David Coote will not appeal against the termination of his contract by referees’ body PGMOL, the PA news agency understands. Coote was sacked earlier this month after the emergence of a video in which he made derogatory remarks about Liverpool and their former manager Jurgen Klopp. Professional Game Match Officials Limited (PGMOL) said that a thorough investigation had concluded he was “in serious breach of the provisions of his employment contract, with his position deemed untenable”. “Supporting David Coote continues to be important to us and we remain committed to his welfare,” PGMOL’s statement on December 9 added. Coote had the right to appeal against the decision but PA understands the Nottinghamshire referee has decided not to. The video which triggered PGMOL’s investigation into Coote’s conduct first came to public attention on November 11. In it, Coote is asked for his views on a Liverpool match where he has just been fourth official, and describes them as “s***”. He then describes Klopp as a “c***”, and, asked why he felt that way, Coote says the German had “a right pop at me when I reffed them against Burnley in lockdown” and had accused him of lying. “I have got no interest in speaking to someone who’s f****** arrogant, so I do my best not to speak to him,” Coote said. Later in the video, Coote again refers to Klopp, this time as a “German c***”. The Football Association opened its own investigation into that video, understood to be centred on that last comment and whether Coote’s reference to Klopp’s nationality constituted an aggravated breach of its misconduct rules. The investigation by PGMOL which led to Coote’s contract being terminated is also understood to have looked at another video which appeared to show Coote snorting a white powder, purportedly during Euro 2024 where he was one of the assistant VARs for the tournament. European football’s governing body UEFA also appointed an ethics investigator to look into the matter.The Indigenous ancestry of the Métis Nation of Ontario’s (MNO) chair is being brought into question. While currently on leave as he deals with health issues, reports provided to MidlandToday suggest Hank Rowlinson doesn’t have any actual First Nation, Métis or Inuit blood. Rowlinson, who grew up in Sault Ste. Marie and now lives with his wife in Sudbury, says these allegations are false and that he has hired an investigator to track down the perpetrators. “It’s a drive-by smear campaign,” Rowlinson tells MidlandToday during a phone interview. “It’s not the first time. I’m just the flavour of the month they’re going after. Somebody started with false information and it’s like everything — it snowballs.” Last month, “expert genealogist” Cindy Cook sent MidlandToday a family tree and other documentation that she says shows that Rowlinson has no Indigenous roots. “I have thoroughly vetted this information,” she says. “I live where the chair of the MNO was raised and know his family and know that he is in no way Aboriginal.” In a social media post, Indigenous activist Crystal Semaganis says she and Rowlinson have many common friends and he is, by all accounts, a “popular” guy. “Everyone figures that because he is chair of the Métis Nation of Ontario and you’ve seen him at recent events like the MNO’s Annual Grifters Assembly . . . I mean AGA . . . everyone is going to assume this man is Métis. “He is not, not one drop of FNMI blood -- like the majority of the MNO is . . . not even Métis.” Semaganis says her organization, the Ghost Warrior Society, estimates that only 15 per cent of MNO members “are actually Red River. Forty per cent are non-status descendants of a First Nation, and the rest are straight-up settlers like Henry here.” When it comes to Rowlinson, Semaganis says an ancestry profile shows that his father was Serbian and there are no Indigenous descendants on his mother’s side. “Shake that tree as hard as you want, and nothing but settlers falls out of that tree.” But Rowlinson says those raising concerns don’t have the proper information regarding his ancestry. “My great-grandmother and great-grandfather hail from Manitoba. That’s where I get my Métis ancestry from. They got scrip,” he says, noting Alfred Oliver Roy and Kathy Amandière (sp.) were from St. Norbert, Man. “If they had the proper information on my ancestry and know the history of my family, they would obviously not be targeting me.” Rowlinson says he’s satisfied the citizen requirements of the MNO and that “I’ve proven myself through a third-party registry, Know History.” Once his investigator tracks down the names and addresses of those who are saying he’s not Métis, Rowlinson says his lawyer will file a “libel, slander and defamation lawsuit against everybody involved.” Rowlinson says the MNO takes ensuring the legitimacy of its registry seriously. “With the Métis Nation of Ontario, we have a third-party registrar. There’s no political interference. We’ve just gone through an in-depth review of everybody’s file.” Rowlinson says he doesn’t understand why the MNO is being targeted by various groups, including