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UK ticket holder scoops whopping £177million EuroMillions jackpot as they bag third biggest National Lottery win everPrime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs, Climate Change, Environment, Civil Service, Information, Public Enterprises and Veteran Affairs Sitiveni Rabuka will officially open the Top Executive Conference 2024 at the Sofitel Fiji Resort and Spa on Denarau in Nadi this morning. The Fiji Commerce and Employers Federation’s (FCEF) premium business conference is being attended by 400-plus delegates representing a wide range of sectors. FCEF president Vinay Narsey said this year’s theme – ‘Collaborative Action for Sustainable Growth: Delivering On Our 2030 Commitment – underscored their obligation as Fiji’s leading employer organisation and to address local and global business concerns. “It presents an invaluable opportunity for us to learn from real-world experiences and insights on relevant and timely issues,” Mr Narsey said. This year’s conference features 10 sessions with 23 speakers. That will include three distinguished international presenters: Mark McCrindle – social researcher, best-selling author and TEDx speaker; Sadhana Mohan – Private Sector Coordination Specialist Asia and Pacific, Connecting Business Initiative (CBI); and Alex Teh – CEO of multi-vendor powerhouse Chillisoft in Auckland, New Zealand. Day one will feature sessions on the next generation leadership, steering through economic challenges and seizing opportunities, powering progress in sustainable leadership, and leveraging human capital in labour markets and the private sector.
North Korea, Russia agree on sports exchanges in 2025, KCNA saysThe Deeble family is synonymous with baseball in Melbourne’s west and across the world. Tara Murray chats with Jon Deeble, who has just returned to Australia after winning his sixth Major Baseball League World Series championship. Jon Deeble is living the dream as he spends his year chasing the baseball seasons. Deeble, who grew up in Melbourne’s west, was raised around baseball and has continued his father’s legacy. He is currently the coach of the Melbourne Aces in the Australian Baseball League, while also a director with the Los Angeles Dodgers. “I’m sort of on the road for half the year around the world,” he said. “I’m in Melbourne for a couple of months, coaching the Melbourne Aces. “I’ve been doing it for eight years. I come home and do the Melbourne Aces in the off season, and then get back on the road.” Deeble said it can get busy going from one to the other but it’s something he loves. It’s been a long journey for Deeble since his first visit to America in 1993. Coaching in Melbourne at the time, Deeble initially said no to moving to the states when he was first asked. “I was playing with the Melbourne Monarchs down at Altona, then their licence was taken away,” he said. “I played for the Waverley Reds for a couple of years, then the Monarchs were coming back into existence and they were owned by the Western Bulldogs and they were going to be affiliated with the Florida Marlins. “They asked me to coach the Melbourne Monarchs. From there, John Boles and Rick Freeman, who were both with the Marlins, offered me a job in the states. “The first year I didn’t accept it, as I was working with the Bulldogs, but ended up going over there the next year. “I got to LA and thought, ‘what am I doing as an Australian guy teaching Americans how to play baseball?’ “So that is why it started.” Deeble was with the Marlins when he won the world championship in 1997 before he moved to the Boston Red Sox when the Marlins owner bought the Sox. He was there for 16 years and won three more championship rings, before he was head hunted by the Dodgers. “I coached Major League in 2005. I’ve spent a lot of time coaching in the minor leagues and at the same time scouting Asia. “I’ve sort of had multiple jobs.” The Dodgers recently won the World Series Championships to give Deeble his sixth championship ring and second at the Dodgers. Deeble said every ring was different. “At the start it was really exciting and it’s still really exciting, because you want to win,” he said. “My part of it is the Asian department, director of the Asia Pacific. “We had Yoshinobu Yamamoto pitch the second game of the World Series and he dominated, he’s one of the guys that I’ve signed. “Shohei Ohtani is another. We’ve been very active in the Asian region, not just with major league guys, but minor league guys as well. “That part of it is really interesting and exciting.” Deeble said he could have never imagined where his career would take him when he first started out. He said how it has ended up as a dream come true. “It’s all I’ve known for work for the past 33 years,” he said. “Tommy Lasorda, who is a legend of the Los Angeles Dodgers, passed away a couple of years ago. He is the original Mr Dodger and he signed a photo of himself and gave it to me in 1978 and it said ‘Jon, a future Dodger’. “I’ve still got the photo which is really unreal that I would end up working there as an Australian guy. “It’s been a great ride and I’ve met a lot of people and I have a lot of friends in the states. It’s been a hell of a ride, the Dodgers have been an unbelievable organisation.” It’s no surprise that Deeble entered into baseball when he was young. His father Don Deeble played for Australia and was among the first inducted into the Baseball Australia Hall of Fame. Star Weekly is a sponsor of the Sunshine and Western Region Sports Club’s Don Deeble award which recognises him. Jon Deeble is also a member of the hall of fame, while his brother Michael Deeble also played for Australia. “I’m sure he would be pretty proud,” Jon said of his father. “He was also one that was very quiet, never one to pat you on the back. “He was very quiet or never gave any advice, he just stayed out of it to be honest.” Deeble said he’s happy with where his career is and doesn’t want to climb any higher up the ladder in the states. Among his achievements is coaching the Australian Olympic baseball team for 19 years. For now, Deeble is focused on the Aces’ season. It hasn’t been the ideal start with rain affecting several of their games, but the Aces were still sitting in second spot heading into the weekend’s matches which were after deadline. “Expectations were to win everything, win the final and that has not changed,” he said. “The first week we lost our Australian players, they were away on the Australian team that is six players. “That was a little tough, now home for two weeks it will start to tell the tale, we need to get better.”
