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https://www.wfmz.com/news/pr_newswire/pr_newswire_business/one-rock-capital-partners-expands-operating-partner-team-with-the-addition-of-andrea-skobel/article_b4efc812-20de-5188-98af-877b4226f3c9.html | NEW YORK, April 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- One Rock Capital Partners, LLC ("One Rock"), a value-oriented, operationally focused private equity firm, is pleased to announce the addition of Andrea ("AJ") Skobel to its team of Operating Partners. Working in conjunction with One Rock Operating Partner Mike Anderson, Ms. Skobel will be responsible for driving post-acquisition value at One Rock's portfolio companies primarily through strategic talent and organizational development solutions and alignment of human resource strategy with business and operational strategies.
Ms. Skobel brings over 20 years of experience in executive human resource management, talent acquisition and leadership development. Prior to joining One Rock, Ms. Skobel spent nearly a decade at IDEX Corporation and prior to IDEX, she was Vice President of Human Resources at John Crane.
"AJ's established track record of helping build successful teams and enhancing leadership performance will be a valuable resource to our portfolio company management teams," said One Rock Managing Partner R. Scott Spielvogel.
"I admire One Rock's focus on helping companies grow and develop, and I look forward to collaborating with One Rock's portfolio companies to support each company's distinctive talent and organizational development needs," said Ms. Skobel.
Retaining and leveraging the expertise of a growing team of Operating Partners has been a key part of One Rock's strategy since its inception. The addition of Ms. Skobel brings the total number of Operating Partners at One Rock to 21.
ABOUT ONE ROCK CAPITAL PARTNERS, LLC
One Rock makes controlling investments in companies with potential for growth and operational improvement using a rigorous approach that utilizes highly experienced Operating Partners to identify, acquire and enhance businesses in select industries. The involvement of these Operating Partners affords One Rock the ability to conduct due diligence and consummate acquisitions and investments in all types of situations, regardless of complexity. One Rock works collaboratively with company management and its Operating Partners to develop a comprehensive business plan focused on growing the enterprise and its profitability to enhance long-term value. For more information, visit www.onerockcapital.com.
MEDIA CONTACT
Julia Cohen
Prosek Partners
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SOURCE One Rock Capital Partners, LLC | 1 | 57,340 | 0.049722 | https://www.1011now.com/prnewswire/2022/04/04/one-rock-capital-partners-expands-operating-partner-team-with-addition-andrea-skobel/ | 2022-04-04 15:26:04+00:00 | NEW YORK, April 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- One Rock Capital Partners, LLC ("One Rock"), a value-oriented, operationally focused private equity firm, is pleased to announce the addition of Andrea ("AJ") Skobel to its team of Operating Partners. Working in conjunction with One Rock Operating Partner Mike Anderson, Ms. Skobel will be responsible for driving post-acquisition value at One Rock's portfolio companies primarily through strategic talent and organizational development solutions and alignment of human resource strategy with business and operational strategies.
Ms. Skobel brings over 20 years of experience in executive human resource management, talent acquisition and leadership development. Prior to joining One Rock, Ms. Skobel spent nearly a decade at IDEX Corporation and prior to IDEX, she was Vice President of Human Resources at John Crane.
"AJ's established track record of helping build successful teams and enhancing leadership performance will be a valuable resource to our portfolio company management teams," said One Rock Managing Partner R. Scott Spielvogel.
"I admire One Rock's focus on helping companies grow and develop, and I look forward to collaborating with One Rock's portfolio companies to support each company's distinctive talent and organizational development needs," said Ms. Skobel.
Retaining and leveraging the expertise of a growing team of Operating Partners has been a key part of One Rock's strategy since its inception. The addition of Ms. Skobel brings the total number of Operating Partners at One Rock to 21.
ABOUT ONE ROCK CAPITAL PARTNERS, LLC
One Rock makes controlling investments in companies with potential for growth and operational improvement using a rigorous approach that utilizes highly experienced Operating Partners to identify, acquire and enhance businesses in select industries. The involvement of these Operating Partners affords One Rock the ability to conduct due diligence and consummate acquisitions and investments in all types of situations, regardless of complexity. One Rock works collaboratively with company management and its Operating Partners to develop a comprehensive business plan focused on growing the enterprise and its profitability to enhance long-term value. For more information, visit www.onerockcapital.com.
MEDIA CONTACT
Julia Cohen
Prosek Partners
pro-onerock@prosek.com
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https://www.wfmz.com/news/pr_newswire/pr_newswire_business/one-rock-capital-partners-expands-operating-partner-team-with-the-addition-of-andrea-skobel/article_b4efc812-20de-5188-98af-877b4226f3c9.html | NEW YORK, April 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- One Rock Capital Partners, LLC ("One Rock"), a value-oriented, operationally focused private equity firm, is pleased to announce the addition of Andrea ("AJ") Skobel to its team of Operating Partners. Working in conjunction with One Rock Operating Partner Mike Anderson, Ms. Skobel will be responsible for driving post-acquisition value at One Rock's portfolio companies primarily through strategic talent and organizational development solutions and alignment of human resource strategy with business and operational strategies.
Ms. Skobel brings over 20 years of experience in executive human resource management, talent acquisition and leadership development. Prior to joining One Rock, Ms. Skobel spent nearly a decade at IDEX Corporation and prior to IDEX, she was Vice President of Human Resources at John Crane.
"AJ's established track record of helping build successful teams and enhancing leadership performance will be a valuable resource to our portfolio company management teams," said One Rock Managing Partner R. Scott Spielvogel.
"I admire One Rock's focus on helping companies grow and develop, and I look forward to collaborating with One Rock's portfolio companies to support each company's distinctive talent and organizational development needs," said Ms. Skobel.
Retaining and leveraging the expertise of a growing team of Operating Partners has been a key part of One Rock's strategy since its inception. The addition of Ms. Skobel brings the total number of Operating Partners at One Rock to 21.
ABOUT ONE ROCK CAPITAL PARTNERS, LLC
One Rock makes controlling investments in companies with potential for growth and operational improvement using a rigorous approach that utilizes highly experienced Operating Partners to identify, acquire and enhance businesses in select industries. The involvement of these Operating Partners affords One Rock the ability to conduct due diligence and consummate acquisitions and investments in all types of situations, regardless of complexity. One Rock works collaboratively with company management and its Operating Partners to develop a comprehensive business plan focused on growing the enterprise and its profitability to enhance long-term value. For more information, visit www.onerockcapital.com.
MEDIA CONTACT
Julia Cohen
Prosek Partners
View original content:https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/one-rock-capital-partners-expands-operating-partner-team-with-the-addition-of-andrea-skobel-301516815.html
SOURCE One Rock Capital Partners, LLC | 2 | 53,167 | 0.130423 | https://www.finanzen.at/nachrichten/aktien/one-rock-capital-partners-expands-operating-partner-team-with-the-addition-of-andrea-skobel-1031330517 | 2022-04-05 03:14:08+00:00 | ONE ROCK CAPITAL PARTNERS EXPANDS OPERATING PARTNER TEAM WITH THE ADDITION OF ANDREA SKOBEL
NEW YORK, April 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- One Rock Capital Partners, LLC ("One Rock"), a value-oriented, operationally focused private equity firm, is pleased to announce the addition of Andrea ("AJ") Skobel to its team of Operating Partners. Working in conjunction with One Rock Operating Partner Mike Anderson, Ms. Skobel will be responsible for driving post-acquisition value at One Rock's portfolio companies primarily through strategic talent and organizational development solutions and alignment of human resource strategy with business and operational strategies.
Ms. Skobel brings over 20 years of experience in executive human resource management, talent acquisition and leadership development. Prior to joining One Rock, Ms. Skobel spent nearly a decade at IDEX Corporation and prior to IDEX, she was Vice President of Human Resources at John Crane.
"AJ's established track record of helping build successful teams and enhancing leadership performance will be a valuable resource to our portfolio company management teams," said One Rock Managing Partner R. Scott Spielvogel.
"I admire One Rock's focus on helping companies grow and develop, and I look forward to collaborating with One Rock's portfolio companies to support each company's distinctive talent and organizational development needs," said Ms. Skobel.
Retaining and leveraging the expertise of a growing team of Operating Partners has been a key part of One Rock's strategy since its inception. The addition of Ms. Skobel brings the total number of Operating Partners at One Rock to 21.
ABOUT ONE ROCK CAPITAL PARTNERS, LLC
One Rock makes controlling investments in companies with potential for growth and operational improvement using a rigorous approach that utilizes highly experienced Operating Partners to identify, acquire and enhance businesses in select industries. The involvement of these Operating Partners affords One Rock the ability to conduct due diligence and consummate acquisitions and investments in all types of situations, regardless of complexity. One Rock works collaboratively with company management and its Operating Partners to develop a comprehensive business plan focused on growing the enterprise and its profitability to enhance long-term value. For more information, visit www.onerockcapital.com.
MEDIA CONTACT
Julia Cohen
Prosek Partners
pro-onerock@prosek.com
View original content:https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/one-rock-capital-partners-expands-operating-partner-team-with-the-addition-of-andrea-skobel-301516815.html
SOURCE One Rock Capital Partners, LLC
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5-4-3-3, FIREBALL: 3
(five, four, three, three; FIREBALL: three)
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Monday morning's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Daily 4 Morning" game were:
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(five, four, three, three; FIREBALL: three) | 0 | 58,301 | 0 | https://www.ctinsider.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Daily-4-Morning-game-17056163.php | 2022-04-04 15:30:54+00:00 | AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Monday morning's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Daily 4 Morning" game were:
5-4-3-3, FIREBALL: 3
(five, four, three, three; FIREBALL: three)
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Monday morning's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Daily 4 Morning" game were:
5-4-3-3, FIREBALL: 3
(five, four, three, three; FIREBALL: three) |
https://www.beaumontenterprise.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Daily-4-Morning-game-17056163.php | AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Monday morning's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Daily 4 Morning" game were:
5-4-3-3, FIREBALL: 3
(five, four, three, three; FIREBALL: three)
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Monday morning's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Daily 4 Morning" game were:
5-4-3-3, FIREBALL: 3
(five, four, three, three; FIREBALL: three) | 1 | 58,482 | 0 | https://www.ourmidland.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Daily-4-Morning-game-17056163.php | 2022-04-04 15:31:37+00:00 | AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Monday morning's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Daily 4 Morning" game were:
5-4-3-3, FIREBALL: 3
(five, four, three, three; FIREBALL: three)
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Monday morning's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Daily 4 Morning" game were:
5-4-3-3, FIREBALL: 3
(five, four, three, three; FIREBALL: three) |
https://www.beaumontenterprise.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Daily-4-Morning-game-17056163.php | AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Monday morning's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Daily 4 Morning" game were:
5-4-3-3, FIREBALL: 3
(five, four, three, three; FIREBALL: three)
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Monday morning's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Daily 4 Morning" game were:
5-4-3-3, FIREBALL: 3
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5-4-3-3, FIREBALL: 3
(five, four, three, three; FIREBALL: three)
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Monday morning's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Daily 4 Morning" game were:
5-4-3-3, FIREBALL: 3
(five, four, three, three; FIREBALL: three) |
https://www.expressnews.com/sports/article/NCAA-woes-More-fixing-needed-for-hoops-all-17056311.php | NEW ORLEANS (AP) — If the nine months that led to Monday night's national title game between Kansas and North Carolina have proven anything, it's that college basketball and all of college sports are changing.
Whoever shapes all these changes — and it won't necessarily be the NCAA — will help decide whether the next decade in this multibillion-dollar ecosystem of sports, entertainment and education grows into an efficiently run business or devolves into chaos. Either is a possibility.
The NCAA has struggled with the rules and outcomes of efforts to pay players, ensure gender equity, lock in the newly relaxed transfer portal, streamline an increasingly cluttered infractions system and, of course, deal with the long-debated “One and Done” rule.
And while the governing body is all but waving the white flag when it comes to figuring out many of the transformative shifts that these problems present, there’s a growing sense that that might not be a bad thing.
“This is not the time to look at knits and bits,” Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski said Friday, the day before his loss to North Carolina sealed his retirement. “It’s time to look at the whole thing.”
Top on the to-do list is figuring out a viable system for “name, image and likeness” (NIL) deals.
Players can now make money off sponsorship deals. It's a tremendous change in the entire college dynamic, a business in which players generated millions through March Madness but most of it filtered to coaches, new stadiums and weight rooms and keeping the rest of the university's athletic department running.
“I’m for sure happy to get a little money in my pocket,” Duke guard Trevor Keels said over the weekend.
But some argue NIL is a deflection from what really needs to happen — which is to make the schools directly pay the players for their work.
In a roundabout way, that's happening anyway, as donors and others that pump money into athletic programs are now shifting some of the dough into school-branded “collectives” that create sponsorship opportunities for athletes.
The workaround feels acceptable enough for the time being. But the NCAA has ceded all control of it, depending on state laws, school oversight and, maybe, an eventual federal law to regulate it all.
“It has been and it’s still the case that we have got to have Congress help us find a single legal model" to run NIL, NCAA President Mark Emmert said.
Under the current mishmash of rules, there is very little public information about who makes what and who pays the bills. The concept of millions of dollars floating around with zero transparency doesn't strike anyone as the best business model for a sport filled with athletes in the teens and early 20s.
“One of my bigger concerns is not even about players doing the campaigns or getting paid," said Barbara Jones of Outshine Talent. “It's about them giving away or promising too much and not even realizing it.”
Another topic is gender disparity. Congress held hearings on the issue during the tournament. Last year, the differences in the way the men's and women's games were treated were encapsulated by a video taken by Oregon's Sedona Prince of the lame weight room at the women's tournament.
The NCAA commissioned a task force and a panel came up with recommendations. Most of the changes have felt like window dressing. They included adding four teams to bring the women's bracket up to 68, switching the women's final from Tuesday to Sunday and putting the branding “March Madness” on the women's tournament in addition to the men's.
Meanwhile, the NCAA still owns a vastly undervalued media contract for the women, the details of which paint the picture of the NCAA as a tone-deaf bureaucracy that isn't changing with the times. The deficiencies are all the more palpable with this being the 50th anniversary of the Title IX law that was designed to create equal opportunity for women in sports.
“I call it hot dogs for the girls and steak for the boys,” Stanford coach Tara VanDerveer said.
Elsewhere, the new transfer rule is an attempt to rectify one of the biggest hypocrisies in sports — namely, that coaches could move around to the highest bidder with no restrictions but players weren't given the same freedom. Now, they are, but when combined with NIL, it threatens to create a free-agency system of sorts, the likes of which many in the college game would like to avoid.
The complicated and inefficient rulebook has also made the NCAA look like it's stuck in concrete.
Emmert all but conceded that fixes to establish an independent committee aren't working well. One consequence is that he came into New Orleans with the prospect of handing the title trophy to coach Bill Self, whose Kansas program has been tainted by a complex, half-decade-old investigation that still threatens the Jayhawks' future.
“It's common knowledge,” Self said. “We've been dealing with some stuff off the court for a while.”
Like most schools that get in trouble, Kansas' problems center around the recruitment of top talent, which leads back to the NCAA's longest-running issue — the “One and Done” rule that allows players to leave after one year of college.
Emmert's well-worn dodge on that rule is that it is technically part of the NBA collective-bargaining arrangement, so what is the NCAA to do? But when it comes to teasing out the details, and how they impact the college game, Krzyzewski said he's had more contact with NBA Commissioner Adam Silver over the years than anyone from the NCAA office.
As Krzyzewski leaves coaching in the rearview mirror, he is struck by how many decisions are made by NCAA boards and committees that don't deal with the issues at hand on a day-to-day basis.
He'd like to see a less-centralized NCAA — one that allowed men's basketball to decide about its own issues, and maybe the same with women's hoops and every other sport.
Whether a new model looks something like what Krzyzewski envisions, or something else, there's a growing sense that big changes are ahead for college sports.
“Everything that you work in, or whatever you do, it never stays just status-quo,” Self said. “We need to keep evolving.”
___
More AP college basketball: http://apnews.com/Collegebasketball and https://twitter.com/AP_Top25 | 0 | 69,628 | 0 | https://www.darientimes.com/sports/article/NCAA-woes-More-fixing-needed-for-hoops-all-17056311.php | 2022-04-04 16:21:48+00:00 | NEW ORLEANS (AP) — If the nine months that led to Monday night's national title game between Kansas and North Carolina have proven anything, it's that college basketball and all of college sports are changing.
Whoever shapes all these changes — and it won't necessarily be the NCAA — will help decide whether the next decade in this multibillion-dollar ecosystem of sports, entertainment and education grows into an efficiently run business or devolves into chaos. Either is a possibility.
The NCAA has struggled with the rules and outcomes of efforts to pay players, ensure gender equity, lock in the newly relaxed transfer portal, streamline an increasingly cluttered infractions system and, of course, deal with the long-debated “One and Done” rule.
And while the governing body is all but waving the white flag when it comes to figuring out many of the transformative shifts that these problems present, there’s a growing sense that that might not be a bad thing.
“This is not the time to look at knits and bits,” Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski said Friday, the day before his loss to North Carolina sealed his retirement. “It’s time to look at the whole thing.”
Top on the to-do list is figuring out a viable system for “name, image and likeness” (NIL) deals.
Players can now make money off sponsorship deals. It's a tremendous change in the entire college dynamic, a business in which players generated millions through March Madness but most of it filtered to coaches, new stadiums and weight rooms and keeping the rest of the university's athletic department running.
“I’m for sure happy to get a little money in my pocket,” Duke guard Trevor Keels said over the weekend.
But some argue NIL is a deflection from what really needs to happen — which is to make the schools directly pay the players for their work.
In a roundabout way, that's happening anyway, as donors and others that pump money into athletic programs are now shifting some of the dough into school-branded “collectives” that create sponsorship opportunities for athletes.
The workaround feels acceptable enough for the time being. But the NCAA has ceded all control of it, depending on state laws, school oversight and, maybe, an eventual federal law to regulate it all.
“It has been and it’s still the case that we have got to have Congress help us find a single legal model" to run NIL, NCAA President Mark Emmert said.
Under the current mishmash of rules, there is very little public information about who makes what and who pays the bills. The concept of millions of dollars floating around with zero transparency doesn't strike anyone as the best business model for a sport filled with athletes in the teens and early 20s.
“One of my bigger concerns is not even about players doing the campaigns or getting paid," said Barbara Jones of Outshine Talent. “It's about them giving away or promising too much and not even realizing it.”
Another topic is gender disparity. Congress held hearings on the issue during the tournament. Last year, the differences in the way the men's and women's games were treated were encapsulated by a video taken by Oregon's Sedona Prince of the lame weight room at the women's tournament.
The NCAA commissioned a task force and a panel came up with recommendations. Most of the changes have felt like window dressing. They included adding four teams to bring the women's bracket up to 68, switching the women's final from Tuesday to Sunday and putting the branding “March Madness” on the women's tournament in addition to the men's.
Meanwhile, the NCAA still owns a vastly undervalued media contract for the women, the details of which paint the picture of the NCAA as a tone-deaf bureaucracy that isn't changing with the times. The deficiencies are all the more palpable with this being the 50th anniversary of the Title IX law that was designed to create equal opportunity for women in sports.
“I call it hot dogs for the girls and steak for the boys,” Stanford coach Tara VanDerveer said.
Elsewhere, the new transfer rule is an attempt to rectify one of the biggest hypocrisies in sports — namely, that coaches could move around to the highest bidder with no restrictions but players weren't given the same freedom. Now, they are, but when combined with NIL, it threatens to create a free-agency system of sorts, the likes of which many in the college game would like to avoid.
The complicated and inefficient rulebook has also made the NCAA look like it's stuck in concrete.
Emmert all but conceded that fixes to establish an independent committee aren't working well. One consequence is that he came into New Orleans with the prospect of handing the title trophy to coach Bill Self, whose Kansas program has been tainted by a complex, half-decade-old investigation that still threatens the Jayhawks' future.
“It's common knowledge,” Self said. “We've been dealing with some stuff off the court for a while.”
Like most schools that get in trouble, Kansas' problems center around the recruitment of top talent, which leads back to the NCAA's longest-running issue — the “One and Done” rule that allows players to leave after one year of college.
Emmert's well-worn dodge on that rule is that it is technically part of the NBA collective-bargaining arrangement, so what is the NCAA to do? But when it comes to teasing out the details, and how they impact the college game, Krzyzewski said he's had more contact with NBA Commissioner Adam Silver over the years than anyone from the NCAA office.
As Krzyzewski leaves coaching in the rearview mirror, he is struck by how many decisions are made by NCAA boards and committees that don't deal with the issues at hand on a day-to-day basis.
He'd like to see a less-centralized NCAA — one that allowed men's basketball to decide about its own issues, and maybe the same with women's hoops and every other sport.
Whether a new model looks something like what Krzyzewski envisions, or something else, there's a growing sense that big changes are ahead for college sports.
“Everything that you work in, or whatever you do, it never stays just status-quo,” Self said. “We need to keep evolving.”
___
More AP college basketball: http://apnews.com/Collegebasketball and https://twitter.com/AP_Top25 |
https://www.expressnews.com/sports/article/NCAA-woes-More-fixing-needed-for-hoops-all-17056311.php | NEW ORLEANS (AP) — If the nine months that led to Monday night's national title game between Kansas and North Carolina have proven anything, it's that college basketball and all of college sports are changing.
Whoever shapes all these changes — and it won't necessarily be the NCAA — will help decide whether the next decade in this multibillion-dollar ecosystem of sports, entertainment and education grows into an efficiently run business or devolves into chaos. Either is a possibility.
The NCAA has struggled with the rules and outcomes of efforts to pay players, ensure gender equity, lock in the newly relaxed transfer portal, streamline an increasingly cluttered infractions system and, of course, deal with the long-debated “One and Done” rule.
And while the governing body is all but waving the white flag when it comes to figuring out many of the transformative shifts that these problems present, there’s a growing sense that that might not be a bad thing.
“This is not the time to look at knits and bits,” Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski said Friday, the day before his loss to North Carolina sealed his retirement. “It’s time to look at the whole thing.”
Top on the to-do list is figuring out a viable system for “name, image and likeness” (NIL) deals.
Players can now make money off sponsorship deals. It's a tremendous change in the entire college dynamic, a business in which players generated millions through March Madness but most of it filtered to coaches, new stadiums and weight rooms and keeping the rest of the university's athletic department running.
“I’m for sure happy to get a little money in my pocket,” Duke guard Trevor Keels said over the weekend.
But some argue NIL is a deflection from what really needs to happen — which is to make the schools directly pay the players for their work.
In a roundabout way, that's happening anyway, as donors and others that pump money into athletic programs are now shifting some of the dough into school-branded “collectives” that create sponsorship opportunities for athletes.
The workaround feels acceptable enough for the time being. But the NCAA has ceded all control of it, depending on state laws, school oversight and, maybe, an eventual federal law to regulate it all.
“It has been and it’s still the case that we have got to have Congress help us find a single legal model" to run NIL, NCAA President Mark Emmert said.
Under the current mishmash of rules, there is very little public information about who makes what and who pays the bills. The concept of millions of dollars floating around with zero transparency doesn't strike anyone as the best business model for a sport filled with athletes in the teens and early 20s.
“One of my bigger concerns is not even about players doing the campaigns or getting paid," said Barbara Jones of Outshine Talent. “It's about them giving away or promising too much and not even realizing it.”
Another topic is gender disparity. Congress held hearings on the issue during the tournament. Last year, the differences in the way the men's and women's games were treated were encapsulated by a video taken by Oregon's Sedona Prince of the lame weight room at the women's tournament.
The NCAA commissioned a task force and a panel came up with recommendations. Most of the changes have felt like window dressing. They included adding four teams to bring the women's bracket up to 68, switching the women's final from Tuesday to Sunday and putting the branding “March Madness” on the women's tournament in addition to the men's.
Meanwhile, the NCAA still owns a vastly undervalued media contract for the women, the details of which paint the picture of the NCAA as a tone-deaf bureaucracy that isn't changing with the times. The deficiencies are all the more palpable with this being the 50th anniversary of the Title IX law that was designed to create equal opportunity for women in sports.
“I call it hot dogs for the girls and steak for the boys,” Stanford coach Tara VanDerveer said.
Elsewhere, the new transfer rule is an attempt to rectify one of the biggest hypocrisies in sports — namely, that coaches could move around to the highest bidder with no restrictions but players weren't given the same freedom. Now, they are, but when combined with NIL, it threatens to create a free-agency system of sorts, the likes of which many in the college game would like to avoid.
The complicated and inefficient rulebook has also made the NCAA look like it's stuck in concrete.
Emmert all but conceded that fixes to establish an independent committee aren't working well. One consequence is that he came into New Orleans with the prospect of handing the title trophy to coach Bill Self, whose Kansas program has been tainted by a complex, half-decade-old investigation that still threatens the Jayhawks' future.
“It's common knowledge,” Self said. “We've been dealing with some stuff off the court for a while.”
Like most schools that get in trouble, Kansas' problems center around the recruitment of top talent, which leads back to the NCAA's longest-running issue — the “One and Done” rule that allows players to leave after one year of college.
Emmert's well-worn dodge on that rule is that it is technically part of the NBA collective-bargaining arrangement, so what is the NCAA to do? But when it comes to teasing out the details, and how they impact the college game, Krzyzewski said he's had more contact with NBA Commissioner Adam Silver over the years than anyone from the NCAA office.
As Krzyzewski leaves coaching in the rearview mirror, he is struck by how many decisions are made by NCAA boards and committees that don't deal with the issues at hand on a day-to-day basis.
He'd like to see a less-centralized NCAA — one that allowed men's basketball to decide about its own issues, and maybe the same with women's hoops and every other sport.
Whether a new model looks something like what Krzyzewski envisions, or something else, there's a growing sense that big changes are ahead for college sports.
“Everything that you work in, or whatever you do, it never stays just status-quo,” Self said. “We need to keep evolving.”
___
More AP college basketball: http://apnews.com/Collegebasketball and https://twitter.com/AP_Top25 | 1 | 70,068 | 0 | https://www.manisteenews.com/sports/article/NCAA-woes-More-fixing-needed-for-hoops-all-17056311.php | 2022-04-04 16:23:16+00:00 | NEW ORLEANS (AP) — If the nine months that led to Monday night's national title game between Kansas and North Carolina have proven anything, it's that college basketball and all of college sports are changing.
Whoever shapes all these changes — and it won't necessarily be the NCAA — will help decide whether the next decade in this multibillion-dollar ecosystem of sports, entertainment and education grows into an efficiently run business or devolves into chaos. Either is a possibility.
The NCAA has struggled with the rules and outcomes of efforts to pay players, ensure gender equity, lock in the newly relaxed transfer portal, streamline an increasingly cluttered infractions system and, of course, deal with the long-debated “One and Done” rule.
And while the governing body is all but waving the white flag when it comes to figuring out many of the transformative shifts that these problems present, there’s a growing sense that that might not be a bad thing.
“This is not the time to look at knits and bits,” Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski said Friday, the day before his loss to North Carolina sealed his retirement. “It’s time to look at the whole thing.”
Top on the to-do list is figuring out a viable system for “name, image and likeness” (NIL) deals.
Players can now make money off sponsorship deals. It's a tremendous change in the entire college dynamic, a business in which players generated millions through March Madness but most of it filtered to coaches, new stadiums and weight rooms and keeping the rest of the university's athletic department running.
“I’m for sure happy to get a little money in my pocket,” Duke guard Trevor Keels said over the weekend.
But some argue NIL is a deflection from what really needs to happen — which is to make the schools directly pay the players for their work.
In a roundabout way, that's happening anyway, as donors and others that pump money into athletic programs are now shifting some of the dough into school-branded “collectives” that create sponsorship opportunities for athletes.
The workaround feels acceptable enough for the time being. But the NCAA has ceded all control of it, depending on state laws, school oversight and, maybe, an eventual federal law to regulate it all.
“It has been and it’s still the case that we have got to have Congress help us find a single legal model" to run NIL, NCAA President Mark Emmert said.
Under the current mishmash of rules, there is very little public information about who makes what and who pays the bills. The concept of millions of dollars floating around with zero transparency doesn't strike anyone as the best business model for a sport filled with athletes in the teens and early 20s.
“One of my bigger concerns is not even about players doing the campaigns or getting paid," said Barbara Jones of Outshine Talent. “It's about them giving away or promising too much and not even realizing it.”
Another topic is gender disparity. Congress held hearings on the issue during the tournament. Last year, the differences in the way the men's and women's games were treated were encapsulated by a video taken by Oregon's Sedona Prince of the lame weight room at the women's tournament.
The NCAA commissioned a task force and a panel came up with recommendations. Most of the changes have felt like window dressing. They included adding four teams to bring the women's bracket up to 68, switching the women's final from Tuesday to Sunday and putting the branding “March Madness” on the women's tournament in addition to the men's.
Meanwhile, the NCAA still owns a vastly undervalued media contract for the women, the details of which paint the picture of the NCAA as a tone-deaf bureaucracy that isn't changing with the times. The deficiencies are all the more palpable with this being the 50th anniversary of the Title IX law that was designed to create equal opportunity for women in sports.
“I call it hot dogs for the girls and steak for the boys,” Stanford coach Tara VanDerveer said.
Elsewhere, the new transfer rule is an attempt to rectify one of the biggest hypocrisies in sports — namely, that coaches could move around to the highest bidder with no restrictions but players weren't given the same freedom. Now, they are, but when combined with NIL, it threatens to create a free-agency system of sorts, the likes of which many in the college game would like to avoid.
The complicated and inefficient rulebook has also made the NCAA look like it's stuck in concrete.
Emmert all but conceded that fixes to establish an independent committee aren't working well. One consequence is that he came into New Orleans with the prospect of handing the title trophy to coach Bill Self, whose Kansas program has been tainted by a complex, half-decade-old investigation that still threatens the Jayhawks' future.
“It's common knowledge,” Self said. “We've been dealing with some stuff off the court for a while.”
Like most schools that get in trouble, Kansas' problems center around the recruitment of top talent, which leads back to the NCAA's longest-running issue — the “One and Done” rule that allows players to leave after one year of college.
Emmert's well-worn dodge on that rule is that it is technically part of the NBA collective-bargaining arrangement, so what is the NCAA to do? But when it comes to teasing out the details, and how they impact the college game, Krzyzewski said he's had more contact with NBA Commissioner Adam Silver over the years than anyone from the NCAA office.
As Krzyzewski leaves coaching in the rearview mirror, he is struck by how many decisions are made by NCAA boards and committees that don't deal with the issues at hand on a day-to-day basis.
He'd like to see a less-centralized NCAA — one that allowed men's basketball to decide about its own issues, and maybe the same with women's hoops and every other sport.
Whether a new model looks something like what Krzyzewski envisions, or something else, there's a growing sense that big changes are ahead for college sports.
“Everything that you work in, or whatever you do, it never stays just status-quo,” Self said. “We need to keep evolving.”
___
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https://www.expressnews.com/sports/article/NCAA-woes-More-fixing-needed-for-hoops-all-17056311.php | NEW ORLEANS (AP) — If the nine months that led to Monday night's national title game between Kansas and North Carolina have proven anything, it's that college basketball and all of college sports are changing.
Whoever shapes all these changes — and it won't necessarily be the NCAA — will help decide whether the next decade in this multibillion-dollar ecosystem of sports, entertainment and education grows into an efficiently run business or devolves into chaos. Either is a possibility.
The NCAA has struggled with the rules and outcomes of efforts to pay players, ensure gender equity, lock in the newly relaxed transfer portal, streamline an increasingly cluttered infractions system and, of course, deal with the long-debated “One and Done” rule.
And while the governing body is all but waving the white flag when it comes to figuring out many of the transformative shifts that these problems present, there’s a growing sense that that might not be a bad thing.
“This is not the time to look at knits and bits,” Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski said Friday, the day before his loss to North Carolina sealed his retirement. “It’s time to look at the whole thing.”
Top on the to-do list is figuring out a viable system for “name, image and likeness” (NIL) deals.
Players can now make money off sponsorship deals. It's a tremendous change in the entire college dynamic, a business in which players generated millions through March Madness but most of it filtered to coaches, new stadiums and weight rooms and keeping the rest of the university's athletic department running.
“I’m for sure happy to get a little money in my pocket,” Duke guard Trevor Keels said over the weekend.
But some argue NIL is a deflection from what really needs to happen — which is to make the schools directly pay the players for their work.
In a roundabout way, that's happening anyway, as donors and others that pump money into athletic programs are now shifting some of the dough into school-branded “collectives” that create sponsorship opportunities for athletes.
The workaround feels acceptable enough for the time being. But the NCAA has ceded all control of it, depending on state laws, school oversight and, maybe, an eventual federal law to regulate it all.
“It has been and it’s still the case that we have got to have Congress help us find a single legal model" to run NIL, NCAA President Mark Emmert said.
Under the current mishmash of rules, there is very little public information about who makes what and who pays the bills. The concept of millions of dollars floating around with zero transparency doesn't strike anyone as the best business model for a sport filled with athletes in the teens and early 20s.
“One of my bigger concerns is not even about players doing the campaigns or getting paid," said Barbara Jones of Outshine Talent. “It's about them giving away or promising too much and not even realizing it.”
Another topic is gender disparity. Congress held hearings on the issue during the tournament. Last year, the differences in the way the men's and women's games were treated were encapsulated by a video taken by Oregon's Sedona Prince of the lame weight room at the women's tournament.
The NCAA commissioned a task force and a panel came up with recommendations. Most of the changes have felt like window dressing. They included adding four teams to bring the women's bracket up to 68, switching the women's final from Tuesday to Sunday and putting the branding “March Madness” on the women's tournament in addition to the men's.
Meanwhile, the NCAA still owns a vastly undervalued media contract for the women, the details of which paint the picture of the NCAA as a tone-deaf bureaucracy that isn't changing with the times. The deficiencies are all the more palpable with this being the 50th anniversary of the Title IX law that was designed to create equal opportunity for women in sports.
“I call it hot dogs for the girls and steak for the boys,” Stanford coach Tara VanDerveer said.
Elsewhere, the new transfer rule is an attempt to rectify one of the biggest hypocrisies in sports — namely, that coaches could move around to the highest bidder with no restrictions but players weren't given the same freedom. Now, they are, but when combined with NIL, it threatens to create a free-agency system of sorts, the likes of which many in the college game would like to avoid.
The complicated and inefficient rulebook has also made the NCAA look like it's stuck in concrete.
Emmert all but conceded that fixes to establish an independent committee aren't working well. One consequence is that he came into New Orleans with the prospect of handing the title trophy to coach Bill Self, whose Kansas program has been tainted by a complex, half-decade-old investigation that still threatens the Jayhawks' future.
“It's common knowledge,” Self said. “We've been dealing with some stuff off the court for a while.”
Like most schools that get in trouble, Kansas' problems center around the recruitment of top talent, which leads back to the NCAA's longest-running issue — the “One and Done” rule that allows players to leave after one year of college.
Emmert's well-worn dodge on that rule is that it is technically part of the NBA collective-bargaining arrangement, so what is the NCAA to do? But when it comes to teasing out the details, and how they impact the college game, Krzyzewski said he's had more contact with NBA Commissioner Adam Silver over the years than anyone from the NCAA office.
As Krzyzewski leaves coaching in the rearview mirror, he is struck by how many decisions are made by NCAA boards and committees that don't deal with the issues at hand on a day-to-day basis.
He'd like to see a less-centralized NCAA — one that allowed men's basketball to decide about its own issues, and maybe the same with women's hoops and every other sport.
Whether a new model looks something like what Krzyzewski envisions, or something else, there's a growing sense that big changes are ahead for college sports.
“Everything that you work in, or whatever you do, it never stays just status-quo,” Self said. “We need to keep evolving.”
___
More AP college basketball: http://apnews.com/Collegebasketball and https://twitter.com/AP_Top25 | 2 | 70,092 | 0 | https://www.myplainview.com/sports/article/NCAA-woes-More-fixing-needed-for-hoops-all-17056311.php | 2022-04-04 16:23:21+00:00 | NEW ORLEANS (AP) — If the nine months that led to Monday night's national title game between Kansas and North Carolina have proven anything, it's that college basketball and all of college sports are changing.
Whoever shapes all these changes — and it won't necessarily be the NCAA — will help decide whether the next decade in this multibillion-dollar ecosystem of sports, entertainment and education grows into an efficiently run business or devolves into chaos. Either is a possibility.
The NCAA has struggled with the rules and outcomes of efforts to pay players, ensure gender equity, lock in the newly relaxed transfer portal, streamline an increasingly cluttered infractions system and, of course, deal with the long-debated “One and Done” rule.
And while the governing body is all but waving the white flag when it comes to figuring out many of the transformative shifts that these problems present, there’s a growing sense that that might not be a bad thing.
“This is not the time to look at knits and bits,” Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski said Friday, the day before his loss to North Carolina sealed his retirement. “It’s time to look at the whole thing.”
Top on the to-do list is figuring out a viable system for “name, image and likeness” (NIL) deals.
Players can now make money off sponsorship deals. It's a tremendous change in the entire college dynamic, a business in which players generated millions through March Madness but most of it filtered to coaches, new stadiums and weight rooms and keeping the rest of the university's athletic department running.
“I’m for sure happy to get a little money in my pocket,” Duke guard Trevor Keels said over the weekend.
But some argue NIL is a deflection from what really needs to happen — which is to make the schools directly pay the players for their work.
In a roundabout way, that's happening anyway, as donors and others that pump money into athletic programs are now shifting some of the dough into school-branded “collectives” that create sponsorship opportunities for athletes.
The workaround feels acceptable enough for the time being. But the NCAA has ceded all control of it, depending on state laws, school oversight and, maybe, an eventual federal law to regulate it all.
“It has been and it’s still the case that we have got to have Congress help us find a single legal model" to run NIL, NCAA President Mark Emmert said.
Under the current mishmash of rules, there is very little public information about who makes what and who pays the bills. The concept of millions of dollars floating around with zero transparency doesn't strike anyone as the best business model for a sport filled with athletes in the teens and early 20s.
“One of my bigger concerns is not even about players doing the campaigns or getting paid," said Barbara Jones of Outshine Talent. “It's about them giving away or promising too much and not even realizing it.”
Another topic is gender disparity. Congress held hearings on the issue during the tournament. Last year, the differences in the way the men's and women's games were treated were encapsulated by a video taken by Oregon's Sedona Prince of the lame weight room at the women's tournament.
The NCAA commissioned a task force and a panel came up with recommendations. Most of the changes have felt like window dressing. They included adding four teams to bring the women's bracket up to 68, switching the women's final from Tuesday to Sunday and putting the branding “March Madness” on the women's tournament in addition to the men's.
Meanwhile, the NCAA still owns a vastly undervalued media contract for the women, the details of which paint the picture of the NCAA as a tone-deaf bureaucracy that isn't changing with the times. The deficiencies are all the more palpable with this being the 50th anniversary of the Title IX law that was designed to create equal opportunity for women in sports.
“I call it hot dogs for the girls and steak for the boys,” Stanford coach Tara VanDerveer said.
Elsewhere, the new transfer rule is an attempt to rectify one of the biggest hypocrisies in sports — namely, that coaches could move around to the highest bidder with no restrictions but players weren't given the same freedom. Now, they are, but when combined with NIL, it threatens to create a free-agency system of sorts, the likes of which many in the college game would like to avoid.
The complicated and inefficient rulebook has also made the NCAA look like it's stuck in concrete.
Emmert all but conceded that fixes to establish an independent committee aren't working well. One consequence is that he came into New Orleans with the prospect of handing the title trophy to coach Bill Self, whose Kansas program has been tainted by a complex, half-decade-old investigation that still threatens the Jayhawks' future.
“It's common knowledge,” Self said. “We've been dealing with some stuff off the court for a while.”
Like most schools that get in trouble, Kansas' problems center around the recruitment of top talent, which leads back to the NCAA's longest-running issue — the “One and Done” rule that allows players to leave after one year of college.
Emmert's well-worn dodge on that rule is that it is technically part of the NBA collective-bargaining arrangement, so what is the NCAA to do? But when it comes to teasing out the details, and how they impact the college game, Krzyzewski said he's had more contact with NBA Commissioner Adam Silver over the years than anyone from the NCAA office.
As Krzyzewski leaves coaching in the rearview mirror, he is struck by how many decisions are made by NCAA boards and committees that don't deal with the issues at hand on a day-to-day basis.
He'd like to see a less-centralized NCAA — one that allowed men's basketball to decide about its own issues, and maybe the same with women's hoops and every other sport.
