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Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh): The outcome of by-poll results of Budhni and Vijaypur assembly constituencies brought joy to both BJP and Congress. BJP celebrated Budhni victory along with landslide result in Maharashtra. On the other hand, Congress celebrated unexpected victory in Vijaypur and at the same time, it also celebrated party’s victory in Jharkhand. Chief Minister Mohan Yadav, BJP State President VD Sharma, Minister Vishvas Sarang and others reached BJP office to join workers celebrating party’s success in the by-election of Budhni and stellar performance in Maharashtra assembly elections. BJP leaders were a bit dejected over defeat in Vijaypur assembly by-poll. Chief Minister Mohan Yadav expressing happiness on party’s scintillating victory in Maharashtra. He said, ‘Maharashtra election is a lesson to Uddhav Thackeray’s Shiv Sena and Sharad Pawar’s NCP. From Haryana to Maharashtra, BJP is getting huge support. VD Sharma, BJP State President said that BJP recorded a historic victory in Maharashtra and won Budhni by-election with great ease. Asserting that the party will ponder over the defeat in Vijaypur by-poll, he said that BJP has managed to reduce the defeat margin in Vijaypur. In the 2023 election, the party lost the seat with a difference of 18k votes and now its defeat margin is around 7k. Congress office remains empty till noon Congress celebrating victory in Vijaypur | FP Photo Congress party’s office remained empty till noon as Congress leaders were presumably not confident that party could win any one of the two by-elections held in Budhni and Vijaypur. But when vote counting trend began, hint of Congress victory in Vijaypur, pushed workers to rush towards the party office. People of Vijaypur assembly constituency have given a strong reply to the misdeeds of the ruling BJP, state Congress president Jitu Patwari said on Saturday. Patwari said, ‘Vijaypur's victory is the victory of only and only Congress workers. The party workers endured all kinds of torture, faced police lathicharge and lawsuits, but still stood firmly.' Ramniwas Rawat’s Defeat To Dampen Nirmala Sapre’s Enthusiasm Nirmala Sapre | Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh): Forest Minister Ramniwas Rawat’s defeat has not only shocked the party-hoppers but also dampened the enthusiasm of legislator from Bina, Nirmala Sapre. After defecting from the Congress to the BJP, Sapre did not resign from the House membership. After Rawat’s loss, it has become difficult for Sapre to fight an election on a BJP ticket after resigning from the House membership. Before Rawat, many party-hoppers had to face defeat. They are Rahul Lodhi (Damoh), Ranveer Jatav (Gohad), Girraj Dandotiya (Dimni), Imarti Devi (Dabra), Raghuraj Kansana (Morena), Munnalal Goyan (Gwalior), Aidal Singh Kansana (sumawali), and Jasmant Jatav (Karera) have lost the election after quitting their parental political organisation. Minister to keep an eye on departments of Rawat Ramniwas Rawat will lose his ministry after his defeat. Two ministers will keep an eye on his ministry. Minister Nagar Singh Chouhan was deprived of forest and environment departments which were handed over to Rawat. After the incident, Chouhan was angry. He may reclaim these departments. Several other ministers are keeping an eye on these departments.Ireland rookies impress in big win as Fiji dominated 52-17Why being a tour guide was the late career change Greg was looking for

The Wabigoon Lake Ojibway Nation became the third of four communities that have agreed that they are “willing” to host Canada’s first permanent nuclear waste storage facility. Members of Wabigoon Lake, near Ignace in Northern Ontario, voted in favour of “moving forward in the process” to host over six million radioactive used nuclear fuel bundles in an underground storage facility. They join the Town of Ignace and the Municipality of South Bruce that narrowly declared itself a “willing host” in a 51 per cent to 49 per cent community referendum late last month. That only leaves the Saugeen Ojibway Nation, near Southampton, Ont., to decide if they are willing to host the $26 billion project in their territory, encompassing South Bruce, or not. Following Wabigoon’s decision, Chiefs Conrad Ritchie and Greg Nadjiwon of the Saugeen Ojibway Nation (S.O.N) said, “Wabigoon Lake Ojibway Nation’s decision does not affect S.O.N.’s ongoing evaluation of the Nuclear Waste Management Organization’s proposal to build a Deep Geological Repository in our territory near Teeswater. Due to the long history and ongoing reality of the nuclear industry in our territory, we face unique challenges as we grapple with this difficult decision.” S.O.N said they won’t ask for their residents to vote on the project until a “hosting agreement” has been agreed upon and shared with the people. Earlier this year, the Nuclear Waste Management Organization agreed to pay the Municipality of South Bruce $418 million over the next 138 years if the project ends up there. S.O.N. said they do not expect to make a “willingness decision” this year, despite efforts from the Nuclear Waste Management Organization to pick a “preferred site” for the project by Dec. 31. 