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Irish fishermen are to stage a major protest in Dublin city centre to highlight the threat to incomes from Brexit and EU fish quota cuts. The demonstration will take place on Wednesday, and will include boats from Dublin, Louth, Donegal, Wexford, Waterford, Kerry, Cork and other counties. After the rally, fishing representatives will hand deliver a letter outlining the plight of the industry to Irish Taoiseach Michel Martin.

Irish fishing groups warned their livelihoods are now at stake because of quota cutbacks and the impact of the Brexit deal.

A spokesperson said: "We want a renegotiation of (EU) Common Fisheries Policy so that Ireland is allocated a fair share of fish quotas that reflect the contribution of our fishing grounds to the EU.

"The Brexit/TCA agreement between EU and UK was both unfair and unjust and penalised Ireland's fishing industry. There must be equal burden sharing throughout the EU member states.

"On the issue of enforcement, we submit that penalty points for fisheries offences should only be applied to license holders and skippers following a court conviction."

Irish fishermen have also demanded that traditional access to fishing grounds around Rockall be reinstated immediately.

The tiny islet could indeed prove to be another tortuous Brexit battle.

The Irish border is one prominent area but another is Rockall a rock with a colourful history of claim and counterclaim involving the UK.

Rockall is situated in a remote part of the North Atlantic and is about 160 nautical miles west of the Scottish islands of St. Kilda and 230 nautical miles to the north-west of Donegal.

The uninhabited rock is 25 metres wide and 17 metres high and is actually the remnants of an extinct volcano.

It has been the source of an ownership dispute involving the UK, Ireland, Denmark and Iceland.

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The dispute has not been so much about the ownership of the rock but the potential for oil and gas reserves in the surrounding seabeds and the lucrative fishing grounds.

Rockall fishing is reportedly a multi-million-pound industry with a large supply of haddock, monkfish, and squid.

According to a report by IrishCentral last year, Scottish authorities claimed that Rockall was a UK territory and attempted to prevent Irish fishermen from coming within the 12-mile international limit.

The Irish government, on the other hand, contended that the island was not subject to an international boundary as it was simply a large, uninhabitable rock in the middle of the ocean.

Irish claims are backed up by the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (Unclos) 1982.

The law states that rocks which cannot sustain human habitation or economic life of their own shall have no exclusive economic zone or continental shelf.

Consequently, Irish boats have fished in the area for well over 30 years.

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The Scottish government, in turn, claimed that it has never been legal for other nations to fish within 12 miles of the islet.

The UK first claimed ownership of Rockall in 1955, but Ireland, Iceland, and Denmark have long challenged that ownership.

Irish Deputy Prime Minister Simon Coveney took a firm stance on the issue in June last year and said that Ireland had never recognised British claims to the island.

He said: "We have never recognised UK sovereignty over Rockall and accordingly, we have not recognised a territorial sea around it either. We have tried to work positively with the Scottish authorities and to deal with sensitive issues that flow from it in a spirit of kinship and collaboration."

Scotland's Fisheries Minister Fergus Ewing told BBC Scotland at the time: "This is a routine enforcement matter to ensure that illegal activity within the UK's territorial waters, namely within a radius of 12 miles of the islet of Rockall, ceases.

"We have been engaging with the Irish government for a considerable length of time because we would prefer that this matter is resolved by discussion and negotiation amicably, and that remains the case."

Scotland and Ireland were loggerheads again over the tiny uninhabitable island earlier this year, as Irish fishermen defied orders to quit the surrounding waters.

The standoff came after the Scottish government threatened to take action against Irish vessels that the authorities claimed were fishing illegally around Rockall.

An editorial in The Irish Times argued that this sabre-rattling by the Scottish authorities was surprising, because it went against First Minister Nicola Sturgeons expressed desire to remain in the EU in compliance with European fishing rules and quotas.

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From hanging out with friends and family to running errands chances are you mightve missed out on recruiting news surrounding the Ohio State Buckeyes. Dont worry! Land-Grant Holy Land is here to help get you caught back up with some of the latest from over the weekend.

Guess what Ryan Day and the Ohio State coaching staff were doing over the weekend? Unless youve been hiding under a rock all month, you probably already guessed the Buckeye bosses were back at it playing host to a number of highly talented prospects from across the country.

Youre definitely not wrong.