Whether a new model looks something like what Krzyzewski envisions, or something else, there's a growing sense that big changes are ahead for college sports.
“Everything that you work in, or whatever you do, it never stays just status-quo,” Self said. “We need to keep evolving.”
___
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https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/wolves-transfers-ruben-neves-shi-23591970 | Uber-organised Bruno Lage has already submitted his summer transfer wish-list to the Wolverhampton Wanderers hierarchy.
Wolves have spent very little in each of Lage’s first two transfer windows, turning a small profit last summer and failing to make a senior addition in January. The club’s first signing of the summer has already been agreed with Hwang Hee-chan joining permanently from RB Leipzig following his loan spell.
But Lage is relentless in his pursuit of improvement and has outlined the areas where he believes the squad needs strengthening. Lage’s recommendations were passed on to chairman Jeff Shi, technical director Scott Sellars and chief scout Mathew Hobbs two months ago.
READ: Leander Dendoncker explains what Wolves players did to Philippe Coutinho
READ: Antonio Conte doesn't agree with Bruno Lage as Tottenham boss fires Wolves warning
Once upon a time signing a new centre-back was all Lage wanted. That position was also a priority signing for Lage’s predecessor Nuno Espirito Santo - but it hasn’t been addressed.
Wolves found a temporary solution in January in the form of Toti Gomes, whose recent five-year contract extension is reward for his impressive showings in the club’s hour of need. Toti and Yerson Mosquera represent the future of Wolves’ defence and Lage will give them every chance to succeed.
The return to form of Willy Boly has also been a major boost for Lage, with the Ivorian among the club’s most important players of the Fosun era. Romain Saiss has been another pillar of Wolves’ recent success and Lage hopes a contract extension can be agreed. Even if Saiss doesn’t sign up, Wolves now have the depth at centre-back to prioritise other areas.
Lage is anticipating interest in star midfielder Ruben Neves this summer, while Joao Moutinho’s future is still undecided. Wolves could go into 2022/23 without their iconic Portuguese duo at the heart of their midfield.
“You never know what can happen,” Lage says of Neves’ future. “There could be a big team with a big offer and we would need to analyse what is best for us and for the player.”
Leander Dendoncker remains under contract, Luke Cundle is developing and Morgan Gibbs-White is due to return, but Wolves know that reinforcements will be needed if either Neves or Moutinho departs this summer.
Lage would also like Wolves to sign another striker, preferably one who can ‘win aerial duels in the box’. Wolves have created numerous headed chances this season and Lage would welcome a striker capable of taking them, in addition to current centre-forwards Raul Jimenez and Fabio Silva.
Fosun want Wolves to become a largely self-sustainable club, which means raising cash via player sales. The most obvious influx of cash would arrive via the sale of Adama Traore, but the chances of Barcelona fronting up the £25million to meet the purchase clause in his contract are now miniscule.
Neves would fetch much more money, but Lage knows that Wolves would find it almost impossible to directly replace him with a player of similar ability. “We used to call it a defensive midfielder, but it’s now a central midfielder - a guy who can defend and can attack,” explained Lage. “He can do both things. He can score goals and do assists. It’s very hard to find.”
Subtle changes will be made to the squad again this summer, and key departures seem likely, but that doesn’t necessarily mean Wolves become weaker. Lage remains determined to deliver the team Wolves fans ‘are dreaming of’ - and we’ll soon find out whether Fosun share his ambition. | 0 | 118,056 | 0.475772 | https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/bruno-lage-wolves-transfers-shi-23569987 | 2022-04-01 21:43:52+00:00 | Bruno Lage has already told Wolverhampton Wanderers’ transfer committee exactly what he wants from the summer window.
Wolves are back in the mix for European football after an uplifting season under Lage, who replaced the popular Nuno Espirito Santo in the Molineux dugout. Lage has guided his team to eighth place, two points behind seventh-placed West Ham and four off Manchester United in sixth.
Wolves return to Premier League action against Aston Villa today knowing a positive end to the campaign could see the 2020 Europa League quarter-finalists return to Europe - a feat few thought possible when Lage pitched up last June. But the fiercely ambitious former Benfica boss isn’t resting on his laurels. He has already mapped out pre-season, when Wolves are likely to tour the United States, and the club’s summer transfer plans have also been drawn up.
READ: Bruno Lage drops Ruben Neves transfer claim after Wolves open contract talks
READ: McGinn axed but Neves and Coutinho make the cut - Wolves and Aston Villa combined XI
Wolves have been frustratingly quiet in each of Lage’s first two transfer windows, despite his repeated pleas to strengthen the squad directed towards the hierarchy. Wolves signed five new players last summer - two of whom joined on loan - and sold three players to make a small profit.
January saw Chiquinho, Hayao Kawabe and Jeong Sang-bin sign for Wolves, although the latter two were immediately loaned to Grasshoppers. Wolves also allowed Adama Traore to join Barcelona on loan with a £25million purchase option in the winter window.
Lage has been looking to add a new centre-back and a physical striker, but the club hasn’t been able to find suitable signings. The likelihood is Lage’s latest dossier will also include a new midfielder, with uncertainty surrounding the futures of Ruben Neves and out-of-contract Joao Moutinho.
“Two months ago I prepared everything,” said Lage. “I have prepared pre-season and I have prepared the profile I want for each position. My chairman (Jeff Shi), (technical director) Scott (Sellars) and also (chief scout) Matt Hobbs, they already know everything the team needs to continue to be competitive next year.”
When Wolves qualified for Europe in 2019, Nuno decided to keep a small squad. Lage has gradually built a squad of greater depth since his arrival and wants two ‘top class’ players fighting it out in every position.
“It would be a different challenge,” Lage said of Wolves’ potential return to Europe. “We want that challenge and we will do everything (to get there). But after that the challenge is to create a stronger squad.
“It’s impossible for us to play in the Champions League, so we won’t play on Tuesday or Wednesday. If we arrive in the Europa League, we are going to play on Thursday and Sunday.
“This is a lot and the club knows that. The club must have the culture to play two or three times per week. The structure of the club must move. It’s a big challenge, but that’s the evolution we want.” |
https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/wolves-transfers-ruben-neves-shi-23591970 | Uber-organised Bruno Lage has already submitted his summer transfer wish-list to the Wolverhampton Wanderers hierarchy.
Wolves have spent very little in each of Lage’s first two transfer windows, turning a small profit last summer and failing to make a senior addition in January. The club’s first signing of the summer has already been agreed with Hwang Hee-chan joining permanently from RB Leipzig following his loan spell.
But Lage is relentless in his pursuit of improvement and has outlined the areas where he believes the squad needs strengthening. Lage’s recommendations were passed on to chairman Jeff Shi, technical director Scott Sellars and chief scout Mathew Hobbs two months ago.
READ: Leander Dendoncker explains what Wolves players did to Philippe Coutinho
READ: Antonio Conte doesn't agree with Bruno Lage as Tottenham boss fires Wolves warning
Once upon a time signing a new centre-back was all Lage wanted. That position was also a priority signing for Lage’s predecessor Nuno Espirito Santo - but it hasn’t been addressed.
Wolves found a temporary solution in January in the form of Toti Gomes, whose recent five-year contract extension is reward for his impressive showings in the club’s hour of need. Toti and Yerson Mosquera represent the future of Wolves’ defence and Lage will give them every chance to succeed.
The return to form of Willy Boly has also been a major boost for Lage, with the Ivorian among the club’s most important players of the Fosun era. Romain Saiss has been another pillar of Wolves’ recent success and Lage hopes a contract extension can be agreed. Even if Saiss doesn’t sign up, Wolves now have the depth at centre-back to prioritise other areas.
Lage is anticipating interest in star midfielder Ruben Neves this summer, while Joao Moutinho’s future is still undecided. Wolves could go into 2022/23 without their iconic Portuguese duo at the heart of their midfield.
“You never know what can happen,” Lage says of Neves’ future. “There could be a big team with a big offer and we would need to analyse what is best for us and for the player.”
Leander Dendoncker remains under contract, Luke Cundle is developing and Morgan Gibbs-White is due to return, but Wolves know that reinforcements will be needed if either Neves or Moutinho departs this summer.
Lage would also like Wolves to sign another striker, preferably one who can ‘win aerial duels in the box’. Wolves have created numerous headed chances this season and Lage would welcome a striker capable of taking them, in addition to current centre-forwards Raul Jimenez and Fabio Silva.
Fosun want Wolves to become a largely self-sustainable club, which means raising cash via player sales. The most obvious influx of cash would arrive via the sale of Adama Traore, but the chances of Barcelona fronting up the £25million to meet the purchase clause in his contract are now miniscule.
Neves would fetch much more money, but Lage knows that Wolves would find it almost impossible to directly replace him with a player of similar ability. “We used to call it a defensive midfielder, but it’s now a central midfielder - a guy who can defend and can attack,” explained Lage. “He can do both things. He can score goals and do assists. It’s very hard to find.”
Subtle changes will be made to the squad again this summer, and key departures seem likely, but that doesn’t necessarily mean Wolves become weaker. Lage remains determined to deliver the team Wolves fans ‘are dreaming of’ - and we’ll soon find out whether Fosun share his ambition. | 1 | 33,976 | 0.536303 | https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/bruno-lage-wolves-transfer-window-23950767 | 2022-05-13 13:15:21+00:00 | Bruno Lage is anticipating a summer rebuild at Wolverhampton Wanderers and expects lots of movement in the transfer market.
Wolves have four senior players out of contract in John Ruddy, Romain Saiss, Marcal and Joao Moutinho - who Lage has previously claimed ‘wants to stay’ at Molineux. The club could also lose talisman Ruben Neves, while the future of Adama Traore will be decided at the end of his loan with Barcelona.
Neves is a target for Barcelona, Manchester United and Arsenal heading into the summer window and Wolves want in excess of £60million for the 25-year-old. Lage is desperate to keep Neves, although the Wolves boss accepts that is now unlikely.
READ: Morgan Gibbs-White hints at Wolves exit with Sheffield United transfer reveal
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“If I was in a top club I would look for this kind of player,” he said. “That’s what all clubs want so that’s no surprise to me that other teams are looking at him.
“When I arrived here last season we talked about rumours and Ruben stayed in the club. The market hasn’t started and will finish in August. If he stays, I believe he will be the same professional and have the mindset to do another great season with Wolves.”
The most important transfer window of Fosun’s ownership is coming. Lage has already told Wolves’ hierarchy how he wants the squad to look next season and hopes to add a new centre-back and forward to his arsenal - and that is before any departures are taken into consideration. The Wolves boss admits this summer is a 'massively important' window for the club.
“Some players will go for sure,” Lage admits. “It’s not the right moment to talk about it, but we can feel it. We don’t have any news about the talks between the club and some players, so maybe they will go. We will replace them and in my opinion we have some gaps to fill. If someone special goes, we need to replace them.
“Next year is also going to be very hard. We have the top six and West Ham in front of us. After that, we can see some of the teams are preparing big budgets and big players. If we want to continue at this level we need to build a top team.
“The job for me as the manager is to identify which players stay here, which ones go, and to build the next team of Wolves. It’s going to be a hard task because we need to find the right men, at the right age, at the right price.” |
https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/wolves-transfers-ruben-neves-shi-23591970 | Uber-organised Bruno Lage has already submitted his summer transfer wish-list to the Wolverhampton Wanderers hierarchy.
Wolves have spent very little in each of Lage’s first two transfer windows, turning a small profit last summer and failing to make a senior addition in January. The club’s first signing of the summer has already been agreed with Hwang Hee-chan joining permanently from RB Leipzig following his loan spell.
But Lage is relentless in his pursuit of improvement and has outlined the areas where he believes the squad needs strengthening. Lage’s recommendations were passed on to chairman Jeff Shi, technical director Scott Sellars and chief scout Mathew Hobbs two months ago.
READ: Leander Dendoncker explains what Wolves players did to Philippe Coutinho
READ: Antonio Conte doesn't agree with Bruno Lage as Tottenham boss fires Wolves warning
Once upon a time signing a new centre-back was all Lage wanted. That position was also a priority signing for Lage’s predecessor Nuno Espirito Santo - but it hasn’t been addressed.
Wolves found a temporary solution in January in the form of Toti Gomes, whose recent five-year contract extension is reward for his impressive showings in the club’s hour of need. Toti and Yerson Mosquera represent the future of Wolves’ defence and Lage will give them every chance to succeed.
The return to form of Willy Boly has also been a major boost for Lage, with the Ivorian among the club’s most important players of the Fosun era. Romain Saiss has been another pillar of Wolves’ recent success and Lage hopes a contract extension can be agreed. Even if Saiss doesn’t sign up, Wolves now have the depth at centre-back to prioritise other areas.
Lage is anticipating interest in star midfielder Ruben Neves this summer, while Joao Moutinho’s future is still undecided. Wolves could go into 2022/23 without their iconic Portuguese duo at the heart of their midfield.
“You never know what can happen,” Lage says of Neves’ future. “There could be a big team with a big offer and we would need to analyse what is best for us and for the player.”
Leander Dendoncker remains under contract, Luke Cundle is developing and Morgan Gibbs-White is due to return, but Wolves know that reinforcements will be needed if either Neves or Moutinho departs this summer.
Lage would also like Wolves to sign another striker, preferably one who can ‘win aerial duels in the box’. Wolves have created numerous headed chances this season and Lage would welcome a striker capable of taking them, in addition to current centre-forwards Raul Jimenez and Fabio Silva.
Fosun want Wolves to become a largely self-sustainable club, which means raising cash via player sales. The most obvious influx of cash would arrive via the sale of Adama Traore, but the chances of Barcelona fronting up the £25million to meet the purchase clause in his contract are now miniscule.
Neves would fetch much more money, but Lage knows that Wolves would find it almost impossible to directly replace him with a player of similar ability. “We used to call it a defensive midfielder, but it’s now a central midfielder - a guy who can defend and can attack,” explained Lage. “He can do both things. He can score goals and do assists. It’s very hard to find.”
Subtle changes will be made to the squad again this summer, and key departures seem likely, but that doesn’t necessarily mean Wolves become weaker. Lage remains determined to deliver the team Wolves fans ‘are dreaming of’ - and we’ll soon find out whether Fosun share his ambition. | 2 | 125,012 | 0.57114 | https://ca.sports.yahoo.com/news/bruno-lage-ve-planning-reinforce-080022497.html?src=rss | 2022-05-21 08:37:10+00:00 | Bruno Lage: I’ve been planning to reinforce Wolves squad since February
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Bruno Lage wants to reinforce his Wolves squad with two or three players before the start of next season as the Portuguese revealed he had been planning for the summer transfer window since February.
Wolves are guaranteed a third Premier League top-half finish in their last four seasons ahead of the final weekend of the campaign, when they travel to Merseyside to take on title-challenging Liverpool.
Lage, though, does not intend to stand still in the coming months, especially as Morocco defender Romain Saiss and Portugal midfielder Ruben Neves have been linked with a Molineux exit this summer.
Saiss is soon to be out of contract but is in talks with the club about signing a new deal to extend his six-year stay at Wolves according to Lage, who is nevertheless preparing for every eventuality.
“We need two or three players to increase the quality and the number of players in the squad,” Lage said.
“I’m excited because I think everyone knows what we have in our hands and we need to prepare for the future for the stability of the club.
“I’m preparing every time since the first day. Every time I prepare the next step. The motivation is we need to look forward and we need to grow.
“We need to be prepared and I am preparing that since the beginning of February. I have tried to imagine which kind of players we need to be better and to replace the players if we miss someone.”
While Lage is realistic about his side gatecrashing the top six, the Portuguese’s forward-thinking has been prompted by the expectation clubs below Wolves will bolster their squads.
“We know this competition is very hard, the top six every time are going to be the top six. West Ham is doing solid in the last years,” he said.
“The rest of the teams also want to improve, teams like Everton, Aston Villa, Newcastle, Southampton. We cannot be in the position where we are in doubt or we don’t increase our quality.”
Lage will be without injured defenders Saiss, Max Kilman and Nelson Semedo for Sunday afternoon’s trip to Merseyside, when they will be attempting to arrest a six-game winless run.
While that streak has ended any ambition of European football next season for Wolves, Lage insisted his team want to finish as high as possible, with Leicester and Brighton capable of leapfrogging them.
“We still have our targets and we need to go there to try to win the game,” Lage said.
“With that victory, we can reach 16 victories in the Premier League which is important for us and we can stay in eighth position.” |
https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/liverpool-klopp-benfica-champions-league-23591460 | Jurgen Klopp has warned that Liverpool will have to be at their best to get past Benfica in the Champions League. The Reds take on the Portuguese outfit in the first leg of the quarter-final of the competition this week.
Liverpool are back in Portugal for the second time this season, after facing Porto earlier in the group stage of the tournament. This will be the first time that the Reds have faced Benfica in the Champions League since they lost 3-0 on aggregate in 2006.
Benfica saw off Ajax in their last-16 tie to book a quarter-final clash against Liverpool, but are not doing as well domestically. They are third in the table and 12 points adrift of leaders Porto having played one game more.
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Klopp insists that despite Benfica not thriving in their own league, their success in Europe means Liverpool will have to be wary of the threats they pose.
“We want to be at the top of our game, that’s the plan for all of our games,” said Klopp, in his pre-match press conference.
“It’s not about trying to improve here or there, you try to improve in general.
“Benfica are a very different opponent (to Watford), one of the most successful teams in Portugal. This year, maybe not exactly where they want to be in the table, but they went far in the Champions League.
“They are a tough opponent, I know a lot of players from the Premier League or Bundesliga or wherever, so it’s a proper team.
“We have to be really good.”
Klopp was then asked if new signing Luis Diaz had provided any insight from his time in Portugal with Porto on how Benfica could play. The Reds boss answered the question, and went on to explain what he expects from the Portuguese club.
“He (Diaz) tried but I didn’t understand a word,” said Klopp.
“We have with Vitor Matos and Pep Lijnders, some of the boys - Diogo Jota and Luis - enough specialists in Portuguese football in our team.
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“We did our analysis anyway completely normal, because we do not need inside stories, we watch the football team.
“That’s what we did in the meeting with the boys, so now all of the information is shared and we have to make sure that we use them.”
Klopp continued: “It’s a football playing side, high full-backs which shows they are ready to take a risk.
“When they are in possession they open up the formation, a lot of space to move the ball. At least we expect that, that’s what they have done in pretty much all of their games.
“Maybe against us they will play completely differently, we have to adapt to that.
“It’s a mix of technical players with speed, and good organisation and that’s what makes them dangerous.
“They came through the group, in the league they are not in the position, the gap between Porto is too big for their understanding, but in the Champions League they overachieved.
“They were not favourites in the group, against Ajax they weren’t favourites, and that shows they know how to get a result.” | 0 | 55,130 | 0.570768 | https://www.straitstimes.com/sport/football/we-aim-to-be-the-team-no-one-wants-to-play-klopp | 2022-04-12 23:07:54+00:00 | LONDON • Liverpool's goal is to become a team nobody wants to face, manager Jurgen Klopp said yesterday ahead of the Champions League quarter-final, second leg against Benfica at Anfield.
The Reds lead 3-1 after victory in Lisbon last week and are in a rich vein of form, having lost only once in their last 22 games in all competitions, winning 18 times.
Most are expecting the hosts to ease into the last four but Klopp wants his players to really press home their advantage today.
"We were good in Benfica, I liked the game. The main target is again being the one team no one wants to play," the German said at his pre-match press conference.
"Really aggressive in a football sense, defending well, knowing more about the way they play."
The League Cup winners have what Klopp described as a "super intense" schedule and are on track for an unprecedented haul of four trophies this season.
Liverpool are second in the Premier League, trailing leaders Manchester City by a point, and have also reached the semi-finals of the FA Cup.
On Saturday, they will again face Pep Guardiola's side for the second week running, following Sunday's pulsating 2-2 league draw, but Klopp has no intention of rotating his squad ahead of Wembley as he wants to eliminate Benfica in convincing fashion.
He added the game would be as tricky as their last-16, second leg against Inter Milan, when they lost 1-0 after a 2-0 win in the first leg.
"A good lead. But if they score one, like we felt against Inter, the game changes. We felt it when they scored last week. We need to make them feel this is a place they don't want to go," Klopp said.
"The next game has no influence on the line-up for tomorrow but the last game has, so we have to see. There is nobody injured as far as I know but we need to look at who is fresh enough for this game.
"We see it as a super important game to us. We tried so hard last year to qualify for the Champions League and now we can make it to the semis, which is incredible."
If Liverpool defeat Benfica on aggregate, as expected, and get past City in the FA Cup, it would represent an excellent fortnight and Klopp believes the current crop of players is the best he has managed yet.
"Yes. Since I'm here we've always had great teams. I love them all. But now we have a bigger squad, high quality, all fit for the first time, more experienced. We know more about each other. It's the strongest."
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https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/liverpool-klopp-benfica-champions-league-23591460 | Jurgen Klopp has warned that Liverpool will have to be at their best to get past Benfica in the Champions League. The Reds take on the Portuguese outfit in the first leg of the quarter-final of the competition this week.
Liverpool are back in Portugal for the second time this season, after facing Porto earlier in the group stage of the tournament. This will be the first time that the Reds have faced Benfica in the Champions League since they lost 3-0 on aggregate in 2006.
Benfica saw off Ajax in their last-16 tie to book a quarter-final clash against Liverpool, but are not doing as well domestically. They are third in the table and 12 points adrift of leaders Porto having played one game more.
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Klopp insists that despite Benfica not thriving in their own league, their success in Europe means Liverpool will have to be wary of the threats they pose.
“We want to be at the top of our game, that’s the plan for all of our games,” said Klopp, in his pre-match press conference.
“It’s not about trying to improve here or there, you try to improve in general.
“Benfica are a very different opponent (to Watford), one of the most successful teams in Portugal. This year, maybe not exactly where they want to be in the table, but they went far in the Champions League.
“They are a tough opponent, I know a lot of players from the Premier League or Bundesliga or wherever, so it’s a proper team.
“We have to be really good.”
Klopp was then asked if new signing Luis Diaz had provided any insight from his time in Portugal with Porto on how Benfica could play. The Reds boss answered the question, and went on to explain what he expects from the Portuguese club.
“He (Diaz) tried but I didn’t understand a word,” said Klopp.
“We have with Vitor Matos and Pep Lijnders, some of the boys - Diogo Jota and Luis - enough specialists in Portuguese football in our team.
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“We did our analysis anyway completely normal, because we do not need inside stories, we watch the football team.
“That’s what we did in the meeting with the boys, so now all of the information is shared and we have to make sure that we use them.”
Klopp continued: “It’s a football playing side, high full-backs which shows they are ready to take a risk.
“When they are in possession they open up the formation, a lot of space to move the ball. At least we expect that, that’s what they have done in pretty much all of their games.
“Maybe against us they will play completely differently, we have to adapt to that.
“It’s a mix of technical players with speed, and good organisation and that’s what makes them dangerous.
“They came through the group, in the league they are not in the position, the gap between Porto is too big for their understanding, but in the Champions League they overachieved.
“They were not favourites in the group, against Ajax they weren’t favourites, and that shows they know how to get a result.” | 1 | 54,610 | 0.582013 | https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/jurgen-klopp-liverpool-man-city-23606980 | 2022-04-06 02:26:01+00:00 | Jurgen Klopp says Liverpool are coming up against “the best team in the world” when they travel to Manchester City on Sunday afternoon.
But the Reds boss has challenged his players to keep up the intensity levels shown across a 2022 that has kept them in contention for the quadruple.
A 3-1 win at Benfica in the quarter-final of the Champions League on Tuesday night saw the Reds take pole position ahead of the second leg next week where Klopp’s men will look to secure a third European Cup semi-final of his reign.
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It is Sunday’s trip to the Etihad, however, that is taking full focus now as the Premier League heavyweights go head-to-head in a clash that will have a huge say on who will be champions in May.
“If we win against Man City, which is already difficult enough, I think no-one would think: 'That's it, it is decided.’ That is because of the quality of the opponent,” Klopp said. “We play now against the best team in the world, but we will give it a try anyway. That is what we must.
“So what we did in the last few months, six, seven or eight months since the season started we created a basis. We are in the quarter-final, the semi-final and the further you go in competitions the harder it gets. That’s unfortunately the truth.”
He added: “You barely reach a final and face a team where you win 8-0. The Chelsea final was incredibly intense, two top-class sides and that's how all the games will be from now on. Since late December it was clear if we want to win something we had better win all our games. This is not realistic we know, but that's why we take it game by game.
“Then maybe it is a little bit more possible. But it will be really tough. Yes, everyone knows about the importance of the next game, but after this game there will be other games other competitions but also in the Premier League as well.
“If you cannot be first you want to be second, if you are close then you want to overtake. We will give it a proper try.” |
https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/liverpool-klopp-benfica-champions-league-23591460 | Jurgen Klopp has warned that Liverpool will have to be at their best to get past Benfica in the Champions League. The Reds take on the Portuguese outfit in the first leg of the quarter-final of the competition this week.
Liverpool are back in Portugal for the second time this season, after facing Porto earlier in the group stage of the tournament. This will be the first time that the Reds have faced Benfica in the Champions League since they lost 3-0 on aggregate in 2006.
Benfica saw off Ajax in their last-16 tie to book a quarter-final clash against Liverpool, but are not doing as well domestically. They are third in the table and 12 points adrift of leaders Porto having played one game more.
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Klopp insists that despite Benfica not thriving in their own league, their success in Europe means Liverpool will have to be wary of the threats they pose.
“We want to be at the top of our game, that’s the plan for all of our games,” said Klopp, in his pre-match press conference.
“It’s not about trying to improve here or there, you try to improve in general.
“Benfica are a very different opponent (to Watford), one of the most successful teams in Portugal. This year, maybe not exactly where they want to be in the table, but they went far in the Champions League.
“They are a tough opponent, I know a lot of players from the Premier League or Bundesliga or wherever, so it’s a proper team.
“We have to be really good.”
Klopp was then asked if new signing Luis Diaz had provided any insight from his time in Portugal with Porto on how Benfica could play. The Reds boss answered the question, and went on to explain what he expects from the Portuguese club.
“He (Diaz) tried but I didn’t understand a word,” said Klopp.
“We have with Vitor Matos and Pep Lijnders, some of the boys - Diogo Jota and Luis - enough specialists in Portuguese football in our team.
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“We did our analysis anyway completely normal, because we do not need inside stories, we watch the football team.
“That’s what we did in the meeting with the boys, so now all of the information is shared and we have to make sure that we use them.”
Klopp continued: “It’s a football playing side, high full-backs which shows they are ready to take a risk.
“When they are in possession they open up the formation, a lot of space to move the ball. At least we expect that, that’s what they have done in pretty much all of their games.
“Maybe against us they will play completely differently, we have to adapt to that.
“It’s a mix of technical players with speed, and good organisation and that’s what makes them dangerous.
“They came through the group, in the league they are not in the position, the gap between Porto is too big for their understanding, but in the Champions League they overachieved.
“They were not favourites in the group, against Ajax they weren’t favourites, and that shows they know how to get a result.” | 2 | 36,905 | 0.58602 | https://www.thisisanfield.com/2022/04/dirk-kuyt-warns-liverpool-of-typical-portuguese-approach-from-benfica/ | 2022-04-04 13:48:17+00:00 | The Champions League is back on the agenda for Liverpool with Benfica standing in their way of a semi-final place, and the Reds have been warned to “be very alert.”
It has been nearly 12 years since Liverpool and Benfica last met in European competition, with the Europa League quarter-final ultimately decided by an emphatic Anfield win in the second leg.
Dirk Kuyt was part of both XIs for Rafa Benitez back in 2010, helping to turn a 2-1 deficit into a 5-3 win on aggregate — scoring and providing an assist — against a team that would end that season as Primeira Liga champions.
The Portuguese side are not quite in the title hunt this time around, 12 points adrift of rivals Porto, but have claimed victories over Barcelona and Ajax to reach the quarter-finals.
Kuyt is one and many that expect Jurgen Klopp‘s side to make good on their favourites tag but has warned against any complacency, knowing first-hand and from this season that the Portuguese side cannot be taken lightly.
“We played a few Portuguese teams and it is always difficult because they just want one thing, and that’s to win,” Kuyt told This Is Anfield when reflecting on the 2010 meeting.
“It doesn’t matter for them how they win and most of the time it is intense and pretty defensive.
“It was not easy, and we managed to go through and that’s what I expect from this Liverpool side as well.
“I’m doing a bit of television in Holland during the Champions League games, so I’ve seen Benfica quite a lot.
“They beat Ajax in a way that is typical Portuguese, they just survive to go through to the next round.
“I think Liverpool needs to be very alert, they have the quality to beat Benfica but they have to be ready.”
With a near full-strength squad at their disposal, Liverpool have the world at their feet but Klopp’s side will know there is no free pass at this stage of the season with every game a cup final in itself. |
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10684423/Grief-stricken-Ukrainian-mother-weeps-grave-dug-son-killed-Russians-near-Kyiv.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ito=1490&ns_campaign=1490 | Grief-stricken Ukrainian mother weeps over grave she dug for son killed by Russians and a wife finds her husband's mutilated body in a basement as harrowing details of atrocities emerge in Bucha
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- Oleksei Kostenko, 27, was killed last month by Russian soldiers near his home
- His mother Iryna Kostenko had to flee their house as the Russians took it over
- She had to retrieve his body in a wheelbarrow and bury it in a rug in the garden
A grief-stricken Ukrainian mother had to move her son's dead body in a wheelbarrow after Russians killed him and took over their house in the latest heart-breaking story to emerge from the war.
Iryna Kostenko wept over her son's homemade grave in her garden as she revealed Putin's forces entered her house on March 10 on the outskirts of Kyiv.
Her son Oleksei, 27, had served in the army but was going to work at his job changing tyres at a garage when he was gunned down.
A grief-stricken Ukrainian mother had to move her son's dead body in a wheelbarrow after Russians killed him and took over their house
Oleksei (pictured as a boy), 27, had served in the army but was going to work at his job changing tyres at a garage when he was killed
She told the BBC: 'The pain is so bad. Now I'm all alone. My son was young, 27 years old. He wanted to stay alive.'
After he was killed, Iryna, who had Oleksei when she was just 18, was forced to flee her home as the Russians took over her home and partied, drinking vodka, gin, whisky, rum and beer, leaving the bottles scattered in her garden.
The house was then mostly destroyed by shelling and when Iryna returned, she had to move Oleksei's body back home in a wheelbarrow from the road.
She said: 'I covered the grave with a blanket to protect it from the dogs. He isn't in a coffin, I had to roll him in a carpet.
'They were in jeeps with guns. They killed him and fled. How can I talk to such morons. I want them dead.
'This is my love. My sweetheart.'
Iryna Kostenko wept over her son's homemade grave in her garden as she revealed Putin's forces entered her home on March 10 on the outskirts of Kyiv
The Russians took over her home and partied, drinking vodka, gin, whisky, rum and beer, leaving the bottles scattered in her garden
The house was then mostly destroyed by shelling and when Iryna returned, she had to move Oleksei's body back home in a wheelbarrow
Oleksei's bedroom was ruined after Russian soldiers took over their home near Kyiv
In another tragic case, Tanya Nedashkivska found her husband's rotting corpse after he was arrested by Russian soldiers.
The body of Vasyl Ivanovych, a navy officer, was found in a building's basement in Bucha.
Tanya had been looking for her beloved husband when she eventually found his body, which she identified by his trainers and trousers.
She said: 'He looked mutilated, his body was cold. They turned him over a little. He had been shot in the head, mutilated, tortured.'
It comes as a mass grave containing the bodies of at least 20 civilians including a mayor and her family were uncovered near Kyiv in just the latest evidence of Russian war crimes.
The pit was uncovered in woodland near the town of Motyzhyn, around 20 miles west of the city of Bucha where another mass grave has been found, and contains the bodies of local mayor Olga Sukhenko who was buried along with her husband and son, according to Ukraine's former ambassador to Austria Olexander Scherba.
Tanya Nedashkivska (pictured) found her husband's rotting corpse after he was arrested by Russian soldiers
The body of Vasyl Ivanovych, a navy officer, was found in a building's basement in Bucha
Tanya Nedashkivs'ka, 57, mourns the death of her husband, killed in Bucha, on the outskirts of Kyiv
The widow weeps at the grave of her husband in the latest horrific story to emerge from war-torn Ukraine
Ira Gavriluk holds her cat as she walks next to the corpses of her husband and her brother, who were killed in Bucha
Ms Sukhenko's body had been rolled into the hastily-dug pit alongside at least 19 others including families, some of whom showed signs of torture.
Sukhenko was found with her fingers and arms broken, according to the mayor of the nearby town of Kopyliv, while a resident of Motyzhyn said Russian soldiers killed any Ukrainian officials who refused to collaborate.
The mayor and her family had been reported by others as kidnapped by Russians on March 23 and taken in an unknown direction.
It is the second mass grave to be uncovered behind the backs of retreating Russian troops, after a 45ft pit containing the bodies of at least 57 civilians was uncovered in Bucha.
The grave had been dug into a grassy area to the rear of the Church of St. Andrew and Pyervozvannoho All Saints in Bucha with Serhii Kaplychnyi, head of the local rescue services, saying at least 57 civilians had been buried in the 45ft pit. Other officials put the total at nearer 300.
A Ukrainian policeman walks by a pit in the village of Motyzhyn, Ukraine, Sunday, April 3, 2022 where the bodies of the mayor of the village, Olga Sukhenko, her husband and son and that of a man believed to be a Ukrainian serviceman, who was not yet identified, lie
A satellite image taken on March 31 shows the mass grave - a 45ft-long pit - dug behind the Church of St. Andrew and Pyervozvannoho All Saints in Bucha, during the time that Russian forces were in control of the region
Satellite images taken on March 31, while Russian troops were still in control of the area, clearly show the existence of the grave - giving proof to the lie peddled by Moscow that it was dug by Ukrainian forces. Satellite firm Maxar said images taken as far back as March 10 show what appear to be preparations to construct the pit.
Dmytro Kuleba, Ukraine's foreign minister, said Russian troops had instigated a 'deliberate massacre' in Bucha and branded them 'worse than ISIS'. Photos from the ground showed bodies left to rot alongside roads, some of them with their hands tied, others piled on top of car tyres as if to be burned. Witnesses gave horrifying accounts of torture and rape by Putin's men.
Footage released by the Ukrainian military showed what appeared to be a 'torture chamber' in a building used as a barracks by Russian troops in Bucha. The bodies of civilians were lined up against a wall in the basement, kneeling, having been killed. At least one had been shot through the knee before being killed, the military said.
Civilian survivors said some bodies left on the streets had been run over by Russian tanks and 'squashed like animal skin rugs'. Others reported seeing soldiers shoot dead elderly civilians in front of their relatives.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson led world leaders in condemning the violence at the weekend, pledging to send funding and specialist investigators to the International Criminal Court at The Hague to compile evidence for a war crimes tribunal.
A mass grave was discovered in the grounds of the Church of St. Andrew and Pyervozvannoho All Saints in Bucha, containing the bodies of dozens of civilians
Another view of the mass grave discovered close to a church in Bucha, which was uncovered by Ukrainian forces as Russian troops withdrew from the area around the capital
A man and two women weep as they stand next to a mass grave filled with the bodies of Ukrainian civilians dug into the ground of one of Bucha's largest churches
'We will not rest until justice is served,' he vowed, before a spokesman for the PM added: 'It's clear that Putin crossed the threshold of barbarism some time ago.'
'It's certainly evidence that Putin's army is committing war crimes,' the spokesman said, adding that the Government now wants 'to look beyond what we have already provided' in terms of fresh arms shipments to Ukraine.
'Whatever equipment we send will obviously allow Ukraine to defend itself. We are aware of the requests from the Ukrainians for equipment to defend themselves from ships and we are looking into what we can do,' he said.
Putin's invasion has suffered another devastating blow after his force's death toll rose to 18,300, according to Kyiv's estimates today.
Russia has only admitted 1,351 of its troops have died fighting in Ukraine since Putin invaded on February 24, a fraction of the figure estimated by Ukraine's armed forces.
In a further blow to Putin's war, Ukrainian forces have also retaken some towns in the northern Chernihiv region, whilst Russian forces no longer occupied any areas in the Sumy region, in Ukraine's northeast.
Ukrainian soldiers also blitzed a Russian military convoy in an effort to disrupt deliveries of fuel and supplies to Putin's troops on the frontline, with video showing a military tanker being hit by what appears to be a rocket before bursting into flames.
But Russian attacks on civilian areas have continued, with eight people killed and 34 wounded after shelling hit the southern Ukrainian cities of Mykolaiv and Ochakiv on Sunday, prosecutors in Kyiv said. | 0 | 35,392 | 0.488327 | https://www.thesun.ie/news/8607990/devastated-mum-weeps-grave-son-putin-troops/ | 2022-04-05 14:17:28+00:00 | A GRIEVING mother has wept over the grave she dug for her son in Ukraine after he was killed by the Russians.
Iryna Kostenko’s son Oleksei was going to work changing tyres at a garage when he was gunned by down at their home in the town of Bucha on March 10.
It comes as Volodymyr Zelensky fought back tears as he visited the town where Vladimir Putin’s troops have been accused of butchering civilians and burying them in mass graves.
The Ukrainian President was flanked by security as he vowed to ensure that the “war crimes” committed by Russian soldiers on his country’s soil were “the last such evil on Earth”.
Iryna sobbed over the grave of her son and told the BBC: “The pain is so bad. Now I'm all alone. My son was young, 27 years old. He wanted to stay alive.
“They were in jeeps with guns. They killed him and fled. How can I talk to such morons. I want them dead.”
After he was Oleksei was killed, Iryna was forced to flee her home as the Russians took over her home
Vodka, gin, whisky, rum and beer bottles are scattered in her garden.
The house as damaged by shelling and when Iryna returned to the property, she had to move Oleksei's body back home in a wheelbarrow from the road.
“I covered the grave with a blanket to protect it from the dogs,” said Iryna, as she kissed a picture of her dead son.
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“He isn't in a coffin, I had to roll him in a carpet. This is my love. My sweetheart.”
Harrowing pictures from the city, to the north-west of the capital Kyiv, showed the bodies of civilians scattered in the road and in shallow graves — many with bound hands and signs of torture.
Some of them, from the wounds they had suffered, had been shot from close range.
A satellite image taken of Bucha at the end of last month, when Russian forces were in control of the city, shows a 45ft long mass grave dug behind a church.
It comes as...
- Russia has been branded 'worse than ISIS' after more than 400 civilians were reportedly executed in Bucha
- Boris Johnson has slammed Russia's 'despicable attacks' and vowed 'we will not rest until justice is done'
- A Ukrainian mayor and her husband and son were executed west of Kyiv, with their bodies dumped in a shallow grave
- Harrowing footage shows a distraught mum uncovering her daughter's shallow grave after Russian troops withdrew
- The wreck of Russia's newest £38m fighter jet has been pictured, after Putin's flagship aircraft was shot out of the sky over Ukraine
- Putin's mysterious 'Rasputin' figure who wants Russia to rule over all of Europe has been profiled
Ukrainian and Western leaders have accused Russia of carrying out the massacre of civilians and dumping their bodies in makeshift burial plots.
Ukraine’s prosecutor-general said the bodies of 410 civilians have been recovered from towns surrounding Kyiv after last week’s withdrawal of Russian troops.
In total, 161 children have died and 264 have been injured since the Russian invasion, according to Ukrainian officials.
Oleksiy Arestovych, an adviser to Zelensky, said scores of dead civilians were found on the streets of Bucha and the Kyiv suburbs of Irpin and Hostomel in what looked like a “scene from a horror movie”.
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10684423/Grief-stricken-Ukrainian-mother-weeps-grave-dug-son-killed-Russians-near-Kyiv.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ito=1490&ns_campaign=1490 | Grief-stricken Ukrainian mother weeps over grave she dug for son killed by Russians and a wife finds her husband's mutilated body in a basement as harrowing details of atrocities emerge in Bucha
- **WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT**
- Oleksei Kostenko, 27, was killed last month by Russian soldiers near his home
- His mother Iryna Kostenko had to flee their house as the Russians took it over
- She had to retrieve his body in a wheelbarrow and bury it in a rug in the garden
A grief-stricken Ukrainian mother had to move her son's dead body in a wheelbarrow after Russians killed him and took over their house in the latest heart-breaking story to emerge from the war.
Iryna Kostenko wept over her son's homemade grave in her garden as she revealed Putin's forces entered her house on March 10 on the outskirts of Kyiv.
