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https://www.wpri.com/business-news/russia-push-to-pay-for-gas-in-rubles-not-disrupting-supply/ | BERLIN (AP) — Russian officials said their demand for “unfriendly” countries to pay for natural gas in rubles does not mean supplies will be immediately interrupted.
Gas used for heating and electricity was still flowing from Russia to Europe on Friday.
“Payments on shipments in progress right now must be made not this very day, but somewhere in late April, or even early May,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.
A day earlier, President Vladimir Putin said Russia would start accepting ruble payments Friday and gas supplies would be cut off if buyers don’t agree to the new conditions, including opening ruble accounts.
But a decree he signed says countries could pay foreign currency to Gazprombank, which would convert the money into rubles in a second account to pay for the gas. It gave Russian authorities and the bank 10 days to make arrangements.
Putin’s measure applies to countries deemed “unfriendly” for imposing sanctions over Russia’s war in Ukraine, and European leaders have been weighing what the shift might mean.
Some experts say it could be an effort to prop up the ruble, which fell in value amid sanctions but has since bounced back, though the effect on the currency would be limited.
Putin’s demand has jolted energy markets and raised fears it could be a prelude to an interruption of supplies to Europe, which is heavily dependent on Russian natural gasand would struggle with a sudden cutoff. But Russia also depends on oil and gas sales for much of its government revenue at a time its economy is under severe stress from Western sanctions.
The European Commission’s energy chief, Ditte Juul Jorgensen, tweeted Friday that the European Union was coordinating “to establish a common approach.”
German officials said contracts stipulate payment for gas in euros and dollars and that must continue.
“The German government is currently examining this decree to determine its concrete effects,” spokesman Wolfgang Buechner said Friday.
Officials wouldn’t be drawn further on what impact the Russian demands might have. Economy Ministry spokeswoman Beate Baron noted that Gazprombank has been given 10 days to explain the procedure, “and of course we will in turn look carefully at that.”
Meanwhile, the International Energy Agency says its members agreed Friday to release more oil from their emergency reserves in response to market turmoil caused by the war.
The Paris-based agency did not say how much would be released but that it would offer details next week. It comes a month after the IEA’s 31 members, which include the United States, said they would release 62.7 million barrels of oilto ease shortages.
U.S. President Joe Biden on Thursday also ordered the release of 1 million barrels of oil per day from the nation’s strategic petroleum reserve for six months in a bid to control energy prices. | 2 | 70,722 | 0 | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/news/international/russia-push-to-pay-for-gas-in-rubles-not-disrupting-supply/ | 2022-04-01 18:20:03+00:00 | BERLIN (AP) — Russian officials said their demand for “unfriendly” countries to pay for natural gas in rubles does not mean supplies will be immediately interrupted.
Gas used for heating and electricity was still flowing from Russia to Europe on Friday.
“Payments on shipments in progress right now must be made not this very day, but somewhere in late April, or even early May,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.
A day earlier, President Vladimir Putin said Russia would start accepting ruble payments Friday and gas supplies would be cut off if buyers don’t agree to the new conditions, including opening ruble accounts.
But a decree he signed says countries could pay foreign currency to Gazprombank, which would convert the money into rubles in a second account to pay for the gas. It gave Russian authorities and the bank 10 days to make arrangements.
Putin’s measure applies to countries deemed “unfriendly” for imposing sanctions over Russia’s war in Ukraine, and European leaders have been weighing what the shift might mean.
Some experts say it could be an effort to prop up the ruble, which fell in value amid sanctions but has since bounced back, though the effect on the currency would be limited.
Putin’s demand has jolted energy markets and raised fears it could be a prelude to an interruption of supplies to Europe, which is heavily dependent on Russian natural gasand would struggle with a sudden cutoff. But Russia also depends on oil and gas sales for much of its government revenue at a time its economy is under severe stress from Western sanctions.
The European Commission’s energy chief, Ditte Juul Jorgensen, tweeted Friday that the European Union was coordinating “to establish a common approach.”
German officials said contracts stipulate payment for gas in euros and dollars and that must continue.
“The German government is currently examining this decree to determine its concrete effects,” spokesman Wolfgang Buechner said Friday.
Officials wouldn’t be drawn further on what impact the Russian demands might have. Economy Ministry spokeswoman Beate Baron noted that Gazprombank has been given 10 days to explain the procedure, “and of course we will in turn look carefully at that.”
Meanwhile, the International Energy Agency says its members agreed Friday to release more oil from their emergency reserves in response to market turmoil caused by the war.
The Paris-based agency did not say how much would be released but that it would offer details next week. It comes a month after the IEA’s 31 members, which include the United States, said they would release 62.7 million barrels of oilto ease shortages.
U.S. President Joe Biden on Thursday also ordered the release of 1 million barrels of oil per day from the nation’s strategic petroleum reserve for six months in a bid to control energy prices. |
https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexkay/2022/04/02/march-madness-2022-ncaa-tournament-final-four-bracket-schedule-time-odds-for-kansas-villanova-duke-unc/ | The Final Four gets underway this evening with two thrilling March Madness matchups that will determine the contestants for this year’s national championship game.
The final of the 2022 NCAA Tournament will surely be an exciting one, featuring four powerhouse programs that all have a strong chance of cutting down the nets in New Orleans.
Here’s a look at the updated March Madness bracket showing how each of the four national championship contenders—Duke, North Carolina, Villanova and Kansas—reached the Final Four:
March Madness Bracket
While brackets were busted early due to the sheer number of major upsets early in the 2022 NCAA Tournament, the Final Four has a rather blue-blooded look to it this year.
All four programs have won multiple NCAA Tournament titles—there are a combined 17 national championships between these Final Four participants—and each has claimed at least one since 2008.
Only one will hang another championship banner in their rafters at the conclusion of March Madness. Each team knows how difficult the journey will be and it should be nothing short of thrilling as they put it all on the line for a chance to reach the national title game.
With that in mind, here is how you can watch these much-anticipated 2022 NCAA Tournament games tonight, as well as check out the updated Final Four odds courtesy of FanDuel:
Final Four 2022 Schedule, Odds
All games can be streamed via March Madness Live.
Saturday, April 2
- No. 1 Kansas (-4.5) vs. No. 2 Villanova: 6:09 pm ET (TBS)
- No. 2 Duke (-4) vs. No. 8 North Carolina: 8:49 pm ET (TBS)
It all starts at 6:09 p.m. ET when Kansas takes on Villanova in the opening Final Four matchup.
The No. 2 Wildcats breezed through the South region with a dominant run that saw them win all four games by five or more points. Nova now has a chance to reach the title game for the third time since 2016.
They’ll face a tough test against the top-seeded Jayhawks. Kansas looked beatable at times—notably against Creighton and Providence during its trip through the Midwest portion of the bracket—but stepped up in the Elite 8 with a 26-point victory over Miami last weekend.
KU is seeking its first national championship game berth in a decade and has a good shot at making it as 4.5-point chalk against Villanova tonight.
The semifinals conclude with an iconic rivalry clash between North Carolina and Duke, which tips off at 8:49 p.m. ET.
The No. 8 Tar Heels became the highest seed to reach the Final Four after taking a rather unexpected path through the East region. UNC knocked off Baylor, the defending champions, and UCLA—another reigning Final Four squad—before the Elite 8, where the powerhouse ended a Cinderella run by No. 15 Saint Peter’s.
The victory set up a matchup with the Blue Devils, North Carolina’s longtime nemesis. This will be the 257th all-time meeting between these historic programs, a series UNC holds a 142-115 edge in after winning three of the last four battles.
Duke is projected to reverse those recent fortunes with a win in the Final Four. The Blue Devils are currently a four-point favorite following their impressive run through the West region.
With the pressure of head coach Mike Krzyzewski’s final season looming over the team, No. 2 Duke managed to topple a slew of quality foes—including Michigan State, Texas Tech and Arkansas—to reach the final weekend of March Madness. | 0 | 27,276 | 0.439347 | https://outsider.com/sports/2022-march-madness-final-four-games-channel-date-tipoff-streaming-options-for-games/ | 2022-04-02 20:34:15+00:00 | 2022 March Madness has already been one for the history books, but the NCAA tournament isn’t over yet. The Final Four games take place this weekend, with a trip to the National Championship at stake. Here’s a rundown of what you need to know going into this epic weekend of college basketball.
Tipoff Times:
- Kansas Jayhawks (1) battle the Villanova Wildcats (2) at 6:09 p.m. EST today in the New Orleans Caesars Superdome.
- Duke Blue Devils (2) face off against the North Carolina Tar Heels (8) at 8:49 p.m. EST today in the New Orleans Caesars Superdome.
- The National Championship game tip-off happens at 9:20 p.m. EST on Monday, April 4.
Where to Watch:
- Both games are available to watch on the TBS cable channel.
- You can stream both games on the NCAA website for free.
- Streaming services offering the game include Sling TV, YouTube TV, Hulu Plus Live TV, and DirecTV Stream.
What to Expect from the Final Four Games of March Madness 2022
On Saturday, April 2, 2022, four teams battle for their chance to compete in the National Championship game. This season — and especially the NCAA tournament — has seen several upsets and surprises, but there’s no question that all four teams earned their way to the top.
Starting off our Final Four games, we have Bill Self’s Kansas Jayhawks. They’re the only No. 1 seed remaining in the tournament, which has shocked some sports experts. At 6:09 p.m. tonight, the Jayhawks face Jay Wright’s Villanova Wildcats in the Caesars Superdome in New Orleans.
Villanova’s going for their third championship title in six tournaments. Those are tough odds to face, but the Jayhawks seem more than capable of giving the Wildcats a run for their money.
Then, at 8:49 p.m., the long-awaited matchup takes place. Rivals Duke and North Carolina battle for the remaining spot in the championship game, also at the Caesars Superdome in New Orleans. This is the first time the two teams will meet in an NCAA tournament game, surprisingly enough.
But this game is especially important to the two teams’ coaches. The Blue Devils’ Coach K (Mike Krzyzewski) announced his retirement during last year’s offseason, right as the Tar Heels’ longtime coach Roy Williams announced his. Williams, however, started his retirement in the offseason, not coming back for the 2021-2022 NCAA season. Coach K revealed that this season would be his last one with the Blue Devils.
Hubert Davis took over for Williams at North Carolina. And now, as a first-time coach, he might lead his team to a National Championship Title.
How to Watch the Final Four Games and National Championship
Speaking of the National Championship game, it takes place this coming Monday, April 4. Pre-game coverage starts at 7 p.m., while the tip-off occurs at 9:20 p.m. EST.
You can watch both Final Four games and the National Championship games on TBS. It’s the only cable channel that will carry the rest of the March Madness games.
If you don’t have cable, the NCAA website offers free live streaming here. The only other way to stream these games is if you have platforms like Sling TV, YouTube TV, Hulu Plus Live TV, or DirecTV Stream. These streamers basically provide you with cable options (like TBS), though they cost around $65-$70 per month. Free trials are also available for these platforms. |
https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexkay/2022/04/02/march-madness-2022-ncaa-tournament-final-four-bracket-schedule-time-odds-for-kansas-villanova-duke-unc/ | The Final Four gets underway this evening with two thrilling March Madness matchups that will determine the contestants for this year’s national championship game.
The final of the 2022 NCAA Tournament will surely be an exciting one, featuring four powerhouse programs that all have a strong chance of cutting down the nets in New Orleans.
Here’s a look at the updated March Madness bracket showing how each of the four national championship contenders—Duke, North Carolina, Villanova and Kansas—reached the Final Four:
March Madness Bracket
While brackets were busted early due to the sheer number of major upsets early in the 2022 NCAA Tournament, the Final Four has a rather blue-blooded look to it this year.
All four programs have won multiple NCAA Tournament titles—there are a combined 17 national championships between these Final Four participants—and each has claimed at least one since 2008.
Only one will hang another championship banner in their rafters at the conclusion of March Madness. Each team knows how difficult the journey will be and it should be nothing short of thrilling as they put it all on the line for a chance to reach the national title game.
With that in mind, here is how you can watch these much-anticipated 2022 NCAA Tournament games tonight, as well as check out the updated Final Four odds courtesy of FanDuel:
Final Four 2022 Schedule, Odds
All games can be streamed via March Madness Live.
Saturday, April 2
- No. 1 Kansas (-4.5) vs. No. 2 Villanova: 6:09 pm ET (TBS)
- No. 2 Duke (-4) vs. No. 8 North Carolina: 8:49 pm ET (TBS)
It all starts at 6:09 p.m. ET when Kansas takes on Villanova in the opening Final Four matchup.
The No. 2 Wildcats breezed through the South region with a dominant run that saw them win all four games by five or more points. Nova now has a chance to reach the title game for the third time since 2016.
They’ll face a tough test against the top-seeded Jayhawks. Kansas looked beatable at times—notably against Creighton and Providence during its trip through the Midwest portion of the bracket—but stepped up in the Elite 8 with a 26-point victory over Miami last weekend.
KU is seeking its first national championship game berth in a decade and has a good shot at making it as 4.5-point chalk against Villanova tonight.
The semifinals conclude with an iconic rivalry clash between North Carolina and Duke, which tips off at 8:49 p.m. ET.
The No. 8 Tar Heels became the highest seed to reach the Final Four after taking a rather unexpected path through the East region. UNC knocked off Baylor, the defending champions, and UCLA—another reigning Final Four squad—before the Elite 8, where the powerhouse ended a Cinderella run by No. 15 Saint Peter’s.
The victory set up a matchup with the Blue Devils, North Carolina’s longtime nemesis. This will be the 257th all-time meeting between these historic programs, a series UNC holds a 142-115 edge in after winning three of the last four battles.
Duke is projected to reverse those recent fortunes with a win in the Final Four. The Blue Devils are currently a four-point favorite following their impressive run through the West region.
With the pressure of head coach Mike Krzyzewski’s final season looming over the team, No. 2 Duke managed to topple a slew of quality foes—including Michigan State, Texas Tech and Arkansas—to reach the final weekend of March Madness. | 1 | 123,621 | 0.463813 | https://www.iowapublicradio.org/news-from-npr/2022-03-27/the-final-four-are-set-in-this-years-march-madness | 2022-04-05 10:27:13+00:00 | The Final Four are set for this year's NCAA men's basketball tournament: Rivals North Carolina and Duke will face off in one semifinal; in the other, Kansas will face Villanova.
North Carolina cut short a stunning Cinderella run by Saint Peter's University — a small New Jersey school that entered the tournament as the second-lowest ranking team — ending the Elite Eight game, 69-49, on Sunday.
Earlier in the day, the top-seeded Kansas Jayhawks advanced after beating the Miami Hurricanes, 76-50.
Both Final Four games will be held on Saturday at the Superdome in New Orleans, with the championship game set for April 4.
North Carolina vs. Duke: The storied foes will meet in an NCAA tournament for the first time. The Tar Heels bear six national titles. The Blue Devils are just one championship shier.
Kansas vs. Villanova: The Kansas Jayhawks are gunning for their first national title since 2008 against a familiar rival. The last time the Jayhawks made it to the semifinals was in 2018, when they lost 95-79 to the Villanova Wildcats. Each team is looking to grab a fourth national championship.
Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. |
https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexkay/2022/04/02/march-madness-2022-ncaa-tournament-final-four-bracket-schedule-time-odds-for-kansas-villanova-duke-unc/ | The Final Four gets underway this evening with two thrilling March Madness matchups that will determine the contestants for this year’s national championship game.
The final of the 2022 NCAA Tournament will surely be an exciting one, featuring four powerhouse programs that all have a strong chance of cutting down the nets in New Orleans.
Here’s a look at the updated March Madness bracket showing how each of the four national championship contenders—Duke, North Carolina, Villanova and Kansas—reached the Final Four:
March Madness Bracket
While brackets were busted early due to the sheer number of major upsets early in the 2022 NCAA Tournament, the Final Four has a rather blue-blooded look to it this year.
All four programs have won multiple NCAA Tournament titles—there are a combined 17 national championships between these Final Four participants—and each has claimed at least one since 2008.
Only one will hang another championship banner in their rafters at the conclusion of March Madness. Each team knows how difficult the journey will be and it should be nothing short of thrilling as they put it all on the line for a chance to reach the national title game.
With that in mind, here is how you can watch these much-anticipated 2022 NCAA Tournament games tonight, as well as check out the updated Final Four odds courtesy of FanDuel:
Final Four 2022 Schedule, Odds
All games can be streamed via March Madness Live.
Saturday, April 2
- No. 1 Kansas (-4.5) vs. No. 2 Villanova: 6:09 pm ET (TBS)
- No. 2 Duke (-4) vs. No. 8 North Carolina: 8:49 pm ET (TBS)
It all starts at 6:09 p.m. ET when Kansas takes on Villanova in the opening Final Four matchup.
The No. 2 Wildcats breezed through the South region with a dominant run that saw them win all four games by five or more points. Nova now has a chance to reach the title game for the third time since 2016.
They’ll face a tough test against the top-seeded Jayhawks. Kansas looked beatable at times—notably against Creighton and Providence during its trip through the Midwest portion of the bracket—but stepped up in the Elite 8 with a 26-point victory over Miami last weekend.
KU is seeking its first national championship game berth in a decade and has a good shot at making it as 4.5-point chalk against Villanova tonight.
The semifinals conclude with an iconic rivalry clash between North Carolina and Duke, which tips off at 8:49 p.m. ET.
The No. 8 Tar Heels became the highest seed to reach the Final Four after taking a rather unexpected path through the East region. UNC knocked off Baylor, the defending champions, and UCLA—another reigning Final Four squad—before the Elite 8, where the powerhouse ended a Cinderella run by No. 15 Saint Peter’s.
The victory set up a matchup with the Blue Devils, North Carolina’s longtime nemesis. This will be the 257th all-time meeting between these historic programs, a series UNC holds a 142-115 edge in after winning three of the last four battles.
Duke is projected to reverse those recent fortunes with a win in the Final Four. The Blue Devils are currently a four-point favorite following their impressive run through the West region.
With the pressure of head coach Mike Krzyzewski’s final season looming over the team, No. 2 Duke managed to topple a slew of quality foes—including Michigan State, Texas Tech and Arkansas—to reach the final weekend of March Madness. | 2 | 10,053 | 0.463813 | https://www.kgou.org/sports/2022-03-27/the-final-four-are-set-in-this-years-march-madness | 2022-04-05 12:15:23+00:00 | The Final Four are set for this year's NCAA men's basketball tournament: Rivals North Carolina and Duke will face off in one semifinal; in the other, Kansas will face Villanova.
North Carolina cut short a stunning Cinderella run by Saint Peter's University — a small New Jersey school that entered the tournament as the second-lowest ranking team — ending the Elite Eight game, 69-49, on Sunday.
Earlier in the day, the top-seeded Kansas Jayhawks advanced after beating the Miami Hurricanes, 76-50.
Both Final Four games will be held on Saturday at the Superdome in New Orleans, with the championship game set for April 4.
North Carolina vs. Duke: The storied foes will meet in an NCAA tournament for the first time. The Tar Heels bear six national titles. The Blue Devils are just one championship shier.
Kansas vs. Villanova: The Kansas Jayhawks are gunning for their first national title since 2008 against a familiar rival. The last time the Jayhawks made it to the semifinals was in 2018, when they lost 95-79 to the Villanova Wildcats. Each team is looking to grab a fourth national championship.
Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. |
https://cw33.com/news/local/saturday-is-national-peanut-butter-and-jelly-day-treat-yourself-to-the-best-in-dallas/ | DALLAS (KDAF) — Saturday, April 2 is National Peanut Butter and Jelly Day. Arguably the GOAT of summertime, lunch sandwiches and some of the best to dine on during a picnic.
Now, let’s give you a sneak peek at some of the best PB&J’s you can get around Dallas.
- Dallas Grilled Cheese Co, located in Upper Greenville and Bishop Arts District
- Hypnotic Donuts, located in Lakewood
- Bread Winners Cafe & Bakery, located in Uptown
- Maple Leaf Dinner, located in North Dallas
- The People’s Last Stand, located in Upper Greenville
- Rocket Fizz, located in Deep Ellum
- Rush Bowls, located in Upper Greenville
- Whistle Britches, located in North Dallas | 0 | 8,250 | 0.717633 | https://www.dailyindependent.com/news/lee-ward-pb-j-in-some-new-ways/article_d8c00a02-b282-11ec-b8ec-a7d68669ac0a.html | 2022-04-02 18:21:56+00:00 | Before we get down to business, let me alert you to what might be the most delicious festival in all the land.
The Old Washington Art and Chocolate Festival will be from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. April 9 at 2215 Old Main St. in Maysville.
It’s in the national historic district of Old Washington and features not only a variety of chocolate vendors, but artists and crafters from the area. Museums in town will be open with no admission charge.
For more information, call Lacey Holleran at (606) 563-2596 or email her at laceyholleran@maysvilleky.net.
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It’s National Peanut Butter and Jelly Day. What a strange thing to designate a day for! But for most, PB&J is a childhood favorite.
I didn’t eat the classic combo as a child. It just didn’t sound good to me, but at some point I tried it on white bread with grape jelly and it hit the spot.
I’ve learned that it’s not half bad with strawberry or raspberry jam, either.
Here’s a notion that never occurred to me from allrecipes.com.
GRILLED PEANUT
BUTTER AND JELLY SANDWICH
2 teaspoons butter
2 slices white bread
1 teaspoon peanut butter
2 teaspoons any flavor fruit jelly
Heat griddle or skillet to 350 degrees.
Spread butter on one side of each slice of bread. Spread peanut butter on unbuttered side of one slice of bread, and jelly on the other. Place one slice, buttered side down on the griddle. Top with other slice, so that peanut butter and jelly are in the middle. Cook for 4 minutes on each side, or until golden brown, and heated through.
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Peanut butter and jelly need not be trapped between two slices of bread. For those who really love the flavor combo, here are some other ideas.
PB&J MUFFINS
from ericasweettooth.com
for the muffins:
6 tbsp unsalted butter
3⁄4 cup peanut butter
1-3⁄4 cups all purpose flour
1 tsp baking soda
1⁄4 tsp salt
1 large egg
1⁄2 cup brown sugar, packed
2 tsp vanilla extract
1⁄4 cup milk
1⁄2 cup plain Greek yogurt
9 oz berry (or Grape if you must) preserves
for the crumb topping:
1⁄3 cup brown sugar, packed
1⁄3 cup granulated sugar
1⁄4 tsp cinnamon
1⁄4 tsp salt
1⁄2 cup unsalted butter, melted
1-1⁄2 cup all purpose flour
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees and line 12 muffins tins with cupcake liners and spray the inside of the liners with nonstick cooking spray. Place the butter and peanut butter in a microwave-safe bowl and microwave for 30 seconds. Stir well until completely melted and mixed together.
In a medium bowl, whisk together the flour, baking soda, and salt. In the bowl of an electric mixer, beat together the egg, brown sugar, and vanilla extract until smooth. Add the butter and peanut butter mixture and continue beating until well incorporated. Add the milk and yogurt and mix again. With the mixer on low speed, slowly add the dry ingredients and mix until just incorporated. The batter will be very thick.
Divide the batter among the liners so that each one is about 3⁄4 of the way full. Use your fingers to create a little well in the top of the muffin batter and place a dollop (about 1 tbsp) of jelly onto each one.
For the crumb topping, whisk together the sugars, cinnamon, salt and melted butter until smooth. Then add the flour and use a wooden spoon or rubber spatula to fold in the flour until a paste-like dough results. Crumble the mixture with your fingers and add a generous amount of crumbs to each muffin top, covering the jelly and pressing the crumbs down well so they stick to the batter. Add a few more dollops or drizzles of jelly to each muffin and bake for 18-22 minutes, or until a cake tester comes out clean. Allow muffins to cool in the pan for 5 minutes, then transfer to a wire rack to cool completely.
PB&J SMOOTHIE
from kitchentreaty.com
1 medium banana
1⁄2 cup almond milk (I use unsweetened) (or milk of choice)
2 tablespoons peanut butter (I like creamy natural-style + more for topping if desired)
1⁄2 cup frozen strawberries
1⁄2 cup ice cubes
Place all ingredients in a blender and puree until smooth. Pour into a glass.
Drizzle with additional peanut butter if desired. If your peanut butter is thick to drizzle, place it in a microwave-safe bowl and microwave for about 30 seconds until thinned; it should be easier to drizzle when warm.
PB&J OVERNIGHT OATS
1⁄2 to 3⁄4 cup of old-fashion oatmeal
3⁄4 to 1 cup of unsweetened almond milk
sprinkle of cinnamon
Large scoop of chunky PB
Small spoon of strawberry jam
Add oats, milk and cinnamon together in container. Layer peanut buitter on top of the oats. Layer a small spoon of jam on top of peanut butter. Top it off with another layer of peanut butter. Refrigerate until morning. Mix or eat as is.
PB&J GRANOLA
from maebells.com
Old fashion oats
Honey
Peanut butter
Jelly
Vanilla extract
Cinnamon
Honey-roasted peanuts
Pecans
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Combine the honey, peanut butter, jelly, vanilla and cinnamon in a mixing bowl.
Heat in the microwave for 30 seconds at a time until smooth.
After mixture is smooth, add oats, peanuts and pecans and stir until they are coated well.
Spray a large baking sheet with cooking spray and spread granola evenly in a single layer. Bake 10 minutes, stir, and then bake 5 more minutes.
THREE-INGREDIENT PEANUT BUTTER AND JELLY BARS
from savorylotus.com
1 cup peanut butter (or almond butter or cashew butter)
1⁄2 cup coconut butter
1⁄4 cup jam
2 tbsp water for thinning
optional: 1-2 pinches of salt and 1-2 tablespoons of maple syrup
Line the bottom of a 9-by-5 inch pan with one long piece of parchment paper, cut to fit across the bottom and long enough to run up the short sides several inches. Set aside.
Scoop peanut butter into a mixing bowl. Set aside.
In a double boiler, melt coconut butter until smooth. Add melted coconut butter to peanut butter and mix until creamy smooth. Add a pinch or two of salt if your peanut butter is unsalted OR if you just love salty and sweet flavors together. Add optional maple syrup, if desired. Using a spatula, transfer mixture into prepared pan and smooth out the top.
In a small bowl, mix together jam and two tablespoons of water then drizzle jam over top of fudge mixture. Drag and swirl a toothpick or sharp knife through jam to create a marble effect.
Place in freezer to set for at least an hour. Slice frozen fudge into small squares with a sharp knife. Serve chilled. Store in freezer.
TIP: Be sure all ingredients are room temperature, as cold nut butter will make this recipe too thick to spread properly.
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https://cw33.com/news/local/saturday-is-national-peanut-butter-and-jelly-day-treat-yourself-to-the-best-in-dallas/ | DALLAS (KDAF) — Saturday, April 2 is National Peanut Butter and Jelly Day. Arguably the GOAT of summertime, lunch sandwiches and some of the best to dine on during a picnic.
Now, let’s give you a sneak peek at some of the best PB&J’s you can get around Dallas.
- Dallas Grilled Cheese Co, located in Upper Greenville and Bishop Arts District
- Hypnotic Donuts, located in Lakewood
- Bread Winners Cafe & Bakery, located in Uptown
- Maple Leaf Dinner, located in North Dallas
- The People’s Last Stand, located in Upper Greenville
- Rocket Fizz, located in Deep Ellum
- Rush Bowls, located in Upper Greenville
- Whistle Britches, located in North Dallas | 1 | 114,899 | 0.839017 | https://www.pennlive.com/life/2022/08/jollibee-ready-to-open-its-first-restaurant-in-pa-this-week.html | 2022-08-31 13:02:11+00:00 | Jollibee restaurant will open its first store in Pennsylvania on Friday, Sept. 2, in Philadelphia.
The fast-food chain is known for its fried chicken, Chickenjoy, chicken sandwiches and peach mango pie.
The Philadelphia store is at 7340 Bustleton Ave. It will be open seven days a week from 9 a.m. to 11 p.m. Customers can dine-in, order to-go or use the drive-thru.
“We heard our fans loud and clear and know that this market has been waiting a long time for their very own Jollibee. The city of Philadelphia is ripe with American history, the location of many ‘firsts’ for this country, and now home to the first Jollibee in Pennsylvania,” said Maribeth Dela Cruz, president, Jollibee North America, in a news release.
According to Jollibee, these are its “must-try” menu items:
Chickenjoy, hand-breaded bone-in signature fried chicken. Chickenjoy also comes in a spicy version.
The brand’s chicken sandwich features a chicken breast spread with umami mayo and served on a toasted brioche bun. The sandwich also comes in a spicy version.
Peach mango pie is made with peaches and Philippine mangoes in a crispy crust.
On Aug. 18, Jollibee opened its Time Square flagship location in New York. Earlier this summer, Jollibee opened in Alexandria, Virginia; and Jamaica Queens, New York.
Jollibee said it has has more than 1,500 restaurants in 17 countries.
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https://cw33.com/news/local/saturday-is-national-peanut-butter-and-jelly-day-treat-yourself-to-the-best-in-dallas/ | DALLAS (KDAF) — Saturday, April 2 is National Peanut Butter and Jelly Day. Arguably the GOAT of summertime, lunch sandwiches and some of the best to dine on during a picnic.
Now, let’s give you a sneak peek at some of the best PB&J’s you can get around Dallas.
- Dallas Grilled Cheese Co, located in Upper Greenville and Bishop Arts District
- Hypnotic Donuts, located in Lakewood
- Bread Winners Cafe & Bakery, located in Uptown
- Maple Leaf Dinner, located in North Dallas
- The People’s Last Stand, located in Upper Greenville
- Rocket Fizz, located in Deep Ellum
- Rush Bowls, located in Upper Greenville
- Whistle Britches, located in North Dallas | 2 | 60,405 | 0.85674 | https://6abc.com/jollibee-philadelphia-northeast-philly-bustleton-avenue-new-restaurant/12189097/ | 2022-09-02 11:32:52+00:00 | PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- A Filipino fast-food chain that made national headlines is opening its doors in Philadelphia.
Jollibee's first store in Pennsylvania is at 7340 Bustleton Avenue.
The food website Eater.com ranked Jollibee's chickenjoy the "best chain fried chicken in America."
The new store is set to open at 9 a.m. Friday.
The restaurant is part of a $50 million redevelopment at the site of the former Sears in Northeast Philly.
The pandemic delayed opening until now.
Jollibee has more than 1,500 restaurants across 17 countries and says it is "quickly expanding across North America."
Along with fried chicken and chicken sandwiches, you can also find Jolly Spaghetti - topped with ham, ground meat and hot dogs - along with Palabok Fiesta, a "traditional Filipino noodle dish." |
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10679095/Mel-Gibsons-handler-cuts-interview-asked-Smiths-slap-Chris-Rock.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ito=1490&ns_campaign=1490 | 'Thanks, that's time': VERY awkward moment Mel Gibson's handler cuts off interview after controversial star is asked about Will Smith's slap of Chris Rock
- Mel Gibson's handler shut down an interview with Jesse Waters after the Fox News host asked about Will Smith's slapping Chris Rock onstage at the Oscars
- 'If you had been the one that jumped up out of his seat and slapped Chris Rock... would you have been treated the same way?' Watters asked the veteran actor
- An off-screen female voice cut in at that point, telling Watters that Gibson's time was up as the actor grimaced and awkwardly shook his head
- Gibson is no stranger to onstage conflict - in 2016, he was heckled by Golden Globes cohost Ricky Gervais for his 2006 DUI arrest and previous antisemitism
Mel Gibson's handler abruptly shut down an interview with Jesse Watters on Friday after the Fox News host asked the veteran actor, who is no stranger to onstage conflict, about the confrontation between Will Smith's and Chris Rock at the Oscars.
'You understand if probably better than a lot of people, with you career,' Watters led in, deviating from an on-air conversation about the two-time Oscar winner's upcoming film, 'Father Stu.'
'And I was wondering if, you know, you had been the one that jumped up out of his seat and slapped Chris Rock, if you would have been treated the same way. Mel?'
Gibson points his finger into the camera, grimaces and shakes his head, then waves his other hand.
'Hello, Jesse? Um, thank you, that's our time,' cuts in a female voice from off-camera.
Gibson continues to smile awkwardly, looking sideways off-camera and then into his lap. But Watters pressed further.
On Friday, Jesse Watters tried to get commentary from veteran actor Mel Gibson on Will Smith's and Chris Rock's altercation at the Oscars ceremony - but was quickly shut down by the actor's handler
The interview aired about an hour after Smith resigned from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, saying he will accept any further consequences from the Academy's board for slapping Rock onstage at the Oscars
Gibson shakes his finger at the camera and smiles awkwardly at the question before his staffer intervenes
Gibson keeps his gaze lowered until Watters thanks him for his time, to which Gibson looks back up and waves
'Have you ever thought about that?'
'Um, I'm - thank you, Jesse,' the female voice responds. 'Uh, we - that is our time.'
Gibson keeps his gaze lowered until Watters thanks him for his time, to which Gibson looks back up and waves.
'Well, Mel, thank you very much for joining Jesse Watters Primetime. We really appreciate it,' Watters said.
The interview aired about an hour after Smith resigned from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, saying he will accept any further consequences from the Academy's board for slapping Rock onstage at the Oscars ceremony.
After Oscars presenter Rock cracked a joke about Smith's wife Jada Pinkett Smith's shaved head at Sunday's ceremony, saying that she could star in 'GI Jane 2', Smith stormed the stage and slapped the comedian.
In a statement, the best actor winner for 'King Richard' said his actions 'were shocking, painful, and inexcusable. The list of those I have hurt is long and includes Chris, his family, many of my dear friends and loved ones, all those in attendance, and global audiences at home.'
The Academy held an emergency board meeting of its governors on Wednesday to begin a formal review process of Smith's conduct.
Disciplinary action could include anything from forcing him to hand back his Oscar to the most severe punishment - suspension from the Academy - which would put Smith among the ranks of Harvey Weinstein and Bill Cosby, who were both expelled for sexual misconduct.
The board is scheduled to meet again on April 15 to determine additional consequences.
Gibson experienced a tense onstage experience at 2016's Golden Globes ceremony - although it didn't come to blows - when co-host Ricky Gervais brought up the Braveheart actor's 2006 DUI arrest and previous antisemitic comments.
As Gibson took to the stage to present an award, Gervais said: 'What the f*** does sugart**s even mean?'
Gibson experienced a tense onstage experience at 2016's Golden Globes ceremony when co-host Ricky Gervais brought up the Braveheart actor's 2006 DUI arrest and previous antisemitic comments
After being pulled over by a female police officer a decade ago, the Braveheart actor reportedly said: 'What do you think you're looking at, sugart**ts?'
He also allegedly asked the arresting officer whether she was Jewish, exclaiming 'f***ing Jews... the Jews are responsible for all the wars in the world.'
Then, in July 2010, Gibson's girlfriend at the time Oksana Grigorieva recorded him in phone conversations in which he allegedly used both racial and homophobic slurs.
'You look like a f***ing pig in heat, and if you get raped by a pack of n*****s, it will be your fault,' he said to her in one recording.
His career in the aftermath of these incidents cooled down, with the actor taking small roles in films including The Expendables 3 and Machete Kills.
As Gervais signed off at the end of the show - referencing Gibson's anti-semitic comments - he said: 'From myself and Mel Gibson, Shalom.' | 0 | 75,445 | 0.391248 | https://www.1news.co.nz/2022/04/03/mel-gibsons-minder-cuts-tv-interview-short-over-slap-question/ | 2022-04-04 01:58:19+00:00 | Mel Gibson's media minder awkwardly cut short a live television interview after he was asked about Will Smith's slap on Chris Rock.
Actor-director Gibson was being interviewed about an upcoming film when Fox host Jesse Watters asked about the incident.
“You understand it probably better than a lot of people, with your career. I was wondering if, you know, you had been the one that jumped up out of his seat and slapped Chris Rock, if you would have been treated the same way, Mel?”
Gibson smiled, somewhat awkwardly, but his publicist wasn't having a bar of it, coming on the line and saying “hello Jesse, thank you – that’s our time".
Watters didn't give up, prompting a second interruption.
“Thank you, Jesse. Uh, we – that is our time.”
In 2016, Ricky Gervais brought up Gibson's 2006 drink-driving arrest and anti-Semitic comments on stage at the Golden Globes, as Gibson was preparing to present an award. |
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10679095/Mel-Gibsons-handler-cuts-interview-asked-Smiths-slap-Chris-Rock.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ito=1490&ns_campaign=1490 | 'Thanks, that's time': VERY awkward moment Mel Gibson's handler cuts off interview after controversial star is asked about Will Smith's slap of Chris Rock
- Mel Gibson's handler shut down an interview with Jesse Waters after the Fox News host asked about Will Smith's slapping Chris Rock onstage at the Oscars
- 'If you had been the one that jumped up out of his seat and slapped Chris Rock... would you have been treated the same way?' Watters asked the veteran actor
- An off-screen female voice cut in at that point, telling Watters that Gibson's time was up as the actor grimaced and awkwardly shook his head
- Gibson is no stranger to onstage conflict - in 2016, he was heckled by Golden Globes cohost Ricky Gervais for his 2006 DUI arrest and previous antisemitism
Mel Gibson's handler abruptly shut down an interview with Jesse Watters on Friday after the Fox News host asked the veteran actor, who is no stranger to onstage conflict, about the confrontation between Will Smith's and Chris Rock at the Oscars.
'You understand if probably better than a lot of people, with you career,' Watters led in, deviating from an on-air conversation about the two-time Oscar winner's upcoming film, 'Father Stu.'
'And I was wondering if, you know, you had been the one that jumped up out of his seat and slapped Chris Rock, if you would have been treated the same way. Mel?'
Gibson points his finger into the camera, grimaces and shakes his head, then waves his other hand.
'Hello, Jesse? Um, thank you, that's our time,' cuts in a female voice from off-camera.
Gibson continues to smile awkwardly, looking sideways off-camera and then into his lap. But Watters pressed further.
On Friday, Jesse Watters tried to get commentary from veteran actor Mel Gibson on Will Smith's and Chris Rock's altercation at the Oscars ceremony - but was quickly shut down by the actor's handler
The interview aired about an hour after Smith resigned from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, saying he will accept any further consequences from the Academy's board for slapping Rock onstage at the Oscars
Gibson shakes his finger at the camera and smiles awkwardly at the question before his staffer intervenes
Gibson keeps his gaze lowered until Watters thanks him for his time, to which Gibson looks back up and waves
'Have you ever thought about that?'
'Um, I'm - thank you, Jesse,' the female voice responds. 'Uh, we - that is our time.'
Gibson keeps his gaze lowered until Watters thanks him for his time, to which Gibson looks back up and waves.
'Well, Mel, thank you very much for joining Jesse Watters Primetime. We really appreciate it,' Watters said.
The interview aired about an hour after Smith resigned from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, saying he will accept any further consequences from the Academy's board for slapping Rock onstage at the Oscars ceremony.
After Oscars presenter Rock cracked a joke about Smith's wife Jada Pinkett Smith's shaved head at Sunday's ceremony, saying that she could star in 'GI Jane 2', Smith stormed the stage and slapped the comedian.
In a statement, the best actor winner for 'King Richard' said his actions 'were shocking, painful, and inexcusable. The list of those I have hurt is long and includes Chris, his family, many of my dear friends and loved ones, all those in attendance, and global audiences at home.'
The Academy held an emergency board meeting of its governors on Wednesday to begin a formal review process of Smith's conduct.
Disciplinary action could include anything from forcing him to hand back his Oscar to the most severe punishment - suspension from the Academy - which would put Smith among the ranks of Harvey Weinstein and Bill Cosby, who were both expelled for sexual misconduct.
The board is scheduled to meet again on April 15 to determine additional consequences.
Gibson experienced a tense onstage experience at 2016's Golden Globes ceremony - although it didn't come to blows - when co-host Ricky Gervais brought up the Braveheart actor's 2006 DUI arrest and previous antisemitic comments.
As Gibson took to the stage to present an award, Gervais said: 'What the f*** does sugart**s even mean?'
Gibson experienced a tense onstage experience at 2016's Golden Globes ceremony when co-host Ricky Gervais brought up the Braveheart actor's 2006 DUI arrest and previous antisemitic comments
After being pulled over by a female police officer a decade ago, the Braveheart actor reportedly said: 'What do you think you're looking at, sugart**ts?'
He also allegedly asked the arresting officer whether she was Jewish, exclaiming 'f***ing Jews... the Jews are responsible for all the wars in the world.'
Then, in July 2010, Gibson's girlfriend at the time Oksana Grigorieva recorded him in phone conversations in which he allegedly used both racial and homophobic slurs.
'You look like a f***ing pig in heat, and if you get raped by a pack of n*****s, it will be your fault,' he said to her in one recording.
His career in the aftermath of these incidents cooled down, with the actor taking small roles in films including The Expendables 3 and Machete Kills.
As Gervais signed off at the end of the show - referencing Gibson's anti-semitic comments - he said: 'From myself and Mel Gibson, Shalom.' | 1 | 51,171 | 0.392259 | https://outsider.com/entertainment/mel-gibson-interview-abruptly-cut-off-over-question-will-smith-2022-oscars-slap-incident/ | 2022-04-03 00:19:22+00:00 | Will Smith is inarguably one of the most popular actors in Hollywood. However, the actor has received unprecedented international attention since he slapped comedian Chris Rock at the Oscars last week. Now, all eyes have turned to the actor as he awaits word regarding his actions at the prestigious awards show. Meanwhile, other Hollywood icons have begun to comment on Will Smith’s actions, reactions varying across the board. Fellow actor Mel Gibson seems to have some opinions of his own regarding the Oscars uproar. However, a recent interview highlighting the subject concluded awkwardly when his response became cut off by a handler.
Mel Gibson’s Awkward ‘Fox News’ Interview
During an appearance on Fox News‘ “Jesse Watters Primetime,” the show host, Jesse Watters, asked Mel Gibson what he believed reactions might have looked like had he gone up on stage during the Oscars and slapped Chris Rock, rather than Will Smith.
As you can see in the immensely awkward clip below (fast-forward to the 5:45 minute mark), Mel Gibson had a response in mind when it came to Watters’ question regarding the Oscars.
The host kicked off his question with, “You understand [ego] probably better than a lot of people, with your career.” He continued, “I was wondering if, you know, you had been the one that jumped up out of his seat and slapped Chris Rock if you would have been treated the same way. Mel?”
As a refresher, despite Smith’s actions at the Oscars, award show officials allowed him to stay for the duration of the event. He also received his first Oscar award and even saw a standing-o after concluding his acceptance speech.
As the Fox News host wrapped his question, Gibson grinned, pointed at the camera, and then made a motion as if he knew what would happen next would be as awkward as it was.
Suddenly, we hear a disgruntled woman, not pictured, state, “Hello, Jesse? Um, thank you, that’s our time.”
Instead of wrapping the interview, Watters tried once more, “Have you thought about that?”
Again, the woman interjected with, “Um, I’m – thank you, Jesse. Uh, we – that is our time.”
Why Was Mel Gibson’s Oscars Response Cut Off?
Multiple reasons likely contribute to Mel Gibson’s handler’s awkward cut off the Fox News interview. However, the Daily Mail suggests the main reason might be because other actors and iconic individuals that have commented on the situation have received backlash from the public.
Jim Carrey and Zoe Kravitz, for example, have come under verbal assault as, following their responses to Will Smith’s actions, people have accused them of hypocrisy, bringing up previous scandals that have also been aired by Twitter.
Gibson would likely face backlash himself had he shared his thoughts. The actor has been known to make anti-Semitic and misogynistic comments in the past. |
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10679095/Mel-Gibsons-handler-cuts-interview-asked-Smiths-slap-Chris-Rock.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ito=1490&ns_campaign=1490 | 'Thanks, that's time': VERY awkward moment Mel Gibson's handler cuts off interview after controversial star is asked about Will Smith's slap of Chris Rock
- Mel Gibson's handler shut down an interview with Jesse Waters after the Fox News host asked about Will Smith's slapping Chris Rock onstage at the Oscars
- 'If you had been the one that jumped up out of his seat and slapped Chris Rock... would you have been treated the same way?' Watters asked the veteran actor
- An off-screen female voice cut in at that point, telling Watters that Gibson's time was up as the actor grimaced and awkwardly shook his head
- Gibson is no stranger to onstage conflict - in 2016, he was heckled by Golden Globes cohost Ricky Gervais for his 2006 DUI arrest and previous antisemitism
Mel Gibson's handler abruptly shut down an interview with Jesse Watters on Friday after the Fox News host asked the veteran actor, who is no stranger to onstage conflict, about the confrontation between Will Smith's and Chris Rock at the Oscars.
'You understand if probably better than a lot of people, with you career,' Watters led in, deviating from an on-air conversation about the two-time Oscar winner's upcoming film, 'Father Stu.'
'And I was wondering if, you know, you had been the one that jumped up out of his seat and slapped Chris Rock, if you would have been treated the same way. Mel?'
Gibson points his finger into the camera, grimaces and shakes his head, then waves his other hand.
'Hello, Jesse? Um, thank you, that's our time,' cuts in a female voice from off-camera.
Gibson continues to smile awkwardly, looking sideways off-camera and then into his lap. But Watters pressed further.
On Friday, Jesse Watters tried to get commentary from veteran actor Mel Gibson on Will Smith's and Chris Rock's altercation at the Oscars ceremony - but was quickly shut down by the actor's handler
The interview aired about an hour after Smith resigned from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, saying he will accept any further consequences from the Academy's board for slapping Rock onstage at the Oscars
Gibson shakes his finger at the camera and smiles awkwardly at the question before his staffer intervenes
Gibson keeps his gaze lowered until Watters thanks him for his time, to which Gibson looks back up and waves
'Have you ever thought about that?'
'Um, I'm - thank you, Jesse,' the female voice responds. 'Uh, we - that is our time.'
Gibson keeps his gaze lowered until Watters thanks him for his time, to which Gibson looks back up and waves.
'Well, Mel, thank you very much for joining Jesse Watters Primetime. We really appreciate it,' Watters said.
The interview aired about an hour after Smith resigned from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, saying he will accept any further consequences from the Academy's board for slapping Rock onstage at the Oscars ceremony.
After Oscars presenter Rock cracked a joke about Smith's wife Jada Pinkett Smith's shaved head at Sunday's ceremony, saying that she could star in 'GI Jane 2', Smith stormed the stage and slapped the comedian.
In a statement, the best actor winner for 'King Richard' said his actions 'were shocking, painful, and inexcusable. The list of those I have hurt is long and includes Chris, his family, many of my dear friends and loved ones, all those in attendance, and global audiences at home.'
The Academy held an emergency board meeting of its governors on Wednesday to begin a formal review process of Smith's conduct.
Disciplinary action could include anything from forcing him to hand back his Oscar to the most severe punishment - suspension from the Academy - which would put Smith among the ranks of Harvey Weinstein and Bill Cosby, who were both expelled for sexual misconduct.
The board is scheduled to meet again on April 15 to determine additional consequences.
Gibson experienced a tense onstage experience at 2016's Golden Globes ceremony - although it didn't come to blows - when co-host Ricky Gervais brought up the Braveheart actor's 2006 DUI arrest and previous antisemitic comments.
As Gibson took to the stage to present an award, Gervais said: 'What the f*** does sugart**s even mean?'
Gibson experienced a tense onstage experience at 2016's Golden Globes ceremony when co-host Ricky Gervais brought up the Braveheart actor's 2006 DUI arrest and previous antisemitic comments
After being pulled over by a female police officer a decade ago, the Braveheart actor reportedly said: 'What do you think you're looking at, sugart**ts?'
He also allegedly asked the arresting officer whether she was Jewish, exclaiming 'f***ing Jews... the Jews are responsible for all the wars in the world.'
Then, in July 2010, Gibson's girlfriend at the time Oksana Grigorieva recorded him in phone conversations in which he allegedly used both racial and homophobic slurs.
'You look like a f***ing pig in heat, and if you get raped by a pack of n*****s, it will be your fault,' he said to her in one recording.
His career in the aftermath of these incidents cooled down, with the actor taking small roles in films including The Expendables 3 and Machete Kills.
As Gervais signed off at the end of the show - referencing Gibson's anti-semitic comments - he said: 'From myself and Mel Gibson, Shalom.' | 2 | 89,907 | 0.414106 | https://www.westernjournal.com/mel-gibsons-fox-news-interview-comes-bizarre-end-asked-will-smith/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=raisingred&utm_campaign=lminetwork&utm_content=2022-04-05 | 2022-04-05 07:07:58+00:00 | Mel Gibson's Fox News Interview Comes to a Bizarre End When He's Asked About Will Smith
Actor Mel Gibson had nothing to say Friday night after Fox News host Jesse Watters asked him about the Will Smith incident.
Gibson was interviewed as part of his promotional efforts for his new film “Father Stu” when Watters steered the interview to Sunday’s incident at the Oscars in which Smith slapped Chris Rock
Gibson had just finished a segment of the congenial interview devoted to a discussion of the rampant egotism of modern America when Watters shifted ground.
“You understand it probably better than a lot of people, with your career,” said Watters.
“I was wondering if, you know, you had been the one that jumped up out of his seat and slapped Chris Rock, if you would have been treated the same way, Mel?” he said
Exclusive one-on-one with Mel Gibson #FoxNews pic.twitter.com/C13wogYZSm
— Jesse Watters Primetime (@jesseprimetime) April 1, 2022
Gibson pointed his finger at the camera and shook his head, appearing to laugh as his audio cut out.
A female voice off-camera replied for Gibson, saying, “Hello, Jessie? Thank you. That’s our time.”
The Fox News host gave it one more try, asking “Have you ever thought about that?”
The unseen voice then intervened
“Thank you, Jesse. That is our time.”
Somewhere out there, Mel Gibson’s like: “Why am I trending because Will Smith slapped Chris Rock???” pic.twitter.com/xIuJEXiZzX
— Fuzzy Chimp 🇺🇸 (@fuzzychimpcom) March 28, 2022
On Friday, Smith officially resigned as a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences due to the incident.
“My actions at the 94th Academy Awards presentation were shocking, painful, and inexcusable. The list of those I have hurt is long and includes Chris, his family, many of my dear friends and loved ones, all those in attendance, and global audiences at home,” he said in a statement, according to Variety.
“I am heartbroken. I want to put the focus back on those who deserve attention for their achievements and allow the Academy to get back to the incredible work it does to support creativity and artistry in film,” he said in the statement.
Mel Gibson dragged into ‘slap-gate’ as fans call for him to lose Oscar if Will Smith doeshttps://t.co/1MEoiPL0ZE
— Express Celebrity 💫 (@expressceleb) April 1, 2022
The Academy has a meeting planned for April 18 to discuss how to handle Smith, who for now keeps his Oscar and the right to be honored by the Academy, but no longer is considered a voting member.
The Screen Actors Guild has also issued a statement saying that it “will work to ensure this behavior is appropriately addressed.”
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10679167/Nadhim-Zahawi-says-children-not-snowflakes-able-read-books-racial-slurs.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ito=1490&ns_campaign=1490 | Education Secretary Nadhim Zahawi says 'children are not snowflakes' and must be able to read books with racial slurs in them as he warns against creating ‘false filters’ for pupils’ learning
- Nadhim Zahawi has said that 'children are not snowflakes' to the Telegraph
- The Education Secretary has said pupils should read books with racial slurs in
- He warned against creating 'false filters' and teaching only one point of view
- He drew upon his own experience as an Iraqi immigrant to defend the British Mandate of Iraq
The Education Secretary has insisted children are not 'snowflakes' and should be allowed to read books featuring racial slurs.
Nadhim Zahawi warned against creating 'false filters' for pupils, arguing that 'those in a position of responsibility should be teaching young minds how to think, not what to think'.
It comes after the Government released guidance earlier this year aimed at helping teachers avoid 'promoting contested theories as fact' in England.
Nadhim Zahawi warned against creating 'false filters' for pupils, arguing that 'those in a position of responsibility should be teaching young minds how to think, not what to think'
Speaking to Chopper's Politics podcast from The Telegraph, the Education Secretary said it was important to remember the resilience shown by children during the pandemic.
'These kids are resilient. They've come through the Covid pandemic, the mistaken closure of schools. They're not snowflakes at all. They are really resilient, and I think it's important to remember that,' he said.
He added: 'Those in a position of responsibility should be teaching young minds how to think, not what to think.
'Children... if you teach them to be curious, if you teach them to understand how to filter and rely on quality journalism and understand both sides of the argument, then you'll be doing something truly great.
''Don't take your own fears and prejudices into the classroom would be my mantra.'
Asked if children should be able to to read racial slurs such as those contained in Harper Lee's To Kill A Mockingbird, he said: 'Totally. I think it's really important that children are allowed to be able to be curious... to understand where this stuff comes from, rather than (where you) create these sort of false filters for them.'
The Government guidance on political impartiality in schools, published in February, suggested teaching of the British empire should be presented in 'a balanced manner'.
Government guidance on political impartiality in schools, published in February, suggested teaching of the British empire should be presented in 'a balanced manner'
It was criticised by anti-racism campaigners, who called it 'disturbing', while teachers' leaders said it would stop pupils from engaging with challenging issues in the classroom.
Mr Zahawi, whose family fled Iraq for the UK when he was a child, told The Telegraph: 'We have to learn all aspects of empire, both sides of it. Why do I say that? Because actually some people... may have not seen what my family's experienced.
'The legacy of British mandate in Iraq was a great civil service that then the Ba'athist - Saddam Hussein and his ilk - dismantled and actually set the country back decades.
'And you talk to Iraqis today, they still hark back to a world where they had a civil service that was the pride of the nation, that really delivered for people.
'And I think that's important, for children to learn today that there were some really important things that we did around the world that is a real legacy, as well as, of course, some of the less good things.'
Zahawi said they must be able to read racial slurs in literature such as those contained within perhaps the greatest American novel, Harper Lee's To Kill A Mockingbird
Mr Zahawi also said he was 'deeply uncomfortable' with people 'beginning to view everything through the lens of 2022'.
'You don't become a better nation, a more cohesive community, by denying the past, removing the past. Half of Whitehall would have to be demolished... You explain the past, and you have to explain both sides,' he said.
'There are some really important things that happened that are great things that we exported to the rest of the world, as well as the less good things. And that's really important.
'I'm deeply uncomfortable with us beginning to view everything through the lens of 2022, when life was very different in previous centuries and the values then were different.'
On political debate in schools, he said: 'The first thing I got back when I set out my guidelines around political impartiality is 'you want people not to think about politics'.
'That's not true. I will never turn down during election time a debate at one of my schools. But I want children to hear from the 'blue' team and the 'red' team and the 'yellow' team and the 'green' team.
'Because they need to hear all sides of the argument - they need to be able to themselves 'stress test' arguments. We don't need to put warnings on things.' | 0 | 141,305 | 0.192748 | https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/nadhim-zahawi-education-secretary-government-saddam-hussein-british-b2049408.html | 2022-04-01 23:46:06+00:00 | Zahawi says pupils should be allowed to read books containing racial slurs
Education Secretary insists children are ‘resilient’, not ‘snowflakes’, and should be taught ‘how to think, not what to think’.
The Education Secretary has insisted children are not “snowflakes” and should be allowed to read books featuring racial slurs.
Nadhim Zahawi warned against creating “false filters” for pupils, arguing that “those in a position of responsibility should be teaching young minds how to think, not what to think”.
It comes after the Government released guidance earlier this year aimed at helping teachers avoid “promoting contested theories as fact” in England.
Speaking to Chopper’s Politics podcast from The Telegraph, the Education Secretary said it was important to remember the resilience shown by children during the pandemic.
“These kids are resilient. They’ve come through the Covid pandemic, the mistaken closure of schools. They’re not snowflakes at all. They are really resilient, and I think it’s important to remember that,” he said.
He added: “Those in a position of responsibility should be teaching young minds how to think, not what to think.
“Children… if you teach them to be curious, if you teach them to understand how to filter and rely on quality journalism and understand both sides of the argument, then you’ll be doing something truly great.
“‘Don’t take your own fears and prejudices into the classroom would be my mantra.”
Asked if children should be able to to read racial slurs such as those contained in Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird, he said: “Totally. I think it’s really important that children are allowed to be able to be curious… to understand where this stuff comes from, rather than (where you) create these sort of false filters for them.”
The Government guidance on political impartiality in schools, published in February, suggested teaching of the British empire should be presented in “a balanced manner”.
It was criticised by anti-racism campaigners, who called it “disturbing”, while teachers’ leaders said it would stop pupils from engaging with challenging issues in the classroom.
Mr Zahawi, whose family fled Iraq for the UK when he was a child, told The Telegraph: “We have to learn all aspects of empire, both sides of it. Why do I say that? Because actually some people… may have not seen what my family’s experienced.
“The legacy of British mandate in Iraq was a great civil service that then the Ba’athist – Saddam Hussein and his ilk – dismantled and actually set the country back decades.
“And you talk to Iraqis today, they still hark back to a world where they had a civil service that was the pride of the nation, that really delivered for people.
“And I think that’s important, for children to learn today that there were some really important things that we did around the world that is a real legacy, as well as, of course, some of the less good things.”
Mr Zahawi also said he was “deeply uncomfortable” with people “beginning to view everything through the lens of 2022″.
“You don’t become a better nation, a more cohesive community, by denying the past, removing the past. Half of Whitehall would have to be demolished… You explain the past, and you have to explain both sides,” he said.
“There are some really important things that happened that are great things that we exported to the rest of the world, as well as the less good things. And that’s really important.
“I’m deeply uncomfortable with us beginning to view everything through the lens of 2022, when life was very different in previous centuries and the values then were different.”
On political debate in schools, he said: “The first thing I got back when I set out my guidelines around political impartiality is ‘you want people not to think about politics’.
“That’s not true. I will never turn down during election time a debate at one of my schools. But I want children to hear from the ‘blue’ team and the ‘red’ team and the ‘yellow’ team and the ‘green’ team.
“Because they need to hear all sides of the argument – they need to be able to themselves ‘stress test’ arguments. We don’t need to put warnings on things.”
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10679167/Nadhim-Zahawi-says-children-not-snowflakes-able-read-books-racial-slurs.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ito=1490&ns_campaign=1490 | Education Secretary Nadhim Zahawi says 'children are not snowflakes' and must be able to read books with racial slurs in them as he warns against creating ‘false filters’ for pupils’ learning
- Nadhim Zahawi has said that 'children are not snowflakes' to the Telegraph
- The Education Secretary has said pupils should read books with racial slurs in
- He warned against creating 'false filters' and teaching only one point of view
- He drew upon his own experience as an Iraqi immigrant to defend the British Mandate of Iraq
The Education Secretary has insisted children are not 'snowflakes' and should be allowed to read books featuring racial slurs.
Nadhim Zahawi warned against creating 'false filters' for pupils, arguing that 'those in a position of responsibility should be teaching young minds how to think, not what to think'.
It comes after the Government released guidance earlier this year aimed at helping teachers avoid 'promoting contested theories as fact' in England.
Nadhim Zahawi warned against creating 'false filters' for pupils, arguing that 'those in a position of responsibility should be teaching young minds how to think, not what to think'
Speaking to Chopper's Politics podcast from The Telegraph, the Education Secretary said it was important to remember the resilience shown by children during the pandemic.