Just like about every day since the dead period finally was lifted Day and crew had quite a few top prospects on the Ohio State campus. Want to know some of the recruits who made the trek to Columbus? Weve got you covered.

Class: 2021Town: Sammamish, WA/Eastside CatholicSize: 6-foot-4, 277 poundsStatus: UncommittedOffers: Ohio State, Alabama, Oregon, USC, Washington, etc

Class: 2022Town: Dayton, OH/Archbishop AlterSize: 6-foot-3, 220 poundsStatus: Verbally committed to Ohio State

Class: 2022Town: Suwanee, GA/LambertSize: 6-foot-1, 185 poundsStatus: UncommittedOffers: Ohio State, Alabama, Georgia, Texas A&M, USC, etc

Class: 2022Town: Memphis, TN/Christian BrothersSize: 5-foot-11, 195 poundsStatus: UncommittedOffers: Ohio State, Illinois, Notre Dame, Tennessee, etc

Class: 2022Town: Buford, GA/BufordSize: 6-foot-1, 190 poundsStatus: UncommittedOffers: Ohio State, Alabama, North Carolina, Notre Dame, etc

Class: 2023Town: Fredericksburg, VA/RiverbendSize: 6-foot-5, 240 poundsStatus: UncommittedOffers: Ohio State, Penn State, Michigan State, Notre Dame, Oregon, etc

Class: 2023Town: Portland, OR/Central CatholicSize: 6-foot-5, 230 poundsStatus: UncommittedOffers: Ohio State, Georgia Tech, Oregon, USC, Washington, etc

Class: 2023Town: Saint Louis, MO/DeSmetSize: 6-foot-4, 250 poundsStatus: Uncommitted Offers: Ohio State, Alabama, Florida, LSU, Michigan Notre Dame, etc

Class: 2023Town: Lawrence, MA/Central CatholicSize: 6-foot-3, 215 poundsStatus: UncommittedOffers: Ohio State, Michigan, Georgia, LSU, Penn State, etc

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The first thing we noticed in the video was the 50-year-old talk show hosts brightly colored heels. For the occasion, Ripa opted for pink pumps, which she paired with a beige pencil skirt and a black ruffle shirt.

After doing some research, we learned that the skirt is the Arreton Wool Crepe Pencil Skirt from Roland Mouret. The good news is that the skirt is still currently available at Neiman Marcus. Albeit with a hefty price tag of $725. The shirt, a black Talino Jac ZV Top from Zadig & Voltaire, is also still in stock online (and is even on sale for $239). The jury is still out on those pink pumps.

As it turns out, this isnt the first time weve seen Ripa sport the silk blouse. She also wore the piece on an episode back in May, when she paired it with a patterned skirt from Erdem.

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IT'S A STRANGE FEELING, knowing you could scream as loud as you wanted and no one would hear you. As the golden light of a late-September sun set on Grand StaircaseEscalante National Monument's cracked junipers and seemingly endless hills of sandstone, I considered the option. Camp had to be somewhere nearby, but I had gotten off track. I couldn't spot any bright tents or curls of campfire smoke from the paleontology crew I was supposed to meet. My radio stayed silent as I treaded mile upon mile of high Utah desert, fearing wrenching an ankle, stepping on a Great Basin rattlesnake, or having to shiver through the night.

I checked my GPS and then the notebook where I had written the campsite's coordinates. Then my phone, then the GPS again. The shadows grew longer. I should have seen the other fossil hunters by now. Helicopter Camp was somewhere ahead, no more than 200 yards away. But all I could see was a small, flat-topped hill dotted with low shrubsan indifferent piece of topography that would require hiking down, then up again to find out how truly lost I had become.

There had to be some bones for me in those millions of acres that would reward all the sunburn and the sweat.

I'd been to Grand StaircaseEscalante eight times before as a volunteer with paleontology field crews from the Natural History Museum of Utah. I knew the road I drove in on and the landscape I was crossing to meet the campers awaiting me. A few days prior, that lucky crew had been helicoptered in and deposited miles beyond the boundary of the two-track "road" leading up over Horse Mountain and Death Ridge. I, on the other hand, had drawn the proverbial short straw. While my tent and duffel were granted the privilege of the flight in, I had been given keys to the museum pickup, had driven four hours south from Salt Lake City, and had ground my way two hours deeper into one of the last places in the continental United States to be mappedthe wreck of a 75-million-year-old world. Here, in a vast wilderness that stretches more than 1.8 million acres down toward Arizona, dinosaurs wait patiently for someone to notice them.