the Manitoba Métis Federation and Chiefs of Ontario, which held a conference highlighting what it sees as Indigenous identity fraud earlier this year. Adds Rowlinson: “If they had the education (they wouldn’t). You can’t change the facts of history.” Semaganis, meanwhile, is irked that the MNO continues to receive large amounts of annual funding since it’s “tight with (Premier) Doug Ford to keep the money train going. Disgusting.” The MNO receives close to $150 million in annual funding from the provincial and federal governments, something that upsets Semaganis, who is originally from Saskatchewan but now lives in Ontario. “They have more funding and programs, post-secondary education dollars than a Status Indian does in Ontario and probably more than any in Canada.” Until recently, the Ghost Warrior Society listed people across the country, who it determined weren’t actually Indigenous. It still offers resources for those looking to uncover what it calls ‘Pretendians’ along with a cartoon bear video . On its website, the MNO notes that Rowlinson has more than 25 years of full-time experience working various roles within the MNO. “A steadfast advocate for the Métis, Hank brings commitment, experience and determination that is needed as we enter into an era of self-government,” the MNO notes. “Respecting our statement of prime purpose, Hank believes that the way forward needs to be one of hope, optimism and vigilance and that we must be united to overcome barriers that may stand in our way.” Last year, the MNO featured 19 people on the province‘s so-called Sunshine List , with Rowlinson receiving $120,800 in compensation.
Crew members aboard the International Space Station celebrate the holiday season in a unique way while living and working at the orbiting laboratory. Each crew member, including the current Expedition 72, spends time enjoying the view of Earth from the space station, privately communicating with their friends and families, and sharing a joint meal with their expedition crewmates, while continuing experiments and station maintenance. As the first crew to spend Christmas in space and leave Earth orbit, Apollo 8 astronauts Frank Borman, James Lovell, and William Anders, celebrated while circling the Moon in December 1968. The crew commemorated Christmas Eve by reading opening verses from the Bible’s Book of Genesis as they broadcast scenes of the lunar surface below. An estimated one billion people across 64 countries tuned in to the crew’s broadcast. In 1973, Skylab 4 astronauts Gerald Carr, Edward Gibson, and William Pogue celebrated Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year’s in space, as the first crew to spend the harvest festival and ring in the new year while in orbit. The crew built a homemade tree from leftover food containers, used colored decals as decorations, and topped it with a cardboard cutout in the shape of a comet. Carr and Pogue conducted a seven-hour spacewalk to change out film canisters and observe the passing Comet Kohoutek on Dec. 15, 1973. Once back inside the space station, the crew enjoyed a holiday dinner complete with fruitcake, communicated with their families, and opened presents. After NASA launched the agency’s Hubble Space Telescope into Earth’s orbit in 1990, NASA sent a space shuttle crew on a mission, STS-61, to service the telescope. In 1993, NASA astronaut Jeffrey Hoffman celebrated Hanukkah after completing the third spacewalk of the servicing mission. Hoffman celebrated with a traveling menorah and dreidel. As NASA continued to support another Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission, the STS-103 crew celebrated the first space shuttle Christmas aboard Discovery in 1999. NASA astronauts Curtis Brown, Scott Kelly, Steven Smith, John Grunsfeld, and Michael Foale, along with ESA (European Space Agency) astronauts Jean-François Clervoy and Claude Nicollier enjoyed duck foie gras on Mexican tortillas, cassoulet, and salted pork with lentils. Smith and Grunsfeld completed repairs on the telescope during a spacewalk on Dec. 24, 1999, and at least one American astronaut has celebrated Christmas in space every year since. In November 2000, the arrival of Expedition 1 crew members, NASA astronaut William Shepherd and Roscosmos cosmonauts Yuri Gidzenko and Sergei Krikalev, aboard the International Space Station, marked the beginning of a continuous presence in space. As the first crew to celebrate the holiday season at the laboratorial outpost, they began the tradition of reading a goodwill message to those back on Earth. Shepherd honored a naval tradition of writing a poem as the first entry of the new year in the ship’s log. For more than 24 years, NASA has supported a continuous U.S. human presence aboard the International Space Station, through which astronauts have learned to live and work in space for extended periods of time. As NASA supports missions to and from the station, crew members have continued to celebrate the holidays in space. Expedition 70 flight engineer NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli’s