Hyderabad, Nov 23 (PTI) With the party winning just one seat out of the 16 it contested in Maharashtra, AIMIM president Asaduddin Owaisi on Saturday asked his party workers not to lose heart but to work with renewed determination. He congratulated party candidate Mufti Ismail for winning from Malegaon. Also Read | Assembly By-Elections Result 2024: Ruling Parties Hold Sway in States; BJP Gains in Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Rajasthan; TMC Reigns in West Bengal. "I am thankful to the people of Maharashtra who voted for us in large numbers. To our candidates, party workers and supporters, I urge you all to not lose heart and work with renewed resolve," he said on social media platform X. The election results show that people are looking for a "genuine political alternative" and the AIMIM has established itself in Maharashtra's politics, he said. Also Read | Maharashtra Assembly Elections Results 2024: BJP Emerges Single Largest Party With 132 Seats. Imtiaz Jaleel led the party in a tough battle and his own seat (Aurangabad East) was not easy, Owaisi said, expressing confidence that the former MP would bounce back. The other candidates, including Farooq Shah, have also put up a formidable fight and their efforts would pay off in future, he hoped. (This is an unedited and auto-generated story from Syndicated News feed, LatestLY Staff may not have modified or edited the content body)
RUBEN AMORIM gave Manchester United five out of ten for Sunday’s performance at Ipswich. The coach looked frustrated as the Red Devils struggled in the 1-1 draw — his first game in charge — against the Premier League new boys. Amorim delivered his verdict on the average display in the Portman Road dressing room, where he also revealed he was blown away by the intensity of the top flight. A source said: "Amorim said their performance was a five out of ten. "He was impressed with Ipswich and thought the game was played at an incredible intensity. "But he added that it showed just how much United need to improve." Former Sporting Lisbon boss Amorim, who replaced axed Erik ten Hag as boss this month, is realistic about the major task ahead of him. But he warned his players that they must improve and learn quickly. The Portuguese, 39, acknowledged that if 18th-placed Ipswich are one of the Prem’s lesser teams, then it showed the job he has on his hands to turn Man Utd 's fortunes around. He took his first training session last Monday , with the international break only halfway through. CASINO SPECIAL - BEST CASINO WELCOME OFFERS The source added: "He was critical of one or two players for losing the ball and not being in the right positions. "But he also said, ‘Some of you I’ve had for two days, some two weeks’, so he was realistic. "He did say they were going to have to learn quickly." MANCHESTER UNITED began the Ruben Amorim era with a 1-1 draw away at Ipswich. Marcus Rashford needed just 81 seconds to put the Red Devils in front at Portman Road, tapping home an Amad Diallo cross. But Ipswich hit back when Omari Hutchinson's strike flew in via a deflection off Noussair Mazraoui. And it was the newly-promoted side who looked likelier to get a winner in the second half. Here is how SunSport's Charlie Wyett saw the performances of the Man Utd players... ANDRE ONANA - 7/10 United’s best player. Two key stops to deny Liam Delap but no chance for the deflected Omari Hutchinson goal. Then delivered an 87th minute save to keep out an effort from Conor Chaplin. NOUSSAIR MAZRAOUI - 5 Slotted in on the right of the three-man defence but unfortunate with the deflection for the goal. MATTHIJS DE LIGT - 5 Has been suspect this season and will probably be better suited to a back three although still given a tough time by Delap. JONNY EVANS - 5 The 36-year-old was targeted by Ipswich for his lack of pace and no surprise he was replaced. AMAD DIALLO - 6 Did incredibly well to bomb past Jens Cajuste and deliver the cross for Rashford’s early goal but offered little else. CHRISTIAN ERIKSEN - 5 Some nice touches going forward but too lightweight in this position in front of the back three. CASEMIRO - 4 Lucky to start ahead of Manuel Ugarte and was really poor. Struggled throughout before being subbed and could maybe have got a block to the Hutchinson shot. DIOGO DALOT - 5 Not suited to left wing-back although stayed there when Luke Shaw arrived because the English international replaced Evans in the back three. BRUNO FERNANDES - 5 Some of his link-up play was fine but United need a captain who can inspire this team and Fernandes is not the man. Sent a free-kick flashing past the post with 12 minutes left. ALEJANDRO GARNACHO - 5 Twice called over by Ruben Amorim in the first half for instructions. Denied by a decent save from Aro Muric 50 seconds into the second half. MARCUS RASHFORD - 6 Criticised for his basketball trip to New York so to score after 80 seconds was two fingers up at his critics - but did not offer much after that. Subs Ugarte (for Casemiro 56 mins) - 6 Shaw (for Evans 56 mins) - 6 Hojlund (for Rashford 67 mins) - 5 Zirkzee ( for Eriksen 67 mins) - 5 Mount (for Garnacho 87 mins) - 5Blue Bombers GM sees no need to blow up roster despite another Grey Cup loss
