No contest between society’s well-being and football: Klopp
“We don’t want to play in front of an empty stadium and we don’t want games or competitions suspended. But if doing so helps one individual stay healthy – just one – we do it no questions asked,” Klopp added.”Today’s decision and announcement is being implemented with the motive of keeping people safe. Because of that we support it completely.”The message from the team to our supporters is only about your well-being. Put your health first. Don’t take any risk. Think about the vulnerable in our society and act where possible with compassion for them.” “First and foremost, all of us have to do whatever we can to protect one another. In society I mean. This should be the case all the time in life, but in this moment I think it matters more than ever,” Klopp said in a statement on Liverpool’s website.”I’ve said before that football always seems the most important of the least important things. Today, football and football matches really aren’t important at all.”If it’s a choice between football and the good of the wider society, it’s no contest.”The Premier League considered holding matches in empty stadiums but after Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta and Chelsea winger Callum Hudson-Odoi tested positive for the virus, it held an emergency meeting on Friday and suspended the league. Liverpool manager Juergen Klopp said on Friday football was no longer a priority amid the coronavirus outbreak and society must do all it can to put health first and look after people.The Premier League became the latest high-profile competition to announce a suspension as the pandemic continued its shutdown of world sport, with the English top-flight suspended until April 4.Liverpool need six more points to seal the league title but, with the number of people worldwide infected by the virus climbing to nearly 135,000 and killing more than 4,900, Klopp said playing football was not an option.
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Ninety-one endangered animals endemic to Indonesia that had been smuggled to the Philippines have returned to their home country.Comprising reptiles, mammals and birds, such as wallabies, cassowaries and Papuan blyth’s hornbills, the animals arrived at Bitung Port in North Sulawesi on Thursday morning.The Environment and Forestry Ministry’s law enforcement director general, Rasio Ridho Sani, Bitung Mayor Maximilian J. Lomban and North Sulawesi Natural Resources Conservation (BKSDA) head Noel Layuk Allo welcomed them upon their return home. Rasio said in the statement that the ministry’s biodiversity conservation director, Indra Exploitasia Semiawan, who also serves as the CITES Management Authority in Indonesia, had been working to repatriate the animals.“A court in the city of Mati in Davao ordered in October 2019 the return of 134 animals to Indonesia,” Rasio said.While both countries agreed on the repatriation, only 91 animals were considered fit for a journey to Indonesia.He went on to say that the Indonesian government had been investigating several animal trade operations, including sales made online.“The ministry is cooperating with several other countries and Interpol to curb this transnational crime. We have uncovered more than 300 cases involving the illegal trade of endangered species,” Rasio said.According to the 1990 Natural Resources Conservation Law, anyone found guilty of trading endangered animals and plants can be sentenced to a maximum of five years and prison and required to pay a fine of Rp 100 million (US$6,934).Topics : “The animals will stay at the Tasikosi Animal Rescue Center in Bitung before eventually being released in their natural habitats,” the ministry’s law enforcement directorate general spokesperson, Dodi Kurniawan, said in a statement.Philippine authorities had confiscated the trafficked animals, which are considered endangered under the Convention of International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES), on April 2019.SunStar Philippines reported at the time that Davao’s Department of Environment and Natural Resources had rescued 300 species of wild animals.Local law enforcers also arrested two men for allegedly smuggling the animals from Indonesia and Papua New Guinea by sea.