husband and daughters made a felt menorah for her to celebrate Hanukkah during her mission. Since astronauts can’t light real candles aboard the space station, Moghbeli pinned felt “lights” for each night of the eight-day holiday. A dreidel spun in weightlessness will continue spinning until it comes in contact with another object but can’t land on any of its four faces. Expedition 70 crew members recorded a holiday message for those back on Earth. The International Space Station is a convergence of science, technology, and human innovation that enables research not possible on Earth. The orbiting laboratory is a springboard for developing a low Earth economy and NASA’s next great leaps in exploration, including missions to the Moon under the Artemis campaign and, ultimately, human exploration of Mars. 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"They are playing to win their championship, just like all the other kids that are playing in this same tournament," said Bell Capital Cup general manager Mark Sluban. "We're very inclusive here at the Bell Cup, it's something I thought was very important for us to strive for and we're only going to make that bigger and better for years to come." Tyrone Henry was in attendance to watch the first games played. Henry has spent a decade as a member of the Canadian National Sledge Hockey Team. "Having the kids play on a big rink with a bunch of fans in the stands, I think it gives them a bit of pride in playing the sport and what they're doing." Henry said. Sledge Hockey Eastern Ontario president Mia Van Bommel added, "We're pretty welcoming and we do group people in larger groups so that we have enough athletes to play." "We really want to showcase the talent of our athletes and really introduce the Ottawa community and the greater community to the sport that we love." 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BOSTON (AP) — Forty years ago, Heisman Trophy winner Doug Flutie rolled to his right and threw a pass that has become one of college football’s most iconic moments. With Boston College trailing defending champion Miami, Flutie threw the Hail Mary and found receiver Gerard Phalen , who made the grab while falling into the end zone behind a pair of defenders for a game-winning 48-yard TD. Flutie and many of his 1984 teammates were honored on the field during BC’s game against North Carolina before the second quarter on Saturday afternoon, the anniversary of the Eagles’ Miracle in Miami. “There’s no way its been 40 years,” Flutie told The Associated Press on the sideline a few minutes before he walked out with some of his former teammates to be recognized after a video of The Play was shown on the scoreboards. It’s a moment and highlight that’s not only played throughout decades of BC students and fans, but around the college football world. “What is really so humbling is that the kids 40 years later are wearing 22 jerseys, still,” Flutie said of his old number. “That amazes me.” That game was played on national TV the Friday after Thanksgiving. The ironic thing is it was originally scheduled for earlier in the season before CBS paid Rutgers to move its game against Miami, thus setting up the BC-Miami post-holiday matchup. “It shows you how random some things are, that the game was moved,” Flutie said. “The game got moved to the Friday after Thanksgiving, which was the most watched game of the year. We both end up being nationally ranked and up there. All those things lent to how big the game itself was, and made the pass and the catch that much more relevant and remembered because so many people were watching.” There’s a statue of Flutie winding up to make The Pass outside the north gates at Alumni Stadium. Fans and visitors can often be seen taking photos there. “In casual conversation, it comes up every day,” Flutie said, when asked how many times people bring it up. “It brings a smile to my face every time we talk about it.” A week after the game-ending Flutie pass, the Eagles beat Holy Cross and before he flew off to New York to accept the Heisman. They went on to win the 49th Cotton Bowl on New Year’s Day. “Forty years seem almost like incomprehensible,” said Phalen, also standing on the sideline a few minutes after the game started. “I always say to Doug: ‘Thank God for social media. It’s kept it alive for us.”’ Earlier this week, current BC coach Bill O’Brien, 55, was asked if he remembered where he was 40 years ago. “We were eating Thanksgiving leftovers in my family room,” he said. “My mom was saying a Rosary in the kitchen because she didn’t like Miami and wanted BC to win. My dad, my brother and I were watching the game. “It was unbelievable,” he said. “Everybody remembers where they were for the Hail Mary, Flutie pass.” Get poll alerts and updates on the AP Top 25 throughout the season. Sign up here . AP college football: https://apnews.com/hub/ap-top-25-college-football-poll and https://apnews.com/hub/college-footballNone