CVB Financial Corp. Announces Authorization of 10 Million Share Repurchase PlanPresident Joe Biden’s announcement on Tuesday of a couldn’t have come soon enough for Lebanon, a country in the midst of a yearslong economic crisis and intense political paralysis. The war, which began on Oct. 8, 2023, as a series of hostile exchanges across the Israel-Lebanon border and escalated into a heavy Israeli air and ground campaign in Southern Lebanon, and turned some of Beirut’s districts into a war zone. Hours before the U.S.-brokered deal was announced, Israel in what was no doubt a message to the Lebanese militia: Israel can sustain the conflict for as long as it sees fit. In the end, Israel and Hezbollah concluded that they could gain more through negotiations than they could on the battlefield. The agreement is a recitation of , which ended a previous monthlong war between the two adversaries more than 17 years ago but was viewed by all the parties involved, Israel in particular, as a lackluster initiative that wasn’t enforced. The current deal seeks to strengthen UNSCR 1701 by adding stronger monitoring. During a 60-day ceasefire, Israeli troops will withdraw from Southern Lebanon, Hezbollah will do the same, and the Lebanese army will re-deploy to the area. Meanwhile, the approximately 60,000 Israelis who have been displaced in northern Israel will get to return home. In effect, the deal allows both Israel and Hezbollah to claim victory; Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu can boast that Hezbollah’s military capacity has been significantly diminished; Hezbollah can claim that its resistance drove Israeli forces out of Lebanon. Over the long term, the pause in fighting is designed to give Israel and Lebanon the time and space to officially demarcate their shared border. Yet, at the risk of sounding like a pessimist, just getting to that point would be an achievement. A lot can go wrong between now and then. After all, signing an agreement means nothing if it isn’t implemented. There are any number of ways the agreement can go sideways. First and foremost, the question of whether Hezbollah will actually withdraw north of the Litani River, approximately 20 miles from the Israeli-Lebanese border, is very much in question. Southern Lebanon is Hezbollah’s support base; the militia is a core part of the social fabric in the region, its fighters have homes and families there, and the small towns and villages dotting the area have often been given the short end of the stick from the Lebanese government, which has proven incapable of delivering social services or even basic administration. Hezbollah may be willing to move their weapons caches further north, but the idea that tens of thousands of Hezbollah fighters will uproot their lives is difficult to believe. In this case, Israel will then be forced with a choice: renew military operations and risk the resumption of war, or loosen enforcement and risk Hezbollah maintaining its power base. Second, is the Lebanese army capable of patrolling Southern Lebanon to Israel’s satisfaction? While the Lebanese army is a well-respected institution inside the country and crosses the usual sectarian divisions that have defined Lebanese political life for decades, it’s also arguably the weakest military in the Middle East. , the Lebanese army is smaller than Hezbollah. The since 2006 has barely kept the Lebanese army afloat. The defense systems you would expect a modern military to possess — air defenses, fighter and bomber aircraft, patrol vessels, various air-to-air and air-to-ground munitions — . Due in large part to Lebanon’s financial crisis, some of Lebanon’s soldiers to support themselves and their families. Israel understands all this but is nevertheless unlikely to be very patient. If the Lebanese army is unable or unwilling to do the job of clearing Hezbollah forces out and confronting the remnants that remain, the Israeli army will do it for them as Netanyahu during his remarks upon announcing the ceasefire. This, in effect, would negate the ceasefire and risk plunging the country into war again. Assuming the ceasefire in Lebanon sticks, Israeli and U.S. officials are hopeful it will change Hamas’ calculations about continuing its war with Israel in Gaza. “What Hamas wanted was support from Hezbollah and others,” an Israeli official the Times of Israel. “Once you cut the connection, you have the ability to reach a deal. It’s a strategic achievement. Hamas is alone.” But this sounds more like wishful thinking than reality. Hamas has experienced the most destructive war with Israel in its 37-year history, with tens of thousands of its fighters killed, its upper echelon wiped out and its control in Gaza at its weakest since it kicked the Palestinian Authority out of the coastal territory in 2007. Even so, it’s bottom-line negotiating position remains unchanged: If Israel wants to retrieve the rest of its hostages, it must withdraw entirely from Gaza and end the war permanently. Hamas’ strategy doesn’t depend on Hezbollah, so the notion it will adopt Hezbollah’s position now that it is out of the fight is fanciful at best. If all goes according to plan, Lebanon will now have a chance to rebuild. But how long the peace will stick is another matter entirely.
