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The Reds ultimately left St James’ Park with only a point after Fabian Schar snatched a 3-3 draw at the end of a pulsating encounter, but Salah’s double – his 14th and 15th goals of the season – transformed a 2-1 deficit into a 3-2 lead before the Switzerland defender’s late intervention. The 32-year-old Egypt international’s future at Anfield remains a topic of debate with his current contract running down. Asked about Salah’s future, Slot said: “It’s difficult for me to predict the long-term future, but the only thing I can expect or predict is that he is in a very good place at the moment. Two goals and an assist for Mo tonight 👏 pic.twitter.com/tMXidgeA0P — Liverpool FC (@LFC) December 4, 2024 “He plays in a very good team that provides him with good opportunities and then he is able to do special things. “And what makes him for me even more special is that in the first hour or before we scored to make it 1-1, you thought, ‘He’s not playing his best game today’, and to then come up with a half-hour or 45 minutes – I don’t know how long it was – afterwards with an assist, two goals, having a shot on the bar, being a constant threat, that is something not many players can do if they’ve played the first hour like he did. “That is also what makes him special. If you just look at the goals, his finish is so clinical. He’s a special player, but that’s what we all know.” Salah did indeed endure a quiet opening 45 minutes by his standards and it was the Magpies who went in at the break a goal to the good after Alexander Isak’s stunning 35th-minute finish. Slot said: “The shot from Isak, I don’t even know if Caoimh (keeper Caoimhin Kelleher) saw that ball, as hard as it was.” Salah set up Curtis Jones to level five minutes into the second half and after Anthony Gordon has restored the hosts’ lead, levelled himself from substitute Trent Alexander-Arnold’s 68th-minute cross. He looked to have won it with a fine turn and finish – his ninth goal in seven league games – seven minutes from time, only for Schar to pounce from a tight angle in the 90th minute. Newcastle head coach Eddie Howe was delighted with the way his team took the game to the Reds four days after their disappointing 1-1 draw at Crystal Palace. Howe, who admitted his surprise that VAR official Stuart Attwell had not taken a dimmer view of a Virgil van Dijk shoulder barge on Gordon, said: “It’s mixed emotions. “Part of me feels we should have won it – a big part of me – but part of me is pleased we didn’t lose either because it was such a late goal for us. “Generally, I’m just pleased with the performance. There was much more attacking output, a much better feel about the team. “There was much better energy, and it was a really good performance against, for me, the best team we’ve played so far this season in the Premier League, so it was a big jump forward for us.”Shiffrin confirms she'll miss Beaver Creek World Cup racesAbandoned mines in the US pose dangers to people and property when land gives way
A FOOTIE club’s kit man is accused of trying to blackmail the millionaire owner. Former police hostage negotiator Duncan Whitehead, 54, allegedly threatened to release damaging information about Port Vale ’s Carol Shanahan if she did not hand over £15,000. Shanahan, 67, has owned the League Two club with husband Kevin since 2019. The pair turned Whitehead over to cops last October. It is unclear what he was allegedly threatening to reveal about Ms Shanahan, who made £10million founding financial technology giant Synectics Solutions in the 1990s. Whitehead appeared at North Staffordshire magistrates court last month. read more on football He has yet to enter a plea and will appear at Stoke-on-Trent crown court on January 5. Whitehead, of Blackpool , served as a Lancashire Constabulary cop from 1992 to 2014 but resigned to start a mental health charity. He has worked as a kit man for a string of lower league clubs and joined Port Vale two years ago. The part-time writer also works as a private security guard. Most read in Football Take That ’s Robbie Williams , 50, Vale’s most famous fan, was made president earlier this year — but has no role in the club’s operation.By KEVIN FREKING WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans teed up a vote this week on bipartisan legislation to gradually expand by 66 the number of federal judgeships across the country. Democrats, though, are having second thoughts now that President-elect Donald Trump has won a second term. The White House said Tuesday that if President Joe Biden were presented with the bill, he would veto it. A Congress closely divided along party lines would be unlikely to overturn a veto, likely dooming the bill’s chances this year. It’s an abrupt reversal for legislation that the Senate passed unanimously in August. But the GOP-led House waited until after the election to act on the measure, which spreads out the establishment of the new district judgeships over about a decade to give three presidential administrations the chance to appoint the new judges. Rep. Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., said the bill was negotiated with the understanding that three unknown, future presidents would have the chance to expand and shape the judiciary. No party would be knowingly given an advantage. He said he begged GOP leadership to take up the measure before the presidential election. But they did not do so. “It was a fair fight and they wanted no part of it,” Nadler said. Rep. Jim Jordan, the Republican chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, explained the timing this way: “We just didn’t get to the legislation.” The change of heart about the bill from some Democrats and the new urgency from House Republicans for considering it underscores the contentious politics that surrounded federal judicial vacancies. Senate roll-call votes are required for almost every judicial nominee these days, and most votes for the Supreme Court and appellate courts are now decided largely along party lines. Lawmakers are generally hesitant to hand presidents from the opposing party new opportunities to shape the judiciary. Related Articles National Politics | Trump lawyers and aide hit with 10 additional felony charges in Wisconsin over 2020 fake electors National Politics | After withdrawing as attorney general nominee, Matt Gaetz lands a talk show on OANN television National Politics | What will happen to Social Security under Trump’s tax plan? National Politics | Republican-led states are rolling out plans that could aid Trump’s mass deportation effort National Politics | Elon Musk warns Republicans against standing in Trump’s way — or his Nadler said that the bill would give Trump 25 judicial nominations on top of the 100-plus spots that are expected to open up over the next four years. “Donald Trump has made clear that he intends to expand the power of the presidency and giving him 25 new judges to appoint gives him one more tool at his disposal to do that,” Nadler said. Nadler said he’s willing to take up comparable legislation in the years ahead and give the additional judicial appointments to “unknown presidents yet to come,” but until then, he was urging colleagues to vote against the bill. Still, few are arguing against the merits. Congress last authorized a new district judgeship more than 20 years ago, while the number of cases being filed continues to increase with litigants often waiting years for a resolution. “I used to be a federal court litigator, and I can tell you it’s desperately needed,” House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., said of the bill. Sen. Todd Young, R-Ind., first introduced the bill to establish new judgeships in 2020. Last year, the policy-making body for the federal court system, the Judicial Conference of the United States, recommended the creation of several new district and court of appeals judgeships to meet increased workload demands in certain courts. “Judges work tirelessly every day to meet growing demands and resolve cases as quickly as possible, but with the volume we have and the shortage of judges we have, it just makes it a very difficult proposition,” Judge Timothy Corrigan, of the Middle District of Florida, said in a recent blog post on the website of the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts. The blog post states that caseloads are creating delays that will erode public confidence in the judicial process, but the bill would meet many of the federal judiciary’s needs for more judges. Jordan said that as of June 30th, there were nearly 750,000 pending cases in federal district courts nationwide, with each judge handling an average of 554 filings. When asked if House Republicans would have brought the bill up if Vice President Kamala Harris had won the election, Jordan said the bill is “the right thing to do” and that almost half of the first batch of judges will come from states where both senators are Democrats, giving them a chance to provide input on those nominations before Trump makes them. But in its veto threat, the White House Office of Management and Budget said the bill would create new judgeships in states where senators have sought to hold open existing judicial vacancies. “These efforts to hold open vacancies suggest that concerns about judicial economy and caseload are not the true motivating force behind passage of the law,” the White House said. Shortly before the White House issued the veto threat, Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said he would be curious to hear Biden’s rationale for such action. “It’s almost inconceivable that a lame-duck president could consider vetoing such an obviously prudential step for any reason other than selfish spite,” McConnell said.