'These kids are resilient. They've come through the Covid pandemic, the mistaken closure of schools. They're not snowflakes at all. They are really resilient, and I think it's important to remember that,' he said.
He added: 'Those in a position of responsibility should be teaching young minds how to think, not what to think.
'Children... if you teach them to be curious, if you teach them to understand how to filter and rely on quality journalism and understand both sides of the argument, then you'll be doing something truly great.
''Don't take your own fears and prejudices into the classroom would be my mantra.'
Asked if children should be able to to read racial slurs such as those contained in Harper Lee's To Kill A Mockingbird, he said: 'Totally. I think it's really important that children are allowed to be able to be curious... to understand where this stuff comes from, rather than (where you) create these sort of false filters for them.'
The Government guidance on political impartiality in schools, published in February, suggested teaching of the British empire should be presented in 'a balanced manner'.
Government guidance on political impartiality in schools, published in February, suggested teaching of the British empire should be presented in 'a balanced manner'
It was criticised by anti-racism campaigners, who called it 'disturbing', while teachers' leaders said it would stop pupils from engaging with challenging issues in the classroom.
Mr Zahawi, whose family fled Iraq for the UK when he was a child, told The Telegraph: 'We have to learn all aspects of empire, both sides of it. Why do I say that? Because actually some people... may have not seen what my family's experienced.
'The legacy of British mandate in Iraq was a great civil service that then the Ba'athist - Saddam Hussein and his ilk - dismantled and actually set the country back decades.
'And you talk to Iraqis today, they still hark back to a world where they had a civil service that was the pride of the nation, that really delivered for people.
'And I think that's important, for children to learn today that there were some really important things that we did around the world that is a real legacy, as well as, of course, some of the less good things.'
Zahawi said they must be able to read racial slurs in literature such as those contained within perhaps the greatest American novel, Harper Lee's To Kill A Mockingbird
Mr Zahawi also said he was 'deeply uncomfortable' with people 'beginning to view everything through the lens of 2022'.
'You don't become a better nation, a more cohesive community, by denying the past, removing the past. Half of Whitehall would have to be demolished... You explain the past, and you have to explain both sides,' he said.
'There are some really important things that happened that are great things that we exported to the rest of the world, as well as the less good things. And that's really important.
'I'm deeply uncomfortable with us beginning to view everything through the lens of 2022, when life was very different in previous centuries and the values then were different.'
On political debate in schools, he said: 'The first thing I got back when I set out my guidelines around political impartiality is 'you want people not to think about politics'.
'That's not true. I will never turn down during election time a debate at one of my schools. But I want children to hear from the 'blue' team and the 'red' team and the 'yellow' team and the 'green' team.
'Because they need to hear all sides of the argument - they need to be able to themselves 'stress test' arguments. We don't need to put warnings on things.' | 1 | 139,443 | 0.223083 | https://www.itv.com/news/2022-04-01/zahawi-says-pupils-should-be-allowed-to-read-books-containing-racial-slurs | 2022-04-01 23:34:37+00:00 | Zahawi says pupils should be allowed to read books containing racial slurs
The Education Secretary has insisted children are not “snowflakes” and should be allowed to read books featuring racial slurs.
Nadhim Zahawi warned against creating “false filters” for pupils, arguing that “those in a position of responsibility should be teaching young minds how to think, not what to think”.
It comes after the Government released guidance earlier this year aimed at helping teachers avoid “promoting contested theories as fact” in England.
Speaking to Chopper’s Politics podcast from The Telegraph, the Education Secretary said it was important to remember the resilience shown by children during the pandemic.
“These kids are resilient. They’ve come through the Covid pandemic, the mistaken closure of schools. They’re not snowflakes at all. They are really resilient, and I think it’s important to remember that,” he said.
He added: “Those in a position of responsibility should be teaching young minds how to think, not what to think.
“Children… if you teach them to be curious, if you teach them to understand how to filter and rely on quality journalism and understand both sides of the argument, then you’ll be doing something truly great.
“‘Don’t take your own fears and prejudices into the classroom would be my mantra.”
Asked if children should be able to to read racial slurs such as those contained in Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird, he said: “Totally. I think it’s really important that children are allowed to be able to be curious… to understand where this stuff comes from, rather than (where you) create these sort of false filters for them.”
The Government guidance on political impartiality in schools, published in February, suggested teaching of the British empire should be presented in “a balanced manner”.
It was criticised by anti-racism campaigners, who called it “disturbing”, while teachers’ leaders said it would stop pupils from engaging with challenging issues in the classroom.
Mr Zahawi, whose family fled Iraq for the UK when he was a child, told The Telegraph: “We have to learn all aspects of empire, both sides of it. Why do I say that? Because actually some people… may have not seen what my family’s experienced.
“The legacy of British mandate in Iraq was a great civil service that then the Ba’athist – Saddam Hussein and his ilk – dismantled and actually set the country back decades.
“And you talk to Iraqis today, they still hark back to a world where they had a civil service that was the pride of the nation, that really delivered for people.
“And I think that’s important, for children to learn today that there were some really important things that we did around the world that is a real legacy, as well as, of course, some of the less good things.”
Mr Zahawi also said he was “deeply uncomfortable” with people “beginning to view everything through the lens of 2022″.
“You don’t become a better nation, a more cohesive community, by denying the past, removing the past. Half of Whitehall would have to be demolished… You explain the past, and you have to explain both sides,” he said.
“There are some really important things that happened that are great things that we exported to the rest of the world, as well as the less good things. And that’s really important.
“I’m deeply uncomfortable with us beginning to view everything through the lens of 2022, when life was very different in previous centuries and the values then were different.”
On political debate in schools, he said: “The first thing I got back when I set out my guidelines around political impartiality is ‘you want people not to think about politics’.
“That’s not true. I will never turn down during election time a debate at one of my schools. But I want children to hear from the ‘blue’ team and the ‘red’ team and the ‘yellow’ team and the ‘green’ team.
“Because they need to hear all sides of the argument – they need to be able to themselves ‘stress test’ arguments. We don’t need to put warnings on things.” |
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10679167/Nadhim-Zahawi-says-children-not-snowflakes-able-read-books-racial-slurs.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ito=1490&ns_campaign=1490 | Education Secretary Nadhim Zahawi says 'children are not snowflakes' and must be able to read books with racial slurs in them as he warns against creating ‘false filters’ for pupils’ learning
- Nadhim Zahawi has said that 'children are not snowflakes' to the Telegraph
- The Education Secretary has said pupils should read books with racial slurs in
- He warned against creating 'false filters' and teaching only one point of view
- He drew upon his own experience as an Iraqi immigrant to defend the British Mandate of Iraq
The Education Secretary has insisted children are not 'snowflakes' and should be allowed to read books featuring racial slurs.
Nadhim Zahawi warned against creating 'false filters' for pupils, arguing that 'those in a position of responsibility should be teaching young minds how to think, not what to think'.
It comes after the Government released guidance earlier this year aimed at helping teachers avoid 'promoting contested theories as fact' in England.
Nadhim Zahawi warned against creating 'false filters' for pupils, arguing that 'those in a position of responsibility should be teaching young minds how to think, not what to think'
Speaking to Chopper's Politics podcast from The Telegraph, the Education Secretary said it was important to remember the resilience shown by children during the pandemic.
'These kids are resilient. They've come through the Covid pandemic, the mistaken closure of schools. They're not snowflakes at all. They are really resilient, and I think it's important to remember that,' he said.
He added: 'Those in a position of responsibility should be teaching young minds how to think, not what to think.
'Children... if you teach them to be curious, if you teach them to understand how to filter and rely on quality journalism and understand both sides of the argument, then you'll be doing something truly great.
''Don't take your own fears and prejudices into the classroom would be my mantra.'
Asked if children should be able to to read racial slurs such as those contained in Harper Lee's To Kill A Mockingbird, he said: 'Totally. I think it's really important that children are allowed to be able to be curious... to understand where this stuff comes from, rather than (where you) create these sort of false filters for them.'
The Government guidance on political impartiality in schools, published in February, suggested teaching of the British empire should be presented in 'a balanced manner'.
Government guidance on political impartiality in schools, published in February, suggested teaching of the British empire should be presented in 'a balanced manner'
It was criticised by anti-racism campaigners, who called it 'disturbing', while teachers' leaders said it would stop pupils from engaging with challenging issues in the classroom.
Mr Zahawi, whose family fled Iraq for the UK when he was a child, told The Telegraph: 'We have to learn all aspects of empire, both sides of it. Why do I say that? Because actually some people... may have not seen what my family's experienced.
'The legacy of British mandate in Iraq was a great civil service that then the Ba'athist - Saddam Hussein and his ilk - dismantled and actually set the country back decades.
'And you talk to Iraqis today, they still hark back to a world where they had a civil service that was the pride of the nation, that really delivered for people.
'And I think that's important, for children to learn today that there were some really important things that we did around the world that is a real legacy, as well as, of course, some of the less good things.'
Zahawi said they must be able to read racial slurs in literature such as those contained within perhaps the greatest American novel, Harper Lee's To Kill A Mockingbird
Mr Zahawi also said he was 'deeply uncomfortable' with people 'beginning to view everything through the lens of 2022'.
'You don't become a better nation, a more cohesive community, by denying the past, removing the past. Half of Whitehall would have to be demolished... You explain the past, and you have to explain both sides,' he said.
'There are some really important things that happened that are great things that we exported to the rest of the world, as well as the less good things. And that's really important.
'I'm deeply uncomfortable with us beginning to view everything through the lens of 2022, when life was very different in previous centuries and the values then were different.'
On political debate in schools, he said: 'The first thing I got back when I set out my guidelines around political impartiality is 'you want people not to think about politics'.
'That's not true. I will never turn down during election time a debate at one of my schools. But I want children to hear from the 'blue' team and the 'red' team and the 'yellow' team and the 'green' team.
'Because they need to hear all sides of the argument - they need to be able to themselves 'stress test' arguments. We don't need to put warnings on things.' | 2 | 136,510 | 0.225396 | https://www.expressandstar.com/news/uk-news/2022/04/02/zahawi-says-pupils-should-be-allowed-to-read-books-containing-racial-slurs/ | 2022-04-01 23:17:45+00:00 | The Education Secretary has insisted children are not “snowflakes” and should be allowed to read books featuring racial slurs.
Nadhim Zahawi warned against creating “false filters” for pupils, arguing that “those in a position of responsibility should be teaching young minds how to think, not what to think”.
It comes after the Government released guidance earlier this year aimed at helping teachers avoid “promoting contested theories as fact” in England.
Speaking to Chopper’s Politics podcast from The Telegraph, the Education Secretary said it was important to remember the resilience shown by children during the pandemic.
“These kids are resilient. They’ve come through the Covid pandemic, the mistaken closure of schools. They’re not snowflakes at all. They are really resilient, and I think it’s important to remember that,” he said.
He added: “Those in a position of responsibility should be teaching young minds how to think, not what to think.
“Children… if you teach them to be curious, if you teach them to understand how to filter and rely on quality journalism and understand both sides of the argument, then you’ll be doing something truly great.
“‘Don’t take your own fears and prejudices into the classroom would be my mantra.”
Asked if children should be able to to read racial slurs such as those contained in Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird, he said: “Totally. I think it’s really important that children are allowed to be able to be curious… to understand where this stuff comes from, rather than (where you) create these sort of false filters for them.”
The Government guidance on political impartiality in schools, published in February, suggested teaching of the British empire should be presented in “a balanced manner”.
It was criticised by anti-racism campaigners, who called it “disturbing”, while teachers’ leaders said it would stop pupils from engaging with challenging issues in the classroom.
Mr Zahawi, whose family fled Iraq for the UK when he was a child, told The Telegraph: “We have to learn all aspects of empire, both sides of it. Why do I say that? Because actually some people… may have not seen what my family’s experienced.
“The legacy of British mandate in Iraq was a great civil service that then the Ba’athist – Saddam Hussein and his ilk – dismantled and actually set the country back decades.
“And you talk to Iraqis today, they still hark back to a world where they had a civil service that was the pride of the nation, that really delivered for people.
“And I think that’s important, for children to learn today that there were some really important things that we did around the world that is a real legacy, as well as, of course, some of the less good things.”
Mr Zahawi also said he was “deeply uncomfortable” with people “beginning to view everything through the lens of 2022″.
“You don’t become a better nation, a more cohesive community, by denying the past, removing the past. Half of Whitehall would have to be demolished… You explain the past, and you have to explain both sides,” he said.
“There are some really important things that happened that are great things that we exported to the rest of the world, as well as the less good things. And that’s really important.
“I’m deeply uncomfortable with us beginning to view everything through the lens of 2022, when life was very different in previous centuries and the values then were different.”
On political debate in schools, he said: “The first thing I got back when I set out my guidelines around political impartiality is ‘you want people not to think about politics’.
“That’s not true. I will never turn down during election time a debate at one of my schools. But I want children to hear from the ‘blue’ team and the ‘red’ team and the ‘yellow’ team and the ‘green’ team.
“Because they need to hear all sides of the argument – they need to be able to themselves ‘stress test’ arguments. We don’t need to put warnings on things.” |
https://www.beaumontenterprise.com/sports/article/US-Open-champ-Daniil-Medvedev-says-he-needs-17052999.php | U.S. Open champion Daniil Medvedev expects to be sidelined for one to two months after having hernia surgery.
The No. 2-ranked man in tennis wrote on Twitter on Saturday that he has been dealing with “a small hernia” in recent months.
“Together with my team I have decided to have a small procedure done to fix the problem,” the post said. “I will likely be out for the next 1-2 months and will work hard to be back on court soon.”
That timeline suggests Medvedev likely will miss the next Grand Slam tournament, the French Open, which begins on May 22. He reached the quarterfinals at Roland Garros last year after losing in the first round in each of his first four appearances there.
The 26-year-old Russian briefly reached No. 1 in the ATP rankings for the first time in February, before Novak Djokovic regained the top spot.
Medvedev beat Djokovic in the U.S. Open final last September, then lost to Rafael Nadal in the final of the Australian Open in January.
At his most recent two tournaments, Medvedev dropped his second match at Indian Wells, California, and then exited in the quarterfinals of the Miami Open on Thursday.
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More AP tennis: https://apnews.com/hub/tennis and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports | 0 | 7,004 | 0 | https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/4494781 | 2022-04-04 22:45:06+00:00 | U.S. Open champion Daniil Medvedev expects to be sidelined for one to two months after having hernia surgery.
The No. 2-ranked man in tennis wrote on Twitter on Saturday that he has been dealing with “a small hernia” in recent months.
“Together with my team I have decided to have a small procedure done to fix the problem,” the post said. “I will likely be out for the next 1-2 months and will work hard to be back on court soon.”
That timeline suggests Medvedev likely will miss the next Grand Slam tournament, the French Open, which begins on May 22. He reached the quarterfinals at Roland Garros last year after losing in the first round in each of his first four appearances there.
The 26-year-old Russian briefly reached No. 1 in the ATP rankings for the first time in February, before Novak Djokovic regained the top spot.
Medvedev beat Djokovic in the U.S. Open final last September, then lost to Rafael Nadal in the final of the Australian Open in January.
At his most recent two tournaments, Medvedev dropped his second match at Indian Wells, California, and then exited in the quarterfinals of the Miami Open on Thursday.
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https://www.beaumontenterprise.com/sports/article/US-Open-champ-Daniil-Medvedev-says-he-needs-17052999.php | U.S. Open champion Daniil Medvedev expects to be sidelined for one to two months after having hernia surgery.
The No. 2-ranked man in tennis wrote on Twitter on Saturday that he has been dealing with “a small hernia” in recent months.
“Together with my team I have decided to have a small procedure done to fix the problem,” the post said. “I will likely be out for the next 1-2 months and will work hard to be back on court soon.”
That timeline suggests Medvedev likely will miss the next Grand Slam tournament, the French Open, which begins on May 22. He reached the quarterfinals at Roland Garros last year after losing in the first round in each of his first four appearances there.
The 26-year-old Russian briefly reached No. 1 in the ATP rankings for the first time in February, before Novak Djokovic regained the top spot.
Medvedev beat Djokovic in the U.S. Open final last September, then lost to Rafael Nadal in the final of the Australian Open in January.
At his most recent two tournaments, Medvedev dropped his second match at Indian Wells, California, and then exited in the quarterfinals of the Miami Open on Thursday.
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More AP tennis: https://apnews.com/hub/tennis and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports | 1 | 485 | 0 | https://www.wjtv.com/sports/us-open-champ-daniil-medvedev-says-he-needs-hernia-surgery/ | 2022-04-03 14:56:45+00:00 | U.S. Open champion Daniil Medvedev expects to be sidelined for one to two months after having hernia surgery.
The No. 2-ranked man in tennis wrote on Twitter on Saturday that he has been dealing with “a small hernia” in recent months.
“Together with my team I have decided to have a small procedure done to fix the problem,” the post said. “I will likely be out for the next 1-2 months and will work hard to be back on court soon.”
That timeline suggests Medvedev likely will miss the next Grand Slam tournament, the French Open, which begins on May 22. He reached the quarterfinals at Roland Garros last year after losing in the first round in each of his first four appearances there.
The 26-year-old Russian briefly reached No. 1 in the ATP rankings for the first time in February, before Novak Djokovic regained the top spot.
Medvedev beat Djokovic in the U.S. Open final last September, then lost to Rafael Nadal in the final of the Australian Open in January.
At his most recent two tournaments, Medvedev dropped his second match at Indian Wells, California, and then exited in the quarterfinals of the Miami Open on Thursday.
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https://www.beaumontenterprise.com/sports/article/US-Open-champ-Daniil-Medvedev-says-he-needs-17052999.php | U.S. Open champion Daniil Medvedev expects to be sidelined for one to two months after having hernia surgery.
The No. 2-ranked man in tennis wrote on Twitter on Saturday that he has been dealing with “a small hernia” in recent months.
“Together with my team I have decided to have a small procedure done to fix the problem,” the post said. “I will likely be out for the next 1-2 months and will work hard to be back on court soon.”
That timeline suggests Medvedev likely will miss the next Grand Slam tournament, the French Open, which begins on May 22. He reached the quarterfinals at Roland Garros last year after losing in the first round in each of his first four appearances there.
The 26-year-old Russian briefly reached No. 1 in the ATP rankings for the first time in February, before Novak Djokovic regained the top spot.
Medvedev beat Djokovic in the U.S. Open final last September, then lost to Rafael Nadal in the final of the Australian Open in January.
At his most recent two tournaments, Medvedev dropped his second match at Indian Wells, California, and then exited in the quarterfinals of the Miami Open on Thursday.
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More AP tennis: https://apnews.com/hub/tennis and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports | 2 | 472 | 0 | https://www.binghamtonhomepage.com/sports/us-open-champ-daniil-medvedev-says-he-needs-hernia-surgery/ | 2022-04-02 17:30:24+00:00 | U.S. Open champion Daniil Medvedev expects to be sidelined for one to two months after having hernia surgery.
The No. 2-ranked man in tennis wrote on Twitter on Saturday that he has been dealing with “a small hernia” in recent months.
“Together with my team I have decided to have a small procedure done to fix the problem,” the post said. “I will likely be out for the next 1-2 months and will work hard to be back on court soon.”
That timeline suggests Medvedev likely will miss the next Grand Slam tournament, the French Open, which begins on May 22. He reached the quarterfinals at Roland Garros last year after losing in the first round in each of his first four appearances there.
The 26-year-old Russian briefly reached No. 1 in the ATP rankings for the first time in February, before Novak Djokovic regained the top spot.
Medvedev beat Djokovic in the U.S. Open final last September, then lost to Rafael Nadal in the final of the Australian Open in January.
At his most recent two tournaments, Medvedev dropped his second match at Indian Wells, California, and then exited in the quarterfinals of the Miami Open on Thursday.
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https://mobile.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/Health-Committee-sacks-NHIA-officials-from-Parliament-over-reduction-in-allocation-1505510 | Parliament’s Committee on Health has sent away officials of the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) over the decision of the Ministry of Finance to reduce allocation to the Authority.
The NHIA officials had appeared before the Committee with a formula for allocation for 2022.
During the meeting, it emerged that the government has released less than 10 percent of over 2 billion cedis due to the Authority.
Officials of the Authority disclosed that they were directed by the Ministry of Finance to cut its allocation which has been approved by Parliament.
Addressing the Media in Parliament on Friday, the Ranking Member on Health, Kwabena Mintah Akandoh said Parliament cannot make laws for any Ministry to change it.
“By their own records the Government of Ghana has collected 2.056 billion Ghana cedis in the name of National Health Insurance in the year 2021.
However, the government has released “127 million Ghana cedis less than 10% of the amount collected in the year 2021. Again when we considered the 2022 budget of which an Appropriation Act has been passed we approved an amount of about 3.3 billion Ghana cedis.
“Now, when you look at their formula on page 25 they are formulating it around 2.6 billion while the budget has approved 3.3 billion Ghana cedis. Clearly, there is some disparity,” the Ranking Member stated.
On these bases, Mr. Akandoh stated that the NHIA officials were asked to go back and come to Parliament with the Ministries of Finance and Health to explain why they do things differently from what the law says. | 0 | 115,859 | 0.202432 | https://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/Health-Committee-sacks-NHIA-officials-from-Parliament-over-reduction-in-allocation-1505510 | 2022-04-02 14:42:58+00:00 | General News of Saturday, 2 April 2022
Source: peacefmonline.com
Parliament’s Committee on Health has sent away officials of the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) over the decision of the Ministry of Finance to reduce allocation to the Authority.
The NHIA officials had appeared before the Committee with a formula for allocation for 2022.
During the meeting, it emerged that the government has released less than 10 percent of over 2 billion cedis due to the Authority.
Officials of the Authority disclosed that they were directed by the Ministry of Finance to cut its allocation which has been approved by Parliament.
Addressing the Media in Parliament on Friday, the Ranking Member on Health, Kwabena Mintah Akandoh said Parliament cannot make laws for any Ministry to change it.
“By their own records the Government of Ghana has collected 2.056 billion Ghana cedis in the name of National Health Insurance in the year 2021.
However, the government has released “127 million Ghana cedis less than 10% of the amount collected in the year 2021. Again when we considered the 2022 budget of which an Appropriation Act has been passed we approved an amount of about 3.3 billion Ghana cedis.
“Now, when you look at their formula on page 25 they are formulating it around 2.6 billion while the budget has approved 3.3 billion Ghana cedis. Clearly, there is some disparity,” the Ranking Member stated.
On these bases, Mr. Akandoh stated that the NHIA officials were asked to go back and come to Parliament with the Ministries of Finance and Health to explain why they do things differently from what the law says. |
https://mobile.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/Health-Committee-sacks-NHIA-officials-from-Parliament-over-reduction-in-allocation-1505510 | Parliament’s Committee on Health has sent away officials of the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) over the decision of the Ministry of Finance to reduce allocation to the Authority.
The NHIA officials had appeared before the Committee with a formula for allocation for 2022.
During the meeting, it emerged that the government has released less than 10 percent of over 2 billion cedis due to the Authority.
Officials of the Authority disclosed that they were directed by the Ministry of Finance to cut its allocation which has been approved by Parliament.
Addressing the Media in Parliament on Friday, the Ranking Member on Health, Kwabena Mintah Akandoh said Parliament cannot make laws for any Ministry to change it.
“By their own records the Government of Ghana has collected 2.056 billion Ghana cedis in the name of National Health Insurance in the year 2021.
However, the government has released “127 million Ghana cedis less than 10% of the amount collected in the year 2021. Again when we considered the 2022 budget of which an Appropriation Act has been passed we approved an amount of about 3.3 billion Ghana cedis.
“Now, when you look at their formula on page 25 they are formulating it around 2.6 billion while the budget has approved 3.3 billion Ghana cedis. Clearly, there is some disparity,” the Ranking Member stated.
On these bases, Mr. Akandoh stated that the NHIA officials were asked to go back and come to Parliament with the Ministries of Finance and Health to explain why they do things differently from what the law says. | 1 | 40,634 | 0.395045 | https://www.modernghana.com/news/1149198/health-committee-chases-ofori-atta-to-answer-quest.html | 2022-04-01 16:19:37+00:00 | Parliament’s Committee on Health on Friday April 1 sent away officials of the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) and demanded the presence of the Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta to answer questions.
The NHIA officials had appeared before the committee with formula for allocation for 2022. During the meeting, it emerged government has released less than 10 percent of the over 2 billion cedis due the authority.
The Finance Minister, the officials disclosed has directed the authority to cut its allocation which has been approved by Parliament by 30%.
Speaking to the media Deputy Ranking member on the committee Kwabena Mintah Akandoh disclosed the development is affecting operations of the NHIS.
He said “As we have always indicated to know how much the government of Ghana has collected in the name of the National Health Insurance Scheme with respect to 2021. As part of the practices of the House, the National Health Insurance Authority is supposed to appear before us every year especially with respect to their formula.
“Today, as part of the procedure they appeared before the Parliamentary Select Committee on Health. They presented a document to us which is titled ; ‘ National Health Insurance Authority , National Health Insurance Fund allocation for 2022.’ We checked, page 10 by their own records, says the government of Ghana has collected ¢2.056bn in the name of National Health Insurance in the year 2021 and they have released ¢127million, less than 10 per cent of the amount collected in the year 2021.
“Again, when we considered the 2022 budget of which an Appropriations Act has been passed, we approved an amount of about 3.3 billion cedis. When you look at their formula, they are formulating their formula around 2.6billion whiles the budget ‘s appropriations act has approved 3.3 billion.
“Clearly, there is some disparity. When we asked them, the response we had was that they have received instructions to cut down this budget by 30 per cent.
“We don’t make laws on the floor of the House for people to sit in their office to alter them the law. So with these two reasons, we asked them to go back and come with the Minister responsible for Finance because the NHIS Act is clear that when you collect these monies you are supposed to lodge it into the NHIS Fund within 30 days after the collection.”
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https://mobile.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/Health-Committee-sacks-NHIA-officials-from-Parliament-over-reduction-in-allocation-1505510 | Parliament’s Committee on Health has sent away officials of the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) over the decision of the Ministry of Finance to reduce allocation to the Authority.
The NHIA officials had appeared before the Committee with a formula for allocation for 2022.
During the meeting, it emerged that the government has released less than 10 percent of over 2 billion cedis due to the Authority.
Officials of the Authority disclosed that they were directed by the Ministry of Finance to cut its allocation which has been approved by Parliament.
Addressing the Media in Parliament on Friday, the Ranking Member on Health, Kwabena Mintah Akandoh said Parliament cannot make laws for any Ministry to change it.
“By their own records the Government of Ghana has collected 2.056 billion Ghana cedis in the name of National Health Insurance in the year 2021.
However, the government has released “127 million Ghana cedis less than 10% of the amount collected in the year 2021. Again when we considered the 2022 budget of which an Appropriation Act has been passed we approved an amount of about 3.3 billion Ghana cedis.
“Now, when you look at their formula on page 25 they are formulating it around 2.6 billion while the budget has approved 3.3 billion Ghana cedis. Clearly, there is some disparity,” the Ranking Member stated.
On these bases, Mr. Akandoh stated that the NHIA officials were asked to go back and come to Parliament with the Ministries of Finance and Health to explain why they do things differently from what the law says. | 2 | 108,451 | 0.420814 | https://mobile.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/Health-Committee-wants-Ofori-Atta-to-answer-questions-on-allocation-to-NHIS-1506032 | 2022-04-03 09:56:13+00:00 | Parliament’s Committee on Health on Friday April 1 sent away officials of the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) and demanded the presence of the Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta.
The NHIA officials had appeared before the committee with formula for allocation for 2022. During the meeting, it emerged government has released less than 10 percent of the over 2 billion cedis due the authority.
The Finance Minister, the officials disclosed has directed the authority to cut its allocation which has been approved by Parliament by 30%.
Speaking to the media Deputy Ranking member on the committee Kwabena Mintah Akandoh disclosed the development is affecting operations of the NHIS.
He said “As we have always indicated to know how much the government of Ghana has collected in the name of the National Health Insurance Scheme with respect to 2021. As part of the practices of the House, the National Health Insurance Authority is supposed to appear before us every year especially with respect to their formula.
“Today, as part of the procedure they appeared before the Parliamentary Select Committee on Health. They presented a document to us which is titled ; ‘National Health Insurance Authority, National Health Insurance Fund allocation for 2022.’ We checked, page 10 by their own records, says the government of Ghana has collected ¢2.056bn in the name of National Health Insurance in the year 2021 and they have released ¢127million, less than 10 per cent of the amount collected in the year 2021.
“Again, when we considered the 2022 budget of which an Appropriations Act has been passed, we approved an amount of about 3.3 billion cedis. When you look at their formula, they are formulating their formula around 2.6billion whiles the budget ‘s appropriations act has approved 3.3 billion.
“Clearly, there is some disparity. When we asked them, the response we had was that they have received instructions to cut down this budget by 30 per cent.
“We don’t make laws on the floor of the House for people to sit in their office to alter them the law. So with these two reasons, we asked them to go back and come with the Minister responsible for Finance because the NHIS Act is clear that when you collect these monies you are supposed to lodge it into the NHIS Fund within 30 days after the collection.”
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https://phl17.com/business/ap-business/face-scanner-clearview-ai-aims-to-branch-out-beyond-police/ | NEW YORK (AP) — A controversial face recognition company that’s built a massive photographic dossier of the world’s people for use by police, national governments and — most recently — the Ukrainian military is now planning to offer its technology to banks and other private businesses.
Clearview AI co-founder and CEO Hoan Ton-That disclosed the plans Friday to The Associated Press in order to clarify a recent federal court filing that suggested the company was up for sale.
“We don’t have any plans to sell the company,” he said. Instead, he said the New York startup is looking to launch a new business venture to compete with the likes of Amazon and Microsoft in verifying people’s identity using facial recognition.
The new “consent-based” product would use Clearview’s algorithms to verify a person’s face, but would not involve its ever-growing trove of some 20 billion images, which Ton-That said is reserved for law enforcement use. Such ID checks that can be used to validate bank transactions or for other commercial purposes are the “least controversial use case” of facial recognition, he said.
That’s in contrast to the business practice for which Clearview is best known: collecting a huge trove of images posted on Facebook, YouTube and just about anywhere else on the publicly-accessible internet.
Regulators from Australia to Canada, France and Italy have taken measures to try to stop Clearview from pulling people’s faces into its facial recognition engine without their consent. So have tech giants such as Google and Facebook. A group of U.S. lawmakers earlier this year warned that “Clearview AI’s technology could eliminate public anonymity in the United States.”
Despite opposition from lawmakers, regulators, privacy advocates and the websites it scrapes for data, Clearview has continued to rack up new contracts with police departments and other government agencies. In the meantime, its growing database has helped Clearview’s artificial intelligence technology learn and grow more accurate.
One of its biggest known federal contracts is with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement — particularly its investigative arm, which has used the technology to track down both the victims and perpetrators of child sexual exploitation. Clearview in March also started offering its services for free to the Ukrainian military, in part to help identify dead Russian soldiers using Clearview’s repository of about 2 billion images scraped from Russian social media website VKontakte.
“They’ve been able to identify dead bodies, even with facial damage,” Ton-That said Friday.
The official minutes from a March 17 hearing in a Chicago federal court said that Clearview AI was “considering selling the app platform to other entities,” citing one of the lawyers who’s been defending the company in a case involving alleged violation of an Illinois digital privacy law.
The minutes also said the “sale of Clearview’s app” would be discussed further once the company discloses more details to the plaintiffs. Illinois’ Biometric Information Privacy Act allows consumers to sue companies that don’t get permission before harvesting data such as faces and fingerprints.
Ton-That said the minutes incorrectly relayed what the company was trying to tell the judge about potentially expanding its business beyond law enforcement uses.
“We let the court know we’re exploring this idea,” he said Friday, noting the company’s previous assertions that it was only selling its services to law enforcement.
Asked about future commercial applications during an interview with the AP in late February, Ton-That emphasized his company’s ongoing focus on police work.
“We’re really focused on law enforcement right now,” he said, describing how the company’s mission had evolved from commercial applications into helping to solve crime.
“We looked at all different kinds of use cases: building security, ID checks, even hotels, hospitality,” he said. “But when we gave this to law enforcement, we saw such amazing success right away where they could ID so many victims of crime or perpetrators of it that it was a kind of a no-brainer at that point to really focus on that kind of use case.”
He added at the time that if the company shifted to other uses, it would let the public and courts know about it. He downplayed what he described as the “lofty goals” that Clearview pitched to prospective investors in a document the Washington Post reported on in February.
The Post said the company’s financial presentation from December proposed a variety of potential commercial uses of Clearview technology, including to monitor “gig economy” workers or provide companies with “real-time alerts” if certain people are detected, and boasted of a face-image database that’s growing so large that “almost everyone in the world will be identifiable.”
A lawyer representing activists suing Clearview on privacy grounds in California said Friday her clients are most concerned about the government’s use of the technology to track protesters and immigrants, but any usage based on Clearview’s “unauthorized capture and sale” of faceprints could violate privacy rights.
“The future potential uses for Clearview appear to be a moving target,” said Sejal Zota, legal director of Just Futures Law. “And the scale is terrifying.”
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O’Brien reported from Providence, Rhode Island. | 0 | 131,099 | 0 | https://www.yourcentralvalley.com/news/tech-news/face-scanner-clearview-ai-aims-to-branch-out-beyond-police/ | 2022-04-01 22:51:05+00:00 | NEW YORK (AP) — A controversial face recognition company that’s built a massive photographic dossier of the world’s people for use by police, national governments and — most recently — the Ukrainian military is now planning to offer its technology to banks and other private businesses.
Clearview AI co-founder and CEO Hoan Ton-That disclosed the plans Friday to The Associated Press in order to clarify a recent federal court filing that suggested the company was up for sale.
“We don’t have any plans to sell the company,” he said. Instead, he said the New York startup is looking to launch a new business venture to compete with the likes of Amazon and Microsoft in verifying people’s identity using facial recognition.
The new “consent-based” product would use Clearview’s algorithms to verify a person’s face, but would not involve its ever-growing trove of some 20 billion images, which Ton-That said is reserved for law enforcement use. Such ID checks that can be used to validate bank transactions or for other commercial purposes are the “least controversial use case” of facial recognition, he said.
That’s in contrast to the business practice for which Clearview is best known: collecting a huge trove of images posted on Facebook, YouTube and just about anywhere else on the publicly-accessible internet.
Regulators from Australia to Canada, France and Italy have taken measures to try to stop Clearview from pulling people’s faces into its facial recognition engine without their consent. So have tech giants such as Google and Facebook. A group of U.S. lawmakers earlier this year warned that “Clearview AI’s technology could eliminate public anonymity in the United States.”
Despite opposition from lawmakers, regulators, privacy advocates and the websites it scrapes for data, Clearview has continued to rack up new contracts with police departments and other government agencies. In the meantime, its growing database has helped Clearview’s artificial intelligence technology learn and grow more accurate.
One of its biggest known federal contracts is with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement — particularly its investigative arm, which has used the technology to track down both the victims and perpetrators of child sexual exploitation. Clearview in March also started offering its services for free to the Ukrainian military, in part to help identify dead Russian soldiers using Clearview’s repository of about 2 billion images scraped from Russian social media website VKontakte.
“They’ve been able to identify dead bodies, even with facial damage,” Ton-That said Friday.
The official minutes from a March 17 hearing in a Chicago federal court said that Clearview AI was “considering selling the app platform to other entities,” citing one of the lawyers who’s been defending the company in a case involving alleged violation of an Illinois digital privacy law.
The minutes also said the “sale of Clearview’s app” would be discussed further once the company discloses more details to the plaintiffs. Illinois’ Biometric Information Privacy Act allows consumers to sue companies that don’t get permission before harvesting data such as faces and fingerprints.
Ton-That said the minutes incorrectly relayed what the company was trying to tell the judge about potentially expanding its business beyond law enforcement uses.
“We let the court know we’re exploring this idea,” he said Friday, noting the company’s previous assertions that it was only selling its services to law enforcement.
Asked about future commercial applications during an interview with the AP in late February, Ton-That emphasized his company’s ongoing focus on police work.
“We’re really focused on law enforcement right now,” he said, describing how the company’s mission had evolved from commercial applications into helping to solve crime.
“We looked at all different kinds of use cases: building security, ID checks, even hotels, hospitality,” he said. “But when we gave this to law enforcement, we saw such amazing success right away where they could ID so many victims of crime or perpetrators of it that it was a kind of a no-brainer at that point to really focus on that kind of use case.”
He added at the time that if the company shifted to other uses, it would let the public and courts know about it. He downplayed what he described as the “lofty goals” that Clearview pitched to prospective investors in a document the Washington Post reported on in February.
The Post said the company’s financial presentation from December proposed a variety of potential commercial uses of Clearview technology, including to monitor “gig economy” workers or provide companies with “real-time alerts” if certain people are detected, and boasted of a face-image database that’s growing so large that “almost everyone in the world will be identifiable.”
A lawyer representing activists suing Clearview on privacy grounds in California said Friday her clients are most concerned about the government’s use of the technology to track protesters and immigrants, but any usage based on Clearview’s “unauthorized capture and sale” of faceprints could violate privacy rights.
“The future potential uses for Clearview appear to be a moving target,” said Sejal Zota, legal director of Just Futures Law. “And the scale is terrifying.”
———
O’Brien reported from Providence, Rhode Island. |
https://phl17.com/business/ap-business/face-scanner-clearview-ai-aims-to-branch-out-beyond-police/ | NEW YORK (AP) — A controversial face recognition company that’s built a massive photographic dossier of the world’s people for use by police, national governments and — most recently — the Ukrainian military is now planning to offer its technology to banks and other private businesses.
Clearview AI co-founder and CEO Hoan Ton-That disclosed the plans Friday to The Associated Press in order to clarify a recent federal court filing that suggested the company was up for sale.
“We don’t have any plans to sell the company,” he said. Instead, he said the New York startup is looking to launch a new business venture to compete with the likes of Amazon and Microsoft in verifying people’s identity using facial recognition.
The new “consent-based” product would use Clearview’s algorithms to verify a person’s face, but would not involve its ever-growing trove of some 20 billion images, which Ton-That said is reserved for law enforcement use. Such ID checks that can be used to validate bank transactions or for other commercial purposes are the “least controversial use case” of facial recognition, he said.
That’s in contrast to the business practice for which Clearview is best known: collecting a huge trove of images posted on Facebook, YouTube and just about anywhere else on the publicly-accessible internet.
Regulators from Australia to Canada, France and Italy have taken measures to try to stop Clearview from pulling people’s faces into its facial recognition engine without their consent. So have tech giants such as Google and Facebook. A group of U.S. lawmakers earlier this year warned that “Clearview AI’s technology could eliminate public anonymity in the United States.”
Despite opposition from lawmakers, regulators, privacy advocates and the websites it scrapes for data, Clearview has continued to rack up new contracts with police departments and other government agencies. In the meantime, its growing database has helped Clearview’s artificial intelligence technology learn and grow more accurate.
One of its biggest known federal contracts is with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement — particularly its investigative arm, which has used the technology to track down both the victims and perpetrators of child sexual exploitation. Clearview in March also started offering its services for free to the Ukrainian military, in part to help identify dead Russian soldiers using Clearview’s repository of about 2 billion images scraped from Russian social media website VKontakte.
“They’ve been able to identify dead bodies, even with facial damage,” Ton-That said Friday.
The official minutes from a March 17 hearing in a Chicago federal court said that Clearview AI was “considering selling the app platform to other entities,” citing one of the lawyers who’s been defending the company in a case involving alleged violation of an Illinois digital privacy law.
The minutes also said the “sale of Clearview’s app” would be discussed further once the company discloses more details to the plaintiffs. Illinois’ Biometric Information Privacy Act allows consumers to sue companies that don’t get permission before harvesting data such as faces and fingerprints.
Ton-That said the minutes incorrectly relayed what the company was trying to tell the judge about potentially expanding its business beyond law enforcement uses.
“We let the court know we’re exploring this idea,” he said Friday, noting the company’s previous assertions that it was only selling its services to law enforcement.
Asked about future commercial applications during an interview with the AP in late February, Ton-That emphasized his company’s ongoing focus on police work.
“We’re really focused on law enforcement right now,” he said, describing how the company’s mission had evolved from commercial applications into helping to solve crime.
“We looked at all different kinds of use cases: building security, ID checks, even hotels, hospitality,” he said. “But when we gave this to law enforcement, we saw such amazing success right away where they could ID so many victims of crime or perpetrators of it that it was a kind of a no-brainer at that point to really focus on that kind of use case.”
He added at the time that if the company shifted to other uses, it would let the public and courts know about it. He downplayed what he described as the “lofty goals” that Clearview pitched to prospective investors in a document the Washington Post reported on in February.
The Post said the company’s financial presentation from December proposed a variety of potential commercial uses of Clearview technology, including to monitor “gig economy” workers or provide companies with “real-time alerts” if certain people are detected, and boasted of a face-image database that’s growing so large that “almost everyone in the world will be identifiable.”
A lawyer representing activists suing Clearview on privacy grounds in California said Friday her clients are most concerned about the government’s use of the technology to track protesters and immigrants, but any usage based on Clearview’s “unauthorized capture and sale” of faceprints could violate privacy rights.
“The future potential uses for Clearview appear to be a moving target,” said Sejal Zota, legal director of Just Futures Law. “And the scale is terrifying.”
———
O’Brien reported from Providence, Rhode Island. | 1 | 2,558 | 0 | https://www.tristatehomepage.com/technology/ap-technology/face-scanner-clearview-ai-aims-to-branch-out-beyond-police/ | 2022-04-02 17:42:11+00:00 | NEW YORK (AP) — A controversial face recognition company that’s built a massive photographic dossier of the world’s people for use by police, national governments and — most recently — the Ukrainian military is now planning to offer its technology to banks and other private businesses.
Clearview AI co-founder and CEO Hoan Ton-That disclosed the plans Friday to The Associated Press in order to clarify a recent federal court filing that suggested the company was up for sale.
“We don’t have any plans to sell the company,” he said. Instead, he said the New York startup is looking to launch a new business venture to compete with the likes of Amazon and Microsoft in verifying people’s identity using facial recognition.
The new “consent-based” product would use Clearview’s algorithms to verify a person’s face, but would not involve its ever-growing trove of some 20 billion images, which Ton-That said is reserved for law enforcement use. Such ID checks that can be used to validate bank transactions or for other commercial purposes are the “least controversial use case” of facial recognition, he said.
That’s in contrast to the business practice for which Clearview is best known: collecting a huge trove of images posted on Facebook, YouTube and just about anywhere else on the publicly-accessible internet.
Regulators from Australia to Canada, France and Italy have taken measures to try to stop Clearview from pulling people’s faces into its facial recognition engine without their consent. So have tech giants such as Google and Facebook. A group of U.S. lawmakers earlier this year warned that “Clearview AI’s technology could eliminate public anonymity in the United States.”
Despite opposition from lawmakers, regulators, privacy advocates and the websites it scrapes for data, Clearview has continued to rack up new contracts with police departments and other government agencies. In the meantime, its growing database has helped Clearview’s artificial intelligence technology learn and grow more accurate.
One of its biggest known federal contracts is with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement — particularly its investigative arm, which has used the technology to track down both the victims and perpetrators of child sexual exploitation. Clearview in March also started offering its services for free to the Ukrainian military, in part to help identify dead Russian soldiers using Clearview’s repository of about 2 billion images scraped from Russian social media website VKontakte.
“They’ve been able to identify dead bodies, even with facial damage,” Ton-That said Friday.
The official minutes from a March 17 hearing in a Chicago federal court said that Clearview AI was “considering selling the app platform to other entities,” citing one of the lawyers who’s been defending the company in a case involving alleged violation of an Illinois digital privacy law.
The minutes also said the “sale of Clearview’s app” would be discussed further once the company discloses more details to the plaintiffs. Illinois’ Biometric Information Privacy Act allows consumers to sue companies that don’t get permission before harvesting data such as faces and fingerprints.
Ton-That said the minutes incorrectly relayed what the company was trying to tell the judge about potentially expanding its business beyond law enforcement uses.
“We let the court know we’re exploring this idea,” he said Friday, noting the company’s previous assertions that it was only selling its services to law enforcement.
Asked about future commercial applications during an interview with the AP in late February, Ton-That emphasized his company’s ongoing focus on police work.
“We’re really focused on law enforcement right now,” he said, describing how the company’s mission had evolved from commercial applications into helping to solve crime.
“We looked at all different kinds of use cases: building security, ID checks, even hotels, hospitality,” he said. “But when we gave this to law enforcement, we saw such amazing success right away where they could ID so many victims of crime or perpetrators of it that it was a kind of a no-brainer at that point to really focus on that kind of use case.”
He added at the time that if the company shifted to other uses, it would let the public and courts know about it. He downplayed what he described as the “lofty goals” that Clearview pitched to prospective investors in a document the Washington Post reported on in February.
The Post said the company’s financial presentation from December proposed a variety of potential commercial uses of Clearview technology, including to monitor “gig economy” workers or provide companies with “real-time alerts” if certain people are detected, and boasted of a face-image database that’s growing so large that “almost everyone in the world will be identifiable.”
A lawyer representing activists suing Clearview on privacy grounds in California said Friday her clients are most concerned about the government’s use of the technology to track protesters and immigrants, but any usage based on Clearview’s “unauthorized capture and sale” of faceprints could violate privacy rights.
“The future potential uses for Clearview appear to be a moving target,” said Sejal Zota, legal director of Just Futures Law. “And the scale is terrifying.”
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O’Brien reported from Providence, Rhode Island. |
https://phl17.com/business/ap-business/face-scanner-clearview-ai-aims-to-branch-out-beyond-police/ | NEW YORK (AP) — A controversial face recognition company that’s built a massive photographic dossier of the world’s people for use by police, national governments and — most recently — the Ukrainian military is now planning to offer its technology to banks and other private businesses.
Clearview AI co-founder and CEO Hoan Ton-That disclosed the plans Friday to The Associated Press in order to clarify a recent federal court filing that suggested the company was up for sale.
“We don’t have any plans to sell the company,” he said. Instead, he said the New York startup is looking to launch a new business venture to compete with the likes of Amazon and Microsoft in verifying people’s identity using facial recognition.
The new “consent-based” product would use Clearview’s algorithms to verify a person’s face, but would not involve its ever-growing trove of some 20 billion images, which Ton-That said is reserved for law enforcement use. Such ID checks that can be used to validate bank transactions or for other commercial purposes are the “least controversial use case” of facial recognition, he said.
That’s in contrast to the business practice for which Clearview is best known: collecting a huge trove of images posted on Facebook, YouTube and just about anywhere else on the publicly-accessible internet.
Regulators from Australia to Canada, France and Italy have taken measures to try to stop Clearview from pulling people’s faces into its facial recognition engine without their consent. So have tech giants such as Google and Facebook. A group of U.S. lawmakers earlier this year warned that “Clearview AI’s technology could eliminate public anonymity in the United States.”
Despite opposition from lawmakers, regulators, privacy advocates and the websites it scrapes for data, Clearview has continued to rack up new contracts with police departments and other government agencies. In the meantime, its growing database has helped Clearview’s artificial intelligence technology learn and grow more accurate.
One of its biggest known federal contracts is with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement — particularly its investigative arm, which has used the technology to track down both the victims and perpetrators of child sexual exploitation. Clearview in March also started offering its services for free to the Ukrainian military, in part to help identify dead Russian soldiers using Clearview’s repository of about 2 billion images scraped from Russian social media website VKontakte.
“They’ve been able to identify dead bodies, even with facial damage,” Ton-That said Friday.
The official minutes from a March 17 hearing in a Chicago federal court said that Clearview AI was “considering selling the app platform to other entities,” citing one of the lawyers who’s been defending the company in a case involving alleged violation of an Illinois digital privacy law.
The minutes also said the “sale of Clearview’s app” would be discussed further once the company discloses more details to the plaintiffs. Illinois’ Biometric Information Privacy Act allows consumers to sue companies that don’t get permission before harvesting data such as faces and fingerprints.
Ton-That said the minutes incorrectly relayed what the company was trying to tell the judge about potentially expanding its business beyond law enforcement uses.
“We let the court know we’re exploring this idea,” he said Friday, noting the company’s previous assertions that it was only selling its services to law enforcement.
Asked about future commercial applications during an interview with the AP in late February, Ton-That emphasized his company’s ongoing focus on police work.
“We’re really focused on law enforcement right now,” he said, describing how the company’s mission had evolved from commercial applications into helping to solve crime.
“We looked at all different kinds of use cases: building security, ID checks, even hotels, hospitality,” he said. “But when we gave this to law enforcement, we saw such amazing success right away where they could ID so many victims of crime or perpetrators of it that it was a kind of a no-brainer at that point to really focus on that kind of use case.”
He added at the time that if the company shifted to other uses, it would let the public and courts know about it. He downplayed what he described as the “lofty goals” that Clearview pitched to prospective investors in a document the Washington Post reported on in February.
The Post said the company’s financial presentation from December proposed a variety of potential commercial uses of Clearview technology, including to monitor “gig economy” workers or provide companies with “real-time alerts” if certain people are detected, and boasted of a face-image database that’s growing so large that “almost everyone in the world will be identifiable.”
A lawyer representing activists suing Clearview on privacy grounds in California said Friday her clients are most concerned about the government’s use of the technology to track protesters and immigrants, but any usage based on Clearview’s “unauthorized capture and sale” of faceprints could violate privacy rights.
“The future potential uses for Clearview appear to be a moving target,” said Sejal Zota, legal director of Just Futures Law. “And the scale is terrifying.”
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O’Brien reported from Providence, Rhode Island. | 2 | 2,717 | 0 | https://www.wivb.com/science/face-scanner-clearview-ai-aims-to-branch-out-beyond-police/ | 2022-04-02 17:43:31+00:00 | NEW YORK (AP) — A controversial face recognition company that’s built a massive photographic dossier of the world’s people for use by police, national governments and — most recently — the Ukrainian military is now planning to offer its technology to banks and other private businesses.
Clearview AI co-founder and CEO Hoan Ton-That disclosed the plans Friday to The Associated Press in order to clarify a recent federal court filing that suggested the company was up for sale.
“We don’t have any plans to sell the company,” he said. Instead, he said the New York startup is looking to launch a new business venture to compete with the likes of Amazon and Microsoft in verifying people’s identity using facial recognition.
The new “consent-based” product would use Clearview’s algorithms to verify a person’s face, but would not involve its ever-growing trove of some 20 billion images, which Ton-That said is reserved for law enforcement use. Such ID checks that can be used to validate bank transactions or for other commercial purposes are the “least controversial use case” of facial recognition, he said.
That’s in contrast to the business practice for which Clearview is best known: collecting a huge trove of images posted on Facebook, YouTube and just about anywhere else on the publicly-accessible internet.
Regulators from Australia to Canada, France and Italy have taken measures to try to stop Clearview from pulling people’s faces into its facial recognition engine without their consent. So have tech giants such as Google and Facebook. A group of U.S. lawmakers earlier this year warned that “Clearview AI’s technology could eliminate public anonymity in the United States.”
Despite opposition from lawmakers, regulators, privacy advocates and the websites it scrapes for data, Clearview has continued to rack up new contracts with police departments and other government agencies. In the meantime, its growing database has helped Clearview’s artificial intelligence technology learn and grow more accurate.
One of its biggest known federal contracts is with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement — particularly its investigative arm, which has used the technology to track down both the victims and perpetrators of child sexual exploitation. Clearview in March also started offering its services for free to the Ukrainian military, in part to help identify dead Russian soldiers using Clearview’s repository of about 2 billion images scraped from Russian social media website VKontakte.
“They’ve been able to identify dead bodies, even with facial damage,” Ton-That said Friday.
The official minutes from a March 17 hearing in a Chicago federal court said that Clearview AI was “considering selling the app platform to other entities,” citing one of the lawyers who’s been defending the company in a case involving alleged violation of an Illinois digital privacy law.
The minutes also said the “sale of Clearview’s app” would be discussed further once the company discloses more details to the plaintiffs. Illinois’ Biometric Information Privacy Act allows consumers to sue companies that don’t get permission before harvesting data such as faces and fingerprints.
Ton-That said the minutes incorrectly relayed what the company was trying to tell the judge about potentially expanding its business beyond law enforcement uses.
“We let the court know we’re exploring this idea,” he said Friday, noting the company’s previous assertions that it was only selling its services to law enforcement.
Asked about future commercial applications during an interview with the AP in late February, Ton-That emphasized his company’s ongoing focus on police work.
“We’re really focused on law enforcement right now,” he said, describing how the company’s mission had evolved from commercial applications into helping to solve crime.
“We looked at all different kinds of use cases: building security, ID checks, even hotels, hospitality,” he said. “But when we gave this to law enforcement, we saw such amazing success right away where they could ID so many victims of crime or perpetrators of it that it was a kind of a no-brainer at that point to really focus on that kind of use case.”
He added at the time that if the company shifted to other uses, it would let the public and courts know about it. He downplayed what he described as the “lofty goals” that Clearview pitched to prospective investors in a document the Washington Post reported on in February.
The Post said the company’s financial presentation from December proposed a variety of potential commercial uses of Clearview technology, including to monitor “gig economy” workers or provide companies with “real-time alerts” if certain people are detected, and boasted of a face-image database that’s growing so large that “almost everyone in the world will be identifiable.”
A lawyer representing activists suing Clearview on privacy grounds in California said Friday her clients are most concerned about the government’s use of the technology to track protesters and immigrants, but any usage based on Clearview’s “unauthorized capture and sale” of faceprints could violate privacy rights.
“The future potential uses for Clearview appear to be a moving target,” said Sejal Zota, legal director of Just Futures Law. “And the scale is terrifying.”
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O’Brien reported from Providence, Rhode Island. |
https://phl17.com/news/international/ap-international/hungarys-orban-claims-he-can-keep-nation-out-of-ukraine-war/ | SZEKESFEHERVAR, Hungary (AP) — Hungary’s nationalist prime minister on Friday portrayed his country’s upcoming election as an existential turning point and a choice between war and peace as he made a final appeal to voters at a campaign rally in a rural stronghold.
Viktor Orban, who is seeking a fourth consecutive term as the head of Hungary’s government, has campaigned on the promise that if re-elected in Hungary’s parliamentary election Sunday, he will protect the country’s peace and security and maintain Russian energy imports as war rages in neighboring Ukraine.
Orban’s right-wing Fidesz party is facing what polls suggest will be the closest election in more than a decade.
“This isn’t our war, we have to stay out of it,” Orban said Friday to hundreds of supporters in the central Hungarian city of Szekesfehervar. “We can stay out by not sending soldiers or weapons, and not allowing arms shipments through Hungary’s territory, because then we’ll immediately become a military target.”
Alone among Ukraine’s neighbors in the European Union, Hungary has refused to supply Ukraine with weapons and has forbid their transit across the Hungarian-Ukrainian border, arguing that doing so would draw the country into the conflict.
While Orban has condemned Russia’s war against Ukraine, he has been careful not to place responsibility for the conflict on Russian President Vladimir Putin, with whom he has forged close relations since taking office in 2010. He has also fought vehemently against sanctioning Russian fossil fuels, upon which Hungary is very dependent. Last week, Orban noted that 85% of Hungary’s gas and more than 60% of its oil comes from Russia.
At the rally in Szekesfehervar, Orban repeated an unsubstantiated claim that a six-party coalition that united to run against him Sunday had made a secret pact with the Ukrainian government, and that his opponents would cut off Russian oil and gas if elected — something the coalition has denied.
The opposition coalition, United For Hungary, has coordinated its candidates in each of Hungary’s 106 voting districts, and nominated independent conservative Peter Marki-Zay to face Orban as its candidate for prime minister.
The opposition parties, which previously campaigned on a promise to do away with what they call widespread corruption and democratic backsliding under Orban, have asked voters to punish the autocratic prime minister for his close relations with Putin. The war in Ukraine has sent hundredsof thousands of refugees fleeing into Hungary seeking safety.
The opposition has portrayed Sunday’s election as a referendum on whether Hungary will belong to a league of Western democracies or return to its historical past as a repressive, Russian-dominated autocracy.
For his part, Orban painted a dark picture Friday of the possible dire economic repercussions that could occur if Hungary’s ties with Russia were cut.
“If we sanction energy imports and they shut down the pipelines, then Hungary won’t be just colder, the temperature won’t go down one or two degrees, but the country will shut down,” he said. “We’ll have to close the factories and many people — including you — will lose their jobs.” | 0 | 51,604 | 0 | https://www.seattletimes.com/business/hungarys-orban-claims-he-can-keep-nation-out-of-ukraine-war/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_business | 2022-04-01 17:03:45+00:00 | SZEKESFEHERVAR, Hungary (AP) — Hungary’s nationalist prime minister on Friday portrayed his country’s upcoming election as an existential turning point and a choice between war and peace as he made a final appeal to voters at a campaign rally in a rural stronghold.
Viktor Orban, who is seeking a fourth consecutive term as the head of Hungary’s government, has campaigned on the promise that if re-elected in Hungary’s parliamentary election Sunday, he will protect the country’s peace and security and maintain Russian energy imports as war rages in neighboring Ukraine.
Orban’s right-wing Fidesz party is facing what polls suggest will be the closest election in more than a decade.
“This isn’t our war, we have to stay out of it,” Orban said Friday to hundreds of supporters in the central Hungarian city of Szekesfehervar. “We can stay out by not sending soldiers or weapons, and not allowing arms shipments through Hungary’s territory, because then we’ll immediately become a military target.”
Alone among Ukraine’s neighbors in the European Union, Hungary has refused to supply Ukraine with weapons and has forbid their transit across the Hungarian-Ukrainian border, arguing that doing so would draw the country into the conflict.
While Orban has condemned Russia’s war against Ukraine, he has been careful not to place responsibility for the conflict on Russian President Vladimir Putin, with whom he has forged close relations since taking office in 2010. He has also fought vehemently against sanctioning Russian fossil fuels, upon which Hungary is very dependent. Last week, Orban noted that 85% of Hungary’s gas and more than 60% of its oil comes from Russia.
At the rally in Szekesfehervar, Orban repeated an unsubstantiated claim that a six-party coalition that united to run against him Sunday had made a secret pact with the Ukrainian government, and that his opponents would cut off Russian oil and gas if elected — something the coalition has denied.
The opposition coalition, United For Hungary, has coordinated its candidates in each of Hungary’s 106 voting districts, and nominated independent conservative Peter Marki-Zay to face Orban as its candidate for prime minister.
The opposition parties, which previously campaigned on a promise to do away with what they call widespread corruption and democratic backsliding under Orban, have asked voters to punish the autocratic prime minister for his close relations with Putin. The war in Ukraine has sent hundreds of thousands of refugees fleeing into Hungary seeking safety.
The opposition has portrayed Sunday’s election as a referendum on whether Hungary will belong to a league of Western democracies or return to its historical past as a repressive, Russian-dominated autocracy.
For his part, Orban painted a dark picture Friday of the possible dire economic repercussions that could occur if Hungary’s ties with Russia were cut.
