King named in GB Olympics squad (From Daily Echo) - This is Southampton
Hamble's Dani King named in Great Britain Olympics squad
1:50pm Wednesday 13th June 2012 in Sport
HAMBLE’S Dani King has been named in the GB cycling squad for the London 2012 Olympics.
Along with Laura Trott, Joanna Rowsell, and Wendy Houvenaghel, she has been chosen for the endurance events.
David Millar was today named in the team alongside Sir Chris Hoy, Victoria Pendleton, Bradley Wiggins and Mark Cavendish.
The 35-year-old in 2004 was handed a two-year suspension for admitting use of banned blood booster EPO, but is now a fervent anti-doping campaigner and was last month officially cleared to compete at London 2012 after the British Olympic Association's bylaw banning drug cheats for life was revoked.
Millar is one of eight riders in the men's road squad long list but played an integral role in Cavendish's World Championships win last September and is likely to fill one of the five spots when the final team is named for the July 28 road race.
There were few surprises in the squad tasked with improving on Britain's haul of eight gold medals in Beijing.
Hoy and Pendleton, for whom the Olympics will mark the end of her career, lead the track squad, Tour de France contender Wiggins is included in the road squad and defending champion Nicole Cooke is among the women's group on the road.
Millar returns to Olympic competition for the first time since Sydney bidding to help a British squad seeking to improve on a haul of eight gold medals in Beijing four years ago.
British Cycling performance director Dave Brailsford said: "We have selected what I believe to be an excellent team going into an Olympic Games and we have a good mix of experienced Olympians alongside young riders who are making their Olympic debut.
"We still have some decisions to make, for example, the road teams will be refined in due course and who will ride in what event on the track will be determined nearer the time.
"Overall, though, the GB Cycling Team has had a strong season across all the disciplines and we are ready to step up again at the Olympics."
The track squad includes the team which scooped five gold medals from 10 Olympic events at April's Track Cycling World Championships in Melbourne.
Hoy is still to discover if he will be granted the opportunity to defend all three of the Olympic gold medals won in Beijing, with 2008 Olympic silver medallist Jason Kenny pushing the Scot hard for the one sprint place.
Hoy said: "The standard in the British Cycling team is so high and the selection process is always going to be tough, but there's a great atmosphere in the team and we just need to keep putting in the hours in training and make sure we're in the best shape possible for race day.
"This is my fourth Olympics, but my first home Games, and it's going to be an amazing experience and a once in a lifetime opportunity for all of us."
Hoy and Kenny are joined in the sprint squad by 19-year-old German-born Philip Hindes, with Olympic champions Ed Clancy and Geraint Thomas in the endurance group - for the team pursuit and omnium - alongside Steven Burke, Peter Kennaugh and Andy Tennant.
Pendleton and Jess Varnish are in the women's sprint squad.
Britain are set to take up their host nation places in the remaining two cycling disciplines, with all eyes on three-time world champion Shanaze Reade in the BMX. Liam Phillips is to be given every opportunity to prove his fitness and take the men's place after suffering a fractured collar bone at last month's Birmingham World Championships.
The mountain bike places have gone to Liam Killeen, who has recorded top-10 finishes at the last two Games, and Annie Last.
TRACK Sprint: Philip Hindes, Sir Chris Hoy, Jason Kenny, Victoria Pendleton, Jessica Varnish.
Endurance: Steven Burke, Ed Clancy, Peter Kennaugh, Andy Tennant, Geraint Thomas, Wendy Houvenaghel, Dani King, Laura Trott, Joanna Rowsell.
ROAD Men (five to be selected): Mark Cavendish, Steven Cummings, Chris Froome, Jeremy Hunt, David Millar, Ian Stannard, Ben Swift, Bradley Wiggins.
Women (four to be selected): Lizzie Armitstead, Nicole Cooke, Katie Colclough, Sharon Laws, Lucy Martin, Emma Pooley.
BMX Liam Phillips, Shanaze Reade MOUNTAIN BIKE Liam Killeen, Annie Last
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RSS chief expresses displeasure at ousting Sanjay Joshi from BJP - Hindustan Times
A senior sangh pracharak, who preferred anonymity, claimed that the recent editorial in BJP mouthpiece ‘Kamal Sandesh’ that no leader should consider oneself bigger than the party was in fact, Bhagwat’s opinion, which he is believed to have echoed before his close lieutenants. That Modi had his way on Joshi’s exit was also considered as the former’s sheer display of arrogance, driven by a clash of egos by the Sangh Parivar.
According to him, the Sangh preferred to keep mum on the whole "drama" in view of the ensuing Gujarat elections and a smooth passage for Nitin Gadkari’s re-election as party president.
Moreover, the Sangh Parivar did not want a message to be sent across that Gadkari’s re-election to the BJP top post by amending the norms in the national executive did not have a powerful leader like Modi’s approval, who also considered a face of ‘Hinduvtava’ and his ever-growing clout in the party.