They can only be introduced for people who earn more than 4.5 times the minimum wage for the mandatory second pillar pension as there are no guarantees on the pension payouts and individuals have to decide on an investment strategy.Only few companies with higher earners have so far set up such plans, mainly because some legal uncertainties remained, including the question of guarantees on accrued assets in case of transfer to another pension fund (under the “Freizügigkeits” law).PricewaterhouseCoopers commented that the newly approved exemption from guarantees meant companies may now be able to report their 1e-plans as pure defined contribution plans in their balance sheets under IFRS accounting rules.“The guarantee was one of the main barriers to treating 1e-plans as defined contribution plans,” Adrian Jones, director at PwC Switzerland, told IPE. “The change in the law will encourage a lot more companies to set up these plans for higher earning employees as the accounting becomes simpler. “These plans also make individual buy-ins more attractive as the employees have a choice over where their money is invested,” he added.From 1 October 2017, when the amended legal framework comes into effect, providers will be able to offer up to 10 different investment strategies but one of them has to be “risk-free”, that is invest in domestic bonds or cash only. The current regulations did not provide guidance on how many strategies were allowed. An early government proposal for the new regulation had been criticised for specifying that only up to three strategies could be offered.The new law also makes clearer what the maximum savings are that an employee can have under a 1e-plan. Companies with these plans may have to revisit their contribution levels.Existing 1e-plans will have to be adapted to the new legal framework by 2019.The government noted in a press release it will continue to work on a “clear and cost-efficient tool” to assess whether a 1e-plan is “adequate” without guarantees and with the possibility of a lower pension payout.Further information about risks and opportunities provided by companies to employees will be checked by the regulator in the future. A long-awaited amendment to Switzerland’s framework for pension plans with individual investment choices has been passed by the country’s government.The law for the so-called “1e plans” now frees providers from having to guarantee certain pension payments, if a member is transferring to another provider.For all other accrued capital in the Swiss second pillar, pension funds have to guarantee a certain level of accrued assets upon a member leaving a pension fund. This makes transfers of members or companies from multi-employer plans very difficult.The 1e-plans, named after the paragraph in the investment guidelines for Swiss Pensionskassen (BVV), had already been introduced in 2006. 
Radio NZ 14 June 2012A Cook Islands cabinet minister says one solution to surging levels of youth crime in the country would be allow parents to smack their children.Police have raised concerns about the numbers and ages of children involved in petty crimes and Teariki Heather was asked in Parliament what should be done about it.He suggested a law change to return to parents the right to physically discipline their children in the home.http://www.rnzi.com/pages/news.php?op=read&id=68893
Kentucky is famous for recruiting “one and done” basketball players. For the novice fan out there, this means they play one year for the Wildcats and then turn pro. John Calipari is in his 8th year as the Wildcats coach, and he will tell you he did not invent this rule. It is an NCAA rule, and he just lives with it.Twenty of Calipari’s players have left after one year and half of them have scored more points in their first year as a pro than they did as a freshman at Kentucky. This is why Calipari is not opposed to this rule.He states that he teaches his players how to share the ball, and if they learn to do that, they make excellent pros. As you can see, the Kentucky players are certainly benefiting from this policy. UK is not doing bad either.
Napoleon, Ind. — The Ripley County Sheriff’s Department says a 12-year-old was injured in weekend dirt bike crash.Reports indicate the 12-year-old male was riding in the 5600 block of Brownstown Road in Napoleon on Saturday when he lost control and struck a picnic table. The child sustained a leg injury and was transported to University of Cincinnati Hopsital for treatment. He was wearing a helmet.
And, with almost four minutes of injury time played, Hidalgo-Clyne made a bid for glory with a drop goal attempt. However, it was charged down and Munster recorded a result that leaves them unbeaten in Edinburgh for four years. Both teams welcomed back World Cup players to their squads and that added to the intensity of the clash. The Irishmen reached the break with a 10-6 lead that was scant reward for their territorial domination in the opening 40 minutes. They took the lead on seven minutes when, after a scrum five metres from the home line, Ryan touched down next to the posts, leaving Keatley the simple task of adding the extra two points. On a rare foray into the opposition half, Hidalgo-Clyne clawed back three points with a straightforward penalty. As Tom Brown leaped to gather the restart, he was tackled in mid-air by Gerhard van den Heever, who was shown a yellow card for the offence. Edinburgh failed to capitalise on the extra man and the score was unchanged when the Munster winger returned to the fray. And it was the visitors who were next on the score sheet, capping another spell of pressure with a successful penalty attempt by Keatley. Then, in the final minute of a half that had featured little in the way of flowing rugby, Hidalgo-Clyne trimmed the deficit to four points when he thumped over a long-range penalty. The hosts grabbed the lead on 47 minutes when Hamish Watson sparked a move, continued by Brown, who provided Helu with scoring pass. Hidalgo-Clyne’s conversion attempt rattled the post but he was back on target with his next effort, a penalty that gave Edinburgh a four-point advantage entering the final quarter and saw Francis Saili yellow-carded. However, Keatley banged over another three-pointer then nudged his team in front with another penalty. The hosts lost Greig Tonks to the sin bin and the game appeared to be petering out when Hoyland’s intervention created the breathtaking close that came so close to delivering a home win. Press Association Munster held off a desperate finale from Edinburgh to seize the win in a bruising encounter at BT Murrayfield and leave the hosts nursing a third successive Guinness PRO12 defeat. 