Her son Oleksei, 27, had served in the army but was going to work at his job changing tyres at a garage when he was gunned down.
A grief-stricken Ukrainian mother had to move her son's dead body in a wheelbarrow after Russians killed him and took over their house
Oleksei (pictured as a boy), 27, had served in the army but was going to work at his job changing tyres at a garage when he was killed
She told the BBC: 'The pain is so bad. Now I'm all alone. My son was young, 27 years old. He wanted to stay alive.'
After he was killed, Iryna, who had Oleksei when she was just 18, was forced to flee her home as the Russians took over her home and partied, drinking vodka, gin, whisky, rum and beer, leaving the bottles scattered in her garden.
The house was then mostly destroyed by shelling and when Iryna returned, she had to move Oleksei's body back home in a wheelbarrow from the road.
She said: 'I covered the grave with a blanket to protect it from the dogs. He isn't in a coffin, I had to roll him in a carpet.
'They were in jeeps with guns. They killed him and fled. How can I talk to such morons. I want them dead.
'This is my love. My sweetheart.'
Iryna Kostenko wept over her son's homemade grave in her garden as she revealed Putin's forces entered her home on March 10 on the outskirts of Kyiv
The Russians took over her home and partied, drinking vodka, gin, whisky, rum and beer, leaving the bottles scattered in her garden
The house was then mostly destroyed by shelling and when Iryna returned, she had to move Oleksei's body back home in a wheelbarrow
Oleksei's bedroom was ruined after Russian soldiers took over their home near Kyiv
In another tragic case, Tanya Nedashkivska found her husband's rotting corpse after he was arrested by Russian soldiers.
The body of Vasyl Ivanovych, a navy officer, was found in a building's basement in Bucha.
Tanya had been looking for her beloved husband when she eventually found his body, which she identified by his trainers and trousers.
She said: 'He looked mutilated, his body was cold. They turned him over a little. He had been shot in the head, mutilated, tortured.'
It comes as a mass grave containing the bodies of at least 20 civilians including a mayor and her family were uncovered near Kyiv in just the latest evidence of Russian war crimes.
The pit was uncovered in woodland near the town of Motyzhyn, around 20 miles west of the city of Bucha where another mass grave has been found, and contains the bodies of local mayor Olga Sukhenko who was buried along with her husband and son, according to Ukraine's former ambassador to Austria Olexander Scherba.
Tanya Nedashkivska (pictured) found her husband's rotting corpse after he was arrested by Russian soldiers
The body of Vasyl Ivanovych, a navy officer, was found in a building's basement in Bucha
Tanya Nedashkivs'ka, 57, mourns the death of her husband, killed in Bucha, on the outskirts of Kyiv
The widow weeps at the grave of her husband in the latest horrific story to emerge from war-torn Ukraine
Ira Gavriluk holds her cat as she walks next to the corpses of her husband and her brother, who were killed in Bucha
Ms Sukhenko's body had been rolled into the hastily-dug pit alongside at least 19 others including families, some of whom showed signs of torture.
Sukhenko was found with her fingers and arms broken, according to the mayor of the nearby town of Kopyliv, while a resident of Motyzhyn said Russian soldiers killed any Ukrainian officials who refused to collaborate.
The mayor and her family had been reported by others as kidnapped by Russians on March 23 and taken in an unknown direction.
It is the second mass grave to be uncovered behind the backs of retreating Russian troops, after a 45ft pit containing the bodies of at least 57 civilians was uncovered in Bucha.
The grave had been dug into a grassy area to the rear of the Church of St. Andrew and Pyervozvannoho All Saints in Bucha with Serhii Kaplychnyi, head of the local rescue services, saying at least 57 civilians had been buried in the 45ft pit. Other officials put the total at nearer 300.
A Ukrainian policeman walks by a pit in the village of Motyzhyn, Ukraine, Sunday, April 3, 2022 where the bodies of the mayor of the village, Olga Sukhenko, her husband and son and that of a man believed to be a Ukrainian serviceman, who was not yet identified, lie
A satellite image taken on March 31 shows the mass grave - a 45ft-long pit - dug behind the Church of St. Andrew and Pyervozvannoho All Saints in Bucha, during the time that Russian forces were in control of the region
Satellite images taken on March 31, while Russian troops were still in control of the area, clearly show the existence of the grave - giving proof to the lie peddled by Moscow that it was dug by Ukrainian forces. Satellite firm Maxar said images taken as far back as March 10 show what appear to be preparations to construct the pit.
Dmytro Kuleba, Ukraine's foreign minister, said Russian troops had instigated a 'deliberate massacre' in Bucha and branded them 'worse than ISIS'. Photos from the ground showed bodies left to rot alongside roads, some of them with their hands tied, others piled on top of car tyres as if to be burned. Witnesses gave horrifying accounts of torture and rape by Putin's men.
Footage released by the Ukrainian military showed what appeared to be a 'torture chamber' in a building used as a barracks by Russian troops in Bucha. The bodies of civilians were lined up against a wall in the basement, kneeling, having been killed. At least one had been shot through the knee before being killed, the military said.
Civilian survivors said some bodies left on the streets had been run over by Russian tanks and 'squashed like animal skin rugs'. Others reported seeing soldiers shoot dead elderly civilians in front of their relatives.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson led world leaders in condemning the violence at the weekend, pledging to send funding and specialist investigators to the International Criminal Court at The Hague to compile evidence for a war crimes tribunal.
A mass grave was discovered in the grounds of the Church of St. Andrew and Pyervozvannoho All Saints in Bucha, containing the bodies of dozens of civilians
Another view of the mass grave discovered close to a church in Bucha, which was uncovered by Ukrainian forces as Russian troops withdrew from the area around the capital
A man and two women weep as they stand next to a mass grave filled with the bodies of Ukrainian civilians dug into the ground of one of Bucha's largest churches
'We will not rest until justice is served,' he vowed, before a spokesman for the PM added: 'It's clear that Putin crossed the threshold of barbarism some time ago.'
'It's certainly evidence that Putin's army is committing war crimes,' the spokesman said, adding that the Government now wants 'to look beyond what we have already provided' in terms of fresh arms shipments to Ukraine.
'Whatever equipment we send will obviously allow Ukraine to defend itself. We are aware of the requests from the Ukrainians for equipment to defend themselves from ships and we are looking into what we can do,' he said.
Putin's invasion has suffered another devastating blow after his force's death toll rose to 18,300, according to Kyiv's estimates today.
Russia has only admitted 1,351 of its troops have died fighting in Ukraine since Putin invaded on February 24, a fraction of the figure estimated by Ukraine's armed forces.
In a further blow to Putin's war, Ukrainian forces have also retaken some towns in the northern Chernihiv region, whilst Russian forces no longer occupied any areas in the Sumy region, in Ukraine's northeast.
Ukrainian soldiers also blitzed a Russian military convoy in an effort to disrupt deliveries of fuel and supplies to Putin's troops on the frontline, with video showing a military tanker being hit by what appears to be a rocket before bursting into flames.
But Russian attacks on civilian areas have continued, with eight people killed and 34 wounded after shelling hit the southern Ukrainian cities of Mykolaiv and Ochakiv on Sunday, prosecutors in Kyiv said. | 1 | 92,002 | 0.488327 | https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/news/8666663/devastated-mum-weeps-grave-son-putin-troops/ | 2022-04-05 18:20:53+00:00 | A GRIEVING mother has wept over the grave she dug for her son in Ukraine after he was killed by the Russians.
Iryna Kostenko’s son Oleksei was going to work changing tyres at a garage when he was gunned by down at their home in the town of Bucha on March 10.
It comes as Volodymyr Zelensky fought back tears as he visited the town where Vladimir Putin’s troops have been accused of butchering civilians and burying them in mass graves.
The Ukrainian President was flanked by security as he vowed to ensure that the “war crimes” committed by Russian soldiers on his country’s soil were “the last such evil on Earth”.
Iryna sobbed over the grave of her son and told the BBC: “The pain is so bad. Now I'm all alone. My son was young, 27 years old. He wanted to stay alive.
“They were in jeeps with guns. They killed him and fled. How can I talk to such morons. I want them dead.”
After he was Oleksei was killed, Iryna was forced to flee her home as the Russians took over her home
Vodka, gin, whisky, rum and beer bottles are scattered in her garden.
The house as damaged by shelling and when Iryna returned to the property, she had to move Oleksei's body back home in a wheelbarrow from the road.
“I covered the grave with a blanket to protect it from the dogs,” said Iryna, as she kissed a picture of her dead son.
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“He isn't in a coffin, I had to roll him in a carpet. This is my love. My sweetheart.”
Harrowing pictures from the city, to the north-west of the capital Kyiv, showed the bodies of civilians scattered in the road and in shallow graves — many with bound hands and signs of torture.
Some of them, from the wounds they had suffered, had been shot from close range.
A satellite image taken of Bucha at the end of last month, when Russian forces were in control of the city, shows a 45ft long mass grave dug behind a church.
It comes as...
- Russia has been branded 'worse than ISIS' after more than 400 civilians were reportedly executed in Bucha
- Boris Johnson has slammed Russia's 'despicable attacks' and vowed 'we will not rest until justice is done'
- A Ukrainian mayor and her husband and son were executed west of Kyiv, with their bodies dumped in a shallow grave
- Harrowing footage shows a distraught mum uncovering her daughter's shallow grave after Russian troops withdrew
- The wreck of Russia's newest £38m fighter jet has been pictured, after Putin's flagship aircraft was shot out of the sky over Ukraine
- Putin's mysterious 'Rasputin' figure who wants Russia to rule over all of Europe has been profiled
Ukrainian and Western leaders have accused Russia of carrying out the massacre of civilians and dumping their bodies in makeshift burial plots.
Ukraine’s prosecutor-general said the bodies of 410 civilians have been recovered from towns surrounding Kyiv after last week’s withdrawal of Russian troops.
In total, 161 children have died and 264 have been injured since the Russian invasion, according to Ukrainian officials.
Oleksiy Arestovych, an adviser to Zelensky, said scores of dead civilians were found on the streets of Bucha and the Kyiv suburbs of Irpin and Hostomel in what looked like a “scene from a horror movie”.
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10684423/Grief-stricken-Ukrainian-mother-weeps-grave-dug-son-killed-Russians-near-Kyiv.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ito=1490&ns_campaign=1490 | Grief-stricken Ukrainian mother weeps over grave she dug for son killed by Russians and a wife finds her husband's mutilated body in a basement as harrowing details of atrocities emerge in Bucha
- **WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT**
- Oleksei Kostenko, 27, was killed last month by Russian soldiers near his home
- His mother Iryna Kostenko had to flee their house as the Russians took it over
- She had to retrieve his body in a wheelbarrow and bury it in a rug in the garden
A grief-stricken Ukrainian mother had to move her son's dead body in a wheelbarrow after Russians killed him and took over their house in the latest heart-breaking story to emerge from the war.
Iryna Kostenko wept over her son's homemade grave in her garden as she revealed Putin's forces entered her house on March 10 on the outskirts of Kyiv.
Her son Oleksei, 27, had served in the army but was going to work at his job changing tyres at a garage when he was gunned down.
A grief-stricken Ukrainian mother had to move her son's dead body in a wheelbarrow after Russians killed him and took over their house
Oleksei (pictured as a boy), 27, had served in the army but was going to work at his job changing tyres at a garage when he was killed
She told the BBC: 'The pain is so bad. Now I'm all alone. My son was young, 27 years old. He wanted to stay alive.'
After he was killed, Iryna, who had Oleksei when she was just 18, was forced to flee her home as the Russians took over her home and partied, drinking vodka, gin, whisky, rum and beer, leaving the bottles scattered in her garden.
The house was then mostly destroyed by shelling and when Iryna returned, she had to move Oleksei's body back home in a wheelbarrow from the road.
She said: 'I covered the grave with a blanket to protect it from the dogs. He isn't in a coffin, I had to roll him in a carpet.
'They were in jeeps with guns. They killed him and fled. How can I talk to such morons. I want them dead.
'This is my love. My sweetheart.'
Iryna Kostenko wept over her son's homemade grave in her garden as she revealed Putin's forces entered her home on March 10 on the outskirts of Kyiv
The Russians took over her home and partied, drinking vodka, gin, whisky, rum and beer, leaving the bottles scattered in her garden
The house was then mostly destroyed by shelling and when Iryna returned, she had to move Oleksei's body back home in a wheelbarrow
Oleksei's bedroom was ruined after Russian soldiers took over their home near Kyiv
In another tragic case, Tanya Nedashkivska found her husband's rotting corpse after he was arrested by Russian soldiers.
The body of Vasyl Ivanovych, a navy officer, was found in a building's basement in Bucha.
Tanya had been looking for her beloved husband when she eventually found his body, which she identified by his trainers and trousers.
She said: 'He looked mutilated, his body was cold. They turned him over a little. He had been shot in the head, mutilated, tortured.'
It comes as a mass grave containing the bodies of at least 20 civilians including a mayor and her family were uncovered near Kyiv in just the latest evidence of Russian war crimes.
The pit was uncovered in woodland near the town of Motyzhyn, around 20 miles west of the city of Bucha where another mass grave has been found, and contains the bodies of local mayor Olga Sukhenko who was buried along with her husband and son, according to Ukraine's former ambassador to Austria Olexander Scherba.
Tanya Nedashkivska (pictured) found her husband's rotting corpse after he was arrested by Russian soldiers
The body of Vasyl Ivanovych, a navy officer, was found in a building's basement in Bucha
Tanya Nedashkivs'ka, 57, mourns the death of her husband, killed in Bucha, on the outskirts of Kyiv
The widow weeps at the grave of her husband in the latest horrific story to emerge from war-torn Ukraine
Ira Gavriluk holds her cat as she walks next to the corpses of her husband and her brother, who were killed in Bucha
Ms Sukhenko's body had been rolled into the hastily-dug pit alongside at least 19 others including families, some of whom showed signs of torture.
Sukhenko was found with her fingers and arms broken, according to the mayor of the nearby town of Kopyliv, while a resident of Motyzhyn said Russian soldiers killed any Ukrainian officials who refused to collaborate.
The mayor and her family had been reported by others as kidnapped by Russians on March 23 and taken in an unknown direction.
It is the second mass grave to be uncovered behind the backs of retreating Russian troops, after a 45ft pit containing the bodies of at least 57 civilians was uncovered in Bucha.
The grave had been dug into a grassy area to the rear of the Church of St. Andrew and Pyervozvannoho All Saints in Bucha with Serhii Kaplychnyi, head of the local rescue services, saying at least 57 civilians had been buried in the 45ft pit. Other officials put the total at nearer 300.
A Ukrainian policeman walks by a pit in the village of Motyzhyn, Ukraine, Sunday, April 3, 2022 where the bodies of the mayor of the village, Olga Sukhenko, her husband and son and that of a man believed to be a Ukrainian serviceman, who was not yet identified, lie
A satellite image taken on March 31 shows the mass grave - a 45ft-long pit - dug behind the Church of St. Andrew and Pyervozvannoho All Saints in Bucha, during the time that Russian forces were in control of the region
Satellite images taken on March 31, while Russian troops were still in control of the area, clearly show the existence of the grave - giving proof to the lie peddled by Moscow that it was dug by Ukrainian forces. Satellite firm Maxar said images taken as far back as March 10 show what appear to be preparations to construct the pit.
Dmytro Kuleba, Ukraine's foreign minister, said Russian troops had instigated a 'deliberate massacre' in Bucha and branded them 'worse than ISIS'. Photos from the ground showed bodies left to rot alongside roads, some of them with their hands tied, others piled on top of car tyres as if to be burned. Witnesses gave horrifying accounts of torture and rape by Putin's men.
Footage released by the Ukrainian military showed what appeared to be a 'torture chamber' in a building used as a barracks by Russian troops in Bucha. The bodies of civilians were lined up against a wall in the basement, kneeling, having been killed. At least one had been shot through the knee before being killed, the military said.
Civilian survivors said some bodies left on the streets had been run over by Russian tanks and 'squashed like animal skin rugs'. Others reported seeing soldiers shoot dead elderly civilians in front of their relatives.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson led world leaders in condemning the violence at the weekend, pledging to send funding and specialist investigators to the International Criminal Court at The Hague to compile evidence for a war crimes tribunal.
A mass grave was discovered in the grounds of the Church of St. Andrew and Pyervozvannoho All Saints in Bucha, containing the bodies of dozens of civilians
Another view of the mass grave discovered close to a church in Bucha, which was uncovered by Ukrainian forces as Russian troops withdrew from the area around the capital
A man and two women weep as they stand next to a mass grave filled with the bodies of Ukrainian civilians dug into the ground of one of Bucha's largest churches
'We will not rest until justice is served,' he vowed, before a spokesman for the PM added: 'It's clear that Putin crossed the threshold of barbarism some time ago.'
'It's certainly evidence that Putin's army is committing war crimes,' the spokesman said, adding that the Government now wants 'to look beyond what we have already provided' in terms of fresh arms shipments to Ukraine.
'Whatever equipment we send will obviously allow Ukraine to defend itself. We are aware of the requests from the Ukrainians for equipment to defend themselves from ships and we are looking into what we can do,' he said.
Putin's invasion has suffered another devastating blow after his force's death toll rose to 18,300, according to Kyiv's estimates today.
Russia has only admitted 1,351 of its troops have died fighting in Ukraine since Putin invaded on February 24, a fraction of the figure estimated by Ukraine's armed forces.
In a further blow to Putin's war, Ukrainian forces have also retaken some towns in the northern Chernihiv region, whilst Russian forces no longer occupied any areas in the Sumy region, in Ukraine's northeast.
Ukrainian soldiers also blitzed a Russian military convoy in an effort to disrupt deliveries of fuel and supplies to Putin's troops on the frontline, with video showing a military tanker being hit by what appears to be a rocket before bursting into flames.
But Russian attacks on civilian areas have continued, with eight people killed and 34 wounded after shelling hit the southern Ukrainian cities of Mykolaiv and Ochakiv on Sunday, prosecutors in Kyiv said. | 2 | 40,624 | 0.622423 | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10734507/Heartbroken-Ukrainian-mothers-final-farewell-brave-boys.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | 2022-04-20 08:49:27+00:00 | Heartbroken mothers’ final farewell to their brave boys: Ukrainian woman weeps over the coffin of her son as another takes one last look at soldier’s face as victims of Putin’s troops are laid to rest
- Heartbreaking images of one funeral came from Irpin, a town that was occupied by Moscow's forces in March
- Since it was liberated, numerous Russian atrocities have been discovered, and a vast graveyard is growing
- One elderly woman was shown in photographs wearing a red coat standing on the edge of the cemetery, her head resting on her son's coffin that was about to be lowered into an already-dug grave and buried
- In the east of the country on Tuesday, another mother was shown weeping as she took one final look at her son
- Ukrainian army officer Vyacheslav Vyacheslavovych Dimov was killed defending his homeland on April 16
- His body was given a guard of honour as his coffin was carried by Ukrainian soldiers through Marhanets
- WARNING: Graphic content
This is the moment a grief-stricken Ukrainian mother wept over the coffin of her son who died at the hands of Russian troops, as another took one last look at her soldier son's face before he was put to rest.
Heartbreaking images of one funeral came from Irpin, a town that was occupied by Moscow's forces for almost a month after it was seized in the early days of Vladimir Putin's invasion.
Since being liberated, numerous Russian atrocities have come to light in Irpin, and a vast graveyard has been growing by the day as more bodies of civilians and soldiers killed by Russian forces are discovered.
One elderly woman was shown on Sunday in photographs wearing a red coat standing on the edge of the cemetery, her head resting on her son's coffin that was about to be lowered into an already-dug grave.
But she appeared unable to pull herself away from his coffin, that had a small bunch of red flowers placed on top of its blue covering. Her family were gathered around her, standing in solemn silence as the woman spent her final moments with her lost loved one.
After some time, she was shown standing beside the grave as the coffin was lowered into the ground. As grave diggers piled sandy earth over the coffin, the woman was shown being held by another relative as she wept, holding a handkerchief to her face while her wispy hair blew in the wind.
Such scenes have become all-too-common across Ukraine since Russian forces began their barbaric invasion on February 24, when they entered Ukraine and began besieging towns and cities on Putin's orders.
Irpin - along with the neighbouring of Bucha - is one of many sites across the country where Russian forces are accused of carrying out war crimes, indiscriminately attacking and executing civilians.
This is the moment a grief-stricken Ukrainian women wept over the coffin of a relative who died at the hands of Russian troops in Irpin, a town found on the outskirts of Kyiv, April 17, 2022
Heartbreaking images of the funeral came from a growing cemetery Irpin, a town that was occupied by Moscow's forces for almost a month after it was seized in the early days of Vladimir Putin's invasion
Pictured: The woman's family are gathered around her, standing in solemn silence as she spends her final moments with her loved one before their coffin is lowered into the ground and buried
Since being liberated, numerous Russian atrocities have been discovered in Irpin, and a vast graveyard has been growing by the day as more bodies of civilians and soldiers killed by Russian forces are found
Pictured: Graveyard workers lower the coffin into the ground at the cemetery in Irpin
As grave diggers pile sandy earth over the coffin, the woman is shown being held by another relative as she weeps, holding a handkerchief to her face and her wispy hair blowing in the wind
Pictured: Three dug graves are ready for the next funerals at the cemetery in Irpin, on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, April 19, 2022
Around 270 miles away, another funeral was held for Ukrainian army officer Vyacheslav Vyacheslavovych Dimov, who was killed defending his homeland on April 16 in battle in the eastern Zaporizhzhia region.
On Tuesday, Vyacheslav's body was given a guard of honour as it was carried in its coffin by his fellow Ukrainian soldiers through the town of Marhanets - draped in the country's blue and yellow flag.
Pictures showed his weeping mother - Alla Dimova, also in a red coat - taking one last look at her son's face and covering him with a silk cloth before the red coffin was closed and lowered into a grave.
Zaporizhzhia, in eastern Ukraine, is one of a number of regions bracing itself for intense fighting in the coming weeks as Moscow's forces refocus their efforts to capture to Donbas region, after failing to make ground in the north of the country and being pushed back from the capital Kyiv and the surrounding regions, like Irpin.
A police official said on Monday that Ukrainian investigators have examined 269 dead bodies in Irpin, a commuter town on the outskirts of Kyiv, since the town was taken back from Russian forces in late March.
The town, which had a pre-war population of about 62,000, was one of the main hotspots of fighting with Russian troops before they pulled back from Ukraine's northern regions to intensify their offensive in the east.
Alla Dimova, mother of Ukranian army officer Vyacheslav Vyacheslavovych Dimov, who was killed on April 16 in battle in Vasylivka district of Zaporizhzhia region, cries as she covers his face during his funeral held in the town of Marhanets, in Zaporizhzhia region, Ukraine April 19, 2022
Ukrainian soldiers carry a coffin with the body of their officer Vyacheslav Vyacheslavovych Dimov, who was killed on April 16 in battle in Vasylivka district of Zaporizhzhia region, through the town of Marhanets
Pictured: Locals watch on as Ukrainian soldiers carry the body of officer Vyacheslav Vyacheslavovych Dimov through the town of Marhanets, in Zaporizhzhia region, Ukraine April 19, 2022. His mother and other relatives also walk behind
A Ukrainian soldier takes the knee as the body of officer Vyacheslav Vyacheslavovych Dimov is carried through Marhanets
People lower the coffin of Ukrainian army officer Vyacheslav Vyacheslavovych Dimov into the ground, April 19
At the cemetery on the outskirts of Irpin, dozens of new graves have been dug and heaped with wreaths. Under the watch of a few tearful mourners, workers hurriedly shovelled the sandy earth into one grave on Monday.
Adorned with fresh flowers and recently lit candles, dozens of new graves have emerged in the battle-scarred town since the Russians withdrew from Kyiv's outskirts. Drone footage on Monday captured row after row of fresh burials marked with dates after the start of the invasion in late February.
Among them lies the coffin of Roman Vered, 53, who his family claim was killed by Russian soldiers in the town which was the site of intense fighting in the first month of war.
His body was recently identified in Kyiv’s morgue and he was finally laid to rest on Monday in the growing cemetery. Since Russian troops withdrew from Irpin and other towns around the Ukrainian capital increasing evidence has emerged of war crimes including the killing of innocent civilians.
'As of now, we have inspected 269 dead bodies,' said Serhiy Panteleyev, first deputy head of the police's main investigation department, at an online briefing.
He said forensic work was ongoing to determine the cause of death for many of the victims, sharing photos of severely charred human remains.
He said seven sites in Irpin where civilians were allegedly shot have been inspected, without giving further details.
Russia denies targeting civilians and has dismissed allegations its troops committed war crimes in occupied areas of Ukraine - despite mounting evidence against them.
The International Criminal Court (ICC) has opened an investigation against Russia, with chief prosecutor Karim Khan QC visiting Irpin's neighbouring town Bucha last week - where hundreds more bodies have been found.
Meanwhile, Ukraine's president Volodymyr Zelensky condemned the Russian army as 'the most barbaric and inhuman in the world' and said the country will be stained 'as a source of absolute evil for generations' as Putin's men stepped up attacks across the country in an effort to seize a bloody victory from the jaws of defeat.
President Volodymyr Zelensky has condemned Russia's military as 'the most barbaric and inhuman in the world' and said the 'war crimes' committed by Putin's troops will stain the country's reputation for 'generations'
Tamara, 71, weeps in front of a destroyed apartment building in the city of Mariupol which has been near-totally destroyed by Russian attacks that have been going on for almost two months
A woman is comforted by medics in the city of Kharkiv, north-eastern Ukraine, as medics place the body of her father into a body bag after he was killed by Russian shelling on the city
A government worker walks among freshly-dug graves in a cemetery built into the tree-line of a forest in Irpin, on the outskirts of Kyiv, which for weeks was occupied by Russian forces
Russia unleashed a barrage of artillery fire on eastern Ukraine overnight as its offensive in the east got underway, with troops seizing the village of Kreminna. But Ukraine has also launched counter-attacks east of Kharkiv and near Izyum to cut Russian supply lines
Zelensky, in a late-night address to his nation, said Putin's military has been 'purposefully killing civilians' with weapons banned under international law and that once the full scope of their 'war crimes' comes to light 'a Russian passport will mean only one thing in any country: Unequivocal condemnation from all decent people.'
The talismanic president also used the speech to praise his armed forces and people for resisting the invasion as fighting enters its 55th day today, while renewing calls for Ukraine's western allies to send more weapons and faster in order to ensure the Russian army is defeated.
If Ukraine had access to the same kinds of weapons being used by Russia, Zelensky said, then 'we would have already ended this war.' Only the West is capable of providing such weapons, he added.
He spoke after the Ukrainian military said it had managed to repel numerous Russian advances in the eastern Donbas region on Tuesday, as the opening stages of what is likely to be the war's defining battle get underway.
British military intelligence said Moscow hit more than 1,200 targets with bombs and artillery across a 300-mile stretch of frontline near Donetsk and Luhansk as it tries to break through Ukrainian defences - but continues to suffer 'environmental, logistical and technical challenges' of the kind that thwarted its efforts to take Kyiv.
The UK Government department wrote: 'Russian shelling and strikes on the Donbas line of control continue to increase, with the Ukrainians repelling numerous attempted advances by Russian forces.
'Russia's ability to progress continues to be impacted by the environmental, logistical and technical challenges that have beset them so far, combined with the resilience of the highly-motivated Ukrainian armed forces.'
It continued: 'Russia's inability to stamp out resistance in Mariupol and their indiscriminate attacks, which have harmed the resident civilian populace, are indicative of their continued failure to achieve their aims as quickly as they would like.' |
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10684595/Biden-calls-Putin-face-war-crimes-trial-Bucha-Ukraine.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ito=1490&ns_campaign=1490 | 'This guy is brutal and what's happening in Bucha is outrageous': Biden calls for Putin to face a war crimes trial and says he wants MORE sanctions after discovery of mass graves and atrocities against Ukrainian civilians
- President Joe Biden called for a war crimes trial against Russian President Vladimir Putin for actions of Russian soldiers in Bucha, Ukraine
- 'He is a war criminal,' Biden told reporters of Putin. 'We have to gather all the details so this can be actual have a war crime trial. This guy is brutal'
- Biden's comments came after Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky visited Bucha and called it 'genocide'
- **WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT**
- Mass graves uncovered in Bucha, city to the west of Kyiv which Russian forces retreated from at the weekend
- One containing the bodies of at least 57 civilians was uncovered in the ground of a church in the city centre
- Satellite images reveal pit was dug some time before March 31, as Putin's men were still in control of the area
President Joe Biden on Monday called for a war crimes trial against Russian President Vladimir Putin and said more sanctions were in the works following the report of atrocities in Bucha, Ukraine.
'He is a war criminal,' Biden told reporters of Putin. 'But we have to gather the information. We have to continue to provide Ukraine with the weapons they need to continue to fight and we have to get all the detail so this could be – actual have a war crimes trial. This guy is brutal and what's happening in Bucha is outrageous and everyone's seen it.'
He added he is 'seeking more sanctions' but declined to detail what those would be. The U.S. has implemented harsh financial penalities on Russian officials, banks and businesses after its invasion of the Ukraine.
'He should be held accountable,' Biden said of Putin.
The president also said he didn't think what happened in Bucha, Ukraine, was genocide but called it a 'war crime.'
He has previously called Putin a war criminal but this was the first time he has called for the Russian president to face legal consequences. His comments echo those of European leaders, who are calling for harsher sanctions against Russia after mass graves were found in the town near Kyiv, after Russian soldiers departed the area.
But Biden didn't go as far in his remarks as Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky, who called the Russian actions 'genocide' after visiting Bucha.
'This is genocide. The elimination of the whole nation and the people,' Zelensky said. He has also called for tougher sanctions.
President Joe Biden called for a war crimes trial against Russian President Vladimir Putin for actions of Russian soldiers in Bucha, Ukraine
A satellite image taken on March 31 shows the mass grave - a 45ft-long pit - dug behind the Church of St. Andrew and Pyervozvannoho All Saints in Bucha, during the time that Russian forces were in control of the region
Ukraine's prosecutor-general said the bodies of 410 civilians, many with bound hands and close-range gunshot wounds, have been recovered from towns surrounding Kyiv after last week's withdrawal of Russian troops.
A mass grave containing the bodies of at least 20 civilians including a mayor and her family has been uncovered near the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv in just the latest evidence of Russian war crimes.
The pit was uncovered in woodland near the town of Motyzhyn, around 20 miles west of the city of Bucha where another mass grave has been found, and contains the bodies of local mayor Olga Sukhenko who was buried along with her husband and son, according to Ukraine's former ambassador to Austria Olexander Scherba.
European Commission Presient Ursula von der Leyen, the European Commission president, tweeted Monday that he European Union will send investigators to Ukraine to help the local prosecutor general 'document war crimes.
The UK, France and Germany, along with the NATO Secretary General, on Sunday night called for an international probe to be opened into allegations of Russian 'war crimes'. Meanwhile, Estonian prime minister Kaja Kallas declared: 'It's not a battlefield, it's a crime scene' in reference to the horrific images.
And the United States and its allies will seek to suspend Russia from the U.N. Human Rights Council, according to Linda Thomas-Greenfield, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.
'The images out of Bucha and devastation across Ukraine require us now to match our words with action,' she said.
Zelensky, meanwhile, appeared overwhelmed at seeing the carnage in the town, admitting he finds 'it very difficult to talk when you see what they've done here'.
On the streets of Bucha, northwest of Kyiv, the bodies of civilians have been found scattered, many with bound hands, close-range gunshot wounds and signs of torture, after Russian forces retreated from the area.
Ukraine and Western leaders have accused Russia of carrying out the massacre of civilians and dumping their bodies in mass graves.
Zelensky today said it had become harder for Ukraine to negotiate with Russia since Kyiv became aware of the scale of alleged atrocities carried out by Russian troops in Ukraine.
'These are war crimes and will be recognised by the world as genocide,' Zelensky said, wearing body armour and surrounded by military personnel.
'It's very difficult to talk when you see what they've done here,' he said. 'The longer the Russian Federation drags out the meeting process, the worse it is for them and for this situation and for this war.'
'We know of thousands of people killed and tortured, with severed limbs, raped women and murdered children,' he said, adding that in Bucha and other towns in the Kyiv region 'dead people have been found in barrels, basements, strangled, tortured.
WARNING: GRAPHIC IMAGES
A visibly emotional Volodymyr Zelensky today stood motionless as he surveyed the scene of utter devastation he encountered in the town of Bucha, with dozens of bodies shot at close range laying on the empty streets
The Ukrainian President appeared overwhelmed at seeing the carnage in the town, admitting he finds 'it very difficult to talk when you see what they've done here'
A Ukrainian policeman walks by a pit in the village of Motyzhyn, Ukraine, Sunday, April 3, 2022 where the bodies of the mayor of the village, Olga Sukhenko, her husband and son and that of a man believed to be a Ukrainian serviceman, who was not yet identified, lie
Dead bodies litter the streets near Bucha, a suburb of the Ukrainian capital Kyiv, after Russian forces withdrew from the region - leaving evidence of 'war crimes' in their wake
A mass grave was discovered in the grounds of the Church of St. Andrew and Pyervozvannoho All Saints in Bucha, containing the bodies of dozens of civilians
President Biden again called Russian President Vladimir Putin (above left) a war criminal
Footage released by the Ukrainian military showed what appeared to be a 'torture chamber' in a building used as a barracks by Russian troops in Bucha. The bodies of civilians were lined up against a wall in the basement, kneeling, having been killed. At least one had been shot through the knee before being killed, the military said.
Civilian survivors said some bodies left on the streets had been run over by Russian tanks and 'squashed like animal skin rugs'. Others reported seeing soldiers shoot dead elderly civilians in front of their relatives.
Additionally, Putin's invasion has suffered another devastating blow after his force's death toll rose to 18,300, according to Kyiv's estimates today.
Russia has only admitted 1,351 of its troops have died fighting in Ukraine since Putin invaded on February 24, a fraction of the figure estimated by Ukraine's armed forces.
In a further blow to Putin's war, Ukrainian forces have also retaken some towns in the northern Chernihiv region, whilst Russian forces no longer occupied any areas in the Sumy region, in Ukraine's northeast.
Ukrainian soldiers also blitzed a Russian military convoy in an effort to disrupt deliveries of fuel and supplies to Putin's troops on the frontline, with video showing a military tanker being hit by what appears to be a rocket before bursting into flames.
But Russian attacks on civilian areas have continued, with eight people killed and 34 wounded after shelling hit the southern Ukrainian cities of Mykolaiv and Ochakiv on Sunday, prosecutors in Kyiv said.
And Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov rejected the allegations of Russian troops killing civilians in Bucha, describing the scenes outside Kyiv as a 'stage-managed anti-Russian provocation.'
Meanwhile British Prime Minister Boris Johnson led world leaders in condemning the violence at the weekend, pledging to send funding and specialist investigators to the International Criminal Court at The Hague to compile evidence for a war crimes tribunal.
'We will not rest until justice is served,' he vowed, before a spokesman for the PM added: 'It's clear that Putin crossed the threshold of barbarism some time ago.'
'It's certainly evidence that Putin's army is committing war crimes,' the spokesman said, adding that the Government now wants 'to look beyond what we have already provided' in terms of fresh arms shipments to Ukraine.
'Whatever equipment we send will obviously allow Ukraine to defend itself. We are aware of the requests from the Ukrainians for equipment to defend themselves from ships and we are looking into what we can do,' he said.
Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki called Russia's actions 'genocide.'
Morawiecki said the allegations 'must be properly documented and judged,' and he called 'to establish an international commission composed of specialists.'
French President Emmanuel Macron said Monday that there is 'clear evidence of war crimes' in Bucha that demand new measures. 'I'm in favour of a new round of sanctions and in particular on coal and petrol. We need to act,' he said on France-Inter radio. | 0 | 76,587 | 0.312548 | https://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/biden-war-criminal-putin-should-face-trial-for-bucha-killings | 2022-04-04 16:49:22+00:00 | Biden: 'War criminal' Putin should face trial for Bucha killings
WASHINGTON - President Joe Biden on Monday called for a war crimes trial against Russia President Vladimir Putin and said he’d seek more sanctions after reported atrocities in Ukraine.
"You saw what happened in Bucha," Biden said. He added that Putin "is a war criminal"
Biden’s comments to reporters came after Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy visited Bucha, one of the towns surrounding Kyiv where Ukrainian officials say the bodies of civilians have been found. Zelenskyy called the Russian actions "genocide" and called for the West to apply tougher sanctions against Russia.
Biden, however, stopped short of calling the actions genocide.
A man gestures at a mass grave in the town of Bucha, northwest of the Ukrainian capital Kyiv on April 3, 2022. (Photo by SERGEI SUPINSKY/AFP via Getty Images)
The bodies of 410 civilians have been removed from Kyiv-area towns that were recently retaken from Russian forces, Ukraine’s prosecutor-general, Iryna Venediktova, said. Associated Press journalists saw the bodies of at least 21 people in various spots around Bucha, northwest of the capital.
"We have to continue to provide Ukraine with the weapons they need to continue the fight. And we have to gather all the detail so this can be an actual -- have a war crimes trial," Biden said.
Biden lashed out at Putin as "brutal."
"What’s happening in Bucha is outrageous and everyone sees it," Biden added.
Ukainian President Volodymyr Zelensky (C) speaks to the press in the town of Bucha, northwest of the Ukrainian capital Kyiv, on April 4, 2022. (Photo by RONALDO SCHEMIDT/AFP via Getty Images)
RELATED: Russia faces growing outrage amid new evidence of atrocities in Ukraine
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, the European Commission president, tweeted Monday that the European Union will send investigators to Ukraine to help the local prosecutor general "document war crimes.
Biden noted that he faced push back last month when he described Putin as a war criminal for the unfolding onslaught in Ukraine after hospitals and maternity wards were bombed. In his remarks on Monday, Biden made clear that label still applied.
"This guy is brutal and what’s happening to Bucha is outrageous, and everyone’s seen it," Biden said.
Investigations into Putin’s actions had begun before the new allegations of atrocities outside Kyiv.
The U.S. and more than 40 other countries are working together to investigate possible violations and abuses, after the passage of a resolution by the United Nations Human Rights Council to establish a commission of inquiry. There is another probe by the International Criminal Court, an independent body based in the Netherlands.
RELATED: Zelenskyy gives powerful speech at Grammys from bunker, asks ‘free’ Americans for support
Meanwhile, Biden's chief envoy to the United Nations, Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield, announced Monday that the U.S. plans to seek a suspension of Russia from its seat on the U.N.’s top human rights body in the wake of more indications Russian forces may have committed war crimes in Ukraine. That would require a decision by the U.N. General Assembly.
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- President Joe Biden called for a war crimes trial against Russian President Vladimir Putin for actions of Russian soldiers in Bucha, Ukraine
- 'He is a war criminal,' Biden told reporters of Putin. 'We have to gather all the details so this can be actual have a war crime trial. This guy is brutal'
- Biden's comments came after Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky visited Bucha and called it 'genocide'
- **WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT**
- Mass graves uncovered in Bucha, city to the west of Kyiv which Russian forces retreated from at the weekend
- One containing the bodies of at least 57 civilians was uncovered in the ground of a church in the city centre
- Satellite images reveal pit was dug some time before March 31, as Putin's men were still in control of the area
President Joe Biden on Monday called for a war crimes trial against Russian President Vladimir Putin and said more sanctions were in the works following the report of atrocities in Bucha, Ukraine.
'He is a war criminal,' Biden told reporters of Putin. 'But we have to gather the information. We have to continue to provide Ukraine with the weapons they need to continue to fight and we have to get all the detail so this could be – actual have a war crimes trial. This guy is brutal and what's happening in Bucha is outrageous and everyone's seen it.'
He added he is 'seeking more sanctions' but declined to detail what those would be. The U.S. has implemented harsh financial penalities on Russian officials, banks and businesses after its invasion of the Ukraine.
'He should be held accountable,' Biden said of Putin.
The president also said he didn't think what happened in Bucha, Ukraine, was genocide but called it a 'war crime.'
He has previously called Putin a war criminal but this was the first time he has called for the Russian president to face legal consequences. His comments echo those of European leaders, who are calling for harsher sanctions against Russia after mass graves were found in the town near Kyiv, after Russian soldiers departed the area.
But Biden didn't go as far in his remarks as Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky, who called the Russian actions 'genocide' after visiting Bucha.
'This is genocide. The elimination of the whole nation and the people,' Zelensky said. He has also called for tougher sanctions.