IN 2010, THE YEAR BEFORE I packed up all my belongings and made the I-80 drive from New Jersey to Utah, paleontologists named eight new dinosaur species from Utah, most from Grand StaircaseEscalante. Utahceratops, Kosmoceratops, Teratophoneus, Hagryphus, Gryposaurus, Talosthese were just some of the saurian names I had memorized while daydreaming about wandering the outcrops and gullies of this distant place. Perhaps I'd kick over a rock that enclosed a beautiful piece of jaw or stop dead in my tracks upon spotting signs of the 40-foot alligator Deinosuchus.

Fossils are why I moved to the Beehive State, why I'd spent so much time sifting through academic papers' technical jargon, hoping to pick up new clues for the search. There had to be some bones for me in those millions of acres that would reward all the sunburn and the sweat.

I've been dinosaur-crazed since I was a child and have long dreamed of exploring lost worlds, but I didn't expect to find such a place in the center of the Four Corners. The American West is replete with fossil wonderlands, but Grand StaircaseEscalante remained a secret even as the famed Jurassic Morrison and Cretaceous Hell Creek Formations offered up Apatosaurus and Tyrannosaurus bones. Southern Utah wasn't anywhere close to the rail lines that acquisitive paleontologists relied on to ship tons of bones back East in the 19th century, and a lull in dinosaur science during much of the 20th century meant that few were interested in searching the high desert. Even the Mormon settlers who founded towns such as Hurricane and Kanabtoday, your last stops for gas and groceries before leaving pavementstayed around the edges of Grand StaircaseEscalante. Simply looking at the national monument, you can see why: The land almost vibrates with the sense that any attempt to tame or settle it would backfire.

MANY OF THE SAME PLACES that are good for fossils are also good for fossil fuels. This has precious little to do with dinosaurs, despite what the Sinclair logo might bring to mind. The stacked stone of Grand StaircaseEscalante National Monument documents hundreds of millions of years, tracing back to when southern Utah was, at various points, a floodplain, an ocean, and a coastal swamp. During some such epochs, ancient vegetation was buried and compressed to become coalan estimated 62 billion tons within the monument's original boundaries. Microorganisms from the bottom of the prehistoric sea, likewise, became oil. This nexus of the biological and geological almost led to the monument's undoing.

On December 4, 2017, President Donald Trump signed a proclamation nearly halving the size of Grand StaircaseEscalante, a historic reversal of the Antiquities Act, the 1906 law that governs national monuments. The move was a symbolic show of what the Trump administration termed "energy dominance." The flashy phrase remained nebulous. "Energy dominance gives us the ability to supply our allies with energy as well as to leverage our aggressors," said Ryan Zinke, the interior secretary at the time.

For decades, conservative politicians have believed that the West is being "lost" to the federal government, as the establishment of national parks and wilderness areas renders millions of acres off-limits to development. President Bill Clinton's creation of Grand StaircaseEscalante National Monument in 1996 left local politicians sore. President Barack Obama's designation of Bears Ears National Monument in 2016 left them fuming. Just months before Trump put pen to paper, thenUtah representative Rob Bishop proclaimed, "Bears Ears is a symptom of the problem. The disease is still the Antiquities Act." Bishop and his allies decried federal overreach, insisting that what Bears Ears, Grand Staircase, and other federal lands needed was local control. They made no secret that this was a push to grant fossil fuel leases, casting them as an income stream that would provide royalties to Utah's perpetually underfunded schools.

For all that rhetoric, fossil fuel companies were reluctant to take up leases on carved-out monument land. Under Trump, the Bureau of Land Management offered 24,000 acres of fossil fuel leases; only around 4,200 acres sold. Industry interest moved on, lawsuits were filed over mishandled BLM reviews, and on his second day in office, President Joe Biden issued a stay on fossil fuel leases on public land. The Right's grand plans for tapping further into Utah's energy deposits fizzled.

ALMOST ALL OF UTAH'S geological wonders, those high-desert landscapes filled with coyotes and rabbitbrush, exist because the southern and eastern parts of the state were shuddered upward onto the Colorado Plateau tens of millions of years ago. The entire plateau covers more than 130,000 square miles of the Four Corners, with deep canyons and peaks as high as 13,000 feet, giving the Southwest much of its character.

