MSOC Announces Addition of Dominik Danis1/3/2023 3:39:00 PM | Men's Soccer Defender joins Golden Eagles after three seasons as a starter at Omaha Dominik Danis | Defender | Banovce nad Bebravou Prior to Marquette: In three seasons at Omaha played in and started all 43 games in the defensive backfield … Logged 3859 total minutes including 37 games playing 90 minutes or more … Recorded two goals and 11 shots … Helped the Mavericks advance to the second round of the NCAA Tournament as a true freshman in Spring 2020 … Prior to his time at Omaha Coach Bennett: "This our final Spring addition to the 2023 incoming class Dominik brings Division I experience that will help his Marquette acclimation and ultimate contribution one-on-one defending and defensive ambition will add positive elements to our backline and program He joins three other newcomers who will join the program in January which allows them all to really drill down and have the opportunity to move our team closer to the program goals and a more favorable position indicative of a championship team I'm excited to welcome all four to our program BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico is in life-threatening condition after being wounded in a shooting after a political event Wednesday afternoon an episode of violence that punctuated his decades-long career in politics was born in 1964 in what was then Czechoslovakia A member of the Communist Party before the dissolution of communism he took a law degree in 1986 and was first elected to Slovakia’s parliament in 1992 as a member of the Party of the Democratic Left He served for several years in the 1990s as a governmental agent representing the Slovak Republic before the European Court of Human Rights and the European Commission of Human Rights he became chairman of the Smer (Direction) party of which he has been a pivotal figure ever since He and Smer have most often been described as left-populist though he has also been compared to right-wing politicians like the nationalist prime minister of neighboring Hungary Fico returned to power in Slovakia last year having previously served twice as prime minister from 2006 to 2010 and again from 2012 to 2018 His third term made him the longest-serving head of government in the history of Slovakia Fico’s party won parliamentary elections last year on a pro-Russian and anti-American platform He vowed to bring an end to Slovakia providing Ukraine with military support as it battled Russia’s full-scale invasion and has argued that NATO and the United States provoked Moscow into war the new government immediately halted arms deliveries to Ukraine Thousands repeatedly took to the streets across Slovakia to rally against Fico’s pro-Russian and other policies including plans to amend the penal code to eliminate a special anti-graft prosecutor and to take control of public media Fico’s return to power caused concern among his critics that he and his party — which had long been tainted by scandal — would lead Slovakia away from its pro-Western course He vowed to pursue a “sovereign” foreign policy promised a tough stance against migration and non-governmental organizations He earned a reputation for his tirades against journalists and faced criminal charges in 2022 for allegedly creating a criminal group and misuse of power he and his government stepped down amid controversy after Slovakian investigative journalist Ján Kuciak was murdered along with his fiancée Kuciak had been reporting on tax-related crimes implicating high-level Slovak politicians © 1996 - 2025 NewsHour Productions LLC PBS is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization Subscribe to Here's the Deal with Lisa Desjardins Please enable JS and disable any ad blocker You don't have permission to access the page you requested What is this page?The website you are visiting is protected.For security reasons this page cannot be displayed IN ONE of the worst traffic accidents in Slovakia’s history a collision between a bus and a train near the village of Polomka in central Slovakia claimed 12 lives A passenger train with two carriages crashed into a bus which was carrying 37 skiers from Bánovce nad Bebravou to the ski resort Bučník at about 09:00 on Saturday IN ONE of the worst traffic accidents in Slovakia’s history a collision between a bus and a train near the village of Polomka in central Slovakia claimed 12 lives A passenger train with two carriages crashed into a bus which was carrying 37 skiers from Bánovce nad Bebravou to the ski resort Bučník at about 09:00 on Saturday who is also the owner of the transport company survived the crash with slight injuries and was released from hospital two days after the accident It was not a regularly scheduled bus route but a trip by friends organised by the bus driver One of the firemen who pulled survivors and dead bodies from the bus crumpled under the derailed train told the media that nobody seated near the spot where the train made impact with the bus could have survived “The bus opened like a tin can,” the fireman was quoted as saying by the