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On November 13, the Federal Reserve Board issued two cease and desist orders against a state-chartered bank and a bank holding company for alleged compliance deficiencies. The Federal Reserve Board first order was against a state-chartered bank in Kansas in connection with the bank’s alleged non-compliance with anti-money laundering (AML) and Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) regulations that were revealed in a May examination. See 31 U.S.C. § 5311 et seq . In addition, the FRB also cited shortcomings in “staffing, internal controls, credit risk management, lending and credit administration, capital, information technology and information security, books and records, regulatory reporting, liquidity and funds management, earnings, interest rate risk management [and] third party risk management.” Among the requirements of the consent order, the bank is directed to appoint a qualified BSA/AML compliance officer and implement several measures to enhance BSA/AML compliance, including: Allocate adequate resources to align the compliance program with its risk profile; Enhance its customer identification program to verify customer identities; Improve its customer due diligence program with risk-based policies, procedures, and enhanced due diligence measures; Develop a program to ensure timely and accurate reporting of suspicious activity; and Engage independent third parties to review the bank’s transaction monitoring system and transaction activities. The Federal Reserve Board’s order also requires the bank to submit written plans for these improvements in addition to periodic progress reports. In addition, the bank agreed not to pay out dividends without sign-off from the FRB, the Kansas City Fed and its state regulator. The consent order follows a similar one issued by the FRB back in September 2023 against the bank and its holding company where the FRB cited deficiencies in risk management, compliance with AML regulations, and operational shortcomings based on an October 2022 exam. On the same day, the Federal Reserve Board and the Texas Department of Banking jointly issued a cease and desist order against a Texas bank holding company in connection with alleged operational deficiencies uncovered by a June examination, including with its ability to serve as a source of strengthen to its banking subsidiaries. The order requires the bank holding company to implement the following measures to enhance the compliance profile of its operations: Utilize financial and managerial resources to support subsidiary banks, enhance board oversight, and improve risk management practices; Develop an enhanced liquidity risk management program; and Submit quarterly progress reports, a strategic business plan and budget for 2025. The bank holding company will further be required to submit a written plan to strengthen board oversight of its management and operations. The plan is intended to outline effective oversight of its operations and ensure the board of directors adequately supervises management’s adherence to applicable laws and regulations. Finally, the bank holding company is to refrain from declaring dividends, repurchasing shares, or incurring, increasing, prepaying, or guaranteeing debt without prior regulator approval. Putting It Into Practice: The cease and desist orders reflect the FRB’s commitment to policing compliance deficiencies occurring in banks within its supervisory jurisdiction (see our blog posts on previous similar enforcements here , here , and here ). Banks are advised to assess their current risk management programs against these enforcement actions, identify necessary enhancements, and develop plans to bring their compliance management system protocols in line with regulators’ expectations. Listen to this post
AP Sports SummaryBrief at 3:09 p.m. ESTWashington: The common murre, a large black-and-white seabird native to northern waters, has become far less common in Alaska over the past decade due to the impacts of climate change. A study published on Thursday in Science reveals that a record-breaking marine heat wave in the northeast Pacific from 2014 to 2016 triggered a catastrophic population collapse, wiping out four million birds -- about half the species in the region. Strikingly, they have shown little signs of rebounding, suggesting long-term shifts in the food web that have locked the ecosystem into a troubling new equilibrium. "There's a lot of talk about declines of species that are tied to changes in temperature, but in this case, it was not a long term result," lead author Heather Renner of the Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge told AFP. "To our knowledge, this