The high desert lives separate from our perceptions, something at once so grand and so detailed that our brains can take in only a fraction of what we're seeing in any moment.

If you had visited the area 75 million years ago, you would have found a warm, drenched place. Think Florida Everglades meets the vast Pantanal of Brazil. In the Cretaceous, southern Utah was a soggy coastal swamp on the margin of the great Western Interior Seawaya shallow sea that split North America in two. There was plenty of sedimentmud, sand, and silt sloshed through the swampsand all those little particles were enough to bury everything from tyrannosaurs to delicate palm fronds. Through those millions of years of deposition, while dinosaurs thrived and continents shifted, rock layers were nestling atop one another. Then, about 70 million years ago, the mountains of the West started getting pushed upward during the Laramide orogeny. Picture once-buried layers, shoved and cracked and jutted out from their resting places below the surface, seeing the light again after millions of years. Then erosion could do its thing. Sun, rain, ice, and wind all began to carve the exposed stone, creating arches and hoodoos andfortunately for my fossil-fixated minduncovering pieces of prehistoric bone.

That evening in Grand Staircase, I didn't wish to become one of the skeletons left to the mercy of the desert. As the planet turned away from the sun, my radio finally crackled. I called back. Something motioned to me across the divide from the top of that indifferent hill. No, mountain lions don't wave. I let out a long exhale. I'd made it close enough to Helicopter Camp for the others to find me. I climbed up the hill and down the opposite slope to the duffel containing what I'd need to crash into deep and dreamless sleep.

Bones were on my mind when the sun started to turn my tent shell orange. Bones were on my mind as I shivered and rooted around for clean clothes. Bones were on my mind as I warmed myself by the fire and waited for our designated camp cook to finish making breakfast. Bones were on my mind as I switched out my sandals for boots and double-checked that I had everything I needed in my pack. The bones had to be out there. The geological maps confirmed I was in the right place, the right slice of deep time. Still, the prospect ahead of me was essentially finding a dinosaur in a giant haystack.

It's rare for a paleo camp to set up tents right on top of a dinosaur. Just digging down isn't going to give you more than sore muscles and sore questions about what led you to excavate a hole in the middle of nowhere. Instead, you walk. One foot in front of the other, over and over, until you come across something that looks a little funny. Maybe it's a different shape or color. It could even be an entire jaw glistening, teeth set as they were back in the Mesozoic. The point is, you rely on erosion to do the work for you. You're an outcrop inspector, your gaze on the ground in front of your feet as you try to pick out the most promising spots.

This entire landscape was carved out of the dinosaur-rich Kaiparowits Formation, meaning every exposed piece of stone carries the potential to reveal what life was like millions of years ago. I found a few pack rat bones, lots of harvester ants, and a sea of juniper trees. Each step seemed to confirm where dinosaur bones were not. But these things can't be rushed, and there truly is no telling what may rest in the next gully or rock face. Not long after an impromptu catnap beneath a gnarled juniper, I noticed the small twirl of a snail shell in a slab of maroon sandstone. Later, on a slope where my boot treads did very little good, I happened across the rounded cheek tooth of a crocodilian; this enamel-covered peg likely busted through turtle shells during the dinosaurian heyday. Bone fragments indicated where dinosaurs and turtles had once emerged from their rocky slumber to see the sunshine, only to be eroded down againa sign I'd arrived decades or centuries too late.

I climbed outcrops that I wasn't sure I could get down from. I checked under overhangs. I dipped down into gullies to look for any tidbits the all-too-scarce desert rain might have washed up. I used muscles I didn't know I had, scrambling, huffing, and plodding across bare rock. All the while, I looked over my shoulder for the mountain lion that had left crisp paw prints in the sand of the wash I was traveling down.

I wish I could tell you that I found the dinosaur of my dreams on that trip. I did not, though another crew member found a promising toe bone. Its curvaceous shape matched that of a coelurosaur, part of a family of feathery dinosaurs that thrived in the Late Cretaceous. A colleague quickly identified the bone as that of a tyrannosaur, a carnivore from the genus Teratophoneus. But as we discussed around the campfire later, it could have come from an ostrich-like dinosaur called an ornithomimosaur or the beaky, parrot-like hagryphus. There wasn't enough to tell during that particular dig, though in time, additional finds in the same spot would confirm that the bone indeed belonged to a young tyrannosaur.