John Ryan touched down for the visitors and the reliable boot of Ian Keatley contributed 11 points, while Will Helu scored his first try for the hosts and Sam Hidalgo-Clyne kicked the rest. With the clocking ticking towards 80 minutes, the Irish side looked to have the win secured. But an interception and lung-bursting run by Edinburgh winger Damien Hoyland created the platform for a series of surges that almost yielded the match-winning score. 
For all the Latest Sports News News, Indian Premier League News, Download News Nation Android and iOS Mobile Apps. New Delhi: A top-heavy Sunrisers Hyderabad is seeking to sort their middle-order woes against Kings XI Punjab as the two teams eye a return to winning ways in the Indian Premier League. Both Sunrisers and Kings XI have garnered six points after three wins from five games but the Hyderabad outfit is placed second in the eight-team standings on account of a better run rate. Kings XI, meanwhile, are lying fifth in the points table. But, having suffered defeats in their previous games, both Sunrisers and Kings XI would be desperate to get back to winning ways. While Sunrisers lost by 40 runs against Mumbai Indians in Hyderabad on Saturday while chasing a below-par 136, Kings XI was beaten by 22 runs by Chennai Super Kings.When and where to watch IPL 2019 KXIP vs SRH match?The Indian Premier League (IPL) 2019 will be broadcast live on Star Sports in eight languages, including Hindi and English. The KXIP vs SRH match will also be live streamed at Hotstar. The match will start at 8 pm on Monday at the IS Bindra stadium in Mohali, Punjab.Complete squad:Kings XI Punjab (From): Lokesh Rahul(w), Chris Gayle, Mayank Agarwal, Sarfaraz Khan, David Miller, Mandeep Singh, Sam Curran, Ravichandran Ashwin(c), Andrew Tye, Murugan Ashwin, Mohammed Shami, Karun Nair, Simran Singh, Nicholas Pooran, Mujeeb Ur Rahman, Ankit Rajpoot, Hardus Viljoen, Arshdeep Singh, Moises Henriques, Varun Chakravarthy, Darshan Nalkande, Agnivesh Ayachi, Harpreet BrarSunrisers Hyderabad (From): David Warner, Jonny Bairstow(w), Vijay Shankar, Manish Pandey, Deepak Hooda, Yusuf Pathan, Mohammad Nabi, Rashid Khan, Bhuvneshwar Kumar(c), Siddarth Kaul, Sandeep Sharma, Kane Williamson, Ricky Bhui, Shreevats Goswami, Wriddhiman Saha, Martin Guptill, Shahbaz Nadeem, Shakib Al Hasan, Abhishek Sharma, Basil Thampi, Billy Stanlake, K Khaleel Ahmed, T Natarajan 
Mourinho’s time at Old Trafford was heavily laced with accusations the modern game – in the shape of managers such as Manchester City’s Pep Guardiola, and Jurgen Klopp at Liverpool – had left the 55-year-old Portuguese behind.And games in opposition to Guardiola and Klopp that are fresh in the memory intensify the image Mourinho, once the trailblazer, is light years behind the modernisers. Jose Mourinho Guardiola’s City outclassed their neighbours two months ago and it was symbolic that the sight of United cowering as Klopp’s Liverpool blew them away at Anfield on Sunday was the final straw.The intense, attacking, easy-on-the-eye approaches of Guardiola, Klopp, and Mauricio Pochettino at Tottenham have been used as sticks to beat what is regarded as Mourinho’s more pragmatic strategy.In Mourinho’s defence, it should be stated he won more trophies in his first season at United (the League Cup and the Europa League) than Klopp or Pochettino have in their whole time at Liverpool and Spurs – indeed they are still waiting for their first trophies in England.Football’s landscape moves swiftly, however, and while that trio are fresh and innovative, Mourinho has cut a tired, careworn, negative figure out of touch with their vibrant approach.So is it fair to say he is now yesterday’s man?Prime targets and long shots: Who will be the next Man United manager?‘Take stock and reset structure’ – Neville on Man UnitedMark Schwarzer joined Chelsea a month after Mourinho returned for his second spell in 2013 and spent two years working under him during which they won the Premier League.The former Australia goalkeeper told BBC Sport: “Yesterday’s man? Not at all. He is still very relevant no matter what has happened at United, and his methods are modern in his training and approach to tactics.