ČTK newswire The accident happened at a railway crossing which was not fitted with an electronic warning system The driver apparently failed to spot the nearing train the train pushed the bus along the railway tracks for about twenty metres Some of the victims remained trapped underneath the wreckage Three helicopters and nine ambulances transported the injured They were taken to hospitals in Banská Bystrica and Brezno Eight passengers in the bus were seriously injured and 13 had lesser injuries the oldest 62; the victims included three married couples The Czech daily Právo quoted the words of the Slovak passenger transportation company Železničná Spoločnosť Slovensko (ŽSSK) spokesman Miloš Čikovský that neither the train engineer nor passengers on the train were seriously injured; only two of them had minor graze injuries he blew the signal and applied the emergency brake,” Čikovský told the daily Právo he could not have prevented the collision.” Trains are allowed to operate at up to 70 kilometres per hour at the site of accident The railway crossing is protected neither by automatic gates nor by lights the railway network operator that owns the tracks told The Slovak Spectator that this is because of good local visibility and the low frequency of trains passing through the crossing there are many more tourist buses and cars travelling to the nearby ski resort Transport Minister Ľubomír Vážny and Interior Minister Robert Kaliňák appeared at the accident site to coordinate rescue efforts and Vážny said they thought the accident was unambiguously caused by the bus driver Vážny was quoted by the daily Sme to have said that “this is probability bordering almost on certainty” The bus driver could face four to 10 years in prison if found guilty of the crime of public threat due to negligence Kaliňák’s also expressed the opinion that the driver of the bus had caused the accident He simply was not supposed to stand at the crossing Kaliňák told the news television channel TA3 Kaliňák also claimed that the bus driver had a good view of the stretch of rails from which the train was coming He estimated that after arriving at the crossing the driver could see on the left “continuous rails Interior Ministry Erik Tomáš told The Slovak Spectator that Kaliňák did not prejudge the result of the investigation and was only describing what he thought the traffic situation was shortly before the crash The actual cause of the accident will be investigated “The bus had no reason to be on the rails at the time the train was approaching,” Tomáš said “It should have given way [to the train].” Tomáš added that a team was assembled to investigate the cause of the crash but that until it comes to some conclusions the ministry would not speak further about the course of the investigation Tomáš told The Slovak Spectator that the investigation could be concluded within two weeks The bus driver had braked at the railway crossing as the road at the crossing is in a bad technical condition he was shifting gears but the bus failed to clear the tracks Slovak daily newspapers reported that five years ago a passenger car collided with a train at the same site The municipality of Polomka has repeatedly asked the railway company in recent years to mark the crossing with at least signal lights but their requests were not acted upon as did as former mayor František Ďurčenka Pavliková told The Slovak Spectator that this is a standard crossing of which there are 1249 of this type in Slovakia Although from the point of view of the railway network operator’s parameters it is not necessary to increase the safety at the crossing in Polomka the company’s management will now address this issue after the tragedy She added that increasing the safety protection of one crossing by one degree – that is by installing signal lights or gates – costs €265,000 (Sk8 million) To secure all ‘unprotected’ crossings the railways would have to invest €331 million (Sk 9.9 billion) Former Mayor Ďurčenka says that the situation at the railway crossing has been dangerous for a long time Mayor Lihan again asked Transport Minister Ľubomír Vážny “We can just ask and ask again,” Lihan said Vážny reacted by saying that the ministry concurrently evaluated 1,249 unprotected railway crossings when asked by journalists if he would resign Vážny responded that he saw no reason to do so because of the accident “It is really an unbelievably vain gesture to draw political responsibility for such a tragic event,” Vážny told journalists He referred to the fact that his resignation would not return the victims to life “I simply cannot bear responsibility for any accidents on the roads as tragic as they might be,” Vážny added Transport analyst Ján Bazovský told The Slovak Spectator that the driver had no reason to stop at the crossing but that the driver had violated traffic rules if he had started crossing without doing so He added that he thought the driver was probably having trouble with the quality of the pavement at the crossing “Maybe he was busy with the crossing and the bumpiness of the terrain