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Sam Prendergast and Jordie Barrett, the Leinster double-act being talked of every day, all week, all month produced an incredible six minutes of rugby just before the hour to stun Bristol Bears at Ashton Gate. Andy Farrell's international selection bravery, Leo Cullen's recognition of what was best for his side were vindicated. While, pointedly, those who traduced Prendergast these last few weeks on social media need to scramble in a race to retract, to apologise. The 21 year-old out-half was simply superb, scoring twice, one exceptional and one superb touchdown. READ MORE: Jack Conan commits future to Leinster ending speculation of French move READ MORE: Munster - Stade Francais, a tale of two cities Lille and Limerick, it was the worst of times, it was the best of times It is unlikely any Irish-based out-half in the modern era could have scored the first of them either, certainly not David Humphreys, Ronan O'Gara, Felipe Contepomi or Johnny Sexton; only wingers would possess the kind of pace needed for the second. Meanwhile Jordie Barrett, who was brought in at half-time for Robbie Henhaw was involved in everything Leinster did in an overall purple patch, the first quarter after half-time. First up there was a notable tackle but then on 52 minutes he glided into first receiver at a scrum and, taking the ball from Jamison Gibson-Park, fed Prendergast who sprinted through a gap, threw an outrageous dummy and cut back left, to race over. Barrett got the second try in this six minute period on the back of having originally set up an attack that was stopped close to the line. The All Blacks called for the ball from a recycle and cut back against the direction of play, dotting down without anyone laying a finger on him. Then following the Bears restart, Leinster counter-attacked and suddenly RG Snyman was racing through on the carry in behind the defence with just the full-back between him and the line 40 metres away. Drawing the defender he flipped the ball back inside to Prendergast who led the defenders behind him a merry chase; they were close to him but with the aid of a slight weave he stayed out in front and made it all the way to the line. Bristol had been caught in the eye of a perfect six minute storm that will be talked of by Leinster fans who were there for a long time; the first Prendergast touchdown will be a Try of the Season contender, his second could well make the top three. Said New Zealand star Barrett afterwards: "It was quite nice, just getting a bit of feel for the match, I mean I've only been here 10 days. Robbie Henshaw and Garry Ringrose have been awesome this week and just made my job a lot easier. "It's been a long eight days since the game in Ulster last week but I am really enjoying my time in Dublin. My body was in good condition when I left Italy a few weeks ago. "I was chomping at the bit for the opportunity at Leinster and, like I said, I couldn't wait to get to Dublin, get around some great coaches and some great players. I have enjoyed it so far. "I was very aware of Leinster's history in this competition and their reputation in the northern hemisphere and, at the age I am, I wanted to come here and test myself in championship games. Tonight was a great test, I love seeing a team that plays with no fear." The first 50 minutes had, pre-Prendergast/Barrett's blast-off, proved to be an astonishingly slow stop/start affair with just two scores. This came as Bristol had lost Dublin-born AJ MacGinty early on, the victim of a huge hit from Ringrose who had shot up out of the line to nail the line. Meanwhile the set-piece was a complete shambles for both sides, frees, penalties, collapses the order of the day and resulting in the French referee warning in the 49th minute he would start sin-binning people. Sure enough the next scrum fell and Andrew Porter, despite only being on the pitch six minutes, and Max Lahiff were dispatched to sit out 10 minutes. Leinster's defence was the best part of the game for those first 50 minutes and there were a number of sets within their own 22m where they managed to remain dominant while, on the other side of the ball, there was costly turnovers from Jimmy O'Brien, Max Deegan and Josh van der Flier among others. Moreover it looked like Leinster were in double-trouble late in that first-half when firstly Ronan Kelleher (repeated team offending) and Max Deegan (trip) were yellow-carded in the 27th and 29th minute respectively. Sure enough Bristol benefitted, kicking the Deegan penalty to touch where Santiago Grondona tapped down directly to the charging Bill Mata who almost made the line. The ball was recycled, fed directly to Harry Thacker who scored. Seven points down the question as to whether Leinster were in trouble barely arose as the 13-men went on the attack after the restart. Prendergast dinked a ball into a gap that Bears full-back Rich Lane, rushing forward to smother, misjudged. The ball bounced up and the hard-chasing