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Suriname's government announced Saturday that the small South American nation will not hold a state funeral for its ex-president Desi Bouterse, who this week died a fugitive from justice aged 79. Current President Chan Santokhi "has decided, based on his powers and advice received, that there will be no state funeral... No period of national mourning," Foreign Minister Albert Ramdin told a press conference. Bouterse was a former military man who twice mounted coups, in 1980 and again in 1990, to take charge as a dictator. He eventually returned to power after being elected president in 2010 and governed for a decade. He died Tuesday in the unknown location where he had been holed up as a fugitive, with in-absentia convictions for cocaine trafficking and murder. Bouterse's body was dropped off at his residence in the capital Paramaribo. An autopsy was ordered, though police said there were "no signs of criminal activity." Bouterse had been sentenced to 20 years in prison in December 2023 for the 1982 execution of political opponents, including lawyers, journalists, businessmen and military prisoners. He remained a popular figure with the poor and working class in the former Dutch colony. The foreign minister said that, out of respect for Bouterse's status as an elected former president, flags would be flown at half-staff on government buildings on the day of his funeral, whose date has not yet been given. str-jt/rmb/acbIs this buy-rated ASX 300 tech stock a future star?Democrats plan to elect new party leader just days after Trump's inauguration
Special Minister of State Don Farrell has hit back at critics of his government’s proposed electoral reforms and suggested that Teal MPs have been “anointed by the billionaires”. Mr Farrell addressed scrutiny over the proposed legislation in an interview with Sky News’ Sunday Agenda and said the policy “sets a level playing field for everybody”. His comments come after high-profile political donor Simon Holmes a Court – a key backer of Teals through Climate 200 – accused the government of trying to “rig” the electoral system . The proposed changes include a $20,000 cap on donations to individual candidates and a $800,000 cap on campaign spending for each electorate. The aim, Mr Farrell said, has been to reduce the outsized influence of rich political donors, like Mr Holmes a Court, to ensure “ordinary Australians” have equal opportunity. “The billionaires say that there should be no cap on spending, and they should be able to spend as much money as they like on elections,” Mr Farrell said. “My argument is that all Australians should be able to participate in the electoral process. “You shouldn't have to be sponsored by a billionaire in order to have a chance of getting into the Australian Parliament.” Mr Holmes a Court, the son of Australia’s first billionaire, directed nearly $13 million through Climate 200 to support over 20 candidates in the 2022 federal election. The enormous political bankrolling resulted in the election of 11 Teal MPs and Senators, including David Pocock and Allegra Spender. Critics, such as Mr Pocock and Ms Spender, have argued Labor’s reforms seek to entrench the two-party system and claimed the legislation was being rushed to avoid scrutiny. The Special Minister of State responded that the proposed reforms were not hastily introduced but were the subject of extensive consultation over the past two. “This is two and a half years in the making, this legislation. This hasn't come out of nowhere,” Mr Farrell said. “It’s come out of two inquiries by the JSCAM Committee. It’s the policy that the Labor Party took to the last election.” Mr Farrell said he had consulted with Teals, independents and acknowledged he had also met with Mr Holmes a Court. “He put his point of view, as he always does, very, very forcefully. But what I said to him is what I’m saying now,” Mr Farrell said. “We're trying to ... put downward pressure on the cost of Australian elections.” The pair, who were both named in AFR’s top 10 most powerful people in Australia , discussed the reforms during a meeting in Adelaide last year. The Climate 200 convenor reportedly complained the changes would entrench the two-party system, about which Mr Farrell later said, “That’s the f***ing point”, according to The Saturday Paper. Mr Farrell categorically denied the report and said on Sunday, “I never used language like that ... I'm not that sort of person.” “When that comment was put to us, we comprehensively rejected it. Unfortunately, that doesn't appear to have appeared in the story. “Yes, I've met Simon Holmes a court on a number of occasions. And I meet anybody who wants to talk about sensible reform of our electoral system. “And I say the same thing as I'm saying to you now, as I've said to Simon Holmes a Court, we need to have a level playing field. “It simply can't be that if you're really rich or your backers are really rich, that you can participate in the Australian electoral system." T he electoral reforms are expected to receive support from the opposition in the Senate this week, despite the objections of the Teal independents and some crossbenchers.
