For more information and to register, call the Continuing Education Office on UGA’s Griffin campus at (770) 229-3477, e-mail contedu@uga.edu or visit www.landscapedesignworkshops.com. Instructors are Richard Ludwig, former director of environmental horticulture and landscape design instructor at Gwinnett Technical College in Lawrenceville, and Bill Slack, registered landscape architect and former Extension landscape design specialist at UGA. The Feb. 18 workshop will cover the fundamentals of landscape design graphics. It is intended for both newcomers to design as well as experienced professionals who want to enhance skills. On Feb. 19, the workshop will focus on creating eco-friendly landscapes for commercial and residential properties. University of Georgia Cooperative Extension and the UGA Center for Urban Agriculture will host two hands-on landscape design workshops for green industry professionals on Feb. 18-19 in Griffin, Ga. Participants may choose to attend one day or both days. A $250 fee for each workshop includes all drafting supplies, handouts and refreshments. Each workshop is limited to 40 people. University of Georgia read more

Town Hall Youth in a Roman Field Doses Dom Wier 3:08 4:00 Feel Alright Jeffrey Gaines Long Road Home The Wide Open Frame For One Jesse Marchant 5:24 3:50 Audio PlayerBig StarWhen My Baby’s Beside MeUse Up/Down Arrow keys to increase or decrease volume.00:000:00 / 3:28 3:15 3:52 Embed 4:46 3:47 3:47 Minding Helen Kelter Skelter 2:08 4:14 3:55 Colors Abe Partridge Park the Bench The Captain of Sorrow When My Baby’s Beside Me Big Star Going Midwest Steep Canyon Rangers 5:21 In Between Jonathan Vassar Townes Amber Rubarth & Joe Purdy Copy and paste this code to your site to embed. Akira Kurosawa Ben Miller Band It’s a brand new year, and Trail Mix is back with one simple resolution: to bring you the best in roots and Americana music each and every month!This month, the mix features a song from the soundtrack of the new indie film American Folk. Singer/songwriters Joe Purdy and Amber Rubarth star in the film as travelers who cross paths and end up on a cross country road trip to New York City together after their flight from Los Angeles was grounded following the September 11th terrorist attacks. The soundtrack features tracks written and performed by the film’s two stars, along with appearances by John Prine, Jerry Garcia, and David Grisman. “Townes,” an Amber Rubarth original, is featured here this month.This month’s mix also welcomes back some fantastic friends and songwriters. Fuzzed out guitar rocker Ron Gallo makes his return, as do emotive songwriters Mary Gauthier and Heather Mahoney. Iconic rockers Big Star are back with a live record this month, and Richmond based songwriter Jonathan Vassar has also shared some music with the mix again.A couple new artists to the mix also caught our ear. Check out the new tunes from Youth In A Roman Field, Ben Miller Band, Luthi, and Amigo.Rounding out this top notch first mix of the year are cuts from David Myles, Abe Partridge, Captain of Sorrow, Dom Wier, Jesse Marchant, Jeffrey Gaines, and Hellen Keller Skelter,Stay tuned to the Trail Mix blog, as chats with Althea Grace and The Wide Open are on tap, as is a ticket giveaway for Steep Canyon Rangers’ hometown album release party at the ExploreAsheville.com Arena.And as you kick off a new year, consider some of these fantastic resolutions for yourself . . . Buy more music! Go see more live music! Support independent musicians! Talk about Trail Mix with a friend and help us spread the word about these great artists sharing their music with us. Buy some records from these folks. They’ll appreciate it. Let Me Stay Heather Maloney Everybody Luthi 5:16 Blow Them All Away Althea Grace Own Trip Now Amigo 3:19 3:31 3:28 3:04 3:07 Real Love David Myles 3:18 Bullet Holes In The Sky Mary Gauthier Really Nice Guys Ron Gallo read more

ShareShareSharePrintMailGooglePinterestDiggRedditStumbleuponDeliciousBufferTumblr In a payments marketplace already crowded with plastic card consolidators such as Plastc, Swpe and Coin, and mobile payments solutions such as Apple Pay, Android Pay, Samsung Pay and PayPal, Stratos hopes to encourage consumers to pay for plastic that will replace other plastic cards in their wallet. Are they too late to the party?by: Jim MarousIn a marketplace that seems to be introducing the ‘next best thing’ in payments on a daily basis, Stratos hopes to break through the noise with a payments solution that looks vaguely similar to Coin, a social media sensation that has yet to live up to the initial hype.Similar to other all-in-one cards Coin, Swyp and