“People talk about his style compared to the likes of Klopp and Guardiola but everyone has a different interpretation on how football should be played. If everyone played the same way as Klopp or Guardiola’s teams I think it would be pretty boring after a while with everyone doing the same thing.“This is what makes football so appealing. There is such a variety of styles, and just because one manager employs a different style to another doesn’t make them outdated or yesterday’s man.”That support is in contrast to some players under his charge in recent years who, while privately accepting he always had a plan and was tactically meticulous, often felt he leaned too heavily towards the defensive aspects.Schwarzer added: “You can argue all day long, and if you are one of those people in the camp who say the way the modern game is going it is all about the way Manchester City and Liverpool play then they might say he is past it and his methods are old.‘Something had to give’ – Shearer Q&A on Mourinho sacking“I don’t agree. I am a firm believer there are a variety of ways you can play football. Yes, one is more appealing on the eye than the other but ultimately it is about delivering results, performances and trophies.“This is how you are judged and he has won trophies everywhere he has been, including Manchester United.”South African striker Benni McCarthy, who played in Mourinho’s Porto team that won the Champions League in 2004, agrees.He told BBC Sport: “I don’t think you become outdated all of a sudden. I just think it is down to the players not applying what the manager’s expecting from them.“Mourinho is still one of the best in the world. He has not become a bad manager overnight.”Can Mourinho no longer handle big stars?The narrative surrounding Mourinho’s decline at both Chelsea and United has involved friction – and often friction with star players.Michael Emenalo, Chelsea’s technical director when Mourinho was sacked in December 2015, lifted the lid on problems behind the scenes when he said: “There obviously seemed to be a palpable discord between manager and players and we felt it was time to act.”Mourinho’s dealings with Chelsea forward Eden Hazard were often seen as one of the difficulties there, and the manager’s relationship with midfielder Paul Pogba has provided a constant backdrop to the unrest at Old Trafford.The sight of Mourinho’s £89m marquee signing sitting forlornly behind him at Anfield – unused and seemingly not to be trusted in the sort of game that shapes United’s great players – could almost be used as an image to illustrate the manager’s downfall.It is believed Mourinho’s relationship with Hazard collapsed during his third season at Stamford Bridge after Chelsea regained the Premier League title – the Belgian’s sunny, humble nature at odds with the ‘win-at-all-costs’ pragmatism of his manager, who was prepared to – as one insider put it – “get nasty” to get results.Share this:FacebookRedditTwitterPrintPinterestEmailWhatsAppSkypeLinkedInTumblrPocketTelegram
MEGHAN CONLIN/Herald Photo”We’ll see when we get there,” became the phrase of the week for the Wisconsin men’s hockey team as they prepared for its first-ever outdoor game on the frozen tundra of Lambeau Field. The aptly named Frozen Tundra Hockey Classic pits non-conference foes Wisconsin (19-7-2, 14-6-2 WCHA) and Ohio State (14-12-4, 10-10-2 CCHA) against each other for a single game Saturday afternoon.”It’s one of those things where, when you get there, you take it all in, see what you have to work on, and see what you have to adapt to,” forward Robbie Earl said. “That’s why we’re going up there two days early.”Head coach Mike Eaves found many of the media’s questions this week hard to answer because he had yet to actually practice out in the cold and experience the conditions first hand. That uncertainty is the main reason the team left Thursday to get some ice time at Lambeau in order to better adapt to the elements and prepare for Saturday’s match.An obvious novelty, an outdoor college hockey game should get some buzz around the country. The last time two college hockey teams faced off in an outdoor stadium was 