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Yahoo
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Photos give rare glimpse of area's first major pop festival at Bickershaw
With the festival season underway. we thought it appropriate to head into the archive and bring you these photos from one of the area's first pop festivals. The event, held at Bickershaw, over three days in May 1972, featured a line-up of major UK and American acts including The Grateful Dead, Hawkwind, Captain Beefheart and The Kinks. Organisers had hoped that over 120,000 people would head to the North West for the Bickershaw Festival - notable as it was one of the first festivals to offer on-site camping. But bad weather meant that the site - which was prone to flooding - turned into something of a mud bath. And a lack of adequate security meant that many tickets were resold and many festivalgoers even got in for free. Around 40,000 people were estimated to have attended with the organisers - who included one Jeremy Beadle, long before he achieved TV fame - losing a substantial amount of money. The site was left an eyesore leading to numerous complaints from local residents.
Time of India
6 days ago
- Time of India
Two rare star tortoises seized from Grant Rd home; 1 booked
Mumbai: Forest officials, accompanied by activists from PAWS-Mumbai, Amma Care Foundation, and OIPA, recently raided a Grant Road flat and seized two Indian star tortoises from Vinay Vaghela (57). Tired of too many ads? go ad free now As Indian star tortoise is a protected species under the Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972 and it is a crime to either poach or keep them as pets, Vaghela was booked under the relevant sections of the Act. He was produced before a local court, which sent him to three days of forest department custody. The raid was conducted by range forest officer (Wildlife) Mumbai Shilpa Shigwan, honorary wildlife warden Sunish Subramanian Kunju, round officer Sanjay Giri, forest guard Rakesh Patil, and staff under the guidance of deputy conservator of forests (Wildlife) Thane Akshay Gajbhiye and assistant conservator of forests (Wildlife) Manohar Divekar. Following the raid at the Grant Road residence, two more star tortoises were seized after questioning a pet shop owner, said Kunju. — Vijay Singh
New Indian Express
7 days ago
- Politics
- New Indian Express
UN human rights body flags relocation of tribal dwellers from tiger reserves
BHUBANESWAR : The relocation of forest-dwelling tribals from the tiger reserves in Odisha and 17 other states has been flagged by the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD), one of UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies. Odisha is one among the 18 states where tribals are being displaced from tiger reserves, the allegations of which have been received by CERD under its 'early warning and urgent action procedure' with regard to the situation of tribal and forest-dwelling indigenous people in India. The National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) had in June last year, asked the then chief wildlife warden to look into relocation of villages from the core/critical tiger habitat areas of the two tiger reserves in the state under the Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972. The law mandates that core or critical tiger habitat areas of national parks and sanctuaries are kept inviolate for tiger conservation. NTCA had also pointed out that the village relocation process has been very slow. Odisha has two tiger reserves - Satkosia and Similipal. As per the NTCA reports, the number of villages in the core areas in Satkosia was five (having 157 families) and nine in Similipal (311 families), as on May 27, 2024. The number of villages relocated from the core area since the inception of Project Tiger is one (78 families) in Satkosia and four (247 families) in Similipal. The number of villages remaining in the core areas of both the reserves is 9 and families is 143.
The Hindu
26-05-2025
- The Hindu
Man held for hunting deer in Erode
A 35-year-old man from Ennamangalam in Anthiyur block was arrested by the Forest Department on Monday for hunting a deer and possessing its meat. At 4 a.m. on Sunday, a team from the Anthiyur Forest Range Office was patrolling the Sellathampalayam East beat forest area to review footage from camera traps installed to monitor leopard movement. During the patrol, they spotted a man carrying a bag in the forest. Upon seeing the team, he dropped the bag and fled the scene. Inside the bag, the team found deer meat, a machete, and a knife, which they took to the office. The man's image had been captured by one of the camera traps, and the team launched a search to identify and locate him. On Monday, acting on a tip-off, Forest Department staff apprehended the suspect at Car Street in Anthiyur. He was identified as M. Ammavasai of Kovilur. During questioning, he confessed to hunting the deer and collecting its meat for sale. A case was registered against him for trespassing into the forest and poaching, under relevant sections of the Tamil Nadu Forest Act, 1882, and the Wildlife Protection Act, 1972. He was produced in court and remanded to the district prison in Gobichettipalayam.
