If you're a thrill seeker, a Gatlinburg TN river rafting trip is a an absolute must for your next vacation in the Smokies! People come from all over the United States to conquer East Tennessee's Pigeon River, which is the the third most rafted river in the entire country. Smoky Mountain Outdoors offers a variety of adrenaline fueled trips down the Pigeon River that are sure to get your heart racing. Read on to learn about three ways you can make your rafting adventure even more exciting.
When it comes to thrills, the upper portion of the Pigeon River is the place to be. This section of the river features roughly 70 rapids, many of which are class 3 and class 4. When you traverse the Upper Pigeon, you'll make your way through crashing waves, experience some huge drops, and navigate around rocks.
Smoky Mountain Outdoors offers an Upper Pigeon River rafting trip in our conventional red rafts, which can accommodate six adults. However, if you are looking for an even more exhilarating experience, you can request our Upper Pigeon River Extreme rafting package. For this trip, we use a smaller black boat that can fit a maximum of three rafters and a guide. Having a scaled down raft means that you really feel each rapid. Additionally, the guides on our Upper Pigeon River Extreme adventures don't hold back. When they see a nice meaty wave, they won't shy away from hitting it with full force!
Our Upper Pigeon River Extreme rafting trip is only available to guests who can swim. We also recommend having some previous rafting experience.
Another way to make your Gatlinburg TN river rafting trip even more thrilling, is to take advantage of our Zip + Raft Combo Package. When you choose this deal, you'll get an awesome rafting trip with Smoky Mountain Outdoors and an exciting zipline tour from CLIMB Works for one low price. This package saves you $20, so there's no reason not to do it!
The zipline adventures at CLIMB Works are out of this world. Each tour is structured so your feet don't touch the ground for 2 ½ hours! The course features nine excellent ziplines and puts you right in the heart of the Great Smoky Mountains. Flying through the air with the area's breathtaking scenery all around you is guaranteed to satisfy the adrenaline junkies in your group.
In addition to the Zip + Raft Combo deal, Smoky Mountain Outdoors has also partnered with a number of other businesses in the area to offer discount Gatlinburg attraction packages. Thrill seekers will definitely want to combine their rafting adventure with a trip to Outdoor Gravity Park.
hamster balls that roll down a 1,000 foot hill. Guests can choose between a ball that is filled with 10 gallons of water, or a dry ball. Anyone looking for an exhilarating ride will not be disappointed!
To learn more about our Gatlinburg TN river rafting trips, check out the Smoky Mountain Outdoors Frequently Asked Questions page!


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A jury could have stopped a suspected Evansville-area serial killer in 1973 | Webb
Jeffrey Lynn Hand was recently named the killer in a long-dormant Terre Haute case. In 1973, he reportedly killed an Evansville man and walked away.
A jury could have stopped a suspected Evansville-area serial killer in 1973 | Webb Jeffrey Lynn Hand was recently named the killer in a long-dormant Terre Haute case. In 1973, he reportedly killed an Evansville man and walked away. Check out this story on courierpress.com: https://www.courierpress.com/story/opinion/columnists/jon-webb/2019/05/20/evansville-area-suspected-serial-killer-could-have-been-stopped/3707323002/
Jon Webb, Evansville Courier & Press Published 5:08 a.m. CT May 20, 2019
Jeffery Wayne Thomas and his wife walked along U.S. 41 on a hot Saturday night.
It was June 16, 1973, around 9 p.m. They were hitchhiking home to Evansville from Chicago and were traipsing just outside Terre Haute when a turquoise 1968 Chevy appeared out of the night and pulled to the side of the road.
Behind the wheel sat a boyish young man with light brown hair. If they wanted a ride, he was headed south to his home in Gibson County, he said.
They drove in silence for two hours before arriving at a shabby farm on Warrenton Road, just north of the Vanderburgh County line.
The driver got out of the car, rummaged under the front seat, and emerged with a pistol jutting from his hand.
"Now the way I want us to do this is to be real quiet," he said. "I don't want anybody to make a noise."
He fired a shot into the air.
"Just so we understand each other."
More true crime: Accused of double murder, an Evansville World War II veteran vanished in 1954 | Webb
More true crime: Former detective remembers run-ins with notorious Evansville killer Donald Wallace | Webb
Thomas and his wife had only been married two weeks. Now they had a pistol pointed at their backs as they walked into the small farm house. There, the driver tied their hands with a spool of rope.
Courier & Press
He was robbing them, he said. He needed the money to keep traveling.
Well, there's a problem with that, Thomas told him. We only have $1.17 between us.
Confused and angry, the driver marched them to a nearby grain silo and left them there while he brooded in the house and came up with a new plan. The two managed to get free of the rope, and were about to run, when the driver returned with a fresh set of wire.
Here's how it was gonna go. He was going to leave Thomas' wife here, tied up in the silo, while he and her husband drove to Evansville to rustle up $400 in ransom money. Once he secured the cash, he'd let them both go.
Around 2 a.m., Thomas and the driver pulled away from the farmhouse. It was the last time Thomas' wife saw her husband alive.
Jeffrey Lynn Hand looks on during his October 1973 murder trial. (Photo: Courier & Press archives)
Caught 41 years after his death
That scene kicked off the public saga of Jeffrey Lynn Hand – a Washington, Indiana, native who was recently outed as a possible serial killer.
An exhaustive story by the Kokomo Tribune's Kim Dunlap, as well as other news reports released earlier this month, chronicled the fervent efforts of Terre Haute police chief Shawn Keen to solve a case that's perplexed the college town for four decades: the abduction and slaying of 19-year-old Indiana State University student Pam Milam.
On Sept. 1, 1972, Milam was found strangled, bound and gagged in the trunk of her car on the ISU campus.
Starting in 2008, Keen waded through thousands of DNA records before zeroing in on Hand, Fox 59 reported. Using DNA samples from Hand's relatives, Keen cross-checked them with evidence extracted from the Milam crime scene. He came back with a match.
"I had to find answers for the (Milam) family," he told NBC News. "Forty-seven years later, it still matters to them."
Pam Milam was a 19-year-old student at Indiana State University in Terre Haute when she was found bound, gagged and dead in the trunk of her car. (Photo: Provided by the Terre Haute Police Department)
Hand was shot and killed on Jan. 24, 1978, when he was caught trying to abduct a 25-year-old woman outside a Kokomo department store. A sharp-eyed clerk saw him wrestling the woman into her Thunderbird and called police.
Kokomo officer Jerry Kassel responded. When Hand saw the cop pull up, he squalled away, darting wildly through the streets before losing control and plowing into a snowbank.