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Alicia Ojeda and her young daughter sat in the giant Ticket Concourse hall in Union Station with hundreds of others, anxiously awaiting the start of the holiday festivities on Monday night, Nov. 25. The mother and daughter came from South Los Angeles to see Santa switch on the 30-foot Christmas tree, listen to music from Los Rebeldes Romanticos, and sip hot chocolate in the historic train station’s north patio, said Ojeda. Her daughter, however, was wishing for something else. “Cats,” said Anastasia, twice. “Cats.” To which her mother quickly answered: “Oh, she just loves cats.” Well, the night may have disappointed Anastasia, but the crowd seemed to enjoy the 9th Annual Tree Lighting Ceremony put on by Metro Arts and LA Metro. There were no cats, per se, but there were fairies and angels adorned with electric white lights swirling their wings, and golden stars dancing in the moonlit patio — both performed on stilts — who stirred the imagination of tiny tots with eyes all aglow. Two elves in green were dwarfed by a large pot-bellied Santa in a red suit who wondered how the tree would light just by the touch of a wireless button on stage. “I don’t see any cables. Do you think it will work?” he mused, then touched the button and added golden, twinkling lights to the tree, sending oohs from the patient crowd. LA Metro CEO Stephanie Wiggins and Whittier City Councilmember and Metro vice chair Fernando Dutra greeted the large crowd and helped with the tree-lighting. After getting a hug from St. Nick, Wiggins thanked him for her greatest gift so far this season. “I’ve been on the good list, Santa, all year long. We now have 1 million people riding Metro every day,” she announced. She was referring to September and October ridership on the vast Metro system surpassing the one million mark for the first time since before the pandemic, with average weekday ridership at 1,025,262 in October, the latest figures available. The standing-only crowd craned their necks to see the band, who revived the Los Angeles Bolero movement with their melodic Latin American ballads and cumbias. In between, they snuck in some Christmas classics singing in English, “Let It Snow,” a wish that, well, wasn’t happening in balmy Los Angeles. Even the clouds had parted outside, chasing away intermittent rain sprinkles. Can Los Angeles properly celebrate the holidays without snow, weather that’s frightful, or chestnuts roasting on an open fire? Just ask Yolanda McClamb, who came from Culver City riding the Metro E Line train to attend her first-ever holiday celebration in Union Station. “There are many events across Los Angeles that have that kind of holiday spirit,” McClamb said. She has attended other shows in the 1939 building, celebrating its 85th year anniversary. Union Station serves Metro’s A, B and D lines and a fleet of Metrolink and Amtrak trains, and a bus plaza, where folks can get across the city and to and from LAX. Many parents and children waited in long lines to greet Santa and have their pictures taken. Just before the event, those exiting the A Line train received free tamales from a vendor, as part of the festival. McClamb mentioned other events she’s experienced at Union Station, including the model train show and a video game extravaganza event in the recent past. But on Monday night, she discovered a new band and Boleros music. And she drew hope and encouragement from the crowd to begin the holiday season. “We just love the spirit, the camaraderie and the amazing music selection,” she said. Dutra expressed a wish of togetherness for the season during this difficult political season for many in Southern California. “I want Angelenos to have a happy, safe Christmas. I want everyone to come together, put politics aside and focus on the reason why we are here for the Christmas season,” he said in an interview after the tree lighting. Los Angeles Conservancy will be conducting 90-minute “Holidays at Union Station” tours on Dec. 5, 12 and 19 starting at 5:30 p.m. The guided tours will take visitors through the historic station at night highlighting the holiday décor. To register for tours go to: Tours & Events – LA Conservancy. Related Articles Related linksNone