Plastc, the Stratos Card is intended to replace multiple pieces of plastic already in a consumer’s wallet with another piece of plastic. Unlike the competition, Stratos is using Bluetooth technology and has answered many of the concerns with other solutions around security, acceptance and introduction delays. The Stratos Card will be shipped beginning in April.Developed behind closed doors with $7 million in venture capital funding (as opposed to the more public option of crowdfunding), the team at Stratos, headed by 25-year old CEO and co-founder Thiago Olson believes they have created a payments solution for people not yet ready for mobile payments. Olson explained to CNET that the Stratos Card is “like an iPod for your wallet.” He said: “Just like an iPod digitizes and stores all your CDs and music, Stratos stores all your cards while adding security features and FitBit-like card tracking.” continue reading » read more

Sign up for our COVID-19 newsletter to stay up-to-date on the latest coronavirus news throughout New York [dropcap]T[/dropcap]his weekend in New York City, Hillary Clinton is set to hold her first official full-scale campaign rally for the 2016 presidential election. She’ll be speaking Saturday on Roosevelt Island, named after FDR not his First Lady, Eleanor, which would have been more appropriate considering the historic kickoff like the one Clinton is making.Let’s look at the big picture and see how far she’s come—and how far we still have to go.Next November some American women who were born when they, their mothers and their sisters all lacked the right to vote may get to actually elect the first woman president. And New York will have made it possible in more ways than one.The woman’s suffrage movement took off upstate in Seneca Falls in the summer of 1848. If Clinton had chosen that venue for her big campaign event, I suppose the symbolism might have been too much for some squeamish men-folk and their female enablers to handle.But it’s not like that reactionary crowd lacks inspiration. If only we could hold this election this fall, we might be spared some of the calumnies to come. Instead, we’ll have to withstand months and months of poisonous prevarication, pusillanimous punditry, and preposterous pomposity proliferated by the plutocrats and their plebeians just to feed every insatiable news cycle until Nov. 8, 2016. So much verbiage will be wasted signifying nothing while so many important problems facing our country and the planet will go unaddressed—and too many people will continue to suffer until their needs are met.Reading a recent snarky column by Maureen Dowd sliming Hillary Clinton for the umpteenth time (with many more columns still to come) I was reminded of my first encounter with the leading Democratic nominee after she’d just become New York’s first woman Senator. Typical of some of our state’s highest achievers, she was born somewhere else—in her case, Chicago—and you can still hear traces of her Midwestern roots today when she speaks.New York voters had welcomed the former first lady after she and her husband moved to Westchester County. Showing unabashed support for the local boy, Newsday had endorsed her Long Island-born Republican opponent, 42-year-old four-termer Rep. Rick Lazio. Whether it was the worst endorsement Newsday ever made is debatable. Regardless, Lazio lost by a double-digit margin. As Clinton told the TV cameras in her victory speech, “Today we voted as Republicans and Democrats. Tomorrow we begin again as New Yorkers.”It was in that spirit of reconciliation that she came to Newsday to meet with the publisher, the editorial board and the op-ed department, which then included me. There, in the belly of the beast, so to speak, she was clearly amused at the situation and the apparent discomfort of our publisher who had sided with Lazio. She could have gloated, rubbed her triumph in his face, but she didn’t. She was gracious, charming, lively and intelligent—perhaps the smartest one in the room.And there I was, sitting across the polished mahogany conference table in the publisher’s spacious office, eye to eye with the most hated woman in America, thanks to Rush Limbaugh and his ilk, and I was smitten. Of course, as friends and enemies would say, I’m gullible to begin with. But I admired her character, her strength, her sense of humor. My female colleagues, particularly our columnist at the time, Marie Cocco, didn’t want to cut her any slack, but so be it. Was it professional envy? Perhaps. As well as lingering resentment over the way she’d botched the Clinton administration’s health insurance reform by trying to keep it all under wraps. And