heard about him I'll see that up close tomorrow.”Massa a former mini-tour professional who regained his status five years ago and has twice Monday qualified for the AT&T Byron Nelson Classic in the Dallas Metroplex 10 years apart (2013 and 2023) put on quite a display of power and shot-making in defeating Kittleson Ariz.Possessed with PGA Tour-quality clubhead (130 mph) and ball speed (188-190) from the weight and flexibility training he preaches to clients at SandersFit Performance Center Massa dominated Kinloch’s opening nine starting with four consecutive birdies from the opening hole.But Kittleson Amateur during his halcyon days at Florida State University was only 2 down thank to a pair of birdies on Nos Massa topped Kittleson’s 20-footer with one of nearly equal length 2 and 3 gave him a lead he would not relinquish Outside of a three-putt bogey on the par-3 sixth from 25 feet Massa was nearly flawless on the opening nine holes where he drove the 328-yard sixth hole to set up a 15-foot hard-breaking eagle putt that found the hole who played 3-under-par golf over the 15 holes with the usual match-play concessions but Massa won the 10th with a par and birdied the 601-yard 12th for a 4-up advantage the match was over.“You don't even think about it who played collegiately at the University of Texas-Arlington and is competing in his third U.S Just happened to be in a rhythm and the shots were coming out it was good to see.” Added Kittleson Amateur Four-Ball Championship with partner and Sirius/XM Radio PGA Tour Network personality Drew Stoltz: “He played amazing There's no scenario where somebody would have beat him resident who caddies at Kiawah Island Resort’s famed Ocean Course Beck managed a clutch two-putt par from 45 feet to advance but he didn’t quite execute his pitch from 20 yards short of the green “You see all these people hanging around You get a little nervous,” said Doyal an Auburn University graduate competing in his first USGA championship but I still kind of gave myself a chance at it Just couldn't convert.”Doyal had rallied from a 2-down deficit to tie the match with a par on No only to see Beck drain a 15-foot birdie on the challenging par-3 16th to regain the lead.Will Davenport who built as much as a 5-up lead thru 11 holes fought off a lot of mud balls from the overnight and early-morning rain in his 1-down loss to Kittleson in the second of the morning quarterfinal matches Neither player enjoyed more than a 1-up lead throughout with Kittleson taking the advantage for good with a birdie on No [and] I don't think he was as sharp either,” said Harvey Amateur Four-Ball with partner Todd Mitchell and I made [one] bogey…Hard to make birdies out there You could tell it was going to be tight all the way.”The first quarterfinal saw Massa take out 2022 semifinalist Josh Persons Holding a 1-up lead after a winning par on the seventh hole the two tied the next nine holes – they both birdied the 439-yard 10th – before Massa closed it out with a 12-foot birdie on No Thursday’s 36-hole championship match is scheduled for 7:10 a.m with the resumption after the lunch break at noon Both semifinal losers Drew Kittleson and Stephen Behr Jr received bronze medals and exemptions into the next two U.S The 2025 event will be at Troon Country Club and the 2026 championship is scheduled for the Sand Valley Resort (Lido Course) Wis.Both finalists are now exempt into the 125th U.S Bobby Massa already earned a spot from his quarterfinal run in this year’s U.S Amateur.Five of the eight quarterfinalists were reinstated amateurs did not turn professional after college.The week began with 75 Kinloch caddies being employed by competitors Twelve advanced to the Round of 32 and four were in the quarterfinals: Matt Jenkins (for Scott Harvey) who played collegiately at Virginia Commonwealth and Radford has caddied on the Korn Ferry Tour this year for Connor Burgess.Dan Zaleski is a friend from Arizona who is a parking attendant at Whisper Rock Golf Club this will be the third time in the last decade that two single-digit seeds will square off in the final Scott Harvey (1 seed) defeated fellow co-medalist Brad Nurski (2 seed) at Saucon Valley Matthew McClean (7 seed) beat Hugh Foley (5 seed) at Erin Hills Beck is the 2 seed and Massa was seeded No 8 after stroke play.The hallway leading from the pro shop to the grill room inside the Kinloch Golf Club clubhouse is an homage to co-founder and decorated amateur champion Marvin “Vinny” Giles with a number of photos from his exploits on the golf course Senior Amateur while also competing on four USA Walker Cup Teams and captaining another (1993) who also captured the 1975 British Amateur helped design Kinloch with architect Lester George Giles spent time this week greeting competitors He recently shot a 68 at Kinloch while playing with head pro Andrew Black Amateur champion/1977 PGA Championship winner Lanny Wadkins The inaugural Giles Invitational will be staged next spring Quotable“It's nice to have another shot and hopefully will carry that on to tomorrow.” – Evan Beck“It's been great and I have a lot of friends and family come out really nice.” – Beck on the support he has received“I mean Anybody that