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“This was great teamwork by several organizations that worked together to ensure that this tragic incident was properly investigated, and the offender will be held accountable. To think that someone could injure their child in this manner is heartbreaking,” Leslie Manahan, Valdosta police chief, said.
WALB News 10 has reached out for a copy of Gaines’ mugshot.
BERLIN. – The Dominican Government signed two agreements Friday, one with a European company that will build eight boutique hotels in Cofresí Bay, Puerto Plata at a cost of US$200 million, and the other with Air France to promote the country in 15 European nations.
Tourism minister Francisco Javier Garcia made the announcement in a press conference in Berlin’s Marriot hotel, where he attends the ITB tourism fair 2009.
He also announced that Dominican Republic’s promotional video won second place in a competition with more than 300 presentations from different countries.
The company Marketing Beratung International (MBI) will build the hotels in Puerto Plata, in coordination with the chain Hacienda Resorts.
MBI general manager Alexander Schaufler said the project called Costa Esmeralda Peninsula will feature eight, 160 room boutique hotels in a first stage and 200 apartments after that.
The official said the MBI executives will travel to Dominican Republic in mid April for the groundbreaking and immediately begin the works, for the first stage to be ready by end 2010.
Garcia said the agreement with Air France is the only accord that carrier has ever signed with a Tourism ministry, and pledges to promote Dominican Republic in 15 European destinations where it frequently flies.
Upon signing the agreement, Air France executive Veronique Moulin said she was pleased by the Dominican Government’s interest in the pact she said has been under discussion for several years.
In that regard, Garcia said it’s a new step in the country’s promotion in the European market, source of many visitors to his country.
Dominican Republic won second place in the best promotional videos competition, with 180 part countries present in Berlin’s ITB fair taking part.
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That sentiment was apparent in April when Augusta National didn’t send Norman an invitation to attend the Masters, which it customarily extends to all living (non-imprisoned) major winners. Now the R&A has declined to invite the Great White Pilot Fish to the Celebration of Champions exhibition in St. Andrews on Monday or to Tuesday’s champions dinner (not a consideration back in Georgia). Augusta National and the R&A are not organizations prone to discourtesies. They don’t do oversights, or at least not accidentally.
The “it all” to which Norman obliquely refers is relevant. While he’d like to peddle a narrative that the R&A is being picayune and ignoring his past accomplishments, what the governing body is actually doing is acknowledging his present activities. And those activities don’t involve the promotion or growth of golf but rather its wholesale whoring for the purposes of Saudi sportswashing, a difference that might not be as obvious to Norman as it is to folks who don’t conflate the good of the game with their personal enrichment and score-settling.
The reality is that Norman’s current endeavors have considerably more bearing than his past achievements in determining whether he ought to be invited to events at which many attendees regard him with barely disguised contempt.
Despite Norman’s insinuation, this isn’t a case of the R&A reflexively choosing sides with the PGA and DP World tours in a commercial dispute with his Saudi-funded LIV Golf. The decision was selfish, sure, but it was made purely in the interests of the R&A, the Open and its ancillary events, not in the interests of Jay Monahan or Keith Pelley.
Norman has already shown an eagerness to use the 150th Open Championship for cheap stunts intended to raise both his profile and that of his new venture. As when he demanded a spot in the St. Andrews field at age 67, despite his earned exemption having expired at age 60, and gone unused since he was 54. Had he genuinely wished to compete, Norman could have followed the example of Sandy Lyle, the 64-year-old champion from 1985, who entered qualifying this year. Lyle didn’t make it but he tried the only route available. He didn’t demand an exemption to which he wasn’t entitled, but then Lyle isn’t known to have a larger-than-life bust of himself in his garden either.
The Celebration of Champions is a charming event particular to St. Andrews, where past winners play a short loop on the Old Course to kickstart the week on golf’s greatest stage. There will be a robust turnout of greats Monday afternoon. Anyone who believes that would be the case if Norman were also present knows nothing of how he is viewed by many of his fellow players. Similarly, fewer place settings would be needed for a champions dinner that included him.
The R&A’s decision signals something that, while increasingly evident, has not been stated explicitly. Which is that golf’s most powerful organizations will—when possible, without compromising their championships—impede the stooges who would auction the sport to MBS. Those bodies clearly grasp how ruinous LIV’s success would be to golf’s image and its broader economy as corporate marketing dollars search for safer harbors.
Fred Ridley signaled his support for the existing order at the Masters. The PGA of America’s Seth Waugh, who runs both a major and the Ryder Cup, has repeatedly done so. Mike Whan, CEO of the USGA, couldn’t alter the U.S. Open’s criteria but suggested he was amenable to doing so in the future. And even prior to this week, the R&A’s Martin Slumbers fired a warning shot by removing the exemption into the Open previously granted to the winner of the Asian Tour’s order of merit, a move made after that circuit spreadeagled itself for Saudi cash.
Decisions have consequences, a lesson learned often by Norman at major championships.
LIV Golf is a tumor that grows by diminishing everything around it—major championships, established tournaments, tours, formerly estimable venues and, not least, reputations. The thing about ruined reputations is that, at a certain point, the owner of the sullied name becomes impervious to the stain, which instead smears those with whom he associates. It is to the R&A’s credit that it is willing to stiff-arm a man who aims to cheapen the entire sport just to enrich himself at the teat of a tyrant.<commit_before>import glob
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