“If we sanction energy imports and they shut down the pipelines, then Hungary won’t be just colder, the temperature won’t go down one or two degrees, but the country will shut down,” he said. “We’ll have to close the factories and many people — including you — will lose their jobs.” |
https://phl17.com/news/international/ap-international/hungarys-orban-claims-he-can-keep-nation-out-of-ukraine-war/ | SZEKESFEHERVAR, Hungary (AP) — Hungary’s nationalist prime minister on Friday portrayed his country’s upcoming election as an existential turning point and a choice between war and peace as he made a final appeal to voters at a campaign rally in a rural stronghold.
Viktor Orban, who is seeking a fourth consecutive term as the head of Hungary’s government, has campaigned on the promise that if re-elected in Hungary’s parliamentary election Sunday, he will protect the country’s peace and security and maintain Russian energy imports as war rages in neighboring Ukraine.
Orban’s right-wing Fidesz party is facing what polls suggest will be the closest election in more than a decade.
“This isn’t our war, we have to stay out of it,” Orban said Friday to hundreds of supporters in the central Hungarian city of Szekesfehervar. “We can stay out by not sending soldiers or weapons, and not allowing arms shipments through Hungary’s territory, because then we’ll immediately become a military target.”
Alone among Ukraine’s neighbors in the European Union, Hungary has refused to supply Ukraine with weapons and has forbid their transit across the Hungarian-Ukrainian border, arguing that doing so would draw the country into the conflict.
While Orban has condemned Russia’s war against Ukraine, he has been careful not to place responsibility for the conflict on Russian President Vladimir Putin, with whom he has forged close relations since taking office in 2010. He has also fought vehemently against sanctioning Russian fossil fuels, upon which Hungary is very dependent. Last week, Orban noted that 85% of Hungary’s gas and more than 60% of its oil comes from Russia.
At the rally in Szekesfehervar, Orban repeated an unsubstantiated claim that a six-party coalition that united to run against him Sunday had made a secret pact with the Ukrainian government, and that his opponents would cut off Russian oil and gas if elected — something the coalition has denied.
The opposition coalition, United For Hungary, has coordinated its candidates in each of Hungary’s 106 voting districts, and nominated independent conservative Peter Marki-Zay to face Orban as its candidate for prime minister.
The opposition parties, which previously campaigned on a promise to do away with what they call widespread corruption and democratic backsliding under Orban, have asked voters to punish the autocratic prime minister for his close relations with Putin. The war in Ukraine has sent hundredsof thousands of refugees fleeing into Hungary seeking safety.
The opposition has portrayed Sunday’s election as a referendum on whether Hungary will belong to a league of Western democracies or return to its historical past as a repressive, Russian-dominated autocracy.
For his part, Orban painted a dark picture Friday of the possible dire economic repercussions that could occur if Hungary’s ties with Russia were cut.
“If we sanction energy imports and they shut down the pipelines, then Hungary won’t be just colder, the temperature won’t go down one or two degrees, but the country will shut down,” he said. “We’ll have to close the factories and many people — including you — will lose their jobs.” | 1 | 55,691 | 0 | https://wtop.com/europe/2022/04/hungarys-orban-claims-he-can-keep-nation-out-of-ukraine-war/ | 2022-04-01 17:19:10+00:00 | SZEKESFEHERVAR, Hungary (AP) — Hungary’s nationalist prime minister on Friday portrayed his country’s upcoming election as an existential turning point and a choice between war and peace as he made a final appeal to voters at a campaign rally in a rural stronghold.
Viktor Orban, who is seeking a fourth consecutive term as the head of Hungary’s government, has campaigned on the promise that if re-elected in Hungary’s parliamentary election Sunday, he will protect the country’s peace and security and maintain Russian energy imports as war rages in neighboring Ukraine.
Orban’s right-wing Fidesz party is facing what polls suggest will be the closest election in more than a decade.
“This isn’t our war, we have to stay out of it,” Orban said Friday to hundreds of supporters in the central Hungarian city of Szekesfehervar. “We can stay out by not sending soldiers or weapons, and not allowing arms shipments through Hungary’s territory, because then we’ll immediately become a military target.”
Alone among Ukraine’s neighbors in the European Union, Hungary has refused to supply Ukraine with weapons and has forbid their transit across the Hungarian-Ukrainian border, arguing that doing so would draw the country into the conflict.
While Orban has condemned Russia’s war against Ukraine, he has been careful not to place responsibility for the conflict on Russian President Vladimir Putin, with whom he has forged close relations since taking office in 2010. He has also fought vehemently against sanctioning Russian fossil fuels, upon which Hungary is very dependent. Last week, Orban noted that 85% of Hungary’s gas and more than 60% of its oil comes from Russia.
At the rally in Szekesfehervar, Orban repeated an unsubstantiated claim that a six-party coalition that united to run against him Sunday had made a secret pact with the Ukrainian government, and that his opponents would cut off Russian oil and gas if elected — something the coalition has denied.
The opposition coalition, United For Hungary, has coordinated its candidates in each of Hungary’s 106 voting districts, and nominated independent conservative Peter Marki-Zay to face Orban as its candidate for prime minister.
The opposition parties, which previously campaigned on a promise to do away with what they call widespread corruption and democratic backsliding under Orban, have asked voters to punish the autocratic prime minister for his close relations with Putin. The war in Ukraine has sent hundreds of thousands of refugees fleeing into Hungary seeking safety.
The opposition has portrayed Sunday’s election as a referendum on whether Hungary will belong to a league of Western democracies or return to its historical past as a repressive, Russian-dominated autocracy.
For his part, Orban painted a dark picture Friday of the possible dire economic repercussions that could occur if Hungary’s ties with Russia were cut.
“If we sanction energy imports and they shut down the pipelines, then Hungary won’t be just colder, the temperature won’t go down one or two degrees, but the country will shut down,” he said. “We’ll have to close the factories and many people — including you — will lose their jobs.”
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https://phl17.com/news/international/ap-international/hungarys-orban-claims-he-can-keep-nation-out-of-ukraine-war/ | SZEKESFEHERVAR, Hungary (AP) — Hungary’s nationalist prime minister on Friday portrayed his country’s upcoming election as an existential turning point and a choice between war and peace as he made a final appeal to voters at a campaign rally in a rural stronghold.
Viktor Orban, who is seeking a fourth consecutive term as the head of Hungary’s government, has campaigned on the promise that if re-elected in Hungary’s parliamentary election Sunday, he will protect the country’s peace and security and maintain Russian energy imports as war rages in neighboring Ukraine.
Orban’s right-wing Fidesz party is facing what polls suggest will be the closest election in more than a decade.
“This isn’t our war, we have to stay out of it,” Orban said Friday to hundreds of supporters in the central Hungarian city of Szekesfehervar. “We can stay out by not sending soldiers or weapons, and not allowing arms shipments through Hungary’s territory, because then we’ll immediately become a military target.”
Alone among Ukraine’s neighbors in the European Union, Hungary has refused to supply Ukraine with weapons and has forbid their transit across the Hungarian-Ukrainian border, arguing that doing so would draw the country into the conflict.
While Orban has condemned Russia’s war against Ukraine, he has been careful not to place responsibility for the conflict on Russian President Vladimir Putin, with whom he has forged close relations since taking office in 2010. He has also fought vehemently against sanctioning Russian fossil fuels, upon which Hungary is very dependent. Last week, Orban noted that 85% of Hungary’s gas and more than 60% of its oil comes from Russia.
At the rally in Szekesfehervar, Orban repeated an unsubstantiated claim that a six-party coalition that united to run against him Sunday had made a secret pact with the Ukrainian government, and that his opponents would cut off Russian oil and gas if elected — something the coalition has denied.
The opposition coalition, United For Hungary, has coordinated its candidates in each of Hungary’s 106 voting districts, and nominated independent conservative Peter Marki-Zay to face Orban as its candidate for prime minister.
The opposition parties, which previously campaigned on a promise to do away with what they call widespread corruption and democratic backsliding under Orban, have asked voters to punish the autocratic prime minister for his close relations with Putin. The war in Ukraine has sent hundredsof thousands of refugees fleeing into Hungary seeking safety.
The opposition has portrayed Sunday’s election as a referendum on whether Hungary will belong to a league of Western democracies or return to its historical past as a repressive, Russian-dominated autocracy.
For his part, Orban painted a dark picture Friday of the possible dire economic repercussions that could occur if Hungary’s ties with Russia were cut.
“If we sanction energy imports and they shut down the pipelines, then Hungary won’t be just colder, the temperature won’t go down one or two degrees, but the country will shut down,” he said. “We’ll have to close the factories and many people — including you — will lose their jobs.” | 2 | 1,073 | 0 | https://www.8newsnow.com/news/international/hungarys-orban-claims-he-can-keep-nation-out-of-ukraine-war/ | 2022-04-02 00:06:14+00:00 | SZEKESFEHERVAR, Hungary (AP) — Hungary’s nationalist prime minister on Friday portrayed his country’s upcoming election as an existential turning point and a choice between war and peace as he made a final appeal to voters at a campaign rally in a rural stronghold.
Viktor Orban, who is seeking a fourth consecutive term as the head of Hungary’s government, has campaigned on the promise that if re-elected in Hungary’s parliamentary election Sunday, he will protect the country’s peace and security and maintain Russian energy imports as war rages in neighboring Ukraine.
Orban’s right-wing Fidesz party is facing what polls suggest will be the closest election in more than a decade.
“This isn’t our war, we have to stay out of it,” Orban said Friday to hundreds of supporters in the central Hungarian city of Szekesfehervar. “We can stay out by not sending soldiers or weapons, and not allowing arms shipments through Hungary’s territory, because then we’ll immediately become a military target.”
Alone among Ukraine’s neighbors in the European Union, Hungary has refused to supply Ukraine with weapons and has forbid their transit across the Hungarian-Ukrainian border, arguing that doing so would draw the country into the conflict.
While Orban has condemned Russia’s war against Ukraine, he has been careful not to place responsibility for the conflict on Russian President Vladimir Putin, with whom he has forged close relations since taking office in 2010. He has also fought vehemently against sanctioning Russian fossil fuels, upon which Hungary is very dependent. Last week, Orban noted that 85% of Hungary’s gas and more than 60% of its oil comes from Russia.
At the rally in Szekesfehervar, Orban repeated an unsubstantiated claim that a six-party coalition that united to run against him Sunday had made a secret pact with the Ukrainian government, and that his opponents would cut off Russian oil and gas if elected — something the coalition has denied.
The opposition coalition, United For Hungary, has coordinated its candidates in each of Hungary’s 106 voting districts, and nominated independent conservative Peter Marki-Zay to face Orban as its candidate for prime minister.
The opposition parties, which previously campaigned on a promise to do away with what they call widespread corruption and democratic backsliding under Orban, have asked voters to punish the autocratic prime minister for his close relations with Putin. The war in Ukraine has sent hundredsof thousands of refugees fleeing into Hungary seeking safety.
The opposition has portrayed Sunday’s election as a referendum on whether Hungary will belong to a league of Western democracies or return to its historical past as a repressive, Russian-dominated autocracy.
For his part, Orban painted a dark picture Friday of the possible dire economic repercussions that could occur if Hungary’s ties with Russia were cut.
“If we sanction energy imports and they shut down the pipelines, then Hungary won’t be just colder, the temperature won’t go down one or two degrees, but the country will shut down,” he said. “We’ll have to close the factories and many people — including you — will lose their jobs.” |
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/pa/article-10679189/Liverpool-Premier-League-victory-Watford.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | Liverpool go top of Premier League with victory over Watford
Liverpool turned up the title race pressure on Manchester City as they went top of the Premier League table for the first time since September with a 2-0 win over Watford.
Diogo Jota’s 20th goal of the season in the first half was followed by a late Fabinho penalty to send a message the short distance up the road to Turf Moor where City were about to kick-off against Burnley.
Trent Alexander-Arnold, watching from the bench, could not have failed to be impressed not necessarily by the first goal – which has become quite commonplace now for Jota – but with the quality of the assist.
His stand-in Joe Gomez, making only his second Premier League start of the season, produced a cross of which his England team-mate would have been proud, whipped in to the near post in a space between centre-half and right-back.
Jota does not need much of an invitation to get on the end of such gifts, having scored more Premier League headers (seven) than anyone since joining Liverpool in September 2020.
Only team-mate Mohamed Salah (20) has scored more in the top flight than the Portugal international’s 14, which secured a 10th successive home win for only the ninth time in the club’s history.
A 14-point deficit in January had been turned into a two-point advantage ahead of City’s 3pm start, teeing up their tantalising clash at the Etihad next Sunday irrespective of the outcome at Turf Moor.
Manager Jurgen Klopp had called for players and fans to be at their best for a traditionally difficult early Saturday kick-off but it was the visitors who had the better early chances, with Ismaila Sarr volleying over, Cucho Hernandez flicking a header straight at Alisson Becker and Juraj Kucka also being denied one-on-one with the goalkeeper.
But moments after Alisson had closed down the angle to block Kucka’s effort from a counter-attack Liverpool were ahead.
Thiago Alcantara, whose range of passing and clever vision ran the show, and Jordan Henderson combined to pick out Gomez wide on the touchline.
Primarily a centre-back who can play on the right, the 24-year-old, who due to the form of a defence which has conceded just seven Premier League goals at home has been limited to only 15 appearances, picked his spot.
Jota, whose four headers this season is a Premier League high, attacked the gap in between Christian Kabasele and Kiko Femenia and his proficiency from close range meant a 20th goal of the season was a formality.
He almost had a second seven minutes before half-time only for Ben Foster to parry his shot after Andy Robertson’s drive deflected to him in the penalty area.
Gomez proved his first-half effort was no fluke with another superb delivery causing panic in the Watford ranks soon after the restart, with Virgil Van Dijk wastefully heading over a corner as they continued to dominate.
But the warning they could not sit on their one-goal lead came just before the hour when Sarr and Joao Pedro combined to isolate Joel Matip only for the latter to roll a shot past the post with only Alisson to beat.
Two headed chances for Jota and one, albeit it far more difficult, for Salah went begging as the second goal continued to prove elusive despite their territorial dominance.
But with the game still in the balance with 20 minutes to go Watford manager and former Liverpool boss Roy Hodgson sent on Josh King, Tom Cleverley and Emmanuel Dennis to try to snatch something.
However, Klopp’s side, unbeaten domestically since late December, saw the game home roared on by an excitable Kop whose nerves were eased by Fabinho’s late penalty after referee Stuart Atwell reviewed the pitchside monitor after missing Kucka pulling down Jota. | 0 | 114,314 | 0 | https://www.newschainonline.com/sport/mens-sport/football/liverpool-go-top-of-premier-league-with-victory-over-watford-262953 | 2022-04-02 14:34:02+00:00 | Liverpool go top of Premier League with victory over Watford
Liverpool turned up the title race pressure on Manchester City as they went top of the Premier League table for the first time since September with a 2-0 win over Watford.
Diogo Jota’s 20th goal of the season in the first half was followed by a late Fabinho penalty to send a message the short distance up the road to Turf Moor where City were about to kick-off against Burnley.
Trent Alexander-Arnold, watching from the bench, could not have failed to be impressed not necessarily by the first goal – which has become quite commonplace now for Jota – but with the quality of the assist.
His stand-in Joe Gomez, making only his second Premier League start of the season, produced a cross of which his England team-mate would have been proud, whipped in to the near post in a space between centre-half and right-back.
Jota does not need much of an invitation to get on the end of such gifts, having scored more Premier League headers (seven) than anyone since joining Liverpool in September 2020.
Only team-mate Mohamed Salah (20) has scored more in the top flight than the Portugal international’s 14, which secured a 10th successive home win for only the ninth time in the club’s history.
A 14-point deficit in January had been turned into a two-point advantage ahead of City’s 3pm start, teeing up their tantalising clash at the Etihad next Sunday irrespective of the outcome at Turf Moor.
Manager Jurgen Klopp had called for players and fans to be at their best for a traditionally difficult early Saturday kick-off but it was the visitors who had the better early chances, with Ismaila Sarr volleying over, Cucho Hernandez flicking a header straight at Alisson Becker and Juraj Kucka also being denied one-on-one with the goalkeeper.
But moments after Alisson had closed down the angle to block Kucka’s effort from a counter-attack Liverpool were ahead.
Thiago Alcantara, whose range of passing and clever vision ran the show, and Jordan Henderson combined to pick out Gomez wide on the touchline.
Primarily a centre-back who can play on the right, the 24-year-old, who due to the form of a defence which has conceded just seven Premier League goals at home has been limited to only 15 appearances, picked his spot.
Jota, whose four headers this season is a Premier League high, attacked the gap in between Christian Kabasele and Kiko Femenia and his proficiency from close range meant a 20th goal of the season was a formality.
He almost had a second seven minutes before half-time only for Ben Foster to parry his shot after Andy Robertson’s drive deflected to him in the penalty area.
Gomez proved his first-half effort was no fluke with another superb delivery causing panic in the Watford ranks soon after the restart, with Virgil Van Dijk wastefully heading over a corner as they continued to dominate.
But the warning they could not sit on their one-goal lead came just before the hour when Sarr and Joao Pedro combined to isolate Joel Matip only for the latter to roll a shot past the post with only Alisson to beat.
Two headed chances for Jota and one, albeit it far more difficult, for Salah went begging as the second goal continued to prove elusive despite their territorial dominance.
But with the game still in the balance with 20 minutes to go Watford manager and former Liverpool boss Roy Hodgson sent on Josh King, Tom Cleverley and Emmanuel Dennis to try to snatch something.
However, Klopp’s side, unbeaten domestically since late December, saw the game home roared on by an excitable Kop whose nerves were eased by Fabinho’s late penalty after referee Stuart Atwell reviewed the pitchside monitor after missing Kucka pulling down Jota.
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/pa/article-10679189/Liverpool-Premier-League-victory-Watford.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | Liverpool go top of Premier League with victory over Watford
Liverpool turned up the title race pressure on Manchester City as they went top of the Premier League table for the first time since September with a 2-0 win over Watford.
Diogo Jota’s 20th goal of the season in the first half was followed by a late Fabinho penalty to send a message the short distance up the road to Turf Moor where City were about to kick-off against Burnley.
Trent Alexander-Arnold, watching from the bench, could not have failed to be impressed not necessarily by the first goal – which has become quite commonplace now for Jota – but with the quality of the assist.
His stand-in Joe Gomez, making only his second Premier League start of the season, produced a cross of which his England team-mate would have been proud, whipped in to the near post in a space between centre-half and right-back.
Jota does not need much of an invitation to get on the end of such gifts, having scored more Premier League headers (seven) than anyone since joining Liverpool in September 2020.
Only team-mate Mohamed Salah (20) has scored more in the top flight than the Portugal international’s 14, which secured a 10th successive home win for only the ninth time in the club’s history.
A 14-point deficit in January had been turned into a two-point advantage ahead of City’s 3pm start, teeing up their tantalising clash at the Etihad next Sunday irrespective of the outcome at Turf Moor.
Manager Jurgen Klopp had called for players and fans to be at their best for a traditionally difficult early Saturday kick-off but it was the visitors who had the better early chances, with Ismaila Sarr volleying over, Cucho Hernandez flicking a header straight at Alisson Becker and Juraj Kucka also being denied one-on-one with the goalkeeper.
But moments after Alisson had closed down the angle to block Kucka’s effort from a counter-attack Liverpool were ahead.
Thiago Alcantara, whose range of passing and clever vision ran the show, and Jordan Henderson combined to pick out Gomez wide on the touchline.
Primarily a centre-back who can play on the right, the 24-year-old, who due to the form of a defence which has conceded just seven Premier League goals at home has been limited to only 15 appearances, picked his spot.
Jota, whose four headers this season is a Premier League high, attacked the gap in between Christian Kabasele and Kiko Femenia and his proficiency from close range meant a 20th goal of the season was a formality.
He almost had a second seven minutes before half-time only for Ben Foster to parry his shot after Andy Robertson’s drive deflected to him in the penalty area.
Gomez proved his first-half effort was no fluke with another superb delivery causing panic in the Watford ranks soon after the restart, with Virgil Van Dijk wastefully heading over a corner as they continued to dominate.
But the warning they could not sit on their one-goal lead came just before the hour when Sarr and Joao Pedro combined to isolate Joel Matip only for the latter to roll a shot past the post with only Alisson to beat.
Two headed chances for Jota and one, albeit it far more difficult, for Salah went begging as the second goal continued to prove elusive despite their territorial dominance.
But with the game still in the balance with 20 minutes to go Watford manager and former Liverpool boss Roy Hodgson sent on Josh King, Tom Cleverley and Emmanuel Dennis to try to snatch something.
However, Klopp’s side, unbeaten domestically since late December, saw the game home roared on by an excitable Kop whose nerves were eased by Fabinho’s late penalty after referee Stuart Atwell reviewed the pitchside monitor after missing Kucka pulling down Jota. | 1 | 114,363 | 0.176797 | https://www.fourfourtwo.com/news/liverpool-go-top-of-premier-league-with-victory-over-watford-1648906660000 | 2022-04-02 14:34:12+00:00 | Liverpool go top of Premier League with victory over Watford
By PA Staff published
Liverpool turned up the title race pressure on Manchester City as they went top of the Premier League table for the first time since September with a 2-0 win over Watford.
Diogo Jota’s 20th goal of the season in the first half was followed by a late Fabinho penalty to send a message the short distance up the road to Turf Moor where City were about to kick-off against Burnley.
Trent Alexander-Arnold, watching from the bench, could not have failed to be impressed not necessarily by the first goal – which has become quite commonplace now for Jota – but with the quality of the assist.
𝗗𝗜𝗢𝗚𝗢 𝗝𝗢𝗧𝗔 𝗦𝗖𝗢𝗥𝗘𝗦 𝗛𝗘𝗔𝗗𝗘𝗥𝗦 ⚽👏 pic.twitter.com/bhjoJjDPUZ— Liverpool FC (@LFC) April 2, 2022
His stand-in Joe Gomez, making only his second Premier League start of the season, produced a cross of which his England team-mate would have been proud, whipped in to the near post in a space between centre-half and right-back.
Jota does not need much of an invitation to get on the end of such gifts, having scored more Premier League headers (seven) than anyone since joining Liverpool in September 2020.
Only team-mate Mohamed Salah (20) has scored more in the top flight than the Portugal international’s 14, which secured a 10th successive home win for only the ninth time in the club’s history.
A 14-point deficit in January had been turned into a two-point advantage ahead of City’s 3pm start, teeing up their tantalising clash at the Etihad next Sunday irrespective of the outcome at Turf Moor.
Manager Jurgen Klopp had called for players and fans to be at their best for a traditionally difficult early Saturday kick-off but it was the visitors who had the better early chances, with Ismaila Sarr volleying over, Cucho Hernandez flicking a header straight at Alisson Becker and Juraj Kucka also being denied one-on-one with the goalkeeper.
But moments after Alisson had closed down the angle to block Kucka’s effort from a counter-attack Liverpool were ahead.
Thiago Alcantara, whose range of passing and clever vision ran the show, and Jordan Henderson combined to pick out Gomez wide on the touchline.
Primarily a centre-back who can play on the right, the 24-year-old, who due to the form of a defence which has conceded just seven Premier League goals at home has been limited to only 15 appearances, picked his spot.
Jota, whose four headers this season is a Premier League high, attacked the gap in between Christian Kabasele and Kiko Femenia and his proficiency from close range meant a 20th goal of the season was a formality.
He almost had a second seven minutes before half-time only for Ben Foster to parry his shot after Andy Robertson’s drive deflected to him in the penalty area.
Gomez proved his first-half effort was no fluke with another superb delivery causing panic in the Watford ranks soon after the restart, with Virgil Van Dijk wastefully heading over a corner as they continued to dominate.
What a chance! Sarr is played through and cuts it back to João Pedro, who fires just wide.— Watford Football Club (@WatfordFC) April 2, 2022
But the warning they could not sit on their one-goal lead came just before the hour when Sarr and Joao Pedro combined to isolate Joel Matip only for the latter to roll a shot past the post with only Alisson to beat.
Two headed chances for Jota and one, albeit it far more difficult, for Salah went begging as the second goal continued to prove elusive despite their territorial dominance.
But with the game still in the balance with 20 minutes to go Watford manager and former Liverpool boss Roy Hodgson sent on Josh King, Tom Cleverley and Emmanuel Dennis to try to snatch something.
However, Klopp’s side, unbeaten domestically since late December, saw the game home roared on by an excitable Kop whose nerves were eased by Fabinho’s late penalty after referee Stuart Atwell reviewed the pitchside monitor after missing Kucka pulling down Jota.
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/pa/article-10679189/Liverpool-Premier-League-victory-Watford.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | Liverpool go top of Premier League with victory over Watford
Liverpool turned up the title race pressure on Manchester City as they went top of the Premier League table for the first time since September with a 2-0 win over Watford.
Diogo Jota’s 20th goal of the season in the first half was followed by a late Fabinho penalty to send a message the short distance up the road to Turf Moor where City were about to kick-off against Burnley.
Trent Alexander-Arnold, watching from the bench, could not have failed to be impressed not necessarily by the first goal – which has become quite commonplace now for Jota – but with the quality of the assist.
His stand-in Joe Gomez, making only his second Premier League start of the season, produced a cross of which his England team-mate would have been proud, whipped in to the near post in a space between centre-half and right-back.
Jota does not need much of an invitation to get on the end of such gifts, having scored more Premier League headers (seven) than anyone since joining Liverpool in September 2020.
Only team-mate Mohamed Salah (20) has scored more in the top flight than the Portugal international’s 14, which secured a 10th successive home win for only the ninth time in the club’s history.
A 14-point deficit in January had been turned into a two-point advantage ahead of City’s 3pm start, teeing up their tantalising clash at the Etihad next Sunday irrespective of the outcome at Turf Moor.
Manager Jurgen Klopp had called for players and fans to be at their best for a traditionally difficult early Saturday kick-off but it was the visitors who had the better early chances, with Ismaila Sarr volleying over, Cucho Hernandez flicking a header straight at Alisson Becker and Juraj Kucka also being denied one-on-one with the goalkeeper.
But moments after Alisson had closed down the angle to block Kucka’s effort from a counter-attack Liverpool were ahead.
Thiago Alcantara, whose range of passing and clever vision ran the show, and Jordan Henderson combined to pick out Gomez wide on the touchline.
Primarily a centre-back who can play on the right, the 24-year-old, who due to the form of a defence which has conceded just seven Premier League goals at home has been limited to only 15 appearances, picked his spot.
Jota, whose four headers this season is a Premier League high, attacked the gap in between Christian Kabasele and Kiko Femenia and his proficiency from close range meant a 20th goal of the season was a formality.
He almost had a second seven minutes before half-time only for Ben Foster to parry his shot after Andy Robertson’s drive deflected to him in the penalty area.
Gomez proved his first-half effort was no fluke with another superb delivery causing panic in the Watford ranks soon after the restart, with Virgil Van Dijk wastefully heading over a corner as they continued to dominate.
But the warning they could not sit on their one-goal lead came just before the hour when Sarr and Joao Pedro combined to isolate Joel Matip only for the latter to roll a shot past the post with only Alisson to beat.
Two headed chances for Jota and one, albeit it far more difficult, for Salah went begging as the second goal continued to prove elusive despite their territorial dominance.
But with the game still in the balance with 20 minutes to go Watford manager and former Liverpool boss Roy Hodgson sent on Josh King, Tom Cleverley and Emmanuel Dennis to try to snatch something.
However, Klopp’s side, unbeaten domestically since late December, saw the game home roared on by an excitable Kop whose nerves were eased by Fabinho’s late penalty after referee Stuart Atwell reviewed the pitchside monitor after missing Kucka pulling down Jota. | 2 | 32,094 | 0.291553 | https://www.ireland-live.ie/news/football/781186/liverpool-go-top-of-premier-league-with-victory-over-watford.html | 2022-04-02 21:09:57+00:00 | Liverpool turned up the title race pressure on Manchester City as they went top of the Premier League table for the first time since September with a 2-0 win over Watford.
Diogo Jota’s 20th goal of the season in the first half was followed by a late Fabinho penalty to send a message the short distance up the road to Turf Moor where City were about to kick-off against Burnley.
Trent Alexander-Arnold, watching from the bench, could not have failed to be impressed not necessarily by the first goal – which has become quite commonplace now for Jota – but with the quality of the assist.
His stand-in Joe Gomez, making only his second Premier League start of the season, produced a cross of which his England team-mate would have been proud, whipped in to the near post in a space between centre-half and right-back.
Jota does not need much of an invitation to get on the end of such gifts, having scored more Premier League headers (seven) than anyone since joining Liverpool in September 2020.
Only team-mate Mohamed Salah (20) has scored more in the top flight than the Portugal international’s 14, which secured a 10th successive home win for only the ninth time in the club’s history.
A 14-point deficit in January had been turned into a two-point advantage ahead of City’s 3pm start, teeing up their tantalising clash at the Etihad next Sunday irrespective of the outcome at Turf Moor.
Manager Jurgen Klopp had called for players and fans to be at their best for a traditionally difficult early Saturday kick-off but it was the visitors who had the better early chances, with Ismaila Sarr volleying over, Cucho Hernandez flicking a header straight at Alisson Becker and Juraj Kucka also being denied one-on-one with the goalkeeper.
But moments after Alisson had closed down the angle to block Kucka’s effort from a counter-attack Liverpool were ahead.
Thiago Alcantara, whose range of passing and clever vision ran the show, and Jordan Henderson combined to pick out Gomez wide on the touchline.
Primarily a centre-back who can play on the right, the 24-year-old, who due to the form of a defence which has conceded just seven Premier League goals at home has been limited to only 15 appearances, picked his spot.
Jota, whose four headers this season is a Premier League high, attacked the gap in between Christian Kabasele and Kiko Femenia and his proficiency from close range meant a 20th goal of the season was a formality.
He almost had a second seven minutes before half-time only for Ben Foster to parry his shot after Andy Robertson’s drive deflected to him in the penalty area.
Gomez proved his first-half effort was no fluke with another superb delivery causing panic in the Watford ranks soon after the restart, with Virgil Van Dijk wastefully heading over a corner as they continued to dominate.
But the warning they could not sit on their one-goal lead came just before the hour when Sarr and Joao Pedro combined to isolate Joel Matip only for the latter to roll a shot past the post with only Alisson to beat.
Two headed chances for Jota and one, albeit it far more difficult, for Salah went begging as the second goal continued to prove elusive despite their territorial dominance.
But with the game still in the balance with 20 minutes to go Watford manager and former Liverpool boss Roy Hodgson sent on Josh King, Tom Cleverley and Emmanuel Dennis to try to snatch something.
However, Klopp’s side, unbeaten domestically since late December, saw the game home roared on by an excitable Kop whose nerves were eased by Fabinho’s late penalty after referee Stuart Atwell reviewed the pitchside monitor after missing Kucka pulling down Jota.
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April 2 (Reuters) - Russia's Daniil Medvedev will be out of action for one or two months as he goes under the knife to fix a hernia problem, the world number two said on Saturday, casting doubt over his participation at next month's French Open.
Medvedev, who won the U.S. Open last year and lost in the Australian Open final to Rafa Nadal in January, will likely miss out on this month's Monte Carlo Masters as well as the ATP 1000 events in Madrid and Rome in May.
"The last months I have been playing with a small hernia. Together with my team I have decided to have a small procedure done to fix the problem," world number two Medvedev wrote on Twitter https://twitter.com/DaniilMedwed/status/1510231303622381568.
"I will likely be out for the next 1 - 2 months and will work hard to be back on court soon. Thanks for all the support."
Medvedev's bid to reclaim the world number one ranking fell short on Thursday as the Russian lost 7-6(7) 6-3 to Poland's Hubert Hurkacz in the Miami Open quarter-finals.
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April 2 (Reuters) - Russia's Daniil Medvedev will be out of action for one or two months as he goes under the knife to fix a hernia problem, the world number two said on Saturday, casting doubt over his participation at next month's French Open.
Medvedev, who won the U.S. Open last year and lost in the Australian Open final to Rafa Nadal in January, will likely miss out on this month's Monte Carlo Masters as well as the ATP 1000 events in Madrid and Rome in May.
"The last months I have been playing with a small hernia. Together with my team I have decided to have a small procedure done to fix the problem," world number two Medvedev wrote on Twitter.
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"I will likely be out for the next 1 - 2 months and will work hard to be back on court soon. Thanks for all the support."
Medvedev's bid to reclaim the world number one ranking fell short on Thursday as the Russian lost 7-6(7) 6-3 to Poland's Hubert Hurkacz in the Miami Open quarter-finals. read more
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/reuters/article-10679129/Tennis-Medvedev-undergo-hernia-operation-one-two-months.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | Tennis-Medvedev to undergo hernia operation, out for 'one to two months'
April 2 (Reuters) - Russia's Daniil Medvedev will be out of action for one or two months as he goes under the knife to fix a hernia problem, the world number two said on Saturday, casting doubt over his participation at next month's French Open.
Medvedev, who won the U.S. Open last year and lost in the Australian Open final to Rafa Nadal in January, will likely miss out on this month's Monte Carlo Masters as well as the ATP 1000 events in Madrid and Rome in May.
"The last months I have been playing with a small hernia. Together with my team I have decided to have a small procedure done to fix the problem," world number two Medvedev wrote on Twitter https://twitter.com/DaniilMedwed/status/1510231303622381568.
"I will likely be out for the next 1 - 2 months and will work hard to be back on court soon. Thanks for all the support."
Medvedev's bid to reclaim the world number one ranking fell short on Thursday as the Russian lost 7-6(7) 6-3 to Poland's Hubert Hurkacz in the Miami Open quarter-finals.
The French Open will be held in Paris from May 22 to June 5. (Reporting by Rohith Nair and Aadi Nair in Bengaluru; Editing by Kirsten Donovan and Hugh Lawson) | 1 | 3,381 | 0.247332 | https://www.rediff.com/sports/report/daniil-medvedev-to-have-hernia-surgery-doubtful-for-clay-swing/20220402.htm | 2022-04-02 17:48:26+00:00 | Russia's Daniil Medvedev will be out of action for one or two months as he goes under the knife to fix a hernia problem, the world number two said on Saturday, casting doubt over his participation at next month's French Open.
Medvedev, who won the US Open last year and lost in the Australian Open final to Rafael Nadal in January, will likely miss out on this month's Monte Carlo Masters as well as the ATP 1000 events in Madrid and Rome in May.
"The last months I have been playing with a small hernia. Together with my team I have decided to have a small procedure done to fix the problem," world number two Medvedev wrote on Twitter.
"I will likely be out for the next 1 - 2 months and will work hard to be back on court soon. Thanks for all the support."
Medvedev's bid to reclaim the world number one ranking fell short on Thursday as the Russian lost 7-6(7), 6-3 to Poland's Hubert Hurkacz in the Miami Open quarter-finals.
The French Open will be held in Paris from May 22 to June 5. |
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/reuters/article-10679129/Tennis-Medvedev-undergo-hernia-operation-one-two-months.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | Tennis-Medvedev to undergo hernia operation, out for 'one to two months'
April 2 (Reuters) - Russia's Daniil Medvedev will be out of action for one or two months as he goes under the knife to fix a hernia problem, the world number two said on Saturday, casting doubt over his participation at next month's French Open.
Medvedev, who won the U.S. Open last year and lost in the Australian Open final to Rafa Nadal in January, will likely miss out on this month's Monte Carlo Masters as well as the ATP 1000 events in Madrid and Rome in May.
"The last months I have been playing with a small hernia. Together with my team I have decided to have a small procedure done to fix the problem," world number two Medvedev wrote on Twitter https://twitter.com/DaniilMedwed/status/1510231303622381568.
"I will likely be out for the next 1 - 2 months and will work hard to be back on court soon. Thanks for all the support."
Medvedev's bid to reclaim the world number one ranking fell short on Thursday as the Russian lost 7-6(7) 6-3 to Poland's Hubert Hurkacz in the Miami Open quarter-finals.
The French Open will be held in Paris from May 22 to June 5. (Reporting by Rohith Nair and Aadi Nair in Bengaluru; Editing by Kirsten Donovan and Hugh Lawson) | 2 | 13,717 | 0.248262 | https://iafrica.com/medvedev-to-undergo-hernia-operation/ | 2022-04-02 18:55:11+00:00 | Russia’s Daniil Medvedev will be out of action for one or two months as he goes under the knife to fix a hernia problem, the world number two said on Saturday, casting doubt over his participation at next month’s French Open.
Medvedev, who won the U.S. Open last year and lost in the Australian Open final to Rafa Nadal in January, will likely miss out on this month’s Monte Carlo Masters as well as the ATP 1000 events in Madrid and Rome in May.
“The last months I have been playing with a small hernia. Together with my team I have decided to have a small procedure done to fix the problem,” world number two Medvedev wrote on Twitter.
“I will likely be out for the next 1 – 2 months and will work hard to be back on court soon. Thanks for all the support.”
Medvedev’s bid to reclaim the world number one ranking fell short on Thursday as the Russian lost 7-6(7) 6-3 to Poland’s Hubert Hurkacz in the Miami Open quarter-finals. read more
The French Open will be held in Paris from May 22 to June 5. |
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/seattle-shrinking-maybe-thats-a-good-thing/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_seattle-news | The news that the Seattle area’s decadeslong reign as the state’s growth magnet ended abruptly last year has drawn a muted reaction, or at times disbelief.
“I’m skeptical,” one economist told the Puget Sound Business Journal, about the new U.S. Census Bureau figures. “People are not just leaving in droves.”
This is an understandable response. We have only known growth, often the supercharged variety, since about the mid-1980s. That more people would always want to come here, for jobs and also because Seattle is awesome, has long seemed a ceaseless natural force, as if we had some sort of special civic gravity.
But what the census found is that an unusual number of people did pack up and leave. There were nearly 33,000 more people going than arriving in King County last year. This was balanced somewhat by births and some immigration from abroad to give a total population loss in the county of 20,266, between July 2020 and July 2021.
Maybe that’s not leaving in droves. It was enough, though, to rank King County dead last for growth among the state’s 39 counties — in both raw numbers and percentage decrease. That’s the first time that has happened, maybe ever, though for certain going back to 1960.
Seattle’s population likely contracted as well, though the Census Bureau won’t release city figures until mid-May. But the larger Seattle-Tacoma urban area saw the nation’s seventh biggest loss in domestic migration (people moving out), after biggest loser New York City, then San Francisco-San Jose, Los Angeles, Chicago, Washington-Baltimore and the Boston area.
Are we now, suddenly, a shrinking city? Census data is always a year behind real life, looking backward not ahead. So it’s impossible to know.
But there’s a trend developing up and down the West Coast that suggests the days of Seattle always defying gravity may be ending.
Los Angeles has lost population for five years in a row, San Jose for four years, San Francisco for three. Last year, Portland also shrank for the first time in decades, as Multnomah County, which makes up most of the city, dropped by about 12,000 people, or 1.5%.
Canadian growth superstar Vancouver, B.C., also shrank, losing about 6,700 residents (about 1%).
California is far enough ahead of us on shrinking that they are starting to talk about it.
“We are in this new demographic era for California, of very slow or maybe even negative growth,” one demographer told the Los Angeles Times. “And it does have implications for everything in our state — from how we live our lives to which schools are getting closed down to how much capacity we might need for transportation networks, and eventually to housing.”
“I think there may be a paradigm shift happening,” echoes Sonia Hirt, a planning professor at the University of Georgia who has studied the psychology of “shrinking cities.” “It’s very much in the American mindset that only growth is good — that if you’re not growing, you’re failing. It’s definitely baked into the West Coast frontier personality, maybe more so than other parts of the country. So it will be interesting to see how those cities react.”
Indeed it will. Pretty much everything in Seattle politics, from tax levies to transit planning to social and housing policy debates, has been predicated for decades around a core sense that not only will growth keep coming, it’s a runaway train we are perpetually struggling to catch.
It’s also central to our identity. We’re No. 1, one of America’s Best Places, remember?
So it’s a punch to the civic plexus to hear that in fact people are splitting. Missing is any evidence of why, as it hasn’t been studied yet. It’s the pandemic, or the high cost of living, or soaring crime and street disorder, or insert-your-specific-urban-gripe-here.
The Los Angeles mayor speculated the top three reasons for the exodus from his city were “housing, housing and housing.” Seems odd he didn’t even mention the pandemic, which, due to the rise of remote work, has certainly untethered many jobs from the geographical location of the city.
It’s possible that with remote work, data collectors increasingly don’t know where some people live anymore — or how to assign a job to a physical place.
I met a millennial couple recently that spent the past two years working their tech jobs all around the West, in Colorado, Utah, California and then eventually here. They said plenty of their colleagues were doing the same, in a sort of wealthier, Airbnb version of Nomadland.
The Seattle metro area is recorded as having added 16,000 tech jobs during the past two years, a sure sign of growth. But what does that actually mean? The people doing those jobs could be living in Palm Springs for all we know.
Hirt, the Georgia planner, said it’s possible a tech-heavy city like Seattle now could be economically growing while simultaneously shrinking in population — a phenomenon of “growth without growth.” In this sense, West Coast shrinkage might be more of a lifestyle choice than a job-loss calamity, as it was in the Rust Belt. Though if the workers are elsewhere it will cause some pain, such as in an emptier downtown.
Amazon’s new remote work policy says: “We expect most employees to live close enough to their assigned office location that they can easily travel to the office for a meeting within a day’s notice.”
A “day’s notice” means it would now be no stretch for a South Lake Union Amazon worker to actually live in Roslyn, or Port Townsend, or even Pendleton, Oregon. That could have a profound effect on life and work patterns, and on Seattle’s traditional growth pressure points, like housing costs and traffic.
At a minimum, shouldn’t somebody at least be asking: Why are people leaving?
Hirt studied how cities react to news that they’re shrinking, and what they typically do is deny it. Or panic.
“In America it’s seen as an intolerable admission of defeat,” she said.
But it could also be an opportunity, she said. It should bring an eventual easing of rents (which has not happened yet, although in Seattle, rents are roughly the same as pre-pandemic). And it could create space for a recalibration: How should the rise of remote work be changing our transit planning, our building and development patterns, our main civic projects?
Maybe something like municipal broadband could turn out to be a more vital infrastructure investment than, say, more rail.
Whether it’s a trend or a blip, we just experienced a growth shift unseen around here in half a century. It suggests it’s worth asking a lot more questions like this than our leaders currently are. | 0 | 60,977 | 0.601114 | https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/data/while-seattles-population-declined-another-king-county-city-saw-fastest-growth-in-wa/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_seattle-news | 2022-05-26 14:29:38+00:00 | Seattle, the fastest-growing big city of the last decade, is now losing population.
The Census Bureau released population data Thursday for all U.S. cities, towns and places. It shows that from July 1, 2020, to July 1, 2021, at the peak of the pandemic, Seattle had a net loss of nearly 4,300 people, which represents a decline of 0.6%.
The city’s population now stands just shy of 734,000, and Seattle remains the 18th most-populous city in the nation. The last time Seattle’s population declined was between 2002 and 2003, when the city lost a modest 200 people.
It’s strange feeling for me to write about Seattle losing population. I’ve covered these Census Bureau releases in my column since 2013, when Seattle suddenly became the fastest-growing big city in the nation. For six consecutive years, Seattle ranked in the top 2 for the rate of growth. And in the 2019 to 2020 period, before the effects of the pandemic were captured in the data, Seattle was No. 1 again.
Even so, I was sure this news was coming. In March, the Census Bureau released population figures for U.S. counties, and it showed that King County had its first population decline in nearly 50 years. The county lost around 20,000 people from July 1, 2020, to July 1, 2021, but the data didn’t tell us how much of the loss came from Seattle. Now, with this new data release, we know it was about 4,300.
The new Census Bureau release doesn’t include any data on what caused population changes, such as changes in domestic and international migration, or in the number of births and deaths. But we do have that information for each county, and it shows that more people left King County than moved in, and that migration from other countries greatly reduced from the pre-pandemic period. The number of births declined and the number of deaths increased, which was surely due in part to COVID-19.
Seattle was hardly alone among major U.S. cities in losing population during this period. Even before the pandemic took hold, growth in many cities was slowing in recent years. In the period from 2019 to 2020, 15 of the largest U.S. cities lost population. The new data shows 32 shrank from 2020 to 2021.
Seattle’s drop in population was relatively small. Many of our “peer” cities had even larger declines, including Portland, Denver, Boston and Washington, D.C. And San Francisco was in a league of its own, losing an astonishing 6.4% of its population (a decline of close to 50,000 people). New York had the biggest numeric loss at 305,000.
The big city with the fastest growth was Fort Worth, at 1.4%. Another Texas city, San Antonio, had the largest numeric growth, increasing by about 13,600.
Not including Seattle, King County shrank by a little more than 1% — nearly twice Seattle’s rate of 0.6%. Indeed, a number of King County cities had significant declines in population last year. Bellevue shrank by about 2,400, a loss of 1.6%. Kent, Federal Way and Renton all had population losses of more than 1,500.
Even so, the state’s fastest-growing city, among those with at least 50,000 people, was also in King County.
Redmond increased its population by about 2,900, an impressive 4% growth rate. Microsoft’s hometown has been among the fastest-growing cities in the state for several years. In fact, in 2019, Redmond ranked as the 10th-fastest-growing city in the nation, among those with at least 50,000 people. In the new data, Redmond’s ranked 25th in the nation.
Among Washington’s small cities and towns, the fastest growing was also in King County. Black Diamond, about 30 miles southeast of Seattle, grew by 20% in 2021, an increase of nearly 1,000 people. Black Diamond is home to a large new master-planned community called Ten Trails, which is being built in phases. This community, which opened in 2018, will eventually include roughly 6,000 homes, bringing more than 15,000 people to Black Diamond.
The other larger cities in Seattle’s metro area, Tacoma and Everett, both had small population declines.
Elsewhere in Washington, the larger cities of Spokane and Vancouver had modest growth. Spokane Valley grew by a healthy 2%, and in doing so surpassed Renton as the eighth-most-populous city in Washington.
Just as Seattle is perennially Washington’s biggest city, the state’s smallest town also has no real competition. The population of Krupp in Grant County was 47 last year, unchanged from 2020. |
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/seattle-shrinking-maybe-thats-a-good-thing/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_seattle-news | The news that the Seattle area’s decadeslong reign as the state’s growth magnet ended abruptly last year has drawn a muted reaction, or at times disbelief.
“I’m skeptical,” one economist told the Puget Sound Business Journal, about the new U.S. Census Bureau figures. “People are not just leaving in droves.”
This is an understandable response. We have only known growth, often the supercharged variety, since about the mid-1980s. That more people would always want to come here, for jobs and also because Seattle is awesome, has long seemed a ceaseless natural force, as if we had some sort of special civic gravity.
But what the census found is that an unusual number of people did pack up and leave. There were nearly 33,000 more people going than arriving in King County last year. This was balanced somewhat by births and some immigration from abroad to give a total population loss in the county of 20,266, between July 2020 and July 2021.
Maybe that’s not leaving in droves. It was enough, though, to rank King County dead last for growth among the state’s 39 counties — in both raw numbers and percentage decrease. That’s the first time that has happened, maybe ever, though for certain going back to 1960.
Seattle’s population likely contracted as well, though the Census Bureau won’t release city figures until mid-May. But the larger Seattle-Tacoma urban area saw the nation’s seventh biggest loss in domestic migration (people moving out), after biggest loser New York City, then San Francisco-San Jose, Los Angeles, Chicago, Washington-Baltimore and the Boston area.
Are we now, suddenly, a shrinking city? Census data is always a year behind real life, looking backward not ahead. So it’s impossible to know.
But there’s a trend developing up and down the West Coast that suggests the days of Seattle always defying gravity may be ending.
Los Angeles has lost population for five years in a row, San Jose for four years, San Francisco for three. Last year, Portland also shrank for the first time in decades, as Multnomah County, which makes up most of the city, dropped by about 12,000 people, or 1.5%.
Canadian growth superstar Vancouver, B.C., also shrank, losing about 6,700 residents (about 1%).
California is far enough ahead of us on shrinking that they are starting to talk about it.
“We are in this new demographic era for California, of very slow or maybe even negative growth,” one demographer told the Los Angeles Times. “And it does have implications for everything in our state — from how we live our lives to which schools are getting closed down to how much capacity we might need for transportation networks, and eventually to housing.”
“I think there may be a paradigm shift happening,” echoes Sonia Hirt, a planning professor at the University of Georgia who has studied the psychology of “shrinking cities.” “It’s very much in the American mindset that only growth is good — that if you’re not growing, you’re failing. It’s definitely baked into the West Coast frontier personality, maybe more so than other parts of the country. So it will be interesting to see how those cities react.”
Indeed it will. Pretty much everything in Seattle politics, from tax levies to transit planning to social and housing policy debates, has been predicated for decades around a core sense that not only will growth keep coming, it’s a runaway train we are perpetually struggling to catch.
It’s also central to our identity. We’re No. 1, one of America’s Best Places, remember?
So it’s a punch to the civic plexus to hear that in fact people are splitting. Missing is any evidence of why, as it hasn’t been studied yet. It’s the pandemic, or the high cost of living, or soaring crime and street disorder, or insert-your-specific-urban-gripe-here.
The Los Angeles mayor speculated the top three reasons for the exodus from his city were “housing, housing and housing.” Seems odd he didn’t even mention the pandemic, which, due to the rise of remote work, has certainly untethered many jobs from the geographical location of the city.
It’s possible that with remote work, data collectors increasingly don’t know where some people live anymore — or how to assign a job to a physical place.
I met a millennial couple recently that spent the past two years working their tech jobs all around the West, in Colorado, Utah, California and then eventually here. They said plenty of their colleagues were doing the same, in a sort of wealthier, Airbnb version of Nomadland.
The Seattle metro area is recorded as having added 16,000 tech jobs during the past two years, a sure sign of growth. But what does that actually mean? The people doing those jobs could be living in Palm Springs for all we know.
Hirt, the Georgia planner, said it’s possible a tech-heavy city like Seattle now could be economically growing while simultaneously shrinking in population — a phenomenon of “growth without growth.” In this sense, West Coast shrinkage might be more of a lifestyle choice than a job-loss calamity, as it was in the Rust Belt. Though if the workers are elsewhere it will cause some pain, such as in an emptier downtown.
Amazon’s new remote work policy says: “We expect most employees to live close enough to their assigned office location that they can easily travel to the office for a meeting within a day’s notice.”
A “day’s notice” means it would now be no stretch for a South Lake Union Amazon worker to actually live in Roslyn, or Port Townsend, or even Pendleton, Oregon. That could have a profound effect on life and work patterns, and on Seattle’s traditional growth pressure points, like housing costs and traffic.
At a minimum, shouldn’t somebody at least be asking: Why are people leaving?
Hirt studied how cities react to news that they’re shrinking, and what they typically do is deny it. Or panic.
“In America it’s seen as an intolerable admission of defeat,” she said.
But it could also be an opportunity, she said. It should bring an eventual easing of rents (which has not happened yet, although in Seattle, rents are roughly the same as pre-pandemic). And it could create space for a recalibration: How should the rise of remote work be changing our transit planning, our building and development patterns, our main civic projects?
Maybe something like municipal broadband could turn out to be a more vital infrastructure investment than, say, more rail.
Whether it’s a trend or a blip, we just experienced a growth shift unseen around here in half a century. It suggests it’s worth asking a lot more questions like this than our leaders currently are. | 1 | 73,644 | 0.603591 | https://www.union-bulletin.com/seattle_times/seattle-s-population-dropped-but-another-king-county-city-saw-fastest-growth-in-wa/article_87ae2a9f-ba09-5651-8fc8-305bca4c5629.html | 2022-05-26 15:18:51+00:00 | Seattle, the fastest-growing big city of the last decade, is now losing population.
The Census Bureau released population data Thursday for all U.S. cities, towns and places. It shows that from July 1, 2020, to July 1, 2021, at the peak of the pandemic, Seattle had a net loss of nearly 4,300 people, which represents a decline of 0.6%.
The city's population now stands just shy of 734,000, and Seattle remains the 18th most-populous city in the nation. The last time Seattle's population declined was between 2002 and 2003, when the city lost a modest 200 people.
It's strange feeling for me to write about Seattle losing population. I've covered these Census Bureau releases in my column since 2013, when Seattle suddenly became the fastest-growing big city in the nation. For six consecutive years, Seattle ranked in the top 2 for the rate of growth. And in the 2019 to 2020 period, before the effects of the pandemic were captured in the data, Seattle was No. 1 again.
Even so, I was sure this news was coming. In March, the Census Bureau released population figures for U.S. counties, and it showed that King County had its first population decline in nearly 50 years. The county lost around 20,000 people from July 1, 2020, to July 1, 2021, but the data didn't tell us how much of the loss came from Seattle. Now, with this new data release, we know it was about 4,300.
The new Census Bureau release doesn't include any data on what caused population changes, such as changes in domestic and international migration, or in the number of births and deaths. But we do have that information for each county, and it shows that more people left King County than moved in, and that migration from other countries greatly reduced from the pre-pandemic period. The number of births declined and the number of deaths increased, which was surely due in part to COVID-19.
Seattle was hardly alone among major U.S. cities in losing population during this period. Even before the pandemic took hold, growth in many cities was slowing in recent years. In the period from 2019 to 2020, 15 of the largest U.S. cities lost population. The new data shows 32 shrank from 2020 to 2021.
Seattle's drop in population was relatively small. Many of our "peer" cities had even larger declines, including Portland, Denver, Boston and Washington, D.C. And San Francisco was in a league of its own, losing an astonishing 6.4% of its population (a decline of close to 50,000 people). New York had the biggest numeric loss at 305,000.
The big city with the fastest growth was Fort Worth, at 1.4%. Another Texas city, San Antonio, had the largest numeric growth, increasing by about 13,600.
Not including Seattle, King County shrank by a little more than 1% — nearly twice Seattle's rate of 0.6%. Indeed, a number of King County cities had significant declines in population last year. Bellevue shrank by about 2,400, a loss of 1.6%. Kent, Federal Way and Renton all had population losses of more than 1,500.
Even so, the state's fastest-growing city, among those with at least 50,000 people, was also in King County.
Redmond increased its population by about 2,900, an impressive 4% growth rate. Microsoft's hometown has been among the fastest-growing cities in the state for several years. In fact, in 2019, Redmond ranked as the 10th-fastest-growing city in the nation, among those with at least 50,000 people. In the new data, Redmond's ranked 25th in the nation.
Among Washington's small cities and towns, the fastest growing was also in King County. Black Diamond, about 30 miles southeast of Seattle, grew by 20% in 2021, an increase of nearly 1,000 people. Black Diamond is home to a large new master-planned community called Ten Trails, which is being built in phases. This community, which opened in 2018, will eventually include roughly 6,000 homes, bringing more than 15,000 people to Black Diamond.
The other larger cities in Seattle's metro area, Tacoma and Everett, both had small population declines.
Elsewhere in Washington, the larger cities of Spokane and Vancouver had modest growth. Spokane Valley grew by a healthy 2%, and in doing so surpassed Renton as the eighth-most-populous city in Washington.
Just as Seattle is perennially Washington’s biggest city, the state’s smallest town also has no real competition. The population of Krupp in Grant County was 47 last year, unchanged from 2020. |
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/seattle-shrinking-maybe-thats-a-good-thing/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_seattle-news | The news that the Seattle area’s decadeslong reign as the state’s growth magnet ended abruptly last year has drawn a muted reaction, or at times disbelief.
“I’m skeptical,” one economist told the Puget Sound Business Journal, about the new U.S. Census Bureau figures. “People are not just leaving in droves.”
This is an understandable response. We have only known growth, often the supercharged variety, since about the mid-1980s. That more people would always want to come here, for jobs and also because Seattle is awesome, has long seemed a ceaseless natural force, as if we had some sort of special civic gravity.
But what the census found is that an unusual number of people did pack up and leave. There were nearly 33,000 more people going than arriving in King County last year. This was balanced somewhat by births and some immigration from abroad to give a total population loss in the county of 20,266, between July 2020 and July 2021.
Maybe that’s not leaving in droves. It was enough, though, to rank King County dead last for growth among the state’s 39 counties — in both raw numbers and percentage decrease. That’s the first time that has happened, maybe ever, though for certain going back to 1960.
Seattle’s population likely contracted as well, though the Census Bureau won’t release city figures until mid-May. But the larger Seattle-Tacoma urban area saw the nation’s seventh biggest loss in domestic migration (people moving out), after biggest loser New York City, then San Francisco-San Jose, Los Angeles, Chicago, Washington-Baltimore and the Boston area.
Are we now, suddenly, a shrinking city? Census data is always a year behind real life, looking backward not ahead. So it’s impossible to know.
But there’s a trend developing up and down the West Coast that suggests the days of Seattle always defying gravity may be ending.
Los Angeles has lost population for five years in a row, San Jose for four years, San Francisco for three. Last year, Portland also shrank for the first time in decades, as Multnomah County, which makes up most of the city, dropped by about 12,000 people, or 1.5%.
Canadian growth superstar Vancouver, B.C., also shrank, losing about 6,700 residents (about 1%).
California is far enough ahead of us on shrinking that they are starting to talk about it.
“We are in this new demographic era for California, of very slow or maybe even negative growth,” one demographer told the Los Angeles Times. “And it does have implications for everything in our state — from how we live our lives to which schools are getting closed down to how much capacity we might need for transportation networks, and eventually to housing.”
“I think there may be a paradigm shift happening,” echoes Sonia Hirt, a planning professor at the University of Georgia who has studied the psychology of “shrinking cities.” “It’s very much in the American mindset that only growth is good — that if you’re not growing, you’re failing. It’s definitely baked into the West Coast frontier personality, maybe more so than other parts of the country. So it will be interesting to see how those cities react.”
Indeed it will. Pretty much everything in Seattle politics, from tax levies to transit planning to social and housing policy debates, has been predicated for decades around a core sense that not only will growth keep coming, it’s a runaway train we are perpetually struggling to catch.
It’s also central to our identity. We’re No. 1, one of America’s Best Places, remember?
So it’s a punch to the civic plexus to hear that in fact people are splitting. Missing is any evidence of why, as it hasn’t been studied yet. It’s the pandemic, or the high cost of living, or soaring crime and street disorder, or insert-your-specific-urban-gripe-here.
The Los Angeles mayor speculated the top three reasons for the exodus from his city were “housing, housing and housing.” Seems odd he didn’t even mention the pandemic, which, due to the rise of remote work, has certainly untethered many jobs from the geographical location of the city.
It’s possible that with remote work, data collectors increasingly don’t know where some people live anymore — or how to assign a job to a physical place.
I met a millennial couple recently that spent the past two years working their tech jobs all around the West, in Colorado, Utah, California and then eventually here. They said plenty of their colleagues were doing the same, in a sort of wealthier, Airbnb version of Nomadland.
The Seattle metro area is recorded as having added 16,000 tech jobs during the past two years, a sure sign of growth. But what does that actually mean? The people doing those jobs could be living in Palm Springs for all we know.
Hirt, the Georgia planner, said it’s possible a tech-heavy city like Seattle now could be economically growing while simultaneously shrinking in population — a phenomenon of “growth without growth.” In this sense, West Coast shrinkage might be more of a lifestyle choice than a job-loss calamity, as it was in the Rust Belt. Though if the workers are elsewhere it will cause some pain, such as in an emptier downtown.
Amazon’s new remote work policy says: “We expect most employees to live close enough to their assigned office location that they can easily travel to the office for a meeting within a day’s notice.”