Vestia Personal Wealth Advisors Has $453,000 Position in NVIDIA Co. (NASDAQ:NVDA)ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — defense of the national championship has fallen woefully short. The Wolverines started the season ranked No. 9 in the , making them the third college football team since 1991 to be ranked worse than seventh in the preseason poll after winning a national title. Michigan (6-5, 4-4 Big Ten) failed to meet those modest expectations, barely becoming eligible to play in a bowl and putting the program in danger of losing six or seven games for the first time since the Brady Hoke era ended a decade ago. The Wolverines potentially can ease some of the pain with a win against rival and second-ranked (10-1, 7-1, No. 2 CFP) on Saturday in the Horseshoe, but that would be a stunning upset. Ohio State is a 21 1/2-point favorite, according to the BetMGM Sportsbook, and that marks just the third time this century that there has been a spread of at least 20 1/2 points in what is known as “The Game.” Michigan coach Sherrone Moore doesn't sound like someone who is motivating players with an underdog mentality. “I don’t think none of that matters in this game,” Moore said Monday. “It doesn’t matter the records. It doesn’t matter anything. The spread, that doesn’t matter.” How did Michigan end up with a relative mess of a season on the field, coming off its first national title since 1997? Winning it all with a coach and star player contemplating being in the NFL for the 2024 season seemed to have unintended consequences for the current squad. The Wolverines closed the College Football Playoff with a win over Washington on Jan. 8; several days later quarterback announced he was skipping his senior season; and it took more than another week for to bolt to coach the Los Angeles Chargers. In the meantime, most quality quarterbacks wanting to transfer had already enrolled at other schools and Moore was left with lackluster options. Davis Warren beat out Alex Orji to be the team's quarterback for the opener and later lost the job to Orji only to get it back again. No matter who was under center, however, would've likely struggled this year behind an offensive line that sent six players to the NFL. The Wolverines lost one of their top players on defense, safety Rod Moore, to a season-ending injury last spring and another one, preseason All-America cornerback Will Johnson, hasn't played in more than a month because of an injury. The Buckeyes are not planning to show any mercy after losing three straight in the series. “We’re going to attack them," Ohio State defensive end Jack Sawyer said. “We know they’re going to come in here swinging, too, and they’ve still got a good team even though the record doesn’t indicate it. This game, it never matters what the records are." While a win would not suddenly make the Wolverines' season a success, it could help Moore build some momentum a week after top-rated freshman quarterback flipped his commitment from LSU to Michigan. “You come to Michigan to beat Ohio,” said defensive back Quinten Johnson, intentionally leaving the word State out when referring to the rival. "That's one of the pillars of the Michigan football program. “It doesn’t necessarily change the fact of where we are in the season, but it definitely is one of the defining moments of your career here at Michigan.” ___ AP Sports Writer Mitch Stacy in Columbus, Ohio, contributed to this report. ___ Get alerts on the latest AP Top 25 poll throughout the season. . AP college football: and Larry Lage, The Associated PressEAST LANSING, Mich. — The sight was a common one for Andrew Kolpacki. For many a Sunday, he would watch NFL games on TV and see quarterbacks putting their hands on their helmets, desperately trying to hear the play call from the sideline or booth as tens of thousands of fans screamed at the tops of their lungs. When the NCAA's playing rules oversight committee this past spring approved the use of coach-to-player helmet communications in games for the 2024 season, Kolpacki, Michigan State's head football equipment manager, knew the Spartans' QBs and linebackers were going to have a problem. "There had to be some sort of solution," he said. As it turns out, there was. And it was right across the street. Kolpacki reached out to Tamara Reid Bush, a mechanical engineering professor who not only heads the school's Biomechanical Design Research Laboratory but also is a football season ticket-holder. Kolpacki "showed me some photos and said that other teams had just put duct tape inside the (earhole), and he asked me, 'Do you think we can do anything better than duct tape,?" Bush said. "And I said, 'Oh, absolutely.'" Bush and Rylie DuBois, a sophomore biosystems engineering major and undergraduate research assistant at the lab, set out to produce earhole inserts made from polylactic acid, a bio-based plastic, using a 3D printer. Part of the challenge was accounting for the earhole sizes and shapes that vary depending on helmet style. Once the season got underway with a Friday night home game against Florida Atlantic on Aug. 30, the helmets of starting quarterback Aidan Chiles and linebacker Jordan Turner were outfitted with the inserts, which helped mitigate crowd noise. DuBois attended the game, sitting in the student section. "I felt such a strong sense of accomplishment and pride," DuBois said. "And I told all my friends around me about how I designed what they were wearing on the field." All told, Bush and DuBois have produced around 180 sets of the inserts, a