there was also no doubt some disgust that she’d let her philandering husband mistreat her like the female subject of a country western song.But she did so well representing the Empire State she won a second term. Her first attempt to win the White House didn’t go so well but she did end up as secretary of state serving in the administration of the man who’d beaten her for the Democratic nomination.Last summer throngs of women and men lined the blocks around the Book Revue in Huntington when Clinton was on tour plugging “Hard Choices,” her 635-page memoir of her work leading the State Department. Across the corner on New York Avenue a small cadre accused her of “lying” about Benghazi but they hardly got a rise out of her fans—some had been camped outside since 11 p.m. the night before. Once inside the store, their excitement at meeting Clinton was palpable. These are the people she’ll need to come out to the polls in every state across the country if she’s going to win the race. But they will have to do a lot more than celebrity worship if they want her to succeed. The big question about Clinton’s candidacy, as columnists like the Washington Post’s Eugene Robinson has pointed out, is whether she can inspire the coalition that twice elected President Obama—young people, minorities, women—to rally to her side. And that’s just to win her race next November, assuming she’s the Democratic nominee. If she is going to make any progress on Capitol Hill, she’ll need a majority in the Senate and the House to support her positions.I don’t know if the men and women I saw at the Book Revue are up to the task. But it is helpful to remember how long it took New York’s most famous suffragettes, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, before they made any headway in getting their sex the right to vote.As Stanton once wrote:“Night after night by the light of an old-fashioned fireplace, we plotted and planned the coming agitation, how, when, and where each entering wedge could be driven, by which woman might be recognized, and her rights secured…Such battles were fought over and over again.”Fittingly, Stanton’s and Anthony’s nicknames were “Napoleon” and “General.” When they first met in Seneca Falls in 1851, Elizabeth was a 35-year-old mom with four boys, ages nine to three months. Susan was 31 and unmarried.They wouldn’t have met in Seneca Falls had it not been for another New York woman who was a real liberator: Amelia Bloomer, an upstate feminist who advocated that women wear a short skirt and loose trousers to get rid of their constricting whale-boned bodices and “shed the burden of long, heavy skirts;” today her fashion creation is known to us as “bloomers.” Very modest, she refused to take credit for the dress design, let alone profit from it. When we read coverage of what Hillary Clinton is or is not wearing, we should take a moment to praise Ms. Bloomers for making pants-suits possible.Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott organized the first women’s rights convention, which began July 19, 1848 in Seneca Falls. Twenty years later, the amendment to the Constitution was first proposed on Dec. 7, 1868. The goal, according to the National Archives, was universal suffrage, so the 1870 passage of the 15th Amendment, granting black men the right to vote, was regarded as a partial victory. But afterwards progress stalled on what the women hoped would become the 16th Amendment.Hillary Clinton, the presumptive Democratic nominee in the 2016 race for the White House, was the first woman US Senator in New York State.In the 1872 election in Rochester, Susan B. Anthony registered to vote and dared to cast a ballot even though she knew she’d get arrested for “knowingly, wrongfully and unlawfully” voting. She was convicted and fined $100. She vowed she’d never pay a penny. Instead, on Jan. 12, 1874, she petitioned Congress that the fine be remitted because her “conviction was unjust.” Congress rebuffed her. Almost a century later, Congress did approve putting her stern visage on a dollar coin, which was minted from 1979 to 1981, and again in 1999. Despite Anthony being the first woman ever to adorn U.S. currency, her coin never quite caught on, in part because it was about the size of a quarter. On eBay a Susan B. Anthony Dollar apparently ranges from $2.99 to $25.Coin collecting was farthest from the minds of the suffragettes in the 19th century. But you wonder what they would have thought of all the money that Hillary Clinton has to raise just to be a viable candidate in our republic. At least, Clinton should have President Obama on her side this time around. The suffragettes