During the 37 th Awit Awards at the Music Museum last December 4, Parokya ni Edgar was conferred the Gawad ng Musikang Pilipino Award. Guitarist Gab Chee Kee first spoke thanking people followed by drummer Dindin Moreno who came on “in case (Gab) forgot to mention other people.” In Moreno’s short spiel, he recounted how Parokya ni Edgar was nominated for several awards during the 1996 edition held at the AFP Theater inside Camp Aguinaldo. But the band did not win anything. Two women behind them consoled them, “Huwag kayong susuko. Mananalo rin kayo.” Moreno offered the same advice to today’s young bands – “huwag kayong susuko.” I had left the Music Museum by the time Parokya ni Edgar received the deserved award. Learning about it, my heart swelled with pride. In the early 1990s, after the Eraserheads led the alternative band explosion in the country, every record company was in search of the next big thing. I was working for Universal Records at that time handling the company’s jazz and classical labels. It was rather surprising that my old boss, Ramon Chuaying, hired someone who loved rock music and all its sub-genres to handle jazz and classical music The manager who previously handled the position was asked to do something else. Chuaying had a radical idea – what if we hired someone who didn’t appreciate the music to market and sell it? If it didn’t work, then it was worth a try. If it did, then Chuaying was a genius. Me? I wanted to show the disbelievers that it would work. Of course, it was a gamble but I turned sales around by approaching jazz and classical as if I were promoting pop acts. Anyways, sales jumped when I took over. By late 1993, the person in charge of getting bands could not get anyone. My Ateneo batchmate and Cubao neighbor, Dominic Gamboa of the reggae band Tropical Depression, gave me a demo tape (recorded at Stephen Lu’s Loudhouse Productions), but UR bosses supposed that the only reggae people listened to is from Bob Marley and the Wailers. Much to my disappointment, they gave the thumbs down. Then Je Bautista, one year ahead of me at the Ateneo, bassist for Betrayed, fellow Rush and baseball fan, called me at home, and invited me to watch his band, “Put3ska.” “Ska sila,” Je said over the phone like magic words. We were both weaned on 2-Tone ska; that is all I needed to hear. So I went down to Malabon, loath as I was to go there. When I saw them, I was entranced. “Game,” I said to Je. Except my bosses were not impressed. “No one in the Philippines likes Mexican music,” was their reason. Sic, right? When we missed out on Color It Red, I was now upset. I was such a fan of the band. So I asked permission to sign some bands. After all, I was the one in the band scene. There were initially two bands I targeted from a list of seven bands. The first was Datu’s Tribe, followed by Parokya ni Edgar. Then came Fatal Posporos, Indio I, Sugar Hiccup, Sonnet 58, and Keltscross. Datu’s was easy to sign. The problem came after the first two songs they recorded, one of which was “Sarsa Platoon.” My bosses and the other manager look on with disdain. “No one listens to hard rock,” my boss yelled at me. “But we just sold 30,000 cds of Bon Jovi’s ‘Slippery When Wet.’” That’s different. I was rebutted, they are international stars. UR was willing to cut their early losses and run. For me to get Datu’s Tribe back on track, WLS and Triggerman. I called up Triggerman and placed the phone next to the speaker for him to listen to “Sarsa Platoon.” “Oo, pare,” enthused Milo (aka Triggerman), “Dalhin mo sila sa acoustic live show sa Sunday. Tugtog sila.” I called up their manager, Patrick Reidenbach, my Ateneo classmate who also owned Club Dredd, and informed him about the developments. When we performed on WLS that Sunday, the station was bombarded with calls about their upcoming recordings. I got a message on my pager about this live stunt as “preempting any marketing plans.” I was incensed. The chip on my shoulder was back. Anyways, Datu’s Tribe’s debut album went gold (20,000 units sold; we actually sold 22,000) as we proved their music – and Filipino hard rock would sell. And that was the first time Filipino hard rock sold that many units. Then came Paroka ni Edgar. Having struck out on Tropical Depression and Put3ska, Reidenbach called me at home (via the telephone because we never called them landlines back in the day). “Ricky,” Pat said, “Come over to Dredd because we have this band from Ateneo playing. And (our classmate) Ricky Santillan was managing them.” Ricky was invited by Patrick to have a look-see at the band at Dredd. “Maybe you can manage them so no one screws them over,” Ricky recalled Pat telling him. Those were the days when they covered Hagibis’ “Katawan” and dressed in dusters (Chito wearing a blue floral duster to go with boots). When I reunited with my old classmates, Ricky handed me his calling card which had the nickname “Rastaman”. Like me, we had gone into advertising. Tokayo stayed in the game