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William V. Bowen
William V. Bowen, 72, husband of Medra Bowen, died Tuesday, March 29, 2022. Memorial Service 1 p.m. on Saturday, April 2, visitation prior beginning at 12 p.m. at Tucker, Yocum & Wilson Funeral Home. www.TuckerYocumWilson.com.
William V. Bowen
William V. Bowen, 72, husband of Medra Bowen, died Tuesday, March 29, 2022. Memorial Service 1 p.m. on Saturday, April 2, visitation prior beginning at 12 p.m. at Tucker, Yocum & Wilson Funeral Home. www.TuckerYocumWilson.com.
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Mr. William Louis Bowen, 77, of Pulaski died May 13, 2022, at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville.
Mr. Bowen was born March 8, 1945, in Campbellsville. He was retired from Maremont Gabriel, was a City of Pulaski police officer, Giles County deputy and jack of all trades, from truck driving to logging. He is preceded in death by parents, Leon and Lula Mae Hendrix Bowen; son Billy Wayne Bowen; brother Charles Anthony (Bobo) Bowen; grandson Kelby Bowen; and mother of his children Marie Bowen Hutton.
Visitation will be Saturday, May 21, from 11 a.m.-2 p.m. at Carr & Erwin Funeral Home. Funeral services will begin at 2 p.m. Burial will be in Lynnwood Cemetery.
Memorial donations may be made to the family.
Survivors include daughters, Gail Harmond and husband Jeff of Goodspring, Laquitta Norwood and Jimmy Green, Donna Martin, all of Pulaski, Tammy Hughes and husband Kenneth of Prospect; brother Bobby Bowen and wife Pam of Pulaski; sister Pauline Sturgeon and husband Fred of Decatur, Ala.; 11 grandchildren; 17 great-grandchildren; and best friend and fur baby Toto.
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William V. Bowen
William V. Bowen, 72, husband of Medra Bowen, died Tuesday, March 29, 2022. Memorial Service 1 p.m. on Saturday, April 2, visitation prior beginning at 12 p.m. at Tucker, Yocum & Wilson Funeral Home. www.TuckerYocumWilson.com.
William V. Bowen
William V. Bowen, 72, husband of Medra Bowen, died Tuesday, March 29, 2022. Memorial Service 1 p.m. on Saturday, April 2, visitation prior beginning at 12 p.m. at Tucker, Yocum & Wilson Funeral Home. www.TuckerYocumWilson.com.
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BONNELL BOWEN, 87, of Kenova, W.Va., went to be with his Lord the morning of Thursday, April 7, 2022, at home, following a brief illness of cancer. He was born September 30, 1934, at Jobe, Ky., to the late Earshel and Martha Mills Bowen. He was a member of the Catlettsburg Freewill Baptist Church and the American Legion Post 93. He retired from C.J. Hughes Construction Co., where he worked as a heavy equipment operator; proudly served his nation in the US Army; and attended the Mount Zion Missionary Baptist Church in Prichard, W.Va. Mr. Bowen leaves behind his wife, Lenore “Ellen” Bowen, his children, Marie Tapscott of Katy, Texas, Connie Overstreet, Wanda Staley and Cynthia (Larry) Mayne, all of Huntington, W.Va., Garry Bowen of Cleveland, Tenn., Bernice (Wayne) Brown of Fort Collins, Colo., Teresa Bowen of Kenova, W.Va., and Erma Morton of Charleston, W.Va. In addition to his children, he leaves behind 14 grandchildren and 15 great-grandchildren; one brother, Larry James; two sisters, Janet Gant and Loretha Muncy; along with a host of other relatives and friends. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by his loving wife of 51 years, Ina Mae Bowen; two sisters, Veva Pack and Emma Endicott; and one brother, Donald Bowen. Funeral services will be conducted at 11 a.m. on Monday, April 11, at the Reger Funeral Home and Crematory Ceredo-Kenova Chapel, Ceredo, W.Va., with Pastor Ron Scarberry officiating. Burial will follow in Maple Hill at Docks Creek Cemetery in Kenova, W.Va. Visitation will be from 4 to 6 p.m. on Sunday at the Reger Funeral Home, Ceredo. The family requests expressions of sympathy take the form of donations to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. Condolences may be expressed to the family online at www.regerfh.com.
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William V. Bowen
William V. Bowen, 72, husband of Medra Bowen, died Tuesday, March 29, 2022. Memorial Service 1 p.m. on Saturday, April 2, visitation prior beginning at 12 p.m. at Tucker, Yocum & Wilson Funeral Home. www.TuckerYocumWilson.com.
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William V. Bowen, 72, husband of Medra Bowen, died Tuesday, March 29, 2022. Memorial Service 1 p.m. on Saturday, April 2, visitation prior beginning at 12 p.m. at Tucker, Yocum & Wilson Funeral Home. www.TuckerYocumWilson.com.
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BEAVER DAM — William “Perry” Bowen, 49, of Beaver Dam died Saturday, July 30, 2022, at his home. Perry worked in construction and was a member of Rockport Baptist Church.
Survivors: son, William Gunner Bowen Brinkerhoff; daughter, Gracie Christine Bowen; and mother, Pamela Graves Bowen.
Service: 2 p.m. Thursday, August 4, 2022, at William L. Danks Funeral Home in Beaver Dam. Visitation: 10 a.m. until the time of the service Thursday at the funeral home.
Expressions of sympathy: Perry Bowen Memorial Fund, c/o William L. Danks Funeral Home, P.O. Box 407, Beaver Dam, KY 42320.
Online condolences may be left for the family of William “Perry” Bowen by visiting his memorial tribute at www.danksfuneralhome.com.
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Biggest jump in domestic energy bills in living memory comes into effect
The biggest jump in domestic energy bills in living memory has come into effect as charities warn that 2.5 million more households are set to fall into “fuel stress” and supplier websites remained unresponsive to customers.
As a 54% increase to Ofgem’s price cap hit bills, the Resolution Foundation think tank said the number of English households in fuel stress – those spending at least 10% of their total budgets on energy bills – was set to double overnight from 2.5 to five million.
Resolution Foundation senior economist Jonathan Marshall said: “Today’s energy price cap rise will see the number of households experiencing fuel stress double to five million.
“Another increase in energy bills this autumn hastens the need for more immediate support, as well as a clear, long-term strategy for improving home insulation, ramping up renewable and nuclear electricity generation, and reforming energy markets so that families’ energy bills are less dependent on global gas prices.”
Citizens Advice said around five million people would be unable to pay their energy bills from April, even accounting for the support the Government has already announced.
It warned this number would almost triple to one in four people in the UK – more than 14 million – if the price cap rises again in October based on current predictions.
Concern about the pressures households are facing came as energy firms continued to struggle to allow customers to submit up-to-date meter readings to avoid paying the higher tariff on energy used before April 1.
Customers reported issues logging in to supplier websites including British Gas, EDF, E.On, SSE, So Energy and Octopus Energy from early on Thursday.
Energy UK, the trade body for the industry, urged people not to worry if they were unable to submit a meter reading ahead of Friday.
It said: “Most suppliers are offering alternative options such as submitting at a later date, and different methods to send meter readings such as text, social media and email.
“This demonstrates the scale of the problem and how worried people are about high prices, which is why we have been asking Government to intervene to provide further support to consumers.”
Citizens Advice chief executive Dame Clare Moriarty said: “The energy price cap rise will be potentially ruinous for millions of people across the country.
“The support announced so far from the Government simply isn’t enough for those who’ll be hit hardest. With the long-anticipated price rises now hitting, many more people will face the kind of heart-rending choices that our frontline advisers already see all too often.”
The energy price cap for those on default tariffs who pay by direct debit is rising by £693 from £1,277 to £1,971 from April 1.
Prepayment customers will see a bigger jump, with their price cap going up by £708, from £1,309 to £2,017.
The regulator was forced to hike the energy price cap to a record £1,971 for a typical household as gas prices soared to unprecedented highs.
Fuel poverty charity National Energy Action (NEA) warned the cost of heating an average home has now doubled in 18 months, leaving 6.5 million households unable to live in a warm, safe home across the UK.
An Ofgem spokeswoman said: “We know this rise will be extremely worrying for many people.
“The energy market has faced a huge challenge due to the unprecedented increase in global gas prices, a once in a 30-year event, and Ofgem’s role as energy regulator is to ensure that, under the price cap, energy companies can only charge a fair price based on the true cost of supplying electricity and gas.
“Ofgem is working to stabilise the market and over the longer term to diversify our sources of energy, which will help protect customers from similar price shocks in the future.”
Chancellor Rishi Sunak has previously pledged to “take the sting out” of the price rises, promising all 28 million households in Britain would get a £200 upfront rebate on their energy bills from October.
The Government will provide the cash for this, but it wants the money back so will hike bills by £40 per year over the next five years from 2023 to recoup it.
Goldman Sachs has already warned that prices in the gas market are likely to remain at twice their usual levels until 2025.
Higher energy prices are not the only way households are set to feel the pinch, with tax rises and reductions in state pandemic support increasing costs for businesses and, ultimately, leading to higher prices for customers.
The cost of buying a pub meal, soft drink or hotel stay could become more expensive from this month as VAT levels across the hospitality sector lift back to 20%, while the National Insurance tax rise will come into force on April 6.
Fuel prices have also reached record highs in recent weeks amid a rise in oil prices following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Mr Sunak cut fuel duty by 5p in his spring statement last week, but retailers have been accused of failing to fully pass on the saving.
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Energy regulators Ofgem this morning announced yet another worrying price hike.
From October, the cap on energy bills will rise by 80% up from the current figure of £1,971 to £3,549 per year - nearly 10% of the average UK worker's salary.
This is if you are paying by direct debit on a default tariff.
For those paying by prepayment meter the jump is to an even bigger figure, from £2,017 to £3,608.
This will particularly hit vulnerable households or those already struggling to pay their energy.
Are you worried about rising energy prices? Let us know: webnews@reachplc.com
Standard credit customers - so where you pay once you've received your bill - will see their price cap rise from £2,100 to a staggering £3,764, working out as the most expensive way of paying.
Direct debit is the cheapest way of paying your bills - this is because suppliers provide a discount for people paying this way as it works out as lower costs and administration for them to sort.
It is also advised that you submit meter readings the day before the new energy price cap comes into effect in October.
This is so you can lower your chance of being overcharged on the higher rates, for the days before they come into place.
You can find out more on how to do this here.
Martin has called the latest cap on bills as "staggering" and a "catastrophe", warning "lives will be lost" if the incoming Prime Minister does not urgently take action next month.
Lost for words this morning, he told BBC presenters he had "no answer" for what more households could do.
“If you are really struggling, it is very difficult for you to be disconnected these days if you can’t pay,” he told Breakfast presenter Charlie Stayt.
“They might move you, if you’re not already on to a prepayment metre – and there is some emergency help on prepayment meters.
“Some people are going to have massive help problems because they don’t have heating in their home. There are people voluntarily disconnecting.
“I said - I think six months ago, maybe a little less - that I was out of tools to help the most vulnerable with energy, and Government help is needed.”
Why are bills going up?
At least half your energy bill covers wholesale costs – this is the actual cost of gas, oil or whatever is used to power our homes.
As countries have emerged from Covid lockdowns and the worst of the crisis over recent months, prices everywhere have shot up as demand for energy soared.
But these surged astronomically following Putin's invasion of Ukraine, as much of our oil comes from Russia.
Fears over whether Russia will turn off the taps have sent gas prices through the roof.
You can see more answers to questions about rising energy bills here.
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Biggest jump in domestic energy bills in living memory comes into effect
The biggest jump in domestic energy bills in living memory has come into effect as charities warn that 2.5 million more households are set to fall into “fuel stress” and supplier websites remained unresponsive to customers.
As a 54% increase to Ofgem’s price cap hit bills, the Resolution Foundation think tank said the number of English households in fuel stress – those spending at least 10% of their total budgets on energy bills – was set to double overnight from 2.5 to five million.
Resolution Foundation senior economist Jonathan Marshall said: “Today’s energy price cap rise will see the number of households experiencing fuel stress double to five million.
“Another increase in energy bills this autumn hastens the need for more immediate support, as well as a clear, long-term strategy for improving home insulation, ramping up renewable and nuclear electricity generation, and reforming energy markets so that families’ energy bills are less dependent on global gas prices.”
Citizens Advice said around five million people would be unable to pay their energy bills from April, even accounting for the support the Government has already announced.
It warned this number would almost triple to one in four people in the UK – more than 14 million – if the price cap rises again in October based on current predictions.
Concern about the pressures households are facing came as energy firms continued to struggle to allow customers to submit up-to-date meter readings to avoid paying the higher tariff on energy used before April 1.
Customers reported issues logging in to supplier websites including British Gas, EDF, E.On, SSE, So Energy and Octopus Energy from early on Thursday.
Energy UK, the trade body for the industry, urged people not to worry if they were unable to submit a meter reading ahead of Friday.
It said: “Most suppliers are offering alternative options such as submitting at a later date, and different methods to send meter readings such as text, social media and email.
“This demonstrates the scale of the problem and how worried people are about high prices, which is why we have been asking Government to intervene to provide further support to consumers.”
Citizens Advice chief executive Dame Clare Moriarty said: “The energy price cap rise will be potentially ruinous for millions of people across the country.
“The support announced so far from the Government simply isn’t enough for those who’ll be hit hardest. With the long-anticipated price rises now hitting, many more people will face the kind of heart-rending choices that our frontline advisers already see all too often.”
The energy price cap for those on default tariffs who pay by direct debit is rising by £693 from £1,277 to £1,971 from April 1.
Prepayment customers will see a bigger jump, with their price cap going up by £708, from £1,309 to £2,017.
The regulator was forced to hike the energy price cap to a record £1,971 for a typical household as gas prices soared to unprecedented highs.
Fuel poverty charity National Energy Action (NEA) warned the cost of heating an average home has now doubled in 18 months, leaving 6.5 million households unable to live in a warm, safe home across the UK.
An Ofgem spokeswoman said: “We know this rise will be extremely worrying for many people.
“The energy market has faced a huge challenge due to the unprecedented increase in global gas prices, a once in a 30-year event, and Ofgem’s role as energy regulator is to ensure that, under the price cap, energy companies can only charge a fair price based on the true cost of supplying electricity and gas.
“Ofgem is working to stabilise the market and over the longer term to diversify our sources of energy, which will help protect customers from similar price shocks in the future.”
Chancellor Rishi Sunak has previously pledged to “take the sting out” of the price rises, promising all 28 million households in Britain would get a £200 upfront rebate on their energy bills from October.
The Government will provide the cash for this, but it wants the money back so will hike bills by £40 per year over the next five years from 2023 to recoup it.
Goldman Sachs has already warned that prices in the gas market are likely to remain at twice their usual levels until 2025.
Higher energy prices are not the only way households are set to feel the pinch, with tax rises and reductions in state pandemic support increasing costs for businesses and, ultimately, leading to higher prices for customers.
The cost of buying a pub meal, soft drink or hotel stay could become more expensive from this month as VAT levels across the hospitality sector lift back to 20%, while the National Insurance tax rise will come into force on April 6.
Fuel prices have also reached record highs in recent weeks amid a rise in oil prices following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Mr Sunak cut fuel duty by 5p in his spring statement last week, but retailers have been accused of failing to fully pass on the saving.
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Britons are paying 54% more for their energy starting now
By Anna Cooban, CNN Business
Britons were hit Friday by a huge rise in energy bills, compounding the country’s worst cost-of-living crisis in decades.
About 22 million households will see their annual bills soar to about £2,000 ($2,626) after the UK’s energy regulator lifted its price cap by 54% — the biggest jump since it began limiting price increases in 2017. The cap sets a limit on the maximum price suppliers can charge per unit of energy.
The increase will double the number of English households living in “fuel stress” — defined as those spending at least 10% of their total budgets on energy bills — to 5 million, according to the Resolution Foundation.
“This is the biggest energy price shock in living memory,” Adam Scorer, chief executive of National Energy Action, a fuel poverty charity, said in a statement on Thursday.
“Millions of people will be priced out of adequate levels of heating and power. For all the anticipation of these price rises, many people on the lowest incomes will be crushed by the reality.”
Britons’ bills had already risen by 12% last October, the last time the price cap was adjusted, after a global natural gas supply crunch pushed wholesale prices up to record levels.
The government has tried to ease the pain by cutting local taxes and fuel duties as well as by allowing many consumers to spread the cost of their bills over the next few years.
But further rises could be on the way in October. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February is making the situation worse, pushing energy prices up further, the Bank of England said last month. Estimates vary as to the scale of the next shock, but investment bank Investec expects annual bills for power and gas could rise to as much as £3,000 ($3,941).
The Resolution Foundation, a think tank that focuses on living standards, estimates that the numbers of English households in fuel stress could hit 7.5 million — almost a third of all families — after October if annual bills rise to £2,500 ($3,282) in the autumn.
“Another increase in energy bills this autumn hastens the need for more immediate support,” Jonathan Marshall, senior economist at the Resolution Foundation, said Friday in a press statement.
Marshall said soaring prices called for a reform of “energy markets so that families’ energy bills are less dependent on global gas prices.”
The opposition Labour Party has repeated its call for a windfall tax on the huge profits being made by oil companies such as BP and Shell thanks to the gains in global crude prices.
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Biggest jump in domestic energy bills in living memory comes into effect
The biggest jump in domestic energy bills in living memory has come into effect as charities warn that 2.5 million more households are set to fall into “fuel stress” and supplier websites remained unresponsive to customers.
As a 54% increase to Ofgem’s price cap hit bills, the Resolution Foundation think tank said the number of English households in fuel stress – those spending at least 10% of their total budgets on energy bills – was set to double overnight from 2.5 to five million.
Resolution Foundation senior economist Jonathan Marshall said: “Today’s energy price cap rise will see the number of households experiencing fuel stress double to five million.
“Another increase in energy bills this autumn hastens the need for more immediate support, as well as a clear, long-term strategy for improving home insulation, ramping up renewable and nuclear electricity generation, and reforming energy markets so that families’ energy bills are less dependent on global gas prices.”
Citizens Advice said around five million people would be unable to pay their energy bills from April, even accounting for the support the Government has already announced.
It warned this number would almost triple to one in four people in the UK – more than 14 million – if the price cap rises again in October based on current predictions.
Concern about the pressures households are facing came as energy firms continued to struggle to allow customers to submit up-to-date meter readings to avoid paying the higher tariff on energy used before April 1.
Customers reported issues logging in to supplier websites including British Gas, EDF, E.On, SSE, So Energy and Octopus Energy from early on Thursday.
Energy UK, the trade body for the industry, urged people not to worry if they were unable to submit a meter reading ahead of Friday.
It said: “Most suppliers are offering alternative options such as submitting at a later date, and different methods to send meter readings such as text, social media and email.
“This demonstrates the scale of the problem and how worried people are about high prices, which is why we have been asking Government to intervene to provide further support to consumers.”
Citizens Advice chief executive Dame Clare Moriarty said: “The energy price cap rise will be potentially ruinous for millions of people across the country.
“The support announced so far from the Government simply isn’t enough for those who’ll be hit hardest. With the long-anticipated price rises now hitting, many more people will face the kind of heart-rending choices that our frontline advisers already see all too often.”
The energy price cap for those on default tariffs who pay by direct debit is rising by £693 from £1,277 to £1,971 from April 1.
Prepayment customers will see a bigger jump, with their price cap going up by £708, from £1,309 to £2,017.
The regulator was forced to hike the energy price cap to a record £1,971 for a typical household as gas prices soared to unprecedented highs.
Fuel poverty charity National Energy Action (NEA) warned the cost of heating an average home has now doubled in 18 months, leaving 6.5 million households unable to live in a warm, safe home across the UK.
An Ofgem spokeswoman said: “We know this rise will be extremely worrying for many people.
“The energy market has faced a huge challenge due to the unprecedented increase in global gas prices, a once in a 30-year event, and Ofgem’s role as energy regulator is to ensure that, under the price cap, energy companies can only charge a fair price based on the true cost of supplying electricity and gas.
“Ofgem is working to stabilise the market and over the longer term to diversify our sources of energy, which will help protect customers from similar price shocks in the future.”
Chancellor Rishi Sunak has previously pledged to “take the sting out” of the price rises, promising all 28 million households in Britain would get a £200 upfront rebate on their energy bills from October.
The Government will provide the cash for this, but it wants the money back so will hike bills by £40 per year over the next five years from 2023 to recoup it.
Goldman Sachs has already warned that prices in the gas market are likely to remain at twice their usual levels until 2025.
Higher energy prices are not the only way households are set to feel the pinch, with tax rises and reductions in state pandemic support increasing costs for businesses and, ultimately, leading to higher prices for customers.
The cost of buying a pub meal, soft drink or hotel stay could become more expensive from this month as VAT levels across the hospitality sector lift back to 20%, while the National Insurance tax rise will come into force on April 6.
Fuel prices have also reached record highs in recent weeks amid a rise in oil prices following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Mr Sunak cut fuel duty by 5p in his spring statement last week, but retailers have been accused of failing to fully pass on the saving.
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Britons are paying 54% more for their energy starting now
By Anna Cooban, CNN Business
Britons were hit Friday by a huge rise in energy bills, compounding the country’s worst cost-of-living crisis in decades.
About 22 million households will see their annual bills soar to about £2,000 ($2,626) after the UK’s energy regulator lifted its price cap by 54% — the biggest jump since it began limiting price increases in 2017. The cap sets a limit on the maximum price suppliers can charge per unit of energy.
The increase will double the number of English households living in “fuel stress” — defined as those spending at least 10% of their total budgets on energy bills — to 5 million, according to the Resolution Foundation.
“This is the biggest energy price shock in living memory,” Adam Scorer, chief executive of National Energy Action, a fuel poverty charity, said in a statement on Thursday.
“Millions of people will be priced out of adequate levels of heating and power. For all the anticipation of these price rises, many people on the lowest incomes will be crushed by the reality.”
Britons’ bills had already risen by 12% last October, the last time the price cap was adjusted, after a global natural gas supply crunch pushed wholesale prices up to record levels.
The government has tried to ease the pain by cutting local taxes and fuel duties as well as by allowing many consumers to spread the cost of their bills over the next few years.
But further rises could be on the way in October. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February is making the situation worse, pushing energy prices up further, the Bank of England said last month. Estimates vary as to the scale of the next shock, but investment bank Investec expects annual bills for power and gas could rise to as much as £3,000 ($3,941).
The Resolution Foundation, a think tank that focuses on living standards, estimates that the numbers of English households in fuel stress could hit 7.5 million — almost a third of all families — after October if annual bills rise to £2,500 ($3,282) in the autumn.
“Another increase in energy bills this autumn hastens the need for more immediate support,” Jonathan Marshall, senior economist at the Resolution Foundation, said Friday in a press statement.
Marshall said soaring prices called for a reform of “energy markets so that families’ energy bills are less dependent on global gas prices.”
The opposition Labour Party has repeated its call for a windfall tax on the huge profits being made by oil companies such as BP and Shell thanks to the gains in global crude prices.
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Contemporary artwork to be shown at Balmoral Castle for first time
A piece of contemporary art is being displayed at Balmoral Castle for the first time as part of an exhibition to mark the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee.
The installation, Salmon School, created by artist Joseph Rossano, consists of 250 mirrored glass forms, suspended in the air to look like a school of wild salmon.
The installation aims to highlight the plight of wild salmon and the importance of salmon conversation, as climate change and biodiversity loss threaten their existence in the wild.
It will take centre stage at the Platinum Jubilee exhibition, Life at Balmoral, which will be on show in the castle ballroom between April 1 and August 2 this year.
Mr Rossano said: “The Salmon School is an international collaborative performance project that contextualises the finality of a seemingly infinite resource.
“A synthesis of art and science, the Salmon School fosters environmental awareness, bringing together diverse communities for a greater good — cold, clean water.
“Embracing art’s ability to disarm, to make something beautiful — a sculpture mimicking an ideal, a restored ecosystem — the project achieves measurable change through its actions and initiatives.”
First conceived and shown in the Pacific Northwest in the US, Salmon School was then shown at Cop26, the UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow in November 2021.
Salmon conservation work has been supported by the Queen, the Royal Family and the Balmoral Estate on the River Dee over the last 170 years.
The Balmoral Estate works closely with the River Dee Trust to deliver practical salmon restoration to help protect the endangered fish.
Most recently, across Deeside, the River Dee Trust and Dee District Salmon Fishery Board have introduced a One Million Trees campaign to plant riverbank trees, to help restore the Dee and save its salmon.
Trees are said to have multiple benefits in helping wild salmon to thrive, including providing shade over the water, nourishment through leaves and insects, and helping to stabilise the riverbanks to prevent erosion.
In the last five years, the Balmoral Estate has planted 300,000 trees along the River Dee.
The work to protect wild salmon also includes using windblown trees to create large wooden structures in the rivers on the estate, to offer a variety of salmon habitats, which in turn give shelter from bad weather and trap nutrients.
Small wooden dams have also been created in the estate’s smaller streams to help river flows in times of flood and drought.
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Salmon swim above the rocky bottom of a stream in new mural is coming together in Kanaka Creek Regional Park.
The mural adorns a wall, opposite the 240 Street fish fence in Maple Ridge.
Started in July, 2020, Todd Polich, founder of the Earth Foundation Conservation Society, was contracted to create large-scale public art piece to promote environmental conservation. He was chosen by a selection panel that included a Kwantlen elder, a youth representative, and representatives from partner agencies.
Polich consulted with Salish artist Carman McKay and also worked with students on elements of the mural.
Metro Vancouver and KEEPS conducted field trips with the participating classes to educate them about the importance of the salmon rainforest at Kanaka Creek Regional Park and Polich gave students art lessons to prepare them for mural painting. Polich also delivered free community webinars to help local artists learn the business of art.
The result was a 760 square foot mural painted with eco-friendly, water-based paint, painted on the concrete retaining wall west of the 240 Street overpass, under the overpass and on the bridge pillars.
“This beautification project is meant to illustrate the ecological diversity of Kanaka Creek and the surrounding park through interpretive art murals while connecting with the local community,” explained John McEwen, chair of Metro Vancouver’s Regional Parks Committee.
“Our hope that this project will educate park visitors about the salmon food web,” he said.
READ ALSO: Ridge Meadows Foundry unveils mural created by Katzie artist and youth collaborators
ALSO: Summerland reconciliation mural vandalized
There was a project team, an artist team, and four local school classes took part in creating the mural.
The project was the result of a collaboration between a number of agencies including: the Pacific Parklands Foundation, a registered charity dedicated to the conservation and enhancement of Metro Vancouver’s regional parks; the City of Maple Ridge; Kwantlen First Nation; Kanaka Education and Environmental Partnership Society, KEEPS; Pacific Salmon Foundation; and Fisheries and Oceans Canada.
A budget of $27,000 was available for the mural – with $12,000 coming from the Pacific Parklands Foundation, $10,000 from the City of Maple Ridge, and $5,000 from Metro Vancouver.
Work is still underway on a 3-D sculptural element.
The project is expected to be complete by July.
A celebratory community event is being planned from 10-12 p.m. on July 22 .
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Contemporary artwork to be shown at Balmoral Castle for first time
A piece of contemporary art is being displayed at Balmoral Castle for the first time as part of an exhibition to mark the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee.
The installation, Salmon School, created by artist Joseph Rossano, consists of 250 mirrored glass forms, suspended in the air to look like a school of wild salmon.
The installation aims to highlight the plight of wild salmon and the importance of salmon conversation, as climate change and biodiversity loss threaten their existence in the wild.
It will take centre stage at the Platinum Jubilee exhibition, Life at Balmoral, which will be on show in the castle ballroom between April 1 and August 2 this year.
Mr Rossano said: “The Salmon School is an international collaborative performance project that contextualises the finality of a seemingly infinite resource.
“A synthesis of art and science, the Salmon School fosters environmental awareness, bringing together diverse communities for a greater good — cold, clean water.
“Embracing art’s ability to disarm, to make something beautiful — a sculpture mimicking an ideal, a restored ecosystem — the project achieves measurable change through its actions and initiatives.”
First conceived and shown in the Pacific Northwest in the US, Salmon School was then shown at Cop26, the UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow in November 2021.
Salmon conservation work has been supported by the Queen, the Royal Family and the Balmoral Estate on the River Dee over the last 170 years.
The Balmoral Estate works closely with the River Dee Trust to deliver practical salmon restoration to help protect the endangered fish.
Most recently, across Deeside, the River Dee Trust and Dee District Salmon Fishery Board have introduced a One Million Trees campaign to plant riverbank trees, to help restore the Dee and save its salmon.
Trees are said to have multiple benefits in helping wild salmon to thrive, including providing shade over the water, nourishment through leaves and insects, and helping to stabilise the riverbanks to prevent erosion.
In the last five years, the Balmoral Estate has planted 300,000 trees along the River Dee.
The work to protect wild salmon also includes using windblown trees to create large wooden structures in the rivers on the estate, to offer a variety of salmon habitats, which in turn give shelter from bad weather and trap nutrients.
Small wooden dams have also been created in the estate’s smaller streams to help river flows in times of flood and drought.
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The role salmon play in Indigenous culture is the focus of the upcoming exhibit at the Salmon Arm Art Gallery.
Beginning Saturday, Aug. 27, the gallery presents Sqlélten, an exhibition exploring the role of salmon in Indigenous culture, story and food systems.
In this peak year of the Adams River Sockeye Salmon Run, the art gallery wishes to focus on the land-based knowledge of the Secwépemc people, and is grateful for the generous participation of co-curator Tania Willard to bring together a diverse selection of contemporary and traditional works by Indigenous artists, reads a media release from the Salmon Arm Arts Centre & Art Gallery.
Willard brings an extensive knowledge to this topic. She leads an Indigenous Arts Intensive at UBC Okanagan each year, and has brought the work of Csetkwe Fortier into this visual dialogue, explained gallery director/curator Tracey Kutschker.
Sqlélten, which runs until Oct. 8, will also feature works by Aaron Leon, Isha Jules, Hop You Haskett, Kenthen Thomas, Gerry Thomas, Louis Thomas and the students of Chief Atahm School, weaving a 15,000 year history with contemporary art-making and storytelling.
The opening day celebration on the 27th starts with a traditional welcome at 11:30 a.m., with Neskonlith Councillor and Knowledge Keeper Louis Thomas.
Willard and exhibiting artists will be speaking at the the Coffee Break and Artist Talk at 2 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 15, during which locally roasted organic coffee and fresh baked cookies will be available.
Art gallery hours are Tuesday to Saturday, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., with admission by donation.
Read more: ‘Got a fish!’: Favourite sound at Indigenous-led program for Salmon Arm school
Read more: PHOTOS: Pulling Together Canoe Journey gives paddlers Adams Lake welcome
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Contemporary artwork to be shown at Balmoral Castle for first time
A piece of contemporary art is being displayed at Balmoral Castle for the first time as part of an exhibition to mark the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee.
The installation, Salmon School, created by artist Joseph Rossano, consists of 250 mirrored glass forms, suspended in the air to look like a school of wild salmon.
The installation aims to highlight the plight of wild salmon and the importance of salmon conversation, as climate change and biodiversity loss threaten their existence in the wild.
It will take centre stage at the Platinum Jubilee exhibition, Life at Balmoral, which will be on show in the castle ballroom between April 1 and August 2 this year.
Mr Rossano said: “The Salmon School is an international collaborative performance project that contextualises the finality of a seemingly infinite resource.
“A synthesis of art and science, the Salmon School fosters environmental awareness, bringing together diverse communities for a greater good — cold, clean water.
“Embracing art’s ability to disarm, to make something beautiful — a sculpture mimicking an ideal, a restored ecosystem — the project achieves measurable change through its actions and initiatives.”
First conceived and shown in the Pacific Northwest in the US, Salmon School was then shown at Cop26, the UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow in November 2021.
Salmon conservation work has been supported by the Queen, the Royal Family and the Balmoral Estate on the River Dee over the last 170 years.
The Balmoral Estate works closely with the River Dee Trust to deliver practical salmon restoration to help protect the endangered fish.
Most recently, across Deeside, the River Dee Trust and Dee District Salmon Fishery Board have introduced a One Million Trees campaign to plant riverbank trees, to help restore the Dee and save its salmon.
Trees are said to have multiple benefits in helping wild salmon to thrive, including providing shade over the water, nourishment through leaves and insects, and helping to stabilise the riverbanks to prevent erosion.
In the last five years, the Balmoral Estate has planted 300,000 trees along the River Dee.
The work to protect wild salmon also includes using windblown trees to create large wooden structures in the rivers on the estate, to offer a variety of salmon habitats, which in turn give shelter from bad weather and trap nutrients.
Small wooden dams have also been created in the estate’s smaller streams to help river flows in times of flood and drought.
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The National Fish Hatchery has a newly completed mural at the Cook, Wash., Little White Fish Hatchery visitor center, 56961 State Road 14, thanks to local artist Janet Essley.
The mural displays all predators to the salmon lifecycle along two walls and down the stairs leading visitors to the salmon viewing window, where the big fish swim by.
Essley, who lives in White Salmon, said it was important to her that the mural be realistic, with all elements as proportioned as possible in the available space. She used a grid, both on a small canvas and the walls, to be sure all details were correct.
“The site was definitely a challenge — to physically reach all the corners, both top and bottom, and because the changing perspective of a viewer moving down or up the stairwell created such interesting design options,” she said. “Fishery employees were very helpful in answering questions about the fish that affected color and position in the mural. What was most fun was taking breaks and going outside to warm up and to look at the beautiful surroundings, and inside watching the salmon swim past the window was fascinating.”
She spent 120 hours creating models for each mural, measuring approximately 11 feet, 8 inches by 15 feet, 8 inches — a project she worked on last winter. She began with a list of basic items to include, provided by Cheri Anderson, information and education specialist for the Columbia River Gorge National Fish Hatchery complex.
Essley is also the artist behind the Spring Creek mural, another hatchery in the Columbia Gorge complex.
Anderson said when the idea for a second mural came up, it took months to decide how to get it done. Classrooms where one idea, but COVID caused disruptions. She remembers thinking, “If only I could get a hold of Janet Essley.”
And then one day, many years after their first introduction, Essley was visiting her mural work at Spring Creek with some friends when the two were reunited.
“Creating public murals has always been interesting for me because the topics are so varied — researching the information necessary to know for different murals has been lifelong learning in many subjects,” Essley said. “Even though I had learned much about the salmon life cycle and the history of hatcheries along the Columbia while doing the Spring Creek mural in 2001, I needed to know more about salmon, sturgeon, lampreys, and aquatic invertebrates for this one.”
Anderson's wish list “presented fascinating artistic challenges,” she said: “How to present tiny, barely visible salmon eggs and invertebrate larvae underwater along with huge above-water structures such as barges, hydroelectric dams, and Mount Adams in the same, apparently rational space, and how to fit animals of diverse sizes within a limited space when in nature, they would be much more widely dispersed.
“Traditional means of showing space on a two-dimensional surface were complicated because many viewers would not have a good understanding of the relative sizes of the birds and animals shown,” Essley continued. “Most important in the design was that the optimal viewing space of the painting would be constantly changing as one walked up and down the stairwell, and different for adults and children.”
Anderson, who has 24 years’ experience and works out of the Spring Creek hatchery location, said she expects the new mural at Little White Fish Hatchery to be a talking piece for visitors, much like Essley’s Spring Creek mural.
“(Essley’s) got the lifecycle in there,” said Anderson. “She’s got salmon predators — everything that’s in both of those murals is completely accurate. Like there’s not a bird in there that does not have some interaction with salmon, whether it’s eating them or not, so I just think it’s going be an opportunity to talk about the bigger picture, the bigger story.”
She added, “This will be helpful for tours as well, giving a visual aid. And visitors are always commenting on the mural at Spring Creek hatchery on the history of Salmon fishing and asking who the artist is. This new mural should be very popular as well.
“(Essley’s) got a great use of color,” Anderson said. “Both of our murals are realistic, you know, so I feel like she captures that integrity.”
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Coming up in the Aug. 10 issue of Columbia Gorge News: The long history of fish hatcheries in the Columbia River Gorge, the educational opportunities they provide, and their collaboration with Native peoples.
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Hundreds of adults and children test artificial pancreas on the NHS
Hundreds of adults and children with Type 1 diabetes are testing an “artificial pancreas” that could, in future, be rolled out across the NHS.
The device uses an algorithm to determine the amount of insulin that should be administered and also reads blood sugar levels to keep them steady.
The technology is much more effective at managing blood sugar levels than current devices and requires far less input than at present.
Managing Type 1 diabetes can be challenging, especially in young children, owing to variations in the levels of insulin required and unpredictability around how much youngsters eat and exercise.
Children are particularly at risk of dangerously low blood sugar levels (hypoglycaemia) and high blood sugar levels (hyperglycaemia), which can damage the body or even lead to death.
The new artificial pancreas, which is being manufactured by several firms, uses a “hybrid closed loop system” to continually monitor blood glucose and automatically adjust insulin through a pump.
A nurse gives a patient a diabetes test at the Royal Liverpool University Hospital, Liverpool. A new artificial pancreas could limit the need for blood sugar tests (PA)
It is being tested in more than 30 NHS diabetes centres across England, with 875 people benefiting for a year so far. This is the first nationwide study of its kind in the world.
The technology can eliminate finger-prick tests to check blood sugar levels and can hugely prevent hypoglycaemic and hyperglycaemia attacks.
The NHS in England spends around £10 billion a year on diabetes – around 10% of its entire budget.
Professor Partha Kar, NHS national speciality adviser for diabetes, said: “Having machines monitor and deliver medication for diabetes patients sounds quite sci-fi like, but when you think of it, technology and machines are part and parcel of how we live our lives every day.
“A device picks up your glucose levels, sends the reading across to the delivery system – aka the pump – and then the system kicks in to assess how much insulin is needed.
“It is not very far away from the holy grail of a fully automated system, where people with Type 1 diabetes can get on with their lives without worrying about glucose levels or medication.”
Estimations show that only a third of children with Type 1 diabetes are able to achieve good control of their blood glucose level, which is needed to prevent complications.
Figures also show that a five-year-old child diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes faces up to 23,000 insulin injections and 52,000 finger-prick blood tests by the time they are 18.
Six-year-old Charlotte Abbott-Pierce was diagnosed just over a year ago with typical symptoms of increased thirst and the need to urinate.
Charlotte was initially started on insulin injections then progressed to an insulin pump and a continuous glucose monitor. Now, as part of the pilot, these systems work together.
Charlotte’s mum, Ange Abbott-Pierce, said: “Before the hybrid closed loop system was fitted, my husband and I would be up every two hours every night having to check Charlotte’s blood sugars and most times giving insulin, sometimes doing finger pricks or dealing with ketones due to quick rises in blood sugar.
“This was really hard as we both work full-time.”
She said the new system was a “godsend to us as we were at our wits’ end with worry, not being able to catch the highs before they got dangerous”.
The NHS’s pilot has been designed to include a representative mix of adults and children living with Type 1 diabetes from all backgrounds, to ensure the device’s effectiveness can be tracked.
Chris Askew, chief executive of Diabetes UK, said: “This technology has the potential to transform the lives of people with Type 1 diabetes, improving both their quality of life and clinical outcomes.
“The trial will generate real-world data which will hopefully support the case for more people having access to this life-changing tech in the future.”
The data collected from the pilot, along with other evidence, will be considered by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence when it looks at wider NHS rollout.
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Hundreds fitted with artificial pancreas in NHS type 1 diabetes trial
Hundreds of adults and children with type 1 diabetes in England have been fitted with an artificial pancreas that experts say could become the “holy grail” for managing the disease, in a world-first trial on the NHS.
The groundbreaking device uses an algorithm to determine the amount of insulin that should be administered and reads blood sugar levels to keep them steady. The NHS trial has so far found the technology more effective at managing diabetes than current devices and that it requires far less input from patients.
Managing type 1 diabetes can be challenging, especially in young children, owing to variations in the levels of insulin required and unpredictability around how much patients eat and exercise. Children are particularly at risk of dangerously low blood sugar levels (hypoglycaemia) and high ones (hyperglycaemia), which can damage the body or even lead to death.
Now a new artificial pancreas worn next to the body – which continually monitors blood glucose levels and automatically adjusts insulin delivered via a pump – is being tested in 30 NHS diabetes centres. About 875 people have benefited so far in the first nationwide study of its kind in the world.
The technology can eliminate finger-prick tests to check blood sugar levels and prevent hypoglycaemic and hyperglycaemia attacks. Although most of the NHS’s estimated £10bn annual spending on diabetes treatment goes on type 2 diabetes, it is also hoped the devices will help cut costs by ensuring less need for interventions for type 1 cases.
“Having machines monitor and deliver medication for diabetes patients sounds quite sci-fi-like, but when you think of it, technology and machines are part and parcel of how we live our lives every day,” said Prof Partha Kar, the NHS national speciality adviser for diabetes.
“A device picks up your glucose levels, sends the reading across to the delivery system – AKA the pump – and then the system kicks in to assess how much insulin is needed. It is not very far away from the holy grail of a fully automated system, where people with type 1 diabetes can get on with their lives without worrying about glucose levels or medication.”
Charlotte Abbott-Pierce, six, was diagnosed just over a year ago and initially started on insulin injections but has now become one of the first people to benefit from an artificial pancreas.
She has been fitted with an insulin pump and a continuous glucose monitor that, as part of the world first pilot, now work together.
Her mother, Ange Abbott-Pierce, said: “Before the hybrid closed loop system was fitted, my husband and I would be up every two hours every night having to check Charlotte’s blood sugars and most times giving insulin, sometimes doing finger pricks or dealing with ketones due to quick rises in blood sugar.” She said the new system was a “godsend to us as we were at our wits’ end with worry, not being able to catch the highs before they got dangerous”.
Chris Askew, chief executive of Diabetes UK, said: “This technology has the potential to transform the lives of people with type 1 diabetes, improving both their quality of life and clinical outcomes.”
The data collected from the pilot, along with other evidence, will be considered by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence when it looks at rolling the device out more widely.
Separately, new research on Friday reveals that even slim people can get remission from type 2 diabetes by managing their calorie intake.
A trial led by Prof Roy Taylor of Newcastle University found 70% of participants with a low body mass index (BMI) went into type 2 remission thanks to diet-controlled weight loss, despite not being obese or overweight. Obesity raises the risk of type 2 diabetes, but 10% of sufferers have lower BMIs.
His previous landmark research gave hope to millions of type 2 diabetics who were overweight by showing it was possible to go into remission through careful weight loss. It showed that shedding fat from inside the pancreas and liver – the two key organs involved in blood sugar control – was key to remission from type 2 in people living with obesity or being overweight.
Now researchers have found it also works for slimmer diabetics – with a BMI at or just above the healthy range, below 27. Taylor said: “This is very good news for everyone with type 2 diabetes.”
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Hundreds of adults and children test artificial pancreas on the NHS
Hundreds of adults and children with Type 1 diabetes are testing an “artificial pancreas” that could, in future, be rolled out across the NHS.
The device uses an algorithm to determine the amount of insulin that should be administered and also reads blood sugar levels to keep them steady.
The technology is much more effective at managing blood sugar levels than current devices and requires far less input than at present.
Managing Type 1 diabetes can be challenging, especially in young children, owing to variations in the levels of insulin required and unpredictability around how much youngsters eat and exercise.
Children are particularly at risk of dangerously low blood sugar levels (hypoglycaemia) and high blood sugar levels (hyperglycaemia), which can damage the body or even lead to death.
The new artificial pancreas, which is being manufactured by several firms, uses a “hybrid closed loop system” to continually monitor blood glucose and automatically adjust insulin through a pump.
A nurse gives a patient a diabetes test at the Royal Liverpool University Hospital, Liverpool. A new artificial pancreas could limit the need for blood sugar tests (PA)
It is being tested in more than 30 NHS diabetes centres across England, with 875 people benefiting for a year so far. This is the first nationwide study of its kind in the world.
The technology can eliminate finger-prick tests to check blood sugar levels and can hugely prevent hypoglycaemic and hyperglycaemia attacks.
The NHS in England spends around £10 billion a year on diabetes – around 10% of its entire budget.
Professor Partha Kar, NHS national speciality adviser for diabetes, said: “Having machines monitor and deliver medication for diabetes patients sounds quite sci-fi like, but when you think of it, technology and machines are part and parcel of how we live our lives every day.
“A device picks up your glucose levels, sends the reading across to the delivery system – aka the pump – and then the system kicks in to assess how much insulin is needed.
“It is not very far away from the holy grail of a fully automated system, where people with Type 1 diabetes can get on with their lives without worrying about glucose levels or medication.”
Estimations show that only a third of children with Type 1 diabetes are able to achieve good control of their blood glucose level, which is needed to prevent complications.
Figures also show that a five-year-old child diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes faces up to 23,000 insulin injections and 52,000 finger-prick blood tests by the time they are 18.
Six-year-old Charlotte Abbott-Pierce was diagnosed just over a year ago with typical symptoms of increased thirst and the need to urinate.
Charlotte was initially started on insulin injections then progressed to an insulin pump and a continuous glucose monitor. Now, as part of the pilot, these systems work together.
Charlotte’s mum, Ange Abbott-Pierce, said: “Before the hybrid closed loop system was fitted, my husband and I would be up every two hours every night having to check Charlotte’s blood sugars and most times giving insulin, sometimes doing finger pricks or dealing with ketones due to quick rises in blood sugar.
“This was really hard as we both work full-time.”
She said the new system was a “godsend to us as we were at our wits’ end with worry, not being able to catch the highs before they got dangerous”.
The NHS’s pilot has been designed to include a representative mix of adults and children living with Type 1 diabetes from all backgrounds, to ensure the device’s effectiveness can be tracked.
Chris Askew, chief executive of Diabetes UK, said: “This technology has the potential to transform the lives of people with Type 1 diabetes, improving both their quality of life and clinical outcomes.
“The trial will generate real-world data which will hopefully support the case for more people having access to this life-changing tech in the future.”
The data collected from the pilot, along with other evidence, will be considered by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence when it looks at wider NHS rollout.
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NHS runs world-first test into ‘sci-fi like’ artificial pancreases
Almost 1,000 adults and children with type 1 diabetes have been given a potentially life-altering ‘artificial pancreas’ by the NHS in England as part of the first nationwide test into the effectiveness of this technology in the world.
One century after the first diabetes patient was given insulin, around 35 NHS diabetes centres across the country are piloting the revolutionary hybrid closed loop system – also known as an ‘artificial pancreas’ – with 875 people benefiting for a year so far.
The innovative ‘hybrid closed loop technology’, continually monitors blood glucose and automatically adjusts the amount of insulin given through a pump.
It can eliminate finger prick tests and prevent life-threatening hypoglycaemic and hyperglycaemia attacks, which can lead to seizures, coma or even death for people living with type 1 diabetes.
NHS experts want to discover whether the tech can help people with diabetes, of all ages, to safely and effectively control their condition, in a real-world setting, in the first nationwide test of its kind in the world.
The NHS has already exceeded some of the goals in the Long Term Plan for delivering better diabetes care, such as ensuring that one fifth of people with type 1 diabetes had access to a flash monitor device, so they can check their glucose levels more easily and regularly.
NHS data shows that three in five people living with type 1 diabetes – around 175,000 – have been given a glucose monitoring device to help control their condition, through the NHS. Just yesterday, new guidance was announced that will see everyone living with type 1 diabetes eligible for a lifechanging flash glucose monitor on the NHS.
The NHS in England currently spends around £10 billion a year on diabetes – around 10% of its entire budget.
The NHS is taking radical action to tackle and treat diabetes, including through the world leading NHS Diabetes Prevention Programme with new research showing thousands of people are being spared type 2 diabetes thanks to the scheme.
Professor Partha Kar, NHS national speciality advisor for diabetes, said: “Having machines monitor and deliver medication for diabetes patients sounds quite sci-fi like, but when you think of it, technology and machines are part and parcel of how we live our lives every day.
“A device picks up your glucose levels, sends the reading across to the delivery system – aka the pump – and then the system kicks in to assess how much insulin is needed.
“It is not very far away from the holy grail of a fully automated system, where people with type 1 diabetes can get on with their lives without worrying about glucose levels or medication”.
Estimations show that only a third of children with type 1 diabetes are currently able to achieve good control of their blood glucose level, which is needed to avoid serious consequences to their long-term health and quality of life.
Figures also show that a five-year-old child diagnosed with type 1 diabetes faces up to 23,000 insulin injections and 52,000 finger prick blood tests by the time they are 18 years old.
As well as the physical benefits, using this system can also help relieve some of the mental burden on people with type 1 diabetes or their carers who otherwise must remain constantly vigilant to blood sugar levels.
One of the children who has received an artificial pancreas from the NHS is six -year-old Charlotte Abbott-Pierce. Just over a year ago, Charlotte was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes when she was five years old after having to attend Ormskirk Paediatric A&E department because of a significant increase in thirst and need to urinate.
Ange Abbott-Pierce, Charlotte’s mum, has type 1 diabetes so had recognised the symptoms, and this prevented her daughter from being extremely unwell upon diagnosis.
Charlotte was initially started on insulin injections then progressed to an insulin pump and a continuous glucose monitor. Now, as part of the pilot these systems work together as an HCL system.
Due to Charlotte being so young, having no awareness of what can happen when blood sugar levels become dangerously low and her glucose levels being so variable, her clinician recommended her as part of the HCL pilot. This was done with the aim of improving Charlotte’s glycaemic control, supporting her parents with her diabetes management and potentially improving her long-term health outcomes.
Now Charlotte has fewer blood glucose highs, and her parents know the pump is doing work in the background, so they don’t have to set alarms every two hours to check how she is.
Ange said: “Before the HCL was fitted, my husband and I would be up every two hours every night having to check Charlotte’s blood sugars and most times giving insulin, sometimes doing finger pricks or dealing with ketones due to quick rises in blood sugar. This was really hard as we both work full time.
“The HCL has given us tighter control as the CGM is monitoring Charlotte’s blood sugars and the pump is reacting before we even know there’s a problem. Hormones are a big factor at the moment, so interventions are still needed but this system is a god send to us as we were at our wits’ end with worry, not being able to catch the highs before they got dangerous.”
The NHS’s pilot has been designed to include a representative mix of adults and children living with type 1 diabetes from all backgrounds, to ensure this pilot considers the potential effectiveness of HCL.
Under the NHS’s pilot, all of the closed loop systems that are licenced for use within the UK are available to participants. Clinicians and patients or their carer discuss which is the best option for them and choose the HCL system they want.
Yasmin Hopkins, 27, from London has also received an artificial pancreas as part of the NHS pilot.
Yasmin has been living with Type 1 diabetes for 16 years. She started pump therapy six years ago, which helped her control her diabetes. However, diabetes is never straightforward, and Yasmin still suffered from peaks and troughs, diabetes burnout and general fluctuations of glucose levels.
Yasmin, said: “I became aware of the emerging research into artificial pancreases, and fortunately for myself, my amazing diabetes team are part of the NHS pilot study. From here, I instantly contacted the team, and I was eligible to enrol. Since then, I haven’t looked back”.
Yasmin’s continuous glucose monitor has been able to communicate with her insulin pump and reduce the fluctuations that were taking over her life. This has not only brought Yasmin physical benefits but has also supported her mental health.
“The connection between the monitor and insulin pump means that I can enjoy my life, whilst limiting the highs and lows, changing my life for the better. This amazing innovative technology hasn’t just benefitted me, it has also benefitted my family and friends – my boyfriend constantly emphasises that this technology will change lives the way that it has changed mine – even if it does beep extremely loud at 4am”, said Yasmin.
Chris Askew OBE, Chief Executive of Diabetes UK, said: “This technology has the potential to transform the lives of people with type 1 diabetes, improving both their quality of life and clinical outcomes.
“The trial will generate real-world data which will hopefully support the case for more people having access to this life-changing tech in the future. And while widening access to diabetes tech remains a priority for Diabetes UK, the NHS’ rollout of this scheme is a very significant and positive step in the right direction.
“We are proud of our legacy of artificial pancreas research and will continue to support NHS England as the pilot progresses”.
The data collected from the pilot, along with other evidence, will be considered by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) as part of a technology assessment. NICE will make a recommendation about wider adoption within the NHS following a review of the evidence.
Original article link: https://www.england.nhs.uk/2022/04/nhs-runs-world-first-test-into-sci-fi-like-artificial-pancreases/
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Hundreds of adults and children test artificial pancreas on the NHS
Hundreds of adults and children with Type 1 diabetes are testing an “artificial pancreas” that could, in future, be rolled out across the NHS.
The device uses an algorithm to determine the amount of insulin that should be administered and also reads blood sugar levels to keep them steady.
The technology is much more effective at managing blood sugar levels than current devices and requires far less input than at present.
Managing Type 1 diabetes can be challenging, especially in young children, owing to variations in the levels of insulin required and unpredictability around how much youngsters eat and exercise.
Children are particularly at risk of dangerously low blood sugar levels (hypoglycaemia) and high blood sugar levels (hyperglycaemia), which can damage the body or even lead to death.
The new artificial pancreas, which is being manufactured by several firms, uses a “hybrid closed loop system” to continually monitor blood glucose and automatically adjust insulin through a pump.
A nurse gives a patient a diabetes test at the Royal Liverpool University Hospital, Liverpool. A new artificial pancreas could limit the need for blood sugar tests (PA)
It is being tested in more than 30 NHS diabetes centres across England, with 875 people benefiting for a year so far. This is the first nationwide study of its kind in the world.
The technology can eliminate finger-prick tests to check blood sugar levels and can hugely prevent hypoglycaemic and hyperglycaemia attacks.
The NHS in England spends around £10 billion a year on diabetes – around 10% of its entire budget.
Professor Partha Kar, NHS national speciality adviser for diabetes, said: “Having machines monitor and deliver medication for diabetes patients sounds quite sci-fi like, but when you think of it, technology and machines are part and parcel of how we live our lives every day.
“A device picks up your glucose levels, sends the reading across to the delivery system – aka the pump – and then the system kicks in to assess how much insulin is needed.
“It is not very far away from the holy grail of a fully automated system, where people with Type 1 diabetes can get on with their lives without worrying about glucose levels or medication.”
Estimations show that only a third of children with Type 1 diabetes are able to achieve good control of their blood glucose level, which is needed to prevent complications.
Figures also show that a five-year-old child diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes faces up to 23,000 insulin injections and 52,000 finger-prick blood tests by the time they are 18.
Six-year-old Charlotte Abbott-Pierce was diagnosed just over a year ago with typical symptoms of increased thirst and the need to urinate.
Charlotte was initially started on insulin injections then progressed to an insulin pump and a continuous glucose monitor. Now, as part of the pilot, these systems work together.
Charlotte’s mum, Ange Abbott-Pierce, said: “Before the hybrid closed loop system was fitted, my husband and I would be up every two hours every night having to check Charlotte’s blood sugars and most times giving insulin, sometimes doing finger pricks or dealing with ketones due to quick rises in blood sugar.
“This was really hard as we both work full-time.”
She said the new system was a “godsend to us as we were at our wits’ end with worry, not being able to catch the highs before they got dangerous”.
The NHS’s pilot has been designed to include a representative mix of adults and children living with Type 1 diabetes from all backgrounds, to ensure the device’s effectiveness can be tracked.
Chris Askew, chief executive of Diabetes UK, said: “This technology has the potential to transform the lives of people with Type 1 diabetes, improving both their quality of life and clinical outcomes.
“The trial will generate real-world data which will hopefully support the case for more people having access to this life-changing tech in the future.”
The data collected from the pilot, along with other evidence, will be considered by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence when it looks at wider NHS rollout.
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England is spearheading the world’s first nationwide test of an ‘artificial pancreas’ that is potentially life-altering for people living with type 1 diabetes.
Around 35 NHS diabetes centres across the country are piloting the artificial pancreas – a so-called hybrid closed loop system – with 875 adults and children benefiting for a year so far.
The hybrid closed loop technology continually monitors blood glucose and automatically adjusts the amount of insulin given through a pump.
It can eliminate finger prick tests and prevent hypoglycaemic and hyperglycaemia attacks, which can lead to seizures, coma or even death for people with type 1 diabetes.
NHS experts want to discover whether the tech can help people with diabetes safely and effectively control their condition in real-world settings.
Type 1 diabetes is a serious condition where a person’s blood glucose (sugar) level is too high because the body cannot make insulin. This happens because the body attacks the cells in the pancreas that make the insulin. The NHS in England currently spends around £10bn a year on diabetes, which is around 10 per cent of its budget.
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Professor Partha Kar, NHS national speciality advisor for diabetes, said: “Having machines monitor and deliver medication for diabetes patients sounds quite sci-fi like, but when you think of it, technology and machines are part and parcel of how we live our lives every day.
“A device picks up your glucose levels, sends the reading across to the delivery system…and then the system kicks in to assess how much insulin is needed.
“It is not very far away from the holy grail of a fully automated system, where people with type 1 diabetes can get on with their lives without worrying about glucose levels or medication.”
According to Diabetes UK, hybrid closed loop systems comprise a continuous glucose monitor, algorithm, and insulin pump.
The continuous glucose monitor is placed under the skin to send blood sugar readings to a device such as mobile phone or to the insulin pump.
The algorithm – which can be part of an app on a separate device, or the insulin pump itself – reads the blood sugar information and calculates how much insulin is needed.
The insulin pump automatically releases insulin into the body based on blood sugar readings. The exception to this is at mealtimes when the pump requires information about carbohydrates being consumed.
Under the NHS’s pilot, all of the closed loop systems that are licenced for use within the UK are available to participants.
The data collected from the pilot, along with other evidence, will be considered by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) as part of a technology assessment. NICE will make a recommendation about wider adoption within the NHS following a review of the evidence.
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TOWANDA — The Bradford County Commissioners will issue a proclamation to declare April Child Abuse Prevention Month from 11 a.m. to noon on April 6 on the lawn of the Bradford County Courthouse.
On the courthouse lawn there will be the reading of the Proclamation, which designates April as Child Abuse Awareness Month in Bradford County. Over 1,000 pinwheels have been placed on the courthouse lawn to represent every investigation done by Bradford County Children and Youth for 2021 as well as each Forensic Interview conducted at The Children’s House Child Advocacy Center (CHCAC).
“Bradford County recognizes April as National Child Abuse Prevention and awareness month and is committed to working with professionals, families, and the community as a whole to advocate and educate for the prevention child abuse and neglect,” Katy VanDewark, Executive Director of the CHCAC, said. “April is typically one of our favorite months of the year because for one the weather is finally starting to change and get a little bit warmer and we are able to cast a hopeful and positive light on a difficult subject. As a community when a child and their family is experiencing the difficult path that abuse takes many down, it is important for them to know where they can turn to for help? As a community, this year April provides you a chance to help in small ways. Show your commitment to keeping kids safe and Help us create the future. Each year we at the CHCAC, are asked by many people how they can help and here is my response, Volunteer or donate to the CHCAC or one of the local nonprofits that helps these children and families in need, contact local and state officials to help ensure the commonwealth provides efficient support to those children who are affected by neglect or abuse, help a neighbor or friend, if they seem to be overwhelmed by the stresses of parenting, kind gestures can go a long way, and if you suspect abuse report it.”
Bradford County Commissioners stated, “April is Child Abuse Awareness Month. The Bradford County Commissioners are issuing a proclamation in support of those who work tirelessly to address this devastating problem that unfortunately harm’s way too many children within communities and our country. One abused child is one too many! Child abuse affects us all in one way or another even though we may not think it does. Abused children are our neighbors, they are our future. The Commissioners are extremely grateful for those who work on our behalf addressing this very troubling stain on our community.”
Debra Sharp, Bradford County Children and Youth, stated, “While this event and this month remind us to raise awareness about child abuse, it is up to all of us to raise our voices for children year-round. In doing so, we can all help play a part in keeping kids safe and reduce child abuse and neglect. We can also help strengthen families by supporting local organizations that assist us in our prevention efforts. We can further assist by nurturing healthy and supportive relationships within our own families and extend that to our friends and neighbors in our local communities. Please join us in putting families first in Bradford County. As we work together to prevent child abuse, we will help all children, families, and communities thrive.
For more information about child abuse prevention programs and activities during the month of April, and throughout the year, Contact Bradford County Children and Youth office or The Children’s House Child Advocacy Center (CHCAC) at 570-265-4132 or visit our website at www.chcac.org.
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TOWANDA — Bradford County Commissioners proclaimed April to be Child Abuse Awareness Month within the county as part of a recognition ceremony Wednesday.
An address, given in front of the Bradford County Courthouse, was kicked off by Children’s House Child Advocacy Center Executive Director Katy VanDewerk.
“April is one of my favorite months of the year,” said VanDewerk. “Not only does the weather finally change, and it’s not raining or snowing or anything today, but we get to shed a positive light on a difficult subject.”
VanDewerk asserted that everyone has a responsibility and role to play to prevent child abuse.
“Every child deserves to live a safe and healthy childhood,” she said. “I’m honored to work in a child advocacy center, and in a community, where so many amazing professionals work together to ensure a happier and healthier childhood for as many children as we possibly can.”
Commissioner John Sullivan read the proclamation, which “call[ed] upon all citizens, community agencies, faith groups, medical facilities, and businesses to increase their participation in our efforts to support families.”
Commissioner Chairman Daryl Miller then spoke, thanking the county’s Children and Youth Services workers for all the work they do.
“The Bradford County Commissioners are very proud of, and very thankful for, the job the Children and Youth Services does on a daily basis,” said Miller. “They work very hard to investigate and protect the weak in Bradford County, and we appreciate how challenging those jobs are.”
Miller noted that a little more that 1,000 pinwheels were planted in the ground in front of the courthouse, each representing an abused child in Bradford County.
“One of these pinwheels is too many,” Miller explained. “One is way too many. There’s a thousand of them.”
State Rep. Clint Owlett (R-68) was also in attendance, and he shared his appreciation for “everybody who stands up for what’s right.”
“Helping these students and these kids is what’s right, it’s the right thing to do,” said Owlett. “It takes a team, it really does, pulling in the same direction to help.”
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TOWANDA — The Bradford County Commissioners will issue a proclamation to declare April Child Abuse Prevention Month from 11 a.m. to noon on April 6 on the lawn of the Bradford County Courthouse.
On the courthouse lawn there will be the reading of the Proclamation, which designates April as Child Abuse Awareness Month in Bradford County. Over 1,000 pinwheels have been placed on the courthouse lawn to represent every investigation done by Bradford County Children and Youth for 2021 as well as each Forensic Interview conducted at The Children’s House Child Advocacy Center (CHCAC).