Hand leaped from the vehicle and scrambled down a nearby alley. Kassel checked on the woman while Howard County Sheriff's deputy Vernal Baugh closed in on Hand. He eventually cornered the assailant and told him to remain still.
That's when Hand reached for his gun.
He planted a bullet in Baugh's left hand and side. Baugh shot back, hitting Hand in the shoulder and lung. That slowed the suspect down enough for Kassel to fire the fatal shots.
More true crime: A young Evansville man was killed and dumped in a field. Who did it? | Webb
More true crime: This Evansville woman was accused of killing her parents. Did she do it? | Webb
According to Dunlap's story, police believe the actions of everyone in Kokomo that day stopped a potential serial murderer from adding more victims.
Around the time Milam was killed, Hand worked for an Illinois record company that often sent him on the road to different states and cities, Fox 59 reported.
Now police are looking into the possibility that he may be involved in a Wisconsin homicide, and authorities wonder whether he could have had a hand in some of the many unsolved deaths that pockmark Indiana.
"His death, though tragic, may have saved the lives of many women," Kokomo Major Jim Calabro reportedly told a Kiwanis club recently.
But he could have been stopped long before that day in Kokomo.
Back in 1973, Hand could have been locked up for the rest of his life. Or even put to death.
Jeffery Wayne Thomas' grave rests in Oak Hill Cemetery in Evansville. (Photo: Courtesy of Findagrave.com)
'Chuck' and an insanity plea
Soon after the car pulled away in the early-morning hours of June 17, Thomas' wife escaped.
She squirmed free of the wires and bolted from the silo, eventually finding a farmhouse a quarter-mile up the road where she could call police.
When Hand returned home around 3 a.m., a swarm of state police officers waited in his driveway. Thomas, though, was nowhere to be seen.
Police arrested Hand. And he soon led them to a ditch along County Line Road.
Thomas was there. His hands were tied behind his back. He'd been fatally shot in the head with a .22 caliber pistol and stabbed multiple times in the chest.
A change of venue pushed the murder trial to Monroe County. Hand pleaded not guilty by reasons of insanity – and his bizarre behavior bolstered the claim.
Indiana State Police trooper Joseph Rhodes told the court about "Chuck": the mysterious man Hand said had killed Thomas.
All information about "Chuck" came directly from Hand, who described him well enough for police to complete a composite drawing.
"You show that sketch to anyone who knows Chuck and you've got him," Hand told authorities.
But police never found evidence that "Chuck" existed. And when Rhodes probed for more information, Hand got distracted and rambled about the nightmares that invaded his head each night.
They were about Jeffery Thomas. "That guy never did close his eyes," Hand said.
Thomas' wife testified as well, laying out her and her husband's abduction in terrifying detail. Jurors also heard from several character witnesses, who provided a possible motive.
Thomas was black. His wife was white. And Hand, the witnesses said, couldn't stand interracial marriages.
Jeffrey Lynn Hand shouts at a photographer trying to take his picture during his October 1973 murder trial. He was found not guilty by reason of insanity. He was recently named the killer in a Terre Haute cold case. (Photo: Courier & Press archives)
Back on the streets
On Oct. 18, 1973, the case was handed to the jury. It only took them an hour and 40 minutes to return with a verdict: not guilty by reason of insanity.
The jury foreman said testimony from three psychiatrists, as well as Hand's history of mentally ill episodes, ultimately convinced them Hand was legally insane when the crimes occurred.
Prosecutor Charles T. Rachels had aimed for the death penalty. Instead, Hand was institutionalized in various medical facilities while the rest of his case unwound.
An attempt to try him separately for kidnapping ultimately failed. In the end, Hand was a free man by October 1976. Two years later, he'd move on to Kokomo.
Eventual Vanderburgh County Prosecutor Stan Levco assisted Rachels during the murder trial. The day Hand was acquitted, Levco issued a stern message to the court.
"You eventually are going to send Jeffrey Hand back on the streets," he said. That would give him a "credit card for future criminal activity."
5 notorious Evansville-area murders
Donald Ray Wallace was convicted -- and ultimately executed in 2005 -- for the brutal murders of the Gilligan family: Patrick, Theresa, Lisa and Gregory Patrick in 1980. Courier & Press archives
Serial killer Leslie Irvin slayed six people -- Mary Holland, Wesley Kerr, Wilhelmina Sailer, Raymond Duncan, Eliabeth Duncan and Goebel Duncan -- between 1954-55 in Evansville and Henderson, Kentucky. He died in prison. Courier & Press archives
Former Evansville police officer was convicted of killing his on-again-off-again girlfriend Tammy Lohr in 1992. He was also convicted of setting her body on fire. He maintains his innocence to this day. File
Serial sex offender Emmett Hashfield abducted and killed 11-year-old Boonville girl Avril Terry in 1960. Investigators found Terry's body in the Ohio River. While imprisoned, after evading the electric chair for years, he died from a botched tonsillectomy. Courier & Press archives
Isaiah Hagan was convicted of shooting and killing 20-year-old Halee Rathgeber near a Warrick County soccer complex in 2017. The case caught the attention of "Dateline" a year later. WCSO
W.O. Bohannon murder, part 1: This Evansville lawyer was shot to death. Decades later, mystery still lingers | Webb
W.O. Bohannon murder, part 2: Two drifters killed prominent lawyer in mysterious Evansville murder | Webb
W.O. Bohannon murder, part 3: Evansville woman's suicide still a mystery decades later | Webb
Additional information from the Evansville Press and Evansville Courier archives. Contact columnist Jon Webb at jon.webb@courierpress.com.
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Letter: An open letter to the University of Evansville
A member of the Manson family once wrote to the Evansville Press
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This bill would give some Indiana teachers a huge raise
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Багряж-Никольское  — деревня в Альметьевском районе Татарстана. Входит в состав Багряж-Никольского сельского поселения.

География
Находится в юго-восточной части Татарстана на расстоянии приблизительно 41 км на запад от районного центра города Альметьевск.

История
Основана в первой трети XVIII века.

Население
Постоянных жителей было: в 1782—152, в 1795—235 душ муж. пола; в 1859—797, в 1870—837, в 1897—1296, в 1926—706, в 1938—686, в 1949—604, в 1958—423, в 1970—348, в 1979—248, в 1989—105, в 2002 — 85 (русские 90 %), 62 в 2010.

Примечания

Населённые пункты Альметьевского района

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An OVF package to upload.
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Q: Indent or not based on section depth I would like to know how to set it up so that a \subsubsection{} will indent the first paragraph but all other sectioning command of a higher level (\chapter{}, \section{}, and \subsection{}) will NOT indent the first paragraph.
To be clear, I don't want to use the indentfirst package because that makes all section levels indented.
