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East Tennessee State University football coach Tre Lamb is getting nice reward for the Bucs’ improved performance. The coach and the university agreed to a contract extension through 2028 with a $275,000 per year base pay with incentives for Southern Conference championships, FCS playoff berths and Coach of the Year awards. His original contract in 2023 was for four years with $225,000 per year base pay. Heading into Saturday’s game with VMI where freshman Baylor Hayes is scheduled to make his first start, the Bucs are 6-5 after back-to-back 3-8 campaigns the previous two years. Lamb, who was hired as the Bucs coach Nov. 27, 2023, stated in a press release and phone interview the move shows a commitment to the program from both ETSU administration and himself. “We have had a quick turnaround to success and competitiveness in the Southern Conference in 11 short months,” Lamb said in a press release. “We have a vision of building a perennial playoff team and winning big games in our program. The belief from within our program is very strong to deliver championships to Johnson City and Northeast Tennessee.” Lamb said it was important to get the deal done quickly and the news out to recruits with the early signing period December 4-6. Lamb had been mentioned as a candidate for potential coaching vacancies. “It’s really important for retaining players. You hear coaching rumors all the time, so it’s big for those guys as well as recruits, transfers and high school players,” Lamb said. “We’ve got six defensive high school commitments and recruiting season is upon us. It’s big for those young men and their families.” Lamb also talked about building momentum. The Bucs are looking to become just the 11th team in program history to win at least seven games in a season. ETSU has been ranked as high as No. 21 in the STATS Perform FCS Top 25 Poll. “It was the right time to solidify what we’re doing,” Lamb said. “I’m appreciative to (ETSU President) Dr. (Brian) Noland, (athletic director) Doc (Richard) Sander and the administration for getting it done. You see it across the country. Texas State’s coach signed a deal yesterday. It’s a good move by the administration to be proactive before jobs come open the next few weeks.” Sander said in a statement that he was excited about the progress made by Lamb and his coaching staff in his first year. Adding the administration strongly believes in Lamb and the future is exceptionally bright under his leadership. Prior to ETSU, Lamb spent four seasons as head coach at Gardner-Webb where he led the Runnin’ Bulldogs to back-to-back conference championships and FCS playoff appearances. He explained a long-term commitment to ETSU was about more than football. “Family had a lot to do with it. We have two little girls and my oldest one has moved three times,” Lamb said. “My wife and I really love Johnson City. We need to be planted and grow where our feet are.” He emphasized the potential he sees at ETSU. He also mentioned working with the other coaches within the athletic department. “We want to build this thing into a championship contender. I thought we were 3-4 big plays away from being 9-2 or 10-1,” Lamb said. “We learned a lot about the Southern Conference and I like the stability of it. I like all our coaches across the sports landscape at ETSU. We’ve got a lot of good head coaches and staff. Any time you have the trajectory moving up, you have to make sure you don’t take it for granted.”Jeju Air crash that killed 179 prompts South Korea to probe country's airline operation system

Kendrick Lamar surprises with new album 'GNX'Berry Petroleum stock hits 52-week low at $3.87Liverpool boss Arne Slot hailed “special” Mohamed Salah after seeing him fire the Premier League leaders to the brink of victory at Newcastle. 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.”

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Two of the ABC’s best-known broadcasters, Patricia Karvelas and Michael Rowland, have signed off for the final time from their respective morning programs. ABC News Breakfast host Michael Rowland is leaving after 15 years in the role. Credit: ABC Rowland wrapped up nearly 15 years at ABC News Breakfast helm in an emotional final bulletin surrounded by his family and colleagues. “Thank you very much, It’s been wonderful,” said Rowland in his last words on the show. “I have been genuinely touched and overwhelmed by the outpouring of love and affection from our viewers. One of my great achievements over the last 15 years has been building up this fantastic audience,” said Rowland. Meanwhile, Karvelas signed off after three years of hosting ABC’s flagship morning radio show RN Breakfast. “You’ve been there with me throughout great change in our country and the world, and I want to thank you for it,” Karvelas said, thanking listeners and the Radio National team. Patricia Karvelas hosted RN Breakfast for three years. Credit: Scott McNaughton Karvelas reflected on her “uniquely Australian” story, growing up in a household where she didn’t speak English. “Because of a strong public education system and dedicated teachers and incredible family support, I got to grow up and host a national radio show where rigour and curiosity is at the centre of what we do,” she said. Karvelas wished the best of luck to her replacement Sally Sara. “I’ll be listening because I care about this show, and I care about journalism, and I care about telling the truth in a world where the truth is not to be contested.” Education Minister Jason Clare has rejected the idea the Coalition’s nuclear policy