President Joe Biden called for a war crimes trial against Russian President Vladimir Putin for actions of Russian soldiers in Bucha, Ukraine
A satellite image taken on March 31 shows the mass grave - a 45ft-long pit - dug behind the Church of St. Andrew and Pyervozvannoho All Saints in Bucha, during the time that Russian forces were in control of the region
Ukraine's prosecutor-general said the bodies of 410 civilians, many with bound hands and close-range gunshot wounds, have been recovered from towns surrounding Kyiv after last week's withdrawal of Russian troops.
A mass grave containing the bodies of at least 20 civilians including a mayor and her family has been uncovered near the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv in just the latest evidence of Russian war crimes.
The pit was uncovered in woodland near the town of Motyzhyn, around 20 miles west of the city of Bucha where another mass grave has been found, and contains the bodies of local mayor Olga Sukhenko who was buried along with her husband and son, according to Ukraine's former ambassador to Austria Olexander Scherba.
European Commission Presient Ursula von der Leyen, the European Commission president, tweeted Monday that he European Union will send investigators to Ukraine to help the local prosecutor general 'document war crimes.
The UK, France and Germany, along with the NATO Secretary General, on Sunday night called for an international probe to be opened into allegations of Russian 'war crimes'. Meanwhile, Estonian prime minister Kaja Kallas declared: 'It's not a battlefield, it's a crime scene' in reference to the horrific images.
And the United States and its allies will seek to suspend Russia from the U.N. Human Rights Council, according to Linda Thomas-Greenfield, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.
'The images out of Bucha and devastation across Ukraine require us now to match our words with action,' she said.
Zelensky, meanwhile, appeared overwhelmed at seeing the carnage in the town, admitting he finds 'it very difficult to talk when you see what they've done here'.
On the streets of Bucha, northwest of Kyiv, the bodies of civilians have been found scattered, many with bound hands, close-range gunshot wounds and signs of torture, after Russian forces retreated from the area.
Ukraine and Western leaders have accused Russia of carrying out the massacre of civilians and dumping their bodies in mass graves.
Zelensky today said it had become harder for Ukraine to negotiate with Russia since Kyiv became aware of the scale of alleged atrocities carried out by Russian troops in Ukraine.
'These are war crimes and will be recognised by the world as genocide,' Zelensky said, wearing body armour and surrounded by military personnel.
'It's very difficult to talk when you see what they've done here,' he said. 'The longer the Russian Federation drags out the meeting process, the worse it is for them and for this situation and for this war.'
'We know of thousands of people killed and tortured, with severed limbs, raped women and murdered children,' he said, adding that in Bucha and other towns in the Kyiv region 'dead people have been found in barrels, basements, strangled, tortured.
WARNING: GRAPHIC IMAGES
A visibly emotional Volodymyr Zelensky today stood motionless as he surveyed the scene of utter devastation he encountered in the town of Bucha, with dozens of bodies shot at close range laying on the empty streets
The Ukrainian President appeared overwhelmed at seeing the carnage in the town, admitting he finds 'it very difficult to talk when you see what they've done here'
A Ukrainian policeman walks by a pit in the village of Motyzhyn, Ukraine, Sunday, April 3, 2022 where the bodies of the mayor of the village, Olga Sukhenko, her husband and son and that of a man believed to be a Ukrainian serviceman, who was not yet identified, lie
Dead bodies litter the streets near Bucha, a suburb of the Ukrainian capital Kyiv, after Russian forces withdrew from the region - leaving evidence of 'war crimes' in their wake
A mass grave was discovered in the grounds of the Church of St. Andrew and Pyervozvannoho All Saints in Bucha, containing the bodies of dozens of civilians
President Biden again called Russian President Vladimir Putin (above left) a war criminal
Footage released by the Ukrainian military showed what appeared to be a 'torture chamber' in a building used as a barracks by Russian troops in Bucha. The bodies of civilians were lined up against a wall in the basement, kneeling, having been killed. At least one had been shot through the knee before being killed, the military said.
Civilian survivors said some bodies left on the streets had been run over by Russian tanks and 'squashed like animal skin rugs'. Others reported seeing soldiers shoot dead elderly civilians in front of their relatives.
Additionally, Putin's invasion has suffered another devastating blow after his force's death toll rose to 18,300, according to Kyiv's estimates today.
Russia has only admitted 1,351 of its troops have died fighting in Ukraine since Putin invaded on February 24, a fraction of the figure estimated by Ukraine's armed forces.
In a further blow to Putin's war, Ukrainian forces have also retaken some towns in the northern Chernihiv region, whilst Russian forces no longer occupied any areas in the Sumy region, in Ukraine's northeast.
Ukrainian soldiers also blitzed a Russian military convoy in an effort to disrupt deliveries of fuel and supplies to Putin's troops on the frontline, with video showing a military tanker being hit by what appears to be a rocket before bursting into flames.
But Russian attacks on civilian areas have continued, with eight people killed and 34 wounded after shelling hit the southern Ukrainian cities of Mykolaiv and Ochakiv on Sunday, prosecutors in Kyiv said.
And Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov rejected the allegations of Russian troops killing civilians in Bucha, describing the scenes outside Kyiv as a 'stage-managed anti-Russian provocation.'
Meanwhile British Prime Minister Boris Johnson led world leaders in condemning the violence at the weekend, pledging to send funding and specialist investigators to the International Criminal Court at The Hague to compile evidence for a war crimes tribunal.
'We will not rest until justice is served,' he vowed, before a spokesman for the PM added: 'It's clear that Putin crossed the threshold of barbarism some time ago.'
'It's certainly evidence that Putin's army is committing war crimes,' the spokesman said, adding that the Government now wants 'to look beyond what we have already provided' in terms of fresh arms shipments to Ukraine.
'Whatever equipment we send will obviously allow Ukraine to defend itself. We are aware of the requests from the Ukrainians for equipment to defend themselves from ships and we are looking into what we can do,' he said.
Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki called Russia's actions 'genocide.'
Morawiecki said the allegations 'must be properly documented and judged,' and he called 'to establish an international commission composed of specialists.'
French President Emmanuel Macron said Monday that there is 'clear evidence of war crimes' in Bucha that demand new measures. 'I'm in favour of a new round of sanctions and in particular on coal and petrol. We need to act,' he said on France-Inter radio. | 1 | 100,862 | 0.312548 | https://www.fox29.com/news/biden-war-criminal-putin-should-face-trial-for-bucha-killings | 2022-04-04 18:42:40+00:00 | Biden: 'War criminal' Putin should face trial for Bucha killings
WASHINGTON - President Joe Biden on Monday called for a war crimes trial against Russia President Vladimir Putin and said he’d seek more sanctions after reported atrocities in Ukraine.
"You saw what happened in Bucha," Biden said. He added that Putin "is a war criminal"
Biden’s comments to reporters came after Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy visited Bucha, one of the towns surrounding Kyiv where Ukrainian officials say the bodies of civilians have been found. Zelenskyy called the Russian actions "genocide" and called for the West to apply tougher sanctions against Russia.
Biden, however, stopped short of calling the actions genocide.
A man gestures at a mass grave in the town of Bucha, northwest of the Ukrainian capital Kyiv on April 3, 2022. (Photo by SERGEI SUPINSKY/AFP via Getty Images)
The bodies of 410 civilians have been removed from Kyiv-area towns that were recently retaken from Russian forces, Ukraine’s prosecutor-general, Iryna Venediktova, said. Associated Press journalists saw the bodies of at least 21 people in various spots around Bucha, northwest of the capital.
"We have to continue to provide Ukraine with the weapons they need to continue the fight. And we have to gather all the detail so this can be an actual -- have a war crimes trial," Biden said.
Biden lashed out at Putin as "brutal."
"What’s happening in Bucha is outrageous and everyone sees it," Biden added.
Ukainian President Volodymyr Zelensky (C) speaks to the press in the town of Bucha, northwest of the Ukrainian capital Kyiv, on April 4, 2022. (Photo by RONALDO SCHEMIDT/AFP via Getty Images)
RELATED: Russia faces growing outrage amid new evidence of atrocities in Ukraine
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, the European Commission president, tweeted Monday that the European Union will send investigators to Ukraine to help the local prosecutor general "document war crimes.
Biden noted that he faced push back last month when he described Putin as a war criminal for the unfolding onslaught in Ukraine after hospitals and maternity wards were bombed. In his remarks on Monday, Biden made clear that label still applied.
"This guy is brutal and what’s happening to Bucha is outrageous, and everyone’s seen it," Biden said.
Investigations into Putin’s actions had begun before the new allegations of atrocities outside Kyiv.
The U.S. and more than 40 other countries are working together to investigate possible violations and abuses, after the passage of a resolution by the United Nations Human Rights Council to establish a commission of inquiry. There is another probe by the International Criminal Court, an independent body based in the Netherlands.
RELATED: Zelenskyy gives powerful speech at Grammys from bunker, asks ‘free’ Americans for support
Meanwhile, Biden's chief envoy to the United Nations, Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield, announced Monday that the U.S. plans to seek a suspension of Russia from its seat on the U.N.’s top human rights body in the wake of more indications Russian forces may have committed war crimes in Ukraine. That would require a decision by the U.N. General Assembly.
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Russia and the other four permanent members of the U.N. Security Council – Britain, China, France and the United States – all currently have seats on the 47-member-state rights council, which is based in Geneva. The United States rejoined the council this year. |
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10684595/Biden-calls-Putin-face-war-crimes-trial-Bucha-Ukraine.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ito=1490&ns_campaign=1490 | 'This guy is brutal and what's happening in Bucha is outrageous': Biden calls for Putin to face a war crimes trial and says he wants MORE sanctions after discovery of mass graves and atrocities against Ukrainian civilians
- President Joe Biden called for a war crimes trial against Russian President Vladimir Putin for actions of Russian soldiers in Bucha, Ukraine
- 'He is a war criminal,' Biden told reporters of Putin. 'We have to gather all the details so this can be actual have a war crime trial. This guy is brutal'
- Biden's comments came after Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky visited Bucha and called it 'genocide'
- **WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT**
- Mass graves uncovered in Bucha, city to the west of Kyiv which Russian forces retreated from at the weekend
- One containing the bodies of at least 57 civilians was uncovered in the ground of a church in the city centre
- Satellite images reveal pit was dug some time before March 31, as Putin's men were still in control of the area
President Joe Biden on Monday called for a war crimes trial against Russian President Vladimir Putin and said more sanctions were in the works following the report of atrocities in Bucha, Ukraine.
'He is a war criminal,' Biden told reporters of Putin. 'But we have to gather the information. We have to continue to provide Ukraine with the weapons they need to continue to fight and we have to get all the detail so this could be – actual have a war crimes trial. This guy is brutal and what's happening in Bucha is outrageous and everyone's seen it.'
He added he is 'seeking more sanctions' but declined to detail what those would be. The U.S. has implemented harsh financial penalities on Russian officials, banks and businesses after its invasion of the Ukraine.
'He should be held accountable,' Biden said of Putin.
The president also said he didn't think what happened in Bucha, Ukraine, was genocide but called it a 'war crime.'
He has previously called Putin a war criminal but this was the first time he has called for the Russian president to face legal consequences. His comments echo those of European leaders, who are calling for harsher sanctions against Russia after mass graves were found in the town near Kyiv, after Russian soldiers departed the area.
But Biden didn't go as far in his remarks as Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky, who called the Russian actions 'genocide' after visiting Bucha.
'This is genocide. The elimination of the whole nation and the people,' Zelensky said. He has also called for tougher sanctions.
President Joe Biden called for a war crimes trial against Russian President Vladimir Putin for actions of Russian soldiers in Bucha, Ukraine
A satellite image taken on March 31 shows the mass grave - a 45ft-long pit - dug behind the Church of St. Andrew and Pyervozvannoho All Saints in Bucha, during the time that Russian forces were in control of the region
Ukraine's prosecutor-general said the bodies of 410 civilians, many with bound hands and close-range gunshot wounds, have been recovered from towns surrounding Kyiv after last week's withdrawal of Russian troops.
A mass grave containing the bodies of at least 20 civilians including a mayor and her family has been uncovered near the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv in just the latest evidence of Russian war crimes.
The pit was uncovered in woodland near the town of Motyzhyn, around 20 miles west of the city of Bucha where another mass grave has been found, and contains the bodies of local mayor Olga Sukhenko who was buried along with her husband and son, according to Ukraine's former ambassador to Austria Olexander Scherba.
European Commission Presient Ursula von der Leyen, the European Commission president, tweeted Monday that he European Union will send investigators to Ukraine to help the local prosecutor general 'document war crimes.
The UK, France and Germany, along with the NATO Secretary General, on Sunday night called for an international probe to be opened into allegations of Russian 'war crimes'. Meanwhile, Estonian prime minister Kaja Kallas declared: 'It's not a battlefield, it's a crime scene' in reference to the horrific images.
And the United States and its allies will seek to suspend Russia from the U.N. Human Rights Council, according to Linda Thomas-Greenfield, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.
'The images out of Bucha and devastation across Ukraine require us now to match our words with action,' she said.
Zelensky, meanwhile, appeared overwhelmed at seeing the carnage in the town, admitting he finds 'it very difficult to talk when you see what they've done here'.
On the streets of Bucha, northwest of Kyiv, the bodies of civilians have been found scattered, many with bound hands, close-range gunshot wounds and signs of torture, after Russian forces retreated from the area.
Ukraine and Western leaders have accused Russia of carrying out the massacre of civilians and dumping their bodies in mass graves.
Zelensky today said it had become harder for Ukraine to negotiate with Russia since Kyiv became aware of the scale of alleged atrocities carried out by Russian troops in Ukraine.
'These are war crimes and will be recognised by the world as genocide,' Zelensky said, wearing body armour and surrounded by military personnel.
'It's very difficult to talk when you see what they've done here,' he said. 'The longer the Russian Federation drags out the meeting process, the worse it is for them and for this situation and for this war.'
'We know of thousands of people killed and tortured, with severed limbs, raped women and murdered children,' he said, adding that in Bucha and other towns in the Kyiv region 'dead people have been found in barrels, basements, strangled, tortured.
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A visibly emotional Volodymyr Zelensky today stood motionless as he surveyed the scene of utter devastation he encountered in the town of Bucha, with dozens of bodies shot at close range laying on the empty streets
The Ukrainian President appeared overwhelmed at seeing the carnage in the town, admitting he finds 'it very difficult to talk when you see what they've done here'
A Ukrainian policeman walks by a pit in the village of Motyzhyn, Ukraine, Sunday, April 3, 2022 where the bodies of the mayor of the village, Olga Sukhenko, her husband and son and that of a man believed to be a Ukrainian serviceman, who was not yet identified, lie
Dead bodies litter the streets near Bucha, a suburb of the Ukrainian capital Kyiv, after Russian forces withdrew from the region - leaving evidence of 'war crimes' in their wake
A mass grave was discovered in the grounds of the Church of St. Andrew and Pyervozvannoho All Saints in Bucha, containing the bodies of dozens of civilians
President Biden again called Russian President Vladimir Putin (above left) a war criminal
Footage released by the Ukrainian military showed what appeared to be a 'torture chamber' in a building used as a barracks by Russian troops in Bucha. The bodies of civilians were lined up against a wall in the basement, kneeling, having been killed. At least one had been shot through the knee before being killed, the military said.
Civilian survivors said some bodies left on the streets had been run over by Russian tanks and 'squashed like animal skin rugs'. Others reported seeing soldiers shoot dead elderly civilians in front of their relatives.
Additionally, Putin's invasion has suffered another devastating blow after his force's death toll rose to 18,300, according to Kyiv's estimates today.
Russia has only admitted 1,351 of its troops have died fighting in Ukraine since Putin invaded on February 24, a fraction of the figure estimated by Ukraine's armed forces.
In a further blow to Putin's war, Ukrainian forces have also retaken some towns in the northern Chernihiv region, whilst Russian forces no longer occupied any areas in the Sumy region, in Ukraine's northeast.
Ukrainian soldiers also blitzed a Russian military convoy in an effort to disrupt deliveries of fuel and supplies to Putin's troops on the frontline, with video showing a military tanker being hit by what appears to be a rocket before bursting into flames.
But Russian attacks on civilian areas have continued, with eight people killed and 34 wounded after shelling hit the southern Ukrainian cities of Mykolaiv and Ochakiv on Sunday, prosecutors in Kyiv said.
And Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov rejected the allegations of Russian troops killing civilians in Bucha, describing the scenes outside Kyiv as a 'stage-managed anti-Russian provocation.'
Meanwhile British Prime Minister Boris Johnson led world leaders in condemning the violence at the weekend, pledging to send funding and specialist investigators to the International Criminal Court at The Hague to compile evidence for a war crimes tribunal.
'We will not rest until justice is served,' he vowed, before a spokesman for the PM added: 'It's clear that Putin crossed the threshold of barbarism some time ago.'
'It's certainly evidence that Putin's army is committing war crimes,' the spokesman said, adding that the Government now wants 'to look beyond what we have already provided' in terms of fresh arms shipments to Ukraine.
'Whatever equipment we send will obviously allow Ukraine to defend itself. We are aware of the requests from the Ukrainians for equipment to defend themselves from ships and we are looking into what we can do,' he said.
Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki called Russia's actions 'genocide.'
Morawiecki said the allegations 'must be properly documented and judged,' and he called 'to establish an international commission composed of specialists.'
French President Emmanuel Macron said Monday that there is 'clear evidence of war crimes' in Bucha that demand new measures. 'I'm in favour of a new round of sanctions and in particular on coal and petrol. We need to act,' he said on France-Inter radio. | 2 | 24,143 | 0.312548 | https://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/biden-war-criminal-putin-should-face-trial-for-bucha-killings | 2022-04-18 15:53:39+00:00 | Biden: 'War criminal' Putin should face trial for Bucha killings
WASHINGTON - President Joe Biden on Monday called for a war crimes trial against Russia President Vladimir Putin and said he’d seek more sanctions after reported atrocities in Ukraine.
"You saw what happened in Bucha," Biden said. He added that Putin "is a war criminal"
Biden’s comments to reporters came after Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy visited Bucha, one of the towns surrounding Kyiv where Ukrainian officials say the bodies of civilians have been found. Zelenskyy called the Russian actions "genocide" and called for the West to apply tougher sanctions against Russia.
Biden, however, stopped short of calling the actions genocide.
A man gestures at a mass grave in the town of Bucha, northwest of the Ukrainian capital Kyiv on April 3, 2022. (Photo by SERGEI SUPINSKY/AFP via Getty Images)
The bodies of 410 civilians have been removed from Kyiv-area towns that were recently retaken from Russian forces, Ukraine’s prosecutor-general, Iryna Venediktova, said. Associated Press journalists saw the bodies of at least 21 people in various spots around Bucha, northwest of the capital.
"We have to continue to provide Ukraine with the weapons they need to continue the fight. And we have to gather all the detail so this can be an actual -- have a war crimes trial," Biden said.
Biden lashed out at Putin as "brutal."
"What’s happening in Bucha is outrageous and everyone sees it," Biden added.
Ukainian President Volodymyr Zelensky (C) speaks to the press in the town of Bucha, northwest of the Ukrainian capital Kyiv, on April 4, 2022. (Photo by RONALDO SCHEMIDT/AFP via Getty Images)
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European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, the European Commission president, tweeted Monday that the European Union will send investigators to Ukraine to help the local prosecutor general "document war crimes.
Biden noted that he faced push back last month when he described Putin as a war criminal for the unfolding onslaught in Ukraine after hospitals and maternity wards were bombed. In his remarks on Monday, Biden made clear that label still applied.
"This guy is brutal and what’s happening to Bucha is outrageous, and everyone’s seen it," Biden said.
Investigations into Putin’s actions had begun before the new allegations of atrocities outside Kyiv.
The U.S. and more than 40 other countries are working together to investigate possible violations and abuses, after the passage of a resolution by the United Nations Human Rights Council to establish a commission of inquiry. There is another probe by the International Criminal Court, an independent body based in the Netherlands.
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Meanwhile, Biden's chief envoy to the United Nations, Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield, announced Monday that the U.S. plans to seek a suspension of Russia from its seat on the U.N.’s top human rights body in the wake of more indications Russian forces may have committed war crimes in Ukraine. That would require a decision by the U.N. General Assembly.
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-10684867/Micah-Richards-channeled-inner-Big-Meeks-lashing-penalty-over.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | 'The worst penalty you've ever seen': Former Manchester City defender Micah Richards channeled his inner 'Big Meeks' before lashing his ONLY ever penalty over in a pre-season defeat to Olympiakos
- Micah Richards lashed the ball into the orbit from 12-yards in a pre-season clash
- Manchester City suffered a penalty shoot-out defeat to Olympiakos in America
- The 33-year-old opened up on MOTD Top 10 podcast about his only-ever penalty
Former Manchester City defender Micah Richards has labelled his only-ever spot kick as 'the worst penalty you've ever seen'.
The right-back stepped up to the spot in an eventual shoot-out defeat to Greek side Olympiakos in America in the International Champions Cup back in 2014, after the match ended 2-2.
Richards decided to channel his inner-Chris Waddle, and sprinted up to the ball before lashing it into orbit from 12-yards.
Micah Richards has labelled his only-ever penalty as 'the worst penalty you've ever seen'
Richards lashed his spot kick over the crossbar against Olympiakos in America back in 2014
At the time, the now TV pundit was subject to a series of memes and jokes following his horrendous penalty attempt.
The 33-year-old has now opened up on his only-ever penalty on MOTD Top 10 Podcast with Gary Lineker and Alan Shearer while they looked through the Premier League's best-ever set-piece takers.
Richards said when questioned, if he has ever taken a penalty: 'Not in a real game, in a pre-season. It was the worst penalty you’ve ever seen.
The TV pundit Richards opened up on his only-ever penalty on the MOTD Top 10 Podcast
'In training, you know training is different.' Before Lineker interrupted to say: 'It’s like being on the range in golf.'
To which Richards responded: 'Stanch, putting them in no problem. (Manuel) Pellegrini was the manager.
'So, then we were on pre-season, we were playing someone in Greece.
'He goes to me "you’re up" I said, "what do you mean i’m up"?'
'I said, i’m not going to take one, and he said “Go on, you’ve been practicing all week, you’re really good at them.” So, I’ve got up, haven’t i?
The former right-back insisted that he wasn't going to take a penalty to boss Manuel Pellegrini
'Walking up because i don’t know how to act for a penalty, you can’t be shy but you can’t be, I was too over confident.
‘You play mind games. So how shall I act?
‘Shall I be the confident Big Meeks? Or shall i be the timid Micah?
‘You know what i mean? So i was like, “Okay, let’s play the role of Big Meeks”
‘I’m walking up, chest out. “I’m gonna put you in the stands.”
‘I don’t think i’m just gonna roll it in, I tried to put in the stanch and just as i was got like, not cramp it was like nervous energy through my legs and I’ve hit it and it’s gone about five or six yards over the bar.' | 0 | 17,062 | 0.76305 | https://www.sportskeeda.com/football/5-worst-penalty-takers-premier-league-history | 2022-07-31 11:50:58+00:00 | The Premier League is one of the toughest leagues in Europe. Coping up with its intensity and physicality hasn't been easy even for players of the highest stature.
Eventually, it all boils down to the mental toughness and character of the players. It can all go south very quickly for any footballer should he fail to stay composed.
Taking penalties in the Premier League is not easy
One of the most underrated tasks on a football pitch is taking a penalty kick. Whatever context it may be, taking a spot-kick comes with a great amount of pressure.
Interestingly, some top-quality players have struggled with their penalties in the Premier League. Here, we take a look at some of the worst penalty-takers in the history of English top-flight football.
#5 Paul Pogba (64%)
Coming through the ranks at Manchester United, Paul Pogba struggled with game time and hence opted to join Juventus in the 2012-13 season. The Frenchman returned to Old Trafford in 2016 to help the Red Devils with his box-to-box abilities.
The 29-year-old midfielder spent six seasons in his second spell at United, scoring 29 goals and registering 38 assists in 154 Premier League appearances. Despite Pogba's tremendous potential, he struggled to find consistency on the pitch and was, more often than not, criticized for not stepping up for his team.
During his six seasons, the French midfielder had the opportunity to take 11 penalty kicks for United. Out of the 11, Pogba managed to score seven penalties with a conversion success of just 64%. A player of his caliber is definitely expected to be more efficient in such a scenario.
#4 Kevin Phillips (61%)
Having played for a number of English clubs, Kevin Phillips is best known for his time at Sunderland. The right-footed striker was a key player for the Black Cats as they heavily relied on him to find the back of the net.
Phillips has made 263 appearances in the Premier League, scoring 92 goals in the process. He had a phenomenal 1999-2000 season where he went on to score 30 goals in the league, going on to win not just the Golden Boot but also the European Golden Shoe.
Given his prolific goal-scoring abilities, he was the designated penalty-taker. Out of the 18 spot-kicks he has attempted in the league, he has found success in only 11 of them, taking his success ratio to 61%.
#3 Dwight Yorke (60%)
Manchester United have had some legendary strikers at their disposal in their rich history and Dwight Yorke is certainly one of them. His partnership with Andy Cole was certainly a delight to watch on the pitch.
Having come through the ranks at Aston Villa, Yorke earned a lot of plaudits during his time at Manchester United courtesy of his goal-scoring abilities. After joining the Red Devils in the 1998-99 season, the former Trinidad and Tobago striker won the Premier League three times in four seasons.
Yorke scored 123 Premier League goals in his career but did not have the best of times while taking penalties. He managed to score six out of the 10 penalties he attempted, with a success rate of 60%.
#2 Steed Malbranque (60%)
Born in Belgium, Steed Malbranque spent his youth career playing in France. He played for the senior Lyon team before joining Fulham in the 2001-02 season.
Malbranque had a stellar start to his debut campaign in England, scoring 10 goals. His attacking play from midfield made him a fan favorite at Craven Cottage before he went on to play for Tottenham Hotspur and Sunderland.
In his Premier League career, Malbranque made 336 appearances, scoring 39 goals and registering 55 assists. The former Fulham midfielder managed to score six out of the 10 penalties he attempted in the league, taking his success rate to 60%.
#1 Juan Pablo Angel (50%)
The Colombian striker started his club career with Atletico Nacional in his home country. Juan Pablo Angel enjoyed a good spell there before joining River Plate in the 1997-98 season.
His impressive form in front of goal encouraged Aston Villa to go after his signature and rejoined them in the 2001 winter transfer window. With 16 goals to his name in the 2003-04 season, he finished as the club's top goal-scorer.
Angel made 175 Premier League appearances, scoring 44 goals and registering 14 assists. In the process, the Colombian forward managed to score five out of 10 penalties with a success rate of just 50%.
In the 2004-05 season, the former Villa striker missed two penalties in a game against Fulham. |
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-10684867/Micah-Richards-channeled-inner-Big-Meeks-lashing-penalty-over.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | 'The worst penalty you've ever seen': Former Manchester City defender Micah Richards channeled his inner 'Big Meeks' before lashing his ONLY ever penalty over in a pre-season defeat to Olympiakos
- Micah Richards lashed the ball into the orbit from 12-yards in a pre-season clash
- Manchester City suffered a penalty shoot-out defeat to Olympiakos in America
- The 33-year-old opened up on MOTD Top 10 podcast about his only-ever penalty
Former Manchester City defender Micah Richards has labelled his only-ever spot kick as 'the worst penalty you've ever seen'.
The right-back stepped up to the spot in an eventual shoot-out defeat to Greek side Olympiakos in America in the International Champions Cup back in 2014, after the match ended 2-2.
Richards decided to channel his inner-Chris Waddle, and sprinted up to the ball before lashing it into orbit from 12-yards.
Micah Richards has labelled his only-ever penalty as 'the worst penalty you've ever seen'
Richards lashed his spot kick over the crossbar against Olympiakos in America back in 2014
At the time, the now TV pundit was subject to a series of memes and jokes following his horrendous penalty attempt.
The 33-year-old has now opened up on his only-ever penalty on MOTD Top 10 Podcast with Gary Lineker and Alan Shearer while they looked through the Premier League's best-ever set-piece takers.
Richards said when questioned, if he has ever taken a penalty: 'Not in a real game, in a pre-season. It was the worst penalty you’ve ever seen.
The TV pundit Richards opened up on his only-ever penalty on the MOTD Top 10 Podcast
'In training, you know training is different.' Before Lineker interrupted to say: 'It’s like being on the range in golf.'
To which Richards responded: 'Stanch, putting them in no problem. (Manuel) Pellegrini was the manager.
'So, then we were on pre-season, we were playing someone in Greece.
'He goes to me "you’re up" I said, "what do you mean i’m up"?'
'I said, i’m not going to take one, and he said “Go on, you’ve been practicing all week, you’re really good at them.” So, I’ve got up, haven’t i?
The former right-back insisted that he wasn't going to take a penalty to boss Manuel Pellegrini
'Walking up because i don’t know how to act for a penalty, you can’t be shy but you can’t be, I was too over confident.
‘You play mind games. So how shall I act?
‘Shall I be the confident Big Meeks? Or shall i be the timid Micah?
‘You know what i mean? So i was like, “Okay, let’s play the role of Big Meeks”
‘I’m walking up, chest out. “I’m gonna put you in the stands.”
‘I don’t think i’m just gonna roll it in, I tried to put in the stanch and just as i was got like, not cramp it was like nervous energy through my legs and I’ve hit it and it’s gone about five or six yards over the bar.' | 1 | 16,727 | 0.778509 | https://www.sportskeeda.com/football/news-why-make-hard-thing-even-harder-don-hutchison-slams-stupid-decision-made-manchester-united-chelsea-stars-weekend | 2022-04-24 22:14:14+00:00 | Former Liverpool midfielder Don Hutchison has lamented the penalty techniques of Manchester United's Bruno Fernandes and Chelsea's Jorginho. Both players missed spot-kicks for their respective sides in the Premier League this weekend.
Fernandes was tasked with taking United's spot-kick against Arsenal on 23 April, with the Red Devils trailing the Gunners 2-1 at that point. Cristiano Ronaldo is the usual penalty-kick taker for Manchester United. However, he did not feel fit to take it, according to interim manager Ralf Rangnick.
Fernandes stepped up and made his usual jittery run towards the ball before placing a poor strike against the post. His side went on to lose the game 3-1.
Jorginho's effort against West Ham United was perhaps even worse as the Italian approached the ball in a similar manner to Fernandes. He was tasked with the penalty after Romelu Lukaku was fouled in the box by Craig Dawson, who was sent off. The match, being played no 24 April, was delicately poised at 0-0 at that point.
The Italian midfielder struck the ball so tamely that West Ham United goalkeeper Lukasz Fabianski was able to gather the ball.
Luckily for Jorginho, Christian Pulisic scored the winner in the dying embers of the game, sparing the Italian's blushes as Chelsea beat West Ham 1-0.
Hutchison has taken issue with the way in which both players took their spot-kicks. He questioned why you would approach the penalty in such a way, tweeting:
"Hahahahahahahaha the state of Bruno pen and now Jorginho pen. Why make a hard thing even harder with stupid run ups?"
Manchester United's Bruno Fernandes and Chelsea's Jorginho have a decent record at penalties
To be fair to both Bruno Fernandes and Jorginho, they have had success when taking spot-kicks in the past.
Fernandes was renowned for his consistent goals from the spot, having scored 13 of 16 penalties taken during his time in the Premier League. Similarly, Jorginho has a record of 17 penalties scored out of 20 in the competition.
There is evidence that the mystique around the technique works as it confuses the goalkeeper.
But when it goes wrong, the results are disastrous.
One player who also takes penalties in a similar fashion is Fernandes' Manchester United teammate Paul Pogba. He takes a much longer time when approaching the ball as his starting position is much further away from the ball.
As times have changed, so too have players' approaches in dead-ball situations.
Chelsea fans are used to usually seeing Jorginho dispatch a penalty in the approach he takes. However, many perhaps assert his style of penalty with trying to perhaps be "showy" and unique.
Given the success both Fernandes and Jorginho have had in the past, it's clear to see why they still believe the technique works. However, when it doesn't work, it's calamitous. |
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-10684867/Micah-Richards-channeled-inner-Big-Meeks-lashing-penalty-over.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | 'The worst penalty you've ever seen': Former Manchester City defender Micah Richards channeled his inner 'Big Meeks' before lashing his ONLY ever penalty over in a pre-season defeat to Olympiakos
- Micah Richards lashed the ball into the orbit from 12-yards in a pre-season clash
- Manchester City suffered a penalty shoot-out defeat to Olympiakos in America
- The 33-year-old opened up on MOTD Top 10 podcast about his only-ever penalty
Former Manchester City defender Micah Richards has labelled his only-ever spot kick as 'the worst penalty you've ever seen'.
The right-back stepped up to the spot in an eventual shoot-out defeat to Greek side Olympiakos in America in the International Champions Cup back in 2014, after the match ended 2-2.
Richards decided to channel his inner-Chris Waddle, and sprinted up to the ball before lashing it into orbit from 12-yards.
Micah Richards has labelled his only-ever penalty as 'the worst penalty you've ever seen'
Richards lashed his spot kick over the crossbar against Olympiakos in America back in 2014
At the time, the now TV pundit was subject to a series of memes and jokes following his horrendous penalty attempt.
The 33-year-old has now opened up on his only-ever penalty on MOTD Top 10 Podcast with Gary Lineker and Alan Shearer while they looked through the Premier League's best-ever set-piece takers.
Richards said when questioned, if he has ever taken a penalty: 'Not in a real game, in a pre-season. It was the worst penalty you’ve ever seen.
The TV pundit Richards opened up on his only-ever penalty on the MOTD Top 10 Podcast
'In training, you know training is different.' Before Lineker interrupted to say: 'It’s like being on the range in golf.'
To which Richards responded: 'Stanch, putting them in no problem. (Manuel) Pellegrini was the manager.
'So, then we were on pre-season, we were playing someone in Greece.
'He goes to me "you’re up" I said, "what do you mean i’m up"?'
'I said, i’m not going to take one, and he said “Go on, you’ve been practicing all week, you’re really good at them.” So, I’ve got up, haven’t i?
The former right-back insisted that he wasn't going to take a penalty to boss Manuel Pellegrini
'Walking up because i don’t know how to act for a penalty, you can’t be shy but you can’t be, I was too over confident.
‘You play mind games. So how shall I act?
‘Shall I be the confident Big Meeks? Or shall i be the timid Micah?
‘You know what i mean? So i was like, “Okay, let’s play the role of Big Meeks”
‘I’m walking up, chest out. “I’m gonna put you in the stands.”
‘I don’t think i’m just gonna roll it in, I tried to put in the stanch and just as i was got like, not cramp it was like nervous energy through my legs and I’ve hit it and it’s gone about five or six yards over the bar.' | 2 | 12,245 | 0.798574 | https://www.rt.com/sport/554438-jorginho-penalty-chelsea-westham/ | 2022-04-24 21:34:53+00:00 | Jorginho mocked for horrendous penalty miss (VIDEO)
Euro 2020 winner Jorginho was widely ridiculed online after firing off a horrendous penalty during Chelsea's Premier League encounter with West Ham.
The incident occurred in the 87th minute of the London derby with the score still tied 0-0.
Denying Romelu Lukaku a clear goalscoring opportunity, Hammers defender Craig Dawson was shown a red card which awarded Roman Abramovich's men a penalty.
Refusing to change his technique despite two missed spot kicks in Italy's unsuccessful World Cup qualifying campaign, and also one against England 'keeper Jordan Pickford in Italy's Euros shootout win at Wembley last summer, the Brazil-born playmaker skipped and hopped up to the ball only to tap it meekly pretty much down the middle.
Merely needing to throw himself to the floor to keep the lame effort out, Lukasz Fabianski denied the former Ballon d'Or hopeful to the misery of Blues fans worldwide.
Christian Pulisic spared Jorginho's blushes with a 90th-minute winner that kept Chesea firmly in third place and five points clear of Arsenal with a game in hand.
On social media, however, Jorginho was universally roasted for his "worst penalty ever" horror attempt from 12 yards out.
Lovely pass from Jorginho… pic.twitter.com/gCn6yRITyD
— Theo (@Thogden) April 24, 2022
"Reply to this tweet with a worse penalty than Jorginho’s," demanded a popular football account on Twitter. "You won’t be able to. Not possible," it added.
Though this didn't stop people from trying, with Simone Zaza's bizarre blunder at Euro 2016 for Italy eaturing heavily.
"How many goalkeepers need to save a Jorginho penalty before he changes his technique?" another one asked.
On that, someone observed: "Jorginho’s penalty miss against West Ham today is another example that goalkeepers have figured out ways to stop what used to be an almost unbeatable goalkeeper-dependent technique."
Reply to this tweet with a worse penalty than Jorginho’s. You won’t be able to. Not possible
— Football Ramble (@FootballRamble) April 24, 2022
— Musa Okwonga (@Okwonga) April 24, 2022
One of the worst penalties ever. What was that from Jorginho????
— Julien Laurens (@LaurensJulien) April 24, 2022
That penalty from Jorginho brings back a few memories. 🤦🏻♂️
— Gary Lineker 💙💛 (@GaryLineker) April 24, 2022
"Goalkeepers are now more knowledgeable, clever and execute [their save] with perfect timing," it was added.
In less serious reactions, however, one joker noted that Diana Ross fared better in the USA '94 opening ceremony.
"Bruno Fernandes, I take it back. There is a more embarrassing penalty that I've now seen," a separate party quipped, in reference to a miss from the Manchester United attacker against Arsenal on Sunday.
"Jorginho I Quit," he concluded, as someone remarked on similar lines: "Jorginho asking Bruno to hold his beer!"
Bruno Fernandes, I take it back, there is a more embarrassing penalty that ive now seen. Jorginho I Quit.
— George Benson (@MrGeorgeBenson) April 24, 2022
Jorginho asking Bruno to hold his beer! 🥴
— 🔰 Flex 🔰 (@FlexUTD) April 24, 2022
Though Chelsea have nothing much left to play for in the English top flight with Champions League qualification more or less tied up, Thomas Tuchel has a decision to make ahead of the Blues' FA Cup Final against Liverpool on May 14.
Either the German goes for another penalty shooter if an opportunity arises in regular or extra time, or Jorginho tries a different approach against one of the world's best shotstoppers in Brazil international Alisson, who is unlikely to be fooled by the already sussed improvisation with failure possibly seeing the west Londoners finish their campaign trophyless. |
https://magicvalley.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/the-good-bad-and-ugly-lawmakers-look-back-at-the-2022-idaho-session/article_9d33e633-dc2d-5f68-865d-e64639d58ba0.html | TWIN FALLS — The Idaho legislature finished off the 2022 legislative session last week, and most Magic Valley lawmakers were happy to head home after a busy 81 days. After last years’ record 311 day session, this year was comparatively brief, but a flurry of bills were considered, and Magic Valley lawmakers reflected on some of what happened once it was all over.
Education
Twin Falls Representative Lance Clow is chair of the House Education Committee and said he got most of the things he wanted from the legislative session.
“I would say that we accomplished everything that we set out to do,” Clow said.
The session saw a handful of educator incentives like pay increases, implementing of the career ladder and allowing school districts to join the state health plan. Both houses acted quickly to pass clusters of legislation that had been mulled over for years, and in light of economic and social conditions that have caused workforce shortages in many industries across the nation, the State has taken some action.
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One education bill Clow had worked on this year was to codify a change in the school funding formula to enrollment-based over average daily attendance. The bill sought to address the uncertainty of school districts that set their budgets in June; many of them wait until December or later to find out if their funding assumptions were correct. Governor Brad Little ultimately vetoed the bill, but Clow is assured that the mechanisms which are in place on a temporary basis will serve the same purpose, at least for this year.
“If the state board acts immediately to put them on an enrollment count for the next fiscal year, then I would say even though the law is not there, at least we made sure schools were properly aware of what was going on with for their budgets,” Clow said.
Representative Sally Toone, a Democrat from Gooding and former educator, said she is pleased about the Rural Educator Incentive Program, which she had worked on for several years. The program would make money available to rural educators over four years that can be used to pay back student loans or to gain further certifications and training.
“The incentive is that they stay in our district because for four years you get extra money towards say a student loan, if you stay in the district up to four years,” Toone said. “The intent was to keep people in our rural districts because we lose people between years two and four when they begin teaching,” Toone said “that seems to be the year they no longer come back. This was an incentive to keep them in our rural district and our smaller communities.”
Content standards
Every five years the state must review school content standards, and adjust as needed. This year the legislature finalized a separation from Common Core standards, something Clow said will relieve parents, while still seeking to provide solid educational foundations for English, language arts, math, and science.