I am using the memoir class, should that be somehow important.

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I've already moved the 2 new packages from my testing PPA to the "Linux On My Samsung" PPA, as I can't see any side effect on this new approach.
Note that the previously installed 'cpufreutils' is not automatically removed, you need to remove it manually.
Done. I've just uploaded samsung-wireless 0015.1013.2010~ppa3~loms~natty to the repository.
Topic: riparazione schermo rotto howto!!!!
all the packages provided on my PPA repository are built for both the i386 and amd64 architectures, so there are no differences between them from this point of view.
Just use the one you like more, assuming your netbook is 64bit capable (my old Samsung NC10 is not, so I'm forced to use i386 ).
Topic: Is it necessary the samsung-tools at start-up?
Re: Is it necessary the samsung-tools at start-up?
the only reason why 'Samsung Tools' is started at boot is to set the initial status of devices.
If you disable the boot service, all the functionalities still work as usual.
Go to 'System Settings'->'Desktop Effects' and disable the 'Blur' effect, this should fix the problem.
Topic: What happened to the xserver-xorg-input-synaptics package?
Basically, the synaptics driver autodetects the correct vertical/horizontal ratio when used in conjuction with kernels >= 2.6.31.
That package was for ubuntu 9.10 (karmic koala) and it's not needed anymore since the vertical sensitivity problem was fixed some time ago.
Topic: Any progress on 11.04?
Re: Any progress on 11.04?


On Monday morning, reporters for the Easy Reader News took some photos of recycling bins behind the Redondo Beach Main Post Office filled with apparently undelivered Local Values advertising circulars issued by the LA Times Media Group and PennySaver USA. Although a spokesperson for the USPS told the paper the materials were likely deemed "undeliverable, duplicate, or excess," LAT spokeswoman Nancy Sullivan is not so sure.
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now reading: In Ukraine, Biden Brings Array of U.S. Support
In Ukraine, Biden Brings Array of U.S. Support
By Alexis Simendinger
Vice President Biden arrived in Ukraine this week bringing some tangible U.S. support to a country challenged by political and military struggles both internally and from neighboring Russia.
The administration offered $50 million in new U.S. assistance to bolster free elections in Ukraine, and boost non-Russian sources of natural gas, on top of $1 billion in loan guarantees already delivered. After weeks of requests from Ukraine, the administration agreed to send it $8 million in non-lethal military aid in the form of equipment, but despite urging from Sen. John McCain and others, America's assistance package did not include weapons.
"The United States stands with you," Biden said during a meeting with Ukraine Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk. "The road ahead is difficult, but you will not walk this road alone. We will walk it with you."
Photo Gallery: Biden in Ukraine
As President Obama embarked Tuesday on a four-nation trip to Asia, the vice president reiterated U.S. and European calls for Russian President Vladimir Putin to pull back troops massed along the Ukraine border and "stop supporting men in masks in unmarked uniforms" who are accused of seizing government buildings in Eastern Ukraine.
While Biden rebuked Russia for its annexation of Crimea and vowed that the international community would never officially recognize the territorial takeover of Ukraine's southern peninsula, there has been no U.S. assertion that Russia must forfeit its control there.
The Obama administration on Tuesday announced it will supply the Ukraine army with explosive ordinance disposal equipment and handheld radios, plus engineering equipment, communications devices, vehicles and non-lethal individual tactical gear for the Border Guard Services.
The military supplies are in addition to $3 million in Meals Ready to Eat, and close to $7 million in health and welfare assistance already extended to Ukraine, the White House noted.
"The United States will continue to actively review requests for additional support as Ukraine's government further modernizes its armed forces and deals with evolving threats," the White House said in a statement.
The administration also announced it will provide $11.4 million to back democratic elections in Ukraine on May 25, through education efforts, election administration, oversight, security and what it called "a diverse, balanced and policy-focused media environment."
The administration is providing help and election monitors to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), which supports democratic elections in 57 participating states. The United States also aids other election monitoring groups, all of which provide long-term and short-term observers for free and fair elections.
The administration also announced that experts from U.S. government departments are traveling as energy advisers to Ukraine and the region "over the coming weeks," in large measure to bolster Ukraine's footing should it be cut off from Russia's key supplies of natural gas.
The United States and European allies are weighing additional economic sanctions against Russia that would be designed to hobble its economic perch as a major natural gas supplier to neighboring nations and to countries in Europe.
On Tuesday a U.S. team arrived in Kiev "to help Ukraine secure reverse flows of natural gas from its European neighbors," including Poland, Hungary and Slovakia, the administration announced.
More energy assistance is promised in May to help Ukraine maximize energy efficiency and make longer-term investments to boost conventional gas production from existing fields, and to implement shale gas development contracts signed last year.
The United States has already dispatched technical advisers from the departments of state and justice to Ukraine to encourage anti-corruption measures, and the government announced Tuesday it will expand that help. Attorney General Eric Holder will co-host a conference in London April 29-30 aimed at helping Ukraine's government recover assets "stolen" from its people under the previous regime, now booted from power.
The United States will help Ukraine establish an anti-corruption unit for government procurement, and will provide advice to create a legal and regulatory framework to combat corruption, according to the White House.
In Kiev, Biden said corruption is the "root cause" of Ukraine's problems, stifling economic development, investment and advancement. "Corruption corrupts everything about a society," he said during remarks to about four dozen civil society leaders.
Alexis Simendinger covers the White House for RealClearPolitics. She can be reached at asimendinger@realclearpolitics.com. Follow her on Twitter @ASimendinger.
Related Topics: Joe Biden, Ukraine


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Q: Creating Laravel project on Kali Linux 2022.3 kept failing I am currently using Kali Linux 2022.3, PHP version 8.1.5 and Composer version 2.4.2.
I am trying to create a Laravel Project using.
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But It kept failing. The error is.
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A: This has occurred because of your poor internet connection. make sure you have active internet connect. to check ping google.com should successfully receive network packets. if packets are received successfully, you can create a Laravel project using composer(1).
You can also create a Laravel project based on various versions via composer command if you have active internet connection on your (Linux) environment. Following commands will help you to create project based on specific version:
php composer.phar create-project laravel/laravel:9.* project_name
php composer.phar create-project laravel/laravel:8.* project_name
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Triodos, the sustainable bank, has launched a crowdfunding platform to increase access to impact investments for regular investors.
As the annual "ISA season" begins to ramp up and investment platforms vie for investors' £20,000 annual allowance, Triodos launches with a solar bond offer paying 5 per cent a year, which investors can put in an Innovative Finance ISA (IFISA). The IFISA allowance is part of the overall annual ISA allowance, in which investors can shelter up to £20,000 a year tax-free.