Barcelona forward Lamine Yamal has been crowned the 2024 Golden Boy , becoming the youngest-ever recipient of the prestigious award for the best under-21 men’s player in the world. At just 17 years old, Yamal continues Barcelona’s dominance in the award, following in the footsteps of previous winners Pedri (2021) and Gavi (2022). Yamal’s triumph marks a significant milestone in his young career, joining an elite group of past winners including Erling Haaland, Kylian Mbappé, and Lionel Messi. The award, established in 2003 by Italian sports newspaper Tuttosport, is voted on by top journalists across Europe. Yamal succeeds last year’s winner, Real Madrid’s Jude Bellingham. Yamal’s rise has been meteoric since making his first-team debut for Barcelona at just 15 years old in 2023. His standout performances this season have seen him net six goals and provide eight assists in 16 appearances across all competitions. The teenager also played a pivotal role in Spain’s success at Euro 2024, where his one goal and four assists helped secure the title. His impressive form earned him the Young Player of the Tournament accolade. In October, Yamal made further history by winning the Kopa Trophy at the Ballon d’Or ceremony, awarded to the best under-21 player in the world, making him the youngest-ever recipient of that honour. Yamal’s remarkable year underscores his importance in Hansi Flick’s new-look Barcelona side, where he continues to be a key figure domestically and internationally. Meanwhile, in the women’s category, the third edition of the Golden Girl award was won by Barcelona’s Vicky López, following Jule Brand and Linda Caicedo in previous years.
As snow blankets the Colorado mountains, outdoor enthusiasts have a unique opportunity: the winter hut trip. Whether you’re a skier or a snowshoer, a hut trip offers an excellent opportunity to connect with nature while exploring the rugged beauty of the state’s wilderness and enjoying the warmth and camaraderie of a cozy mountain hut. From the towering peaks of the San Juan Mountains to the snow-covered trails in Summit County, Colorado’s winter hut trips provide an unforgettable experience for adventurers of all levels. Huts fill up fast, so check each property’s for pricing and availability. Located between Telluride and Silverton near the top of Ophir Pass in the San Juan Mountains, the Opus Hut was built for backcountry skiers, mountaineers, hikers and mountain bikers. At 11,700 feet, the hut sits at treeline with low-angle glades below and open slopes above. While intermediate powder skiing is available out the back door of the hut, owner Travis Mohrman said the terrain is best suited for experienced backcountry skiers. Mohrman estimates that 15% to 20% of the groups visiting Opus Hut do so with guides. “They’re not personally comfortable with the terrain or they’re not from the area,” Mohrman said. “They guides are knowledgeable about local conditions — what the snow is, what’s safe and what’s not safe.” The cabin accommodates up to 20 people in five rooms. Some visitors book the whole hut and bring friends and family, while others reserve available beds in unbooked rooms. The hut features solar-powered lighting and 110-volt outlets for charging electronic devices. It also has filtered drinking water, hot and cold tap water, and indoor composting toilets. It provides full bedding and clean sleeping bag liners. During winter, the hut has four to six employees who sleep in a separate cabin. They prepare meals with natural, organic, and, when possible, locally grown products. The hut accommodates vegetarian, vegan, and gluten-free diets–just be sure to inform the staff beforehand. It also offers beer, wine, and a limited selection of spirits for purchase. “You can travel much lighter if you don’t have to bring in your food,” said Mohrman, who took over the hut three years ago. “You don’t have to focus on the upkeep of being in the backcountry.” Reservations for Opus Hut open Aug. 1. “The winter fills up quick,” Mohrman said. “Every winter weekend books in the first five minutes.” Nestled at 11,200 feet in the San Juan National Forest, Campfire Ranch Red Mountain Pass is the perfect base for exploring world-class skiing, split boarding, snowshoeing, and ice climbing. Located between Silverton and Ouray, it’s is accessible during the winter via a half-mile backcountry over-snow approach. Campfire Ranch is an ideal choice for novices. While other Colorado hut systems require you to carry your own food, bring sleeping bags, and live off-grid, this one provides food service, solar-powered electricity, Wi-Fi, and bedding. The dog-friendly cabin accommodates eight people. “We took