doesn't say there will not be [those thoughts] is not human Just try to keep one foot in front of the other and one hole at a time.” – Bobby Massa when asked about the perks that go to the champion“I've felt like I've played a million 36-hole days these last three days I don't think that ought to be that much different I have not played any other 36-hole matches.” – Massa on playing in his first 36-hole final“It was very nice for my wife (Kelsey) and my son (Stone) to come I played the Crump [Cup] last week [at Pine Valley] I know I have the game [to compete in the U.S I just have other things going on in my life I don't get maybe the opportunities that others get So if you give me two weeks to like kind of tighten up I'm very content with it.” – Drew Kittleson who helps run the family kitchen and remodeling business on the challenges of balancing competitive golf with work“My father when I was probably 12 years old we moved to…Troon Country Club Never a member there or anything but lived there I think people are going to be very interested to see it.” – Kittleson on next year’s Mid-Am venue“It was a long week lots of stress of just hoping to even be able to even make it to match play Then once I got in match play [out of the 14-for-12 playoff] I was kind of like I'm just playing with house money right now It was really fun playing against Evan today.” – Connor Doyal“I love it I feel like this Mid-Am was a notch above the rest of them And knowing [two-time USGA champion] Vinny [Giles] adds a lot personally to me I don't know if other people feel that way but it adds a little something for me.” – Scott Harvey summing up his week at KinlochDavid Shefter is a senior staff writer at the USGA « Back launched a reportedly $82 million lawsuit against the FIA and former F1 CEO Ecclestone about a year ago He alleges that 2023 comments by Ecclestone made abundantly clear that both F1 and the FIA had sufficient knowledge prior to the end of the 2008 season - before the 'crashgate' scandal emerged publicly - that Nelson Piquet had crashed his Renault on purpose in Singapore Respected specialist publications are now reporting that the High Court has set a date for the opening of the proceedings - October 28 of this year which is coincidentally Ecclestone's birthday Also summoned to the proceedings are FIA and FOM representatives leaving Mr Massa no option but legal action Massa's lawyers at Vieira Rezende Advogados declared He seeks justice for a historic wrong and compensation for his losses told Globo: This fight is about fairness in sport The courts will decide what the FIA and FOM refused to address The FIA and F1 commercial rights holder Liberty Media have not commented on the latest developments But reporting from Bahrain ahead of pre-season testing long-serving F1 journalist Roger Benoit said in Blick newspaper: The trial is no longer about the world championship title but only about a possible multi-million compensation payment to Massa Photo by: Alexander Trienitz / Motorsport Images Felipe Massa is hoping to bring his legal challenge against Formula 1 the FIA and Bernie Ecclestone to trial after a date has been set for October – but it might never make it that far The former Ferrari driver is seeking damages having been narrowly beaten to the F1 drivers' title by Lewis Hamilton in 2008 The claims are based on the Singapore Grand Prix ‘Crashgate’ incident, which saw Renault’s Nelson Piquet Jr intentionally slam into the barriers to bring out a safety car and aid team-mate Fernando Alonso in securing the victory it is slated to be heard at the King’s Bench Division of the High Court although Autosport understands there is a strike-out application which could see the case thrown out before it begins FIA and Ecclestone) are likely to have claimed there is no substance to Massa's case which could be linked to the speculative outcome of the 2008 title fight and if the Singapore fallout should have been handled differently Massa ultimately missed out on the title by a single point having finished down in 13th in Singapore after qualifying on pole and leading the race before Piquet’s misdemeanour the Brazilian announced he planned to take F1 FIA and Ecclestone to court after the latter gave an interview in which he revealed that he and then-FIA president Max Mosley knew about the controversy surrounding Piquet’s crash before the end of the 2008 season who has since claimed he has no recollection of the interview told F1-Insider in April 2023: “According to the statutes we should have cancelled the race in Singapore under those conditions “That means it would never have happened for the world championship standings Then Felipe Massa would have become world champion and not Lewis Hamilton…today I would have arranged things differently.” Ecclestone went on to say that he and Mosley did not take action so as not to “harm the image” of F1 but has since admitted he understands why Massa has taken legal action Those comments will form the basis of Massa’s case with his defence claiming he was the victim of a conspiracy – not in relation to the Piquet incident in Singapore Massa is seeking to overturn the result of the Singapore Grand Prix and now has his