counted on African Americans to help them, too.In 1877 Frederick Douglass, Jr., notably signed the Petition for Woman Suffrage, asking Congress to “prohibit the several States from Disenfranchising United States Citizens on account of Sex.” His name appeared at the top of the column of signatories under the “Colored MEN” heading. Douglass’s famous father, a former slave and leader of the abolition movement, had attended the historic Seneca Falls Convention in 1848, writing an editorial at the time that “in respect to political rights…there can be no reason in the world for denying to woman the elective franchise.”But reason, as it is so wont to do in America, fell on deaf ears.After decades of distractions and setbacks, the tide began to turn. New York adopted woman suffrage in 1917. Interestingly, New Jersey had granted women the right to vote after the Revolution only to rescind it in 1807. Another significant step was taken on May Day in 1917 when the Association of Army Nurses of the Civil War sent a supportive letter to the U.S. House Judiciary Committee. But the opposition wouldn’t go away. The same year, as America entered the First World War, the Women Voters Anti-Suffrage Party of New York circulated its petition to the U.S. Senate. Their argument against making “such a radical change in our government” said that “our country in this hour of peril should be spared the harassing of its public men and the distracting of its people from work for the war…” They quoted one of the measure’s leaders, Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, who had urged the amendment’s supporters to wage “a simultaneous campaign in 48 states” and create an “organization in every precinct; activity, agitation, education in every corner. Nothing less than this nation-wide, vigilant, unceasing campaign will win the ratification.”Apparently that’s exactly what it took to get the measure through. At the turn of the 20th century, the momentum was irreversibly on the women’s side. In 1918, President Woodrow Wilson switched positions in favor of enfranchising women. A year later, the House approved the 19th Amendment 304 to 90, and the Senate passed it 56 to 25. Can you imagine how the wives felt being married to those men who’d voted no? The first states to ratify it were Illinois, Wisconsin and Michigan; on Aug. 24, 1920, Tennessee became the crucial 36th state to follow suit, and so the amendment became law. Interestingly, Maryland didn’t get around to ratifying the amendment until 1941.A year from now an American woman may lead this country. About time, I say.When I look at the men the Republican Party now has running for president, I can hear them saying, “Hey, my billionaire’s bigger than yours!” But when I hear Hillary Clinton finally saying the obvious—that she’s willing to put up with all the crap the most vile right-wing minds can muster in order to win the White House—I grin. If those guys want to throw bad money after good, I say, bring it on, boys.As Abigail Adams famously wrote her husband John in March 1776 while he was in Philadelphia with the Continental Congress (and long before she herself became First Lady), “Do not put such unlimited power in the hands of husbands. Remember, all men would be tyrants if they could.”Let’s be clear who Hillary Clinton is—and who she is not. She wouldn’t be on the campaign hustings had not Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton come first. But she’s not like them. Nor is she nearly as radical as Mother Jones, Emma Goldman, or Sojourner Truth. She’s an upper class woman who graduated from Wellesely College in Massachusetts. No, she’s not as “progressive” as Sen. Elizabeth Warren or Sen. Bernie Sanders. We need those two in the Senate right where they are, but they’re going to need many more colleagues who think like them if we’re going to win the fight for fair pair pay, reproductive rights and the prosperity of the middle class. Not to mention saving Social Security and expanding Medicare.Let’s be glad Clinton is definitely no Carly Fiorina, the Hewlett Packard CEO, who laid off 18,000 workers but was still dumped by her board two years later although she did get a “golden handshake” worth $21 million. What did the unemployed get? Bupkis. What is Fiorina hoping to get by running with the GOP guys? The Republican vice-presidential nomination. But she’s no comedienne, so the joke may be on her.Electing Hillary Clinton president is no laughing matter.You don’t have to go to a skilled nursing home to find women alive today who were born without the right to vote. Come November 2016, these elderly women will get a chance to do something their mothers never dreamed possible. Is that what the campaign of Hillary Clinton is all about? Hardly. But don’t discount that historic movement for a moment. It’s going to take their spirit to save this great land of ours. read more