The offer for Mendip Renewables on the Triodos crowdfunding platform aims to raise £1.8 mn by 31 March, to take a 5MW operational solar farm in Somerset into community ownership. Investors can earn 5 per cent interest per year, increasing in line with the annual retail price index, repayable over 17 years. An estimated £1.4mn of profit will be given to a community benefit scheme over the life of the project.
The move comes after a High Level Expert Group for the European Union recommended that EU countries adopt guidelines on sustainable finance to stabilise economies. Triodos specialises in raising finance for social and environmental organisations and in the last 15 years, has raised more than £130mn to fund more than 50 projects that have a positive impact.
Previously, investors interested in accessing Triodos's range of bond and share offers on behalf of sustainable companies looking for finance would have had to contact the bank directly for each offer prospectus. Now investors can log on to www.triodoscrowdfunding.co.uk to see the range of sustainable companies seeking investment.
People can typically invest as little as £500 – some offers will have lower investment minimums – in established charities or businesses that have been extensively screened by Triodos for positive social and environmental impacts.
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San Antonio International Airport has yet to record an official 100-degree day this summer.
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Here we are halfway through July, and extraordinary things are happening in San Antonio. People are still wearing pants, lawns are still green, and it's possible to sit outside at happy hour (mosquitoes notwithstanding).
It's summer in Texas, and San Antonio hasn't recorded one official 100-degree day. According to one expert, that's somewhat unusual.
"Typically San Antonio see its first 100-degree day by late June, on average. We haven't seen one yet," says Keith White, metrologist with the National Weather Service.
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Using data from the San Antonio International Airport, daytime highs have averaged 89.7 degrees this year, far below the normal 93.5 degrees. This makes 2021 the 15th coolest year on record thus far based on NWS data going back 137 years.
While daytime temps have stayed relatively mild, nighttime temps have actually ticked upward. Morning lows are averaging 73.8 degrees, making it the 25th warmest year on record. San Antonio's average temperature, a combination of both daytime and nighttime highs, clocks in at 81.8 degrees this year, the 43rd coolest year on record.
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"This spring and most of the winter was year-to-above average. It was drier and warm through April, most of March, but on the 27th of April, we sort of hit a switch," says White. "We've had some warmer days. But generally it's been cooler, wetter."
So what's causing this cooling trend? White says that typically by this time of year, a big dome of high pressure usually hovers over the lower half of North America causing the beating sun and blazing temps we've come to expect. This year, that dome has shifted northward to areas like the Pacific Northwest and East Coast, causing deadly heat waves in unusual parts of the country.
It's not quite time to break out the down parka, though. In June, the Alamo City did hit 99 degrees a handful of times, so those 100-degree days will likely return before the summer is through.
"There have been years in the record where a 100-degree day happened real late," says White, adding that in 2010, SAT didn't record its first official 100-degree day until August 11.
"We can't say for certain, but we can bet we'll see a few 100-degree days over the next few weeks," he says.
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Man City Champions League ban: Uefa respond after CAS overturn suspension
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Uefa have responded after Manchester City's Champions League suspension was overturned by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS).
European football's governing body had banned City from European competition for two years for what they alleged were significant breaches of their Financial Fair Play regulations.
City appealed their case and on Monday CAS found in their favour overturning the suspension and reducing the fine to €10million.
"Uefa takes note of the decision taken by the Court of Arbitration for Sport to reduce the sanction imposed on Manchester City FC by Uefa's independent Club Financial Control Body for alleged breaches of the Uefa Club Licensing and Financial Fair Play regulations," they said in a statement.
"Uefa notes that the CAS panel found that there was insufficient conclusive evidence to uphold all of the CFCB's conclusions in this specific case and that many of the alleged breaches were time-barred due to the five-year time period foreseen in the Uefa regulations.
"Over the last few years, Financial Fair Play has played a significant role in protecting clubs and helping them become financially sustainable and Uefa and ECA remain committed to its principles.
"Uefa will be making no further comments on the matter."
Uefa's CFCB said City had overstated sponsorship revenue in their accounts and in the break-even information submitted between 2012 and 2016, and for failing to co-operate with its investigation.
City immediately signalled their intention to appeal, and CAS has now cleared them to compete in the Champions League next season.
City issued a statement welcoming "the implications" of the ruling.
The statement read: "Whilst Manchester City and its legal advisors are yet to review the full ruling by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), the club welcomes the implications of today's ruling as a validation of the club's position and the body of evidence that it was able to present.
"The club wishes to thank the panel members for their diligence and the due process that they administered."
CAS found that City had not disguised equity funding as sponsorship, but did say they had failed to co-operate with the CFCB's investigation.
City's appeal against the two-year ban was heard last month, and the outcome will be seen by the club as a vindication of their position since the beginning.
CAS found that most of the alleged breaches were either not established or were time-barred.
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TERRELL'S TUNE-UP: In Memory of Miss Audrey
A version of this was published in The Santa Fe New Mexican
The late Audrey Auld talks to inmates about songwriting
A few months before she died, Tasmanian-born country singer Audrey Auld emailed DJs who play independent and alternative country music with information on her new album, Hey Warden. It contained the following message for media folks: "My hard truth is that I'm paying huge medical bills and am unable to mail out promo copies of the CD. … Thanks for your understanding." She included a link to her Dropbox with songs, MP3s, photos, etc.
Huge medical bills. That was the first time I realized she'd been ill. Last month Auld died from cancer in California, where she'd lived for the past year or so. She was fifty-one. Her last album, only eight songs, is one of her best. And I'm not just being sentimental. Hey Warden is a unique work, one that's truly worthy to remember her by.
It's a prison album. Several musicians have recorded albums at correctional facilities. The two best known are Johnny Cash — whose At San Quentin and At Folsom Prison are among his best records — and B.B. King, whose Live in Cook County Jail was my introduction to the bluesman some 45 years ago.
Auld's album was recorded in a studio, not a prison. But five of its songs were co-written by San Quentin inmates. After playing a show in the prison several years ago, Auld was inspired to begin teaching songwriting workshops for inmates there.
According to the press release for Hey Warden, "Participants would include those who had never written creatively or shared their writing with anyone, to experienced musicians who wrote and played in a band within the prison's walls. Audrey would initiate the writing session with a song swap, and then propose an idea or a title to explore in writing."
After each session Auld gathered song lyrics from prisoners who offered them to her. At home, she'd edit the inmates' work and add melodies. The inmates' names are on the songwriter credits (and I assume they get royalties).
The results are pretty impressive. The title song was the first song to come out of the workshops. "I hadn't hosted a songwriting workshop before so I decided to give them the first line of each verse over a simple blues structure and see what happened." Like the best of blues songs, the lyrics use wry humor to cope with grim realities.