Envious as I was, no fossil hunter lasts long if they don't learn to find joy in the search. I remember happily hiking along dry washes, smiling at all the inventive ways plants anchored themselves in rocky canyon walls. I remember the dried-out skeleton of the range cow I happened across, a reminder of how life and death intertwine in these places. I remember silently watching the ancient starlight of the Milky Way bathing the prehistoric rocks that stretched into the sky.

FROM THE TIME I'd first set foot in this patch of high desert in 2010 through the years of field excursions that had followed, I'd felt like this fantastic boneyard belonged to me, that I was exercising my right to explore a wilderness left unpaved. But over time, being alone in the wilderness will change your heart, whether you like it or not. On recent digs, I'd feared that I was acting like the oil companies I want kept out, a colonist on stolen ground. It can feel wrong to repeatedly hike into someone else's ancestral lands searching for something that, with any luck, will be taken away to be placed in a museum.

But on this dig, after I almost literally lost myself, I felt drawn into Grand StaircaseEscalante's landscape in a new way, folded in much like the dinosaur fossils had been long ago. I wanted to keep hiking, keep looking, keep wondering what might be over the next hill and how it might fit into the ever-changing nature of this particular patch of our planet.

As I made my final, solo hike back out to where I'd parked the museum pickup, I spotted a mess of small crocodile bones. And within spitting distance of the vehicle, I stumbled across the broad, circular vertebrae of a duck-billed dinosaur. I didn't have time to do much else but take photos and notes, hoping the encasing rock might keep the bones safe until I returned. But even if I never do, this constantly changing landscape gave me what I needed most: a place to get lost and found.

The high desert lives separate from our perceptions, something at once so grand and so detailed that our brains can take in only a fraction of what we're seeing in any moment. I could spend the rest of my life hiking this immense wilderness and only find what would amount to a few flecks of sand on a beach. It's that unknown that's going to have me packing my boots and tent, all for the promise of what I wish to see but may never find. No museum exhibit can capture that; no dollar value can do it justice. Grand StaircaseEscalante is one of the last places in the world where we can jot "Here be dragons!" on the map and mean it. We need such places. To be on public land amid that invaluable natural history, with little more than a hunch of where to look, evokes one of the greatest joys I knowcuriosity.

This article appeared in the Summer quarterly edition with the headline "Digging Deep in the Desert."

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Public Lands Preserve More Than What's on the Surface - Sierra Magazine

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The Dubrovnik Symphony Orchestra traditionally performs a concert on the occasion of World Music Day, and this year that tradition was continued. Organized by the Dubrovnik Tourist Board a concert was held last night in front of the church of St. Blasie in which the B&P (brass and percussion) septet of DSO delighted the audience with a program of pop-rock, film, jazz and Latin music.

This septet consists of wind players Demal Caki, Martin Hran, Toni Kursar, Damir Butigan and Ivan Kuelj, percussionist Alan Polzer and percussionist Karmen Perviti. The program that these musicians prepare always delights audiences, with interesting adaptations of famous music from movies, jazz arrangements, as well as favourite pop-rock all-time hits.

The tourists and locals enjoyed renditions of Pink Panther" and the movie "Breakfast at Tiffany's", then music from "Star Trek", a cover of the famous "Nessun dorma" as well as Spanish gypsy dance.

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Wayne Masut | The Scrum Sports Victor Hedman. 2020 Conn Smythe Trophy winner, and well deserved. Out of his mind he played in the Cup run. An absolute beast, setting the standard for a D-man taking MVP honors. So, if Tampa Bay does the nearimpossible and goes back-to-back, who follows Hedman? Hedman? No. However, the Lightning are getting production from a wealth of players. Who takes the MVP cake, and eats it too? Could be one of, in my mind, four legitimate candidates, but dont sleep on a few others. Lets dig in.

It takes a perfect storm to win a Stanley Cup.No pun intended. Same goes, individually speaking, for a Conn Smythe. Last year, that storm was comprised of outstanding goaltending, and blueline production, among other things. This year? Well, its a different story. The Lightning have just two goals from the back-end and are currently two wins from a chance to defend. One series. To become hockey icons, and take home the Cup, with a Conn Smythe candidate cashing in to become equally iconic.