“Bradford County recognizes April as National Child Abuse Prevention and awareness month and is committed to working with professionals, families, and the community as a whole to advocate and educate for the prevention child abuse and neglect,” Katy VanDewark, Executive Director of the CHCAC, said. “April is typically one of our favorite months of the year because for one the weather is finally starting to change and get a little bit warmer and we are able to cast a hopeful and positive light on a difficult subject. As a community when a child and their family is experiencing the difficult path that abuse takes many down, it is important for them to know where they can turn to for help? As a community, this year April provides you a chance to help in small ways. Show your commitment to keeping kids safe and Help us create the future. Each year we at the CHCAC, are asked by many people how they can help and here is my response, Volunteer or donate to the CHCAC or one of the local nonprofits that helps these children and families in need, contact local and state officials to help ensure the commonwealth provides efficient support to those children who are affected by neglect or abuse, help a neighbor or friend, if they seem to be overwhelmed by the stresses of parenting, kind gestures can go a long way, and if you suspect abuse report it.”
Bradford County Commissioners stated, “April is Child Abuse Awareness Month. The Bradford County Commissioners are issuing a proclamation in support of those who work tirelessly to address this devastating problem that unfortunately harm’s way too many children within communities and our country. One abused child is one too many! Child abuse affects us all in one way or another even though we may not think it does. Abused children are our neighbors, they are our future. The Commissioners are extremely grateful for those who work on our behalf addressing this very troubling stain on our community.”
Debra Sharp, Bradford County Children and Youth, stated, “While this event and this month remind us to raise awareness about child abuse, it is up to all of us to raise our voices for children year-round. In doing so, we can all help play a part in keeping kids safe and reduce child abuse and neglect. We can also help strengthen families by supporting local organizations that assist us in our prevention efforts. We can further assist by nurturing healthy and supportive relationships within our own families and extend that to our friends and neighbors in our local communities. Please join us in putting families first in Bradford County. As we work together to prevent child abuse, we will help all children, families, and communities thrive.
For more information about child abuse prevention programs and activities during the month of April, and throughout the year, Contact Bradford County Children and Youth office or The Children’s House Child Advocacy Center (CHCAC) at 570-265-4132 or visit our website at www.chcac.org.
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GALLIPOLIS — The Gallia County Commission signed a proclamation proclaiming April as Child Abuse Prevention Awareness Month.
“National Child Abuse Prevention Month recognizes the importance of families and communities working together to strengthen families to prevent child abuse and neglect. Through this collaboration, prevention services and supports help protect children and produce thriving families,” according to the Children’s Bureau’s website.
The Children’s Bureau releases a detailed report each year involving known cases of maltreatment.
According to the 2020 report, 2 million children received prevention services, 1.2 million children received post response services — family preservation, family support, foster care, etc. — and fewer than 21.8 percent or one-quarter of confirmed victims were removed from homes due to an investigation.
The information notes that only state and local Child Protective Services (CPS) data is included.
“We also recognize the critical work of the thousands of community-based agencies that offer additional services to these and other families to help keep children safe and help their families thrive,” the Children’s Bureau’s report said.
The proclamation reads, “Child abuse and neglect are recognized as one our most pressing social problems affecting many of Ohio’s children each year; and
Whereas, each child has the right to live and grow in a safe, secure and supportive environment; and
Whereas, high quality child protection, foster care and adoption represent a worthy commitment to our children’s future; and
Whereas, since it takes a community to protect a child, county action is needed to break the cycle of abuse and improve family life; and
Whereas, the state of Ohio and the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services support and promote the partnership between state, county and local public and private agencies to prevent child abuse and neglect; and
Whereas, April has been designated “Child Abuse Prevention Month” nationwide by the National Center of Child Abuse and Neglect;
Now therefore, we the Gallia County Commissioners do hereby proclaim the month of April as Child Abuse Prevention Month in the County of Gallia, State of Ohio, on this day 7th day of April 2022. Join us in promoting awareness by wearing blue April 13th.”
Information from Gallia County Department of Job and Family Services.
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TOWANDA — The Bradford County Commissioners will issue a proclamation to declare April Child Abuse Prevention Month from 11 a.m. to noon on April 6 on the lawn of the Bradford County Courthouse.
On the courthouse lawn there will be the reading of the Proclamation, which designates April as Child Abuse Awareness Month in Bradford County. Over 1,000 pinwheels have been placed on the courthouse lawn to represent every investigation done by Bradford County Children and Youth for 2021 as well as each Forensic Interview conducted at The Children’s House Child Advocacy Center (CHCAC).
“Bradford County recognizes April as National Child Abuse Prevention and awareness month and is committed to working with professionals, families, and the community as a whole to advocate and educate for the prevention child abuse and neglect,” Katy VanDewark, Executive Director of the CHCAC, said. “April is typically one of our favorite months of the year because for one the weather is finally starting to change and get a little bit warmer and we are able to cast a hopeful and positive light on a difficult subject. As a community when a child and their family is experiencing the difficult path that abuse takes many down, it is important for them to know where they can turn to for help? As a community, this year April provides you a chance to help in small ways. Show your commitment to keeping kids safe and Help us create the future. Each year we at the CHCAC, are asked by many people how they can help and here is my response, Volunteer or donate to the CHCAC or one of the local nonprofits that helps these children and families in need, contact local and state officials to help ensure the commonwealth provides efficient support to those children who are affected by neglect or abuse, help a neighbor or friend, if they seem to be overwhelmed by the stresses of parenting, kind gestures can go a long way, and if you suspect abuse report it.”
Bradford County Commissioners stated, “April is Child Abuse Awareness Month. The Bradford County Commissioners are issuing a proclamation in support of those who work tirelessly to address this devastating problem that unfortunately harm’s way too many children within communities and our country. One abused child is one too many! Child abuse affects us all in one way or another even though we may not think it does. Abused children are our neighbors, they are our future. The Commissioners are extremely grateful for those who work on our behalf addressing this very troubling stain on our community.”
Debra Sharp, Bradford County Children and Youth, stated, “While this event and this month remind us to raise awareness about child abuse, it is up to all of us to raise our voices for children year-round. In doing so, we can all help play a part in keeping kids safe and reduce child abuse and neglect. We can also help strengthen families by supporting local organizations that assist us in our prevention efforts. We can further assist by nurturing healthy and supportive relationships within our own families and extend that to our friends and neighbors in our local communities. Please join us in putting families first in Bradford County. As we work together to prevent child abuse, we will help all children, families, and communities thrive.
For more information about child abuse prevention programs and activities during the month of April, and throughout the year, Contact Bradford County Children and Youth office or The Children’s House Child Advocacy Center (CHCAC) at 570-265-4132 or visit our website at www.chcac.org.
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National Child Abuse Prevention Month recognizes the importance of families and communities working together to strengthen families to prevent child abuse and neglect. Through this collaboration, prevention services and supports help protect children and produce thriving families and that is the continued mission of Coastal Children’s Advocacy Center. Chatham County Commissioners presented a resolution declaring April as Child Abuse Prevention Month.
Child abuse can have long-term psychological, emotional, and physical effects that have lasting consequences for victims of abuse and having effective child abuse prevention activities succeed because of the partnerships created between child welfare professionals, education, health, community – and faith-based organizations, businesses, law enforcement agencies, and families; and Communities must make every effort to promote programs and activities that create strong and thriving children and families. CCAC worked with 265 children in 2021 and we acknowledge that we must work together as a community to increase awareness about child abuse and contribute to promote the social and emotional well-being of children and families in a safe, stable, and nurturing environment; and we truly believe that prevention remains the best defense for our children and families.
Coastal Children’s Advocacy Center will be kick off Child Abuse Prevention month by meeting in Forsyth Park on Friday, April 1st at 8am and tying ribbons around the trees in the park. The public is welcomed to join in.
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How eco-crazy councils turned our streets into Gridlock Britain: HARRY WALLOP examines how 'low-traffic neighbourhoods' have added to congestion on our roads
Matthieu Denjean, 13, adores transport.
‘He loves to be on a plane, train or boat, but it’s got to move or he becomes upset,’ says his mother, Elodie.
This is because Matthieu is disabled.
‘He has a rare genetic condition,’ continues Elodie.
‘He is profoundly deaf and has ASD [Autism spectrum disorder]. He has severe and complex needs and is very delayed cognitively.’
Despite Matthieu’s difficulties, Elodie and her husband, along with Matthieu’s two older siblings, ensure the boy has as full and rich a life as possible.
That includes being picked up by car every morning from home in Islington, North London, to his special-needs school in neighbouring Camden.
The four-mile journey used to take 25 minutes.
It now takes up to 50 minutes in slow-moving, sometimes solid traffic.
‘He doesn’t understand sitting in traffic and gets very agitated and becomes aggressive because he’s distressed,’ says Elodie.
A few weeks ago, an 11-mile round trip — from school to a hospital appointment then back home — took three hours.
Elodie shakes her head as she tries to explain the effect it has had on the family.
‘Matthieu is non-verbal. It’s very distressing to see your child upset at the best of times, but when you ask them, they can’t verbalise it. It’s tough.’
Why has the traffic suddenly become so bad?
Elodie believes it is because of new ‘low-traffic neighbourhoods’ (LTNs) in Islington.
LTNs see cars banned from certain side streets and forced to drive only on main roads.
Low-traffic neighbourhoods (LTNs) see cars banned from certain side streets and forced to drive only on main roads Pictured: A cycle lane on Kensington High Street
These controversial measures have been implemented in cities and large towns across the country, not just in Islington, where the bicycle-loving local MP is one Jeremy Corbyn.
From York, Bath and Oxford to Sheffield, Manchester and Dundee, local councils have implemented schemes that aim to limit car traffic and promote cycling and walking.
Encouraged by charities and environmental pressure groups, the aim is to reverse the impact of the car.
Living Streets, one of the leading charities pushing for these schemes, points out that in 1970, there were 13 million vehicles on Britain’s roads driving 145 billion miles.
Last year, there were 38 million vehicles driving 329 billion miles.
LTNs have been wholeheartedly backed by the Government.
The Department for Transport announced in November 2020 an extra £175million in funding for councils to support cycling and walking schemes whilst saying eight out of ten consumers support lower car traffic.
But there is increasing disquiet from residents.
Many resent how schemes were rushed through under the guise of Covid social-distancing, without proper consultation or rigorous analysis.
Many cities introduced LTNs soon after the first lockdown in March 2020, then kept them later as part of their policy to reduce car traffic.
Often, no proper pre-LTN monitoring was undertaken.
Islington claims the zones were intended to ‘make our neighbourhoods better and safer, for living, working and playing, for everyone’.
But earlier this month the council was forced to admit that some of its findings about LTNs were ‘misleading’.
Islington confessed that data for one key section, near the council’s Holloway Road, ‘was found to be of unacceptably poor quality to use for analysis’.
It went on: ‘It is therefore recommended that any conclusions related to this site are revoked’.
Until now, Islington had been at pains to suggest its LTNs — while no doubt a huge inconvenience to families such as Matthieu’s — were making the air in London easier to breathe.
The ‘interim report’ predictably found that traffic fell on side-roads that saw cars banned under LTNs.
But, surprisingly, it also suggested that traffic fell on some of the main roads on which cars were still permitted.
The report claimed that the Holloway Road — a stretch of the A1, ultimately heading all the way to Edinburgh — saw a 42 per cent fall in traffic.
This claim was trumpeted on a leaflet sent out to residents, boasting that air quality had improved.
A Railton low traffic neighbourhood by Lambeth Council
But Elodie and many Islington residents smelled a rat.
‘I thought there was no way that was true,’ she says. ‘Because I have eyes.’
I knew she was right.
I too live in Islington and have sat far too often in stationary traffic on the Holloway Road.
I was equally sceptical about the claim that traffic had fallen on this thoroughfare.
When I dared to complain on Twitter, someone told me that slow traffic on the Holloway Road ‘is hardly the end of the world if it saves thousands of others from the constant noise, pollution and danger of rat-running traffic thundering down residential roads.’
In short, a bit of inconvenience is a small price to pay for saving the planet.
But had the air quality actually improved, as the council insisted?
No. Islington’s own detailed report — though not the rather one-sided leaflet posted to residents — showed that nitrogen dioxide levels, a key pollutant caused by cars, had soared 44 per cent outside Highbury Grove School, a secondary school on a main road.
So is Islington a one-off?
Or have councils up and down Britain brought in LTNs which have made the problem they purported to solve far worse?
Certainly, across Britain, the weight of opposition to LTNs is clear.
Take south Birmingham’s Kings Heath suburb and its bustling high street, the Alcester Road (A435), which features residential streets on either side.
In order to stop drivers using these side roads, the council implemented a series of LTNs in 2020. A year later, it asked locals to fill in feedback questionnaires.
The results?
‘The responses to this consultation show that the options we presented have some but not full support,’ says the official update, optimistically titled The Way Forward and published last month.
On further reading ‘some but not full support’ is something of a euphemism.
Kings Heath residents roundly rejected LTNs — 62 per cent were opposed to the LTN east of the High Street versus 26 per cent who backed it, with similar figures for the eastern side.
So is the council going to remove the large tree planters that are blocking the residential streets and admit the experiment has not worked?
No, not quite.
‘We are very clear that doing nothing is not an option. To reach net-zero carbon, to improve air quality and to enable our growing population to travel around the city efficiently, we must take action to reduce trips taken by private car,’ the report concludes.
One resident despondent at all this is Roger Palmer, 58.
He owns the Parkview gallery and picture framers on Vicarage Road, a boundary street still used by car drivers.
Roger loves the area but says it is ‘now turned into a misery because of the wall-to-wall traffic’ jams outside his home and shop. He lives above the gallery with his wife, Manjinder, and one of his daughters.
Cyclist on a City of London cycle 'superhighway' path in Billingsgate
‘I agree that doing nothing is not an option. But a poor option is worse,’ he says.
‘I just can’t bear to see all the traffic any more. It’s been horrendous.’
He has had to install blinds on his windows.
Some of Roger’s neighbours have moved home to escape the pollution apparently caused by the local LTNs.
‘But I can’t — this is my livelihood.’
Needless to say, his customers can’t cycle to his shop — they need a car to collect the framed pictures.
Roger calls the level of consultation from the council ‘shocking’, adding that the authority ‘denied there was a problem.’
The council responded saying that it had listened to residents and altered the design of its Places For People layout, replacing some tree planters with a one-way system, but it reiterated that ‘doing nothing is not an option’.
Islington’s faulty data was processed and written up by a company called Project Centre, part of a larger outfit called Marston Holdings.
This earns most of its money from enforcing court and parking fines and maintaining parking meters.
During the year to May 2021, Marston’s revenues fell from £287million to £255million, as lockdowns stopped people travelling.
But one division did well: Project Centre, where turnover jumped from £17.6million to £18.5million.
It is understood that Project Centre recognises that some errors, spotted in a subsequent audit, were contained in the interim report that it drew up for Islington, but that the erroneous Holloway Road data was caused by the technical issue of an unrelated third party, and Project Centre did not collect the relevant data.
It is also understood that the statements about improved air quality were not contained in the main report but featured in the executive summary as well as a leaflet that was posted to residents, neither being their responsibility.
Islington Council said: ‘A final decision has not yet been taken on the future of Highbury’s people-friendly streets schemes and the council will be listening carefully to feedback from local people on the trials.’
There is evidence to suggest that councils are making lots of money from LTN-related fines.
That is because while some councils have installed large planters to physically block traffic, many use a no-entry sign and camera.
(There’s no suggestion that Marston will win a borough’s parking fine contract if it successfully implements profitable LTNs in those councils.)
Southwark Council in South London received an astonishing £6.62 million from just five cameras in the Dulwich LTN during 2021.
In Hackney, between February 2020 and August 2021, a single street gathered £4.12million in fines after it became part of an LTN.
All of this pain would be acceptable if there was noticeable gain in air quality or in reducing traffic congestion.
But there rarely is.
In Oxford, another city where LTNs have been implemented, there is very little data to compare, for example, air pollution before and after LTNs.
And yet nobody doubts the huge inconvenience to drivers.
Oxford, as a university town in a flat river valley, has a lot of cyclists.
An LTN might be expected to have increased the number of cyclists as people left their cars at home.
But buried on page 385 of a 556-page report, the council reveals that average daily cycling rates within the Cowley LTN were actually lower than before installation —in eight of the nine months evaluated.
Flowers have been dug up and plants destroyed in in Dulwich Village, South London as part of a protest against Low Traffic Neighbourhoods
Richard Parnham is a legal researcher who helps run Reconnecting Oxford, which tries to interrogate some of the official data.
‘Is the medicine working? No, and it won’t work unless you remove all people in the area that drive and replace them with nice middle-class cyclists,’ he says.
Solicitor Sadiea Mustafa-Awan, 39, lives in Littlemore, a relatively poor suburb south of Oxford, with her husband, a van delivery driver, and two young children.
One of her children, Quasim, 8, has autism and ADHD.
Like Matthieu in Islington, Quasim gets agitated if his bus to his special school is late picking him up — as it now frequently is.
‘He can’t cycle to school,’ says Sadiea.
‘It’s just so unfair that he doesn’t get a choice about this.’ Sadiea is so furious that Oxford council seems to have ignored opposition to the LTNs that she has decided to stand as an independent councillor in the forthcoming local elections.
Oxfordshire County Council received about 2,400 responses in its LTN consultation. Of those, 63 per cent said they objected, 11 per cent had ‘concerns’, while 26 per cent supported the schemes.
But despite three-quarters of residents being negative about LTNs, the council intended to rubber-stamp the measures being made permanent last month.
It was only at the last moment, in the face of increasingly angry residents, that it agreed to delay the decision.
Oxfordshire County Council said: ‘Through the consultation process so far, we have received valuable feedback from people in these groups, which we will use to help shape the final plans for the LTNs.’
It is this reluctance to listen to residents that enrages so many people — those who want nicer streets, fewer cars and to encourage cycling.
But they also want to be listened to.
As Elodie in Islington says: ‘We live in a world where data is king. We need to focus on data. But then we discover bogus data about LTNs is being relied on, which shatters your confidence.
‘The trust between us residents and the council is absolutely broken. And that is a very dangerous place for the council to be in.’
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Why do England’s low-traffic neighbourhoods provoke such fury?
A few weeks ago, the Daily Mail ran a lengthy feature exploring how “eco-crazy councils turned our streets into Gridlock Britain”. It begins with a heartrending and in no way manipulative story about how the traffic jams in the north London borough of Islington are upsetting a disabled 13-year-old boy.
Across the river in Lambeth, the council is celebrating a victory after the court of appeal declined to order a judicial review into three different low-traffic neighbourhoods (LTNs) across the borough. No matter: the local Tories have promised that, in the unlikely event they win next month’s council elections, they’ll scrap them all anyway.
Don’t imagine, though, that the row over LTNs is restricted to either inner London or the political right. In Oxford, Labour’s former shadow chancellor Anneliese Dodds has said she’s “increasingly concerned” about the rollout of such schemes, and called on Oxfordshire county council to pause them pending measures to prioritise buses. If the Lib Dem/Labour/Green coalition running the council is disappointed by this response from a Labour frontbencher, they can take some comfort from the fact that she was, at least, polite. Last summer one local communicated their views of the policy by setting fire to a planter.
Few issues in local politics spark the passion, not to mention hysteria, that has greeted the rise of low-traffic neighbourhoods. As well as the fires (there have been several), campaigns against them have included vandalism, doxxing and placards depicting council leaders as military dictators. Graffiti has appeared accusing councils of “abuse of power” or, inevitably, blaming Sadiq Khan, who has had nothing to do with any of this. Councillors and private campaigners alike have reported death threats.
All of which seems a pretty unhinged response to a policy intended to make streets a tiny bit nicer for those without cars. Low-traffic neighbourhoods, after all, aren’t doing anything as radical as, say, banning cars. They’re merely a gentle attempt – a new bollard here, a planter full of flowers there – to close off rat runs and keep through traffic to main roads. They’re nothing new, either: outer London boroughs including Waltham Forest and Kingston have had LTNs ever since Transport for London introduced its “mini-Hollands” scheme in 2014. Go to Walthamstow now, and you’ll find a glorious world of segregated cycle paths, quiet sidestreets and minor changes in road surface, intended to communicate that any motor vehicle passing through should be aware they’re in someone else’s space.
But they have expanded rather a lot of late. In May 2020, in the middle of lockdown with the need for social distancing at its height, the Department for Transport called on councils to reallocate road space from cars to cyclists and pedestrians. At the same time, transport secretary Grant Shapps announced the government’s £250m “emergency active travel fund”. About 50 councils created about 200 LTNs – often, thanks to the temporary and emergency nature of the interventions, without consulting the public.
Some of the benefits of LTNs – reducing air pollution, preventing journey planning apps from telling drivers to use your street as a shortcut – are pretty obvious. Others are not. For one thing, researchers have found that those living inside mini-Hollands are more active, with benefits for the health service. Past studies have found that those living on low-traffic streets are more likely to have friends locally, too. Between all that and halcyon images of kids playing in the street, you start to wonder why anyone wouldn’t want to live in an LTN.
Part of the problem, in fact, is that not everyone can. Diverting through traffic towards main roads is likely to mean more traffic on the main roads. In many cases that problem should, eventually, solve itself thanks to the magic of “traffic evaporation”: the phenomenon by which people switch to walking, cycling or public transport, because driving is just too big a pain in the arse. That, though, can take a while, and in the meantime traffic is going to get worse.
Another problem is that changes like this do create losers as well as winners – people who for one reason or another genuinely need to drive, and object to being sent, literally, all round the houses – and that it’s in the nature of things for them to shout a lot more loudly than those who benefit.
Perhaps the biggest issue, though, is that those pandemic LTNs were introduced in a tearing rush, as councils raced to grab a limited pot of funding. That meant a lack of consultation over temporary schemes (although councils are required to consult before making them permanent). What’s more, it would hardly be a surprise if under-resourced councils moving at speed failed to distinguish between decent schemes that would cause some temporary increase in traffic, and badly designed ones that would cause genuine, longer-term problems. A number of schemes introduced in 2020 have since been suspended.
For all that, though, it’s hard to shake the suspicion that at least some of the hysteria is just that people don’t like being inconvenienced. There are those who could walk or cycle, and whose lives would improve if they did. But they don’t want to. They want to drive, and they want to drive the most direct route, and until they can they’re going to shout at anyone trying to stop them. As well as stories of angry protests and vandalised planters, the past two years have brought footage of cars literally driving on the pavement to bypass an obstacle, rather than accepting that this route is now closed to them. Some drivers just assume their car is a god-given right, probably enshrined in Magna Carta.
They are, though, in the minority. A recent Centre for London poll found that only 12% of Londoners considered LTNs an important issue in the upcoming local elections; a 2021 survey conducted by Redfield and Wilton Strategies for the New Statesman found that twice as many people supported as opposed them. Like your car, in a traffic jam, LTNs are here to stay.
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How eco-crazy councils turned our streets into Gridlock Britain: HARRY WALLOP examines how 'low-traffic neighbourhoods' have added to congestion on our roads
Matthieu Denjean, 13, adores transport.
‘He loves to be on a plane, train or boat, but it’s got to move or he becomes upset,’ says his mother, Elodie.
This is because Matthieu is disabled.
‘He has a rare genetic condition,’ continues Elodie.
‘He is profoundly deaf and has ASD [Autism spectrum disorder]. He has severe and complex needs and is very delayed cognitively.’
Despite Matthieu’s difficulties, Elodie and her husband, along with Matthieu’s two older siblings, ensure the boy has as full and rich a life as possible.
That includes being picked up by car every morning from home in Islington, North London, to his special-needs school in neighbouring Camden.
The four-mile journey used to take 25 minutes.
It now takes up to 50 minutes in slow-moving, sometimes solid traffic.
‘He doesn’t understand sitting in traffic and gets very agitated and becomes aggressive because he’s distressed,’ says Elodie.
A few weeks ago, an 11-mile round trip — from school to a hospital appointment then back home — took three hours.
Elodie shakes her head as she tries to explain the effect it has had on the family.
‘Matthieu is non-verbal. It’s very distressing to see your child upset at the best of times, but when you ask them, they can’t verbalise it. It’s tough.’
Why has the traffic suddenly become so bad?
Elodie believes it is because of new ‘low-traffic neighbourhoods’ (LTNs) in Islington.
LTNs see cars banned from certain side streets and forced to drive only on main roads.
Low-traffic neighbourhoods (LTNs) see cars banned from certain side streets and forced to drive only on main roads Pictured: A cycle lane on Kensington High Street
These controversial measures have been implemented in cities and large towns across the country, not just in Islington, where the bicycle-loving local MP is one Jeremy Corbyn.
From York, Bath and Oxford to Sheffield, Manchester and Dundee, local councils have implemented schemes that aim to limit car traffic and promote cycling and walking.
Encouraged by charities and environmental pressure groups, the aim is to reverse the impact of the car.
Living Streets, one of the leading charities pushing for these schemes, points out that in 1970, there were 13 million vehicles on Britain’s roads driving 145 billion miles.
Last year, there were 38 million vehicles driving 329 billion miles.
LTNs have been wholeheartedly backed by the Government.
The Department for Transport announced in November 2020 an extra £175million in funding for councils to support cycling and walking schemes whilst saying eight out of ten consumers support lower car traffic.
But there is increasing disquiet from residents.
Many resent how schemes were rushed through under the guise of Covid social-distancing, without proper consultation or rigorous analysis.
Many cities introduced LTNs soon after the first lockdown in March 2020, then kept them later as part of their policy to reduce car traffic.
Often, no proper pre-LTN monitoring was undertaken.
Islington claims the zones were intended to ‘make our neighbourhoods better and safer, for living, working and playing, for everyone’.
But earlier this month the council was forced to admit that some of its findings about LTNs were ‘misleading’.
Islington confessed that data for one key section, near the council’s Holloway Road, ‘was found to be of unacceptably poor quality to use for analysis’.
It went on: ‘It is therefore recommended that any conclusions related to this site are revoked’.
Until now, Islington had been at pains to suggest its LTNs — while no doubt a huge inconvenience to families such as Matthieu’s — were making the air in London easier to breathe.
The ‘interim report’ predictably found that traffic fell on side-roads that saw cars banned under LTNs.
But, surprisingly, it also suggested that traffic fell on some of the main roads on which cars were still permitted.
The report claimed that the Holloway Road — a stretch of the A1, ultimately heading all the way to Edinburgh — saw a 42 per cent fall in traffic.
This claim was trumpeted on a leaflet sent out to residents, boasting that air quality had improved.
A Railton low traffic neighbourhood by Lambeth Council
But Elodie and many Islington residents smelled a rat.
‘I thought there was no way that was true,’ she says. ‘Because I have eyes.’
I knew she was right.
I too live in Islington and have sat far too often in stationary traffic on the Holloway Road.
I was equally sceptical about the claim that traffic had fallen on this thoroughfare.
When I dared to complain on Twitter, someone told me that slow traffic on the Holloway Road ‘is hardly the end of the world if it saves thousands of others from the constant noise, pollution and danger of rat-running traffic thundering down residential roads.’
In short, a bit of inconvenience is a small price to pay for saving the planet.
But had the air quality actually improved, as the council insisted?
No. Islington’s own detailed report — though not the rather one-sided leaflet posted to residents — showed that nitrogen dioxide levels, a key pollutant caused by cars, had soared 44 per cent outside Highbury Grove School, a secondary school on a main road.
So is Islington a one-off?
Or have councils up and down Britain brought in LTNs which have made the problem they purported to solve far worse?
Certainly, across Britain, the weight of opposition to LTNs is clear.
Take south Birmingham’s Kings Heath suburb and its bustling high street, the Alcester Road (A435), which features residential streets on either side.
In order to stop drivers using these side roads, the council implemented a series of LTNs in 2020. A year later, it asked locals to fill in feedback questionnaires.
The results?
‘The responses to this consultation show that the options we presented have some but not full support,’ says the official update, optimistically titled The Way Forward and published last month.
On further reading ‘some but not full support’ is something of a euphemism.
Kings Heath residents roundly rejected LTNs — 62 per cent were opposed to the LTN east of the High Street versus 26 per cent who backed it, with similar figures for the eastern side.
So is the council going to remove the large tree planters that are blocking the residential streets and admit the experiment has not worked?
No, not quite.
‘We are very clear that doing nothing is not an option. To reach net-zero carbon, to improve air quality and to enable our growing population to travel around the city efficiently, we must take action to reduce trips taken by private car,’ the report concludes.
One resident despondent at all this is Roger Palmer, 58.
He owns the Parkview gallery and picture framers on Vicarage Road, a boundary street still used by car drivers.
Roger loves the area but says it is ‘now turned into a misery because of the wall-to-wall traffic’ jams outside his home and shop. He lives above the gallery with his wife, Manjinder, and one of his daughters.
Cyclist on a City of London cycle 'superhighway' path in Billingsgate
‘I agree that doing nothing is not an option. But a poor option is worse,’ he says.
‘I just can’t bear to see all the traffic any more. It’s been horrendous.’
He has had to install blinds on his windows.
Some of Roger’s neighbours have moved home to escape the pollution apparently caused by the local LTNs.
‘But I can’t — this is my livelihood.’
Needless to say, his customers can’t cycle to his shop — they need a car to collect the framed pictures.
Roger calls the level of consultation from the council ‘shocking’, adding that the authority ‘denied there was a problem.’
The council responded saying that it had listened to residents and altered the design of its Places For People layout, replacing some tree planters with a one-way system, but it reiterated that ‘doing nothing is not an option’.
Islington’s faulty data was processed and written up by a company called Project Centre, part of a larger outfit called Marston Holdings.
This earns most of its money from enforcing court and parking fines and maintaining parking meters.
During the year to May 2021, Marston’s revenues fell from £287million to £255million, as lockdowns stopped people travelling.
But one division did well: Project Centre, where turnover jumped from £17.6million to £18.5million.
It is understood that Project Centre recognises that some errors, spotted in a subsequent audit, were contained in the interim report that it drew up for Islington, but that the erroneous Holloway Road data was caused by the technical issue of an unrelated third party, and Project Centre did not collect the relevant data.
It is also understood that the statements about improved air quality were not contained in the main report but featured in the executive summary as well as a leaflet that was posted to residents, neither being their responsibility.
Islington Council said: ‘A final decision has not yet been taken on the future of Highbury’s people-friendly streets schemes and the council will be listening carefully to feedback from local people on the trials.’
There is evidence to suggest that councils are making lots of money from LTN-related fines.
That is because while some councils have installed large planters to physically block traffic, many use a no-entry sign and camera.
(There’s no suggestion that Marston will win a borough’s parking fine contract if it successfully implements profitable LTNs in those councils.)
Southwark Council in South London received an astonishing £6.62 million from just five cameras in the Dulwich LTN during 2021.
In Hackney, between February 2020 and August 2021, a single street gathered £4.12million in fines after it became part of an LTN.
All of this pain would be acceptable if there was noticeable gain in air quality or in reducing traffic congestion.
But there rarely is.
In Oxford, another city where LTNs have been implemented, there is very little data to compare, for example, air pollution before and after LTNs.
And yet nobody doubts the huge inconvenience to drivers.
Oxford, as a university town in a flat river valley, has a lot of cyclists.
An LTN might be expected to have increased the number of cyclists as people left their cars at home.
But buried on page 385 of a 556-page report, the council reveals that average daily cycling rates within the Cowley LTN were actually lower than before installation —in eight of the nine months evaluated.
Flowers have been dug up and plants destroyed in in Dulwich Village, South London as part of a protest against Low Traffic Neighbourhoods
Richard Parnham is a legal researcher who helps run Reconnecting Oxford, which tries to interrogate some of the official data.
‘Is the medicine working? No, and it won’t work unless you remove all people in the area that drive and replace them with nice middle-class cyclists,’ he says.
Solicitor Sadiea Mustafa-Awan, 39, lives in Littlemore, a relatively poor suburb south of Oxford, with her husband, a van delivery driver, and two young children.
One of her children, Quasim, 8, has autism and ADHD.
Like Matthieu in Islington, Quasim gets agitated if his bus to his special school is late picking him up — as it now frequently is.
‘He can’t cycle to school,’ says Sadiea.
‘It’s just so unfair that he doesn’t get a choice about this.’ Sadiea is so furious that Oxford council seems to have ignored opposition to the LTNs that she has decided to stand as an independent councillor in the forthcoming local elections.
Oxfordshire County Council received about 2,400 responses in its LTN consultation. Of those, 63 per cent said they objected, 11 per cent had ‘concerns’, while 26 per cent supported the schemes.
But despite three-quarters of residents being negative about LTNs, the council intended to rubber-stamp the measures being made permanent last month.
It was only at the last moment, in the face of increasingly angry residents, that it agreed to delay the decision.
Oxfordshire County Council said: ‘Through the consultation process so far, we have received valuable feedback from people in these groups, which we will use to help shape the final plans for the LTNs.’
It is this reluctance to listen to residents that enrages so many people — those who want nicer streets, fewer cars and to encourage cycling.
But they also want to be listened to.
As Elodie in Islington says: ‘We live in a world where data is king. We need to focus on data. But then we discover bogus data about LTNs is being relied on, which shatters your confidence.
‘The trust between us residents and the council is absolutely broken. And that is a very dangerous place for the council to be in.’
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LONDON and NORWICH, England — If you thought British politics was just about Partygate and the war in Ukraine, think again.
While Westminster watchers will pore over upcoming local elections on Thursday as a barometer for Boris Johnson's premiership, many voters are focused on their own backyards — or rather, surrounding streets.
A pandemic push to improve the health of the nation by getting Brits out of their cars and walking or cycling more translated into more funds for local councils to "reallocate" road space for "active transport." As a result, since 2020 lots of roads in Britain's cities have been closed to cars or were narrowed to discourage drivers and whole areas have been transformed into "low-traffic neighborhoods" or LTNs.
What to the uninitiated might seem like an innocuous way to help both residents and the planet has become a vicious political fight, dividing traditional political parties, neighbors and even families.
“Someone who's been around the Labour Party for a long time said it's more controversial on the doorstep that the Iraq War and Brexit combined,” said Charlie Hicks, a Labour candidate for Oxford County Council.
Will Woodroofe, a Conservative standing in Labour-dominated Islington, north London, echoed the sentiment: “I could say quite confidently it comes up in one in five conversations. It's the biggest thing. We lead with it as well, because we're the only party standing to get rid of them.”
And while the policy and its implementation is provoking the wrath of drivers and non-drivers alike, many of the issues thrown up by the debate will outlast immediate concerns about today's LTNs and strike at the heart of some of the tough political choices faced by lawmakers across the world as they grapple with competing demands of environmental and cost of living crises.
Not listening
The LTN issue has splintered traditional party allegiances. Many Conservative council candidates are standing on an anti-LTN platform, even though the party at a national level is behind them, while Lib Dems are against them in some areas and in favor in others.
A rash of anti-LTN independent candidates has sprung up, threatening to disrupt the usual voting patterns. Labour has mostly been associated with implementing LTNs, as the boroughs where they have been rolled out tend to skew Labour, but some individual Labour activists have dissented or even quit over the policy.
The chief complaint against the policy is that residents weren't consulted properly.
“I think what gets people really upset here and angry is the feeling that these measures have been brought in and they [local people] have been ignored,” said Tristan Honeyborne, a Conservative candidate in Dulwich in south London.
A common gripe is that consultations have either not been carried out properly or not been heeded by the local authority.
With a varying degree of openness, local Tories admit to being frustrated with the policy adopted at a national level.
“These types of decision are best made close to local people working with communities rather than imposed from above,” said one prospective Conservative councilor, while pointing out that in London it was mostly Labour councils that had pursued them in an “inflexible” way.
The Department for Transport has defended the manner of LTNs’ introduction, saying: "Multiple independent professional polls over the last year, and the government’s own polling and surveys, show consistent public support for the measures on cycling and walking we and councils have taken."
Some would go further, claiming that the top-down imposition of LTNs was the only way to achieve a step change. “Radical ideas were needed to get people out of cars,” said an activist for the charity Living Streets who did not want to be named because of the hostility the issue attracts.
Andrew Gilligan, Boris Johnson’s transport adviser, is widely credited as the brains behind the scheme and has been given “free rein” to drive his agenda forward, in the words of transport campaigner and one-time mayoral candidate Christian Wolmar.
A Downing Street spokesman appeared to play down the central guidance ahead of the elections, saying decisions were "best taken at a local level."
Aside from process, the main charges leveled against LTNs are that their less desirable side-effects disproportionately impact groups who are already disadvantaged. In particular, campaigners highlight stories of disabled and elderly residents who cannot easily cycle or walk and who have missed hospital appointments or been unable to retain carers because of the diversions.
Similarly, the redirection of traffic to trunk roads implies more pollution on those streets, which are home to relatively high numbers of residents from lower-income and minority ethnic backgrounds.
This point is hotly contested, with DfT presenting evidence that redirection of traffic is a short-term effect of LTNs that eventually evaporates as more people choose not to drive in the long run.
These arguments still do not seem to fully account for the visceral loathing felt by some toward LTNs, some of which have been repeatedly vandalized, daubed in black paint or sprayed red. On streets near LTNs you can see the physical signs of a divided neighborhood, as some houses display “pro” posters in their windows next to those with “anti” posters.
The same campaigner quoted above posits that it is about “freedom — drivers are territorial about being able to drive, it’s a visceral sense of freedom of the road.”
Labour candidate Charlie Hicks added: “I get lots of quiet messages from people saying ‘this is the best thing that local authority has done in the 25 years that I've lived here’” even if they would not want to say so publicly “because they can see what they are up against.’”
“The fuss they have created is completely out of proportion to what they represent,” Wolmar argued. “This should be outside of the conventional political framework. It should be a no-brainer that people want to live in streets that fewer cars are going down, and better environmentally.”
For all the heat the issue attracts, some argue it won't make much difference at the ballot box.
Nick Bowes, director of the Centre for London think tank, highlights polling that shows that active transport is relatively low down on voters’ list of priorities for the local elections, after crime, housing and waste disposal.
In many of the metropolitan areas where Labour-controlled councils are being confronted over LTNs, the main viable opposition is from Lib Dems or Greens, rather than anti-LTN Conservatives.
Beyond the city
Outside Britain's cities, where the battle of the bollards seems completely alien, transport is also a key driver of local politics.
In rural parts of the U.K. where public transport is often scarce or even non-existent, concern about soaring petrol and diesel costs, and even access to fuel, could particularly hurt the Conservatives.
Pump prices rose more in March than in any previous month on record, according to insurance company RAC, which tracks fuel prices. Last month it cost nearly £90 to fill a 55-liter family petrol car — £22 more than a year ago. It was £28 more than a year ago to fill a diesel tank.
Chancellor Rishi Sunak, whose own constituency of Richmond in North Yorkshire is heavily rural, tried to address concerns with a fuel duty cut of 5 pence a liter last month, but campaigners say it has not done enough to ease the burden.
People are “going nuts about fuel prices,” said former Brexit campaigner and MEP Richard Tice, who said his Reform Party is fielding around 120 candidates on a "cost of living" ticket.
“You are now at the point where lots of people are saying 'I can't go and have Sunday lunch with my in-laws,’ or 'I can't go and see my son at university for the weekend’ because it's just too expensive.
“It's absolutely hitting people right in the solar plexus. I think it is far worse than Westminster realizes, far worse.”
Howard Cox, who runs the FairFuelUK campaign, said there was a lot of anger that the government had not done more to make sure fuel duty cuts were passed on to drivers.
“I'm a One Nation Tory and I won't be voting for them. I'll be voting independent in our little local election that's going on here in Cranbrook in Kent, and frankly, the Tories have lost my vote until they get their act together and start actually lowering taxes, and particularly get rid of the green taxes,” he said.
Price rises have come at a time when drivers have struggled to fill up at all after environmental campaign group Just Stop Oil blockaded oil terminals with the result that many petrol stations ran dry over the Easter holidays.
Labour, which has traditionally tried to position itself as stronger on the environment than the Conservatives, has sought to capitalize, demanding the government bring in an injunction that would ban protests at oil terminals.
In much of rural England, though, the Liberal Democrats are the bigger threat to the Tories at this week's election than Labour.
Ross Henley, a Lib Dem who is fighting in a crucial Conservative versus Liberal Democrat ward in Somerset, said: “There are lots of people, particularly in rural areas, who are actually telling us that they are going to vote for us this time.
“Some of the reasons relate to national issues about the Partygate issue, some of it is on things we do as local councilors, personal votes, but there are people every time we go out who are telling us that they are voting for us this time because of their concerns over the state of the economy, because of inflation going up and prices,” he said.
In some parts of his patch people are having to drive 10 miles to their nearest petrol station.
Despite the shift in public opinion in favor of driving down emissions, it still seems that when politicians try to get between a driver and their car, they do so at their peril.
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How eco-crazy councils turned our streets into Gridlock Britain: HARRY WALLOP examines how 'low-traffic neighbourhoods' have added to congestion on our roads
Matthieu Denjean, 13, adores transport.
‘He loves to be on a plane, train or boat, but it’s got to move or he becomes upset,’ says his mother, Elodie.
This is because Matthieu is disabled.
‘He has a rare genetic condition,’ continues Elodie.
‘He is profoundly deaf and has ASD [Autism spectrum disorder]. He has severe and complex needs and is very delayed cognitively.’
Despite Matthieu’s difficulties, Elodie and her husband, along with Matthieu’s two older siblings, ensure the boy has as full and rich a life as possible.
That includes being picked up by car every morning from home in Islington, North London, to his special-needs school in neighbouring Camden.
The four-mile journey used to take 25 minutes.
It now takes up to 50 minutes in slow-moving, sometimes solid traffic.
‘He doesn’t understand sitting in traffic and gets very agitated and becomes aggressive because he’s distressed,’ says Elodie.
A few weeks ago, an 11-mile round trip — from school to a hospital appointment then back home — took three hours.
Elodie shakes her head as she tries to explain the effect it has had on the family.
‘Matthieu is non-verbal. It’s very distressing to see your child upset at the best of times, but when you ask them, they can’t verbalise it. It’s tough.’
Why has the traffic suddenly become so bad?
Elodie believes it is because of new ‘low-traffic neighbourhoods’ (LTNs) in Islington.
LTNs see cars banned from certain side streets and forced to drive only on main roads.
Low-traffic neighbourhoods (LTNs) see cars banned from certain side streets and forced to drive only on main roads Pictured: A cycle lane on Kensington High Street
These controversial measures have been implemented in cities and large towns across the country, not just in Islington, where the bicycle-loving local MP is one Jeremy Corbyn.
From York, Bath and Oxford to Sheffield, Manchester and Dundee, local councils have implemented schemes that aim to limit car traffic and promote cycling and walking.
Encouraged by charities and environmental pressure groups, the aim is to reverse the impact of the car.
Living Streets, one of the leading charities pushing for these schemes, points out that in 1970, there were 13 million vehicles on Britain’s roads driving 145 billion miles.
Last year, there were 38 million vehicles driving 329 billion miles.
LTNs have been wholeheartedly backed by the Government.
The Department for Transport announced in November 2020 an extra £175million in funding for councils to support cycling and walking schemes whilst saying eight out of ten consumers support lower car traffic.
But there is increasing disquiet from residents.
Many resent how schemes were rushed through under the guise of Covid social-distancing, without proper consultation or rigorous analysis.
Many cities introduced LTNs soon after the first lockdown in March 2020, then kept them later as part of their policy to reduce car traffic.
Often, no proper pre-LTN monitoring was undertaken.
Islington claims the zones were intended to ‘make our neighbourhoods better and safer, for living, working and playing, for everyone’.
But earlier this month the council was forced to admit that some of its findings about LTNs were ‘misleading’.
Islington confessed that data for one key section, near the council’s Holloway Road, ‘was found to be of unacceptably poor quality to use for analysis’.
It went on: ‘It is therefore recommended that any conclusions related to this site are revoked’.
Until now, Islington had been at pains to suggest its LTNs — while no doubt a huge inconvenience to families such as Matthieu’s — were making the air in London easier to breathe.
The ‘interim report’ predictably found that traffic fell on side-roads that saw cars banned under LTNs.
But, surprisingly, it also suggested that traffic fell on some of the main roads on which cars were still permitted.
The report claimed that the Holloway Road — a stretch of the A1, ultimately heading all the way to Edinburgh — saw a 42 per cent fall in traffic.
This claim was trumpeted on a leaflet sent out to residents, boasting that air quality had improved.
A Railton low traffic neighbourhood by Lambeth Council
But Elodie and many Islington residents smelled a rat.
‘I thought there was no way that was true,’ she says. ‘Because I have eyes.’
I knew she was right.
I too live in Islington and have sat far too often in stationary traffic on the Holloway Road.
I was equally sceptical about the claim that traffic had fallen on this thoroughfare.
When I dared to complain on Twitter, someone told me that slow traffic on the Holloway Road ‘is hardly the end of the world if it saves thousands of others from the constant noise, pollution and danger of rat-running traffic thundering down residential roads.’
In short, a bit of inconvenience is a small price to pay for saving the planet.
But had the air quality actually improved, as the council insisted?
No. Islington’s own detailed report — though not the rather one-sided leaflet posted to residents — showed that nitrogen dioxide levels, a key pollutant caused by cars, had soared 44 per cent outside Highbury Grove School, a secondary school on a main road.
So is Islington a one-off?
Or have councils up and down Britain brought in LTNs which have made the problem they purported to solve far worse?
Certainly, across Britain, the weight of opposition to LTNs is clear.
Take south Birmingham’s Kings Heath suburb and its bustling high street, the Alcester Road (A435), which features residential streets on either side.
In order to stop drivers using these side roads, the council implemented a series of LTNs in 2020. A year later, it asked locals to fill in feedback questionnaires.
The results?
‘The responses to this consultation show that the options we presented have some but not full support,’ says the official update, optimistically titled The Way Forward and published last month.
On further reading ‘some but not full support’ is something of a euphemism.
Kings Heath residents roundly rejected LTNs — 62 per cent were opposed to the LTN east of the High Street versus 26 per cent who backed it, with similar figures for the eastern side.
So is the council going to remove the large tree planters that are blocking the residential streets and admit the experiment has not worked?
No, not quite.
‘We are very clear that doing nothing is not an option. To reach net-zero carbon, to improve air quality and to enable our growing population to travel around the city efficiently, we must take action to reduce trips taken by private car,’ the report concludes.
One resident despondent at all this is Roger Palmer, 58.
He owns the Parkview gallery and picture framers on Vicarage Road, a boundary street still used by car drivers.
Roger loves the area but says it is ‘now turned into a misery because of the wall-to-wall traffic’ jams outside his home and shop. He lives above the gallery with his wife, Manjinder, and one of his daughters.
Cyclist on a City of London cycle 'superhighway' path in Billingsgate
‘I agree that doing nothing is not an option. But a poor option is worse,’ he says.
‘I just can’t bear to see all the traffic any more. It’s been horrendous.’
He has had to install blinds on his windows.
Some of Roger’s neighbours have moved home to escape the pollution apparently caused by the local LTNs.
‘But I can’t — this is my livelihood.’
Needless to say, his customers can’t cycle to his shop — they need a car to collect the framed pictures.
Roger calls the level of consultation from the council ‘shocking’, adding that the authority ‘denied there was a problem.’
The council responded saying that it had listened to residents and altered the design of its Places For People layout, replacing some tree planters with a one-way system, but it reiterated that ‘doing nothing is not an option’.
Islington’s faulty data was processed and written up by a company called Project Centre, part of a larger outfit called Marston Holdings.
This earns most of its money from enforcing court and parking fines and maintaining parking meters.
During the year to May 2021, Marston’s revenues fell from £287million to £255million, as lockdowns stopped people travelling.
But one division did well: Project Centre, where turnover jumped from £17.6million to £18.5million.
It is understood that Project Centre recognises that some errors, spotted in a subsequent audit, were contained in the interim report that it drew up for Islington, but that the erroneous Holloway Road data was caused by the technical issue of an unrelated third party, and Project Centre did not collect the relevant data.
It is also understood that the statements about improved air quality were not contained in the main report but featured in the executive summary as well as a leaflet that was posted to residents, neither being their responsibility.
Islington Council said: ‘A final decision has not yet been taken on the future of Highbury’s people-friendly streets schemes and the council will be listening carefully to feedback from local people on the trials.’
There is evidence to suggest that councils are making lots of money from LTN-related fines.
That is because while some councils have installed large planters to physically block traffic, many use a no-entry sign and camera.
(There’s no suggestion that Marston will win a borough’s parking fine contract if it successfully implements profitable LTNs in those councils.)
Southwark Council in South London received an astonishing £6.62 million from just five cameras in the Dulwich LTN during 2021.
In Hackney, between February 2020 and August 2021, a single street gathered £4.12million in fines after it became part of an LTN.
All of this pain would be acceptable if there was noticeable gain in air quality or in reducing traffic congestion.
But there rarely is.
In Oxford, another city where LTNs have been implemented, there is very little data to compare, for example, air pollution before and after LTNs.
And yet nobody doubts the huge inconvenience to drivers.
Oxford, as a university town in a flat river valley, has a lot of cyclists.
An LTN might be expected to have increased the number of cyclists as people left their cars at home.
But buried on page 385 of a 556-page report, the council reveals that average daily cycling rates within the Cowley LTN were actually lower than before installation —in eight of the nine months evaluated.
Flowers have been dug up and plants destroyed in in Dulwich Village, South London as part of a protest against Low Traffic Neighbourhoods
Richard Parnham is a legal researcher who helps run Reconnecting Oxford, which tries to interrogate some of the official data.
‘Is the medicine working? No, and it won’t work unless you remove all people in the area that drive and replace them with nice middle-class cyclists,’ he says.
Solicitor Sadiea Mustafa-Awan, 39, lives in Littlemore, a relatively poor suburb south of Oxford, with her husband, a van delivery driver, and two young children.
One of her children, Quasim, 8, has autism and ADHD.
Like Matthieu in Islington, Quasim gets agitated if his bus to his special school is late picking him up — as it now frequently is.
‘He can’t cycle to school,’ says Sadiea.
‘It’s just so unfair that he doesn’t get a choice about this.’ Sadiea is so furious that Oxford council seems to have ignored opposition to the LTNs that she has decided to stand as an independent councillor in the forthcoming local elections.
Oxfordshire County Council received about 2,400 responses in its LTN consultation. Of those, 63 per cent said they objected, 11 per cent had ‘concerns’, while 26 per cent supported the schemes.
But despite three-quarters of residents being negative about LTNs, the council intended to rubber-stamp the measures being made permanent last month.
It was only at the last moment, in the face of increasingly angry residents, that it agreed to delay the decision.
Oxfordshire County Council said: ‘Through the consultation process so far, we have received valuable feedback from people in these groups, which we will use to help shape the final plans for the LTNs.’
It is this reluctance to listen to residents that enrages so many people — those who want nicer streets, fewer cars and to encourage cycling.
But they also want to be listened to.
As Elodie in Islington says: ‘We live in a world where data is king. We need to focus on data. But then we discover bogus data about LTNs is being relied on, which shatters your confidence.
‘The trust between us residents and the council is absolutely broken. And that is a very dangerous place for the council to be in.’
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One good thing about local elections is that they reveal what people actually care about. Not the stuff we claim to care about in surveys, or on Twitter, or in conversations with friends. Not climate change or foreign policy or even, really, politics.
Getting from A to B. That’s what matters – at least in my patch of north-east London. We haven’t been able to get from A to B since September 2020, when, seemingly overnight and with no consultation that anyone can recall, the streets of Hackney and Islington were suddenly reconfigured into strange new contortions.
Enormous flowerpots containing tree saplings were plonked onto residential roads to stop cars passing through, and signs promising a greener future redirected traffic onto main roads, which were suddenly choked with angry motorists.
It took me a few months to come to terms with not being able to go anywhere. I miss, especially, being able to visit my aged mother on the other side of London without having to pack an overnight bag. But it could be much worse. At least I am middle class. I have the kind of job that can easily be done from home, and the kind of home that really benefits from one of these “low traffic neighbourhood” schemes (LTNs).
Our pretty, tree-lined street is now quieter than at any time since the invention of the combustion engine. Sitting in my back garden, I can hear my environment more clearly than in half a century of urban living. Different kinds of birdsong. The thwock of tennis being played in the nearby park. And only very faintly – so mercifully faint – the grumble and honk of the hoi polloi, still valiantly attempting to get to and fro.
LTNs are a class issue – but one that, like so many class issues now, doesn’t map neatly onto old political loyalties. Funded by a Tory Government, they have been eagerly implemented by Left-wing councils, even though the people who hate them most tend to be traditional Labour voters. The low-income workers who have to leave the house to get to work, and whose bus journeys are now even slower.
These voters can’t afford to live in the quiet “residential” streets, so they don’t get to hear the birdsong. For the 10 per cent of Londoners who in fact reside on the main arterial roads, the noise and smog is incredible. Traffic on my nearest main road has risen by an estimated 40 per cent, no doubt aided by the redirection of cars from quieter residential areas.
Our Labour council introduced the LTN as a temporary measure, accompanied by honeyed promises of a local consultation and debate. When it finally got round to holding that consultation, 62 per cent of respondents said they opposed the LTN. The council reacted by making it permanent.
“I’m never voting Labour again,” a cab driver told me, last time I was foolish enough to leave my immediate neighbourhood. He waved a hand around to indicate the Islington perma-jam. “Look at this! How is this helping the working man?”
A florid Cockney from a long line of Labour voters, he told me everyone he knew would be voting Tory this time, because of the LTNs. “It won’t make any difference,” he then conceded. “This area is a one-party state. I’m moving to Essex.”
I tutted sympathetically, paid my fare and walked the rest of the way home – away from the traffic, and into the silent, expensive streets.
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Intuit (INTU) Gains As Market Dips: What You Should Know
In the latest trading session, Intuit (INTU) closed at $481, marking a +1.92% move from the previous day. This change outpaced the S&P 500's 1.57% loss on the day. At the same time, the Dow lost 1.56%, and the tech-heavy Nasdaq lost 0.09%.
Heading into today, shares of the maker of TurboTax, QuickBooks and other accounting software had lost 2.89% over the past month, lagging the Computer and Technology sector's gain of 4.23% and the S&P 500's gain of 5.37% in that time.
Intuit will be looking to display strength as it nears its next earnings release. In that report, analysts expect Intuit to post earnings of $7.60 per share. This would mark year-over-year growth of 25.21%. Meanwhile, the Zacks Consensus Estimate for revenue is projecting net sales of $5.52 billion, up 32.24% from the year-ago period.
For the full year, our Zacks Consensus Estimates are projecting earnings of $11.66 per share and revenue of $12.29 billion, which would represent changes of +19.71% and +27.61%, respectively, from the prior year.
Investors should also note any recent changes to analyst estimates for Intuit. These revisions help to show the ever-changing nature of near-term business trends. As a result, we can interpret positive estimate revisions as a good sign for the company's business outlook.
Our research shows that these estimate changes are directly correlated with near-term stock prices. We developed the Zacks Rank to capitalize on this phenomenon. Our system takes these estimate changes into account and delivers a clear, actionable rating model.
Ranging from #1 (Strong Buy) to #5 (Strong Sell), the Zacks Rank system has a proven, outside-audited track record of outperformance, with #1 stocks returning an average of +25% annually since 1988. Over the past month, the Zacks Consensus EPS estimate has moved 0.1% lower. Intuit is currently sporting a Zacks Rank of #3 (Hold).
Looking at its valuation, Intuit is holding a Forward P/E ratio of 40.47. For comparison, its industry has an average Forward P/E of 30.82, which means Intuit is trading at a premium to the group.
Meanwhile, INTU's PEG ratio is currently 2.63. This metric is used similarly to the famous P/E ratio, but the PEG ratio also takes into account the stock's expected earnings growth rate. Computer - Software stocks are, on average, holding a PEG ratio of 2.63 based on yesterday's closing prices.
The Computer - Software industry is part of the Computer and Technology sector. This group has a Zacks Industry Rank of 190, putting it in the bottom 26% of all 250+ industries.
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Intuit (INTU) Gains As Market Dips: What You Should Know
In the latest trading session, Intuit (INTU) closed at $434.74, marking a +0.01% move from the previous day. This move outpaced the S&P 500's daily loss of 0.93%. Meanwhile, the Dow lost 0.43%, and the Nasdaq, a tech-heavy index, lost 0.17%.
Heading into today, shares of the maker of TurboTax, QuickBooks and other accounting software had gained 8.47% over the past month, outpacing the Computer and Technology sector's loss of 12.29% and the S&P 500's gain of 6.31% in that time.
Intuit will be looking to display strength as it nears its next earnings release. In that report, analysts expect Intuit to post earnings of $0.99 per share. This would mark a year-over-year decline of 49.75%. Meanwhile, our latest consensus estimate is calling for revenue of $2.35 billion, down 8.1% from the prior-year quarter.
For the full year, our Zacks Consensus Estimates are projecting earnings of $11.72 per share and revenue of $12.67 billion, which would represent changes of +20.33% and +31.48%, respectively, from the prior year.
Investors should also note any recent changes to analyst estimates for Intuit. These recent revisions tend to reflect the evolving nature of short-term business trends. As such, positive estimate revisions reflect analyst optimism about the company's business and profitability.
Based on our research, we believe these estimate revisions are directly related to near-team stock moves. Investors can capitalize on this by using the Zacks Rank. This model considers these estimate changes and provides a simple, actionable rating system.
The Zacks Rank system ranges from #1 (Strong Buy) to #5 (Strong Sell). It has a remarkable, outside-audited track record of success, with #1 stocks delivering an average annual return of +25% since 1988. Within the past 30 days, our consensus EPS projection has moved 0.07% higher. Intuit is currently a Zacks Rank #3 (Hold).
Valuation is also important, so investors should note that Intuit has a Forward P/E ratio of 37.08 right now. This represents a premium compared to its industry's average Forward P/E of 25.24.
Also, we should mention that INTU has a PEG ratio of 2.38. This metric is used similarly to the famous P/E ratio, but the PEG ratio also takes into account the stock's expected earnings growth rate. Computer - Software stocks are, on average, holding a PEG ratio of 2.33 based on yesterday's closing prices.
The Computer - Software industry is part of the Computer and Technology sector. This group has a Zacks Industry Rank of 99, putting it in the top 40% of all 250+ industries.
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Make sure to utilize Zacks.com to follow all of these stock-moving metrics, and more, in the coming trading sessions.
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Intuit (INTU) Gains As Market Dips: What You Should Know
In the latest trading session, Intuit (INTU) closed at $481, marking a +1.92% move from the previous day. This change outpaced the S&P 500's 1.57% loss on the day. At the same time, the Dow lost 1.56%, and the tech-heavy Nasdaq lost 0.09%.
Heading into today, shares of the maker of TurboTax, QuickBooks and other accounting software had lost 2.89% over the past month, lagging the Computer and Technology sector's gain of 4.23% and the S&P 500's gain of 5.37% in that time.
Intuit will be looking to display strength as it nears its next earnings release. In that report, analysts expect Intuit to post earnings of $7.60 per share. This would mark year-over-year growth of 25.21%. Meanwhile, the Zacks Consensus Estimate for revenue is projecting net sales of $5.52 billion, up 32.24% from the year-ago period.
For the full year, our Zacks Consensus Estimates are projecting earnings of $11.66 per share and revenue of $12.29 billion, which would represent changes of +19.71% and +27.61%, respectively, from the prior year.
Investors should also note any recent changes to analyst estimates for Intuit. These revisions help to show the ever-changing nature of near-term business trends. As a result, we can interpret positive estimate revisions as a good sign for the company's business outlook.
Our research shows that these estimate changes are directly correlated with near-term stock prices. We developed the Zacks Rank to capitalize on this phenomenon. Our system takes these estimate changes into account and delivers a clear, actionable rating model.
Ranging from #1 (Strong Buy) to #5 (Strong Sell), the Zacks Rank system has a proven, outside-audited track record of outperformance, with #1 stocks returning an average of +25% annually since 1988. Over the past month, the Zacks Consensus EPS estimate has moved 0.1% lower. Intuit is currently sporting a Zacks Rank of #3 (Hold).
Looking at its valuation, Intuit is holding a Forward P/E ratio of 40.47. For comparison, its industry has an average Forward P/E of 30.82, which means Intuit is trading at a premium to the group.
Meanwhile, INTU's PEG ratio is currently 2.63. This metric is used similarly to the famous P/E ratio, but the PEG ratio also takes into account the stock's expected earnings growth rate. Computer - Software stocks are, on average, holding a PEG ratio of 2.63 based on yesterday's closing prices.
The Computer - Software industry is part of the Computer and Technology sector. This group has a Zacks Industry Rank of 190, putting it in the bottom 26% of all 250+ industries.
The Zacks Industry Rank gauges the strength of our individual industry groups by measuring the average Zacks Rank of the individual stocks within the groups. Our research shows that the top 50% rated industries outperform the bottom half by a factor of 2 to 1.
You can find more information on all of these metrics, and much more, on Zacks.com.
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It’s a little-known chemical company that’s up 65% over last year, yet still dirt cheap. With unrelenting demand, soaring 2022 earnings estimates, and $1.5 billion for repurchasing shares, retail investors could jump in at any time.
This company could rival or surpass other recent Zacks’ Stocks Set to Double like Boston Beer Company which shot up +143.0% in little more than 9 months and NVIDIA which boomed +175.9% in one year.
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Intuit (INTU) Gains As Market Dips: What You Should Know
Intuit (INTU) closed at $389.66 in the latest trading session, marking a +0.87% move from the prior day. This change outpaced the S&P 500's 0.07% loss on the day. Meanwhile, the Dow gained 0.27%, and the Nasdaq, a tech-heavy index, added 0.02%.
Coming into today, shares of the maker of TurboTax, QuickBooks and other accounting software had lost 6.8% in the past month. In that same time, the Computer and Technology sector lost 7.26%, while the S&P 500 lost 7.99%.
Wall Street will be looking for positivity from Intuit as it approaches its next earnings report date. On that day, Intuit is projected to report earnings of $0.99 per share, which would represent a year-over-year decline of 49.75%. Meanwhile, the Zacks Consensus Estimate for revenue is projecting net sales of $2.35 billion, down 8.05% from the year-ago period.
Looking at the full year, our Zacks Consensus Estimates suggest analysts are expecting earnings of $11.72 per share and revenue of $12.67 billion. These totals would mark changes of +20.33% and +31.49%, respectively, from last year.
Investors should also note any recent changes to analyst estimates for Intuit. These revisions typically reflect the latest short-term business trends, which can change frequently. As such, positive estimate revisions reflect analyst optimism about the company's business and profitability.
Based on our research, we believe these estimate revisions are directly related to near-team stock moves. To benefit from this, we have developed the Zacks Rank, a proprietary model which takes these estimate changes into account and provides an actionable rating system.