Jordan Larmour gathered to cross, Prendergast managing to irritate the Aston Gate faithful by standing over the conversion under the posts for as long as he dared to run the clock down. This was part of the Blues making to half-time at 7-7 and with the score having been pushed out to 28-7 after the six minutes of Prendergast-Barrett, there were further scores from van der Flier - who would pick up TV Man of the Match and Bristol's Gabriel Ibitoye. Said van der Flier afterwards: "It was tough work, Bristol really put it to us, they were very good in that first-half. That period when we were down to 13 men, obviously we conceded but that was probably a crucial point in the game, we kinda dug in there. "A good second-half we did, and a lot of credit to Bristol. They are a quality side, but we managed some good defensive efforts. The backs got some good opportunities in the second-half. Delighted to come away with the win here. "We spoke at half-time, there was no question about working hard or that kind of thing. It was all about the small little details, discipline being one of them, being a bit more calm, a bit more trying to take them on directly rather than being fancy. "It worked. I suppose there was a lot of good work put in at the start of the second-half which was good." Bristol Bears: Rich Lane; Jack Bates, Benhard Janse van Rensburg, Kalaveti Ravouvou, Gabriel Ibitoye; AJ MacGinty, Harry Randall; Ellis Genge, Harry Thacker, Max Lahiff, James Dun, Joe Owen, Santiago Grondona, Fitz Harding capt, Bill Mata Replacements: Gabriel Oghre for Thacker (53), Jake Woolmore for Genge (46), Lovejoy Chawatama for Ravouvou (47-56), Steven Luatua for Dun (46), Benjamin Grondona for Grondona (76), Kieran Marmion for Randall (62), Joe Jenkins for Mac Ginty (4), Benjamin Elizalde for Lane (59) Leinster: Ciaran Frawley; Jordan Larmour, Garry Ringrose, Robbie Henshaw, Jimmy O'Brien; Sam Prendergast, Jamison Gibson-Park; Jack Boyle, Ronan Kelleher, Rabah Slimani, Joe McCarthy, James Ryan, Max Deegan, Josh van der Flier, Jack Conan capt Replacements: Gus McCarthy for Larmour (38-39) for Kelleher (62), Andrew Porter for Boyle (44-47, 54), Tom Clarkson for Slimani (44), RG Snyman for McCarthy (44), Caelan Doris for Deegan (44), Luke McGrath (70), Ross Byrne for Larmour (66), Jordie Barrett for Frawleey (41). 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Companies tighten security after a health care CEO's killing leads to a surge of threats“Wanted” posters with the names and faces of health care executives have been popping up on the streets of New York. Hit lists with images of bullets are circulating online with warnings that industry leaders should be afraid. The apparent targeted killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson and the menacing threats that followed have sent a shudder through corporate America and the health care industry in particular, leading to increased security for executives and some workers. In the week since the brazen shooting , health insurers have removed information about their top executives from company websites, canceled in-person meetings with shareholders and advised all employees to work from home temporarily. An internal New York Police Department bulletin warned this week that the online vitriol that followed the shooting could signal an immediate “elevated threat.” Police fear that the Dec. 4 shooting could "inspire a variety of extremists and grievance-driven malicious actors to violence," according to the bulletin, which was obtained by The Associated Press. “Wanted” posters pasted to parking meters and construction site fences in Manhattan included photos of health care executives and the words “Deny, defend, depose” — similar to a phrase scrawled on bullets found near Thompson’s body and echoing those used by insurance industry critics . Thompson's wife, Paulette, told NBC News last week that he told her some people had been threatening him and suggested the threats may have involved issues with insurance coverage. Investigators believe the shooting suspect, Luigi Mangione , may have been motivated by hostility toward health insurers. They are studying his writings about a previous back injury, and his disdain for corporate America and the U.S. health care system. Mangione’s lawyer has cautioned against prejudging the case. Mangione, 26, has remained jailed in Pennsylvania, where he was arrested Monday . Manhattan prosecutors are working to bring him to New York to face a murder charge. UnitedHealthcare’s parent company, UnitedHealth Group, said this week it was working with law enforcement to ensure a safe work environment and to reinforce security guidelines and building access policies, a spokesperson said. The company has taken down photos, names and biographies for its top executives from its websites, a spokesperson said. Other organizations, including CVS, the parent company for insurance giant Aetna, have taken similar actions. Government health insurance provider Centene Corp. has