Fire. Me. Up, Jon Cooper. This quote speaks volumes to the drive this Lightning team has to win it all. So, that being said, the road has been completely different for Tampa this yea. Obviously, production from Nikita Kucherov and Brayden Point is common. New faces, though, are chipping in, and as mentioned, the forward group is scoring like wildfire. Forwards highlight Riley Gillespie-Wilsons top candidates for Conn Smythe honours if the Bolts get it done again.

This one is easy in all honesty. Not only is the goalie of a star studded group the leagues darling, but theresno doubtAndrei Vasilevskiy will have earned this particular hardware.

Where does he rank among the best goaltenders of all time? Check out our recent discussion, led by myself and Dan Herrejon, to find out.

The one thing that is certain is hes been the Bolts best D-man all playoff long, though he tends the crease. Timely saves. Acrobatic saves. You name it, hes done it. The Lightnings rock all playoffs long, he has the best goals-against, and has amassed the most saves of any goalie in the playoffs.

Brayden Point has been absolutely phenomenal. In my opinion, he carries the Conn Smythe back North of the border last season, if not for Hedman. Voters agreed, as he pulled into second with an absolutely dominant stretch of play.

Same story this run. Point has 12 goals in 15 games this postseason, and is second in points only to his Russian sniper teammate Nikita Kucherov.

Leading the playoffs in points? Yes, indeed.I cant overstate how wild it is to see 86 in blue and white go absolutely hay-wire after missingthe entireregular season. As much as that probably should, and will maybe be, taken into account, its his play alone that puts Kuch in this conversation.

As noted, I dont think Hedman has done quite enough to do the unthinkable and pull another Conn Smythe out of his bag of Swedish tricks. However, hes still, while admittedly battling an injury, playing better hockey than 90% of defensemen out there.

14 points.13assists. While putting the puck in the net would help his case, hes still the engine that drives this blue-line, and the Bolts power play, for that matter.

Harvard grad Alex Killorn is more than intelligent, and social media savvy. Hes far more than a man and hisSea Doo. The Lightnings power forward is infinitely valuable, and a force in front of the net. Need a big hit? Call on Killer. Big goal? Do likewise.

Hes having his best playoff of his relatively young career, by a long-shot, with 6 goals and 13 points in the Bolts 15 tilts. A definite candidate. He wont win, but, if he does, by some miracle, or because of an uptick in production, you heard it here first.

While these guys would also need a huge last (hopefully) 6 games to become a legitimate candidate, the following deserve some love for a solid postseason:

While this is fun speculation, Bolts nation really only cares about the 34-and-a-half pound mammoth trophy every kid dreams of hoisting one day.

Lets capture back-to-back jacks, then concern ourselves with the 700+ words you just ingested. Six wins. to become special.

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Ranveer Singh and Deepika Padukone is finally back to the city. The couple was spotted at the airport today in the evening.

The most loved and powerful couple of Bollywood Deepika Padukone and Ranveer Singh has finally returned to the city. They had jetted off to Bangalore after the Maharashtra government announced Janta Curfew for 15 days. The couple was staying in Bangalore for quite some time. Amid this time, reports also came in that the actress along with her family had tested positive for COVID 19. But there was no official announcement from the family. She was under home quarantine as reported by the media houses.

The couple was spotted in all-black athleisure with their masks also in black. They wore masks adhering to the safety protocols of COVID 19. The actor was seen holding his wifes hand all the time and the actress was also not in the mood to be clicked. Both did not stop for the shutterbugs but were seen making a way out of the airport in hurry. To note, the actresss father Prakash Padukone was hospitalised. The actress has also not shared any updates over this.

To note, the lockdown situation is still going on in Maharashtra. The state government has extended till June 1.

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On the work front, she will next be seen in Kabir Khans 83, in Shakun Batras untitled next, and in the Hindi remake of Amit Sharms The Intern with Amitabh Bachchan. She also has Siddharth Anands Pathan with Shah Rukh Khan and John Abraham and also Anands Fighter too.

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Katy Perry Says She'll Give Daughter Daisy 'Carte Blanche' to Rewear Her Iconic Outfits

Daisy Dove Bloom has inherited a killer wardrobe! Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom's 9-month-old daughter might be a ways away from borrowing her mom's iconic looks, but that doesn't mean they're not waiting for her.

The 36-year-old pop star and American Idol judge shared that she's got some of her best ensembles ready and waiting for her daughter.

Perry told Popsugar that she is giving Daisy "carte blanche" to rock all of her past looks.