The Zacks Rank system ranges from #1 (Strong Buy) to #5 (Strong Sell). It has a remarkable, outside-audited track record of success, with #1 stocks delivering an average annual return of +25% since 1988. Within the past 30 days, our consensus EPS projection remained stagnant. Intuit is holding a Zacks Rank of #3 (Hold) right now.
Looking at its valuation, Intuit is holding a Forward P/E ratio of 32.96. This represents a premium compared to its industry's average Forward P/E of 26.52.
Meanwhile, INTU's PEG ratio is currently 2.1. This metric is used similarly to the famous P/E ratio, but the PEG ratio also takes into account the stock's expected earnings growth rate. INTU's industry had an average PEG ratio of 2.2 as of yesterday's close.
The Computer - Software industry is part of the Computer and Technology sector. This group has a Zacks Industry Rank of 183, putting it in the bottom 28% of all 250+ industries.
The Zacks Industry Rank gauges the strength of our individual industry groups by measuring the average Zacks Rank of the individual stocks within the groups. Our research shows that the top 50% rated industries outperform the bottom half by a factor of 2 to 1.
You can find more information on all of these metrics, and much more, on Zacks.com.
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From thousands of stocks, 5 Zacks experts each have chosen their favorite to skyrocket +100% or more in months to come. From those 5, Director of Research Sheraz Mian hand-picks one to have the most explosive upside of all.
It’s a little-known chemical company that’s up 65% over last year, yet still dirt cheap. With unrelenting demand, soaring 2022 earnings estimates, and $1.5 billion for repurchasing shares, retail investors could jump in at any time.
This company could rival or surpass other recent Zacks’ Stocks Set to Double like Boston Beer Company which shot up +143.0% in little more than 9 months and NVIDIA which boomed +175.9% in one year.
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Intuit (INTU) Gains As Market Dips: What You Should Know
In the latest trading session, Intuit (INTU) closed at $481, marking a +1.92% move from the previous day. This change outpaced the S&P 500's 1.57% loss on the day. At the same time, the Dow lost 1.56%, and the tech-heavy Nasdaq lost 0.09%.
Heading into today, shares of the maker of TurboTax, QuickBooks and other accounting software had lost 2.89% over the past month, lagging the Computer and Technology sector's gain of 4.23% and the S&P 500's gain of 5.37% in that time.
Intuit will be looking to display strength as it nears its next earnings release. In that report, analysts expect Intuit to post earnings of $7.60 per share. This would mark year-over-year growth of 25.21%. Meanwhile, the Zacks Consensus Estimate for revenue is projecting net sales of $5.52 billion, up 32.24% from the year-ago period.
For the full year, our Zacks Consensus Estimates are projecting earnings of $11.66 per share and revenue of $12.29 billion, which would represent changes of +19.71% and +27.61%, respectively, from the prior year.
Investors should also note any recent changes to analyst estimates for Intuit. These revisions help to show the ever-changing nature of near-term business trends. As a result, we can interpret positive estimate revisions as a good sign for the company's business outlook.
Our research shows that these estimate changes are directly correlated with near-term stock prices. We developed the Zacks Rank to capitalize on this phenomenon. Our system takes these estimate changes into account and delivers a clear, actionable rating model.
Ranging from #1 (Strong Buy) to #5 (Strong Sell), the Zacks Rank system has a proven, outside-audited track record of outperformance, with #1 stocks returning an average of +25% annually since 1988. Over the past month, the Zacks Consensus EPS estimate has moved 0.1% lower. Intuit is currently sporting a Zacks Rank of #3 (Hold).
Looking at its valuation, Intuit is holding a Forward P/E ratio of 40.47. For comparison, its industry has an average Forward P/E of 30.82, which means Intuit is trading at a premium to the group.
Meanwhile, INTU's PEG ratio is currently 2.63. This metric is used similarly to the famous P/E ratio, but the PEG ratio also takes into account the stock's expected earnings growth rate. Computer - Software stocks are, on average, holding a PEG ratio of 2.63 based on yesterday's closing prices.
The Computer - Software industry is part of the Computer and Technology sector. This group has a Zacks Industry Rank of 190, putting it in the bottom 26% of all 250+ industries.
The Zacks Industry Rank gauges the strength of our individual industry groups by measuring the average Zacks Rank of the individual stocks within the groups. Our research shows that the top 50% rated industries outperform the bottom half by a factor of 2 to 1.
You can find more information on all of these metrics, and much more, on Zacks.com.
Zacks Names "Single Best Pick to Double"
From thousands of stocks, 5 Zacks experts each have chosen their favorite to skyrocket +100% or more in months to come. From those 5, Director of Research Sheraz Mian hand-picks one to have the most explosive upside of all.
It’s a little-known chemical company that’s up 65% over last year, yet still dirt cheap. With unrelenting demand, soaring 2022 earnings estimates, and $1.5 billion for repurchasing shares, retail investors could jump in at any time.
This company could rival or surpass other recent Zacks’ Stocks Set to Double like Boston Beer Company which shot up +143.0% in little more than 9 months and NVIDIA which boomed +175.9% in one year.
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Intuit (INTU) Dips More Than Broader Markets: What You Should Know
In the latest trading session, Intuit (INTU) closed at $490.21, marking a -1.18% move from the previous day. This change lagged the S&P 500's daily loss of 0.97%. Elsewhere, the Dow lost 0.42%, while the tech-heavy Nasdaq lost 0.49%.
Coming into today, shares of the maker of TurboTax, QuickBooks and other accounting software had gained 12.18% in the past month. In that same time, the Computer and Technology sector gained 6.06%, while the S&P 500 gained 4.71%.
Intuit will be looking to display strength as it nears its next earnings release. The company is expected to report EPS of $7.60, up 25.21% from the prior-year quarter. Our most recent consensus estimate is calling for quarterly revenue of $5.52 billion, up 32.24% from the year-ago period.
Looking at the full year, our Zacks Consensus Estimates suggest analysts are expecting earnings of $11.66 per share and revenue of $12.29 billion. These totals would mark changes of +19.71% and +27.61%, respectively, from last year.
Any recent changes to analyst estimates for Intuit should also be noted by investors. These recent revisions tend to reflect the evolving nature of short-term business trends. As such, positive estimate revisions reflect analyst optimism about the company's business and profitability.
Our research shows that these estimate changes are directly correlated with near-term stock prices. Investors can capitalize on this by using the Zacks Rank. This model considers these estimate changes and provides a simple, actionable rating system.
Ranging from #1 (Strong Buy) to #5 (Strong Sell), the Zacks Rank system has a proven, outside-audited track record of outperformance, with #1 stocks returning an average of +25% annually since 1988. The Zacks Consensus EPS estimate has moved 0.1% lower within the past month. Intuit is currently sporting a Zacks Rank of #3 (Hold).
Valuation is also important, so investors should note that Intuit has a Forward P/E ratio of 42.53 right now. This represents a premium compared to its industry's average Forward P/E of 31.29.
Meanwhile, INTU's PEG ratio is currently 2.76. The PEG ratio is similar to the widely-used P/E ratio, but this metric also takes the company's expected earnings growth rate into account. The Computer - Software was holding an average PEG ratio of 2.56 at yesterday's closing price.
The Computer - Software industry is part of the Computer and Technology sector. This industry currently has a Zacks Industry Rank of 161, which puts it in the bottom 37% of all 250+ industries.
The Zacks Industry Rank gauges the strength of our industry groups by measuring the average Zacks Rank of the individual stocks within the groups. Our research shows that the top 50% rated industries outperform the bottom half by a factor of 2 to 1.
Make sure to utilize Zacks.com to follow all of these stock-moving metrics, and more, in the coming trading sessions.
Zacks Names "Single Best Pick to Double"
From thousands of stocks, 5 Zacks experts each have chosen their favorite to skyrocket +100% or more in months to come. From those 5, Director of Research Sheraz Mian hand-picks one to have the most explosive upside of all.
It’s a little-known chemical company that’s up 65% over last year, yet still dirt cheap. With unrelenting demand, soaring 2022 earnings estimates, and $1.5 billion for repurchasing shares, retail investors could jump in at any time.
This company could rival or surpass other recent Zacks’ Stocks Set to Double like Boston Beer Company which shot up +143.0% in little more than 9 months and NVIDIA which boomed +175.9% in one year.
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — NCAA President Mark Emmert said investigations into allegations of major violations against several high-profile men's college basketball programs — including 2022 Final Four participant Kansas — have taken “way too long.”
What solutions might be on the table to speed it up, Emmert did not say, but there appears to be increasing acknowledgement that the current process is broken.
“It’s just been really slow in getting through that new independent process that’s wound up reinvestigating the entire case,” Emmert said, referring to the Independent Accountability Resolution Process (IARP).
The IARP was created out of proposals from the commission led by former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in 2018 to reform the sport. It began looking into allegations against Kansas, Arizona, LSU, Louisville and North Carolina State on the heels of a federal investigation into corruption in college sports that resulted in convictions of shoe company executives, a middle man who worked with them and some assistant college coaches.
Of those FBI cases nearly five years ago, only one -- North Carolina State, tied to its recruitment of one-and-done star Dennis Smith Jr. -- has actually gone through the IARP system to completion and received a ruling that resulted in probation for one year, some vacated victories and penalties for previous coaches.
The four other cases are still pending in the IARP structure, while Auburn went through the more traditional process and received four years of probation in December from an NCAA infractions committee panel.
In the meantime, this year's NCAA Tournament could be tainted should Kansas win the national championship and subsequently have an unfavorable decision come down in a now half-decade-old investigation.
Created to handle complex cases, the IARP includes independent investigators and decision-makers with no direct ties to NCAA member schools, and rulings cannot be appealed.
Emmert said NCAA institutions need to come up with a process that has “got to be fair. It’s got to be swift. And it’s got to not punish the innocent. ... That’s where the membership’s got to be in all of this, as they shape a new process or rebuild the one that’s in place.”
The Kansas case hinges on whether Adidas representatives were considered boosters — the school contends they were not — when two of them arranged payments to prospective recruits. Kansas does not dispute the payments. Kansas asked for referral to the IARP instead of having the NCAA's infractions committee handle the matter.
While the lengthy IARP process has been going on, Self agreed to a new contract on April 2, 2021, that will keep him with the school until he retires.
The five-year deal adds one additional year after the conclusion of each season — in effect, making it a lifetime contract. It guarantees him $5.41 million per year with a base salary of $225,000, professional services contract of $2.75 million and an annual $2.435 million retention bonus.
The contact also includes a clause that says the school cannot terminate him for cause “due to any current infractions matter that involves conduct that occurred on or prior to” the signing of the new contract. Instead, he would forfeit half of his base salary and professional services pay while serving any Big 12 or NCAA suspension.
Emmert declined to weigh on on Kansas' decision to double down on Self.
“I’ll leave it to the school to make decisions about their coaches’ contracts,” said Emmert, who also spoke at the women's Final Four on Wednesday. “That’s their business, obviously. They can do that as they see fit.”
The infractions process has also come up with the Division I Transformation Committee, which is working to recommend ways to modernize and reform NCAA governance and regulatory policies.
Southeastern Conference Commissioner Greg Sankey, who chairs the committee along with Ohio athletics director Julie Cromer, said the group is looking at both the overall infractions process and the IARP structure as part of its work.
“I don’t know fully what was envisioned and what wasn’t envisioned,” said Sankey, who has served on the NCAA infractions committee. “But we have to have timely outcomes, both for those accused and for those competing against those who are accused. That has to be a point of emphasis.”
Later, Sankey added: “I was on an implementation working group, and I disagreed with elements of the approach. So I think some of these problems were foreseeable. We have an opportunity to correct and enhance the process. That doesn’t mean everybody will like the process.”
Among other topics Emmert addressed:
NATIONAL NIL RULES
Emmert offered an urgent plea to Congress to craft what he said was needed, uniform national legislation governing financial endorsements for athletes know known as name, image and likeness (NIL) deals.
“This tournament’s put on full display the beauty of college sport,” Emmert said. "People love it and enjoy it, and we’ve got to work with the schools and with Congress to make sure we can continue that.
“We’ve got again a relatively short window of time — in my estimate, one and two years,” Emmert continued. “These decisions have to be made because of the dynamics that are underway right now that are far beyond the control of schools, coaches, (athletic directors) or presidents.”
Currently, more than 30 states have been working on their own NIL laws.
TRANSGENDER LEGISLATION
With a number of states considering or passing legislation restricting participation of transgender athletes, Emmert was asked whether the NCAA would bar those states from hosting championship events.
The NCAA has largely followed the Olympic model that allows transgender athletes to compete if they've had certain biomedical treatments, including hormone therapies, meant to promote fairness.
Emmert said the NCAA currently requires communities which wish to host events “to explain how it is that they’re going to make sure that the participants in that sport will be allowed to do that in a nondiscriminatory way. ... If they can do that, then we’ll be in those states."
TRANFER RULES
Emmert said the current transfer rules continue to draw a lot of scrutiny and complaints from coaches and could be adjusted over time.
“The only thing that I can say right now is that it’s clear that students are getting more opportunities to play. They’re getting more freedom of movement in some respects,” Emmert said.
But he added that officials are keeping an eye on how the rules affect “students being able to finish their degrees in a timely fashion and go on and lead productive lives, because we know how few of them will be professional basketball players. It’s a constant point of discussion. I don’t anticipate it going away too soon.”
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AP Sports Writers Aaron Beard, Dave Skretta and John Marshall contributed to this report.
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NEW ORLEANS – NCAA President Mark Emmert said investigations into allegations of major violations against several high-profile men's college basketball programs — including 2022 Final Four participant Kansas — have taken “way too long.”
What solutions might be on the table to speed it up, Emmert did not say, but there appears to be increasing acknowledgement that the current process is broken.
“It’s just been really slow in getting through that new independent process that’s wound up reinvestigating the entire case,” Emmert said, referring to the Independent Accountability Resolution Process (IARP).
The IARP was created out of proposals from the commission led by former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in 2018 to reform the sport. It began looking into allegations against Kansas, Arizona, LSU, Louisville and North Carolina State on the heels of a federal investigation into corruption in college sports that resulted in convictions of shoe company executives, a middle man who worked with them and some assistant college coaches.
Of those FBI cases nearly five years ago, only one -- North Carolina State, tied to its recruitment of one-and-done star Dennis Smith Jr. -- has actually gone through the IARP system to completion and received a ruling that resulted in probation for one year, some vacated victories and penalties for previous coaches.
The four other cases are still pending in the IARP structure, while Auburn went through the more traditional process and received four years of probation in December from an NCAA infractions committee panel.
In the meantime, this year's NCAA Tournament could be tainted should Kansas win the national championship and subsequently have an unfavorable decision come down in a now half-decade-old investigation.
Created to handle complex cases, the IARP includes independent investigators and decision-makers with no direct ties to NCAA member schools, and rulings cannot be appealed.
Emmert said NCAA institutions need to come up with a process that has “got to be fair. It’s got to be swift. And it’s got to not punish the innocent. ... That’s where the membership’s got to be in all of this, as they shape a new process or rebuild the one that’s in place.”
The Kansas case hinges on whether Adidas representatives were considered boosters — the school contends they were not — when two of them arranged payments to prospective recruits. Kansas does not dispute the payments. Kansas asked for referral to the IARP instead of having the NCAA's infractions committee handle the matter.
While the lengthy IARP process has been going on, Self agreed to a new contract on April 2, 2021, that will keep him with the school until he retires.
The five-year deal adds one additional year after the conclusion of each season — in effect, making it a lifetime contract. It guarantees him $5.41 million per year with a base salary of $225,000, professional services contract of $2.75 million and an annual $2.435 million retention bonus.
The contact also includes a clause that says the school cannot terminate him for cause “due to any current infractions matter that involves conduct that occurred on or prior to” the signing of the new contract. Instead, he would forfeit half of his base salary and professional services pay while serving any Big 12 or NCAA suspension.
Emmert declined to weigh on on Kansas' decision to double down on Self.
“I’ll leave it to the school to make decisions about their coaches’ contracts,” said Emmert, who also spoke at the women's Final Four on Wednesday. “That’s their business, obviously. They can do that as they see fit.”
The infractions process has also come up with the Division I Transformation Committee, which is working to recommend ways to modernize and reform NCAA governance and regulatory policies.
Southeastern Conference Commissioner Greg Sankey, who chairs the committee along with Ohio athletics director Julie Cromer, said the group is looking at both the overall infractions process and the IARP structure as part of its work.
“I don’t know fully what was envisioned and what wasn’t envisioned,” said Sankey, who has served on the NCAA infractions committee. “But we have to have timely outcomes, both for those accused and for those competing against those who are accused. That has to be a point of emphasis.”
Later, Sankey added: “I was on an implementation working group, and I disagreed with elements of the approach. So I think some of these problems were foreseeable. We have an opportunity to correct and enhance the process. That doesn’t mean everybody will like the process.”
Among other topics Emmert addressed:
NATIONAL NIL RULES
Emmert offered an urgent plea to Congress to craft what he said was needed, uniform national legislation governing financial endorsements for athletes known as name, image and likeness (NIL) deals.
“This tournament’s put on full display the beauty of college sport,” Emmert said. "People love it and enjoy it, and we’ve got to work with the schools and with Congress to make sure we can continue that.
“We’ve got again a relatively short window of time — in my estimate, one and two years,” Emmert continued. “These decisions have to be made because of the dynamics that are underway right now that are far beyond the control of schools, coaches, (athletic directors) or presidents.”
Currently, more than 30 states have been working on their own NIL laws.
TRANSGENDER LEGISLATION
With a number of states considering or passing legislation restricting participation of transgender athletes, Emmert was asked whether the NCAA would bar those states from hosting championship events.
The NCAA has largely followed the Olympic model that allows transgender athletes to compete if they've had certain biomedical treatments, including hormone therapies, meant to promote fairness.
Emmert said the NCAA currently requires communities which wish to host events “to explain how it is that they’re going to make sure that the participants in that sport will be allowed to do that in a nondiscriminatory way. ... If they can do that, then we’ll be in those states."
TRANFER RULES
Emmert said the current transfer rules continue to draw a lot of scrutiny and complaints from coaches and could be adjusted over time.
“The only thing that I can say right now is that it’s clear that students are getting more opportunities to play. They’re getting more freedom of movement in some respects,” Emmert said.
But he added that officials are keeping an eye on how the rules affect “students being able to finish their degrees in a timely fashion and go on and lead productive lives, because we know how few of them will be professional basketball players. It’s a constant point of discussion. I don’t anticipate it going away too soon.”
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AP Sports Writers Aaron Beard, Dave Skretta and John Marshall contributed to this report.
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — NCAA President Mark Emmert said investigations into allegations of major violations against several high-profile men's college basketball programs — including 2022 Final Four participant Kansas — have taken “way too long.”
What solutions might be on the table to speed it up, Emmert did not say, but there appears to be increasing acknowledgement that the current process is broken.
“It’s just been really slow in getting through that new independent process that’s wound up reinvestigating the entire case,” Emmert said, referring to the Independent Accountability Resolution Process (IARP).
The IARP was created out of proposals from the commission led by former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in 2018 to reform the sport. It began looking into allegations against Kansas, Arizona, LSU, Louisville and North Carolina State on the heels of a federal investigation into corruption in college sports that resulted in convictions of shoe company executives, a middle man who worked with them and some assistant college coaches.
Of those FBI cases nearly five years ago, only one -- North Carolina State, tied to its recruitment of one-and-done star Dennis Smith Jr. -- has actually gone through the IARP system to completion and received a ruling that resulted in probation for one year, some vacated victories and penalties for previous coaches.
The four other cases are still pending in the IARP structure, while Auburn went through the more traditional process and received four years of probation in December from an NCAA infractions committee panel.
In the meantime, this year's NCAA Tournament could be tainted should Kansas win the national championship and subsequently have an unfavorable decision come down in a now half-decade-old investigation.
Created to handle complex cases, the IARP includes independent investigators and decision-makers with no direct ties to NCAA member schools, and rulings cannot be appealed.
Emmert said NCAA institutions need to come up with a process that has “got to be fair. It’s got to be swift. And it’s got to not punish the innocent. ... That’s where the membership’s got to be in all of this, as they shape a new process or rebuild the one that’s in place.”
The Kansas case hinges on whether Adidas representatives were considered boosters — the school contends they were not — when two of them arranged payments to prospective recruits. Kansas does not dispute the payments. Kansas asked for referral to the IARP instead of having the NCAA's infractions committee handle the matter.
While the lengthy IARP process has been going on, Self agreed to a new contract on April 2, 2021, that will keep him with the school until he retires.
The five-year deal adds one additional year after the conclusion of each season — in effect, making it a lifetime contract. It guarantees him $5.41 million per year with a base salary of $225,000, professional services contract of $2.75 million and an annual $2.435 million retention bonus.
The contact also includes a clause that says the school cannot terminate him for cause “due to any current infractions matter that involves conduct that occurred on or prior to” the signing of the new contract. Instead, he would forfeit half of his base salary and professional services pay while serving any Big 12 or NCAA suspension.
Emmert declined to weigh on on Kansas' decision to double down on Self.
“I’ll leave it to the school to make decisions about their coaches’ contracts,” said Emmert, who also spoke at the women's Final Four on Wednesday. “That’s their business, obviously. They can do that as they see fit.”
The infractions process has also come up with the Division I Transformation Committee, which is working to recommend ways to modernize and reform NCAA governance and regulatory policies.
Southeastern Conference Commissioner Greg Sankey, who chairs the committee along with Ohio athletics director Julie Cromer, said the group is looking at both the overall infractions process and the IARP structure as part of its work.
“I don’t know fully what was envisioned and what wasn’t envisioned,” said Sankey, who has served on the NCAA infractions committee. “But we have to have timely outcomes, both for those accused and for those competing against those who are accused. That has to be a point of emphasis.”
Later, Sankey added: “I was on an implementation working group, and I disagreed with elements of the approach. So I think some of these problems were foreseeable. We have an opportunity to correct and enhance the process. That doesn’t mean everybody will like the process.”
Among other topics Emmert addressed:
NATIONAL NIL RULES
Emmert offered an urgent plea to Congress to craft what he said was needed, uniform national legislation governing financial endorsements for athletes know known as name, image and likeness (NIL) deals.
“This tournament’s put on full display the beauty of college sport,” Emmert said. "People love it and enjoy it, and we’ve got to work with the schools and with Congress to make sure we can continue that.
“We’ve got again a relatively short window of time — in my estimate, one and two years,” Emmert continued. “These decisions have to be made because of the dynamics that are underway right now that are far beyond the control of schools, coaches, (athletic directors) or presidents.”
Currently, more than 30 states have been working on their own NIL laws.
TRANSGENDER LEGISLATION
With a number of states considering or passing legislation restricting participation of transgender athletes, Emmert was asked whether the NCAA would bar those states from hosting championship events.
The NCAA has largely followed the Olympic model that allows transgender athletes to compete if they've had certain biomedical treatments, including hormone therapies, meant to promote fairness.
Emmert said the NCAA currently requires communities which wish to host events “to explain how it is that they’re going to make sure that the participants in that sport will be allowed to do that in a nondiscriminatory way. ... If they can do that, then we’ll be in those states."
TRANFER RULES
Emmert said the current transfer rules continue to draw a lot of scrutiny and complaints from coaches and could be adjusted over time.
“The only thing that I can say right now is that it’s clear that students are getting more opportunities to play. They’re getting more freedom of movement in some respects,” Emmert said.
But he added that officials are keeping an eye on how the rules affect “students being able to finish their degrees in a timely fashion and go on and lead productive lives, because we know how few of them will be professional basketball players. It’s a constant point of discussion. I don’t anticipate it going away too soon.”
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AP Sports Writers Aaron Beard, Dave Skretta and John Marshall contributed to this report.
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — NCAA President Mark Emmert said investigations into allegations of major violations against several high-profile men’s college basketball programs — including 2022 Final Four participant Kansas — have taken “way too long.”
What solutions might be on the table to speed it up, Emmert did not say, but there appears to be increasing acknowledgement that the current process is broken.
“It’s just been really slow in getting through that new independent process that’s wound up reinvestigating the entire case,” Emmert said, referring to the Independent Accountability Resolution Process (IARP).
The IARP was created out of proposals from the commission led by former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in 2018 to reform the sport. It began looking into allegations against Kansas, Arizona, LSU, Louisville and North Carolina State on the heels of a federal investigation into corruption in college sports that resulted in convictions of shoe company executives, a middle man who worked with them and some assistant college coaches.
Of those FBI cases nearly five years ago, only one — North Carolina State, tied to its recruitment of one-and-done star Dennis Smith Jr. — has actually gone through the IARP system to completion andreceived a rulingthat resulted in probation for one year, some vacated victories and penalties for previous coaches.
The four other cases are still pending in the IARP structure, while Auburn went through the more traditional processand received four years of probation in December from an NCAA infractions committee panel.
In the meantime, this year’s NCAA Tournament could be tainted should Kansas win the national championship and subsequently have an unfavorable decision come down in a now half-decade-old investigation.
Created to handle complex cases, the IARP includes independent investigators and decision-makers with no direct ties to NCAA member schools, and rulings cannot be appealed.
Emmert said NCAA institutions need to come up with a process that has “got to be fair. It’s got to be swift. And it’s got to not punish the innocent. … That’s where the membership’s got to be in all of this, as they shape a new process or rebuild the one that’s in place.”
The Kansas case hinges on whether Adidas representatives were considered boosters — the school contends they were not — when two of them arranged payments to prospective recruits. Kansas does not dispute the payments. Kansas asked for referral to the IARP instead of having the NCAA’s infractions committee handle the matter.
While the lengthy IARP process has been going on,Self agreed to a new contract on April 2, 2021, that will keep him with the school until he retires.
The five-year deal adds one additional year after the conclusion of each season — in effect, making it a lifetime contract. It guarantees him $5.41 million per year with a base salary of $225,000, professional services contract of $2.75 million and an annual $2.435 million retention bonus.
The contact also includes a clause that says the school cannot terminate him for cause “due to any current infractions matter that involves conduct that occurred on or prior to” the signing of the new contract. Instead, he would forfeit half of his base salary and professional services pay while serving any Big 12 or NCAA suspension.
Emmert declined to weigh on on Kansas’ decision to double down on Self.
“I’ll leave it to the school to make decisions about their coaches’ contracts,” said Emmert, who also spoke at the women’s Final Four on Wednesday. “That’s their business, obviously. They can do that as they see fit.”
The infractions process has also come up with the Division I Transformation Committee, which is working to recommend ways to modernize and reform NCAA governance and regulatory policies.
Southeastern Conference Commissioner Greg Sankey, who chairs the committee along with Ohio athletics director Julie Cromer, said the group is looking at both the overall infractions process and the IARP structure as part of its work.
“I don’t know fully what was envisioned and what wasn’t envisioned,” said Sankey, who has served on the NCAA infractions committee. “But we have to have timely outcomes, both for those accused and for those competing against those who are accused. That has to be a point of emphasis.”
Later, Sankey added: “I was on an implementation working group, and I disagreed with elements of the approach. So I think some of these problems were foreseeable. We have an opportunity to correct and enhance the process. That doesn’t mean everybody will like the process.”
Among other topics Emmert addressed:
NATIONAL NIL RULES
Emmert offered an urgent plea to Congress to craft what he said was needed, uniform national legislation governing financial endorsements for athletes known as name, image and likeness (NIL) deals.
“This tournament’s put on full display the beauty of college sport,” Emmert said. “People love it and enjoy it, and we’ve got to work with the schools and with Congress to make sure we can continue that.
“We’ve got again a relatively short window of time — in my estimate, one and two years,” Emmert continued. “These decisions have to be made because of the dynamics that are underway right now that are far beyond the control of schools, coaches, (athletic directors) or presidents.”
Currently, more than 30 states have been working on their own NIL laws.
TRANSGENDER LEGISLATION
With a number of states considering or passing legislation restricting participation of transgender athletes, Emmert was asked whether the NCAA would bar those states from hosting championship events.
The NCAA has largely followed the Olympic model that allows transgender athletes to compete if they’ve had certain biomedical treatments, including hormone therapies, meant to promote fairness.
Emmert said the NCAA currently requires communities which wish to host events “to explain how it is that they’re going to make sure that the participants in that sport will be allowed to do that in a nondiscriminatory way. … If they can do that, then we’ll be in those states.”
TRANFER RULES
Emmert said the current transfer rules continue to draw a lot of scrutiny and complaints from coaches and could be adjusted over time.
“The only thing that I can say right now is that it’s clear that students are getting more opportunities to play. They’re getting more freedom of movement in some respects,” Emmert said.
But he added that officials are keeping an eye on how the rules affect “students being able to finish their degrees in a timely fashion and go on and lead productive lives, because we know how few of them will be professional basketball players. It’s a constant point of discussion. I don’t anticipate it going away too soon.”
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AP Sports Writers Aaron Beard, Dave Skretta and John Marshall contributed to this report.
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — NCAA President Mark Emmert said investigations into allegations of major violations against several high-profile men's college basketball programs — including 2022 Final Four participant Kansas — have taken “way too long.”
What solutions might be on the table to speed it up, Emmert did not say, but there appears to be increasing acknowledgement that the current process is broken.
“It’s just been really slow in getting through that new independent process that’s wound up reinvestigating the entire case,” Emmert said, referring to the Independent Accountability Resolution Process (IARP).
The IARP was created out of proposals from the commission led by former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in 2018 to reform the sport. It began looking into allegations against Kansas, Arizona, LSU, Louisville and North Carolina State on the heels of a federal investigation into corruption in college sports that resulted in convictions of shoe company executives, a middle man who worked with them and some assistant college coaches.
Of those FBI cases nearly five years ago, only one -- North Carolina State, tied to its recruitment of one-and-done star Dennis Smith Jr. -- has actually gone through the IARP system to completion and received a ruling that resulted in probation for one year, some vacated victories and penalties for previous coaches.
The four other cases are still pending in the IARP structure, while Auburn went through the more traditional process and received four years of probation in December from an NCAA infractions committee panel.
In the meantime, this year's NCAA Tournament could be tainted should Kansas win the national championship and subsequently have an unfavorable decision come down in a now half-decade-old investigation.
Created to handle complex cases, the IARP includes independent investigators and decision-makers with no direct ties to NCAA member schools, and rulings cannot be appealed.
Emmert said NCAA institutions need to come up with a process that has “got to be fair. It’s got to be swift. And it’s got to not punish the innocent. ... That’s where the membership’s got to be in all of this, as they shape a new process or rebuild the one that’s in place.”
The Kansas case hinges on whether Adidas representatives were considered boosters — the school contends they were not — when two of them arranged payments to prospective recruits. Kansas does not dispute the payments. Kansas asked for referral to the IARP instead of having the NCAA's infractions committee handle the matter.
While the lengthy IARP process has been going on, Self agreed to a new contract on April 2, 2021, that will keep him with the school until he retires.
The five-year deal adds one additional year after the conclusion of each season — in effect, making it a lifetime contract. It guarantees him $5.41 million per year with a base salary of $225,000, professional services contract of $2.75 million and an annual $2.435 million retention bonus.
The contact also includes a clause that says the school cannot terminate him for cause “due to any current infractions matter that involves conduct that occurred on or prior to” the signing of the new contract. Instead, he would forfeit half of his base salary and professional services pay while serving any Big 12 or NCAA suspension.
Emmert declined to weigh on on Kansas' decision to double down on Self.
“I’ll leave it to the school to make decisions about their coaches’ contracts,” said Emmert, who also spoke at the women's Final Four on Wednesday. “That’s their business, obviously. They can do that as they see fit.”
The infractions process has also come up with the Division I Transformation Committee, which is working to recommend ways to modernize and reform NCAA governance and regulatory policies.
Southeastern Conference Commissioner Greg Sankey, who chairs the committee along with Ohio athletics director Julie Cromer, said the group is looking at both the overall infractions process and the IARP structure as part of its work.
“I don’t know fully what was envisioned and what wasn’t envisioned,” said Sankey, who has served on the NCAA infractions committee. “But we have to have timely outcomes, both for those accused and for those competing against those who are accused. That has to be a point of emphasis.”
Later, Sankey added: “I was on an implementation working group, and I disagreed with elements of the approach. So I think some of these problems were foreseeable. We have an opportunity to correct and enhance the process. That doesn’t mean everybody will like the process.”
Among other topics Emmert addressed:
NATIONAL NIL RULES
Emmert offered an urgent plea to Congress to craft what he said was needed, uniform national legislation governing financial endorsements for athletes know known as name, image and likeness (NIL) deals.
“This tournament’s put on full display the beauty of college sport,” Emmert said. "People love it and enjoy it, and we’ve got to work with the schools and with Congress to make sure we can continue that.
“We’ve got again a relatively short window of time — in my estimate, one and two years,” Emmert continued. “These decisions have to be made because of the dynamics that are underway right now that are far beyond the control of schools, coaches, (athletic directors) or presidents.”
Currently, more than 30 states have been working on their own NIL laws.
TRANSGENDER LEGISLATION
With a number of states considering or passing legislation restricting participation of transgender athletes, Emmert was asked whether the NCAA would bar those states from hosting championship events.
The NCAA has largely followed the Olympic model that allows transgender athletes to compete if they've had certain biomedical treatments, including hormone therapies, meant to promote fairness.
Emmert said the NCAA currently requires communities which wish to host events “to explain how it is that they’re going to make sure that the participants in that sport will be allowed to do that in a nondiscriminatory way. ... If they can do that, then we’ll be in those states."
TRANFER RULES
Emmert said the current transfer rules continue to draw a lot of scrutiny and complaints from coaches and could be adjusted over time.
“The only thing that I can say right now is that it’s clear that students are getting more opportunities to play. They’re getting more freedom of movement in some respects,” Emmert said.
But he added that officials are keeping an eye on how the rules affect “students being able to finish their degrees in a timely fashion and go on and lead productive lives, because we know how few of them will be professional basketball players. It’s a constant point of discussion. I don’t anticipate it going away too soon.”
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AP Sports Writers Aaron Beard, Dave Skretta and John Marshall contributed to this report.
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — NCAA President Mark Emmert said investigations into allegations of major violations against several high-profile men’s college basketball programs — including 2022 Final Four participant Kansas — have taken “way too long.”
What solutions might be on the table to speed it up, Emmert did not say, but there appears to be increasing acknowledgement that the current process is broken.
“It’s just been really slow in getting through that new independent process that’s wound up reinvestigating the entire case,” Emmert said, referring to the Independent Accountability Resolution Process (IARP).
The IARP was created out of proposals from the commission led by former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in 2018 to reform the sport. It began looking into allegations against Kansas, Arizona, LSU, Louisville and North Carolina State on the heels of a federal investigation into corruption in college sports that resulted in convictions of shoe company executives, a middle man who worked with them and some assistant college coaches.
Of those FBI cases nearly five years ago, only one — North Carolina State, tied to its recruitment of one-and-done star Dennis Smith Jr. — has actually gone through the IARP system to completion andreceived a rulingthat resulted in probation for one year, some vacated victories and penalties for previous coaches.
The four other cases are still pending in the IARP structure, while Auburn went through the more traditional processand received four years of probation in December from an NCAA infractions committee panel.
In the meantime, this year’s NCAA Tournament could be tainted should Kansas win the national championship and subsequently have an unfavorable decision come down in a now half-decade-old investigation.
Created to handle complex cases, the IARP includes independent investigators and decision-makers with no direct ties to NCAA member schools, and rulings cannot be appealed.
Emmert said NCAA institutions need to come up with a process that has “got to be fair. It’s got to be swift. And it’s got to not punish the innocent. … That’s where the membership’s got to be in all of this, as they shape a new process or rebuild the one that’s in place.”
The Kansas case hinges on whether Adidas representatives were considered boosters — the school contends they were not — when two of them arranged payments to prospective recruits. Kansas does not dispute the payments. Kansas asked for referral to the IARP instead of having the NCAA’s infractions committee handle the matter.
While the lengthy IARP process has been going on,Self agreed to a new contract on April 2, 2021, that will keep him with the school until he retires.
The five-year deal adds one additional year after the conclusion of each season — in effect, making it a lifetime contract. It guarantees him $5.41 million per year with a base salary of $225,000, professional services contract of $2.75 million and an annual $2.435 million retention bonus.
The contact also includes a clause that says the school cannot terminate him for cause “due to any current infractions matter that involves conduct that occurred on or prior to” the signing of the new contract. Instead, he would forfeit half of his base salary and professional services pay while serving any Big 12 or NCAA suspension.
Emmert declined to weigh on on Kansas’ decision to double down on Self.
“I’ll leave it to the school to make decisions about their coaches’ contracts,” said Emmert, who also spoke at the women’s Final Four on Wednesday. “That’s their business, obviously. They can do that as they see fit.”
The infractions process has also come up with the Division I Transformation Committee, which is working to recommend ways to modernize and reform NCAA governance and regulatory policies.
Southeastern Conference Commissioner Greg Sankey, who chairs the committee along with Ohio athletics director Julie Cromer, said the group is looking at both the overall infractions process and the IARP structure as part of its work.
“I don’t know fully what was envisioned and what wasn’t envisioned,” said Sankey, who has served on the NCAA infractions committee. “But we have to have timely outcomes, both for those accused and for those competing against those who are accused. That has to be a point of emphasis.”
Later, Sankey added: “I was on an implementation working group, and I disagreed with elements of the approach. So I think some of these problems were foreseeable. We have an opportunity to correct and enhance the process. That doesn’t mean everybody will like the process.”
Among other topics Emmert addressed:
NATIONAL NIL RULES
Emmert offered an urgent plea to Congress to craft what he said was needed, uniform national legislation governing financial endorsements for athletes known as name, image and likeness (NIL) deals.
“This tournament’s put on full display the beauty of college sport,” Emmert said. “People love it and enjoy it, and we’ve got to work with the schools and with Congress to make sure we can continue that.
“We’ve got again a relatively short window of time — in my estimate, one and two years,” Emmert continued. “These decisions have to be made because of the dynamics that are underway right now that are far beyond the control of schools, coaches, (athletic directors) or presidents.”
Currently, more than 30 states have been working on their own NIL laws.
TRANSGENDER LEGISLATION
With a number of states considering or passing legislation restricting participation of transgender athletes, Emmert was asked whether the NCAA would bar those states from hosting championship events.
The NCAA has largely followed the Olympic model that allows transgender athletes to compete if they’ve had certain biomedical treatments, including hormone therapies, meant to promote fairness.
Emmert said the NCAA currently requires communities which wish to host events “to explain how it is that they’re going to make sure that the participants in that sport will be allowed to do that in a nondiscriminatory way. … If they can do that, then we’ll be in those states.”
TRANFER RULES
Emmert said the current transfer rules continue to draw a lot of scrutiny and complaints from coaches and could be adjusted over time.
“The only thing that I can say right now is that it’s clear that students are getting more opportunities to play. They’re getting more freedom of movement in some respects,” Emmert said.
But he added that officials are keeping an eye on how the rules affect “students being able to finish their degrees in a timely fashion and go on and lead productive lives, because we know how few of them will be professional basketball players. It’s a constant point of discussion. I don’t anticipate it going away too soon.”
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AP Sports Writers Aaron Beard, Dave Skretta and John Marshall contributed to this report.
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Inquiry to be held into government handling of Nazanin's detention in Iran
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An inquiry will be held into the government's handling of efforts to bring home Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, who was detained in Iran for six years.
The Foreign Affairs Committee (FAC) has announced an inquiry into "state-level hostage situations", which will take into account the detention of Nazanin and Anoosheh Ashoori.
Nazanin returned to the UK on March 17 after spending nearly six years imprisoned on charges of spying – something that was always denied.
Following their release, Hampstead and Kilburn MP Tulip Siddiq wrote to Tom Tugendhat MP, chair of the FAC, to ask for an inquiry.
She said Nazanin's husband, Richard Ratcliffe, agreed there was a need for a public inquiry to understand why the government failed to bring Nazanin home for so long and is still failing to secure the release of all British nationals held in Iran.
"I thank the FAC for agreeing to our call for an inquiry," she added.
She has asked the committee to consider why three Iranian officials who came to the UK in 2013 to negotiate repayment of a £400m debt were arrested when they arrived in the UK.
She also wants to know why the deal that the UK and Iran supposedly made in 2021 to resolve the debt and bring Nazanin home collapsed.
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“I know that the Foreign Office cannot reasonably be held responsible for the arbitrary detention of its nationals abroad, but it also cannot escape scrutiny and challenge for its clear shortcomings in trying to secure their release – particularly from Iran," she said.
"Other countries including Australia, France, Germany, Canada and the US have had greater success in securing the fair treatment and release of prisoners held for leverage on false charges."
She spent months in isolation before being sentenced to five years at the notorious Evin Prison.
Ms Siddiq said she was grateful to the government for getting Nazanin home, but said: “Richard Ratcliffe and I have known since the start that Nazanin’s imprisonment was linked to the historic debt we owed to Iran, yet it was only after many years of pressure that this was finally resolved.
"While in Iran, Nazanin was blindfolded, handcuffed, interrogated and subjected to solitary confinement, sleep deprivation and torture.
"The government has serious questions to answer about why this was allowed to happen to an innocent British citizen, who was caught as a pawn in a political dispute between two countries."
The FAC said its inquiry will focus on the challenges that the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) faces when handling countries which use extra-judicial detention as a tool for diplomacy.
The high-profile releases of Nazanin and Anoosheh will be examined "as well as the precedent the FCDO’s response in these cases may set".
Processes and approaches taken by the government to try to secure the release of detainees will be looked at, as well as the likely impact the FCDO's approach could have on deterring other states from using the tactic.
It will also "consider options for multilateral action to further deter such behaviour".
Mr Tugendhat said: “Nazanin and Anoosheh’s homecoming is wonderful news, but long overdue. After years of imprisonment, in extremely difficult circumstances, Nazanin and Anoosheh are right to ask for answers.
“Iran is not the only country engaging in state hostage taking. The tactic is fast becoming a tool of choice for authoritarian states and recent high profile cases have highlighted the challenges governments face when securing the release of hostages held captive by states.
“This inquiry will examine the support provided by the FCDO to hostages in recent cases, as well as take a look at the broader picture and ask how the Government can clamp down on the practice internationally.”
Written submissions are being accepted by the inquiry until May 13.
The Foreign Office has been contacted.
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Inquiry will probe Government's efforts to secure release of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe from Iran after former hostage criticised Foreign secretaries saying it should not have taken 'six years' to get her home
- Foreign Affairs Committee will hold an inquiry into British hostages held in Iran
- It will review UK efforts to free Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and Anoosheh Ashoori
- Both have criticised the Foreign Office for failing to secure their freedom sooner
- Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe's MP Tulip Siddiq says 'lessons must be learnt' over case
MPs are to stage an inquiry examining the UK's efforts over the years to free Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and Anoosheh Ashoori from their detention in Iran.
The Foreign Affairs Committee said it would review evidence of how their cases were handled by British officials as part of a wider investigation into 'state level hostage situations'.
Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe, 43, who was detained for six years, and Mr Ashoori, who was held for almost five, were released last month after the UK agreed to settle a historic £400 million debt dating back to the 1970s.
Following their return both have been critical of the failure of the Foreign Office (FCDO) to secure their freedom sooner.
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe (centre) criticised the delays in her case in a press conference with her husband Richard (left) and MP Tulip Siddiq (right) after her release
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and Anoosheh Ashoori arriving at Brize Norton, Oxfordshire, on March 17
In a press conference with her husband Richard after her release last month, Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe took issue with the Government's handling of her case and said: 'How many Foreign Secretaries is it going to take for someone to get out? Five?
'It should have been one of them eventually. So now, here we are. What happened now should have happened six years ago. It shouldn't have taken six years. And I think we have gone through a lot, it has been a tough journey.'
Since arriving back in the UK, both Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe and Mr Ashoori's families have stayed in government safe houses along with their families.
Announcing the inquiry today, Foreign Affair Committee chairman Tom Tugendhat MP said: 'Nazanin and Anoosheh's homecoming is wonderful news, but long overdue. After years of imprisonment, in extremely difficult circumstances, Nazanin and Anoosheh are right to ask for answers.'
He said that it was also important to look at the wider issues raised by Iran's use of the detainees as leverage in the debt negotiations.
'Iran is not the only country engaging in state hostage taking,' he said.
'The tactic is fast becoming a tool of choice for authoritarian states and recent high-profile cases have highlighted the challenges governments face when securing the release of hostages held captive by states.
Foreign Affair Committee chairman Tom Tugendhat MP said: 'After years of imprisonment, in extremely difficult circumstances, Nazanin and Anoosheh are right to ask for answers'
The announcement of the inquiry was welcomed by Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe's local MP, Tulip Siddiq, who was involved in the campaign for her release
'This inquiry will examine the support provided by the FCDO to hostages in recent cases, as well as take a look at the broader picture and ask how the Government can clamp down on the practice internationally.'
The announcement of the inquiry was welcomed by Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe's local MP, Tulip Siddiq, who was involved in the campaign for her release.
'While in Iran, Nazanin was blindfolded, handcuffed, interrogated and subjected to solitary confinement, sleep deprivation and torture,' she said.
'The Government has serious questions to answer about why this was allowed to happen to an innocent British citizen, who was caught as a pawn in a political dispute between two countries.
The inquiry will discuss the approach taken by the UK Government in securing the release of the detainees in Iran, and other similar situations.
It will also aim to assess the likely impact the FCDO's approach may have on deterring other states from using this tactic and will consider options for multilateral action to further deter such behaviour.
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Inquiry to be held into government handling of Nazanin's detention in Iran
- Credit: PA Wire/PA Images
An inquiry will be held into the government's handling of efforts to bring home Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, who was detained in Iran for six years.
The Foreign Affairs Committee (FAC) has announced an inquiry into "state-level hostage situations", which will take into account the detention of Nazanin and Anoosheh Ashoori.
Nazanin returned to the UK on March 17 after spending nearly six years imprisoned on charges of spying – something that was always denied.
Following their release, Hampstead and Kilburn MP Tulip Siddiq wrote to Tom Tugendhat MP, chair of the FAC, to ask for an inquiry.
She said Nazanin's husband, Richard Ratcliffe, agreed there was a need for a public inquiry to understand why the government failed to bring Nazanin home for so long and is still failing to secure the release of all British nationals held in Iran.
"I thank the FAC for agreeing to our call for an inquiry," she added.
She has asked the committee to consider why three Iranian officials who came to the UK in 2013 to negotiate repayment of a £400m debt were arrested when they arrived in the UK.
She also wants to know why the deal that the UK and Iran supposedly made in 2021 to resolve the debt and bring Nazanin home collapsed.
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“I know that the Foreign Office cannot reasonably be held responsible for the arbitrary detention of its nationals abroad, but it also cannot escape scrutiny and challenge for its clear shortcomings in trying to secure their release – particularly from Iran," she said.
"Other countries including Australia, France, Germany, Canada and the US have had greater success in securing the fair treatment and release of prisoners held for leverage on false charges."
She spent months in isolation before being sentenced to five years at the notorious Evin Prison.
Ms Siddiq said she was grateful to the government for getting Nazanin home, but said: “Richard Ratcliffe and I have known since the start that Nazanin’s imprisonment was linked to the historic debt we owed to Iran, yet it was only after many years of pressure that this was finally resolved.
"While in Iran, Nazanin was blindfolded, handcuffed, interrogated and subjected to solitary confinement, sleep deprivation and torture.
"The government has serious questions to answer about why this was allowed to happen to an innocent British citizen, who was caught as a pawn in a political dispute between two countries."
The FAC said its inquiry will focus on the challenges that the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) faces when handling countries which use extra-judicial detention as a tool for diplomacy.
The high-profile releases of Nazanin and Anoosheh will be examined "as well as the precedent the FCDO’s response in these cases may set".
Processes and approaches taken by the government to try to secure the release of detainees will be looked at, as well as the likely impact the FCDO's approach could have on deterring other states from using the tactic.
It will also "consider options for multilateral action to further deter such behaviour".
Mr Tugendhat said: “Nazanin and Anoosheh’s homecoming is wonderful news, but long overdue. After years of imprisonment, in extremely difficult circumstances, Nazanin and Anoosheh are right to ask for answers.
“Iran is not the only country engaging in state hostage taking. The tactic is fast becoming a tool of choice for authoritarian states and recent high profile cases have highlighted the challenges governments face when securing the release of hostages held captive by states.
“This inquiry will examine the support provided by the FCDO to hostages in recent cases, as well as take a look at the broader picture and ask how the Government can clamp down on the practice internationally.”
Written submissions are being accepted by the inquiry until May 13.
The Foreign Office has been contacted.
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Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe said it was made clear to her early on she was being held hostage in order to make money off the British Government.
The British-Iranian political prisoner spent six years held in Iran after being arrested on falsified charges when touching down at the airport to visit her parents in 2016.
The 44-year-old was accused of crimes against national security.
She was said to be running a journalism course that encouraged people to spread propaganda.
In reality, she was simply introducing her 22-month-old daughter Gabriella to her parents.
Her ordeal saw her eventually able to return to the UK in March.
Speaking on BBC One's Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe talks to Emma Barnett on Monday night, Nazanin said it was quickly made clear to her she was imprisoned as a pawn to "get something off the British Government".
She explained: "We are talking about a regime, one of the highest members of the authorities once said we are proud to be taking a couple of hostages every year to make money out of them.
"So, that is the idea, that is the ideology. It’s a strategy.
"They arrest us to make something out of us. They are taking me to get something off the British Government.
"They were very clear about that.
"I think it was week two that I was arrested they said that we want something off the British Government, we will not let you go until we get that.
"And they gradually developed the story and it was a lot clearer," she added.
The Iranians told her the UK had now settled a historic £400 million debt dating to the 1970s.
This was denied for years by the UK but was finally paid when Nazanin was released.
She also told Ms Barnett she was forced to sign a "false confession" in front of a UK Government witness before she was allowed to leave Iran.
She said the act captured on camera by the Iranians was "dehumanising", and that she expects Tehran to use it against her in the future.
While "under duress", she said was forced to admit to the Iranians' allegations.
The charity worker said she was taken to the airport by the Revolutionary Guards without seeing her parents on the day in March when she was to be freed.
In her first press conference since freedom, the British-Iranian mum said her ordeal "will always haunt me" - and she had found it difficult to trust UK Foreign Secretaries to get her home as years ticked by.
In a moving plea, she added the "meaning of freedom is never going to be complete" until Morad Tahbaz and other dual nationals are released and reunited with their families.
"I was the lucky one", she said.
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Inquiry to be held into government handling of Nazanin's detention in Iran
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An inquiry will be held into the government's handling of efforts to bring home Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, who was detained in Iran for six years.
The Foreign Affairs Committee (FAC) has announced an inquiry into "state-level hostage situations", which will take into account the detention of Nazanin and Anoosheh Ashoori.
Nazanin returned to the UK on March 17 after spending nearly six years imprisoned on charges of spying – something that was always denied.
Following their release, Hampstead and Kilburn MP Tulip Siddiq wrote to Tom Tugendhat MP, chair of the FAC, to ask for an inquiry.
She said Nazanin's husband, Richard Ratcliffe, agreed there was a need for a public inquiry to understand why the government failed to bring Nazanin home for so long and is still failing to secure the release of all British nationals held in Iran.
"I thank the FAC for agreeing to our call for an inquiry," she added.
She has asked the committee to consider why three Iranian officials who came to the UK in 2013 to negotiate repayment of a £400m debt were arrested when they arrived in the UK.
She also wants to know why the deal that the UK and Iran supposedly made in 2021 to resolve the debt and bring Nazanin home collapsed.
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“I know that the Foreign Office cannot reasonably be held responsible for the arbitrary detention of its nationals abroad, but it also cannot escape scrutiny and challenge for its clear shortcomings in trying to secure their release – particularly from Iran," she said.
"Other countries including Australia, France, Germany, Canada and the US have had greater success in securing the fair treatment and release of prisoners held for leverage on false charges."
She spent months in isolation before being sentenced to five years at the notorious Evin Prison.
Ms Siddiq said she was grateful to the government for getting Nazanin home, but said: “Richard Ratcliffe and I have known since the start that Nazanin’s imprisonment was linked to the historic debt we owed to Iran, yet it was only after many years of pressure that this was finally resolved.
"While in Iran, Nazanin was blindfolded, handcuffed, interrogated and subjected to solitary confinement, sleep deprivation and torture.
"The government has serious questions to answer about why this was allowed to happen to an innocent British citizen, who was caught as a pawn in a political dispute between two countries."
The FAC said its inquiry will focus on the challenges that the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) faces when handling countries which use extra-judicial detention as a tool for diplomacy.
The high-profile releases of Nazanin and Anoosheh will be examined "as well as the precedent the FCDO’s response in these cases may set".
Processes and approaches taken by the government to try to secure the release of detainees will be looked at, as well as the likely impact the FCDO's approach could have on deterring other states from using the tactic.
It will also "consider options for multilateral action to further deter such behaviour".
Mr Tugendhat said: “Nazanin and Anoosheh’s homecoming is wonderful news, but long overdue. After years of imprisonment, in extremely difficult circumstances, Nazanin and Anoosheh are right to ask for answers.
“Iran is not the only country engaging in state hostage taking. The tactic is fast becoming a tool of choice for authoritarian states and recent high profile cases have highlighted the challenges governments face when securing the release of hostages held captive by states.
“This inquiry will examine the support provided by the FCDO to hostages in recent cases, as well as take a look at the broader picture and ask how the Government can clamp down on the practice internationally.”
Written submissions are being accepted by the inquiry until May 13.
The Foreign Office has been contacted.
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The UK government should investigate Iran’s six-year detention of dual national Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe as “an act of hostage-taking” and try to prosecute Iranian officials, Amnesty International said Wednesday.
The rights group has compiled a detailed analysis of the case, which it says includes “compelling evidence that Iran’s detention of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe amounted to an act of hostage-taking.”
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Zaghari-Ratcliffe, 43, who was first detained in Iran in 2016, returned to Britain in March along with fellow dual national Anoosheh Ashoori after the UK agreed to pay a longstanding debt to Tehran.
“The Iranian authorities deliberately and shamelessly deprived Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe of her freedom,” Diana Eltahawy, deputy director for the Middle East and North Africa at Amnesty, said in a statement.
“They used spurious national security charges and sham judicial proceedings against her with the aim of exerting pressure on the UK government to settle its debts.”
The NGO last month submitted its evidence to the UK parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee, which has launched its own inquiry into state-level hostage situations.
Amnesty said there was an urgent need for the international community to step up efforts to prevent and prosecute hostage-taking amid growing evidence that Iranian authorities are holding others unjustly.
It highlighted at least seven cases of dual nationals currently held in Iran, including Swedish-Iranian Ahmadreza Djalali, Austrian-Iranians Kamran Ghaderi and Massud Mossaheb and German-Iranians Nahid Taghavi and Jamshid Sharmahd.
Two other British-Iranians, Mehran Raoof and Morad Tahbaz - who is also a US national - are also still detained by Tehran.
“The prevailing climate of impunity in Iran has emboldened the authorities to continue using dual and foreign nationals as political bargaining chips without any fear of consequences,” Eltahawy added.
“The hostage-taking of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe must not go unpunished.”
Amnesty urged the British government to review the evidence in her case and request the extradition of Iranian officials “in order to prosecute them in fair trials.”
It noted both Iran and the UK are parties to the International Convention Against the Taking of Hostages, which criminalizes hostage-taking by state and non-state actors and obligates them to take action to prevent and punish such acts.
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NEW BOSTON — Needing offensive production to overcome a late deficit, the Clay Lady Panthers found their bats in the top of the seventh inning.
Trailing host New Boston 5-2 entering the seventh, Clay (3-0, 1-0 SOC I) scored six runs in the top of the frame to secure an 8-5 road win in SOC I play.
Sophomore Shea Edgington led the Lady Panthers at the plate with a team-high three hits.
Senior Jacy Gearhart had a seventh-inning triple as part of her two-hit day, and senior Preslee Lutz delivered a seventh-inning solo home run.
Lutz was the winning pitcher for Clay, going the distance and allowing three earned runs and four hits, while striking out 13 hitters.
Senior Kailey Ware and freshman Sarah Cassidy both had a triple in the midst of Clay’s seventh-inning rally.
New Boston junior Dylan O’Rourke led the Lady Tigers with two hits and a pair of RBI.
Senior Kenzie Whitley and sophomore Jadelyn Lawson both had a hit in the contest.
Clay hosts Green on Friday in SOC I play, while New Boston (1-1, 0-1 SOC I) prepares to host Symmes Valley.
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BOX SCORE
Clay 0 1 0 1 0 0 6 — 8 12 4
New Boston 0 0 2 0 3 0 0 — 5 4 3
Clay hitting
Shea Edgington 3-4, R, RBI
Jacy Gearhart 2-3, 3B, R, RBI
Jordyn Mathias 0-3, RBI
Preslee Lutz 2-4, HR, R, RBI
Morgan McCoy 1-4, R
Kyleigh Oliver 1-4, R
Kailey Ware 2-4, 2R, RBI
Sarah Cassidy 1-4, R
New Boston hitting
Kenzie Whitley 1-4, 2R
Jadelyn Lawson 1-4, R
Dylan O’Rourke 2-4, R, 2RBI
Cassie Williams 0-3, RBI
Maci Seibert 0-2, BB, R
Pitching
Preslee Lutz (C) 7IP, 13K, 2BB, 3ER (W)
Kenzie Whitley (NB) 6.1IP, 4K, BB, 4ER (L)
Cassie Williams (NB) 0.2IP, 2H. ER
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Lady Panthers use 7th-inning rally to edge NB
NEW BOSTON — Needing offensive production to overcome a late deficit, the Clay Lady Panthers found their bats in the top of the seventh inning.
Trailing host New Boston 5-2 entering the seventh, Clay (3-0, 1-0 SOC I) scored six runs in the top of the frame to secure an 8-5 road win in SOC I play.
Sophomore Shea Edgington led the Lady Panthers at the plate with a team-high three hits.
Senior Jacy Gearhart had a seventh-inning triple as part of her two-hit day, and senior Preslee Lutz delivered a seventh-inning solo home run.
Lutz was the winning pitcher for Clay, going the distance and allowing three earned runs and four hits, while striking out 13 hitters.
Senior Kailey Ware and freshman Sarah Cassidy both had a triple in the midst of Clay’s seventh-inning rally.
New Boston junior Dylan O’Rourke led the Lady Tigers with two hits and a pair of RBI.
Senior Kenzie Whitley and sophomore Jadelyn Lawson both had a hit in the contest.
Clay hosts Green on Friday in SOC I play, while New Boston (1-1, 0-1 SOC I) prepares to host Symmes Valley.
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BOX SCORE
Clay 0 1 0 1 0 0 6 — 8 12 4
New Boston 0 0 2 0 3 0 0 — 5 4 3
Clay hitting
Shea Edgington 3-4, R, RBI
Jacy Gearhart 2-3, 3B, R, RBI
Jordyn Mathias 0-3, RBI
Preslee Lutz 2-4, HR, R, RBI
Morgan McCoy 1-4, R
Kyleigh Oliver 1-4, R
Kailey Ware 2-4, 2R, RBI
Sarah Cassidy 1-4, R
New Boston hitting
Kenzie Whitley 1-4, 2R
Jadelyn Lawson 1-4, R
Dylan O’Rourke 2-4, R, 2RBI
Cassie Williams 0-3, RBI
Maci Seibert 0-2, BB, R
Pitching
Preslee Lutz (C) 7IP, 13K, 2BB, 3ER (W)
Kenzie Whitley (NB) 6.1IP, 4K, BB, 4ER (L)
Cassie Williams (NB) 0.2IP, 2H. ER
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NEW BOSTON — Needing offensive production to overcome a late deficit, the Clay Lady Panthers found their bats in the top of the seventh inning.
Trailing host New Boston 5-2 entering the seventh, Clay (3-0, 1-0 SOC I) scored six runs in the top of the frame to secure an 8-5 road win in SOC I play.
Sophomore Shea Edgington led the Lady Panthers at the plate with a team-high three hits.
Senior Jacy Gearhart had a seventh-inning triple as part of her two-hit day, and senior Preslee Lutz delivered a seventh-inning solo home run.
Lutz was the winning pitcher for Clay, going the distance and allowing three earned runs and four hits, while striking out 13 hitters.
Senior Kailey Ware and freshman Sarah Cassidy both had a triple in the midst of Clay’s seventh-inning rally.
New Boston junior Dylan O’Rourke led the Lady Tigers with two hits and a pair of RBI.
Senior Kenzie Whitley and sophomore Jadelyn Lawson both had a hit in the contest.
Clay hosts Green on Friday in SOC I play, while New Boston (1-1, 0-1 SOC I) prepares to host Symmes Valley.
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BOX SCORE
Clay 0 1 0 1 0 0 6 — 8 12 4
New Boston 0 0 2 0 3 0 0 — 5 4 3
Clay hitting
Shea Edgington 3-4, R, RBI
Jacy Gearhart 2-3, 3B, R, RBI
Jordyn Mathias 0-3, RBI
Preslee Lutz 2-4, HR, R, RBI
Morgan McCoy 1-4, R
Kyleigh Oliver 1-4, R
Kailey Ware 2-4, 2R, RBI
Sarah Cassidy 1-4, R
New Boston hitting
Kenzie Whitley 1-4, 2R
Jadelyn Lawson 1-4, R
Dylan O’Rourke 2-4, R, 2RBI
Cassie Williams 0-3, RBI
Maci Seibert 0-2, BB, R
Pitching
Preslee Lutz (C) 7IP, 13K, 2BB, 3ER (W)
Kenzie Whitley (NB) 6.1IP, 4K, BB, 4ER (L)
Cassie Williams (NB) 0.2IP, 2H. ER
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LATHAM — The Clay Lady Panthers combined for 16 hits — and held host Western to two hits — during Tuesday’s 15-0 win over the Lady Indians in five innings.
Seniors Jacy Gearheat and Kailey Ware each led Clay with a team-high three hits — both compiling a pair of extra-base hits.
Senior Preslee Lutz had a home run during the Lady Panthers’ 12-run second inning, while also earning the victory in the circle.
Lutz allowed just two hits, issued one walk, and struck out 12 Western batters in the win.
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BOX SCORE
Clay 3 12 0 0 0 — 15 16 0
Western 0 0 0 0 0 — 0 2 6
Clay hitting
Kyleigh Oliver 2-3, 2R, 2RBI
Jacy Gearheart 3-3, 3R, 2RBI
Shea Edgington 2-2, 2R, 2RBI
Lynsey Loop 1-1, R, RBI
Jordyn Mathias 0-1, BB, R
Kailey Ware 3-4, R, 2RBI
Preslee Lutz 2-3, R, 5RBI, HR
Katie Fife 1-2, R
Morgan McCoy 1-2, R, RBI
Sarah Cassidy 1-2, 2R
Clay pitching
Preslee Lutz (C) 5IP, 2H, 12K, 1BB, 0ER (W)
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NEW BOSTON — Needing offensive production to overcome a late deficit, the Clay Lady Panthers found their bats in the top of the seventh inning.