announced that its investor day will be held online, rather than in-person as originally planned. Medica, a Minnesota-based nonprofit health care firm, said last week it was temporarily closing its six offices for security reasons and would have its employees work from home. Heightened security measures likely will make health care companies and their leaders more inaccessible to their policyholders, said former Cigna executive Wendell Potter. “And understandably so, with this act of violence. There’s no assurance that this won’t happen again,” said Potter, who’s now an advocate for health care reform. Private security firms and consultants have been in high demand, fielding calls almost immediately after the shooting from companies across a range of industries, including manufacturing and finance. Companies have long faced security risks and grappled with how far to take precautions for high-profile executives. But these recent threats sparked by Thompson's killing should not be ignored, said Dave Komendat, a former security chief for Boeing who now heads his own risk-management company. “The tone and tenor is different. The social reaction to this tragedy is different. And so I think that people need to take this seriously,” Komendat said. Just over a quarter of the companies in the Fortune 500 reported spending money to protect their CEOs and top executives. Of those, the median payment for personal security doubled over the last three years to just under $100,000. Hours after the shooting, Komendat was on a call with dozens of chief security officers from big corporations, and there have been many similar meetings since, hosted by security groups or law enforcement agencies assessing the threats, he said. “It just takes one person who is motivated by a poster — who may have experienced something in their life through one of these companies that was harmful," Komendat said. Associated Press reporters Wyatte Grantham-Philips in New York and Barbara Ortutay in San Francisco, contributed to this report. The Associated Press Health and Science Department receives support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The AP is solely responsible for all content.West Ham 0–5 Liverpool, Premier League 2024–25: Mohamed Salah, Trent Alexander-Arnold, Luis Diaz and Others Score As Merseysiders Thrash the Hammers To Maintain EPL Lead
Nebraska has landed one of its most high-profile transfers of the portal era in a former five-star prospect who fills an immediate team need. Ex-Missouri defensive end Williams Nwaneri committed to the Huskers on Thursday afternoon after entering the portal earlier that morning. He has four years of eligibility remaining after redshirting his first college season — he appeared in four games and logged 38 defensive snaps and two tackles this fall. The 6-foot-7, 255-pounder from the Kansas City area held offers from most top schools in college football as the nation’s No. 1 edge rusher in the 2024 class. Nebraska’s connection begins with senior football assistant Jamar Mozee, who was Nwaneri’s high school coach at Lee’s Summit North. Mozee convinced the teenager to play football as a freshman and his stock soared soon after while playing for one of the area’s top programs. Nwaneri as a prep senior logged 50 tackles (13 for loss) in 11 games with 23 quarterback hurries and three forced fumbles. Mozee — who once went through the recruiting process as a K.C. high-school star running back and was part of Oklahoma’s 2000 national-title team — served as one of Nwaneri’s central advisors during his recruitment. Georgia and Oklahoma were the prospect’s other finalists then. Being close to home and an extensive family of supporters was key in his evaluation. “I feel like he wasn’t biased in any way,” Nwaneri said of Mozee a year ago when he signed with Missouri. “He was coming from a place of caring about me. I thank him a lot.” Mozee celebrated with Nwaneri at the time before leaving to join UCF in February 2024 as an off-field staffer. Nebraska coach Matt Rhule hired Mozee in July. At Nwaneri’s signing ceremony last year, Mozee said the player had “pro talent” he flashed daily. “You’ve got to be careful to say that as a high school coach but there’s just not many kids like him, just being honest,” Mozee said. “Physically, the way he’s made, the way he’s built. He’s different than everybody I’ve ever seen.” Nwaneri also played multiple seasons at Lee’s Summit North with incoming Nebraska receiver Isaiah Mozee, Jamar’s son. The younger Mozee has said he leaned on Nwaneri at times during his own recruiting process that included navigating 40-plus offers. Nwaneri drew national headlines as a prep senior when the state of Missouri passed a law allowing high schoolers to earn name-image-likeness benefits once they’ve signed with a school. The legislation applies only to Missouri residents. Rhule this month praised Nebraska’s formidable financial resources made available through its 1890 collective and what’s coming with revenue sharing. It allows the Huskers to be competitive with anyone for any player, he said. That includes Nwaneri, who arrives as the Huskers reset their defensive line with a new position coach and different starters for the entire front. “We are officially now a ‘have,’” Rhule said. “We’re going to have more (resources) than most people in college football.” Get local news delivered to your inbox!