"Hey hey warden, can I borrow the keys?/Open up this old cellblock/Where the screws feed rats their cheese/Then I'll head down to San Antone/Eat my Mama's black-eyed peas."
There isn't much humor in "I Am Not What I Have Done." Accompanied by just an acoustic guitar, Auld sings the tale of an inmate who knows he's done wrong. "Drugs filled the void and crazy filled my head/I lost all my faith, I wanted her dead." But he still tries to keep some sense of dignity. "Now I'm a killer, not a man/I'm a convict, not a son/I'm a felon, the bad guy, outcast/I am not what I have done."
One of the most gut-wrenching tunes is "Poor Joe." In the press release, Auld wrote that it was inspired by a letter from one of her workshop participants who was "on the precipice of taking [his] own life."
Poor Joe apparently had some unrealistic fantasies about his songwriting teacher. 'But Joe, I have a husband dear/Joe, I am a wife/He's the one who shares my songs/It's he who holds me tight." In the song, Auld encourages Joe to take his "darkest pain and turn it into light."
Another song here is "Bread and Roses." No, it's not that great old labor song; it's one Auld wrote herself, inspired by the Bread and Roses organization through which she did her prison songwriting classes.
She got the idea for the song from the prison's list of dos and don'ts she received when she started the program. These included a rule that she couldn't bring any gifts for the inmates.
"If I could bring you anything, I'd bring a banquet for a king ... I'd have made you a cake, but the hacksaw didn't fit the pan ... But all I could bring was my guitar and my songs/Bread and roses for the wayward/Been hungry so long."
Auld kept bringing that gift to the inmates even as her cancer advanced.
She managed to perform again at San Quentin twice more this year since the album came out, once in March, when she did a show in the prison's Catholic chapel, playing new songs and showing the video for "I Am Not What I Have Done" for a small audience; then in April, when she did a concert in the prison yard along with other performers for San Quentin's annual Day of Peace celebration.
With this album, all her fans can share her gift. If you ask me, Audrey Auld was a Tasmanian angel.
Video time!
Here are some of Audrey's tunes, starting with the official one for "I AM Not What I Have Done."
Here is a live version of "Hey Warden" performed with Felix Lucero, one of the inmates who'd help write it. This was Lucero's first gig as a free man.
And here is an older tune with a special message from the heart.
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Mercedes' British driver Lewis Hamilton drives his car during the Formula One Chinese Grand Prix in Shanghai on April 14, 2019. (STR / AFP)
Formula One driver Lewis Hamilton secured a record-extending sixth Chinese Grand Prix (GP) victory on Sunday, snatching the world championship lead from his Mercedes teammate Valtteri Bottas.
Five-time world champion Hamilton, of the United Kingdom, clinched his 75th career victory and second of the season in the 1,000th Formula One race after overtaking pole-sitter Bottas of Finland.
"It was not the most straightforward of race weekends," he said. "To have a one-two together (with Bottas) in the 1,000th race is really special!" he said referring to Mercedes' third one-two lockout since the start of the season.
Hamilton and Bottas obtained a one-two victory in Bahrain Grand Prix and the season-opening Australian Grand Prix last month, reports Efe news.
The 34-year-old Briton took the checkered flag 6.552 seconds ahead of Bottas, with Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel coming third and Red Bull's Max Verstappen fourth.
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Dallas County commissioners on Tuesday narrowly approved changes to an $83 million deal to sell the former Parkland Memorial Hospital campus, paving the way for the area to be turned into hotel rooms, apartments, offices and shops.
Commissioners John Wiley Price and Elba Garcia were not happy with the proposal and voted against it, but the deal passed 3-2.
"This is a great deal for the developer — it's a bad deal for Parkland," Garcia said. "We could've done a better deal."
A preliminary plan for the 38-acre former Parkland Hospital campus shows a variety of uses.
The commissioners court had already voted in November to sell the 38-acre property for $82 million, but Parkland officials came back with different terms. The hospital asked to allow the buyer, developer Sam Ware of Dreien Opportunity Partners, to pay $72 million up front and the remaining $10 million in installments over a year. The county would gain 10 percent interest on the installments and another $1.3 million added to the purchase price.
As part of the new deal, Parkland would also lease 560 parking spaces — spaces that employees are currently using on the property — for a rate of $3.75 per slot. That's cheaper than the going market rate, at $5 a spot, and the other garages nearby, which charge $9, said Paul Leslie, Parkland general counsel.
"Walking through the economics, it's a good deal for Parkland," Leslie said.
But Price and Garcia accused hospital officials of giving away too much. They argued that Parkland should have negotiated for free parking until the entire sum was paid. They were also upset that hospital officials didn't originally demand a guarantee for the payment plan. Price said it was only at his urging that the county suggested Parkland hold on to the title to the most valuable 5-acre tract of land — worth at least $10 million — until the final bill is paid.
Price was also upset that other prospective buyers weren't given the same opportunity at the new terms. The hospital said it had 377 firms nationwide initially express interest in the sale.
"If that would've been the deal you put on the street, then fine," Price said. "That wasn't the deal you put on the street."
The Dallas County commissioners court narrowly passed the deal.
In the end, County Judge Clay Jenkins and Commissioners Mike Cantrell and Theresa Daniel agreed the sale should go through.
Cantrell said he understood the developer's position that parking spaces are an important revenue stream that allow the deal to work on his behalf.
"Us being able to negotiate after this deal is a benefit to the hospital," Cantrell said. "This was the best deal for taxpayers and Parkland."
Parkland plans to use the cash from the sale to construct a new clinic and parking garage on its current campus, which cost $1.3 billion and opened two years ago. Until that construction is finished, Parkland plans to pay the new property owner $1.5 million for clinical space and $500,000 for parking per year in a "lease-back" agreement.
The former campus, where President John F. Kennedy was rushed after being shot in 1963, houses more than a dozen buildings constructed starting in the mid-1950s.
The developer plans to redevelop the complex into senior housing, condos and more than 600 "micro apartments" — roughly 300-square-foot studios — that could house hospital workers at an affordable rate. Several small buildings in the center of the property will be razed to create a park.
Small buildings at the heart of the former medical campus are planned to be torn down for a park.
That mixed-use redevelopment of a former hospital campus follows a national trend happening in other cities including Chicago, Knoxville, Tenn., and Boulder, Colo.
This project, however, is shaping up to be one of the country's largest. Price said the redevelopment is expected to cost $220 million.


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Restaurant workers and bartenders in need are getting 'adopted' through Facebook
(CNN)The restaurant industry is among the hardest hit by the coronavirus pandemic. In communities across the US, people are "adopting" restaurant workers on social networks to help alleviate their hardships.