Trailing host New Boston 5-2 entering the seventh, Clay (3-0, 1-0 SOC I) scored six runs in the top of the frame to secure an 8-5 road win in SOC I play.
Sophomore Shea Edgington led the Lady Panthers at the plate with a team-high three hits.
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Lutz was the winning pitcher for Clay, going the distance and allowing three earned runs and four hits, while striking out 13 hitters.
Senior Kailey Ware and freshman Sarah Cassidy both had a triple in the midst of Clay’s seventh-inning rally.
New Boston junior Dylan O’Rourke led the Lady Tigers with two hits and a pair of RBI.
Senior Kenzie Whitley and sophomore Jadelyn Lawson both had a hit in the contest.
Clay hosts Green on Friday in SOC I play, while New Boston (1-1, 0-1 SOC I) prepares to host Symmes Valley.
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BOX SCORE
Clay 0 1 0 1 0 0 6 — 8 12 4
New Boston 0 0 2 0 3 0 0 — 5 4 3
Clay hitting
Shea Edgington 3-4, R, RBI
Jacy Gearhart 2-3, 3B, R, RBI
Jordyn Mathias 0-3, RBI
Preslee Lutz 2-4, HR, R, RBI
Morgan McCoy 1-4, R
Kyleigh Oliver 1-4, R
Kailey Ware 2-4, 2R, RBI
Sarah Cassidy 1-4, R
New Boston hitting
Kenzie Whitley 1-4, 2R
Jadelyn Lawson 1-4, R
Dylan O’Rourke 2-4, R, 2RBI
Cassie Williams 0-3, RBI
Maci Seibert 0-2, BB, R
Pitching
Preslee Lutz (C) 7IP, 13K, 2BB, 3ER (W)
Kenzie Whitley (NB) 6.1IP, 4K, BB, 4ER (L)
Cassie Williams (NB) 0.2IP, 2H. ER
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PORTSMOUTH — The Clay Lady Panthers softball program had plenty of reason to celebrate on Wednesday.
Not only did the Lady Panthers secure a 5-4 home win over Jackson — they did so and celebrated coach Jason Gearheart’s 200th victory as the head coach of the Clay program.
Clay scored each of their runs in the first three innings — combining for nine hits as a team.
Senior Jacy Gearheart led the Lady Pantehrs with a team-high three hits and scored one run. Senior Kyleigh Oliver scored a team-high two runs and drove in one, sophomore Shea Edgington had a pair of RBI, and senior Kailey Ware and freshman Sarah Cassidy each had a pair of hits.
Senior Preslee Lutz pitched a complete game in the circle — allowing eight hits, one earned run, and striking our four Ironlady batters.
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BOX SCORE
Jackson 0 0 1 0 1 1 1 — 4 8 2
Clay 1 3 1 0 0 0 X — 5 9 3
Clay hitting
Kyleigh Oliver 1-3, 2R, RBI
Jacy Gearheart 3-4, R
Shea Edgington 1-4, 2RBI
Kailey Ware 2-3, R, RBI
Sarah Cassidy 2-3, R
Clay pitching
Preslee Lutz (C) 7IP, 8H, 4K, 1ER, 2BB
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The city of Denton is expected to add due diligence processes to its policy governing economic incentives — steps recommended following the controversial pursuit of Ranchland Foods.
In a presentation last week before the Denton City Council on proposed changes to the tax abatement and Chapter 380 policies, Economic Development Program Administrator Erica Sullivan said the department would require prospective incentive recipients to submit a form authorizing staff to obtain internal records to verify application data. The form would allow for the review of business financial statements, company creation documents and credit ratings of an applicant.
Staff also would verify business addresses with outside central appraisal districts and through the use of map data if the policy is approved.
Asked by At-Large Place 5 council member Deb Armintor if the changes would incorporate vetting best practices to ensure “we don’t get scammed by somebody who seems too good to be true,” Sullivan told the council it would allow for more transparency early in the process.
“This allows us to do more, and they’re giving us more access than they have in the past,” Sullivan said. “This was done following RanchLand, so if you look at that as an example, we created this form [and] we also did verification to make sure they’re registered with the state, and we can do that with other states as well. […] We’re learning to adapt after that.”
City staff filed a report with the Denton Police Department in September citing concerns the Arizona-based meat production company RanchLand Foods was not legitimate. That was months after the Denton City Council had signed off on a $218,000 Chapter 380 agreement with the company, though those funds had not been released at the time of the report.
An investigation by the Denton Record-Chronicle raised questions about the company and its CEO and founder, Kenny Davis. Record-Chronicle staff discovered discrepancies in the company’s claimed financials and found Davis previously served time in federal prison for his part in a fraudulent multilevel marketing scheme in North Texas. The address given for RanchLand’s corporate headquarters on Denton incentive application materials did not exist, according to Arizona’s Apache County Appraisal District, and the closest real property was an empty field — not a distribution hub for the supposed multimillion-dollar company.
A former RanchLand executive said he was among several Denton area residents owed thousands by the business after it was given a public vote of confidence by city staff, who touted RanchLand’s move as a win for Denton.
Though economic development staff did do some vetting of incentive applicants such as running comps prior to the proposed changes presented last week, the policy updates would make the procedures a regular part of the review process.
“I love that this really unfortunate mistake of the past is being used as a bit of a test case because we can and should — we have an imperative to — learn from that mistake, all of us,” Armintor said during the meeting.
But Mayor Gerard Hudspeth said that, since the city did not disperse money to RanchLand, no mistakes were made. Chapter 380 agreements require companies that are a party to such contracts to meet agreed-upon benchmarks before money is released.
“We can always get better every day, but the fact of the matter is the system at hand worked, so it’s not a failure, it’s not a mistake, it’s not an error, it’s none of those things,” Hudspeth said during the meeting. “It’s an experience that we learn from, and I’ll note even the cities that quote-unquote ‘got it right’ were still pursuing them, right? Everything in place from legal to staff worked and would have prevented us from ever giving them a dime.”
RanchLand also applied for an economic development deal with the city of Decatur in March 2021. Decatur officials told the Record-Chronicle that the details on RanchLand’s application raised “a lot of questions,” including about the company’s address and financials.
That application process stalled when Davis stopped responding to questions, according to Decatur staff.
The proposed changes presented last week in Denton incorporated recommendations from the Economic Development Partnership Board and the City Council, Sullivan said. Erin Carter, interim vice president of the EDP Board, told the Record-Chronicle on Wednesday she could not answer questions about how conversations surrounding those EDP recommendations played out, since she is not employed by the city of Denton and the EDP board is a separate entity.
“We are partners in economic development, recruiting and retaining companies — we’re working always together in like a handshake motion, but we do certain things together and then we also do certain things in parallel,” said Carter, who is also president of the Denton Chamber of Commerce. “I’m not a local municipal employee, and so I would be doing a disservice, not only to residents and readers but also to myself as a professional. So I’m not going to answer a question that I will not be able to stand behind because I’m not employed by the city of Denton.”
Carter referred the Record-Chronicle to city staff.
The additional vetting processes are aimed at aligning the Chapter 380 Policy with the city’s revised strategic plan and were also incorporated in response to front-end vulnerabilities highlighted by the RanchLand agreement, Deputy City Manager David Gaines said.
“We may have ended up in the same spot regardless just by looking at our policies and trying to think of improvements, but when something happens, we’re always going to use that as a learning opportunity,” Gaines said. “We made that commitment to council and to the public that we would look at what changes we could make to ensure we can do everything we can on the front end to do that due diligence, so we feel like these steps help us.”
Also included in the proposed changes is a new evaluation matrix that economic development staff would use to help assess whether a candidate would be a good fit for the city, Sullivan said. It would weigh priority considerations like increasing high-wage jobs, strategic growth areas and public benefit factors like community investment when considering applicants.
Staff will bring the policies back before the EDP Board on April 13 and will bring final changes to the Denton City Council the first week of May for approval.
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The city of Denton is expected to add due diligence processes to its policy governing economic incentives — steps recommended following the controversial pursuit of Ranchland Foods.
In a presentation last week before the Denton City Council on proposed changes to the tax abatement and Chapter 380 policies, Economic Development Program Administrator Erica Sullivan said the department would require prospective incentive recipients to submit a form authorizing staff to obtain internal records to verify application data. The form would allow for the review of business financial statements, company creation documents and credit ratings of an applicant.
Staff also would verify business addresses with outside central appraisal districts and through the use of map data if the policy is approved.
Asked by At-Large Place 5 council member Deb Armintor if the changes would incorporate vetting best practices to ensure “we don’t get scammed by somebody who seems too good to be true,” Sullivan told the council it would allow for more transparency early in the process.
“This allows us to do more, and they’re giving us more access than they have in the past,” Sullivan said. “This was done following RanchLand, so if you look at that as an example, we created this form [and] we also did verification to make sure they’re registered with the state, and we can do that with other states as well. […] We’re learning to adapt after that.”
City staff filed a report with the Denton Police Department in September citing concerns the Arizona-based meat production company RanchLand Foods was not legitimate. That was months after the Denton City Council had signed off on a $218,000 Chapter 380 agreement with the company, though those funds had not been released at the time of the report.
An investigation by the Denton Record-Chronicle raised questions about the company and its CEO and founder, Kenny Davis. Record-Chronicle staff discovered discrepancies in the company’s claimed financials and found Davis previously served time in federal prison for his part in a fraudulent multilevel marketing scheme in North Texas. The address given for RanchLand’s corporate headquarters on Denton incentive application materials did not exist, according to Arizona’s Apache County Appraisal District, and the closest real property was an empty field — not a distribution hub for the supposed multimillion-dollar company.
A former RanchLand executive said he was among several Denton area residents owed thousands by the business after it was given a public vote of confidence by city staff, who touted RanchLand’s move as a win for Denton.
Though economic development staff did do some vetting of incentive applicants such as running comps prior to the proposed changes presented last week, the policy updates would make the procedures a regular part of the review process.
“I love that this really unfortunate mistake of the past is being used as a bit of a test case because we can and should — we have an imperative to — learn from that mistake, all of us,” Armintor said during the meeting.
But Mayor Gerard Hudspeth said that, since the city did not disperse money to RanchLand, no mistakes were made. Chapter 380 agreements require companies that are a party to such contracts to meet agreed-upon benchmarks before money is released.
“We can always get better every day, but the fact of the matter is the system at hand worked, so it’s not a failure, it’s not a mistake, it’s not an error, it’s none of those things,” Hudspeth said during the meeting. “It’s an experience that we learn from, and I’ll note even the cities that quote-unquote ‘got it right’ were still pursuing them, right? Everything in place from legal to staff worked and would have prevented us from ever giving them a dime.”
RanchLand also applied for an economic development deal with the city of Decatur in March 2021. Decatur officials told the Record-Chronicle that the details on RanchLand’s application raised “a lot of questions,” including about the company’s address and financials.
That application process stalled when Davis stopped responding to questions, according to Decatur staff.
The proposed changes presented last week in Denton incorporated recommendations from the Economic Development Partnership Board and the City Council, Sullivan said. Erin Carter, interim vice president of the EDP Board, told the Record-Chronicle on Wednesday she could not answer questions about how conversations surrounding those EDP recommendations played out, since she is not employed by the city of Denton and the EDP board is a separate entity.
“We are partners in economic development, recruiting and retaining companies — we’re working always together in like a handshake motion, but we do certain things together and then we also do certain things in parallel,” said Carter, who is also president of the Denton Chamber of Commerce. “I’m not a local municipal employee, and so I would be doing a disservice, not only to residents and readers but also to myself as a professional. So I’m not going to answer a question that I will not be able to stand behind because I’m not employed by the city of Denton.”
Carter referred the Record-Chronicle to city staff.
The additional vetting processes are aimed at aligning the Chapter 380 Policy with the city’s revised strategic plan and were also incorporated in response to front-end vulnerabilities highlighted by the RanchLand agreement, Deputy City Manager David Gaines said.
“We may have ended up in the same spot regardless just by looking at our policies and trying to think of improvements, but when something happens, we’re always going to use that as a learning opportunity,” Gaines said. “We made that commitment to council and to the public that we would look at what changes we could make to ensure we can do everything we can on the front end to do that due diligence, so we feel like these steps help us.”
Also included in the proposed changes is a new evaluation matrix that economic development staff would use to help assess whether a candidate would be a good fit for the city, Sullivan said. It would weigh priority considerations like increasing high-wage jobs, strategic growth areas and public benefit factors like community investment when considering applicants.
Staff will bring the policies back before the EDP Board on April 13 and will bring final changes to the Denton City Council the first week of May for approval.
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By Pat Garofolo
New Jersey has one of the least functional and most corrupt so-called “economic development” systems in the country – and that’s saying a lot, as states and cities across the country spend a collective $95 billion on these corporate subsidy programs, trying to entice individual corporations to do particular things, with the vast bulk of that money wasted.
Last year, it looked like things might improve after Gov. Phil Murphy initiated an investigation into New Jersey’s many economic development failings. The investigators did their jobs, producing several reports chock full of gory details about corrupt insider dealings and disengaged administrators, but state legislators reacted by putting cosmetic reforms and billions more dollars into essentially the same system.
Now, some community members and activists in Camden are taking matters into their own hands. They’re setting an excellent example not just for New Jersey, but for anyone in the country concerned over the negative effect corporations have in their local communities.
First, it’s important to understand that Camden is the prime example for how corporate subsidy programs fail. Many programs meant to give it an economic boost produced no results due to a combination of incompetence and corruption, with notorious South Jersey political boss George Norcross sucking up public dollars for his family and cronies and producing little for Camden’s residents. Camden-based corporations have received more than $1.5 billion in state subsidies, and yet there’s precious little evidence that money created a sustainable economic foundation that benefited local workers or businesses.
The Camden We Choose delivered petitions to the Camden City Council last month, kicking off an effort to make the corporations that benefited from subsidies reveal whether they’re actually hiring local workers. Under New Jersey law, about 20% of municipalities are governed by the Faulkner Act, which allows petitioners, if they collect enough valid signatures, to force a city council to consider and approve a new ordinance. If the council doesn’t meet the petitioners’ demands in some way, the proposed law goes before voters for a referendum.
The coalition proposed a new rule that city businesses with more than 25 employees must disclose how many of their employees are from Camden and submitted enough signatures that the council will likely have to take up the matter or put it on the ballot.
While the rule, if adopted, would apply to all city businesses, the intended targets are those corporations that received state subsidies — for very good reason. “These corporations received more than a billion dollars in state subsidies — supposedly to bring jobs to a city that has long suffered from disinvestment and poverty, and we’re supposed to accept that without data? On what planet?” said New Jersey Working Families Party director Sue Altman.
Indeed, this is vital information for the community to have, and a way to make public what everyone suspects: That few Camden residents benefit from the programs ostensibly aimed at them.
To be very clear, there is no connection between corporate subsidies of the sort New Jersey spends billions on every year and any measure of economic benefit that normal people care about. They don’t produce job growth, income growth, or expand local economies.
They do, however, generate political donations and votes for incumbent politicians, thus creating a vicious cycle in which dominant corporations receive public dollars and repay that favor with campaign funds, entrenching power in the hands of dominant corporations and political elites. Many studies have found that there is a clear nexus between corporate subsidy spending, campaign contributions and political corruption.
In fact, the first documented corporate tax incentive in American history went to Alexander Hamilton for a manufacturing campus in Paterson. It failed spectacularly, thanks, in large part, to the corruption of Hamilton’s associates.
Camden residents, New Jersey taxpayers, and those who want fair, transparent government across the country, deserve better. The good news is that, generally, when transparency measures such as this one get on the ballot, they pass overwhelmingly, because regular folks get it: Corporate subsidy deals don’t work for them, and were never meant to. It’s great to see Camden residents take matters into their own hands in order to reveal the way in which their state leaders have failed.
Pat Garofalo is the director of state and local policy at the American Economic Liberties Project and author of “The Billionaire Boondoggle: How Our Politicians Let Corporations and Bigwigs Steal Our Money and Jobs.” He grew up in Sussex County.
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The city of Denton is expected to add due diligence processes to its policy governing economic incentives — steps recommended following the controversial pursuit of Ranchland Foods.
In a presentation last week before the Denton City Council on proposed changes to the tax abatement and Chapter 380 policies, Economic Development Program Administrator Erica Sullivan said the department would require prospective incentive recipients to submit a form authorizing staff to obtain internal records to verify application data. The form would allow for the review of business financial statements, company creation documents and credit ratings of an applicant.
Staff also would verify business addresses with outside central appraisal districts and through the use of map data if the policy is approved.
Asked by At-Large Place 5 council member Deb Armintor if the changes would incorporate vetting best practices to ensure “we don’t get scammed by somebody who seems too good to be true,” Sullivan told the council it would allow for more transparency early in the process.
“This allows us to do more, and they’re giving us more access than they have in the past,” Sullivan said. “This was done following RanchLand, so if you look at that as an example, we created this form [and] we also did verification to make sure they’re registered with the state, and we can do that with other states as well. […] We’re learning to adapt after that.”
City staff filed a report with the Denton Police Department in September citing concerns the Arizona-based meat production company RanchLand Foods was not legitimate. That was months after the Denton City Council had signed off on a $218,000 Chapter 380 agreement with the company, though those funds had not been released at the time of the report.
An investigation by the Denton Record-Chronicle raised questions about the company and its CEO and founder, Kenny Davis. Record-Chronicle staff discovered discrepancies in the company’s claimed financials and found Davis previously served time in federal prison for his part in a fraudulent multilevel marketing scheme in North Texas. The address given for RanchLand’s corporate headquarters on Denton incentive application materials did not exist, according to Arizona’s Apache County Appraisal District, and the closest real property was an empty field — not a distribution hub for the supposed multimillion-dollar company.
A former RanchLand executive said he was among several Denton area residents owed thousands by the business after it was given a public vote of confidence by city staff, who touted RanchLand’s move as a win for Denton.
Though economic development staff did do some vetting of incentive applicants such as running comps prior to the proposed changes presented last week, the policy updates would make the procedures a regular part of the review process.
“I love that this really unfortunate mistake of the past is being used as a bit of a test case because we can and should — we have an imperative to — learn from that mistake, all of us,” Armintor said during the meeting.
But Mayor Gerard Hudspeth said that, since the city did not disperse money to RanchLand, no mistakes were made. Chapter 380 agreements require companies that are a party to such contracts to meet agreed-upon benchmarks before money is released.
“We can always get better every day, but the fact of the matter is the system at hand worked, so it’s not a failure, it’s not a mistake, it’s not an error, it’s none of those things,” Hudspeth said during the meeting. “It’s an experience that we learn from, and I’ll note even the cities that quote-unquote ‘got it right’ were still pursuing them, right? Everything in place from legal to staff worked and would have prevented us from ever giving them a dime.”
RanchLand also applied for an economic development deal with the city of Decatur in March 2021. Decatur officials told the Record-Chronicle that the details on RanchLand’s application raised “a lot of questions,” including about the company’s address and financials.
That application process stalled when Davis stopped responding to questions, according to Decatur staff.
The proposed changes presented last week in Denton incorporated recommendations from the Economic Development Partnership Board and the City Council, Sullivan said. Erin Carter, interim vice president of the EDP Board, told the Record-Chronicle on Wednesday she could not answer questions about how conversations surrounding those EDP recommendations played out, since she is not employed by the city of Denton and the EDP board is a separate entity.
“We are partners in economic development, recruiting and retaining companies — we’re working always together in like a handshake motion, but we do certain things together and then we also do certain things in parallel,” said Carter, who is also president of the Denton Chamber of Commerce. “I’m not a local municipal employee, and so I would be doing a disservice, not only to residents and readers but also to myself as a professional. So I’m not going to answer a question that I will not be able to stand behind because I’m not employed by the city of Denton.”
Carter referred the Record-Chronicle to city staff.
The additional vetting processes are aimed at aligning the Chapter 380 Policy with the city’s revised strategic plan and were also incorporated in response to front-end vulnerabilities highlighted by the RanchLand agreement, Deputy City Manager David Gaines said.
“We may have ended up in the same spot regardless just by looking at our policies and trying to think of improvements, but when something happens, we’re always going to use that as a learning opportunity,” Gaines said. “We made that commitment to council and to the public that we would look at what changes we could make to ensure we can do everything we can on the front end to do that due diligence, so we feel like these steps help us.”
Also included in the proposed changes is a new evaluation matrix that economic development staff would use to help assess whether a candidate would be a good fit for the city, Sullivan said. It would weigh priority considerations like increasing high-wage jobs, strategic growth areas and public benefit factors like community investment when considering applicants.
Staff will bring the policies back before the EDP Board on April 13 and will bring final changes to the Denton City Council the first week of May for approval.
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ATLANTA — Local development authorities have been at the heart of the biggest business deals in Georgia, including the record-breaking incentives that lured electric-vehicle manufacturers Hyundai and Rivian to the Peach State.
But such huge incentives packages as the $1.8 billion that went to Hyundai and the $1.5 billion doled out to Rivian have given rise to concerns that local governments and schools are losing massive amounts of tax revenue to development authorities without sufficient state oversight or demands for transparency.
A state Senate study committee has begun a series of meetings to look for ways to require more accountability from development authorities without sacrificing the jobs they help create.
“Our objective is to support economic development in this state,” said Sen. Max Burns, R-Sylvania, the study committee’s chairman. “[But] it’s important that we understand the ramifications of our development authority decisions … and the impact they have on our state.”
About 1,300 local government authorities have cropped up across Georgia since 1995, when the legislature passed a law authorizing cities and counties to form authorities, Kyle Hood, director of the state Department of Community Affairs’ Community Development Division, told members of the study committee late last month. Of those, 575 are development authorities or downtown development authorities, he said.
Sen. Steve Gooch, R-Dahlonega, who formerly served as a Lumpkin County commissioner, said local development authorities are critical to economic development when corporate prospects come calling.
“Without these authorities, county governments would have to go to taxpayers and put out a referendum,” he said. “It’s the only development tool they have.”
Despite the jobs development authorities help generate, the General Assembly has put some controls in place to monitor their activities.
In 2018, lawmakers passed a bill requiring authorities to register with the state annually and undergo financial audits.
This year, the legislature passed a measure capping the per-diem allowance for directors of development authorities in counties with populations of 550,000 or more. The bill also gave the state ethics commission jurisdiction to handle complaints aimed at authority directors.
But state Rep. Mary Margaret Oliver, who sponsored this year’s legislation, said more needs to be done.
Oliver, D-Decatur, introduced a bill last year giving cities, counties, and school districts the right to participate in bond validation hearings. However, the bill failed to gain traction in the House.
Bonds typically underwrite incentives packages development authorities offer companies they’re trying to attract. Once approved by a judge following a hearing, authorities can issue bonds to purchase land for a project or finance construction, resulting in either full or partial abatement of property taxes.
“Abating school taxes without schools being part of the discussion is problematic,” said Oliver, who despite being a member of the House is on the Senate study committee.
Oliver’s bill giving local governments and school districts the right to take part in bond validation hearings has the support of the Association County Commissioners of Georgia (ACCG), which advocates on behalf of counties at the state Capitol.
Kathleen Bowen, associate legislative director for the ACCG, said development projects that contain a housing component are particularly concerning because they bring residents who rely on taxpayer-funded services.
Tax abatements deprive local governments and schools of the revenue they need to provide those services, she said.
Oliver said her efforts are not aimed at the Hyundai and Rivian incentives packages.
“I think those are major state-controlled projects,” she said. “My focus is more on the day-to-day [offering] of tax abatements without much discussion or accountability.”
While Oliver’s bill didn’t pass, Bowen credited the lawmaker’s push for the legislation with drawing attention to the issue. That focus could pay off during next year’s legislative session, Bowen said.
“There’s going to be robust discussion on tax abatements. I consider that a win,” she said. “These deals need to be for the public good. It’s up to those affected by the taxes to be part of the conversation.”
This story is available through a news partnership with Capitol Beat News Service, a project of the Georgia Press Educational Foundation.
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Nreal Raises $60 Million from Alibaba. The funding will help China’s Nreal AR Smartglasses launch in its home country following roll outs in Japan and the U.S. The company raised $200 Million at a $700 Million valuation last year, and has built its own manufacturing planet in Wuxi, China. The $600 the AR glasses are cheap for what they are, but they do need to be tethered to very specific new 5G Android smartphone. Nreal says the new funds will also enable them to grow their app ecosystem, which will be critical to user adoption.
Mojo Vision Demos Next Generation AR contact lenses Every once in a while I see something that makes me go wow. Scott Stein of Cnet said wow. Tony Vitillo said wow. Dean Takahasi of Venturebeat said: “The Mojo Lens prototype is a critical milestone for the company in its development, testing, and validation process, and is an innovation positioned at the intersection of smartphones, augmented reality/virtual reality, smart wearables, and health tech.” The company demo’d basic apps in through the actual lens, showing off simple interactive graphics like a compass, and text clear enough to read like a teleprompter. You control the device with gaze, which would definitely take some getting used to. The company has branched out from serving the vision impaired to exploring sports and fitness applications. Mojo Vision has raised over $200 Million.
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LIV Raises $8.5 Million to record and livestream players inside of VR and AR games. Creators are able to either film their real bodies inside their favorite VR game or transform themselves into a customized avatar. LIV supports full-body tracking, finger tracking, eye animation, and lip tracking. The technology works live with no post-production needed. The Series A funding round was led by BITKRAFT, with Sony Innovation Fund, Amazon Alexa Fund, Credo Ventures, Samsung Next, and Olive Tree Capital. Angel investors including Dave Wu, partner at Maveron Ventures also investing.
The Nimo Smart Glasses Want to Replace Your Laptop Screen replacement is back. The old Meta (not to be confused with the company formerly known as Facebook, which bought their trademarks out of bankruptcy), founded by Meron Gibretz in 2013 and foundered in 2018, was based on the premise of screen replacement, too. Nimo Planet has been working on their AR glasses for more than four years with a core team of 10 people based out of Kerala, India. The company expects the glasses to ship in India the first half of 2023 for $799.
Wendyverse serving fun in Meta's Horizon Worlds. This is one virtual land grab that makes sense. I also like that Meta is presenting the brand in a way that is organic to the medium. You can only get virtual food there, but you can also shoot some hoops and play other interactive games.
Live Actors Have Returned to The Under Presents. First launched in 2019, The Under Presents is a pioneering interactive VR adventure incorporating both live actors and scripted performances to deliver a narrative-driven mystery that centers on themes of time, fate, and free will. Many of the original cast members of The Under Presents will be returning for this limited engagement, including: Brandon Bales, Michael Bates, Karlie Blair, Sophie Cooper, James Cowan, Whitton Frank, Genevieve Flati, Stephanie Hyden, Dasha Kittredge, Terence Leclere, Deirdre Lyons, Haylee Nichele, Kelly Pierre, Soren Royer-McHugh, and Katelyn Schiller.
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Augmented Reality Goes Mainstream How a flight line superintendent turned an inspired idea into the Air Force’s one-stop shop for Augmented Reality. Another overnight success that only took ten years. (Amy Hudson/Air Force Magazine)
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Augmented reality headsets have been around for years, but none of the market players has really expanded beyond the techy demographic and broken into the mainstream. An AR startup hopes to change that by partnering with an eyewear fashion brand.
Nreal, the well-funded Chinese AR headset maker that’s been making aggressive global expansion, said Friday that it has raised $15 million from Korean sunglasses brand Gentle Monster’s parent company, IICOMBINED.
The investment, which came just five months after its $60 million Series C extension, boosts its total raised to $240 million since its inception in 2017.
The fresh capital will enable Nreal to accelerate its global expansion and double down on the company’s consumer business in the U.S., the company said.
Neither Nreal nor Gentle Monster said much about how they might work together, but it’s almost certain that the single-investor capital infusion marks a step toward a strategic partnership. It won’t be surprising that Nreal’s glasses — which have aimed to be fashionable and lightweight from the outset — would hit the shelves of Gentle Master’s global retail stores someday.
Indeed, Nreal’s co-founder Peng Jin said the firm’s goal for the next twelve months is to “scale and reach more audiences and aggressively grow adoption for AR technology starting with our latest AR glasses, Nreal Air.”
Nreal has already carved out a global distribution network, much of it through its enterprise partners like Qualcomm and LG, in countries including the U.S., U.K., Japan, South Korea, Spain, and Germany. It only debuted in China, where it’s based, in August.
Nreal’s demand is currently the highest in the U.S., Japan, and Korea, though the company expects China to grow soon to be one of its top markets.
Earlier this week, Nreal unveiled an array of its products, including AR glasses such as Nreal Air and Nreal X (Chinese version) and an AR adapter for apple devices in its home market.
“Fashion and design will be important aspects in the future development of AR glasses as we continue to expand the sector’s consumer base,” said Jin. “As such, having Gentle Monster as our investor will open up interesting opportunities not just for Nreal, but also for the wider AR industry as a whole.”
Gentle Monster, which entered China in 2016 and partnered with Huawei in 2019 to make smart glasses, opened its 17th store in Beijing in early August for further expansion in China.
“This investment is exciting for the combination and exploration of the boundary of fashion and tech,” said co-founder of Gentle Monster and CEO of IICOMBINED Hankook Kim. “We will leverage both parties’ strength and make joint efforts to create more possibilities.”
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Nreal Raises $60 Million from Alibaba. The funding will help China’s Nreal AR Smartglasses launch in its home country following roll outs in Japan and the U.S. The company raised $200 Million at a $700 Million valuation last year, and has built its own manufacturing planet in Wuxi, China. The $600 the AR glasses are cheap for what they are, but they do need to be tethered to very specific new 5G Android smartphone. Nreal says the new funds will also enable them to grow their app ecosystem, which will be critical to user adoption.
Mojo Vision Demos Next Generation AR contact lenses Every once in a while I see something that makes me go wow. Scott Stein of Cnet said wow. Tony Vitillo said wow. Dean Takahasi of Venturebeat said: “The Mojo Lens prototype is a critical milestone for the company in its development, testing, and validation process, and is an innovation positioned at the intersection of smartphones, augmented reality/virtual reality, smart wearables, and health tech.” The company demo’d basic apps in through the actual lens, showing off simple interactive graphics like a compass, and text clear enough to read like a teleprompter. You control the device with gaze, which would definitely take some getting used to. The company has branched out from serving the vision impaired to exploring sports and fitness applications. Mojo Vision has raised over $200 Million.
Hackers Make off with $600 Million in Ronin Cryptocurrency from Axie Infinity. The hack of the blockchain powering the play-to-earn NFT game Axie Infinity has led to one of the biggest crypto heists. Axie brushed it off on Twitter, causing everyone to wonder whose crypto got stolen here.
LIV Raises $8.5 Million to record and livestream players inside of VR and AR games. Creators are able to either film their real bodies inside their favorite VR game or transform themselves into a customized avatar. LIV supports full-body tracking, finger tracking, eye animation, and lip tracking. The technology works live with no post-production needed. The Series A funding round was led by BITKRAFT, with Sony Innovation Fund, Amazon Alexa Fund, Credo Ventures, Samsung Next, and Olive Tree Capital. Angel investors including Dave Wu, partner at Maveron Ventures also investing.
The Nimo Smart Glasses Want to Replace Your Laptop Screen replacement is back. The old Meta (not to be confused with the company formerly known as Facebook, which bought their trademarks out of bankruptcy), founded by Meron Gibretz in 2013 and foundered in 2018, was based on the premise of screen replacement, too. Nimo Planet has been working on their AR glasses for more than four years with a core team of 10 people based out of Kerala, India. The company expects the glasses to ship in India the first half of 2023 for $799.
Wendyverse serving fun in Meta's Horizon Worlds. This is one virtual land grab that makes sense. I also like that Meta is presenting the brand in a way that is organic to the medium. You can only get virtual food there, but you can also shoot some hoops and play other interactive games.
Live Actors Have Returned to The Under Presents. First launched in 2019, The Under Presents is a pioneering interactive VR adventure incorporating both live actors and scripted performances to deliver a narrative-driven mystery that centers on themes of time, fate, and free will. Many of the original cast members of The Under Presents will be returning for this limited engagement, including: Brandon Bales, Michael Bates, Karlie Blair, Sophie Cooper, James Cowan, Whitton Frank, Genevieve Flati, Stephanie Hyden, Dasha Kittredge, Terence Leclere, Deirdre Lyons, Haylee Nichele, Kelly Pierre, Soren Royer-McHugh, and Katelyn Schiller.
This Week in XR is now a podcast hosted by Ted Schilowitz, Futurist at Viacom, and Charlie Fink, the author of this weekly column. Our guest this week is TFM Jonny, professional Vtuber on Youtube, Twitch and Tiktok, where he plays an anime wolf boi who lives in VR Chat. You can find us on podcasting platforms Spotify, iTunes, and YouTube.
What We’re Reading
Augmented Reality Goes Mainstream How a flight line superintendent turned an inspired idea into the Air Force’s one-stop shop for Augmented Reality. Another overnight success that only took ten years. (Amy Hudson/Air Force Magazine)
The Metaverse Will Be a Multi-Platform Mess Conflicting priorities will mean there's a fragmented collection of different 3D realms, not a single destination. (Stephen Shankland/Cnet)
I went to metaverse fashion week and it was like a dystopian nightmare (Charlotte Edwards/The Sun)
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The devices to 'see' beyond the real world
Several consumer-oriented AR/VR gadgets have been introduced in China, targeting millions of users and moving closer to the metaverse, while bringing new experiences into the virtual realm and opening up revenue opportunities for the industry.
The gadgets include glasses for online video and virtual meetings, a drone with virtual flight experience, and simulated ambient sounds. They use virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) technologies, which are widely regarded as underlying and essential technologies for the metaverse.
"The metaverse and its underlying technologies (in China) have the potential to break bottlenecks for the next era of innovation by enabling new user experiences and use cases across industries, and by providing new revenue opportunities," according to research firm Gartner.
Unlike startups with limited resources and experiences, Chinese vendors such as Nreal, DJI, and Huawei have extensive consumer market experience and global brand awareness, which may entice consumers and allow the market to accept metaverse-underlying gadgets.
Nreal began selling two AR glasses, Nreal X and Nreal Air, as the company's first domestic product on August 27, with a starting price of 2,299 yuan (US$333). The glasses' normal size and lightweight design enable users to experience real spatial integration, physical interaction, and full-scene AR applications from any location.
Since its inception in 2017, Nreal has primarily focused on international markets such as the United States, Europe, and Japan. The company's glasses were previously displayed at a consumer electronics show in Shanghai with its partner KDDI.
The next-generation computing platform's mission is to transition from "mobile Internet to spatial Internet," integrating digital information with the real world. According to Xu Chi, chief executive and founder of Nreal, the devices for the upgrade are AR glasses.
The current Internet evolution is being characterized as "growth without groundbreaking development," while the metaverse of underlying technologies has the potential to break the bottleneck, according to Gartner.
In China, Nreal collaborated with video streaming website iQiyi, China Mobile subsidiary Migu, and new energy car brand Nio to create applications and an "AR ecosystem." The new glasses will also be on display at the 2022 World Artificial Intelligence Conference.
AR and online video are both visual arts. According to Gong Yu, CEO of iQiyi, augmented reality will provide a "magic leap" in immersive and interactive entertainment experiences.
Last week, DJI released the DJI Avata, a first-person view (FPV) drone with a fully immersive flight experience that is described as an "almost out-of-body experience." Its simple controls make FPV flying accessible to even novice pilots, who are frequently prevented from long-term training due to complicated controls and the risks and losses associated with drone crashes. The new Avatar drone can automatically avoid danger.
With a 4K imaging system and 20 GB of internal storage, the new drone provides users with a wider field of view for flying and immersive aerial photography. DJI provides users with the Goggle 2 video headset for more immersive and clearer imaging. The AR perspective provided by Goggle 2 and controllers provides an extra sense of orientation to help the pilot locate the immediate environment in seconds.
The drone has three models for pilots of various skill levels, from beginners to professionals – normal, manual, and sport.
In China, the Avatar drone's prices start at 6,998 yuan.
According to Strategy Analytics, the global consumer AR device market tripled from 2020 to 2021 and will reach just under 60 million shipments by 2027.
Analysts predict that China and Asia Pacific will be the fastest-growing regions for the metaverse and underlying tech markets, thanks to tech-savvy consumers and strong electronics manufacturing capacities.
The metaverse is still in its early stages, but it will contribute US$3.01 trillion in GDP globally by 2031, with Asia Pacific accounting for one-third, according to an Analysis Group survey, which was sponsored by Meta.
AR is a fundamental technology for the metaverse, according to Meta, formerly known as Facebook. The company, which invests heavily in the metaverse, is one of the Western market leaders in new technologies.
Chinese cities such as Shanghai and Beijing have targeted the metaverse as a long-term objective. In Shanghai, it plans to increase the value of the city's metaverse to 350 billion yuan by 2025. At this year's WAIC, which starts today, more metaverse and augmented reality apps will be shown off for the first time.
Huawei Technologies has established its largest audio technology research center in Shanghai, with several professional labs spread over 2,000 square meters. The tech giant is researching how to improve sound quality, reduce environmental noise and create spatial sound effects in the local center.
These technologies are now primarily used in high-end headsets and in-car speakers.
Huawei says that in the future, audio technology will be widely used, including more VR/AR devices for immersive experiences, especially spatial sound technologies.
"Wherever there are speakers or microphones, Huawei's audio technology can be used," said Liu Dongfang, president of Huawei's audio technology and device product line.
Meta, Google, and Apple are leading the charge in the West to seek business opportunities for the metaverse and its underlying technologies.
Apple is expected to release new AR devices in addition to iPhones at its upcoming autumn event in September. According to media reports, Apple has registered trademarks for "Reality One," "Reality Pro" and "Reality Processor" globally, signaling the consumer electronics giant's intention to expand into AR devices.
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Nreal Raises $60 Million from Alibaba. The funding will help China’s Nreal AR Smartglasses launch in its home country following roll outs in Japan and the U.S. The company raised $200 Million at a $700 Million valuation last year, and has built its own manufacturing planet in Wuxi, China. The $600 the AR glasses are cheap for what they are, but they do need to be tethered to very specific new 5G Android smartphone. Nreal says the new funds will also enable them to grow their app ecosystem, which will be critical to user adoption.
Mojo Vision Demos Next Generation AR contact lenses Every once in a while I see something that makes me go wow. Scott Stein of Cnet said wow. Tony Vitillo said wow. Dean Takahasi of Venturebeat said: “The Mojo Lens prototype is a critical milestone for the company in its development, testing, and validation process, and is an innovation positioned at the intersection of smartphones, augmented reality/virtual reality, smart wearables, and health tech.” The company demo’d basic apps in through the actual lens, showing off simple interactive graphics like a compass, and text clear enough to read like a teleprompter. You control the device with gaze, which would definitely take some getting used to. The company has branched out from serving the vision impaired to exploring sports and fitness applications. Mojo Vision has raised over $200 Million.
Hackers Make off with $600 Million in Ronin Cryptocurrency from Axie Infinity. The hack of the blockchain powering the play-to-earn NFT game Axie Infinity has led to one of the biggest crypto heists. Axie brushed it off on Twitter, causing everyone to wonder whose crypto got stolen here.
LIV Raises $8.5 Million to record and livestream players inside of VR and AR games. Creators are able to either film their real bodies inside their favorite VR game or transform themselves into a customized avatar. LIV supports full-body tracking, finger tracking, eye animation, and lip tracking. The technology works live with no post-production needed. The Series A funding round was led by BITKRAFT, with Sony Innovation Fund, Amazon Alexa Fund, Credo Ventures, Samsung Next, and Olive Tree Capital. Angel investors including Dave Wu, partner at Maveron Ventures also investing.
The Nimo Smart Glasses Want to Replace Your Laptop Screen replacement is back. The old Meta (not to be confused with the company formerly known as Facebook, which bought their trademarks out of bankruptcy), founded by Meron Gibretz in 2013 and foundered in 2018, was based on the premise of screen replacement, too. Nimo Planet has been working on their AR glasses for more than four years with a core team of 10 people based out of Kerala, India. The company expects the glasses to ship in India the first half of 2023 for $799.
Wendyverse serving fun in Meta's Horizon Worlds. This is one virtual land grab that makes sense. I also like that Meta is presenting the brand in a way that is organic to the medium. You can only get virtual food there, but you can also shoot some hoops and play other interactive games.
Live Actors Have Returned to The Under Presents. First launched in 2019, The Under Presents is a pioneering interactive VR adventure incorporating both live actors and scripted performances to deliver a narrative-driven mystery that centers on themes of time, fate, and free will. Many of the original cast members of The Under Presents will be returning for this limited engagement, including: Brandon Bales, Michael Bates, Karlie Blair, Sophie Cooper, James Cowan, Whitton Frank, Genevieve Flati, Stephanie Hyden, Dasha Kittredge, Terence Leclere, Deirdre Lyons, Haylee Nichele, Kelly Pierre, Soren Royer-McHugh, and Katelyn Schiller.
This Week in XR is now a podcast hosted by Ted Schilowitz, Futurist at Viacom, and Charlie Fink, the author of this weekly column. Our guest this week is TFM Jonny, professional Vtuber on Youtube, Twitch and Tiktok, where he plays an anime wolf boi who lives in VR Chat. You can find us on podcasting platforms Spotify, iTunes, and YouTube.
What We’re Reading
Augmented Reality Goes Mainstream How a flight line superintendent turned an inspired idea into the Air Force’s one-stop shop for Augmented Reality. Another overnight success that only took ten years. (Amy Hudson/Air Force Magazine)
The Metaverse Will Be a Multi-Platform Mess Conflicting priorities will mean there's a fragmented collection of different 3D realms, not a single destination. (Stephen Shankland/Cnet)
I went to metaverse fashion week and it was like a dystopian nightmare (Charlotte Edwards/The Sun)
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EE partners with AR firm Nreal to launch smart glasses in the UK
Mobile operator EE has announced plans to bring augmented reality (AR) glasses to the UK that will enable wearers to stream movies over 5G, on the go, on a personal virtual screen.
The network has partnered with Chinese AR firm Nreal to exclusively launch its Nreal Air glasses in the UK, which can be connected to a smartphone to stream video content and gaming.
Augmented reality is when virtual objects or content are overlaid on to the real world. This is becoming an increasingly popular technology through gadgets such as smart glasses, but also through smartphone cameras and games such as Pokemon Go.
The Government has predicted a 78% increase in spending on augmented and virtual reality between 2019 and 2024, while EE said it had found more than a third of people (35%) were interested in a way of making big-screen experiences more mobile.
The Nreal Air use an OLED display built into the glasses which can be used to cast video that appears on an “Imax-sized” 201-inch virtual screen in front of the wearer.
The glasses can also be used to mirror a connected smartphone screen or explore augmented reality apps.
The Air will go on sale through EE later in the spring, the network confirmed, with full pricing and availability still to be announced.
“We’re working with the best content providers and the most innovative technology companies in the world to create entirely new experiences for our customers,” EE’s director of devices and partnerships, Alistair Wilson, said.
“Nreal are at the forefront of AR, and we’re delighted to be the exclusive UK partner for the launch of their new Nreal Air AR glasses.
“When combined with the power of 5G, it really does open up new possibilities for seamless streaming and access to new types of content on the move – these are really exciting times for mobile.”
Nreal co-founder Peng Jin said the company was “delighted” to come to the UK with EE.
“At Nreal, we’re passionate about bringing AR into consumers’ everyday lives, which will start a revolutionary transformation just as the internet once did,” he said.
“AR will transcend the current mobile experience, especially when it comes to watching videos, exercising, and playing PC and cloud video games.
“As we continue to enrich the AR ecosystem with each update and upgrade, consumers will enjoy more mind-blowing digital innovations and experiences blended into everyday life.”
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How to choose the best baseball bat for your needs
Unless you play Major League Baseball, you have a choice when it comes to picking the material for your bat. Your options are wood, aluminum or composite. Each of these materials provides the player with a distinct set of advantages. Each also has an inherent set of drawbacks.
When shopping for a baseball bat, you must consider what your needs are and match the type of bat to those needs. A wood bat still has its place, even though aluminum and composite bats offer a performance advantage.
Wood baseball bats
Because of safety (and other) issues, the MLB only uses ash, birch and maple bats. If you want to play like a pro, this would be your bat of choice. It honors tradition and offers a little more safety, although a pair of quality batting gloves will come in handy to reduce the sting.
Wood baseball bats pros
- From a budget perspective, wood bats are appealing because of their lower cost.
- Wood bats are the best bat for training because they provide the most feedback. This helps the player improve their swing mechanics.
- Wood bats are safer because the bat doesn’t increase the ball’s velocity like other materials.
Wood baseball bats cons
- Wood bats break more easily than aluminum or composite bats.
- The sweet spot on a wood bat is smaller than it is on the other options.
- Wood bats are the heaviest type of bat, which means they are harder to swing and may be smaller in size, so they won’t provide as much plate coverage.
Best wood baseball bats
The Big Stick is certified for MLB play. It is made of maple and employs a heavier barrel, making it ideal for power hitters.
Sold by Dick’s Sporting Goods
Louisville Slugger Series 3X Ash Bat
This bat is from a trusted name in baseball. It is made of ash and has a natural finish. The large sweet spot and lighter weight make this a favorite.
Sold by Dick’s Sporting Goods
Wilson Sporting Goods Louisville Slugger
This 27-inch wood bat is cupped for reduced weight. The black design features red lettering so your bat is sharp looking and easy to identify.
Sold by Amazon
Aluminum baseball bats
Aluminum bats were introduced to college baseball in the early ’70s to cut down on the rising costs of replacing broken wood bats. Besides being more durable, aluminum is lighter than wood and provides more pop when hitting a ball. However, aluminum bats are not without their downsides.
Aluminum baseball bat pros
- Aluminum bats are best when they are new — there is no break-in period required.
- Aluminum bats have a larger sweet spot, which makes them ideal for a beginner who is having trouble hitting with any sort of power.
- Aluminum bats have a trampoline effect. When the bat makes contact, some of the energy is transferred to the ball, making it travel farther and faster than a ball hit by a wood bat.
- The lighter weight of an aluminum bat means they can be longer and larger, giving the player greater plate coverage and a faster swing.
Aluminum baseball bat cons
- Although an aluminum bat will rarely break, it can lose its pop over time. The more imperfections the bat gains from hitting balls, the more its performance deteriorates.
- Aluminum bats cost slightly more than wooden bats, but they are less than composite bats.
- With an aluminum bat, there is less feedback sent to the batter, so it can be harder for a beginner to develop proper swing mechanics.
Best aluminum baseball bats
Louisville Slugger Omaha USA Youth Bat
The Omaha USA youth bat features a one-piece construction. It feels solid in the batter’s hands and offers enhanced energy transfer. It has a cushioned leather grip for increased comfort and control.
Sold by Dick’s Sporting Goods
The lightweight construction of this bat gives the player increased speed, letting them get more power behind their swing. It has a cushioned grip and is approved for all associations that follow the USA Baseball standard.
Sold by Dick’s Sporting Goods
This affordable aluminum bat is for entry-level T-ball players. The ultralightweight design is suitable for ages 7 and under. It has a large sweet spot to deliver greater satisfaction and foster confidence.
Sold by Amazon
Composite baseball bats
A composite baseball bat is made of carbon fiber. These crystalline filaments are thinner than a strand of human hair but become remarkably rugged when twisted together. It is a lightweight material that has incredible strength. Some composite bats are made from a single piece of material, while others are two-piece items: a handle and a barrel. A two-piece bat is better for the average player because it doesn’t transfer as much vibration to the hands after a solid hit. Advanced players with greater speed and power, however, may opt for one-piece bats.
Composite baseball bat pros
- Composite bats are the lightest baseball bats available. This lets manufacturers make longer bats without increasing the weight so players have greater plate coverage.
- Since most composite bats have a two-piece design, they are less likely to sting a player’s hands.
- Composite bats have a larger sweet spot, which makes them best for inexperienced players.
- Over time, the trampoline effect increases on a composite bat.
Composite baseball bat cons
- Composite bats are not as durable as aluminum bats, and it is possible to break them.
- Compost bats cost more than wood bats and aluminum bats.
- A composite bat is not ready to go out of the box. You need to break it in. This process takes anywhere from 150 to 300 hits.
Best composite baseball bats
Louisville Slugger Meta BBCOR Bat
This is a high-end composite bat that is best for the serious player. It features a large barrel with a balanced design and a comfortable yet secure grip.
Sold by Dick’s Sporting Goods
Easton Ghost X Hyperlite Youth Bat
This composite bat from Easton is 29 inches long but only weighs 18 ounces. It has a large sweet spot and a balanced swing weight that makes it a good choice for beginners.
Sold by Amazon
This bat is available in five sizes ranging from 27-31 inches. It features an ultralightweight design to help young players succeed. The lower price adds value.
Sold by Dick’s Sporting Goods
Should you get a wood, aluminum or composite baseball bat?
For the average player, an aluminum bat wins out because it offers the best of all worlds. It has a large sweet spot, a lightweight design, and it is available at a reasonable price. However, if you have an unlimited budget, a composite bat might edge out an aluminum bat. A composite bat won’t help you hit the ball farther, but the larger barrel and lighter weight design could up your batting average. For players who want to perfect their swing mechanics, however, there is no better option than using a wood bat at practice.
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How to choose the best baseball bat for your needs
Unless you play Major League Baseball, you have a choice when it comes to picking the material for your bat. Your options are wood, aluminum or composite. Each of these materials provides the player with a distinct set of advantages. Each also has an inherent set of drawbacks.
When shopping for a baseball bat, you must consider what your needs are and match the type of bat to those needs. A wood bat still has its place, even though aluminum and composite bats offer a performance advantage.
Wood baseball bats
Because of safety (and other) issues, the MLB only uses ash, birch and maple bats. If you want to play like a pro, this would be your bat of choice. It honors tradition and offers a little more safety, although a pair of quality batting gloves will come in handy to reduce the sting.
Wood baseball bats pros
- From a budget perspective, wood bats are appealing because of their lower cost.
- Wood bats are the best bat for training because they provide the most feedback. This helps the player improve their swing mechanics.
- Wood bats are safer because the bat doesn’t increase the ball’s velocity like other materials.
Wood baseball bats cons
- Wood bats break more easily than aluminum or composite bats.
- The sweet spot on a wood bat is smaller than it is on the other options.
- Wood bats are the heaviest type of bat, which means they are harder to swing and may be smaller in size, so they won’t provide as much plate coverage.
Best wood baseball bats
The Big Stick is certified for MLB play. It is made of maple and employs a heavier barrel, making it ideal for power hitters.
Sold by Dick’s Sporting Goods
Louisville Slugger Series 3X Ash Bat
This bat is from a trusted name in baseball. It is made of ash and has a natural finish. The large sweet spot and lighter weight make this a favorite.
Sold by Dick’s Sporting Goods
Wilson Sporting Goods Louisville Slugger
This 27-inch wood bat is cupped for reduced weight. The black design features red lettering so your bat is sharp looking and easy to identify.
Sold by Amazon
Aluminum baseball bats
Aluminum bats were introduced to college baseball in the early ’70s to cut down on the rising costs of replacing broken wood bats. Besides being more durable, aluminum is lighter than wood and provides more pop when hitting a ball. However, aluminum bats are not without their downsides.
Aluminum baseball bat pros
- Aluminum bats are best when they are new — there is no break-in period required.
- Aluminum bats have a larger sweet spot, which makes them ideal for a beginner who is having trouble hitting with any sort of power.
- Aluminum bats have a trampoline effect. When the bat makes contact, some of the energy is transferred to the ball, making it travel farther and faster than a ball hit by a wood bat.
- The lighter weight of an aluminum bat means they can be longer and larger, giving the player greater plate coverage and a faster swing.
Aluminum baseball bat cons
- Although an aluminum bat will rarely break, it can lose its pop over time. The more imperfections the bat gains from hitting balls, the more its performance deteriorates.
- Aluminum bats cost slightly more than wooden bats, but they are less than composite bats.
- With an aluminum bat, there is less feedback sent to the batter, so it can be harder for a beginner to develop proper swing mechanics.
Best aluminum baseball bats
Louisville Slugger Omaha USA Youth Bat
The Omaha USA youth bat features a one-piece construction. It feels solid in the batter’s hands and offers enhanced energy transfer. It has a cushioned leather grip for increased comfort and control.
Sold by Dick’s Sporting Goods
The lightweight construction of this bat gives the player increased speed, letting them get more power behind their swing. It has a cushioned grip and is approved for all associations that follow the USA Baseball standard.
Sold by Dick’s Sporting Goods
This affordable aluminum bat is for entry-level T-ball players. The ultralightweight design is suitable for ages 7 and under. It has a large sweet spot to deliver greater satisfaction and foster confidence.
Sold by Amazon
Composite baseball bats
A composite baseball bat is made of carbon fiber. These crystalline filaments are thinner than a strand of human hair but become remarkably rugged when twisted together. It is a lightweight material that has incredible strength. Some composite bats are made from a single piece of material, while others are two-piece items: a handle and a barrel. A two-piece bat is better for the average player because it doesn’t transfer as much vibration to the hands after a solid hit. Advanced players with greater speed and power, however, may opt for one-piece bats.
Composite baseball bat pros
- Composite bats are the lightest baseball bats available. This lets manufacturers make longer bats without increasing the weight so players have greater plate coverage.
- Since most composite bats have a two-piece design, they are less likely to sting a player’s hands.
- Composite bats have a larger sweet spot, which makes them best for inexperienced players.
- Over time, the trampoline effect increases on a composite bat.
Composite baseball bat cons
- Composite bats are not as durable as aluminum bats, and it is possible to break them.
- Compost bats cost more than wood bats and aluminum bats.
- A composite bat is not ready to go out of the box. You need to break it in. This process takes anywhere from 150 to 300 hits.
Best composite baseball bats
Louisville Slugger Meta BBCOR Bat
This is a high-end composite bat that is best for the serious player. It features a large barrel with a balanced design and a comfortable yet secure grip.
Sold by Dick’s Sporting Goods
Easton Ghost X Hyperlite Youth Bat
This composite bat from Easton is 29 inches long but only weighs 18 ounces. It has a large sweet spot and a balanced swing weight that makes it a good choice for beginners.
Sold by Amazon
This bat is available in five sizes ranging from 27-31 inches. It features an ultralightweight design to help young players succeed. The lower price adds value.
Sold by Dick’s Sporting Goods
Should you get a wood, aluminum or composite baseball bat?
For the average player, an aluminum bat wins out because it offers the best of all worlds. It has a large sweet spot, a lightweight design, and it is available at a reasonable price. However, if you have an unlimited budget, a composite bat might edge out an aluminum bat. A composite bat won’t help you hit the ball farther, but the larger barrel and lighter weight design could up your batting average. For players who want to perfect their swing mechanics, however, there is no better option than using a wood bat at practice.
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How to choose the best baseball bat for your needs
Unless you play Major League Baseball, you have a choice when it comes to picking the material for your bat. Your options are wood, aluminum or composite. Each of these materials provides the player with a distinct set of advantages. Each also has an inherent set of drawbacks.
When shopping for a baseball bat, you must consider what your needs are and match the type of bat to those needs. A wood bat still has its place, even though aluminum and composite bats offer a performance advantage.
Wood baseball bats
Because of safety (and other) issues, the MLB only uses ash, birch and maple bats. If you want to play like a pro, this would be your bat of choice. It honors tradition and offers a little more safety, although a pair of quality batting gloves will come in handy to reduce the sting.
Wood baseball bats pros
- From a budget perspective, wood bats are appealing because of their lower cost.
- Wood bats are the best bat for training because they provide the most feedback. This helps the player improve their swing mechanics.
- Wood bats are safer because the bat doesn’t increase the ball’s velocity like other materials.
Wood baseball bats cons
- Wood bats break more easily than aluminum or composite bats.
- The sweet spot on a wood bat is smaller than it is on the other options.
- Wood bats are the heaviest type of bat, which means they are harder to swing and may be smaller in size, so they won’t provide as much plate coverage.
Best wood baseball bats
The Big Stick is certified for MLB play. It is made of maple and employs a heavier barrel, making it ideal for power hitters.
Sold by Dick’s Sporting Goods
Louisville Slugger Series 3X Ash Bat
This bat is from a trusted name in baseball. It is made of ash and has a natural finish. The large sweet spot and lighter weight make this a favorite.
Sold by Dick’s Sporting Goods
Wilson Sporting Goods Louisville Slugger
This 27-inch wood bat is cupped for reduced weight. The black design features red lettering so your bat is sharp looking and easy to identify.
Sold by Amazon
Aluminum baseball bats
Aluminum bats were introduced to college baseball in the early ’70s to cut down on the rising costs of replacing broken wood bats. Besides being more durable, aluminum is lighter than wood and provides more pop when hitting a ball. However, aluminum bats are not without their downsides.
Aluminum baseball bat pros
- Aluminum bats are best when they are new — there is no break-in period required.
- Aluminum bats have a larger sweet spot, which makes them ideal for a beginner who is having trouble hitting with any sort of power.
- Aluminum bats have a trampoline effect. When the bat makes contact, some of the energy is transferred to the ball, making it travel farther and faster than a ball hit by a wood bat.
- The lighter weight of an aluminum bat means they can be longer and larger, giving the player greater plate coverage and a faster swing.
Aluminum baseball bat cons
- Although an aluminum bat will rarely break, it can lose its pop over time. The more imperfections the bat gains from hitting balls, the more its performance deteriorates.
- Aluminum bats cost slightly more than wooden bats, but they are less than composite bats.
- With an aluminum bat, there is less feedback sent to the batter, so it can be harder for a beginner to develop proper swing mechanics.
Best aluminum baseball bats
Louisville Slugger Omaha USA Youth Bat
The Omaha USA youth bat features a one-piece construction. It feels solid in the batter’s hands and offers enhanced energy transfer. It has a cushioned leather grip for increased comfort and control.
Sold by Dick’s Sporting Goods
The lightweight construction of this bat gives the player increased speed, letting them get more power behind their swing. It has a cushioned grip and is approved for all associations that follow the USA Baseball standard.
Sold by Dick’s Sporting Goods
This affordable aluminum bat is for entry-level T-ball players. The ultralightweight design is suitable for ages 7 and under. It has a large sweet spot to deliver greater satisfaction and foster confidence.
Sold by Amazon
Composite baseball bats
A composite baseball bat is made of carbon fiber. These crystalline filaments are thinner than a strand of human hair but become remarkably rugged when twisted together. It is a lightweight material that has incredible strength. Some composite bats are made from a single piece of material, while others are two-piece items: a handle and a barrel. A two-piece bat is better for the average player because it doesn’t transfer as much vibration to the hands after a solid hit. Advanced players with greater speed and power, however, may opt for one-piece bats.
Composite baseball bat pros
- Composite bats are the lightest baseball bats available. This lets manufacturers make longer bats without increasing the weight so players have greater plate coverage.
- Since most composite bats have a two-piece design, they are less likely to sting a player’s hands.
- Composite bats have a larger sweet spot, which makes them best for inexperienced players.
- Over time, the trampoline effect increases on a composite bat.
Composite baseball bat cons
- Composite bats are not as durable as aluminum bats, and it is possible to break them.
- Compost bats cost more than wood bats and aluminum bats.
- A composite bat is not ready to go out of the box. You need to break it in. This process takes anywhere from 150 to 300 hits.
Best composite baseball bats
Louisville Slugger Meta BBCOR Bat
This is a high-end composite bat that is best for the serious player. It features a large barrel with a balanced design and a comfortable yet secure grip.
Sold by Dick’s Sporting Goods
Easton Ghost X Hyperlite Youth Bat
This composite bat from Easton is 29 inches long but only weighs 18 ounces. It has a large sweet spot and a balanced swing weight that makes it a good choice for beginners.
Sold by Amazon
This bat is available in five sizes ranging from 27-31 inches. It features an ultralightweight design to help young players succeed. The lower price adds value.
Sold by Dick’s Sporting Goods
Should you get a wood, aluminum or composite baseball bat?
For the average player, an aluminum bat wins out because it offers the best of all worlds. It has a large sweet spot, a lightweight design, and it is available at a reasonable price. However, if you have an unlimited budget, a composite bat might edge out an aluminum bat. A composite bat won’t help you hit the ball farther, but the larger barrel and lighter weight design could up your batting average. For players who want to perfect their swing mechanics, however, there is no better option than using a wood bat at practice.
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How to choose the best baseball bat for your needs
Unless you play Major League Baseball, you have a choice when it comes to picking the material for your bat. Your options are wood, aluminum or composite. Each of these materials provides the player with a distinct set of advantages. Each also has an inherent set of drawbacks.
When shopping for a baseball bat, you must consider what your needs are and match the type of bat to those needs. A wood bat still has its place, even though aluminum and composite bats offer a performance advantage.
Wood baseball bats
Because of safety (and other) issues, the MLB only uses ash, birch and maple bats. If you want to play like a pro, this would be your bat of choice. It honors tradition and offers a little more safety, although a pair of quality batting gloves will come in handy to reduce the sting.
Wood baseball bats pros
- From a budget perspective, wood bats are appealing because of their lower cost.
- Wood bats are the best bat for training because they provide the most feedback. This helps the player improve their swing mechanics.
- Wood bats are safer because the bat doesn’t increase the ball’s velocity like other materials.
Wood baseball bats cons
- Wood bats break more easily than aluminum or composite bats.
- The sweet spot on a wood bat is smaller than it is on the other options.
- Wood bats are the heaviest type of bat, which means they are harder to swing and may be smaller in size, so they won’t provide as much plate coverage.
Best wood baseball bats
The Big Stick is certified for MLB play. It is made of maple and employs a heavier barrel, making it ideal for power hitters.
Sold by Dick’s Sporting Goods
Louisville Slugger Series 3X Ash Bat
This bat is from a trusted name in baseball. It is made of ash and has a natural finish. The large sweet spot and lighter weight make this a favorite.
Sold by Dick’s Sporting Goods
Wilson Sporting Goods Louisville Slugger
This 27-inch wood bat is cupped for reduced weight. The black design features red lettering so your bat is sharp looking and easy to identify.
Sold by Amazon
Aluminum baseball bats
Aluminum bats were introduced to college baseball in the early ’70s to cut down on the rising costs of replacing broken wood bats. Besides being more durable, aluminum is lighter than wood and provides more pop when hitting a ball. However, aluminum bats are not without their downsides.
Aluminum baseball bat pros
- Aluminum bats are best when they are new — there is no break-in period required.