is the largest mortality event of any wildlife species reported during the modern era," she and her colleagues emphasized in their paper. The finding triggers "alarm bells," Renner said in an interview, as human-caused climate change makes heat waves more frequent, intense, and longer-lasting. With their dapper, tuxedoed look, common murres are sometimes called the "penguins of the north." Their slender wings power them across vast distances in search of food and make them expert divers. But even these hardy seabirds were no match for an unprecedented environmental catastrophe. The largest marine heat wave ever recorded began in the late fall of 2014, spanning a massive swath of the northeast Pacific Ocean from California to Alaska. It persisted for over two years, leaving devastation in its wake. During this time, some 62,000 emaciated murres washed ashore along the North American Pacific coastline -- dead or dying from starvation. Experts point to two key reasons for the bird deaths: elevated ocean temperatures reduced both the quality and quantity of phytoplankton, impacting fish like herring, sardines, and anchovies -- the mainstay of the murre diet. At the same time, warmer waters increased the energy demands of larger fish, such as salmon and Pacific cod, which compete with murres for the same prey. "We knew then it was a big deal, but unfortunately, we couldn't really quantify the effects," explained Renner. For years after the event, breeding colonies failed to produce chicks, complicating efforts to assess the full impact. Earlier estimates pegged the number of deaths at around a million, but a more robust analysis -- drawing on data from 13 murre colonies -- revealed the toll was four times higher. "It is just so much worse than we thought it was," Renner said of the new findings. The marine heat wave didn't just impact common murres. Pacific cod stocks collapsed, king salmon populations dwindled, and as many as 7,000 humpback whales perished. Yet the crisis created an uneven playing field: some species emerged unscathed, while others even thrived. Thick-billed murres, which often share nesting cliffs with common murres, were largely unaffected, possibly due to their more adaptable diet, Renner noted. For common murres, however, the fallout lingers. Despite nearly a decade since the heat wave, their numbers show no sign of bouncing back -- and the losses may well be permanent. Part of the reason lies in the long-term decline of some of their prey. Another factor is murres' survival strategy relies on numbers: they aggregate in massive colonies to protect their eggs from opportunistic predators like eagles and gulls. With their populations slashed, these birds have lost their critical safety buffer. Still, Renner offered a glimmer of hope. While addressing global warming is essential for curbing long-term climate change, conservation efforts can make a difference in the short term, she said. Removing invasive species like foxes and rats from murre nesting islands could also provide the beleaguered birds with a fighting chance.
Michelle Tsiakkas, the pro partner of Strictly Come Dancing star Jamie Borthwick, has spoken out to reveal that he had 'the toughest week' before his exit from the show caused controversy on Sunday night. Champion of last year's Strictly Christmas special, Jamie was talked up as a potential winner in the new series, especially after his impressive paso doble and Addams Family themed American Smooth. However, having been rated as fourth favourite to win just a few days ago, Jamie is now out of the running, after ending up in the dance-off for the first time this weekend, before then being voted out as all four judges voted to keep Montell and Johannes in. Very dignified in defeat, Jamie, who plays Jay Brown in BBC soap EastEnders, said getting to be on Strictly was "magic," before adding that he had the 'upmost respect' for everyone involved in it. Hours after his exit had been confirmed, Jamie hadn't posted on social media, but Strictly 2024 newcomer Michelle did, as she wrote a lengthy statement on Instagram. And it was in the Insta post that she opened up about just how hard things had been for her and Jamie in the run up to Saturday's live show, writing: "Be proud...because we worked hard and really made the most of the time we had with you working 2 full on jobs at the same time. This past week was your toughest yet with work, we realistically had 2 days to put it all together , and look what we achieved , a beautiful foxtrot which we both enjoyed dancing so much " Michelle's post came as many viewers fumed at this week's Strictly result, with some arguing that Jamie had been 'stitched up' and should never have been eliminated.