Joshi, first sent to the BJP by the RSS in 1988 to use his organizational skills in building the party in Gujarat, had to leave in 2005 over a sleaze CD. After taking over as BJP president, Gadkari rehabilitated Joshi -- his childhood friend -- in view of his organizational ability and entrusted him the job of Bihar and UP elections. Joshi was also included in the national executive, which did not go down well with Modi. Joshi’s friend-turned-foe Modi refused to campaign in the UP elections for the party and unofficially boycotted the national executive. Moreover, of late, the Gujarat chief minister was not even taking Gadkari’s phone calls.
When Gadkari rang up Modi on May 23, just before the national executive at Mumbai and requested him to attend, the Gujarat chief minister laid down the condition of Joshi’s axe from the executive.
Gadkari, a darling of Bhagwat, tried to use his good offices in RSS for intervention, but in vain. The BJP president did not dare to take risk when the senior party leader Lal Krishna Advani blogged questioning his leadership and other senior party leaders including Sushma Swaraj and Arun Jetlay were hostile. He narrated the entire things before Joshi who "sacrificed" himself for his friend to pave way for Modi attending the Mumbai meet.
But as pro-Joshi posters appeared in Delhi and some places in Gujarat, Modi made a telephone call to Gadkari, asking the latter to either relieve him from his chief minister’s post or Joshi from the party. Faced with this ultimatum, Gadkari made yet another crafty move by making Joshi to resign as BJP’s election in-charge of UP.
However, the RSS headquarters claimed that Joshi would be honourably re-inducted in the organization after Gadkari’s re-election the December Gujarat elections are over this year. It was said that he would be given an important task of Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh elections to be held in October next year, the pracharak claimed.
Given a belief held by section of RSS cadres, it seems that the RSS would not tolerate Modi’s arrogance for a long. The RSS, which is literally directing the BJP affairs, may take on Modi after the Gujarat polls and Gadkari’s re-election by end of this year.
The senior RSS leader and former Buddhik Pramukh of the saffron organization, MG Vaidya, said that the party is bigger than any individual. “The Modi-Joshi tussle is not good for the party,” he pointed out.
Meanwhile, neither Gadkari nor Bhagwat was available for comments. Joshi who was here to attend a meeting of RSS said that he was still in the BJP. "I have only relinquished the national executive and UP in-charge. I am still a primary member of the party," he said.
Talking to Hindustan Times, he also dismissed the rumours that he would be given the job of Vanvasi Kalyan Ashram by the RSS. Joshi met Vaidya during his Nagpur visit and had a long discussion.
Citi, JPM, SunTrust to redeem more than $15bn of TruPS - Reuters UK
NEW YORK, June 13 (IFR) - Citigroup, JP Morgan and SunTrust Bank are planning to redeem more than $15 billion of trust preferred securities next month, following the US Federal Reserve's release of new capital rules last week.
The Fed unveiled its Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on Basel III guidelines, confirming as expected that US banks will need to phase in core Basel III capital requirements by 2019.
The NPR is being treated by the three banks as a 'capital event' that can trigger the calls in outstanding TruPS, which will lose their Tier 1 status beginning January next year.
All three will be using cash on hand to redeem the securities.
JPM's undertaking is the largest, involving the redemption on July 12 of nine separate issues of TruPS totaling $9 billion with coupons ranging from 5.85% to 8%.
JPM has about $19.5 billion of outstanding TruPS.
The securities targeted for the July redemptions are mostly those that need a capital event in order to be called, rather than other TruPS on its books which have reached their first call date.
Citigroup is looking to take out two of its highest coupon TruPS on July 18: its 8.5% fixed-to-floating TruPS and an 8.3% issue, which will together reduce its Tier 1 non-common capital by about $4.9 billion, or 50bp.
Citigroup will pay $25 plus $0.10625 in unpaid distributions for the 8.5% TruPS and $1,000 plus $6.2250 in accumulated and unpaid distributions for the 5.85% issue.
Citi had about $15.9 billion worth of TruPS outstanding at the end of March.
SunTrust Banks, will redeem about $1.19 billion of TruPS in two issues - its 6.1% 2036s and its 7.875% 2068s. The redemptions will take place on July 11 and will be at par value.
That leaves with less than $400 million of floating-rate TruPS on its books.
Not all TruPS will be redeemed, as some of the lower coupon issues will end up staying in bank capital structures as Tier II capital or attractively-priced subordinated debt.
The loss of Tier 1 status of the roughly $86.9 billion of TruPS held by the top 25 banks, including Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley, will eventually have to be replaced by non-cumulative perpetual preferreds - at the moment the only structure that qualifies as non-common Tier 1 capital.
More than $80 billion of perpetual preferreds are expected to be issued by the top 25 banks between now and the beginning of 2016, bringing the total size of the perpetual preferred market in the US to around $134.1 billion.