“We changed our standards, made them a little bit more understandable, and we think are as rigorous, if not more rigorous than the prior standards,” Clow said. “Common Core as we know it is gone. Many of the same expectations are there, but it’s the Idaho Way now.”
Full-day kindergarten
Literacy funding approved by the Legislature and signed by the governor allows school districts to fund all-day kindergarten, or use the funding for other purposes.
Toone said all-day kindergarten was a big item on her wishlist that didn’t come to pass. The state did increase support for early childhood literacy funding, which can be used for all-day kindergarten if a school district chooses.
“I understand it’s a local choice,” Toone said. “But we have 44% of our schools offer full-day kindergarten … the state does not take responsibility for paying for that.”
Workforce training
Toone was glad to see legislation to fund the Workforce Development Council, using ARPA money to support childcare infrastructure grants.
Toone was also pleased to see money for workforce housing projects, and one-time money to support 4H equipment and supplies through the University of Idaho Cooperative Extension.
Rep. Laurie Lickley, a Republican from Jerome, said this year steps were made towards increasing the behavioral health workforce and enhancing intra-state compacts with neighboring states to allow them to provide telehealth for behavioral and mental health issues.
“We could always do more work,” Lickley said. “Labor issues across multiple industries across the state are going to continue to be a challenge … especially on the mental and behavioral health side of things.”
Income tax cut
Another bill that was quickly passed in both bodies was Governor Little’s income tax relief, which reduced rates and reduced 5 tax brackets down to four. It got wide support from legislators statewide and across the Magic Valley, including Rep. Lickley.
“Putting that tax money back into the hands of the people that paid it and letting them stick it back into the local economy in goods and services is huge for me,” Lickley said. “If we’ve got a surplus and we’re taking care of business, let’s put it back.”
Rep. Toone was among the Democrats critical of the income tax relief.
“You only get a good amount if you’re independently wealthy and above,” Toone said. “Most Idahoans will get $75 dollars.”
Infrastructure
Rep. Clark Kauffman, a Republican from Filer, was pleased with steps taken to support water infrastructure, with one-time money to help build and improve recharge and water delivery systems.
“There’s money going in to road infrastructure, money going into water infrastructure, It’ll pay off for generations to come,” Kauffman said. “I think since our kids and grandkids are going to be paying the bill for a lot of this ARPA money, they should have some benefit out of it, and I think those are the things that they can benefit from,”
Rep. Lickley was with the Governor for the water infrastructure announcement at Murtaugh Lake in March. This year the legislature put $325 million into water infrastructure projects, including a pipeline to Mountain Home Air Force Base, as well as raising the capacity of Anderson Ranch Dam.
“We’ve got a group of brilliant stakeholders at the table to identify priority projects for recharge and infrastructure support and addressing the needs of our water users across the entire southern tier of Idaho,” Lickley said.
She added that conversations about water will only continue to increase after years of drought have reduced supply, while the last decade has seen an increase in water users in the Magic Valley and across the state.
Property tax
Many legislators had hoped for property tax reform. Kauffman said there were a couple discussed, but none that had really been through the test of committees and vetting.
“There were a lot of bills that dealt with (property tax reform) but I don’t think any of them were quite ripe for picking yet,” Kauffman said. “They need more discussion and some tweaking to take out some of the unintended consequences of what they might have caused.”
One thing that Kauffman said will help reduce some of the property tax sting was legislation to transfer public defender fees to the state, freeing up the counties to reduce those taxes.
Behavioral Health
This year was particularly busy for the Health and Welfare Committee, Lickley said.
“The other sessions, it’s been busy, but this session I was busier than I’ve ever been,” Lickley said.
Lickley worked in the committee on implementing priorities identified by Idaho Behavior Health Council.
“I’ve watched mental health in our rural communities, and what a stigma there is attached to having conversations about mental health,” Lickley said. “Crawling back on your horse and just sucking it up is not always going to work. We have to be able to have some of those conversations.”
Lickley said this year saw a lot of progress toward implementing the Behavioral Health Council’s nine top priorities for putting solutions in place for mental health, behavioral, and substance abuse issues.
“We are going to check off at least five of them out of this legislative session,” Lickley said, adding that more announcements about those developments will be made in the coming week.
One bill passed addressed concerns about catastrophic indigent funding, and who takes care of paying for involuntary mental holds. Another portion of legislation completed involves developing and implementing a crisis response system for youth.
That will involve modeling and piloting the program to integrate school counselors, juvenile justice and social workers to be included in the conversation to improve communication across agencies, which hopefully will result in more juveniles being diverted from unsafe or illegal behaviors, with the intent that they become productive members of society.
Harmful content
After a bill to hold librarians criminally liable if minors accessed ‘harmful content’ died in the senate, the House spent long hours at the end of the session rewriting the Library Commission budget. Ultimately, they cut $3 million in federal funding to make telehealth available to rural communities.
Rep. Kauffman said that the maneuvering was misguided and unnecessary.
“It seems to me like those issues are always there that people are very passionate about, but sometimes I wonder if their information is quite as correct as they think it is,” Kauffman said “ If there’s bad stuff in the library then the library board should take care of it. There are people who are responsible for that and I don’t think it’s always the Legislature.”
Kauffman added: “If your library’s not being run correctly, talk to the people that run the library, not the commission. They’re just helping fund the libraries.”
Toone felt it was clear that the Library Commission was being punished.
“Why would you cut telehealth, federal funds, from the Commission of the Libraries?” Toone said. “Libraries are critical and especially to our rural areas, and the people that were doing this didn’t have a grasp on what really happens in our rural communities.”
After the Harmful Materials bill died in the Senate, the Legislature passed a resolution to form a workgroup to continue studying the issue. Toone said it would be helpful if they arrived at a definition of what constitutes ‘harmful material.’
“Are we talking medical texts? As I understand it a couple of the samples that they brought in were actually medical texts that were in the library,” Toone said. “That’s what made the law so ambiguous. There’s no definition in code for ‘harmful material.’”
Rep. Lickley also did not like the late-night budget re-writes of the library commission budget.
“That was a long day,” Lickley said. “I think a lot of that was unnecessary.”
Lickley said the legislature may see telehealth funding return, after a summer of stepping back to address concerns.
“Will it help those that need it this year? Probably not, which is sad.” Lickley said. “Let’s get it stuck back in there in some capacity to help our rural libraries address the needs of our communities.”
Grocery tax
One talking point for many Republicans is a repeal of the grocery tax. Rep. Ron Nate, a Republican from Rexburg, introduced a bill to repeal the grocery tax, and it never advanced out of the Ways and Means committee. As a personal bill, it hadn’t been vetted by stakeholders or a committee, and lawmakers said that it had flaws in the language that didn’t also repeal the grocery-tax rebate, and would have ultimately been reimbursing people for a tax they had not paid. According to Clow, if passed, the bill would cost the state $100 million a year, which is why, in his view, the majority of lawmakers would not support it.
That didn’t stop Nate from daily requesting the bill to be released from committee to the floor for a vote each day. The house voted against moving the bill to the floor by a substantial majority, day after day.
Toone said the persistent and failed efforts of Nate were a waste of time and money.
“We wasted easily $20,000 at $50 dollars a minute doing this every single day,” Toone said. “Taxpayer dollars can be used a lot of places and not on crazy stuff.”
Lickley said that in an ideal situation, legislation would be ironed out in the interim, finding out where the challenges lie, identifying the stakeholders, be they county, cities, workforces, and then working to identify solutions and working to draft that legislation.
“I’ve never drafted a personal bill to make a statement, I don’t see a circumstance in the near future where that will be,” Lickley said. “I just think good policy for the long term is developed by being resourceful and thoughtful.” | 0 | 69,509 | 0.734012 | https://www.idahopress.com/opinion/editorials/editorial-historic-education-investments-were-bright-spot-of-legislative-session/article_0e1a12dd-67b3-5bf8-a9f1-eb2a66b7d4ed.html | 2022-04-10 19:22:34+00:00 | Over the course of this year’s Idaho legislative session, this board has often criticized or jeered at what we saw as missteps among many of our state’s lawmakers. But today, we want to recognize the historic, and much-needed investments the Legislature made in education.
Legislators approved a $300 million increase in K-12 funding this year, which is the largest increase in state history, according to the governor’s office.
This year, teachers will see a necessary pay raise, by about 10%, and all employees will receive a $1,000 bonus. School staff will also have improved health coverage.
Rural areas should hopefully benefit from a new law that creates incentives for teachers who stay in rural or high-poverty schools by offsetting costs related to student loans, or obtaining a master’s degree or another teaching credential.
As part of the $46.6 million put into Idaho’s literacy program, school districts will be able to offer full-day kindergarten should they choose. Other early literacy programs can also be funded using those funds.
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Higher education saw a boost as well, after last year’s large cuts based on unsubstantiated claims of indoctrination. This year, Idaho’s four-year colleges and universities saw an 8% increase and community colleges got a 9.9% increase. Another $170 million was put toward deferred maintenance at Idaho public higher education institutions.
In-state college students will also get a break on tuition; Boise State, University of Idaho, Idaho State University and Lewis Clark State College will freeze tuition for the third straight year.
Other notable strides include a new program to help students with dyslexia, grants to help families cover the cost of technology, physical therapy or occupational therapy, and more funding for free meal programs.
All of these represent significant accomplishments by our state Legislature and Gov. Brad Little, who put forward many of these priorities in his proposed budget at the beginning of the session.
There’s still more to do on education in Idaho to best support students, but these laws are an excellent start. There’s been so much negativity recently that it’s a welcomed feeling to sit back and celebrate our state’s successes.
Editorials are based on the majority opinion of the Idaho Press editorial board, comprised of community members Rosie Reilly, Autumn Short, Jean Mutchie, Rod Gramer, Devon Van Essen, Pat Klocke, Kari Child, Dr. David Beverly and Idaho Press President and Publisher Matt Davison. Idaho Press Managing Editor Teddy Feinberg and City Editor Laura Guido are non-voting members. Views expressed in the editorial do not necessarily represent unanimous agreement among all board members. |
https://magicvalley.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/the-good-bad-and-ugly-lawmakers-look-back-at-the-2022-idaho-session/article_9d33e633-dc2d-5f68-865d-e64639d58ba0.html | TWIN FALLS — The Idaho legislature finished off the 2022 legislative session last week, and most Magic Valley lawmakers were happy to head home after a busy 81 days. After last years’ record 311 day session, this year was comparatively brief, but a flurry of bills were considered, and Magic Valley lawmakers reflected on some of what happened once it was all over.
Education
Twin Falls Representative Lance Clow is chair of the House Education Committee and said he got most of the things he wanted from the legislative session.
“I would say that we accomplished everything that we set out to do,” Clow said.
The session saw a handful of educator incentives like pay increases, implementing of the career ladder and allowing school districts to join the state health plan. Both houses acted quickly to pass clusters of legislation that had been mulled over for years, and in light of economic and social conditions that have caused workforce shortages in many industries across the nation, the State has taken some action.
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One education bill Clow had worked on this year was to codify a change in the school funding formula to enrollment-based over average daily attendance. The bill sought to address the uncertainty of school districts that set their budgets in June; many of them wait until December or later to find out if their funding assumptions were correct. Governor Brad Little ultimately vetoed the bill, but Clow is assured that the mechanisms which are in place on a temporary basis will serve the same purpose, at least for this year.
“If the state board acts immediately to put them on an enrollment count for the next fiscal year, then I would say even though the law is not there, at least we made sure schools were properly aware of what was going on with for their budgets,” Clow said.
Representative Sally Toone, a Democrat from Gooding and former educator, said she is pleased about the Rural Educator Incentive Program, which she had worked on for several years. The program would make money available to rural educators over four years that can be used to pay back student loans or to gain further certifications and training.
“The incentive is that they stay in our district because for four years you get extra money towards say a student loan, if you stay in the district up to four years,” Toone said. “The intent was to keep people in our rural districts because we lose people between years two and four when they begin teaching,” Toone said “that seems to be the year they no longer come back. This was an incentive to keep them in our rural district and our smaller communities.”
Content standards
Every five years the state must review school content standards, and adjust as needed. This year the legislature finalized a separation from Common Core standards, something Clow said will relieve parents, while still seeking to provide solid educational foundations for English, language arts, math, and science.
“We changed our standards, made them a little bit more understandable, and we think are as rigorous, if not more rigorous than the prior standards,” Clow said. “Common Core as we know it is gone. Many of the same expectations are there, but it’s the Idaho Way now.”
Full-day kindergarten
Literacy funding approved by the Legislature and signed by the governor allows school districts to fund all-day kindergarten, or use the funding for other purposes.
Toone said all-day kindergarten was a big item on her wishlist that didn’t come to pass. The state did increase support for early childhood literacy funding, which can be used for all-day kindergarten if a school district chooses.
“I understand it’s a local choice,” Toone said. “But we have 44% of our schools offer full-day kindergarten … the state does not take responsibility for paying for that.”
Workforce training
Toone was glad to see legislation to fund the Workforce Development Council, using ARPA money to support childcare infrastructure grants.
Toone was also pleased to see money for workforce housing projects, and one-time money to support 4H equipment and supplies through the University of Idaho Cooperative Extension.
Rep. Laurie Lickley, a Republican from Jerome, said this year steps were made towards increasing the behavioral health workforce and enhancing intra-state compacts with neighboring states to allow them to provide telehealth for behavioral and mental health issues.
“We could always do more work,” Lickley said. “Labor issues across multiple industries across the state are going to continue to be a challenge … especially on the mental and behavioral health side of things.”
Income tax cut
Another bill that was quickly passed in both bodies was Governor Little’s income tax relief, which reduced rates and reduced 5 tax brackets down to four. It got wide support from legislators statewide and across the Magic Valley, including Rep. Lickley.
“Putting that tax money back into the hands of the people that paid it and letting them stick it back into the local economy in goods and services is huge for me,” Lickley said. “If we’ve got a surplus and we’re taking care of business, let’s put it back.”
Rep. Toone was among the Democrats critical of the income tax relief.
“You only get a good amount if you’re independently wealthy and above,” Toone said. “Most Idahoans will get $75 dollars.”
Infrastructure
Rep. Clark Kauffman, a Republican from Filer, was pleased with steps taken to support water infrastructure, with one-time money to help build and improve recharge and water delivery systems.
“There’s money going in to road infrastructure, money going into water infrastructure, It’ll pay off for generations to come,” Kauffman said. “I think since our kids and grandkids are going to be paying the bill for a lot of this ARPA money, they should have some benefit out of it, and I think those are the things that they can benefit from,”
Rep. Lickley was with the Governor for the water infrastructure announcement at Murtaugh Lake in March. This year the legislature put $325 million into water infrastructure projects, including a pipeline to Mountain Home Air Force Base, as well as raising the capacity of Anderson Ranch Dam.
“We’ve got a group of brilliant stakeholders at the table to identify priority projects for recharge and infrastructure support and addressing the needs of our water users across the entire southern tier of Idaho,” Lickley said.
She added that conversations about water will only continue to increase after years of drought have reduced supply, while the last decade has seen an increase in water users in the Magic Valley and across the state.
Property tax
Many legislators had hoped for property tax reform. Kauffman said there were a couple discussed, but none that had really been through the test of committees and vetting.
“There were a lot of bills that dealt with (property tax reform) but I don’t think any of them were quite ripe for picking yet,” Kauffman said. “They need more discussion and some tweaking to take out some of the unintended consequences of what they might have caused.”
One thing that Kauffman said will help reduce some of the property tax sting was legislation to transfer public defender fees to the state, freeing up the counties to reduce those taxes.
Behavioral Health
This year was particularly busy for the Health and Welfare Committee, Lickley said.
“The other sessions, it’s been busy, but this session I was busier than I’ve ever been,” Lickley said.
Lickley worked in the committee on implementing priorities identified by Idaho Behavior Health Council.
“I’ve watched mental health in our rural communities, and what a stigma there is attached to having conversations about mental health,” Lickley said. “Crawling back on your horse and just sucking it up is not always going to work. We have to be able to have some of those conversations.”
Lickley said this year saw a lot of progress toward implementing the Behavioral Health Council’s nine top priorities for putting solutions in place for mental health, behavioral, and substance abuse issues.
“We are going to check off at least five of them out of this legislative session,” Lickley said, adding that more announcements about those developments will be made in the coming week.
One bill passed addressed concerns about catastrophic indigent funding, and who takes care of paying for involuntary mental holds. Another portion of legislation completed involves developing and implementing a crisis response system for youth.
That will involve modeling and piloting the program to integrate school counselors, juvenile justice and social workers to be included in the conversation to improve communication across agencies, which hopefully will result in more juveniles being diverted from unsafe or illegal behaviors, with the intent that they become productive members of society.
Harmful content
After a bill to hold librarians criminally liable if minors accessed ‘harmful content’ died in the senate, the House spent long hours at the end of the session rewriting the Library Commission budget. Ultimately, they cut $3 million in federal funding to make telehealth available to rural communities.
Rep. Kauffman said that the maneuvering was misguided and unnecessary.
“It seems to me like those issues are always there that people are very passionate about, but sometimes I wonder if their information is quite as correct as they think it is,” Kauffman said “ If there’s bad stuff in the library then the library board should take care of it. There are people who are responsible for that and I don’t think it’s always the Legislature.”
Kauffman added: “If your library’s not being run correctly, talk to the people that run the library, not the commission. They’re just helping fund the libraries.”
Toone felt it was clear that the Library Commission was being punished.
“Why would you cut telehealth, federal funds, from the Commission of the Libraries?” Toone said. “Libraries are critical and especially to our rural areas, and the people that were doing this didn’t have a grasp on what really happens in our rural communities.”
After the Harmful Materials bill died in the Senate, the Legislature passed a resolution to form a workgroup to continue studying the issue. Toone said it would be helpful if they arrived at a definition of what constitutes ‘harmful material.’
“Are we talking medical texts? As I understand it a couple of the samples that they brought in were actually medical texts that were in the library,” Toone said. “That’s what made the law so ambiguous. There’s no definition in code for ‘harmful material.’”
Rep. Lickley also did not like the late-night budget re-writes of the library commission budget.
“That was a long day,” Lickley said. “I think a lot of that was unnecessary.”
Lickley said the legislature may see telehealth funding return, after a summer of stepping back to address concerns.
“Will it help those that need it this year? Probably not, which is sad.” Lickley said. “Let’s get it stuck back in there in some capacity to help our rural libraries address the needs of our communities.”
Grocery tax
One talking point for many Republicans is a repeal of the grocery tax. Rep. Ron Nate, a Republican from Rexburg, introduced a bill to repeal the grocery tax, and it never advanced out of the Ways and Means committee. As a personal bill, it hadn’t been vetted by stakeholders or a committee, and lawmakers said that it had flaws in the language that didn’t also repeal the grocery-tax rebate, and would have ultimately been reimbursing people for a tax they had not paid. According to Clow, if passed, the bill would cost the state $100 million a year, which is why, in his view, the majority of lawmakers would not support it.
That didn’t stop Nate from daily requesting the bill to be released from committee to the floor for a vote each day. The house voted against moving the bill to the floor by a substantial majority, day after day.
Toone said the persistent and failed efforts of Nate were a waste of time and money.
“We wasted easily $20,000 at $50 dollars a minute doing this every single day,” Toone said. “Taxpayer dollars can be used a lot of places and not on crazy stuff.”
Lickley said that in an ideal situation, legislation would be ironed out in the interim, finding out where the challenges lie, identifying the stakeholders, be they county, cities, workforces, and then working to identify solutions and working to draft that legislation.
“I’ve never drafted a personal bill to make a statement, I don’t see a circumstance in the near future where that will be,” Lickley said. “I just think good policy for the long term is developed by being resourceful and thoughtful.” | 1 | 129,152 | 0.749937 | http://www.kidnewsradio.com/state-board-of-education-approves-slate-of-ideas-for-next-legislative-session/ | 2022-06-15 21:26:50+00:00 | BOISE, Idaho (KIFI) – The Idaho State Board of Education Wednesday approved a list of 16 legislative ideas that could become formal bill proposals introduced during 2023 legislative session.
The action occurred during the second day of the Board’s June regular meeting held on the Idaho State University campus in Pocatello.
Most of the proposals are administrative but one would codify how public schools have been funded for the past two years, while another would create a program to help school districts, particularly in rural areas, “grow their own” educators.
Enrollment-based School Funding
The list includes a permanent shift to enrollment, rather than daily attendance, to calculate funding for public schools throughout Idaho. For three years straight, the Board has used its temporary rule-making authority to calculate school funding based on enrollment.
The first temporary rule was implemented during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic to help stabilize public school funding thrown in flux because many parents chose to keep their students at home learning remotely, rather than attend school in-person. The latest temporary rule on enrollment was approved by the Board last February, expires at the end of the 2023 legislative session.
Governor Brad Little’s 2019 “Our Kids, Idaho’s Future” Task Force recommended permanently changing to enrollment-based funding.
Instructional Staff Apprenticeship Program
Another legislative idea would establish an apprenticeship program allowing paraprofessionals currently assisting teachers in Idaho public school classrooms to become teachers themselves without first earning a bachelor’s degree. The program would create a career pathway for paraprofessionals, many of whom have been working in Idaho classrooms for many years, to achieve certification. Similar programs in other states have been successful by enabling school districts and charter schools to “grow their own” teachers and to help address teacher shortages.
The full list of the Board’s legislative ideas is posted on the State Board of Education’s website under the June 14-15 Board meeting Policy, Planning and Governmental Affairs Agenda, Tab 4 HERE.
The Board’s legislative ideas will be submitted to the Governor’s office for review and approval before the ideas are developed into formal legislative proposals to be brought back to the Board for final approval later in the year.
Educator Shortage Survey
The Board also heard results from a recent informal survey of school districts and charter schools indicating there is a shortage of educators going into the 2022/23 school year. The survey conducted earlier this month indicated there are 702 opening teaching positions statewide. More than half of the opening are due to recent retirements. There are a total of 19,262 educators throughout the state. More than half of the openings are due to recent retirements. Administrators also report difficulty in finding qualified candidates to fill open positions.
“I wish this morning we could say there is an easy solution, but this is very complicated,” Board Member Dr. Linda Clark said. “There have been a lot of early retirements. Anecdotally, (educator) comments are about stress, pressure, lack of support, political issues and several said ‘it’s just not worth it.’” Clark said the problem extends beyond Idaho and that Board staff will contact administrators in other states and with education stakeholders to develop ideas for solutions.
Public Charter School Decision Affirmed
The Board unanimously affirmed a recent decision by the Idaho Public Charter School Commission not to renew the charter for the Another Choice Virtual Charter School.
The charter school appealed to the State Board to overrule the Charter School Commission’s decision. The Board appointed a hearing officer, who held a hearing last month in Boise and recommended that the Charter School Commission decision stand.
“This is the first time a situation like this has occurred during my tenure on the Board,” Board President Kurt Liebich said. “We take this very seriously and we have great confidence in the Idaho Public Charter School Commission. I think this matter was handled very well.”
The Board also took the following actions:
- Approved updated five-year strategic plans for each of Idaho’s four-year higher education institutions.
- Approved an online Bachelor of Business Administration program at the University of Idaho.
- Approved FY2023 operating budgets and compensation packages for the Board’s executive director, the administrators of the Division of Career Technical Education and the Division of Vocational Education and the presidents of Idaho’s four-year institutions.
- Reviewed collaborative budget line-item concepts from Idaho’s higher education institutions for possible introduction 2023 legislative session.
The budget line-item concepts include:
- Expanding nursing programs at all eight public institutions along with other healthcare-related programs. The CEO of Portneuf Medical Center told the Board that there are currently 130 open nursing positions at his hospital alone and that there is a large need for additional healthcare professionals statewide.
- Improve student retention and degree completion initiatives systemwide.
- Continue the expansion of cybersecurity programs across the higher education system.
- Improve nuclear engineering facilities and programs offered by Idaho State University and the University of Idaho at their joint campus in Idaho Falls.
Staff will refine the budget line item proposals for final consideration by the Board during its August meeting.
- Approved a cost increase of the University of Idaho’s expansion project of its 6th Street Greenhouse from $815,000 to $1.43 million due to inflation. The project received just one bid that exceeded the original budget.
- Approved a cost increase of the University of Idaho’s modernization project of Parma Research and Extension Center from $9.5 million to $12.15 million, also due to inflation.
- Approved a resolution allowing Idaho State University to pursue reimbursement of institution reserve funds used as part of the Holt Arena renovation project. In April, the Board authorized an ISU request to use $9.8 million in reserves to address seismic safety concerns discovered during the renovation project. Today’s action authorizes the institution to issue revenue bonds to replenish its reserve fund.
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https://magicvalley.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/the-good-bad-and-ugly-lawmakers-look-back-at-the-2022-idaho-session/article_9d33e633-dc2d-5f68-865d-e64639d58ba0.html | TWIN FALLS — The Idaho legislature finished off the 2022 legislative session last week, and most Magic Valley lawmakers were happy to head home after a busy 81 days. After last years’ record 311 day session, this year was comparatively brief, but a flurry of bills were considered, and Magic Valley lawmakers reflected on some of what happened once it was all over.
Education
Twin Falls Representative Lance Clow is chair of the House Education Committee and said he got most of the things he wanted from the legislative session.
“I would say that we accomplished everything that we set out to do,” Clow said.
The session saw a handful of educator incentives like pay increases, implementing of the career ladder and allowing school districts to join the state health plan. Both houses acted quickly to pass clusters of legislation that had been mulled over for years, and in light of economic and social conditions that have caused workforce shortages in many industries across the nation, the State has taken some action.
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One education bill Clow had worked on this year was to codify a change in the school funding formula to enrollment-based over average daily attendance. The bill sought to address the uncertainty of school districts that set their budgets in June; many of them wait until December or later to find out if their funding assumptions were correct. Governor Brad Little ultimately vetoed the bill, but Clow is assured that the mechanisms which are in place on a temporary basis will serve the same purpose, at least for this year.
“If the state board acts immediately to put them on an enrollment count for the next fiscal year, then I would say even though the law is not there, at least we made sure schools were properly aware of what was going on with for their budgets,” Clow said.
Representative Sally Toone, a Democrat from Gooding and former educator, said she is pleased about the Rural Educator Incentive Program, which she had worked on for several years. The program would make money available to rural educators over four years that can be used to pay back student loans or to gain further certifications and training.
“The incentive is that they stay in our district because for four years you get extra money towards say a student loan, if you stay in the district up to four years,” Toone said. “The intent was to keep people in our rural districts because we lose people between years two and four when they begin teaching,” Toone said “that seems to be the year they no longer come back. This was an incentive to keep them in our rural district and our smaller communities.”
Content standards
Every five years the state must review school content standards, and adjust as needed. This year the legislature finalized a separation from Common Core standards, something Clow said will relieve parents, while still seeking to provide solid educational foundations for English, language arts, math, and science.
“We changed our standards, made them a little bit more understandable, and we think are as rigorous, if not more rigorous than the prior standards,” Clow said. “Common Core as we know it is gone. Many of the same expectations are there, but it’s the Idaho Way now.”
Full-day kindergarten
Literacy funding approved by the Legislature and signed by the governor allows school districts to fund all-day kindergarten, or use the funding for other purposes.
Toone said all-day kindergarten was a big item on her wishlist that didn’t come to pass. The state did increase support for early childhood literacy funding, which can be used for all-day kindergarten if a school district chooses.
“I understand it’s a local choice,” Toone said. “But we have 44% of our schools offer full-day kindergarten … the state does not take responsibility for paying for that.”
Workforce training
Toone was glad to see legislation to fund the Workforce Development Council, using ARPA money to support childcare infrastructure grants.
Toone was also pleased to see money for workforce housing projects, and one-time money to support 4H equipment and supplies through the University of Idaho Cooperative Extension.
Rep. Laurie Lickley, a Republican from Jerome, said this year steps were made towards increasing the behavioral health workforce and enhancing intra-state compacts with neighboring states to allow them to provide telehealth for behavioral and mental health issues.
“We could always do more work,” Lickley said. “Labor issues across multiple industries across the state are going to continue to be a challenge … especially on the mental and behavioral health side of things.”
Income tax cut
Another bill that was quickly passed in both bodies was Governor Little’s income tax relief, which reduced rates and reduced 5 tax brackets down to four. It got wide support from legislators statewide and across the Magic Valley, including Rep. Lickley.
“Putting that tax money back into the hands of the people that paid it and letting them stick it back into the local economy in goods and services is huge for me,” Lickley said. “If we’ve got a surplus and we’re taking care of business, let’s put it back.”
Rep. Toone was among the Democrats critical of the income tax relief.
“You only get a good amount if you’re independently wealthy and above,” Toone said. “Most Idahoans will get $75 dollars.”
Infrastructure
Rep. Clark Kauffman, a Republican from Filer, was pleased with steps taken to support water infrastructure, with one-time money to help build and improve recharge and water delivery systems.
“There’s money going in to road infrastructure, money going into water infrastructure, It’ll pay off for generations to come,” Kauffman said. “I think since our kids and grandkids are going to be paying the bill for a lot of this ARPA money, they should have some benefit out of it, and I think those are the things that they can benefit from,”
Rep. Lickley was with the Governor for the water infrastructure announcement at Murtaugh Lake in March. This year the legislature put $325 million into water infrastructure projects, including a pipeline to Mountain Home Air Force Base, as well as raising the capacity of Anderson Ranch Dam.
“We’ve got a group of brilliant stakeholders at the table to identify priority projects for recharge and infrastructure support and addressing the needs of our water users across the entire southern tier of Idaho,” Lickley said.
She added that conversations about water will only continue to increase after years of drought have reduced supply, while the last decade has seen an increase in water users in the Magic Valley and across the state.
Property tax
Many legislators had hoped for property tax reform. Kauffman said there were a couple discussed, but none that had really been through the test of committees and vetting.
“There were a lot of bills that dealt with (property tax reform) but I don’t think any of them were quite ripe for picking yet,” Kauffman said. “They need more discussion and some tweaking to take out some of the unintended consequences of what they might have caused.”
One thing that Kauffman said will help reduce some of the property tax sting was legislation to transfer public defender fees to the state, freeing up the counties to reduce those taxes.
Behavioral Health
This year was particularly busy for the Health and Welfare Committee, Lickley said.
“The other sessions, it’s been busy, but this session I was busier than I’ve ever been,” Lickley said.
Lickley worked in the committee on implementing priorities identified by Idaho Behavior Health Council.
“I’ve watched mental health in our rural communities, and what a stigma there is attached to having conversations about mental health,” Lickley said. “Crawling back on your horse and just sucking it up is not always going to work. We have to be able to have some of those conversations.”
Lickley said this year saw a lot of progress toward implementing the Behavioral Health Council’s nine top priorities for putting solutions in place for mental health, behavioral, and substance abuse issues.
“We are going to check off at least five of them out of this legislative session,” Lickley said, adding that more announcements about those developments will be made in the coming week.
One bill passed addressed concerns about catastrophic indigent funding, and who takes care of paying for involuntary mental holds. Another portion of legislation completed involves developing and implementing a crisis response system for youth.
That will involve modeling and piloting the program to integrate school counselors, juvenile justice and social workers to be included in the conversation to improve communication across agencies, which hopefully will result in more juveniles being diverted from unsafe or illegal behaviors, with the intent that they become productive members of society.
Harmful content
After a bill to hold librarians criminally liable if minors accessed ‘harmful content’ died in the senate, the House spent long hours at the end of the session rewriting the Library Commission budget. Ultimately, they cut $3 million in federal funding to make telehealth available to rural communities.
Rep. Kauffman said that the maneuvering was misguided and unnecessary.
“It seems to me like those issues are always there that people are very passionate about, but sometimes I wonder if their information is quite as correct as they think it is,” Kauffman said “ If there’s bad stuff in the library then the library board should take care of it. There are people who are responsible for that and I don’t think it’s always the Legislature.”
Kauffman added: “If your library’s not being run correctly, talk to the people that run the library, not the commission. They’re just helping fund the libraries.”
Toone felt it was clear that the Library Commission was being punished.
“Why would you cut telehealth, federal funds, from the Commission of the Libraries?” Toone said. “Libraries are critical and especially to our rural areas, and the people that were doing this didn’t have a grasp on what really happens in our rural communities.”
After the Harmful Materials bill died in the Senate, the Legislature passed a resolution to form a workgroup to continue studying the issue. Toone said it would be helpful if they arrived at a definition of what constitutes ‘harmful material.’
“Are we talking medical texts? As I understand it a couple of the samples that they brought in were actually medical texts that were in the library,” Toone said. “That’s what made the law so ambiguous. There’s no definition in code for ‘harmful material.’”
Rep. Lickley also did not like the late-night budget re-writes of the library commission budget.
“That was a long day,” Lickley said. “I think a lot of that was unnecessary.”
Lickley said the legislature may see telehealth funding return, after a summer of stepping back to address concerns.
“Will it help those that need it this year? Probably not, which is sad.” Lickley said. “Let’s get it stuck back in there in some capacity to help our rural libraries address the needs of our communities.”
Grocery tax
One talking point for many Republicans is a repeal of the grocery tax. Rep. Ron Nate, a Republican from Rexburg, introduced a bill to repeal the grocery tax, and it never advanced out of the Ways and Means committee. As a personal bill, it hadn’t been vetted by stakeholders or a committee, and lawmakers said that it had flaws in the language that didn’t also repeal the grocery-tax rebate, and would have ultimately been reimbursing people for a tax they had not paid. According to Clow, if passed, the bill would cost the state $100 million a year, which is why, in his view, the majority of lawmakers would not support it.
That didn’t stop Nate from daily requesting the bill to be released from committee to the floor for a vote each day. The house voted against moving the bill to the floor by a substantial majority, day after day.
Toone said the persistent and failed efforts of Nate were a waste of time and money.
“We wasted easily $20,000 at $50 dollars a minute doing this every single day,” Toone said. “Taxpayer dollars can be used a lot of places and not on crazy stuff.”
Lickley said that in an ideal situation, legislation would be ironed out in the interim, finding out where the challenges lie, identifying the stakeholders, be they county, cities, workforces, and then working to identify solutions and working to draft that legislation.
“I’ve never drafted a personal bill to make a statement, I don’t see a circumstance in the near future where that will be,” Lickley said. “I just think good policy for the long term is developed by being resourceful and thoughtful.” | 2 | 76,624 | 0.764812 | https://magicvalley.com/opinion/columnists/reader-comment-education-wins-this-legislative-session/article_256be7ea-1660-577a-acd9-9889e7e4debb.html | 2022-04-04 16:49:31+00:00 | Idaho’s public education system scored several wins during the 2022 legislative session concluded this week. As president of the Idaho State Board of Education, I’d like to thank the legislators and Idaho Governor Brad Little for making historic investments in our students, our schools and institutions and in the dedicated educators throughout our state who keep our system running while dealing with tremendous challenges, especially these past two years.
K-12
Idaho’s public schools budget will increase overall by nearly 6% next year including an historic 11%increase in state funding. The budget includes $47 million in added literacy dollars to help young students learn to read by the 3rd grade. These literacy funds will be used by schools to pay for extended time literacy intervention programs such as optional full-time kindergarten to provide literacy intervention to struggling students.
Other noteworthy education legislation that became law include:
- $105 million in ongoing funding for school districts and charters to use to improve health insurance plans for teachers and their families while lowering out-of-pocket costs resulting in higher take home pay. Educators will also receive $1,000 bonuses in recognition of their extraordinary efforts since the pandemic began.
- One-time funding for instructional staff and pupil services staff equal to the estimated amount that would have been distributed through the career ladder for one additional year of service and an approximate 7% increase to the salary-based apportionment for school administrators and classified staff.
- Dyslexia screening and training for teachers who work with students identified as having characteristics of dyslexia. House Bill 731 will have a positive impact on thousands of Idaho students affected by dyslexia, by identifying characteristics early so that they can receive appropriate interventions to help them learn to read.
- A rural educator incentive program designed to encourage new teachers to work in rural districts by offering funds to help pay student loans or reimburse them for additional education costs such as earning credits to qualify for additional content area teaching endorsements or high level degrees.
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Higher Education
Our public four-year higher education institutions will see an 8% increase in state funding next year as part of an overall higher education budget that includes funding to cover employee salary increases. As a result, for the third year in a row, our college and universities will not request tuition increases when the Board meets next month in Moscow. This is a certainly positive development both for our students and our institutions.
Community Colleges
Idaho’s four community colleges will see nearly 10% in new state funding, which I see as a critical investment given the role the community colleges have in career technical education and meeting the statewide private sector demand for a skilled workforce.
Medical Residency Programs
This year the legislature made historic investments in expanding physician training residency programs – from Coeur d’Alene to Pocatello. As of the year 2020, Idaho ranked 50th in the nation for the total number of active physicians per 100,000 population, and more than 30% of these physicians are age 60 or over. Absent aggressive intervention, Idaho is facing a severe physician shortage exacerbated by rapid population growth. National data show that a majority of physicians practice medicine in the states where they did their residencies, which is why expanding residency programs in Idaho is a good return on investment.
Campus Infrastructure
State leaders made another a huge investment in higher education this year – allocating nearly $220 million in capital projects and for addressing deferred maintenance paid by the Permanent Building Fund. That’s about five times the average amount of Permanent Building Fund dollars that higher education received over the last five years.
Here’s a breakdown of the capital projects:
- College of Southern Idaho: $10 million to build an automotive and agricultural diesel mechanics facility
- North Idaho College: $3.3 million to remodel a diesel mechanics bay and build an aerospace training laboratory
- College of Western Idaho: $10 million to construct a health science building and $5 million to build a horticulture building
- Colleges of Eastern Idaho: $13 million for its Future Tech facility
- Idaho State University: $3 million for a pedestrian railway crossing at ISU’s Idaho Falls campus and $3.4 million to build the Leonard Hall Pharmacy building
- University of Idaho: $900,000 to improve the McCall Outdoor Science School campus
- Deferred maintenance at all institutions: approximately $170 million
I cannot emphasize enough how important these Permanent Building Fund dollars are to help us provide first class learning facilities for our students and address a massive backlog of maintenance issues at all of our campuses. The citizens of Idaho have hundreds of millions of dollars invested in our campuses and the funding made available this year will go a long way in helping us keep our higher education assets functioning.
With a record-setting state surplus and an infusion of federal American Rescue Plan dollars, our elected leaders seized an opportunity and made a real difference for public education at all levels. During this legislative session, Governor Little and the majority of legislators demonstrated their commitment to our students and our educators and I commend them for it.
Kurt Liebich is the president of the Idaho State Board of Education. |
https://www.mysanantonio.com/sports/article/NCAA-woes-More-fixing-needed-for-hoops-all-17056311.php | NEW ORLEANS (AP) — If the nine months that led to Monday night's national title game between Kansas and North Carolina have proven anything, it's that college basketball and all of college sports are changing.
Whoever shapes all these changes — and it won't necessarily be the NCAA — will help decide whether the next decade in this multibillion-dollar ecosystem of sports, entertainment and education grows into an efficiently run business or devolves into chaos. Either is a possibility.
The NCAA has struggled with the rules and outcomes of efforts to pay players, ensure gender equity, lock in the newly relaxed transfer portal, streamline an increasingly cluttered infractions system and, of course, deal with the long-debated “One and Done” rule.
And while the governing body is all but waving the white flag when it comes to figuring out many of the transformative shifts that these problems present, there’s a growing sense that that might not be a bad thing.
“This is not the time to look at knits and bits,” Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski said Friday, the day before his loss to North Carolina sealed his retirement. “It’s time to look at the whole thing.”
Top on the to-do list is figuring out a viable system for “name, image and likeness” (NIL) deals.
Players can now make money off sponsorship deals. It's a tremendous change in the entire college dynamic, a business in which players generated millions through March Madness but most of it filtered to coaches, new stadiums and weight rooms and keeping the rest of the university's athletic department running.
“I’m for sure happy to get a little money in my pocket,” Duke guard Trevor Keels said over the weekend.
But some argue NIL is a deflection from what really needs to happen — which is to make the schools directly pay the players for their work.
In a roundabout way, that's happening anyway, as donors and others that pump money into athletic programs are now shifting some of the dough into school-branded “collectives” that create sponsorship opportunities for athletes.
The workaround feels acceptable enough for the time being. But the NCAA has ceded all control of it, depending on state laws, school oversight and, maybe, an eventual federal law to regulate it all.
“It has been and it’s still the case that we have got to have Congress help us find a single legal model" to run NIL, NCAA President Mark Emmert said.