- Aluminum bats have a larger sweet spot, which makes them ideal for a beginner who is having trouble hitting with any sort of power.
- Aluminum bats have a trampoline effect. When the bat makes contact, some of the energy is transferred to the ball, making it travel farther and faster than a ball hit by a wood bat.
- The lighter weight of an aluminum bat means they can be longer and larger, giving the player greater plate coverage and a faster swing.
Aluminum baseball bat cons
- Although an aluminum bat will rarely break, it can lose its pop over time. The more imperfections the bat gains from hitting balls, the more its performance deteriorates.
- Aluminum bats cost slightly more than wooden bats, but they are less than composite bats.
- With an aluminum bat, there is less feedback sent to the batter, so it can be harder for a beginner to develop proper swing mechanics.
Best aluminum baseball bats
Louisville Slugger Omaha USA Youth Bat
The Omaha USA youth bat features a one-piece construction. It feels solid in the batter’s hands and offers enhanced energy transfer. It has a cushioned leather grip for increased comfort and control.
Sold by Dick’s Sporting Goods
The lightweight construction of this bat gives the player increased speed, letting them get more power behind their swing. It has a cushioned grip and is approved for all associations that follow the USA Baseball standard.
Sold by Dick’s Sporting Goods
This affordable aluminum bat is for entry-level T-ball players. The ultralightweight design is suitable for ages 7 and under. It has a large sweet spot to deliver greater satisfaction and foster confidence.
Sold by Amazon
Composite baseball bats
A composite baseball bat is made of carbon fiber. These crystalline filaments are thinner than a strand of human hair but become remarkably rugged when twisted together. It is a lightweight material that has incredible strength. Some composite bats are made from a single piece of material, while others are two-piece items: a handle and a barrel. A two-piece bat is better for the average player because it doesn’t transfer as much vibration to the hands after a solid hit. Advanced players with greater speed and power, however, may opt for one-piece bats.
Composite baseball bat pros
- Composite bats are the lightest baseball bats available. This lets manufacturers make longer bats without increasing the weight so players have greater plate coverage.
- Since most composite bats have a two-piece design, they are less likely to sting a player’s hands.
- Composite bats have a larger sweet spot, which makes them best for inexperienced players.
- Over time, the trampoline effect increases on a composite bat.
Composite baseball bat cons
- Composite bats are not as durable as aluminum bats, and it is possible to break them.
- Compost bats cost more than wood bats and aluminum bats.
- A composite bat is not ready to go out of the box. You need to break it in. This process takes anywhere from 150 to 300 hits.
Best composite baseball bats
Louisville Slugger Meta BBCOR Bat
This is a high-end composite bat that is best for the serious player. It features a large barrel with a balanced design and a comfortable yet secure grip.
Sold by Dick’s Sporting Goods
Easton Ghost X Hyperlite Youth Bat
This composite bat from Easton is 29 inches long but only weighs 18 ounces. It has a large sweet spot and a balanced swing weight that makes it a good choice for beginners.
Sold by Amazon
This bat is available in five sizes ranging from 27-31 inches. It features an ultralightweight design to help young players succeed. The lower price adds value.
Sold by Dick’s Sporting Goods
Should you get a wood, aluminum or composite baseball bat?
For the average player, an aluminum bat wins out because it offers the best of all worlds. It has a large sweet spot, a lightweight design, and it is available at a reasonable price. However, if you have an unlimited budget, a composite bat might edge out an aluminum bat. A composite bat won’t help you hit the ball farther, but the larger barrel and lighter weight design could up your batting average. For players who want to perfect their swing mechanics, however, there is no better option than using a wood bat at practice.
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How to choose the best baseball bat for your needs
Unless you play Major League Baseball, you have a choice when it comes to picking the material for your bat. Your options are wood, aluminum or composite. Each of these materials provides the player with a distinct set of advantages. Each also has an inherent set of drawbacks.
When shopping for a baseball bat, you must consider what your needs are and match the type of bat to those needs. A wood bat still has its place, even though aluminum and composite bats offer a performance advantage.
Wood baseball bats
Because of safety (and other) issues, the MLB only uses ash, birch and maple bats. If you want to play like a pro, this would be your bat of choice. It honors tradition and offers a little more safety, although a pair of quality batting gloves will come in handy to reduce the sting.
Wood baseball bats pros
- From a budget perspective, wood bats are appealing because of their lower cost.
- Wood bats are the best bat for training because they provide the most feedback. This helps the player improve their swing mechanics.
- Wood bats are safer because the bat doesn’t increase the ball’s velocity like other materials.
Wood baseball bats cons
- Wood bats break more easily than aluminum or composite bats.
- The sweet spot on a wood bat is smaller than it is on the other options.
- Wood bats are the heaviest type of bat, which means they are harder to swing and may be smaller in size, so they won’t provide as much plate coverage.
Best wood baseball bats
The Big Stick is certified for MLB play. It is made of maple and employs a heavier barrel, making it ideal for power hitters.
Sold by Dick’s Sporting Goods
Louisville Slugger Series 3X Ash Bat
This bat is from a trusted name in baseball. It is made of ash and has a natural finish. The large sweet spot and lighter weight make this a favorite.
Sold by Dick’s Sporting Goods
Wilson Sporting Goods Louisville Slugger
This 27-inch wood bat is cupped for reduced weight. The black design features red lettering so your bat is sharp looking and easy to identify.
Sold by Amazon
Aluminum baseball bats
Aluminum bats were introduced to college baseball in the early ’70s to cut down on the rising costs of replacing broken wood bats. Besides being more durable, aluminum is lighter than wood and provides more pop when hitting a ball. However, aluminum bats are not without their downsides.
Aluminum baseball bat pros
- Aluminum bats are best when they are new — there is no break-in period required.
- Aluminum bats have a larger sweet spot, which makes them ideal for a beginner who is having trouble hitting with any sort of power.
- Aluminum bats have a trampoline effect. When the bat makes contact, some of the energy is transferred to the ball, making it travel farther and faster than a ball hit by a wood bat.
- The lighter weight of an aluminum bat means they can be longer and larger, giving the player greater plate coverage and a faster swing.
Aluminum baseball bat cons
- Although an aluminum bat will rarely break, it can lose its pop over time. The more imperfections the bat gains from hitting balls, the more its performance deteriorates.
- Aluminum bats cost slightly more than wooden bats, but they are less than composite bats.
- With an aluminum bat, there is less feedback sent to the batter, so it can be harder for a beginner to develop proper swing mechanics.
Best aluminum baseball bats
Louisville Slugger Omaha USA Youth Bat
The Omaha USA youth bat features a one-piece construction. It feels solid in the batter’s hands and offers enhanced energy transfer. It has a cushioned leather grip for increased comfort and control.
Sold by Dick’s Sporting Goods
The lightweight construction of this bat gives the player increased speed, letting them get more power behind their swing. It has a cushioned grip and is approved for all associations that follow the USA Baseball standard.
Sold by Dick’s Sporting Goods
This affordable aluminum bat is for entry-level T-ball players. The ultralightweight design is suitable for ages 7 and under. It has a large sweet spot to deliver greater satisfaction and foster confidence.
Sold by Amazon
Composite baseball bats
A composite baseball bat is made of carbon fiber. These crystalline filaments are thinner than a strand of human hair but become remarkably rugged when twisted together. It is a lightweight material that has incredible strength. Some composite bats are made from a single piece of material, while others are two-piece items: a handle and a barrel. A two-piece bat is better for the average player because it doesn’t transfer as much vibration to the hands after a solid hit. Advanced players with greater speed and power, however, may opt for one-piece bats.
Composite baseball bat pros
- Composite bats are the lightest baseball bats available. This lets manufacturers make longer bats without increasing the weight so players have greater plate coverage.
- Since most composite bats have a two-piece design, they are less likely to sting a player’s hands.
- Composite bats have a larger sweet spot, which makes them best for inexperienced players.
- Over time, the trampoline effect increases on a composite bat.
Composite baseball bat cons
- Composite bats are not as durable as aluminum bats, and it is possible to break them.
- Compost bats cost more than wood bats and aluminum bats.
- A composite bat is not ready to go out of the box. You need to break it in. This process takes anywhere from 150 to 300 hits.
Best composite baseball bats
Louisville Slugger Meta BBCOR Bat
This is a high-end composite bat that is best for the serious player. It features a large barrel with a balanced design and a comfortable yet secure grip.
Sold by Dick’s Sporting Goods
Easton Ghost X Hyperlite Youth Bat
This composite bat from Easton is 29 inches long but only weighs 18 ounces. It has a large sweet spot and a balanced swing weight that makes it a good choice for beginners.
Sold by Amazon
This bat is available in five sizes ranging from 27-31 inches. It features an ultralightweight design to help young players succeed. The lower price adds value.
Sold by Dick’s Sporting Goods
Should you get a wood, aluminum or composite baseball bat?
For the average player, an aluminum bat wins out because it offers the best of all worlds. It has a large sweet spot, a lightweight design, and it is available at a reasonable price. However, if you have an unlimited budget, a composite bat might edge out an aluminum bat. A composite bat won’t help you hit the ball farther, but the larger barrel and lighter weight design could up your batting average. For players who want to perfect their swing mechanics, however, there is no better option than using a wood bat at practice.
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How to choose the best baseball bat for your needs
Unless you play Major League Baseball, you have a choice when it comes to picking the material for your bat. Your options are wood, aluminum or composite. Each of these materials provides the player with a distinct set of advantages. Each also has an inherent set of drawbacks.
When shopping for a baseball bat, you must consider what your needs are and match the type of bat to those needs. A wood bat still has its place, even though aluminum and composite bats offer a performance advantage.
Wood baseball bats
Because of safety (and other) issues, the MLB only uses ash, birch and maple bats. If you want to play like a pro, this would be your bat of choice. It honors tradition and offers a little more safety, although a pair of quality batting gloves will come in handy to reduce the sting.
Wood baseball bats pros
- From a budget perspective, wood bats are appealing because of their lower cost.
- Wood bats are the best bat for training because they provide the most feedback. This helps the player improve their swing mechanics.
- Wood bats are safer because the bat doesn’t increase the ball’s velocity like other materials.
Wood baseball bats cons
- Wood bats break more easily than aluminum or composite bats.
- The sweet spot on a wood bat is smaller than it is on the other options.
- Wood bats are the heaviest type of bat, which means they are harder to swing and may be smaller in size, so they won’t provide as much plate coverage.
Best wood baseball bats
The Big Stick is certified for MLB play. It is made of maple and employs a heavier barrel, making it ideal for power hitters.
Sold by Dick’s Sporting Goods
Louisville Slugger Series 3X Ash Bat
This bat is from a trusted name in baseball. It is made of ash and has a natural finish. The large sweet spot and lighter weight make this a favorite.
Sold by Dick’s Sporting Goods
Wilson Sporting Goods Louisville Slugger
This 27-inch wood bat is cupped for reduced weight. The black design features red lettering so your bat is sharp looking and easy to identify.
Sold by Amazon
Aluminum baseball bats
Aluminum bats were introduced to college baseball in the early ’70s to cut down on the rising costs of replacing broken wood bats. Besides being more durable, aluminum is lighter than wood and provides more pop when hitting a ball. However, aluminum bats are not without their downsides.
Aluminum baseball bat pros
- Aluminum bats are best when they are new — there is no break-in period required.
- Aluminum bats have a larger sweet spot, which makes them ideal for a beginner who is having trouble hitting with any sort of power.
- Aluminum bats have a trampoline effect. When the bat makes contact, some of the energy is transferred to the ball, making it travel farther and faster than a ball hit by a wood bat.
- The lighter weight of an aluminum bat means they can be longer and larger, giving the player greater plate coverage and a faster swing.
Aluminum baseball bat cons
- Although an aluminum bat will rarely break, it can lose its pop over time. The more imperfections the bat gains from hitting balls, the more its performance deteriorates.
- Aluminum bats cost slightly more than wooden bats, but they are less than composite bats.
- With an aluminum bat, there is less feedback sent to the batter, so it can be harder for a beginner to develop proper swing mechanics.
Best aluminum baseball bats
Louisville Slugger Omaha USA Youth Bat
The Omaha USA youth bat features a one-piece construction. It feels solid in the batter’s hands and offers enhanced energy transfer. It has a cushioned leather grip for increased comfort and control.
Sold by Dick’s Sporting Goods
The lightweight construction of this bat gives the player increased speed, letting them get more power behind their swing. It has a cushioned grip and is approved for all associations that follow the USA Baseball standard.
Sold by Dick’s Sporting Goods
This affordable aluminum bat is for entry-level T-ball players. The ultralightweight design is suitable for ages 7 and under. It has a large sweet spot to deliver greater satisfaction and foster confidence.
Sold by Amazon
Composite baseball bats
A composite baseball bat is made of carbon fiber. These crystalline filaments are thinner than a strand of human hair but become remarkably rugged when twisted together. It is a lightweight material that has incredible strength. Some composite bats are made from a single piece of material, while others are two-piece items: a handle and a barrel. A two-piece bat is better for the average player because it doesn’t transfer as much vibration to the hands after a solid hit. Advanced players with greater speed and power, however, may opt for one-piece bats.
Composite baseball bat pros
- Composite bats are the lightest baseball bats available. This lets manufacturers make longer bats without increasing the weight so players have greater plate coverage.
- Since most composite bats have a two-piece design, they are less likely to sting a player’s hands.
- Composite bats have a larger sweet spot, which makes them best for inexperienced players.
- Over time, the trampoline effect increases on a composite bat.
Composite baseball bat cons
- Composite bats are not as durable as aluminum bats, and it is possible to break them.
- Compost bats cost more than wood bats and aluminum bats.
- A composite bat is not ready to go out of the box. You need to break it in. This process takes anywhere from 150 to 300 hits.
Best composite baseball bats
Louisville Slugger Meta BBCOR Bat
This is a high-end composite bat that is best for the serious player. It features a large barrel with a balanced design and a comfortable yet secure grip.
Sold by Dick’s Sporting Goods
Easton Ghost X Hyperlite Youth Bat
This composite bat from Easton is 29 inches long but only weighs 18 ounces. It has a large sweet spot and a balanced swing weight that makes it a good choice for beginners.
Sold by Amazon
This bat is available in five sizes ranging from 27-31 inches. It features an ultralightweight design to help young players succeed. The lower price adds value.
Sold by Dick’s Sporting Goods
Should you get a wood, aluminum or composite baseball bat?
For the average player, an aluminum bat wins out because it offers the best of all worlds. It has a large sweet spot, a lightweight design, and it is available at a reasonable price. However, if you have an unlimited budget, a composite bat might edge out an aluminum bat. A composite bat won’t help you hit the ball farther, but the larger barrel and lighter weight design could up your batting average. For players who want to perfect their swing mechanics, however, there is no better option than using a wood bat at practice.
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Allen Foster writes for BestReviews. BestReviews has helped millions of consumers simplify their purchasing decisions, saving them time and money.
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WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) – For some people, overdraft fees are a frustrating inconvenience. For others, they pose crippling costs. Some lawmakers now want to change how they’re charged altogether.
Rep. Carolyn Maloney introduced legislation called the “Overdraft Protection Act.” The bill includes provisions to cap the amount and number of fees a bank can charge.
“My bill tries to cut down on these unfair and deceptive practices,” the New York Democrat said.
Advocates like Elyse Crawford-Hicks with Americans for Financial Reform say overdraft fees hit low-income families and people of color the hardest.
“Overdraft fees are paid the most by people who can least afford them,” Crawford-Hicks said.
Others say over-drafting is a useful service because it can function like a short-term loan. Paul Kundert is the CEO of UW Credit Union, which recently reduced their overdraft fees and put more limits on how they charge them.
“When prices are fair, we believe consumers do benefit from access to the credit provided by overdraft fees,” Kundert said.
Recently, major banks like Wells Fargo, Citigroup and Bank of America have made changes themselves, by reducing their overdraft fees or eliminating them altogether.
Rep. Roger Williams, R-Texas, says that demonstrates the legislation is unnecessary.
“The market is naturally, naturally taking care of the issue without government intervention. And we do not need more rules from Washington,” Williams said.
Because banks make billions of dollars in revenue from overdraft fees, George Mason University Foundation Professor of Law Todd Zywicki argues the proposed changes would cost consumers.
“We’ll see higher bank fees, we’ll see higher minimum monthly deposits as basically insurance against over-drafting and we will see a loss of access to free checking,” Zywicki said.
Lawmakers like Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., are promising to continue pushing for the reforms.
“How can we perform such an abusive and predatory practice that punishes people simply for being poor?” Pressley said.
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WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) – For some people, overdraft fees are a frustrating inconvenience. For others, they pose crippling costs. Some lawmakers now want to change how they’re charged altogether.
Rep. Carolyn Maloney introduced legislation called the “Overdraft Protection Act.” The bill includes provisions to cap the amount and number of fees a bank can charge.
“My bill tries to cut down on these unfair and deceptive practices,” the New York Democrat said.
Advocates like Elyse Crawford-Hicks with Americans for Financial Reform say overdraft fees hit low-income families and people of color the hardest.
“Overdraft fees are paid the most by people who can least afford them,” Crawford-Hicks said.
Others say over-drafting is a useful service because it can function like a short-term loan. Paul Kundert is the CEO of UW Credit Union, which recently reduced their overdraft fees and put more limits on how they charge them.
“When prices are fair, we believe consumers do benefit from access to the credit provided by overdraft fees,” Kundert said.
Recently, major banks like Wells Fargo, Citigroup and Bank of America have made changes themselves, by reducing their overdraft fees or eliminating them altogether.
Rep. Roger Williams, R-Texas, says that demonstrates the legislation is unnecessary.
“The market is naturally, naturally taking care of the issue without government intervention. And we do not need more rules from Washington,” Williams said.
Because banks make billions of dollars in revenue from overdraft fees, George Mason University Foundation Professor of Law Todd Zywicki argues the proposed changes would cost consumers.
“We’ll see higher bank fees, we’ll see higher minimum monthly deposits as basically insurance against over-drafting and we will see a loss of access to free checking,” Zywicki said.
Lawmakers like Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., are promising to continue pushing for the reforms.
“How can we perform such an abusive and predatory practice that punishes people simply for being poor?” Pressley said.
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WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) – For some people, overdraft fees are a frustrating inconvenience. For others, they pose crippling costs. Some lawmakers now want to change how they’re charged altogether.
Rep. Carolyn Maloney introduced legislation called the “Overdraft Protection Act.” The bill includes provisions to cap the amount and number of fees a bank can charge.
“My bill tries to cut down on these unfair and deceptive practices,” the New York Democrat said.
Advocates like Elyse Crawford-Hicks with Americans for Financial Reform say overdraft fees hit low-income families and people of color the hardest.
“Overdraft fees are paid the most by people who can least afford them,” Crawford-Hicks said.
Others say over-drafting is a useful service because it can function like a short-term loan. Paul Kundert is the CEO of UW Credit Union, which recently reduced their overdraft fees and put more limits on how they charge them.
“When prices are fair, we believe consumers do benefit from access to the credit provided by overdraft fees,” Kundert said.
Recently, major banks like Wells Fargo, Citigroup and Bank of America have made changes themselves, by reducing their overdraft fees or eliminating them altogether.
Rep. Roger Williams, R-Texas, says that demonstrates the legislation is unnecessary.
“The market is naturally, naturally taking care of the issue without government intervention. And we do not need more rules from Washington,” Williams said.
Because banks make billions of dollars in revenue from overdraft fees, George Mason University Foundation Professor of Law Todd Zywicki argues the proposed changes would cost consumers.
“We’ll see higher bank fees, we’ll see higher minimum monthly deposits as basically insurance against over-drafting and we will see a loss of access to free checking,” Zywicki said.
Lawmakers like Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., are promising to continue pushing for the reforms.
“How can we perform such an abusive and predatory practice that punishes people simply for being poor?” Pressley said.
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Bill seeks to put cap on overdraft fees
WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) – For some people, overdraft fees are a frustrating inconvenience. For others, they pose crippling costs. Some lawmakers now want to change how they’re charged altogether.
Rep. Carolyn Maloney introduced legislation called the “Overdraft Protection Act.” The bill includes provisions to cap the amount and number of fees a bank can charge.
“My bill tries to cut down on these unfair and deceptive practices,” the New York Democrat said.
Advocates like Elyse Crawford-Hicks with Americans for Financial Reform say overdraft fees hit low-income families and people of color the hardest.
“Overdraft fees are paid the most by people who can least afford them,” Crawford-Hicks said.
Others say over-drafting is a useful service because it can function like a short-term loan. Paul Kundert is the CEO of UW Credit Union, which recently reduced their overdraft fees and put more limits on how they charge them.
“When prices are fair, we believe consumers do benefit from access to the credit provided by overdraft fees,” Kundert said.
Recently, major banks like Wells Fargo, Citigroup and Bank of America have made changes themselves, by reducing their overdraft fees or eliminating them altogether.
Rep. Roger Williams, R-Texas, says that demonstrates the legislation is unnecessary.
“The market is naturally, naturally taking care of the issue without government intervention. And we do not need more rules from Washington,” Williams said.
Because banks make billions of dollars in revenue from overdraft fees, George Mason University Foundation Professor of Law Todd Zywicki argues the proposed changes would cost consumers.
“We’ll see higher bank fees, we’ll see higher minimum monthly deposits as basically insurance against over-drafting and we will see a loss of access to free checking,” Zywicki said.
Lawmakers like Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., are promising to continue pushing for the reforms.
“How can we perform such an abusive and predatory practice that punishes people simply for being poor?” Pressley said.
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WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) – For some people, overdraft fees are a frustrating inconvenience. For others, they pose crippling costs. Some lawmakers now want to change how they’re charged altogether.
Rep. Carolyn Maloney introduced legislation called the “Overdraft Protection Act.” The bill includes provisions to cap the amount and number of fees a bank can charge.
“My bill tries to cut down on these unfair and deceptive practices,” the New York Democrat said.
Advocates like Elyse Crawford-Hicks with Americans for Financial Reform say overdraft fees hit low-income families and people of color the hardest.
“Overdraft fees are paid the most by people who can least afford them,” Crawford-Hicks said.
Others say over-drafting is a useful service because it can function like a short-term loan. Paul Kundert is the CEO of UW Credit Union, which recently reduced their overdraft fees and put more limits on how they charge them.
“When prices are fair, we believe consumers do benefit from access to the credit provided by overdraft fees,” Kundert said.
Recently, major banks like Wells Fargo, Citigroup and Bank of America have made changes themselves, by reducing their overdraft fees or eliminating them altogether.
Rep. Roger Williams, R-Texas, says that demonstrates the legislation is unnecessary.
“The market is naturally, naturally taking care of the issue without government intervention. And we do not need more rules from Washington,” Williams said.
Because banks make billions of dollars in revenue from overdraft fees, George Mason University Foundation Professor of Law Todd Zywicki argues the proposed changes would cost consumers.
“We’ll see higher bank fees, we’ll see higher minimum monthly deposits as basically insurance against over-drafting and we will see a loss of access to free checking,” Zywicki said.
Lawmakers like Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., are promising to continue pushing for the reforms.
“How can we perform such an abusive and predatory practice that punishes people simply for being poor?” Pressley said.
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Bill seeks to put cap on overdraft fees
WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) – For some people, overdraft fees are a frustrating inconvenience. For others, they pose crippling costs. Some lawmakers now want to change how they’re charged altogether.
Rep. Carolyn Maloney introduced legislation called the “Overdraft Protection Act.” The bill includes provisions to cap the amount and number of fees a bank can charge.
“My bill tries to cut down on these unfair and deceptive practices,” the New York Democrat said.
Advocates like Elyse Crawford-Hicks with Americans for Financial Reform say overdraft fees hit low-income families and people of color the hardest.
“Overdraft fees are paid the most by people who can least afford them,” Crawford-Hicks said.
Others say over-drafting is a useful service because it can function like a short-term loan. Paul Kundert is the CEO of UW Credit Union, which recently reduced their overdraft fees and put more limits on how they charge them.
“When prices are fair, we believe consumers do benefit from access to the credit provided by overdraft fees,” Kundert said.
Recently, major banks like Wells Fargo, Citigroup and Bank of America have made changes themselves, by reducing their overdraft fees or eliminating them altogether.
Rep. Roger Williams, R-Texas, says that demonstrates the legislation is unnecessary.
“The market is naturally, naturally taking care of the issue without government intervention. And we do not need more rules from Washington,” Williams said.
Because banks make billions of dollars in revenue from overdraft fees, George Mason University Foundation Professor of Law Todd Zywicki argues the proposed changes would cost consumers.
“We’ll see higher bank fees, we’ll see higher minimum monthly deposits as basically insurance against over-drafting and we will see a loss of access to free checking,” Zywicki said.
Lawmakers like Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., are promising to continue pushing for the reforms.
“How can we perform such an abusive and predatory practice that punishes people simply for being poor?” Pressley said.
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Police officers had been "prepared" to take action against Will Smith, including potentially arresting him, following the Oscars slap, a ceremony producer has said.
The actor, 53, stormed the stage of the award show on Sunday night (March 27) following a joke about his wife Jada Pinkett Smith, 50, by guest presenter Chris Rock, 57.
The comedian had suggested she looked like G.I. Jane, assumed to be in reference to her shaved head - with her said to have previously suffered hair loss due to alopecia.
Smith - who's been married to Pinkett Smith since 1997 - confronted Rock and slapped him during the live broadcast from the Dolby Theatre, located in Los Angeles.
The outburst has attracted significant attention in the days since it happened, with it having been reported in recent days that Rock had opted against filing a police report.
It has now been alleged that the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) had been "prepared" to take action against Smith, had the comedian opted to press charges.
That's according to Will Packer, 47, - a producer on the Oscars this year - who has now opened up about what happened in the aftermath of the altercation to ABC News.
He said the LAPD spoke to Rock following the altercation, with him alleging in his recent interview that police officers had referred to the incident as "battery" at the time.
The producer - whose interview will be released in full today - said that officers told Rock they were prepared to take action and laid out the options to the comedian.
Packer alleged that officers had explained to Rock: "We will go get him. We are prepared. We're prepared to get him right now. You can press charges. We can arrest him."
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Packer said the comedian had been "very dismissive" of the options that were given to him by the officers and claimed that Rock declined the opportunity for action to be taken.
A spokesperson for the LAPD told us that at all Oscars award ceremonies the police department are "in the area."
The spokesperson further commented that had the victim decided to make a private person's arrest, officers from the LAPD would have facilitated the arrest.
They however confirmed that there was no arrest made and there has been no further action taken by LAPD on behalf of the victim or anyone else in relation to the incident.
The Mirror approached reps of Rock and Smith.
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Police were ‘prepared’ to arrest Will Smith after he slapped Chris Rock at the Oscars, producer says
Oscars producer Will Packer said Los Angeles police were “prepared” to arrest Will Smith after he slapped Chris Rock on the Academy Awards stage.
Smith, 53, faces disciplinary action over the altercation with Rock, which was prompted by the comedian’s joke about the appearance of Smith’s wife Jada Pinkett while he was onstage at the Oscars ceremony on Sunday (27 March).
The actor shocked the live audience at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles when he strode on stage and hit Rock across the face with an open hand. Smith then returned to his seat, yelling at Rock to keep Pinkett Smith’s name out of his “f***ing mouth”.
Smith has since released an official statement apologising to the comedian.
Now, Oscars producer Will Packer has revealed in a forthcoming interview on Good Morning America that the Los Angeles Police Department told Rock they were “prepared” to arrest Smith, adding that the slap amounted to “battery”.
“They were saying, you know, this is battery, was a word they used in that moment," Packer said in a clip from the interview which was released by ABC on Thursday (31 March).
“They said ‘we will go get him. We are prepared. We’re prepared to get him right now. You can press charges, we can arrest him.’ They were laying out the options,” he continued, adding that Rock was “very dismissive” of the idea.
“He was like, ‘No, no, no, I’m fine,”’ Packer said. “And even to the point where I said, ‘Rock, let them finish’. The LAPD officers finished laying out what his options were and they said, ‘Would you like us to take any action?’ And he said ‘No’.”
Packer has previously described the moment when Smith struck Rock as “very painful” for him to watch, after one of his tweets was criticised online.
Shortly after the Oscars ceremony was concluded, Packer tweeted: “Welp…I said it wouldn’t be boring.”
“Black people have a defiant spirit of laughter when it comes to dealing with pain because there has been so much of it. I don’t feel the need to elucidate that for you,” Packer tweeted, addressing his critics . “But I also don’t mind being transparent and [saying] that this was a very painful moment for me. On many levels.”
The LAPD after Sunday night's ceremony said that they were aware of the incident, and that Rock had declined to press charges against Smith.
However, the department declined to comment on Thursday on Packer's interview, a longer version of which will air on Friday morning (1 April) in the US.
The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences on Wednesday (30 March) said it had initiated disciplinary proceedings against Smith for violations of its code of conduct. Pending investigation, Smith could be suspended, expelled or otherwise sanctioned.
Without giving specifics, the Academy also revealed that Smith was asked to leave the ceremony but refused to do so. The Academy said: “We recognise we could have handled the situation differently.”
Following that announcement , the Academy’s “impotent indecision” was criticised online with one user tweeting: “I am used to impotent indecision from the Academy leaders at this point. But the idea that they made the call decisively and then failed to execute it is almost the worst version of the story I can think of.”
Not only did Smith not leave the ceremony, he went on to be awarded with the Best Actor Oscar for his performance in King Richard just minutes after the incident.
Find the full list of 2022 Oscar winners here . See the latest updates and reactions from the dramatic ceremony here , and read about the biggest talking points here .
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Police officers had been "prepared" to take action against Will Smith, including potentially arresting him, following the Oscars slap, a ceremony producer has said.
The actor, 53, stormed the stage of the award show on Sunday night (March 27) following a joke about his wife Jada Pinkett Smith, 50, by guest presenter Chris Rock, 57.
The comedian had suggested she looked like G.I. Jane, assumed to be in reference to her shaved head - with her said to have previously suffered hair loss due to alopecia.
Smith - who's been married to Pinkett Smith since 1997 - confronted Rock and slapped him during the live broadcast from the Dolby Theatre, located in Los Angeles.
The outburst has attracted significant attention in the days since it happened, with it having been reported in recent days that Rock had opted against filing a police report.
It has now been alleged that the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) had been "prepared" to take action against Smith, had the comedian opted to press charges.
That's according to Will Packer, 47, - a producer on the Oscars this year - who has now opened up about what happened in the aftermath of the altercation to ABC News.
He said the LAPD spoke to Rock following the altercation, with him alleging in his recent interview that police officers had referred to the incident as "battery" at the time.
The producer - whose interview will be released in full today - said that officers told Rock they were prepared to take action and laid out the options to the comedian.
Packer alleged that officers had explained to Rock: "We will go get him. We are prepared. We're prepared to get him right now. You can press charges. We can arrest him."
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Packer said the comedian had been "very dismissive" of the options that were given to him by the officers and claimed that Rock declined the opportunity for action to be taken.
A spokesperson for the LAPD told us that at all Oscars award ceremonies the police department are "in the area."
The spokesperson further commented that had the victim decided to make a private person's arrest, officers from the LAPD would have facilitated the arrest.
They however confirmed that there was no arrest made and there has been no further action taken by LAPD on behalf of the victim or anyone else in relation to the incident.
The Mirror approached reps of Rock and Smith.
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LAPD was ready to arrest Will Smith following Chris Rock slap, Oscars producer says
Oscars producer Will Packer is unfolding details of the events that occurred at the 2022 Oscars.
In a preview clip of an upcoming "Good Morning America" interview, the producer shared that the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) was there and ready to arrest Will Smith if Chris Rock chose to press charges after the "King Richard" star slapped him.
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"They were saying, you know, this is battery, was a word they used in that moment. They said we will go get him. We are prepared. We’re prepared to get him right now. You can press charges, we can arrest him," Packer explained.
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"They were laying out the options. And as they were talking, Chris was — he was being very dismissive of those options. He was like, ‘No, no, no, I’m fine.’ And even to the point where I said, ‘Rock, let them finish.’ The LAPD officers finished laying out what his options were, and they said, ‘Would you like us to take any action?’ And he said no. He said no."
Per the outlet, Packer said he didn't speak to Smith the night of the Oscars.
In another short clip shared by "Good Morning America," T.J. Holmes asks Packer: "Sounds like Chris Rock had the option to have the LAPD go arrest Will Smith," to which Packer replied, "That's absolute facts."
It was previously reported that Rock declined to press charges.
The Los Angeles Police Department as well as reps for Rock and Smith did not immediately respond to Fox News' request for comment.
On Thursday, a source told Fox News that the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences is standing behind its statement that Smith was "asked to leave the ceremony and refused."
A source at the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences told Fox News that the Academy also looks forward to the April 18 meeting when disciplinary actions may be taken. The source added that they believe the "King Richard" star did violate the Academy’s Standards of Conduct.
Reports swirled on Thursday claiming that the actor wasn't directly asked to leave and that it was instead "suggested."
Deadline reported that Academy President David Rubin and CEO Dawn Hudson spoke with Smith’s rep, running the idea by her that Smith should leave Sunday night’s ceremony, before he was awarded the Oscar for best actor.
The rep then reportedly approached Smith with that statement, to which he replied, "I want to make this right. I want to stay and apologize."
The Academy's statement also noted that Smith will receive a 15-day notice regarding "his violations and sanctions" as well as the "opportunity to be heard beforehand by means of a written response."
Smith took to Instagram on Monday night to publicly apologize to Rock, but has been silent since.
On Wednesday night, Rock was greeted with a three-minute-long standing ovation before his first comedy show, which was in Boston, and addressed the slap for the first time.
The comedian first addressed the crowd by joking, "How was your weekend?"
"I had a whole list of jokes. I had a whole show I wrote before this weekend, and I'm still kind of processing what happened," he added.
"At some point I'll talk about that s---, and it will be serious, and it will be funny," Rock said.
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Police officers had been "prepared" to take action against Will Smith, including potentially arresting him, following the Oscars slap, a ceremony producer has said.
The actor, 53, stormed the stage of the award show on Sunday night (March 27) following a joke about his wife Jada Pinkett Smith, 50, by guest presenter Chris Rock, 57.
The comedian had suggested she looked like G.I. Jane, assumed to be in reference to her shaved head - with her said to have previously suffered hair loss due to alopecia.
Smith - who's been married to Pinkett Smith since 1997 - confronted Rock and slapped him during the live broadcast from the Dolby Theatre, located in Los Angeles.
The outburst has attracted significant attention in the days since it happened, with it having been reported in recent days that Rock had opted against filing a police report.
It has now been alleged that the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) had been "prepared" to take action against Smith, had the comedian opted to press charges.
That's according to Will Packer, 47, - a producer on the Oscars this year - who has now opened up about what happened in the aftermath of the altercation to ABC News.
He said the LAPD spoke to Rock following the altercation, with him alleging in his recent interview that police officers had referred to the incident as "battery" at the time.
The producer - whose interview will be released in full today - said that officers told Rock they were prepared to take action and laid out the options to the comedian.
Packer alleged that officers had explained to Rock: "We will go get him. We are prepared. We're prepared to get him right now. You can press charges. We can arrest him."
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Packer said the comedian had been "very dismissive" of the options that were given to him by the officers and claimed that Rock declined the opportunity for action to be taken.
A spokesperson for the LAPD told us that at all Oscars award ceremonies the police department are "in the area."
The spokesperson further commented that had the victim decided to make a private person's arrest, officers from the LAPD would have facilitated the arrest.
They however confirmed that there was no arrest made and there has been no further action taken by LAPD on behalf of the victim or anyone else in relation to the incident.
The Mirror approached reps of Rock and Smith.
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LAPD was ready to arrest Will Smith following Chris Rock slap, Oscars producer says
Oscars producer Will Packer is unfolding details of the events that occurred at the 2022 Oscars.
In a preview clip of an upcoming "Good Morning America" interview, the producer shared that the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) was there and ready to arrest Will Smith if Chris Rock chose to press charges after the "King Richard" star slapped him.
PREVIOUS COVERAGE:
- Chris Rock declines to press charges against Will Smith for Oscars slap, LAPD says
- Chris Rock addresses Will Smith slap at first comedy show since Oscars
- Will Smith slaps Chris Rock after Jada Pinkett Smith joke, then wins best actor Oscar
"They were saying, you know, this is battery, was a word they used in that moment. They said we will go get him. We are prepared. We’re prepared to get him right now. You can press charges, we can arrest him," Packer explained.
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"They were laying out the options. And as they were talking, Chris was — he was being very dismissive of those options. He was like, ‘No, no, no, I’m fine.’ And even to the point where I said, ‘Rock, let them finish.’ The LAPD officers finished laying out what his options were, and they said, ‘Would you like us to take any action?’ And he said no. He said no."
Per the outlet, Packer said he didn't speak to Smith the night of the Oscars.
In another short clip shared by "Good Morning America," T.J. Holmes asks Packer: "Sounds like Chris Rock had the option to have the LAPD go arrest Will Smith," to which Packer replied, "That's absolute facts."
It was previously reported that Rock declined to press charges.
The Los Angeles Police Department as well as reps for Rock and Smith did not immediately respond to Fox News' request for comment.
On Thursday, a source told Fox News that the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences is standing behind its statement that Smith was "asked to leave the ceremony and refused."
A source at the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences told Fox News that the Academy also looks forward to the April 18 meeting when disciplinary actions may be taken. The source added that they believe the "King Richard" star did violate the Academy’s Standards of Conduct.
Reports swirled on Thursday claiming that the actor wasn't directly asked to leave and that it was instead "suggested."
Deadline reported that Academy President David Rubin and CEO Dawn Hudson spoke with Smith’s rep, running the idea by her that Smith should leave Sunday night’s ceremony, before he was awarded the Oscar for best actor.
The rep then reportedly approached Smith with that statement, to which he replied, "I want to make this right. I want to stay and apologize."
The Academy's statement also noted that Smith will receive a 15-day notice regarding "his violations and sanctions" as well as the "opportunity to be heard beforehand by means of a written response."
Smith took to Instagram on Monday night to publicly apologize to Rock, but has been silent since.
On Wednesday night, Rock was greeted with a three-minute-long standing ovation before his first comedy show, which was in Boston, and addressed the slap for the first time.
The comedian first addressed the crowd by joking, "How was your weekend?"
"I had a whole list of jokes. I had a whole show I wrote before this weekend, and I'm still kind of processing what happened," he added.
"At some point I'll talk about that s---, and it will be serious, and it will be funny," Rock said.
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LEBANON, Pa. (AP) — A Pennsylvania police officer was killed and two others injured Thursday during a shooting that occurred while responding to a domestic disturbance call, Lebanon Mayor Sherry Capello said.
Police officers went to a home in the city at about 3:30 p.m. for the disturbance call. Nearly an hour later gunfire broke out and officers radioed in they were hit, Capello said at a brief news conference.
All three officers were taken to hospitals. One of them has been pronounced dead. A second was in critical condition, but stable, and a third was in stable condition, Capello said.
“This is an extremely difficult moment for everyone,” Capello said.
The suspect, a 34-year-old man from Lebanon, was killed in the shooting, Lebanon Police Chief Todd Breiner said.
“As one can imagine, it's clearly a traumatic event,” Breiner said. “Our guys are strong, but we're human and we have families.”
The slain officer's name is being withheld pending notification of extended family members.
Police did not release further details.
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LEBANON, Pa. — A Pennsylvania police officer was killed and two officers were injured Thursday during a shooting while responding to a domestic disturbance, Lebanon Mayor Sherry Capello said.
Police went to a home in the city about 3:30 p.m. for the disturbance call. Nearly an hour later gunfire broke out and officers radioed they were hit, Capello said at a brief news conference.
All three Lebanon City Police Department officers were taken to hospitals. One of them has been pronounced dead. A second was in critical condition, but stable, and a third was in stable condition, Capello said.
“This is an extremely difficult moment for everyone,” Capello said.
The suspect, a 34-year-old man from Lebanon, was killed in the shooting, Lebanon Police Chief Todd Breiner said.
“As one can imagine, it’s clearly a traumatic event,” Breiner said. “Our guys are strong, but we’re human and we have families.”
Lebanon resident Angelo Gonzalez, 17, was working at a pizzeria down the road from the shooting when he said he saw “cop car after cop car flying down the street.”
“Then we heard something and weren’t sure what it was and the street filled up with cops and ambulance in a matter of 15 min,” Gonzalez said in a text message.
The slain officer’s name is being withheld pending notification of extended family members.
Police did not release further details.
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LEBANON, Pa. (AP) — A Pennsylvania police officer was killed and two others injured Thursday during a shooting that occurred while responding to a domestic disturbance call, Lebanon Mayor Sherry Capello said.
Police officers went to a home in the city at about 3:30 p.m. for the disturbance call. Nearly an hour later gunfire broke out and officers radioed in they were hit, Capello said at a brief news conference.
All three officers were taken to hospitals. One of them has been pronounced dead. A second was in critical condition, but stable, and a third was in stable condition, Capello said.
“This is an extremely difficult moment for everyone,” Capello said.
The suspect, a 34-year-old man from Lebanon, was killed in the shooting, Lebanon Police Chief Todd Breiner said.
“As one can imagine, it's clearly a traumatic event,” Breiner said. “Our guys are strong, but we're human and we have families.”
The slain officer's name is being withheld pending notification of extended family members.
Police did not release further details.
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LEBANON, Pa. (AP) — A Pennsylvania police officer was killed and two officers were injured Thursday during a shooting while responding to a domestic disturbance, Lebanon Mayor Sherry Capello said.
Police went to a home in the city at about 3:30 p.m. for the disturbance call. Nearly an hour later gunfire broke out and officers radioed they were hit, Capello said at a brief news conference.
All three Lebanon City Police Department officers were taken to hospitals. One of them has been pronounced dead. A second was in critical condition, but stable, and a third was in stable condition, Capello said.
“This is an extremely difficult moment for everyone,” Capello said.
The suspect, a 34-year-old man from Lebanon, was killed in the shooting, Lebanon Police Chief Todd Breiner said.
“As one can imagine, it’s clearly a traumatic event,” Breiner said. “Our guys are strong, but we’re human and we have families.”
Lebanon resident Angelo Gonzalez, 17, was working at a pizzeria down the road from the shooting when he said he saw “cop car after cop car flying down the street.”
“Then we heard something and weren’t sure what it was and the street filled up with cops and ambulance in a matter of 15 min,” Gonzalez said in a text message.
The slain officer’s name is being withheld pending notification of extended family members.
Police did not release further details.
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LEBANON, Pa. (AP) — A Pennsylvania police officer was killed and two others injured Thursday during a shooting that occurred while responding to a domestic disturbance call, Lebanon Mayor Sherry Capello said.
Police officers went to a home in the city at about 3:30 p.m. for the disturbance call. Nearly an hour later gunfire broke out and officers radioed in they were hit, Capello said at a brief news conference.
All three officers were taken to hospitals. One of them has been pronounced dead. A second was in critical condition, but stable, and a third was in stable condition, Capello said.
“This is an extremely difficult moment for everyone,” Capello said.
The suspect, a 34-year-old man from Lebanon, was killed in the shooting, Lebanon Police Chief Todd Breiner said.
“As one can imagine, it's clearly a traumatic event,” Breiner said. “Our guys are strong, but we're human and we have families.”
The slain officer's name is being withheld pending notification of extended family members.
Police did not release further details.
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LEBANON, Pa. — A Pennsylvania police officer was killed and two officers were injured Thursday during a shooting while responding to a domestic disturbance, Lebanon Mayor Sherry Capello said.
Police went to a home in the city at about 3:30 p.m. for the disturbance call. Nearly an hour later gunfire broke out and officers radioed they were hit, Capello said at a brief news conference.
All three Lebanon City Police Department officers were taken to hospitals. One of them has been pronounced dead. A second was in critical condition, but stable, and a third was in stable condition, Capello said.
"This is an extremely difficult moment for everyone," Capello said.
The suspect, a 34-year-old man from Lebanon, was killed in the shooting, Lebanon Police Chief Todd Breiner said.
"As one can imagine, it's clearly a traumatic event," Breiner said. "Our guys are strong, but we're human and we have families."
Lebanon resident Angelo Gonzalez, 17, was working at a pizzeria down the road from the shooting when he said he saw "cop car after cop car flying down the street."
"Then we heard something and weren't sure what it was and the street filled up with cops and ambulance in a matter of 15 min," Gonzalez said in a text message.
The slain officer's name is being withheld pending notification of extended family members.
Police did not release further details.
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RICHMOND, Calif. (AP) — The nation’s oldest active park ranger is hanging up her Smokey hat at the age of 100.
Betty Reid Soskin retired Thursday after more than 15 years at the Rosie the Riveter/WWII Home Front National Historical Park in Richmond, California, the National Park Service announced.
Soskin “spent her last day providing an interpretive program to the public and visiting with coworkers," a Park Service statement said.
She led tours at the park and museum honoring the women who worked in factories during wartime and shared her own experience as a Black woman during the conflict. She worked for the U.S. Air Force in 1942 but quit after learning that “she was employed only because her superiors believed she was white," according to a Park Service biography.
“Being a primary source in the sharing of that history – my history – and giving shape to a new national park has been exciting and fulfilling,” Soskin said in the Park Service statement. “It has proven to bring meaning to my final years.”
Soskin won a temporary Park Service position at the age of 84 and became a permanent Park Service employee in 2011. She celebrated her 100th birthday last September.
“Betty has made a profound impact on the National Park Service and the way we carry out our mission,” Director Chuck Sams said. “Her efforts remind us that we must seek out and give space for all perspectives so that we can tell a more full and inclusive history of our nation.”
Soskin was born Betty Charbonnet in Detroit in 1921 but recalled surviving the devastating Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 while living with her Creole family in New Orleans, according to the Park Service biography.
Her family then moved to Oakland, California, and Soskin remained in the San Francisco Bay Area, where in 1945 she and her first husband founded one of the first Black-owned record stores in the area, the biography said.
She also was a civil rights activist and took part in meetings to develop a general management plan for the Home Front park. She has received several honors.
She was named California Woman of the Year in 1995.
In 2015, Soskin received a presidential coin from President Barack Obama after she lit the National Christmas tree at the White House.
In June 2016, she was awakened in her home by a robber who punched her repeatedly in the face, dragged her out of her bedroom and beat her before making off with the coin and other items. Soskin, then 94, recovered and returned to work just weeks after the attack. The coin was replaced.
Soskin also was honored with entry into the Congressional Record. Glamour Magazine named her woman of the year in 2018.
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RICHMOND, Calif. (AP) — The nation’s oldest active park ranger is hanging up her Smokey hat at the age of 100.
Betty Reid Soskin retired Thursday after more than 15 years at the Rosie the Riveter/WWII Home Front National Historical Park in Richmond, California, the National Park Service announced.
Soskin “spent her last day providing an interpretive program to the public and visiting with coworkers," a Park Service statement said.
She led tours at the park and museum honoring the women who worked in factories during wartime and shared her own experience as a Black woman during the conflict. She worked for the U.S. Air Force in 1942 but quit after learning that “she was employed only because her superiors believed she was white," according to a Park Service biography.
“Being a primary source in the sharing of that history – my history – and giving shape to a new national park has been exciting and fulfilling,” Soskin said in the Park Service statement. “It has proven to bring meaning to my final years.”
Soskin won a temporary Park Service position at the age of 84 and became a permanent Park Service employee in 2011. She celebrated her 100th birthday last September.
“Betty has made a profound impact on the National Park Service and the way we carry out our mission,” Director Chuck Sams said. “Her efforts remind us that we must seek out and give space for all perspectives so that we can tell a more full and inclusive history of our nation.”
Soskin was born Betty Charbonnet in Detroit in 1921 but recalled surviving the devastating Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 while living with her Creole family in New Orleans, according to the Park Service biography.
Her family then moved to Oakland, California, and Soskin remained in the San Francisco Bay Area, where in 1945 she and her first husband founded one of the first Black-owned record stores in the area, the biography said.
She also was a civil rights activist and took part in meetings to develop a general management plan for the Home Front park. She has received several honors.
She was named California Woman of the Year in 1995.
In 2015, Soskin received a presidential coin from President Barack Obama after she lit the National Christmas tree at the White House.
In June 2016, she was awakened in her home by a robber who punched her repeatedly in the face, dragged her out of her bedroom and beat her before making off with the coin and other items. Soskin, then 94, recovered and returned to work just weeks after the attack. The coin was replaced.
Soskin also was honored with entry into the Congressional Record. Glamour Magazine named her woman of the year in 2018.
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RICHMOND, Calif. (AP) — The nation’s oldest active park ranger is hanging up her Smokey hat at the age of 100.
Betty Reid Soskin retired Thursday after more than 15 years at the Rosie the Riveter/WWII Home Front National Historical Park in Richmond, California, the National Park Service announced.
Soskin “spent her last day providing an interpretive program to the public and visiting with coworkers," a Park Service statement said.
She led tours at the park and museum honoring the women who worked in factories during wartime and shared her own experience as a Black woman during the conflict. She worked for the U.S. Air Force in 1942 but quit after learning that “she was employed only because her superiors believed she was white," according to a Park Service biography.
“Being a primary source in the sharing of that history – my history – and giving shape to a new national park has been exciting and fulfilling,” Soskin said in the Park Service statement. “It has proven to bring meaning to my final years.”
Soskin won a temporary Park Service position at the age of 84 and became a permanent Park Service employee in 2011. She celebrated her 100th birthday last September.
“Betty has made a profound impact on the National Park Service and the way we carry out our mission,” Director Chuck Sams said. “Her efforts remind us that we must seek out and give space for all perspectives so that we can tell a more full and inclusive history of our nation.”
Soskin was born Betty Charbonnet in Detroit in 1921 but recalled surviving the devastating Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 while living with her Creole family in New Orleans, according to the Park Service biography.
Her family then moved to Oakland, California, and Soskin remained in the San Francisco Bay Area, where in 1945 she and her first husband founded one of the first Black-owned record stores in the area, the biography said.
She also was a civil rights activist and took part in meetings to develop a general management plan for the Home Front park. She has received several honors.
She was named California Woman of the Year in 1995.
In 2015, Soskin received a presidential coin from President Barack Obama after she lit the National Christmas tree at the White House.
In June 2016, she was awakened in her home by a robber who punched her repeatedly in the face, dragged her out of her bedroom and beat her before making off with the coin and other items. Soskin, then 94, recovered and returned to work just weeks after the attack. The coin was replaced.
Soskin also was honored with entry into the Congressional Record. Glamour Magazine named her woman of the year in 2018.
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RICHMOND, Calif. (AP) — The nation’s oldest active park ranger is hanging up her Smokey hat at the age of 100.
Betty Reid Soskin retired Thursday after more than 15 years at the Rosie the Riveter/WWII Home Front National Historical Park in Richmond, California, the National Park Service announced.
Soskin “spent her last day providing an interpretive program to the public and visiting with coworkers," a Park Service statement said.
She led tours at the park and museum honoring the women who worked in factories during wartime and shared her own experience as a Black woman during the conflict. She worked for the U.S. Air Force in 1942 but quit after learning that “she was employed only because her superiors believed she was white," according to a Park Service biography.
“Being a primary source in the sharing ofthat history – my history – and giving shape to a new national park has been exciting and fulfilling,” Soskin said in the Park Service statement. “It has proven to bring meaning to my final years.”
Soskin won a temporary Park Service position at the age of 84 and became a permanent Park Service employee in 2011. She celebrated her 100th birthday last September.
“Betty has made a profound impact on the National Park Service and the way we carry out our mission,” Director Chuck Sams said. “Her efforts remind us that we must seek out and give space for all perspectives so that we can tell a more full and inclusive history of our nation.”
Soskin was born Betty Charbonnet in Detroit in 1921 but recalled surviving the devastating Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 while living with her Creole family in New Orleans, according to the Park Service biography.
Her family then moved to Oakland, California, and Soskin remained in the San Francisco Bay Area, where in 1945 she and her first husband founded one of the first Black-owned record stores in the area, the biography said.
She also was a civil rights activist and took part in meetings to develop a general management plan for the Home Front park. She has received several honors.
She was named California Woman of the Year in 1995.
In 2015, Soskin received a presidential coin from President Barack Obama after she lit the National Christmas tree at the White House.
In June 2016, she was awakened in her home by a robber who punched her repeatedly in the face, dragged her out of her bedroom and beat her before making off with the coin and other items. Soskin, then 94, recovered and returned to work just weeks after the attack. The coin was replaced.
Soskin also was honored with entry into the Congressional Record. Glamour Magazine named her woman of the year in 2018.
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RICHMOND, Calif. (AP) — The nation’s oldest active park ranger is hanging up her Smokey hat at the age of 100.
Betty Reid Soskin retired Thursday after more than 15 years at the Rosie the Riveter/WWII Home Front National Historical Park in Richmond, California, the National Park Service announced.
Soskin “spent her last day providing an interpretive program to the public and visiting with coworkers," a Park Service statement said.
She led tours at the park and museum honoring the women who worked in factories during wartime and shared her own experience as a Black woman during the conflict. She worked for the U.S. Air Force in 1942 but quit after learning that “she was employed only because her superiors believed she was white," according to a Park Service biography.
“Being a primary source in the sharing of that history – my history – and giving shape to a new national park has been exciting and fulfilling,” Soskin said in the Park Service statement. “It has proven to bring meaning to my final years.”
Soskin won a temporary Park Service position at the age of 84 and became a permanent Park Service employee in 2011. She celebrated her 100th birthday last September.
“Betty has made a profound impact on the National Park Service and the way we carry out our mission,” Director Chuck Sams said. “Her efforts remind us that we must seek out and give space for all perspectives so that we can tell a more full and inclusive history of our nation.”
Soskin was born Betty Charbonnet in Detroit in 1921 but recalled surviving the devastating Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 while living with her Creole family in New Orleans, according to the Park Service biography.
Her family then moved to Oakland, California, and Soskin remained in the San Francisco Bay Area, where in 1945 she and her first husband founded one of the first Black-owned record stores in the area, the biography said.
She also was a civil rights activist and took part in meetings to develop a general management plan for the Home Front park. She has received several honors.
She was named California Woman of the Year in 1995.
In 2015, Soskin received a presidential coin from President Barack Obama after she lit the National Christmas tree at the White House.
In June 2016, she was awakened in her home by a robber who punched her repeatedly in the face, dragged her out of her bedroom and beat her before making off with the coin and other items. Soskin, then 94, recovered and returned to work just weeks after the attack. The coin was replaced.
Soskin also was honored with entry into the Congressional Record. Glamour Magazine named her woman of the year in 2018.
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RICHMOND, Calif. (AP) — The nation’s oldest active park ranger is hanging up her Smokey hat at the age of 100.
Betty Reid Soskin retired Thursday after more than 15 years at the Rosie the Riveter/WWII Home Front National Historical Park in Richmond, California, the National Park Service announced.
Soskin “spent her last day providing an interpretive program to the public and visiting with coworkers," a Park Service statement said.
She led tours at the park and museum honoring the women who worked in factories during wartime and shared her own experience as a Black woman during the conflict. She worked for the U.S. Air Force in 1942 but quit after learning that "she was employed only because her superiors believed she was white," according to a Park Service biography.
“Being a primary source in the sharing of that history – my history – and giving shape to a new national park has been exciting and fulfilling,” Soskin said in the Park Service statement. “It has proven to bring meaning to my final years.”
Soskin won a temporary Park Service position at the age of 84 and became a permanent Park Service employee in 2011. She celebrated her 100th birthday last September.
“Betty has made a profound impact on the National Park Service and the way we carry out our mission,” Director Chuck Sams said. “Her efforts remind us that we must seek out and give space for all perspectives so that we can tell a more full and inclusive history of our nation.”
Soskin was born Betty Charbonnet in Detroit in 1921 but recalled surviving the devastating Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 while living with her Creole family in New Orleans, according to the Park Service biography.
Her family then moved to Oakland, California, and Soskin remained in the San Francisco Bay Area, where in 1945 she and her first husband founded one of the first Black-owned record stores in the area, the biography said.
She also was a civil rights activist and took part in meetings to develop a general management plan for the Home Front park. She has received several honors.
She was named California Woman of the Year in 1995.
In 2015, Soskin received a presidential coin from President Barack Obama after she lit the National Christmas tree at the White House.
In June 2016, she was awakened in her home by a robber who punched her repeatedly in the face, dragged her out of her bedroom and beat her before making off with the coin and other items. Soskin, then 94, recovered and returned to work just weeks after the attack. The coin was replaced.
Soskin also was honored with entry into the Congressional Record. Glamour Magazine named her woman of the year in 2018.
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A new Journal of Infection and Chemotherapy study describes an immunocompetent individual with prolonged severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) shedding 221 days after their initial coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) diagnosis.
Study: Case of a pregnant woman with probable prolonged SARS-CoV-2 viral shedding 221 days after diagnosis. Image Credit: Myriam B / Shutterstock.com
COVID-19 testing during pregnancy
Pregnant women are typically tested for SARS-CoV-2 infection before hospital admission. Generally, pregnant women are questioned about the presence of any symptoms and history related to travel, occupation, and close contact with infected individuals.
Whenever a moderate to high risk of infection is predicted, pregnant women should be tested. However, some healthcare facilities test all pregnant women, irrespective of symptoms and personal history.
Case of a pregnant Japanese woman
A 20-year-old Japanese woman was diagnosed with COVID-19 at the end of May 2021, which was identified by a SARS-CoV-2 antigen test. This patient had a fever and no other symptoms and was quarantined for 10 days.
Since this initial diagnosis, the patient did not visit crowded places or display any symptoms. Her family members also did not exhibit any COVID-19 symptoms.
Later, the patient realized that she was about eight weeks pregnant during the time she had a fever. In September and October 2021, she was vaccinated with two doses of a COVID-19 messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) vaccine.
In December 2021, the patient was admitted to the hospital for delivery. She had an uncomplicated pregnancy and normal vaginal delivery.
The woman underwent a routine SARS-CoV-2 reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) test on a nasal and oral swab, which was collected during admission. The patient was found to be SARS-CoV-2 positive with a cycle threshold (Ct) value of 36.4, thus indicating a low viral load. This was 221 days after the initial COVID-19 diagnosis.
Testing for variant strains
The samples taken from the patient in this study were analyzed for the presence of mutations indicative of the variant. To this end, the samples showed the presence of the
Alpha variant, whereas Delta and Omicron variant mutations were confirmed to be absent. Genomic sequencing was challenging due to the low viral load in the samples.
Case of prolonged viral shedding
In December 2021, the Alpha variant was no longer in circulation in Japan, as the COVID-19 wave caused by the Alpha variant in Japan ended in July 2021. The patient had no symptoms or known contact with SARS-CoV-2-positive individuals. Since the patient’s viral load was very low, it was concluded that this was a case of prolonged viral shedding; the longest duration ever reported.
Geographically, this woman is from Ibaraki Prefecture, where the Alpha variant was dominant from April to July 2021. Comparatively, the Delta variant was the dominant circulating strain in this area by mid-September 2021, which is when it almost completely replaced the Alpha variant.
When the patient in the current study was tested SARS-CoV-2 positive, the Omicron variant was dominant in the region. Almost all SARS-CoV-2 infections in January and February 2022 were due to the Omicron variant. If the woman was reinfected, it would more likely have been due to the Delta or Omicron variant.
Several studies have shown that individuals with mild to moderate and severe COVID-19 can test RT-PCR positive up to 17.2 days and 19.8 days after the symptom onset, respectively. Additional reports of prolonged viral shedding have also been published.
According to published data, the average duration of SARS-CoV-2 shedding was 17.0 days and the maximum duration was 83 days. Usually, prolonged viral shedding is associated with older age, hypertension, coronary artery disease, and diabetes mellitus; however, pregnancy has not been previously associated with this phenomenon.
Notably, one previous case study reports prolonged viral shedding during pregnancy after 104 days of the initial positive test.
Reasons for prolonged viral shedding
There remains a lack of understanding of the mechanism for prolonged viral shedding during pregnancy.
During pregnancy, there are physiological changes in the immune environment within the maternal body that are predominantly Th2 cell-mediated with attenuation of Th1 cell-mediated immunity. As a result, a pregnant woman is susceptible to intracellular pathogens, including viruses.
In fact, it has been observed that the lungs of pregnant mice have an eight times higher viral load of influenza virus than non-pregnant mice. This implies that viral clearance is impeded during pregnancy.
Th2-dominant immunity promotes the expression of anti-inflammatory cytokines. Thus, it is possible that in pregnant women, the immune response to SARS-CoV-2 infection is Th2-dominant, which may result in mild COVID-19 symptoms in pregnant women. Thus, the Th2-dominant state may cause prolonged viral shedding and prevent severe COVID-19 in this patient population.
Limitations
Due to the low viral load in the patient’s sample, no genomic sequence data was available. Therefore, Alpha variant confirmation was done by variant strain screening PCR test.
Journal reference:
- Akine D, Sasahara T, Koido A, et al. (2022). Case of a pregnant woman with probable prolonged SARS-CoV-2 viral shedding 221 days after diagnosis. Journal of Infection and Chemotherapy. doi:10.1016/j.jiac.2022.03.012.
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1. The risk of severe maternal morbidities associated with SARS-CoV-2 infection where higher when the Delta variant was predominant (July 2021-November 2021)
Evidence Rating Level: 2 (Good)
Over 170,000 pregnant people were infected by SARS-CoV-2 between January 2020 and February 2022, with 29,000 of them being hospitalized with COVID-19. Pregnancy is possible associated with worsened maternal outcomes with SARS-CoV-2. Several variants were identified during the pandemic, characterizing different waves. This retrospective cohort study evaluated the association between SARS-CoV-2 infection and severe maternal morbidities (SMM) in pregnant patients when different strains of SARS-CoV-2 predominated including: wild-type or Alpha (B.1.1.), Delta, or Omicron (B.1.1.529). SMM are defined as unexpected outcomes of labour and delivery that consist of 21 health indicators resulting in both short- or long-term consequences to one’s health. The study population consisted of pregnant patients in 32 hospitals spanning over 8 US states. The primary outcome was any SMM event during hospitalization for delivery, with secondary outcomes including number of SMM events, respiratory SMM, nonrespiratory SMM and nontransfusion SMM. The final study population included 3129 patients with SARS-CoV-2 and 12 504 patients without any evidence of infection. Higher rates of any SMM event were seen in those with SARS-CoV-2 than those without in all periods except for Omicron. The risk was similarly increased for wild-type strain and alpha variant periods, with the highest risk in the Delta period (70 patients [10.3%] vs 55 patients [1.5%]; OR, 7.69 [95% CI, 5.19-11.54]; P for trend < .001). This pattern was also consistent for nonrespiratory complications and nontransfusion complications. This study is unique in its analysis of adverse events specifically at time of delivery, while comparing 4 strains. Limitations include inability to account for vaccination status and not having all patients during the time of the wild-type strain undergoing testing for infection. In conclusion, the cohort study found an association of infection with SARS-CoV-2 and higher rates of SMM, with a stronger association with the Delta strain.