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SAN JOSE, Calif. — A bid by the co-captain of San Jose State University’s women’s volleyball team to get a purportedly transgender teammate banned from the Mountain West Conference Championship has failed. Co-captain Brooke Slusser and her co-plaintiffs waited too long to seek an emergency court order barring the player from the tournament, which starts Wednesday, Colorado federal court judge S. Kato Crews ruled Monday. Slusser — along with former Spartan volleyball players Alyssa Sugai and Elle Patterson, San Jose State associate head coach Melissa Batie-Smoose, and eight players from four schools that have forfeited games against the Spartans over the player’s presence on the team — asked the court Nov. 15 for an emergency injunction. They had requested a court order banning the player from future games, including the championship, and that the conference’s policy allowing transgender players be rescinded. They also wanted Spartan wins that occurred via forfeit canceled, plus a recalculation of conference standings based on those requested changes. Crews said an emergency injunction “is an extraordinary remedy,” and should only be granted if clearly shown to be necessary to prevent an irreparable harm, and that if it were considered in a trial, would have a “substantial likelihood of success.” Teams started forfeiting against San Jose State in late September, the judge noted. The “delay” by Slusser and the others in filing the lawsuit and seeking the emergency order related to the tournament “weakens their arguments regarding irreparable harm,” Crews wrote. The player’s purported transgender status was revealed via news coverage this spring, and the plaintiffs “certainly had knowledge of this alleged player when the string of member institutions started forfeiting matches” in September, the judge added. The lawyer for Slusser and her co-plaintiffs filed an appeal of the order Monday shortly after it was released. The filing did not detail the grounds for appeal. This news organization is not naming the player, as they have not confirmed their status. Crews noted that no defendants in the lawsuit dispute that a transgender woman is on the Spartan team. Slusser and the others sued San Jose State officials , the conference and other defendants in Colorado federal court Nov. 13. For courts, temporary injunctions like those sought in this case are intended to “preserve the status quo” until a trial can provide a legal resolution, Crews said. Under accepted court precedent, that status quo should be “the last peaceable uncontested status existing between the parties before the dispute developed,” Crews wrote. That peaceable status, according to the judge, had existed after the conference’s transgender policy was ratified in 2022 and after the player began competing for the Spartans that year, the judge wrote. With regard to the policy, that status lasted until Slusser and the others filed their lawsuit, the judge wrote. With regard to the player, it was not until this past spring, at the earliest, that questions arose around their gender identity, Crews wrote. Granting the injunction would have altered the status quo because the player has been on the Spartan roster since 2022, and throughout the 2024 season, and the conference’s Transgender Participation Policy has been in effect since August 2022, the judge said. The request for an emergency injunction claimed federal Title IX education law prohibiting sex-based discrimination “protects women, not men who identify as women.” However, Crews wrote, court precedent, including from the U.S. Supreme Court, suggests Slusser and her co-plaintiffs “have failed to show a likelihood of success on the merits of these claims.” Crews also said that the requested injunction would have led to an “eleventh-hour shake-up” for the championship tournament. The Spartan team over the weekend secured the No. 2 seed spot in the six-team tournament, with a bye in the first round . Then they are scheduled to face the winner of a match between Utah State and Boise State — two of the five teams that have forfeited against San Jose State. Slusser earlier joined a similar lawsuit, in Georgia federal court, against the National Collegiate Athletic Association over its rules allowing certain transgender women to play women’s sports. ©2024 MediaNews Group, Inc. 