A “day’s notice” means it would now be no stretch for a South Lake Union Amazon worker to actually live in Roslyn, or Port Townsend, or even Pendleton, Oregon. That could have a profound effect on life and work patterns, and on Seattle’s traditional growth pressure points, like housing costs and traffic.
At a minimum, shouldn’t somebody at least be asking: Why are people leaving?
Hirt studied how cities react to news that they’re shrinking, and what they typically do is deny it. Or panic.
“In America it’s seen as an intolerable admission of defeat,” she said.
But it could also be an opportunity, she said. It should bring an eventual easing of rents (which has not happened yet, although in Seattle, rents are roughly the same as pre-pandemic). And it could create space for a recalibration: How should the rise of remote work be changing our transit planning, our building and development patterns, our main civic projects?
Maybe something like municipal broadband could turn out to be a more vital infrastructure investment than, say, more rail.
Whether it’s a trend or a blip, we just experienced a growth shift unseen around here in half a century. It suggests it’s worth asking a lot more questions like this than our leaders currently are. | 2 | 18,215 | 0.752428 | https://www.avpress.com/opinion/population-loss-new-era-or-pandemic-glitch/article_8274068e-d402-11ec-9b1f-635d6d323094.html | 2022-05-15 14:50:30+00:00 | The numbers suggest a major change is underway in California. It would take a Nostradamus to know if that change is real and long lasting or if those proclaiming it are merely overreacting to a pandemic-induced glitch.
“We are in this new demographic era for California of very slow growth or maybe even negative growth,” pronounces Hans Johnson, a demographer for the Public Policy Institute of California.
Here are the numbers, and some of the implications if those numbers represent a trend rather than merely a glitch spurred by the COVID-19 pandemic, which caused many millions around the world to hunker down wherever they were:
US Census figures show California lost 262,000 residents between July 1, 2020 and the same date last year. That represented a net loss of .06 percent in population.
The figures were even more striking for the state’s two best known urban counties.
Los Angeles County lost about 159,671 residents, or about 1 percent of its populace, while San Francisco fell by about 56,000 persons, or about 6 percent of its previous population.
Much of the movement away from those high-rent cities was to other parts of California, as the pandemic drove tens of thousands of white collar employees to work from home — and allowed them to make that home anywhere they liked. As a result, many moved to more rural, greener areas, valuing lifestyle over office proximity.
That’s a drive the increased-density fanatics now running California housing policy ought to note well, for it shows that given the choice, most human beings will choose not to live stacked up in apartment buildings and condominiums.
The 2020-21 population loss comes after California suffered the shock of losing one seat in Congress this year, the result either of incomplete Census taking or slow growth outpaced by states like Texas, Florida, Arizona, Colorado and Oregon.
But is any of this permanent? If so, it calls for major change in housing, transportation and education policy. History suggests it won’t be lasting. So do the latest employment figures.
Historically, slumps in California population growth are followed by big influxes, both from domestic and foreign immigration.
Most recently, in the early 1990s the supposed end of the Cold War spurred big job losses at defense contractors that had been central to the Southern California economy since World War II. A spate of military base closings later in that decade also cost California jobs.
As a result, population growth slowed to almost nothing for several years. But then came the 2000s and a big increase that saw population rocket from about 33 million to 39 million-plus.
Is the same kind of resurgence now in the offing? That probably depends on how soon people around the world come to accept the idea that the pandemic may be over and that COVID should instead be considered an endemic illness that will always be with us, but not usually in alarming numbers or intensity.
The latest job statistics indicate such a trend may be starting. During February, for example, California companies created 138,100 new jobs, or 20.4 percent of all new jobs nationwide.
That was 60,300 more jobs than No. 2 Texas and 87,100 more than Florida. It was far above what might be suggested from California’s 11.5 percent share of the national population.
It also meant that California has regained more than 87.2 percent of jobs lost when countless businesses shuttered and furloughed their workers as the pandemic hit in March 2020.
The big job losses of that period eliminated most impetus for foreign workers to move here, as the state for the first time in decades found itself with a surplus of healthy workers.
That’s over, with the new job figures indicating the state and its myriad newly created businesses should once again be a population magnet.
Of course, no one will know for sure until about a year from now, when figures from 2022 are compiled and published.
But the newest numbers suggest at least one thing: Folks like Johnson, trumpeting a continuing California decline, are most likely premature and will come to regret their remarks.
For no one ever got rich in the long term by betting against California.
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https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Black-Democrats-try-to-revive-party-in-Trump-17053002.php | PINE BLUFF, Ark. (AP) — Chris Jones would seem to have an ideal biography to run for governor, a job that's wide open in Arkansas for the first time in eight years.
He's both an ordained Baptist minister and a nuclear engineer who can talk about his faith as easily as scientific concepts. He's upbeat and personable, as evidenced by his announcement video that quickly went viral nationwide.
There's a catch, though. Jones is a Democrat in a state that has gone from red to extremely red in recent years. Donald Trump carried it in 2020 with 62% of the vote. And he's Black, where Black people account for only 16.5% of the population and where no African American has ever won statewide office.
What's more, if he wins his party's nomination he'll probably have to face a nationally known figure: Sarah Sanders, the former press secretary for Trump and daughter of former Gov. Mike Huckabee. She's already raised more than $13.6 million.
Most experienced pols consider the race beyond a long shot, but it represents a change in thinking about how the Democratic Party can rebuild in heartland states where it has become almost extinct as white rural voters migrated en masse to the GOP.
In years past, Democrats in the region usually tried to win over independent and moderate voters by running white establishment candidates. That approach produced little. Now they're hoping to mobilize voters who haven't been involved in the process, especially Black, Latino and younger people.
“It's clear to me folks are ready," Jones said during an interview in his hometown of Pine Bluff, a predominantly Black city an hour south of Little Rock. “There's a moment where folks are saying of all the barriers and the ceilings to be broken, here's one we want to break."
This year dozens of Black Democrats are running for office in places that Trump won easily. Many are political newcomers who were motivated by the protests over police tactics following the killing of George Floyd, or advances by Black Democratic candidates in once solidly red states like Georgia.
“The ball is moving down the field in terms of more progress being made," said Tolulope Kevin Olasanoye with the Collective PAC, which recruits and supports Black candidates.
Jones is one of two Black candidates running for Arkansas governor in the May Democratic primary, which also includes an Asian American woman. Two Black Democrats are also running for the Senate seat held by Republican John Boozman.
African Americans are among the leading Democratic challengers for several Republican-held Senate seats, such as Cheri Beasley in North Carolina and Val Demings in Florida. In Kentucky, Charles Booker is making an uphill bid to unseat Republican Sen. Rand Paul. Iowa's Deidre DeJear is the only Democrat challenging Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds.
Black voters and officeholders already hold considerable sway in the Democratic Party in blue states, but some say it's time for African American candidates to take the lead in attracting new voters elsewhere and elevating top social issues.
In Oklahoma, where the party has a long losing streak, many Democrats hailed the decision by the state's popular education commissioner, lifelong Republican Joy Hofmeister, to switch parties and challenge GOP Gov. Kevin Stitt as a Democrat. Even though it probably improved the party's chances, many African American activists were aggravated that Hofmeister, who is white, drew support away from Black candidate Connie Johnson.
Hofmeister “is not coming to any Black Lives Matter protests," said Joshua Harris-Till, a Black party organizer and candidate for a U.S. House seat. “We’re probably not going to see her veto legislation like some of these insane gun bills. We’re not going to see her championing the right of women to choose.”
In Arkansas, Jones, who had never run for office, launched his bid for governor with a video highlighting his roots in the state and drew contrasts with Sanders' frequent broadsides against the “radical left," criticism of President Joe Biden and echoes of Trump.
He dubbed his platform “PB&J," which he says stands for preschool, broadband and jobs.
Sanders, he charged, is engaging in “the kind of politics that fans the flames of an angry mob willing to mow down police officers in order to attack school kids at Little Rock Central High," a reference to the 1957 desegregation crisis.
Sanders' campaign didn't respond to a request for comment on Jones' remark, and has essentially ignored him and her other rivals for governor.
Jones' announcement video featured him walking into a church and using his minister's stole to tell his family's story. Jones, the son of two preachers, attended Morehouse College on a scholarship from NASA and later went to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Before jumping into the governor's race, Jones headed the Arkansas Regional Innovation Hub, a nonprofit that helps entrepreneurs.
The notion that Jones' candidacy will boost Democrats is met with skepticism in Arkansas. The state's last Democratic governor, Mike Beebe, won all 75 counties in 2010, but the party's last nominee won less than a third of the vote.
“Generally speaking, the team that starts talking about voter turnout and even more so voter registration is the team that’s already guaranteed a loss," said University of Arkansas political science professor Janine Parry. White people make up 73% of the state's voting age population, compared with about 64% nationally.
Parry, however, noted that such races could help build a bench of candidates and expand the electorate as the state's demographics change.
Jones faces a huge fundraising gap. Sanders has been shattering fundraising records while Jones reported less than $200,000 on hand in his latest filings.
But he is campaigning actively, holding voter registration drives and even venturing into seemingly hostile territory like Harrison, a town in the Ozarks that has struggled with racism and white supremacy over the years.
Win or lose, he insists the effort is worth it.
“Anytime you can bring candidates who can lift up the voice of those who haven’t been part of the process before — whether it’s Black, Latinx, disabled, veterans, you name it — who have been locked of the process, it’s going to be helpful,” Jones said.
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Associated Press reporter Sean Murphy contributed to this report from Oklahoma City | 0 | 7,035 | 0 | https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/4494782 | 2022-04-04 22:45:14+00:00 | PINE BLUFF, Ark. (AP) — Chris Jones would seem to have an ideal biography to run for governor, a job that's wide open in Arkansas for the first time in eight years.
He's both an ordained Baptist minister and a nuclear engineer who can talk about his faith as easily as scientific concepts. He's upbeat and personable, as evidenced by his announcement video that quickly went viral nationwide.
There's a catch, though. Jones is a Democrat in a state that has gone from red to extremely red in recent years. Donald Trump carried it in 2020 with 62% of the vote. And he's Black, where Black people account for only 16.5% of the population and where no African American has ever won statewide office.
What's more, if he wins his party's nomination he'll probably have to face a nationally known figure: Sarah Sanders, the former press secretary for Trump and daughter of former Gov. Mike Huckabee. She's already raised more than $13.6 million.
Most experienced pols consider the race beyond a long shot, but it represents a change in thinking about how the Democratic Party can rebuild in heartland states where it has become almost extinct as white rural voters migrated en masse to the GOP.
In years past, Democrats in the region usually tried to win over independent and moderate voters by running white establishment candidates. That approach produced little. Now they're hoping to mobilize voters who haven't been involved in the process, especially Black, Latino and younger people.
“It's clear to me folks are ready," Jones said during an interview in his hometown of Pine Bluff, a predominantly Black city an hour south of Little Rock. “There's a moment where folks are saying of all the barriers and the ceilings to be broken, here's one we want to break."
This year dozens of Black Democrats are running for office in places that Trump won easily. Many are political newcomers who were motivated by the protests over police tactics following the killing of George Floyd, or advances by Black Democratic candidates in once solidly red states like Georgia.
“The ball is moving down the field in terms of more progress being made," said Tolulope Kevin Olasanoye with the Collective PAC, which recruits and supports Black candidates.
Jones is one of two Black candidates running for Arkansas governor in the May Democratic primary, which also includes an Asian American woman. Two Black Democrats are also running for the Senate seat held by Republican John Boozman.
African Americans are among the leading Democratic challengers for several Republican-held Senate seats, such as Cheri Beasley in North Carolina and Val Demings in Florida. In Kentucky, Charles Booker is making an uphill bid to unseat Republican Sen. Rand Paul. Iowa's Deidre DeJear is the only Democrat challenging Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds.
Black voters and officeholders already hold considerable sway in the Democratic Party in blue states, but some say it's time for African American candidates to take the lead in attracting new voters elsewhere and elevating top social issues.
In Oklahoma, where the party has a long losing streak, many Democrats hailed the decision by the state's popular education commissioner, lifelong Republican Joy Hofmeister, to switch parties and challenge GOP Gov. Kevin Stitt as a Democrat. Even though it probably improved the party's chances, many African American activists were aggravated that Hofmeister, who is white, drew support away from Black candidate Connie Johnson.
Hofmeister “is not coming to any Black Lives Matter protests," said Joshua Harris-Till, a Black party organizer and candidate for a U.S. House seat. “We’re probably not going to see her veto legislation like some of these insane gun bills. We’re not going to see her championing the right of women to choose.”
In Arkansas, Jones, who had never run for office, launched his bid for governor with a video highlighting his roots in the state and drew contrasts with Sanders' frequent broadsides against the “radical left," criticism of President Joe Biden and echoes of Trump.
He dubbed his platform “PB&J," which he says stands for preschool, broadband and jobs.
Sanders, he charged, is engaging in “the kind of politics that fans the flames of an angry mob willing to mow down police officers in order to attack school kids at Little Rock Central High," a reference to the 1957 desegregation crisis.
Sanders' campaign didn't respond to a request for comment on Jones' remark, and has essentially ignored him and her other rivals for governor.
Jones' announcement video featured him walking into a church and using his minister's stole to tell his family's story. Jones, the son of two preachers, attended Morehouse College on a scholarship from NASA and later went to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Before jumping into the governor's race, Jones headed the Arkansas Regional Innovation Hub, a nonprofit that helps entrepreneurs.
The notion that Jones' candidacy will boost Democrats is met with skepticism in Arkansas. The state's last Democratic governor, Mike Beebe, won all 75 counties in 2010, but the party's last nominee won less than a third of the vote.
“Generally speaking, the team that starts talking about voter turnout and even more so voter registration is the team that’s already guaranteed a loss," said University of Arkansas political science professor Janine Parry. White people make up 73% of the state's voting age population, compared with about 64% nationally.
Parry, however, noted that such races could help build a bench of candidates and expand the electorate as the state's demographics change.
Jones faces a huge fundraising gap. Sanders has been shattering fundraising records while Jones reported less than $200,000 on hand in his latest filings.
But he is campaigning actively, holding voter registration drives and even venturing into seemingly hostile territory like Harrison, a town in the Ozarks that has struggled with racism and white supremacy over the years.
Win or lose, he insists the effort is worth it.
“Anytime you can bring candidates who can lift up the voice of those who haven’t been part of the process before — whether it’s Black, Latinx, disabled, veterans, you name it — who have been locked of the process, it’s going to be helpful,” Jones said.
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Associated Press reporter Sean Murphy contributed to this report from Oklahoma City |
https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Black-Democrats-try-to-revive-party-in-Trump-17053002.php | PINE BLUFF, Ark. (AP) — Chris Jones would seem to have an ideal biography to run for governor, a job that's wide open in Arkansas for the first time in eight years.
He's both an ordained Baptist minister and a nuclear engineer who can talk about his faith as easily as scientific concepts. He's upbeat and personable, as evidenced by his announcement video that quickly went viral nationwide.
There's a catch, though. Jones is a Democrat in a state that has gone from red to extremely red in recent years. Donald Trump carried it in 2020 with 62% of the vote. And he's Black, where Black people account for only 16.5% of the population and where no African American has ever won statewide office.
What's more, if he wins his party's nomination he'll probably have to face a nationally known figure: Sarah Sanders, the former press secretary for Trump and daughter of former Gov. Mike Huckabee. She's already raised more than $13.6 million.
Most experienced pols consider the race beyond a long shot, but it represents a change in thinking about how the Democratic Party can rebuild in heartland states where it has become almost extinct as white rural voters migrated en masse to the GOP.
In years past, Democrats in the region usually tried to win over independent and moderate voters by running white establishment candidates. That approach produced little. Now they're hoping to mobilize voters who haven't been involved in the process, especially Black, Latino and younger people.
“It's clear to me folks are ready," Jones said during an interview in his hometown of Pine Bluff, a predominantly Black city an hour south of Little Rock. “There's a moment where folks are saying of all the barriers and the ceilings to be broken, here's one we want to break."
This year dozens of Black Democrats are running for office in places that Trump won easily. Many are political newcomers who were motivated by the protests over police tactics following the killing of George Floyd, or advances by Black Democratic candidates in once solidly red states like Georgia.
“The ball is moving down the field in terms of more progress being made," said Tolulope Kevin Olasanoye with the Collective PAC, which recruits and supports Black candidates.
Jones is one of two Black candidates running for Arkansas governor in the May Democratic primary, which also includes an Asian American woman. Two Black Democrats are also running for the Senate seat held by Republican John Boozman.
African Americans are among the leading Democratic challengers for several Republican-held Senate seats, such as Cheri Beasley in North Carolina and Val Demings in Florida. In Kentucky, Charles Booker is making an uphill bid to unseat Republican Sen. Rand Paul. Iowa's Deidre DeJear is the only Democrat challenging Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds.
Black voters and officeholders already hold considerable sway in the Democratic Party in blue states, but some say it's time for African American candidates to take the lead in attracting new voters elsewhere and elevating top social issues.
In Oklahoma, where the party has a long losing streak, many Democrats hailed the decision by the state's popular education commissioner, lifelong Republican Joy Hofmeister, to switch parties and challenge GOP Gov. Kevin Stitt as a Democrat. Even though it probably improved the party's chances, many African American activists were aggravated that Hofmeister, who is white, drew support away from Black candidate Connie Johnson.
Hofmeister “is not coming to any Black Lives Matter protests," said Joshua Harris-Till, a Black party organizer and candidate for a U.S. House seat. “We’re probably not going to see her veto legislation like some of these insane gun bills. We’re not going to see her championing the right of women to choose.”
In Arkansas, Jones, who had never run for office, launched his bid for governor with a video highlighting his roots in the state and drew contrasts with Sanders' frequent broadsides against the “radical left," criticism of President Joe Biden and echoes of Trump.
He dubbed his platform “PB&J," which he says stands for preschool, broadband and jobs.
Sanders, he charged, is engaging in “the kind of politics that fans the flames of an angry mob willing to mow down police officers in order to attack school kids at Little Rock Central High," a reference to the 1957 desegregation crisis.
Sanders' campaign didn't respond to a request for comment on Jones' remark, and has essentially ignored him and her other rivals for governor.
Jones' announcement video featured him walking into a church and using his minister's stole to tell his family's story. Jones, the son of two preachers, attended Morehouse College on a scholarship from NASA and later went to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Before jumping into the governor's race, Jones headed the Arkansas Regional Innovation Hub, a nonprofit that helps entrepreneurs.
The notion that Jones' candidacy will boost Democrats is met with skepticism in Arkansas. The state's last Democratic governor, Mike Beebe, won all 75 counties in 2010, but the party's last nominee won less than a third of the vote.
“Generally speaking, the team that starts talking about voter turnout and even more so voter registration is the team that’s already guaranteed a loss," said University of Arkansas political science professor Janine Parry. White people make up 73% of the state's voting age population, compared with about 64% nationally.
Parry, however, noted that such races could help build a bench of candidates and expand the electorate as the state's demographics change.
Jones faces a huge fundraising gap. Sanders has been shattering fundraising records while Jones reported less than $200,000 on hand in his latest filings.
But he is campaigning actively, holding voter registration drives and even venturing into seemingly hostile territory like Harrison, a town in the Ozarks that has struggled with racism and white supremacy over the years.
Win or lose, he insists the effort is worth it.
“Anytime you can bring candidates who can lift up the voice of those who haven’t been part of the process before — whether it’s Black, Latinx, disabled, veterans, you name it — who have been locked of the process, it’s going to be helpful,” Jones said.
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Associated Press reporter Sean Murphy contributed to this report from Oklahoma City | 1 | 11,726 | 0 | https://www.ajc.com/news/nation-world/black-democrats-try-to-revive-party-in-trump-territory/I2AWWRVS55E6JKQSFS357MHV6A/ | 2022-04-02 18:43:46+00:00 | PINE BLUFF, Ark. (AP) — Chris Jones would seem to have an ideal biography to run for governor, a job that's wide open in Arkansas for the first time in eight years.
He's both an ordained Baptist minister and a nuclear engineer who can talk about his faith as easily as scientific concepts. He's upbeat and personable, as evidenced by his announcement video that quickly went viral nationwide.
There's a catch, though. Jones is a Democrat in a state that has gone from red to extremely red in recent years. Donald Trump carried it in 2020 with 62% of the vote. And he's Black, where Black people account for only 16.5% of the population and where no African American has ever won statewide office.
What's more, if he wins his party's nomination he'll probably have to face a nationally known figure: Sarah Sanders, the former press secretary for Trump and daughter of former Gov. Mike Huckabee. She's already raised more than $13.6 million.
Most experienced pols consider the race beyond a long shot, but it represents a change in thinking about how the Democratic Party can rebuild in heartland states where it has become almost extinct as white rural voters migrated en masse to the GOP.
In years past, Democrats in the region usually tried to win over independent and moderate voters by running white establishment candidates. That approach produced little. Now they're hoping to mobilize voters who haven't been involved in the process, especially Black, Latino and younger people.
“It's clear to me folks are ready," Jones said during an interview in his hometown of Pine Bluff, a predominantly Black city an hour south of Little Rock. “There's a moment where folks are saying of all the barriers and the ceilings to be broken, here's one we want to break."
This year dozens of Black Democrats are running for office in places that Trump won easily. Many are political newcomers who were motivated by the protests over police tactics following the killing of George Floyd, or advances by Black Democratic candidates in once solidly red states like Georgia.
“The ball is moving down the field in terms of more progress being made," said Tolulope Kevin Olasanoye with the Collective PAC, which recruits and supports Black candidates.
Jones is one of two Black candidates running for Arkansas governor in the May Democratic primary, which also includes an Asian American woman. Two Black Democrats are also running for the Senate seat held by Republican John Boozman.
African Americans are among the leading Democratic challengers for several Republican-held Senate seats, such as Cheri Beasley in North Carolina and Val Demings in Florida. In Kentucky, Charles Booker is making an uphill bid to unseat Republican Sen. Rand Paul. Iowa's Deidre DeJear is the only Democrat challenging Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds.
Black voters and officeholders already hold considerable sway in the Democratic Party in blue states, but some say it's time for African American candidates to take the lead in attracting new voters elsewhere and elevating top social issues.
In Oklahoma, where the party has a long losing streak, many Democrats hailed the decision by the state's popular education commissioner, lifelong Republican Joy Hofmeister, to switch parties and challenge GOP Gov. Kevin Stitt as a Democrat. Even though it probably improved the party's chances, many African American activists were aggravated that Hofmeister, who is white, drew support away from Black candidate Connie Johnson.
Hofmeister “is not coming to any Black Lives Matter protests," said Joshua Harris-Till, a Black party organizer and candidate for a U.S. House seat. “We’re probably not going to see her veto legislation like some of these insane gun bills. We’re not going to see her championing the right of women to choose.”
In Arkansas, Jones, who had never run for office, launched his bid for governor with a video highlighting his roots in the state and drew contrasts with Sanders' frequent broadsides against the “radical left," criticism of President Joe Biden and echoes of Trump.
He dubbed his platform “PB&J," which he says stands for preschool, broadband and jobs.
Sanders, he charged, is engaging in “the kind of politics that fans the flames of an angry mob willing to mow down police officers in order to attack school kids at Little Rock Central High," a reference to the 1957 desegregation crisis.
Sanders' campaign didn't respond to a request for comment on Jones' remark, and has essentially ignored him and her other rivals for governor.
Jones' announcement video featured him walking into a church and using his minister's stole to tell his family's story. Jones, the son of two preachers, attended Morehouse College on a scholarship from NASA and later went to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Before jumping into the governor's race, Jones headed the Arkansas Regional Innovation Hub, a nonprofit that helps entrepreneurs.
The notion that Jones' candidacy will boost Democrats is met with skepticism in Arkansas. The state's last Democratic governor, Mike Beebe, won all 75 counties in 2010, but the party's last nominee won less than a third of the vote.
“Generally speaking, the team that starts talking about voter turnout and even more so voter registration is the team that’s already guaranteed a loss," said University of Arkansas political science professor Janine Parry. White people make up 73% of the state's voting age population, compared with about 64% nationally.
Parry, however, noted that such races could help build a bench of candidates and expand the electorate as the state's demographics change.
Jones faces a huge fundraising gap. Sanders has been shattering fundraising records while Jones reported less than $200,000 on hand in his latest filings.
But he is campaigning actively, holding voter registration drives and even venturing into seemingly hostile territory like Harrison, a town in the Ozarks that has struggled with racism and white supremacy over the years.
Win or lose, he insists the effort is worth it.
“Anytime you can bring candidates who can lift up the voice of those who haven’t been part of the process before — whether it’s Black, Latinx, disabled, veterans, you name it — who have been locked of the process, it’s going to be helpful,” Jones said.
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Associated Press reporter Sean Murphy contributed to this report from Oklahoma City
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https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Black-Democrats-try-to-revive-party-in-Trump-17053002.php | PINE BLUFF, Ark. (AP) — Chris Jones would seem to have an ideal biography to run for governor, a job that's wide open in Arkansas for the first time in eight years.
He's both an ordained Baptist minister and a nuclear engineer who can talk about his faith as easily as scientific concepts. He's upbeat and personable, as evidenced by his announcement video that quickly went viral nationwide.
There's a catch, though. Jones is a Democrat in a state that has gone from red to extremely red in recent years. Donald Trump carried it in 2020 with 62% of the vote. And he's Black, where Black people account for only 16.5% of the population and where no African American has ever won statewide office.
What's more, if he wins his party's nomination he'll probably have to face a nationally known figure: Sarah Sanders, the former press secretary for Trump and daughter of former Gov. Mike Huckabee. She's already raised more than $13.6 million.
Most experienced pols consider the race beyond a long shot, but it represents a change in thinking about how the Democratic Party can rebuild in heartland states where it has become almost extinct as white rural voters migrated en masse to the GOP.
In years past, Democrats in the region usually tried to win over independent and moderate voters by running white establishment candidates. That approach produced little. Now they're hoping to mobilize voters who haven't been involved in the process, especially Black, Latino and younger people.
“It's clear to me folks are ready," Jones said during an interview in his hometown of Pine Bluff, a predominantly Black city an hour south of Little Rock. “There's a moment where folks are saying of all the barriers and the ceilings to be broken, here's one we want to break."
This year dozens of Black Democrats are running for office in places that Trump won easily. Many are political newcomers who were motivated by the protests over police tactics following the killing of George Floyd, or advances by Black Democratic candidates in once solidly red states like Georgia.
“The ball is moving down the field in terms of more progress being made," said Tolulope Kevin Olasanoye with the Collective PAC, which recruits and supports Black candidates.
Jones is one of two Black candidates running for Arkansas governor in the May Democratic primary, which also includes an Asian American woman. Two Black Democrats are also running for the Senate seat held by Republican John Boozman.
African Americans are among the leading Democratic challengers for several Republican-held Senate seats, such as Cheri Beasley in North Carolina and Val Demings in Florida. In Kentucky, Charles Booker is making an uphill bid to unseat Republican Sen. Rand Paul. Iowa's Deidre DeJear is the only Democrat challenging Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds.
Black voters and officeholders already hold considerable sway in the Democratic Party in blue states, but some say it's time for African American candidates to take the lead in attracting new voters elsewhere and elevating top social issues.
In Oklahoma, where the party has a long losing streak, many Democrats hailed the decision by the state's popular education commissioner, lifelong Republican Joy Hofmeister, to switch parties and challenge GOP Gov. Kevin Stitt as a Democrat. Even though it probably improved the party's chances, many African American activists were aggravated that Hofmeister, who is white, drew support away from Black candidate Connie Johnson.
Hofmeister “is not coming to any Black Lives Matter protests," said Joshua Harris-Till, a Black party organizer and candidate for a U.S. House seat. “We’re probably not going to see her veto legislation like some of these insane gun bills. We’re not going to see her championing the right of women to choose.”
In Arkansas, Jones, who had never run for office, launched his bid for governor with a video highlighting his roots in the state and drew contrasts with Sanders' frequent broadsides against the “radical left," criticism of President Joe Biden and echoes of Trump.
He dubbed his platform “PB&J," which he says stands for preschool, broadband and jobs.
Sanders, he charged, is engaging in “the kind of politics that fans the flames of an angry mob willing to mow down police officers in order to attack school kids at Little Rock Central High," a reference to the 1957 desegregation crisis.
Sanders' campaign didn't respond to a request for comment on Jones' remark, and has essentially ignored him and her other rivals for governor.
Jones' announcement video featured him walking into a church and using his minister's stole to tell his family's story. Jones, the son of two preachers, attended Morehouse College on a scholarship from NASA and later went to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Before jumping into the governor's race, Jones headed the Arkansas Regional Innovation Hub, a nonprofit that helps entrepreneurs.
The notion that Jones' candidacy will boost Democrats is met with skepticism in Arkansas. The state's last Democratic governor, Mike Beebe, won all 75 counties in 2010, but the party's last nominee won less than a third of the vote.
“Generally speaking, the team that starts talking about voter turnout and even more so voter registration is the team that’s already guaranteed a loss," said University of Arkansas political science professor Janine Parry. White people make up 73% of the state's voting age population, compared with about 64% nationally.
Parry, however, noted that such races could help build a bench of candidates and expand the electorate as the state's demographics change.
Jones faces a huge fundraising gap. Sanders has been shattering fundraising records while Jones reported less than $200,000 on hand in his latest filings.
But he is campaigning actively, holding voter registration drives and even venturing into seemingly hostile territory like Harrison, a town in the Ozarks that has struggled with racism and white supremacy over the years.
Win or lose, he insists the effort is worth it.
“Anytime you can bring candidates who can lift up the voice of those who haven’t been part of the process before — whether it’s Black, Latinx, disabled, veterans, you name it — who have been locked of the process, it’s going to be helpful,” Jones said.
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Associated Press reporter Sean Murphy contributed to this report from Oklahoma City | 2 | 104,810 | 0 | https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/Black-Democrats-try-to-revive-party-in-Trump-17053002.php | 2022-04-02 13:28:50+00:00 | PINE BLUFF, Ark. (AP) — Chris Jones would seem to have an ideal biography to run for governor, a job that's wide open in Arkansas for the first time in eight years.
He's both an ordained Baptist minister and a nuclear engineer who can talk about his faith as easily as scientific concepts. He's upbeat and personable, as evidenced by his announcement video that quickly went viral nationwide.
There's a catch, though. Jones is a Democrat in a state that has gone from red to extremely red in recent years. Donald Trump carried it in 2020 with 62% of the vote. And he's Black, where Black people account for only 16.5% of the population and where no African American has ever won statewide office.
What's more, if he wins his party's nomination he'll probably have to face a nationally known figure: Sarah Sanders, the former press secretary for Trump and daughter of former Gov. Mike Huckabee. She's already raised more than $13.6 million.
Most experienced pols consider the race beyond a long shot, but it represents a change in thinking about how the Democratic Party can rebuild in heartland states where it has become almost extinct as white rural voters migrated en masse to the GOP.
In years past, Democrats in the region usually tried to win over independent and moderate voters by running white establishment candidates. That approach produced little. Now they're hoping to mobilize voters who haven't been involved in the process, especially Black, Latino and younger people.
“It's clear to me folks are ready," Jones said during an interview in his hometown of Pine Bluff, a predominantly Black city an hour south of Little Rock. “There's a moment where folks are saying of all the barriers and the ceilings to be broken, here's one we want to break."
This year dozens of Black Democrats are running for office in places that Trump won easily. Many are political newcomers who were motivated by the protests over police tactics following the killing of George Floyd, or advances by Black Democratic candidates in once solidly red states like Georgia.
“The ball is moving down the field in terms of more progress being made," said Tolulope Kevin Olasanoye with the Collective PAC, which recruits and supports Black candidates.
Jones is one of two Black candidates running for Arkansas governor in the May Democratic primary, which also includes an Asian American woman. Two Black Democrats are also running for the Senate seat held by Republican John Boozman.
African Americans are among the leading Democratic challengers for several Republican-held Senate seats, such as Cheri Beasley in North Carolina and Val Demings in Florida. In Kentucky, Charles Booker is making an uphill bid to unseat Republican Sen. Rand Paul. Iowa's Deidre DeJear is the only Democrat challenging Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds.
Black voters and officeholders already hold considerable sway in the Democratic Party in blue states, but some say it's time for African American candidates to take the lead in attracting new voters elsewhere and elevating top social issues.
In Oklahoma, where the party has a long losing streak, many Democrats hailed the decision by the state's popular education commissioner, lifelong Republican Joy Hofmeister, to switch parties and challenge GOP Gov. Kevin Stitt as a Democrat. Even though it probably improved the party's chances, many African American activists were aggravated that Hofmeister, who is white, drew support away from Black candidate Connie Johnson.
Hofmeister “is not coming to any Black Lives Matter protests," said Joshua Harris-Till, a Black party organizer and candidate for a U.S. House seat. “We’re probably not going to see her veto legislation like some of these insane gun bills. We’re not going to see her championing the right of women to choose.”
In Arkansas, Jones, who had never run for office, launched his bid for governor with a video highlighting his roots in the state and drew contrasts with Sanders' frequent broadsides against the “radical left," criticism of President Joe Biden and echoes of Trump.
He dubbed his platform “PB&J," which he says stands for preschool, broadband and jobs.
Sanders, he charged, is engaging in “the kind of politics that fans the flames of an angry mob willing to mow down police officers in order to attack school kids at Little Rock Central High," a reference to the 1957 desegregation crisis.
Sanders' campaign didn't respond to a request for comment on Jones' remark, and has essentially ignored him and her other rivals for governor.
Jones' announcement video featured him walking into a church and using his minister's stole to tell his family's story. Jones, the son of two preachers, attended Morehouse College on a scholarship from NASA and later went to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Before jumping into the governor's race, Jones headed the Arkansas Regional Innovation Hub, a nonprofit that helps entrepreneurs.
The notion that Jones' candidacy will boost Democrats is met with skepticism in Arkansas. The state's last Democratic governor, Mike Beebe, won all 75 counties in 2010, but the party's last nominee won less than a third of the vote.
“Generally speaking, the team that starts talking about voter turnout and even more so voter registration is the team that’s already guaranteed a loss," said University of Arkansas political science professor Janine Parry. White people make up 73% of the state's voting age population, compared with about 64% nationally.
Parry, however, noted that such races could help build a bench of candidates and expand the electorate as the state's demographics change.
Jones faces a huge fundraising gap. Sanders has been shattering fundraising records while Jones reported less than $200,000 on hand in his latest filings.
But he is campaigning actively, holding voter registration drives and even venturing into seemingly hostile territory like Harrison, a town in the Ozarks that has struggled with racism and white supremacy over the years.
Win or lose, he insists the effort is worth it.
“Anytime you can bring candidates who can lift up the voice of those who haven’t been part of the process before — whether it’s Black, Latinx, disabled, veterans, you name it — who have been locked of the process, it’s going to be helpful,” Jones said.
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Associated Press reporter Sean Murphy contributed to this report from Oklahoma City |
https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/West-Russia-mull-nuclear-steps-in-a-more-17053103.php | WASHINGTON (AP) — Russia’s assault on Ukraine and its veiled threats of using nuclear arms have policymakers, past and present, thinking the unthinkable: How should the West respond to a Russian battlefield explosion of a nuclear bomb?
The default U.S. policy answer, say some architects of the post-Cold War nuclear order, is with discipline and restraint. That could entail stepping up sanctions and isolation for Russian President Vladimir Putin, said Rose Gottemoeller, deputy secretary-general of NATO from 2016 to 2019.
But no one can count on calm minds to prevail in such a moment, and real life seldom goes to plan. World leaders would be angry, affronted, fearful. Miscommunication and confusion could be rife. Hackers could add to the chaos. Demands would be great for tough retaliation — the kind that can be done with nuclear-loaded missiles capable of moving faster than the speed of sound.
When military and civilian officials and experts have war-gamed Russian-U.S. nuclear tensions in the past, the tabletop exercises sometimes end with nuclear missiles arcing across continents and oceans, striking the capitals of Europe and North America, killing millions within hours, said Olga Oliker, program director for Europe and Central Asia at the International Crisis Group.
“And, you know, soon enough, you’ve just had a global thermonuclear war,” Oliker said.
It’s a scenario officials hope to avoid, even if Russia targets Ukraine with a nuclear bomb.
Gottemoeller, a chief U.S. nuclear negotiator with Russia for the Obama administration, said that the outlines that President Joe Biden has provided so far of his nuclear policy stick with those of past administrations in using atomic weapons only in “extreme circumstances.”
“And a single Russian nuclear use demonstration strike, or -- as horrific as it would be -- a nuclear use in Ukraine, I do not think would rise to that level" of demanding a U.S. nuclear response, said Gottemoeller, now a lecturer at Stanford University.
For former Sen. Sam Nunn, a Georgia Democrat who over nearly a quarter-century in Congress helped shape global nuclear policy, the option of Western nuclear use has to remain on the table.
“That's what the doctrine of mutual assured destruction has been about for a long, long time,” said Nunn, now strategic adviser to the Nuclear Threat Initiative security organization, which he co-founded.
“If President Putin were to use nuclear weapons, or any other country uses nuclear weapons first, not in response to a nuclear attack, not in response to an existential threat to their own country ... that leader should assume that they are putting the world in the high risk of a nuclear war, and nuclear exchange,” Nunn said.
For U.S. officials and world leaders, discussions of how to respond to a limited nuclear attack are no longer theoretical. In the first hours and days of Russia's invasion, Putin referenced Russia's nuclear arsenal. He warned Western countries to stay out of the conflict, saying he was putting his nuclear forces on heightened alert.
Any country that interfered with Russia's invasion would face consequences “such as you have never seen, in your entire history,” Putin declared.
How to respond to any use by Russia of chemical, biological or nuclear weapons was among the issues discussed by Biden and other Western leaders when they met in Europe in late March. Three NATO members — the United States, Britain and France — have nuclear weapons.
One overarching concern is that by casting some nuclear weapons as tactical weapons to be used in battle, Russia could break the nearly eight-decade global taboo against using a nuclear weapon against another country. Even comparatively small tactical nuclear weapons approach the strength of the atomic bomb the United States dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, in World War II.
Gottemoeller and Nunn praise Biden's restraint in the face of Putin's implicit nuclear warnings at the outset of the war. Biden made no known move to raise the U.S. nuclear alert status. The U.S. also postponed a routine Minuteman III test launch last month to avoid escalating tensions.
But in the short term and long, the world appears more at risk of a nuclear conflict as a result of Putin's bungled invasion and nuclear threats, according to arms control experts and negotiators.
The weaknesses that Russia's invasion exposed in its conventional military forces may leave Putin feeling even more compelled in the future to threaten nuclear use as his best weapon against the far-stronger United States and NATO.
While Gottemoeller argued that Ukraine's surrendering of its Soviet nuclear arsenal in 1994 opened the door for three decades of international integration and growth, she said some governments may take a different lesson from nuclear Russia's invasion of non-nuclear Ukraine — that they need nuclear bombs as a matter of survival.
Jeffrey Lewis, an arms control expert and professor at the Middlebury Institute, said the nuclear danger is going up.
“And we can tell which pathways would cause that risk to go up further. And certainly direct conflict with Russia from forces based in NATO countries is one pathway to a nuclear war,” Lewis said.
Gottemoeller took heart in Putin grumbling publicly late last month about “cancel culture.” That suggested he was vulnerable to world condemnation over his Ukraine invasion, and worse to come if he broke the post-World War II taboo on nuclear attack, she said.
Detonating a nuclear bomb in a country Putin sought dominion over, one next to his own, wouldn't be rational, Nunn said. But he said neither was Putin's announcement of heightened nuclear alert,.
As a young congressional aide during the Cuban missile crisis, Nunn witnessed U.S. officers and pilots in Europe standing by for orders to launch nuclear weapons on the Soviet Union. The danger today isn't yet as great as in the 1962 Cuban missile crisis, when Soviet deployment of nuclear missiles on Cuba raised the threat of nuclear war with the U.S., he said.
But the risk of intentional nuclear escalation now is high enough to make a cease-fire in Ukraine crucial, Nunn said. The modern threat of cyberattacks adds to the risk of a mistaken launch. And it's not clear how vulnerable U.S. and, especially, Russian systems are to such hacking attempts, he said.
Putin "has been very reckless in his saber rattling with nuclear weapons,” Nunn said. “And that I think has made everything more dangerous, including a blunder.” | 0 | 7,467 | 0 | https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/4494809 | 2022-04-04 22:47:07+00:00 | WASHINGTON (AP) — Russia’s assault on Ukraine and its veiled threats of using nuclear arms have policymakers, past and present, thinking the unthinkable: How should the West respond to a Russian battlefield explosion of a nuclear bomb?
The default U.S. policy answer, say some architects of the post-Cold War nuclear order, is with discipline and restraint. That could entail stepping up sanctions and isolation for Russian President Vladimir Putin, said Rose Gottemoeller, deputy secretary-general of NATO from 2016 to 2019.
But no one can count on calm minds to prevail in such a moment, and real life seldom goes to plan. World leaders would be angry, affronted, fearful. Miscommunication and confusion could be rife. Hackers could add to the chaos. Demands would be great for tough retaliation — the kind that can be done with nuclear-loaded missiles capable of moving faster than the speed of sound.
When military and civilian officials and experts have war-gamed Russian-U.S. nuclear tensions in the past, the tabletop exercises sometimes end with nuclear missiles arcing across continents and oceans, striking the capitals of Europe and North America, killing millions within hours, said Olga Oliker, program director for Europe and Central Asia at the International Crisis Group.
“And, you know, soon enough, you’ve just had a global thermonuclear war,” Oliker said.
It’s a scenario officials hope to avoid, even if Russia targets Ukraine with a nuclear bomb.
Gottemoeller, a chief U.S. nuclear negotiator with Russia for the Obama administration, said that the outlines that President Joe Biden has provided so far of his nuclear policy stick with those of past administrations in using atomic weapons only in “extreme circumstances.”
“And a single Russian nuclear use demonstration strike, or -- as horrific as it would be -- a nuclear use in Ukraine, I do not think would rise to that level" of demanding a U.S. nuclear response, said Gottemoeller, now a lecturer at Stanford University.
For former Sen. Sam Nunn, a Georgia Democrat who over nearly a quarter-century in Congress helped shape global nuclear policy, the option of Western nuclear use has to remain on the table.
“That's what the doctrine of mutual assured destruction has been about for a long, long time,” said Nunn, now strategic adviser to the Nuclear Threat Initiative security organization, which he co-founded.
“If President Putin were to use nuclear weapons, or any other country uses nuclear weapons first, not in response to a nuclear attack, not in response to an existential threat to their own country ... that leader should assume that they are putting the world in the high risk of a nuclear war, and nuclear exchange,” Nunn said.
For U.S. officials and world leaders, discussions of how to respond to a limited nuclear attack are no longer theoretical. In the first hours and days of Russia's invasion, Putin referenced Russia's nuclear arsenal. He warned Western countries to stay out of the conflict, saying he was putting his nuclear forces on heightened alert.
Any country that interfered with Russia's invasion would face consequences “such as you have never seen, in your entire history,” Putin declared.
How to respond to any use by Russia of chemical, biological or nuclear weapons was among the issues discussed by Biden and other Western leaders when they met in Europe in late March. Three NATO members — the United States, Britain and France — have nuclear weapons.
One overarching concern is that by casting some nuclear weapons as tactical weapons to be used in battle, Russia could break the nearly eight-decade global taboo against using a nuclear weapon against another country. Even comparatively small tactical nuclear weapons approach the strength of the atomic bomb the United States dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, in World War II.
Gottemoeller and Nunn praise Biden's restraint in the face of Putin's implicit nuclear warnings at the outset of the war. Biden made no known move to raise the U.S. nuclear alert status. The U.S. also postponed a routine Minuteman III test launch last month to avoid escalating tensions.
But in the short term and long, the world appears more at risk of a nuclear conflict as a result of Putin's bungled invasion and nuclear threats, according to arms control experts and negotiators.
The weaknesses that Russia's invasion exposed in its conventional military forces may leave Putin feeling even more compelled in the future to threaten nuclear use as his best weapon against the far-stronger United States and NATO.
While Gottemoeller argued that Ukraine's surrendering of its Soviet nuclear arsenal in 1994 opened the door for three decades of international integration and growth, she said some governments may take a different lesson from nuclear Russia's invasion of non-nuclear Ukraine — that they need nuclear bombs as a matter of survival.
Jeffrey Lewis, an arms control expert and professor at the Middlebury Institute, said the nuclear danger is going up.
“And we can tell which pathways would cause that risk to go up further. And certainly direct conflict with Russia from forces based in NATO countries is one pathway to a nuclear war,” Lewis said.
Gottemoeller took heart in Putin grumbling publicly late last month about “cancel culture.” That suggested he was vulnerable to world condemnation over his Ukraine invasion, and worse to come if he broke the post-World War II taboo on nuclear attack, she said.
Detonating a nuclear bomb in a country Putin sought dominion over, one next to his own, wouldn't be rational, Nunn said. But he said neither was Putin's announcement of heightened nuclear alert,.
As a young congressional aide during the Cuban missile crisis, Nunn witnessed U.S. officers and pilots in Europe standing by for orders to launch nuclear weapons on the Soviet Union. The danger today isn't yet as great as in the 1962 Cuban missile crisis, when Soviet deployment of nuclear missiles on Cuba raised the threat of nuclear war with the U.S., he said.
But the risk of intentional nuclear escalation now is high enough to make a cease-fire in Ukraine crucial, Nunn said. The modern threat of cyberattacks adds to the risk of a mistaken launch. And it's not clear how vulnerable U.S. and, especially, Russian systems are to such hacking attempts, he said.
Putin "has been very reckless in his saber rattling with nuclear weapons,” Nunn said. “And that I think has made everything more dangerous, including a blunder.” |
https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/West-Russia-mull-nuclear-steps-in-a-more-17053103.php | WASHINGTON (AP) — Russia’s assault on Ukraine and its veiled threats of using nuclear arms have policymakers, past and present, thinking the unthinkable: How should the West respond to a Russian battlefield explosion of a nuclear bomb?
The default U.S. policy answer, say some architects of the post-Cold War nuclear order, is with discipline and restraint. That could entail stepping up sanctions and isolation for Russian President Vladimir Putin, said Rose Gottemoeller, deputy secretary-general of NATO from 2016 to 2019.
But no one can count on calm minds to prevail in such a moment, and real life seldom goes to plan. World leaders would be angry, affronted, fearful. Miscommunication and confusion could be rife. Hackers could add to the chaos. Demands would be great for tough retaliation — the kind that can be done with nuclear-loaded missiles capable of moving faster than the speed of sound.
When military and civilian officials and experts have war-gamed Russian-U.S. nuclear tensions in the past, the tabletop exercises sometimes end with nuclear missiles arcing across continents and oceans, striking the capitals of Europe and North America, killing millions within hours, said Olga Oliker, program director for Europe and Central Asia at the International Crisis Group.
“And, you know, soon enough, you’ve just had a global thermonuclear war,” Oliker said.
It’s a scenario officials hope to avoid, even if Russia targets Ukraine with a nuclear bomb.
Gottemoeller, a chief U.S. nuclear negotiator with Russia for the Obama administration, said that the outlines that President Joe Biden has provided so far of his nuclear policy stick with those of past administrations in using atomic weapons only in “extreme circumstances.”
“And a single Russian nuclear use demonstration strike, or -- as horrific as it would be -- a nuclear use in Ukraine, I do not think would rise to that level" of demanding a U.S. nuclear response, said Gottemoeller, now a lecturer at Stanford University.
For former Sen. Sam Nunn, a Georgia Democrat who over nearly a quarter-century in Congress helped shape global nuclear policy, the option of Western nuclear use has to remain on the table.
“That's what the doctrine of mutual assured destruction has been about for a long, long time,” said Nunn, now strategic adviser to the Nuclear Threat Initiative security organization, which he co-founded.
“If President Putin were to use nuclear weapons, or any other country uses nuclear weapons first, not in response to a nuclear attack, not in response to an existential threat to their own country ... that leader should assume that they are putting the world in the high risk of a nuclear war, and nuclear exchange,” Nunn said.
For U.S. officials and world leaders, discussions of how to respond to a limited nuclear attack are no longer theoretical. In the first hours and days of Russia's invasion, Putin referenced Russia's nuclear arsenal. He warned Western countries to stay out of the conflict, saying he was putting his nuclear forces on heightened alert.
Any country that interfered with Russia's invasion would face consequences “such as you have never seen, in your entire history,” Putin declared.
How to respond to any use by Russia of chemical, biological or nuclear weapons was among the issues discussed by Biden and other Western leaders when they met in Europe in late March. Three NATO members — the United States, Britain and France — have nuclear weapons.
One overarching concern is that by casting some nuclear weapons as tactical weapons to be used in battle, Russia could break the nearly eight-decade global taboo against using a nuclear weapon against another country. Even comparatively small tactical nuclear weapons approach the strength of the atomic bomb the United States dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, in World War II.
Gottemoeller and Nunn praise Biden's restraint in the face of Putin's implicit nuclear warnings at the outset of the war. Biden made no known move to raise the U.S. nuclear alert status. The U.S. also postponed a routine Minuteman III test launch last month to avoid escalating tensions.
But in the short term and long, the world appears more at risk of a nuclear conflict as a result of Putin's bungled invasion and nuclear threats, according to arms control experts and negotiators.
The weaknesses that Russia's invasion exposed in its conventional military forces may leave Putin feeling even more compelled in the future to threaten nuclear use as his best weapon against the far-stronger United States and NATO.
While Gottemoeller argued that Ukraine's surrendering of its Soviet nuclear arsenal in 1994 opened the door for three decades of international integration and growth, she said some governments may take a different lesson from nuclear Russia's invasion of non-nuclear Ukraine — that they need nuclear bombs as a matter of survival.
Jeffrey Lewis, an arms control expert and professor at the Middlebury Institute, said the nuclear danger is going up.
“And we can tell which pathways would cause that risk to go up further. And certainly direct conflict with Russia from forces based in NATO countries is one pathway to a nuclear war,” Lewis said.
Gottemoeller took heart in Putin grumbling publicly late last month about “cancel culture.” That suggested he was vulnerable to world condemnation over his Ukraine invasion, and worse to come if he broke the post-World War II taboo on nuclear attack, she said.
Detonating a nuclear bomb in a country Putin sought dominion over, one next to his own, wouldn't be rational, Nunn said. But he said neither was Putin's announcement of heightened nuclear alert,.
As a young congressional aide during the Cuban missile crisis, Nunn witnessed U.S. officers and pilots in Europe standing by for orders to launch nuclear weapons on the Soviet Union. The danger today isn't yet as great as in the 1962 Cuban missile crisis, when Soviet deployment of nuclear missiles on Cuba raised the threat of nuclear war with the U.S., he said.
But the risk of intentional nuclear escalation now is high enough to make a cease-fire in Ukraine crucial, Nunn said. The modern threat of cyberattacks adds to the risk of a mistaken launch. And it's not clear how vulnerable U.S. and, especially, Russian systems are to such hacking attempts, he said.
Putin "has been very reckless in his saber rattling with nuclear weapons,” Nunn said. “And that I think has made everything more dangerous, including a blunder.” | 1 | 12,952 | 0 | https://www.union-bulletin.com/seattle_times/west-russia-mull-nuclear-steps-in-a-more-dangerous-world/article_e5c837fe-f553-5d3b-84b7-d5a6dd127a48.html | 2022-04-02 18:50:25+00:00 | WASHINGTON (AP) — Russia’s assault on Ukraine and its veiled threats of using nuclear arms have policymakers, past and present, thinking the unthinkable: How should the West respond to a Russian battlefield explosion of a nuclear bomb?
The default U.S. policy answer, say some architects of the post-Cold War nuclear order, is with discipline and restraint. That could entail stepping up sanctions and isolation for Russian President Vladimir Putin, said Rose Gottemoeller, deputy secretary-general of NATO from 2016 to 2019.
But no one can count on calm minds to prevail in such a moment, and real life seldom goes to plan. World leaders would be angry, affronted, fearful. Miscommunication and confusion could be rife. Hackers could add to the chaos. Demands would be great for tough retaliation — the kind that can be done with nuclear-loaded missiles capable of moving faster than the speed of sound.
When military and civilian officials and experts have war-gamed Russian-U.S. nuclear tensions in the past, the tabletop exercises sometimes end with nuclear missiles arcing across continents and oceans, striking the capitals of Europe and North America, killing millions within hours, said Olga Oliker, program director for Europe and Central Asia at the International Crisis Group.
“And, you know, soon enough, you’ve just had a global thermonuclear war,” Oliker said.
It’s a scenario officials hope to avoid, even if Russia targets Ukraine with a nuclear bomb.
Gottemoeller, a chief U.S. nuclear negotiator with Russia for the Obama administration, said that the outlines that President Joe Biden has provided so far of his nuclear policy stick with those of past administrations in using atomic weapons only in “extreme circumstances.”
“And a single Russian nuclear use demonstration strike, or -- as horrific as it would be -- a nuclear use in Ukraine, I do not think would rise to that level" of demanding a U.S. nuclear response, said Gottemoeller, now a lecturer at Stanford University.
For former Sen. Sam Nunn, a Georgia Democrat who over nearly a quarter-century in Congress helped shape global nuclear policy, the option of Western nuclear use has to remain on the table.
“That's what the doctrine of mutual assured destruction has been about for a long, long time,” said Nunn, now strategic adviser to the Nuclear Threat Initiative security organization, which he co-founded.
“If President Putin were to use nuclear weapons, or any other country uses nuclear weapons first, not in response to a nuclear attack, not in response to an existential threat to their own country ... that leader should assume that they are putting the world in the high risk of a nuclear war, and nuclear exchange,” Nunn said.
For U.S. officials and world leaders, discussions of how to respond to a limited nuclear attack are no longer theoretical. In the first hours and days of Russia's invasion, Putin referenced Russia's nuclear arsenal. He warned Western countries to stay out of the conflict, saying he was putting his nuclear forces on heightened alert.
Any country that interfered with Russia's invasion would face consequences “such as you have never seen, in your entire history,” Putin declared.
How to respond to any use by Russia of chemical, biological or nuclear weapons was among the issues discussed by Biden and other Western leaders when they met in Europe in late March. Three NATO members — the United States, Britain and France — have nuclear weapons.
One overarching concern is that by casting some nuclear weapons as tactical weapons to be used in battle, Russia could break the nearly eight-decade global taboo against using a nuclear weapon against another country. Even comparatively small tactical nuclear weapons approach the strength of the atomic bomb the United States dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, in World War II.
Gottemoeller and Nunn praise Biden's restraint in the face of Putin's implicit nuclear warnings at the outset of the war. Biden made no known move to raise the U.S. nuclear alert status. The U.S. also postponed a routine Minuteman III test launch last month to avoid escalating tensions.
But in the short term and long, the world appears more at risk of a nuclear conflict as a result of Putin's bungled invasion and nuclear threats, according to arms control experts and negotiators.
The weaknesses that Russia's invasion exposed in its conventional military forces may leave Putin feeling even more compelled in the future to threaten nuclear use as his best weapon against the far-stronger United States and NATO.
While Gottemoeller argued that Ukraine's surrendering of its Soviet nuclear arsenal in 1994 opened the door for three decades of international integration and growth, she said some governments may take a different lesson from nuclear Russia's invasion of non-nuclear Ukraine — that they need nuclear bombs as a matter of survival.
Jeffrey Lewis, an arms control expert and professor at the Middlebury Institute, said the nuclear danger is going up.
“And we can tell which pathways would cause that risk to go up further. And certainly direct conflict with Russia from forces based in NATO countries is one pathway to a nuclear war,” Lewis said.
Gottemoeller took heart in Putin grumbling publicly late last month about “cancel culture.” That suggested he was vulnerable to world condemnation over his Ukraine invasion, and worse to come if he broke the post-World War II taboo on nuclear attack, she said.
Detonating a nuclear bomb in a country Putin sought dominion over, one next to his own, wouldn't be rational, Nunn said. But he said neither was Putin's announcement of heightened nuclear alert,.
As a young congressional aide during the Cuban missile crisis, Nunn witnessed U.S. officers and pilots in Europe standing by for orders to launch nuclear weapons on the Soviet Union. The danger today isn't yet as great as in the 1962 Cuban missile crisis, when Soviet deployment of nuclear missiles on Cuba raised the threat of nuclear war with the U.S., he said.
But the risk of intentional nuclear escalation now is high enough to make a cease-fire in Ukraine crucial, Nunn said. The modern threat of cyberattacks adds to the risk of a mistaken launch. And it's not clear how vulnerable U.S. and, especially, Russian systems are to such hacking attempts, he said.
Putin "has been very reckless in his saber rattling with nuclear weapons,” Nunn said. “And that I think has made everything more dangerous, including a blunder.” |
https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/West-Russia-mull-nuclear-steps-in-a-more-17053103.php | WASHINGTON (AP) — Russia’s assault on Ukraine and its veiled threats of using nuclear arms have policymakers, past and present, thinking the unthinkable: How should the West respond to a Russian battlefield explosion of a nuclear bomb?
The default U.S. policy answer, say some architects of the post-Cold War nuclear order, is with discipline and restraint. That could entail stepping up sanctions and isolation for Russian President Vladimir Putin, said Rose Gottemoeller, deputy secretary-general of NATO from 2016 to 2019.
But no one can count on calm minds to prevail in such a moment, and real life seldom goes to plan. World leaders would be angry, affronted, fearful. Miscommunication and confusion could be rife. Hackers could add to the chaos. Demands would be great for tough retaliation — the kind that can be done with nuclear-loaded missiles capable of moving faster than the speed of sound.
When military and civilian officials and experts have war-gamed Russian-U.S. nuclear tensions in the past, the tabletop exercises sometimes end with nuclear missiles arcing across continents and oceans, striking the capitals of Europe and North America, killing millions within hours, said Olga Oliker, program director for Europe and Central Asia at the International Crisis Group.
“And, you know, soon enough, you’ve just had a global thermonuclear war,” Oliker said.
It’s a scenario officials hope to avoid, even if Russia targets Ukraine with a nuclear bomb.
Gottemoeller, a chief U.S. nuclear negotiator with Russia for the Obama administration, said that the outlines that President Joe Biden has provided so far of his nuclear policy stick with those of past administrations in using atomic weapons only in “extreme circumstances.”
“And a single Russian nuclear use demonstration strike, or -- as horrific as it would be -- a nuclear use in Ukraine, I do not think would rise to that level" of demanding a U.S. nuclear response, said Gottemoeller, now a lecturer at Stanford University.
For former Sen. Sam Nunn, a Georgia Democrat who over nearly a quarter-century in Congress helped shape global nuclear policy, the option of Western nuclear use has to remain on the table.
“That's what the doctrine of mutual assured destruction has been about for a long, long time,” said Nunn, now strategic adviser to the Nuclear Threat Initiative security organization, which he co-founded.
“If President Putin were to use nuclear weapons, or any other country uses nuclear weapons first, not in response to a nuclear attack, not in response to an existential threat to their own country ... that leader should assume that they are putting the world in the high risk of a nuclear war, and nuclear exchange,” Nunn said.
For U.S. officials and world leaders, discussions of how to respond to a limited nuclear attack are no longer theoretical. In the first hours and days of Russia's invasion, Putin referenced Russia's nuclear arsenal. He warned Western countries to stay out of the conflict, saying he was putting his nuclear forces on heightened alert.