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A new Journal of Infection and Chemotherapy study describes an immunocompetent individual with prolonged severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) shedding 221 days after their initial coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) diagnosis.
Study: Case of a pregnant woman with probable prolonged SARS-CoV-2 viral shedding 221 days after diagnosis. Image Credit: Myriam B / Shutterstock.com
COVID-19 testing during pregnancy
Pregnant women are typically tested for SARS-CoV-2 infection before hospital admission. Generally, pregnant women are questioned about the presence of any symptoms and history related to travel, occupation, and close contact with infected individuals.
Whenever a moderate to high risk of infection is predicted, pregnant women should be tested. However, some healthcare facilities test all pregnant women, irrespective of symptoms and personal history.
Case of a pregnant Japanese woman
A 20-year-old Japanese woman was diagnosed with COVID-19 at the end of May 2021, which was identified by a SARS-CoV-2 antigen test. This patient had a fever and no other symptoms and was quarantined for 10 days.
Since this initial diagnosis, the patient did not visit crowded places or display any symptoms. Her family members also did not exhibit any COVID-19 symptoms.
Later, the patient realized that she was about eight weeks pregnant during the time she had a fever. In September and October 2021, she was vaccinated with two doses of a COVID-19 messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) vaccine.
In December 2021, the patient was admitted to the hospital for delivery. She had an uncomplicated pregnancy and normal vaginal delivery.
The woman underwent a routine SARS-CoV-2 reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) test on a nasal and oral swab, which was collected during admission. The patient was found to be SARS-CoV-2 positive with a cycle threshold (Ct) value of 36.4, thus indicating a low viral load. This was 221 days after the initial COVID-19 diagnosis.
Testing for variant strains
The samples taken from the patient in this study were analyzed for the presence of mutations indicative of the variant. To this end, the samples showed the presence of the
Alpha variant, whereas Delta and Omicron variant mutations were confirmed to be absent. Genomic sequencing was challenging due to the low viral load in the samples.
Case of prolonged viral shedding
In December 2021, the Alpha variant was no longer in circulation in Japan, as the COVID-19 wave caused by the Alpha variant in Japan ended in July 2021. The patient had no symptoms or known contact with SARS-CoV-2-positive individuals. Since the patient’s viral load was very low, it was concluded that this was a case of prolonged viral shedding; the longest duration ever reported.
Geographically, this woman is from Ibaraki Prefecture, where the Alpha variant was dominant from April to July 2021. Comparatively, the Delta variant was the dominant circulating strain in this area by mid-September 2021, which is when it almost completely replaced the Alpha variant.
When the patient in the current study was tested SARS-CoV-2 positive, the Omicron variant was dominant in the region. Almost all SARS-CoV-2 infections in January and February 2022 were due to the Omicron variant. If the woman was reinfected, it would more likely have been due to the Delta or Omicron variant.
Several studies have shown that individuals with mild to moderate and severe COVID-19 can test RT-PCR positive up to 17.2 days and 19.8 days after the symptom onset, respectively. Additional reports of prolonged viral shedding have also been published.
According to published data, the average duration of SARS-CoV-2 shedding was 17.0 days and the maximum duration was 83 days. Usually, prolonged viral shedding is associated with older age, hypertension, coronary artery disease, and diabetes mellitus; however, pregnancy has not been previously associated with this phenomenon.
Notably, one previous case study reports prolonged viral shedding during pregnancy after 104 days of the initial positive test.
Reasons for prolonged viral shedding
There remains a lack of understanding of the mechanism for prolonged viral shedding during pregnancy.
During pregnancy, there are physiological changes in the immune environment within the maternal body that are predominantly Th2 cell-mediated with attenuation of Th1 cell-mediated immunity. As a result, a pregnant woman is susceptible to intracellular pathogens, including viruses.
In fact, it has been observed that the lungs of pregnant mice have an eight times higher viral load of influenza virus than non-pregnant mice. This implies that viral clearance is impeded during pregnancy.
Th2-dominant immunity promotes the expression of anti-inflammatory cytokines. Thus, it is possible that in pregnant women, the immune response to SARS-CoV-2 infection is Th2-dominant, which may result in mild COVID-19 symptoms in pregnant women. Thus, the Th2-dominant state may cause prolonged viral shedding and prevent severe COVID-19 in this patient population.
Limitations
Due to the low viral load in the patient’s sample, no genomic sequence data was available. Therefore, Alpha variant confirmation was done by variant strain screening PCR test.
Journal reference:
- Akine D, Sasahara T, Koido A, et al. (2022). Case of a pregnant woman with probable prolonged SARS-CoV-2 viral shedding 221 days after diagnosis. Journal of Infection and Chemotherapy. doi:10.1016/j.jiac.2022.03.012.
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In a recent study posted to the medRxiv* preprint server, the researchers assessed immunological and pathophysiological aspects of antenatal coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).
Various studies have reported the disproportionate effects of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infections in pregnant women. However, extensive research is required to understand disease progression in pregnant women and the children born to them.
About the study
The present study characterized the immunological responses detected in the serum, breast milk, and placental samples of expectant mothers and their children with COVID-19.
The team collected breast milk from participants one month and three months postpartum. Eligible participants convalescent from antenatal COVID-19 were confirmed to be COVID-19 positive via a reverse-transcriptase polymerase-chain-reaction (RT-PCR) assay performed on nasopharyngeal swabs obtained during pregnancy.
Furthermore, the study included infants born to convalescent antenatal COVID-19-infected mothers at a gestational age of 35 to 40 weeks. The team also recruited mother-child dyads as controls, among which the mothers reported no COVID-19 symptoms and were confirmed to be SARS-CoV-2 negative at the time of study recruitment.
Venous blood samples were also collected from infants at zero to three days, one month, three months of life, and from mothers one month postpartum. The team defined recovery as the resolution of COVID-19 clinical symptoms and two negative RT-PCR results observed 24 hours apart.
A quantitative enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) was performed to evaluate the levels of immunoglobulin A (IgA) and IgG produced against SARS-CoV-2 antigens, including the SARS-CoV-2 spike (S) and the receptor-binding domain (RBD). Furthermore, a pseudovirus neutralization test (PVNT) and peptide-based ELISA were conducted. The team also collected COVID-19 PCR swabs from the amniotic fluid, umbilical cord blood, umbilical cord, maternal blood, vaginal swabs, placenta, and breast milk.
Results
The study results showed that among the eight women who had laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 infection during pregnancy, the average age was 30.3 ± 2.4 years. Nine controls with no antenatal COVID-19 were also included. Among the antenatal women, six had symptoms of mild COVID-19, with the most common symptoms being dry cough, malaise, and dry cough. Furthermore, none of the infected participants required either intensive care unit (ICU) admission, oxygen support, or intubation. Notably, samples of the placenta, the umbilical cord, and the infant throat swabs were SARS-CoV-2 negative via PCR.
A total of eight infants were born at full term with a mean gestational age of 39 ± 2 weeks and a mean birth weight of 3.517 ± 0.261 kg. Among the eight infants, one required neonatal ICU admission for two days due to the infant's transient tachypnea, which needed supplemental oxygen support. All the infants were breastfed for up to three months, while two of the infants were fed formula milk in addition to breast milk during the three months.
A histological examination of the mother’s placental samples showed no SARS-CoV-2 presence; however, three samples displayed acute inflammation signs. The team also observed neutrophils in the subchorionic fibrin, suggesting the incidence of subchorionitis. Remarkably, no neutrophils were found in the chorion or the amnion. Moreover, a mild inflammatory response was found in the umbilical arteries and the veins of one of the placental samples.
The team noted that plasma IgA antibodies were present in almost 50% of all the convalescent mothers. Furthermore, most of the convalescent mothers displayed the ability to neutralize SARS-CoV-2 pseudoviruses to varying degrees. Also, the SASR-CoV-2 S and RBD-specific IgG antibodies were found in almost all convalescent mothers. This indicated that the antibodies were bound to confer an extent of anti-SARS-CoV-2 protection. Moreover, it was noted that expectant mothers infected with SARS-CoV-2 at an earlier stage of pregnancy had comparable antibody titers to those infected in the later stages.
The researchers also found that the level of SARS-CoV-2-specific IgG antibodies in the serum samples of the infants was comparable to or even higher than that of the mother. This suggested the transfer of passive immunity from the mother to the infant via the placenta. However, a steady decline in the IgG levels in the infant was observed from birth to six months of life. Also, very small amounts of SARS-CoV-2 S protein and RBD-specific IgA and IgG antibodies were found in the breast milk at zero to three months postpartum.
Interestingly, the BNT162b2 COVID-19 vaccine administration in nursing mothers elicited significant levels of vaccine-induced SARS-CoV-2-specific antibodies in the breast milk. At seven to 30 days post-vaccination, high levels of SARS-CoV-2-specific IgA and IgG were found in the breast milk.
Overall, the study findings provided valuable insights regarding the impact of COVID-19 infection in expectant mothers as well as the infants born to them.
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A new Journal of Infection and Chemotherapy study describes an immunocompetent individual with prolonged severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) shedding 221 days after their initial coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) diagnosis.
Study: Case of a pregnant woman with probable prolonged SARS-CoV-2 viral shedding 221 days after diagnosis. Image Credit: Myriam B / Shutterstock.com
COVID-19 testing during pregnancy
Pregnant women are typically tested for SARS-CoV-2 infection before hospital admission. Generally, pregnant women are questioned about the presence of any symptoms and history related to travel, occupation, and close contact with infected individuals.
Whenever a moderate to high risk of infection is predicted, pregnant women should be tested. However, some healthcare facilities test all pregnant women, irrespective of symptoms and personal history.
Case of a pregnant Japanese woman
A 20-year-old Japanese woman was diagnosed with COVID-19 at the end of May 2021, which was identified by a SARS-CoV-2 antigen test. This patient had a fever and no other symptoms and was quarantined for 10 days.
Since this initial diagnosis, the patient did not visit crowded places or display any symptoms. Her family members also did not exhibit any COVID-19 symptoms.
Later, the patient realized that she was about eight weeks pregnant during the time she had a fever. In September and October 2021, she was vaccinated with two doses of a COVID-19 messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) vaccine.
In December 2021, the patient was admitted to the hospital for delivery. She had an uncomplicated pregnancy and normal vaginal delivery.
The woman underwent a routine SARS-CoV-2 reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) test on a nasal and oral swab, which was collected during admission. The patient was found to be SARS-CoV-2 positive with a cycle threshold (Ct) value of 36.4, thus indicating a low viral load. This was 221 days after the initial COVID-19 diagnosis.
Testing for variant strains
The samples taken from the patient in this study were analyzed for the presence of mutations indicative of the variant. To this end, the samples showed the presence of the
Alpha variant, whereas Delta and Omicron variant mutations were confirmed to be absent. Genomic sequencing was challenging due to the low viral load in the samples.
Case of prolonged viral shedding
In December 2021, the Alpha variant was no longer in circulation in Japan, as the COVID-19 wave caused by the Alpha variant in Japan ended in July 2021. The patient had no symptoms or known contact with SARS-CoV-2-positive individuals. Since the patient’s viral load was very low, it was concluded that this was a case of prolonged viral shedding; the longest duration ever reported.
Geographically, this woman is from Ibaraki Prefecture, where the Alpha variant was dominant from April to July 2021. Comparatively, the Delta variant was the dominant circulating strain in this area by mid-September 2021, which is when it almost completely replaced the Alpha variant.
When the patient in the current study was tested SARS-CoV-2 positive, the Omicron variant was dominant in the region. Almost all SARS-CoV-2 infections in January and February 2022 were due to the Omicron variant. If the woman was reinfected, it would more likely have been due to the Delta or Omicron variant.
Several studies have shown that individuals with mild to moderate and severe COVID-19 can test RT-PCR positive up to 17.2 days and 19.8 days after the symptom onset, respectively. Additional reports of prolonged viral shedding have also been published.
According to published data, the average duration of SARS-CoV-2 shedding was 17.0 days and the maximum duration was 83 days. Usually, prolonged viral shedding is associated with older age, hypertension, coronary artery disease, and diabetes mellitus; however, pregnancy has not been previously associated with this phenomenon.
Notably, one previous case study reports prolonged viral shedding during pregnancy after 104 days of the initial positive test.
Reasons for prolonged viral shedding
There remains a lack of understanding of the mechanism for prolonged viral shedding during pregnancy.
During pregnancy, there are physiological changes in the immune environment within the maternal body that are predominantly Th2 cell-mediated with attenuation of Th1 cell-mediated immunity. As a result, a pregnant woman is susceptible to intracellular pathogens, including viruses.
In fact, it has been observed that the lungs of pregnant mice have an eight times higher viral load of influenza virus than non-pregnant mice. This implies that viral clearance is impeded during pregnancy.
Th2-dominant immunity promotes the expression of anti-inflammatory cytokines. Thus, it is possible that in pregnant women, the immune response to SARS-CoV-2 infection is Th2-dominant, which may result in mild COVID-19 symptoms in pregnant women. Thus, the Th2-dominant state may cause prolonged viral shedding and prevent severe COVID-19 in this patient population.
Limitations
Due to the low viral load in the patient’s sample, no genomic sequence data was available. Therefore, Alpha variant confirmation was done by variant strain screening PCR test.
Journal reference:
- Akine D, Sasahara T, Koido A, et al. (2022). Case of a pregnant woman with probable prolonged SARS-CoV-2 viral shedding 221 days after diagnosis. Journal of Infection and Chemotherapy. doi:10.1016/j.jiac.2022.03.012.
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In South Korea, the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the virus responsible for the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, has infected a considerable number of pregnant women, including those who have delivered by cesarean section. Pregnancy is considered a high-risk factor for severe COVID-19, particularly among infections due to the SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant.
The clinical course of infection with the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant remains unknown in pregnant women. Furthermore, due to the low vaccination rate of less than 10% in South Korea, information regarding COVID-19 vaccine efficacy in pregnant women is also insufficient.
Study: Impact of vaccination and the omicron variant on COVID-19 severity in pregnant women. Image Credit: nerudol / Shutterstock.com
A new American Journal of Infection Control study assesses the clinical outcomes of COVID-19 in pregnant women to determine whether Omicron and vaccination status impacted disease severity.
About the study
The current study was conducted between November 1, 2020, and March 7. 2022, and included a total of 224 pregnant women and 82 quarantine deliveries. Study participants were divided into two groups based on whether their hospital admission was before or after the emergence of the Omicron variant, as well as according to their vaccination status.
The clinical severity of COVID-19 was defined as “asymptomatic to mild” or “moderate to serious” based on the oxygen demand of the patients, the requirement for intensive care, and chest radiograph pneumonia findings. Maternal morbidities, including pneumonia diagnosed during hospital admission, intensive care admission, preterm birth, and requirement for pulmonology expert transfer, were also analyzed.
Study findings
About 42% of patients belonged to the Omicron group. Most women in both groups were in their third trimester of pregnancy and had an average age of 32 years.
The rates of maternal morbidity and moderate-to-severe disease decreased following the emergence of the Omicron variant. Oxygen demand was also higher in the before-Omicron group.
A total of 185 pregnant women were unvaccinated, while only 39 were vaccinated. Notably, the vaccination rate was higher in the Omicron group. The requirement for oxygen therapy and moderate-to-severe disease was lower in the vaccinated group as compared to the unvaccinated group.
Conclusions
The current study demonstrates that the clinical outcome of COVID-19 was more favorable among pregnant women after the emergence of the Omicron variant. Disease severity was also lower among pregnant women who had received at least one dose of the vaccine.
Importantly, the improvement in clinical outcomes can be due to either dominance of the Omicron variant or an increase in vaccination during that period. Further research is needed to confirm the accurate reason for improved clinical outcomes in pregnant women diagnosed with COVID-19.
Journal reference:
- Kim, H., Kim, H., Kim, H. M., et al. (2022). Impact of vaccination and the omicron variant on COVID-19 severity in pregnant women. American Journal of Infection Control. doi:10.1016/j.ajic.2022.07.023.
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Fears patients will die at regional, rural hospitals with 'system overwhelmed', says emergency director
By Kimberley Price and James FindlayA regional hospital emergency director says Victorians need to demand more from politicians of every persuasion amid an overcrowded medical system, warning patients who experience overcrowding will become sicker and die.
Key points:
- Dr Simon Judkins says there are many factors contributing to the demand at regional and rural emergency departments
- Self-harm presentations to emergency departments have spiked by 200 per cent in the past 12 months
- Pressure in metro hospitals is impacting regional and rural services, as waiting times increase for medical transfers
The mental health crisis, GP shortage, access to aged care, and a spike in COVID-19 cases are all putting intense pressure on regional and rural emergency departments.
Bendigo Health reported a record-breaking 2,276 emergency department presentations on March 15 and patients are being forced to wait up to 12 hours before specialist transfers in some regional Victorian locations.
Echuca Regional Health emergency department director Simon Judkins said the complex problems were being "replicated in every regional and rural facility" across the state.
"We know that patients presenting to a system that is overcrowded, that is full, resources aren't matching demand [and] the outcomes aren't going to be as good," Dr Judkins said.
"We know that with delays to care, there can be an increase in mortality.
"So, people become sicker, the long-term impacts on their health are more significant, and patients with delays to care, they die."
Self-harm presentations spike
Intentional self-harm presentations to the emergency department have dramatically increased in the past 12 months, with cases in young people up almost 200 per cent.
Lifeline Central Victoria and Mallee executive director Lisa Renato said while the number of deaths by suicide had decreased, any number was too high.
In the 12 months to June 2020, there were 9,514 calls to mental health services. The following year saw 11,229 and in the first nine months of the 2021/22 financial year there have already been 13,828.
"I think it's pretty safe to say that the system's overwhelmed, especially the past two years."
There have been some positive initiatives in Central Victoria in a bid to ease the mental health pressures for young people, including the opening of headspace Echuca and Lifeline Central Victoria and Mallee starting grief and loss counselling.
But Dr Judkins said, without systematic mental health care changes, emergency department presentations would continue to impact the system.
"Trying to access mental health care in regional and rural areas is a huge issue across the state," he said.
"We need access to mental health care in the community and we need access to mental health beds within the hospital system."
City pressure impacting regional and rural services
Dr Judkins said the pressure in metropolitan hospitals was trickling into regional and rural areas and intensifying the problems impacting emergency departments.
"If we have a patient in a rural facility who needs intensive care treatments, and if those ICU units in our metro hospitals are full, then there are delays to transfer," he said.
"The combination of all of those things is really a perfect storm to see increasing hospital presentations and ambulance ramping across the state."
Dr Judkins called for greater government spending in the public hospital sector.
"This is really a political choice about where people want their money spent," he said.
"I think people need to think about what sort of healthcare system they want and need and deserve.
"It really does come down to we need to demand better from our from our politicians, of all persuasions."
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Thousands of patients admitted at hospitals in the New England left before receiving treatment in a single three-month period, as a result of lengthy delays at emergency departments.
The latest report by the Bureau of Health Information, which covers April to June this year shows an increasing number of patients transferred to other hospitals as the system struggled to cope.
Armidale Hospital had a 20 per cent increase in the number of patients 'transferred to another hospital'.
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Meanwhile, other problems that emerged earlier in the COVID-19 pandemic - like ambulances being "ramped" while waiting to transfer patients due to a lack of beds in an emergency department - have barely improved, the statistics show.
Hunter New England Health executive director Susan Heyman told the ACM the service was still being inundated by record numbers of patients.
With COVID-19 spreading faster than ever before in early 2022, the hospital had faced a year-long surge in patients with various respiratory complaints, plus an unusually early flu season - while the service was hit by a third burden with staff with suspected or actual infections being furloughed, she said.
"It's not going to turn around overnight," she said.
"I'm optimistic that I think we have a whole range of strategies in place that will take some time before they show real effect in our community. But I think the fact that we've got a strategy and we're working in partnership across the healthcare sector [means things will improve]."
The new statistics showed that a record number of patients at hospitals in the New England had given up on getting healthcare before receiving treatment.
Tamworth hospital had more than 1221 patients who "left without or before completing treatment" a 9.2 per cent increase compared with the same three-month period a year before.
At Armidale there was a 35 per cent increase in the number who left without treatment, and in Inverell it was a 43 per cent increase.
Secretary of the Armidale community health and hospital branch of the nurses union Warren Isaac, said the statistics reflect understaffing in emergency departments.
The veteran mental health nurse said the problem could be particularly significant for patients in his specialty.
"The main worry for me is the people who leave without being seen," he said.
"They're leaving with all sorts of problems, physical and mental. The main worries in mental health are people who are either psychosis or they're suicidal. They will become more unwell and it might result in their death."
Health Services Union sub-branch secretary Brian Bridges, whose union represents paramedics among other health workers, said the increased transfer rates reflect a health system "in tatters".
"It's quite simple, it's probably common throughout the state that we are losing rural services and we're therefore having to transfer patients across to bigger or major hospitals, such as Tamworth and Armidale," he said.
"Because the services are no longer available in the rural hospitals."
With more patient transport jobs to drive, the workload for local paramedics has "jumped way, way out," he said.
"A lot of these transfers are occurring out of hours, which is putting a strain on the paramedics service in town," he said.
"Because the hospitals can turn around and say 'we don't have the staff to manage this patient' so the patient's got to be transferred."
Ms Heyman said the local health district carefully audits hospital transfers to make sure they are only undertaken where clinically required.
She said transfers may be required if there is "reduced medical support on the ground in the hospital", though the health service has improved telehealth services by adding a network of emergency physicians to provide better assessments at smaller hospitals.
"It might be that a level of care is required that's not available there, so for example surgery around a broken limb; it just makes sense that they're going to be transferred.
"There's a whole range of reasons why people get transferred and we look at that closely all the time. And it's not in anyone's interests [to do needless transfers] because it impacts us and it costs us."
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Fears patients will die at regional, rural hospitals with 'system overwhelmed', says emergency director
By Kimberley Price and James FindlayA regional hospital emergency director says Victorians need to demand more from politicians of every persuasion amid an overcrowded medical system, warning patients who experience overcrowding will become sicker and die.
Key points:
- Dr Simon Judkins says there are many factors contributing to the demand at regional and rural emergency departments
- Self-harm presentations to emergency departments have spiked by 200 per cent in the past 12 months
- Pressure in metro hospitals is impacting regional and rural services, as waiting times increase for medical transfers
The mental health crisis, GP shortage, access to aged care, and a spike in COVID-19 cases are all putting intense pressure on regional and rural emergency departments.
Bendigo Health reported a record-breaking 2,276 emergency department presentations on March 15 and patients are being forced to wait up to 12 hours before specialist transfers in some regional Victorian locations.
Echuca Regional Health emergency department director Simon Judkins said the complex problems were being "replicated in every regional and rural facility" across the state.
"We know that patients presenting to a system that is overcrowded, that is full, resources aren't matching demand [and] the outcomes aren't going to be as good," Dr Judkins said.
"We know that with delays to care, there can be an increase in mortality.
"So, people become sicker, the long-term impacts on their health are more significant, and patients with delays to care, they die."
Self-harm presentations spike
Intentional self-harm presentations to the emergency department have dramatically increased in the past 12 months, with cases in young people up almost 200 per cent.
Lifeline Central Victoria and Mallee executive director Lisa Renato said while the number of deaths by suicide had decreased, any number was too high.
In the 12 months to June 2020, there were 9,514 calls to mental health services. The following year saw 11,229 and in the first nine months of the 2021/22 financial year there have already been 13,828.
"I think it's pretty safe to say that the system's overwhelmed, especially the past two years."
There have been some positive initiatives in Central Victoria in a bid to ease the mental health pressures for young people, including the opening of headspace Echuca and Lifeline Central Victoria and Mallee starting grief and loss counselling.
But Dr Judkins said, without systematic mental health care changes, emergency department presentations would continue to impact the system.
"Trying to access mental health care in regional and rural areas is a huge issue across the state," he said.
"We need access to mental health care in the community and we need access to mental health beds within the hospital system."
City pressure impacting regional and rural services
Dr Judkins said the pressure in metropolitan hospitals was trickling into regional and rural areas and intensifying the problems impacting emergency departments.
"If we have a patient in a rural facility who needs intensive care treatments, and if those ICU units in our metro hospitals are full, then there are delays to transfer," he said.
"The combination of all of those things is really a perfect storm to see increasing hospital presentations and ambulance ramping across the state."
Dr Judkins called for greater government spending in the public hospital sector.
"This is really a political choice about where people want their money spent," he said.
"I think people need to think about what sort of healthcare system they want and need and deserve.
"It really does come down to we need to demand better from our from our politicians, of all persuasions."
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“YOU SEE SOMEBODY who looks just like your mother, your daughter, your favourite uncle. They don’t even have a trolley and they’re in terrible distress. That distress is physical, spiritual, mental. Every molecule is aching with distress.
“And you’re aching… you literally feel everybody’s pain in front of you. The pain is so vast that you kind of implode. You get dreadful moral distress that comes from not being able to give the kindness, the compassion that you are bursting to deliver.”
That’s what upsets Professor Chris Luke the most when it comes to overcrowding in our hospitals. As a consultant in emergency medicine, he has worked for more than 35 years on the frontlines and during Covid came out of retirement to work once again on the hospital floor.
These conditions “have been in place for 50 years”, he explained. Government after government have “turned a blind eye” to the health service and this continues to impact everybody, with overcrowding not only “deeply unpleasant” but also lethal for patients.
The longer you wait in an emergency department (ED), the higher your risk of avoidable harm and death. Luke said that in Ireland, “we estimate that hundreds of people in Ireland are dying every year” because of overcrowding.
Recent UK research showed long ED wait times cause thousands of excess deaths – significantly more than road traffic collisions. Another study found that an extra death occurs for every 82 admitted patients whose transfer to a bed is delayed beyond six to eight hours from ED arrival.
The average ED attendance is now longer than this – at 8.5 hours. That figure was stated by the HSE’s Anne O’Connor at a Joint Oireachtas Health Committee last week. However, emergency medicine consultant Dr Mick Molloy told us this is skewed downwards by minor injuries that can be treated quickly, with sicker patients waiting far longer.
The HSE has a target for 70% of ED patients to be either discharged or admitted within six hours. The Department of Health is “working closely with the HSE to improve ED performance and achieve the targets”, according to a spokesperson. Over 70% of hospitals failed to meet this target in their latest published Management Data Report.
None of this will be a surprise to readers. Overcrowding and our creaking hospital system are constantly in the news. But why do hundreds of people continue to die? As campaigner Marie McMahon from Clare put it to us: “Why is there no anger?”
Over the past number of weeks, as part of The Good Information Project, investigative platform Noteworthy teamed up with The Journal to attempt to answer this question. We found:
- Inpatient bed numbers nowhere near demand predicted by capacity reviews, with increases in recent years only now bringing beds back to their 2009 level
- Ireland having one of the lowest inpatient and ICU bed capacity across the EU but sharing issues such as staff shortages with many other European countries
- Frontline workers demoralised and exhausted, with no hospital group meeting its 2021 target for absenteeism
- Overall INMO trolley numbers rising rapidly, with the West most impacted
- Emergency consultants calling on modular buildings to be used as a stopgap
The investigation team also travelled to University Hospital Limerick (UHL) which consistently has the highest number of people on trolleys and can reveal:
- Hospital management awaiting feedback from HSE’s “expert team” on refined plan submitted last week but not aware if team will conduct an on-site review
- Deloitte conducting an “almost complete” report commissioned by hospital CEO
- Campaigners feeling “utterly failed” by politicians, government and the health service, with some “afraid to attend” due to overcrowding
- Management saying the full capacity protocol is activated every week often resulting in cancelled elective surgery, with low bed capacity the underlying issue
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THE PROBLEM: ‘Everybody has failed us’
“For the patients, it’s absolutely horrendous,” Ann Noonan, Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation (INMO) representative for UHL told Noteworthy. “Your dignity is left at the door and that shouldn’t be.”
The INMO’s Trolley and Ward Watch figures has been increasing back to pre-pandemic levels this year, with UHL numbers breaking all records when it reached 126 on 21 April, equivalent to almost a quarter of the entire hospital inpatient bed capacity.
“These are not people waiting to be seen. They are people who have been seen, assessed and either waiting for diagnosis or deemed that it’s necessary to be admitted to hospital for their care.”
Noonan also explained that their ‘Ward Watch’ figures which they have collected since 2013 take into account trolleys and additional patients placed on wards.
The INMO provided Noteworthy with over 130,000 rows of data from hospitals around Ireland from January 2008 to present. From this, it is clear that overall numbers were trending up before the pandemic, when they dropped dramatically, but since then have climbed steadily.
“At the start of the pandemic, all outpatient and elective work was cancelled.” With people in lockdown, there was also “nothing happening” which Noonan said meant less injuries from activities. This also meant more availability of inpatient beds so less backlog in the ED.
Overcrowding at UHL has hit the headlines repeatedly this year with numerous people speaking out about poor experiences at the hospital.
However, there is also ongoing overcrowding in many other hospitals along the West of Ireland with Cork, Galway, Sligo and Letterkenny University Hospital having the next highest trolley numbers on average this year.
Consultant Molloy explained that for emergencies that occur in Dublin, there is a huge choice of public and private care, but in many other parts of Ireland “there is only one place you can go and yet the bed capacity is very limited”.
The high numbers at UHL this year are upsetting to campaigner Marie McMahon whose husband Tommy Wynne died after spending “about 37 hours on a trolley” in the hospital’s new ED four years ago. Between 50 and 60 others were waiting alongside Tommy on the days he was there.
“It was a shock. You couldn’t move for trolleys. They were all around the corridors and every corridor was full.” Yet, double that number of people were on trolleys last month, despite an extra 98 inpatient beds having been built at the hospital since.
“I’m looking at the anger at other issues” such as the maternity hospital and the cervical cancer scandal “where everybody was galvanised and all the politicians were out and rightly so”. However, she added:
Why, when people are sick and dying on trolleys, why is there no anger? Everybody has failed us.
McMahon said her husband “wouldn’t want to die for nothing” and has since campaigned for better hospital facilities as part of the Midwest Hospital Campaign.
THE IMPACT: ‘I have apologised more times…’
In addition to talking to campaigners and staff at UHL, last week when 79 people were on trolleys, Noteworthy paid a visit to the hospital and spoke to the executive team as well as bed management to ask why – with extra beds and staff in recent years – it appears overcrowding is worse than ever.
When asked about the situation in UHL, UL Hospitals Group Chief Clinical Director Professor Brian Lenehan, said that “overcrowded and crisis are very emotive words”, and added:
“The facts of the matter are that it is the second busiest emergency department in the country and only has bed capacity of 530, which is the lowest of all the model 4s” – university teaching hospitals.
Coming back to the fundamentals, “it’s demand capacity and resource from a [staffing] point of view. Lenehan said that “it sounds simple, but that’s what it is” and “that is known” at every grade and discipline, throughout the HSE, “right the way up to the top, including the minister”.
This needs to include capacity for both unscheduled or emergency care as well as scheduled care. “Over the past number of years, there has been a lot of support, but the Midwest has chronically been underfunded.”
The tender for a contract to build a 96-bed block is gone to the HSE board for approval and once started, it will take about 18 months to build, according to hospital management. But around half of these are replacements of beds coming from older wards. A second 96-bed block is also planned.
“We’re still, by our most recent calculations, 205 beds short of the capacity we need now in 2022,” Lenehan told Noteworthy, who added that the interview was taking place on the proposed site for the maternity hospital with a new outpatients across the road. “The vision is all there but that is billions of Euro.”
Disappointment with Minister’s decision
In addition, he said that they “desperately need” a seperate 150- to 200-bed facility “with a scheduled care focus” in the region. Though he had “no strong views” on where it could be built, he said the sites at Ennis, Nenagh and St John’s – currently model 2 hospitals – would have challenges “to build infrastructure to that level”.
Fianna Fáil TD Willie O’Dea recently in the Dáil asked the Taoiseach to consider establishing an elective-only hospital at St John’s Hospital in Limerick. He said it “has the space, expertise and track record to make this an outstanding success”.
The Taoiseach said that his view for “elective hospitals” was if there is “State land, we should get on with it”.
The group’s Chief Operations Officer and Deputy CEO Noreen Spillane said they were disappointed when Health Minister Stephen Donnelly didn’t announce the development of an elective hospital in Limerick – instead they are to be developed in Cork, Galway and Dublin.
We need a facility where we can do our elective work that is not going to be cancelled all the time. Within the resources we have we work very hard to get our throughput of patients. But one group of patients that are continuously disenfranchised and continuously discommoded, [are] patients who are scheduled for care.
In the latest published HSE Management Data Report, UHL had one of the lowest number of acute bed days lost through delayed transfers of care compared to other model 4 hospitals and was better than target when it came to length of bed stay.
However, Spillane said that a full capacity protocol – allowing additional temporary beds on wards – is being used “nearly every week” which “has a huge impact on” scheduled care.
“It’s not the care that we would want to give our patients… When we built our new emergency department, we never said it would solve the crowding problem because we didn’t get the beds at the time, but… we never envisaged the numbers attending would continue to rise in such high numbers.”
Hospital management criticised
Of the nine model 4 hospitals, UHL had the highest number of ED presentations per inpatient beds and highest percentage of people waiting 24 hours or more in the same Management Data Report. It also had the third highest amount of people leave before completion of treatment.
Recent figures released through a PQ by Sinn Féin’s David Cullinane also showed it had the third highest number of people aged 75 or more waiting more than 24 hours in ED during February and March this year.
“I have apologised more times… than I can count at this stage for cancellations, curtailments and patients finding themselves on trolleys, unfortunately, by necessity due to the bed capacity issues,” said Lenehan.
“We have to balance the risk of the patient in the emergency department awaiting a bed with the patient who is home also awaiting a bed. And you only have the same bed.”
Marie McMahon told Noteworthy that “there’s an issue” with hospital management. She called on management to “come out and acknowledge this” and “don’t fob people off”. McMahon was one of a number of people who criticised management when speaking to Noteworthy.
Local Sinn Féin TD Maurice Quinlivan also told Noteworthy that he “had an issue around management of the hospital, especially around UHL itself”.
When McMahon’s comments were put to him, Lenehan said: “I’m not a manager for the sake of managing. I’m a clinician in management, there to make a difference and a positive impact on patient care. But, when you look into what is good and what could be better in the Midwest, there is an awful lot of good. What could be better? It comes back to capacity and staffing.”
When it comes to staff, UHL nurse and INMO rep Ann Noonan said they are “really demoralised”, “firefighting” and “feel like they are failing patients”.
Though no hospital group met its 2021 target for absenteeism, UL Hospitals Group had the highest percentage absent at almost 8%.
When asked if overcrowding was impacting this, Spillane said that “it’s difficult to know because Covid would have had a huge impact as well”. Though they had high numbers on Covid leave, she said they “do generally run higher than the national average with absenteeism” and added it is something they are addressing.
“When you have additional patients to look after, of course you are under pressure,” added Lenehan who said they have “very committed, hard working staff”.
The latest workforce report from March shows that UHL had the largest percentage increase in staff out of all model four hospitals with a 16% rise – over 500 work time equivalent staff – since December 2020.
“We had 1,200 new staff last year,” said Spillane, “which is a huge number to recruit into any one hospital group”.
Staff shortages in Nenagh Hospital resulted in the medical assessment unit being closed for a number of days last year. Lenehan said that they “have approved additional WTE” for Nenagh, with another consultant starting in the coming weeks and the fourth consultant post “to be advertised”.
THE ACTION: ‘Emergency department is only a front door’
In recent weeks, to help tackle this overcrowding, Minister Donnelly asked the HSE to send an expert team to the hospital group.
COO Spillane told Noteworthy that they “only had an initial meeting” with this team on Friday 13 May where they were asked “to come up with a short-, medium- and long-term plan”.
She said that all other hospital groups have been asked to do the same plan. The team they met so far were made up of the “national acutes, national community and the SDU [Special Delivery Unit]“.
When asked if the expert team would be undertaking a review on site, Spillane said they “genuinely don’t know”.
She added that “they also had a call earlier this week” with the COO of the HSE Anne O’Connor as well as the national team “about what actions” the group could take locally and where they “need support”.
To date, the hospital group have submitted their plan, Spillane said, which was asked to be refined down as they had “lots of actions in there”. A revised plan was then submitted and they are “just waiting [for] feedback on that”.
Before this expert team was put in place, Spillane said that CEO of the group, Colette Cowen, had commissioned Deloitte to see if there is “anything else” that they “could be doing”. The hospital part of this report is “almost complete” so they’re moving to the community aspect next week, she added.
However, INMO rep Noonan felt that any investigation team “has to be independent”. Local TD Michael McNamara also felt this was necessary as it meant they were “able to make recommendations that might be politically unwelcome”.
Taking to the streets
One immediate action that the Midwest Hospital Campaign want put in place is the reopening of the three emergency departments at Ennis and Nenagh in Clare and St John’s Hospital in Limerick. These were downgraded around a decade ago and currently undertake acute medical assessments, elective surgery and have injury units.
Sinn Féin’s Quinlivan said that the huge numbers in UHL is not a surprise given these three EDs were closed without UHL being given the extra capacity needed.
However, Michael McNamara said that “the medical advice at the time was that there was an insufficient throughput of patients… to provide a safe A&E”. He said the local injuries units worked well.
Campaigners who spoke to Noteworthy felt “utterly failed” by politicians, government and the health service, with some “afraid to attend” the hospital due to overcrowding. The campaign organised protests over the past two weeks to highlight the issue.
The distance from the emergency department for some people in the region was also raised, with some in rural Clare living over 90 minutes from UHL. The hospital group is also the only one with just one emergency department, with all other groups having at least four model 3 and 4 hospitals that handle emergency and acute care.
One of the organisers, Noeleen Moran, said their “campaign is just kicking off”. She said the “only solution is to reverse the closures”. In addition to the protests, local councillors are putting forward a motion for the three EDs to reopen at a Regional Health Forum taking place later today.
Spillane will be attending this Forum and said: “At the moment, we can’t support that.” She added that campaigners were “focused” on this but “having another emergency department with no beds is going to have the very same outputs”.
“The emergency department is only a front door and I’m not sure that people understand that.” She said that “if somebody comes into the emergency department and they end up in a [resuscitation] department”, then cardiology, theatre and critical care back up may be needed.
Our model 2 [hospitals] provide a vital service for the population of the Midwest. A lot of patients go through them for their day surgery, their local injury units… and that works really well.
Chief Clinical Director Lenehan added that “everybody is very well intentioned when they’re campaigning and everybody believes what they campaigning for”.
Disagreement between Department and HSE
Limerick was also included in the Independent Review of Unscheduled Care which was conducted before the pandemic by a team led by Professor Frank Keane, former president of the Royal College of Surgeons Ireland.
The review described UHL as “clearly under pressure” with staff describing it as “a good day” despite 40 patients waiting for admission. It found that none of the hospitals visited “appeared to provide safe and effective care” and identified 30 recommendations “to support improvements”.
However, the HSE opted not to published the review when it was completed in 2020. Anne O’Connor wrote to the Department of Health that November – in a letter obtained by the Irish Patients Associated (IPA) through Freedom of Information (FOI) – and stated:
The HSE has taken a decision not to proceed to finalisation and publication of a report that no longer has relevance.
The Department of Health (DOH) did not agree with that assessment by the HSE and, in another document obtained by the IPA, the DOH stated that “there are numerous references to patient safety… which raise questions that need to be addressed”. It continued:
It would be of value to the Department for the report to be finalised and for the HSE and individual sites to provide responses addressing the issues raised and the recommendations made.
When asked why the Department’s views differ from the HSE, a spokesperson told Noteworthy that “the Department is of the view that any review should be considered carefully in the context of ongoing planning such as in developing winter plans to ensure that relevant findings are incorporated as appropriate”.
After the IPA failed to obtain the report from the HSE, the DOH released it to them through FOI. The HSE’s stance on its publication was widely criticised when its release was publicised last month.
IPA chair Stephen McMahon, who is also on the Emergency Department Task Force, was concerned “that these are people in charge of developing policy and overseeing it with a fundamental difference of opinion about a very significant report”.
On this, consultant Chris Luke told Noteworthy he could not tell us “how upset and enraged” he was by the HSE stating the report was no longer relevant. He said he “was really wounded by that disclosure”.
“The health system is under enormous strain so the metrics on the dashboard are incredibly important. Please don’t tell me… it’s not really relevant that we’re still grossly overwhelmed… that we have collective mistreatment of our patients.” He added:
We’re sending desperate dispatches from the frontline and being told from HQ that everything is tickety boo.
When asked about the report, UHL’s Spillane said that they “had never seen a draft until it was released under FOI”. They have reviewed it and “have been asked to report back on factual accuracy”.
She added that “it’s quite an old report… so quite a lot has been implemented”. They are currently putting together a quality improvement plan “to reflect what has been done and what needs to be done further”.
The report was “the treatment” for the issues linked to overcrowding that are always talked about, according to the IPA’s McMahon. “We’re talking about symptoms ad nauseam and very little about what needs to be done.”
THE SOLUTION: ‘As simple as A, B, C – acute bed capacity’
Every expert in emergency medicine or bed management, that talked to Noteworthy, spoke of the importance of patient movement – or flow – through hospitals and how overcrowding results when patients become stuck.
“An emergency department only functions if there is flow two ways – in and out,” explained consultant Molloy who is a member of the IMO Consultant Committee. “The ‘out’ can be into a bed in the hospital or back to their homes if they don’t need to be admitted.”
When emergency departments become full, it not only impacts the people lying on trolleys or sitting on chairs in “inhumane” conditions “where the lights never go off and you can’t sleep”, but Molloy said “the real problem” is that overcrowding “reflects backwards to the person waiting to come in and be assessed”.
The result? Ambulances piling up outside with EDs, longer call-out times for those who need an ambulance, longer waits at home for admission and very often the implementation of full capacity protocol which allows extra temporary beds to be placed on wards.
All of the healthcare workers that spoke to the investigation team said that the overarching issue causing overcrowding was lack of inpatient bed capacity. Molloy put it best when he said that the solution was “as simple as A, B, C – acute bed capacity”.
Noteworthy analysed acute bed capacity in Ireland over the past 40 years and found that despite increases in recent years, bed numbers are only now getting back to 2009 levels. However, during that time our population has grown by over 550,000.
Thousands of beds not delivered
A capacity review conducted in 2002 during Michéal Martin’s tenure as Minister for Health found that inpatient beds had dropped by about 6,000 over 20 years from 1980 to 2000, despite an increase of almost 60% in hospital activity, excluding outpatients.
It also stated that “bed occupancy levels are unacceptably high in the major hospitals”, with this ranging from 85% – the internally recognised measure of full occupancy – to 123%.
At that time – two decades ago – the review recommended that over 4,300 (gross) extra beds would be required by 2011. It also included a more conservative (net) figure of just over 2,800 which was dependent on strategies such as a reduction in delayed discharges being implemented – which would “require significant investment” in long-term care, nursing home, rehab and community support services.
On foot of this, the Government committed “to provide for an additional 3,000 acute hospital beds by 2011″.
Instead, by 2011 a drop of over 1,100 more inpatient beds had occurred. They continued to drop until the following year – 2012 – when they reached their lowest point at under 10,400 beds.
Since then, just over 1,000 have been added back into the system, meaning bed numbers have not as yet been restored to the starting point of this 20-year-old report.
A new capacity review was conducted in 2018 which also stated “occupancy levels across the acute hospital system in Ireland are far in excess of international norms” – running close to “100% across the system”, leading to compromised patient safety and the spread of healthcare associated infections. It stated:
To reach international standards of bed occupancy would see the need for an immediate injection of the equivalent of an additional 1,260 beds in the system.
Since then, 500 beds have been added. The review added that “in practice, an increment in capacity is likely” with a mix of hospitals beds and other measures such as residential care and enhanced primary care.
It also estimated 16,300 (gross) beds would be needed in 2031, though reduced this to 12,600 (net) if reforms including healthy living, enhanced community care and patient flow are also implemented.
Given a recent PQ response showed that there were just over 11,350 inpatient beds in January 2022, that is between 1,200 and 4,950 extra needed by 2031. If the health service continues at last year’s pace which saw a 1.7% increase, Noteworthy calculated that an extra 1,800 beds will be delivered.
Noteworthy asked the Department of Health what it is doing to address overcrowding, particularly in the West. A spokesperson stated that “the Government provided additional investment of €1.1bn in budget 2021 to expand capacity, increase services and support reform”.
“This level of investment is being maintained in budget 2022″ and “a further €77 million has been invested in the 2021/22 Winter Plan”.
However, the spokesperson added that “allocation of funding to specific Hospital Groups and Community Healthcare Organisations is an operational matter under the remit of the HSE”.
When this was put to the HSE, along with a number of other queries, Noteworthy did not receive a response in time for publication.
Beyond capacity – How Europe fares
However, not all agree that beds should be blamed. “Capacity, capacity, capacity… that’s the litany,” the Irish Patients’ Association’s McMahon told Noteworthy. “We’re saying that even with the capacity, you can do better.”
With Ireland consistently near the bottom of the EU when it comes to total as well as acute hospital beds per 1,000 population, Noteworthy spoke to Professor Juliane Winkelmann from the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies to find out how other countries fare across the continent – given most had higher bed numbers.
Along with her colleagues, she published research recently on the pandemic response and found throughout Europe, hospitals were required to postpone elective treatments to free up hospital beds.
However, another study that Winkelmann co-authored found that “in many European countries, the capacity constraints in ICU wards” for Covid care were “caused by staff shortages and insufficient skill mix rather than bed shortages”.
In Belgium, the Czech Republic and Germany, an increase in ICU beds “proved difficult”, according to this research, “as there was a lack of nurses with ICU expertise and the ICU workforce already faced a high workload”.
Winkelmann is based in Berlin University of Technology and is very familiar with the German health system – one which spends the most on health and has the highest hospital beds per capita in the EU.
“We have more than 2,100 hospitals, with the city of Berlin having more than 70.” This is a result of “huge investment in hospital infrastructure in the 70s” and “there’s a political decision to keep hospitals open in rural areas to ensure access to beds and emergency care”.
Now it’s really difficult to drive this back, to reinvest and shape the hospital sector more efficiently.
However, Germany’s high number of hospital beds (7.9 per 1,000 population in 2019 compared to Ireland’s 2.9) results in low staff per bed ratio, according to the latest OECD country health profile. It’s nurse to bed ratio is in fact one of the lowest in the EU. That is despite it having comparatively high numbers of doctors and nurses.
Unlike our two-tiered health system, Germany has one of the oldest social health insurance systems in the world, providing nearly universal health coverage.
However, Winkelmann told Noteworthy that the “setup of the financing of different procedures creates an overprovision of hospital care”.
She also said that “as with many other European countries, there are too many people arriving at emergency departments, with a share of these hospitalised when it is not always necessary”.
Though not as serious a problem as in Ireland, Winkelmann said there is overcrowding in their EDs with “people waiting for hours to get treated” and people going there when they “do not really need it”.
People also “stay longer in hospitals” with the transition to “long-term care facilities not always working well”. All problems very familiar to those in the Irish system.
The ‘shrivelling’ of primary care
Presentations to ED without being referred by a GP account for over half of UHL’s ED patients, according to hospital management. Emergency consultant Prof Chris Luke said that “primary care shrivelling” due to the retirement of GPs will be “the final straw” when it comes to the trolley crisis.
That means that ED is becoming the main port of access for patients unable to either register with a GP or get access to one out of hours. Luke said that ‘accident and emergency’ was renamed to the ‘emergency department’ for a reason as they can’t be “casual”.
He said it’s like going to the “butchers looking for a loaf of bread”, no matter how often you are told that the “bakery is next door”.
So even though it says emergency department, with big red signs on the outside, people come in huge numbers with non-emergency issues because they can’t get hold of another access route.
Campaigners and politicians that Noteworthy spoke to said that access to GPs in the Midwest was compounding problems at UHL.
Shannondoc – the out of hours GP service – “has been scaled back”, explained Noeleen Moran from the Midwest Hospital Campaign, with a number of centres closing in 2020.
“The HSE are constantly advertising in local media telling us to use alternatives, that the hospital is too busy. But what alternatives?”
In a PQ response, the HSE’s head of service for primary care said that “an enhanced model of care has been in operation since March 2020″ with the mobile doctors being introduced which “has ensured that all areas in the Midwest are adequately covered”.
However, Marie McMahon who lives in West Clare said that “if you have to wait” for a GP to travel there from elsewhere in Clare or a neighbouring county, “you’re talking maybe two and a half hours” or “your other choice is to go to UHL”.
Sláintecare should help with many of these issues that are currently feeding into the problem of overcrowding.
It’s “all about getting you care when you need it,” explained Trinity College’s Professor Steve Thomas, who lead the technical team for Sláintecare. “So you don’t need to have private insurance to buy faster access into the care that they need.”
In addition to an increased focus on primary and community care, it also “expands the number of consultants” alongside public beds.
It is about reinvigorating the public system so that you have the extra capacity, more accountability, that the care that doesn’t need to be done in hospitals can be done outside, which means that people won’t have to wait as long for the care that does need to be in hospitals.
Diverting patients on other pathways
One initiative implemented in recent years in UHL to address overcrowding is a “bed bureau” – a call centre to link GPs to hospital services, Tina Fitzgerald, Head of Unscheduled Care told Noteworthy.
Health complaints that come in vary but during Covid, breathing and cardiac issues were common. Appointments are booked within 48 hours, according to a staff member.
When GPs call, the team can log patient details on a central IT system and book a slot in either UHL’s acute medical assessment unit or one of the medical assessment units (MAUs) in Ennis, Nenagh or St John’s.
This means that “people who need a medical or surgical assessment don’t need to have it done in ED”.
Another admission pathway that they have examined is scheduled surgery, with preoperative assessments done in advance, meaning that patients “come in hitting the ground running for surgery”, explained Linda Mullane, Head of Bed Management.
They are also looking to other hospitals which have reduced trolley numbers in recent years. One initiative they hope to roll out soon is Pathfinder which a recent study stated is “improving access to alternative care pathways in the Beaumont Hospital catchment area”.
A team of an advanced paramedic and either an occupational therapist or physiotherapist is activated in the event of certain non-life-threatening calls by older people to emergency services. Instead of always bringing patients to EDs, this team has the option of treating them at home.
Placing value on life
However, as patients and staff wait for the rollout of plans and promises, emergency consultant Dr Mick Molloy talked about the practical implications of overcrowding, in particular at night in hospitals when access to certain basic services such as scans or transport as well as newer initiatives such as Pathfinder are not available.
With no trolleys to lie on, “you can’t lie somebody down on a floor if you need to examine their tummy”. Without the privacy of curtains, “you can’t undress them in a corridor if you need to examine their chest properly”.
“This is not rocket science,” he added. With over half of the doctors working in his emergency department leaving in the coming months “to work in other areas where there’s not as much pressure”, Molloy proposed that “the only solution in the very short term” is modular buildings.
Fellow emergency consultant Prof Chris Luke also suggested that portacabins be used if necessary. “Yes, it’s inefficient financially,” Molloy said, “but it is necessary”.
“We have had a requirement for that extra capacity for well over 20 years and it hasn’t been addressed.” These modular builds would quickly tackle this “pending a longer term rebuild of all these facilities”.
Molloy asked how much value was being placed on a life and used an analogy of when, in the early 70s, the Ford Pinto hit the streets with a letal safety fault that resulted in a higher risk of exploding when rear-ended.
The company produced a cost-benefit analysis as part of its lobbying efforts which argued against an $11-per-car change that would prevent 180 burn deaths a year.
“We do not want to be in that boat here, in the emergency departments,” the consultant explained. “We know there are deaths arising because people spend too long on trolleys.”
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This investigation was proposed and part-funded by readers of Noteworthy, the investigative journalism platform from The Journal, and carried out by Maria Delaney.
This work is also co-funded by Journal Media and a grant programme from the European Parliament. Any opinions or conclusions expressed in this work is the author’s own. The European Parliament has no involvement in nor responsibility for the editorial content published by the project. For more information, see here.
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Fears patients will die at regional, rural hospitals with 'system overwhelmed', says emergency director
By Kimberley Price and James FindlayA regional hospital emergency director says Victorians need to demand more from politicians of every persuasion amid an overcrowded medical system, warning patients who experience overcrowding will become sicker and die.
Key points:
- Dr Simon Judkins says there are many factors contributing to the demand at regional and rural emergency departments
- Self-harm presentations to emergency departments have spiked by 200 per cent in the past 12 months
- Pressure in metro hospitals is impacting regional and rural services, as waiting times increase for medical transfers
The mental health crisis, GP shortage, access to aged care, and a spike in COVID-19 cases are all putting intense pressure on regional and rural emergency departments.
Bendigo Health reported a record-breaking 2,276 emergency department presentations on March 15 and patients are being forced to wait up to 12 hours before specialist transfers in some regional Victorian locations.
Echuca Regional Health emergency department director Simon Judkins said the complex problems were being "replicated in every regional and rural facility" across the state.
"We know that patients presenting to a system that is overcrowded, that is full, resources aren't matching demand [and] the outcomes aren't going to be as good," Dr Judkins said.
"We know that with delays to care, there can be an increase in mortality.
"So, people become sicker, the long-term impacts on their health are more significant, and patients with delays to care, they die."
Self-harm presentations spike
Intentional self-harm presentations to the emergency department have dramatically increased in the past 12 months, with cases in young people up almost 200 per cent.
Lifeline Central Victoria and Mallee executive director Lisa Renato said while the number of deaths by suicide had decreased, any number was too high.
In the 12 months to June 2020, there were 9,514 calls to mental health services. The following year saw 11,229 and in the first nine months of the 2021/22 financial year there have already been 13,828.
"I think it's pretty safe to say that the system's overwhelmed, especially the past two years."
There have been some positive initiatives in Central Victoria in a bid to ease the mental health pressures for young people, including the opening of headspace Echuca and Lifeline Central Victoria and Mallee starting grief and loss counselling.
But Dr Judkins said, without systematic mental health care changes, emergency department presentations would continue to impact the system.
"Trying to access mental health care in regional and rural areas is a huge issue across the state," he said.
"We need access to mental health care in the community and we need access to mental health beds within the hospital system."
City pressure impacting regional and rural services
Dr Judkins said the pressure in metropolitan hospitals was trickling into regional and rural areas and intensifying the problems impacting emergency departments.
"If we have a patient in a rural facility who needs intensive care treatments, and if those ICU units in our metro hospitals are full, then there are delays to transfer," he said.
"The combination of all of those things is really a perfect storm to see increasing hospital presentations and ambulance ramping across the state."
Dr Judkins called for greater government spending in the public hospital sector.
"This is really a political choice about where people want their money spent," he said.
"I think people need to think about what sort of healthcare system they want and need and deserve.
"It really does come down to we need to demand better from our from our politicians, of all persuasions."
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HYWEL Dda Health Board is urging people to “think carefully” before using emergency services as “unprecedented demand” is leading to “significant bed shortages and lengthy ambulance waits at A&E departments”.
The health board said that the demand on health and social care services across Carmarthenshire, Ceredigion and Pembrokeshire “is leading to significant delays in care provision.”
“Difficulties in discharging people who no longer need medical care from hospital – many of whom have complex personal circumstances and needs – is leading to significant bed shortages and lengthy ambulance waits at A&E departments, which mean that paramedics are unable to respond to other 999 calls in the community,” the health board said.
The warnings come after the Cambrian News reported last week on lengthy ambulance queues outside Bronglais Hospital in Aberystwyth earlier this month, coupled with a bed shortage crisis which saw an alert level at the hospital set to red.
Hywel Dda University Health Board’s Director of Nursing, Quality and Patient Experience, Mandy Rayani, said: “We are dealing with a combination of high numbers of attendances, particularly in our Emergency Departments, and challenges in health professional staffing.
“Our GP practices and hospitals are busy and while many of the COVID regulations have been removed, we still need to follow specific requirements for the safe treatment of those patients with Covid-19 and those without.
“We are working with our local authorities as there are difficulties in discharging some patients due to similar staffing challenges the social care sector is facing.
“This means we have very limited beds available to accommodate patients who need admission.
“Our teams are helping patients by their clinical priority, but this does mean that in some cases, waits in our Emergency Departments are hours long and far in excess of what we would strive to deliver.
“If you need medical help, please think carefully about the services you choose.”
The health board said that social care and health teams are “doing everything possible to support people who are well enough to leave hospital but need ongoing care.”
“Priority is being given to the most vulnerable, and alternative health and care packages are being offered as a short-term measure,” the board said.
“More carers and health staff are also being recruited to support people in need.
“If you have a relative or loved one in hospital who is well enough to go home, but is waiting to be discharged with homecare and / or community health support, please consider if you may be able to help them to get home more quickly - you and your family may be in a position to support them at home.
“If your relative is waiting for a formal package of care, you may be able to offer support and care on a short term, temporary arrangement or you might want to consider whether your loved one could be supported in a temporary residential or nursing care setting.
“If you feel that this is an option that you could consider, please speak to the ward manager or your social worker to explore further.
“Spending as little time in hospital is better for patients and means that NHS beds can be freed up for others with urgent care needs.
“Supporting older patients to get home from hospital efficiently is an important part of their recovery and it also protects them from negative consequences of hospital admission, such as hospital acquired infection, falls and a loss of independence.
To help alleviate pressures at hospital sites in the region, Hywel Dda has opened a number of Same Day Emergency Care (SDEC) units, which you may be referred into if you have a condition that can be seen and treated quickly, without necessarily requiring hospital admission.
If you are unwell and unsure what to do, you can visit the online symptom checker to cross-check your symptoms against a number of common ailments and if directed call NHS 111.
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https://www.kgw.com/article/news/nation-world/ukraine/kachka-portland-russian-restaurant-yellow-blue-dumplings-ukraine/283-5059de9e-1965-41a8-b6b8-7fc884ea924f
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PORTLAND, Ore. — The owner of a restaurant in Portland says her business has seen backlash because of the conflict in Ukraine. While Kachka serves Russian-inspired cuisine, the owner is fundraising to help the people of Ukraine.
Bonnie Morales is the chef and co-owner of Kachka. She says they've received hurtful comments on social media — and some guests have cancelled reservations in response to the war.
In spite of all that, the restaurant is showing support for Ukraine. Morales' family is from Belarus in eastern Europe. When Russia invaded Ukraine she wanted to help.
"What we could do immediately is put a cocktail [on the menu] which the proceeds would go to the Red Cross,” explained Morales.
So far they’ve raised over $4,500 for the Red Cross in Ukraine, with the Ukrainian spirit made with a blend of peppers and honey. Morales wanted to do more to raise funds and awareness of the growing humanitarian crisis.
"I’m not a writer so I can’t write an op-ed or anything, but I can cook," Morales said. With that in mind, she created Ukrainian-style dumplings.
"Ukrainian dumplings are a called vareniki and they are typically made with some kind of fruit or vegetable filling," said Morales.
Kachka’s version is filled with the restaurant’s home-made sauerkraut and potato puree – wrapped in a unique display of solidarity.
"Dyed with turmeric to make it a little yellow and the other side dyed with butterfly pea flower to make it a little blue," explained Morales. "So when they cook, one side is blue and the other side is yellow and resembles the Ukrainian flag," said Morales.
One dollar from each package will be donated to UNICEF’s Ukraine Appeal.
"It’s important for Portlanders and Oregonians to remember there are thousands of Ukrainians and Russians living here, so it’s very likely that someone that you interact with has family right now suffering," said Morales.
Olga Blackwood lives in Portland but was born in Ukraine. She still has family there.
"Every morning I wake up and I wonder are they alive," said Blackwood. "They’re living with air raid sirens constantly and so far they’re okay.”
In uncertain times it brings Blackwood a little joy to see her Portland community show up in support — whether it be with a rally or dumplings.
The dumplings are available at the restaurant's grocery store for $10.99. You can also find them online and at Portland-area New Seasons. Kachka hopes to add them to the restaurant menu next week
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2022-04-27 21:48:46+00:00
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Six Toronto restaurants cooking Ukrainian meals to benefit the war relief effort
As the war in Ukraine continues, many Toronto restaurants are contributing to the war relief effort. Whether through supply drives, special menu items or donating a portion of their overall proceeds, these kitchens are using their delicious wares to prop up humanitarian and/or Ukrainian defence organizations at a time of desperate need. Here are six ways to support Ukraine and a local business, and get a tasty snack while you’re at it.
Heavenly Perogy
Perogies are just one of the delectable offerings at this tiny Ukrainian kitchen, which runs out of the basement of St. Volodymyr’s Ukrainian Orthodox Church at Bathurst and Dundas. “Ukraine is my motherland. It’s my roots, it’s where my heart and soul are,” says owner Tetyana Matkivska, who moved to Toronto from Ukraine 15 years ago. “I am here now and my family and friends are there experiencing the horrible war. The first question I had to myself when this war started: what can I do for Ukraine and my family?”
Every meal comes with the option to donate funds, which go to the Canadian Red Cross, Friends of Ukraine Defence Forces Fund (FUDF) or the BCU Foundation. Heavenly Perogy also donates five percent of its sales to these causes, and collects medical and other in-demand supplies on behalf of St. Volodymyr’s. Check out the “Support Ukraine” page on their website for a list of items you can purchase, along with drop-off locations.
Janchenko’s Bakery
Comfort food is a specialty at Janchenko’s, a cozy Eastern European bakery a few blocks west of High Park. Eighty percent of the proceeds from its bestselling items—hearty borscht and homestyle doughnuts—go to 4th Wave, an international organization for Ukrainian communities that’s helping send ambulances to Ukraine. (Ambulances and other medical equipment are among the most sought after items on the front). “Not everyone can fight on the front lines, but everyone can do something to help,” says owner Maria Janchenko. “We can all contribute with the skills we have.”
Barrel House Korchma
Mimico’s family owned Barrel House Korchma is a neighbourhood favourite for traditional Ukrainian eats like cabbage rolls and borscht. “My parents and I are all Ukrainian immigrants,” says owner Tetyana Barylko. “When the war started, we realized that we can’t just sit back and watch.” The restaurant partnered with Solo Bakery to offer a rotating selection of $10 cookies—a recent creation was a frosted sugar cookie—the proceeds from which go to the BCU Foundation’s Humanitarian Aid Fund. Donation boxes at the restaurant collect funds for the FUDF and the family’s personal contacts on the ground in the war zone. And for $8 (or $6 during happy hour), you can get a Ukrainian flag shot made with blue curaçao, orange juice and Zirkova—a Ukrainian vodka that donates 100 per cent of its profits to the Ukrainian Humanitarian Appeal Fund.