A search for "Adopt a Server" groups and pages on Facebook yields over 40 results across locations in the United States, from New Jersey to Kentucky, Missouri, California, Florida, and others.In the Pittsburgh area, over 1,000 people have joined the "Adopt a Server/Bartender Allegheny County" group since it was created before Thanksgiving.
Quarterback Aaron Rodgers pledges $500,000 to help small businesses Erin Matuch, a 32-year-old living in Pittsburgh who worked as a server in her college years, created the group after reading about a similar initiative in a different state."I can't imagine what they're going through right now," Matuch told CNN.Read MoreMatuch runs her own business from home, selling screen-printed t-shirts, and uses Facebook to promote her activity. She decided to use her skills on the platform to launch the community and spread the word, after noticing there were no such groups in her area. She approves each post in the group, giving tips to folks submitting requests for help on what information to share, as well as connecting helpers to people who need assistance. Most need cash, and help buying groceries and household supplies, Matuch said.
'This is our most dangerous time.' Covid-19 deaths are at unprecedented levels in US"The group is growing every day and people are helping each other every day. Servers are even helping each other with the little they have," she told CNN. RELATED: Health care workers are being adopted by people who want to thank them for their sacrificesSimilar efforts have cropped up on social media to support other groups of people hit hard by the pandemic, from single moms to teachers, to health care workers."We've certainly seen people come together in groups to help others during the pandemic, particularly in local communities," Leonard Lam, a Facebook spokesperson, told CNN.Last year, people raised more than $100 million for Covid-19 causes through Facebook and Instagram, according to Facebook.Helping in more ways than oneMatuch believes the group provides more than just a helping hand for those who need it: "It also helps them to know they aren't alone, there are others in the same boat, and it isn't their fault."In Pennsylvania, where Matuch's group operates, a three-week ban on indoor dining went into effect on December 12 and was lifted on January 4. Currently, indoor dining is allowed at 50% or 25% reduced capacity, depending on restaurants self-certifying their adherence to relevant guidance on curbing the spread of Covid-19.
Restaurants like Olive Garden and Applebee's were in trouble even before the pandemicTara Allen, a 39-year-old who worked as a cook, server and bartender at a bar in Meadville, two and a half hours north of Pittsburgh, told CNN she lost her job when the temporary ban went into effect."When the time came to come back I didn't get put back on the schedule," Allen said. During the pandemic, Allen lost two jobs, but this time she didn't qualify for unemployment insurance, she said.She found relief in the Facebook group created by Matuch, with people helping her pay for her stay at a hotel and for household needs while she is in between apartments and starting a new job she was able to find, Allen explained.Along with material support, the most important thing Allen said the group provided was "the feeling of safety, and that I'm not a burden either.""Bumps in the road happen, and I've had a Pennsylvania pot-holed road," Allen said.A crisis on top of a crisisThe magnitude of the crisis in the restaurant industry cannot be overstated, and it exposed an already vulnerable work force that relies on tips for a large portion of their income.About 110,000 restaurants across the country, or 17% of the total are permanently closed or experiencing long-term closures, according to the National Restaurant Association. The group wrote to Congress last month to request they enact an industry-specific coronavirus relief package.Just in the past month, employment in food services and drinking places declined by 372,000, according to data released on Friday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).
Google employees kicked off the first week of the new year with major news: They formed a union. Over 5.4 million jobs in food services and drinking places were lost between March and April 2020, the biggest monthly decrease over the course of the pandemic according to BLS data. While many of those jobs were restored, overall, since February 2020, over 2.4 million jobs in the industry were lost, BLS estimates."During the pandemic, workers were devastated," Saru Jayaraman told CNN. She is the president of One Fair Wage, a national nonprofit that advocates for tipped workers, and the director of UC Berkeley's Food Labor Research Center. "Even prior to the pandemic, this was both the second largest and absolutely fastest growing work force of 13.6 million restaurant workers in the US, but has been the nation's absolute lowest paying workforce for decades," she said.According to Jayaraman, 70% of tipped workers in America are women. "They're largely single mothers, women of color, really struggling to make ends meet before the pandemic because they earned a sub minimum wage and were reliant on tips."As the federal minimum wage for tipped workers has stayed stagnant at $2.13 an hour since 1991, there are only seven US states that require employers to pay tipped workers the full state's minimum wage before tips. That's not the case in the other 43 states.
Biden touts gender parity and diversity of his CabinetAmong workers surveyed by One Fair Wage during the pandemic, many have reported they were unable to qualify for unemployment insurance because they didn't meet the minimum earnings threshold for it. "That really was an eye opener for a lot of workers and employers. It was a moment in which a lot of workers realized that — wait a second — if the state is telling me I earned too little to get benefits, then maybe I earned too little," Jayaraman said.RELATED: These 20 states will raise their minimum wage by January 1Food service workers surveyed by One Fair Wage have reported a decrease in tips by at least 50% since the beginning of the pandemic, an increase in hostile behavior from customers in response to staff enforcing coronavirus safety protocols, and an increase in unwanted sexual comments from customers, Jayaraman said. One Fair Wage created an emergency fund to support tipped workers, raising over $23 million and receiving nearly 230,000 applications, Jayaraman said. "Mutual aid arises in these moments of depression and recession in America, but it's not going to cover it," she said, adding that a Democrat-controlled Senate should follow through and pass the Raise the Wage Act. The measure, which passed in the House in July 2019, would gradually increase the federal minimum wage to $15 by 2025, and repeal the sub minimum wage for tipped workers.President-elect Joe Biden campaigned on the promise to raise the federal minimum wage to $15 per hour, and during a speech on Friday introducing members of his economics and jobs team, he expressed hope that Democratic control of the House and the Senate would "raise the odds of prompt action on increasing the minimum wage.""No one should work as millions are doing today 40 hours a week at a job and still live below the poverty line," Biden said. "They're entitled to at least a $15 minimum wage per hour."
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EDITORIAL: The pathway to reopening
July 9, 2020 by PARRY TEASDALE
INNOVATION SAVED THE DAY when it came to high school graduation. In Chatham a caravan of family vehicles carried individual grads and family members through the village, led by firefighting apparatus from around the district. Unforgettable sums it up.
Now it would be summer camp season except most municipalities have shut down their programs, creating another hardship for those parents who have a job and little choice but to lose it or abandon their kids on workdays.
And what happens in the fall? We're about to find out.