Any country that interfered with Russia's invasion would face consequences “such as you have never seen, in your entire history,” Putin declared.
How to respond to any use by Russia of chemical, biological or nuclear weapons was among the issues discussed by Biden and other Western leaders when they met in Europe in late March. Three NATO members — the United States, Britain and France — have nuclear weapons.
One overarching concern is that by casting some nuclear weapons as tactical weapons to be used in battle, Russia could break the nearly eight-decade global taboo against using a nuclear weapon against another country. Even comparatively small tactical nuclear weapons approach the strength of the atomic bomb the United States dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, in World War II.
Gottemoeller and Nunn praise Biden's restraint in the face of Putin's implicit nuclear warnings at the outset of the war. Biden made no known move to raise the U.S. nuclear alert status. The U.S. also postponed a routine Minuteman III test launch last month to avoid escalating tensions.
But in the short term and long, the world appears more at risk of a nuclear conflict as a result of Putin's bungled invasion and nuclear threats, according to arms control experts and negotiators.
The weaknesses that Russia's invasion exposed in its conventional military forces may leave Putin feeling even more compelled in the future to threaten nuclear use as his best weapon against the far-stronger United States and NATO.
While Gottemoeller argued that Ukraine's surrendering of its Soviet nuclear arsenal in 1994 opened the door for three decades of international integration and growth, she said some governments may take a different lesson from nuclear Russia's invasion of non-nuclear Ukraine — that they need nuclear bombs as a matter of survival.
Jeffrey Lewis, an arms control expert and professor at the Middlebury Institute, said the nuclear danger is going up.
“And we can tell which pathways would cause that risk to go up further. And certainly direct conflict with Russia from forces based in NATO countries is one pathway to a nuclear war,” Lewis said.
Gottemoeller took heart in Putin grumbling publicly late last month about “cancel culture.” That suggested he was vulnerable to world condemnation over his Ukraine invasion, and worse to come if he broke the post-World War II taboo on nuclear attack, she said.
Detonating a nuclear bomb in a country Putin sought dominion over, one next to his own, wouldn't be rational, Nunn said. But he said neither was Putin's announcement of heightened nuclear alert,.
As a young congressional aide during the Cuban missile crisis, Nunn witnessed U.S. officers and pilots in Europe standing by for orders to launch nuclear weapons on the Soviet Union. The danger today isn't yet as great as in the 1962 Cuban missile crisis, when Soviet deployment of nuclear missiles on Cuba raised the threat of nuclear war with the U.S., he said.
But the risk of intentional nuclear escalation now is high enough to make a cease-fire in Ukraine crucial, Nunn said. The modern threat of cyberattacks adds to the risk of a mistaken launch. And it's not clear how vulnerable U.S. and, especially, Russian systems are to such hacking attempts, he said.
Putin "has been very reckless in his saber rattling with nuclear weapons,” Nunn said. “And that I think has made everything more dangerous, including a blunder.” | 2 | 36,398 | 0 | https://www.carolinacoastonline.com/national/article_d630118c-b2c4-11ec-a945-27a57463e287.html | 2022-04-02 21:47:22+00:00 | WASHINGTON (AP) — Russia’s assault on Ukraine and its veiled threats of using nuclear arms have policymakers, past and present, thinking the unthinkable: How should the West respond to a Russian battlefield explosion of a nuclear bomb?
The default U.S. policy answer, say some architects of the post-Cold War nuclear order, is with discipline and restraint. That could entail stepping up sanctions and isolation for Russian President Vladimir Putin, said Rose Gottemoeller, deputy secretary-general of NATO from 2016 to 2019.
But no one can count on calm minds to prevail in such a moment, and real life seldom goes to plan. World leaders would be angry, affronted, fearful. Miscommunication and confusion could be rife. Hackers could add to the chaos. Demands would be great for tough retaliation — the kind that can be done with nuclear-loaded missiles capable of moving faster than the speed of sound.
When military and civilian officials and experts have war-gamed Russian-U.S. nuclear tensions in the past, the tabletop exercises sometimes end with nuclear missiles arcing across continents and oceans, striking the capitals of Europe and North America, killing millions within hours, said Olga Oliker, program director for Europe and Central Asia at the International Crisis Group.
“And, you know, soon enough, you’ve just had a global thermonuclear war,” Oliker said.
It’s a scenario officials hope to avoid, even if Russia targets Ukraine with a nuclear bomb.
Gottemoeller, a chief U.S. nuclear negotiator with Russia for the Obama administration, said that the outlines that President Joe Biden has provided so far of his nuclear policy stick with those of past administrations in using atomic weapons only in “extreme circumstances.”
“And a single Russian nuclear use demonstration strike, or -- as horrific as it would be -- a nuclear use in Ukraine, I do not think would rise to that level" of demanding a U.S. nuclear response, said Gottemoeller, now a lecturer at Stanford University.
For former Sen. Sam Nunn, a Georgia Democrat who over nearly a quarter-century in Congress helped shape global nuclear policy, the option of Western nuclear use has to remain on the table.
“That's what the doctrine of mutual assured destruction has been about for a long, long time,” said Nunn, now strategic adviser to the Nuclear Threat Initiative security organization, which he co-founded.
“If President Putin were to use nuclear weapons, or any other country uses nuclear weapons first, not in response to a nuclear attack, not in response to an existential threat to their own country ... that leader should assume that they are putting the world in the high risk of a nuclear war, and nuclear exchange,” Nunn said.
For U.S. officials and world leaders, discussions of how to respond to a limited nuclear attack are no longer theoretical. In the first hours and days of Russia's invasion, Putin referenced Russia's nuclear arsenal. He warned Western countries to stay out of the conflict, saying he was putting his nuclear forces on heightened alert.
Any country that interfered with Russia's invasion would face consequences “such as you have never seen, in your entire history,” Putin declared.
How to respond to any use by Russia of chemical, biological or nuclear weapons was among the issues discussed by Biden and other Western leaders when they met in Europe in late March. Three NATO members — the United States, Britain and France — have nuclear weapons.
One overarching concern is that by casting some nuclear weapons as tactical weapons to be used in battle, Russia could break the nearly eight-decade global taboo against using a nuclear weapon against another country. Even comparatively small tactical nuclear weapons approach the strength of the atomic bomb the United States dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, in World War II.
Gottemoeller and Nunn praise Biden's restraint in the face of Putin's implicit nuclear warnings at the outset of the war. Biden made no known move to raise the U.S. nuclear alert status. The U.S. also postponed a routine Minuteman III test launch last month to avoid escalating tensions.
But in the short term and long, the world appears more at risk of a nuclear conflict as a result of Putin's bungled invasion and nuclear threats, according to arms control experts and negotiators.
The weaknesses that Russia's invasion exposed in its conventional military forces may leave Putin feeling even more compelled in the future to threaten nuclear use as his best weapon against the far-stronger United States and NATO.
While Gottemoeller argued that Ukraine's surrendering of its Soviet nuclear arsenal in 1994 opened the door for three decades of international integration and growth, she said some governments may take a different lesson from nuclear Russia's invasion of non-nuclear Ukraine — that they need nuclear bombs as a matter of survival.
Jeffrey Lewis, an arms control expert and professor at the Middlebury Institute, said the nuclear danger is going up.
“And we can tell which pathways would cause that risk to go up further. And certainly direct conflict with Russia from forces based in NATO countries is one pathway to a nuclear war,” Lewis said.
Gottemoeller took heart in Putin grumbling publicly late last month about “cancel culture.” That suggested he was vulnerable to world condemnation over his Ukraine invasion, and worse to come if he broke the post-World War II taboo on nuclear attack, she said.
Detonating a nuclear bomb in a country Putin sought dominion over, one next to his own, wouldn't be rational, Nunn said. But he said neither was Putin's announcement of heightened nuclear alert,.
As a young congressional aide during the Cuban missile crisis, Nunn witnessed U.S. officers and pilots in Europe standing by for orders to launch nuclear weapons on the Soviet Union. The danger today isn't yet as great as in the 1962 Cuban missile crisis, when Soviet deployment of nuclear missiles on Cuba raised the threat of nuclear war with the U.S., he said.
But the risk of intentional nuclear escalation now is high enough to make a cease-fire in Ukraine crucial, Nunn said. The modern threat of cyberattacks adds to the risk of a mistaken launch. And it's not clear how vulnerable U.S. and, especially, Russian systems are to such hacking attempts, he said.
Putin "has been very reckless in his saber rattling with nuclear weapons,” Nunn said. “And that I think has made everything more dangerous, including a blunder.” |
https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/New-Orleans-board-choose-first-woman-to-lead-17053105.php | NEW ORLEANS (AP) — New Orleans public school officials have made an historic choice in naming a woman to serve as its leader, marking the first time its done so in 181 years.
The Orleans Parish School Board on Wednesday named Dr. Avis Williams to replace Superintendent Dr. Henderson Lewis Jr., who leaves his post June 30 after nearly seven years of service.
"As the first African American woman appointed to lead our District in its more than 180 year history, her breadth of experience as a sergeant in the U.S. Army, a teacher, assistant principal, principal, and superintendent will help take our students’ education to the next level,” said board President Olin Parker. “Dr. Williams is committed to working with our schools to increase academic achievement, expand access to mental health services for students, and engage deeply with all community members. I am certain of her commitment to ensuring that our graduation rates continue to rise and the doors of success continue to open for our scholars through college, well-paying jobs, and beyond.”
The board and Williams will now enter contract negotiations. If an agreement is reached, she will be formally appointed to the top position during a future board meeting.
“I am honored, humbled, and thrilled by this new opportunity with OPSB. I look forward to working with the community to do important work for Every Child at Every School, Every Day. I can’t wait to get started,” Williams said.
Williams currently serves as Superintendent of Selma City Schools in Alabama, where she helped increase the graduation rate by 6%, reading scores by 6% and math by 8%. Prior to that, she served as an assistant superintendent of Tuscaloosa City Schools. | 0 | 115,774 | 0 | https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/New-Orleans-board-choose-first-woman-to-lead-17053105.php | 2022-04-02 14:42:37+00:00 | NEW ORLEANS (AP) — New Orleans public school officials have made an historic choice in naming a woman to serve as its leader, marking the first time its done so in 181 years.
The Orleans Parish School Board on Wednesday named Dr. Avis Williams to replace Superintendent Dr. Henderson Lewis Jr., who leaves his post June 30 after nearly seven years of service.
"As the first African American woman appointed to lead our District in its more than 180 year history, her breadth of experience as a sergeant in the U.S. Army, a teacher, assistant principal, principal, and superintendent will help take our students’ education to the next level,” said board President Olin Parker. “Dr. Williams is committed to working with our schools to increase academic achievement, expand access to mental health services for students, and engage deeply with all community members. I am certain of her commitment to ensuring that our graduation rates continue to rise and the doors of success continue to open for our scholars through college, well-paying jobs, and beyond.”
The board and Williams will now enter contract negotiations. If an agreement is reached, she will be formally appointed to the top position during a future board meeting.
“I am honored, humbled, and thrilled by this new opportunity with OPSB. I look forward to working with the community to do important work for Every Child at Every School, Every Day. I can’t wait to get started,” Williams said.
Williams currently serves as Superintendent of Selma City Schools in Alabama, where she helped increase the graduation rate by 6%, reading scores by 6% and math by 8%. Prior to that, she served as an assistant superintendent of Tuscaloosa City Schools. |
https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/New-Orleans-board-choose-first-woman-to-lead-17053105.php | NEW ORLEANS (AP) — New Orleans public school officials have made an historic choice in naming a woman to serve as its leader, marking the first time its done so in 181 years.
The Orleans Parish School Board on Wednesday named Dr. Avis Williams to replace Superintendent Dr. Henderson Lewis Jr., who leaves his post June 30 after nearly seven years of service.
"As the first African American woman appointed to lead our District in its more than 180 year history, her breadth of experience as a sergeant in the U.S. Army, a teacher, assistant principal, principal, and superintendent will help take our students’ education to the next level,” said board President Olin Parker. “Dr. Williams is committed to working with our schools to increase academic achievement, expand access to mental health services for students, and engage deeply with all community members. I am certain of her commitment to ensuring that our graduation rates continue to rise and the doors of success continue to open for our scholars through college, well-paying jobs, and beyond.”
The board and Williams will now enter contract negotiations. If an agreement is reached, she will be formally appointed to the top position during a future board meeting.
“I am honored, humbled, and thrilled by this new opportunity with OPSB. I look forward to working with the community to do important work for Every Child at Every School, Every Day. I can’t wait to get started,” Williams said.
Williams currently serves as Superintendent of Selma City Schools in Alabama, where she helped increase the graduation rate by 6%, reading scores by 6% and math by 8%. Prior to that, she served as an assistant superintendent of Tuscaloosa City Schools. | 1 | 115,868 | 0 | https://www.ctpost.com/news/article/New-Orleans-board-choose-first-woman-to-lead-17053105.php | 2022-04-02 14:43:00+00:00 | NEW ORLEANS (AP) — New Orleans public school officials have made an historic choice in naming a woman to serve as its leader, marking the first time its done so in 181 years.
The Orleans Parish School Board on Wednesday named Dr. Avis Williams to replace Superintendent Dr. Henderson Lewis Jr., who leaves his post June 30 after nearly seven years of service.
"As the first African American woman appointed to lead our District in its more than 180 year history, her breadth of experience as a sergeant in the U.S. Army, a teacher, assistant principal, principal, and superintendent will help take our students’ education to the next level,” said board President Olin Parker. “Dr. Williams is committed to working with our schools to increase academic achievement, expand access to mental health services for students, and engage deeply with all community members. I am certain of her commitment to ensuring that our graduation rates continue to rise and the doors of success continue to open for our scholars through college, well-paying jobs, and beyond.”
The board and Williams will now enter contract negotiations. If an agreement is reached, she will be formally appointed to the top position during a future board meeting.
“I am honored, humbled, and thrilled by this new opportunity with OPSB. I look forward to working with the community to do important work for Every Child at Every School, Every Day. I can’t wait to get started,” Williams said.
Williams currently serves as Superintendent of Selma City Schools in Alabama, where she helped increase the graduation rate by 6%, reading scores by 6% and math by 8%. Prior to that, she served as an assistant superintendent of Tuscaloosa City Schools. |
https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/New-Orleans-board-choose-first-woman-to-lead-17053105.php | NEW ORLEANS (AP) — New Orleans public school officials have made an historic choice in naming a woman to serve as its leader, marking the first time its done so in 181 years.
The Orleans Parish School Board on Wednesday named Dr. Avis Williams to replace Superintendent Dr. Henderson Lewis Jr., who leaves his post June 30 after nearly seven years of service.
"As the first African American woman appointed to lead our District in its more than 180 year history, her breadth of experience as a sergeant in the U.S. Army, a teacher, assistant principal, principal, and superintendent will help take our students’ education to the next level,” said board President Olin Parker. “Dr. Williams is committed to working with our schools to increase academic achievement, expand access to mental health services for students, and engage deeply with all community members. I am certain of her commitment to ensuring that our graduation rates continue to rise and the doors of success continue to open for our scholars through college, well-paying jobs, and beyond.”
The board and Williams will now enter contract negotiations. If an agreement is reached, she will be formally appointed to the top position during a future board meeting.
“I am honored, humbled, and thrilled by this new opportunity with OPSB. I look forward to working with the community to do important work for Every Child at Every School, Every Day. I can’t wait to get started,” Williams said.
Williams currently serves as Superintendent of Selma City Schools in Alabama, where she helped increase the graduation rate by 6%, reading scores by 6% and math by 8%. Prior to that, she served as an assistant superintendent of Tuscaloosa City Schools. | 2 | 115,869 | 0 | https://www.greenwichtime.com/news/article/New-Orleans-board-choose-first-woman-to-lead-17053105.php | 2022-04-02 14:43:01+00:00 | NEW ORLEANS (AP) — New Orleans public school officials have made an historic choice in naming a woman to serve as its leader, marking the first time its done so in 181 years.
The Orleans Parish School Board on Wednesday named Dr. Avis Williams to replace Superintendent Dr. Henderson Lewis Jr., who leaves his post June 30 after nearly seven years of service.
"As the first African American woman appointed to lead our District in its more than 180 year history, her breadth of experience as a sergeant in the U.S. Army, a teacher, assistant principal, principal, and superintendent will help take our students’ education to the next level,” said board President Olin Parker. “Dr. Williams is committed to working with our schools to increase academic achievement, expand access to mental health services for students, and engage deeply with all community members. I am certain of her commitment to ensuring that our graduation rates continue to rise and the doors of success continue to open for our scholars through college, well-paying jobs, and beyond.”
The board and Williams will now enter contract negotiations. If an agreement is reached, she will be formally appointed to the top position during a future board meeting.
“I am honored, humbled, and thrilled by this new opportunity with OPSB. I look forward to working with the community to do important work for Every Child at Every School, Every Day. I can’t wait to get started,” Williams said.
Williams currently serves as Superintendent of Selma City Schools in Alabama, where she helped increase the graduation rate by 6%, reading scores by 6% and math by 8%. Prior to that, she served as an assistant superintendent of Tuscaloosa City Schools. |
https://www.bbc.com/sport/av/football/60966800 | Liverpool 2-0 Watford: Reds penalty leaves 'bitter taste' says Hornets boss Roy Hodgson
Roy Hodgson says Liverpool's late penalty leaves a "bitter taste" with the Watford boss surprised by VAR's intervention after Juraj Kucka's rugby-style challenge on Diogo Jota was missed by referee Stuart Attwell.
MATCH REPORT: Liverpool 2-0 Watford
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Roy Hodgson says Liverpool's late penalty leaves a "bitter taste" with the Watford boss surprised by VAR's intervention after Juraj Kucka's rugby-style challenge on Diogo Jota was missed by referee Stuart Attwell.
MATCH REPORT: Liverpool 2-0 Watford
Watch Premier League highlights on Match of the Day on Saturday, 2 April at 22:20 BST on BBC One, BBC iPlayer and the BBC Sport website & app. |
https://www.bbc.com/sport/av/football/60966800 | Liverpool 2-0 Watford: Reds penalty leaves 'bitter taste' says Hornets boss Roy Hodgson
Roy Hodgson says Liverpool's late penalty leaves a "bitter taste" with the Watford boss surprised by VAR's intervention after Juraj Kucka's rugby-style challenge on Diogo Jota was missed by referee Stuart Attwell.
MATCH REPORT: Liverpool 2-0 Watford
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A Fabinho penalty wrapped up a 2-0 victory for Liverpool against Watford at Anfield in the Premier League on Saturday and you can watch the goal here.
Diogo Jota had given Liverpool a first-half lead with a good header from a brilliant Joe Gomez cross but the Reds had to work hard for the three points.
Brazilian Fabinho wrapped up the victory will a well taken penalty kick after Kucka had wrestled Jota to the floor in the box.
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https://www.bbc.com/sport/av/football/60966800 | Liverpool 2-0 Watford: Reds penalty leaves 'bitter taste' says Hornets boss Roy Hodgson
Roy Hodgson says Liverpool's late penalty leaves a "bitter taste" with the Watford boss surprised by VAR's intervention after Juraj Kucka's rugby-style challenge on Diogo Jota was missed by referee Stuart Attwell.
MATCH REPORT: Liverpool 2-0 Watford
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The Reds knew that victory would see them leapfrog City, which reclaimed top spot after beating Burnley 2-0, for the first time since 28 November.
Diogo Jota headed in from a Joe Gomez cross after 22 minutes to open the scoring and substitute Fabinho sealed a battling win with a penalty in the final minute.
Liverpool has now won 10 league games in a row ahead of next weekend's huge showdown with City.
Watford more than held their own in the early stages of the game and would have been in front if not for a good stop from Alisson to deny Juraj Kucka.
That proved a huge save as, a little over 30 seconds later, right-back Gomez – filling in for Trent Alexander-Arnold – whipped in a cross for Jota to turn in from four yards.
Jota nearly made it 15 league goals for the season shortly after, only to be denied by Ben Foster when he had Jordan Henderson screaming out for the pass alongside him.
Watford, in action for the first time in three weeks, continued to cause Liverpool problems as Joao Pedro fired wide in plenty of space once played in by Ismaila Sarr.
Jota saw a couple of headed chances come and go but Fabinho made certain of the win when thumping in a late penalty, awarded for Kucka dragging down Jota in the box. |
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/article-10679337/Skepticism-meets-migrant-smuggler-crackdown-Guatemala.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | Skepticism meets migrant smuggler crackdown in Guatemala
GUATEMALA CITY (AP) - Eager to show it´s trying to slow the steady flow of its people north to the United States, Guatemala recently tripled prison sentences for migrant smugglers.
The day after Guatemala's legislature approved the measure in February, 18-year-old Yashira Hernández left her home near the Mexican border for the trip north - hiring a smuggler to help.
A month later, Hernández was back, deported from the U.S., fretting over her family´s debt and contemplating a second attempt - again with her smuggler.
While the legal reform is supposed to dissuade smugglers and cast the government as a willing partner of the U.S. in managing migration, experts and lawmakers say it will only make the trip more expensive. The poverty, violence and other factors pushing Guatemalans to migrate remain strong and the smuggling networks continue to ply their trade - sometimes with the help of public officials.
Possible prison sentences hold little importance if those responsible rarely make it to trial.
Guatemala's government says it is preparing for further increased migration due to a decision announced Friday by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control to end a system limiting asylum at the southwest border on May 23. That policy had been based on reducing the spread of COVID-19 during the pandemic.
FILE - Juan Miranda, who is allegedly part of a human trafficking network, returns to his place after questioning in the courts of justice in Guatemala City, Friday, Feb. 4, 2022. Eager to show it's trying to slow the steady flow of its people north to the United States, Guatemala recently tripled prison sentences for migrant smugglers. (AP Photo/Oliver de Ros, File)
Officials throughout the region expect migrant smugglers to seize on the policy change to drum up more business with misinformation about the sort of reception migrants will meet.
Guatemala´s immigration agency said it was forming a multidisciplinary group to respond to changes in migration flows, including securing the country´s borders.
In 2020, more than 21,000 Guatemalans were deported home from the U.S., but prosecutors only charged 12 people in connection with migrant smuggling, according to data from the Attorney General´s Office, said lawmaker Andrea Villagran. Only four of the 12 were convicted.
"You have to see the lack of capacity the Attorney General´s Office has to bring these criminal structures to justice," said Villagran who voted against the reform. "The law change is only a show. What this law did was increase the price of smuggling. If the problem isn´t really resolved, the people are going to continue wanting to migrate."
Villagran also said there´s little motivation for the government to slow migration.
"The interest is in continuing to export Guatemalans so they can continue sending remittances and continue sustaining this country´s economy," she said. Last year, despite the global pandemic, Guatemalans sent home $15 billion.
Hernández said she decided to leave last month to escape poverty. Her family scraped together thousands of dollars to hire a smuggler, but in a month´s time she was back where she started, now with a massive debt that is virtually unpayable if she stays in Guatemala.
She was unaware that the penalties for migrant smuggling had risen to 30 years from 10, now on par with sentences for kidnapping and murder.
"Here there´s no work and a lot of violence," Hernández said.
The tougher sentences were proposed by the office of President Alejandro Giammattei. His relationship with Washington has been tense, in part because the U.S. government has listed corruption as one of the root causes of immigration in Central America and has accused his administration of undermining Guatemala´s justice system while inventing charges to prosecute anticorruption crusaders.
Ursula Roldán, a migration expert at the Rafael Landivar University, said that while poverty and corruption remain rampant, emigration will continue.
She notes that deportations from the U.S. have fallen even as Guatemalan emigration continues. "It´s not that people aren´t trying to leave Guatemala. It´s that the containment is in Mexico, at the southern and northern borders," she said. "That´s where the problem is building."
Guatemalans have featured prominently in recent high-profile - and deadly - smuggling cases in Mexico.
In January 2021, the incinerated bodies of 19 people, including 16 Guatemalan migrants, were found in northern Mexico near the Texas border. Prosecutors said they were shot by a Tamaulipas state police unit and then burned.
In December, 55 migrants were killed and more than 100 injured when a semitrailer carrying them crashed in southern Mexico. Again the majority were from Guatemala.
This year, Guatemalan authorities, under pressure to show they´re taking smuggling seriously, arrested 10 people allegedly involved in smuggling the migrants killed last year near the Texas border.
"People keep migrating because the structural causes of migration are still there, they haven´t changed," Roldán said.
Stuardo Campos, the prosecutor charged with applying the new law, sees the increased sentences as a positive development and says smuggler arrests are up, but concedes that the factors driving migration are strong and says he lacks the resources to effectively tackle the problem.
Campos noted that the new law requires prosecutors to show proof that moving, housing and helping migrants was done for an economic benefit. That's a tall order when migrants almost never agree to testify against their smugglers.
Many smugglers offer a second or third try if the first fails, and migrants have almost no hope of paying off the original debt without reaching the United States. So there´s a large disincentive to helping prosecute their smuggler.
Campos laments that lack of cooperation. He has 340 open investigations into migrant smuggling involving 10 smuggling rings operating across Guatemala.
In the case of those killed in northern Mexico, Campos said the leader of the smuggling ring was a former mayor who is now a fugitive.
"There are criminal networks within the government that facilitate the entrance and exit and even (false) documents for migrants," said Villagran, the federal lawmaker.
"The whole system is so coopted that any popularly elected public official could be tied to these networks," she said. "Ultimately, they need political favors to survive and those favors translate to financing" of electoral campaigns.
In the first three months of this year, 7,552 Guatemalans were deported from the United States. Among them were Hernández and 20-year-old Emileth Tobar.
Tobar left Guatemala on Feb. 1, the same day Congress voted to increase the sentences for migrant smugglers. Her mother had died, and as the eldest child it was her responsibility to provide for her siblings.
Like Hernández, she was detained shortly after crossing the U.S. border and within a week was flown back to Guatemala. It was her third attempt.
"When they deported us the plane was full of young people; they told us the oldest was 26," she said. "Now we have to figure out what to do."
FILE - People lower the remains of Elfego Miranda Diaz into a grave, one of the Guatemalan migrants who was killed near the U.S.-Mexico border in January, at a cemetery in Comitancillo, Guatemala, Saturday, March 13, 2021. In January 2021, the incinerated bodies of 19 people, including 16 Guatemalan migrants, were found in northern Mexico near the Texas border. Prosecutors said they were shot by a Tamaulipas state police unit and then burned. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo, File) | 0 | 9,241 | 0.163184 | https://www.devdiscourse.com/article/law-order/1988212-skepticism-meets-migrant-smuggler-crackdown-in-guatemala | 2022-04-02 18:28:53+00:00 | Skepticism meets migrant smuggler crackdown in Guatemala
Eager to show it's trying to slow the steady flow of its people north to the United States, Guatemala recently tripled prison sentences for migrant smugglers.
The day after Guatemala's legislature approved the measure in February, 18-year-old Yashira Hernández left her home near the Mexican border for the trip north — hiring a smuggler to help.
A month later, Hernández was back, deported from the U.S., fretting over her family's debt and contemplating a second attempt — again with her smuggler.
While the legal reform is supposed to dissuade smugglers and cast the government as a willing partner of the U.S. in managing migration, experts and lawmakers say it will only make the trip more expensive. The poverty, violence and other factors pushing Guatemalans to migrate remain strong and the smuggling networks continue to ply their trade — sometimes with the help of public officials.
Possible prison sentences hold little importance if those responsible rarely make it to trial.
Guatemala's government says it is preparing for further increased migration due to a decision announced Friday by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control to end a system limiting asylum at the southwest border on May 23. That policy had been based on reducing the spread of COVID-19 during the pandemic.
Officials throughout the region expect migrant smugglers to seize on the policy change to drum up more business with misinformation about the sort of reception migrants will meet.
Guatemala's immigration agency said it was forming a multidisciplinary group to respond to changes in migration flows, including securing the country's borders.
In 2020, more than 21,000 Guatemalans were deported home from the U.S., but prosecutors only charged 12 people in connection with migrant smuggling, according to data from the Attorney General's Office, said lawmaker Andrea Villagran. Only four of the 12 were convicted.
“You have to see the lack of capacity the Attorney General's Office has to bring these criminal structures to justice,” said Villagran who voted against the reform. “The law change is only a show. What this law did was increase the price of smuggling. If the problem isn't really resolved, the people are going to continue wanting to migrate.” Villagran also said there's little motivation for the government to slow migration.
“The interest is in continuing to export Guatemalans so they can continue sending remittances and continue sustaining this country's economy,” she said. Last year, despite the global pandemic, Guatemalans sent home $15 billion.
Hernández said she decided to leave last month to escape poverty. Her family scraped together thousands of dollars to hire a smuggler, but in a month's time she was back where she started, now with a massive debt that is virtually unpayable if she stays in Guatemala.
She was unaware that the penalties for migrant smuggling had risen to 30 years from 10, now on par with sentences for kidnapping and murder.
“Here there's no work and a lot of violence,” Hernández said.
The tougher sentences were proposed by the office of President Alejandro Giammattei. His relationship with Washington has been tense, in part because the U.S. government has listed corruption as one of the root causes of immigration in Central America and has accused his administration of undermining Guatemala's justice system while inventing charges to prosecute anticorruption crusaders.
Ursula Roldán, a migration expert at the Rafael Landivar University, said that while poverty and corruption remain rampant, emigration will continue.
She notes that deportations from the U.S. have fallen even as Guatemalan emigration continues. “It's not that people aren't trying to leave Guatemala. It's that the containment is in Mexico, at the southern and northern borders,” she said. “That's where the problem is building.” Guatemalans have featured prominently in recent high-profile — and deadly — smuggling cases in Mexico.
In January 2021, the incinerated bodies of 19 people, including 16 Guatemalan migrants, were found in northern Mexico near the Texas border. Prosecutors said they were shot by a Tamaulipas state police unit and then burned.
In December, 55 migrants were killed and more than 100 injured when a semitrailer carrying them crashed in southern Mexico. Again the majority were from Guatemala.
This year, Guatemalan authorities, under pressure to show they're taking smuggling seriously, arrested 10 people allegedly involved in smuggling the migrants killed last year near the Texas border.
“People keep migrating because the structural causes of migration are still there, they haven't changed,” Roldán said.
Stuardo Campos, the prosecutor charged with applying the new law, sees the increased sentences as a positive development and says smuggler arrests are up, but concedes that the factors driving migration are strong and says he lacks the resources to effectively tackle the problem.
Campos noted that the new law requires prosecutors to show proof that moving, housing and helping migrants was done for an economic benefit. That's a tall order when migrants almost never agree to testify against their smugglers.
Many smugglers offer a second or third try if the first fails, and migrants have almost no hope of paying off the original debt without reaching the United States. So there's a large disincentive to helping prosecute their smuggler.
Campos laments that lack of cooperation. He has 340 open investigations into migrant smuggling involving 10 smuggling rings operating across Guatemala.
In the case of those killed in northern Mexico, Campos said the leader of the smuggling ring was a former mayor who is now a fugitive.
“There are criminal networks within the government that facilitate the entrance and exit and even (false) documents for migrants,” said Villagran, the federal lawmaker.
“The whole system is so coopted that any popularly elected public official could be tied to these networks,” she said. “Ultimately, they need political favors to survive and those favors translate to financing'' of electoral campaigns.
In the first three months of this year, 7,552 Guatemalans were deported from the United States. Among them were Hernández and 20-year-old Emileth Tobar.
Tobar left Guatemala on Feb. 1, the same day Congress voted to increase the sentences for migrant smugglers. Her mother had died, and as the eldest child it was her responsibility to provide for her siblings.
Like Hernández, she was detained shortly after crossing the U.S. border and within a week was flown back to Guatemala. It was her third attempt.
“When they deported us the plane was full of young people; they told us the oldest was 26,” she said. “Now we have to figure out what to do.”
(This story has not been edited by Devdiscourse staff and is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.) |
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/article-10679337/Skepticism-meets-migrant-smuggler-crackdown-Guatemala.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | Skepticism meets migrant smuggler crackdown in Guatemala
GUATEMALA CITY (AP) - Eager to show it´s trying to slow the steady flow of its people north to the United States, Guatemala recently tripled prison sentences for migrant smugglers.
The day after Guatemala's legislature approved the measure in February, 18-year-old Yashira Hernández left her home near the Mexican border for the trip north - hiring a smuggler to help.
A month later, Hernández was back, deported from the U.S., fretting over her family´s debt and contemplating a second attempt - again with her smuggler.
While the legal reform is supposed to dissuade smugglers and cast the government as a willing partner of the U.S. in managing migration, experts and lawmakers say it will only make the trip more expensive. The poverty, violence and other factors pushing Guatemalans to migrate remain strong and the smuggling networks continue to ply their trade - sometimes with the help of public officials.
Possible prison sentences hold little importance if those responsible rarely make it to trial.
Guatemala's government says it is preparing for further increased migration due to a decision announced Friday by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control to end a system limiting asylum at the southwest border on May 23. That policy had been based on reducing the spread of COVID-19 during the pandemic.
FILE - Juan Miranda, who is allegedly part of a human trafficking network, returns to his place after questioning in the courts of justice in Guatemala City, Friday, Feb. 4, 2022. Eager to show it's trying to slow the steady flow of its people north to the United States, Guatemala recently tripled prison sentences for migrant smugglers. (AP Photo/Oliver de Ros, File)
Officials throughout the region expect migrant smugglers to seize on the policy change to drum up more business with misinformation about the sort of reception migrants will meet.
Guatemala´s immigration agency said it was forming a multidisciplinary group to respond to changes in migration flows, including securing the country´s borders.
In 2020, more than 21,000 Guatemalans were deported home from the U.S., but prosecutors only charged 12 people in connection with migrant smuggling, according to data from the Attorney General´s Office, said lawmaker Andrea Villagran. Only four of the 12 were convicted.
"You have to see the lack of capacity the Attorney General´s Office has to bring these criminal structures to justice," said Villagran who voted against the reform. "The law change is only a show. What this law did was increase the price of smuggling. If the problem isn´t really resolved, the people are going to continue wanting to migrate."
Villagran also said there´s little motivation for the government to slow migration.
"The interest is in continuing to export Guatemalans so they can continue sending remittances and continue sustaining this country´s economy," she said. Last year, despite the global pandemic, Guatemalans sent home $15 billion.
Hernández said she decided to leave last month to escape poverty. Her family scraped together thousands of dollars to hire a smuggler, but in a month´s time she was back where she started, now with a massive debt that is virtually unpayable if she stays in Guatemala.
She was unaware that the penalties for migrant smuggling had risen to 30 years from 10, now on par with sentences for kidnapping and murder.
"Here there´s no work and a lot of violence," Hernández said.
The tougher sentences were proposed by the office of President Alejandro Giammattei. His relationship with Washington has been tense, in part because the U.S. government has listed corruption as one of the root causes of immigration in Central America and has accused his administration of undermining Guatemala´s justice system while inventing charges to prosecute anticorruption crusaders.
Ursula Roldán, a migration expert at the Rafael Landivar University, said that while poverty and corruption remain rampant, emigration will continue.
She notes that deportations from the U.S. have fallen even as Guatemalan emigration continues. "It´s not that people aren´t trying to leave Guatemala. It´s that the containment is in Mexico, at the southern and northern borders," she said. "That´s where the problem is building."
Guatemalans have featured prominently in recent high-profile - and deadly - smuggling cases in Mexico.
In January 2021, the incinerated bodies of 19 people, including 16 Guatemalan migrants, were found in northern Mexico near the Texas border. Prosecutors said they were shot by a Tamaulipas state police unit and then burned.
In December, 55 migrants were killed and more than 100 injured when a semitrailer carrying them crashed in southern Mexico. Again the majority were from Guatemala.
This year, Guatemalan authorities, under pressure to show they´re taking smuggling seriously, arrested 10 people allegedly involved in smuggling the migrants killed last year near the Texas border.
"People keep migrating because the structural causes of migration are still there, they haven´t changed," Roldán said.
Stuardo Campos, the prosecutor charged with applying the new law, sees the increased sentences as a positive development and says smuggler arrests are up, but concedes that the factors driving migration are strong and says he lacks the resources to effectively tackle the problem.
Campos noted that the new law requires prosecutors to show proof that moving, housing and helping migrants was done for an economic benefit. That's a tall order when migrants almost never agree to testify against their smugglers.
Many smugglers offer a second or third try if the first fails, and migrants have almost no hope of paying off the original debt without reaching the United States. So there´s a large disincentive to helping prosecute their smuggler.
Campos laments that lack of cooperation. He has 340 open investigations into migrant smuggling involving 10 smuggling rings operating across Guatemala.
In the case of those killed in northern Mexico, Campos said the leader of the smuggling ring was a former mayor who is now a fugitive.
"There are criminal networks within the government that facilitate the entrance and exit and even (false) documents for migrants," said Villagran, the federal lawmaker.
"The whole system is so coopted that any popularly elected public official could be tied to these networks," she said. "Ultimately, they need political favors to survive and those favors translate to financing" of electoral campaigns.
In the first three months of this year, 7,552 Guatemalans were deported from the United States. Among them were Hernández and 20-year-old Emileth Tobar.
Tobar left Guatemala on Feb. 1, the same day Congress voted to increase the sentences for migrant smugglers. Her mother had died, and as the eldest child it was her responsibility to provide for her siblings.
Like Hernández, she was detained shortly after crossing the U.S. border and within a week was flown back to Guatemala. It was her third attempt.
"When they deported us the plane was full of young people; they told us the oldest was 26," she said. "Now we have to figure out what to do."
FILE - People lower the remains of Elfego Miranda Diaz into a grave, one of the Guatemalan migrants who was killed near the U.S.-Mexico border in January, at a cemetery in Comitancillo, Guatemala, Saturday, March 13, 2021. In January 2021, the incinerated bodies of 19 people, including 16 Guatemalan migrants, were found in northern Mexico near the Texas border. Prosecutors said they were shot by a Tamaulipas state police unit and then burned. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo, File) | 1 | 138,926 | 0.163374 | https://www.mymotherlode.com/news/latin/2453409/skepticism-meets-migrant-smuggler-crackdown-in-guatemala.html | 2022-04-02 17:25:08+00:00 | Skepticism meets migrant smuggler crackdown in Guatemala
GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Eager to show it’s trying to slow the steady flow of its people north to the United States, Guatemala recently tripled prison sentences for migrant smugglers.
The day after Guatemala’s legislature approved the measure in February, 18-year-old Yashira Hernández left her home near the Mexican border for the trip north — hiring a smuggler to help.
A month later, Hernández was back, deported from the U.S., fretting over her family’s debt and contemplating a second attempt — again with her smuggler.
While the legal reform is supposed to dissuade smugglers and cast the government as a willing partner of the U.S. in managing migration, experts and lawmakers say it will only make the trip more expensive. The poverty, violence and other factors pushing Guatemalans to migrate remain strong and the smuggling networks continue to ply their trade — sometimes with the help of public officials.
Possible prison sentences hold little importance if those responsible rarely make it to trial.
Guatemala’s government says it is preparing for further increased migration due to a decision announced Friday by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control to end a system limiting asylum at the southwest border on May 23. That policy had been based on reducing the spread of COVID-19 during the pandemic.
Officials throughout the region expect migrant smugglers to seize on the policy change to drum up more business with misinformation about the sort of reception migrants will meet.
Guatemala’s immigration agency said it was forming a multidisciplinary group to respond to changes in migration flows, including securing the country’s borders.
In 2020, more than 21,000 Guatemalans were deported home from the U.S., but prosecutors only charged 12 people in connection with migrant smuggling, according to data from the Attorney General’s Office, said lawmaker Andrea Villagran. Only four of the 12 were convicted.
“You have to see the lack of capacity the Attorney General’s Office has to bring these criminal structures to justice,” said Villagran who voted against the reform. “The law change is only a show. What this law did was increase the price of smuggling. If the problem isn’t really resolved, the people are going to continue wanting to migrate.”
Villagran also said there’s little motivation for the government to slow migration.
“The interest is in continuing to export Guatemalans so they can continue sending remittances and continue sustaining this country’s economy,” she said. Last year, despite the global pandemic, Guatemalans sent home $15 billion.
Hernández said she decided to leave last month to escape poverty. Her family scraped together thousands of dollars to hire a smuggler, but in a month’s time she was back where she started, now with a massive debt that is virtually unpayable if she stays in Guatemala.
She was unaware that the penalties for migrant smuggling had risen to 30 years from 10, now on par with sentences for kidnapping and murder.
“Here there’s no work and a lot of violence,” Hernández said.
The tougher sentences were proposed by the office of President Alejandro Giammattei. His relationship with Washington has been tense, in part because the U.S. government has listed corruption as one of the root causes of immigration in Central America and has accused his administration of undermining Guatemala’s justice system while inventing charges to prosecute anticorruption crusaders.
Ursula Roldán, a migration expert at the Rafael Landivar University, said that while poverty and corruption remain rampant, emigration will continue.
She notes that deportations from the U.S. have fallen even as Guatemalan emigration continues. “It’s not that people aren’t trying to leave Guatemala. It’s that the containment is in Mexico, at the southern and northern borders,” she said. “That’s where the problem is building.”
Guatemalans have featured prominently in recent high-profile — and deadly — smuggling cases in Mexico.
In January 2021, the incinerated bodies of 19 people, including 16 Guatemalan migrants, were found in northern Mexico near the Texas border. Prosecutors said they were shot by a Tamaulipas state police unit and then burned.
In December, 55 migrants were killed and more than 100 injured when a semitrailer carrying them crashed in southern Mexico. Again the majority were from Guatemala.
This year, Guatemalan authorities, under pressure to show they’re taking smuggling seriously, arrested 10 people allegedly involved in smuggling the migrants killed last year near the Texas border.
“People keep migrating because the structural causes of migration are still there, they haven’t changed,” Roldán said.
Stuardo Campos, the prosecutor charged with applying the new law, sees the increased sentences as a positive development and says smuggler arrests are up, but concedes that the factors driving migration are strong and says he lacks the resources to effectively tackle the problem.
Campos noted that the new law requires prosecutors to show proof that moving, housing and helping migrants was done for an economic benefit. That’s a tall order when migrants almost never agree to testify against their smugglers.
Many smugglers offer a second or third try if the first fails, and migrants have almost no hope of paying off the original debt without reaching the United States. So there’s a large disincentive to helping prosecute their smuggler.
Campos laments that lack of cooperation. He has 340 open investigations into migrant smuggling involving 10 smuggling rings operating across Guatemala.
In the case of those killed in northern Mexico, Campos said the leader of the smuggling ring was a former mayor who is now a fugitive.
“There are criminal networks within the government that facilitate the entrance and exit and even (false) documents for migrants,” said Villagran, the federal lawmaker.
“The whole system is so coopted that any popularly elected public official could be tied to these networks,” she said. “Ultimately, they need political favors to survive and those favors translate to financing” of electoral campaigns.
In the first three months of this year, 7,552 Guatemalans were deported from the United States. Among them were Hernández and 20-year-old Emileth Tobar.
Tobar left Guatemala on Feb. 1, the same day Congress voted to increase the sentences for migrant smugglers. Her mother had died, and as the eldest child it was her responsibility to provide for her siblings.
Like Hernández, she was detained shortly after crossing the U.S. border and within a week was flown back to Guatemala. It was her third attempt.
“When they deported us the plane was full of young people; they told us the oldest was 26,” she said. “Now we have to figure out what to do.”
By SONIA PÉREZ D.
Associated Press |
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/article-10679337/Skepticism-meets-migrant-smuggler-crackdown-Guatemala.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | Skepticism meets migrant smuggler crackdown in Guatemala
GUATEMALA CITY (AP) - Eager to show it´s trying to slow the steady flow of its people north to the United States, Guatemala recently tripled prison sentences for migrant smugglers.
The day after Guatemala's legislature approved the measure in February, 18-year-old Yashira Hernández left her home near the Mexican border for the trip north - hiring a smuggler to help.
A month later, Hernández was back, deported from the U.S., fretting over her family´s debt and contemplating a second attempt - again with her smuggler.
While the legal reform is supposed to dissuade smugglers and cast the government as a willing partner of the U.S. in managing migration, experts and lawmakers say it will only make the trip more expensive. The poverty, violence and other factors pushing Guatemalans to migrate remain strong and the smuggling networks continue to ply their trade - sometimes with the help of public officials.
Possible prison sentences hold little importance if those responsible rarely make it to trial.
Guatemala's government says it is preparing for further increased migration due to a decision announced Friday by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control to end a system limiting asylum at the southwest border on May 23. That policy had been based on reducing the spread of COVID-19 during the pandemic.
FILE - Juan Miranda, who is allegedly part of a human trafficking network, returns to his place after questioning in the courts of justice in Guatemala City, Friday, Feb. 4, 2022. Eager to show it's trying to slow the steady flow of its people north to the United States, Guatemala recently tripled prison sentences for migrant smugglers. (AP Photo/Oliver de Ros, File)
Officials throughout the region expect migrant smugglers to seize on the policy change to drum up more business with misinformation about the sort of reception migrants will meet.
Guatemala´s immigration agency said it was forming a multidisciplinary group to respond to changes in migration flows, including securing the country´s borders.
In 2020, more than 21,000 Guatemalans were deported home from the U.S., but prosecutors only charged 12 people in connection with migrant smuggling, according to data from the Attorney General´s Office, said lawmaker Andrea Villagran. Only four of the 12 were convicted.
"You have to see the lack of capacity the Attorney General´s Office has to bring these criminal structures to justice," said Villagran who voted against the reform. "The law change is only a show. What this law did was increase the price of smuggling. If the problem isn´t really resolved, the people are going to continue wanting to migrate."
Villagran also said there´s little motivation for the government to slow migration.
"The interest is in continuing to export Guatemalans so they can continue sending remittances and continue sustaining this country´s economy," she said. Last year, despite the global pandemic, Guatemalans sent home $15 billion.
Hernández said she decided to leave last month to escape poverty. Her family scraped together thousands of dollars to hire a smuggler, but in a month´s time she was back where she started, now with a massive debt that is virtually unpayable if she stays in Guatemala.
She was unaware that the penalties for migrant smuggling had risen to 30 years from 10, now on par with sentences for kidnapping and murder.
"Here there´s no work and a lot of violence," Hernández said.
The tougher sentences were proposed by the office of President Alejandro Giammattei. His relationship with Washington has been tense, in part because the U.S. government has listed corruption as one of the root causes of immigration in Central America and has accused his administration of undermining Guatemala´s justice system while inventing charges to prosecute anticorruption crusaders.
Ursula Roldán, a migration expert at the Rafael Landivar University, said that while poverty and corruption remain rampant, emigration will continue.
She notes that deportations from the U.S. have fallen even as Guatemalan emigration continues. "It´s not that people aren´t trying to leave Guatemala. It´s that the containment is in Mexico, at the southern and northern borders," she said. "That´s where the problem is building."
Guatemalans have featured prominently in recent high-profile - and deadly - smuggling cases in Mexico.
In January 2021, the incinerated bodies of 19 people, including 16 Guatemalan migrants, were found in northern Mexico near the Texas border. Prosecutors said they were shot by a Tamaulipas state police unit and then burned.
In December, 55 migrants were killed and more than 100 injured when a semitrailer carrying them crashed in southern Mexico. Again the majority were from Guatemala.
This year, Guatemalan authorities, under pressure to show they´re taking smuggling seriously, arrested 10 people allegedly involved in smuggling the migrants killed last year near the Texas border.
"People keep migrating because the structural causes of migration are still there, they haven´t changed," Roldán said.
Stuardo Campos, the prosecutor charged with applying the new law, sees the increased sentences as a positive development and says smuggler arrests are up, but concedes that the factors driving migration are strong and says he lacks the resources to effectively tackle the problem.
Campos noted that the new law requires prosecutors to show proof that moving, housing and helping migrants was done for an economic benefit. That's a tall order when migrants almost never agree to testify against their smugglers.
Many smugglers offer a second or third try if the first fails, and migrants have almost no hope of paying off the original debt without reaching the United States. So there´s a large disincentive to helping prosecute their smuggler.
Campos laments that lack of cooperation. He has 340 open investigations into migrant smuggling involving 10 smuggling rings operating across Guatemala.
In the case of those killed in northern Mexico, Campos said the leader of the smuggling ring was a former mayor who is now a fugitive.
"There are criminal networks within the government that facilitate the entrance and exit and even (false) documents for migrants," said Villagran, the federal lawmaker.
"The whole system is so coopted that any popularly elected public official could be tied to these networks," she said. "Ultimately, they need political favors to survive and those favors translate to financing" of electoral campaigns.
In the first three months of this year, 7,552 Guatemalans were deported from the United States. Among them were Hernández and 20-year-old Emileth Tobar.
Tobar left Guatemala on Feb. 1, the same day Congress voted to increase the sentences for migrant smugglers. Her mother had died, and as the eldest child it was her responsibility to provide for her siblings.
Like Hernández, she was detained shortly after crossing the U.S. border and within a week was flown back to Guatemala. It was her third attempt.
"When they deported us the plane was full of young people; they told us the oldest was 26," she said. "Now we have to figure out what to do."
FILE - People lower the remains of Elfego Miranda Diaz into a grave, one of the Guatemalan migrants who was killed near the U.S.-Mexico border in January, at a cemetery in Comitancillo, Guatemala, Saturday, March 13, 2021. In January 2021, the incinerated bodies of 19 people, including 16 Guatemalan migrants, were found in northern Mexico near the Texas border. Prosecutors said they were shot by a Tamaulipas state police unit and then burned. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo, File) | 2 | 16,803 | 0.178502 | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2022-04-02/skepticism-meets-migrant-smuggler-crackdown-in-guatemala | 2022-04-02 19:14:57+00:00 | Skepticism meets migrant smuggler crackdown in Guatemala
Eager to show it’s trying to slow the steady flow of its people north to the United States, Guatemala recently tripled prison sentences for migrant smugglers.
The day after Guatemala’s legislature approved the measure in February, 18-year-old Yashira Hernández left her home near the Mexican border for the trip north — hiring a smuggler to help.
A month later, Hernández was back, deported from the U.S., fretting over her family’s debt and contemplating a second attempt — again with her smuggler.
While the legal reform is supposed to dissuade smugglers and cast the government as a willing partner of the U.S. in managing migration, experts and lawmakers say it will make the trip only more expensive. The poverty, violence and other factors pushing Guatemalans to migrate remain strong and the smuggling networks continue to ply their trade — sometimes with the help of public officials.
Possible prison sentences hold little importance if those responsible rarely make it to trial.
Guatemala’s government says it is preparing for further increased migration due to a decision announced Friday by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to end a system limiting asylum at the southwest border May 23. That policy had been based on reducing the spread of COVID-19 during the pandemic.
Officials throughout the region expect migrant smugglers to seize on the policy change to drum up more business with misinformation about the sort of reception migrants will meet.
Guatemala’s immigration agency said it was forming a multidisciplinary group to respond to changes in migration flows, including securing the country’s borders.
In 2020, more than 21,000 Guatemalans were deported home from the U.S., but prosecutors charged only 12 people in connection with migrant smuggling, according to data from the Attorney General’s Office, said lawmaker Andrea Villagran. Only four of the 12 were convicted.
“You have to see the lack of capacity the Attorney General’s Office has to bring these criminal structures to justice,” said Villagran, who voted against the reform. “The law change is only a show. What this law did was increase the price of smuggling. If the problem isn’t really resolved, the people are going to continue wanting to migrate.”
Villagran also said there’s little motivation for the government to slow migration.
“The interest is in continuing to export Guatemalans so they can continue sending remittances and continue sustaining this country’s economy,” she said. Last year, despite the global pandemic, Guatemalans sent home $15 billion.
Hernández said she decided to leave last month to escape poverty. Her family scraped together thousands of dollars to hire a smuggler, but in a month’s time she was back where she started, now with a massive debt that is virtually unpayable if she stays in Guatemala.
She was unaware that the penalties for migrant smuggling had risen to 30 years from 10, now on par with sentences for kidnapping and murder.
“Here there’s no work and a lot of violence,” Hernández said.
The tougher sentences were proposed by the office of President Alejandro Giammattei. His relationship with Washington has been tense, in part because the U.S. government has listed corruption as one of the root causes of immigration in Central America and has accused his administration of undermining Guatemala’s justice system while inventing charges to prosecute anticorruption crusaders.
Ursula Roldán, a migration expert at Rafael Landivar University, said that while poverty and corruption remain rampant, emigration will continue.
She notes that deportations from the U.S. have fallen even as Guatemalan emigration continues. “It’s not that people aren’t trying to leave Guatemala. It’s that the containment is in Mexico, at the southern and northern borders,” she said. “That’s where the problem is building.”
Guatemalans have featured prominently in recent high-profile — and deadly — smuggling cases in Mexico.
In January 2021, the incinerated bodies of 19 people, including 16 Guatemalan migrants, were found in northern Mexico near the Texas border. Prosecutors said they were shot by a Tamaulipas state police unit and then burned.
In December, 55 migrants were killed and more than 100 injured when a semitrailer carrying them crashed in southern Mexico. Again the majority were from Guatemala.
This year, Guatemalan authorities, under pressure to show they’re taking smuggling seriously, arrested 10 people allegedly involved in smuggling the migrants killed last year near the Texas border.
“People keep migrating because the structural causes of migration are still there, they haven’t changed,” Roldán said.
Stuardo Campos, the prosecutor tasked with applying the new law, sees the increased sentences as a positive development and says smuggler arrests are up, but concedes that the factors driving migration are strong and says he lacks the resources to effectively tackle the problem.
Campos noted that the new law requires prosecutors to show proof that moving, housing and helping migrants was done for an economic benefit. That’s a tall order when migrants almost never agree to testify against their smugglers.
Many smugglers offer a second or third try if the first fails, and migrants have almost no hope of paying off the original debt without reaching the United States. So there’s a large disincentive to helping prosecute their smuggler.
Campos laments that lack of cooperation. He has 340 open investigations into migrant smuggling involving 10 smuggling rings operating across Guatemala.
In the case of those killed in northern Mexico, Campos said the leader of the smuggling ring was a former mayor who is now a fugitive.
“There are criminal networks within the government that facilitate the entrance and exit and even [false] documents for migrants,” said Villagran, the federal lawmaker.
“The whole system is so coopted that any popularly elected public official could be tied to these networks,” she said. “Ultimately, they need political favors to survive and those favors translate to financing” of electoral campaigns.
In the first three months of this year, 7,552 Guatemalans were deported from the United States. Among them were Hernández and 20-year-old Emileth Tobar.
Tobar left Guatemala on Feb. 1, the same day Congress voted to increase the sentences for migrant smugglers. Her mother had died, and as the eldest child it was her responsibility to provide for her siblings.
Like Hernández, she was detained shortly after crossing the U.S. border and within a week was flown back to Guatemala. It was her third attempt.
“When they deported us the plane was full of young people; they told us the oldest was 26,” she said. “Now we have to figure out what to do.”
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The North Sea can help provide the UK with “secure, safe energy” for the next 50 years while also helping meet climate change targets, the head of a key industry body has insisted.
Deidre Michie, chief executive of Offshore Energies UK (OEUK), spoke out as she made a plea to ministers ahead of the publication of the UK Government’s upcoming energy security strategy.
Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine means energy security is now also a national security issue, she said.
Ms Michie, whose organisation represents 400 offshore energy companies including in the oil, gas and offshore wind sectors, called for a “national consensus” to be built around energy issues.
She stated: “Our industry has provided the UK with secure, safe energy for the last five decades and we can do the same for another five decades – while also helping the nation reach carbon neutrality by 2050.
“This will only happen with careful planning, preparation and investment. Energy infrastructure projects take years or even decades, and our industry is used to thinking on those timescales.
“We believe that, where energy is concerned, policymakers of all parties and countries must start doing the same.”
OEUK wants government regulators to prioritise decisions on new oil and gas fields, but also says the UK should work with other European nations to co-operate on energy supplies.
To help achieve the UK’s goal of reaching net zero by 2050, Ms Michie said legislation should be introduced to expand the production of hydrogen and also to increase carbon capture facilities.
Work is also needed to electrify both the North Sea and the Irish Sea, OEUK said, calling for grids of undersea electrical cables to be installed to take power from offshore wind farms to towns and cities across the UK.
We need our policymakers and politicians to think long-term, act short-term and, above all, work together for the whole UK
Ms Michie said: “Our short-term energy security and our longer-term need for secure, net zero energy will only happen if our policymakers can collectively create the right environment for long-term investment across all forms of energy production.
“To achieve that we need stable, long-term regulatory policies, clear and predictable fiscal policies, that are supported by political alignment across all the countries and parties of the UK.
“We need our policymakers and politicians to think long-term, act short-term and, above all, work together for the whole UK.”
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The North Sea can help provide the UK with “secure, safe energy” for the next 50 years while also helping meet climate change targets, the head of a key industry body has insisted.
Deidre Michie, chief executive of Offshore Energies UK (OEUK), spoke out as she made a plea to ministers ahead of the publication of the UK Government’s upcoming energy security strategy.
Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine means energy security is now also a national security issue, she said.
Ms Michie, whose organisation represents 400 offshore energy companies including in the oil, gas and offshore wind sectors, called for a “national consensus” to be built around energy issues.
She stated: “Our industry has provided the UK with secure, safe energy for the last five decades and we can do the same for another five decades – while also helping the nation reach carbon neutrality by 2050.
“This will only happen with careful planning, preparation and investment. Energy infrastructure projects take years or even decades, and our industry is used to thinking on those timescales.
“We believe that, where energy is concerned, policymakers of all parties and countries must start doing the same.”
OEUK wants government regulators to prioritise decisions on new oil and gas fields, but also says the UK should work with other European nations to co-operate on energy supplies.
To help achieve the UK’s goal of reaching net zero by 2050, Ms Michie said legislation should be introduced to expand the production of hydrogen and also to increase carbon capture facilities.
Work is also needed to electrify both the North Sea and the Irish Sea , OEUK said, calling for grids of undersea electrical cables to be installed to take power from offshore wind farms to towns and cities across the UK.
We need our policymakers and politicians to think long-term, act short-term and, above all, work together for the whole UK
Deirdre Michie, chief executive, OEUKMs Michie said: “Our short-term energy security and our longer-term need for secure, net zero energy will only happen if our policymakers can collectively create the right environment for long-term investment across all forms of energy production.
“To achieve that we need stable, long-term regulatory policies, clear and predictable fiscal policies, that are supported by political alignment across all the countries and parties of the UK.
“We need our policymakers and politicians to think long-term, act short-term and, above all, work together for the whole UK.”
A spokesman for the UK Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy said: “We recognise there is a lot of interest in our plans to further bolster the UK’s energy security and it is vital that we get this right.
“Work continues to take place across government and industry to ensure our energy security strategy fully delivers on our aims to supercharge our renewable energy and nuclear capacity as well as supporting our North Sea oil and gas industry.
“We will set out full details soon.” |
https://www.newschainonline.com/news/north-sea-can-provide-secure-safe-energy-for-next-50-years-industry-chief-262965 | North Sea can provide ‘secure, safe energy’ for next 50 years – industry chief
The North Sea can help provide the UK with “secure, safe energy” for the next 50 years while also helping meet climate change targets, the head of a key industry body has insisted.
Deidre Michie, chief executive of Offshore Energies UK (OEUK), spoke out as she made a plea to ministers ahead of the publication of the UK Government’s upcoming energy security strategy.
Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine means energy security is now also a national security issue, she said.
Ms Michie, whose organisation represents 400 offshore energy companies including in the oil, gas and offshore wind sectors, called for a “national consensus” to be built around energy issues.
She stated: “Our industry has provided the UK with secure, safe energy for the last five decades and we can do the same for another five decades – while also helping the nation reach carbon neutrality by 2050.
“This will only happen with careful planning, preparation and investment. Energy infrastructure projects take years or even decades, and our industry is used to thinking on those timescales.
“We believe that, where energy is concerned, policymakers of all parties and countries must start doing the same.”
OEUK wants government regulators to prioritise decisions on new oil and gas fields, but also says the UK should work with other European nations to co-operate on energy supplies.
To help achieve the UK’s goal of reaching net zero by 2050, Ms Michie said legislation should be introduced to expand the production of hydrogen and also to increase carbon capture facilities.
Work is also needed to electrify both the North Sea and the Irish Sea, OEUK said, calling for grids of undersea electrical cables to be installed to take power from offshore wind farms to towns and cities across the UK.
We need our policymakers and politicians to think long-term, act short-term and, above all, work together for the whole UK
Ms Michie said: “Our short-term energy security and our longer-term need for secure, net zero energy will only happen if our policymakers can collectively create the right environment for long-term investment across all forms of energy production.
“To achieve that we need stable, long-term regulatory policies, clear and predictable fiscal policies, that are supported by political alignment across all the countries and parties of the UK.
“We need our policymakers and politicians to think long-term, act short-term and, above all, work together for the whole UK.”
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The North Sea can help provide the UK with “secure, safe energy” for the next 50 years while also helping meet climate change targets, the head of a key industry body has insisted.
Deidre Michie, chief executive of Offshore Energies UK (OEUK), spoke out as she made a plea to ministers ahead of the publication of the UK Government’s upcoming energy security strategy.
Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine means energy security is now also a national security issue, she said.
Ms Michie, whose organisation represents 400 offshore energy companies including in the oil, gas and offshore wind sectors, called for a “national consensus” to be built around energy issues.
She stated: “Our industry has provided the UK with secure, safe energy for the last five decades and we can do the same for another five decades – while also helping the nation reach carbon neutrality by 2050.
“This will only happen with careful planning, preparation and investment. Energy infrastructure projects take years or even decades, and our industry is used to thinking on those timescales.
“We believe that, where energy is concerned, policymakers of all parties and countries must start doing the same.”
OEUK wants government regulators to prioritise decisions on new oil and gas fields, but also says the UK should work with other European nations to co-operate on energy supplies.
To help achieve the UK’s goal of reaching net zero by 2050, Ms Michie said legislation should be introduced to expand the production of hydrogen and also to increase carbon capture facilities.
Work is also needed to electrify both the North Sea and the Irish Sea, OEUK said, calling for grids of undersea electrical cables to be installed to take power from offshore wind farms to towns and cities across the UK.
Ms Michie said: “Our short-term energy security and our longer-term need for secure, net zero energy will only happen if our policymakers can collectively create the right environment for long-term investment across all forms of energy production.
“To achieve that we need stable, long-term regulatory policies, clear and predictable fiscal policies, that are supported by political alignment across all the countries and parties of the UK.
“We need our policymakers and politicians to think long-term, act short-term and, above all, work together for the whole UK.” |
https://www.newschainonline.com/news/north-sea-can-provide-secure-safe-energy-for-next-50-years-industry-chief-262965 | North Sea can provide ‘secure, safe energy’ for next 50 years – industry chief
The North Sea can help provide the UK with “secure, safe energy” for the next 50 years while also helping meet climate change targets, the head of a key industry body has insisted.
Deidre Michie, chief executive of Offshore Energies UK (OEUK), spoke out as she made a plea to ministers ahead of the publication of the UK Government’s upcoming energy security strategy.
Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine means energy security is now also a national security issue, she said.
Ms Michie, whose organisation represents 400 offshore energy companies including in the oil, gas and offshore wind sectors, called for a “national consensus” to be built around energy issues.
She stated: “Our industry has provided the UK with secure, safe energy for the last five decades and we can do the same for another five decades – while also helping the nation reach carbon neutrality by 2050.
“This will only happen with careful planning, preparation and investment. Energy infrastructure projects take years or even decades, and our industry is used to thinking on those timescales.
“We believe that, where energy is concerned, policymakers of all parties and countries must start doing the same.”
OEUK wants government regulators to prioritise decisions on new oil and gas fields, but also says the UK should work with other European nations to co-operate on energy supplies.
To help achieve the UK’s goal of reaching net zero by 2050, Ms Michie said legislation should be introduced to expand the production of hydrogen and also to increase carbon capture facilities.
Work is also needed to electrify both the North Sea and the Irish Sea, OEUK said, calling for grids of undersea electrical cables to be installed to take power from offshore wind farms to towns and cities across the UK.
We need our policymakers and politicians to think long-term, act short-term and, above all, work together for the whole UK
Ms Michie said: “Our short-term energy security and our longer-term need for secure, net zero energy will only happen if our policymakers can collectively create the right environment for long-term investment across all forms of energy production.
“To achieve that we need stable, long-term regulatory policies, clear and predictable fiscal policies, that are supported by political alignment across all the countries and parties of the UK.
“We need our policymakers and politicians to think long-term, act short-term and, above all, work together for the whole UK.”
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Watch the stories that matter, right from your inbox | 2 | 34,530 | 0.131194 | https://www.ireland-live.ie/news/uk/781228/north-sea-can-provide-secure-safe-energy-for-next-50-years-industry-chief.html | 2022-04-02 21:28:46+00:00 | The North Sea can help provide the UK with “secure, safe energy” for the next 50 years while also helping meet climate change targets, the head of a key industry body has insisted.
Deidre Michie, chief executive of Offshore Energies UK (OEUK), spoke out as she made a plea to ministers ahead of the publication of the UK Government’s upcoming energy security strategy.
Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine means energy security is now also a national security issue, she said.
Ms Michie, whose organisation represents 400 offshore energy companies including in the oil, gas and offshore wind sectors, called for a “national consensus” to be built around energy issues.
She stated: “Our industry has provided the UK with secure, safe energy for the last five decades and we can do the same for another five decades – while also helping the nation reach carbon neutrality by 2050.
“This will only happen with careful planning, preparation and investment. Energy infrastructure projects take years or even decades, and our industry is used to thinking on those timescales.
“We believe that, where energy is concerned, policymakers of all parties and countries must start doing the same.”
OEUK wants government regulators to prioritise decisions on new oil and gas fields, but also says the UK should work with other European nations to co-operate on energy supplies.
To help achieve the UK’s goal of reaching net zero by 2050, Ms Michie said legislation should be introduced to expand the production of hydrogen and also to increase carbon capture facilities.
Work is also needed to electrify both the North Sea and the Irish Sea, OEUK said, calling for grids of undersea electrical cables to be installed to take power from offshore wind farms to towns and cities across the UK.
Ms Michie said: “Our short-term energy security and our longer-term need for secure, net zero energy will only happen if our policymakers can collectively create the right environment for long-term investment across all forms of energy production.
“To achieve that we need stable, long-term regulatory policies, clear and predictable fiscal policies, that are supported by political alignment across all the countries and parties of the UK.
“We need our policymakers and politicians to think long-term, act short-term and, above all, work together for the whole UK.”
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https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Dozens-of-county-employees-face-discipline-over-17053124.php | MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — More than 100 Hennepin County employees could be suspended or fired if they don't meet next week's deadline for receiving COVID-19 vaccinations, officials said.
All unvaccinated employees have until Thursday to prove to human resources that they are vaccinated, after which those who fail to comply will face disciplinary action, county administrator David Hough said.
“Vaccines are the best way to protect employees and the public we serve from serious health impacts from COVID,” Hough said. “We anticipate that most of the remaining 100-plus employees will meet these timelines.”
The county board voted in November to require its nearly 9,000 employees to get vaccinated unless they received religious or medical exemptions. As of Friday, approximately 475 employees had such exemptions, and those workers must be tested for the coronavirus weekly, the Star Tribune reported.
The union representing Hennepin County sheriff’s deputies sued the county over the vaccine mandate and asked for a temporary injunction on the deadline. Judge James Moore denied the request, saying the union failed to show that members will be irreparably harmed by implementation of the vaccine policy.
Officials from several unions representing county workers say the majority of the staffers facing suspension or termination are low-wage workers, often of color and many are women.
County Commissioner Jeff Lunde voted for the vaccine mandate despite some personal reservations. He’s hopeful a positive form of discipline can be achieved and still believes “people should have space to make their own decisions." | 0 | 119,480 | 0 | https://www.trumbulltimes.com/news/article/Dozens-of-county-employees-face-discipline-over-17053124.php | 2022-04-02 15:09:55+00:00 | MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — More than 100 Hennepin County employees could be suspended or fired if they don't meet next week's deadline for receiving COVID-19 vaccinations, officials said.
All unvaccinated employees have until Thursday to prove to human resources that they are vaccinated, after which those who fail to comply will face disciplinary action, county administrator David Hough said.
“Vaccines are the best way to protect employees and the public we serve from serious health impacts from COVID,” Hough said. “We anticipate that most of the remaining 100-plus employees will meet these timelines.”
The county board voted in November to require its nearly 9,000 employees to get vaccinated unless they received religious or medical exemptions. As of Friday, approximately 475 employees had such exemptions, and those workers must be tested for the coronavirus weekly, the Star Tribune reported.
The union representing Hennepin County sheriff’s deputies sued the county over the vaccine mandate and asked for a temporary injunction on the deadline. Judge James Moore denied the request, saying the union failed to show that members will be irreparably harmed by implementation of the vaccine policy.
Officials from several unions representing county workers say the majority of the staffers facing suspension or termination are low-wage workers, often of color and many are women.
County Commissioner Jeff Lunde voted for the vaccine mandate despite some personal reservations. He’s hopeful a positive form of discipline can be achieved and still believes “people should have space to make their own decisions." |
https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Dozens-of-county-employees-face-discipline-over-17053124.php | MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — More than 100 Hennepin County employees could be suspended or fired if they don't meet next week's deadline for receiving COVID-19 vaccinations, officials said.
All unvaccinated employees have until Thursday to prove to human resources that they are vaccinated, after which those who fail to comply will face disciplinary action, county administrator David Hough said.
“Vaccines are the best way to protect employees and the public we serve from serious health impacts from COVID,” Hough said. “We anticipate that most of the remaining 100-plus employees will meet these timelines.”
The county board voted in November to require its nearly 9,000 employees to get vaccinated unless they received religious or medical exemptions. As of Friday, approximately 475 employees had such exemptions, and those workers must be tested for the coronavirus weekly, the Star Tribune reported.
The union representing Hennepin County sheriff’s deputies sued the county over the vaccine mandate and asked for a temporary injunction on the deadline. Judge James Moore denied the request, saying the union failed to show that members will be irreparably harmed by implementation of the vaccine policy.
Officials from several unions representing county workers say the majority of the staffers facing suspension or termination are low-wage workers, often of color and many are women.
County Commissioner Jeff Lunde voted for the vaccine mandate despite some personal reservations. He’s hopeful a positive form of discipline can be achieved and still believes “people should have space to make their own decisions." | 1 | 120,226 | 0 | https://www.theridgefieldpress.com/news/article/Dozens-of-county-employees-face-discipline-over-17053124.php | 2022-04-02 15:15:51+00:00 | MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — More than 100 Hennepin County employees could be suspended or fired if they don't meet next week's deadline for receiving COVID-19 vaccinations, officials said.
All unvaccinated employees have until Thursday to prove to human resources that they are vaccinated, after which those who fail to comply will face disciplinary action, county administrator David Hough said.
“Vaccines are the best way to protect employees and the public we serve from serious health impacts from COVID,” Hough said. “We anticipate that most of the remaining 100-plus employees will meet these timelines.”
The county board voted in November to require its nearly 9,000 employees to get vaccinated unless they received religious or medical exemptions. As of Friday, approximately 475 employees had such exemptions, and those workers must be tested for the coronavirus weekly, the Star Tribune reported.
The union representing Hennepin County sheriff’s deputies sued the county over the vaccine mandate and asked for a temporary injunction on the deadline. Judge James Moore denied the request, saying the union failed to show that members will be irreparably harmed by implementation of the vaccine policy.
Officials from several unions representing county workers say the majority of the staffers facing suspension or termination are low-wage workers, often of color and many are women.
County Commissioner Jeff Lunde voted for the vaccine mandate despite some personal reservations. He’s hopeful a positive form of discipline can be achieved and still believes “people should have space to make their own decisions." |
https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Dozens-of-county-employees-face-discipline-over-17053124.php | MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — More than 100 Hennepin County employees could be suspended or fired if they don't meet next week's deadline for receiving COVID-19 vaccinations, officials said.
All unvaccinated employees have until Thursday to prove to human resources that they are vaccinated, after which those who fail to comply will face disciplinary action, county administrator David Hough said.
“Vaccines are the best way to protect employees and the public we serve from serious health impacts from COVID,” Hough said. “We anticipate that most of the remaining 100-plus employees will meet these timelines.”
The county board voted in November to require its nearly 9,000 employees to get vaccinated unless they received religious or medical exemptions. As of Friday, approximately 475 employees had such exemptions, and those workers must be tested for the coronavirus weekly, the Star Tribune reported.
The union representing Hennepin County sheriff’s deputies sued the county over the vaccine mandate and asked for a temporary injunction on the deadline. Judge James Moore denied the request, saying the union failed to show that members will be irreparably harmed by implementation of the vaccine policy.
Officials from several unions representing county workers say the majority of the staffers facing suspension or termination are low-wage workers, often of color and many are women.
County Commissioner Jeff Lunde voted for the vaccine mandate despite some personal reservations. He’s hopeful a positive form of discipline can be achieved and still believes “people should have space to make their own decisions." | 2 | 120,755 | 0 | https://www.bigrapidsnews.com/news/article/Dozens-of-county-employees-face-discipline-over-17053124.php | 2022-04-02 15:19:54+00:00 | MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — More than 100 Hennepin County employees could be suspended or fired if they don't meet next week's deadline for receiving COVID-19 vaccinations, officials said.
All unvaccinated employees have until Thursday to prove to human resources that they are vaccinated, after which those who fail to comply will face disciplinary action, county administrator David Hough said.
“Vaccines are the best way to protect employees and the public we serve from serious health impacts from COVID,” Hough said. “We anticipate that most of the remaining 100-plus employees will meet these timelines.”
The county board voted in November to require its nearly 9,000 employees to get vaccinated unless they received religious or medical exemptions. As of Friday, approximately 475 employees had such exemptions, and those workers must be tested for the coronavirus weekly, the Star Tribune reported.
The union representing Hennepin County sheriff’s deputies sued the county over the vaccine mandate and asked for a temporary injunction on the deadline. Judge James Moore denied the request, saying the union failed to show that members will be irreparably harmed by implementation of the vaccine policy.
Officials from several unions representing county workers say the majority of the staffers facing suspension or termination are low-wage workers, often of color and many are women.
County Commissioner Jeff Lunde voted for the vaccine mandate despite some personal reservations. He’s hopeful a positive form of discipline can be achieved and still believes “people should have space to make their own decisions." |
https://www.mrt.com/sports/article/Italian-Results-17053171.php | ROME (AP) - Results from Italian football:
Spezia 1, Venezia FC 0
Lazio vs. Sassuolo, 12 p.m.
Salernitana vs. Turin, 2:45 p.m.
Fiorentina vs. Empoli, 6:30 a.m.
Atalanta vs. Napoli, 9 a.m.
Udinese vs. Cagliari, 9 a.m.
Sampdoria vs. Roma, 12 p.m.
Juventus vs. Inter, 2:45 p.m.
Verona vs. Genoa, 12:30 p.m.
AC Milan vs. Bologna, 2:45 p.m.
Empoli vs. Spezia, 9 a.m.
Inter vs. Verona, 12 p.m.
Cagliari vs. Juventus, 2:45 p.m.
Genoa vs. Lazio, 6:30 a.m.
Napoli vs. Fiorentina, 9 a.m.
Sassuolo vs. Atalanta, 9 a.m.
Venezia FC vs. Udinese, 9 a.m.
Roma vs. Salernitana, 12 p.m.
Turin vs. AC Milan, 2:45 p.m.
Bologna vs. Sampdoria, 2:45 p.m.
Alessandria 2, Spal 2
Ascoli 1, Pordenone 0
Cittadella 1, Ternana Calcio 2
Cremonese 1, Reggina 1914 1
Lecce 1, Frosinone 0
Cosenza 1, Parma 3
Benevento vs. Pisa, 10:15 a.m.
Brescia vs. Vicenza, 9:30 a.m.
Como vs. AC Monza, 9:30 a.m.
Crotone vs. Perugia, 9:30 a.m.
Cremonese vs. Alessandria, 1 p.m.
Pordenone vs. Frosinone, 1 p.m.
Reggina 1914 vs. Benevento, 1 p.m.
Ternana Calcio vs. Lecce, 1 p.m.
Spal vs. Cosenza, 1 p.m.
Parma vs. Como, 8 a.m.
Cittadella vs. Perugia, 1 p.m.
Vicenza vs. Crotone, 1 p.m.
AC Monza vs. Ascoli, 1 p.m.
Pisa vs. Brescia, 1 p.m.
Alessandria vs. Pordenone, 8 a.m.
Como vs. Cittadella, 8 a.m.
Lecce vs. Spal, 8 a.m.
Frosinone vs. Cremonese, 10:15 a.m.
Benevento vs. Vicenza, 8:30 a.m.
Ascoli vs. Reggina 1914, 9:30 a.m.
Crotone vs. Ternana Calcio, 9:30 a.m.
Cosenza vs. AC Monza, 9:30 a.m.
Perugia vs. Pisa, 12 p.m.
Brescia vs. Parma, 2:30 p.m. | 0 | 125,677 | 0 | https://www.beaumontenterprise.com/sports/article/Italian-Results-17053171.php | 2022-04-02 15:54:44+00:00 | ROME (AP) - Results from Italian football:
Spezia 1, Venezia FC 0
Lazio vs. Sassuolo, 12 p.m.
Salernitana vs. Turin, 2:45 p.m.
Fiorentina vs. Empoli, 6:30 a.m.
Atalanta vs. Napoli, 9 a.m.
Udinese vs. Cagliari, 9 a.m.
Sampdoria vs. Roma, 12 p.m.
Juventus vs. Inter, 2:45 p.m.
Verona vs. Genoa, 12:30 p.m.
AC Milan vs. Bologna, 2:45 p.m.
Empoli vs. Spezia, 9 a.m.
Inter vs. Verona, 12 p.m.
Cagliari vs. Juventus, 2:45 p.m.
Genoa vs. Lazio, 6:30 a.m.
Napoli vs. Fiorentina, 9 a.m.
Sassuolo vs. Atalanta, 9 a.m.
Venezia FC vs. Udinese, 9 a.m.
Roma vs. Salernitana, 12 p.m.
Turin vs. AC Milan, 2:45 p.m.
Bologna vs. Sampdoria, 2:45 p.m.
Alessandria 2, Spal 2
Ascoli 1, Pordenone 0
Cittadella 1, Ternana Calcio 2
Cremonese 1, Reggina 1914 1
Lecce 1, Frosinone 0
Cosenza 1, Parma 3
Benevento vs. Pisa, 10:15 a.m.
Brescia vs. Vicenza, 9:30 a.m.
Como vs. AC Monza, 9:30 a.m.
Crotone vs. Perugia, 9:30 a.m.
Cremonese vs. Alessandria, 1 p.m.
Pordenone vs. Frosinone, 1 p.m.
Reggina 1914 vs. Benevento, 1 p.m.
Ternana Calcio vs. Lecce, 1 p.m.
Spal vs. Cosenza, 1 p.m.
Parma vs. Como, 8 a.m.
Cittadella vs. Perugia, 1 p.m.
Vicenza vs. Crotone, 1 p.m.
AC Monza vs. Ascoli, 1 p.m.
Pisa vs. Brescia, 1 p.m.
Alessandria vs. Pordenone, 8 a.m.
Como vs. Cittadella, 8 a.m.
Lecce vs. Spal, 8 a.m.
Frosinone vs. Cremonese, 10:15 a.m.
Benevento vs. Vicenza, 8:30 a.m.
Ascoli vs. Reggina 1914, 9:30 a.m.
Crotone vs. Ternana Calcio, 9:30 a.m.
Cosenza vs. AC Monza, 9:30 a.m.
Perugia vs. Pisa, 12 p.m.
Brescia vs. Parma, 2:30 p.m. |
https://www.mrt.com/sports/article/Italian-Results-17053171.php | ROME (AP) - Results from Italian football:
Spezia 1, Venezia FC 0
Lazio vs. Sassuolo, 12 p.m.
Salernitana vs. Turin, 2:45 p.m.
Fiorentina vs. Empoli, 6:30 a.m.
Atalanta vs. Napoli, 9 a.m.
Udinese vs. Cagliari, 9 a.m.
Sampdoria vs. Roma, 12 p.m.
Juventus vs. Inter, 2:45 p.m.
Verona vs. Genoa, 12:30 p.m.
AC Milan vs. Bologna, 2:45 p.m.
Empoli vs. Spezia, 9 a.m.
Inter vs. Verona, 12 p.m.
Cagliari vs. Juventus, 2:45 p.m.
Genoa vs. Lazio, 6:30 a.m.
Napoli vs. Fiorentina, 9 a.m.
Sassuolo vs. Atalanta, 9 a.m.
Venezia FC vs. Udinese, 9 a.m.
Roma vs. Salernitana, 12 p.m.
Turin vs. AC Milan, 2:45 p.m.
Bologna vs. Sampdoria, 2:45 p.m.
Alessandria 2, Spal 2
Ascoli 1, Pordenone 0
Cittadella 1, Ternana Calcio 2
Cremonese 1, Reggina 1914 1
Lecce 1, Frosinone 0
Cosenza 1, Parma 3
Benevento vs. Pisa, 10:15 a.m.
Brescia vs. Vicenza, 9:30 a.m.
Como vs. AC Monza, 9:30 a.m.
Crotone vs. Perugia, 9:30 a.m.
Cremonese vs. Alessandria, 1 p.m.
Pordenone vs. Frosinone, 1 p.m.
Reggina 1914 vs. Benevento, 1 p.m.
Ternana Calcio vs. Lecce, 1 p.m.
Spal vs. Cosenza, 1 p.m.
Parma vs. Como, 8 a.m.
Cittadella vs. Perugia, 1 p.m.
Vicenza vs. Crotone, 1 p.m.
AC Monza vs. Ascoli, 1 p.m.
Pisa vs. Brescia, 1 p.m.
Alessandria vs. Pordenone, 8 a.m.
Como vs. Cittadella, 8 a.m.
Lecce vs. Spal, 8 a.m.
Frosinone vs. Cremonese, 10:15 a.m.
Benevento vs. Vicenza, 8:30 a.m.
Ascoli vs. Reggina 1914, 9:30 a.m.
Crotone vs. Ternana Calcio, 9:30 a.m.
Cosenza vs. AC Monza, 9:30 a.m.
Perugia vs. Pisa, 12 p.m.
Brescia vs. Parma, 2:30 p.m. | 1 | 125,926 | 0 | https://www.stamfordadvocate.com/sports/article/Italian-Results-17053171.php | 2022-04-02 15:56:42+00:00 | ROME (AP) - Results from Italian football:
Spezia 1, Venezia FC 0
Lazio vs. Sassuolo, 12 p.m.
Salernitana vs. Turin, 2:45 p.m.
Fiorentina vs. Empoli, 6:30 a.m.
Atalanta vs. Napoli, 9 a.m.
Udinese vs. Cagliari, 9 a.m.
Sampdoria vs. Roma, 12 p.m.
Juventus vs. Inter, 2:45 p.m.
Verona vs. Genoa, 12:30 p.m.
AC Milan vs. Bologna, 2:45 p.m.
Empoli vs. Spezia, 9 a.m.
Inter vs. Verona, 12 p.m.
Cagliari vs. Juventus, 2:45 p.m.
Genoa vs. Lazio, 6:30 a.m.
Napoli vs. Fiorentina, 9 a.m.
Sassuolo vs. Atalanta, 9 a.m.
Venezia FC vs. Udinese, 9 a.m.
Roma vs. Salernitana, 12 p.m.
Turin vs. AC Milan, 2:45 p.m.
Bologna vs. Sampdoria, 2:45 p.m.
Alessandria 2, Spal 2
Ascoli 1, Pordenone 0
Cittadella 1, Ternana Calcio 2
Cremonese 1, Reggina 1914 1
Lecce 1, Frosinone 0
Cosenza 1, Parma 3
Benevento vs. Pisa, 10:15 a.m.
Brescia vs. Vicenza, 9:30 a.m.
Como vs. AC Monza, 9:30 a.m.
Crotone vs. Perugia, 9:30 a.m.
Cremonese vs. Alessandria, 1 p.m.
Pordenone vs. Frosinone, 1 p.m.
Reggina 1914 vs. Benevento, 1 p.m.
Ternana Calcio vs. Lecce, 1 p.m.
Spal vs. Cosenza, 1 p.m.
Parma vs. Como, 8 a.m.
Cittadella vs. Perugia, 1 p.m.
Vicenza vs. Crotone, 1 p.m.
AC Monza vs. Ascoli, 1 p.m.
Pisa vs. Brescia, 1 p.m.
Alessandria vs. Pordenone, 8 a.m.
Como vs. Cittadella, 8 a.m.
Lecce vs. Spal, 8 a.m.
Frosinone vs. Cremonese, 10:15 a.m.
Benevento vs. Vicenza, 8:30 a.m.
Ascoli vs. Reggina 1914, 9:30 a.m.
Crotone vs. Ternana Calcio, 9:30 a.m.
Cosenza vs. AC Monza, 9:30 a.m.
Perugia vs. Pisa, 12 p.m.
Brescia vs. Parma, 2:30 p.m. |
https://www.mrt.com/sports/article/Italian-Results-17053171.php | ROME (AP) - Results from Italian football:
Spezia 1, Venezia FC 0
Lazio vs. Sassuolo, 12 p.m.
Salernitana vs. Turin, 2:45 p.m.
Fiorentina vs. Empoli, 6:30 a.m.
Atalanta vs. Napoli, 9 a.m.
Udinese vs. Cagliari, 9 a.m.
Sampdoria vs. Roma, 12 p.m.
Juventus vs. Inter, 2:45 p.m.
Verona vs. Genoa, 12:30 p.m.
AC Milan vs. Bologna, 2:45 p.m.
Empoli vs. Spezia, 9 a.m.
Inter vs. Verona, 12 p.m.
Cagliari vs. Juventus, 2:45 p.m.
Genoa vs. Lazio, 6:30 a.m.
Napoli vs. Fiorentina, 9 a.m.
Sassuolo vs. Atalanta, 9 a.m.
Venezia FC vs. Udinese, 9 a.m.
Roma vs. Salernitana, 12 p.m.
Turin vs. AC Milan, 2:45 p.m.
Bologna vs. Sampdoria, 2:45 p.m.
Alessandria 2, Spal 2
Ascoli 1, Pordenone 0
Cittadella 1, Ternana Calcio 2
Cremonese 1, Reggina 1914 1
Lecce 1, Frosinone 0
Cosenza 1, Parma 3
Benevento vs. Pisa, 10:15 a.m.
Brescia vs. Vicenza, 9:30 a.m.
Como vs. AC Monza, 9:30 a.m.
Crotone vs. Perugia, 9:30 a.m.
Cremonese vs. Alessandria, 1 p.m.
Pordenone vs. Frosinone, 1 p.m.
Reggina 1914 vs. Benevento, 1 p.m.
Ternana Calcio vs. Lecce, 1 p.m.
Spal vs. Cosenza, 1 p.m.
Parma vs. Como, 8 a.m.
Cittadella vs. Perugia, 1 p.m.
Vicenza vs. Crotone, 1 p.m.
AC Monza vs. Ascoli, 1 p.m.
Pisa vs. Brescia, 1 p.m.
Alessandria vs. Pordenone, 8 a.m.
Como vs. Cittadella, 8 a.m.
Lecce vs. Spal, 8 a.m.
Frosinone vs. Cremonese, 10:15 a.m.
Benevento vs. Vicenza, 8:30 a.m.
Ascoli vs. Reggina 1914, 9:30 a.m.
Crotone vs. Ternana Calcio, 9:30 a.m.
Cosenza vs. AC Monza, 9:30 a.m.
Perugia vs. Pisa, 12 p.m.
Brescia vs. Parma, 2:30 p.m. | 2 | 126,106 | 0 | https://www.houstonchronicle.com/sports/article/Italian-Results-17053171.php | 2022-04-02 15:58:16+00:00 | ROME (AP) - Results from Italian football:
Spezia 1, Venezia FC 0
Lazio vs. Sassuolo, 12 p.m.
Salernitana vs. Turin, 2:45 p.m.
Fiorentina vs. Empoli, 6:30 a.m.
Atalanta vs. Napoli, 9 a.m.
Udinese vs. Cagliari, 9 a.m.
Sampdoria vs. Roma, 12 p.m.
Juventus vs. Inter, 2:45 p.m.
Verona vs. Genoa, 12:30 p.m.
AC Milan vs. Bologna, 2:45 p.m.
Empoli vs. Spezia, 9 a.m.
Inter vs. Verona, 12 p.m.
Cagliari vs. Juventus, 2:45 p.m.
Genoa vs. Lazio, 6:30 a.m.
Napoli vs. Fiorentina, 9 a.m.
Sassuolo vs. Atalanta, 9 a.m.
Venezia FC vs. Udinese, 9 a.m.
Roma vs. Salernitana, 12 p.m.
Turin vs. AC Milan, 2:45 p.m.
Bologna vs. Sampdoria, 2:45 p.m.
Alessandria 2, Spal 2
Ascoli 1, Pordenone 0
Cittadella 1, Ternana Calcio 2
Cremonese 1, Reggina 1914 1
Lecce 1, Frosinone 0
Cosenza 1, Parma 3
Benevento vs. Pisa, 10:15 a.m.
Brescia vs. Vicenza, 9:30 a.m.
Como vs. AC Monza, 9:30 a.m.
Crotone vs. Perugia, 9:30 a.m.
Cremonese vs. Alessandria, 1 p.m.
Pordenone vs. Frosinone, 1 p.m.
Reggina 1914 vs. Benevento, 1 p.m.
Ternana Calcio vs. Lecce, 1 p.m.
Spal vs. Cosenza, 1 p.m.
Parma vs. Como, 8 a.m.
Cittadella vs. Perugia, 1 p.m.
Vicenza vs. Crotone, 1 p.m.
AC Monza vs. Ascoli, 1 p.m.
Pisa vs. Brescia, 1 p.m.
Alessandria vs. Pordenone, 8 a.m.
Como vs. Cittadella, 8 a.m.
Lecce vs. Spal, 8 a.m.
Frosinone vs. Cremonese, 10:15 a.m.
Benevento vs. Vicenza, 8:30 a.m.
Ascoli vs. Reggina 1914, 9:30 a.m.
Crotone vs. Ternana Calcio, 9:30 a.m.
Cosenza vs. AC Monza, 9:30 a.m.
Perugia vs. Pisa, 12 p.m.
Brescia vs. Parma, 2:30 p.m. |
https://auto.economictimes.indiatimes.com/amp/news/commercial-vehicle/mhcv/commercial-ev-maker-eka-unveils-its-first-e-bus-e9/90613391 | Commercial EV maker EKA unveils its first e-bus E9
EKA E9 is powered by a 200 KW electric motor, offering faster acceleration, more horsepower, greater traction power and along with 17 per cent gradeability to tackle any terrain and a regenerative braking system, the company said in a release.
Mumbai: Commercial electric vehicle maker EKA on Saturday unveiled its first e-bus E9. The e-bus was unveiled by the Minister of Tourism and Environment in the Maharashtra Government Aaditya Thackeray along with Sudhir Mehta, Chairman of the EKA and Pinnacle Industries Limited at the Pune Alternate Fuel Conclave (AFC) on Saturday. EKA is a subsidiary of Pinnacle Industries.
EKA E9 is powered by a 200 KW electric motor, offering faster acceleration, more horsepower, greater traction power and along with 17 per cent gradeability to tackle any terrain and a regenerative braking system, the company said in a release.
"Electrification of commercial vehicles, public transport, especially the bus sector, is key to India's decarbonization strategy. Today, we are excited to launch our first electric bus EKA E9, to empower cities to achieve their zero-emissions targets," said Mehta.
Eka buses are designed and optimized to provide the best ride experience and best returns to the customers, he said, adding, "With the new EKA E9, we offer a global platform for clean, efficient, and profitable public transport to meet the rising demand on important markets that are ready for the shift to electromobility."
EKA said its first battery-electric bus features a new streamlined vehicle design, maximized power and range and with a Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) lower than existing Internal Combustion engine powered buses, the new vehicle promises to deliver sustainability and profitability to all stakeholders. PTI IAS MR MR
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EKA is a subsidiary of Pinnacle Industries.Organised by Maharashtra Industrial Development Corporation MIDC and Maharashtra Pollution Control Board MPCB, in association with Maratha Chamber of Commerce, Industries and Agriculture MCCIA, the conclave is an initiative of the Maharashtra Government.EKA E9 is powered by a 200 KW electric motor, offering faster acceleration, more horsepower, greater traction power and along with 17 per cent gradeability to tackle any terrain and a regenerative braking system, the company said in a release.Electrification of commercial vehicles, public transport, especially the bus sector, is key to Indias decarbonization strategy.
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Commercial electric vehicle maker EKA on Saturday unveiled its first e-bus E9.
The e-bus was unveiled by the Minister of Tourism and Environment in the Maharashtra Government Aaditya Thackeray along with Sudhir Mehta, Chairman of the EKA and Pinnacle Industries Limited at the Pune Alternate Fuel Conclave (AFC) on Saturday. EKA is a subsidiary of Pinnacle Industries.
Organised by Maharashtra Industrial Development Corporation (MIDC) and Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB), in association with Maratha Chamber of Commerce, Industries and Agriculture (MCCIA), the conclave is an initiative of the Maharashtra Government.
EKA E9 is powered by a 200 KW electric motor, offering faster acceleration, more horsepower, greater traction power and along with 17 per cent gradeability to tackle any terrain and a regenerative braking system, the company said in a release.
''Electrification of commercial vehicles, public transport, especially the bus sector, is key to India's decarbonization strategy. Today, we are excited to launch our first electric bus EKA E9, to empower cities to achieve their zero-emissions targets,'' said Mehta.
Eka buses are designed and optimized to provide the best ride experience and best returns to the customers, he said, adding, ''With the new EKA E9, we offer a global platform for clean, efficient, and profitable public transport to meet the rising demand on important markets that are ready for the shift to electromobility.'' EKA said its first battery-electric bus features a new streamlined vehicle design, maximized power and range and with a Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) lower than existing Internal Combustion engine powered buses, the new vehicle promises to deliver sustainability and profitability to all stakeholders.
(This story has not been edited by Devdiscourse staff and is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.) |
https://auto.economictimes.indiatimes.com/amp/news/commercial-vehicle/mhcv/commercial-ev-maker-eka-unveils-its-first-e-bus-e9/90613391 | Commercial EV maker EKA unveils its first e-bus E9
EKA E9 is powered by a 200 KW electric motor, offering faster acceleration, more horsepower, greater traction power and along with 17 per cent gradeability to tackle any terrain and a regenerative braking system, the company said in a release.
Mumbai: Commercial electric vehicle maker EKA on Saturday unveiled its first e-bus E9. The e-bus was unveiled by the Minister of Tourism and Environment in the Maharashtra Government Aaditya Thackeray along with Sudhir Mehta, Chairman of the EKA and Pinnacle Industries Limited at the Pune Alternate Fuel Conclave (AFC) on Saturday. EKA is a subsidiary of Pinnacle Industries.
EKA E9 is powered by a 200 KW electric motor, offering faster acceleration, more horsepower, greater traction power and along with 17 per cent gradeability to tackle any terrain and a regenerative braking system, the company said in a release.
"Electrification of commercial vehicles, public transport, especially the bus sector, is key to India's decarbonization strategy. Today, we are excited to launch our first electric bus EKA E9, to empower cities to achieve their zero-emissions targets," said Mehta.
Eka buses are designed and optimized to provide the best ride experience and best returns to the customers, he said, adding, "With the new EKA E9, we offer a global platform for clean, efficient, and profitable public transport to meet the rising demand on important markets that are ready for the shift to electromobility."
EKA said its first battery-electric bus features a new streamlined vehicle design, maximized power and range and with a Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) lower than existing Internal Combustion engine powered buses, the new vehicle promises to deliver sustainability and profitability to all stakeholders. PTI IAS MR MR
Get latest Industry insights and analysis in your inbox | 1 | 112,350 | 0.153632 | https://www.newindianexpress.com/business/2022/apr/02/commercial-ev-maker-eka-unveils-its-first-e-bus-e9-2437199.html | 2022-04-02 14:21:22+00:00 | Commercial EV maker EKA unveils its first e-bus E9
The e-bus was unveiled by the Minister of Tourism and Environment in the Maharashtra Government Aaditya Thackeray along with Sudhir Mehta, Chairman of the EKA.
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MUMBAI: Commercial electric vehicle maker EKA on Saturday unveiled its first e-bus E9.
The e-bus was unveiled by the Minister of Tourism and Environment in the Maharashtra Government Aaditya Thackeray along with Sudhir Mehta, Chairman of the EKA and Pinnacle Industries Limited at the Pune Alternate Fuel Conclave (AFC) on Saturday.
EKA is a subsidiary of Pinnacle Industries.
Organised by Maharashtra Industrial Development Corporation (MIDC) and Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB), in association with Maratha Chamber of Commerce, Industries and Agriculture (MCCIA), the conclave is an initiative of the Maharashtra Government.
EKA E9 is powered by a 200 KW electric motor, offering faster acceleration, more horsepower, greater traction power and along with 17 per cent gradeability to tackle any terrain and a regenerative braking system, the company said in a release.
"Electrification of commercial vehicles, public transport, especially the bus sector, is key to India's decarbonization strategy.
Today, we are excited to launch our first electric bus EKA E9, to empower cities to achieve their zero-emissions targets," said Mehta.
Eka buses are designed and optimized to provide the best ride experience and best returns to the customers, he said, adding, "With the new EKA E9, we offer a global platform for clean, efficient, and profitable public transport to meet the rising demand on important markets that are ready for the shift to electromobility.
" EKA said its first battery-electric bus features a new streamlined vehicle design, maximized power and range and with a Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) lower than existing Internal Combustion engine powered buses, the new vehicle promises to deliver sustainability and profitability to all stakeholders. |
https://auto.economictimes.indiatimes.com/amp/news/commercial-vehicle/mhcv/commercial-ev-maker-eka-unveils-its-first-e-bus-e9/90613391 | Commercial EV maker EKA unveils its first e-bus E9
EKA E9 is powered by a 200 KW electric motor, offering faster acceleration, more horsepower, greater traction power and along with 17 per cent gradeability to tackle any terrain and a regenerative braking system, the company said in a release.
Mumbai: Commercial electric vehicle maker EKA on Saturday unveiled its first e-bus E9. The e-bus was unveiled by the Minister of Tourism and Environment in the Maharashtra Government Aaditya Thackeray along with Sudhir Mehta, Chairman of the EKA and Pinnacle Industries Limited at the Pune Alternate Fuel Conclave (AFC) on Saturday. EKA is a subsidiary of Pinnacle Industries.
EKA E9 is powered by a 200 KW electric motor, offering faster acceleration, more horsepower, greater traction power and along with 17 per cent gradeability to tackle any terrain and a regenerative braking system, the company said in a release.
"Electrification of commercial vehicles, public transport, especially the bus sector, is key to India's decarbonization strategy. Today, we are excited to launch our first electric bus EKA E9, to empower cities to achieve their zero-emissions targets," said Mehta.
Eka buses are designed and optimized to provide the best ride experience and best returns to the customers, he said, adding, "With the new EKA E9, we offer a global platform for clean, efficient, and profitable public transport to meet the rising demand on important markets that are ready for the shift to electromobility."
EKA said its first battery-electric bus features a new streamlined vehicle design, maximized power and range and with a Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) lower than existing Internal Combustion engine powered buses, the new vehicle promises to deliver sustainability and profitability to all stakeholders. PTI IAS MR MR
Get latest Industry insights and analysis in your inbox | 2 | 19,791 | 0.398697 | https://www.eastcoastdaily.in/2022/04/03/eka-launches-new-electric-bus-e9-in-india.html | 2022-04-03 17:30:37+00:00 | Mumbai: Commercial electric vehicle manufacturer, EKA launched its first e-bus E9 in India. The e-bus was unveiled by the Minister of Tourism and Environment in Maharashtra, Aaditya Thackeray along with Sudhir Mehta, Chairman of the EKA and Pinnacle Industries at the Pune Alternate Fuel Conclave (AFC). EKA is a subsidiary of Pinnacle Industries.
EKA E9 is powered by a 200KW electric motor. The engine can produce a maximum power of 200 KW and torque of 2500 NM. It also offers faster acceleration, more horsepower, greater traction power, industry-leading reliability, along with 17% gradeability to tackle any terrain and a regenerative braking system.
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The new e-bus features front and rear air suspension with ECAS. The company claims that the low entry/exit steps are ergonomically designed with kneeling features with lowest 650 mm floor height. This makes them extremely comfortable and accessible for the elderly, children, women and specially abled passengers. |
https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/M-T-Bank-acquires-Connecticut-based-People-s-17053184.php | BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — M&T Bank Corp. has completed its acquisition of People’s United Financial Inc. in a deal worth $8.3 billion, M&T announced Saturday.
People’s United’s headquarters in Bridgeport, Connecticut is now Buffalo-based M&T’s New England regional headquarters.
The combined company has approximately $200 billion in assets and a network of more than 1,000 branches in 12 states from Maine to Virginia and the District of Columbia. It employs more than 22,000 people.
Clients of People’s United will retain access to current branches while they are being converted to M&T's.
M&T had been active in acquisitions, but People’s United was its first major deal in almost six years. | 0 | 127,795 | 0 | https://www.mysanantonio.com/news/article/M-T-Bank-acquires-Connecticut-based-People-s-17053184.php | 2022-04-02 16:11:03+00:00 | BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — M&T Bank Corp. has completed its acquisition of People’s United Financial Inc. in a deal worth $8.3 billion, M&T announced Saturday.
People’s United’s headquarters in Bridgeport, Connecticut is now Buffalo-based M&T’s New England regional headquarters.
The combined company has approximately $200 billion in assets and a network of more than 1,000 branches in 12 states from Maine to Virginia and the District of Columbia. It employs more than 22,000 people.
Clients of People’s United will retain access to current branches while they are being converted to M&T's.
M&T had been active in acquisitions, but People’s United was its first major deal in almost six years. |
https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/M-T-Bank-acquires-Connecticut-based-People-s-17053184.php | BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — M&T Bank Corp. has completed its acquisition of People’s United Financial Inc. in a deal worth $8.3 billion, M&T announced Saturday.
People’s United’s headquarters in Bridgeport, Connecticut is now Buffalo-based M&T’s New England regional headquarters.
The combined company has approximately $200 billion in assets and a network of more than 1,000 branches in 12 states from Maine to Virginia and the District of Columbia. It employs more than 22,000 people.
Clients of People’s United will retain access to current branches while they are being converted to M&T's.
M&T had been active in acquisitions, but People’s United was its first major deal in almost six years. | 1 | 127,947 | 0 | https://www.registercitizen.com/news/article/M-T-Bank-acquires-Connecticut-based-People-s-17053184.php | 2022-04-02 16:12:08+00:00 | BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — M&T Bank Corp. has completed its acquisition of People’s United Financial Inc. in a deal worth $8.3 billion, M&T announced Saturday.
People’s United’s headquarters in Bridgeport, Connecticut is now Buffalo-based M&T’s New England regional headquarters.
The combined company has approximately $200 billion in assets and a network of more than 1,000 branches in 12 states from Maine to Virginia and the District of Columbia. It employs more than 22,000 people.
Clients of People’s United will retain access to current branches while they are being converted to M&T's.
M&T had been active in acquisitions, but People’s United was its first major deal in almost six years. |
https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/M-T-Bank-acquires-Connecticut-based-People-s-17053184.php | BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — M&T Bank Corp. has completed its acquisition of People’s United Financial Inc. in a deal worth $8.3 billion, M&T announced Saturday.
People’s United’s headquarters in Bridgeport, Connecticut is now Buffalo-based M&T’s New England regional headquarters.
The combined company has approximately $200 billion in assets and a network of more than 1,000 branches in 12 states from Maine to Virginia and the District of Columbia. It employs more than 22,000 people.
Clients of People’s United will retain access to current branches while they are being converted to M&T's.
M&T had been active in acquisitions, but People’s United was its first major deal in almost six years. | 2 | 128,134 | 0 | https://www.mrt.com/news/article/M-T-Bank-acquires-Connecticut-based-People-s-17053184.php | 2022-04-02 16:13:18+00:00 | BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — M&T Bank Corp. has completed its acquisition of People’s United Financial Inc. in a deal worth $8.3 billion, M&T announced Saturday.
People’s United’s headquarters in Bridgeport, Connecticut is now Buffalo-based M&T’s New England regional headquarters.
The combined company has approximately $200 billion in assets and a network of more than 1,000 branches in 12 states from Maine to Virginia and the District of Columbia. It employs more than 22,000 people.
Clients of People’s United will retain access to current branches while they are being converted to M&T's.
M&T had been active in acquisitions, but People’s United was its first major deal in almost six years. |
https://www.nfl.com/news/castrol-edge-clutch-performer-of-week-7-0ap3000000727430 | Coming through for your team in key moments is what defines a clutch performer. This week, New York Giants' Landon Collins, Detroit Lions' Matthew Stafford, Indianapolis Colts' Andrew Luck, San Diego Chargers' Denzel Perryman, and Miami Dolphins' Jay Ajayi have all earned nominations to be the Castrol EDGE Clutch Performer of the Week. Vote for who you think should take the honor.
CLUTCH PERFORMER OF THE WEEK NOMINEES
Landon Collins, New York Giants
Collins picked off Case Keenum twice, including a 44-yard pick six in the second quarter which helped propel the New York Giants to victory over the Los Angeles Rams.
Matthew Stafford, Detroit Lions
Stafford tossed an 18-yard touchdown pass to Anquan Boldin with 16 seconds left to give the Detroit Lions a 20-17 win over the Washington Redskins.
Andrew Luck, Indianapolis Colts
With 1:55 left in the game, Andrew Luck threw a 7-yard touchdown pass to Jack Doyle to put Indianapolis ahead and the Colts rallied to beat the Tennessee Titans, 34-26.
Denzel Perryman, San Diego Chargers
Perryman intercepted Matt Ryan's pass, setting up a game-tying 33-yard field goal with 18 seconds remaining in regulation and stopped Devonta Freeman on a fourth-and-1 in overtime, helping the Chargers win 33-30.
Jay Ajayi, Miami Dolphins
Ajayi rushed for 214 yards on 28 carries against the Buffalo Bills and scored a touchdown, helping lead the Dolphins to a comeback victory on Sunday. | 0 | 74,797 | 0.695289 | https://www.nfl.com/news/brady-carr-lead-week-12-clutch-performances-0ap3000000748553 | 2022-06-30 16:48:09+00:00 | The Detroit Lions' Darius Slay, Kansas City Chiefs' Cairo Santos, Oakland Raiders' Derek Carr, New England Patriots' Tom Brady and Baltimore Ravens' Elvis Dumervil each had the strength to come through during a key moment and contribute to wins during Week 12.
Thanks to those strong performances, each player is up for Castrol EDGE Clutch Performer of the Week honors. This is a deeper look at the significance of those conquests.
Cairo Santos, Kansas City Chiefs
Strong stats to consider:
» The Chiefs are 6-1 in their last seven games.
» The Chiefs' Justin Houston and Broncos' Von Miller both had three sacks. It's the 15th game where a player on each team had three or more sacks.
Power of the moment: With the clock ticking down in OT, Santos nailed the game-winning field goal ... sort of. It banked off the upright but still went through. The Chiefs are currently the fifth seed in the AFC.
Derek Carr, Oakland Raiders
Strong stats to consider:
» The Raiders are 9-2 for the first time since 2000. They've started 9-2 or better in eight previous seasons. They advanced to the Conference Championship in all of those seasons. They advanced to two Super Bowls out of those eight seasons, winning one of them (Super Bowl XI).
» Carr's current passer rating on the season (100.5) would be the second-highest single-season rating by a Raiders QB. The highest belongs to Ken Stabler (103.4) in 1976. The Raiders won the Super Bowl that year.
Power of the moment: Carr had to leave the game after dislocating the pinky finger on his throwing hand in two places. While he was gone, the Panthers dominated the third quarter to take the lead 32-24. Carr returned and helped the Raiders score 11 unanswered points in the fourth quarter to win 35-32. Carr is not only making plays late, but he's making a strong case for MVP.
Darius Slay, Detroit Lions
Strong stats to consider:
» Slay's INT was the first INT this season by any player in a tie game with under a minute remaining in the fourth quarter.
» The Lions' defense has only seven INTs this season, but four have come in the final two minutes of the fourth quarter. Slay is responsible for both of those late game INTs.
Power of the moment:Lions players have been making frequent appearances as Clutch Performers this season. All of their games have been decided by seven or fewer points, so late game heroics have been common. This is Slay's second clutch INT in the final minutes. His first was Carson Wentz's first INT. With the win against the Vikings, the Lions are now on top of the NFC North.
Elvis Dumervil, Baltimore Ravens
Strong stats to consider:
» Dumervil had a busy day. He recorded a sack, a QB hit, a forced fumble and a fumble recovery.
» The Ravens are 6-1 when they allow 20 points or less this season. They're 0-4 when they allow more than 20 points.
Power of the moment: With less than two minutes remaining and the Bengals in the red zone, Dumervil stripped the ball from Andy Dalton to lock up the win. The Ravens are now on top of the AFC North.
Tom Brady, New England Patriots
Strong stats to consider:
» Brady has 32 fourth quarter comebacks in his career. It's the most among active players. Brady's passer rating was 79.8 through the first three quarters. In the fourth quarter, it was 109.4.
» Brady tied Peyton Manning for most wins by a QB including playoffs. Brady reached this milestone in 263 games, 30 less games than it took Manning to reach that number.
Power of the moment: With just 2:00 left, Brady threw to rookie Malcolm Mitchell, who was covered by Darrelle Revis. Mitchell made good on the catch and brought in the score. Brady is 22-6 in his career against the Jets.
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https://www.nfl.com/news/castrol-edge-clutch-performer-of-week-7-0ap3000000727430 | Coming through for your team in key moments is what defines a clutch performer. This week, New York Giants' Landon Collins, Detroit Lions' Matthew Stafford, Indianapolis Colts' Andrew Luck, San Diego Chargers' Denzel Perryman, and Miami Dolphins' Jay Ajayi have all earned nominations to be the Castrol EDGE Clutch Performer of the Week. Vote for who you think should take the honor.
CLUTCH PERFORMER OF THE WEEK NOMINEES
Landon Collins, New York Giants
Collins picked off Case Keenum twice, including a 44-yard pick six in the second quarter which helped propel the New York Giants to victory over the Los Angeles Rams.
Matthew Stafford, Detroit Lions
Stafford tossed an 18-yard touchdown pass to Anquan Boldin with 16 seconds left to give the Detroit Lions a 20-17 win over the Washington Redskins.
Andrew Luck, Indianapolis Colts
With 1:55 left in the game, Andrew Luck threw a 7-yard touchdown pass to Jack Doyle to put Indianapolis ahead and the Colts rallied to beat the Tennessee Titans, 34-26.
Denzel Perryman, San Diego Chargers
Perryman intercepted Matt Ryan's pass, setting up a game-tying 33-yard field goal with 18 seconds remaining in regulation and stopped Devonta Freeman on a fourth-and-1 in overtime, helping the Chargers win 33-30.
Jay Ajayi, Miami Dolphins
Ajayi rushed for 214 yards on 28 carries against the Buffalo Bills and scored a touchdown, helping lead the Dolphins to a comeback victory on Sunday. | 1 | 59,272 | 0.757177 | https://www.buccaneers.com/news/winston-named-clutch-performer-of-the-week-16482766 | 2022-05-12 15:13:48+00:00 | After a thrilling performance in the Buccaneers' Week 13 win over the Falcons, quarterback Jameis Winston has been selected as the NFL's Clutch Performer of the Week. Winston threw the game-winning touchdown in the final minutes of the game to help the Buccaneers win, 23-19.
His pass was set up by a 20-yard scramble on third and 19 that kept the drive alive. Winston initially appeared to be down, but moved the chains with a second effort. He finished the day completing 18 of 27 passes for 227 yards.
Winston has won a slew of awards this season, with the Clutch Player of the Week being the most recent. Winston has been named the NFL's Rookie of the Week three times thus far, the most of any rookie in the league, and has also been named the Air Player of the Week and Offensive Rookie of the Month.
Also nominated for the Clutch Player of the Week award were San Francisco's Blaine Gabbert, Green Bay's Aaron Rodgers, Carolina's Cam Newton and New York's Ryan Fitzpatrick. Winston was selected as the winner over Rodgers, who threw a game-winning Hail Mary in the Packers' victory over the Lions. |
https://www.nfl.com/news/castrol-edge-clutch-performer-of-week-7-0ap3000000727430 | Coming through for your team in key moments is what defines a clutch performer. This week, New York Giants' Landon Collins, Detroit Lions' Matthew Stafford, Indianapolis Colts' Andrew Luck, San Diego Chargers' Denzel Perryman, and Miami Dolphins' Jay Ajayi have all earned nominations to be the Castrol EDGE Clutch Performer of the Week. Vote for who you think should take the honor.
CLUTCH PERFORMER OF THE WEEK NOMINEES
Landon Collins, New York Giants
Collins picked off Case Keenum twice, including a 44-yard pick six in the second quarter which helped propel the New York Giants to victory over the Los Angeles Rams.
Matthew Stafford, Detroit Lions
Stafford tossed an 18-yard touchdown pass to Anquan Boldin with 16 seconds left to give the Detroit Lions a 20-17 win over the Washington Redskins.
Andrew Luck, Indianapolis Colts
With 1:55 left in the game, Andrew Luck threw a 7-yard touchdown pass to Jack Doyle to put Indianapolis ahead and the Colts rallied to beat the Tennessee Titans, 34-26.
Denzel Perryman, San Diego Chargers
Perryman intercepted Matt Ryan's pass, setting up a game-tying 33-yard field goal with 18 seconds remaining in regulation and stopped Devonta Freeman on a fourth-and-1 in overtime, helping the Chargers win 33-30.
Jay Ajayi, Miami Dolphins
Ajayi rushed for 214 yards on 28 carries against the Buffalo Bills and scored a touchdown, helping lead the Dolphins to a comeback victory on Sunday. | 2 | 10,805 | 0.768241 | https://www.buccaneers.com/news/winston-up-for-clutch-player-of-the-week-16455933 | 2022-04-16 18:21:21+00:00 | [
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After a standout performance against the Falcons, Buccaneers quarterback Jameis Winston has been nominated for the NFL's Clutch Player of the Week award. Winston connected with Mike Evans for a six-yard touchdown in the final minutes of the game to help the Bucs win. 23-19.
With time running out, Winston converted on a key third-and-19 to keep the Bucs' final drive alive. He took off running and appeared to be stopped well short of the first down marker, but moved the chains with a second effort.
Also nominated for the Clutch Player of the Week award are San Francisco's Blaine Gabbert, Green Bay's Aaron Rodgers, Carolina's Cam Newton and New York's Ryan Fitzpatrick.
Winston has already won a handful of awards this season, including the Rookie of the Week award three times and the Air Player of the Week once.
The Clutch Player of the Week award is selected based on a fan vote, so Buccaneer fans are encouraged to vote for Winston early and often. To vote for him, CLICK HERE. |
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The prime ministers of both countries witnessed the signing of the deal in a virtual ceremony. Australia wants to curb dependence on China as its largest trading partner.
Australia and India signed an interim free trade deal on Saturday that will see an easing of tariffs on various Australian goods and duty-free access for India on a vast majority of products.
Trade Minister Dan Tehan and Indian counterpart Piyush Goyal signed the Australia-India Economic Cooperation and Trade Agreement during a virtual ceremony witnessed by Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison and India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Morrison told reporters that the agreement with India represented "one of the biggest economic doors there is to open."
Morrison also described the countries as "two dynamic regional economies, like-minded democracies, working together for mutual benefit."
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi called it a "watershed moment."
"On the basis of this pact, together we will be able to increase the resilience of supply chains, and also contribute to the stability of the Indo-Pacific region," Modi said.
In 2020 India was Australia's seventh-largest trading partner, according to the Australian government, with two-way trade between the two countries valued at over $17.9 billion (€16.2 billion). Australia wants to get into India's top three export markets by 2035.
The deal will see tariffs removed on more than 85% of Australian goods exported to India, which include sheep meat, wool, coal and copper, among others.
In return 96% of Indian goods arriving in Australia will be duty-free.
Both India and Australia have over recent years experienced strained diplomatic relations with China.
Over the past two years, Australia has seen a rapid deterioration of relations with Beijing, with tariffs imposed on Australian goods in response to several moves by Canberra, including banning Huawei technology from infrastructure and demanding a probe into the origins of COVID-19.
Relations between India and China have also been on a rapid downward trajectory, after 2020's violent confrontation in the Himalayas which saw 20 Indian soldiers and at least four Chinese soldiers killed in brutal hand-to-hand fighting.
kb/wd (Reuters, AFP, dpa) | 0 | 29,187 | 0.388673 | https://www.news18.com/amp/news/world/india-australia-to-sign-free-trade-deal-today-amid-canberras-dispute-with-beijing-4933817.html | 2022-04-02 03:28:23+00:00 | Australia and India will sign a free trade deal on Saturday, with Canberra touting the agreement as “historic", cutting tariffs on more than 85 percent of Australian exports to the country.
In a step toward a more extensive Comprehensive Economic Cooperation Agreement, Canberra and New Delhi will sign the interim deal in the afternoon, which is expected to affect about Aus$12.6 billion ($9.4 billion) in exports.
Highlighting several products hit hard by an ongoing trade dispute with China, such as coal, wine and rock lobsters, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison said the interim deal was a boon to local producers.
“This agreement opens a big door into the world’s fastest-growing major economy for Australian farmers, manufacturers, producers, and so many more," Morrison said in a statement.
The cut to tariffs would also impact sheep meat exports, wool, coal and certain critical minerals.
India was Australia’s seventh-largest trading partner and sixth-largest export market in 2020, accounting for just over four percent of exports last year.
Bilateral trade was around Aus$24 billion ($17 billion) last year, with India exporting its key services sector and Australian coal going the other way.
Both are members of the Quad alliance with the United States and Japan, and are looking to deepen strategic ties to counter China.
Negotiations on a comprehensive deal between India and Australia were launched more than a decade ago but stalled in 2015.
Australian trade minister Dan Tehan said the deal was “laying the foundations for a full free trade agreement".