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Wall Street stocks stumbled on Friday as major companies saw their shares fall towards the end of a holiday week. The Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 0.8 percent to 42,992, while the broad-based S&P 500 slid 1.1 percent to 5,970. The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite Index plunged 1.5 percent to 19,722. Steve Sosnick of Interactive Brokers said the sell-off caught many people by surprise. "I think a lot of people got very complacent about the idea that we would have a Santa Claus rally," he added. He was referring to a tendency for markets to fare well in the last five trading days of the year, and the first two in the new year. "The selling is very much across-the-board. There's not an obvious catalyst for it today," said Sosnick, noting that the trend was more ferocious as volumes were light. Major companies in particular saw their shares fall, with Microsoft slipping 1.7 percent. Amazon lost 1.4 percent, while Nvidia dropped 2.0 percent. Peter Cardillo of Spartan Capital said the slump was both a "year-end adjustment" and due to a rise in US Treasury bond yields. "That's putting the brakes on, applying the brakes to the market," he said. (AFP)Gophers’ blowout of Morgan State underscores U’s weak nonconference slate
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Officer fatally shot in a North Carolina supermarket, suspect in custody, police sayLEO MCKINSTRY: It is frankly impossible for council employees to show the same commitment to their position when they are thousands of miles away sipping a pina colada By LEO MCKINSTRY FOR THE DAILY MAIL Published: 22:35, 29 December 2024 | Updated: 22:35, 29 December 2024 e-mail View comments Like much of the public sector, our local councils have rushed to embrace ‘remote working’, which allows staff to operate from home or even from overseas. Fuelled by the lockdowns during the Covid pandemic, the practice has become embedded in the public sector, as an investigation by the TaxPayers’ Alliance in today’s Mail reveals. Since the end of the pandemic, local councils have agreed to more than 2,000 requests to work from abroad, with the number of individual approvals soaring from 73 in 2020/21 to 731 last year. In one shocking case, an employee from West Devon Borough Council was allowed to work from the Spanish holiday resort of Ibiza for nearly four years from March 2020. Others have won the right to base themselves in places as diverse as Portugal, Brazil , Malta, South Africa and the tropical sands of Bali. Supporters of logging on from the beach like to prattle on about ‘work-life balance’ and the need to offer greater ‘flexibility’ in order to attract recruits. Such claims are unconvincing. It is frankly impossible for public employees to show the same commitment to their position or understanding of local problems when they are thousands of miles away sipping a pina colada. Like much of the public sector, our local councils have rushed to embrace ‘remote working’, which allows staff to operate from home or even from overseas (stock image) Fuelled by the lockdowns during the Covid pandemic, the practice has become embedded in the public sector, as an investigation by the TaxPayers’ Alliance in today’s Mail reveals (stock image) And it is the height of folly to promote this behaviour when the biggest problem in the public sector is declining productivity due to outdated working practices, an obsession with red tape and a manifest lack of workforce discipline. The latest official figures show that public sector productivity is 8.5 per cent lower than it was before the pandemic. Home Office asylum backlogs and NHS waiting lists are twin symbols of our chronically inefficient state. At HMRC, meanwhile, more than 90 per cent of the workforce has the ‘right’ to remote-work for part of the week, which perhaps explains why 10 million calls to the organisation go unanswered every year. In the same vein, at the Office for National Statistics, daily attendance at some buildings is as low as 5 per cent. Tellingly, the transformation of these workplaces into ghost towns has come at the very moment when the ONS is under fire for disastrous recent errors over migrant numbers. Read More EXCLUSIVE Fury as councils approve thousands of requests to work abroad - including one who worked from Ibiza Only last month, the ONS was forced to make embarrassingly swingeing adjustments to its immigration figures after admitting that net migration into the UK hit a record 906,000 in the year to June 2023 – much higher than the 740,000 figure it had previously reported. Yet attempts to get ONS staff – as well as around 3,800 workers employed in 14 Land Registry offices – to return to the office have met with fierce resistance, led by the Public and Commercial Services union, which has successfully balloted its members for industrial action. The National Education Union, which represents teachers, is also agitating for more flexible working, ignoring all the lessons from the Covid lockdowns about the need for more interaction with pupils. Bankrolled by the trade unions and wedded to the ideology of workers’ rights, the Labour Government is sympathetic to calls for more remote working. Our country should be moving in the opposite direction. Mollycoddling of staff has already gone too far. The needs of the public should come first, not the desires of staff to work from their sun-loungers. HMRC ONS NHS Brazil Share or comment on this article: LEO MCKINSTRY: It is frankly impossible for council employees to show the same commitment to their position when they are thousands of miles away sipping a pina colada e-mail Add comment More top stories