After schools locked down in March, public school teachers and administrators cobbled together ways of connecting with as many students as possible to keep learning alive. Innovation and hard work by students, teachers, parents and caregivers held off the beginning of a dark age of public education. But we also witnessed how sluggish internet service and out-of-date digital tools leave poor kids at a disadvantage that has nothing to do with their intellect or eagerness to learn. And now each school district in the state must create plans for a whole school year during which the Covid-19 virus is likely to hang around.
In May, as the rate of new cases of the Covid-19 declined statewide, Governor Cuomo began to discuss reopening schools. This week he announced that the state will approve school district reopening plans during the first week of August. It takes more than unlocking the doors and turning on the lights. What the governor wants from the more than 700 school districts are three different approaches: all students in school; a combination of in-school and distance (digital) learning; distance learning only.
There are six public school districts in Columbia County. Each one must come up with its own plans. In theory that's the most democratic and responsive approach—don't do it top-down, reinvent education from the bottom up. But school officials in Hudson and other districts say they have not yet received guidance from either the governor's office or the Board of Regents.
One thing that would make the task clearer is knowing how much money each district will receive in state aid this school year. The state budget promises specific amounts to each district, but this year the governor can withhold as much as 20% of what was promised to cope with unanticipated expenses like those from the pandemic.
Funding also affects school staffing. Some teachers might choose not to return to the classroom as long as the pandemic persists. And other school employees, like bus drivers, might have second thoughts about positions that bring them into contact with the virus.
And now there's a late arrival in the school opening drama: the federal government. The president said this week that schools "must" reopen, although that's not his decision to make. He blames Democrats for not wanting schools to open. And the web news organization Politico reported that Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos has criticized schools for being too risk averse in not opening schools. "Risk is involved in everything we do…," she told governors.
How nice of Secretary DeVos to be willing to send other people's children to schools where the level of risk from the virus may be greater than in their homes. But what level of risk is acceptable when the government experiments on children? How would federal odds-makers measure the relative risk from one school to the next? Do we have enough pediatric ventilators in case there's a spike in Covid-19 cases among five-year olds?
Ignore the political posturing on this issue and consider the reasons why children should be in school—learning, social development, physical fitness, monitoring for other health issues including abuse… the list of educational and personal benefits from being in school is long. And the risks might be less for students. But what about adults who live with the kids, like grandparents or people with compromised immune systems?
The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) recommends students return to schools. But before presenting its specific recommendations the AAP cautions that the pandemic is changing rapidly and advises that "policies must be flexible and nimble in responding to new information."
That brings us back to the governor's insistence on each district having three different plans, with each district applying general principles to local conditions. His cautious approach will not be easy or quick. What it will be is an effective pathway to reopening our schools in the safest way possible.


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POLICE OFFICER EDUCATES MARKET WOMEN ON THE USE OF 'THE TONGUE'
July 22, 2018 Arts & Culture
ACCRA–Corporal Daniel Kwasi Ofori Appiah, Founder of the Watch Your Tongue (WYT), campaign team, has advised market women to maintain their customers and get prospective ones by improving their human relations through watching of their tongues.
Watching your tongue means using pleasant words, avoiding derogatory words, insults or name-calling that demean an individual but respecting all people irrespective of their age, race or creed, he explained.
This was during one of the campaign events by the police officer and his team with market women at the Madina Ogbojo New Market in Accra under the WYT campaign.
Interacting with the market women, he said, the tongue was a small part of the body but was the most powerful.
As traders, the tongue is also an essential tool in your daily transactions, therefore, the need for the education. The relationship between you and your customers can be cordial and maintain them depending on the kind of words used.
He said some people were losing their incomes and jobs due to their tongues and actions that spoke louder than words.
Not only should you watch your tongues, but also live in harmony with your colleagues through their speeches and gestures, he stated.
The Founder, who also works at the court of the law and a musician believes that right attitude in life and appropriate posts/inscriptions in the various media make the world a safer place.
He said WYT was an on-going campaign to inculcate the habit of pleasant utterances among Ghanaians more especially.
The education programme touches on indiscipline in Ghana and vices such as fighting, hate speech, defamatory statements, so as to build the spirit of oneness and patriotism in the citizenry.
Corporal Appiah has observed that most people who ended up sending others to court or being dragged to court were as a result of unsavoury comments which led to provocation and the worse happened.
The initiative, he said would help prevent untoward circumstances caused by unpleasant remarks that can lead individuals or groups to face the law.
He added that indiscriminate and tribal statements, religious and unguarded pronouncements could also generate confusion and divide Ghanaians as a people, thus, the need to preach peace all the time.
WYT Campaign, he said was not going on only in Ghana, but also UK, Spain, USA, Dubai and called on all and sundry to support it.
He urged them to spread the good news, to enable them also live peacefully with the family and neighbours.
Madam Kate Dadzie, the queen for the market was happy about the gesture and said, it will transform their lives.
She noted that if all Ghanaians were mindful of their tongues, the nation would be a haven to live in with adequate development.
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Things have been falling into place as I did this. On a small scale here locally, I have decided that I want to accept donated wedding dresses and in conjunction with a local humanitarian center, give these wedding dresses a second chance. A chance to bring comfort to those who are dealing with the hardest trial they never wished upon themselves. The trial I speak of is "infant loss". If you have ever lost a child, you will know of the unspeakable grief that accompanies such a void. But, as a survivor of this type of loss, I can tell you what a difference OTHERS can make in that time of sadness.
8 years ago in June. My daughter Hannah passed away after only 23 minutes in the arms of my husband. The outpouring of love and service I received was tremendous. First, the prayers offered on our behalf, I felt each and every one and I know that part of why we made it through to have joy again, was due to these prayers. Secondly, the staff of the bereavement program at the hospital were incredible. Many community members who had experienced such loss had donated so many thoughtful items for these precious infants. Small bracelets, tiny blankets, gowns for burial, photoshoots, stuffed animals for my boys, molds of her hands and feet, etc.
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I have wanted a way to donate something meaningful back to our local area hospitals for their grieving families, but it wasn't until recently that I was able to get in contact with a local humanitarian center. And in talking to them, we can make this happen! On a small scale, with a learning curve at first, but it's a start!
I am hoping that once I can master it on a small scale that I can expand the efforts. I promise that I don't know what I'm doing yet, but I'm hoping that in time my vision will become more clear. I hope to be able to do more good in this world!
These donated dresses may even become part of baby blankets for the grieving parents as well. A large receiving blanket when you have small baby can sometimes make the pain even more evident when you see the size difference, so I want to make use of these the best way that I can! So be patient with me, and hopefully you'll have some updates in time!
A friend recycled my first wedding dress into a blessing gown for my daughter from my second/current marriage. I wish I had another dress so I could donate it to this cause!