Dundas and Carlaw
This east-end staple is all about convivial vibes. But its owner, Antonio Blaić, knows what it’s like to live in an environment that’s anything but peaceful. “I grew up during the war in Croatia, and was subjected to life under occupation in a besieged city,” he says. “I’ve witnessed the pain and suffering that war brings, and how it destroys everything in its path.” Every Saturday and Sunday, 20 percent of sales between 3 p.m. and 6 p.m. go to the Canadian Red Cross. And the restaurant just added wood-burning pizza to its menu—so why not try a slice on a weekend afternoon with a shot of Zirkova?
Barberian’s Steakhouse
Elm Street staple Barberian’s specializes in steak, not Ukrainian food, but it’s added a special menu item in support of war relief: handmade perogies, filled with potato and cheese, sautéed in butter and served with sour cream. Fifty per cent of the proceeds from the perogies—which cost $7 or $13 for an app or main, respectively—goes to the Canadian Red Cross. “What’s happening in Ukraine is such a shock, and we thought this was one positive thing we can do as a restaurant,” says Bob Bermann, a manager at the steakhouse. “We hope it inspires other people to give.”
Issho Bakery
Issho is a delivery-only micro-bakery that uses locally milled flour for its goods. Cookies—like the creamy, nutty hojicha spelt sando cookie—are a specialty here. As such, their $20 fundraising dessert box includes six mantulky—Ukrainian honey cookies—along with a slice each of sernyk (curd cake with caramelized apples) and flourless poppyseed cake with a creamy bay leaf chantilly. This was the first time co-owners Martin Yeung and Yuka Watts attempted baking Ukrainian sweets—they had Ukrainian friends taste-test the results. Profits from the box go to World Central Kitchen, an organization that provides meals for people in countries in humanitarian crises, currently stationed in Ukraine and bordering countries. Order 48 hours in advance for delivery on the weekend.
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https://www.kgw.com/article/news/nation-world/ukraine/kachka-portland-russian-restaurant-yellow-blue-dumplings-ukraine/283-5059de9e-1965-41a8-b6b8-7fc884ea924f
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PORTLAND, Ore. — The owner of a restaurant in Portland says her business has seen backlash because of the conflict in Ukraine. While Kachka serves Russian-inspired cuisine, the owner is fundraising to help the people of Ukraine.
Bonnie Morales is the chef and co-owner of Kachka. She says they've received hurtful comments on social media — and some guests have cancelled reservations in response to the war.
In spite of all that, the restaurant is showing support for Ukraine. Morales' family is from Belarus in eastern Europe. When Russia invaded Ukraine she wanted to help.
"What we could do immediately is put a cocktail [on the menu] which the proceeds would go to the Red Cross,” explained Morales.
So far they’ve raised over $4,500 for the Red Cross in Ukraine, with the Ukrainian spirit made with a blend of peppers and honey. Morales wanted to do more to raise funds and awareness of the growing humanitarian crisis.
"I’m not a writer so I can’t write an op-ed or anything, but I can cook," Morales said. With that in mind, she created Ukrainian-style dumplings.
"Ukrainian dumplings are a called vareniki and they are typically made with some kind of fruit or vegetable filling," said Morales.
Kachka’s version is filled with the restaurant’s home-made sauerkraut and potato puree – wrapped in a unique display of solidarity.
"Dyed with turmeric to make it a little yellow and the other side dyed with butterfly pea flower to make it a little blue," explained Morales. "So when they cook, one side is blue and the other side is yellow and resembles the Ukrainian flag," said Morales.
One dollar from each package will be donated to UNICEF’s Ukraine Appeal.
"It’s important for Portlanders and Oregonians to remember there are thousands of Ukrainians and Russians living here, so it’s very likely that someone that you interact with has family right now suffering," said Morales.
Olga Blackwood lives in Portland but was born in Ukraine. She still has family there.
"Every morning I wake up and I wonder are they alive," said Blackwood. "They’re living with air raid sirens constantly and so far they’re okay.”
In uncertain times it brings Blackwood a little joy to see her Portland community show up in support — whether it be with a rally or dumplings.
The dumplings are available at the restaurant's grocery store for $10.99. You can also find them online and at Portland-area New Seasons. Kachka hopes to add them to the restaurant menu next week
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2022-04-14 20:16:36+00:00
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Authentic taste of Ukraine in Fairmount earns thousands to send to war relief efforts
PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) — Hundreds of people showed up on Sunday for a Fairmount fundraiser to help the victims of the war in Ukraine . Volunteers made and served traditional foods at the Ukrainian League of Philadelphia, and cashed in to the tune of thousands.
Volunteers could hardly keep up with the demand, as people passed through the steaming service lines, one after the other, asking for handmade pierogi, borscht, stuffed cabbage, potato pancakes and kielbasa and sauerkraut.
Dora Shoturma, who sold baked goods, said she was grateful for the outpouring of support from all walks of life.
“All of these people who came to show their support — it’s incredibly emotional,” she said. “We are first generation born here, and our families — some of them still in Ukraine. So each day is heart-wrenching. This is what keeps us from sitting at home and crying. We have to do things like this. We have to come together.”
Another woman, who bought food to eat on the premises and to take home, said she’s not even Ukrainian American — she’s of Italian descent — but it was important for her to support the Ukrainian people.
“We have to support the people in Europe and we have to stop Putin,” she said, fighting back tears, her voice full of emotion. “I’m sorry. It’s very difficult. We’re in the same boat now and we have to pull together.”
Mykola Kosyk is the vice president of the Ukrainian League. She said every penny will be sent to relief efforts in Ukraine — “where they need clothing, they need medical supplies, they need military equipment and basic toiletries.”
Vasyl Litkewycz, a Ukrainian League board member, said the group has credibility with the community in Fairmount. “We just try to continue pushing on the Ukrainian tradition and culture and bring in people who are not Ukrainian to help us and to keep us all moving on,” he said.
Besides the foods, wreathes, pins and signs were also sold to raise money.
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PORTLAND, Ore. — The owner of a restaurant in Portland says her business has seen backlash because of the conflict in Ukraine. While Kachka serves Russian-inspired cuisine, the owner is fundraising to help the people of Ukraine.
Bonnie Morales is the chef and co-owner of Kachka. She says they've received hurtful comments on social media — and some guests have cancelled reservations in response to the war.
In spite of all that, the restaurant is showing support for Ukraine. Morales' family is from Belarus in eastern Europe. When Russia invaded Ukraine she wanted to help.
"What we could do immediately is put a cocktail [on the menu] which the proceeds would go to the Red Cross,” explained Morales.
So far they’ve raised over $4,500 for the Red Cross in Ukraine, with the Ukrainian spirit made with a blend of peppers and honey. Morales wanted to do more to raise funds and awareness of the growing humanitarian crisis.
"I’m not a writer so I can’t write an op-ed or anything, but I can cook," Morales said. With that in mind, she created Ukrainian-style dumplings.
"Ukrainian dumplings are a called vareniki and they are typically made with some kind of fruit or vegetable filling," said Morales.
Kachka’s version is filled with the restaurant’s home-made sauerkraut and potato puree – wrapped in a unique display of solidarity.
"Dyed with turmeric to make it a little yellow and the other side dyed with butterfly pea flower to make it a little blue," explained Morales. "So when they cook, one side is blue and the other side is yellow and resembles the Ukrainian flag," said Morales.
One dollar from each package will be donated to UNICEF’s Ukraine Appeal.
"It’s important for Portlanders and Oregonians to remember there are thousands of Ukrainians and Russians living here, so it’s very likely that someone that you interact with has family right now suffering," said Morales.
Olga Blackwood lives in Portland but was born in Ukraine. She still has family there.
"Every morning I wake up and I wonder are they alive," said Blackwood. "They’re living with air raid sirens constantly and so far they’re okay.”
In uncertain times it brings Blackwood a little joy to see her Portland community show up in support — whether it be with a rally or dumplings.
The dumplings are available at the restaurant's grocery store for $10.99. You can also find them online and at Portland-area New Seasons. Kachka hopes to add them to the restaurant menu next week
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2022-06-03 17:26:45+00:00
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Cafe hosts fundraiser to support Ukrainian families settling in the Shenandoah Valley
HARRISONBURG, Va. (WHSV) -On Friday, one local restaurant will host an event raising money for families settling in the Shenandoah Valley after fleeing Ukraine.
“Our staff was saying, isn’t there something we can do as we were watching the news, seeing what was happening in Ukraine and feeling saddened. We were like well we can do a fundraiser,” Katrina Didot said.
Didot owns a cafe called A Bowl of Good. The restaurant is partnering with local businesses to put on the event. There will be live music and traditional Ukrainian food. Part of the meal will be prepared by Sergey Zaychenko.
“It’s an Uzbekistan dish. It’s called Plov. We fry onions and then carrots, then meat. We boil it like a stew. Then we throw the rice in and just wait for the miracle,” Zaychenko said.
Zaychenko and his wife run a Russian kitchen food truck in Harrisonburg called Yolki Palki. This is the third fundraiser he has participated in to help Ukraine.
“Ukrainians, they are our brothers. There is no difference in the language. We are all the same,” Zaychenko said. “I’m an immigrant myself. We came from Russia. I was a kid when my parents brought me. I just know how it feels, they lost everything and came here.”
Each plate will be $20 and you can pick it up through a cash-only drive-through or you can pick them up inside the cafe.
“That will include your stuffed cabbage roll, stuffed with GlenDor beef and the Plov which is being made by the Russian kitchen, that’s the rice pilaf. Then this delicious Koreys’ka Morkv, which is a nice spicy carrot, and Ukrainian-made pastries,” Didot explained.
The event will be from 4-7 p.m.
“We are hoping people will spill out to the side of the building where we are going to have amazing music that is a nice blend of local people with the inspiration of a Ukrainian-Russian violinist who is helping curate the music of the evening,” Didot added.
The proceeds will be going to Harrisonburg Church World Service which helps families from Ukraine resettle in the Shenandoah Valley.
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Australia prepare for England in Cup final
Australia are relishing the chance to play the old enemy England in the Women's Cricket World Cup final on Sunday.
While Australia have won eight straight in New Zealand, the English have dug themselves out of a hole to reach the final.
Heather Knight's side started 0-3, including an opening loss to Australia that lengthened a miserable run.
Including the five winless Ashes matches across all formats earlier this summer, England went eight matches without victory before mounting their form reversal.
Beth Mooney, one of Australia's stars with the bat at the World Cup, hat-tipped England's effort while issuing a warning of what would come next.
"We played them obviously in the first-round game and I think everyone was happy to have a bit of a break from them," she told AAP.
"They fought their way to the final and kudos to them.
"But not much of what's happening this tournament matters now because you've got to show up at the right time on Sunday."
Mooney worked out how much she didn't like losing to England back in 2017.
It wasn't at the last ODI World Cup - although England had Australia's measure in the group stage of that tournament - but during the Ashes series that came a few months later.
At the time, Australia was deep in its post-World Cup navel gazing, a galvanising period when the world No.1s examined why they fell short and vowed not to do so again.
Instead, the defeat came at Coffs Harbour, in the third match of their Ashes series, when Austalia fell short in a rain-affected chase.
"We beat them 2-1 in a one-day series and lost the last game. There was a bitter taste in our mouth that we let them get one back," she said.
"Since then we've made a real concerted effort to make sure that if we do have them 2-0 down ... we really come home strong and beat them again.
"We do enjoy beating them to be honest. There is a huge rivalry there."
Australia haven't lost an ODI to England since, a five-year run that includes seven matches.
Jess Jonassen agreed "it's always nice to beat England".
"And fortunately, we've been on the winning side a little bit recently," she said.
"There's such an incredible rivalry between us and England that I don't think anybody likes coming out on the losing end.
"It's always high stakes. And a World Cup final, it doesn't get any bigger."
Off-spinner Sophie Ecclestone has been a key to the English revival in New Zealand, taking 20 scalps to be the tournament's leading wicket-taker, including 6-36 in the semi-final against South Africa.
Mooney said the Australian are of her threat, saying "she's probably come up against teams that don't play a lot against her".
"In the Ashes series and the (World Cup) game against her, our batting group played her exceptionally well. (At the World Cup against Australia) she went for 0-77 in her 10 overs," she said.
"We've got a few better plans to some of their bowlers now. We understand she's a bit of a threat. But we're also pretty comfortable with our batting and how we're going to take her on."
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Christchurch, Apr 2 (PTI) Relentless Australia will be out to underline their credentials as one of game's greatest sides against a battle-hardened England unit that will also seek greatness in a blockbuster ICC Women's World Cup final here on Sunday.
Both England and Australia have been marching towards the big day in their own way.
Also Read | IPL 2022: 'I Backed My Ability', Says Andre Russell After His Six-Blitz Helps KKR Win Against PBKS.
Defending champions England have been emboldened by an incredible turnaround that saw them prevail in five must-win games after losing their first three matches of the tournament.
While the Australians, gunning for a record seventh world title, have been on a roll extending their winning streak to 11 matches.
Also Read | IPL 2022: Cricket Fraternity Lauds KKR's Umesh Yadav As He Becomes Purple Cap Holder.
Interestingly, despite having won 10 of the previous 11 World Cups between them, England and Australia will face off in an ICC World Cup final for the first time in 34 years.
The two sides started their campaigns together almost a month ago in Hamilton and will end them together, one holding the trophy, the other looking on at the Hagley Oval.
Australia have lost only one World Cup final but it was not too far away from the setting for Sunday's finale. Back in 2000, just down the road from Christchurch at the Bert Sutcliffe Oval in Lincoln, Australia lost the closest final the tournament has ever seen, defeated by New Zealand by just four runs.
That year, England recorded their worst-ever World Cup finish of fifth before fighting back to take the trophy from Australia in 2009.
In doing so, they would go on to have a remarkable year also claiming their first, and only, T20 World Cup as well as an Ashes victory.
It is something that Australia are hoping to match 13 years later, as they already hold the T20 trophy having secured that on home soil in 2020 before the Ashes were wrapped up with two games to spare in February, but the one-day World Cup evades them.
Vice-captain Rachael Haynes already has a winner's medal from 2013, and she is well on her way to a competition record, the opening batter sitting on 429 runs for the tournament, 27 behind Debbie Hockley of New Zealand's all-time best set in 1997.
That is not the only record that could be broken on Sunday as left-arm spinner Sophie Ecclestone has the chance to surpass Australian Lyn Fullston, whose haul of 23 wickets in 1982 remains the mark to beat.
Ecclestone sits on 20 wickets having taken her maiden international five-wicket haul in the semi-final win against South Africa ending on six for 36, the best figures by an England bowler in a World Cup.
The left-arm spinner is emblematic of England's journey throughout the tournament in that she is peaking at exactly the right time.
The 22-year-old started with her worst-ever figures in ODI cricket with no wicket for 77 against Australia.
It highlighted just how shaky a start England had; dropped catches allowed Australia to put on 310 for three in the opening game before more fielding woes gave the West Indies a famous win.
South Africa defeated England for the first time in a World Cup for 22 years to leave the defending champions reeling with three defeats from their first three games as their four remaining clashes became must-win.
And win they did, defeating India, New Zealand, Pakistan and Bangladesh to book their place in the knockouts and set up a rematch of the 2017 semi-final with South Africa.
England saw off the Proteas comfortably to keep their hopes of a fifth title alive, and Ecclestone praised captain Heather Knight's leadership as she guided her side back from the brink.
Knight has the chance to create history as the first England captain to guide her side to back-to-back trophies.
Australia's star all-rounder Ellyse Perry is on track to take her place in the showpiece, having missed the team's last two matches in New Zealand with a back issue. She underwent two crunch training sessions in Christchurch ahead of the final.
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Australia prepare for England in Cup final
Australia are relishing the chance to play the old enemy England in the Women's Cricket World Cup final on Sunday.
While Australia have won eight straight in New Zealand, the English have dug themselves out of a hole to reach the final.
Heather Knight's side started 0-3, including an opening loss to Australia that lengthened a miserable run.
Including the five winless Ashes matches across all formats earlier this summer, England went eight matches without victory before mounting their form reversal.
Beth Mooney, one of Australia's stars with the bat at the World Cup, hat-tipped England's effort while issuing a warning of what would come next.
"We played them obviously in the first-round game and I think everyone was happy to have a bit of a break from them," she told AAP.
"They fought their way to the final and kudos to them.
"But not much of what's happening this tournament matters now because you've got to show up at the right time on Sunday."
Mooney worked out how much she didn't like losing to England back in 2017.
It wasn't at the last ODI World Cup - although England had Australia's measure in the group stage of that tournament - but during the Ashes series that came a few months later.
At the time, Australia was deep in its post-World Cup navel gazing, a galvanising period when the world No.1s examined why they fell short and vowed not to do so again.
Instead, the defeat came at Coffs Harbour, in the third match of their Ashes series, when Austalia fell short in a rain-affected chase.
"We beat them 2-1 in a one-day series and lost the last game. There was a bitter taste in our mouth that we let them get one back," she said.
"Since then we've made a real concerted effort to make sure that if we do have them 2-0 down ... we really come home strong and beat them again.
"We do enjoy beating them to be honest. There is a huge rivalry there."
Australia haven't lost an ODI to England since, a five-year run that includes seven matches.
Jess Jonassen agreed "it's always nice to beat England".
"And fortunately, we've been on the winning side a little bit recently," she said.
"There's such an incredible rivalry between us and England that I don't think anybody likes coming out on the losing end.
"It's always high stakes. And a World Cup final, it doesn't get any bigger."
Off-spinner Sophie Ecclestone has been a key to the English revival in New Zealand, taking 20 scalps to be the tournament's leading wicket-taker, including 6-36 in the semi-final against South Africa.
Mooney said the Australian are of her threat, saying "she's probably come up against teams that don't play a lot against her".
"In the Ashes series and the (World Cup) game against her, our batting group played her exceptionally well. (At the World Cup against Australia) she went for 0-77 in her 10 overs," she said.
"We've got a few better plans to some of their bowlers now. We understand she's a bit of a threat. But we're also pretty comfortable with our batting and how we're going to take her on."
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Christchurch, April 2
Relentless Australia will be out to underline their credentials as one of the game’s greatest sides against a battle-hardened England unit that will also seek greatness in a blockbuster ICC Women’s World Cup final here tomorrow.
Both England and Australia have been marching towards the big day in their own way.
Defending champions England have been emboldened by an incredible turnaround that saw them prevail in five must-win games after losing their first three matches. While the Australians, gunning for a record seventh world title.
The English know they will have to hit similar peaks against Australia. “We’ve taken a few batterings over the last couple of months...we’ll go in as underdogs, which is certainly fair (but) what a story has been written for us if we go and beat them on Sunday,” skipper Heather Knight told BBC. — Agencies
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Australia prepare for England in Cup final
Australia are relishing the chance to play the old enemy England in the Women's Cricket World Cup final on Sunday.
While Australia have won eight straight in New Zealand, the English have dug themselves out of a hole to reach the final.
Heather Knight's side started 0-3, including an opening loss to Australia that lengthened a miserable run.
Including the five winless Ashes matches across all formats earlier this summer, England went eight matches without victory before mounting their form reversal.
Beth Mooney, one of Australia's stars with the bat at the World Cup, hat-tipped England's effort while issuing a warning of what would come next.
"We played them obviously in the first-round game and I think everyone was happy to have a bit of a break from them," she told AAP.
"They fought their way to the final and kudos to them.
"But not much of what's happening this tournament matters now because you've got to show up at the right time on Sunday."
Mooney worked out how much she didn't like losing to England back in 2017.
It wasn't at the last ODI World Cup - although England had Australia's measure in the group stage of that tournament - but during the Ashes series that came a few months later.
At the time, Australia was deep in its post-World Cup navel gazing, a galvanising period when the world No.1s examined why they fell short and vowed not to do so again.
Instead, the defeat came at Coffs Harbour, in the third match of their Ashes series, when Austalia fell short in a rain-affected chase.
"We beat them 2-1 in a one-day series and lost the last game. There was a bitter taste in our mouth that we let them get one back," she said.
"Since then we've made a real concerted effort to make sure that if we do have them 2-0 down ... we really come home strong and beat them again.
"We do enjoy beating them to be honest. There is a huge rivalry there."
Australia haven't lost an ODI to England since, a five-year run that includes seven matches.
Jess Jonassen agreed "it's always nice to beat England".
"And fortunately, we've been on the winning side a little bit recently," she said.
"There's such an incredible rivalry between us and England that I don't think anybody likes coming out on the losing end.
"It's always high stakes. And a World Cup final, it doesn't get any bigger."
Off-spinner Sophie Ecclestone has been a key to the English revival in New Zealand, taking 20 scalps to be the tournament's leading wicket-taker, including 6-36 in the semi-final against South Africa.
Mooney said the Australian are of her threat, saying "she's probably come up against teams that don't play a lot against her".
"In the Ashes series and the (World Cup) game against her, our batting group played her exceptionally well. (At the World Cup against Australia) she went for 0-77 in her 10 overs," she said.
"We've got a few better plans to some of their bowlers now. We understand she's a bit of a threat. But we're also pretty comfortable with our batting and how we're going to take her on."
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Cricket World Cup: England and Australia set for final
Last updated on .From the section Cricket
England will attempt to win a second successive Women's World Cup when they face Australia in Sunday's final.
Heather Knight's side lost their first three games, but go into the meeting with Australia in Christchurch (02:00 BST) on the back of five straight wins.
No England senior women's or men's team has successfully defended a World Cup.
"The way we've come back has been remarkable and really speaks volumes about this group," Knight told BBC Sport.
"To be here at a World Cup final with a chance of going back-to-back and making history is very special."
Knight lifted the trophy on home soil in 2017 and is set to become the first player to lead England in two 50-over World Cup finals.
"I'm more relaxed than I was in 2017," she said. "There's a lot of experience from five years ago and the girls that were involved then will hopefully take a lot from that.
"We need to remember to take everything in, because it is a special moment in your career to be involved in a World Cup final."
England are likely to be unchanged from the team that beat South Africa in the semi-finals, while Australia are waiting on the fitness of all-rounder Ellyse Perry, who has missed two games with a back problem. She could play as a specialist batter.
Australia are perhaps the strongest international sports team in the world. Since losing in the semi-finals of the previous World Cup they have been beaten in only two of the 41 one-day internationals they have played, as well as winning two T20 World Cups.
They went unbeaten in winning the Ashes series against England in January and February and go into the World Cup final having won all eight of their games in this tournament.
"There's no doubt about that we've had our eyes set on winning this tournament for a long time," said Australia captain Meg Lanning.
"England are hitting hitting peak form at the right time, so it's going to be a huge challenge for us. We we know we have to play well to be able to beat them, but it's an exciting opportunity."
Lanning brushed off any suggestion that her team's supreme form makes them favourites to win the final.
"They'd be disappointed if they didn't win, just as we would be," said Lanning. "You can think about it how you like, but we're coming in to this game wanting to win as we do every other game."
Knight, however, says Australia are "clear favourites".
"If I was captain of that team, I would do exactly the same to try to take the pressure off a little bit," she said.
"We have the mentality that we have almost got nothing to lose. If we do get in a position where we can win the game, we have to have a few players that go and take it. We can certainly beat them."
Australia have won the World Cup on six occasions and England four - a combined total of 10 wins from the 11 previous tournaments.
However, the Ashes rivals have only ever met in two finals - Australia won both - with the most recent meeting at this stage coming in 1988.
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Key players
Sophie Ecclestone: The England left-arm spinner is the tournament's leading wicket-taker with 20, yet went wicketless when England were beaten by Australia in the group stage. It is hard to see England lifting the trophy without Ecclestone having a good day.
Meg Lanning: The Australia captain is possibly the best batter to have played women's cricket. At only 30, Lanning has 15 one-day hundreds; no other player has more than 12. England must find a way past her.
Nat Sciver: England's star all-rounder has had a relatively quiet tournament since making a century in a losing cause against Australia. A match-winner with bat and ball, England will need her to stand up against the Aussies.
Jess Jonassen: If Ellyse Perry cannot bowl, Australia's seam bowling will be relatively inexperienced, leading to plenty of responsibility on the spinners, like left-armer Jess Jonassen. If England can get after Jonassen, where will Australia turn?
Analysis - 'Pressure on Australia'
Alex Hartley, World Cup winner with England in 2017
Australia go into this game with all the pressure. For England, the pressure is off.
England have had an incredible journey to get to this final. Now they have to go out and play with freedom.
Can England bat first and get big runs on the board, making sure Australia have a huge target to chase?
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CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Prime Minister Scott Morrison said Friday that Australia will send armored Bushmaster vehicles to Ukraine after President Volodymyr Zelenskyy specifically asked for them while appealing to Australian lawmakers for more help in Ukraine's war against Russia.
Zelenskyy addressed the Australian Parliament on Thursday and asked for the Australian-made, four-wheel-drive vehicles.
Morrison told reporters the vehicles will be flown over on Boeing C-17 Globemaster transport planes. He didn’t specify how many would be sent or when.
“We’re not just sending our prayers, we are sending our guns, we’re sending our munitions, we’re sending our humanitarian aid, we’re sending all of this, our body armor, all of these things and we’re going to be sending our armored vehicles, our Bushmasters, as well,” Morrison said.
Zelenskyy has been tailoring his message to individual countries through video appeals like the one shown to legislators in the Australian Parliament. Lawmakers gave him standing ovation at the start and end of his 16-minute address.
Zelenskyy also called for tougher sanctions and for Russian vessels to be banned from international ports.
“We need more sanctions against Russia, powerful sanctions until they stop blackmailing other countries with their nuclear missiles,” Zelenskyy said through an interpreter.
Zelenskyy specifically asked for Bushmaster vehicles.
“You have very good armed personnel vehicles, Bushmasters, that could help Ukraine substantially, and other pieces of equipment,” Zelenskyy said.
While the Ukrainian capital Kyiv is 15,000 kilometers (9,300 miles) from the Australian capital Canberra, Zelenskyy said Australia was not safe from the conflict which threatened to escalate into a nuclear war.
He suggested that a Russian victory over Ukraine would embolden China to declare war on Taiwan.
“The most terrible thing is that if we don’t stop Russia now, if we don’t hold Russia accountable, then some other countries of the world who are looking forward to similar wars against their neighbors will decide that such things are possible for them as well,” Zelenskyy said.
Zelenskyy also said Russia would not have invaded Ukraine if Moscow had been punished for the 2014 downing of a Malaysia Airlines plane in Ukraine.
Two weeks ago, the Australian and Dutch governments launched a legal case against Russia at the International Civil Aviation Organization to hold Moscow accountable for its alleged role in the missile strike that killed all 298 people on MH17. Of the victims, 196 were Dutch citizens and 38 were Australian residents.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison had earlier told the president that Australia would provide additional military assistance including tactical decoys, unmanned aerial and unmanned ground systems, rations and medical supplies. He later said the additional help would cost 25 million Australian dollars ($19 million).
“You have our prayers, but you also have our weapons, our humanitarian aid, our sanctions against those who seek to deny your freedom and you even have our coal,” Morrison said.
Australia has already promised or provided Ukraine with AU$91 million ($68 million) in military assistance, AU$65 million ($49 million) in humanitarian help and 70,000 metric tons (77,200 U.S. tons) of coal.
Earlier Thursday, the government announced Australia was imposing an additional 35% tariff on all imports from Russia and Belarus starting April 25.
Oil and energy imports from Russia will be banned from that date. Exports to Russia of Australian aluminum ore will also be banned.
Sanctions have been imposed on more than 500 individuals and entities in Russia and Belarus. The sanctions cover 80% of the Russian banking sector and all government entities that handle Russian sovereign debt.
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Associated Press journalist Nick Perry contributed to this report from Wellington, New Zealand.
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CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Prime Minister Scott Morrison said Friday that Australia will send armored Bushmaster vehicles to Ukraine after President Volodymyr Zelenskyy specifically asked for them while appealing to Australian lawmakers for more help in Ukraine’s war against Russia.
Zelenskyy addressed the Australian Parliament on Thursday and asked for the Australian-made, four-wheel-drive vehicles.
Morrison told reporters the vehicles will be flown over on Boeing C-17 Globemaster transport planes. He didn’t specify how many would be sent or when.
“We’re not just sending our prayers, we are sending our guns, we’re sending our munitions, we’re sending our humanitarian aid, we’re sending all of this, our body armor, all of these things and we’re going to be sending our armored vehicles, our Bushmasters, as well,” Morrison said.
Zelenskyy has been tailoring his message to individual countries through video appeals like the one shown to legislators in the Australian Parliament. Lawmakers gave him standing ovation at the start and end of his 16-minute address.
Zelenskyy also called for tougher sanctions and for Russian vessels to be banned from international ports.
“We need more sanctions against Russia, powerful sanctions until they stop blackmailing other countries with their nuclear missiles,” Zelenskyy said through an interpreter.
Zelenskyy specifically asked for Bushmaster vehicles.
“You have very good armed personnel vehicles, Bushmasters, that could help Ukraine substantially, and other pieces of equipment,” Zelenskyy said.
While the Ukrainian capital Kyiv is 15,000 kilometers (9,300 miles) from the Australian capital Canberra, Zelenskyy said Australia was not safe from the conflict which threatened to escalate into a nuclear war.
He suggested that a Russian victory over Ukraine would embolden China to declare war on Taiwan.
“The most terrible thing is that if we don’t stop Russia now, if we don’t hold Russia accountable, then some other countries of the world who are looking forward to similar wars against their neighbors will decide that such things are possible for them as well,” Zelenskyy said.
Zelenskyy also said Russia would not have invaded Ukraine if Moscow had been punished for the 2014 downing of a Malaysia Airlines plane in Ukraine.
Two weeks ago, the Australian and Dutch governments launched a legal case against Russia at the International Civil Aviation Organization to hold Moscow accountable for its alleged role in the missile strike that killed all 298 people on MH17. Of the victims, 196 were Dutch citizens and 38 were Australian residents.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison had earlier told the president that Australia would provide additional military assistance including tactical decoys, unmanned aerial and unmanned ground systems, rations and medical supplies. He later said the additional help would cost 25 million Australian dollars ($19 million).
“You have our prayers, but you also have our weapons, our humanitarian aid, our sanctions against those who seek to deny your freedom and you even have our coal,” Morrison said.
Australia has already promised or provided Ukraine with AU$91 million ($68 million) in military assistance, AU$65 million ($49 million) in humanitarian help and 70,000 metric tons (77,200 U.S. tons) of coal.
Earlier Thursday, the government announced Australia was imposing an additional 35% tariff on all imports from Russia and Belarus starting April 25.
Oil and energy imports from Russia will be banned from that date. Exports to Russia of Australian aluminum ore will also be banned.
Sanctions have been imposed on more than 500 individuals and entities in Russia and Belarus. The sanctions cover 80% of the Russian banking sector and all government entities that handle Russian sovereign debt.
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CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Prime Minister Scott Morrison said Friday that Australia will send armored Bushmaster vehicles to Ukraine after President Volodymyr Zelenskyy specifically asked for them while appealing to Australian lawmakers for more help in Ukraine's war against Russia.
Zelenskyy addressed the Australian Parliament on Thursday and asked for the Australian-made, four-wheel-drive vehicles.
Morrison told reporters the vehicles will be flown over on Boeing C-17 Globemaster transport planes. He didn’t specify how many would be sent or when.
“We’re not just sending our prayers, we are sending our guns, we’re sending our munitions, we’re sending our humanitarian aid, we’re sending all of this, our body armor, all of these things and we’re going to be sending our armored vehicles, our Bushmasters, as well,” Morrison said.
Zelenskyy has been tailoring his message to individual countries through video appeals like the one shown to legislators in the Australian Parliament. Lawmakers gave him standing ovation at the start and end of his 16-minute address.
Zelenskyy also called for tougher sanctions and for Russian vessels to be banned from international ports.
“We need more sanctions against Russia, powerful sanctions until they stop blackmailing other countries with their nuclear missiles,” Zelenskyy said through an interpreter.
Zelenskyy specifically asked for Bushmaster vehicles.
“You have very good armed personnel vehicles, Bushmasters, that could help Ukraine substantially, and other pieces of equipment,” Zelenskyy said.
While the Ukrainian capital Kyiv is 15,000 kilometers (9,300 miles) from the Australian capital Canberra, Zelenskyy said Australia was not safe from the conflict which threatened to escalate into a nuclear war.
He suggested that a Russian victory over Ukraine would embolden China to declare war on Taiwan.
“The most terrible thing is that if we don’t stop Russia now, if we don’t hold Russia accountable, then some other countries of the world who are looking forward to similar wars against their neighbors will decide that such things are possible for them as well,” Zelenskyy said.
Zelenskyy also said Russia would not have invaded Ukraine if Moscow had been punished for the 2014 downing of a Malaysia Airlines plane in Ukraine.
Two weeks ago, the Australian and Dutch governments launched a legal case against Russia at the International Civil Aviation Organization to hold Moscow accountable for its alleged role in the missile strike that killed all 298 people on MH17. Of the victims, 196 were Dutch citizens and 38 were Australian residents.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison had earlier told the president that Australia would provide additional military assistance including tactical decoys, unmanned aerial and unmanned ground systems, rations and medical supplies. He later said the additional help would cost 25 million Australian dollars ($19 million).
“You have our prayers, but you also have our weapons, our humanitarian aid, our sanctions against those who seek to deny your freedom and you even have our coal,” Morrison said.
Australia has already promised or provided Ukraine with AU$91 million ($68 million) in military assistance, AU$65 million ($49 million) in humanitarian help and 70,000 metric tons (77,200 U.S. tons) of coal.
Earlier Thursday, the government announced Australia was imposing an additional 35% tariff on all imports from Russia and Belarus starting April 25.
Oil and energy imports from Russia will be banned from that date. Exports to Russia of Australian aluminum ore will also be banned.
Sanctions have been imposed on more than 500 individuals and entities in Russia and Belarus. The sanctions cover 80% of the Russian banking sector and all government entities that handle Russian sovereign debt.
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Associated Press journalist Nick Perry contributed to this report from Wellington, New Zealand.
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Prime Minister Scott Morrison said Friday that Australia will send armored Bushmaster vehicles to Ukraine after President Volodymyr Zelenskyy specifically asked for them while appealing to Australian lawmakers for more help in Ukraine’s war against Russia.
Zelenskyy addressed the Australian Parliament on Thursday and asked for the Australian-made, four-wheel-drive vehicles.
Morrison told reporters the vehicles will be flown over on Boeing C-17 Globemaster transport planes. He didn’t specify how many would be sent or when.
“We’re not just sending our prayers, we are sending our guns, we’re sending our munitions, we’re sending our humanitarian aid, we’re sending all of this, our body armor, all of these things and we’re going to be sending our armored vehicles, our Bushmasters, as well,” Morrison said.
Zelenskyy has been tailoring his message to individual countries through video appeals like the one shown to legislators in the Australian Parliament. Lawmakers gave him standing ovation at the start and end of his 16-minute address.
Zelenskyy also called for tougher sanctions and for Russian vessels to be banned from international ports.
“We need more sanctions against Russia, powerful sanctions until they stop blackmailing other countries with their nuclear missiles,” Zelenskyy said through an interpreter.
Zelenskyy specifically asked for Bushmaster vehicles.
“You have very good armed personnel vehicles, Bushmasters, that could help Ukraine substantially, and other pieces of equipment,” Zelenskyy said.
While the Ukrainian capital Kyiv is 15,000 kilometers (9,300 miles) from the Australian capital Canberra, Zelenskyy said Australia was not safe from the conflict which threatened to escalate into a nuclear war.
He suggested that a Russian victory over Ukraine would embolden China to declare war on Taiwan.
“The most terrible thing is that if we don’t stop Russia now, if we don’t hold Russia accountable, then some other countries of the world who are looking forward to similar wars against their neighbors will decide that such things are possible for them as well,” Zelenskyy said.
Zelenskyy also said Russia would not have invaded Ukraine if Moscow had been punished for the 2014 downing of a Malaysia Airlines plane in Ukraine.
Two weeks ago, the Australian and Dutch governments launched a legal case against Russia at the International Civil Aviation Organization to hold Moscow accountable for its alleged role in the missile strike that killed all 298 people on MH17. Of the victims, 196 were Dutch citizens and 38 were Australian residents.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison had earlier told the president that Australia would provide additional military assistance including tactical decoys, unmanned aerial and unmanned ground systems, rations and medical supplies. He later said the additional help would cost 25 million Australian dollars ($19 million).
“You have our prayers, but you also have our weapons, our humanitarian aid, our sanctions against those who seek to deny your freedom and you even have our coal,” Morrison said.
Australia has already promised or provided Ukraine with AU$91 million ($68 million) in military assistance, AU$65 million ($49 million) in humanitarian help and 70,000 metric tons (77,200 U.S. tons) of coal.
Earlier Thursday, the government announced Australia was imposing an additional 35% tariff on all imports from Russia and Belarus starting April 25.
Oil and energy imports from Russia will be banned from that date. Exports to Russia of Australian aluminum ore will also be banned.
Sanctions have been imposed on more than 500 individuals and entities in Russia and Belarus. The sanctions cover 80% of the Russian banking sector and all government entities that handle Russian sovereign debt.
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CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Prime Minister Scott Morrison said Friday that Australia will send armored Bushmaster vehicles to Ukraine after President Volodymyr Zelenskyy specifically asked for them while appealing to Australian lawmakers for more help in Ukraine's war against Russia.
Zelenskyy addressed the Australian Parliament on Thursday and asked for the Australian-made, four-wheel-drive vehicles.
Morrison told reporters the vehicles will be flown over on Boeing C-17 Globemaster transport planes. He didn’t specify how many would be sent or when.
“We’re not just sending our prayers, we are sending our guns, we’re sending our munitions, we’re sending our humanitarian aid, we’re sending all of this, our body armor, all of these things and we’re going to be sending our armored vehicles, our Bushmasters, as well,” Morrison said.
Zelenskyy has been tailoring his message to individual countries through video appeals like the one shown to legislators in the Australian Parliament. Lawmakers gave him standing ovation at the start and end of his 16-minute address.
Zelenskyy also called for tougher sanctions and for Russian vessels to be banned from international ports.
“We need more sanctions against Russia, powerful sanctions until they stop blackmailing other countries with their nuclear missiles,” Zelenskyy said through an interpreter.
Zelenskyy specifically asked for Bushmaster vehicles.
“You have very good armed personnel vehicles, Bushmasters, that could help Ukraine substantially, and other pieces of equipment,” Zelenskyy said.
While the Ukrainian capital Kyiv is 15,000 kilometers (9,300 miles) from the Australian capital Canberra, Zelenskyy said Australia was not safe from the conflict which threatened to escalate into a nuclear war.
He suggested that a Russian victory over Ukraine would embolden China to declare war on Taiwan.
“The most terrible thing is that if we don’t stop Russia now, if we don’t hold Russia accountable, then some other countries of the world who are looking forward to similar wars against their neighbors will decide that such things are possible for them as well,” Zelenskyy said.
Zelenskyy also said Russia would not have invaded Ukraine if Moscow had been punished for the 2014 downing of a Malaysia Airlines plane in Ukraine.
Two weeks ago, the Australian and Dutch governments launched a legal case against Russia at the International Civil Aviation Organization to hold Moscow accountable for its alleged role in the missile strike that killed all 298 people on MH17. Of the victims, 196 were Dutch citizens and 38 were Australian residents.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison had earlier told the president that Australia would provide additional military assistance including tactical decoys, unmanned aerial and unmanned ground systems, rations and medical supplies. He later said the additional help would cost 25 million Australian dollars ($19 million).
“You have our prayers, but you also have our weapons, our humanitarian aid, our sanctions against those who seek to deny your freedom and you even have our coal,” Morrison said.
Australia has already promised or provided Ukraine with AU$91 million ($68 million) in military assistance, AU$65 million ($49 million) in humanitarian help and 70,000 metric tons (77,200 U.S. tons) of coal.
Earlier Thursday, the government announced Australia was imposing an additional 35% tariff on all imports from Russia and Belarus starting April 25.
Oil and energy imports from Russia will be banned from that date. Exports to Russia of Australian aluminum ore will also be banned.
Sanctions have been imposed on more than 500 individuals and entities in Russia and Belarus. The sanctions cover 80% of the Russian banking sector and all government entities that handle Russian sovereign debt.
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Associated Press journalist Nick Perry contributed to this report from Wellington, New Zealand.
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Prime Minister Scott Morrison said on Friday that Australia will send armoured Bushmaster vehicles to Ukraine after President Volodymyr Zelenskyy specifically asked for them while appealing to Australian lawmakers for more help in Ukraine's war against Russia. Zelenskyy addressed the Australian Parliament on Thursday and asked for the Australian-made, four-wheel-drive vehicles. Morrison told reporters the vehicles will be flown over on Boeing C-17 Globemaster transport planes. He didn't specify how many would be sent or when. “We're not just sending our prayers, we are sending our guns, we're sending our munitions, we're sending our humanitarian aid, we're sending all of this, our body armor, all of these things and we're going to be sending our armored vehicles, our Bushmasters, as well,” Morrison said. Zelenskyy has been tailoring his message to individual countries through video appeals like the one shown to legislators in the Australian Parliament. Lawmakers gave him standing ovation at the start and end of his 16-minute address. Zelenskyy also called for tougher sanctions and for Russian vessels to be banned from international ports. “We need more sanctions against Russia, powerful sanctions until they stop blackmailing other countries with their nuclear missiles,” Zelenskyy said through an interpreter. Zelenskyy specifically asked for Bushmaster vehicles. “You have very good armed personnel vehicles, Bushmasters, that could help Ukraine substantially, and other pieces of equipment,” Zelenskyy said.
While the Ukrainian capital Kyiv is 15,000 kilometers (9,300 miles) from the Australian capital Canberra, Zelenskyy said Australia was not safe from the conflict which threatened to escalate into a nuclear war. He suggested that a Russian victory over Ukraine would embolden China to declare war on Taiwan. “The most terrible thing is that if we don't stop Russia now, if we don't hold Russia accountable, then some other countries of the world who are looking forward to similar wars against their neighbors will decide that such things are possible for them as well,” Zelenskyy said. Zelenskyy also said Russia would not have invaded Ukraine if Moscow had been punished for the 2014 downing of a Malaysia Airlines plane in Ukraine. Two weeks ago, the Australian and Dutch governments launched a legal case against Russia at the International Civil Aviation Organisation to hold Moscow accountable for its alleged role in the missile strike that killed all 298 people on MH17. Of the victims, 196 were Dutch citizens and 38 were Australian residents. Prime Minister Scott Morrison had earlier told the president that Australia would provide additional military assistance including tactical decoys, unmanned aerial and unmanned ground systems, rations and medical supplies. He later said the additional help would cost 25 million Australian dollars (USD 19 million). “You have our prayers, but you also have our weapons, our humanitarian aid, our sanctions against those who seek to deny your freedom and you even have our coal,” Morrison said. Australia has already promised or provided Ukraine with 91 million Australian dollars (USD 68 million) in military assistance, 65 million Australian dollars (USD 49 million) in humanitarian help and 70,000 metric tons (77,200 US tons) of coal.
Earlier Thursday, the government announced Australia was imposing an additional 35 per cent tariff on all imports from Russia and Belarus starting April 25. Oil and energy imports from Russia will be banned from that date. Exports to Russia of Australian aluminum ore will also be banned. Sanctions have been imposed on more than 500 individuals and entities in Russia and Belarus. The sanctions cover 80 per cent of the Russian banking sector and all government entities that handle Russian sovereign debt.
PTI INPUTS
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Giannis becomes Bucks' scoring leader in OT win over Nets
NEW YORK (AP) - Giannis Antetokounmpo passed Kareem Abdul-Jabbar to become Milwaukee's career scoring leader on a 3-pointer that forced overtime, and then made two free throws in the final seconds to give the Bucks a 120-119 victory over the Brooklyn Nets on Thursday night.
The defending NBA champions clinched a return to the postseason with the win, in which Antetokounmpo had 44 points, 14 rebounds and six assists. Jrue Holiday added 19 points and Khris Middleton had 16 before being ejected for a flagrant foul midway through the third quarter.
Kevin Durant had 26 points, 11 assists and seven rebounds for the Nets, but missed a 3-pointer that would have won it. Kyrie Irving scored 25 points and Bruce Brown had 23.
Just as in the memorable end to their second-round series last summer, when the Bucks overcame 48 points from Durant - most ever in a Game 7 - overtime was needed to determine a winner. Milwaukee took that one 115-111 and pulled it out Thursday behind a second straight 40-point game from Antetokounmpo.
He came into the game 39 points behind Abdul-Jabbar, the NBA's career scoring leader who had 14,211 points after beginning his career in Milwaukee. Antetokounmpo passed him with a 3-pointer with 18 seconds left that knotted it at 110.
The Bucks and Nets could be headed for a first-round matchup this year. The Bucks are a half-game behind Miami for the top spot in the Eastern Conference, while the Nets are tied for eighth and can likely hope for nothing better than the No. 7 or 8 seed by coming out of the play-in tournament.
Milwaukee Bucks forward Giannis Antetokounmpo (34) drives to the basket against Brooklyn Nets guard Kyrie Irving (11) during the first half of an NBA basketball game Thursday, March 31, 2022, in New York. (AP Photo/Noah K. Murray)
The Bucks led by four in overtime but the Nets rallied to take a 119-118 lead when Durant was fouled on a 3-point attempt and made all three shots with 8.7 seconds left. Antetokounmpo quickly rushed into the lane and was fouled by Nic Claxton. He made both free throws and finished 15 of 19 from the line.
Brooklyn took control before Middleton's ejection, with Seth Curry scoring five straight points to give the Nets the lead and Brown scoring to make it 99-96 with 5 1/2 minutes to play.
Antetokounmpo re-entered the game but threw a bad pass that Brown grabbed and appeared to be on his way to an uncontested layup. But Middleton raced back and grabbed Brown´s upper arm as he was in the air, sending him to a hard landing. Referees reviewed the replay and informed a stunned Middleton that he received the harsher Flagrant 2 and was ejected.
Brown made the free throws, Irving scored and the Nets´ built a 108-99 lead when Durant threw down Irving´s lob pass with 3:52 left.
TIP-INS
Bucks: Coach Mike Budenholzer coached in Brooklyn for the first time this season, having missed the Bucks´ 121-109 victory on Jan. 7 while in the NBA´s health and safety protocols.
Nets: Coach Steve Nash said he isn´t closely watching the results of the Cleveland Cavaliers, who have tumbled all the way to seventh in the East. If they remain behind Toronto, the removes the possibility of having to play a play-in game in Canada, where the unvaccinated Irving is unable to travel.
"I´m not averse to seeing how they´re doing and where they´re at, but it´s not something that I´m, like I said the other day, refreshing my feed daily," Nash said.
THE GREEK´S KNEE
Though Antetokounmpo appeared on the injury report with right knee soreness, Budenholzer said it´s nothing beyond what the two-time NBA MVP has been dealing with for years.
"I think it´s in a good place," Budenholzer said. "I don´t think it´s anything that we´re concerned about, but there´s a daily attention and effort that it takes from the sports performance team and him and what he does to be his best. It´s impressive."
UP NEXT
Bucks: Host the Los Angeles Clippers on Friday.
Nets: Visit Atlanta on Saturday.
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Brooklyn Nets guard Kyrie Irving (11) shoots from between Milwaukee Bucks' Giannis Antetokounmpo (34), Wesley Matthews (23) and Brook Lopez (11) during the first half of an NBA basketball game Thursday, March 31, 2022, in New York. (AP Photo/Noah K. Murray)
Milwaukee Bucks forward Giannis Antetokounmpo (34) dunks as Brooklyn Nets Kevin Durant (7) and Kyrie Irving watch during the first half of an NBA basketball game Thursday, March 31, 2022, in New York. (AP Photo/Noah K. Murray)
Brooklyn Nets forward Kevin Durant (7) is defended by Milwaukee Bucks guard Wesley Matthews (23) during the first half of an NBA basketball game Thursday, March 31, 2022 in New York. (AP Photo/Noah K. Murray)
Milwaukee Bucks guard Jrue Holiday (21) reaches for the ball next to Brooklyn Nets guard Kyrie Irving (11) during the first half of an NBA basketball game Thursday, March 31, 2022, in New York. (AP Photo/Noah K. Murray)
Milwaukee Bucks guard Pat Connaughton (24) drives to the basket against Brooklyn Nets forward Nic Claxton (33) during the first half of an NBA basketball game Thursday, March 31, 2022, in New York. (AP Photo/Noah K. Murray)
Brooklyn Nets guard Patty Mills (8) reacts after making a 3-point shot against the Milwaukee Bucks during the first half of an NBA basketball game Thursday, March 31, 2022, in New York. (AP Photo/Noah K. Murray)
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NEW YORK — Giannis Antetokounmpo passed Kareem Abdul-Jabbar to become Milwaukee's career scoring leader on a 3-pointer that forced overtime, and then made two free throws in the final seconds to give the Bucks a 120-119 victory over the Brooklyn Nets on Thursday night (Friday, Manila time).
Bucks vs Nets recap
The defending NBA champions clinched a return to the postseason with the win, in which Antetokounmpo had 44 points, 14 rebounds and six assists. Jrue Holiday added 19 points and Khris Middleton had 16 before being ejected for a flagrant foul midway through the third quarter.
Kevin Durant had 26 points, 11 assists and seven rebounds for the Nets, but missed a 3-pointer that would have won it. Kyrie Irving scored 25 points and Bruce Brown had 23.
Just as in the memorable end to their second-round series last summer, when the Bucks overcame 48 points from Durant — most ever in a Game 7 — overtime was needed to determine a winner. Milwaukee took that one 115-111 and pulled it out Thursday out behind a second straight 40-point game from Antetokounmpo.
He came into the game 39 points behind Abdul-Jabbar, the NBA's career scoring leader who had 14,211 points after beginning his career in Milwaukee. Antetokounmpo passed him with a 3-pointer with 18 seconds left that knotted it at 110.
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Giannis becomes Bucks' scoring leader in OT win over Nets
NEW YORK (AP) - Giannis Antetokounmpo passed Kareem Abdul-Jabbar to become Milwaukee's career scoring leader on a 3-pointer that forced overtime, and then made two free throws in the final seconds to give the Bucks a 120-119 victory over the Brooklyn Nets on Thursday night.
The defending NBA champions clinched a return to the postseason with the win, in which Antetokounmpo had 44 points, 14 rebounds and six assists. Jrue Holiday added 19 points and Khris Middleton had 16 before being ejected for a flagrant foul midway through the third quarter.
Kevin Durant had 26 points, 11 assists and seven rebounds for the Nets, but missed a 3-pointer that would have won it. Kyrie Irving scored 25 points and Bruce Brown had 23.
Just as in the memorable end to their second-round series last summer, when the Bucks overcame 48 points from Durant - most ever in a Game 7 - overtime was needed to determine a winner. Milwaukee took that one 115-111 and pulled it out Thursday behind a second straight 40-point game from Antetokounmpo.
He came into the game 39 points behind Abdul-Jabbar, the NBA's career scoring leader who had 14,211 points after beginning his career in Milwaukee. Antetokounmpo passed him with a 3-pointer with 18 seconds left that knotted it at 110.
The Bucks and Nets could be headed for a first-round matchup this year. The Bucks are a half-game behind Miami for the top spot in the Eastern Conference, while the Nets are tied for eighth and can likely hope for nothing better than the No. 7 or 8 seed by coming out of the play-in tournament.
Milwaukee Bucks forward Giannis Antetokounmpo (34) drives to the basket against Brooklyn Nets guard Kyrie Irving (11) during the first half of an NBA basketball game Thursday, March 31, 2022, in New York. (AP Photo/Noah K. Murray)
The Bucks led by four in overtime but the Nets rallied to take a 119-118 lead when Durant was fouled on a 3-point attempt and made all three shots with 8.7 seconds left. Antetokounmpo quickly rushed into the lane and was fouled by Nic Claxton. He made both free throws and finished 15 of 19 from the line.
Brooklyn took control before Middleton's ejection, with Seth Curry scoring five straight points to give the Nets the lead and Brown scoring to make it 99-96 with 5 1/2 minutes to play.
Antetokounmpo re-entered the game but threw a bad pass that Brown grabbed and appeared to be on his way to an uncontested layup. But Middleton raced back and grabbed Brown´s upper arm as he was in the air, sending him to a hard landing. Referees reviewed the replay and informed a stunned Middleton that he received the harsher Flagrant 2 and was ejected.
Brown made the free throws, Irving scored and the Nets´ built a 108-99 lead when Durant threw down Irving´s lob pass with 3:52 left.
TIP-INS
Bucks: Coach Mike Budenholzer coached in Brooklyn for the first time this season, having missed the Bucks´ 121-109 victory on Jan. 7 while in the NBA´s health and safety protocols.
Nets: Coach Steve Nash said he isn´t closely watching the results of the Cleveland Cavaliers, who have tumbled all the way to seventh in the East. If they remain behind Toronto, the removes the possibility of having to play a play-in game in Canada, where the unvaccinated Irving is unable to travel.
"I´m not averse to seeing how they´re doing and where they´re at, but it´s not something that I´m, like I said the other day, refreshing my feed daily," Nash said.
THE GREEK´S KNEE
Though Antetokounmpo appeared on the injury report with right knee soreness, Budenholzer said it´s nothing beyond what the two-time NBA MVP has been dealing with for years.
"I think it´s in a good place," Budenholzer said. "I don´t think it´s anything that we´re concerned about, but there´s a daily attention and effort that it takes from the sports performance team and him and what he does to be his best. It´s impressive."
UP NEXT
Bucks: Host the Los Angeles Clippers on Friday.
Nets: Visit Atlanta on Saturday.
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More AP NBA: https://apnews.com/NBA and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports
Brooklyn Nets guard Kyrie Irving (11) shoots from between Milwaukee Bucks' Giannis Antetokounmpo (34), Wesley Matthews (23) and Brook Lopez (11) during the first half of an NBA basketball game Thursday, March 31, 2022, in New York. (AP Photo/Noah K. Murray)
Milwaukee Bucks forward Giannis Antetokounmpo (34) dunks as Brooklyn Nets Kevin Durant (7) and Kyrie Irving watch during the first half of an NBA basketball game Thursday, March 31, 2022, in New York. (AP Photo/Noah K. Murray)
Brooklyn Nets forward Kevin Durant (7) is defended by Milwaukee Bucks guard Wesley Matthews (23) during the first half of an NBA basketball game Thursday, March 31, 2022 in New York. (AP Photo/Noah K. Murray)
Milwaukee Bucks guard Jrue Holiday (21) reaches for the ball next to Brooklyn Nets guard Kyrie Irving (11) during the first half of an NBA basketball game Thursday, March 31, 2022, in New York. (AP Photo/Noah K. Murray)
Milwaukee Bucks guard Pat Connaughton (24) drives to the basket against Brooklyn Nets forward Nic Claxton (33) during the first half of an NBA basketball game Thursday, March 31, 2022, in New York. (AP Photo/Noah K. Murray)
Brooklyn Nets guard Patty Mills (8) reacts after making a 3-point shot against the Milwaukee Bucks during the first half of an NBA basketball game Thursday, March 31, 2022, in New York. (AP Photo/Noah K. Murray)
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Giannis becomes Bucks' scoring leader in OT win over Nets
NEW YORK — Giannis Antetokounmpo loved the fact that he became Milwaukee's career scoring leader on a 3-pointer, so nobody can say he's just a dunker anymore.
Otherwise, there was no reason for celebrating after passing Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.
"When I'm done we can talk about it, but now there's no time," Antetokoumpo said, looking ahead to Friday's game against the Clippers. "There's things that have to be done."
Antetokounmpo's record-setting 3-pointer forced overtime, and he made two free throws in the final seconds to give the Bucks a 120-119 victory over the Brooklyn Nets on Thursday night.
The defending NBA champions clinched a return to the postseason with the win, in which Antetokounmpo had 44 points, 14 rebounds and six assists. Jrue Holiday added 19 points and Khris Middleton had 16 before being ejected for a flagrant foul midway through the third quarter.
Kevin Durant had 26 points, 11 assists and seven rebounds for the Nets, but missed a 3-pointer that would have won it. Kyrie Irving scored 25 points and Bruce Brown had 23.
Just as in the memorable end to their second-round series last summer, when the Bucks overcame 48 points from Durant — most ever in a Game 7 — overtime was needed to determine a winner. Milwaukee took that one 115-111 and pulled it out Thursday behind a second straight 40-point game from Antetokounmpo.
The Greek Freak has been dismissed, famously by James Harden, as a great athlete but not necessarily a skilled basketball player. But the NBA Finals MVP has become a confident shooter and his teammates are confident in him.
"We just fight, compete, compete and know that obviously it helps to have that big fellow on your team that can literally break a game open for you and make plays," Bucks swingman Wesley Matthews said.
Antetokounmpo came into the game 39 points behind Abdul-Jabbar, the NBA's career scoring leader who had 14,211 points after beginning his career in Milwaukee. Antetokounmpo passed him with 18 seconds left to knot the game at 110.
The Bucks and Nets could be headed for a first-round matchup this year. The Bucks are a half-game behind Miami for the top spot in the Eastern Conference, while the Nets are tied for eighth and can likely hope for nothing better than the No. 7 or 8 seed by coming out of the play-in tournament.
The Bucks led by four in overtime but the Nets rallied to take a 119-118 lead when Durant was fouled on a 3-point attempt and made all three shots with 8.7 seconds left. Antetokounmpo quickly rushed into the lane and was fouled by Nic Claxton. He made both free throws and finished 15 of 19 from the line.
The Nets led 99-96 with 5 1/2 minutes left in regulation when Antetokounmpo re-entered the game but threw a bad pass that Brown grabbed and appeared to be on his way to an uncontested layup. But Middleton raced back and grabbed Brown's upper arm as he was in the air, sending him to a hard landing. Referees reviewed the replay and informed a stunned Middleton that he received the harsher Flagrant 2 and was ejected.
Crew chief John Goble said the play was ruled a Flagrant 2 because a "high potential for injury."
Brown made the free throws, Irving scored and the Nets built a 108-99 lead when Durant threw down Irving's lob pass with 3:52 left. But they managed only two more points in regulation.
"It was just one of those games that got funky at the end, but we've just got to finish it out in regulation," Irving said.
TIP-INS
Bucks: Coach Mike Budenholzer coached in Brooklyn for the first time this season, having missed the Bucks' 121-109 victory on Jan. 7 while in the NBA's health and safety protocols.
Nets: Coach Steve Nash said he isn't closely watching the results of the Cleveland Cavaliers, who have tumbled all the way to seventh in the East. If they remain behind Toronto, the removes the possibility of having to play a play-in game in Canada, where the unvaccinated Irving is unable to travel.
"I'm not averse to seeing how they're doing and where they're at, but it's not something that I'm, like I said the other day, refreshing my feed daily," Nash said.
THE GREEK'S KNEE
Though Antetokounmpo appeared on the injury report with right knee soreness, Budenholzer said it's nothing beyond what the two-time NBA MVP has been dealing with for years.
"I think it's in a good place," Budenholzer said. "I don't think it's anything that we're concerned about, but there's a daily attention and effort that it takes from the sports performance team and him and what he does to be his best. It's impressive."
UP NEXT
Bucks: Host the Los Angeles Clippers on Friday.
Nets: Visit Atlanta on Saturday.
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Giannis becomes Bucks' scoring leader in OT win over Nets
NEW YORK (AP) - Giannis Antetokounmpo passed Kareem Abdul-Jabbar to become Milwaukee's career scoring leader on a 3-pointer that forced overtime, and then made two free throws in the final seconds to give the Bucks a 120-119 victory over the Brooklyn Nets on Thursday night.
The defending NBA champions clinched a return to the postseason with the win, in which Antetokounmpo had 44 points, 14 rebounds and six assists. Jrue Holiday added 19 points and Khris Middleton had 16 before being ejected for a flagrant foul midway through the third quarter.
Kevin Durant had 26 points, 11 assists and seven rebounds for the Nets, but missed a 3-pointer that would have won it. Kyrie Irving scored 25 points and Bruce Brown had 23.
Just as in the memorable end to their second-round series last summer, when the Bucks overcame 48 points from Durant - most ever in a Game 7 - overtime was needed to determine a winner. Milwaukee took that one 115-111 and pulled it out Thursday behind a second straight 40-point game from Antetokounmpo.
He came into the game 39 points behind Abdul-Jabbar, the NBA's career scoring leader who had 14,211 points after beginning his career in Milwaukee. Antetokounmpo passed him with a 3-pointer with 18 seconds left that knotted it at 110.
The Bucks and Nets could be headed for a first-round matchup this year. The Bucks are a half-game behind Miami for the top spot in the Eastern Conference, while the Nets are tied for eighth and can likely hope for nothing better than the No. 7 or 8 seed by coming out of the play-in tournament.
Milwaukee Bucks forward Giannis Antetokounmpo (34) drives to the basket against Brooklyn Nets guard Kyrie Irving (11) during the first half of an NBA basketball game Thursday, March 31, 2022, in New York. (AP Photo/Noah K. Murray)
The Bucks led by four in overtime but the Nets rallied to take a 119-118 lead when Durant was fouled on a 3-point attempt and made all three shots with 8.7 seconds left. Antetokounmpo quickly rushed into the lane and was fouled by Nic Claxton. He made both free throws and finished 15 of 19 from the line.
Brooklyn took control before Middleton's ejection, with Seth Curry scoring five straight points to give the Nets the lead and Brown scoring to make it 99-96 with 5 1/2 minutes to play.
Antetokounmpo re-entered the game but threw a bad pass that Brown grabbed and appeared to be on his way to an uncontested layup. But Middleton raced back and grabbed Brown´s upper arm as he was in the air, sending him to a hard landing. Referees reviewed the replay and informed a stunned Middleton that he received the harsher Flagrant 2 and was ejected.
Brown made the free throws, Irving scored and the Nets´ built a 108-99 lead when Durant threw down Irving´s lob pass with 3:52 left.
TIP-INS
Bucks: Coach Mike Budenholzer coached in Brooklyn for the first time this season, having missed the Bucks´ 121-109 victory on Jan. 7 while in the NBA´s health and safety protocols.
Nets: Coach Steve Nash said he isn´t closely watching the results of the Cleveland Cavaliers, who have tumbled all the way to seventh in the East. If they remain behind Toronto, the removes the possibility of having to play a play-in game in Canada, where the unvaccinated Irving is unable to travel.
"I´m not averse to seeing how they´re doing and where they´re at, but it´s not something that I´m, like I said the other day, refreshing my feed daily," Nash said.
THE GREEK´S KNEE
Though Antetokounmpo appeared on the injury report with right knee soreness, Budenholzer said it´s nothing beyond what the two-time NBA MVP has been dealing with for years.