The announcement comes as Morrison’s conservative government trails in the polls ahead of an election in May. Heightened tensions with the country’s biggest trading partner, China, is a vital issue.
Relations between Beijing and Canberra are at their lowest point in a generation, as many Australian goods are slugged with punitive sanctions and ministerial relations frozen.
China has been angered at Australia’s willingness to legislate against overseas influence operations, to bar Huawei from 5G contracts and to call for an independent investigation into the origins of the coronavirus pandemic.
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The prime ministers of both countries witnessed the signing of the deal in a virtual ceremony. Australia wants to curb dependence on China as its largest trading partner.
Australia and India signed an interim free trade deal on Saturday that will see an easing of tariffs on various Australian goods and duty-free access for India on a vast majority of products.
Trade Minister Dan Tehan and Indian counterpart Piyush Goyal signed the Australia-India Economic Cooperation and Trade Agreement during a virtual ceremony witnessed by Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison and India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Morrison told reporters that the agreement with India represented "one of the biggest economic doors there is to open."
Morrison also described the countries as "two dynamic regional economies, like-minded democracies, working together for mutual benefit."
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi called it a "watershed moment."
"On the basis of this pact, together we will be able to increase the resilience of supply chains, and also contribute to the stability of the Indo-Pacific region," Modi said.
In 2020 India was Australia's seventh-largest trading partner, according to the Australian government, with two-way trade between the two countries valued at over $17.9 billion (€16.2 billion). Australia wants to get into India's top three export markets by 2035.
The deal will see tariffs removed on more than 85% of Australian goods exported to India, which include sheep meat, wool, coal and copper, among others.
In return 96% of Indian goods arriving in Australia will be duty-free.
Both India and Australia have over recent years experienced strained diplomatic relations with China.
Over the past two years, Australia has seen a rapid deterioration of relations with Beijing, with tariffs imposed on Australian goods in response to several moves by Canberra, including banning Huawei technology from infrastructure and demanding a probe into the origins of COVID-19.
Relations between India and China have also been on a rapid downward trajectory, after 2020's violent confrontation in the Himalayas which saw 20 Indian soldiers and at least four Chinese soldiers killed in brutal hand-to-hand fighting.
kb/wd (Reuters, AFP, dpa) | 1 | 29,622 | 0.388673 | https://www.news18.com/news/world/india-australia-to-sign-free-trade-deal-today-amid-canberras-dispute-with-beijing-4933817.html | 2022-04-02 03:31:57+00:00 | Australia and India will sign a free trade deal on Saturday, with Canberra touting the agreement as “historic", cutting tariffs on more than 85 percent of Australian exports to the country.
In a step toward a more extensive Comprehensive Economic Cooperation Agreement, Canberra and New Delhi will sign the interim deal in the afternoon, which is expected to affect about Aus$12.6 billion ($9.4 billion) in exports.
Highlighting several products hit hard by an ongoing trade dispute with China, such as coal, wine and rock lobsters, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison said the interim deal was a boon to local producers.
“This agreement opens a big door into the world’s fastest-growing major economy for Australian farmers, manufacturers, producers, and so many more," Morrison said in a statement.
The cut to tariffs would also impact sheep meat exports, wool, coal and certain critical minerals.
India was Australia’s seventh-largest trading partner and sixth-largest export market in 2020, accounting for just over four percent of exports last year.
Bilateral trade was around Aus$24 billion ($17 billion) last year, with India exporting its key services sector and Australian coal going the other way.
Both are members of the Quad alliance with the United States and Japan, and are looking to deepen strategic ties to counter China.
Negotiations on a comprehensive deal between India and Australia were launched more than a decade ago but stalled in 2015.
Australian trade minister Dan Tehan said the deal was “laying the foundations for a full free trade agreement".
The announcement comes as Morrison’s conservative government trails in the polls ahead of an election in May. Heightened tensions with the country’s biggest trading partner, China, is a vital issue.
Relations between Beijing and Canberra are at their lowest point in a generation, as many Australian goods are slugged with punitive sanctions and ministerial relations frozen.
China has been angered at Australia’s willingness to legislate against overseas influence operations, to bar Huawei from 5G contracts and to call for an independent investigation into the origins of the coronavirus pandemic.
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The prime ministers of both countries witnessed the signing of the deal in a virtual ceremony. Australia wants to curb dependence on China as its largest trading partner.
Australia and India signed an interim free trade deal on Saturday that will see an easing of tariffs on various Australian goods and duty-free access for India on a vast majority of products.
Trade Minister Dan Tehan and Indian counterpart Piyush Goyal signed the Australia-India Economic Cooperation and Trade Agreement during a virtual ceremony witnessed by Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison and India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Morrison told reporters that the agreement with India represented "one of the biggest economic doors there is to open."
Morrison also described the countries as "two dynamic regional economies, like-minded democracies, working together for mutual benefit."
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi called it a "watershed moment."
"On the basis of this pact, together we will be able to increase the resilience of supply chains, and also contribute to the stability of the Indo-Pacific region," Modi said.
In 2020 India was Australia's seventh-largest trading partner, according to the Australian government, with two-way trade between the two countries valued at over $17.9 billion (€16.2 billion). Australia wants to get into India's top three export markets by 2035.
The deal will see tariffs removed on more than 85% of Australian goods exported to India, which include sheep meat, wool, coal and copper, among others.
In return 96% of Indian goods arriving in Australia will be duty-free.
Both India and Australia have over recent years experienced strained diplomatic relations with China.
Over the past two years, Australia has seen a rapid deterioration of relations with Beijing, with tariffs imposed on Australian goods in response to several moves by Canberra, including banning Huawei technology from infrastructure and demanding a probe into the origins of COVID-19.
Relations between India and China have also been on a rapid downward trajectory, after 2020's violent confrontation in the Himalayas which saw 20 Indian soldiers and at least four Chinese soldiers killed in brutal hand-to-hand fighting.
kb/wd (Reuters, AFP, dpa) | 2 | 62 | 0.502925 | https://www.sundayguardianlive.com/news/india-australia-sign-trade-pact-boost-ties-pm-modi-calls-watershed-moment | 2022-04-06 10:39:21+00:00 | New Delhi: India on Saturday signed a massive historic trade deal with Australia aiming to boost economic ties between the two countries. Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that the India-Australia Economic Cooperation and Trade Agreement is a “watershed moment” for bilateral ties. The interim free trade deal aims to eliminate 85 per cent tariffs on Australian goods exports to India. “Consensus on such an important agreement in such a short period of time shows the mutual trust between the two countries. This is truly a watershed moment for our bilateral relations,” PM Modi said at a virtual signing ceremony of the agreement. PM Modi said the newly signed trade deal will contribute to the increasing supply chains resilience and stability of the Indo-Pacific region. “Great potential between our two economies to fulfill each other’s needs. With this Agreement, we will be able to benefit from opportunities. On the basis of this Agreement, together we will be able to contribute to increasing supply chains resilience and stability of the Indo-Pacific region,” PM Modi said. The Agreement was signed virtually in Melbourne by Dan Tehan, Australian Minister for Trade, Tourism and Investment, with Union Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal in New Delhi. Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison said that the signing of the Agreement further develops on the promise of economic relationship between the two countries.
In his opening address, Dan Tehan thanked PM Modi and Australian PM Scott Morrison for inking the trade deal. “Thank You for what you have invested into this agreement through your friendship and your determination to bring out two countries together to find ourselves at this historic moment,” the Australian trade minister said. He also thanked his Indian counterpart Piyush Goyal. Tehan said, “To my good friend Piyush Goyal, Thank You for your friendship over the last seven to eight months. We have worked tirelessly with our negotiators to make sure that we have got to this occasion.”
“We are very confident that this deal will see two-way trade, the trade between our nations will double in the coming years. We also know that this agreement will underpin the economic stability of the Indo-Pacific. It is an agreement for its time, it is an agreement for this moment and it’s wonderful to be able to join with you to sign it. What a wonderful occasion to be doing with on India’s New Year. This will create a new dawn for our nations but also it is wonderful to be able to celebrate on such an occasion,” added Tehan. The Australian government said that the deal will eliminate tariffs on more than 85% of Australian goods exports to India, rising to almost 91 per cent over 10 years. |
https://www.news-journalonline.com/story/sports/columns/2022/04/02/tiger-woods-playing-2022-masters-tease-full-bloom-update/7231012001/ | The Tiger Tease is in full bloom ahead of Augusta National's Masters | Ken Willis
Will he or won’t he?
Plenty of guesses and guessers out there, but only a precious few know which way Tiger Woods is leaning as another Thursday at Augusta creeps in close enough to smell the dogwoods.
The fact Tiger is entertaining the possibility is quite shocking to those who fully wrote him off last winter after the car crash left his right leg in disarray.
The shocked masses have gotten over it by now, just as they got over it after they wrongly wrote him off back when … where’s the list … here it is: Back when he wrecked his personal life (and the family Truckster!), re-injured his knee, knee again, neck, back, knee, back again, the jail footage, the back again …
Think you can hang?:So, you wanna play Augusta National? Let's negotiate the terms
WHICH FINGER?:So, you wanna play Augusta National? Let's negotiate the terms | KEN WILLIS
MASTERS UNVITE:Mickelson's Masters no-show will be the first of its kind | KEN WILLIS
Or something like that.
Anyway, time to stretch and see if that arm can still make it around for a self-pat on the back. Yes it can, so let’s go back 13 months to this little corner of the sports-writin’ world and see what was suggested.
How bad was Tiger Woods' injury?
Roll the tape …
“We’re talking golf, not football, hockey or any other sporting activity where a 10% or larger slide from peak legs would end a career. If he’s able to first walk, then walk long distances, one day after another, and handle the physical demands of all the practice hours necessary at that level of golf, you don’t write him off.
“Yes, when you pile on the issues regarding a fragile spine, along with the scarred knees, the multipliers add up to long odds. But still, this is only mountain-climbing in a rhetorical sense.”
We sometimes sound smart in this “business,” but rarely are proven smart, so we take our shots when they arise.
Now, let’s move on from self-indulgence to another offering from the Greatest Hits album: Cynicism.
The inner cynic wants to go public for a moment and remind everyone of what just might be driving Tiger’s flirtations with the 2022 Masters.
Finances. There, I said it.
Granted, it’s a fool’s chore to sell off Tiger’s competitive desires and, assuming you’ve glanced at the trophy case, Tiger’s competitive accomplishments.
Going back to the day Old Tom Morris quit shaving, there are only three men in golf history who can join Tiger Woods in the discussion about the greatest golfer ever (Bobby Jones, Ben Hogan, and Jack Nicklaus, in case you were briefly stumped).
Tiger didn’t get there without an inner fire. Nicklaus handled it best and for the longest time. Hogan might’ve topped them all if not for his own car crash that severely limited his tee times (the late-career yips didn’t help, either). Jones quit at 28 and not just because he’d accomplished his Grand Slam, but also because the pressure of competition was destroying his innards.
Like it is to Jack, competitive fire is oxygen to Tiger.
What is the PGA Tour's Player Impact Program?
But (here comes the cynic) so is contractual opportunities. From Harry Vardon to Arnold Palmer to Tiger Woods, the world’s greatest golfers have also leveraged their talents to become some of the sports world’s greatest earners.
Tiger infamously lost some major corporate partnerships over a decade ago when the personal stuff exploded. As his health and image recovered, he began cobbling together quite a collection of new endorsement deals.
You don’t need a business degree to assume those contracts are contingent — at least in part and perhaps major part — on Tiger playing in the biggest tournaments. I hear what you’re saying and realize it’s easy to suggest, “Tiger doesn’t need the money,” but the spigot of competitive juices doesn’t turn off when these competitive giants slam the trunk lid and leave the club parking lot.
The inner cynic also needs to point out the PIP.
Last year, the PGA Tour introduced the “Player Impact Program,” a bonus pool of $40 million spread out at year’s end to the game’s most popular stars. The measuring tools include a variety of metrics tracking social media, Google searches, TV mentions, etc.
Without hitting a shot in a regular Tour event, Tiger finished atop the PIP and received the $8 million first–place payout. When they label someone as “bigger than the game,” this is your example.
This year, the PIP pool increases to $50 million. (By the way, the inner cynic jumps in to say the PIP is considered a Tour payout to help keep the biggest stars from perhaps jumping to a start-up golf league with very deep pockets).
While considering the PIP, stand back and soak in all the media attention — social and otherwise — Tiger has gathered this past week. First by doing nothing: simply leaving his name on the Masters entry list as Phil Mickelson was removed.
Then by doing something: flying to Augusta for an 18-hole look-see, presumably to test the right leg on a hilly course not kind to the unsteady.
Talk about the “leader in the clubhouse.” Tiger’s PIP numbers are through the roof.
Imagine if he tees up a Bridgestone this coming Thursday in Augusta … regardless of the reason why.
— Reach Ken Willis at ken.willis@news-jrnl.com | 0 | 92,769 | 0.556132 | https://golfweek.usatoday.com/2022/04/01/christine-brennan-tiger-woods-2022-masters-would-gift-golf/ | 2022-04-01 19:49:43+00:00 | Will he or won’t he? Can he or can’t he?
The drama runs deep as the Masters Tournament approaches, and, of course, it centers exclusively on Tiger Woods, as it has for a quarter of a century now. That’s normal and expected. Of course the Masters is coming and of course we’re talking about Tiger.
This year, though, it’s actually stunning to be having this conversation. It was little more than 13 months ago that Woods was in that awful car accident. His right leg was shattered. Golf was a distant dream for him at that point. If he could just walk again, that would be a successful recovery, that would be enough. That was the thinking not all that long ago.
Then, earlier this week, Tiger showed up at Augusta National Golf Club and played 18 holes.
What does that mean? Is he in? Or was he just testing out the leg on the hills of Augusta National, trying to gauge what it will take to make a comeback?
So far, anyone who knows isn’t saying. But as long as Tiger doesn’t withdraw, there’s obviously still a chance he will play. What was unthinkable just a few months ago is still probably unlikely, but not impossible.
So let’s explore the idea, even if it ends up not happening: Tiger playing in the 2022 Masters.
What a gift that would be to the Masters, and to the game of golf. Tiger needs golf, but golf has always needed Tiger even more.
With Phil Mickelson sitting in the penalty box for who knows how long, and Tiger out since his accident, men’s golf is struggling to find transcendent personalities who can draw in people other than those who already are hooked, which is mainly white males who play golf.
Tiger is that guy, and has been since he won his first Masters in 1997. Who can bring grandmothers running to their TVs on Sunday afternoon of Masters week? Tiger, Phil — and, to a lesser extent, perhaps Jordan Spieth and Rory McIlroy. Am I missing anyone? I don’t think so.
McIlroy was at Augusta National when Tiger played his practice round Tuesday.
“He was there, obviously, and he’s trying to see what he can do,” McIlroy told reporters at this week’s Valero Texas Open in San Antonio. “Obviously no one knows but him if he can make it around and if he believes he can compete.”
But if he somehow can, McIlroy said, “I think for golf and for the Masters tournament and for everyone, to have Tiger there would be phenomenal. I think it just adds to the event. Obviously, it does. Anything Tiger Woods does in the game of golf is heightened whenever he’s there. I mean, it would be awesome for him to be there.”
If Tiger were to be able to play, he changes everything about next week at the Masters. He would turn the usual routine at Augusta National into a spectacle, in a great way. His comeback story would be extraordinary at any age, but Tiger is now 46, which happens to be the same age Jack Nicklaus was when he became the oldest winner of the Masters in 1986. Ah, the symmetry.
Fans will be back in droves at Augusta National as COVID-19 restrictions have been lifted, meaning this will be the first “normal” Masters since 2019, which was won by, well, you know who, the golfer who isn’t expected to play, but what if he does? |
https://www.news-journalonline.com/story/sports/columns/2022/04/02/tiger-woods-playing-2022-masters-tease-full-bloom-update/7231012001/ | The Tiger Tease is in full bloom ahead of Augusta National's Masters | Ken Willis
Will he or won’t he?
Plenty of guesses and guessers out there, but only a precious few know which way Tiger Woods is leaning as another Thursday at Augusta creeps in close enough to smell the dogwoods.
The fact Tiger is entertaining the possibility is quite shocking to those who fully wrote him off last winter after the car crash left his right leg in disarray.
The shocked masses have gotten over it by now, just as they got over it after they wrongly wrote him off back when … where’s the list … here it is: Back when he wrecked his personal life (and the family Truckster!), re-injured his knee, knee again, neck, back, knee, back again, the jail footage, the back again …
Think you can hang?:So, you wanna play Augusta National? Let's negotiate the terms
WHICH FINGER?:So, you wanna play Augusta National? Let's negotiate the terms | KEN WILLIS
MASTERS UNVITE:Mickelson's Masters no-show will be the first of its kind | KEN WILLIS
Or something like that.
Anyway, time to stretch and see if that arm can still make it around for a self-pat on the back. Yes it can, so let’s go back 13 months to this little corner of the sports-writin’ world and see what was suggested.
How bad was Tiger Woods' injury?
Roll the tape …
“We’re talking golf, not football, hockey or any other sporting activity where a 10% or larger slide from peak legs would end a career. If he’s able to first walk, then walk long distances, one day after another, and handle the physical demands of all the practice hours necessary at that level of golf, you don’t write him off.
“Yes, when you pile on the issues regarding a fragile spine, along with the scarred knees, the multipliers add up to long odds. But still, this is only mountain-climbing in a rhetorical sense.”
We sometimes sound smart in this “business,” but rarely are proven smart, so we take our shots when they arise.
Now, let’s move on from self-indulgence to another offering from the Greatest Hits album: Cynicism.
The inner cynic wants to go public for a moment and remind everyone of what just might be driving Tiger’s flirtations with the 2022 Masters.
Finances. There, I said it.
Granted, it’s a fool’s chore to sell off Tiger’s competitive desires and, assuming you’ve glanced at the trophy case, Tiger’s competitive accomplishments.
Going back to the day Old Tom Morris quit shaving, there are only three men in golf history who can join Tiger Woods in the discussion about the greatest golfer ever (Bobby Jones, Ben Hogan, and Jack Nicklaus, in case you were briefly stumped).
Tiger didn’t get there without an inner fire. Nicklaus handled it best and for the longest time. Hogan might’ve topped them all if not for his own car crash that severely limited his tee times (the late-career yips didn’t help, either). Jones quit at 28 and not just because he’d accomplished his Grand Slam, but also because the pressure of competition was destroying his innards.
Like it is to Jack, competitive fire is oxygen to Tiger.
What is the PGA Tour's Player Impact Program?
But (here comes the cynic) so is contractual opportunities. From Harry Vardon to Arnold Palmer to Tiger Woods, the world’s greatest golfers have also leveraged their talents to become some of the sports world’s greatest earners.
Tiger infamously lost some major corporate partnerships over a decade ago when the personal stuff exploded. As his health and image recovered, he began cobbling together quite a collection of new endorsement deals.
You don’t need a business degree to assume those contracts are contingent — at least in part and perhaps major part — on Tiger playing in the biggest tournaments. I hear what you’re saying and realize it’s easy to suggest, “Tiger doesn’t need the money,” but the spigot of competitive juices doesn’t turn off when these competitive giants slam the trunk lid and leave the club parking lot.
The inner cynic also needs to point out the PIP.
Last year, the PGA Tour introduced the “Player Impact Program,” a bonus pool of $40 million spread out at year’s end to the game’s most popular stars. The measuring tools include a variety of metrics tracking social media, Google searches, TV mentions, etc.
Without hitting a shot in a regular Tour event, Tiger finished atop the PIP and received the $8 million first–place payout. When they label someone as “bigger than the game,” this is your example.
This year, the PIP pool increases to $50 million. (By the way, the inner cynic jumps in to say the PIP is considered a Tour payout to help keep the biggest stars from perhaps jumping to a start-up golf league with very deep pockets).
While considering the PIP, stand back and soak in all the media attention — social and otherwise — Tiger has gathered this past week. First by doing nothing: simply leaving his name on the Masters entry list as Phil Mickelson was removed.
Then by doing something: flying to Augusta for an 18-hole look-see, presumably to test the right leg on a hilly course not kind to the unsteady.
Talk about the “leader in the clubhouse.” Tiger’s PIP numbers are through the roof.
Imagine if he tees up a Bridgestone this coming Thursday in Augusta … regardless of the reason why.
— Reach Ken Willis at ken.willis@news-jrnl.com | 1 | 108,897 | 0.565739 | https://uproxx.com/sports/tiger-woods-the-masters-plan-play-win-video-press-conference/ | 2022-04-05 19:28:55+00:00 | Less than 14 months ago, Tiger Woods was in a horrific car crash that required multiple surgeries to repair his right leg, which doctors worried they may have to amputate at one point due to the severity of his injuries. Not many expected we would ever see Tiger Woods back at the top of the golf world and especially not back a year after that crash, but in November he posted a video of him hitting a ball on the range that indicated he was on the comeback trail that had golf fans in a frenzy.
Woods played in a father-son event in December that allowed him to play using a golf cart to get around, and it was clear that his swing was making a full recovery. The bigger question was whether he could handle the rigors of a PGA Tour event, walking 72 holes over four days and all the stress that places on his leg. For months, Woods has been making more and more public appearances and was never willing to fully rule out playing at this year’s Masters — while also being careful not to get everyone’s hopes up.
However, the last two weeks it has gone from feeling like a long shot we’d see Tiger prowling around Augusta National Golf Club to feeling like a lock, as he’s been on the grounds practicing and playing, testing that leg over and over. On Tuesday, Woods met with the media in the most anticipated pre-tournament press conference ever, and indicated that, as of today, he was in fact planning on playing in the tournament.
"As of right now I feel like I am going to play."
Tiger Woods announces he PLANS to play the 2022 Masters Tournament. pic.twitter.com/zTAel6qstx
— CBS Sports HQ (@CBSSportsHQ) April 5, 2022
That is the first confirmation from Woods, who noted he still will play nine more holes on Wednesday to see how his leg reacts to more of the strenuous walk that is Augusta National, but barring something unforeseen, he’ll tee it up on Thursday with the best golfers in the world. As for expectations, it should come as no surprise that Tiger believes he can win another green jacket, noting that his golf game is far from the concern right now.
Reporter: Do you think you can win the Masters this week?
Tiger Woods: I do.
Who else CAN'T WAIT FOR THURSDAY? pic.twitter.com/rcHCdUBX9r
— CBS Sports HQ (@CBSSportsHQ) April 5, 2022
No one moves the needle like Tiger Woods and that’s been the case for 25 years, when he first won a green jacket back in 1997. Making his return at the place where his legend truly began feels right, and in the words of Chubbs, he’s going to play and by god, he’s going to win. |
https://www.news-journalonline.com/story/sports/columns/2022/04/02/tiger-woods-playing-2022-masters-tease-full-bloom-update/7231012001/ | The Tiger Tease is in full bloom ahead of Augusta National's Masters | Ken Willis
Will he or won’t he?
Plenty of guesses and guessers out there, but only a precious few know which way Tiger Woods is leaning as another Thursday at Augusta creeps in close enough to smell the dogwoods.
The fact Tiger is entertaining the possibility is quite shocking to those who fully wrote him off last winter after the car crash left his right leg in disarray.
The shocked masses have gotten over it by now, just as they got over it after they wrongly wrote him off back when … where’s the list … here it is: Back when he wrecked his personal life (and the family Truckster!), re-injured his knee, knee again, neck, back, knee, back again, the jail footage, the back again …
Think you can hang?:So, you wanna play Augusta National? Let's negotiate the terms
WHICH FINGER?:So, you wanna play Augusta National? Let's negotiate the terms | KEN WILLIS
MASTERS UNVITE:Mickelson's Masters no-show will be the first of its kind | KEN WILLIS
Or something like that.
Anyway, time to stretch and see if that arm can still make it around for a self-pat on the back. Yes it can, so let’s go back 13 months to this little corner of the sports-writin’ world and see what was suggested.
How bad was Tiger Woods' injury?
Roll the tape …
“We’re talking golf, not football, hockey or any other sporting activity where a 10% or larger slide from peak legs would end a career. If he’s able to first walk, then walk long distances, one day after another, and handle the physical demands of all the practice hours necessary at that level of golf, you don’t write him off.
“Yes, when you pile on the issues regarding a fragile spine, along with the scarred knees, the multipliers add up to long odds. But still, this is only mountain-climbing in a rhetorical sense.”
We sometimes sound smart in this “business,” but rarely are proven smart, so we take our shots when they arise.
Now, let’s move on from self-indulgence to another offering from the Greatest Hits album: Cynicism.
The inner cynic wants to go public for a moment and remind everyone of what just might be driving Tiger’s flirtations with the 2022 Masters.
Finances. There, I said it.
Granted, it’s a fool’s chore to sell off Tiger’s competitive desires and, assuming you’ve glanced at the trophy case, Tiger’s competitive accomplishments.
Going back to the day Old Tom Morris quit shaving, there are only three men in golf history who can join Tiger Woods in the discussion about the greatest golfer ever (Bobby Jones, Ben Hogan, and Jack Nicklaus, in case you were briefly stumped).
Tiger didn’t get there without an inner fire. Nicklaus handled it best and for the longest time. Hogan might’ve topped them all if not for his own car crash that severely limited his tee times (the late-career yips didn’t help, either). Jones quit at 28 and not just because he’d accomplished his Grand Slam, but also because the pressure of competition was destroying his innards.
Like it is to Jack, competitive fire is oxygen to Tiger.
What is the PGA Tour's Player Impact Program?
But (here comes the cynic) so is contractual opportunities. From Harry Vardon to Arnold Palmer to Tiger Woods, the world’s greatest golfers have also leveraged their talents to become some of the sports world’s greatest earners.
Tiger infamously lost some major corporate partnerships over a decade ago when the personal stuff exploded. As his health and image recovered, he began cobbling together quite a collection of new endorsement deals.
You don’t need a business degree to assume those contracts are contingent — at least in part and perhaps major part — on Tiger playing in the biggest tournaments. I hear what you’re saying and realize it’s easy to suggest, “Tiger doesn’t need the money,” but the spigot of competitive juices doesn’t turn off when these competitive giants slam the trunk lid and leave the club parking lot.
The inner cynic also needs to point out the PIP.
Last year, the PGA Tour introduced the “Player Impact Program,” a bonus pool of $40 million spread out at year’s end to the game’s most popular stars. The measuring tools include a variety of metrics tracking social media, Google searches, TV mentions, etc.
Without hitting a shot in a regular Tour event, Tiger finished atop the PIP and received the $8 million first–place payout. When they label someone as “bigger than the game,” this is your example.
This year, the PIP pool increases to $50 million. (By the way, the inner cynic jumps in to say the PIP is considered a Tour payout to help keep the biggest stars from perhaps jumping to a start-up golf league with very deep pockets).
While considering the PIP, stand back and soak in all the media attention — social and otherwise — Tiger has gathered this past week. First by doing nothing: simply leaving his name on the Masters entry list as Phil Mickelson was removed.
Then by doing something: flying to Augusta for an 18-hole look-see, presumably to test the right leg on a hilly course not kind to the unsteady.
Talk about the “leader in the clubhouse.” Tiger’s PIP numbers are through the roof.
Imagine if he tees up a Bridgestone this coming Thursday in Augusta … regardless of the reason why.
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Tiger Woods will make a “game-time decision” on competing at next week’s Masters , the five-time champion said on Sunday as he continues his recovery from the serious leg injuries he suffered in a car crash in February 2021.
Woods said six weeks ago that he had a “long way to go” in his recovery but speculation mounted with each passing day that his return could come at the April 7-10 Masters as he refrained from removing his name from the field of competitors.
“I will be heading up to Augusta today to continue my preparation and practice. It will be a game-time decision on whether I compete,” Woods said on Twitter.
Woods’ single-car crash resulted in a three-week hospital stay in Los Angeles where he faced the possibility of having his right leg amputated. He was then confined to a hospital-type bed for three months at his home in South Florida.
The 46-year-old Woods has not played on the PGA Tour since the November 2020 Masters. His only event since the accident came last December when he finished runner-up alongside his son in a 36-hole exhibition played on a flat course with no rough.
Playing at Augusta National, however, represents one of the more taxing walks on the PGA Tour given its undulating terrain that all but assures golfers will hit from any number of uneven lies during the week.
He said in February that he could “walk on a treadmill all day”, but had a “long way to go” before being fit enough to tackle a course with the undulations of Augusta.
But Woods is no stranger to playing through pain, something he famously proved at the 2008 U.S. Open where he prevailed in a thrilling playoff at Torrey Pines while competing on what was essentially a broken leg.
Woods capped one of the most remarkable comebacks in professional sport when, at the age of 43, he won the Masters in 2019 after enduring years of surgery and personal problems that convinced many the best golfer of his generation was done.
Former world number one Rory McIlroy had said it would be “phenomenal” for the sport to have Woods return to competition at Augusta.
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https://kion546.com/cnn-regional/2022/04/02/i-finally-got-it-former-marine-injured-in-vietnam-war-presented-with-high-school-diploma/ | ‘I finally got it’: Former Marine injured in Vietnam War presented with high school diploma
By Dillon Thomas
Click here for updates on this story
ERIE, Colorado (KCNC) — Nearly 60 years after leaving Erie High School to serve in the Marines during the Vietnam War, veteran Ron Cardenas was finally given the graduation ceremony he earned in the 1960s. Cardenas, now 75, dropped out of high school in the 1960s in pursuit of service to his country. However, the Purple Heart recipient was never given a diploma.
“That first couple weeks (in the Marines) was hell. I wondered, ‘What the hell did I get into?’” Cardenas told CBS4’s Dillon Thomas.
Cardenas said he was in Vietnam when he turned 19 and at one point found himself caught in the middle of a battle with the enemy. He recalled being nearly completely surrounded by enemy fire. Most of his fellow soldiers were unable to escape on their own feet. As he retreated and fought back, Cardenas recalled being trapped while battling for his life.
Cardenas said he found himself in a gun battle with another soldier when he was wounded.
“I know I killed him. But, before I shot him he sent a rocket propelled grenade over. My face was bleeding,” Cardenas said. “A piece of shrapnel took out my left eye.”
Cardenas miraculously lived to tell the story. Since his time in the service he has dedicated many days to coaching students at Erie High School and attending sporting events. He has also worked hard to be able to pay for his children and grandchildren to attend higher education, something he wasn’t able to do without a diploma.
On Friday, students and staff at Erie High School gathered for an assembly to hear from Cardenas about his service. But, while he was on stage the school’s principal, Matt Buchler, also recognized Cardenas by awarding him his diploma.
“It’s a very special day for me,” Cardenas said.
“Today is a really special day in the history of Erie High School,” Buchler said. “One of the messages is about sacrifice. Being a young man, deploying to Vietnam in a war zone, took an enormous amount of courage and heroism.”
Cardenas, a former baseball player for the school, was also awarded the 1964 male athlete of the year award following receiving his diploma.
“This moment has been 58 years in the making for me,” Cardenas said. “It’s something I’ll put next to my kids’ diplomas. See, I got mine, too. It is important to me. It is important to say I finally got it.”
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By Dillon Thomas
Click here for updates on this story
ERIE, Colorado (KCNC) — Nearly 60 years after leaving Erie High School to serve in the Marines during the Vietnam War, veteran Ron Cardenas was finally given the graduation ceremony he earned in the 1960s. Cardenas, now 75, dropped out of high school in the 1960s in pursuit of service to his country. However, the Purple Heart recipient was never given a diploma.
“That first couple weeks (in the Marines) was hell. I wondered, ‘What the hell did I get into?’” Cardenas told CBS4’s Dillon Thomas.
Cardenas said he was in Vietnam when he turned 19 and at one point found himself caught in the middle of a battle with the enemy. He recalled being nearly completely surrounded by enemy fire. Most of his fellow soldiers were unable to escape on their own feet. As he retreated and fought back, Cardenas recalled being trapped while battling for his life.
Cardenas said he found himself in a gun battle with another soldier when he was wounded.
“I know I killed him. But, before I shot him he sent a rocket propelled grenade over. My face was bleeding,” Cardenas said. “A piece of shrapnel took out my left eye.”
Cardenas miraculously lived to tell the story. Since his time in the service he has dedicated many days to coaching students at Erie High School and attending sporting events. He has also worked hard to be able to pay for his children and grandchildren to attend higher education, something he wasn’t able to do without a diploma.
On Friday, students and staff at Erie High School gathered for an assembly to hear from Cardenas about his service. But, while he was on stage the school’s principal, Matt Buchler, also recognized Cardenas by awarding him his diploma.
“It’s a very special day for me,” Cardenas said.
“Today is a really special day in the history of Erie High School,” Buchler said. “One of the messages is about sacrifice. Being a young man, deploying to Vietnam in a war zone, took an enormous amount of courage and heroism.”
Cardenas, a former baseball player for the school, was also awarded the 1964 male athlete of the year award following receiving his diploma.
“This moment has been 58 years in the making for me,” Cardenas said. “It’s something I’ll put next to my kids’ diplomas. See, I got mine, too. It is important to me. It is important to say I finally got it.”
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https://kion546.com/cnn-regional/2022/04/02/i-finally-got-it-former-marine-injured-in-vietnam-war-presented-with-high-school-diploma/ | ‘I finally got it’: Former Marine injured in Vietnam War presented with high school diploma
By Dillon Thomas
Click here for updates on this story
ERIE, Colorado (KCNC) — Nearly 60 years after leaving Erie High School to serve in the Marines during the Vietnam War, veteran Ron Cardenas was finally given the graduation ceremony he earned in the 1960s. Cardenas, now 75, dropped out of high school in the 1960s in pursuit of service to his country. However, the Purple Heart recipient was never given a diploma.
“That first couple weeks (in the Marines) was hell. I wondered, ‘What the hell did I get into?’” Cardenas told CBS4’s Dillon Thomas.
Cardenas said he was in Vietnam when he turned 19 and at one point found himself caught in the middle of a battle with the enemy. He recalled being nearly completely surrounded by enemy fire. Most of his fellow soldiers were unable to escape on their own feet. As he retreated and fought back, Cardenas recalled being trapped while battling for his life.
Cardenas said he found himself in a gun battle with another soldier when he was wounded.
“I know I killed him. But, before I shot him he sent a rocket propelled grenade over. My face was bleeding,” Cardenas said. “A piece of shrapnel took out my left eye.”
Cardenas miraculously lived to tell the story. Since his time in the service he has dedicated many days to coaching students at Erie High School and attending sporting events. He has also worked hard to be able to pay for his children and grandchildren to attend higher education, something he wasn’t able to do without a diploma.
On Friday, students and staff at Erie High School gathered for an assembly to hear from Cardenas about his service. But, while he was on stage the school’s principal, Matt Buchler, also recognized Cardenas by awarding him his diploma.
“It’s a very special day for me,” Cardenas said.
“Today is a really special day in the history of Erie High School,” Buchler said. “One of the messages is about sacrifice. Being a young man, deploying to Vietnam in a war zone, took an enormous amount of courage and heroism.”
Cardenas, a former baseball player for the school, was also awarded the 1964 male athlete of the year award following receiving his diploma.
“This moment has been 58 years in the making for me,” Cardenas said. “It’s something I’ll put next to my kids’ diplomas. See, I got mine, too. It is important to me. It is important to say I finally got it.”
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By Dillon Thomas
Click here for updates on this story
ERIE, Colorado (KCNC) — Nearly 60 years after leaving Erie High School to serve in the Marines during the Vietnam War, veteran Ron Cardenas was finally given the graduation ceremony he earned in the 1960s. Cardenas, now 75, dropped out of high school in the 1960s in pursuit of service to his country. However, the Purple Heart recipient was never given a diploma.
“That first couple weeks (in the Marines) was hell. I wondered, ‘What the hell did I get into?’” Cardenas told CBS4’s Dillon Thomas.
Cardenas said he was in Vietnam when he turned 19 and at one point found himself caught in the middle of a battle with the enemy. He recalled being nearly completely surrounded by enemy fire. Most of his fellow soldiers were unable to escape on their own feet. As he retreated and fought back, Cardenas recalled being trapped while battling for his life.
Cardenas said he found himself in a gun battle with another soldier when he was wounded.
“I know I killed him. But, before I shot him he sent a rocket propelled grenade over. My face was bleeding,” Cardenas said. “A piece of shrapnel took out my left eye.”
Cardenas miraculously lived to tell the story. Since his time in the service he has dedicated many days to coaching students at Erie High School and attending sporting events. He has also worked hard to be able to pay for his children and grandchildren to attend higher education, something he wasn’t able to do without a diploma.
On Friday, students and staff at Erie High School gathered for an assembly to hear from Cardenas about his service. But, while he was on stage the school’s principal, Matt Buchler, also recognized Cardenas by awarding him his diploma.
“It’s a very special day for me,” Cardenas said.
“Today is a really special day in the history of Erie High School,” Buchler said. “One of the messages is about sacrifice. Being a young man, deploying to Vietnam in a war zone, took an enormous amount of courage and heroism.”
Cardenas, a former baseball player for the school, was also awarded the 1964 male athlete of the year award following receiving his diploma.
“This moment has been 58 years in the making for me,” Cardenas said. “It’s something I’ll put next to my kids’ diplomas. See, I got mine, too. It is important to me. It is important to say I finally got it.”
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https://kion546.com/cnn-regional/2022/04/02/i-finally-got-it-former-marine-injured-in-vietnam-war-presented-with-high-school-diploma/ | ‘I finally got it’: Former Marine injured in Vietnam War presented with high school diploma
By Dillon Thomas
Click here for updates on this story
ERIE, Colorado (KCNC) — Nearly 60 years after leaving Erie High School to serve in the Marines during the Vietnam War, veteran Ron Cardenas was finally given the graduation ceremony he earned in the 1960s. Cardenas, now 75, dropped out of high school in the 1960s in pursuit of service to his country. However, the Purple Heart recipient was never given a diploma.
“That first couple weeks (in the Marines) was hell. I wondered, ‘What the hell did I get into?’” Cardenas told CBS4’s Dillon Thomas.
Cardenas said he was in Vietnam when he turned 19 and at one point found himself caught in the middle of a battle with the enemy. He recalled being nearly completely surrounded by enemy fire. Most of his fellow soldiers were unable to escape on their own feet. As he retreated and fought back, Cardenas recalled being trapped while battling for his life.
Cardenas said he found himself in a gun battle with another soldier when he was wounded.
“I know I killed him. But, before I shot him he sent a rocket propelled grenade over. My face was bleeding,” Cardenas said. “A piece of shrapnel took out my left eye.”
Cardenas miraculously lived to tell the story. Since his time in the service he has dedicated many days to coaching students at Erie High School and attending sporting events. He has also worked hard to be able to pay for his children and grandchildren to attend higher education, something he wasn’t able to do without a diploma.
On Friday, students and staff at Erie High School gathered for an assembly to hear from Cardenas about his service. But, while he was on stage the school’s principal, Matt Buchler, also recognized Cardenas by awarding him his diploma.
“It’s a very special day for me,” Cardenas said.
“Today is a really special day in the history of Erie High School,” Buchler said. “One of the messages is about sacrifice. Being a young man, deploying to Vietnam in a war zone, took an enormous amount of courage and heroism.”
Cardenas, a former baseball player for the school, was also awarded the 1964 male athlete of the year award following receiving his diploma.
“This moment has been 58 years in the making for me,” Cardenas said. “It’s something I’ll put next to my kids’ diplomas. See, I got mine, too. It is important to me. It is important to say I finally got it.”
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By Dillon Thomas
Click here for updates on this story
ERIE, Colorado (KCNC) — Nearly 60 years after leaving Erie High School to serve in the Marines during the Vietnam War, veteran Ron Cardenas was finally given the graduation ceremony he earned in the 1960s. Cardenas, now 75, dropped out of high school in the 1960s in pursuit of service to his country. However, the Purple Heart recipient was never given a diploma.
“That first couple weeks (in the Marines) was hell. I wondered, ‘What the hell did I get into?’” Cardenas told CBS4’s Dillon Thomas.
Cardenas said he was in Vietnam when he turned 19 and at one point found himself caught in the middle of a battle with the enemy. He recalled being nearly completely surrounded by enemy fire. Most of his fellow soldiers were unable to escape on their own feet. As he retreated and fought back, Cardenas recalled being trapped while battling for his life.
Cardenas said he found himself in a gun battle with another soldier when he was wounded.
“I know I killed him. But, before I shot him he sent a rocket propelled grenade over. My face was bleeding,” Cardenas said. “A piece of shrapnel took out my left eye.”
Cardenas miraculously lived to tell the story. Since his time in the service he has dedicated many days to coaching students at Erie High School and attending sporting events. He has also worked hard to be able to pay for his children and grandchildren to attend higher education, something he wasn’t able to do without a diploma.
On Friday, students and staff at Erie High School gathered for an assembly to hear from Cardenas about his service. But, while he was on stage the school’s principal, Matt Buchler, also recognized Cardenas by awarding him his diploma.
“It’s a very special day for me,” Cardenas said.
“Today is a really special day in the history of Erie High School,” Buchler said. “One of the messages is about sacrifice. Being a young man, deploying to Vietnam in a war zone, took an enormous amount of courage and heroism.”
Cardenas, a former baseball player for the school, was also awarded the 1964 male athlete of the year award following receiving his diploma.
“This moment has been 58 years in the making for me,” Cardenas said. “It’s something I’ll put next to my kids’ diplomas. See, I got mine, too. It is important to me. It is important to say I finally got it.”
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https://www.thecourier.co.uk/lifestyle/3164555/taron-egerton-drops-out-of-west-end-play-due-to-personal-reasons/ | Taron Egerton has withdrawn from the lead role in his West End play due to “personal reasons”.
The Rocketman star, 32, has been performing in a revival of Mike Bartlett’s 2009 play Cock at London’s Ambassadors Theatre.
But he has been beset by difficulties since starting the run in March – fainting during the first night and then later testing positive for Covid-19.
He will be replaced by his understudy Joel Harper-Jackson, who has stepped in on both occasions, for the remainder of the run until June 4.
A statement from the producers said: “The part was originally played in this production by Taron Egerton, who has had to withdraw from the production due to personal reasons.
“Joel understudied the role and has been playing the part of M for the past 10 days while Taron was absent from the production having tested positive for Covid.”
Director Marianne Elliott said: “Joel is an absolute hero. He is a brilliant and gifted actor and stepped into the role at extremely short notice.
“Audiences have been standing and cheering and so am I.”
Co-star Jonathan Bailey, who also stars in Bridgerton, added: “Joel is an immense talent and we couldn’t be luckier to have him on board. I am proud to continue sharing the stage with him.”
During the show’s opening night, Egerton fainted on stage and was attended to by a doctor in the audience, with Harper-Jackson stepping in to finish the play.
Following the initial incident, Egerton reassured fans he was “completely fine”, but had suffered a “sore neck and a bruised ego”.
He vowed to be “back with a vengeance” and thanked Harper-Jackson.
Last week, he was forced to withdraw from the play again after testing positive for Covid-19. | 0 | 64,643 | 0 | https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/entertainment/4126229/taron-egerton-drops-out-of-west-end-play-due-to-personal-reasons/ | 2022-04-03 02:39:41+00:00 | Taron Egerton has withdrawn from the lead role in his West End play due to “personal reasons”.
The Rocketman star, 32, has been performing in a revival of Mike Bartlett’s 2009 play Cock at London’s Ambassadors Theatre.
But he has been beset by difficulties since starting the run in March – fainting during the first night and then later testing positive for Covid-19.
He will be replaced by his understudy Joel Harper-Jackson, who has stepped in on both occasions, for the remainder of the run until June 4.
A statement from the producers said: “The part was originally played in this production by Taron Egerton, who has had to withdraw from the production due to personal reasons.
“Joel understudied the role and has been playing the part of M for the past 10 days while Taron was absent from the production having tested positive for Covid.”
Director Marianne Elliott said: “Joel is an absolute hero. He is a brilliant and gifted actor and stepped into the role at extremely short notice.
“Audiences have been standing and cheering and so am I.”
Co-star Jonathan Bailey, who also stars in Bridgerton, added: “Joel is an immense talent and we couldn’t be luckier to have him on board. I am proud to continue sharing the stage with him.”
During the show’s opening night, Egerton fainted on stage and was attended to by a doctor in the audience, with Harper-Jackson stepping in to finish the play.
Following the initial incident, Egerton reassured fans he was “completely fine”, but had suffered a “sore neck and a bruised ego”.
He vowed to be “back with a vengeance” and thanked Harper-Jackson.
Last week, he was forced to withdraw from the play again after testing positive for Covid-19. |
https://www.thecourier.co.uk/lifestyle/3164555/taron-egerton-drops-out-of-west-end-play-due-to-personal-reasons/ | Taron Egerton has withdrawn from the lead role in his West End play due to “personal reasons”.
The Rocketman star, 32, has been performing in a revival of Mike Bartlett’s 2009 play Cock at London’s Ambassadors Theatre.
But he has been beset by difficulties since starting the run in March – fainting during the first night and then later testing positive for Covid-19.
He will be replaced by his understudy Joel Harper-Jackson, who has stepped in on both occasions, for the remainder of the run until June 4.
A statement from the producers said: “The part was originally played in this production by Taron Egerton, who has had to withdraw from the production due to personal reasons.
“Joel understudied the role and has been playing the part of M for the past 10 days while Taron was absent from the production having tested positive for Covid.”
Director Marianne Elliott said: “Joel is an absolute hero. He is a brilliant and gifted actor and stepped into the role at extremely short notice.
“Audiences have been standing and cheering and so am I.”
Co-star Jonathan Bailey, who also stars in Bridgerton, added: “Joel is an immense talent and we couldn’t be luckier to have him on board. I am proud to continue sharing the stage with him.”
During the show’s opening night, Egerton fainted on stage and was attended to by a doctor in the audience, with Harper-Jackson stepping in to finish the play.
Following the initial incident, Egerton reassured fans he was “completely fine”, but had suffered a “sore neck and a bruised ego”.
He vowed to be “back with a vengeance” and thanked Harper-Jackson.
Last week, he was forced to withdraw from the play again after testing positive for Covid-19. | 1 | 132,453 | 0 | https://www.shropshirestar.com/entertainment/showbiz/2022/04/02/taron-egerton-drops-out-of-west-end-play-due-to-personal-reasons/ | 2022-04-02 16:42:49+00:00 | Taron Egerton has withdrawn from the lead role in his West End play due to “personal reasons”.
The Rocketman star, 32, has been performing in a revival of Mike Bartlett’s 2009 play Cock at London’s Ambassadors Theatre.
But he has been beset by difficulties since starting the run in March – fainting during the first night and then later testing positive for Covid-19.
He will be replaced by his understudy Joel Harper-Jackson, who has stepped in on both occasions, for the remainder of the run until June 4.
A statement from the producers said: “The part was originally played in this production by Taron Egerton, who has had to withdraw from the production due to personal reasons.
“Joel understudied the role and has been playing the part of M for the past 10 days while Taron was absent from the production having tested positive for Covid.”
Director Marianne Elliott said: “Joel is an absolute hero. He is a brilliant and gifted actor and stepped into the role at extremely short notice.
“Audiences have been standing and cheering and so am I.”
Co-star Jonathan Bailey, who also stars in Bridgerton, added: “Joel is an immense talent and we couldn’t be luckier to have him on board. I am proud to continue sharing the stage with him.”
During the show’s opening night, Egerton fainted on stage and was attended to by a doctor in the audience, with Harper-Jackson stepping in to finish the play.
Following the initial incident, Egerton reassured fans he was “completely fine”, but had suffered a “sore neck and a bruised ego”.
He vowed to be “back with a vengeance” and thanked Harper-Jackson.
Last week, he was forced to withdraw from the play again after testing positive for Covid-19. |
https://www.thecourier.co.uk/lifestyle/3164555/taron-egerton-drops-out-of-west-end-play-due-to-personal-reasons/ | Taron Egerton has withdrawn from the lead role in his West End play due to “personal reasons”.
The Rocketman star, 32, has been performing in a revival of Mike Bartlett’s 2009 play Cock at London’s Ambassadors Theatre.
But he has been beset by difficulties since starting the run in March – fainting during the first night and then later testing positive for Covid-19.
He will be replaced by his understudy Joel Harper-Jackson, who has stepped in on both occasions, for the remainder of the run until June 4.
A statement from the producers said: “The part was originally played in this production by Taron Egerton, who has had to withdraw from the production due to personal reasons.
“Joel understudied the role and has been playing the part of M for the past 10 days while Taron was absent from the production having tested positive for Covid.”
Director Marianne Elliott said: “Joel is an absolute hero. He is a brilliant and gifted actor and stepped into the role at extremely short notice.
“Audiences have been standing and cheering and so am I.”
Co-star Jonathan Bailey, who also stars in Bridgerton, added: “Joel is an immense talent and we couldn’t be luckier to have him on board. I am proud to continue sharing the stage with him.”
During the show’s opening night, Egerton fainted on stage and was attended to by a doctor in the audience, with Harper-Jackson stepping in to finish the play.
Following the initial incident, Egerton reassured fans he was “completely fine”, but had suffered a “sore neck and a bruised ego”.
He vowed to be “back with a vengeance” and thanked Harper-Jackson.
Last week, he was forced to withdraw from the play again after testing positive for Covid-19. | 2 | 132,468 | 0 | https://www.expressandstar.com/entertainment/showbiz/2022/04/02/taron-egerton-drops-out-of-west-end-play-due-to-personal-reasons/ | 2022-04-02 16:42:51+00:00 | Taron Egerton has withdrawn from the lead role in his West End play due to “personal reasons”.
The Rocketman star, 32, has been performing in a revival of Mike Bartlett’s 2009 play Cock at London’s Ambassadors Theatre.
But he has been beset by difficulties since starting the run in March – fainting during the first night and then later testing positive for Covid-19.
He will be replaced by his understudy Joel Harper-Jackson, who has stepped in on both occasions, for the remainder of the run until June 4.
A statement from the producers said: “The part was originally played in this production by Taron Egerton, who has had to withdraw from the production due to personal reasons.
“Joel understudied the role and has been playing the part of M for the past 10 days while Taron was absent from the production having tested positive for Covid.”
Director Marianne Elliott said: “Joel is an absolute hero. He is a brilliant and gifted actor and stepped into the role at extremely short notice.
“Audiences have been standing and cheering and so am I.”
Co-star Jonathan Bailey, who also stars in Bridgerton, added: “Joel is an immense talent and we couldn’t be luckier to have him on board. I am proud to continue sharing the stage with him.”
During the show’s opening night, Egerton fainted on stage and was attended to by a doctor in the audience, with Harper-Jackson stepping in to finish the play.
Following the initial incident, Egerton reassured fans he was “completely fine”, but had suffered a “sore neck and a bruised ego”.
He vowed to be “back with a vengeance” and thanked Harper-Jackson.
Last week, he was forced to withdraw from the play again after testing positive for Covid-19. |
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https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/g-sudhakaran-to-skip-party-congress/article65285137.ece | G. Sudhakaran to skip Party Congress
Nothing unusual, says Kodiyeri
Communist Party of India (Marxist) State secretary Kodiyeri Balakrishnan on Saturday maintained that there’s nothing unusual in senior leader G. Sudhakaran deciding to give the forthcoming party congress in Kannur between April 6 and 10 a miss.
“The party does not have any issues with him,” Mr. Balakrishnan told the media in Kannur on the sidelines of a protest organised by the party against the Centre’s ‘anti-people policies’ and rising fuel prices.
Mr. Sudhakaran had informed the party that he was indisposed and would not be in a position to attend the party congress. Those unable to attend the party congress from Ernakulam and Palakkad had also been replaced and, therefore, nothing was amiss, he said.
In a letter to district secretary R. Razar, Mr. Sudhakaran cited health issues for his decision to skip the party congress. The party accepted the request and district secretariat member A. Mahendran was asked to fill in for Mr. Sudhakaran.
The CPI(M) had publicly censured Mr. Sudhakaran last year over alleged lapses in the Left Democratic Front’s electioneering in the Ambalapuzha Assembly constituency.
Further, prior to the CPI(M) State conference held in Kochi in March, Mr. Sudhakaran had written to the party leadership to exclude him from the State committee. Subsequently, he was not included on the new State committee citing the age bar of 75 years set for organisational roles.
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Kannur/Alappuzha April 02, 2022 22:08 ISTNothing unusual, says Kodiyeri
Communist Party of India (Marxist) State secretary Kodiyeri Balakrishnan on Saturday maintained that there’s nothing unusual in senior leader G. Sudhakaran deciding to give the forthcoming party congress in Kannur between April 6 and 10 a miss.
“The party does not have any issues with him,” Mr. Balakrishnan told the media in Kannur on the sidelines of a protest organised by the party against the Centre’s ‘anti-people policies’ and rising fuel prices.
Mr. Sudhakaran had informed the party that he was indisposed and would not be in a position to attend the party congress. Those unable to attend the party congress from Ernakulam and Palakkad had also been replaced and, therefore, nothing was amiss, he said.
In a letter to district secretary R. Razar, Mr. Sudhakaran cited health issues for his decision to skip the party congress. The party accepted the request and district secretariat member A. Mahendran was asked to fill in for Mr. Sudhakaran.
The CPI(M) had publicly censured Mr. Sudhakaran last year over alleged lapses in the Left Democratic Front’s electioneering in the Ambalapuzha Assembly constituency.
Further, prior to the CPI(M) State conference held in Kochi in March, Mr. Sudhakaran had written to the party leadership to exclude him from the State committee. Subsequently, he was not included on the new State committee citing the age bar of 75 years set for organisational roles. |
https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/g-sudhakaran-to-skip-party-congress/article65285137.ece | G. Sudhakaran to skip Party Congress
Nothing unusual, says Kodiyeri
Communist Party of India (Marxist) State secretary Kodiyeri Balakrishnan on Saturday maintained that there’s nothing unusual in senior leader G. Sudhakaran deciding to give the forthcoming party congress in Kannur between April 6 and 10 a miss.
“The party does not have any issues with him,” Mr. Balakrishnan told the media in Kannur on the sidelines of a protest organised by the party against the Centre’s ‘anti-people policies’ and rising fuel prices.
Mr. Sudhakaran had informed the party that he was indisposed and would not be in a position to attend the party congress. Those unable to attend the party congress from Ernakulam and Palakkad had also been replaced and, therefore, nothing was amiss, he said.
In a letter to district secretary R. Razar, Mr. Sudhakaran cited health issues for his decision to skip the party congress. The party accepted the request and district secretariat member A. Mahendran was asked to fill in for Mr. Sudhakaran.
The CPI(M) had publicly censured Mr. Sudhakaran last year over alleged lapses in the Left Democratic Front’s electioneering in the Ambalapuzha Assembly constituency.
Further, prior to the CPI(M) State conference held in Kochi in March, Mr. Sudhakaran had written to the party leadership to exclude him from the State committee. Subsequently, he was not included on the new State committee citing the age bar of 75 years set for organisational roles.
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Thiruvananthapuram, April 2 His latest letter to state secretary of CPI-M Kodiyeri Balakrishnan asking him to be left ...
Thiruvananthapuram, April 2 His latest letter to state secretary of CPI-M Kodiyeri Balakrishnan asking him to be left out of being a delegate to the 23rd CPI-M Party Congress to be held at Kannur from April 6, for all practical purposes, it's the end of the road for G. Sudhakaran, one of the topmost party leader in Kerala.
A four time legislator and a two time Cabinet Minister, Sudhakaran who is known for his razor sharp tongue and for carrying himself in the most cleanest manner, since last year has been having problems in his party at his home district- Alappuzha.
The 75-year-old veteran's stock started to decline when his feud with then Finance Minister Thomas Isaac also hailing from Alappuzha district, intensified and it took a turn for the worse ever since the present State Fisheries Minister Saji Cherian joined hands with Isaac.
Things went from bad to worse when he expressed his desire to retire from electoral politics in early 2021, though he wished to get one more term. However, Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan who had a soft corner for him, did not come to his support and along with many who had contested three times in the past, he was also denied ticket.
And when a new candidate, H. Salam was named by the party from his traditional seat - Ambalapuzha, Sudhakaran again came under fire and allegations surfaced that he was trying to defeat him and this became an issue in the party.
A party panel, comprising CPI-M central committee member Elamaram Kareem and State secretariat member K.J. Thomas, probed into the alleged flaws in party's electioneering in the Ambalapuzha constituency and found him not rising to the occasion.
In November, the party publicly censured him for his lapses at the election campaign 2021 and with it Sudhakaran found out that things are not that rosy and went silent.
And ahead of the CPI-M state party conference, he made his intentions very clear when he wrote to Balakrishnan and Vijayan that he need not be considered for the powerful State Committee of the party, a post which he held.
The party went by his wishes and now he saying that he is not taking part as a delegate at the 23rd Party Congress due to health issues. For all practical purposes, CPI-M in Kerala has lost a tall leader and from now on he will have no role in any major decision making body of the party and would be relegated to a committee of the party at his home district.
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Nothing unusual, says Kodiyeri
Communist Party of India (Marxist) State secretary Kodiyeri Balakrishnan on Saturday maintained that there’s nothing unusual in senior leader G. Sudhakaran deciding to give the forthcoming party congress in Kannur between April 6 and 10 a miss.
“The party does not have any issues with him,” Mr. Balakrishnan told the media in Kannur on the sidelines of a protest organised by the party against the Centre’s ‘anti-people policies’ and rising fuel prices.
Mr. Sudhakaran had informed the party that he was indisposed and would not be in a position to attend the party congress. Those unable to attend the party congress from Ernakulam and Palakkad had also been replaced and, therefore, nothing was amiss, he said.
In a letter to district secretary R. Razar, Mr. Sudhakaran cited health issues for his decision to skip the party congress. The party accepted the request and district secretariat member A. Mahendran was asked to fill in for Mr. Sudhakaran.
The CPI(M) had publicly censured Mr. Sudhakaran last year over alleged lapses in the Left Democratic Front’s electioneering in the Ambalapuzha Assembly constituency.
Further, prior to the CPI(M) State conference held in Kochi in March, Mr. Sudhakaran had written to the party leadership to exclude him from the State committee. Subsequently, he was not included on the new State committee citing the age bar of 75 years set for organisational roles.
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Senior Congress leader K V Thomas, facing disciplinary enquiry in connection with his participation in the 23rd party congress of the CPI(M) in Kannur recently, on Monday said not inviting him to the KPCC's political affairs meeting indicated a move to push him out of the party.
Thomas, speaking to reporters here, said that since 2018, there has been a move to keep him out of the party and this was evident from the fact that he was not invited to the Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee's (KPCC) meeting held today.
''I was not invited to the meeting. Why? I only received a show-cause notice. This stand (of KPCC) is against the AICC which only has the power to remove me from the party,'' the veteran politician said.
There are many in the party for whom I am a headache, he claimed.
Asked whether he still believes he was right to attend the CPI(M) party congress, Thomas said, ''No doubt about it.'' He said the Congress cannot on its own take on the BJP in the next general Assembly elections in 2024 and it needs to join together with other parties, like the CPI(M).
He said it was because of this viewpoint that he had attended the CPI(M) party congress and there is no change in that.
Earlier, Congress leaders in Kerala had contended that Thomas had ''betrayed'' and ''cheated'' the party by attending the event in Kannur.
Both Tharoor and Thomas were invited by the CPI(M) to attend the seminar on Centre-State relations as part of its 23rd Party Congress which commenced on April 6 and concluded on April 10.