court date set a year and half after Ecclestone’s revelations first led to the 43-year-old beginning legal proceedings Photo by: Simon Galloway / Motorsport Images Massa said: “I hope the correct thing happens for something that was not part of the sport that punished me big time especially after 16 years and on hearing things which you never thought it was really like that.” In a context of global climate change one might be forgiven for worrying about the future of Merlot in Italy I am reminded that the best of super-Tuscany terroirs continue to produce some of the world’s greatest Merlots something entirely new – Asiram from Tenuta La Massa La Massa’s infectiously enthusiastic founder Asiram “was created in 2019 as a tribute to both Merlot and to my mother” whose name—read from right to left (A-S-I-R-A-M) – lived on in this unique and fabulous moncépage single-plot Merlot and played a crucial role in the birth of Tenuta La Massa 30 years ago “the idea came to me of celebrating her memory through a wine,” Giampaolo recalls Merlot is a varietal that has always been loved by those who grow it in Tuscany and it has the habit of becoming almost something of a winemaker’s obsession The Merlot for Asiram is sourced from La Massa’s hillside vineyard parcel no 4 – a parcel of just 8000 square metres (around half a hectare) of distinctive blue clay sinks its roots into soils that were made unique by the shifting of different layers over geological eras allowing the roots to extract their very distinctive character and eloquent minerality 4 “has always been the most complex and comprehensive” in the estate “It has always intrigued me with its uniqueness with its ability to blend together the characteristics of Merlot grown in clay and that grown in limestone,” he said just as if the vineyard itself showed us the path we should take” making a wine is about interpreting a place and giving it its own voice but also the voices of important people in my life but also that of our mother par excellence: Mother Nature.” There is no doubt that Asiram 2019 is a brilliantly authentic expression of the singular soils of Conca d’Oro di Panzano in Chianti Its vinification requires an obsessively strict quality selection of the fruit upon its arrival in the wine cellar to maximise both the volume and terroir signature of the wine The wine then matures on its lees in 50% new oak barrels for 7-8 months before a further 18-20 months of additional ageing was produced in a limited-edition of 1,800 bottles It was released on the 4 November and is available on allocation directly from the property Asiram (La Massa) 2019 (Toscana IGT; 100% Merlot from the 0.5 hectares of vineyard plot number 4 on blue clay and calcareous schist; on direct allocation from the property; tasted twice first with Motta at the property in June and then in October from a sample sent to Paris) I am the first person from outside of the vineyard to taste this a little held-back at first in this still nascent stage but utterly divine already Gorgeous texturally and wonderfully poised and tense but dense and concentrated and yet with lovely ripples of freshness welling up from below and swirling in the mid-palate like little whirlpools There’s a brilliant sapidity and a lovely grip and plume on the finish with a little menthol lift and a touch of aged balsamic A wine made with great love that expresses so eloquently the great love that inspires it We are using cookies to give you the best experience on our website You can find out more about which cookies we are using or switch them off in settings This website uses cookies so that we can provide you with the best user experience possible Cookie information is stored in your browser and performs functions such as recognising you when you return to our website and helping our team to understand which sections of the website you find most interesting and useful Strictly Necessary Cookie should be enabled at all times so that we can save your preferences for cookie settings we will not be able to save your preferences This means that every time you visit this website you will need to enable or disable cookies again 2025–Denielle Gallagher rode the Lusitano gelding Come Back de Massa to a personal best score to win the CDI3* Grand Prix Freestyle Saturday for first double victory for the partnership The score of 71.475% was a Big Tour career high for the Canadian rider Denielle and the 13-year-old Come Back de Massa won the Grand Prix Friday in the third year of international competition Eline Eckroth of Ocala on the 14-year-old Oldenburg mare also posted a personal best 69.325% for runner-up Eline and Daphne began Small Tour in 2020 and moved up to Grand Prix less than three months ago The results moved Denielle into equal fifth place on the US Open leaderboard while Eline is tied in 11th place for the series leading to the $250,000 Final in California in November As Felipe Massa continues his legal challenge against the outcome of the 2008 World Championship he claims title winner Lewis Hamilton is not a factor Massa’s representatives have filed a lawsuit against Formula 1 governing body the FIA and former F1 boss Bernie Ecclestone regarding the