Under the current mishmash of rules, there is very little public information about who makes what and who pays the bills. The concept of millions of dollars floating around with zero transparency doesn't strike anyone as the best business model for a sport filled with athletes in the teens and early 20s.
“One of my bigger concerns is not even about players doing the campaigns or getting paid," said Barbara Jones of Outshine Talent. “It's about them giving away or promising too much and not even realizing it.”
Another topic is gender disparity. Congress held hearings on the issue during the tournament. Last year, the differences in the way the men's and women's games were treated were encapsulated by a video taken by Oregon's Sedona Prince of the lame weight room at the women's tournament.
The NCAA commissioned a task force and a panel came up with recommendations. Most of the changes have felt like window dressing. They included adding four teams to bring the women's bracket up to 68, switching the women's final from Tuesday to Sunday and putting the branding “March Madness” on the women's tournament in addition to the men's.
Meanwhile, the NCAA still owns a vastly undervalued media contract for the women, the details of which paint the picture of the NCAA as a tone-deaf bureaucracy that isn't changing with the times. The deficiencies are all the more palpable with this being the 50th anniversary of the Title IX law that was designed to create equal opportunity for women in sports.
“I call it hot dogs for the girls and steak for the boys,” Stanford coach Tara VanDerveer said.
Elsewhere, the new transfer rule is an attempt to rectify one of the biggest hypocrisies in sports — namely, that coaches could move around to the highest bidder with no restrictions but players weren't given the same freedom. Now, they are, but when combined with NIL, it threatens to create a free-agency system of sorts, the likes of which many in the college game would like to avoid.
The complicated and inefficient rulebook has also made the NCAA look like it's stuck in concrete.
Emmert all but conceded that fixes to establish an independent committee aren't working well. One consequence is that he came into New Orleans with the prospect of handing the title trophy to coach Bill Self, whose Kansas program has been tainted by a complex, half-decade-old investigation that still threatens the Jayhawks' future.
“It's common knowledge,” Self said. “We've been dealing with some stuff off the court for a while.”
Like most schools that get in trouble, Kansas' problems center around the recruitment of top talent, which leads back to the NCAA's longest-running issue — the “One and Done” rule that allows players to leave after one year of college.
Emmert's well-worn dodge on that rule is that it is technically part of the NBA collective-bargaining arrangement, so what is the NCAA to do? But when it comes to teasing out the details, and how they impact the college game, Krzyzewski said he's had more contact with NBA Commissioner Adam Silver over the years than anyone from the NCAA office.
As Krzyzewski leaves coaching in the rearview mirror, he is struck by how many decisions are made by NCAA boards and committees that don't deal with the issues at hand on a day-to-day basis.
He'd like to see a less-centralized NCAA — one that allowed men's basketball to decide about its own issues, and maybe the same with women's hoops and every other sport.
Whether a new model looks something like what Krzyzewski envisions, or something else, there's a growing sense that big changes are ahead for college sports.
“Everything that you work in, or whatever you do, it never stays just status-quo,” Self said. “We need to keep evolving.”
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More AP college basketball: http://apnews.com/Collegebasketball and https://twitter.com/AP_Top25 | 0 | 69,628 | 0 | https://www.darientimes.com/sports/article/NCAA-woes-More-fixing-needed-for-hoops-all-17056311.php | 2022-04-04 16:21:48+00:00 | NEW ORLEANS (AP) — If the nine months that led to Monday night's national title game between Kansas and North Carolina have proven anything, it's that college basketball and all of college sports are changing.
Whoever shapes all these changes — and it won't necessarily be the NCAA — will help decide whether the next decade in this multibillion-dollar ecosystem of sports, entertainment and education grows into an efficiently run business or devolves into chaos. Either is a possibility.
The NCAA has struggled with the rules and outcomes of efforts to pay players, ensure gender equity, lock in the newly relaxed transfer portal, streamline an increasingly cluttered infractions system and, of course, deal with the long-debated “One and Done” rule.
And while the governing body is all but waving the white flag when it comes to figuring out many of the transformative shifts that these problems present, there’s a growing sense that that might not be a bad thing.
“This is not the time to look at knits and bits,” Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski said Friday, the day before his loss to North Carolina sealed his retirement. “It’s time to look at the whole thing.”
Top on the to-do list is figuring out a viable system for “name, image and likeness” (NIL) deals.
Players can now make money off sponsorship deals. It's a tremendous change in the entire college dynamic, a business in which players generated millions through March Madness but most of it filtered to coaches, new stadiums and weight rooms and keeping the rest of the university's athletic department running.
“I’m for sure happy to get a little money in my pocket,” Duke guard Trevor Keels said over the weekend.
But some argue NIL is a deflection from what really needs to happen — which is to make the schools directly pay the players for their work.
In a roundabout way, that's happening anyway, as donors and others that pump money into athletic programs are now shifting some of the dough into school-branded “collectives” that create sponsorship opportunities for athletes.
The workaround feels acceptable enough for the time being. But the NCAA has ceded all control of it, depending on state laws, school oversight and, maybe, an eventual federal law to regulate it all.
“It has been and it’s still the case that we have got to have Congress help us find a single legal model" to run NIL, NCAA President Mark Emmert said.
Under the current mishmash of rules, there is very little public information about who makes what and who pays the bills. The concept of millions of dollars floating around with zero transparency doesn't strike anyone as the best business model for a sport filled with athletes in the teens and early 20s.
“One of my bigger concerns is not even about players doing the campaigns or getting paid," said Barbara Jones of Outshine Talent. “It's about them giving away or promising too much and not even realizing it.”
Another topic is gender disparity. Congress held hearings on the issue during the tournament. Last year, the differences in the way the men's and women's games were treated were encapsulated by a video taken by Oregon's Sedona Prince of the lame weight room at the women's tournament.
The NCAA commissioned a task force and a panel came up with recommendations. Most of the changes have felt like window dressing. They included adding four teams to bring the women's bracket up to 68, switching the women's final from Tuesday to Sunday and putting the branding “March Madness” on the women's tournament in addition to the men's.
Meanwhile, the NCAA still owns a vastly undervalued media contract for the women, the details of which paint the picture of the NCAA as a tone-deaf bureaucracy that isn't changing with the times. The deficiencies are all the more palpable with this being the 50th anniversary of the Title IX law that was designed to create equal opportunity for women in sports.
“I call it hot dogs for the girls and steak for the boys,” Stanford coach Tara VanDerveer said.
Elsewhere, the new transfer rule is an attempt to rectify one of the biggest hypocrisies in sports — namely, that coaches could move around to the highest bidder with no restrictions but players weren't given the same freedom. Now, they are, but when combined with NIL, it threatens to create a free-agency system of sorts, the likes of which many in the college game would like to avoid.
The complicated and inefficient rulebook has also made the NCAA look like it's stuck in concrete.
Emmert all but conceded that fixes to establish an independent committee aren't working well. One consequence is that he came into New Orleans with the prospect of handing the title trophy to coach Bill Self, whose Kansas program has been tainted by a complex, half-decade-old investigation that still threatens the Jayhawks' future.
“It's common knowledge,” Self said. “We've been dealing with some stuff off the court for a while.”
Like most schools that get in trouble, Kansas' problems center around the recruitment of top talent, which leads back to the NCAA's longest-running issue — the “One and Done” rule that allows players to leave after one year of college.
Emmert's well-worn dodge on that rule is that it is technically part of the NBA collective-bargaining arrangement, so what is the NCAA to do? But when it comes to teasing out the details, and how they impact the college game, Krzyzewski said he's had more contact with NBA Commissioner Adam Silver over the years than anyone from the NCAA office.
As Krzyzewski leaves coaching in the rearview mirror, he is struck by how many decisions are made by NCAA boards and committees that don't deal with the issues at hand on a day-to-day basis.
He'd like to see a less-centralized NCAA — one that allowed men's basketball to decide about its own issues, and maybe the same with women's hoops and every other sport.
Whether a new model looks something like what Krzyzewski envisions, or something else, there's a growing sense that big changes are ahead for college sports.
“Everything that you work in, or whatever you do, it never stays just status-quo,” Self said. “We need to keep evolving.”
___
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https://www.mysanantonio.com/sports/article/NCAA-woes-More-fixing-needed-for-hoops-all-17056311.php | NEW ORLEANS (AP) — If the nine months that led to Monday night's national title game between Kansas and North Carolina have proven anything, it's that college basketball and all of college sports are changing.
Whoever shapes all these changes — and it won't necessarily be the NCAA — will help decide whether the next decade in this multibillion-dollar ecosystem of sports, entertainment and education grows into an efficiently run business or devolves into chaos. Either is a possibility.
The NCAA has struggled with the rules and outcomes of efforts to pay players, ensure gender equity, lock in the newly relaxed transfer portal, streamline an increasingly cluttered infractions system and, of course, deal with the long-debated “One and Done” rule.
And while the governing body is all but waving the white flag when it comes to figuring out many of the transformative shifts that these problems present, there’s a growing sense that that might not be a bad thing.
“This is not the time to look at knits and bits,” Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski said Friday, the day before his loss to North Carolina sealed his retirement. “It’s time to look at the whole thing.”
Top on the to-do list is figuring out a viable system for “name, image and likeness” (NIL) deals.
Players can now make money off sponsorship deals. It's a tremendous change in the entire college dynamic, a business in which players generated millions through March Madness but most of it filtered to coaches, new stadiums and weight rooms and keeping the rest of the university's athletic department running.
“I’m for sure happy to get a little money in my pocket,” Duke guard Trevor Keels said over the weekend.
But some argue NIL is a deflection from what really needs to happen — which is to make the schools directly pay the players for their work.
In a roundabout way, that's happening anyway, as donors and others that pump money into athletic programs are now shifting some of the dough into school-branded “collectives” that create sponsorship opportunities for athletes.
The workaround feels acceptable enough for the time being. But the NCAA has ceded all control of it, depending on state laws, school oversight and, maybe, an eventual federal law to regulate it all.
“It has been and it’s still the case that we have got to have Congress help us find a single legal model" to run NIL, NCAA President Mark Emmert said.
Under the current mishmash of rules, there is very little public information about who makes what and who pays the bills. The concept of millions of dollars floating around with zero transparency doesn't strike anyone as the best business model for a sport filled with athletes in the teens and early 20s.
“One of my bigger concerns is not even about players doing the campaigns or getting paid," said Barbara Jones of Outshine Talent. “It's about them giving away or promising too much and not even realizing it.”
Another topic is gender disparity. Congress held hearings on the issue during the tournament. Last year, the differences in the way the men's and women's games were treated were encapsulated by a video taken by Oregon's Sedona Prince of the lame weight room at the women's tournament.
The NCAA commissioned a task force and a panel came up with recommendations. Most of the changes have felt like window dressing. They included adding four teams to bring the women's bracket up to 68, switching the women's final from Tuesday to Sunday and putting the branding “March Madness” on the women's tournament in addition to the men's.
Meanwhile, the NCAA still owns a vastly undervalued media contract for the women, the details of which paint the picture of the NCAA as a tone-deaf bureaucracy that isn't changing with the times. The deficiencies are all the more palpable with this being the 50th anniversary of the Title IX law that was designed to create equal opportunity for women in sports.
“I call it hot dogs for the girls and steak for the boys,” Stanford coach Tara VanDerveer said.
Elsewhere, the new transfer rule is an attempt to rectify one of the biggest hypocrisies in sports — namely, that coaches could move around to the highest bidder with no restrictions but players weren't given the same freedom. Now, they are, but when combined with NIL, it threatens to create a free-agency system of sorts, the likes of which many in the college game would like to avoid.
The complicated and inefficient rulebook has also made the NCAA look like it's stuck in concrete.
Emmert all but conceded that fixes to establish an independent committee aren't working well. One consequence is that he came into New Orleans with the prospect of handing the title trophy to coach Bill Self, whose Kansas program has been tainted by a complex, half-decade-old investigation that still threatens the Jayhawks' future.
“It's common knowledge,” Self said. “We've been dealing with some stuff off the court for a while.”
Like most schools that get in trouble, Kansas' problems center around the recruitment of top talent, which leads back to the NCAA's longest-running issue — the “One and Done” rule that allows players to leave after one year of college.
Emmert's well-worn dodge on that rule is that it is technically part of the NBA collective-bargaining arrangement, so what is the NCAA to do? But when it comes to teasing out the details, and how they impact the college game, Krzyzewski said he's had more contact with NBA Commissioner Adam Silver over the years than anyone from the NCAA office.
As Krzyzewski leaves coaching in the rearview mirror, he is struck by how many decisions are made by NCAA boards and committees that don't deal with the issues at hand on a day-to-day basis.
He'd like to see a less-centralized NCAA — one that allowed men's basketball to decide about its own issues, and maybe the same with women's hoops and every other sport.
Whether a new model looks something like what Krzyzewski envisions, or something else, there's a growing sense that big changes are ahead for college sports.
“Everything that you work in, or whatever you do, it never stays just status-quo,” Self said. “We need to keep evolving.”
___
More AP college basketball: http://apnews.com/Collegebasketball and https://twitter.com/AP_Top25 | 1 | 70,068 | 0 | https://www.manisteenews.com/sports/article/NCAA-woes-More-fixing-needed-for-hoops-all-17056311.php | 2022-04-04 16:23:16+00:00 | NEW ORLEANS (AP) — If the nine months that led to Monday night's national title game between Kansas and North Carolina have proven anything, it's that college basketball and all of college sports are changing.
Whoever shapes all these changes — and it won't necessarily be the NCAA — will help decide whether the next decade in this multibillion-dollar ecosystem of sports, entertainment and education grows into an efficiently run business or devolves into chaos. Either is a possibility.
The NCAA has struggled with the rules and outcomes of efforts to pay players, ensure gender equity, lock in the newly relaxed transfer portal, streamline an increasingly cluttered infractions system and, of course, deal with the long-debated “One and Done” rule.
And while the governing body is all but waving the white flag when it comes to figuring out many of the transformative shifts that these problems present, there’s a growing sense that that might not be a bad thing.
“This is not the time to look at knits and bits,” Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski said Friday, the day before his loss to North Carolina sealed his retirement. “It’s time to look at the whole thing.”
Top on the to-do list is figuring out a viable system for “name, image and likeness” (NIL) deals.
Players can now make money off sponsorship deals. It's a tremendous change in the entire college dynamic, a business in which players generated millions through March Madness but most of it filtered to coaches, new stadiums and weight rooms and keeping the rest of the university's athletic department running.
“I’m for sure happy to get a little money in my pocket,” Duke guard Trevor Keels said over the weekend.
But some argue NIL is a deflection from what really needs to happen — which is to make the schools directly pay the players for their work.
In a roundabout way, that's happening anyway, as donors and others that pump money into athletic programs are now shifting some of the dough into school-branded “collectives” that create sponsorship opportunities for athletes.
The workaround feels acceptable enough for the time being. But the NCAA has ceded all control of it, depending on state laws, school oversight and, maybe, an eventual federal law to regulate it all.
“It has been and it’s still the case that we have got to have Congress help us find a single legal model" to run NIL, NCAA President Mark Emmert said.
Under the current mishmash of rules, there is very little public information about who makes what and who pays the bills. The concept of millions of dollars floating around with zero transparency doesn't strike anyone as the best business model for a sport filled with athletes in the teens and early 20s.
“One of my bigger concerns is not even about players doing the campaigns or getting paid," said Barbara Jones of Outshine Talent. “It's about them giving away or promising too much and not even realizing it.”
Another topic is gender disparity. Congress held hearings on the issue during the tournament. Last year, the differences in the way the men's and women's games were treated were encapsulated by a video taken by Oregon's Sedona Prince of the lame weight room at the women's tournament.
The NCAA commissioned a task force and a panel came up with recommendations. Most of the changes have felt like window dressing. They included adding four teams to bring the women's bracket up to 68, switching the women's final from Tuesday to Sunday and putting the branding “March Madness” on the women's tournament in addition to the men's.
Meanwhile, the NCAA still owns a vastly undervalued media contract for the women, the details of which paint the picture of the NCAA as a tone-deaf bureaucracy that isn't changing with the times. The deficiencies are all the more palpable with this being the 50th anniversary of the Title IX law that was designed to create equal opportunity for women in sports.
“I call it hot dogs for the girls and steak for the boys,” Stanford coach Tara VanDerveer said.
Elsewhere, the new transfer rule is an attempt to rectify one of the biggest hypocrisies in sports — namely, that coaches could move around to the highest bidder with no restrictions but players weren't given the same freedom. Now, they are, but when combined with NIL, it threatens to create a free-agency system of sorts, the likes of which many in the college game would like to avoid.
The complicated and inefficient rulebook has also made the NCAA look like it's stuck in concrete.
Emmert all but conceded that fixes to establish an independent committee aren't working well. One consequence is that he came into New Orleans with the prospect of handing the title trophy to coach Bill Self, whose Kansas program has been tainted by a complex, half-decade-old investigation that still threatens the Jayhawks' future.
“It's common knowledge,” Self said. “We've been dealing with some stuff off the court for a while.”
Like most schools that get in trouble, Kansas' problems center around the recruitment of top talent, which leads back to the NCAA's longest-running issue — the “One and Done” rule that allows players to leave after one year of college.
Emmert's well-worn dodge on that rule is that it is technically part of the NBA collective-bargaining arrangement, so what is the NCAA to do? But when it comes to teasing out the details, and how they impact the college game, Krzyzewski said he's had more contact with NBA Commissioner Adam Silver over the years than anyone from the NCAA office.
As Krzyzewski leaves coaching in the rearview mirror, he is struck by how many decisions are made by NCAA boards and committees that don't deal with the issues at hand on a day-to-day basis.
He'd like to see a less-centralized NCAA — one that allowed men's basketball to decide about its own issues, and maybe the same with women's hoops and every other sport.
Whether a new model looks something like what Krzyzewski envisions, or something else, there's a growing sense that big changes are ahead for college sports.
“Everything that you work in, or whatever you do, it never stays just status-quo,” Self said. “We need to keep evolving.”
___
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https://www.mysanantonio.com/sports/article/NCAA-woes-More-fixing-needed-for-hoops-all-17056311.php | NEW ORLEANS (AP) — If the nine months that led to Monday night's national title game between Kansas and North Carolina have proven anything, it's that college basketball and all of college sports are changing.
Whoever shapes all these changes — and it won't necessarily be the NCAA — will help decide whether the next decade in this multibillion-dollar ecosystem of sports, entertainment and education grows into an efficiently run business or devolves into chaos. Either is a possibility.
The NCAA has struggled with the rules and outcomes of efforts to pay players, ensure gender equity, lock in the newly relaxed transfer portal, streamline an increasingly cluttered infractions system and, of course, deal with the long-debated “One and Done” rule.
And while the governing body is all but waving the white flag when it comes to figuring out many of the transformative shifts that these problems present, there’s a growing sense that that might not be a bad thing.
“This is not the time to look at knits and bits,” Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski said Friday, the day before his loss to North Carolina sealed his retirement. “It’s time to look at the whole thing.”
Top on the to-do list is figuring out a viable system for “name, image and likeness” (NIL) deals.
Players can now make money off sponsorship deals. It's a tremendous change in the entire college dynamic, a business in which players generated millions through March Madness but most of it filtered to coaches, new stadiums and weight rooms and keeping the rest of the university's athletic department running.
“I’m for sure happy to get a little money in my pocket,” Duke guard Trevor Keels said over the weekend.
But some argue NIL is a deflection from what really needs to happen — which is to make the schools directly pay the players for their work.
In a roundabout way, that's happening anyway, as donors and others that pump money into athletic programs are now shifting some of the dough into school-branded “collectives” that create sponsorship opportunities for athletes.
The workaround feels acceptable enough for the time being. But the NCAA has ceded all control of it, depending on state laws, school oversight and, maybe, an eventual federal law to regulate it all.
“It has been and it’s still the case that we have got to have Congress help us find a single legal model" to run NIL, NCAA President Mark Emmert said.
Under the current mishmash of rules, there is very little public information about who makes what and who pays the bills. The concept of millions of dollars floating around with zero transparency doesn't strike anyone as the best business model for a sport filled with athletes in the teens and early 20s.
“One of my bigger concerns is not even about players doing the campaigns or getting paid," said Barbara Jones of Outshine Talent. “It's about them giving away or promising too much and not even realizing it.”
Another topic is gender disparity. Congress held hearings on the issue during the tournament. Last year, the differences in the way the men's and women's games were treated were encapsulated by a video taken by Oregon's Sedona Prince of the lame weight room at the women's tournament.
The NCAA commissioned a task force and a panel came up with recommendations. Most of the changes have felt like window dressing. They included adding four teams to bring the women's bracket up to 68, switching the women's final from Tuesday to Sunday and putting the branding “March Madness” on the women's tournament in addition to the men's.
Meanwhile, the NCAA still owns a vastly undervalued media contract for the women, the details of which paint the picture of the NCAA as a tone-deaf bureaucracy that isn't changing with the times. The deficiencies are all the more palpable with this being the 50th anniversary of the Title IX law that was designed to create equal opportunity for women in sports.
“I call it hot dogs for the girls and steak for the boys,” Stanford coach Tara VanDerveer said.
Elsewhere, the new transfer rule is an attempt to rectify one of the biggest hypocrisies in sports — namely, that coaches could move around to the highest bidder with no restrictions but players weren't given the same freedom. Now, they are, but when combined with NIL, it threatens to create a free-agency system of sorts, the likes of which many in the college game would like to avoid.
The complicated and inefficient rulebook has also made the NCAA look like it's stuck in concrete.
Emmert all but conceded that fixes to establish an independent committee aren't working well. One consequence is that he came into New Orleans with the prospect of handing the title trophy to coach Bill Self, whose Kansas program has been tainted by a complex, half-decade-old investigation that still threatens the Jayhawks' future.
“It's common knowledge,” Self said. “We've been dealing with some stuff off the court for a while.”
Like most schools that get in trouble, Kansas' problems center around the recruitment of top talent, which leads back to the NCAA's longest-running issue — the “One and Done” rule that allows players to leave after one year of college.
Emmert's well-worn dodge on that rule is that it is technically part of the NBA collective-bargaining arrangement, so what is the NCAA to do? But when it comes to teasing out the details, and how they impact the college game, Krzyzewski said he's had more contact with NBA Commissioner Adam Silver over the years than anyone from the NCAA office.
As Krzyzewski leaves coaching in the rearview mirror, he is struck by how many decisions are made by NCAA boards and committees that don't deal with the issues at hand on a day-to-day basis.
He'd like to see a less-centralized NCAA — one that allowed men's basketball to decide about its own issues, and maybe the same with women's hoops and every other sport.
Whether a new model looks something like what Krzyzewski envisions, or something else, there's a growing sense that big changes are ahead for college sports.
“Everything that you work in, or whatever you do, it never stays just status-quo,” Self said. “We need to keep evolving.”
___
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Whoever shapes all these changes — and it won't necessarily be the NCAA — will help decide whether the next decade in this multibillion-dollar ecosystem of sports, entertainment and education grows into an efficiently run business or devolves into chaos. Either is a possibility.
The NCAA has struggled with the rules and outcomes of efforts to pay players, ensure gender equity, lock in the newly relaxed transfer portal, streamline an increasingly cluttered infractions system and, of course, deal with the long-debated “One and Done” rule.
And while the governing body is all but waving the white flag when it comes to figuring out many of the transformative shifts that these problems present, there’s a growing sense that that might not be a bad thing.
“This is not the time to look at knits and bits,” Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski said Friday, the day before his loss to North Carolina sealed his retirement. “It’s time to look at the whole thing.”
Top on the to-do list is figuring out a viable system for “name, image and likeness” (NIL) deals.
Players can now make money off sponsorship deals. It's a tremendous change in the entire college dynamic, a business in which players generated millions through March Madness but most of it filtered to coaches, new stadiums and weight rooms and keeping the rest of the university's athletic department running.
“I’m for sure happy to get a little money in my pocket,” Duke guard Trevor Keels said over the weekend.
But some argue NIL is a deflection from what really needs to happen — which is to make the schools directly pay the players for their work.
In a roundabout way, that's happening anyway, as donors and others that pump money into athletic programs are now shifting some of the dough into school-branded “collectives” that create sponsorship opportunities for athletes.
The workaround feels acceptable enough for the time being. But the NCAA has ceded all control of it, depending on state laws, school oversight and, maybe, an eventual federal law to regulate it all.
“It has been and it’s still the case that we have got to have Congress help us find a single legal model" to run NIL, NCAA President Mark Emmert said.
Under the current mishmash of rules, there is very little public information about who makes what and who pays the bills. The concept of millions of dollars floating around with zero transparency doesn't strike anyone as the best business model for a sport filled with athletes in the teens and early 20s.
“One of my bigger concerns is not even about players doing the campaigns or getting paid," said Barbara Jones of Outshine Talent. “It's about them giving away or promising too much and not even realizing it.”
Another topic is gender disparity. Congress held hearings on the issue during the tournament. Last year, the differences in the way the men's and women's games were treated were encapsulated by a video taken by Oregon's Sedona Prince of the lame weight room at the women's tournament.
The NCAA commissioned a task force and a panel came up with recommendations. Most of the changes have felt like window dressing. They included adding four teams to bring the women's bracket up to 68, switching the women's final from Tuesday to Sunday and putting the branding “March Madness” on the women's tournament in addition to the men's.
Meanwhile, the NCAA still owns a vastly undervalued media contract for the women, the details of which paint the picture of the NCAA as a tone-deaf bureaucracy that isn't changing with the times. The deficiencies are all the more palpable with this being the 50th anniversary of the Title IX law that was designed to create equal opportunity for women in sports.
“I call it hot dogs for the girls and steak for the boys,” Stanford coach Tara VanDerveer said.
Elsewhere, the new transfer rule is an attempt to rectify one of the biggest hypocrisies in sports — namely, that coaches could move around to the highest bidder with no restrictions but players weren't given the same freedom. Now, they are, but when combined with NIL, it threatens to create a free-agency system of sorts, the likes of which many in the college game would like to avoid.
The complicated and inefficient rulebook has also made the NCAA look like it's stuck in concrete.
Emmert all but conceded that fixes to establish an independent committee aren't working well. One consequence is that he came into New Orleans with the prospect of handing the title trophy to coach Bill Self, whose Kansas program has been tainted by a complex, half-decade-old investigation that still threatens the Jayhawks' future.
“It's common knowledge,” Self said. “We've been dealing with some stuff off the court for a while.”
Like most schools that get in trouble, Kansas' problems center around the recruitment of top talent, which leads back to the NCAA's longest-running issue — the “One and Done” rule that allows players to leave after one year of college.
Emmert's well-worn dodge on that rule is that it is technically part of the NBA collective-bargaining arrangement, so what is the NCAA to do? But when it comes to teasing out the details, and how they impact the college game, Krzyzewski said he's had more contact with NBA Commissioner Adam Silver over the years than anyone from the NCAA office.
As Krzyzewski leaves coaching in the rearview mirror, he is struck by how many decisions are made by NCAA boards and committees that don't deal with the issues at hand on a day-to-day basis.
He'd like to see a less-centralized NCAA — one that allowed men's basketball to decide about its own issues, and maybe the same with women's hoops and every other sport.
Whether a new model looks something like what Krzyzewski envisions, or something else, there's a growing sense that big changes are ahead for college sports.
“Everything that you work in, or whatever you do, it never stays just status-quo,” Self said. “We need to keep evolving.”
___
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https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Tiruchirapalli/after-30-years-indian-american-hopes-to-reunite-with-his-birth-mother/article65290459.ece | After 30 years, Indian-American hopes to reunite with his birth mother
His search has led him to Tiruchi and Pudukottai, where a few leads have been forthcoming
Thomas Kumar Johnson, 32, an American national of Indian origin, who was given up for adoption through a social welfare organisation in Tiruchi at the age of two, has made it his life’s mission to be reunited with his biological mother.
Such is his passion to meet the woman identified only as ‘Mary’ in his adoption documents (her father ‘Soosai’ is the other person mentioned), that he quit his job in Chicago as a climate change policy expert last year to launch the search in earnest and is now in Tiruchi.
“I just want my mother to know that I am alive and doing okay. And I want to know if my mother is well; whether I have any brothers or sisters, maybe some more information about my father. Emotionally, it will help me to feel like a more complete person if I knew where I came from and who my parents are,” Mr. Kumar told The Hindu. His birth name is registered as ‘Sampath Kumar’.
Mr. Kumar was based in Yellow Springs, Ohio, with his American family since the age of two. “I grew up in a Caucasian family in the countryside in Ohio, and I was the only Indian I knew, probably until I was about 19. I had no access to the Indian culture or language,” he said. His American mother worked as a scientist and academic, while his father, who died of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) in 2005, was a software engineer.
Mr. Kumar says his American family has been supportive of his decision to search for his roots. “My father actually bought me and my sister (biological daughter) tickets to travel to India in 2004, because he felt it was important for me to see my country, and to search for my relatives. He knew he was going to die soon, so he wanted to make sure that I did that, but I didn’t really do anything about it until after I went to college,” Mr. Kumar said.
He began his quest in 2018, but was delayed by the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, he is back in India to look for his mother for the third time. Mr. Kumar agreed it may not be easy to meet his biological parent. “If my mother does not want to see me, then that is her right, and I will accept her decision. It will make me sad, but it is still a part of this process,” he said. He doesn’t know much about his biological father and hopes his birth mother will introduce him one day.
He arrived in Delhi last week, because research had suggested that he may have been from adopted from a home or hospital there. But after those theories came to naught, he shifted his search to Tiruchi and Pudukottai, where a few leads have been forthcoming. “I plan to stay in India for the next six weeks to be available if there is any news or development,” said Mr. Kumar, who is put up in a hotel in Tiruchi.
He is being assisted by Anjali Pawar, of the Pune-based organisation Against Child Trafficking (ACT), which claims to have helped 72 adoptees meet their biological parents in India. “While most adoptions are considered legal in India, what we don’t know is how the child landed up in the institution in the first place. In Mr. Kumar’s case, we have been looking for his mother, and we thought we had found one potential candidate, but DNA tests disproved that. We hope to get more clues in the coming weeks,” she said.
Mr. Kumar said he would eventually return to the U.S. “I just want to see my mother and establish a relationship with her and other relatives. I may not be able to shift permanently to India, and I do not want to disturb my biological mother in any way,” he added.
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April 04, 2022 22:07 ISTHis search has led him to Tiruchi and Pudukottai, where a few leads have been forthcoming
Thomas Kumar Johnson, 32, an American national of Indian origin, who was given up for adoption through a social welfare organisation in Tiruchi at the age of two, has made it his life’s mission to be reunited with his biological mother.
Such is his passion to meet the woman identified only as ‘Mary’ in his adoption documents (her father ‘Soosai’ is the other person mentioned), that he quit his job in Chicago as a climate change policy expert last year to launch the search in earnest and is now in Tiruchi.
“I just want my mother to know that I am alive and doing okay. And I want to know if my mother is well; whether I have any brothers or sisters, maybe some more information about my father. Emotionally, it will help me to feel like a more complete person if I knew where I came from and who my parents are,” Mr. Kumar told The Hindu. His birth name is registered as ‘Sampath Kumar’.
Mr. Kumar was based in Yellow Springs, Ohio, with his American family since the age of two. “I grew up in a Caucasian family in the countryside in Ohio, and I was the only Indian I knew, probably until I was about 19. I had no access to the Indian culture or language,” he said. His American mother worked as a scientist and academic, while his father, who died of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) in 2005, was a software engineer.
Mr. Kumar says his American family has been supportive of his decision to search for his roots. “My father actually bought me and my sister (biological daughter) tickets to travel to India in 2004, because he felt it was important for me to see my country, and to search for my relatives. He knew he was going to die soon, so he wanted to make sure that I did that, but I didn’t really do anything about it until after I went to college,” Mr. Kumar said.
He began his quest in 2018, but was delayed by the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, he is back in India to look for his mother for the third time. Mr. Kumar agreed it may not be easy to meet his biological parent. “If my mother does not want to see me, then that is her right, and I will accept her decision. It will make me sad, but it is still a part of this process,” he said. He doesn’t know much about his biological father and hopes his birth mother will introduce him one day.
He arrived in Delhi last week, because research had suggested that he may have been from adopted from a home or hospital there. But after those theories came to naught, he shifted his search to Tiruchi and Pudukottai, where a few leads have been forthcoming. “I plan to stay in India for the next six weeks to be available if there is any news or development,” said Mr. Kumar, who is put up in a hotel in Tiruchi.
He is being assisted by Anjali Pawar, of the Pune-based organisation Against Child Trafficking (ACT), which claims to have helped 72 adoptees meet their biological parents in India. “While most adoptions are considered legal in India, what we don’t know is how the child landed up in the institution in the first place. In Mr. Kumar’s case, we have been looking for his mother, and we thought we had found one potential candidate, but DNA tests disproved that. We hope to get more clues in the coming weeks,” she said.
Mr. Kumar said he would eventually return to the U.S. “I just want to see my mother and establish a relationship with her and other relatives. I may not be able to shift permanently to India, and I do not want to disturb my biological mother in any way,” he added. |
https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Tiruchirapalli/after-30-years-indian-american-hopes-to-reunite-with-his-birth-mother/article65290459.ece | After 30 years, Indian-American hopes to reunite with his birth mother
His search has led him to Tiruchi and Pudukottai, where a few leads have been forthcoming
Thomas Kumar Johnson, 32, an American national of Indian origin, who was given up for adoption through a social welfare organisation in Tiruchi at the age of two, has made it his life’s mission to be reunited with his biological mother.
Such is his passion to meet the woman identified only as ‘Mary’ in his adoption documents (her father ‘Soosai’ is the other person mentioned), that he quit his job in Chicago as a climate change policy expert last year to launch the search in earnest and is now in Tiruchi.
“I just want my mother to know that I am alive and doing okay. And I want to know if my mother is well; whether I have any brothers or sisters, maybe some more information about my father. Emotionally, it will help me to feel like a more complete person if I knew where I came from and who my parents are,” Mr. Kumar told The Hindu. His birth name is registered as ‘Sampath Kumar’.
Mr. Kumar was based in Yellow Springs, Ohio, with his American family since the age of two. “I grew up in a Caucasian family in the countryside in Ohio, and I was the only Indian I knew, probably until I was about 19. I had no access to the Indian culture or language,” he said. His American mother worked as a scientist and academic, while his father, who died of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) in 2005, was a software engineer.
Mr. Kumar says his American family has been supportive of his decision to search for his roots. “My father actually bought me and my sister (biological daughter) tickets to travel to India in 2004, because he felt it was important for me to see my country, and to search for my relatives. He knew he was going to die soon, so he wanted to make sure that I did that, but I didn’t really do anything about it until after I went to college,” Mr. Kumar said.
He began his quest in 2018, but was delayed by the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, he is back in India to look for his mother for the third time. Mr. Kumar agreed it may not be easy to meet his biological parent. “If my mother does not want to see me, then that is her right, and I will accept her decision. It will make me sad, but it is still a part of this process,” he said. He doesn’t know much about his biological father and hopes his birth mother will introduce him one day.
He arrived in Delhi last week, because research had suggested that he may have been from adopted from a home or hospital there. But after those theories came to naught, he shifted his search to Tiruchi and Pudukottai, where a few leads have been forthcoming. “I plan to stay in India for the next six weeks to be available if there is any news or development,” said Mr. Kumar, who is put up in a hotel in Tiruchi.
He is being assisted by Anjali Pawar, of the Pune-based organisation Against Child Trafficking (ACT), which claims to have helped 72 adoptees meet their biological parents in India. “While most adoptions are considered legal in India, what we don’t know is how the child landed up in the institution in the first place. In Mr. Kumar’s case, we have been looking for his mother, and we thought we had found one potential candidate, but DNA tests disproved that. We hope to get more clues in the coming weeks,” she said.
Mr. Kumar said he would eventually return to the U.S. “I just want to see my mother and establish a relationship with her and other relatives. I may not be able to shift permanently to India, and I do not want to disturb my biological mother in any way,” he added.
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Tracing the roots: Adopted by US couple 30 years ago, youth's search for real mother brings him back to India
Trichy (Tamil Nadu): In 1990, a year-old baby boy from Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu was adopted by a US couple who took him to their country to raise him as their own. As the boy grew up, he started asking his adopted parents about his roots which in turn put him on a yet-to-end search to know and reconnect with his real parents, especially his mother.
Tears roll down the face of Thomas Kumar Johnson, now 32, as his search to ascertain and reclaim his roots has brought him back to India for the fourth time in the last decade. Driven by an intense passion, he is on a pursuit to find his real mother. What for? “Only to hug her and say that I am OK,” he told ETV Bharat. “I want to hug my mother and tell her that I am alive and doing OK. I want to know if she is well and whether I have any brothers or sisters and relatives and know more about my father,” he said.
All through, he was more focused on his real mother, identified as Mary in the adoption documents. It was a social welfare organisation that had facilitated the adoption. “I was born on April 18, 1989, and when I was one year old, I was given in adoption. I have been searching for 10 years and this is the fourth time I am in India. I hope she is OK. Anyone having any information, please share with me,” he pleads as his eyes swell up. Johnson says that reuniting with his roots will make him a "complete person".
He knows he was born Sampath Kumar and that his parents had lived in Mutharasanallur, a suburb of Trichy city in Pudukottai town. Growing up in the countryside of Ohio, he was completely detached from Indian culture and language. While his adopted American mother worked as a scientist cum academic, his father, a software engineer, had passed away in 2008.
His father had encouraged him to find out his roots and even booked flight tickets for Johnson and his half-sister to visit India. Back again in India, Johnson hopes to reunite with his roots. Helping him in this mission is his lawyer, Anjali Pawar of a Pune-based organisation against child trafficking. “At the time of adoption Mary was 21-years-old and now she could be in her early 50s. We have visited Mutharasanallur and a few churches in Pudukottai and got some positive leads. We are hopeful,” she said.
Also read: Only 2,400 children eligible for adoption while 26,000 prospective parents have registered |
https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Tiruchirapalli/after-30-years-indian-american-hopes-to-reunite-with-his-birth-mother/article65290459.ece | After 30 years, Indian-American hopes to reunite with his birth mother
His search has led him to Tiruchi and Pudukottai, where a few leads have been forthcoming
Thomas Kumar Johnson, 32, an American national of Indian origin, who was given up for adoption through a social welfare organisation in Tiruchi at the age of two, has made it his life’s mission to be reunited with his biological mother.
Such is his passion to meet the woman identified only as ‘Mary’ in his adoption documents (her father ‘Soosai’ is the other person mentioned), that he quit his job in Chicago as a climate change policy expert last year to launch the search in earnest and is now in Tiruchi.
“I just want my mother to know that I am alive and doing okay. And I want to know if my mother is well; whether I have any brothers or sisters, maybe some more information about my father. Emotionally, it will help me to feel like a more complete person if I knew where I came from and who my parents are,” Mr. Kumar told The Hindu. His birth name is registered as ‘Sampath Kumar’.
Mr. Kumar was based in Yellow Springs, Ohio, with his American family since the age of two. “I grew up in a Caucasian family in the countryside in Ohio, and I was the only Indian I knew, probably until I was about 19. I had no access to the Indian culture or language,” he said. His American mother worked as a scientist and academic, while his father, who died of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) in 2005, was a software engineer.
Mr. Kumar says his American family has been supportive of his decision to search for his roots. “My father actually bought me and my sister (biological daughter) tickets to travel to India in 2004, because he felt it was important for me to see my country, and to search for my relatives. He knew he was going to die soon, so he wanted to make sure that I did that, but I didn’t really do anything about it until after I went to college,” Mr. Kumar said.
He began his quest in 2018, but was delayed by the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, he is back in India to look for his mother for the third time. Mr. Kumar agreed it may not be easy to meet his biological parent. “If my mother does not want to see me, then that is her right, and I will accept her decision. It will make me sad, but it is still a part of this process,” he said. He doesn’t know much about his biological father and hopes his birth mother will introduce him one day.
He arrived in Delhi last week, because research had suggested that he may have been from adopted from a home or hospital there. But after those theories came to naught, he shifted his search to Tiruchi and Pudukottai, where a few leads have been forthcoming. “I plan to stay in India for the next six weeks to be available if there is any news or development,” said Mr. Kumar, who is put up in a hotel in Tiruchi.
He is being assisted by Anjali Pawar, of the Pune-based organisation Against Child Trafficking (ACT), which claims to have helped 72 adoptees meet their biological parents in India. “While most adoptions are considered legal in India, what we don’t know is how the child landed up in the institution in the first place. In Mr. Kumar’s case, we have been looking for his mother, and we thought we had found one potential candidate, but DNA tests disproved that. We hope to get more clues in the coming weeks,” she said.