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It was a few weeks before Christmas, and here on the farm, The grain room was being invaded, but there was no sound or alarm. Miss Kitty and Mr. Gray were settled in for their evening of rest, And detected no activity as the rats were stealthily doing their new best. Feed bags on pallets were stacked neatly five feet tall, Escape was easy, the villains left with mouths full, climbing the wall. To the top loft they went, feet clambering for quick traction, The old cats were not roused, dreaming of Fancy Feast, they took no action. When the barn lights illuminated the feed room, the damage was clear, The rodents had bested our night guardians, they had no apparent fear. We needed a plan yet at our stable, rat traps and poison are taboo, With so many unwanted vermin, we needed a younger cat, maybe two. To the local animal shelter, we went to find our new patrol partners here, We adopted two youngsters, Tut and Giza, who are agile, fearless, and dear. Will they be good hunters, only time and practice games will tell, But we all are smitten with their playful antics, things are going well. Nothing disrupts a good night’s rest in the barn like an invasion of vermin. How can I get my beauty sleep with those nasty creatures dining freely on my upcoming meal? It simply gives me nightmares. This is a troubling problem. Ask any horse owner who pays around $30 per bag for quality horse feed. Poison is not a good solution. It can kill unintended wildlife and domestic pets that ingest the bait or a poisoned mouse. We have owls, hawks, and eagles present, but they were not eliminating these pests, and a rodent-free barn is clearly a necessity. Five years ago, when we moved to this new ranch to expand our equine rescue operation for Helping Equines Regain Dignity (HERD), two cats were conveyed with the property, Miss Kitty and Mr. Gray. Both were from the local animal shelter. They took vigilant care to ensure we had no rodents living in our barn on their watch. Peace reigned at night. The only winter visitors in the stable were a few doves who roosted in the loft to be out of the elements. However, this year, the established cats are showing their age. Most of the time, they are asleep. They cannot contend with this influx of field rats who have moved in to disrupt our lives. Here is my accessory list of what every swell barn needs: a pest-free feed storage room, a temperature-controlled tack room housing well-oiled saddles and bridles, a grooming area, and comfortable, well-ventilated stalls. Oh, and let’s add lots of clean bedding for those of us who would never dream of sleeping out in the pastures at night. You never know what could be lurking out there in the woods or up in the trees. How to address this rat problem was top of mind. Step one was to purchase the old-fashioned Victor wooden rat traps. Well, the only thing that suffered from being snapped in those were a few human fingers. Step two was to order highly rated Tomcat Rat Snap Traps. Even with peanut butter, sugar, and cornbread bait, there were no takers for these traps either. I tell you; these rats are very intelligent. My mistress Heather Freeman jokes they must be Harvard-educated rodents in our barn. So, what to do next when none of the internet forums on getting rid of rats proved to be helpful? The answer was clear to me. Go to the local animal shelter and adopt a few cats who need a home. Our barn cats have comfortable bedding for sleeping, and a room of their own to be out of the elements with a cat door. They are well-fed as we are not asking them to eat the filthy rodents. I say, “Please dear cats, just scare the dirty little vermin away. I need my rest. Scampering rats at night are very disruptive.” Step three was a trip to the local animal shelter. Heather and her husband Scott Homstead went with two cat carriers in hand. I was not allowed in as the Spokepony of HERD. No equines can enter the visitors’ area. I left the task of choosing the right cats to protect our feed stash up to Heather. She asked the shelter staff if there happened to be two black cats available, as these are said to be the least adopted. However, this was not the case that day. Instead, the cats most in need of a home were seven-month-old kittens, a brother, and a sister, who were surrendered to the shelter in June 2024. No one had expressed interest in them. They were housed in a cage out of sight of visitors. Heather and Scott waited patiently in a hallway for these two to be brought up to meet them. Both cats were shy but had very striking coats. “We will