F1 2008 World title which is centred on the events of that year’s Singapore Grand Prix ‘Crashgate’ scandal Renault ordered Nelson Piquet Jr to crash deliberately and bring out the Safety Car which helped team-mate Fernando Alonso to score the win Massa having been leading until pitting under that Safety Car and suffering a critical refuelling error as he drove off with the fuel hose It later emerged in a 2023 interview that – as per Ecclestone – he then-FIA president Max Mosley and race director Charlie Whiting knew of this ‘Crashgate’ scandal already in 2008 but the former F1 supremo subsequently rowed back on those comments telling Reuters: “I don’t remember any of this I don’t remember giving the interview for sure.” As for Massa, when aked by the Dutch edition of Motorsport.com whether he has ever spoken to Hamilton about this controversy the former Ferrari driver simply replied: “No.” Hamilton went on to clinch the title by a single point over Massa after a dramatic final lap of the Brazilian Grand Prix Hamilton’s late overtake on Toyota’s Timo Glock bringing the Massa camp celebrations to an abrupt end as Massa seeks expulsion from the Formula 1 record books for the 2008 Singapore Grand Prix he made it clear that Hamilton does not play a part in all of this this is not a fight with Lewis,” said Massa “Lewis has nothing to do with this fight at all “The fight is about what happened in the race The fight is that this race should be scrapped 2008 marked the first of a record-equalling seven World Championship triumphs for Hamilton but Massa strives for recognition as a champion in his own right “We are definitely fighting something that was not fair, for what happened,” he said. “What I absolutely strive for is to be recognised. To be recognised as a champion because I deserve that “It was not fair what happened to me because of something that happened during the race and is not part of the sport and I’m definitely fighting to the end.” 👉 From Multi-21 to Crashgate: The six most controversial F1 team order calls of all time 👉 The eight most expensive penalties in F1 history: Which team has paid the largest amount? Massa stated his belief that there is “every possibility” he wins this case “It’s something that we will fight until the end it does not depend on me anymore,” he said “I really believe that we have a bigger case and every possibility to win the case “The only thing I can say is that we are fighting for the justice because it was not fair what happened to me.” Read next: Felipe Massa calls out Daniel Ricciardo after ‘not particularly nice joke’ made © Planet Sport Limited 2025 • All Rights Reserved playBurley slams VAR 'nonsense' after Konaté wasn't sent off vs PSG (1:08)Craig Burley wonders how Ibrahima Konaté managed to avoid getting sent off in Liverpool's win vs Italian referee Davide Massa was screamed at by Paris Saint-Germain soccer adviser Luis Campos for not awarding a penalty or a red card during PSG's 1-0 defeat to Liverpool in the Champions League on Wednesday Massa went to a red card check to decide if Ibrahima Konaté had pushed PSG forward Bradley Barcola in the back in the 25th minute at Parc des Princes But no foul was given and Konaté stayed on Match broadcaster Canal Plus showed images of a furious Campos shouting at Massa as he walked down the tunnel at half-time and berated him loudly "It's a red card or penalty in every part of the world," he screamed at the top of his voice in English Two years ago Campos came down onto the side of the field to complain about the refereeing during a French league game against Lille PSG midfielder Vitinha did not blame the referee I was far away so I couldn't see it," he said Liverpool coach Arne Slot said Massa handled the game well "It's not easy if you are a referee in a game like this when the fans are so there for the home team," Slot said "I don't feel he was in favour of us or in favour of them I think he was a top referee in a game like this." PSG coach Luis Enrique said "I don't really like to speak about refereeing." Information from The Associated Press contributed to this report Link IconCopy linkFacebook LogoShare on FacebookXShare on XEmailShare via EmailLink copied to clipboardContractor who testified against Johnny Doc gets probation in Local 98 embezzlement caseAnthony Massa emerged as a key witness in Dougherty’s 2023 embezzlement trial He is the only member of the ex-union chief's inner circle to ever have agreed to testify against him READING — The only member of John Dougherty’s inner circle to ever agree to testify against him was spared prison time and granted probation Thursday in recognition of the role he played in securing the former labor leader’s conviction He walked jurors through detailed records he’d kept on hundreds of thousands of dollars in renovation work he’d done at the homes of Dougherty his relatives and other union officials — all of it charged to Local 98 where everyone else was tight-lipped in a very tight-knit community,” Assistant U.S Attorney Jason Grenell said as Massa faced sentencing Thursday “He was the only one in this case who stood up and did that right thing.” While federal sentencing guidelines called for a sentence