2001, when Michigan and Michigan State battled in the “Cold War” game at Spartan Stadium. The NHL gave outdoor hockey a shot recently when it pitted the Edmonton Oilers against the Montreal Canadians against each other in subzero temperatures in 2003.Wisconsin will have to face some hairy elements this weekend, as the current forecasts show scattered snow flurries with temperatures in the mid-20’s and wind gusts up to 11 miles per hour Saturday afternoon. The team will prepare for the conditions with extra clothing underneath its uniforms that keeps in heat while allowing sweat to escape.”I think our equipment manager has got some long-sleeve Under Armour-type stuff,” forward Nick Licari said. “I’m not really sure what it is, but I think he’s got a little something for us.”Despite the conditions, the opportunity to play outside is something many on the team will relish. All the Badgers have had opportunities to play outside in their careers, and they look forward to embracing childhood memories of skating on rinks that had snow banks for boards and garbage cans for goals.”It’s a whole different atmosphere, a whole different experience,” Earl said of skating outside once again. “A lot of us skated outside when we were little. It’ll bring back memories and create new ones.”The cold weather should affect the game plan for the Badgers only slightly. Eaves said he won’t be able to know until he’s out there how his players will react to the environment, but he will be wary of long shifts on the ice for any of his players.”When you first get outside, it’s tough to breathe in the colder air,” Eaves said. “As the game goes on, the players may adapt to that.”Some players are even looking forward to the cold air as a release from playing in a heated arena.”As far as playing at the Kohl Center, it’s warm,” Licari said of playing at home. “It’ll be nice to actually play in a little bit cooler of a temperature, where your body kind of has to work a little bit to heat up.”While players scorn the weather and look forward to the outdoor experience, frigid temperatures haven’t scared away fans either. So far, more than 37,000 tickets to the Frozen Tundra Hockey Classic have been sold, still well short of the record 74,554 fans in attendance for the aforementioned “Cold War” game, but an excellent turnout nonetheless for a team used to playing before an audience of around 14,000 fans.Fans in attendance should also see a good game. The Buckeyes come into the game off a split with a tough Michigan team last weekend in Ann Arbor while the Badgers recently split with the struggling UMD Bulldogs. Wisconsin is 9-0-0 against Ohio State in the history of the series, but the Badgers have been reeling of late due in large part to the loss of Hobey Baker candidate Brian Elliott in goal.Ohio State lacks the big time scorer that the Badgers have in forwards Earl and Joe Pavelski, but they have looked to sophomore Tom Fritsche and his 25 points for some offense. They have seen some outstanding play from goaltender Dave Caruso as well. The senior has stopped 92.5 percent of his shots and has a goals against average of 1.79, good for sixth in the country. The Badgers’ numbers have slipped some in their recent skid, but they continue to be effective on defense, holding teams to 1.81 goals per game.”It’s a big game for us as far as rankings are concerned,” Licari said of the matchup. “It’s still important for us to win, but I think a lot of us are looking forward to embracing the moment and being a part of history.”Included in that history will be the Stanley Cup and the Green Bay Packers’ three Lombardi trophies, which will be on display at Lambeau Field throughout the weekend.Whatever the historic implications, the Badgers are intent on winning this game and getting back on track before they head back into WCHA play next weekend. Players and coaches will not only have to beat the Buckeyes, but the elements as well.”This is very unique,” Eaves said of the outdoor atmosphere. “There’s going to be two teams consisting of about a party of 40 that are going to be infinitely involved in this, on the ice and being a part of it, and that’s very special.”