Mr. Kumar said he would eventually return to the U.S. “I just want to see my mother and establish a relationship with her and other relatives. I may not be able to shift permanently to India, and I do not want to disturb my biological mother in any way,” he added.
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- Please use a genuine email ID and provide your name, to avoid rejection. | 2 | 98,652 | 0.616527 | https://www.thenewsminute.com/article/3-decades-after-adoption-indian-american-man-searches-birth-mother-tamil-nadu-162703 | 2022-04-07 17:29:27+00:00 | When he was 17, Thomas Kumar Johnson stumbled upon a file in his house with details about his adoption. “I grew up with a white family in Ohio (in the US) and had never seen another Indian around me. So I always knew I was adopted. But finding that file really pushed me to start the search for my birth family,” Kumar tells TNM. The 32-year-old climate change expert officially started his search in 2018, but the COVID-19 pandemic derailed his plans to move to Tamil Nadu to continue his search.
Four years later, Kumar has quit his job in Chicago and is now in Tamil Nadu searching for his biological family. He has roped in Arun Dohle and Anjali Pawar, of the Pune-based NGO Against Child Trafficking (ACT), to help him identify his family. Arun and Anjali have reunited 72 adoptees with their birth families. But in Kumar’s case, they have so far been unable to trace any of the people named in his adoption documents, and are trying other approaches.
Kumar was able to identify the orphanage where he was dropped off as a toddler and the agency that facilitated his adoption. He even found documents in the orphanage with details of his birth parents. However, he has not been able to find his parents or the two witnesses mentioned in the documents.
“The documents say that I was brought to SOC SEAD (the orphanage) when I was 10 months old. My mother was an unwed woman and my father had refused to marry her. I was born in Pudukottai and then my mother took me to Matharasanallur where her parents, lived. After ten months, I was given away to the orphanage,” Kumar recounts.
Childhood pictures of Kumar
The orphanage’s documents identify Kumar’s mother as a woman named Mary and her father as Soosai. When he was just two years old, Kumar was taken in by his white parents and together the family moved to Ohio, which he still calls home. His mother worked as a scientist and academic while his father, who passed away recently, was a software engineer. Kumar says that his adoptive parents and sister were supportive of his decision to look for his birth parents.
“I’m aware that my birth mother would most likely have got married and have a family. All I want is that, if she is comfortable with meeting, I would like to spend some time with her or any other member of my birth family. But I don’t intend to shift base to India or live with them permanently,” Kumar tells TNM.
Picture of Kumar in the orphanage
Challenges
In the last few weeks, Kumar – along with Arun and Anjali – has done tons of interviews with local persons to find leads on his family. However, none of these interviews have thrown up any results. “We found one woman named Mary and a man named Soosai. But a DNA test showed that they were not Kumar’s family members,” Arun explained to TNM.
Usually, it is possible to trace at least one or two persons mentioned in the orphanage documents. But in Kumar’s case, none of the witnesses or family members could be traced.
While trying to reunite an adopted child with their birth parents, lack of documentation is a challenge, especially if the orphanage is no longer functioning. “When we search for the orphanage or agency, we find that it is shut down and nobody knows where the files are,” Arun says. But in Kumar’s case, SOC SEAD had details of his adoption. The issue was with the lack of verification. “The adoption happened in 1991. At that time, birth families didn’t have to produce their Aadhar cards or other photo IDs to verify their identity. So there is a chance that the information provided about the family was not accurate,” Arun explains.
Kumar says that he hopes adoption of Indian children to foreign countries is stopped. “The government should find a way to keep the children here, and provide resources and facilities for their care and well-being. In so many of these adoption cases, children are trafficked. In cases where they are not trafficked too, the agencies and orphanages still make a lot of money by sending children abroad with couples who are not Indian. This racket has to stop,” he says. |
https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/Hundreds-of-Alabama-systems-apply-for-water-17056370.php | MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — More than 400 Alabama water and sewer systems have applied for grants funded by pandemic relief money, according to the Alabama Department of Environmental Management.
Alabama lawmakers this winter voted to use $225 million out of the state's share of American Rescue Plan funding to fund high-need water and sewer projects.
“This is an historic opportunity to address longstanding water and sewer needs to benefit hundreds of thousands, and potentially millions, of Alabamians,” ADEM Director Lance LeFleur said in a statement.
The state will use $120 million for previously identified emergency or high-need projects and will not require a local match; $100 million for grants that may require a local match based on ability to pay; and $5 million to address longstanding problems in the Black Belt region of the state.
Rep. Kelvin Lawrence, a Democrat from Hayneville, said in a press release that the funding could be life-changing for many people in his Black Belt district. Wastewater treatment is a decades-old problem in parts of the area, where poor communities often lack traditional sewer lines. Septic tank systems are a poor alternative in some areas because the region’s heavy clay soil traps water near the surface.
“Whether you’re rich, poor, young or old, black or white, it doesn’t matter. Every citizen in the state of Alabama should be afforded the opportunity to have clean drinking water and also to dispose of their waste in a proper way so they won’t have to worry about dealing with health issues,” Lawrence said.
The Justice Department said had started an environmental justice investigation into impoverished Lowndes County’s wastewater problems, which have left some residents with sewage in their yards. | 0 | 75,346 | 0 | https://www.myjournalcourier.com/news/article/Hundreds-of-Alabama-systems-apply-for-water-17056370.php | 2022-04-04 16:44:14+00:00 | MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — More than 400 Alabama water and sewer systems have applied for grants funded by pandemic relief money, according to the Alabama Department of Environmental Management.
Alabama lawmakers this winter voted to use $225 million out of the state's share of American Rescue Plan funding to fund high-need water and sewer projects.
“This is an historic opportunity to address longstanding water and sewer needs to benefit hundreds of thousands, and potentially millions, of Alabamians,” ADEM Director Lance LeFleur said in a statement.
The state will use $120 million for previously identified emergency or high-need projects and will not require a local match; $100 million for grants that may require a local match based on ability to pay; and $5 million to address longstanding problems in the Black Belt region of the state.
Rep. Kelvin Lawrence, a Democrat from Hayneville, said in a press release that the funding could be life-changing for many people in his Black Belt district. Wastewater treatment is a decades-old problem in parts of the area, where poor communities often lack traditional sewer lines. Septic tank systems are a poor alternative in some areas because the region’s heavy clay soil traps water near the surface.
“Whether you’re rich, poor, young or old, black or white, it doesn’t matter. Every citizen in the state of Alabama should be afforded the opportunity to have clean drinking water and also to dispose of their waste in a proper way so they won’t have to worry about dealing with health issues,” Lawrence said.
The Justice Department said had started an environmental justice investigation into impoverished Lowndes County’s wastewater problems, which have left some residents with sewage in their yards. |
https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/Hundreds-of-Alabama-systems-apply-for-water-17056370.php | MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — More than 400 Alabama water and sewer systems have applied for grants funded by pandemic relief money, according to the Alabama Department of Environmental Management.
Alabama lawmakers this winter voted to use $225 million out of the state's share of American Rescue Plan funding to fund high-need water and sewer projects.
“This is an historic opportunity to address longstanding water and sewer needs to benefit hundreds of thousands, and potentially millions, of Alabamians,” ADEM Director Lance LeFleur said in a statement.
The state will use $120 million for previously identified emergency or high-need projects and will not require a local match; $100 million for grants that may require a local match based on ability to pay; and $5 million to address longstanding problems in the Black Belt region of the state.
Rep. Kelvin Lawrence, a Democrat from Hayneville, said in a press release that the funding could be life-changing for many people in his Black Belt district. Wastewater treatment is a decades-old problem in parts of the area, where poor communities often lack traditional sewer lines. Septic tank systems are a poor alternative in some areas because the region’s heavy clay soil traps water near the surface.
“Whether you’re rich, poor, young or old, black or white, it doesn’t matter. Every citizen in the state of Alabama should be afforded the opportunity to have clean drinking water and also to dispose of their waste in a proper way so they won’t have to worry about dealing with health issues,” Lawrence said.
The Justice Department said had started an environmental justice investigation into impoverished Lowndes County’s wastewater problems, which have left some residents with sewage in their yards. | 1 | 75,698 | 0 | https://www.michigansthumb.com/news/article/Hundreds-of-Alabama-systems-apply-for-water-17056370.php | 2022-04-04 16:45:41+00:00 | MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — More than 400 Alabama water and sewer systems have applied for grants funded by pandemic relief money, according to the Alabama Department of Environmental Management.
Alabama lawmakers this winter voted to use $225 million out of the state's share of American Rescue Plan funding to fund high-need water and sewer projects.
“This is an historic opportunity to address longstanding water and sewer needs to benefit hundreds of thousands, and potentially millions, of Alabamians,” ADEM Director Lance LeFleur said in a statement.
The state will use $120 million for previously identified emergency or high-need projects and will not require a local match; $100 million for grants that may require a local match based on ability to pay; and $5 million to address longstanding problems in the Black Belt region of the state.
Rep. Kelvin Lawrence, a Democrat from Hayneville, said in a press release that the funding could be life-changing for many people in his Black Belt district. Wastewater treatment is a decades-old problem in parts of the area, where poor communities often lack traditional sewer lines. Septic tank systems are a poor alternative in some areas because the region’s heavy clay soil traps water near the surface.
“Whether you’re rich, poor, young or old, black or white, it doesn’t matter. Every citizen in the state of Alabama should be afforded the opportunity to have clean drinking water and also to dispose of their waste in a proper way so they won’t have to worry about dealing with health issues,” Lawrence said.
The Justice Department said had started an environmental justice investigation into impoverished Lowndes County’s wastewater problems, which have left some residents with sewage in their yards. |
https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/Hundreds-of-Alabama-systems-apply-for-water-17056370.php | MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — More than 400 Alabama water and sewer systems have applied for grants funded by pandemic relief money, according to the Alabama Department of Environmental Management.
Alabama lawmakers this winter voted to use $225 million out of the state's share of American Rescue Plan funding to fund high-need water and sewer projects.
“This is an historic opportunity to address longstanding water and sewer needs to benefit hundreds of thousands, and potentially millions, of Alabamians,” ADEM Director Lance LeFleur said in a statement.
The state will use $120 million for previously identified emergency or high-need projects and will not require a local match; $100 million for grants that may require a local match based on ability to pay; and $5 million to address longstanding problems in the Black Belt region of the state.
Rep. Kelvin Lawrence, a Democrat from Hayneville, said in a press release that the funding could be life-changing for many people in his Black Belt district. Wastewater treatment is a decades-old problem in parts of the area, where poor communities often lack traditional sewer lines. Septic tank systems are a poor alternative in some areas because the region’s heavy clay soil traps water near the surface.
“Whether you’re rich, poor, young or old, black or white, it doesn’t matter. Every citizen in the state of Alabama should be afforded the opportunity to have clean drinking water and also to dispose of their waste in a proper way so they won’t have to worry about dealing with health issues,” Lawrence said.
The Justice Department said had started an environmental justice investigation into impoverished Lowndes County’s wastewater problems, which have left some residents with sewage in their yards. | 2 | 76,291 | 0 | https://www.stamfordadvocate.com/news/article/Hundreds-of-Alabama-systems-apply-for-water-17056370.php | 2022-04-04 16:48:00+00:00 | MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — More than 400 Alabama water and sewer systems have applied for grants funded by pandemic relief money, according to the Alabama Department of Environmental Management.
Alabama lawmakers this winter voted to use $225 million out of the state's share of American Rescue Plan funding to fund high-need water and sewer projects.
“This is an historic opportunity to address longstanding water and sewer needs to benefit hundreds of thousands, and potentially millions, of Alabamians,” ADEM Director Lance LeFleur said in a statement.
The state will use $120 million for previously identified emergency or high-need projects and will not require a local match; $100 million for grants that may require a local match based on ability to pay; and $5 million to address longstanding problems in the Black Belt region of the state.
Rep. Kelvin Lawrence, a Democrat from Hayneville, said in a press release that the funding could be life-changing for many people in his Black Belt district. Wastewater treatment is a decades-old problem in parts of the area, where poor communities often lack traditional sewer lines. Septic tank systems are a poor alternative in some areas because the region’s heavy clay soil traps water near the surface.
“Whether you’re rich, poor, young or old, black or white, it doesn’t matter. Every citizen in the state of Alabama should be afforded the opportunity to have clean drinking water and also to dispose of their waste in a proper way so they won’t have to worry about dealing with health issues,” Lawrence said.
The Justice Department said had started an environmental justice investigation into impoverished Lowndes County’s wastewater problems, which have left some residents with sewage in their yards. |
https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/Lenawee-County-deputy-shoots-man-suspected-of-17056262.php | ADRIAN, Mich. (AP) — A sheriff's deputy has shot and wounded a man suspected of firing a gun at a southern Michigan home.
The man was shot about 1:15 a.m. Sunday after the Lenawee County deputy found him hiding in a vacant lot in Adrian, about 72 miles (115 kilometers) southwest of Detroit, according to authorities.
The man was listed in critical condition at a hospital.
Adrian police had requested help from the sheriff's office in finding the man, the sheriff's office said in a release.
The deputy, a 31-year sheriff's veteran, was not injured and has been placed on administrative leave pending an investigation by the state police. | 0 | 65,468 | 0 | https://www.thetelegraph.com/news/article/Lenawee-County-deputy-shoots-man-suspected-of-17056262.php | 2022-04-04 16:03:38+00:00 | ADRIAN, Mich. (AP) — A sheriff's deputy has shot and wounded a man suspected of firing a gun at a southern Michigan home.
The man was shot about 1:15 a.m. Sunday after the Lenawee County deputy found him hiding in a vacant lot in Adrian, about 72 miles (115 kilometers) southwest of Detroit, according to authorities.
The man was listed in critical condition at a hospital.
Adrian police had requested help from the sheriff's office in finding the man, the sheriff's office said in a release.
The deputy, a 31-year sheriff's veteran, was not injured and has been placed on administrative leave pending an investigation by the state police. |
https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/Lenawee-County-deputy-shoots-man-suspected-of-17056262.php | ADRIAN, Mich. (AP) — A sheriff's deputy has shot and wounded a man suspected of firing a gun at a southern Michigan home.
The man was shot about 1:15 a.m. Sunday after the Lenawee County deputy found him hiding in a vacant lot in Adrian, about 72 miles (115 kilometers) southwest of Detroit, according to authorities.
The man was listed in critical condition at a hospital.
Adrian police had requested help from the sheriff's office in finding the man, the sheriff's office said in a release.
The deputy, a 31-year sheriff's veteran, was not injured and has been placed on administrative leave pending an investigation by the state police. | 1 | 65,962 | 0 | https://www.trumbulltimes.com/news/article/Lenawee-County-deputy-shoots-man-suspected-of-17056262.php | 2022-04-04 16:05:54+00:00 | ADRIAN, Mich. (AP) — A sheriff's deputy has shot and wounded a man suspected of firing a gun at a southern Michigan home.
The man was shot about 1:15 a.m. Sunday after the Lenawee County deputy found him hiding in a vacant lot in Adrian, about 72 miles (115 kilometers) southwest of Detroit, according to authorities.
The man was listed in critical condition at a hospital.
Adrian police had requested help from the sheriff's office in finding the man, the sheriff's office said in a release.
The deputy, a 31-year sheriff's veteran, was not injured and has been placed on administrative leave pending an investigation by the state police. |
https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/Lenawee-County-deputy-shoots-man-suspected-of-17056262.php | ADRIAN, Mich. (AP) — A sheriff's deputy has shot and wounded a man suspected of firing a gun at a southern Michigan home.
The man was shot about 1:15 a.m. Sunday after the Lenawee County deputy found him hiding in a vacant lot in Adrian, about 72 miles (115 kilometers) southwest of Detroit, according to authorities.
The man was listed in critical condition at a hospital.
Adrian police had requested help from the sheriff's office in finding the man, the sheriff's office said in a release.
The deputy, a 31-year sheriff's veteran, was not injured and has been placed on administrative leave pending an investigation by the state police. | 2 | 67,382 | 0 | https://www.newstimes.com/news/article/Lenawee-County-deputy-shoots-man-suspected-of-17056262.php | 2022-04-04 16:12:51+00:00 | ADRIAN, Mich. (AP) — A sheriff's deputy has shot and wounded a man suspected of firing a gun at a southern Michigan home.
The man was shot about 1:15 a.m. Sunday after the Lenawee County deputy found him hiding in a vacant lot in Adrian, about 72 miles (115 kilometers) southwest of Detroit, according to authorities.
The man was listed in critical condition at a hospital.
Adrian police had requested help from the sheriff's office in finding the man, the sheriff's office said in a release.
The deputy, a 31-year sheriff's veteran, was not injured and has been placed on administrative leave pending an investigation by the state police. |
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/article-10684963/German-agency-takes-charge-subsidiary-Russias-Gazprom.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | German agency takes charge of subsidiary of Russia's Gazprom
BERLIN (AP) - Germany on Monday put a government agency in charge of a longtime German subsidiary of Russia's state-owned energy giant Gazprom after an opaque move last week by the parent company to cut ties with the unit.
Economy Minister Robert Habeck said Germany´s network regulator has been appointed as Gazprom Germania´s trustee until Sept. 30, with the right to dismiss and appoint managers. He said it is meant as a temporary measure to bring "order to the conditions" at the company.
"The German government is doing what is necessary to ensure security of supplies in Germany, and that includes not exposing energy infrastructure in Germany to arbitrary decisions by the Kremlin," Habeck said.
He said Gazprom announced it was withdrawing from Gazprom Germania but didn´t give details on the new owners, which violates German rules on reporting acquisitions.
He said the unit is "of paramount significance" to natural gas trade, transport and storage in Germany and also is active in Switzerland and the Czech Republic.
The minister said officials have found out about an "indirect acquisition" of Gazprom Germania by entities called JSC Palmary and Gazprom Export Business Services LLC.
Minister for Economic Affairs and Climate Protection Robert Habeck speaks on a press conference on the nature-friendly expansion of wind energy in Berlin, Germany, Monday, April 4, 2022. Germany has faced criticism for opposing an immediate halt to Russian energy deliveries. The country says it hopes to end Russian coal imports this summer and oil imports by the end of the year, but halting Russian gas will take longer. (Michael Kappeler/dpa via AP)
He said German law calls for his ministry to give permission for acquisitions of critical infrastructure by any non-European Union investor, but it´s unclear who is behind those companies. He also said the buyer ordered Gazprom Germania´s liquidation, which isn´t allowed before a purchase has been approved.
It wasn't immediately clear what was behind Gazprom's move, which came amid tensions between Russia and Europe over natural gas deliveries.
Germany, which gets about 40% of its gas from Russia, is moving to reduce its dependence on Russian gas but has resisted calls for an immediate embargo on Russian energy imports.
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Follow all AP stories on developments related to Russia's invasion of Ukraine at https://apnews.com/russia-ukraine. | 0 | 97,708 | 0.130117 | https://www.mymotherlode.com/news/europe/2456793/german-agency-takes-charge-of-subsidiary-of-russias-gazprom.html | 2022-04-04 18:26:51+00:00 | German agency takes charge of subsidiary of Russia’s Gazprom
BERLIN (AP) — Germany on Monday put a government agency in charge of a longtime German subsidiary of Russia’s state-owned energy giant Gazprom after an opaque move last week by the parent company to cut ties with the unit.
Economy Minister Robert Habeck said Germany’s network regulator has been appointed as Gazprom Germania’s trustee until Sept. 30, with the right to dismiss and appoint managers. He said it is meant as a temporary measure to bring “order to the conditions” at the company.
“The German government is doing what is necessary to ensure security of supplies in Germany, and that includes not exposing energy infrastructure in Germany to arbitrary decisions by the Kremlin,” Habeck said.
He said Gazprom announced it was withdrawing from Gazprom Germania but didn’t give details on the new owners, which violates German rules on reporting acquisitions.
He said the unit is “of paramount significance” to natural gas trade, transport and storage in Germany and also is active in Switzerland and the Czech Republic.
The minister said officials have found out about an “indirect acquisition” of Gazprom Germania by entities called JSC Palmary and Gazprom Export Business Services LLC.
He said German law calls for his ministry to give permission for acquisitions of critical infrastructure by any non-European Union investor, but it’s unclear who is behind those companies. He also said the buyer ordered Gazprom Germania’s liquidation, which isn’t allowed before a purchase has been approved.
It wasn’t immediately clear what was behind Gazprom’s move, which came amid tensions between Russia and Europe over natural gas deliveries.
Germany, which gets about 40% of its gas from Russia, is moving to reduce its dependence on Russian gas but has resisted calls for an immediate embargo on Russian energy imports.
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This story corrects the name of one of the entities to JSC Palmary.
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Follow all AP stories on developments related to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine at https://apnews.com/russia-ukraine. |
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/article-10684963/German-agency-takes-charge-subsidiary-Russias-Gazprom.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | German agency takes charge of subsidiary of Russia's Gazprom
BERLIN (AP) - Germany on Monday put a government agency in charge of a longtime German subsidiary of Russia's state-owned energy giant Gazprom after an opaque move last week by the parent company to cut ties with the unit.
Economy Minister Robert Habeck said Germany´s network regulator has been appointed as Gazprom Germania´s trustee until Sept. 30, with the right to dismiss and appoint managers. He said it is meant as a temporary measure to bring "order to the conditions" at the company.
"The German government is doing what is necessary to ensure security of supplies in Germany, and that includes not exposing energy infrastructure in Germany to arbitrary decisions by the Kremlin," Habeck said.
He said Gazprom announced it was withdrawing from Gazprom Germania but didn´t give details on the new owners, which violates German rules on reporting acquisitions.
He said the unit is "of paramount significance" to natural gas trade, transport and storage in Germany and also is active in Switzerland and the Czech Republic.
The minister said officials have found out about an "indirect acquisition" of Gazprom Germania by entities called JSC Palmary and Gazprom Export Business Services LLC.
Minister for Economic Affairs and Climate Protection Robert Habeck speaks on a press conference on the nature-friendly expansion of wind energy in Berlin, Germany, Monday, April 4, 2022. Germany has faced criticism for opposing an immediate halt to Russian energy deliveries. The country says it hopes to end Russian coal imports this summer and oil imports by the end of the year, but halting Russian gas will take longer. (Michael Kappeler/dpa via AP)
He said German law calls for his ministry to give permission for acquisitions of critical infrastructure by any non-European Union investor, but it´s unclear who is behind those companies. He also said the buyer ordered Gazprom Germania´s liquidation, which isn´t allowed before a purchase has been approved.
It wasn't immediately clear what was behind Gazprom's move, which came amid tensions between Russia and Europe over natural gas deliveries.
Germany, which gets about 40% of its gas from Russia, is moving to reduce its dependence on Russian gas but has resisted calls for an immediate embargo on Russian energy imports.
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This story corrects the name of one of the entities to JSC Palmary.
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Follow all AP stories on developments related to Russia's invasion of Ukraine at https://apnews.com/russia-ukraine. | 1 | 86,492 | 0.143926 | https://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory/german-agency-takes-charge-subsidiary-russias-gazprom-83867052 | 2022-04-04 17:36:45+00:00 | German agency takes charge of subsidiary of Russia's Gazprom
Germany has put a government agency in charge of a longtime German subsidiary of Russia’s state-owned energy giant Gazprom after an opaque move last week by the parent company to cut ties with the unit
BERLIN -- Germany on Monday put a government agency in charge of a longtime German subsidiary of Russia's state-owned energy giant Gazprom after an opaque move last week by the parent company to cut ties with the unit.
Economy Minister Robert Habeck said Germany’s network regulator has been appointed as Gazprom Germania’s trustee until Sept. 30, with the right to dismiss and appoint managers. He said it is meant as a temporary measure to bring “order to the conditions” at the company.
“The German government is doing what is necessary to ensure security of supplies in Germany, and that includes not exposing energy infrastructure in Germany to arbitrary decisions by the Kremlin,” Habeck said.
He said Gazprom announced it was withdrawing from Gazprom Germania but didn’t give details on the new owners, which violates German rules on reporting acquisitions.
He said the unit is “of paramount significance” to natural gas trade, transport and storage in Germany and also is active in Switzerland and the Czech Republic.
The minister said officials have found out about an “indirect acquisition” of Gazprom Germania by entities called JSC Palmary and Gazprom Export Business Services LLC.
He said German law calls for his ministry to give permission for acquisitions of critical infrastructure by any non-European Union investor, but it’s unclear who is behind those companies. He also said the buyer ordered Gazprom Germania’s liquidation, which isn’t allowed before a purchase has been approved.
It wasn't immediately clear what was behind Gazprom's move, which came amid tensions between Russia and Europe over natural gas deliveries.
Germany, which gets about 40% of its gas from Russia, is moving to reduce its dependence on Russian gas but has resisted calls for an immediate embargo on Russian energy imports.
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This story corrects the name of one of the entities to JSC Palmary.
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Follow all AP stories on developments related to Russia's invasion of Ukraine at https://apnews.com/russia-ukraine. |
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/article-10684963/German-agency-takes-charge-subsidiary-Russias-Gazprom.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | German agency takes charge of subsidiary of Russia's Gazprom
BERLIN (AP) - Germany on Monday put a government agency in charge of a longtime German subsidiary of Russia's state-owned energy giant Gazprom after an opaque move last week by the parent company to cut ties with the unit.
Economy Minister Robert Habeck said Germany´s network regulator has been appointed as Gazprom Germania´s trustee until Sept. 30, with the right to dismiss and appoint managers. He said it is meant as a temporary measure to bring "order to the conditions" at the company.
"The German government is doing what is necessary to ensure security of supplies in Germany, and that includes not exposing energy infrastructure in Germany to arbitrary decisions by the Kremlin," Habeck said.
He said Gazprom announced it was withdrawing from Gazprom Germania but didn´t give details on the new owners, which violates German rules on reporting acquisitions.
He said the unit is "of paramount significance" to natural gas trade, transport and storage in Germany and also is active in Switzerland and the Czech Republic.
The minister said officials have found out about an "indirect acquisition" of Gazprom Germania by entities called JSC Palmary and Gazprom Export Business Services LLC.
Minister for Economic Affairs and Climate Protection Robert Habeck speaks on a press conference on the nature-friendly expansion of wind energy in Berlin, Germany, Monday, April 4, 2022. Germany has faced criticism for opposing an immediate halt to Russian energy deliveries. The country says it hopes to end Russian coal imports this summer and oil imports by the end of the year, but halting Russian gas will take longer. (Michael Kappeler/dpa via AP)
He said German law calls for his ministry to give permission for acquisitions of critical infrastructure by any non-European Union investor, but it´s unclear who is behind those companies. He also said the buyer ordered Gazprom Germania´s liquidation, which isn´t allowed before a purchase has been approved.
It wasn't immediately clear what was behind Gazprom's move, which came amid tensions between Russia and Europe over natural gas deliveries.
Germany, which gets about 40% of its gas from Russia, is moving to reduce its dependence on Russian gas but has resisted calls for an immediate embargo on Russian energy imports.
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This story corrects the name of one of the entities to JSC Palmary.
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Follow all AP stories on developments related to Russia's invasion of Ukraine at https://apnews.com/russia-ukraine. | 2 | 59,292 | 0.203398 | https://m.startribune.com/german-agency-takes-charge-of-subsidiary-of-russias-gazprom/600162062/ | 2022-04-07 00:56:09+00:00 | BERLIN — Germany on Monday put a government agency in charge of a longtime German subsidiary of Russia's state-owned energy giant Gazprom after an opaque move last week by the parent company to cut ties with the unit.
Economy Minister Robert Habeck said Germany's network regulator has been appointed as Gazprom Germania's trustee until Sept. 30, with the right to dismiss and appoint managers. He said it is meant as a temporary measure to bring "order to the conditions" at the company.
"The German government is doing what is necessary to ensure security of supplies in Germany, and that includes not exposing energy infrastructure in Germany to arbitrary decisions by the Kremlin," Habeck said.
He said Gazprom announced it was withdrawing from Gazprom Germania but didn't give details on the new owners, which violates German rules on reporting acquisitions.
He said the unit is "of paramount significance" to natural gas trade, transport and storage in Germany and also is active in Switzerland and the Czech Republic.
The minister said officials have found out about an "indirect acquisition" of Gazprom Germania by entities called JSC Palmary and Gazprom Export Business Services LLC.
He said German law calls for his ministry to give permission for acquisitions of critical infrastructure by any non-European Union investor, but it's unclear who is behind those companies. He also said the buyer ordered Gazprom Germania's liquidation, which isn't allowed before a purchase has been approved.
It wasn't immediately clear what was behind Gazprom's move, which came amid tensions between Russia and Europe over natural gas deliveries.
Germany, which gets about 40% of its gas from Russia, is moving to reduce its dependence on Russian gas but has resisted calls for an immediate embargo on Russian energy imports.
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This story corrects the name of one of the entities to JSC Palmary.
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https://www.registercitizen.com/news/article/EXPLAINER-Charges-at-Michigan-governor-kidnap-17056438.php | CHICAGO (AP) — Jurors are deliberating at the trial of four men accused of plotting to abduct Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in 2020. They began going through evidence on Monday after some four weeks of testimony in U.S. District Court in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Here’s a look at the charges and what's required to secure convictions:
WHO ARE THE DEFENDANTS?
Six men were initially charged but two pleaded guilty before trial.
The remaining defendants include Adam Fox, described by prosecutors as the plot’s ringleader. He and co-defendant Barry Croft Jr. were affiliated with the “Three Percenter” far-right anti-government movement. Prosecutors say the other two defendants, Daniel Harris and Brandon Caserta, were members of the Wolverine Watchmen, a self-styled militia with similar views.
Ty Garbin pleaded guilty last year and Kaleb Franks joined him in February. Both were star government witnesses at trial.
WHAT ARE THE CHARGES?
All four are charged with kidnapping conspiracy.
According to prosecutors, the defendants plotted from June to October 2020 to abduct Whitmer from her vacation home in northern Michigan because they were infuriated by what they saw as her overly restrictive policies during the pandemic.
Fox, Croft and Harris are also charged with conspiracy to use a weapon of mass destruction. Prosecutors said they sought to construct and buy explosives, with the aim of destroying a bridge near Whitmer's cottage to stymie police during the kidnapping.
Croft and Harris are charged with possession of an unregistered destructive device — a firework wrapped with pennies that could serve as shrapnel.
Harris is the only one charged with possession of a semiautomatic assault rifle with a barrel less than 16 inches long that wasn’t registered to him.
WHAT ARE THE POTENTIAL SENTENCES?
The kidnapping conspiracy and conspiracy to use a weapon of mass destruction charges carry maximum life sentences.
The maximum sentence for possession of an unregistered destructive device is 10 years, and Harris could face up to three years in prison if convicted of the semiautomatic rifle charge.
Garbin has already been sentenced to six years in prison, and Franks is expected to receive a lighter sentence than if he had lost at trial.
WHAT’S REQUIRED FOR CONVICTIONS?
The defendants never achieved their purported goal of kidnapping Whitmer. Unbeknownst to them, the FBI had infiltrated their group and was closely monitoring them. They were arrested in October 2020.
Defense attorneys portrayed their clients as weekend warriors prone to big, wild talk, who were often stoned. To prove it was deadly serious, prosecutors entered evidence showing the defendants took specific steps, referred to as “overt acts," toward implementing their plans.
Jury instructions explain that convictions on the kidnapping and weapons conspiracy charges require evidence that each defendant committed at least one of the long list of overt acts in the indictment.
Proof that a defendant simply knew about the conspiracy or associated with members of the conspiracy isn't enough.
WHAT ARE THE ALLEGED OVERT ACTS?
They include that Fox proposed the kidnapping of Whitmer on Aug. 23, 2020, during a meeting with Harris and Caserta. Another is that the men scrutinized each other’s IDs in a bid to ensure no one was an undercover agent.
Another is that Fox, Croft, Harris and Caserta held field-training exercises in September 2020, practicing tactics for fighting Whitmer's security detail.
The indictment attributes another overt act on Oct. 7, 2020, to Caserta, alleging he instructed co-conspirators that, if they encountered police, they should give the officers one chance to leave, then kill them.
Alleged overt acts on the weapons of mass destruction charge include that Harris boasted on May 1, 2020, that he was a Marine Corps veteran who “can make things go boom if you give me what I need.”
WHAT'S THE ROLE OF ENTRAPMENT?
The defense mounted an entrapment defense at trial, accusing the FBI of engaging in the barred investigatory practice. Jurors who find authorities tricked or cajoled targets into committing crimes they showed no predisposition to commit are supposed to return with not guilty verdicts.
Prosecutors have the burden of proving defendants weren’t entrapped. At trial, they sought to show that not only were the men were predisposed to joining the kidnap plot but that they discussed such schemes before the FBI sting began.
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Find AP’s full coverage of the Whitmer kidnap plot trial at: https://apnews.com/hub/whitmer-kidnap-plot-trial | 0 | 79,107 | 0 | https://www.ctinsider.com/news/article/EXPLAINER-Charges-at-Michigan-governor-kidnap-17056438.php | 2022-04-04 17:02:15+00:00 | CHICAGO (AP) — Jurors are deliberating at the trial of four men accused of plotting to abduct Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in 2020. They began going through evidence on Monday after some four weeks of testimony in U.S. District Court in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Here’s a look at the charges and what's required to secure convictions:
WHO ARE THE DEFENDANTS?
Six men were initially charged but two pleaded guilty before trial.
The remaining defendants include Adam Fox, described by prosecutors as the plot’s ringleader. He and co-defendant Barry Croft Jr. were affiliated with the “Three Percenter” far-right anti-government movement. Prosecutors say the other two defendants, Daniel Harris and Brandon Caserta, were members of the Wolverine Watchmen, a self-styled militia with similar views.
Ty Garbin pleaded guilty last year and Kaleb Franks joined him in February. Both were star government witnesses at trial.
WHAT ARE THE CHARGES?
All four are charged with kidnapping conspiracy.
According to prosecutors, the defendants plotted from June to October 2020 to abduct Whitmer from her vacation home in northern Michigan because they were infuriated by what they saw as her overly restrictive policies during the pandemic.
Fox, Croft and Harris are also charged with conspiracy to use a weapon of mass destruction. Prosecutors said they sought to construct and buy explosives, with the aim of destroying a bridge near Whitmer's cottage to stymie police during the kidnapping.
Croft and Harris are charged with possession of an unregistered destructive device — a firework wrapped with pennies that could serve as shrapnel.
Harris is the only one charged with possession of a semiautomatic assault rifle with a barrel less than 16 inches long that wasn’t registered to him.
WHAT ARE THE POTENTIAL SENTENCES?
The kidnapping conspiracy and conspiracy to use a weapon of mass destruction charges carry maximum life sentences.
The maximum sentence for possession of an unregistered destructive device is 10 years, and Harris could face up to three years in prison if convicted of the semiautomatic rifle charge.
Garbin has already been sentenced to six years in prison, and Franks is expected to receive a lighter sentence than if he had lost at trial.
WHAT’S REQUIRED FOR CONVICTIONS?
The defendants never achieved their purported goal of kidnapping Whitmer. Unbeknownst to them, the FBI had infiltrated their group and was closely monitoring them. They were arrested in October 2020.
Defense attorneys portrayed their clients as weekend warriors prone to big, wild talk, who were often stoned. To prove it was deadly serious, prosecutors entered evidence showing the defendants took specific steps, referred to as “overt acts," toward implementing their plans.
Jury instructions explain that convictions on the kidnapping and weapons conspiracy charges require evidence that each defendant committed at least one of the long list of overt acts in the indictment.
Proof that a defendant simply knew about the conspiracy or associated with members of the conspiracy isn't enough.
WHAT ARE THE ALLEGED OVERT ACTS?
They include that Fox proposed the kidnapping of Whitmer on Aug. 23, 2020, during a meeting with Harris and Caserta. Another is that the men scrutinized each other’s IDs in a bid to ensure no one was an undercover agent.
Another is that Fox, Croft, Harris and Caserta held field-training exercises in September 2020, practicing tactics for fighting Whitmer's security detail.
The indictment attributes another overt act on Oct. 7, 2020, to Caserta, alleging he instructed co-conspirators that, if they encountered police, they should give the officers one chance to leave, then kill them.
Alleged overt acts on the weapons of mass destruction charge include that Harris boasted on May 1, 2020, that he was a Marine Corps veteran who “can make things go boom if you give me what I need.”
WHAT'S THE ROLE OF ENTRAPMENT?
The defense mounted an entrapment defense at trial, accusing the FBI of engaging in the barred investigatory practice. Jurors who find authorities tricked or cajoled targets into committing crimes they showed no predisposition to commit are supposed to return with not guilty verdicts.
Prosecutors have the burden of proving defendants weren’t entrapped. At trial, they sought to show that not only were the men were predisposed to joining the kidnap plot but that they discussed such schemes before the FBI sting began.
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Find AP’s full coverage of the Whitmer kidnap plot trial at: https://apnews.com/hub/whitmer-kidnap-plot-trial |
https://www.registercitizen.com/news/article/EXPLAINER-Charges-at-Michigan-governor-kidnap-17056438.php | CHICAGO (AP) — Jurors are deliberating at the trial of four men accused of plotting to abduct Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in 2020. They began going through evidence on Monday after some four weeks of testimony in U.S. District Court in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Here’s a look at the charges and what's required to secure convictions:
WHO ARE THE DEFENDANTS?
Six men were initially charged but two pleaded guilty before trial.
The remaining defendants include Adam Fox, described by prosecutors as the plot’s ringleader. He and co-defendant Barry Croft Jr. were affiliated with the “Three Percenter” far-right anti-government movement. Prosecutors say the other two defendants, Daniel Harris and Brandon Caserta, were members of the Wolverine Watchmen, a self-styled militia with similar views.
Ty Garbin pleaded guilty last year and Kaleb Franks joined him in February. Both were star government witnesses at trial.
WHAT ARE THE CHARGES?
All four are charged with kidnapping conspiracy.
According to prosecutors, the defendants plotted from June to October 2020 to abduct Whitmer from her vacation home in northern Michigan because they were infuriated by what they saw as her overly restrictive policies during the pandemic.
Fox, Croft and Harris are also charged with conspiracy to use a weapon of mass destruction. Prosecutors said they sought to construct and buy explosives, with the aim of destroying a bridge near Whitmer's cottage to stymie police during the kidnapping.
Croft and Harris are charged with possession of an unregistered destructive device — a firework wrapped with pennies that could serve as shrapnel.
Harris is the only one charged with possession of a semiautomatic assault rifle with a barrel less than 16 inches long that wasn’t registered to him.
WHAT ARE THE POTENTIAL SENTENCES?
The kidnapping conspiracy and conspiracy to use a weapon of mass destruction charges carry maximum life sentences.
The maximum sentence for possession of an unregistered destructive device is 10 years, and Harris could face up to three years in prison if convicted of the semiautomatic rifle charge.
Garbin has already been sentenced to six years in prison, and Franks is expected to receive a lighter sentence than if he had lost at trial.
WHAT’S REQUIRED FOR CONVICTIONS?
The defendants never achieved their purported goal of kidnapping Whitmer. Unbeknownst to them, the FBI had infiltrated their group and was closely monitoring them. They were arrested in October 2020.
Defense attorneys portrayed their clients as weekend warriors prone to big, wild talk, who were often stoned. To prove it was deadly serious, prosecutors entered evidence showing the defendants took specific steps, referred to as “overt acts," toward implementing their plans.
Jury instructions explain that convictions on the kidnapping and weapons conspiracy charges require evidence that each defendant committed at least one of the long list of overt acts in the indictment.
Proof that a defendant simply knew about the conspiracy or associated with members of the conspiracy isn't enough.
WHAT ARE THE ALLEGED OVERT ACTS?
They include that Fox proposed the kidnapping of Whitmer on Aug. 23, 2020, during a meeting with Harris and Caserta. Another is that the men scrutinized each other’s IDs in a bid to ensure no one was an undercover agent.
Another is that Fox, Croft, Harris and Caserta held field-training exercises in September 2020, practicing tactics for fighting Whitmer's security detail.
The indictment attributes another overt act on Oct. 7, 2020, to Caserta, alleging he instructed co-conspirators that, if they encountered police, they should give the officers one chance to leave, then kill them.
Alleged overt acts on the weapons of mass destruction charge include that Harris boasted on May 1, 2020, that he was a Marine Corps veteran who “can make things go boom if you give me what I need.”
WHAT'S THE ROLE OF ENTRAPMENT?