Indonesia’s largest lender by assets, state-owned Bank Mandiri, announced on Wednesday a plan to distribute Rp 16.49 trillion (US$1.2 billion) as dividends to its shareholders and the appointment of former finance minister Chatib Basri as its president commissioner.The dividends are equal to 60 percent of the company’s total profit in 2019 of Rp 27.5 trillion, according to the bank’s announcement. They are also significantly higher than last year’s figure of Rp 11.2 trillion or equal to 45 percent of the bank’s profit in 2018.Bank Mandiri’s shareholders will receive a dividend of Rp 353.34 for each share, an increase of 46.61 percent year-on-year (yoy) from the previous year’s dividend of Rp 241 per share. This means that the government, which holds 28 billion of the bank’s shares, will receive Rp 9.89 trillion of dividends from Bank Mandiri this year. Topics : Bank Mandiri president director Royke Tumilaar said the bank had taken its liquidity needs to develop its business in paying its dividends.“We’ve also taken into account the regulator’s latest requirement in determining how much we would give to our shareholders,” he said in a press briefing after its annual general shareholders meeting in Jakarta, referring to the new accounting standard PSAK 71.The remaining 40 percent of the bank’s profit last year, or equal to Rp 11 trillion, would be kept as retained capital.Bank Mandiri finance director Silvano Rumantir said the bank estimated that retained capital would still be enough to maintain its capital adequacy ratio (CAR) well above 18 percent, despite having to allocate loan loss provision for both good and bad loans as stipulated in the new PSAK 71 early in the financial year. The publicly listed bank’s net profit grew 9.86 percent yoy in 2019, lower than the 21.2 percent expansion recorded the year prior. Bank Mandiri recorded outstanding loans worth Rp 907.5 trillion last year, up 10.65 percent yoy and compared to 12.4 percent growth booked in 2018. Non-performing loans were at the lowest level since 2016 at 2.33 percent.Other than deciding on the dividends, the company also appointed former finance minister Chatib Basri as its new president commissioner, replacing State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs) Deputy Minister Kartika “Tiko” Wirjoatmodjo who was appointed Bank Rakyat Indonesia (BRI) president commissioner.The shareholders also appointed former BRI president commissioner Andrinof Chaniago as Bank Mandiri’s vice president commissioner, replacing Chatib who moved up the ladder. Several notable names, such as Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) politician Arif Budimanta and the SOEs Ministry’s undersecretary for finance and risk management, Nawal Nely, are also new members of the bank’s board of commissioners.The shareholders also overhauled the bank’s board of directors, as it promoted Hery Gunadi, who was previously the bank’s business and networking director, to vice president director. They also appointed Aquarius Rudianto, the bank’s head of regional commercial sales I, to fill in Hery’s previous position.Bank Mandiri is the second state bank to announce hefty dividend payouts this week. Bank Rakyat Indonesia (BRI), the nation’s most profitable lender, announced on Tuesday a plan to distribute Rp 20.6 trillion (US$ 1.5 billion) in dividends to its shareholders. The dividend payout represents 60 percent of the bank’s profit, higher than its 50 percent dividend payout ratio in 2018.Mandiri and BRI, which also saw board of directors and commissioners shakeup, will be followed by state lender Bank Negara Indonesia (BNI), which will hold its annual shareholders meeting with a similar agenda on Thursday.Shares in Bank Mandiri traded at Rp 7,950 at Wednesday’s trading close, 1.6 percent higher than the previous day. The stocks have risen nearly 12 percent in the past year, easily outstripping the broader benchmark Jakarta Composite Index’s (JCI) 9.3 percent fall. read more

Mali Peace Efforts: Rebels and Government Commit To a Landmark Peace Deal Mali Peace Deal: Peace Deal Raises Hopes of Stability. Its only been a month since the signing of a peace accord between the Mali government and an alliance of Tuareg-led rebels and its already proving difficult to implement.Fighters on the ground are divided into various competing factions and splinter groups, and Islamist militants are also trying to return. CCTV’s Susan Mwongeli reports. Mali peace deal to be implemented despite challenges Related read more