Irish Times
25-05-2025
- Sport
- Irish Times
Nike sorely misses spirit of the great Steve Prefontaine as running values tumble
In his 2016 memoir Shoe Dog, comfortably the best book ever written about selling a pair of runners, Phil Knight talks about first getting to know Steve Prefontaine. It was at the US Olympic trials in 1972, a year after Knight relaunched his small running shoe company Blue Ribbon Sports under the brand name Nike . Blue Ribbon had originally imported Onitsuka runners from Japan, but Knight had a new marketing tactic in mind with Nike. 'By then Prefontaine was universally known as Pre and he was far more than just a phenom, he was an outright superstar,' wrote Knight. 'Pre was unlike any athlete this country has ever seen, though it was hard to say exactly why. I'd spent a lot of time studying him, admiring him, puzzling about his appeal. 'Sometimes I thought the secret to Pre's appeal was his passion. He didn't care if he died crossing the finish line, so long as he crossed first. He pushed himself to the brink and beyond... No matter the sport – no matter the human endeavour, really – total effort will win people's hearts.' READ MORE All this came to mind this week, rereading Shoe Dog, alongside some of the recent grim reading about Nike's tumbling running sales and stock values, and how the company could badly do with another Pre right now. The original 'Just Do It', Pre was only 21 at the time and turned out to be the headline act at those US trials. Wearing a pair of custom-built Nike designed by Bill Bowerman and now decorated with a 'swoosh', Pre won the 5,000m from gun to tape in an American record of 13:22.8. It earned his ticket to the Munich Olympics a month later. Knight was utterly inspired: 'Walking back down Agate Street I knew that race was part of me, would forever be a part of me. In our coming battles, with Onitsuka, with whomever, we'd be like Pre. We'd compete as if our lives depended on it... Because they did.' A month later in Munich , Pre finished fourth in the 5,000m, narrowly outsprinted for bronze by Britain's Ian Stewart. He'd run from the front for most of the last four laps and was inconsolable at the finish, convinced he was done with running. Knight and Nike changed his mind. Athlete endorsements were banned in track and field, so Nike hired him in 1973 as their national director of public affairs, on a modest salary of $5,000 a year. One of the first things Pre bought himself was a Butterscotch MG. Sadly, Pre didn't have long to live 'I remember thinking Pre was the living, breathing embodiment of what we were trying to create,' Knight recalled. 'Whenever people saw Pre going at his breakneck speed – on a track, in his MG – I wanted them to see Nike. And when they bought a pair of Nikes, I wanted them to see Pre.' Knight also joked about the time Nike missed out on signing a rising tennis star named Jimmy Connors, in the summer of 1974, after he surprisingly won Wimbledon and then the US Open. 'Disappointing, we all agreed. Besides, we all said, we've still got Pre. We'll always have Pre.' Sadly, Pre didn't have long to live. He was killed in a car accident 50 years ago in the early hours of May 30th, 1975. He'd just won his last 5,000m race, before crashing his MG into a rocky roadside ditch while returning from a celebratory party in the hills outside Eugene, Oregon. Pinned beneath the wreck of his car, he was pronounced dead at the scene. Nike's Vaporfly range is no longer the behemoth it used to be in the running shoes market. Photograph: Christopher Pike/Reuters Fifty years on, the once-breakneck speed of Nike's growth has slowed to a crawl. Its current market value of $90.51 billion is down from a peak of $281 billion in November 2021, and its stock was the Dow's second-worst performer last year. That stock value is today worth $60.21, miles off the high-water $177.51 in November, 2021. Nike's sales have also tumbled for four straight quarters, falling nine per cent year-on-year according to the latest quarterly return. Gross margins also fell to 41.5 per cent in the same quarter and Nike's earnings are now expected to fall by over 46 per cent this year. In China, Nike sales fell 17 per cent in the most recent quarter, while domestic brands like Anta and Li-Ning are racing ahead No wonder they have been scrambling around to figure out why. During the Covid pandemic, under then CEO John Donahoe, Nike made a deliberate decision to focus on sales through its own online channels, cutting back on wholesale sales. This worked wonders while people were confined to their homes, but it backfired once shoppers returned to stores after the pandemic, where the Nike products weren't well stocked. Last September, Nike announced that Donahoe was retiring and they brought back Elliott Hill as their new CEO, a Nike veteran of over 30 years. 'We're beginning to drive a more diversified portfolio,' Hill said recently. 'It will take time to reach the volume to replace the handful of classic franchises we over-indexed, but our approach is simple – help consumers fall in love with something new from Nike.' [ A sporting freak show with a cast of drugged-up athletes: welcome to the Enhanced Games Opens in new window ] [ 'Guys are segregated at Shels v Bohs and the next morning they're together at Na Fianna': 'Mossy' Quinn adapting to new Shelbourne CEO role Opens in new window ] Easier said than done. Those same consumers are fast falling in love with other brands, including long-time rivals Adidas and Puma, along with newer names such as New Balance, Hoka, and On Running, the increasingly popular Swiss brand which has benefited from some heavy investment by the likes of Roger Federer. Since Adidas appointed new CEO Bjørn Gulden in 2023, their stock price is up 74 per cent. They're also focusing more on the European market, sponsoring an increasing number of athletes and federations, including Athletics Ireland. In China, Nike sales fell 17 per cent in the most recent quarter, while domestic brands like Anta and Li-Ning are racing ahead. Donald Trump's dreaded tariffs are another problem, given Vietnam, Indonesia and China supply the majority of Nike products. There's bad news too on the super shoe front, where Nike's once unrivalled Vaporfly range is also falling behind. Puma's new Fast-R Nitro Elite 3 was recently declared by independent studies to be the fastest on the market. Earlier this month, Nike announced a new signature line of runners endorsed by Olympic champion Jakob Ingebrigtsen, who shares many traits with Pre in how he races. But maybe the problem for Nike is that there can only ever be one Pre.