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Stone Roses Amsterdam gig ends in confusion - BBC News
Stone Roses fans were left confused after the reformed band failed to play an encore at a gig in Amsterdam on Tuesday, amid reports drummer Reni had left the venue.
Singer Ian Brown appeared on stage alone at the Heineken Music Hall, to tell the crowd the gig was over.
Fans had expected to hear I Am The Resurrection, which the reformed band closed a show with in Spain on Friday.
Brown reportedly said: "I'm not joking, the drummer's gone home."
Many of the fans present then booed the 49-year-old frontman's announcement, according to BBC journalist Peter Shuttleworth, who was at the concert.
"Ian just said something like 'Come on, get all your negative vibes out on me. I can take it'," he said.
However, Shuttleworth claims the jeers were "short-lived" and fans were "more bemused than disappointed".
He added: "People were just looking at each other thinking 'what's going on?'"
He also disputed reports that Reni - real name Alan Wren - had stormed off stage, saying that he and guitarist John Squire had hugged as they left.
The band seemed to have expressed plans to play an encore, telling fans: "If you want us to come back, we're going up four storeys, so you have to cheer loud".
'Not happy'The Stone Roses kicked off their first tour in 16 years in Barcelona last weekend. They have a summer of dates planned, including three homecoming shows in Manchester's Heaton Park at the end of June.
Fans have dismissed speculation that the gig in Holland signals problems for the rest of the tour, calling the show "quality" and the crowd "enthusiastic".
Several reports quote an insider who suggested there had been a problem with the drum kit, but this has not been confirmed.
Paul Roberts was at the gig and emailed BBC 6 Music: "At one point I saw Reni waving his arms wildly at the stage mixer, obviously not happy with something."
Another, Matt Morris, claimed Brown's announcement "was followed by a volley of beer thrown at the stage and booing".
Remaining dates on the Stone Roses tour are expected to go ahead as planned, with the band due on stage in Sweden on Thursday.
Bob Rae won't run for Liberal leadership - CBC
Bob Rae will not seek the permanent leadership of the Liberal party and will continue as interim leader until the new leader is chosen, he announced this morning.
Rae was widely expected to enter the race and to be a top contender. He told his caucus at their weekly meeting and then made the announcement in the foyer of the House of Commons.
"It hasn't been an easy decision," Rae said. The interim leader said he wrestled with the decision and received plenty of encouragement but he's decided he can best serve his party by not running.
Rae said he will remain the MP for Toronto Centre and has no plans to quit politics. The 63-year-old said he is in good health and that while there will be commentary on his health, he said that speculation would be "bullshit."
Rae's announcement came just hours ahead of a conference call scheduled for Wednesday night when the party's national executive will set the ground rules for the leadership campaign. Liberals will choose their new leader in early 2013.
When Rae took the reins from outgoing Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff last spring, he agreed that he would not seek the job permanently. There is no rule prohibiting him from entering the race, but the executive could have forced him to step down as interim leader if he had decided to run.
Interim Liberal Leader Bob Rae was expected to announce Wednesday that he won't run for the federal Liberal Party's leadership. (Adrian Wyld/Canadian Press)Rae had always said he would follow whatever rules were decided by the party and that he would wait until the rules were set before announcing his intention.
As recently as last week, sources were telling CBC News that Rae was preparing to give up the interim leadership post when the House adjourns for the summer recess at the end of June and that he would enter the race.
Rae told Evan Solomon, host of CBC News Network's Power and Politics, last week that his decision would be announced shortly after the executive's Wednesday night meeting.
"My understanding is the executive is going to be meeting next week. Once they've made their decision, you know, it'll take a few days for me to make mine," Rae told Solomon. "But it won't take long. I think things will be cleared up, you know, in June."
A person who was set to work on Bob Rae's leadership campaign told CBC News, "Meetings and calls were planned for the end of June and the first of July." The person said Rae's decision comes as a surprise and with disappointment, but the person could "appreciate where Rae is coming from."
With Rae out of the race, attention will quickly turn to who is in — and much of the focus will be on Justin Trudeau. He has said in recent days that he is facing a lot of pressure to run for the leadership.
Factors to consider
P.E.I. Liberal MP Wayne Easter said Trudeau has a few factors to consider.
"He has to look at what he can do for the country, for the party, for the nation," Easter said Wednesday morning.
"He's got the second side of the coin: he has a young family, he knows what it's like to be a son of a prime minister and what that takes away from the family in terms of a prime minister's responsibility and a leader of a party's responsibility for their party and their country.
"So he'd have to weigh all those factors …. Of course it would be a good thing for the party if [Trudeau] were to run. But there's lots of good candidates out there. He'd give it excitement. There's the heritage, there's the name, there's Justin's charisma, so all those factors."
On the way into the Liberal caucus meeting Wednesday morning, MPs Denis Coderre, Marc Garneau and Dominic LeBlanc all said they have not ruled out running for the leadership.
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