a hospitality approach to remove barriers to entry for people who want to have the experience but don’t have the gear or the knowledge,” said Katrin Meiusi, director of marketing for the properties. Campfire Ranch first opened a campground on the Taylor River in Almont near Crested Butte. RVs are not permitted at the campground, which is open from May to October. Amenities include unlimited firewood, clean bathrooms, and drinkable well water. The 38 backcountry huts managed by the non-profit 10th Mountain Division Hut Association are connected by 350 miles of trails among some of the tallest peaks in the lower 48 states. All huts, some of which accommodate up to 17 people, have kitchens with propane burners for cooking — propane is provided. They provide pots, pans, potholders, dishware, cooking and eating utensils, a percolator or French press for coffee, salt and pepper, paper towels, dish soap, hand sanitizer, cleaning supplies and trash bags. Some huts have ovens and propane grills. Related Articles All huts provide lighting from on-site solar power, propane or a generator. A few huts also have outlets for charging small devices such as phones. The huts have either an outhouse or an indoor bathroom with toilet paper supplied. All huts include mattresses and pillows, but you must bring your sleeping bag and pillowcase. Summit Hut Association operates five backcountry huts open for winter from November to May. Francie’s and Janet’s cabins are also open for summer use from July to September. All huts have solar-powered lights, fully stocked kitchens, and wood-burning stoves. Francie’s, Janet’s, and Sisters’ cabins have saunas and indoor toilets. The association hosts its annual Backcountry Ball fundraiser in October at The Maggie on Peak to kick off the season. The event includes dinner, drinks, a silent auction and entertainment. Proceeds help maintain the network of backcountry cabins.
DETROIT (AP) — Detroit Lions wide receiver Jameson Williams will not be charged with a crime after he was found with a gun in a car driven by his brother, a prosecutor said Monday. The gun on the floor was registered to Williams, but he didn’t have a concealed-carry permit. His brother did. Prosecutor Kym Worthy said Michigan law is “far from clear” when applied to the 1 a.m. traffic stop on Oct. 8. “We really could not recall any case that had facts that mirrored this case,” she said. Williams was riding in a car driven by his brother when Detroit police stopped the vehicle for speeding. Williams said one of two guns in the car belonged to him and was registered. But without a concealed-pistol license, known as a CPL, a Michigan gun owner typically must place the weapon in a closed case while in a vehicle. A violation is a felony. In this case, Williams’ brother had a permit. “The CPL holder here was the driver and had care, custody and control of the car,” Worthy said. “Guidance is needed for the future on how many weapons can a valid CPL say that they have control over.” Williams obtained a CPL on Nov. 6, a month later, attorney Todd Flood said. RELATED COVERAGE Rams WR Demarcus Robinson arrested on suspicion of DUI after loss to Eagles Jackson accounts for 3 TDs, John Harbaugh moves to 3-0 vs. brother as Ravens beat Chargers 30-23 Chargers struggle to score after RB J.K. Dobbins hurts his knee in his reunion game with Ravens “My client is thankful and humbled by the hard work Kym Worthy and her team put into this matter,” Flood said. During the traffic stop, Williams was handcuffed and placed in a patrol car before officers released him with his gun instead of taking him to a detention center. Williams, a first-round draft pick in 2022, has 29 catches for 602 yards and four touchdowns this season. ___ AP NFL: https://apnews.com/hub/NFL
EAGAN, Minn. (AP) — The Minnesota Vikings waived cornerback Akayleb Evans on Saturday in another setback for their beleaguered 2022 draft class. Evans started 15 games last season, but he had been relegated to a special teams role this year after the Vikings added veteran cornerbacks Stephon Gilmore and Shaquill Griffin. Evans was a fourth-round pick out of Missouri, one of three defensive backs among Minnesota's first five selections in 2022. Lewis Cine (first round) was waived and Andrew Booth (second round) was traded earlier this year. One of their second-round picks, guard Ed Ingram, lost his starting spot last week. Evans was let go to clear a roster spot for tight end Nick