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During a men?s football game at Jack Trice Stadium in 2005, Cy the Cardinal famously took a backseat as the team?s mascot when a real tornado touched down in Ames, Iowa, very near to the stadium. Fans were evacuated to the parking lot or the nearby Hilton Coliseum until the danger had passed. Iowa State would use that as motivation is the game Cheap Washington Redskin Jerseys , as they would upset the favoured Colorado Buffaloes 30 16.

Iowa State competes against Kansas State, the University of Colorado, the University of Kansas, the University of Missouri, the University of Nebraska, Baylor University, Oklahoma State, Texas A & M Cheap Redskin Jerseys , Texas Tech, the University of Oklahoma, and the University of Texas. Iowa has won 14 conference championships over the years, but none in more than a dozen years, as the school has slashed funding to its sports programs.

Iowa State has few major rivalries, with the most notable being their clashes with the University of Iowa, in which the Cy Hawk Trophy is put up for grabs. The trophy features both schools mascots, Cy the Cardinal Troy Apke Redskin Jersey , and Herky the Kawkeye, emblazoned on the front of the trophy, with a football player running with a ball atop it, much like the Heisman Trophy.

One sport where Iowa State receives national attention is their wrestling program, which has won 8 national titles, and produced a number of world class wrestlers and Olympians. Most recently, Cael Sanderson, the current head coach of the Iowa State wrestling program Geron Christian Redskin Jersey , won gold at the 2004 Olympics in Athens following a four year collegiate wrestling stint in which he went undefeated with a record of 159 0. Cael has led the current program to three straight conference titles, and a 2nd place finish nationally in 2007.
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China's leading new-energy carmaker BYD announced Tuesday that it will build a monorail transit system in the Philippines.[Photo: people]

SHENZHEN, Aug. 22 (Xinhua) -- China's leading new-energy carmaker BYD announced Tuesday that it will build a monorail transit system in the Philippines.


The Shenzhen-based company said the 20-km monorail would be put into operation in the city of Iloilo by 2019.


BYD designed the system, named Yungui (meaning Cloud Rail), and is capable of making the trains, laying the rail, constructing stations and setting up the communication system on its own, the company said.


The cost and other details of the project were not revealed.


BYD said its trains were designed to run at maximum 80 km per hour. The system will cost much less than a conventional metro system.


Last October Derrius Guice Redskin Jersey , BYD's first monorail debuted in Shenzhen and many other smaller Chinese cities have ordered it since, the company said.


Liu Xueliang, BYD's sales manager for the Asia-Pacific region, said the company was also in talks with the Iloilo government to introduce new energy buses and cooperate with local universities to train transport professionals.






A worker pour sand into the sandbox of a locomotive at the Pyramid South station, north of Pretoria, South Africa, on July 27, 2017. 305 of the 554 locally assembled locomotives have been delivered to South Africa since October 2012 when the South Africa state rail company Transnet contracted the Chinese Zhuzhou Electric Locomotives Company under the Chinese locomotive manufacturer CRRC to supply first 95 locomotives. In March 2014 Da'Ron Payne Redskin Jersey , the two sides sighed a new contact including the supply of other 459 locomotives. In an interview with Xinhua at the Africa Rail 2017 conference and exhibition held in Johannesburg on June 14, 2017, Thamsanqa Jiyane, Chief Advanced Manufacturing Officer of Transnet, said that "the Chinese have brought a new kind of partnership where they impart skills for our future use on our own." Wang Guojun, General Manager of CRRC South Africa, told Xinhua that several thousand jobs have been created directly or indirectly for South Africa because of the cooperation.(XinhuaZhai Jianlan)