when I got tired of clients calling me at home or paging me at midnight. When I saw them at Dredd, I fell in love with the band from the get-go. I saw them a few more times – not just at Dredd, but also 70s Bistro, at some shows in Ateneo and UP, that confirmed what I first felt. These guys had songs that would have crowds singing along as well as playable on radio, and they had magnetism and engaged the crowd. Plus, they kept the crowd in stitches. That is always a plus in my book. There was some affinity as well. Gab’s mom, Ching, was my English and homeroom teacher during fourth-year high school Ateneo. Mam Chee Kee was instrumental in getting me to take writing seriously. I remember that day when I brought Bella Tan for that Club Dredd audition. We left the office at Grace Park early to have an early dinner at her Talayan Village residence then got to Dredd (in her white Mercedes Benz) at exactly 6pm. Dredd opened early specifically for us. Just for the audition. Besides, the crowds did not arrive until past 8pm. It was just Bella, Ricky, my cousin John who lived with us then and asked if he could attend, and me. The band of course. They sang two songs – “Pangarap Ko Sa Buhay” – and Bella began giggling. That’s a good sign, I mused. By “Chikinini”, she was up and applauding. The third song that Tokayo and I lined up was “Nakaw ang Wallet Ko” but we never got there. The audition was over. Bella met with all and agreed to sign them. A day later, Bella met us managers at the office to discuss “the new signing”. While I was excited, my heart sank when the collective agreed to record only one song for a compilation. At that point, Datu’s Tribe hadn’t finished recording their debut, and we had nothing to show. I couldn’t hold back and reasoned that they had enough strong material for two whole albums. I pushed my luck, “If you don’t believe in them, I will take them to BMG.” “You can’t do that,” blurted out one manager. “I can,” I shot back. “We haven’t signed them anyways.” But I got what I wanted – a full album. I sat down with Santillan and the band to tell them what transpired. About two months later, now with other labels sniffing around Parokya’s shows, we signed the band. At the same time, some naysayers thought that novelty bands were not going to sell. If you look at the photo during that contract signing from the standing left, it’s Gab Chee Kee, Vinci Montaner, Chito Miranda, UR’s Jesse Saclo, me in the middle wearing a t-shirt of alt band the Youth, Dindin Moreno, Buwi Meneses, and Darius Semana. Seated are Ricky Santillan and Bella Tan. I was pretty pleased with myself. I shook hands with Tokayo and said, “Now, we prove people wrong.” Except a few weeks later, Santillan came over to the office for one of those early creative meetings for the upcoming recording, to inform us that he was moving to Singapore to join Bates Advertising in Jakarta. Ricky and Bella asked if I wanted to manage the band. I thought about it for a good 30 minutes and then declined. I had just gotten married and was on the family way. We didn’t have any house helpers and the prospect of being away on gigs as well as out-of-town shows was going to be a problem. At that time, Robert Javier was recommended by Ito Rapadas to produce their debut album. When I declined, he recommended Richard Tan, who was his manager with the Youth. Then Khangkhungkherrnitz , the debut album, was a massive hit. Barely a year later, the sophomore release, Buruguduystunstugudunstuy followed; once more a massive hit album. And Parokya was like a runaway freight train scoring one hit song, one hit album after another. The success of Parokya ni Edgar and Datu’s Tribe opened the door for other bands to join Universal Records – Kamikazee, Orange & Lemons, Sponge Cola, Rivermaya (for one album), and some others. Parokya? They were doing quite nicely for themselves. I remember after one US tour, I had coffee with Dindin somewhere in Maginhawa Street (he had some CDs for me as pasalubong) and he told me that since graduation, he never had a corporate job since the band paid well. When I met up with the band during a show at the Metrotent in October 2019 for what would be my first ever Parokya ni Edgar article, Chito sat next to me and showed me their schedule for the next three months. They were playing like every two or three nights. “Wow,” was all I could say. As we reminisced about the good old days, Chito asked me on the side if I ever regretted not managing them. My answer was this, “No. Not at all. Not once. In fact, I have followed you guys from afar and have been very happy for the band’s success.” Chito gave me a fist bump and a bro hug. When they received their Awit Award, like a proud distant relative, I cheered them as always from afar. Their sustained success is well-deserved and a product of their hard work. And my mind raced back to those early days at Club Dredd along Edsa. Image credits: Rick Olivares
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