"I think about it all the time," Perry said of passing on her fashions. "I do a lot of cleanups, but I do have some stuff always that I'm thinking about."

She added that she's been saving her looks ever since she found out her first child would be a baby girl.

"I need them to go somewhere," Perry said of her old styles. "I want them to be worn again."

But Perry is also fully prepared for Daisy not wanting her mom's hand-me-downs.

"[Daisy will] probably just be goth, and like, 'No, Mom. Thanks,'"she joked.

A source recently opened up to ET about how Perry and Bloom are handling their rigorous work schedules while also looking after a newborn.

"Katy and Orlando have been doing well," said the source. "Katy loves being a mom, but also loves being a boss. She feels like a powerhouse right now and really on top of the world in terms of her career and motherhood. She's so thrilled and excited about her Vegas residency.

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Ohio lawmakers took no action on a much-discussed sports betting bill Wednesday after more gaming entities and sports organizations testified during another gaming committee hearing.

Sports betting proponents hope the latest Senate Select Committee on Gaming hearing the 12th this year will continue shaping the bill, but license eligibility and other key issues continue to divide would-be stakeholders.

These key decisions, particularly around licensure, will help determine when or if legal Ohio sports betting can begin.

The latest bill would allow up to 20 online sports betting mobile licenses with the states 11 casinos, and hybrid race track racinos are each expected to earn one skin apiece. Adjustments to the bill last week clarified each casino could also earn licensure to open a retail sportsbook at their facilities as well.

MGM (BetMGM), Penn National (Barstool), Churchill Downs (TwinSpires), Caesars and Hard Rock all have ownership stakes or partnerships with Ohio casinos and will likely launch their respective sportsbooks if legal wagering is approved. Other national industry leaders, including DraftKings and FanDuel, will likely pursue sportsbooks in Ohio, the nations seventh-most populated state.

The Ohio Casino Control Commission would regulate and select licensees. Lawmakers said any businesses, gaming or otherwise, could apply for a license if it has a substantial presence in the state. State Sen. Nathan Manning, one of the bills co-sponsors, cited Ford Motor Company as an example.

Casino stakeholders have pushed lawmakers to limit licenses to existing gaming interests. Testifying before a legislative committee Wednesday, Penn Nationals Senior Vice President Eric Schippers said established operators credibility, regulatory standards and ties to other U.S. markets ensure consumer protections.

If we lose a license in one jurisdiction, or are even penalized by regulators for a misstep, it has consequences in all the other jurisdictions in which were licensed, Schippers testified Wednesday. As public companies, our licenses are our most precious commodities.

Assuming all casinos earn licenses, that leaves only nine online sportsbook opportunities left for all other state business interests. That would include the states professional major sports teams and organizations, which have lobbied for licenses and asked lawmakers to amend the bill to specifically limit certain sportsbook operator eligibility to sports entities.

Representatives from the Womens Tennis Association submitted written testimony at a gaming committee hearing for the first time Wednesday, arguing that they should be included alongside the states other professional sports franchises and organizations such as the Cincinnati Reds and PGA Tour, both of which provided testimony at a committee hearing last week.

The WTA will host its inaugural Tennis in the Land tournament in Cleveland this summer. It would be the first womens sports league, organization, event or venue to earn a U.S. sports betting license.

The bill would also create a second licensure class for up to 20 retail sportsbooks, 11 of which would most likely go to the brick-and-mortar casinos. Additionally, the state lottery could also offer $20 betting pools under the bill.

Lawmakers are getting closer to a formal vote that could advance the bill out of the gaming committee following months of hearings. Both the House and Senate would have to pass identical versions of the same bill, which may not come until later this summer.

Lawmakers Wednesday again reiterated a June 30 approval target, but significant work remains.

Elected officials will have to work through the online and retail licensing caps and requirements discussed Wednesday. The states established gaming facilities want 20 (or fewer) total licenses, but Ohios sports interests are pushing for more or at least their own specific authorization to do so.

Thats alongside the myriad other interested stakeholders, including the bar, restaurant and hospitality industry, that have pushed for as many licenses as possible.

Licensure eligibility is in addition to many other key tax, regulatory and other policy decisions. Notably, Ohios current bill would also not allow sportsbooks to deduct promo credit from their taxes, a move opposed by many current operators.

In the meantime, Ohio sports bettors and the regulated sports betting industry overall continue waiting for lawmakers moves on one of the nations most-watched legal wagering bills.

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