which drew his attention away from checking whether a train was coming,” Bazovský said for The Slovak Spectator the railway is intersected by a specially-built road which is used more frequently during the skiing season “Reducing the crossing speed of trains operating along this route in winter months could be considered,” Bazovský said he added that experts who deal with railway transport should analyse whether such a lower speed limit makes sense Prime Minister Robert Fico proclaimed a national day of mourning in Slovakia on February 22 At least 12 people were killed and 20 others injured in a collision between a train and a tourist coach in central Slovakia yesterday The train smashed into the coach at full speed at a level crossing near the ski resort of Polomka Bucnik in one of the country's worst accidents in recent years Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico said he would hold an extraordinary meeting with his cabinet later yesterday to proclaim a day of national mourning all from the town of Banovce-nad-Bebravou in western Slovakia Pop megastar Michael Jackson is in talks with concert organisers for a comeback series of up to 30 live shows in London later this year a source close to the negotiations told AFP yesterday confirmed British media reports that the 50-year-old 'King of Pop' could be set to play his first major concerts since his 2005 acquittal on child molestation charges London's O2 arena is reportedly competing with resort hotels in Las Vegas in the US for the right to host the shows which could net the fallen icon up to €167 million Marriage officials in Saudi Arabia have refused to marry three 13-year-old girls amid an outcry by rights activists over child marriages Last week marriage officials told the parents of three girls that they were too young citing a recent instruction by the head of the Dammam regional courts When the father of one then sought permission from Raqib A South Korean housewife yesterday broke a world record in marathon singing after crooning for more than 76 hours without stopping at a Seoul karaoke bar broke the 75-hour Guinness World Record held by Marcus Lapratt of the US on Thursday and sang a total of 1,283 tunes before she gave up at 3.21 p.m yesterday following her family's appeal for her to quit for the sake of her health she was given 30-second breaks between songs and five-minute breaks every hour An Australian writer jailed for in-sulting the Thai royal family flew home to a tearful reunion with his family yesterday after being par-doned by the king and freed from jail Harry Nicolaides touched down in the city of Melbourne yesterday after spending five months in a Bangkok prison on charges of slandering the Thai monarchy Thai officials said 41-year-old Nicolaides was released Friday evening after officials approved a royal pardon - the result of intense lobbying by Canberra "I was informed I had a royal pardon and asked to kneel before a portrait of the king - a royal audience of sorts," Nicolaides told reporters on arrival at Melbourne airport "A few hours before that I was climbing out of a sewerage tank that I fell into in the prison." Most conflicts fought in the second half of the last century were waged in biologically diverse with many negative consequences and a few surprising positive ones A team of international con-servation scientists found that 81 per cent of conflicts fought between 1950 and 2000 in which at least 1,000 people died played out in 'biodiversity hotspots' from the Himalayas in Asia to the coastal forests of east Africa The hotspots contain the entire populations of more than half of all plant species and at least 42 per cent of all vertebrates which was published in Conservation Biology magazine only 11 escaped armed conflict during the 50-year period Conflicts often play out in the hotspots because fighters take advantage of the cover provided by deep forests and high mountains biological and nuclear weapons has increased conflict's impact on the world's fragile zones please register for free or log in to your account Commuter bus service will connect the airport with towns and villages in Trenčín region Apart from Považská Bystrica and Trenčianske Teplice and Piešťany  we are adding route and Bánovce nad Bebravou your bus will take you to the entrance for pedestrians (GATE B) the bus will be waiting for you right in front of the main stage We will soon launch special train ticket sale as well The special festival express train will be dispatched from two biggest cities in cooperation with our eco-friendly partner Železničná spoločnosť Slovensko (Slovak Railway Company) Tickets for all three days (6 rides) will be available for you to purchase via our e-shop Tickets can be purchased in the bus as well (5€ per ride) Pohoda Commuter Full-Festival ticket is valid during all festival days and guarantees that its holder will have a seat reserved in the bus Price list for all routes and timetable are available below By using this website you agree to the use of cookies. 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