Simon Harris has spoken to the Dublin woman who won a civil case against mixed martial arts fighter Conor McGregor to praise her courage. The Taoiseach said he also wanted to tell Nikita Hand, a hair colourist from Drimnagh, that her case had prompted an increase in women coming forward to ask for support. Ms Hand, who accused the sportsman of raping her in a Dublin hotel in December 2018, won her claim against him for damages in a civil case at the High Court on Friday. The total amount of damages awarded to Ms Hand by the jury was €248,603.60. Mr McGregor said in a post on social media on Friday that he intends to appeal against the decision. That post has since been deleted. Speaking to the media on Saturday, Mr Harris said he told Ms Hand of the support she has from people across Ireland. He said: "I spoke with Nikita today and I wanted to thank her for her incredible bravery and her courage. “I wanted to make sure that she knew how much solidarity and support there was across this country for her bravery. I also wanted to make sure she knew of what the Dublin Rape Crisis Centre had said yesterday – that so many other women have now come forward in relation to their own experiences of sexual abuse as a result of Nikita’s bravery.” The Dublin Rape Crisis Centre said the case has had a “profound effect” on the people the charity supports, and that over the first 10 days of the High Court case, calls to its national helpline increased by almost 20%. It said that first-time callers increased by 50% compared to the same period last year, and were largely from people who had experienced sexual violence who were distressed and anxious from the details of case and the views people had to it. Mr Harris said: “I wanted to speak with her and I wanted to wish her and her daughter, Freya, all the very best night, and I was very grateful to talk with Nikita today. Her bravery, her courage, her voice has made a real difference in a country in which we must continue to work to get to zero tolerance when it comes to domestic, sexual and gender-based violence. I don’t want to say too much more, because conscious there could be further legal processes, but I absolutely want to commend Nikita for her bravery, for her courage, for using her voice.” Justice Minister Helen McEntee praised Ms Hand’s bravery and said she had shown “there is light at the end of the tunnel”. She said: “I just want to commend Nikita for her bravery, for her determination and the leadership that she has shown in what has been – I’ve no doubt – a very, very difficult time for her and indeed, for her family." She added: “Because of wonderful people like Nikita, I hope that it shows that there is light at the end of the tunnel, that there are supports available to people, and that there is justice at the end of the day.” Ms Hand said in a statement outside court on Friday that she hoped her case would remind victims of assault to keep “pushing forward for justice”. Describing the past six years as “a nightmare”, she said: “I want to show (my daughter) Freya and every other girl and boy that you can stand up for yourself if something happens to you, no matter who the person is, and justice will be served.” During the case, Ms Hand said she was “disappointed and upset” when the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) decided not to prosecute the case after she made a complaint to the Irish police. In a letter to her in August 2020, the DPP said there was “insufficient evidence” and there was not a reasonable prospect of conviction. Ms Hand asked the DPP to review the decision, saying she felt she was being treated differently because one of the suspects was famous. Asked about the DPP’s decision not to prosecute, Mr Harris and Ms McEntee stressed the importance of the DPP’s independence on whether to prosecute. “There are obviously structures in place where the DPP can meet a victim and can outline to them their reasons for not taking the case,” Mr Harris said. “But there’s also always an opportunity for the DPP in any situation – and I speak broadly in relation to this – to review a decision, to consider any new information that may come to light, and I don’t want to say anything that may ever cut across the ongoing work of the DPP.” Ms McEntee stressed that there should “never be any political interference” in the independence of the DPP’s decisions. She said: “I have, since becoming minister, given priority to and enabled a new office within the DPP to open specifically focused on sexual offences, so that this issue can be given the focus and the priority that it needs." For all the latest news from Dublin and surrounding areas visit our homepage . Join our Dublin Live breaking news service on WhatsApp. Click this link to receive your daily dose of Dublin Live content. We also treat our community members to special offers, promotions, and adverts from us and our partners. If you don’t like our community, you can check out any time you like. If you’re curious, you can read our Privacy Notice .KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Sara Puckett had 17 points and Ruby Whitehorn scored 16 as No. 15 Tennessee walloped Winthrop 112-50 on Sunday, earning the Lady Volunteers the seventh 12-0 start to a season in program history. Puckett made 6 of 10 shots with a 3-pointer and all four of her free throws, adding eight rebounds for Tennessee, which is unbeaten through 12 games in its first season under head coach Kim Caldwell — and for just the second time in the past 19 seasons. Whitehorn made 7 of 13 from the floor and both of her foul shots. Jewel Spear hit three 3-pointers and scored 15 for the Lady Vols. Kaniya Boyd scored 15 off the bench on 5-for-5 shooting with a 3-pointer. Zee Spearman added 14 points and reserve Tess Darby scored 10. Amourie Porter made all eight of her free throws and scored 14 to lead the Eagles (6-7), who fell to 1-5 on the road. Eight different players scored as Tennessee led 35-13 after one quarter. Spear and Puckett each had nine points by halftime and Whitehorn scored eight as the Lady Vols took a 61-32 advantage into intermission. Tennessee added eight points to its lead after three quarters and outscored Winthrop 31-4 in the final period. Tennessee entered play leading the nation in scoring average (97.4), 3-pointers made per game (12.6) and attempted per game (38.3) as well as offensive rebounds per contest (21.5) and turnovers forced (27.2). It was the sixth time the Lady Vols have scored at least 100 this season. Tennessee opens Southeastern Conference play on Thursday at Texas A&M. Winthrop travels to South Carolina Upstate on Thursday for a Big South Conference opener. Get poll alerts and updates on the AP Top 25 throughout the season. Sign up here . AP women’s college basketball: https://apnews.com/hub/ap-top-25-womens-college-basketball-poll and https://apnews.com/hub/womens-college-basketballLewandowski scores his 100th Champions League goal. 3rd player to reach the milestone
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