Muse, who was activated from injured reserve to play on Sunday at Chicago. The Vikings ruled tight end Josh Oliver out of the game with a sprained ankle. AP NFL: https://apnews.com/hub/NFLWhen Jon Montgomery’s moustache was just a patch of reddish stubble, it could only dream of becoming an astronaut. Read this article for free: Already have an account? To continue reading, please subscribe: * When Jon Montgomery’s moustache was just a patch of reddish stubble, it could only dream of becoming an astronaut. Read unlimited articles for free today: Already have an account? When Jon Montgomery’s moustache was just a patch of reddish stubble, it could only dream of becoming an astronaut. The Movember movement started in 2003 in Australia, when a group of friends grew moustaches during the month of November to bring attention to men’s health issues, charging $10 to take part in the challenge with the money going to prostate cancer. The Movember movement started in 2003 in Australia, when a group of friends grew moustaches during the month of November to bring attention to men’s health issues, charging $10 to take part in the challenge with the money going to prostate cancer. It has since grown to a worldwide initiative that now encompasses many other ways of fundraising during the month, including walking 60 kilometres to remember the 60 men who die by suicide globally every hour, or hosting a Mo-Ment event. The ruddy muzzy always knew it was destined to go fast, to go far and to live life on the edge. That much was certain when it held on for dear life while its host whipped around the skeleton track in Vancouver to win a record-setting, beer-soaked gold medal at the 2010 Winter Olympics. But in the 14 years since, as the Russell-born Montgomery’s gone on to enjoy a successful post-athletic afterlife as a television host, his whiskers still yearned to go where no Manitoban “lip sweater” had ever gone before. And so, Montgomery partnered with Movember for a manscaped mission, aiming to raise awareness for men’s physical and mental-health causes. ( host, who has raised $10,000 for Movember since 2012, has a personal connection to the cause; his father went through prostate cancer.) On Sept. 22, in a field in Kingston, N.Y., Montgomery’s moustache trimmings were strapped into a space-proofed container, attached to a balloon, and launched to a cruising altitude of 35,472.9 metres above mean sea level for a two-hour-long solo flight at the very edge of the earth’s stratosphere. “It just really changed my perspective,” the moustache told the upon its return. “Made me wonder whether other lifeforms exist, and whether they grow facial hair, too.” SUPPLIED Manitoba Olympian Jon Montgomery sent his ’stache into space in September. Its adventures left the discussing the most memorable Manitoban moustaches, sifting through old boxes of hockey cards, scanning LP sleeves and asking the general public for suggestions. The following star soup-strainers made the barbershop cut. About 150 years before Montgomery’s moustache witnessed the vastness of the universe, a man named Telrean noted the absence of Manitoba’s most important moustache in a diary entry, written on Sept. 23, 1874, in Saint Hyacinthe. ARCHIVES The founding father of Manitoba, Louis Riel, is known for his trademark moustache. “With emotion, I shook the hand of Riel, the young hero of Manitoba,” he wrote after meeting the Métis icon. “He was tall, bronze like the Métis, without showing much trace of his Indian blood. He wore sideburns without a moustache.” As detailed in a 1949 entry in the Manitoba Historical Society’s Transactions series, a publication that preceded Manitoba History, in 1874, the 29-year-old Riel had just visited Washington, where he’d met with sitting American president Ulysses S. Grant. (Grant had by that point tamed his Civil War scruff). Meanwhile, Riel’s father, Louis Sr., who died in 1864, is seen in most photographs with a sideburn-full-beard combo. You might have a hard time envisioning Louis Riel without his ‘stache, which has become an indelible element of our province’s founder’s visual identity, a downward crescent blending revolution and grandiose intelligence in one follicular swoop. Riel’s is without a doubt Manitoba’s most consequential moustache. There are more than 1,200 members of the , a tribute to the hirsute frontman of the Guess Who, the biggest band to ever emerge from Winnipeg. “I AM NOT BURT HIMSELF!” the group’s administrator