of anywhere from a year to a year and a half behind bars the judge noted that Massa pleaded guilty relatively quickly after he Dougherty and six other union officials and allies were indicted in 2019 and made the difficult decision to cooperate with the government Schmehl sentenced Massa to three years’ probation and 120 hours of community service He also ordered the contractor to pay back more than $84,000 to the union as well as a $10,000 fine The significance of Massa’s decision to do what those others would not the contracting work Massa’s company performed on the personal residences of Burrows Dougherty and Dougherty’s family between 2010 and 2016 was by far the largest expense the union leaders improperly paid for with Local 98 money Massa’s firm carried out a complete remodel of Burrows’ primary bathroom and installed a walk-in closet at the union leader’s Mount Laurel home at a cost of more than $30,000 The contractor told jurors that Burrows told him to hide the charge for that job by padding invoices for other work he was simultaneously overseeing for Local 98 he performed more than $35,000 of work — jobs that included leak repair and drywall installation between 2010 and 2016 Dougherty insisted he had no idea where Massa was sending the bills that the contractor was doing the work for free in gratitude for the lucrative work Local 98 had steered his way over the years jurors — believing Massa’s word — convicted Dougherty and Burrows both of whom have since been sentenced to hefty prison terms Burrows was sentenced in June to four years. declined the opportunity to address the court during his sentencing hearing Thursday But as he emerged from the Reading courthouse — one of the few charged in the case to avoid a future in prison — the contractor’s lawyer defended his client’s choices “All of the defendants in this case are basically good people who — some by their own admission — just lost their way,” attorney William J Brennan added: “He did what he had to do to protect his family and himself.” 2025–Canada’s Denielle Gallagher and her Lusitano gelding Come Back de Massa won the CDI3* Grand Prix for the first Big Tour victory for the partnership Denielle and the 13-year-old gelding that she has competed in Florida for the past three years scored 65.739% for the win in a field that was reduced to four starting combinations to qualify for the Freestyle A Grand Prix to qualify for the Special also did not count when the single entry retired Felipe Massa has been given an October date for the first hearings of his case against Formula 1 bosses over the 2008 season The Brazilian’s case will be heard on October 28 in the UK High Court with Massa contesting the result of the 2008 Singapore Grand Prix The infamous ‘Crashgate’ was thought to have been consigned to F1’s past but revelations by Bernie Ecclestone to F1 Insider in March 2023 revealed both he and FIA president Max Mosley knew the crash was deliberate during the 2008 season something they had previously claimed otherwise Massa filed a case with the British courts claiming “moral” and “reputational” damages as a result of the incident A date of October 28 to 31 has now been set as the starting point of proceedings will be required to appear in the London court as the case is heard for the first time Massa told PlanetF1.com in March that he is “here to be recognised as World Champion” having lost out on the 2008 title to Lewis Hamilton by one point It remains unlikely that Massa will be handed the F1 title as a result of the proceedings meaning financial compensation could be handed out should the Brazilian win Massa’s legal team sent preservation notices on documentation to several associated parties in the case as did Alpine (the current iteration of the Renault F1 team) and FIA sporting director Steve Nielsen (then-sporting director at Renault) These were instructions to all parties that they have a duty to the court to ensure the preservation of any relevant documentation under their control that may be relevant to the proceedings A preservation notice is an instruction to ensure documentation is not deleted Explained: Why is Felipe Massa legally challenging Lewis Hamilton’s 2008 World title? Felipe Massa not in ‘a fight with Lewis Hamilton’ amid F1 2008 title court battle Any and all documentation and information pertinent to the case which could include sponsorship agreements communications with FOM and the FIA about the events of 2008 and ’09 and any documentation regarding the investigation into Renault and the World Motor Sport Council’s reportage were also to be retained Massa’s legal representative Bernardo Viana said: “FIA and FOM are completing an internal investigation “They have requested one last extension to the deadline they initially asked for “We have agreed to this final period because if the new administration is indeed looking into the matter in good faith they will certainly reach the same conclusion we and so many people around the world have “We would like to know what Formula 1’s new leadership’s position is on the recently disclosed scandal and the injustice faced by Felipe Massa.” Read next: Booing is a part of sport – so why should F1 be exempt?