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Owu Indigenes Ask Gov. Abiodun To Name A Non-Controversial Olowu Of Owu Kingdom
Governor Dapo Abiodun
By Winnie Kodilonye
The Governor of Ogun State, Prince Dapo Abiodun, has been called upon to nip in the bud crisis that could rock the existing peace in Owu kingdom over what is perceived as avoidable sacrilegious traditional assault.
Chief Olusegun Obasanjo leader of the Kingmakers
Many sons and daughters of the Owu Kingdom in Abeokuta, Ogun State have expressed concerns over the failure of the state Governor, Prince to announce the name of the new Olowu of Owu, two months after the names of seven candidates were sent to him by Kingmakers.
The Owu indigenes and other concerned members of the public are calling on the Governor to immediately perform his statutory duty under the law to reduce the growing tension his inaction on the sensitive matter is already generating.
They particularly asked him to appoint a non-controversial Olowu and avoid the interregnum which occurred between 1987 and 1994 when Oba Michael Oyelekan newly selected Olowu died in Ipebi, leading to internal conflict among and within the family and kingmakers, preventing the Owu from having a king until when late Oba Adisa Odeleye, a renowned architect was crowned.
Recall that the Olowu stool became vacant, following the demise of the late Oba Adegboyega Dosumu, who joined his ancestors on December 12, 2021.
The veteran TV producer ascended the throne in 2005 as the 13th Olowu after Oba Adewale Adisa Odeleye, Lagbedu 1 who transited to glory in 2003.
In compliance with the directive from the Abeokuta North Local Government through a Public Notice, entitled: 'Filing of Vacant Stool of Olowu of Owu, Abeokuta,' and signed by the Secretary to the Local Government, Odusiji Kabiru Ayinla, the Otileta Ruling House conducted an in-house interview for interested candidates from the five compounds that made up the ruling house on Wednesday, March 9, 2022. After the process seven Princes were cleared and recommended to the Owu Kingmakers.
Those whose names were submitted to the Kingmakers are Dr Adegbemi Adewale, a Methodist Church Arch Bishop, Ogun State from Ile Aderinoye, Princes Adelani Oladimeji from Ile Omo'le Efon, Matemilola Adelola from Ile Soke and Olatidoye Olaniyi from Soke.
Others are Princes Adeyanju Bakinson from Ile Otopo and Princes Obadayo Soyele from Ile Lumosa and Adesina Adelani from Ile Soke.
Also on March 30, 2022, the candidates were further screened by the Kingmakers led by former President Olusegun Obasanjo at the Oke Ago-Owu, Palace of the Olowu.
Obasanjo, who is the Balogun of the Owu kingdom, led other Kingmakers in the statutory selection process, which lasted for about seven hours.
Hundreds of the sons and daughters of the kingdom who had thronged the Oke Ago-Owu, Palace where the Kingmakers interviewed the candidates, hoping to receive an announcement of the Olowu-elect were disappointed as no such announcement was made.
Instead, the Kingmakers informed the people they have forwarded the list of the elected candidates to the state Governor for approval and announcement of the new Olowu.
Chief Obasanjo was quoted to have said that the outcome of the screening lies on the shoulders of Governor Abiodun whose statutory duty is to announce the new Oba.
However, since the conclusion of these processes, it has been silence from the government, and all attempts made by concerned indigenes and other interested members of the public to know the position of the Governor have failed to yield any result. Rumours and counter rumours have since been the order of the day.
The delay is already generating serious controversies and unnecessary disputes among the ruling house and many people believe that if the Governor continues to drag his feet the situation may become intractable.
The first sign of trouble was when one of the Princes, Sunday Adelanwa, called on kingmakers not to politicise the selection process.
This was followed by a protest led by the Laara family who expressed displeasure over an alleged marginalisation and negligence by the Otileta ruling house for not allowing members of the family to participate in the selection process.
Also, two families from Ile Omoleefon and Aderinoye of the Otileta Ruling House rejected the alleged nomination of one Prince Saka Matemilola as the candidate for the stool.
The two royal families, represented by Prince Tajudeen Adelani, and Princess Aminat Adesina, have separately petitioned the State Government, warning against the appointment of Matemilola, who they described as a non-indigene, as the Olowu of Owu.
Adelani and Adesina, in their separate petitions to the Ministries of Justice, Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs, claimed that Matemilola "is a native of Ibadan in Ibadan North East Local Government Area of Oyo State."
They insisted that the candidate had alluded to his Ibadan indigeneship in an affidavit he swore to dated May 15, 2000, at the High Court Registry Port Harcourt, Rivers State.
In his response to the allegation, Matemilola himself described the affidavit where he swore to be a native of Ibadan as "correct and consistent."
He, however, declined further comment on his alleged non-indigene of the Owu kingdom.
This revelation has to a large extent, infuriated many sons and daughters of Owu who are hell-bent on rejecting the imposition of any questionable candidate on them as their king.
Many who spoke to our correspondent wondered how and why the kingmakers would in the first instance, fail to do background check on the candidates until the discovery.
Chief Okanlawon Somoye in his comment said," It is surprising that someone who had sworn to an affidavit of being a native of Ibadan for whatever reason should be invited for screening to be entrusted with the traditional and cultural affairs of Owu kingdom. For a pot of porridge, such a person can sell off the people".
"The king makers should be seen to have the interest of our kingdom at heart and avoid anything that can tarnish their reputation at all times."
Another stakeholder who would not want to be named said," The Governor should ensure that a non-indigene is not made an Olowu to avoid unnecessary crisis in the peaceful town".
She wondered if there is no candidate without any blemish among the princes screened that can be appointed, adding that everything should be done fairly and transparently to ensure that the Olowu elect is the right candidate because anything contrary may result in avoidable litigations.
Another indigene said political or religious sentiments should not be mixed with the much respected Owu traditional highly esteemed stool as being rumoured in some quarters.
Some have questioned the sincerity, dignity and loyalty of the Owu Afobajes to the cause of their kingdom in the face of all rumoured developments.
With these developments, the government should come out with Olowu-elect devoid of any controversy so that these tensions, allegations and rumours would not derail the peace and unity of the Owu Kingdom.
Speaking with AtlanticNewsonline on the delay in announcing the new Olowu, one of the king makers, Chief Ishola Akinsipo who holds the title of Akogun of Owu Kingdom said "nobody can stampede the Governor and as you may want to know, it is not just the Governor signing. Some body can go to court to claim that due diligence was not followed because the approval would come from the State Executive Committee (Exco)even though the Governor represents the Exco.
"We are hopeful and confident that the Governor would do the needful. It is just that every government in the country is so busy with primary elections of their parties at present. They are giving attention to the elections but Governor Abiodun is a hard-working man and I am confident in his ability to get the issue sorted out accordingly."
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