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NEW YORK (AP) — Greg Gumbel, a longtime CBS sportscaster, has died from cancer, according to a statement from family released by CBS on Friday. He was 78. “He leaves behind a legacy of love, inspiration and dedication to over 50 extraordinary years in the sports broadcast industry; and his iconic voice will never be forgotten,” his wife Marcy Gumbel and daughter Michelle Gumbel said in a statement. In March, Gumbel missed his first NCAA Tournament since 1997 due to what he said at the time were family health issues. Gumbel was the studio host for CBS since returning to the network from NBC in 1998. Gumbel signed an extension with CBS last year that allowed him to continue hosting college basketball while stepping back from NFL announcing duties. In 2001, he announced Super Bowl XXXV for CBS, becoming the first Black announcer in the U.S. to call play-by-play of a major sports championship. David Berson, president and CEO of CBS Sports, described Greg Gumbel as breaking barriers and setting standards for others during his years as a voice for fans in sports, including in the NFL and March Madness. “A tremendous broadcaster and gifted storyteller, Greg led one of the most remarkable and groundbreaking sports broadcasting careers of all time,” said Berson. Gumbel had two stints at CBS, leaving the network for NBC when it lost football in 1994 and returning when it regained the contract in 1998. He hosted CBS’ coverage of the 1992 and 1994 Winter Olympics and called Major League Baseball games during its four-year run broadcasting the national pastime. But it was football and basketball where he was best known and made his biggest impact. Gumbel hosted CBS’ NFL studio show, “The NFL Today” from 1990 to 1993 and again in 2004. He also called NFL games as the network’s lead play-by-play announcer from 1998 to 2003, including Super Bowl XXXV and XXXVIII. He returned to the NFL booth in 2005, leaving that role after the 2022 season.Sir Harold Hillier Gardens will once again be transformed into a Christmas wonderland of light and colour. The award-winning Light Up Sir Harold Hillier Gardens At Christmas event will welcome visitors from November 28 to January 1 for a night-time trail of light art installations created by top artists and designers. This year, the event is a finalist in two categories at the Tourism South East Beautiful South Tourism Awards. The event will also feature staff and student scientists from the University of Southampton to inspire the next generation of physicists. Dr Pearl John, public engagement leader in physics and astronomy at the University of Southampton, said: "The creative use of light is breath-taking, but without the science that lies behind it – the physics and optical engineering – it might never be able to leave the artists’ imagination. "We want to engage with young people who are yet to even recognise the science in what they’re seeing." The staff and students will meet visitors and discuss the physics research work at Cornerstone, the photonics innovation centre at the university. The centre is pioneering the development and commercialisation of silicon photonics technology using light waves instead of electrical currents to transfer information. Dr John adds: "Photonics is central to our world, it is an enabling technology, from arts and media to manufacturing and engineering. "Yet we have a skills shortage in that there are not enough physicists and optical engineers coming through even though there are plenty of jobs – some of them very well paid – in this field." The directors of Light Up Trails, Libby Battaglia and Lucinda Croft, say: "The artists and designers we work with at Light Up Trails are absolutely brilliant, but so are the scientists and technologists who enable their work." This year’s event promises more Christmas, more lights, more photo opportunities and more joy with a new route and new installations. The star attractions include international sound artist Karen Monid’s Wild Yule, a large-scale soundscape encouraging visitors to experience the winter landscape as a living place that has inspired myths and imagination. In recognition of the times we live in, there is a price freeze with off-peak and peak tickets the same price as last year. A new super peak ticket is also available for a number of extra special nights when the light trail is enhanced by live entertainment. For more information and to book tickets, visit lightuptrails.com.
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