would cost less or be better for the environment, saying it had “the shelf life of a seafood milkshake”. Speaking on Seven’s Sunrise , Clare described the announcement as “the biggest hoax since Milli Vanilli.” “This is never going to happen,” he said. “Best-case scenario, it takes 30 years to turn a lightbulb on, we can’t wait that long.” Deputy Opposition Leader Sussan Ley was also asked by the program whether the policy would result in cheaper energy bills but said she wouldn’t “get ahead of that announcement”. “If the system costs less, you pay less,” she said. “If our system is substantially cheaper, and you will see that it is, then Australians will pay less, and right now, they’re paying more, they’re paying more in their electricity bills every single month.” Read more about the costings here. Nuclear power doesn’t stack up for Australian families or businesses, says Fortescue chairman Andrew “Twiggy” Forrest. “As our national science agency has shown, ‘firmed’ solar and wind are the cheapest new electricity options for all Australians,” he said in a statement. Billionaire businessman Andrew Forrest. Credit: Bloomberg “The cost of electricity generated on a grid dominated by firmed renewable energy in 2030 will be half what you would have to pay if it came from nuclear, CSIRO found.” Forrest, who is a big player in the non-fossil fuels energy market, said that without continued action on “low-cost, high-efficiency renewable energy”, Australians will be left with “pricier power and crumbling coal stations”. “We must never forget – Australia has the best renewable resources in the world,” he added. “Seizing these Australian opportunities must be our shared national goal.” AAP It wasn’t just the Coalition dodging questions this morning, with Labor frontbenchers Chris Bowen and Bill Shorten playing coy on the broken 2022 election promise that power bills would come down by $275 by 2023. Energy Minister Chris Bowen was asked if he regretted making the promise in 2022, but he was keen to redirect the question to discuss the cost of renewable energy. “I don’t regret obviously pointing out that renewables are the cheapest form of energy,” Bowen said. Energy Minister Chris Bowen. Credit: Alex Ellinghausen “I look forward to debating the competing plans before the Australian people at the next election.” Pushed to answer the question again, Bowen said we were dealing with “a different set of circumstances internationally” post-2022. “Australia’s increase in energy prices has been less than a lot of other comparable countries. We delivered billions of dollars of energy bill relief, which has been the appropriate thing to do, which has been opposed by the Liberal and National Party.” Asked about the promise on Nine’s Today , NDIS Minister Bill Shorten also opted to pivot to the Coalition’s nuclear plan. “We know that energy prices are part of the cost-of-living pressure on families. That’s why I think that the heroic assumptions of Peter Dutton promising some fanciful solution in 25 years time is just a crock,” Shorten said. “The idea we’re going to come from scratch and build a whole nuclear industry in Australia is, you know, just a fantasy”. Coalition frontbenchers have avoided promising energy bills will be cheaper if they win government, as Opposition Leader Peter Dutton prepares to reveal the costings of his signature nuclear policy later today. Nationals senator Bridget McKenzie and MP Barnaby Joyce were both asked if they would pledge power would be cheaper under the Coalition, but both dodged the question. McKenzie was asked on Nine’s Today , where she first said that the price was attached to the “cost of delivering something”. “And our plan is absolutely cheaper than Labor’s plan to get to 2050,” she said. Asked again if the Coalition would bring down power bills, McKenzie weaved again, saying prices would come down in the longer term. “By adding net zero nuclear to firm up the renewables that we’ve got in the grid as well is the way to actually get prices down over the long term,” she said. Joyce was asked the same question on ABC’s RN Breakfast. On the fifth iteration of the question, Joyce finally answered: “That is asking for a hypothetical question, which I could answer you, but I would not be telling the truth because I don’t have the facts before me.” Prime Minister Anthony Albanese took time out of his busy pre-Christmas schedule to join the farewell party for Sammy J on ABC Radio Melbourne this morning, but he wasted no time at all in using his appearance to go into political attack mode. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese. Credit: Kate Geraghty “It’s Friday the 13th, an auspicious day, I’ve got to say, for Peter Dutton to drop his nuclear nightmare policy out there,” Albanese said, bypassing the pleasantries and bonhomie in favour of dropping a bomb on the opposition leader. “Oh, so straight into it,” said Sammy J (aka Sam McMillan). “Have you had a sneak peek [at Dutton’s nuclear power plan]?” he asked. “I had a look at some of the fiction that’s out there,” the PM replied, claiming nuclear power would not lead to savings on the cost of household power but rather “increase bills by $1200′′. “The truth is that renewables are the cheapest form of new energy. Everyone knows that’s the case. The science tells us that that’s the case. The economists tell us that’s the case.” Energy Minister Chris Bowen says he doesn’t accept the Coalition’s claim that Labor’s energy policies will cost $594 billion, as the debate over whose plan will cost more gets underway. The Coalition will claim their nuclear energy policy will be $263 billion