adopt these today,” said Heather. She went to the office to pay the fee and sign the papers. The kittens were given the names Tut and Giza. They look rather exotic, like something drawn on the walls of an Egyptian tomb. They have slim bodies, slightly elongated ears, and regal heads. Once home, Heather posted photos of the new arrivals on Facebook. A friend, Andrew Evans, immediately commented that these cats were a lesser-known breed called Ocicat. He owned an Ocicat and said what first appears to be stripes on their sides are in fact spots, like an ocelot, and their bellies should be tan with black round spots. And this is exactly how Tut and Giza are marked. Unknowingly, Heather and Scott brought home two fancy-bred cats. What a surprise, they are just like me, a treasured find! How amusing that our new barn cats introduced out of necessity are truly a wonderful, new and rare accessory.The world stands at the dawn of a “third nuclear age” in which Britain is threatened by multiple dilemmas, the head of the armed forces has warned. But alongside his stark warning of the threats facing Britain and its allies, Admiral Sir Tony Radakin said there would be only a “remote chance” Russia would directly attack or invade the UK if the two countries were at war. The Chief of the Defence Staff laid out the landscape of British defence in a wide-ranging speech, after a minister warned the Army would be wiped out in as little as six months if forced to fight a war on the scale of the Ukraine conflict. The admiral cast doubt on the possibility as he gave a speech at the Royal United Services Institute (Rusi) defence think tank in London. He told the audience Britain needed to be “clear-eyed in our assessment” of the threats it faces, adding: “That includes recognising that there is only a remote chance of a significant direct attack or invasion by Russia on the United Kingdom, and that’s the same for the whole of Nato.” Moscow “knows the response will be overwhelming”, he added, but warned the nuclear deterrent needed to be “kept strong and strengthened”. Sir Tony added: “We are at the dawn of a third nuclear age, which is altogether more complex. It is defined by multiple and concurrent dilemmas, proliferating nuclear and disruptive technologies and the almost total absence of the security architectures that went before.” The first nuclear age was the Cold War, while the second was “governed by disarmament efforts and counter proliferation”, the armed forces chief said. He listed the “wild threats of tactical nuclear use” by Russia, China building up its weapon stocks, Iran’s failure to co-operate with a nuclear deal, and North Korea’s “erratic behaviour” among the threats faced by the West. But Sir Tony said the UK’s nuclear arsenal is “the one part of our inventory of which Russia is most aware and has more impact on (President Vladimir) Putin than anything else”. Successive British governments had invested “substantial sums of money” in renewing nuclear submarines and warheads because of this, he added. The admiral described the deployment of thousands of North Korean soldiers on Ukraine’s border alongside Russian forces as the year’s “most extraordinary development”. He also signalled further deployments were possible, speaking of “tens of thousands more to follow as part of a new security pact with Russia”. Defence minister Alistair Carns earlier said a rate of casualties similar to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine would lead to the army being “expended” within six to 12 months. He said it illustrated the need to “generate depth and mass rapidly in the event of a crisis”. In comments reported by Sky News, Mr Carns, a former Royal Marines colonel, said Russia was suffering losses of around 1,500 soldiers killed or injured a day. “In a war of scale – not a limited intervention, but one similar to Ukraine – our Army for example, on the current casualty rates, would be expended – as part of a broader multinational coalition – in six months to a year,” Mr Carns said in a speech at Rusi. He added: “That doesn’t mean we need a bigger Army, but it does mean you need to generate depth and mass rapidly in the event of a crisis.” Official figures show the Army had 109,245 personnel on October 1, including 25,814 volunteer reservists. Mr Carns, the minister for veterans and people, said the UK needed to “catch up with Nato allies” to place greater emphasis on the reserves. The Prime Minister’s official spokesman said Defence Secretary John Healey had previously spoken about “the state of the armed forces that were inherited from the previous government”. The spokesman said: “It’s why the Budget invested billions of pounds into defence, it’s why we’re undertaking a strategic defence review to ensure that we have the capabilities and the investment needed to defend this country.”Former Red Sox exec weighs in on controversial Aroldis Chapman signing: ‘I guess enough time has passed’
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