The Kelowna Longboarding Alliance and Kamloops Longboarding Club worked hard with event organizer David Befus to ensure the two-day event ran smoothly, who was on the course Saturday for qualifying day. “We did a full day of qualifying and practice here on Saturday. We have all our times, going into tomorrow we will have four-game tournament runs until we have a winner at the end,” Befus said. The riders used Saturday to practice the course in preparation for Sunday’s showdown, and according to one of the riders, the downhill course at Knox Mountain is a lot of fun and does not disappoint....

Command, a wide-ranging analysis of post-World War II conflicts by leading strategic studies expert Lawrence Freedman, examines a range of well-known conflicts, from the Cuban Missile Crisis to the French defeat by the Viet Minh at Dien. Bien Phu, to the Falklands War and Saddam Hussein’s invasion of Kuwait, to the current war in Ukraine. “The big point,” said Freedman, emeritus professor of war studies at King’s College London, “is that autocracies are very bad at this....

Oben-ohne-Aktivisten zertrümmern den Auftritt der Kanzlerin Tag der offenen Tür bei der Bundesregierung! Tausende Menschen zogen ins Berliner Regierungsviertel, konnten Kanzler und Minister hautnah treffen, ihnen Fragen stellen – und mit ihnen fotografieren. Olaf Solz (63, SPD) erlitt einen kleinen Schock! Plötzlich stand er neben zwei nackten Frauen! Lesen Sie auch Sie hatten für ein Foto neben der Kanzlerin gestanden und sich plötzlich mit zerrissenen Trikots ausgezogen. Sie warfen auch farbiges Spielgeld herum....

Lucie Vallière n’a pas eu de nouvelles d’Hydro-Québec depuis un moment, malgré les nombreux poteaux jetés. Le calvaire de Mme Vallière a commencé lorsqu’elle a demandé à Hydro-Québec de débrancher le panneau de 200 ampères pour que les travaux puissent se faire en toute sécurité. Cependant, la société de la Couronne n’est jamais revenue pour connecter le panneau. “L’électricité n’est pas non plus de l’eau. Nous sommes alimentés par un puits artésien, donc pas d’eau, pas d’électricité....

Harry Potter creator JK Rowling, Philip Pullman, author of His Dark Materials, and poet Kate Clanchy are among the cast of the drama that continues to rock Writers Guild, not to mention Joanne Harris, author of the best-selling novel. Chocolat, who chairs the company’s management committee. This weekend, fresh allegations emerged that the SoA, Britain’s biggest union for published writers, illustrators and translators, is inappropriately taking sides in divisive cultural disputes....

Now, in an unexpected twist to the decades-long effort to eradicate the virus, authorities in Jerusalem, New York and London have discovered evidence that polio is spreading there. The original source of the virus? The oral vaccine itself. Scientists have long known about this extremely rare phenomenon. This is why some countries have switched to other polio vaccines. But these accidental infections from oral formula are becoming more glaring as the world moves closer to eradicating the disease and the number of polio cases caused by the wild or circulating virus plummets....

Chelsea-Manager Tuchel weigert sich, die Leistung von Leeds zu würdigen Chelsea erlitt in Leeds eine 0: 3-Niederlage, einschließlich eines Torwartfehlers und eines roten Koulibaly. Thomas Tuchel (48) liefert eine merkwürdige Ausrede für die Niederlage, denn an tapferen Gegnern lag es nicht. 1/5 Torwartpatzer, Rot gegen einen Verteidiger und 0:3 gegen Leeds: ein Sonntag aus zweiter Hand für den von Thomas Tuchel trainierten FC Chelsea. “Alles ging schief.” Chelsea-Trainer Thomas Tuchel (48) hätte es nach dem 0:3 gegen Leeds nicht treffender formulieren können....

Game preview Head coach Nathaniel Hackett insisted that having the team’s backups play against Buffalo’s starters was a good opportunity to evaluate the roster. He also expressed little concern about opposing game plans in prep football. “No, it’s about our team,” Hackett said. “Our team and only our team. The only time it will affect the kind of things we do is during the season.” In the preseason, it’s clear that Hackett’s focus is on practice reps and getting settled in for starters....

Radfahrer (†56) rutscht aus und stürzt in den Tod Ein 56-jähriger Velofahrer ist am Sonntag bei Leondica im Tessin bei einem Unfall ums Leben gekommen. Unterwegs rutschte er aus und stürzte etwa 30 Meter die Klippe hinunter.

The Russian Defense Ministry said Kalibr sea-based missiles destroyed a warehouse that also housed Western-made anti-aircraft systems. A spokesman for the Odesa regional administration said two missiles were shot down over the sea, but that three hit rural targets. Sign up now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com Register There were no casualties, spokesman Serhiy Bratchuk said on Telegram. An explosives expert and investigators were working at the barn, he said....

I finally received my rifle. Turns out it had a broken belt, it was rusty and kept sticking, so I cleaned it in oil for a long time trying to get it in order. Around the 20th of February came the order to pack up urgently and leave, packing lightly. We were supposed to make a forced march to some unknown location. Some joked that now we will attack Ukraine and take Kyiv in three days....

The person who died was a customer at the Trail Road landfill, public works general manager Quentin Levescu said in a Sunday memo to the city council. Levesco’s memo provided no further details about the “unfortunate fatality,” citing the ministry’s investigation. The person was rushed to hospital in critical condition but later died, a spokesperson for the Ottawa Paramedic Service told CBC. “The Department of Public Works sends its condolences to the family, friends and loved ones of the customer who was fatally injured in the incident,” Levesque wrote....

Former President Trump’s legal counsel told the Mark Levin Show that he is preparing to file a Fourth Amendment lawsuit “very soon” against the Justice Department in connection with the Mar-a-Lago raid. James Trusty, a former federal prosecutor, said Trump’s legal team would “weigh in very hard and very hard,” saying they would “attack” the search warrant used in the FBI raid on the former president’s Florida estate. . “It would have to be something that would be made public....

La diffusion vendredi d’une vidéo montrant des détenus et des gardiens de la prison de Fresnes, dans le Val-de-Marne, s’affrontant ensemble dans un tournoi baptisé “Kohlanness” en hommage à la populaire émission télévisée, a indigné la classe politique à travers le week-end. La droite et l’extrême droite jugent donc indécentes les images de prisonniers conduisant des karts ou participant à des jeux aquatiques. Alors que la Garde des Sceaux a annoncé l’ouverture d’une enquête administrative, la question se pose désormais de savoir dans quelle mesure les services en amont ont été informés de l’incident....

Posté hier à 23h20. Lila Dussault La Presse Pendant environ une heure, à partir de 1h30. vers 2 h 30, un groupe de conducteurs et leurs passagers ont fait voir de toutes les couleurs les automobilistes et policiers montréalais. «Ils ont arrêté la circulation pour se filmer en train de faire des manœuvres de conduite dangereuses sur les voies», a déclaré Stéphane Tremblay, porte-parole de la Sûreté du Québec (SQ)....