"I think it´s in a good place," Budenholzer said. "I don´t think it´s anything that we´re concerned about, but there´s a daily attention and effort that it takes from the sports performance team and him and what he does to be his best. It´s impressive."
UP NEXT
Bucks: Host the Los Angeles Clippers on Friday.
Nets: Visit Atlanta on Saturday.
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Brooklyn Nets guard Kyrie Irving (11) shoots from between Milwaukee Bucks' Giannis Antetokounmpo (34), Wesley Matthews (23) and Brook Lopez (11) during the first half of an NBA basketball game Thursday, March 31, 2022, in New York. (AP Photo/Noah K. Murray)
Milwaukee Bucks forward Giannis Antetokounmpo (34) dunks as Brooklyn Nets Kevin Durant (7) and Kyrie Irving watch during the first half of an NBA basketball game Thursday, March 31, 2022, in New York. (AP Photo/Noah K. Murray)
Brooklyn Nets forward Kevin Durant (7) is defended by Milwaukee Bucks guard Wesley Matthews (23) during the first half of an NBA basketball game Thursday, March 31, 2022 in New York. (AP Photo/Noah K. Murray)
Milwaukee Bucks guard Jrue Holiday (21) reaches for the ball next to Brooklyn Nets guard Kyrie Irving (11) during the first half of an NBA basketball game Thursday, March 31, 2022, in New York. (AP Photo/Noah K. Murray)
Milwaukee Bucks guard Pat Connaughton (24) drives to the basket against Brooklyn Nets forward Nic Claxton (33) during the first half of an NBA basketball game Thursday, March 31, 2022, in New York. (AP Photo/Noah K. Murray)
Brooklyn Nets guard Patty Mills (8) reacts after making a 3-point shot against the Milwaukee Bucks during the first half of an NBA basketball game Thursday, March 31, 2022, in New York. (AP Photo/Noah K. Murray)
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Giannis becomes Bucks' scoring leader in OT win over Nets
NEW YORK (AP) — Giannis Antetokounmpo loved the fact that he became Milwaukee's career scoring leader on a 3-pointer, so nobody can say he's just a dunker anymore.
Otherwise, there was no reason for celebrating after passing Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.
“When I’m done we can talk about it, but now there’s no time,” Antetokoumpo said, looking ahead to Friday's game against the Clippers. “There’s things that have to be done.”
Antetokounmpo's record-setting 3-pointer forced overtime, and he made two free throws in the final seconds to give the Bucks a 120-119 victory over the Brooklyn Nets on Thursday night.
The defending NBA champions clinched a return to the postseason with the win, in which Antetokounmpo had 44 points, 14 rebounds and six assists. Jrue Holiday added 19 points and Khris Middleton had 16 before being ejected for a flagrant foul midway through the third quarter.
Kevin Durant had 26 points, 11 assists and seven rebounds for the Nets, but missed a 3-pointer that would have won it. Kyrie Irving scored 25 points and Bruce Brown had 23.
Just as in the memorable end to their second-round series last summer, when the Bucks overcame 48 points from Durant — most ever in a Game 7 — overtime was needed to determine a winner. Milwaukee took that one 115-111 and pulled it out Thursday behind a second straight 40-point game from Antetokounmpo.
The Greek Freak has been dismissed, famously by James Harden, as a great athlete but not necessarily a skilled basketball player. But the NBA Finals MVP has become a confident shooter and his teammates are confident in him.
“We just fight, compete, compete and know that obviously it helps to have that big fellow on your team that can literally break a game open for you and make plays,” Bucks swingman Wesley Matthews said.
Antetokounmpo came into the game 39 points behind Abdul-Jabbar, the NBA's career scoring leader who had 14,211 points after beginning his career in Milwaukee. Antetokounmpo passed him with 18 seconds left to knot the game at 110.
The Bucks and Nets could be headed for a first-round matchup this year. The Bucks are a half-game behind Miami for the top spot in the Eastern Conference, while the Nets are tied for eighth and can likely hope for nothing better than the No. 7 or 8 seed by coming out of the play-in tournament.
The Bucks led by four in overtime but the Nets rallied to take a 119-118 lead when Durant was fouled on a 3-point attempt and made all three shots with 8.7 seconds left. Antetokounmpo quickly rushed into the lane and was fouled by Nic Claxton. He made both free throws and finished 15 of 19 from the line.
The Nets led 99-96 with 5 1/2 minutes left in regulation when Antetokounmpo re-entered the game but threw a bad pass that Brown grabbed and appeared to be on his way to an uncontested layup. But Middleton raced back and grabbed Brown’s upper arm as he was in the air, sending him to a hard landing. Referees reviewed the replay and informed a stunned Middleton that he received the harsher Flagrant 2 and was ejected.
Crew chief John Goble said the play was ruled a Flagrant 2 because a “high potential for injury.”
Brown made the free throws, Irving scored and the Nets built a 108-99 lead when Durant threw down Irving’s lob pass with 3:52 left. But they managed only two more points in regulation.
“It was just one of those games that got funky at the end, but we’ve just got to finish it out in regulation,” Irving said.
TIP-INS
Bucks: Coach Mike Budenholzer coached in Brooklyn for the first time this season, having missed the Bucks’ 121-109 victory on Jan. 7 while in the NBA’s health and safety protocols.
Nets: Coach Steve Nash said he isn’t closely watching the results of the Cleveland Cavaliers, who have tumbled all the way to seventh in the East. If they remain behind Toronto, the removes the possibility of having to play a play-in game in Canada, where the unvaccinated Irving is unable to travel.
“I’m not averse to seeing how they’re doing and where they’re at, but it’s not something that I’m, like I said the other day, refreshing my feed daily,” Nash said.
THE GREEK’S KNEE
Though Antetokounmpo appeared on the injury report with right knee soreness, Budenholzer said it’s nothing beyond what the two-time NBA MVP has been dealing with for years.
“I think it’s in a good place,” Budenholzer said. “I don’t think it’s anything that we’re concerned about, but there’s a daily attention and effort that it takes from the sports performance team and him and what he does to be his best. It’s impressive.”
UP NEXT
Bucks: Host the Los Angeles Clippers on Friday.
Nets: Visit Atlanta on Saturday.
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Xavier topples Texas A&M in final seconds for NIT title
Jack Nunge hit a leaning bank shot in the lane with 3.1 seconds left Thursday night as second-seeded Xavier rallied to nip top-seeded Texas A&M 73-72 for the NIT championship in New York.
It was the last of 15 points for Nunge, who added 11 rebounds and four assists as the Musketeers (23-13) went 4-0 under interim coach Jonas Hayes after coach Travis Steele was fired following a first-round win over Cleveland State on March 15.
With new coach Sean Miller watching from behind the Xavier bench, the Musketeers also got 21 points from Colby Jones and 18 from Dwon Odom. Xavier hit nearly 54 percent of its shots in the second half.
The Aggies (27-13) had a chance to win it as time expired, but Tyrece Radford's running 3-pointer from the left wing rattled in and out. It was just their third loss in 14 games.
Quenton Jackson scored a game-high 23 points for Texas A&M, going 12 of 14 at the foul line. Radford finished with 15 and reserve Hassan Diarra added 12 points. The Aggies were outscored 40-32 in the paint.
Xavier came out and threw the first punch, establishing a 15-6 lead less than five minutes into the game when Jones drilled a 3-pointer off a Texas A&M turnover.
But the Aggies controlled the rest of the first half, using their staples of defense and balanced scoring. They went on a 14-4 run, grabbing a 20-19 edge at the 7:19 mark after Diarra canned a 3-pointer in transition.
Texas A&M rattled off a 16-4 burst after trailing 26-24, upping its advantage to 40-30 when Radford put back Jackson's missed layup. However, the Musketeers got the last say when Jones drove into the lane for a layup just before time expired, slicing their deficit to eight at halftime.
The Aggies finished the half at 56 percent shooting and also went 9 of 10 at the foul line.
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By Justin Malone, Staff Writer
In a thrilling championship game at Madison Square Garden, the No. 2 seed Xavier Musketeersfended off the No. 1 seed Texas A&M Aggies to win the National Invitation Tournament (NIT) last week by a score of 73-72.
The victory marks the second time the Musketeers have won the NIT championship, their first in 1958.
Xavier started off strong on the offensive front, with the team shooting 4-6 on the floor and racing to a 15-6 lead early on.
The Musketeers’ 8-2 run after the opening basket and subsequent 7-0 run during that time was highlighted by sophomore guards Colby Jones and Dwon Odom, who both made their first three shot attempts.
The Aggies then roared back after struggling defensively and committing several sloppy turnovers early into the game with their own 14-4 run, capped by sophomore guard Hassan Diarra’s three-pointer.
The Aggies then maintained control throughout the rest of the first half, outscoring the Musketeers 34-17 to close out the half.
Xavier managed to keep the game close, narrowing the gap to only eight points by halftime. Jones led the field in scoring with 14 points in the first half, including a buzzer-beater layup to end the half.
Both teams fought throughout the second half of the game, with the Musketeers mounting a comeback that left fans on the edge of their seats.
This resulted in 17 lead changes and 10 ties during the game.
With 1:28 left and a tied game, senior guard Adam Kunkel drained one of two free throws to give the Musketeers a 71-70 lead.
In dramatic fashion, Aggies senior guard Quenton Jackson then responded by sinking a pair of free throws to give the Aggies the 72-71 lead with only 0:27 left in the game.
Xavier drove down the court and after the Aggies blocked junior forward Zach Freemantle’s shot attempt, setting up an inbound play for the Musketeers. Jones found junior forward Jack Nunge in the paint, who then banked in a clutch hook shot that allowed the Musketeers to take a 73-72 lead.
The Aggies then took a timeout and had an opportunity to win after junior guard Tyrece Radford dribbled up the court and attempted a three-point shot that missed the mark. Nunge rebounded the ball to secure the championship victory for the Musketeers as the buzzer rang and the crowd erupted.
Jones was voted the tournament’s Most Outstanding player. He led Xavier in scoring and had a career night, posting 21 points and four rebounds.
Odom added 18 points and three rebounds, and Nunge contributed 15 points and 11 rebounds.
The victory marked an impressive end to an adversity-filled, difficult season for Xavier. The team lost senior guard Paul Scruggs to a torn ACL midway through the tournament and underwent a head coaching change with the firing of Travis Steele.
Amid coaching uncertainties and impending player decisions on the team, Xavier flourished under interim head coach Jonas Hayes. In the tournament, Xavier defeated No. 3 Florida, No. 4 Vanderbilt and No. 5 St. Bonaventure under Hayes’ helm to make the championship game.
Even after falling to Butler in the first round of the Big East tournament, the Musketeers played some of their best basketball throughout the NIT tournament, culminating in a first-place finish.
The team hopes to build on this newfound success under the leadership of Head Coach Sean Miller next season.
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Xavier topples Texas A&M in final seconds for NIT title
Jack Nunge hit a leaning bank shot in the lane with 3.1 seconds left Thursday night as second-seeded Xavier rallied to nip top-seeded Texas A&M 73-72 for the NIT championship in New York.
It was the last of 15 points for Nunge, who added 11 rebounds and four assists as the Musketeers (23-13) went 4-0 under interim coach Jonas Hayes after coach Travis Steele was fired following a first-round win over Cleveland State on March 15.
With new coach Sean Miller watching from behind the Xavier bench, the Musketeers also got 21 points from Colby Jones and 18 from Dwon Odom. Xavier hit nearly 54 percent of its shots in the second half.
The Aggies (27-13) had a chance to win it as time expired, but Tyrece Radford's running 3-pointer from the left wing rattled in and out. It was just their third loss in 14 games.
Quenton Jackson scored a game-high 23 points for Texas A&M, going 12 of 14 at the foul line. Radford finished with 15 and reserve Hassan Diarra added 12 points. The Aggies were outscored 40-32 in the paint.
Xavier came out and threw the first punch, establishing a 15-6 lead less than five minutes into the game when Jones drilled a 3-pointer off a Texas A&M turnover.
But the Aggies controlled the rest of the first half, using their staples of defense and balanced scoring. They went on a 14-4 run, grabbing a 20-19 edge at the 7:19 mark after Diarra canned a 3-pointer in transition.
Texas A&M rattled off a 16-4 burst after trailing 26-24, upping its advantage to 40-30 when Radford put back Jackson's missed layup. However, the Musketeers got the last say when Jones drove into the lane for a layup just before time expired, slicing their deficit to eight at halftime.
The Aggies finished the half at 56 percent shooting and also went 9 of 10 at the foul line.
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Xavier rallies past Texas A&M for 1st NIT title since 1958
NEW YORK — (AP) — If this was the last NIT championship game at Madison Square Garden, it certainly was a thriller.
Especially for Xavier.
Jack Nunge made the go-ahead basket with 3.1 seconds left and the Musketeers won their first NIT crown in 64 years Thursday night, rallying for a 73-72 victory over Texas A&M.
Colby Jones scored 21 points for Xavier (23-13) and was selected the tournament’s most outstanding player. Dwon Odom added 18, and Nunge had 15 points and 11 rebounds to help the Musketeers erase an eight-point halftime deficit under interim coach Jonas Hayes.
“I can’t say enough about our guys,” Hayes said. “That’s what Xavier basketball is.”
It was the final National Invitation Tournament title game at Madison Square Garden for at least a few years — breaking a college basketball tradition that dates to 1938.
MSG won’t host the semifinals and finals anymore in 2023 and 2024, the NIT announced this week, saying a bid process has begun to find new sites for those years. Nothing has been decided for 2025 and beyond.
“Madison Square Garden is a special court,” Nunge said. “Everybody knows the feel when you’re playing out there and you just want to give it your all — all the history that’s there. I’m just grateful to be part of this team and have our names in the record books.”
Quenton Jackson scored 23 points for the Aggies (27-13), left out of the NCAA Tournament despite reaching the SEC final, where they lost to Tennessee. It was a surprising snub by the selection committee that drew criticism from Texas A&M coach Buzz Williams and others.
After getting over their disappointment, the Aggies nearly took the consolation prize.
“We've been through a lot this year, a lot of ups, a lot of downs, but through it all I think we’ve all learned just how to persevere and remain resilient through everything,” Jackson said. “I think everybody in this room should have learned something from this year. But like I said, it’s probably one of the greater experiences I’ve had playing basketball.”
In a championship game with 17 lead changes, Adam Kunkel made one of two free throws to give Xavier a 71-70 advantage with 1:28 left.
Jackson was fouled by Odom on a drive and sank both free throws to put the Aggies in front with 27 seconds remaining.
Texas A&M blocked a shot out of bounds on the other end, and Xavier inbounded from the baseline. Jones found Nunge inside and he wheeled into the lane and banked in a one-handed turnaround shot that put Xavier ahead 73-72.
“Ever since Jonas has taken over as head coach, we haven’t really had any out-of-bounds plays," Nunge said. "I tried to call — look at the bench and call a simple one everybody knows, and Colby looked at me and said he was going to throw me the ball, and I was fortunate enough to knock down the shot.”
After a timeout by the Aggies, they still had a chance to win. Tyrece Radford dribbled up the left side and tossed up a runner from the 3-point line that rimmed out.
“Unbelievable game,” said Hayes, his NIT championship T-shirt soaked. “I thought our guys met the challenge. I’m fortunate enough to have had the opportunity to lead these guys for a couple weeks, and these guys deserve the amount of success they have.”
Nunge grabbed the rebound at the buzzer to seal Xavier's second NIT championship. The other one came in 1958.
After a disappointing flop in the Big East this season, the Musketeers took off in the NIT despite losing senior guard Paul Scruggs to a torn knee ligament.
“What has happened in their program over the last two weeks is historical and any AD that has a job opening should hire the undefeated head coach at Xavier, Coach Hayes,” Williams said.
Hayes took over when head coach Travis Steele was fired following Xavier’s victory over Cleveland State in the first round of the NIT.
Sean Miller, the former Arizona coach, was hired for his second stint at Xavier and will now take charge of the program. A smiling Miller, who also coached the Musketeers from 2004-09, watched from the MSG stands Thursday night.
Radford finished with 15 points and Hassan Diarra, a New York City native, added 12 for the Aggies.
Texas A&M had a 10-point lead, its largest of the night, late in the first half.
Jackson and Diarra combined for 22 points to give the Aggies a 40-32 edge at the break. Texas A&M shot 14 for 25 from the field.
Diarra came off the bench to spark a 18-10 surge over the final six minutes of the first half. His layup evened it 26-all and he capped a 7-0 spurt with a 3-pointer that extended the Aggies' lead to 31-26.
Jackson then took advantage of a Xavier turnover and ignited another 7-0 run with a 3-pointer and a pair of free throws before Radford tipped in Jackson’s miss to make it 40-30.
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Xavier topples Texas A&M in final seconds for NIT title
Jack Nunge hit a leaning bank shot in the lane with 3.1 seconds left Thursday night as second-seeded Xavier rallied to nip top-seeded Texas A&M 73-72 for the NIT championship in New York.
It was the last of 15 points for Nunge, who added 11 rebounds and four assists as the Musketeers (23-13) went 4-0 under interim coach Jonas Hayes after coach Travis Steele was fired following a first-round win over Cleveland State on March 15.
With new coach Sean Miller watching from behind the Xavier bench, the Musketeers also got 21 points from Colby Jones and 18 from Dwon Odom. Xavier hit nearly 54 percent of its shots in the second half.
The Aggies (27-13) had a chance to win it as time expired, but Tyrece Radford's running 3-pointer from the left wing rattled in and out. It was just their third loss in 14 games.
Quenton Jackson scored a game-high 23 points for Texas A&M, going 12 of 14 at the foul line. Radford finished with 15 and reserve Hassan Diarra added 12 points. The Aggies were outscored 40-32 in the paint.
Xavier came out and threw the first punch, establishing a 15-6 lead less than five minutes into the game when Jones drilled a 3-pointer off a Texas A&M turnover.
But the Aggies controlled the rest of the first half, using their staples of defense and balanced scoring. They went on a 14-4 run, grabbing a 20-19 edge at the 7:19 mark after Diarra canned a 3-pointer in transition.
Texas A&M rattled off a 16-4 burst after trailing 26-24, upping its advantage to 40-30 when Radford put back Jackson's missed layup. However, the Musketeers got the last say when Jones drove into the lane for a layup just before time expired, slicing their deficit to eight at halftime.
The Aggies finished the half at 56 percent shooting and also went 9 of 10 at the foul line.
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Xavier rallies past Texas A&M for 1st NIT title since 1958
NEW YORK (AP) — If this was the last NIT championship game at Madison Square Garden, it certainly was a thriller.
Especially for Xavier.
Jack Nunge made the go-ahead basket with 3.1 seconds left and the Musketeers won their first NIT crown in 64 years Thursday night, rallying for a 73-72 victory over Texas A&M.
Colby Jones scored 21 points for Xavier (23-13) and was selected the tournament’s most outstanding player. Dwon Odom added 18, and Nunge had 15 points and 11 rebounds to help the Musketeers erase an eight-point halftime deficit under interim coach Jonas Hayes.
“I can’t say enough about our guys,” Hayes said. “That’s what Xavier basketball is.”
It was the final National Invitation Tournament title game at Madison Square Garden for at least a few years — breaking a college basketball tradition that dates to 1938.
MSG won’t host the semifinals and finals anymore in 2023 and 2024, the NIT announced this week, saying a bid process has begun to find new sites for those years. Nothing has been decided for 2025 and beyond.
“Madison Square Garden is a special court,” Nunge said. “Everybody knows the feel when you’re playing out there and you just want to give it your all — all the history that’s there. I’m just grateful to be part of this team and have our names in the record books.”
Quenton Jackson scored 23 points for the Aggies (27-13), left out of the NCAA Tournament despite reaching the SEC final, where they lost to Tennessee. It was a surprising snub by the selection committee that drew criticism from Texas A&M coach Buzz Williams and others.
After getting over their disappointment, the Aggies nearly took the consolation prize.
“We've been through a lot this year, a lot of ups, a lot of downs, but through it all I think we’ve all learned just how to persevere and remain resilient through everything,” Jackson said. “I think everybody in this room should have learned something from this year. But like I said, it’s probably one of the greater experiences I’ve had playing basketball.”
In a championship game with 17 lead changes, Adam Kunkel made one of two free throws to give Xavier a 71-70 advantage with 1:28 left.
Jackson was fouled by Odom on a drive and sank both free throws to put the Aggies in front with 27 seconds remaining.
Texas A&M blocked a shot out of bounds on the other end, and Xavier inbounded from the baseline. Jones found Nunge inside and he wheeled into the lane and banked in a one-handed turnaround shot that put Xavier ahead 73-72.
“Ever since Jonas has taken over as head coach, we haven’t really had any out-of-bounds plays," Nunge said. "I tried to call — look at the bench and call a simple one everybody knows, and Colby looked at me and said he was going to throw me the ball, and I was fortunate enough to knock down the shot.”
After a timeout by the Aggies, they still had a chance to win. Tyrece Radford dribbled up the left side and tossed up a runner from the 3-point line that rimmed out.
“Unbelievable game,” said Hayes, his NIT championship T-shirt soaked. “I thought our guys met the challenge. I’m fortunate enough to have had the opportunity to lead these guys for a couple weeks, and these guys deserve the amount of success they have.”
Nunge grabbed the rebound at the buzzer to seal Xavier's second NIT championship. The other one came in 1958.
After a disappointing flop in the Big East this season, the Musketeers took off in the NIT despite losing senior guard Paul Scruggs to a torn knee ligament.
“What has happened in their program over the last two weeks is historical and any AD that has a job opening should hire the undefeated head coach at Xavier, Coach Hayes,” Williams said.
Hayes took over when head coach Travis Steele was fired following Xavier’s victory over Cleveland State in the first round of the NIT.
Sean Miller, the former Arizona coach, was hired for his second stint at Xavier and will now take charge of the program. A smiling Miller, who also coached the Musketeers from 2004-09, watched from the MSG stands Thursday night.
Radford finished with 15 points and Hassan Diarra, a New York City native, added 12 for the Aggies.
Texas A&M had a 10-point lead, its largest of the night, late in the first half.
Jackson and Diarra combined for 22 points to give the Aggies a 40-32 edge at the break. Texas A&M shot 14 for 25 from the field.
Diarra came off the bench to spark a 18-10 surge over the final six minutes of the first half. His layup evened it 26-all and he capped a 7-0 spurt with a 3-pointer that extended the Aggies' lead to 31-26.
Jackson then took advantage of a Xavier turnover and ignited another 7-0 run with a 3-pointer and a pair of free throws before Radford tipped in Jackson’s miss to make it 40-30.
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Morning Digest | Hundreds march to President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s house; Jaishankar sees ‘campaign’ against India for buying Russian oil, and more
A select list of stories to read before you start your day
Jaishankar sees ‘campaign’ against India for buying Russian oil
Criticising what he called a “campaign” against India for buying Russian oil at discounts in the past few weeks, External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar on Thursday said the European countries remained the biggest buyers of oil and gas from Russia despite announcements that they would cut down. Speaking at an event organised by the Ministry of External Affairs’ think tank, Indian Council for World Affairs, where he held a discussion with visiting U.K. Foreign Secretary Liz Truss, Mr. Jaishankar said it was “natural for countries to go out in the market and look for good deals” when oil prices go up, as they had in the past month since Russia’s war in Ukraine and the U.S.,U.K. and EU sanctions were placed on Russia.
As Sri Lanka crisis worsens, hundreds march to President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s house
Hundreds of angry protestors gathered outside President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s private residence in Colombo late on Thursday night, after the island experienced a 13-hour-long power cut amid Sri Lanka’s worsening economic meltdown. Riot police were swiftly deployed to the spot. They used tear gas and water cannons to disperse the crowd, but those agitating endured at the spot, chanting “Gota go home” in Sinhala. Many were holding posters with anti-government slogans, and demanded that the government step out immediately, having “mishandled” the country’s economy.
Will not resign, ready for no-trust vote, says Imran Khan
A defiant Imran Khan on Thursday indicated that he will not resign from the post of Pakistan’s prime minister despite losing the majority in the National Assembly and insisted that he will face the vote of no-confidence which would take place on Sunday. In a live-address to the nation, 69-year-old Mr. Khan also discussed a ‘threat letter’ that purportedly showed “evidence” of a foreign conspiracy to topple his coalition government. He named the U.S. as the country behind the threat in what appeared to be a slip of tongue.
Punjab Assembly to have special, one-day session today
The Punjab Assembly will have a special one-day session on Friday to discuss the Centre’s decision to extend the central service rules to employees of the Union Territory of Chandigarh. The decision to convene the special one-day session was taken in a State Cabinet meeting chaired by Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann. The Assembly’s list of business for the day said Chief Minister Mann will move a resolution “regarding matters pertaining to Union Territory Chandigarh“. The Centre’s recent decision that central service rules will apply to the employees of the Union Territory of Chandigarh has evoked sharp reactions from AAP, Congress and SAD in Punjab.
U.S. Deputy NSA cautions India against trade deals with Russia
There will be “consequences” for any country, including India, that conducts local currency transactions through Russia’s central bank or constructs a payment mechanism that subverts or circumvents the United States’ sanctions against Russia, American Deputy National Security Adviser for International Economics Daleep Singh said in New Delhi on Thursday, hours before Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov landed. Mr. Lavrov is due to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi and External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar on Friday, and is expected to brief them on the war in Ukraine, peace talks, keeping defence supplies running and alternate payment mechanisms in the face of Western sanctions.
Mullaperiyar row | Dam Safety Act can end disputes, says Supreme Court
The Supreme Court on Thursday found in the Dam Safety Act of 2021 a panacea to end the “perennial” legal battle between Tamil Nadu and Kerala over the Mullaperiyar dam. A Bench led by Justice A.M. Khanwilkar said that the new law provided for almost everything, other than how to “settle political scores”, to resolve inter-State disputes over dams. The Act comprehensively postulates for surveillance, inspection, operation and maintenance of dams to prevent disasters.
Congress, BJP spar in Lok Sabha over cuts in MGNREGA budgets
The Lok Sabha on Thursday witnessed sharp exchanges between Congress members and BJP ministers after Congress president Sonia Gandhi expressed concern over reduction in budgetary allocations for the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) scheme. Raising the issue during Zero Hour, Ms. Gandhi said there has been a 35% reduction in allocation in the current budget compared to the 2020 Budget and several States are left with negative balance in their MGNREGA accounts to the tune of ₹5,000 crore. This has led to delays in payments to workers, she added. Responding to her statement, Rural Development Minister Giriraj Singh and Information & Broadcasting Minister Anurag Thakur said the allegations were “far from the truth” and charged the Congress chief with politicising the issue.
No change in interest on small savings
The government on Thursday opted to leave interest rates on small savings instruments like the Public Provident Fund unchanged for April to June 2022, maintaining the status quo for the eighth successive quarter. The Reserve Bank of India had indicated the need to pare interest rates on these schemes between 0.09 and 1.18 percentage points in the coming quarter. However, the resurgence of inflation beyond 6% in the last two months and the upswing in oil prices may have weighed against taking an unpopular step, especially after the Employees’ Provident Fund rate for 2021-22 was reduced from 8.5% to 8.1% earlier this month, the lowest in over 42 years.
China, Pak., Afghanistan agree to boost three-way ties
China on Thursday said it would deepen three-way cooperation with Afghanistan and Pakistan as the Foreign Ministers of the three countries met in eastern China. “Under the current circumstances, China, Afghanistan and Pakistan should restart the trilateral cooperation mechanism and advance cooperation in the three areas of politics, development and security based on the principles of mutual respect, equal-footed consultation and mutual benefit,” Foreign Minister Wang Yi said following talks with Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi and Acting Foreign Minister of Taliban government Amir Khan Muttaqi.
Nepal PM to focus on Pancheshwar dam project during visit
During his upcoming visit, Nepal’s Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba is expected to focus on his personal experience of handling India-Nepal relations over multiple tenures as the PM of Nepal. Mr. Deuba will meet External Affairs Minister Dr S. Jaishankar here on Friday, soon after arriving from Kathmandu. The meeting will mark the beginning of high power interactions between the two sides since the eruption of the Kalapani territorial dispute in November 2019.
Northwest, Central India to experience above-normal maximum temperature in April, says IMD
Northwest and central India and parts of the northeast are expected to experience above-normal maximum temperatures in April, the weather office said on Thursday. Normal to below normal maximum temperatures are likely in south peninsular India, many parts of the eastern parts of the country and the adjoining areas of the northeast, India Meteorological Department Director-General Mrutyunjay Mohapatra said.
Trinamool leaders resort to blame game over Rampurhat massacre
Senior leaders of the Trinamool Congress are indulging in a blame game over the Rampurhat massacre. On Thursday, Trinamool Congress district president Anubrata Mondal said he wanted to remove Anarul Hossain, block president of the party’s Rampurhat Block, but did not go ahead after a request from Asish Banerjee, Deputy Speaker in the West Bengal Assembly.
Unity of India will not bend to passing winds of empty slogans: Allahabad High Court
“The unity of India is not made of bamboo reeds which will bend to the passing winds of empty slogans,” said the Allahabad High Court as it granted bail to three Kashmiri students who are arrested in Agra last October for allegedly hailing the Pakistan cricket team’s victory over India in a T-20 cricket match. A first information report had been lodged against Arsheed Yousuf, Inayat Altaf Sheikh and Showkat Ahmed Ganai for allegedly posting a WhatsApp status praising Pakistani players after the country defeated India in the T20 World Cup cricket match. They had been in jail since October 27, 2021.
Russians leaving Chernobyl after radiation exposure: Ukraine
Russian troops began leaving the Chernobyl nuclear plant after soldiers got “significant doses” of radiation from digging trenches at the highly contaminated site, Ukraine’s state power company said Thursday as fighting raged on the outskirts of Kyiv and other fronts. There was no immediate comment from the Kremlin, and the International Atomic Energy Agency said it had not been able to confirm reports of Russian troops receiving high doses. It said it was seeking more information.
IPL set to allow 50% spectators from April 5
The Indian Premier League (IPL) games in Maharashtra are set to witness double spectator attendance from April 5 than in the first week of the tournament, with the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) set to allow 50% attendance at all four venues. The Hindu understands that following a green signal from the Government of Maharashtra, the BCCI has directed the Mumbai Cricket Association and the Maharashtra Cricket Association to make arrangements for 50% attendance from April 5.
Indian Premier League 2022: LSG vs CSK | De Kock and Lewis flatten Super Kings
No doubt the boundaries at the Cricket Club of India’s Brabourne Stadium were small. No doubt the conditions were tilted towards batters, with the dew making the ball as wet as it can be in a bucketful of water. Still, a team had to bat out of its skin to surpass a target of 211, that too versus the defending champion. Lucknow Super Giants did just that on Thursday night.
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Members of Toronto's Sri Lankan community rally in Scarborough against country's president
Dozens of members of Toronto's Sri Lankan community protested in Scarborough on Saturday, calling for the country's president to step down.
Protesters gathered on the sidewalk near the intersection of Ellesmere and Markham roads, waving flags, holding signs and shouting slogans. Drivers honked their horns as they passed by signs with slogans like "Let's defeat the oppressive government" and "Enough is enough."
The Scarborough rally was in solidarity with protests held in Sri Lanka in recent weeks, where thousands have demonstrated against President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and his government.
Those protesters accuse Rajapaksa of mismanaging the country's worst economic crisis since it achieved independence from the British Empire in 1948.
"The country has no gas, no milk, no petrol, no electricity. People are suffering," said Alex Fernando, a Toronto resident who attended the Scarborough rally. "[President Rajapaksa] destroyed the country. He must get out."
Months of shortages
For months, Sri Lankans have stood in long lines to buy fuel, cooking gas, food and medicine, most of which come from abroad and are paid for in hard currency. The fuel shortage has caused rolling power outages lasting several hours a day.
The Indian Ocean island nation is on the brink of bankruptcy, saddled with a $25 billion US foreign debt over the next five years — nearly $7 billion of which is due this year alone — and dwindling foreign reserves. Talks with the International Monetary Fund are expected later this month, and the government has turned to China and India for emergency loans to buy food and fuel.
Much of the anger expressed by weeks of growing protests has been directed at Rajapaksa and his elder brother, Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa, who head an influential clan that has been in power for most of the past two decades.
Five other family members are lawmakers, three of whom resigned as ministers last Sunday.
Another protester during Saturday's rally said anger at the president extends across ethnic and religious lines.
"We urge the Rajapaksa family to step down and let the Sri Lankan people decide what they want," they said. "The whole country has one voice right now: step down and go home."
Rajapaska, who was elected in 2019, has remained steadfast in refusing to resign, even after most of his cabinet quit and loyal lawmakers rebelled, narrowing a path for him to seek a way out as his team prepares to negotiate with international lending institutions.
Rajapaksa earlier proposed the creation of a unity government following the cabinet resignations, but the main opposition party rejected the idea.
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Morning Digest | Hundreds march to President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s house; Jaishankar sees ‘campaign’ against India for buying Russian oil, and more
A select list of stories to read before you start your day
Jaishankar sees ‘campaign’ against India for buying Russian oil
Criticising what he called a “campaign” against India for buying Russian oil at discounts in the past few weeks, External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar on Thursday said the European countries remained the biggest buyers of oil and gas from Russia despite announcements that they would cut down. Speaking at an event organised by the Ministry of External Affairs’ think tank, Indian Council for World Affairs, where he held a discussion with visiting U.K. Foreign Secretary Liz Truss, Mr. Jaishankar said it was “natural for countries to go out in the market and look for good deals” when oil prices go up, as they had in the past month since Russia’s war in Ukraine and the U.S.,U.K. and EU sanctions were placed on Russia.
As Sri Lanka crisis worsens, hundreds march to President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s house
Hundreds of angry protestors gathered outside President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s private residence in Colombo late on Thursday night, after the island experienced a 13-hour-long power cut amid Sri Lanka’s worsening economic meltdown. Riot police were swiftly deployed to the spot. They used tear gas and water cannons to disperse the crowd, but those agitating endured at the spot, chanting “Gota go home” in Sinhala. Many were holding posters with anti-government slogans, and demanded that the government step out immediately, having “mishandled” the country’s economy.
Will not resign, ready for no-trust vote, says Imran Khan
A defiant Imran Khan on Thursday indicated that he will not resign from the post of Pakistan’s prime minister despite losing the majority in the National Assembly and insisted that he will face the vote of no-confidence which would take place on Sunday. In a live-address to the nation, 69-year-old Mr. Khan also discussed a ‘threat letter’ that purportedly showed “evidence” of a foreign conspiracy to topple his coalition government. He named the U.S. as the country behind the threat in what appeared to be a slip of tongue.
Punjab Assembly to have special, one-day session today
The Punjab Assembly will have a special one-day session on Friday to discuss the Centre’s decision to extend the central service rules to employees of the Union Territory of Chandigarh. The decision to convene the special one-day session was taken in a State Cabinet meeting chaired by Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann. The Assembly’s list of business for the day said Chief Minister Mann will move a resolution “regarding matters pertaining to Union Territory Chandigarh“. The Centre’s recent decision that central service rules will apply to the employees of the Union Territory of Chandigarh has evoked sharp reactions from AAP, Congress and SAD in Punjab.
U.S. Deputy NSA cautions India against trade deals with Russia
There will be “consequences” for any country, including India, that conducts local currency transactions through Russia’s central bank or constructs a payment mechanism that subverts or circumvents the United States’ sanctions against Russia, American Deputy National Security Adviser for International Economics Daleep Singh said in New Delhi on Thursday, hours before Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov landed. Mr. Lavrov is due to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi and External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar on Friday, and is expected to brief them on the war in Ukraine, peace talks, keeping defence supplies running and alternate payment mechanisms in the face of Western sanctions.
Mullaperiyar row | Dam Safety Act can end disputes, says Supreme Court
The Supreme Court on Thursday found in the Dam Safety Act of 2021 a panacea to end the “perennial” legal battle between Tamil Nadu and Kerala over the Mullaperiyar dam. A Bench led by Justice A.M. Khanwilkar said that the new law provided for almost everything, other than how to “settle political scores”, to resolve inter-State disputes over dams. The Act comprehensively postulates for surveillance, inspection, operation and maintenance of dams to prevent disasters.
Congress, BJP spar in Lok Sabha over cuts in MGNREGA budgets
The Lok Sabha on Thursday witnessed sharp exchanges between Congress members and BJP ministers after Congress president Sonia Gandhi expressed concern over reduction in budgetary allocations for the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) scheme. Raising the issue during Zero Hour, Ms. Gandhi said there has been a 35% reduction in allocation in the current budget compared to the 2020 Budget and several States are left with negative balance in their MGNREGA accounts to the tune of ₹5,000 crore. This has led to delays in payments to workers, she added. Responding to her statement, Rural Development Minister Giriraj Singh and Information & Broadcasting Minister Anurag Thakur said the allegations were “far from the truth” and charged the Congress chief with politicising the issue.
No change in interest on small savings
The government on Thursday opted to leave interest rates on small savings instruments like the Public Provident Fund unchanged for April to June 2022, maintaining the status quo for the eighth successive quarter. The Reserve Bank of India had indicated the need to pare interest rates on these schemes between 0.09 and 1.18 percentage points in the coming quarter. However, the resurgence of inflation beyond 6% in the last two months and the upswing in oil prices may have weighed against taking an unpopular step, especially after the Employees’ Provident Fund rate for 2021-22 was reduced from 8.5% to 8.1% earlier this month, the lowest in over 42 years.
China, Pak., Afghanistan agree to boost three-way ties
China on Thursday said it would deepen three-way cooperation with Afghanistan and Pakistan as the Foreign Ministers of the three countries met in eastern China. “Under the current circumstances, China, Afghanistan and Pakistan should restart the trilateral cooperation mechanism and advance cooperation in the three areas of politics, development and security based on the principles of mutual respect, equal-footed consultation and mutual benefit,” Foreign Minister Wang Yi said following talks with Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi and Acting Foreign Minister of Taliban government Amir Khan Muttaqi.
Nepal PM to focus on Pancheshwar dam project during visit
During his upcoming visit, Nepal’s Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba is expected to focus on his personal experience of handling India-Nepal relations over multiple tenures as the PM of Nepal. Mr. Deuba will meet External Affairs Minister Dr S. Jaishankar here on Friday, soon after arriving from Kathmandu. The meeting will mark the beginning of high power interactions between the two sides since the eruption of the Kalapani territorial dispute in November 2019.
Northwest, Central India to experience above-normal maximum temperature in April, says IMD
Northwest and central India and parts of the northeast are expected to experience above-normal maximum temperatures in April, the weather office said on Thursday. Normal to below normal maximum temperatures are likely in south peninsular India, many parts of the eastern parts of the country and the adjoining areas of the northeast, India Meteorological Department Director-General Mrutyunjay Mohapatra said.
Trinamool leaders resort to blame game over Rampurhat massacre
Senior leaders of the Trinamool Congress are indulging in a blame game over the Rampurhat massacre. On Thursday, Trinamool Congress district president Anubrata Mondal said he wanted to remove Anarul Hossain, block president of the party’s Rampurhat Block, but did not go ahead after a request from Asish Banerjee, Deputy Speaker in the West Bengal Assembly.
Unity of India will not bend to passing winds of empty slogans: Allahabad High Court
“The unity of India is not made of bamboo reeds which will bend to the passing winds of empty slogans,” said the Allahabad High Court as it granted bail to three Kashmiri students who are arrested in Agra last October for allegedly hailing the Pakistan cricket team’s victory over India in a T-20 cricket match. A first information report had been lodged against Arsheed Yousuf, Inayat Altaf Sheikh and Showkat Ahmed Ganai for allegedly posting a WhatsApp status praising Pakistani players after the country defeated India in the T20 World Cup cricket match. They had been in jail since October 27, 2021.
Russians leaving Chernobyl after radiation exposure: Ukraine
Russian troops began leaving the Chernobyl nuclear plant after soldiers got “significant doses” of radiation from digging trenches at the highly contaminated site, Ukraine’s state power company said Thursday as fighting raged on the outskirts of Kyiv and other fronts. There was no immediate comment from the Kremlin, and the International Atomic Energy Agency said it had not been able to confirm reports of Russian troops receiving high doses. It said it was seeking more information.
IPL set to allow 50% spectators from April 5
The Indian Premier League (IPL) games in Maharashtra are set to witness double spectator attendance from April 5 than in the first week of the tournament, with the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) set to allow 50% attendance at all four venues. The Hindu understands that following a green signal from the Government of Maharashtra, the BCCI has directed the Mumbai Cricket Association and the Maharashtra Cricket Association to make arrangements for 50% attendance from April 5.
Indian Premier League 2022: LSG vs CSK | De Kock and Lewis flatten Super Kings
No doubt the boundaries at the Cricket Club of India’s Brabourne Stadium were small. No doubt the conditions were tilted towards batters, with the dew making the ball as wet as it can be in a bucketful of water. Still, a team had to bat out of its skin to surpass a target of 211, that too versus the defending champion. Lucknow Super Giants did just that on Thursday night.
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Thousands of Sri Lankans took to the streets of the capital on Saturday on their 50th day of demonstrations demanding that President Gotabaya Rajapaksa step down.
Police used tear gas and water cannon as the protesters tried to approach the president’s office. They broke up the rally and briefly detained three people before releasing them.
Sri Lanka is nearly bankrupt, has defaulted on its foreign loans, and is battling acute shortages of goods like cooking gas, fuel and medicines.
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People have been waiting for hours in line for gasoline, kerosene and other core products. Lengthy daily power blackouts have also become commonplace.
President Rajapaksa has tried on several occasions to quell more than a month of protests accompanying the economic turmoil.
He has even dismissed a series of his close relatives from core political positions, including but not limited to his brothers, who until recently were his prime minister and finance minister. However, he has so far sought to stop short of stepping down himself.
Russian oil docks after long wait
The country’s foreign currency reserves have also dwindled to such low levels that it can only import materials for a short period, roughly two weeks.
A Russian shipment of oil, ordered via a consortium, had been waiting offshore off the capital Colombo’s port for over a month because the country was unable to raise the $75 million (roughly €70 million) to pay for it, Energy Minister Kanchana Wijesekerra said. The oil finally docked on Saturday, according to Wijesekerra.
Despite US and Western sanctions, Sri Lanka is also trying to arrange crude, coal, diesel and gasoline/petroleum deliveries directly from Russia.
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“I have made an official request to the Russian ambassador for direct supplies of Russian oil,” Wijesekerra said. “Crude alone will not fulfill our requirement, we need other refined [petroleum] products as well.”
Sri Lanka’s only oil refinery ceases to operate
The country’s only oil refinery stopped operating in late March, with Sri Lanka no longer able to import crude oil. Fuel prices were raised drastically earlier this week, and rationing is still in effect for purchasers.
Sri Lanka’s Ceylon Petroleum Company is in arrears of more than $735 million to suppliers, and Wijesekerra said that no one came forward to even bid for the country’s oil tenders.
While the Siberian grade crude was not an ideal match for the country’s refinery, which is optimized for Iranian light crude, Wijesekerra said no other supplier was willing to extend credit. Colombo would nevertheless call for fresh supply tenders in two weeks, he said.
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Morning Digest | Hundreds march to President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s house; Jaishankar sees ‘campaign’ against India for buying Russian oil, and more
A select list of stories to read before you start your day
Jaishankar sees ‘campaign’ against India for buying Russian oil
Criticising what he called a “campaign” against India for buying Russian oil at discounts in the past few weeks, External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar on Thursday said the European countries remained the biggest buyers of oil and gas from Russia despite announcements that they would cut down. Speaking at an event organised by the Ministry of External Affairs’ think tank, Indian Council for World Affairs, where he held a discussion with visiting U.K. Foreign Secretary Liz Truss, Mr. Jaishankar said it was “natural for countries to go out in the market and look for good deals” when oil prices go up, as they had in the past month since Russia’s war in Ukraine and the U.S.,U.K. and EU sanctions were placed on Russia.
As Sri Lanka crisis worsens, hundreds march to President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s house
Hundreds of angry protestors gathered outside President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s private residence in Colombo late on Thursday night, after the island experienced a 13-hour-long power cut amid Sri Lanka’s worsening economic meltdown. Riot police were swiftly deployed to the spot. They used tear gas and water cannons to disperse the crowd, but those agitating endured at the spot, chanting “Gota go home” in Sinhala. Many were holding posters with anti-government slogans, and demanded that the government step out immediately, having “mishandled” the country’s economy.
Will not resign, ready for no-trust vote, says Imran Khan
A defiant Imran Khan on Thursday indicated that he will not resign from the post of Pakistan’s prime minister despite losing the majority in the National Assembly and insisted that he will face the vote of no-confidence which would take place on Sunday. In a live-address to the nation, 69-year-old Mr. Khan also discussed a ‘threat letter’ that purportedly showed “evidence” of a foreign conspiracy to topple his coalition government. He named the U.S. as the country behind the threat in what appeared to be a slip of tongue.
Punjab Assembly to have special, one-day session today
The Punjab Assembly will have a special one-day session on Friday to discuss the Centre’s decision to extend the central service rules to employees of the Union Territory of Chandigarh. The decision to convene the special one-day session was taken in a State Cabinet meeting chaired by Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann. The Assembly’s list of business for the day said Chief Minister Mann will move a resolution “regarding matters pertaining to Union Territory Chandigarh“. The Centre’s recent decision that central service rules will apply to the employees of the Union Territory of Chandigarh has evoked sharp reactions from AAP, Congress and SAD in Punjab.
U.S. Deputy NSA cautions India against trade deals with Russia
There will be “consequences” for any country, including India, that conducts local currency transactions through Russia’s central bank or constructs a payment mechanism that subverts or circumvents the United States’ sanctions against Russia, American Deputy National Security Adviser for International Economics Daleep Singh said in New Delhi on Thursday, hours before Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov landed. Mr. Lavrov is due to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi and External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar on Friday, and is expected to brief them on the war in Ukraine, peace talks, keeping defence supplies running and alternate payment mechanisms in the face of Western sanctions.
Mullaperiyar row | Dam Safety Act can end disputes, says Supreme Court
The Supreme Court on Thursday found in the Dam Safety Act of 2021 a panacea to end the “perennial” legal battle between Tamil Nadu and Kerala over the Mullaperiyar dam. A Bench led by Justice A.M. Khanwilkar said that the new law provided for almost everything, other than how to “settle political scores”, to resolve inter-State disputes over dams. The Act comprehensively postulates for surveillance, inspection, operation and maintenance of dams to prevent disasters.
Congress, BJP spar in Lok Sabha over cuts in MGNREGA budgets
The Lok Sabha on Thursday witnessed sharp exchanges between Congress members and BJP ministers after Congress president Sonia Gandhi expressed concern over reduction in budgetary allocations for the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) scheme. Raising the issue during Zero Hour, Ms. Gandhi said there has been a 35% reduction in allocation in the current budget compared to the 2020 Budget and several States are left with negative balance in their MGNREGA accounts to the tune of ₹5,000 crore. This has led to delays in payments to workers, she added. Responding to her statement, Rural Development Minister Giriraj Singh and Information & Broadcasting Minister Anurag Thakur said the allegations were “far from the truth” and charged the Congress chief with politicising the issue.
No change in interest on small savings
The government on Thursday opted to leave interest rates on small savings instruments like the Public Provident Fund unchanged for April to June 2022, maintaining the status quo for the eighth successive quarter. The Reserve Bank of India had indicated the need to pare interest rates on these schemes between 0.09 and 1.18 percentage points in the coming quarter. However, the resurgence of inflation beyond 6% in the last two months and the upswing in oil prices may have weighed against taking an unpopular step, especially after the Employees’ Provident Fund rate for 2021-22 was reduced from 8.5% to 8.1% earlier this month, the lowest in over 42 years.
China, Pak., Afghanistan agree to boost three-way ties
China on Thursday said it would deepen three-way cooperation with Afghanistan and Pakistan as the Foreign Ministers of the three countries met in eastern China. “Under the current circumstances, China, Afghanistan and Pakistan should restart the trilateral cooperation mechanism and advance cooperation in the three areas of politics, development and security based on the principles of mutual respect, equal-footed consultation and mutual benefit,” Foreign Minister Wang Yi said following talks with Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi and Acting Foreign Minister of Taliban government Amir Khan Muttaqi.
Nepal PM to focus on Pancheshwar dam project during visit
During his upcoming visit, Nepal’s Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba is expected to focus on his personal experience of handling India-Nepal relations over multiple tenures as the PM of Nepal. Mr. Deuba will meet External Affairs Minister Dr S. Jaishankar here on Friday, soon after arriving from Kathmandu. The meeting will mark the beginning of high power interactions between the two sides since the eruption of the Kalapani territorial dispute in November 2019.
Northwest, Central India to experience above-normal maximum temperature in April, says IMD
Northwest and central India and parts of the northeast are expected to experience above-normal maximum temperatures in April, the weather office said on Thursday. Normal to below normal maximum temperatures are likely in south peninsular India, many parts of the eastern parts of the country and the adjoining areas of the northeast, India Meteorological Department Director-General Mrutyunjay Mohapatra said.
Trinamool leaders resort to blame game over Rampurhat massacre
Senior leaders of the Trinamool Congress are indulging in a blame game over the Rampurhat massacre. On Thursday, Trinamool Congress district president Anubrata Mondal said he wanted to remove Anarul Hossain, block president of the party’s Rampurhat Block, but did not go ahead after a request from Asish Banerjee, Deputy Speaker in the West Bengal Assembly.
Unity of India will not bend to passing winds of empty slogans: Allahabad High Court
“The unity of India is not made of bamboo reeds which will bend to the passing winds of empty slogans,” said the Allahabad High Court as it granted bail to three Kashmiri students who are arrested in Agra last October for allegedly hailing the Pakistan cricket team’s victory over India in a T-20 cricket match. A first information report had been lodged against Arsheed Yousuf, Inayat Altaf Sheikh and Showkat Ahmed Ganai for allegedly posting a WhatsApp status praising Pakistani players after the country defeated India in the T20 World Cup cricket match. They had been in jail since October 27, 2021.
Russians leaving Chernobyl after radiation exposure: Ukraine
Russian troops began leaving the Chernobyl nuclear plant after soldiers got “significant doses” of radiation from digging trenches at the highly contaminated site, Ukraine’s state power company said Thursday as fighting raged on the outskirts of Kyiv and other fronts. There was no immediate comment from the Kremlin, and the International Atomic Energy Agency said it had not been able to confirm reports of Russian troops receiving high doses. It said it was seeking more information.
IPL set to allow 50% spectators from April 5
The Indian Premier League (IPL) games in Maharashtra are set to witness double spectator attendance from April 5 than in the first week of the tournament, with the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) set to allow 50% attendance at all four venues. The Hindu understands that following a green signal from the Government of Maharashtra, the BCCI has directed the Mumbai Cricket Association and the Maharashtra Cricket Association to make arrangements for 50% attendance from April 5.
Indian Premier League 2022: LSG vs CSK | De Kock and Lewis flatten Super Kings
No doubt the boundaries at the Cricket Club of India’s Brabourne Stadium were small. No doubt the conditions were tilted towards batters, with the dew making the ball as wet as it can be in a bucketful of water. Still, a team had to bat out of its skin to surpass a target of 211, that too versus the defending champion. Lucknow Super Giants did just that on Thursday night.
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Sri Lankan authorities used tear gas and water cannons to disperse protesters on their 50th day demanding the president's resignation. Meanwhile, a Russian oil shipment docked in the cash-strapped country's capital.
Thousands of Sri Lankans took to the streets of the capital on Saturday, on their 50th day of demonstrations demanding that President Gotabaya Rajapaksa step down.
Police used tear gas and water cannons as the protesters tried to approach the president's office. They broke up the rally and briefly detained three people before releasing them.
Sri Lanka is nearly bankrupt, has defaulted on its foreign loans, and is battling acute shortages of goods like cooking gas, fuel and medicines.
People have been waiting for hours in line for gasoline, kerosene and other core products. Lengthy daily power blackouts have also become commonplace.
President Rajapaksa has tried on several occasions to quell more than a month of protests accompanying the economic turmoil.
He has even dismissed a series of his close relatives from core political positions, including but not limited to his brothers who until recently were his prime minister and finance minister. However, he has so far sought to stop short of stepping down himself.
The country's foreign currency reserves have also dwindled to such low levels that it can only import materials for a short period, roughly two weeks.
A Russian shipment of oil, ordered via a consortium, had been waiting offshore off the capital Colombo's port for over a month because the country was unable to raise the $75 million (roughly €70 million) to pay for it, Energy Minister Kanchana Wijesekerra said. The oil finally docked on Saturday, according to Wijesekerra.
Despite US and Western sanctions, Sri Lanka is also trying to arrange crude, coal, diesel and gasoline/petroleum deliveries directly from Russia.
"I have made an official request to the Russian ambassador for direct supplies of Russian oil," Wijesekerra said. "Crude alone will not fulfil our requirement, we need other refined [petroleum] products as well."
The country's only oil refinery stopped operating in late March, with Sri Lanka no longer able to import crude oil. Fuel prices were raised drastically earlier this week, and rationing is still in effect for purchasers.
Sri Lanka's Ceylon Petroleum Company is in arrears of more than $735 million to suppliers, and Wijesekerra said that no one came forward to even bid for the country's oil tenders.
While the Siberian grade crude was not an ideal match for the country's refinery, which is optimized for Iranian light crude, Wijesekerra said no other supplier was willing to extend credit. Colombo would nevertheless call for fresh supply tenders in two weeks, he said.
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PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey announced Thursday that the state’s Department of Emergency and Military Affairs is sending 9,000 pounds of surplus equipment to Ukraine to help in its war against Russia.
The governor’s office said Thursday that the equipment was donated by 11 local, county, state and tribal law enforcement agencies.
It includes 874 bullet proof vests, 77 helmets, miscellaneous tactical clothing, footwear, pads and shields.
The 17 pallets of equipment will be transported to Ukraine by the Ukrainian Relief Group and is expected to be delivered in the next two weeks.
As a sign of support, the Ukrainian flag flies in front of the Arizona State Capitol in Phoenix alongside the state flag.
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PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey announced Thursday that the state’s Department of Emergency and Military Affairs is sending 9,000 pounds of surplus equipment to Ukraine to help in its war against Russia.
The governor’s office said Thursday that the equipment was donated by 11 local, county, state and tribal law enforcement agencies.
It includes 874 bulletproof vests, 77 helmets, miscellaneous tactical clothing, footwear, pads and shields.
The 17 pallets of equipment will be transported to Ukraine by the Ukrainian Relief Group and are expected to be delivered in the next two weeks.
As a sign of support, the Ukrainian flag flies in front of the Arizona State Capitol in Phoenix alongside the state flag.
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PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey announced Thursday that the state’s Department of Emergency and Military Affairs is sending 9,000 pounds of surplus equipment to Ukraine to help in its war against Russia.
The governor’s office said Thursday that the equipment was donated by 11 local, county, state and tribal law enforcement agencies.
It includes 874 bullet proof vests, 77 helmets, miscellaneous tactical clothing, footwear, pads and shields.
The 17 pallets of equipment will be transported to Ukraine by the Ukrainian Relief Group and is expected to be delivered in the next two weeks.
As a sign of support, the Ukrainian flag flies in front of the Arizona State Capitol in Phoenix alongside the state flag.
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PHOENIX — Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey announced Thursday that the state’s Department of Emergency and Military Affairs is sending 9,000 pounds of surplus equipment to Ukraine to help in its war against Russia.
The governor’s office said Thursday that the equipment was donated by 11 local, county, state and tribal law enforcement agencies.
It includes 874 bullet proof vests, 77 helmets, miscellaneous tactical clothing, footwear, pads and shields.
The 17 pallets of equipment will be transported to Ukraine by the Ukrainian Relief Group and is expected to be delivered in the next two weeks.
As a sign of support, the Ukrainian flag flies in front of the Arizona State Capitol in Phoenix alongside the state flag.
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PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey announced Thursday that the state’s Department of Emergency and Military Affairs is sending 9,000 pounds of surplus equipment to Ukraine to help in its war against Russia.
The governor’s office said Thursday that the equipment was donated by 11 local, county, state and tribal law enforcement agencies.
It includes 874 bullet proof vests, 77 helmets, miscellaneous tactical clothing, footwear, pads and shields.
The 17 pallets of equipment will be transported to Ukraine by the Ukrainian Relief Group and is expected to be delivered in the next two weeks.
As a sign of support, the Ukrainian flag flies in front of the Arizona State Capitol in Phoenix alongside the state flag.
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PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey says the state's Department of Emergency and Military Affairs is sending 9,000 pounds of surplus equipment to Ukraine to help in its war against Russia.
The governor's office says the equipment was donated by 11 local, county, state and tribal law enforcement agencies.
It includes 874 bullet proof vests, 77 helmets, miscellaneous tactical clothing, footwear, pads and shields.
The 17 pallets of equipment will be transported to Ukraine by the Ukrainian Relief Group and is expected to be delivered in the next two weeks.
As a sign of support, the Ukrainian flag flies in front of the Arizona State Capitol in Phoenix alongside the state flag.
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This photo gallery highlights some of the most compelling images made or published by Associated Press photographers in Asia and Pacific.
The gallery was curated by AP photo editor Shuji Kajiyama in Tokyo.
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This photo gallery highlights some of the most compelling images made or published by Associated Press photographers in Asia and Pacific.
The gallery was curated by AP photo editor Shuji Kajiyama in Tokyo.
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Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/apnews
AP Images on Twitter: http://twitter.com/AP_Images
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March 25-31, 2022
This photo gallery highlights some of the most compelling images made or published by Associated Press photographers in Asia and Pacific.
The gallery was curated by AP photo editor Shuji Kajiyama in Tokyo.
Follow AP visual journalism:
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/apnews
AP Images on Twitter: http://twitter.com/AP_Images
AP Images blog: http://apimagesblog.com
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This photo gallery highlights some of the most compelling images made or published by Associated Press photographers in Asia and Pacific.
The gallery was curated by AP photo editor Shuji Kajiyama in Tokyo.
Follow AP visual journalism:
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/apnews
AP Images on Twitter: http://twitter.com/AP_Images
AP Images blog: http://apimagesblog.com
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March 25-31, 2022
This photo gallery highlights some of the most compelling images made or published by Associated Press photographers in Asia and Pacific.
The gallery was curated by AP photo editor Shuji Kajiyama in Tokyo.
Follow AP visual journalism:
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/apnews
AP Images on Twitter: http://twitter.com/AP_Images
AP Images blog: http://apimagesblog.com
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This photo gallery highlights some of the most compelling images made or published by Associated Press photographers in Asia and Pacific.
The gallery was curated by AP photo editor Shuji Kajiyama in Tokyo.
Follow AP visual journalism:
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/apnews
AP Images on Twitter: http://twitter.com/AP_Images
AP Images blog: http://apimagesblog.com
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WHL
All Times Local
Western Conference
B.C. Division
U.S. Division
Eastern Conference
East Division
Central Division
Note: x - clinched playoff berth; y - clinched division; Two points for a team winning in overtime or shootout; the team losing in overtime or shootout receives one which is registered in the OTL or SOL columns.
Tuesday's results
Winnipeg 8 Moose Jaw 1
Wednesday's results
Everett at Portland, 7 p.m.
Prince Albert 2 Brandon 1
Swift Current 6 Lethbridge 4
Regina 3 Saskatoon 2
Calgary 3 Medicine Hat 2
Kamloops 8 Prince George 2
Friday's games
Calgary at Swift Current, 7 p.m.
Moose Jaw at Saskatoon, 7 p.m.
Brandon at Prince Albert, 7 p.m.
Winnipeg at Regina, 7 p.m.
Medicine Hat at Lethbridge, 7 p.m.
Spokane at Kamloops, 7 p.m.
Prince George at Kelowna, 7:05 p.m.
Portland at Everett, 7:05 p.m.
Tri-City at Seattle, 7:05 p.m.
Saturday's games
Edmonton at Red Deer, 7 p.m.
Lethbridge at Medicine Hat, 7 p.m.
Brandon at Saskatoon, 7 p.m.
Seattle at Portland, 6 p.m.
Winnipeg at Moose Jaw, 7 p.m.
Regina at Prince Albert, 7 p.m.
Everett at Tri-City, 6:05 p.m.
Spokane at Vancouver, 7 p.m.
Victoria at Kelowna, 7:05 p.m.
Sunday's games
Swift Current at Calgary, 2 p.m.
Kamloops at Prince George, 2 p.m.
Red Deer at Edmonton, 4 p.m.
Spokane at Vancouver, 4 p.m.
Tuesday's games
Regina at Brandon, 7 p.m.
Saskatoon at Medicine Hat, 7 p.m.
Kelowna at Prince George, 7 p.m.
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WHL
All Times Local
Western Conference
B.C. Division
U.S. Division
Eastern Conference
East Division
Central Division
Note: x - clinched playoff berth; y - clinched division; Two points for a team winning in overtime or shootout; the team losing in overtime or shootout receives one which is registered in the OTL or SOL columns.
Tuesday's results
Winnipeg 8 Moose Jaw 1
Wednesday's results
Everett at Portland, 7 p.m.
Prince Albert 2 Brandon 1
Swift Current 6 Lethbridge 4
Regina 3 Saskatoon 2
Calgary 3 Medicine Hat 2
Kamloops 8 Prince George 2
Friday's results
Calgary 5 Swift Current 2
Saskatoon 4 Moose Jaw 1
Brandon 4 Prince Albert 2
Winnipeg 7 Regina 0
Lethbridge 6 Medicine Hat 3
Spokane at Kamloops, 7 p.m.
Kelowna 9 Prince George 2
Portland at Everett, 7:05 p.m.
Tri-City at Seattle, 7:05 p.m.
Saturday's results
Edmonton at Red Deer, 7 p.m.
Lethbridge at Medicine Hat, 7 p.m.
Brandon at Saskatoon, 7 p.m.
Seattle at Portland, 6 p.m.
Winnipeg at Moose Jaw, 7 p.m.
Regina at Prince Albert, 7 p.m.
Everett at Tri-City, 6:05 p.m.
Spokane at Vancouver, 7 p.m.
Victoria at Kelowna, 7:05 p.m.
Sunday's games
Swift Current at Calgary, 2 p.m.
Kamloops at Prince George, 2 p.m.
Red Deer at Edmonton, 4 p.m.
Spokane at Vancouver, 4 p.m.
Tuesday's games
Regina at Brandon, 7 p.m.
Saskatoon at Medicine Hat, 7 p.m.
Kelowna at Prince George, 7 p.m.
Wednesday's games
Saskatoon at Lethbridge, 7 p.m.
Kelowna at Prince George, 7 p.m.
Everett at Spokane, 7:05 p.m.
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