cheaper than Labor’s renewables plan, costing $331 billion. Joining ABC News Breakfast ahead of the release of Peter Dutton’s nuclear energy costing later today, Bowen said Coalition must have done some “mental gymnastics” to come up with those numbers. “We’ll go through the details today, I don’t believe they have released it to the ABC or the ALP, funnily enough,” Bowen said. The energy minister said they must have made some “very heroic assumptions” and “really stretched the truth” to come up with the “very dodgy figures”. Bowen said he “doesn’t accept” the $594 billion figure for renewables, an estimate modelled by consultancy Frontier Economics for the Coalition. “What they have also done is very clearly in the costings of their own policy rejected the CSIRO and AEMO’s work,” Bowen said. “What the Coalition is asking the Australian people to believe is this: That they can introduce the most expensive form of energy and it will end up being cheaper. It won’t pass the pub test. It won’t pass the sniff test because it is just a fantasy.” The nation’s top science agency has declared its independence after Opposition Leader Peter Dutton accused the CSIRO of bias in its findings that nuclear is the most expensive energy source. CSIRO’s GenCost report, released on Monday, found yet again that nuclear was at least 50 per cent more expensive than renewables, and it would take at least 15 years to build the first reactor in Australia. The opposition claims nuclear power is cheaper and quicker to build than this. Dutton responded to the news with an accusation that the CSIRO had ceded to political interference by Energy Minister Chris Bowen. “It just looks to me like there’s a heavy hand of Chris Bowen in all this,” Dutton said on Monday morning. CSIRO released a statement last night that declared: “We conduct our independent, rigorous research without fear or favour. We do not advocate, defend or debate the merits of government or opposition policies. To assert otherwise requires compelling evidence.” The statement went on to state it conducts research in the national interest: CSIRO conducts research in the national interest that will benefit the Australian community – from navigating the energy transition to adapting to a changing climate to safeguarding Australia from pathogens that threaten our health, biodiversity and food supply. These areas have a direct impact on the Australian community and naturally give rise to a range of views and opinions. For an organisation like CSIRO, this means we can be caught in the middle of debates. CSIRO can be trusted to deliver independent, non-partisan and high-quality research to help solve the challenges facing Australia and Australians.” Airports around the country are bracing for chaos as hundreds of Qantas engineers walk off the job. But the airline has assured customers there will be no impact on their travel plans on one of the busiest travel days of the year. Around 500 workers from three different unions began a 24-hour strike action at 3.30am this morning. It’s expected to impact major airports across the country, including Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth and Adelaide, and will end at 7.30am on Saturday. Friday marks the first day of the 6-week summer travel period when 13.5 million travellers pass through Australia’s domestic airports. It’s also the first day of school holidays in South Australia, Western Australia and Queensland. A Qantas aircraft at Melbourne, one of the airports affected by the industrial action. Credit: Luis Enrique Ascui The striking workers, responsible for the towing and marshalling of planes, are calling for a 5 per cent per year pay increase over 5 years after what they say is 3.5 years of frozen wages. Qantas says it has put forward a competitive package with 3 per cent per year over three years, with negotiations now at a stalemate. Australian Manufacturing Workers’ Union National Secretary Steve Murphy says industrial action was the only way to get Qantas to the bargaining table. It’s been six weeks since the last strike. “Workers have no other choice. They will be taking industrial action to bring Qantas back to the bargaining table,” Murphy said. “Qantas is to blame if there’s any disruption to commuters over the holiday period. They have had six weeks to simply do what they said they would.” A Qantas spokesperson said a number of contingencies are in place to prevent delays. “Around 160 aircraft maintenance engineers are rostered on during Friday’s industrial action, and only members of the alliance unions can take industrial action,” said Qantas. The spokesperson noted there were no delays or cancellations during the previous strikes. Opposition Leader Peter Dutton will ask Australians to support hundreds of billions of dollars in new spending on nuclear energy, including a controversial move to use taxpayer subsidies to build the industry while promising to bring down household electricity bills. Dutton is expected to reveal more details of his plan on Friday with a pledge to build seven full-scale nuclear power stations , rather than smaller “modular” reactors, to deliver baseload electricity and lower the nation’s greenhouse gas emissions. Coalition MPs will be briefed on the plan in a party room meeting on Friday morning at 10am. A key part of the plan will be an assumption that coal-fired power stations will continue to operate while a Coalition government awards contracts to build the nuclear plants, even though energy companies are planning to stop using coal over the next two decades. Read the full story, including the results of exclusive polling, here.