Indianapolis, In. — An emergency rule signed today by the DNR, filed with the Natural Resources Commission and the Legislative Services Agency, states the following:“Rifle cartridges that were allowed in previous years on public land for deer hunting are allowed on public land again this year during the deer firearms season, the reduction zone season (in zones where local ordinances allow the use of a firearm), special hunts on other public lands such as State Parks and National Wildlife Refuges, and special antlerless season.This means that the rifle cartridge must fire a bullet of .357-inch diameter or larger, have a minimum case length of 1.16 inches, and have a maximum case length of 1.8 inches if used on public land. Full metal jacketed bullets are illegal.” read more

Promoted Content7 Train Stations In The World You Wish To Stay At Longer10 Disney Characters Who Would Make Great Role ModelsHow Good The CGI Effects In Those Movies Were!Look At Something Beautiful That Wasn’t Made By A Human Being8 Things You Didn’t Know About CoffeeThe Funniest Prankster Grandma And Her GrandsonCouples Who Celebrated Their Union In A Unique, Unforgettable Way6 Incredibly Strange Facts About HurricanesWorld’s Most Stunning Ceiling Designs EverWho Is The Most Powerful Woman On Earth?Which Country Is The Most Romantic In The World?Top 10 TV Characters Meant To Be Iconic Read Also: Italy’s Serie A to resume on June 20 The MLS moves come as leagues around the world are slowly finalizing plans to return to play. Germany’s Bundesliga has already resumed while England’s Premier League and Spain’s La Liga are scheduled to return to action next month. FacebookTwitterWhatsAppEmail分享 MLS would put its clubs into three groups of six teams and another of eight for the tournament, which would be staged at ESPN’s Wide World of Sports complex at Disney World. MLS have sent teams a plan which details safety protocols, delegation limits of 45-47 people per club and a format that would send the two top squads from each group into an eight-team tournament knockout round. Loading… Major League Soccer said Thursday teams can now hold outdoor training sessions with groups of up to six players as the sport gradually moves towards a return from the coronavirus shutdown. Major League Soccer teams can resume small-group training as the league edges towards a return from the coronavirus shutdown A league statement said teams were now free to conduct small-group training sessions as long as they did not conflict with local public health regulations. The sessions must also comply with protocols drawn up by the league in consultation with medical and infectious disease experts. The MLS season was suspended on March 12 as the coronavirus pandemic swept across the United States. Players have been allowed to train individually at team facilities since May 6, but larger sessions remained forbidden. A moratorium on full team training remains in place until at least Monday, MLS said Thursday. MLS chiefs are reportedly planning to resume play in a 26-team tournament staged entirely in Orlando, Florida, expected to kick off in July. read more

Loading… Promoted ContentWhy Do So Many Digital Assistants Have Feminine Names & Voices?Care To Try A Glow-In-The-Dark Doughnut?Who Is The Most Powerful Woman On Earth?Birds Enjoy Living In A Gallery Space Created For ThemThe Very Last Bitcoin Will Be Mined Around 2140. Read MoreThe Highest Paid Football Players In The World11 Most Immersive Game To Play On Your Table TopSuper Recognizable Outfits That Actors Wore In The Famous Movies6 Unforgettable Shows From The 90s That Need To Make A Comeback6 Ridiculous Health Myths That Are Actually TruePlaying Games For Hours Can Do This To Your Body10 Risky Jobs Some Women Do Still basking in the euphoria of clinching their 34th league La Liga title, Real Madrid’s Mariano Diaz has tested positive to coronavirus. This coming barely a week to the club’s Champions League second leg clash against Manchester City at the Ethihad Stadium. The club confirmed that Diaz returned a positive Covid-19 test and is now in quarantine at home after missing training on Tuesday. Spanish newspaper Marca is reporting that Diaz returned a positive test on his return from holiday following a short trip after the conclusion of the LaLiga season. A club statement read: ‘After the COVID-19 tests carried out individually on our first football team yesterday (Monday) by the Real Madrid Medical Services, our player Mariano has given a positive result. ‘The player is in perfect health and complying with the sanitary isolation protocol at home.’ The Spanish giants are due to play the second leg of their last-16 Champions League tie at the Etihad Stadium on August 7. Real Madrid’s Mariano Diaz to miss Champions league clash against Manchester City at the Ethihad August 7 Mariano will now have to undertake a two-week quarantine period, ruling him out of the game against the Premier League side. The 26-year-old took to Instagram to express his gratitude to fans and a desire to return to training when it’s safe to do so. He said: ‘I very much appreciate your messages of support. I am perfectly fine, thank God. My family are also great. Now I am confined at home. I hope to return to normal soon and be with my teammates.’ The news comes amid the ongoing row between the UK and Spanish Governments after the UK re-imposed the requirement for travellers arriving from Spain to spend 14 days in quarantine. Read AlsoMan City v Real Madrid clash finally gets UK government nod But the positive test is now likely to bring the game into question, particularly if more Real players test positive in their next round of testing. Pep Guardiola’s side hold a 2-1 aggregate lead from the first leg at the Bernabeu way back in February. Captain Sergio Ramos was also sent off so he will be missing for the return leg. FacebookTwitterWhatsAppEmail分享 read more

THE Running Brave Athletic Club, led by a strong female contingent, was able to dominate the first Athletics Association of Guyana (AAG) Development Meet, which was held yesterday at the Guyana Defence Force ground on Vlissengen Road.National athlete Princess Brown won the Girls 19 and Under triple jumpRunning Brave athletes won 19 of the 51 events. They dominated the Girls 60M dash with Athaleyha Hinckson (8.46s) winning the 13 and Under; Breyanka Davis (7.97s) winning the 16 and Under; Brianna Charles (7.83s) winning the 16 and Under and Shaquan Daniels (7.89) winning the 20 and Over. Charles also won the 300M dash in 42.65s.Meanwhile, another Running Brave athlete, Princess Bowne, won the triple jump in the Girls 19 and Under division after leaping to a distance of 11.80M, while she finished third in the 60M dash.Another standout was U-16 athlete, Qweiasha Sealey, from DeChallengers. Among her exploits, the youngster won the 300M in 42.73s.MALE DOMINANCEAlso establishing their dominance was the Police Progressive Sports Club, whose male athletes dominated the older age groups, including the Boys 20 and over 2000M race, which saw Anfernee Headecker clocking a winning time of 5:55.53, to get past teammates Cleveland Thomas (6:02.75), Jonathon Faguandes (6:07.86) and Royston Fordyce (6:16.34).Upper Demerara and the home club, the Guyana Defence Force, also registered several wins.One of the GDF’s wins was in the Boys over 20, 150M dash, which saw Akeem Stewart pipping rival Davin Fraser (Police) by the slimmest of margins. Stewart finished in 15.69s, while Fraser was just behind in 15.70s. Stephon Boodie (Police) finished third in 16.60s.Fraser had won in the 60M battle in a time of 6.85s, while Stewart had finished in 6.92 and Brian Romain in 6.94s.In another thriller, Ion Bollers (Titans Athletic) and Nicholas Denheart (New Amsterdam United) settled for a joint first place in the Boys’ 19 and Under 60M dash. Both athletes finished their race in 7.11s.Jonathan Richards had no competition in heat 1, but his 8.16s in the 60M dash in the boys 14 and under division was elapsed by Running Brave teammate, Javon Roberts (8.12s) in heat 2.Dequan Pyle (36.78s) won the Boys 19 and Under 300M dash by a hair against Dquan Williams (36.79s), while Vince Haynes won the Boys 20 plus in the same event. He clocked 36.70s, while Jevon Harris finished second in 37.43s.Meanwhile, Police’s Seon Booker showed his stamina by storming to an over-five second victory in the Boys 16 and Under 600M race. The youngster finished in 1:32.39s, while Jonathan Seedath from DeChallengers finished second in 1:38.14s.Booker then went on to win the 2000M in a time of 6:40.15. His club mate, Devon Giles, finished second in 6:41.73.Wesley Tyndall also registered multiple wins. He won the Boys 16 and Under long jump with a leap of 6.60M, while he clocked 9.85s in the 60M dash.In the Javelin, Joshua Tappin from Upper Demerara emerged victorious with a throw of 54.70M in the Boys 19 and Under division, which was farther than the winning throw of 45.70M by Dillon Hamilton in the Boys 20 and over.Tappin had also won the shot put with a 12.65m throw.D. Roberts won the Boys 20 and over triple jump with a leap of 14.36M, while in the Boy 19 and Under, Clean Wray sailed to victory in 13.62M. read more