Thomas had posts like union minister and a minister when the Congress was in power at the Centre and in the State.
(This story has not been edited by Devdiscourse staff and is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.)
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Need a cheap window air conditioner? Fortunately, there are plenty on the market, many of which are solid performers. Just because you’re on a budget, it doesn’t mean you need to compromise on cooling. Instead, it’s helpful to be realistic with your search by knowing what to expect in your price range.
It’s wise to begin your search for a window air conditioner with a checklist of features to compare. Here’s a roundup of what you need to know, with a few recommendations along the way.
What do I need to know before buying a cheap window air conditioner?
Premium vs. cheap window air conditioners
If you’re wondering what the differences are between cheap versus premium window air conditioners, here’s a quick breakdown: Premium window air conditioners are feature-rich and offer more in the way of cooling customization. Many of them are equipped with heating functions, like this model. Units at this price point are often made by reputable manufacturers that offer more extended warranties and stand behind their products.
Cheap window air conditioners, on the other hand, stick to basic features. Only a handful will have heating functions or high-tech features. Some cheap units aren’t made well and have cheap or ill-fitting components, so they may have shorter lifespans than premium units.
Installation
The average person can install window air conditioners with a basic set of hand tools, such as screwdrivers. As a bonus, many of these units come with mounting equipment, so you don’t need to spend extra on them.
Size
The key to finding the best cheap window air conditioner is choosing a unit that is the right size for your space. The easiest way to determine size is by taking the room’s square footage and multiplying it by 25. If you’re wondering why it’s 25, it’s because you need roughly 25 BTUs (British Thermal Units) to cool each square foot of space.
For example, take a room that measures 200 square feet. Two hundred times 25 gives you 5,000. Therefore, you’ll need an air conditioner that is listed as 5,000 BTUs.
Keep in mind that you shouldn’t opt for a window air conditioner that is significantly larger than the product of this equation. If you do, it’s counterintuitive. The unit will cycle off and on instead of running continuously, and it may throw off the space’s humidity level.
Footprint
All window air conditioners are designed to jut out from your window. Unfortunately, there aren’t many cheap air conditioners designed to be low-profile, so expect them to have sizable footprints. However, if you are willing to increase your budget to mid-range units, the MIDEA U-Inverter Window Air Conditioner is a popular compact option.
Warranties
Most window air conditioners, including cheap ones, have limited warranties. Depending on the manufacturer, they may cover the unit for anywhere from 30 days to 10 years. There may be separate warranties for parts and labor.
Having a warranty doesn’t guarantee that the manufacturer will replace your air conditioner or parts. Warranty claims are generally handled on a case-by-case basis, and you’ll need to provide proof of purchase for the claim. However, to expedite claims, you may wish to register your air conditioner on the manufacturer’s website.
How much is a cheap window air conditioner?
Because window air conditioners range from $200-$1,000, we consider the “cheap” range to be any unit priced $350 or less. We don’t recommend dipping below the $200 price point unless you have to. Some consumers report these units may not be reliable.
What features do cheap window air conditioners have?
Cooling and fan speeds
Cheap window air conditioners usually have a limited number of cooling and fan speeds. The most basic units only have two options, whereas a handful may offer three to five.
Display
Displays vary considerably in cheap window air conditioners. Some are basic with a couple rotary dials, such as the Frigidaire Window Air Conditioner with Mechanical Controls. Several options, like this other Frigidaire model, have simple LED panels. A few units with contemporary curb appeal have sleek touch panels, such as TOSOT Window Air Conditioner.
Remote control
Most cheap window air conditioners come with remotes for convenient operation, like this RCA model. They show almost all information seen on the unit’s onboard display. However, some of these remotes lack alerts for filter changes or malfunctions.
Dehumidifier
You’ll find a few cheap window air conditioners equipped with dehumidifiers, such as MIDEA EasyCool Window Conditioner. Consumers often invest in these units if they live in humid areas or if their homes have higher humidity levels.
Quiet operation
Window air conditioners make considerable noise. When you’re shopping on a budget, finding a unit that offers quiet operation may be more challenging. One option is Emerson Quiet Kool Window Air Conditioner, whose quiet mode operates at 50 dBA.
Timer settings
Some cheap window air conditioners have timer settings, in which you can set them to turn off after a set amount of time. Generally speaking, you’re limited to either 30- or 60-minute options in many units.
Energy saving
It’s not unusual for cheap window air conditioners to have an economical feature like an energy-saving mode. These units save energy by turning off fans when the compressor isn’t operating.
A handful of window air conditioners within this price range come with the Energy Star certification, like this LG window air conditioner. Units like this one meet high standards for saving energy without compromising on quality in performance.
Smart air conditioners
Surprisingly, there are a few smart window air conditioners within the $350-and-less price range.
LG Wi-Fi Smart Window Air Conditioner and Toshiba Smart Air Conditioner, for example, are both controlled via apps. They’re also compatible with Alexa and Google Assistant. Another option is GE Smart Window Air Conditioner, which you can control with more than one GE app.
Sian Babish is a writer for BestReviews. BestReviews is a product review company with a singular mission: to help simplify your purchasing decisions and save you time and money.
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Need a cheap window air conditioner? Fortunately, there are plenty on the market, many of which are solid performers. Just because you’re on a budget, it doesn’t mean you need to compromise on cooling. Instead, it’s helpful to be realistic with your search by knowing what to expect in your price range.
It’s wise to begin your search for a window air conditioner with a checklist of features to compare. Here’s a roundup of what you need to know, with a few recommendations along the way.
What do I need to know before buying a cheap window air conditioner?
Premium vs. cheap window air conditioners
If you’re wondering what the differences are between cheap versus premium window air conditioners, here’s a quick breakdown: Premium window air conditioners are feature-rich and offer more in the way of cooling customization. Many of them are equipped with heating functions, like this model. Units at this price point are often made by reputable manufacturers that offer more extended warranties and stand behind their products.
Cheap window air conditioners, on the other hand, stick to basic features. Only a handful will have heating functions or high-tech features. Some cheap units aren’t made well and have cheap or ill-fitting components, so they may have shorter lifespans than premium units.
Installation
The average person can install window air conditioners with a basic set of hand tools, such as screwdrivers. As a bonus, many of these units come with mounting equipment, so you don’t need to spend extra on them.
Size
The key to finding the best cheap window air conditioner is choosing a unit that is the right size for your space. The easiest way to determine size is by taking the room’s square footage and multiplying it by 25. If you’re wondering why it’s 25, it’s because you need roughly 25 BTUs (British Thermal Units) to cool each square foot of space.
For example, take a room that measures 200 square feet. Two hundred times 25 gives you 5,000. Therefore, you’ll need an air conditioner that is listed as 5,000 BTUs.
Keep in mind that you shouldn’t opt for a window air conditioner that is significantly larger than the product of this equation. If you do, it’s counterintuitive. The unit will cycle off and on instead of running continuously, and it may throw off the space’s humidity level.
Footprint
All window air conditioners are designed to jut out from your window. Unfortunately, there aren’t many cheap air conditioners designed to be low-profile, so expect them to have sizable footprints. However, if you are willing to increase your budget to mid-range units, the MIDEA U-Inverter Window Air Conditioner is a popular compact option.
Warranties
Most window air conditioners, including cheap ones, have limited warranties. Depending on the manufacturer, they may cover the unit for anywhere from 30 days to 10 years. There may be separate warranties for parts and labor.
Having a warranty doesn’t guarantee that the manufacturer will replace your air conditioner or parts. Warranty claims are generally handled on a case-by-case basis, and you’ll need to provide proof of purchase for the claim. However, to expedite claims, you may wish to register your air conditioner on the manufacturer’s website.
How much is a cheap window air conditioner?
Because window air conditioners range from $200-$1,000, we consider the “cheap” range to be any unit priced $350 or less. We don’t recommend dipping below the $200 price point unless you have to. Some consumers report these units may not be reliable.
What features do cheap window air conditioners have?
Cooling and fan speeds
Cheap window air conditioners usually have a limited number of cooling and fan speeds. The most basic units only have two options, whereas a handful may offer three to five.
Display
Displays vary considerably in cheap window air conditioners. Some are basic with a couple rotary dials, such as the Frigidaire Window Air Conditioner with Mechanical Controls. Several options, like this other Frigidaire model, have simple LED panels. A few units with contemporary curb appeal have sleek touch panels, such as TOSOT Window Air Conditioner.
Remote control
Most cheap window air conditioners come with remotes for convenient operation, like this RCA model. They show almost all information seen on the unit’s onboard display. However, some of these remotes lack alerts for filter changes or malfunctions.
Dehumidifier
You’ll find a few cheap window air conditioners equipped with dehumidifiers, such as MIDEA EasyCool Window Conditioner. Consumers often invest in these units if they live in humid areas or if their homes have higher humidity levels.
Quiet operation
Window air conditioners make considerable noise. When you’re shopping on a budget, finding a unit that offers quiet operation may be more challenging. One option is Emerson Quiet Kool Window Air Conditioner, whose quiet mode operates at 50 dBA.
Timer settings
Some cheap window air conditioners have timer settings, in which you can set them to turn off after a set amount of time. Generally speaking, you’re limited to either 30- or 60-minute options in many units.
Energy saving
It’s not unusual for cheap window air conditioners to have an economical feature like an energy-saving mode. These units save energy by turning off fans when the compressor isn’t operating.
A handful of window air conditioners within this price range come with the Energy Star certification, like this LG window air conditioner. Units like this one meet high standards for saving energy without compromising on quality in performance.
Smart air conditioners
Surprisingly, there are a few smart window air conditioners within the $350-and-less price range.
LG Wi-Fi Smart Window Air Conditioner and Toshiba Smart Air Conditioner, for example, are both controlled via apps. They’re also compatible with Alexa and Google Assistant. Another option is GE Smart Window Air Conditioner, which you can control with more than one GE app.
Sian Babish is a writer for BestReviews. BestReviews is a product review company with a singular mission: to help simplify your purchasing decisions and save you time and money.
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https://www.kark.com/reviews/br/home-br/heating-cooling-air-quality-br/best-cheap-window-air-conditioner/ | Choose an affordable window air conditioner
Need a cheap window air conditioner? Fortunately, there are plenty on the market, many of which are solid performers. Just because you’re on a budget, it doesn’t mean you need to compromise on cooling. Instead, it’s helpful to be realistic with your search by knowing what to expect in your price range.
It’s wise to begin your search for a window air conditioner with a checklist of features to compare. Here’s a roundup of what you need to know, with a few recommendations along the way.
What do I need to know before buying a cheap window air conditioner?
Premium vs. cheap window air conditioners
If you’re wondering what the differences are between cheap versus premium window air conditioners, here’s a quick breakdown: Premium window air conditioners are feature-rich and offer more in the way of cooling customization. Many of them are equipped with heating functions, like this model. Units at this price point are often made by reputable manufacturers that offer more extended warranties and stand behind their products.
Cheap window air conditioners, on the other hand, stick to basic features. Only a handful will have heating functions or high-tech features. Some cheap units aren’t made well and have cheap or ill-fitting components, so they may have shorter lifespans than premium units.
Installation
The average person can install window air conditioners with a basic set of hand tools, such as screwdrivers. As a bonus, many of these units come with mounting equipment, so you don’t need to spend extra on them.
Size
The key to finding the best cheap window air conditioner is choosing a unit that is the right size for your space. The easiest way to determine size is by taking the room’s square footage and multiplying it by 25. If you’re wondering why it’s 25, it’s because you need roughly 25 BTUs (British Thermal Units) to cool each square foot of space.
For example, take a room that measures 200 square feet. Two hundred times 25 gives you 5,000. Therefore, you’ll need an air conditioner that is listed as 5,000 BTUs.
Keep in mind that you shouldn’t opt for a window air conditioner that is significantly larger than the product of this equation. If you do, it’s counterintuitive. The unit will cycle off and on instead of running continuously, and it may throw off the space’s humidity level.
Footprint
All window air conditioners are designed to jut out from your window. Unfortunately, there aren’t many cheap air conditioners designed to be low-profile, so expect them to have sizable footprints. However, if you are willing to increase your budget to mid-range units, the MIDEA U-Inverter Window Air Conditioner is a popular compact option.
Warranties
Most window air conditioners, including cheap ones, have limited warranties. Depending on the manufacturer, they may cover the unit for anywhere from 30 days to 10 years. There may be separate warranties for parts and labor.
Having a warranty doesn’t guarantee that the manufacturer will replace your air conditioner or parts. Warranty claims are generally handled on a case-by-case basis, and you’ll need to provide proof of purchase for the claim. However, to expedite claims, you may wish to register your air conditioner on the manufacturer’s website.
How much is a cheap window air conditioner?
Because window air conditioners range from $200-$1,000, we consider the “cheap” range to be any unit priced $350 or less. We don’t recommend dipping below the $200 price point unless you have to. Some consumers report these units may not be reliable.
What features do cheap window air conditioners have?
Cooling and fan speeds
Cheap window air conditioners usually have a limited number of cooling and fan speeds. The most basic units only have two options, whereas a handful may offer three to five.
Display
Displays vary considerably in cheap window air conditioners. Some are basic with a couple rotary dials, such as the Frigidaire Window Air Conditioner with Mechanical Controls. Several options, like this other Frigidaire model, have simple LED panels. A few units with contemporary curb appeal have sleek touch panels, such as TOSOT Window Air Conditioner.
Remote control
Most cheap window air conditioners come with remotes for convenient operation, like this RCA model. They show almost all information seen on the unit’s onboard display. However, some of these remotes lack alerts for filter changes or malfunctions.
Dehumidifier
You’ll find a few cheap window air conditioners equipped with dehumidifiers, such as MIDEA EasyCool Window Conditioner. Consumers often invest in these units if they live in humid areas or if their homes have higher humidity levels.
Quiet operation
Window air conditioners make considerable noise. When you’re shopping on a budget, finding a unit that offers quiet operation may be more challenging. One option is Emerson Quiet Kool Window Air Conditioner, whose quiet mode operates at 50 dBA.
Timer settings
Some cheap window air conditioners have timer settings, in which you can set them to turn off after a set amount of time. Generally speaking, you’re limited to either 30- or 60-minute options in many units.
Energy saving
It’s not unusual for cheap window air conditioners to have an economical feature like an energy-saving mode. These units save energy by turning off fans when the compressor isn’t operating.
A handful of window air conditioners within this price range come with the Energy Star certification, like this LG window air conditioner. Units like this one meet high standards for saving energy without compromising on quality in performance.
Smart air conditioners
Surprisingly, there are a few smart window air conditioners within the $350-and-less price range.
LG Wi-Fi Smart Window Air Conditioner and Toshiba Smart Air Conditioner, for example, are both controlled via apps. They’re also compatible with Alexa and Google Assistant. Another option is GE Smart Window Air Conditioner, which you can control with more than one GE app.
Sian Babish is a writer for BestReviews. BestReviews is a product review company with a singular mission: to help simplify your purchasing decisions and save you time and money.
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Need a cheap window air conditioner? Fortunately, there are plenty on the market, many of which are solid performers. Just because you’re on a budget, it doesn’t mean you need to compromise on cooling. Instead, it’s helpful to be realistic with your search by knowing what to expect in your price range.
It’s wise to begin your search for a window air conditioner with a checklist of features to compare. Here’s a roundup of what you need to know, with a few recommendations along the way.
What do I need to know before buying a cheap window air conditioner?
Premium vs. cheap window air conditioners
If you’re wondering what the differences are between cheap versus premium window air conditioners, here’s a quick breakdown: Premium window air conditioners are feature-rich and offer more in the way of cooling customization. Many of them are equipped with heating functions, like this model. Units at this price point are often made by reputable manufacturers that offer more extended warranties and stand behind their products.
Cheap window air conditioners, on the other hand, stick to basic features. Only a handful will have heating functions or high-tech features. Some cheap units aren’t made well and have cheap or ill-fitting components, so they may have shorter lifespans than premium units.
Installation
The average person can install window air conditioners with a basic set of hand tools, such as screwdrivers. As a bonus, many of these units come with mounting equipment, so you don’t need to spend extra on them.
Size
The key to finding the best cheap window air conditioner is choosing a unit that is the right size for your space. The easiest way to determine size is by taking the room’s square footage and multiplying it by 25. If you’re wondering why it’s 25, it’s because you need roughly 25 BTUs (British Thermal Units) to cool each square foot of space.
For example, take a room that measures 200 square feet. Two hundred times 25 gives you 5,000. Therefore, you’ll need an air conditioner that is listed as 5,000 BTUs.
Keep in mind that you shouldn’t opt for a window air conditioner that is significantly larger than the product of this equation. If you do, it’s counterintuitive. The unit will cycle off and on instead of running continuously, and it may throw off the space’s humidity level.
Footprint
All window air conditioners are designed to jut out from your window. Unfortunately, there aren’t many cheap air conditioners designed to be low-profile, so expect them to have sizable footprints. However, if you are willing to increase your budget to mid-range units, the MIDEA U-Inverter Window Air Conditioner is a popular compact option.
Warranties
Most window air conditioners, including cheap ones, have limited warranties. Depending on the manufacturer, they may cover the unit for anywhere from 30 days to 10 years. There may be separate warranties for parts and labor.
Having a warranty doesn’t guarantee that the manufacturer will replace your air conditioner or parts. Warranty claims are generally handled on a case-by-case basis, and you’ll need to provide proof of purchase for the claim. However, to expedite claims, you may wish to register your air conditioner on the manufacturer’s website.
How much is a cheap window air conditioner?
Because window air conditioners range from $200-$1,000, we consider the “cheap” range to be any unit priced $350 or less. We don’t recommend dipping below the $200 price point unless you have to. Some consumers report these units may not be reliable.
What features do cheap window air conditioners have?
Cooling and fan speeds
Cheap window air conditioners usually have a limited number of cooling and fan speeds. The most basic units only have two options, whereas a handful may offer three to five.
Display
Displays vary considerably in cheap window air conditioners. Some are basic with a couple rotary dials, such as the Frigidaire Window Air Conditioner with Mechanical Controls. Several options, like this other Frigidaire model, have simple LED panels. A few units with contemporary curb appeal have sleek touch panels, such as TOSOT Window Air Conditioner.
Remote control
Most cheap window air conditioners come with remotes for convenient operation, like this RCA model. They show almost all information seen on the unit’s onboard display. However, some of these remotes lack alerts for filter changes or malfunctions.
Dehumidifier
You’ll find a few cheap window air conditioners equipped with dehumidifiers, such as MIDEA EasyCool Window Conditioner. Consumers often invest in these units if they live in humid areas or if their homes have higher humidity levels.
Quiet operation
Window air conditioners make considerable noise. When you’re shopping on a budget, finding a unit that offers quiet operation may be more challenging. One option is Emerson Quiet Kool Window Air Conditioner, whose quiet mode operates at 50 dBA.
Timer settings
Some cheap window air conditioners have timer settings, in which you can set them to turn off after a set amount of time. Generally speaking, you’re limited to either 30- or 60-minute options in many units.
Energy saving
It’s not unusual for cheap window air conditioners to have an economical feature like an energy-saving mode. These units save energy by turning off fans when the compressor isn’t operating.
A handful of window air conditioners within this price range come with the Energy Star certification, like this LG window air conditioner. Units like this one meet high standards for saving energy without compromising on quality in performance.
Smart air conditioners
Surprisingly, there are a few smart window air conditioners within the $350-and-less price range.
LG Wi-Fi Smart Window Air Conditioner and Toshiba Smart Air Conditioner, for example, are both controlled via apps. They’re also compatible with Alexa and Google Assistant. Another option is GE Smart Window Air Conditioner, which you can control with more than one GE app.
Sian Babish is a writer for BestReviews. BestReviews is a product review company with a singular mission: to help simplify your purchasing decisions and save you time and money.
Copyright 2022 BestReviews, a Nexstar company. All rights reserved. |
https://www.kark.com/reviews/br/home-br/heating-cooling-air-quality-br/best-cheap-window-air-conditioner/ | Choose an affordable window air conditioner
Need a cheap window air conditioner? Fortunately, there are plenty on the market, many of which are solid performers. Just because you’re on a budget, it doesn’t mean you need to compromise on cooling. Instead, it’s helpful to be realistic with your search by knowing what to expect in your price range.
It’s wise to begin your search for a window air conditioner with a checklist of features to compare. Here’s a roundup of what you need to know, with a few recommendations along the way.
What do I need to know before buying a cheap window air conditioner?
Premium vs. cheap window air conditioners
If you’re wondering what the differences are between cheap versus premium window air conditioners, here’s a quick breakdown: Premium window air conditioners are feature-rich and offer more in the way of cooling customization. Many of them are equipped with heating functions, like this model. Units at this price point are often made by reputable manufacturers that offer more extended warranties and stand behind their products.
Cheap window air conditioners, on the other hand, stick to basic features. Only a handful will have heating functions or high-tech features. Some cheap units aren’t made well and have cheap or ill-fitting components, so they may have shorter lifespans than premium units.
Installation
The average person can install window air conditioners with a basic set of hand tools, such as screwdrivers. As a bonus, many of these units come with mounting equipment, so you don’t need to spend extra on them.
Size
The key to finding the best cheap window air conditioner is choosing a unit that is the right size for your space. The easiest way to determine size is by taking the room’s square footage and multiplying it by 25. If you’re wondering why it’s 25, it’s because you need roughly 25 BTUs (British Thermal Units) to cool each square foot of space.
For example, take a room that measures 200 square feet. Two hundred times 25 gives you 5,000. Therefore, you’ll need an air conditioner that is listed as 5,000 BTUs.
Keep in mind that you shouldn’t opt for a window air conditioner that is significantly larger than the product of this equation. If you do, it’s counterintuitive. The unit will cycle off and on instead of running continuously, and it may throw off the space’s humidity level.
Footprint
All window air conditioners are designed to jut out from your window. Unfortunately, there aren’t many cheap air conditioners designed to be low-profile, so expect them to have sizable footprints. However, if you are willing to increase your budget to mid-range units, the MIDEA U-Inverter Window Air Conditioner is a popular compact option.
Warranties
Most window air conditioners, including cheap ones, have limited warranties. Depending on the manufacturer, they may cover the unit for anywhere from 30 days to 10 years. There may be separate warranties for parts and labor.
Having a warranty doesn’t guarantee that the manufacturer will replace your air conditioner or parts. Warranty claims are generally handled on a case-by-case basis, and you’ll need to provide proof of purchase for the claim. However, to expedite claims, you may wish to register your air conditioner on the manufacturer’s website.
How much is a cheap window air conditioner?
Because window air conditioners range from $200-$1,000, we consider the “cheap” range to be any unit priced $350 or less. We don’t recommend dipping below the $200 price point unless you have to. Some consumers report these units may not be reliable.
What features do cheap window air conditioners have?
Cooling and fan speeds
Cheap window air conditioners usually have a limited number of cooling and fan speeds. The most basic units only have two options, whereas a handful may offer three to five.
Display
Displays vary considerably in cheap window air conditioners. Some are basic with a couple rotary dials, such as the Frigidaire Window Air Conditioner with Mechanical Controls. Several options, like this other Frigidaire model, have simple LED panels. A few units with contemporary curb appeal have sleek touch panels, such as TOSOT Window Air Conditioner.
Remote control
Most cheap window air conditioners come with remotes for convenient operation, like this RCA model. They show almost all information seen on the unit’s onboard display. However, some of these remotes lack alerts for filter changes or malfunctions.
Dehumidifier
You’ll find a few cheap window air conditioners equipped with dehumidifiers, such as MIDEA EasyCool Window Conditioner. Consumers often invest in these units if they live in humid areas or if their homes have higher humidity levels.
Quiet operation
Window air conditioners make considerable noise. When you’re shopping on a budget, finding a unit that offers quiet operation may be more challenging. One option is Emerson Quiet Kool Window Air Conditioner, whose quiet mode operates at 50 dBA.
Timer settings
Some cheap window air conditioners have timer settings, in which you can set them to turn off after a set amount of time. Generally speaking, you’re limited to either 30- or 60-minute options in many units.
Energy saving
It’s not unusual for cheap window air conditioners to have an economical feature like an energy-saving mode. These units save energy by turning off fans when the compressor isn’t operating.
A handful of window air conditioners within this price range come with the Energy Star certification, like this LG window air conditioner. Units like this one meet high standards for saving energy without compromising on quality in performance.
Smart air conditioners
Surprisingly, there are a few smart window air conditioners within the $350-and-less price range.
LG Wi-Fi Smart Window Air Conditioner and Toshiba Smart Air Conditioner, for example, are both controlled via apps. They’re also compatible with Alexa and Google Assistant. Another option is GE Smart Window Air Conditioner, which you can control with more than one GE app.
Sian Babish is a writer for BestReviews. BestReviews is a product review company with a singular mission: to help simplify your purchasing decisions and save you time and money.
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Need a cheap window air conditioner? Fortunately, there are plenty on the market, many of which are solid performers. Just because you’re on a budget, it doesn’t mean you need to compromise on cooling. Instead, it’s helpful to be realistic with your search by knowing what to expect in your price range.
It’s wise to begin your search for a window air conditioner with a checklist of features to compare. Here’s a roundup of what you need to know, with a few recommendations along the way.
What do I need to know before buying a cheap window air conditioner?
Premium vs. cheap window air conditioners
If you’re wondering what the differences are between cheap versus premium window air conditioners, here’s a quick breakdown: Premium window air conditioners are feature-rich and offer more in the way of cooling customization. Many of them are equipped with heating functions, like this model. Units at this price point are often made by reputable manufacturers that offer more extended warranties and stand behind their products.
Cheap window air conditioners, on the other hand, stick to basic features. Only a handful will have heating functions or high-tech features. Some cheap units aren’t made well and have cheap or ill-fitting components, so they may have shorter lifespans than premium units.
Installation
The average person can install window air conditioners with a basic set of hand tools, such as screwdrivers. As a bonus, many of these units come with mounting equipment, so you don’t need to spend extra on them.
Size
The key to finding the best cheap window air conditioner is choosing a unit that is the right size for your space. The easiest way to determine size is by taking the room’s square footage and multiplying it by 25. If you’re wondering why it’s 25, it’s because you need roughly 25 BTUs (British Thermal Units) to cool each square foot of space.
For example, take a room that measures 200 square feet. Two hundred times 25 gives you 5,000. Therefore, you’ll need an air conditioner that is listed as 5,000 BTUs.
Keep in mind that you shouldn’t opt for a window air conditioner that is significantly larger than the product of this equation. If you do, it’s counterintuitive. The unit will cycle off and on instead of running continuously, and it may throw off the space’s humidity level.
Footprint
All window air conditioners are designed to jut out from your window. Unfortunately, there aren’t many cheap air conditioners designed to be low-profile, so expect them to have sizable footprints. However, if you are willing to increase your budget to mid-range units, the MIDEA U-Inverter Window Air Conditioner is a popular compact option.
Warranties
Most window air conditioners, including cheap ones, have limited warranties. Depending on the manufacturer, they may cover the unit for anywhere from 30 days to 10 years. There may be separate warranties for parts and labor.
Having a warranty doesn’t guarantee that the manufacturer will replace your air conditioner or parts. Warranty claims are generally handled on a case-by-case basis, and you’ll need to provide proof of purchase for the claim. However, to expedite claims, you may wish to register your air conditioner on the manufacturer’s website.
How much is a cheap window air conditioner?
Because window air conditioners range from $200-$1,000, we consider the “cheap” range to be any unit priced $350 or less. We don’t recommend dipping below the $200 price point unless you have to. Some consumers report these units may not be reliable.
What features do cheap window air conditioners have?
Cooling and fan speeds
Cheap window air conditioners usually have a limited number of cooling and fan speeds. The most basic units only have two options, whereas a handful may offer three to five.
Display
Displays vary considerably in cheap window air conditioners. Some are basic with a couple rotary dials, such as the Frigidaire Window Air Conditioner with Mechanical Controls. Several options, like this other Frigidaire model, have simple LED panels. A few units with contemporary curb appeal have sleek touch panels, such as TOSOT Window Air Conditioner.
Remote control
Most cheap window air conditioners come with remotes for convenient operation, like this RCA model. They show almost all information seen on the unit’s onboard display. However, some of these remotes lack alerts for filter changes or malfunctions.
Dehumidifier
You’ll find a few cheap window air conditioners equipped with dehumidifiers, such as MIDEA EasyCool Window Conditioner. Consumers often invest in these units if they live in humid areas or if their homes have higher humidity levels.
Quiet operation
Window air conditioners make considerable noise. When you’re shopping on a budget, finding a unit that offers quiet operation may be more challenging. One option is Emerson Quiet Kool Window Air Conditioner, whose quiet mode operates at 50 dBA.
Timer settings
Some cheap window air conditioners have timer settings, in which you can set them to turn off after a set amount of time. Generally speaking, you’re limited to either 30- or 60-minute options in many units.
Energy saving
It’s not unusual for cheap window air conditioners to have an economical feature like an energy-saving mode. These units save energy by turning off fans when the compressor isn’t operating.
A handful of window air conditioners within this price range come with the Energy Star certification, like this LG window air conditioner. Units like this one meet high standards for saving energy without compromising on quality in performance.
Smart air conditioners
Surprisingly, there are a few smart window air conditioners within the $350-and-less price range.
LG Wi-Fi Smart Window Air Conditioner and Toshiba Smart Air Conditioner, for example, are both controlled via apps. They’re also compatible with Alexa and Google Assistant. Another option is GE Smart Window Air Conditioner, which you can control with more than one GE app.
Sian Babish is a writer for BestReviews. BestReviews is a product review company with a singular mission: to help simplify your purchasing decisions and save you time and money.
Copyright 2022 BestReviews, a Nexstar company. All rights reserved. |
https://wcfcourier.com/news/national/gallery-dedicated-at-wwii-museum-to-former-president-bush/article_ddfc79a5-63c0-5b10-8650-937b4aeb7828.html | NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The National WWII Museum in New Orleans has dedicated a gallery of planes to former aviator President George H.W. Bush, who was forced to bail out of his bomber during the war when it was hit by Japanese anti-aircraft fire.
The Times-Picayune / The New Orleans Advocate reported that Bush was remembered during the dedication ceremony on Tuesday at the museum where the gallery displaying aircraft flown during the war was christened the George H.W. Bush Aviation Gallery. Overhead was the same type of plan flown by Bush during the war — a blue light bomber called an Avenger.
The future president was trying to eliminate a Japanese radio tower in 1944 when his aircraft was hit and he bailed out; a submarine rescued him but the other two men in the plane died. During the dedication ceremony, his grandson Pierce Bush said the elder Bush thought about the other men who didn't make it constantly.
“In some way," Bush's grandson said, “it impacted how he lived."
People are also reading…
The former president, who died in 2018, was an early supporter of the museum that was first called the D-Day Museum and later dubbed the National WWII Museum. The Aviation Gallery named in his honor includes six vintage airplanes including the Avenger.
Gov. John Bel Edwards also spoke at the ceremony, and called the late president a “war hero and consummate public servant.” The governor, who is also a former military member, also noted the current military conflict Europe is engaged in, the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and lamented that the world is apparently “not smart enough” to learn from previous generations who've experienced war.
For copyright information, check with the distributor of this item, The Times-Picayune/The New Orleans Advocate. | 0 | 135,056 | 0 | https://siouxcityjournal.com/news/national/gallery-dedicated-at-wwii-museum-to-former-president-bush/article_e487ed78-d70a-5abf-9f1e-4c5ec9cf78aa.html | 2022-04-02 17:00:12+00:00 | NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The National WWII Museum in New Orleans has dedicated a gallery of planes to former aviator President George H.W. Bush, who was forced to bail out of his bomber during the war when it was hit by Japanese anti-aircraft fire.
The Times-Picayune / The New Orleans Advocate reported that Bush was remembered during the dedication ceremony on Tuesday at the museum where the gallery displaying aircraft flown during the war was christened the George H.W. Bush Aviation Gallery. Overhead was the same type of plan flown by Bush during the war — a blue light bomber called an Avenger.
The future president was trying to eliminate a Japanese radio tower in 1944 when his aircraft was hit and he bailed out; a submarine rescued him but the other two men in the plane died. During the dedication ceremony, his grandson Pierce Bush said the elder Bush thought about the other men who didn't make it constantly.
“In some way," Bush's grandson said, “it impacted how he lived."
People are also reading…
The former president, who died in 2018, was an early supporter of the museum that was first called the D-Day Museum and later dubbed the National WWII Museum. The Aviation Gallery named in his honor includes six vintage airplanes including the Avenger.
Gov. John Bel Edwards also spoke at the ceremony, and called the late president a “war hero and consummate public servant.” The governor, who is also a former military member, also noted the current military conflict Europe is engaged in, the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and lamented that the world is apparently “not smart enough” to learn from previous generations who've experienced war.
For copyright information, check with the distributor of this item, The Times-Picayune/The New Orleans Advocate. |
https://wcfcourier.com/news/national/gallery-dedicated-at-wwii-museum-to-former-president-bush/article_ddfc79a5-63c0-5b10-8650-937b4aeb7828.html | NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The National WWII Museum in New Orleans has dedicated a gallery of planes to former aviator President George H.W. Bush, who was forced to bail out of his bomber during the war when it was hit by Japanese anti-aircraft fire.
The Times-Picayune / The New Orleans Advocate reported that Bush was remembered during the dedication ceremony on Tuesday at the museum where the gallery displaying aircraft flown during the war was christened the George H.W. Bush Aviation Gallery. Overhead was the same type of plan flown by Bush during the war — a blue light bomber called an Avenger.
The future president was trying to eliminate a Japanese radio tower in 1944 when his aircraft was hit and he bailed out; a submarine rescued him but the other two men in the plane died. During the dedication ceremony, his grandson Pierce Bush said the elder Bush thought about the other men who didn't make it constantly.
“In some way," Bush's grandson said, “it impacted how he lived."
People are also reading…
The former president, who died in 2018, was an early supporter of the museum that was first called the D-Day Museum and later dubbed the National WWII Museum. The Aviation Gallery named in his honor includes six vintage airplanes including the Avenger.
Gov. John Bel Edwards also spoke at the ceremony, and called the late president a “war hero and consummate public servant.” The governor, who is also a former military member, also noted the current military conflict Europe is engaged in, the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and lamented that the world is apparently “not smart enough” to learn from previous generations who've experienced war.
For copyright information, check with the distributor of this item, The Times-Picayune/The New Orleans Advocate. | 1 | 130,508 | 0.063201 | https://www.thestar.com/news/world/us/2022/04/02/gallery-dedicated-at-wwii-museum-to-former-president-bush.html | 2022-04-02 16:30:51+00:00 | NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The National WWII Museum in New Orleans has dedicated a gallery of planes to former aviator President George H.W. Bush, who was forced to bail out of his bomber during the war when it was hit by Japanese anti-aircraft fire.
The Times-Picayune / The New Orleans Advocate reported that Bush was remembered during the dedication ceremony on Tuesday at the museum where the gallery displaying aircraft flown during the war was christened the George H.W. Bush Aviation Gallery. Overhead was the same type of plan flown by Bush during the war — a blue light bomber called an Avenger.
The future president was trying to eliminate a Japanese radio tower in 1944 when his aircraft was hit and he bailed out; a submarine rescued him but the other two men in the plane died. During the dedication ceremony, his grandson Pierce Bush said the elder Bush thought about the other men who didn’t make it constantly.
“In some way,“ Bush’s grandson said, “it impacted how he lived.”
The former president, who died in 2018, was an early supporter of the museum that was first called the D-Day Museum and later dubbed the National WWII Museum. The Aviation Gallery named in his honor includes six vintage airplanes including the Avenger.
Gov. John Bel Edwards also spoke at the ceremony, and called the late president a “war hero and consummate public servant.” The governor, who is also a former military member, also noted the current military conflict Europe is engaged in, the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and lamented that the world is apparently “not smart enough” to learn from previous generations who’ve experienced war. |
https://wcfcourier.com/news/national/gallery-dedicated-at-wwii-museum-to-former-president-bush/article_ddfc79a5-63c0-5b10-8650-937b4aeb7828.html | NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The National WWII Museum in New Orleans has dedicated a gallery of planes to former aviator President George H.W. Bush, who was forced to bail out of his bomber during the war when it was hit by Japanese anti-aircraft fire.
The Times-Picayune / The New Orleans Advocate reported that Bush was remembered during the dedication ceremony on Tuesday at the museum where the gallery displaying aircraft flown during the war was christened the George H.W. Bush Aviation Gallery. Overhead was the same type of plan flown by Bush during the war — a blue light bomber called an Avenger.
The future president was trying to eliminate a Japanese radio tower in 1944 when his aircraft was hit and he bailed out; a submarine rescued him but the other two men in the plane died. During the dedication ceremony, his grandson Pierce Bush said the elder Bush thought about the other men who didn't make it constantly.
“In some way," Bush's grandson said, “it impacted how he lived."
People are also reading…
The former president, who died in 2018, was an early supporter of the museum that was first called the D-Day Museum and later dubbed the National WWII Museum. The Aviation Gallery named in his honor includes six vintage airplanes including the Avenger.
Gov. John Bel Edwards also spoke at the ceremony, and called the late president a “war hero and consummate public servant.” The governor, who is also a former military member, also noted the current military conflict Europe is engaged in, the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and lamented that the world is apparently “not smart enough” to learn from previous generations who've experienced war.
For copyright information, check with the distributor of this item, The Times-Picayune/The New Orleans Advocate. | 2 | 8,214 | 0.066919 | https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/4494853 | 2022-04-04 22:50:07+00:00 | NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The National WWII Museum in New Orleans has dedicated a gallery of planes to former aviator President George H.W. Bush, who was forced to bail out of his bomber during the war when it was hit by Japanese anti-aircraft fire.
The Times-Picayune / The New Orleans Advocate reported that Bush was remembered during the dedication ceremony on Tuesday at the museum where the gallery displaying aircraft flown during the war was christened the George H.W. Bush Aviation Gallery. Overhead was the same type of plan flown by Bush during the war — a blue light bomber called an Avenger.
The future president was trying to eliminate a Japanese radio tower in 1944 when his aircraft was hit and he bailed out; a submarine rescued him but the other two men in the plane died. During the dedication ceremony, his grandson Pierce Bush said the elder Bush thought about the other men who didn't make it constantly.
“In some way," Bush's grandson said, “it impacted how he lived."
The former president, who died in 2018, was an early supporter of the museum that was first called the D-Day Museum and later dubbed the National WWII Museum. The Aviation Gallery named in his honor includes six vintage airplanes including the Avenger.
Gov. John Bel Edwards also spoke at the ceremony, and called the late president a “war hero and consummate public servant.” The governor, who is also a former military member, also noted the current military conflict Europe is engaged in, the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and lamented that the world is apparently “not smart enough” to learn from previous generations who've experienced war. |
https://www.forbes.com/sites/scottmendelson/2022/04/02/friday-box-office-the-batman-tops-700-million-as-rrr-plunges-92/ | In holdover box office news for Friday, The Lost City earned $4.3 million (-63%) on its eighth day. That positions the Sandra Bullock/Channing Tatum rom-com adventure for a $15.7 million (-48%) second-weekend gross. That’s a decent but not superlative hold, almost on par with The Proposal (-44% from a $33 million debut in June of 2009) and better than Ocean’s 8 (-54% after a $41 million debut in June of 2018). The over/under $70 million flick will have around $55 million domestic by day ten, implying that the original, star-driven high concept release (what we used to call “a movie”) will end its domestic run with between $85 million and $105 million, depending on how it legs out as essentially the only big release for a while playing explicitly (but not exclusively) to adult women.
Warner Bros.’ The Batman earned another $3.1 million (-44%) to bring its 29-day total to $341.3 million, setting the stage for a $11.3 million (-45%) fifth-weekend gross. That’ll give the Robert Pattinson/Zoe Kravitz actioner $349 million domestic at the end of its first month. Presuming a continued 49/51 domestic/overseas split, the Matt Reeves-directed DC flick should have around $697 million worldwide as of yesterday, meaning it should cross $700 million global by the end of this sentence. It should pass The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn part I ($712 million) tomorrow to become Robert Pattinson’s second-biggest global grosser behind Breaking Dawn part II ($829 million). That is most likely a bridge too far, which just shows how huge those Twilight movies were. It’s still looking like a final cume of $375 million domestic and $765 million worldwide for The Batman.
Meanwhile, Sony’s Uncharted earned $1 million (-26%) on its seventh Friday for a probable $3.72 million (-26%) weekend and $139 million domestic cume. Whether moving Morbius farther away from No Way Home hurt the former Marvel film, it certainly helped Uncharted. If it can hang on for a little longer, the Tom Holland/Mark Wahlberg adventure can best Detective Pikachu ($144 million) and Sonic the Hedgehog ($148 million) as the biggest video game movie ever in unadjusted domestic earnings. Me thinks Sony should do Morbius/Uncharted double-features if the Jared Leto flick sinks like a stone next weekend. Either way, Sonic the Hedgehog 2 will hope to make this entire proposition immaterial next weekend. Skipping around a bit, Spider-Man: No Way Home will earn $1.46 million (-27%) in its 16th weekend for a new $803 million cume.
FUNimation and Crunchy Roll’s Jujutsu Kasien 0 earned around $560,000 (-57%) on its third Friday. We can expect a $1.95 million (-57%) weekend and $31.44 million 17-day total for the Japanese anime horror fantasy. Alas, RRR plunged 92% on its second Friday, although that first Friday also included a full day of Thursday “previews.” Nonetheless, S. S. Rajamouli’s three-hour action spectacular earned around $440,000 on Friday setting the stage for a $1.58 million (-83%) weekend and $12.75 million 11-day cume. That’s obviously not a good hold, as this film’s domestic release was a one-weekend wonder. Still, it’s not like Rise Roar Revolt was banking on huge North American box office. Those who wanted to treat themselves by seeing it theatrically will get to do so. Everyone else will wait for Netflix.
Channing Tatum’s Dog earned $340,000 (-42%) on its seventh Friday. We can expect a $1.26 million (-41%) weekend as the $15 million MGM drama passes $60 million domestic. Everything Everywhere All at Once expanded to 38 theaters in advance of its wide release next weekend. The Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert sci-fi multiverse action rom-com fantasy earned $354,953 (+73%) on Friday for a probable $1.05 million (+106%) second weekend and $1.8 million ten-day total. That $26,250 per-theater average is solid, but the real test is whether this terrific Michelle Yeoh/Ke Huy Quan flick can break out next weekend. I’m not optimistic (because I dare not hope), but if A24 can get The Green Knight to $17 million, I’d like to think they can drag Everything Everywhere All at Once past $10 million domestic. | 0 | 15,040 | 0.334687 | https://www.forbes.com/sites/scottmendelson/2022/04/03/box-office-rrr-tops-100-million-as-the-batman-passes-amazing-spider-man-2/ | 2022-04-03 16:51:32+00:00 | In holdover box office news for the weekend, The Lost City earned $14.8 million (-51%) in its second domestic weekend. That’s a decent but not superlative hold, farther from The Proposal (-44% from a $33 million debut in June of 2009)and closer to Ocean’s 8 (-54% after a $41 million debut in June of 2018). The Sandra Bullock/Channing Tatum flick will have $54.8 million domestic tonight. At a conventional rate of descent, Paramount's original, star-driven high concept release (what we used to call “a movie”) will end its domestic run with between $85 million and $105 million. The $70 million flick could end up closer to $100 million over the long haul, depending on how it legs out as essentially the only big release for a while playing explicitly (but not exclusively) to adult women. For the moment, I choose optimism.
Warner Bros.’ The Batman earned another $10.8 million (-47%) in its fifth weekend, bringing its 31-day domestic total up to $349 million. It’ll pass Deadpool ($363 million) in the next two weeks to place behind just Spider-Man ($403 million), Wonder Woman ($413 million), Captain Marvel ($427 million) and Black Panther ($700 million) among “part one” superhero flicks. Matt Reeves and Peter Craig’s $185 million actioner has earned $710.5 million worldwide. That's between Amazing Spider-Man 2 ($708 million) and Captain America: The Winter Soldier *($714 million). That’s also above The Twilight Saga: Eclipse ($706 million) as Robert Pattinson’s second-biggest global grosser. The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn part II ($829 million) is likely a bridge too far. Now past It ($700 million), The Batman is WB’s fourth-biggest global grosser over the last five years, behind Wonder Woman ($821 million), Joker ($1.073 billion) and Aquaman ($1.148 billion).
Meanwhile, Sony’s Uncharted earned $3.63 million (-27%) in its seventh weekend for a $139 million domestic and over/under $375 million global cume. Whether moving Morbius farther away from No Way Home hurt the former Marvel film, it certainly helped the video game flick. If it can hang on for a little longer, the Tom Holland/Mark Wahlberg adventure can best Detective Pikachu ($144 million) and Sonic the Hedgehog ($148 million, with $2 million of that coming from summer 2020 Covid play) as the biggest video game movie ever in unadjusted domestic earnings. Me thinks Sony should do Morbius/Uncharted double-features if the Jared Leto flick crashes next weekend. Sonic the Hedgehog 2 will hope to make this entire proposition immaterial next weekend. Skipping around a bit, Spider-Man: No Way Home will earn $1.42 million (-29%) in its 16th weekend for a new $803 million cume.
India’s RRR passed $105 million in global box office earnings, which makes the (not surprising) downward trajectory of its domestic run easier to swallow. S. S. Rajamouli’s three-hour action spectacular earned around $1.63 million (-83%) on its second weekend, bringing its 11-day (it technically opened on a Thursday) cume to $12.62 million. My social media feeds seem to imply that a lot of folks, critics, pundits and film nerds, are popping their proverbial Indian mega-movie cherry on this one. Netflix has the post-theatrical domestic distribution rights, which means that I can see this being one of those “Hey, wow, this bonkers-bananas Indian actioner is Netflix's most-watched movie” articles in the future. Nonetheless, the important thing is that those who wanted to see Rise Roar Revolt theatrically got a chance to do so.
FUNimation and Crunchy Roll’s Jujutsu Kaisen 0 earned around $1.95 million (-57%) in weekend three. That’s a $31.44 million 17-day total for the Japanese anime horror fantasy. It has earned around $165 million worldwide. Channing Tatum’s Dog earned $1.318 million (-38%) in weekend seven as the $15 million MGM drama passed $60 million. A24 expanded Everything Everywhere All At Once in 38 theaters in advance of its wide release this Friday. The Daniels’ (Kwan and Scheinert) fantasy earned $1.011 million (+98%) in weekend two for a $1.8 million total. That $26,631 per-theater average is solid, but the real test is whether this terrific Michelle Yeoh/Ke Huy Quan flick can break out next weekend. Ti West’s future cult classic X earned around $1 million (-55%) for a $10.1 million 17-day cume. Universal’s Sing 2 earned another $3 million worldwide for a $395 million global cume (cough-Turning Red-cough). |
https://www.forbes.com/sites/scottmendelson/2022/04/02/friday-box-office-the-batman-tops-700-million-as-rrr-plunges-92/ | In holdover box office news for Friday, The Lost City earned $4.3 million (-63%) on its eighth day. That positions the Sandra Bullock/Channing Tatum rom-com adventure for a $15.7 million (-48%) second-weekend gross. That’s a decent but not superlative hold, almost on par with The Proposal (-44% from a $33 million debut in June of 2009) and better than Ocean’s 8 (-54% after a $41 million debut in June of 2018). The over/under $70 million flick will have around $55 million domestic by day ten, implying that the original, star-driven high concept release (what we used to call “a movie”) will end its domestic run with between $85 million and $105 million, depending on how it legs out as essentially the only big release for a while playing explicitly (but not exclusively) to adult women.
Warner Bros.’ The Batman earned another $3.1 million (-44%) to bring its 29-day total to $341.3 million, setting the stage for a $11.3 million (-45%) fifth-weekend gross. That’ll give the Robert Pattinson/Zoe Kravitz actioner $349 million domestic at the end of its first month. Presuming a continued 49/51 domestic/overseas split, the Matt Reeves-directed DC flick should have around $697 million worldwide as of yesterday, meaning it should cross $700 million global by the end of this sentence. It should pass The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn part I ($712 million) tomorrow to become Robert Pattinson’s second-biggest global grosser behind Breaking Dawn part II ($829 million). That is most likely a bridge too far, which just shows how huge those Twilight movies were. It’s still looking like a final cume of $375 million domestic and $765 million worldwide for The Batman.
Meanwhile, Sony’s Uncharted earned $1 million (-26%) on its seventh Friday for a probable $3.72 million (-26%) weekend and $139 million domestic cume. Whether moving Morbius farther away from No Way Home hurt the former Marvel film, it certainly helped Uncharted. If it can hang on for a little longer, the Tom Holland/Mark Wahlberg adventure can best Detective Pikachu ($144 million) and Sonic the Hedgehog ($148 million) as the biggest video game movie ever in unadjusted domestic earnings. Me thinks Sony should do Morbius/Uncharted double-features if the Jared Leto flick sinks like a stone next weekend. Either way, Sonic the Hedgehog 2 will hope to make this entire proposition immaterial next weekend. Skipping around a bit, Spider-Man: No Way Home will earn $1.46 million (-27%) in its 16th weekend for a new $803 million cume.
FUNimation and Crunchy Roll’s Jujutsu Kasien 0 earned around $560,000 (-57%) on its third Friday. We can expect a $1.95 million (-57%) weekend and $31.44 million 17-day total for the Japanese anime horror fantasy. Alas, RRR plunged 92% on its second Friday, although that first Friday also included a full day of Thursday “previews.” Nonetheless, S. S. Rajamouli’s three-hour action spectacular earned around $440,000 on Friday setting the stage for a $1.58 million (-83%) weekend and $12.75 million 11-day cume. That’s obviously not a good hold, as this film’s domestic release was a one-weekend wonder. Still, it’s not like Rise Roar Revolt was banking on huge North American box office. Those who wanted to treat themselves by seeing it theatrically will get to do so. Everyone else will wait for Netflix.
Channing Tatum’s Dog earned $340,000 (-42%) on its seventh Friday. We can expect a $1.26 million (-41%) weekend as the $15 million MGM drama passes $60 million domestic. Everything Everywhere All at Once expanded to 38 theaters in advance of its wide release next weekend. The Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert sci-fi multiverse action rom-com fantasy earned $354,953 (+73%) on Friday for a probable $1.05 million (+106%) second weekend and $1.8 million ten-day total. That $26,250 per-theater average is solid, but the real test is whether this terrific Michelle Yeoh/Ke Huy Quan flick can break out next weekend. I’m not optimistic (because I dare not hope), but if A24 can get The Green Knight to $17 million, I’d like to think they can drag Everything Everywhere All at Once past $10 million domestic. | 1 | 56,778 | 0.603067 | https://www.forbes.com/sites/scottmendelson/2022/05/22/box-office-uncharted-passes-400-million-as-sonic-the-hedgehog-2-tops-375-million-and-lost-city-nears-100-million/ | 2022-05-22 17:09:53+00:00 | In holdover news that isn’t about Everything, Everywhere All at Once (which passed $52 million yesterday and will become A24’s biggest domestic earner) and Walt Disney’s Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness ($342 million domestic and $803 million worldwide) ... Sony’s Uncharted finally crawled past $400 million worldwide this weekend. The $120 million Tom Holland/Mark Wahlberg video game adaptation has earned $147.5 million domestic, third among video game movies behind only Sonic the Hedgehog ($148 million) and Sonic the Hedgehog 2 ($181 million and counting). Its global total puts it, among video game movies, behind Rampage ($428 million), Detective Pikachu ($433 million) and Warcraft ($438 million). So, yes, mixed-negative reviews aside, it’s a clear-cut hit and I’d be shocked not to see a sequel in the next few years. Maybe Uncharted 2 can let Holland act his age.
Meanwhile, DreamWorks and Universal’s The Bad Guys earned another $5.72 million (-19%) in weekend five for a $74 million domestic cume. The $80 million toon has earned $182 million worldwide, including $25 million in China. With another strong hold, I’d wager it passes $80 million domestic over Memorial Day weekend and ends up close to $90 million. $100 million seems like a bridge too far but ask me again on June 5 as the world’s children wait for Jurassic World: Dominion and Lightyear. Likewise, Paramount and Sega’s Sonic the Hedgehog 2 earned another $3.94 million (-15%) weekend and $181 million domestic and $375 million global cume. It’s still looking at a likely over/under $190 million domestic total. You know what might have done well this weekend? Disney’s terrific Chip n’ Dale: Rescue Rangers movie.
With all the chatter about how Tom Cruise is the last movie star (cough-Leonardo DiCaprio-cough), I’ll politely note that Sandra Bullock and Channing Tatum’s The Lost City earned $1.5 million in weekend six for a $99.3 million domestic cume. It’ll pass $100 million over the holiday even with a concurrent availability on Paramount+ and VOD. Once it passes even $101 million, it’ll have outgrossed every Cruise non-Mission: Impossible star vehicle since War of the Worlds ($232 million) in 2005. Cruise is unquestionably among the all-time greats, and God love him for continuing to only make big movies for big screens. However, if I were Paramount, I’d arrange a playdate for Bullock and Cruise, just to see what (professionally, of course) happens. Anyway, the $70 million The Lost City has now earned $176 million worldwide.
Last week’s lone new wide release, Firestarter, earned $1.73 million (-55%) second-weekend gross and $5.6 million ten-day cume. Yeah, no need to kick someone when they are already down. However, I will again note the peril of offering an inferior remake at a time when the comparatively better original/first adaptation is available on the same streaming service. WB’s Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore will earn $1.83 million (-28%) for a $93 million 38-day cume. It should arrive on HBO Max and PVOD a week from Monday, for those who have been curious but willing to wait. Focus Features’ The Northman will earn around $1 million (-42%) for a $33 million 31-day total. As noted yesterday, the original, $70 million-budgeted The Northman has earned 33% more than the $90 million Conan the Barbarian relaunch back in summer 2011. |
https://www.forbes.com/sites/scottmendelson/2022/04/02/friday-box-office-the-batman-tops-700-million-as-rrr-plunges-92/ | In holdover box office news for Friday, The Lost City earned $4.3 million (-63%) on its eighth day. That positions the Sandra Bullock/Channing Tatum rom-com adventure for a $15.7 million (-48%) second-weekend gross. That’s a decent but not superlative hold, almost on par with The Proposal (-44% from a $33 million debut in June of 2009) and better than Ocean’s 8 (-54% after a $41 million debut in June of 2018). The over/under $70 million flick will have around $55 million domestic by day ten, implying that the original, star-driven high concept release (what we used to call “a movie”) will end its domestic run with between $85 million and $105 million, depending on how it legs out as essentially the only big release for a while playing explicitly (but not exclusively) to adult women.
Warner Bros.’ The Batman earned another $3.1 million (-44%) to bring its 29-day total to $341.3 million, setting the stage for a $11.3 million (-45%) fifth-weekend gross. That’ll give the Robert Pattinson/Zoe Kravitz actioner $349 million domestic at the end of its first month. Presuming a continued 49/51 domestic/overseas split, the Matt Reeves-directed DC flick should have around $697 million worldwide as of yesterday, meaning it should cross $700 million global by the end of this sentence. It should pass The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn part I ($712 million) tomorrow to become Robert Pattinson’s second-biggest global grosser behind Breaking Dawn part II ($829 million). That is most likely a bridge too far, which just shows how huge those Twilight movies were. It’s still looking like a final cume of $375 million domestic and $765 million worldwide for The Batman.
Meanwhile, Sony’s Uncharted earned $1 million (-26%) on its seventh Friday for a probable $3.72 million (-26%) weekend and $139 million domestic cume. Whether moving Morbius farther away from No Way Home hurt the former Marvel film, it certainly helped Uncharted. If it can hang on for a little longer, the Tom Holland/Mark Wahlberg adventure can best Detective Pikachu ($144 million) and Sonic the Hedgehog ($148 million) as the biggest video game movie ever in unadjusted domestic earnings. Me thinks Sony should do Morbius/Uncharted double-features if the Jared Leto flick sinks like a stone next weekend. Either way, Sonic the Hedgehog 2 will hope to make this entire proposition immaterial next weekend. Skipping around a bit, Spider-Man: No Way Home will earn $1.46 million (-27%) in its 16th weekend for a new $803 million cume.
FUNimation and Crunchy Roll’s Jujutsu Kasien 0 earned around $560,000 (-57%) on its third Friday. We can expect a $1.95 million (-57%) weekend and $31.44 million 17-day total for the Japanese anime horror fantasy. Alas, RRR plunged 92% on its second Friday, although that first Friday also included a full day of Thursday “previews.” Nonetheless, S. S. Rajamouli’s three-hour action spectacular earned around $440,000 on Friday setting the stage for a $1.58 million (-83%) weekend and $12.75 million 11-day cume. That’s obviously not a good hold, as this film’s domestic release was a one-weekend wonder. Still, it’s not like Rise Roar Revolt was banking on huge North American box office. Those who wanted to treat themselves by seeing it theatrically will get to do so. Everyone else will wait for Netflix.
Channing Tatum’s Dog earned $340,000 (-42%) on its seventh Friday. We can expect a $1.26 million (-41%) weekend as the $15 million MGM drama passes $60 million domestic. Everything Everywhere All at Once expanded to 38 theaters in advance of its wide release next weekend. The Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert sci-fi multiverse action rom-com fantasy earned $354,953 (+73%) on Friday for a probable $1.05 million (+106%) second weekend and $1.8 million ten-day total. That $26,250 per-theater average is solid, but the real test is whether this terrific Michelle Yeoh/Ke Huy Quan flick can break out next weekend. I’m not optimistic (because I dare not hope), but if A24 can get The Green Knight to $17 million, I’d like to think they can drag Everything Everywhere All at Once past $10 million domestic. | 2 | 98,402 | 0.647457 | https://wtmx.com/morbius-takes-the-top-spot-with-decent-39-million-open-the-batman-crosses-710-million-worldwide/ | 2022-04-05 08:03:31+00:00 | The Sony Pictures vampire superhero Morbius managed to fight off a critical drubbing to earn a respectable $39.1 million opening at the domestic box office, enough for the weekend’s top spot. The movie, starring Oscar-winner Jared Leto as one of Marvel Comics’ Spider-Man baddies, debuted to $84 million worldwide: Decent, but nowhere near Spider-Man: No Way Home‘s numbers, nor even another Spidey-adjacent Sony offering, Venom: Let There Be Carnage, which opened to $90 million domestically last fall.
In the second-place slot this weekend is last week’s box office champ, the Channing Tatum/Sandra Bullock romantic romp The Lost City. The adventure film, which also stars Daniel Radcliffe, earned $14.8 million in its sophomore frame.
The Batman took in another $10.8 million domestically for third place. Starring Robert Pattinson and Zoe Kravitz, it also crossed the $700 million mark globally after five weeks with $710.5 million, and counting.
Rounding out the fourth and fifth places in theaters over the weekend, respectively, were Tom Holland‘s blockbuster video game adaptation Uncharted, which earned $3.6 million, and the anime adventure Jujutsu Kaisen 0: The Movie, which earned a bit under $2 million.
Both films are also scoring overseas: Uncharted, from Sony Pictures, has a worldwide haul of more than $234 million, while Jujutsu‘s bottom line was also boosted from foreign theaters, pushing its worldwide take to $149.1 million over the weekend.
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