writes. “This is the official UNOFFICIAL fanclub of Burton Cummings’ moustache — the moustache is what contains all Burt’s superpowers.” SUPPLIED Singer Burton Cummings once shaved his moustache, but the hair returned by 1981. There might be some Samsonian truth in that: on each of his first three solo albums, the St. John’s neighbourhood-raised songwriter made the muzz — and those curly locks — a focal point of the album art. But when he released the singer debuted a naked lip. “Singer Burton Cummings has a new image,” The Canadian Press reported on April 2, 1980, one month before the album’s release. “Cummings, now a short-haired rocker, says he woke up one morning, took a look at himself and realized he was bored with what he saw. Deciding to make a change, he hacked off his hair close to his scalp and shaved off his moustache.” For 1981’s Cummings hired photographer John Rowlands to handle the cover art. With his thumbs meeting in the album’s centre, forming a crude W, Cummings framed the lower third of his face, his lip once again graced by that superpowered moustache. Yes, these Jets featured current head coach Scott Arniel and a 19-year-old star centre named Dale Hawerchuk, but there’s a case to be made that the 1982-1983 Winnipeg club is the greatest moustache team of all time. KEN GIGLIOTTI / FREE PRESS FILES Winnipeg Jets 1.0 defenceman Dave Babych sported a legendary bushy ’stache. Coached by reigning Jack Adams winner Tom Watt — a mustachioed dead ringer for Soviet filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky — and co-captained by bare-lipped American Dave Christian and the gloriously stached right-winger Lucien DeBlois, the Jets limped to a 74-point finish before losing to the eventual Smythe Division champion Edmonton Oilers in the first round of the playoffs. The Oilers later lost the Stanley Cup to the New York Islanders, who won their fourth straight championship behind a roster featuring St. Boniface’s Butch Goring, a Lady Byng-winning gentleman with an incongruently grizzly moustache. Perhaps the Jets blew it by having an all-time lineup of dusters well before it came time to grow playoff beards. The unofficial leader was defenceman Dave Babych, who wore the thickest moustache this side of Lanny McDonald for most of his 19-year career, the first five spent as a Jet. (In a January 1984 column, sports editor Hal Sigurdson noted, “Dave Babych has shaved his moustache, while Dale Hawerchuk is growing one.”) KEN GIGLIOTTI / FREE PRESS FILES Winnipeg Jets 1.0 player Doug Smail was a speedy, and hirsute, forward. On the blueline, Maurice Mantha earned the nickname Moe. Saskatchewan speedster Doug Smail donned a horseshoe moustache above his Moose Jaw. Wearing No. 16 and a respectable ‘stache, former Brandon Wheat King Laurie Boschman scored 74 points in only 61 games, trailing only the baby-faced Hawerchuk (92 points) and the French-born Paul MacLean — a first-ballot moustache Hall of Famer who finished the year with 76 points. While the all-star MacLean is remembered as a prototypical power forward who scored 40 goals for the Jets on three occasions, most modern hockey fans became acquainted with him during his tenure as a cantankerous, award-winning bench boss. During the 2013 season, MacLean, then coaching the Senators, went viral when an Ottawa fan sitting behind him in a suit and tie — and walrus moustache — was dubbed “Paul MacClone” by Sportsnet. The auto parts salesman’s facial hair was covered by local and national press. “Now, some of my customers call me Coach,” Watson told the ben.waldman@winnipegfreepress.com Ben Waldman is a National Newspaper Award-nominated reporter on the Arts & Life desk at the . Born and raised in Winnipeg, Ben completed three internships with the while earning his degree at Ryerson University’s (now Toronto Metropolitan University’s) School of Journalism before joining the newsroom full-time in 2019. . Every piece of reporting Ben produces is reviewed by an editing team before it is posted online or published in print — part of the ‘s tradition, since 1872, of producing reliable independent journalism. Read more about , and . Our newsroom depends on a growing audience of readers to power our journalism. If you are not a paid reader, please consider . Our newsroom depends on its audience of readers to power our journalism. Thank you for your support.After delay, Trump signs agreement with Biden White House to begin formal transition handoff