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The Chargers drafted the 6-foot, 185-pound McConkey in the second round of the 2024 NFL Draft out of Georgia. Mack, 33, is a three-time first-team All-Pro, an eight-time Pro Bowl selection and the 2016 NFL Defensive Player of the Year. He has started the nine games he has played and has 26 tackles and 4.5 sacks this season. For his career, Mack has 617 tackles, 106 sacks, 141 tackles for loss, 178 quarterback hits, three interceptions -- two returned for touchdowns -- 32 forced fumbles and 13 fumble recoveries in 160 games (159 starts). He has played for the Raiders (2014-17), Chicago Bears (2018-21) and Chargers. Hurst, 31, has started two of seven games in his first season with the Chargers. He has seven receptions on 12 targets for 65 yards. A first-round pick (25th overall) by Baltimore in the 2018 NFL Draft out of South Carolina, Hurst has 202 receptions for 1,967 yards and 15 TDs in 86 games (41 starts) for the Ravens (2018-19), Atlanta Falcons (2020-21), Cincinnati Bengals (2022), Carolina Panthers (2023) and Chargers. Apple, 29, has two tackles in three games this season, his first with the Chargers. The 10th overall selection in the 2016 draft, Apple has 383 career tackles and six interceptions in 101 games (82 starts) for the New York Giants (2016-18), New Orleans Saints (2018-19), Panthers (2020), Bengals (2021-22), Miami Dolphins (2023) and Chargers. Leonard, who turned 25 last Tuesday, has four tackles in four games this season. His 21-day practice window on IR opened Wednesday. --Field Level MediaReport: Chargers expect WR Ladd McConkey, LB Khalil Mack to play vs. Ravens

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — What began as a childhood hobby more than six decades ago has led to what might be Africa’s largest butterfly collection in a suburb of Kenya’s capital. Steve Collins, 74, was born and raised in western Kenya. By the age of 5, he was fascinated by butterflies and started building a collection that has grown to more than 4.2 million, representing hundreds of species. “My parents encouraged us to look for butterflies after visiting the Congo and were gifted a trapping net by some friends,” Collins said. “By the time I was 15 years old, I was already visiting other countries like Nigeria to study more about butterflies.” During his 20-year career as an agronomist, Collins dedicated his free time to research. He established the African Butterfly Research Institute in 1997. Now, running out of space and time, he hopes to hand it over to the next generation. On his 1.5 acres (0.6 hectare) of land, hundreds of indigenous trees and flowering bushes form a well-knit forest. Hundreds of butterflies dance from one flower to another, at times landing on Collins’ hand. His collection is private, although it was initially open to the public when he ran it as an education center between 1998 and 2003. Collins has 1.2 million butterflies from across Africa delicately pinned in frames and stored in rows of shelves, with another 3 million in envelopes. “They need to be kept in dark spaces,” he said. “The form of storage also ensures the dried butterflies are not eaten by other insects, parasites and predators. We also ensure we apply insecticides once a year to keep them safe.” Julian Bayliss, an ecologist specializing in Africa and a visiting professor at Oxford Brookes University, said he has collected butterflies for Collins over two decades. “There is a large part of that collection that is completely irreplaceable because a large part of Africa’s habitat is being destroyed,” Bayliss said. Africa is vulnerable to climate change, with periods of prolonged drought and serious flooding destroying forests and other butterfly habitats. Bayliss suggested digitizing the collection to make it accessible worldwide. Whoever takes it over “needs to be an institution that is well-founded, well-funded and secure,” he said. Scott Miller, an entomologist at the Smithsonian Institution, met Collins almost 30 years ago. He said such collections provide critical information that could show environmental changes over 60 years. “These physical specimens, you can actually keep going back to them to get new layers of information as you learn more or you get a different technology or you get different questions,” he said. Collins is concerned that soon he will no longer be able to sustain his research. He said his most prized butterfly costs $8,000 — which he keeps from sight, concerned about possible theft — and hopes to sell the collection to an individual or research institution. The costs of running his institute are high. An annual budget posted in 2009 on the Lepidopterists’ Society of Africa website was $200,000. Collins estimates that the specimens and other assets are worth $8 million. “This has been my hobby for decades, and I can’t put a price on what I have done so far. I’m currently seeking to ensure the species are in safe hands when I’m out of this world,” he said. ___ Associated Press journalist Khaled Kazziha in Nairobi, Kenya, contributed to this report. Magdalene Mwaniki, The Associated Press

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