number that grew in part due to the variety of helmet designs and colors that are available to be worn by Spartan players any given Saturday. Plus, the engineering folks have been fine-tuning their design throughout the season. Dozens of Bowl Subdivision programs are doing something similar. In many cases, they're getting 3D-printed earhole covers from XO Armor Technologies, which provides on-site, on-demand 3D printing of athletic wearables. The Auburn, Alabama-based company has donated its version of the earhole covers to the equipment managers of programs ranging from Georgia and Clemson to Boise State and Arizona State in the hope the schools would consider doing business with XO Armor in the future, said Jeff Klosterman, vice president of business development. XO Armor first was approached by the Houston Texans at the end of last season about creating something to assist quarterback C.J. Stroud in better hearing play calls delivered to his helmet during road games. XO Armor worked on a solution and had completed one when it received another inquiry: Ohio State, which had heard Michigan State was moving forward with helmet inserts, wondered if XO Armor had anything in the works. "We kind of just did this as a one-off favor to the Texans and honestly didn't forecast it becoming our viral moment in college football," Klosterman said. "We've now got about 60 teams across college football and the NFL wearing our sound-deadening earhole covers every weekend." The rules state that only one player for each team is permitted to be in communication with coaches while on the field. For the Spartans, it's typically Chiles on offense and Turner on defense. Turner prefers to have an insert in both earholes, but Chiles has asked that the insert be used in only one on his helmet. Chiles "likes to be able to feel like he has some sort of outward exposure," Kolpacki said. Exposure is something the sophomore signal-caller from Long Beach, California, had in away games against Michigan and Oregon this season. Michigan Stadium welcomed 110,000-plus fans for the Oct. 26 matchup between the in-state rivals. And while just under 60,000 packed Autzen Stadium in Eugene, Oregon, for the Ducks' 31-10 win over Michigan State three weeks earlier, it was plenty loud. "The Big Ten has some pretty impressive venues," Kolpacki said. "It can be just deafening," he said. "That's what those fans are there for is to create havoc and make it difficult for coaches to get a play call off." Something that is a bit easier to handle thanks to Bush and her team. She called the inserts a "win-win-win" for everyone. "It's exciting for me to work with athletics and the football team," she said. "I think it's really exciting for our students as well to take what they've learned and develop and design something and see it being used and executed." 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In football there are comings and there are goings, but rarely both at the same time. Might this have been one of those moments? Will Ruud van Nistelrooy ’s first match in charge of Leicester prove to have been Julen Lopetegui ’s last in charge of West Ham ? Quite what Tuesday night’s bitterly disappointing 3-1 defeat at a bitterly cold King Power Stadium means for Lopetegui's future will become clear in the coming days, but it can’t be good. Here was the start of a supposedly presentable run of fixtures leading into Christmas, a potential lifeline that could lift the Basque boss free from the pressure he is under. Instead, time now moves more quickly. Will those games still be his to take charge of after this? The West Ham board have plenty to ponder before Wolves come to town on Monday, and very little of it is positive in tone. After Bobby De Cordova-Reid scored to make it 3-0 (a goal later disallowed for offside), the chants of “you’re getting sacked in the morning” rang out around the ground loud and clear, directed at a man whose body language all night was nervy and negative. Another question: can a team rain down a record number of shots on their opponents’ goal and still not have played well? Yes. Having tested the patience of their fanbase all season, Lopetegui’s side are testing the realms of possibility now too. The 20 shots they registered in the first half was a Premier League record for the Hammers, and yet the only clinical strike was one of Leicester’s measly three — scored by Jamie Vardy inside two minutes and setting West Ham on the way to a damaging defeat. Lopetegui made a raft of changes for this game, dropping Emerson for Vladimir Coufal — who played backwards constantly — and moving Aaron Wan-Bissaka onto the left, where he was significantly less effective. Danny Ings started in favour of Michail Antonio but only lasted 45 minutes. West Ham’s utterly torrid centre-back pairing of Dinos Mavropanos and Max Kilman never learned from the lesson Vardy gave them after a mere 98 seconds, when he took advantage of their lax high line to run in behind and score. The Hammers’ passing in the final third was often just too intricate, and Leicester tore away at real pace. The centre-backs were exposed, and then disposed of, first by Vardy, then by Bilal El Khannouss, and finally by substitute Patson Daka. That Niclas Fullkrug came on in the 79th minute and scored his first goal for West Ham, following three months out injured, was the tiniest of silver linings. He then missed a golden chance for a second deep into injury time. But this was a grim night for West Ham. It could prove to be terminal for their manager.