The defense mounted an entrapment defense at trial, accusing the FBI of engaging in the barred investigatory practice. Jurors who find authorities tricked or cajoled targets into committing crimes they showed no predisposition to commit are supposed to return with not guilty verdicts.
Prosecutors have the burden of proving defendants weren’t entrapped. At trial, they sought to show that not only were the men were predisposed to joining the kidnap plot but that they discussed such schemes before the FBI sting began.
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Find AP’s full coverage of the Whitmer kidnap plot trial at: https://apnews.com/hub/whitmer-kidnap-plot-trial | 1 | 80,018 | 0 | https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/EXPLAINER-Charges-at-Michigan-governor-kidnap-17056438.php | 2022-04-04 17:07:01+00:00 | CHICAGO (AP) — Jurors are deliberating at the trial of four men accused of plotting to abduct Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in 2020. They began going through evidence on Monday after some four weeks of testimony in U.S. District Court in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Here’s a look at the charges and what's required to secure convictions:
WHO ARE THE DEFENDANTS?
Six men were initially charged but two pleaded guilty before trial.
The remaining defendants include Adam Fox, described by prosecutors as the plot’s ringleader. He and co-defendant Barry Croft Jr. were affiliated with the “Three Percenter” far-right anti-government movement. Prosecutors say the other two defendants, Daniel Harris and Brandon Caserta, were members of the Wolverine Watchmen, a self-styled militia with similar views.
Ty Garbin pleaded guilty last year and Kaleb Franks joined him in February. Both were star government witnesses at trial.
WHAT ARE THE CHARGES?
All four are charged with kidnapping conspiracy.
According to prosecutors, the defendants plotted from June to October 2020 to abduct Whitmer from her vacation home in northern Michigan because they were infuriated by what they saw as her overly restrictive policies during the pandemic.
Fox, Croft and Harris are also charged with conspiracy to use a weapon of mass destruction. Prosecutors said they sought to construct and buy explosives, with the aim of destroying a bridge near Whitmer's cottage to stymie police during the kidnapping.
Croft and Harris are charged with possession of an unregistered destructive device — a firework wrapped with pennies that could serve as shrapnel.
Harris is the only one charged with possession of a semiautomatic assault rifle with a barrel less than 16 inches long that wasn’t registered to him.
WHAT ARE THE POTENTIAL SENTENCES?
The kidnapping conspiracy and conspiracy to use a weapon of mass destruction charges carry maximum life sentences.
The maximum sentence for possession of an unregistered destructive device is 10 years, and Harris could face up to three years in prison if convicted of the semiautomatic rifle charge.
Garbin has already been sentenced to six years in prison, and Franks is expected to receive a lighter sentence than if he had lost at trial.
WHAT’S REQUIRED FOR CONVICTIONS?
The defendants never achieved their purported goal of kidnapping Whitmer. Unbeknownst to them, the FBI had infiltrated their group and was closely monitoring them. They were arrested in October 2020.
Defense attorneys portrayed their clients as weekend warriors prone to big, wild talk, who were often stoned. To prove it was deadly serious, prosecutors entered evidence showing the defendants took specific steps, referred to as “overt acts," toward implementing their plans.
Jury instructions explain that convictions on the kidnapping and weapons conspiracy charges require evidence that each defendant committed at least one of the long list of overt acts in the indictment.
Proof that a defendant simply knew about the conspiracy or associated with members of the conspiracy isn't enough.
WHAT ARE THE ALLEGED OVERT ACTS?
They include that Fox proposed the kidnapping of Whitmer on Aug. 23, 2020, during a meeting with Harris and Caserta. Another is that the men scrutinized each other’s IDs in a bid to ensure no one was an undercover agent.
Another is that Fox, Croft, Harris and Caserta held field-training exercises in September 2020, practicing tactics for fighting Whitmer's security detail.
The indictment attributes another overt act on Oct. 7, 2020, to Caserta, alleging he instructed co-conspirators that, if they encountered police, they should give the officers one chance to leave, then kill them.
Alleged overt acts on the weapons of mass destruction charge include that Harris boasted on May 1, 2020, that he was a Marine Corps veteran who “can make things go boom if you give me what I need.”
WHAT'S THE ROLE OF ENTRAPMENT?
The defense mounted an entrapment defense at trial, accusing the FBI of engaging in the barred investigatory practice. Jurors who find authorities tricked or cajoled targets into committing crimes they showed no predisposition to commit are supposed to return with not guilty verdicts.
Prosecutors have the burden of proving defendants weren’t entrapped. At trial, they sought to show that not only were the men were predisposed to joining the kidnap plot but that they discussed such schemes before the FBI sting began.
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Find AP’s full coverage of the Whitmer kidnap plot trial at: https://apnews.com/hub/whitmer-kidnap-plot-trial |
https://www.registercitizen.com/news/article/EXPLAINER-Charges-at-Michigan-governor-kidnap-17056438.php | CHICAGO (AP) — Jurors are deliberating at the trial of four men accused of plotting to abduct Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in 2020. They began going through evidence on Monday after some four weeks of testimony in U.S. District Court in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Here’s a look at the charges and what's required to secure convictions:
WHO ARE THE DEFENDANTS?
Six men were initially charged but two pleaded guilty before trial.
The remaining defendants include Adam Fox, described by prosecutors as the plot’s ringleader. He and co-defendant Barry Croft Jr. were affiliated with the “Three Percenter” far-right anti-government movement. Prosecutors say the other two defendants, Daniel Harris and Brandon Caserta, were members of the Wolverine Watchmen, a self-styled militia with similar views.
Ty Garbin pleaded guilty last year and Kaleb Franks joined him in February. Both were star government witnesses at trial.
WHAT ARE THE CHARGES?
All four are charged with kidnapping conspiracy.
According to prosecutors, the defendants plotted from June to October 2020 to abduct Whitmer from her vacation home in northern Michigan because they were infuriated by what they saw as her overly restrictive policies during the pandemic.
Fox, Croft and Harris are also charged with conspiracy to use a weapon of mass destruction. Prosecutors said they sought to construct and buy explosives, with the aim of destroying a bridge near Whitmer's cottage to stymie police during the kidnapping.
Croft and Harris are charged with possession of an unregistered destructive device — a firework wrapped with pennies that could serve as shrapnel.
Harris is the only one charged with possession of a semiautomatic assault rifle with a barrel less than 16 inches long that wasn’t registered to him.
WHAT ARE THE POTENTIAL SENTENCES?
The kidnapping conspiracy and conspiracy to use a weapon of mass destruction charges carry maximum life sentences.
The maximum sentence for possession of an unregistered destructive device is 10 years, and Harris could face up to three years in prison if convicted of the semiautomatic rifle charge.
Garbin has already been sentenced to six years in prison, and Franks is expected to receive a lighter sentence than if he had lost at trial.
WHAT’S REQUIRED FOR CONVICTIONS?
The defendants never achieved their purported goal of kidnapping Whitmer. Unbeknownst to them, the FBI had infiltrated their group and was closely monitoring them. They were arrested in October 2020.
Defense attorneys portrayed their clients as weekend warriors prone to big, wild talk, who were often stoned. To prove it was deadly serious, prosecutors entered evidence showing the defendants took specific steps, referred to as “overt acts," toward implementing their plans.
Jury instructions explain that convictions on the kidnapping and weapons conspiracy charges require evidence that each defendant committed at least one of the long list of overt acts in the indictment.
Proof that a defendant simply knew about the conspiracy or associated with members of the conspiracy isn't enough.
WHAT ARE THE ALLEGED OVERT ACTS?
They include that Fox proposed the kidnapping of Whitmer on Aug. 23, 2020, during a meeting with Harris and Caserta. Another is that the men scrutinized each other’s IDs in a bid to ensure no one was an undercover agent.
Another is that Fox, Croft, Harris and Caserta held field-training exercises in September 2020, practicing tactics for fighting Whitmer's security detail.
The indictment attributes another overt act on Oct. 7, 2020, to Caserta, alleging he instructed co-conspirators that, if they encountered police, they should give the officers one chance to leave, then kill them.
Alleged overt acts on the weapons of mass destruction charge include that Harris boasted on May 1, 2020, that he was a Marine Corps veteran who “can make things go boom if you give me what I need.”
WHAT'S THE ROLE OF ENTRAPMENT?
The defense mounted an entrapment defense at trial, accusing the FBI of engaging in the barred investigatory practice. Jurors who find authorities tricked or cajoled targets into committing crimes they showed no predisposition to commit are supposed to return with not guilty verdicts.
Prosecutors have the burden of proving defendants weren’t entrapped. At trial, they sought to show that not only were the men were predisposed to joining the kidnap plot but that they discussed such schemes before the FBI sting began.
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Find AP’s full coverage of the Whitmer kidnap plot trial at: https://apnews.com/hub/whitmer-kidnap-plot-trial | 2 | 80,613 | 0 | https://www.mrt.com/news/article/EXPLAINER-Charges-at-Michigan-governor-kidnap-17056438.php | 2022-04-04 17:09:57+00:00 | CHICAGO (AP) — Jurors are deliberating at the trial of four men accused of plotting to abduct Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in 2020. They began going through evidence on Monday after some four weeks of testimony in U.S. District Court in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Here’s a look at the charges and what's required to secure convictions:
WHO ARE THE DEFENDANTS?
Six men were initially charged but two pleaded guilty before trial.
The remaining defendants include Adam Fox, described by prosecutors as the plot’s ringleader. He and co-defendant Barry Croft Jr. were affiliated with the “Three Percenter” far-right anti-government movement. Prosecutors say the other two defendants, Daniel Harris and Brandon Caserta, were members of the Wolverine Watchmen, a self-styled militia with similar views.
Ty Garbin pleaded guilty last year and Kaleb Franks joined him in February. Both were star government witnesses at trial.
WHAT ARE THE CHARGES?
All four are charged with kidnapping conspiracy.
According to prosecutors, the defendants plotted from June to October 2020 to abduct Whitmer from her vacation home in northern Michigan because they were infuriated by what they saw as her overly restrictive policies during the pandemic.
Fox, Croft and Harris are also charged with conspiracy to use a weapon of mass destruction. Prosecutors said they sought to construct and buy explosives, with the aim of destroying a bridge near Whitmer's cottage to stymie police during the kidnapping.
Croft and Harris are charged with possession of an unregistered destructive device — a firework wrapped with pennies that could serve as shrapnel.
Harris is the only one charged with possession of a semiautomatic assault rifle with a barrel less than 16 inches long that wasn’t registered to him.
WHAT ARE THE POTENTIAL SENTENCES?
The kidnapping conspiracy and conspiracy to use a weapon of mass destruction charges carry maximum life sentences.
The maximum sentence for possession of an unregistered destructive device is 10 years, and Harris could face up to three years in prison if convicted of the semiautomatic rifle charge.
Garbin has already been sentenced to six years in prison, and Franks is expected to receive a lighter sentence than if he had lost at trial.
WHAT’S REQUIRED FOR CONVICTIONS?
The defendants never achieved their purported goal of kidnapping Whitmer. Unbeknownst to them, the FBI had infiltrated their group and was closely monitoring them. They were arrested in October 2020.
Defense attorneys portrayed their clients as weekend warriors prone to big, wild talk, who were often stoned. To prove it was deadly serious, prosecutors entered evidence showing the defendants took specific steps, referred to as “overt acts," toward implementing their plans.
Jury instructions explain that convictions on the kidnapping and weapons conspiracy charges require evidence that each defendant committed at least one of the long list of overt acts in the indictment.
Proof that a defendant simply knew about the conspiracy or associated with members of the conspiracy isn't enough.
WHAT ARE THE ALLEGED OVERT ACTS?
They include that Fox proposed the kidnapping of Whitmer on Aug. 23, 2020, during a meeting with Harris and Caserta. Another is that the men scrutinized each other’s IDs in a bid to ensure no one was an undercover agent.
Another is that Fox, Croft, Harris and Caserta held field-training exercises in September 2020, practicing tactics for fighting Whitmer's security detail.
The indictment attributes another overt act on Oct. 7, 2020, to Caserta, alleging he instructed co-conspirators that, if they encountered police, they should give the officers one chance to leave, then kill them.
Alleged overt acts on the weapons of mass destruction charge include that Harris boasted on May 1, 2020, that he was a Marine Corps veteran who “can make things go boom if you give me what I need.”
WHAT'S THE ROLE OF ENTRAPMENT?
The defense mounted an entrapment defense at trial, accusing the FBI of engaging in the barred investigatory practice. Jurors who find authorities tricked or cajoled targets into committing crimes they showed no predisposition to commit are supposed to return with not guilty verdicts.
Prosecutors have the burden of proving defendants weren’t entrapped. At trial, they sought to show that not only were the men were predisposed to joining the kidnap plot but that they discussed such schemes before the FBI sting began.
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Find AP’s full coverage of the Whitmer kidnap plot trial at: https://apnews.com/hub/whitmer-kidnap-plot-trial |
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April 4-8 is tornado and severe weather awareness week. WISN 12 is helping keep you safe. Here's what we'll cover
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Severe Weather Awareness Week is broken down into five different topics:
1. Severe thunderstorms
Thunderstorms can always be strong and destructive, but they do not receive a "severe" label until they meet one of three different criteria. A severe thunderstorm has either 58 mph wind gusts or higher, hail of 1 inch diameter or greater, or a tornado.
2. Outlooks, watches and warnings
Another key to being safe during severe weather situations is understanding the meaning behind different outlooks, watches and warnings that are issued.
When severe weather is in the forecast, the Storm Prediction Center will issue different weather outlooks up to three days in advance. The scale goes from a marginal risk (1 out of 5 risk, isolated severe weather expected) to a high risk (5 out of 5 risk, widespread severe weather expected.)
Once severe weather is more imminent, the National Weather Service in State College will begin issuing severe weather watches and warnings. A watch is when the ingredients are in place and severe weather is expected soon. A warning means that the severe weather is either taking place or about to happen.
3. Flash flooding
According to the NWS, more people are killed by flash floods than by any other storm-related weather risk. Most of these deaths are from people driving their vehicles into flooded roadways. If you are out and about during bad weather and come across a flooded roadway, the advice is always to turn around, don't drown.
The National Weather Service even made a music video with the slogan if you need another way to remember!
4. Tornadoes
Pennsylvania is no stranger when it comes to tornadoes. In fact, the NWS says Pa. ranks in the top 25 for tornado occurrence in the United States, averaging sixteen tornadoes per year.
If a tornado warning is issued for where you are, your phone will automatically send you a notification warning you of the danger. When you receive that notification, the best place to go and keep safe is the lowest level of your house, preferably a basement. It's important to avoid windows, doors, and outside walls. Additionally, covering yourself with blankets or a mattress will help protect yourself.
If you live in a mobile home and know that the threat of tornadoes is in the forecast, it's best to find shelter or go to a more permanent structure to stay safe before storms develop.
5. Become involved
One of the best ways to help identify and report severe weather to the NWS is to become a Skywarn Spotter. These are volunteer weather spotters trained to both help identify storms that could become severe and report on different weather phenomena. The NWS periodically offers classes to train spotters.
Organizations can also help keep their members and community safe by becoming joining Weather Ready Nation. These are ambassadors who create outreach content, collaborate on disaster preparedness and incorporation weather and climate information into their decision making.
Don't forget to send in any storm reports, photos or videos to FOX43 using the FOX43 app Near Me feature! That helps us see where storms are and can help us best tell the weather forecast so others can be prepared as well. |
https://www.wisn.com/article/its-severe-weather-awareness-week-what-you-need-to-know/39616530 | It's Severe Weather Awareness Week: Here's what you need to know
April 4-8 is tornado and severe weather awareness week. WISN 12 is helping keep you safe. Here's what we'll cover
It's Severe Weather Awareness Week: Here's what you need to know
April 4-8 is tornado and severe weather awareness week. WISN 12 is helping keep you safe. Here's what we'll cover
DIANA: NOW IS SEVERE WEATHER WEEK. LINDY:SE I GO OVER SOMETHING A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENTIT, S I ALL ABOUT ALERTS AND IMPACT BASED WARNINGS, WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ENWH IT COMES TO WARNINGS, THE MOST IMPORTANT THING IS ALWAYS HAVING A PLAN. ESPECIALLY IF IT IS OVERNIGHT, LIKEL TEL YOUR FRIENDS, NOWHERE TO GO, IF YOU ARE IN AN APARTMENT, ON THE THIRD FLOOR, HEY I LIVE ON THE THIRD FLOOR OF MY APARTMENT, WHERE DO I GO? BECOME FRIENDS WITH THE PERSON ON THE FIRST FLOOR, GET TO THE LOSTWE FLOOR OF YOUR HOUSE AND IN AN INTERIOR ROOM. AT THE BASEMENT IS THE BEST SPOT BUT NOT EVERYBODY HAS THEM. ALWAYS HAVE A WAY TO GET ALERTS, KNOW THAT WHEN WHENEVER WE HAVE SEREVE WEATHER IN THE FORECAST WE NOT ONLY STREAM ON OUR FACEBOOK PAGE BUT ALSO ON WISN.COM SO THAT IF YOU DO LOSE POWER THERE IS AN OPTION FOR YOU TO GET THE ALERT S.KNOW THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN IMPACT AND ALERT DAYS. WE HAVE WINDS, LIGHTNING, TORNADO, AND HAIL. THISS IMY FAVORITE GRAPHIC, KNOWING THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE TWO. A CUPCAKE A WATCH IS ALL OF THE INGREDIENTS ARE THERE, A QUICK PEEK SHE COULD -
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April 4-8 is tornado and severe weather awareness week. WISN 12 is helping keep you safe. Here's what we'll cover.
Monday, Day 1: Alerts & impact-based warnings
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(in the video above)
Tuesday, Day 2: Storm Prediction Center categories
Wednesday, Day 3: Flash flooding
Thursday, Day 4: Tornadoes and severe weather drills
Friday, Day 5: Extreme heat and lightning | 1 | 55,880 | 0.616906 | https://www.nbc15.com/2022/04/05/severe-weather-awareness-week-alert-terminology/ | 2022-04-05 03:33:22+00:00 | Severe Weather Awareness Week - Alert Terminology
Prepare for Wisconsin’s severe weather season with the NBC15 First Alert Weather Team.
MADISON, Wis. (WMTV) - With severe weather season right around the corner, it is important to brush up on the alerts that may be issued across southern Wisconsin. The Storm Prediction Center (SPC) in Norman, Oklahoma issues Severe Thunderstorm and Tornado Watches. Warnings and Advisories are issued by individual National Weather Service offices. The NWS Milwaukee/Sullivan office as well as the NWS La Crosse office serve the NBC15 viewing area.
A Severe Thunderstorm is any thunderstorm that is producing winds in excess of 58mph, hail of 1″ or greater diameter, and/or a tornado. Watches & Warnings can be issued for these as well as Tornadoes. A tornado is defined as a rapidly rotating column of air, extending from the base of a thunderstorm that is in contact with the ground. Funnel clouds are often mistaken for tornadoes.
ADVISORY:
If an Advisory is issued, it means a hazardous weather situation is ongoing or expected soon. These typically indicate more of an inconvenience than a life threatening situation. You still need to use caution to avoid danger to life and property. The most typical advisory is a flood advisory. Advisories can be issued for and entire county or just parts, as it is impact based.
WATCH:
A Watch is issued when conditions are favorable for dangerous weather to develop. They are typically issued well in advance, perhaps several hours, of severe weather happening. The exact location and timing is unknown, but remains possible in and near the watch. Because of this, watches tend to cover a large area and can include many states at once. When a watch is issued, have a plan and be ready to take action if necessary.
WARNING:
When a warning is issued, it means severe weather is occurring, imminent, or likely. You need to immediately evaluate the situation and put your severe weather plan into action to avoid harm to life or property. A warning will include the area impacted by a storm and typically covers just part of a county.
LOCATION:
Knowing where you are located is a critical element in your severe weather plan to stay safe. It may sound trivial, but many people don’t know what county or area they live in or surrounding areas. Brushing up on counties and towns near you can prove vital when severe weather information is being relayed. It is also important when traveling to have a basic understanding of your surroundings should impactful weather move in your direction.
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https://www.wisn.com/article/its-severe-weather-awareness-week-what-you-need-to-know/39616530 | It's Severe Weather Awareness Week: Here's what you need to know
April 4-8 is tornado and severe weather awareness week. WISN 12 is helping keep you safe. Here's what we'll cover
It's Severe Weather Awareness Week: Here's what you need to know
April 4-8 is tornado and severe weather awareness week. WISN 12 is helping keep you safe. Here's what we'll cover
DIANA: NOW IS SEVERE WEATHER WEEK. LINDY:SE I GO OVER SOMETHING A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENTIT, S I ALL ABOUT ALERTS AND IMPACT BASED WARNINGS, WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ENWH IT COMES TO WARNINGS, THE MOST IMPORTANT THING IS ALWAYS HAVING A PLAN. ESPECIALLY IF IT IS OVERNIGHT, LIKEL TEL YOUR FRIENDS, NOWHERE TO GO, IF YOU ARE IN AN APARTMENT, ON THE THIRD FLOOR, HEY I LIVE ON THE THIRD FLOOR OF MY APARTMENT, WHERE DO I GO? BECOME FRIENDS WITH THE PERSON ON THE FIRST FLOOR, GET TO THE LOSTWE FLOOR OF YOUR HOUSE AND IN AN INTERIOR ROOM. AT THE BASEMENT IS THE BEST SPOT BUT NOT EVERYBODY HAS THEM. ALWAYS HAVE A WAY TO GET ALERTS, KNOW THAT WHEN WHENEVER WE HAVE SEREVE WEATHER IN THE FORECAST WE NOT ONLY STREAM ON OUR FACEBOOK PAGE BUT ALSO ON WISN.COM SO THAT IF YOU DO LOSE POWER THERE IS AN OPTION FOR YOU TO GET THE ALERT S.KNOW THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN IMPACT AND ALERT DAYS. WE HAVE WINDS, LIGHTNING, TORNADO, AND HAIL. THISS IMY FAVORITE GRAPHIC, KNOWING THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE TWO. A CUPCAKE A WATCH IS ALL OF THE INGREDIENTS ARE THERE, A QUICK PEEK SHE COULD -
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April 4-8 is tornado and severe weather awareness week. WISN 12 is helping keep you safe. Here's what we'll cover
April 4-8 is tornado and severe weather awareness week. WISN 12 is helping keep you safe. Here's what we'll cover.Monday, Day 1: Alerts & impact-based warnings(in the video above)Tuesday, Day 2: Storm Prediction Center categoriesWednesday, Day 3: Flash floodingThursday, Day 4: Tornadoes and severe weather drillsFriday, Day 5: Extreme heat and lightning
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April 4-8 is tornado and severe weather awareness week. WISN 12 is helping keep you safe. Here's what we'll cover.
Monday, Day 1: Alerts & impact-based warnings
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(in the video above)
Tuesday, Day 2: Storm Prediction Center categories
Wednesday, Day 3: Flash flooding
Thursday, Day 4: Tornadoes and severe weather drills
Friday, Day 5: Extreme heat and lightning | 2 | 27,834 | 0.619658 | https://www.weau.com/2022/04/05/severe-weather-week-tips-weather-preparedness/ | 2022-04-05 23:43:52+00:00 | Severe Weather Week: tips of weather preparedness
EAU CLAIRE, Wis. (WEAU) - Spring is here and so is an increased chance for severe weather.
This week is Severe Weather Awareness Week, which recognizes the importance of being prepared for whatever weather Wisconsin throws our way. The spring and summer months produce the most severe weather. To help citizens practice their emergency plans, the state of Wisconsin is holding a statewide tornado siren drill on April 7th.
The Eau Claire County Emergency Management Division is a resource to help citizens prepare for severe weather. The division provides training and exercises for the community and leads recovery efforts when needed. They are on call 24/7 to the public.
The Eau Claire County Emergency Division Coordinator, Tyler Esh, gives advice regarding severe weather and the upcoming storm siren drill.
“First, make sure have different ways to get alerts,” Esh said. “One thing that is common across the country, across the county, and locally is people have the belief that a storm siren is meant to alert them of a tornado and that is not really reality.”
Tornado sirens are not created to be heard by people inside, which is why citizens should use multiple alert systems. He said it is important that people are aware of the state drill because it will allow them to determine when and where they can hear the storm sirens.
There are many options for severe weather alert systems, but you can reach out to the Emergency Management Division for more information about alert systems. Esh says the best way to ease anxiety about severe weather is to create a plan and practice it. He says severe weather can happen at anytime, so it’s about knowing where to go. If you find yourself in a car, or away from home best best thing to do if find a sturdy building nearby.
The key items to keep on hand during severe weather is a flashlight, blankets, and cushions. Battery-power works best because they won’t die. The cushions and blankets can act as padding from debris.
To encourage citizens to practice weather preparedness, Wednesday is Safe Place Selfie Day. This is a national program that prompts people to go to their severe weather shelter and snap a selfie. Then, post the picture to social media and tag the National Weather Center.
“It shows you are taking a moment to show where you safest weather places are,” Esh said.
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https://www.mrt.com/news/article/Union-urges-Florida-faculty-to-ignore-17056369.php | A union representing faculty at Florida's state universities is discouraging members from participating in a survey meant to suss out the political leanings of students and employees and the political climate on their campuses.
The measure passed by the Republican-controlled Legislature and signed into law last year by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis requires public universities to conduct an annual assessment of viewpoints and freedom of expression on campuses. The Board of Governors and State Board of Education will be required to compile and publish the results.
The proposal also mandates that students be exposed to a variety of political viewpoints and that they not be “shielded” from those arguments. Supporters of the legislation accused universities of drowning out conservative student voices.
A federal judge last week denied an emergency request to stop the survey, though opponents can still file an appeal.
In a letter to its members, the United Faculty of Florida urged faculty, staff and students to ignore the survey, saying it would create a chilling effect on free speech and freedom of association on campuses.
“Florida’s government has no right to know the thoughts, feelings, or political or religious beliefs of anyone, including the higher education community," the letter said. “Privacy is the bedrock of democracy and a safeguard against autocratic control."
The union says that while the surveys are supposed to be anonymous, faculty members can be identified and targeted through questions about their demographic background and where they work. | 0 | 75,705 | 0 | https://www.myjournalcourier.com/news/article/Union-urges-Florida-faculty-to-ignore-17056369.php | 2022-04-04 16:45:44+00:00 | A union representing faculty at Florida's state universities is discouraging members from participating in a survey meant to suss out the political leanings of students and employees and the political climate on their campuses.
The measure passed by the Republican-controlled Legislature and signed into law last year by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis requires public universities to conduct an annual assessment of viewpoints and freedom of expression on campuses. The Board of Governors and State Board of Education will be required to compile and publish the results.
The proposal also mandates that students be exposed to a variety of political viewpoints and that they not be “shielded” from those arguments. Supporters of the legislation accused universities of drowning out conservative student voices.
A federal judge last week denied an emergency request to stop the survey, though opponents can still file an appeal.
In a letter to its members, the United Faculty of Florida urged faculty, staff and students to ignore the survey, saying it would create a chilling effect on free speech and freedom of association on campuses.
“Florida’s government has no right to know the thoughts, feelings, or political or religious beliefs of anyone, including the higher education community," the letter said. “Privacy is the bedrock of democracy and a safeguard against autocratic control."
The union says that while the surveys are supposed to be anonymous, faculty members can be identified and targeted through questions about their demographic background and where they work. |
https://www.mrt.com/news/article/Union-urges-Florida-faculty-to-ignore-17056369.php | A union representing faculty at Florida's state universities is discouraging members from participating in a survey meant to suss out the political leanings of students and employees and the political climate on their campuses.
The measure passed by the Republican-controlled Legislature and signed into law last year by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis requires public universities to conduct an annual assessment of viewpoints and freedom of expression on campuses. The Board of Governors and State Board of Education will be required to compile and publish the results.
The proposal also mandates that students be exposed to a variety of political viewpoints and that they not be “shielded” from those arguments. Supporters of the legislation accused universities of drowning out conservative student voices.
A federal judge last week denied an emergency request to stop the survey, though opponents can still file an appeal.
In a letter to its members, the United Faculty of Florida urged faculty, staff and students to ignore the survey, saying it would create a chilling effect on free speech and freedom of association on campuses.
“Florida’s government has no right to know the thoughts, feelings, or political or religious beliefs of anyone, including the higher education community," the letter said. “Privacy is the bedrock of democracy and a safeguard against autocratic control."
The union says that while the surveys are supposed to be anonymous, faculty members can be identified and targeted through questions about their demographic background and where they work. | 1 | 76,093 | 0 | https://www.michigansthumb.com/news/article/Union-urges-Florida-faculty-to-ignore-17056369.php | 2022-04-04 16:47:01+00:00 | A union representing faculty at Florida's state universities is discouraging members from participating in a survey meant to suss out the political leanings of students and employees and the political climate on their campuses.
The measure passed by the Republican-controlled Legislature and signed into law last year by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis requires public universities to conduct an annual assessment of viewpoints and freedom of expression on campuses. The Board of Governors and State Board of Education will be required to compile and publish the results.
The proposal also mandates that students be exposed to a variety of political viewpoints and that they not be “shielded” from those arguments. Supporters of the legislation accused universities of drowning out conservative student voices.
A federal judge last week denied an emergency request to stop the survey, though opponents can still file an appeal.
In a letter to its members, the United Faculty of Florida urged faculty, staff and students to ignore the survey, saying it would create a chilling effect on free speech and freedom of association on campuses.
“Florida’s government has no right to know the thoughts, feelings, or political or religious beliefs of anyone, including the higher education community," the letter said. “Privacy is the bedrock of democracy and a safeguard against autocratic control."
The union says that while the surveys are supposed to be anonymous, faculty members can be identified and targeted through questions about their demographic background and where they work. |
https://www.mrt.com/news/article/Union-urges-Florida-faculty-to-ignore-17056369.php | A union representing faculty at Florida's state universities is discouraging members from participating in a survey meant to suss out the political leanings of students and employees and the political climate on their campuses.
The measure passed by the Republican-controlled Legislature and signed into law last year by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis requires public universities to conduct an annual assessment of viewpoints and freedom of expression on campuses. The Board of Governors and State Board of Education will be required to compile and publish the results.
The proposal also mandates that students be exposed to a variety of political viewpoints and that they not be “shielded” from those arguments. Supporters of the legislation accused universities of drowning out conservative student voices.
A federal judge last week denied an emergency request to stop the survey, though opponents can still file an appeal.
In a letter to its members, the United Faculty of Florida urged faculty, staff and students to ignore the survey, saying it would create a chilling effect on free speech and freedom of association on campuses.
“Florida’s government has no right to know the thoughts, feelings, or political or religious beliefs of anyone, including the higher education community," the letter said. “Privacy is the bedrock of democracy and a safeguard against autocratic control."
The union says that while the surveys are supposed to be anonymous, faculty members can be identified and targeted through questions about their demographic background and where they work. | 2 | 76,598 | 0 | https://www.stamfordadvocate.com/news/article/Union-urges-Florida-faculty-to-ignore-17056369.php | 2022-04-04 16:49:26+00:00 | A union representing faculty at Florida's state universities is discouraging members from participating in a survey meant to suss out the political leanings of students and employees and the political climate on their campuses.
The measure passed by the Republican-controlled Legislature and signed into law last year by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis requires public universities to conduct an annual assessment of viewpoints and freedom of expression on campuses. The Board of Governors and State Board of Education will be required to compile and publish the results.
The proposal also mandates that students be exposed to a variety of political viewpoints and that they not be “shielded” from those arguments. Supporters of the legislation accused universities of drowning out conservative student voices.
A federal judge last week denied an emergency request to stop the survey, though opponents can still file an appeal.
In a letter to its members, the United Faculty of Florida urged faculty, staff and students to ignore the survey, saying it would create a chilling effect on free speech and freedom of association on campuses.
“Florida’s government has no right to know the thoughts, feelings, or political or religious beliefs of anyone, including the higher education community," the letter said. “Privacy is the bedrock of democracy and a safeguard against autocratic control."
The union says that while the surveys are supposed to be anonymous, faculty members can be identified and targeted through questions about their demographic background and where they work. |
https://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/SportsArchive/Fatawu-Issahaku-meets-Cristiano-Ronaldo-s-mother-1507340 | Sports News of Monday, 4 April 2022
Source: www.ghanaweb.com
Fatawu Issahaku to play at first-ever World Cup
Ghana to play Portugal, Uruguay, Korean Republic at World Cup
Ghanaians eye revenge against Uruguay at 2022 World Cup
Black Stars winger Abdul Fatawu Issahaku met Cristiano Ronaldo’s mother, Maria Dolores dos Santos Aveiro in Portugal.
The former Ghana U-20 star who played in the Black Stars qualification for the World Cup took a picture with the mother of the five-time world best player.
The 18-year-old’s picture with Ronaldo comes days after Ghana was placed in the same group as Portugal for the 2022 World Cup.
The Black Stars were drawn in Group H alongside Uruguay and Korean Republic.
Portugal defeated the Black Stars 2-1 at the 2014 World Cup with Ronaldo scoring one of the goals.
Fatawu Issahaku moved to Portuguese Sporting Lisbon, the boyhood club of Cristiano Ronaldo in March from Steadfast FC and has been training with the youth side. | 0 | 39,337 | 0.29954 | https://mobile.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/SportsArchive/Fatawu-Issahaku-meets-Cristiano-Ronaldo-s-mother-1507340 | 2022-04-05 01:42:33+00:00 | Fatawu Issahaku to play at first-ever World Cup
Ghana to play Portugal, Uruguay, Korean Republic at World Cup
Ghanaians eye revenge against Uruguay at 2022 World Cup
Black Stars winger Abdul Fatawu Issahaku met Cristiano Ronaldo’s mother, Maria Dolores dos Santos Aveiro in Portugal.
The former Ghana U-20 star who played in the Black Stars qualification for the World Cup took a picture with the mother of the five-time world best player.
The 18-year-old’s picture with Ronaldo comes days after Ghana was placed in the same group as Portugal for the 2022 World Cup.
The Black Stars were drawn in Group H alongside Uruguay and Korean Republic.
Portugal defeated the Black Stars 2-1 at the 2014 World Cup with Ronaldo scoring one of the goals.
Fatawu Issahaku moved to Portuguese Sporting Lisbon, the boyhood club of Cristiano Ronaldo in March from Steadfast FC and has been training with the youth side. |
https://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/SportsArchive/Fatawu-Issahaku-meets-Cristiano-Ronaldo-s-mother-1507340 | Sports News of Monday, 4 April 2022
Source: www.ghanaweb.com
Fatawu Issahaku to play at first-ever World Cup
Ghana to play Portugal, Uruguay, Korean Republic at World Cup
Ghanaians eye revenge against Uruguay at 2022 World Cup
Black Stars winger Abdul Fatawu Issahaku met Cristiano Ronaldo’s mother, Maria Dolores dos Santos Aveiro in Portugal.
The former Ghana U-20 star who played in the Black Stars qualification for the World Cup took a picture with the mother of the five-time world best player.
The 18-year-old’s picture with Ronaldo comes days after Ghana was placed in the same group as Portugal for the 2022 World Cup.
The Black Stars were drawn in Group H alongside Uruguay and Korean Republic.
Portugal defeated the Black Stars 2-1 at the 2014 World Cup with Ronaldo scoring one of the goals.
Fatawu Issahaku moved to Portuguese Sporting Lisbon, the boyhood club of Cristiano Ronaldo in March from Steadfast FC and has been training with the youth side. | 1 | 70,165 | 0.655707 | https://mobile.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/SportsArchive/Cristiano-Ronaldo-039-s-mother-is-simply-fantastic-Fatawu-Issahaku-1517345 | 2022-04-17 03:02:29+00:00 | After meeting Cristiano Ronaldo's mother, Dolores Aveiro, at the Jose Alvalade Stadium, Abdul Fatawu Issahaku, an 18-year-old attacker who has often worked with Sporting's main team, left high appreciation for her.
Sporting Lisbon coach Ruben Amorim has publicly said that Fatawu will be a part of Sporting's pre-season training this summer. Because he joined Academia de Alcochete in the second part of the season, he can only be registered in the ensuing transfer window.
In April 2022, Fatawu was signed by Sporting on a five year contract with a release clause of 60 million euros.
"This woman is simply fantastic, she always wants to win and always advises you not to lose. She motivates you to always do more than what you can. She is so kind" Fatawu posted on Instagram.
The Steadfast FC and Dreams FC attacker was a member of the Black Stars squad that secured Ghana a ticket to the 2022 World Cup which will be held in Qatar.
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https://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/SportsArchive/Fatawu-Issahaku-meets-Cristiano-Ronaldo-s-mother-1507340 | Sports News of Monday, 4 April 2022
Source: www.ghanaweb.com
Fatawu Issahaku to play at first-ever World Cup
Ghana to play Portugal, Uruguay, Korean Republic at World Cup
Ghanaians eye revenge against Uruguay at 2022 World Cup
Black Stars winger Abdul Fatawu Issahaku met Cristiano Ronaldo’s mother, Maria Dolores dos Santos Aveiro in Portugal.
The former Ghana U-20 star who played in the Black Stars qualification for the World Cup took a picture with the mother of the five-time world best player.
The 18-year-old’s picture with Ronaldo comes days after Ghana was placed in the same group as Portugal for the 2022 World Cup.
The Black Stars were drawn in Group H alongside Uruguay and Korean Republic.
Portugal defeated the Black Stars 2-1 at the 2014 World Cup with Ronaldo scoring one of the goals.
Fatawu Issahaku moved to Portuguese Sporting Lisbon, the boyhood club of Cristiano Ronaldo in March from Steadfast FC and has been training with the youth side. | 2 | 70,318 | 0.66985 | https://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/SportsArchive/Cristiano-Ronaldo-039-s-mother-is-simply-fantastic-Fatawu-Issahaku-1517345 | 2022-04-17 03:04:08+00:00 | Sports News of Sunday, 17 April 2022
Source: footballghana.com
After meeting Cristiano Ronaldo's mother, Dolores Aveiro, at the Jose Alvalade Stadium, Abdul Fatawu Issahaku, an 18-year-old attacker who has often worked with Sporting's main team, left high appreciation for her.
Sporting Lisbon coach Ruben Amorim has publicly said that Fatawu will be a part of Sporting's pre-season training this summer. Because he joined Academia de Alcochete in the second part of the season, he can only be registered in the ensuing transfer window.
In April 2022, Fatawu was signed by Sporting on a five year contract with a release clause of 60 million euros.
"This woman is simply fantastic, she always wants to win and always advises you not to lose. She motivates you to always do more than what you can. She is so kind" Fatawu posted on Instagram.
The Steadfast FC and Dreams FC attacker was a member of the Black Stars squad that secured Ghana a ticket to the 2022 World Cup which will be held in Qatar.
View this post on Instagram |
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-10684789/The-Queen-engagements-living-room-royal-expert-reveals.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | Queen will hold 'more engagements from her living room' due to her 'mobility issues' but will 'move heaven and earth' to make attend 'significant' events in person, royal expert claims
- The Queen, 95, will 'have more engagements from Windsor Castle', expert said
- The monarch would 'move heaven and earth' to be at significant events
- Queen Elizabeth has been seen using a walking stick for the past six months
- Comments come after Her Majesty appeared at Prince Philip's memorial service
The Queen will have 'more engagements from her living room' due to her 'mobility issues', a royal expert has claimed.
The monarch, 95, has faced multiple health issues in recent months, with the first scare beginning in October after she spent a night in hospital, with doctors ordering her to rest.
However she attended Prince Philip's memorial service last week, where she was seen walking along using a stick.
Speaking to The Telegraph, royal expert Camilla Tominey said: 'The diary has become quite an agile piece of royal equipment in the sense that it's up to the Queen in the morning what she can and can't do...People are going to be coming to the Queen rather than her travelling to them.'
Earlier this month it was reported that the Queen had decided to make Windsor Castle her permanent home and main residence.
The Queen, 95, will have 'more engagements from her living room' due to her 'mobility issues', a royal expert has claimed
The expert explained: 'The monarchy is changing before our very eyes and arguably that's no bad thing.
'What we think is the Queen isn't having health problems but mobility problems - she can't stand for long periods or walk for long distances and therefore accommodations are being made.'
Camilla continued: 'I think the palace are handling this vey much as they did when the Duke of Edinburgh retired and he was able to say which engagements he did or didn't want to attend at very short notice.'
The royal expert went on to make a prediction about future engagements for the Queen, saying: 'I think we're going to see more of the Queen in situ, and she might get to where she needs to be in private and then be photographed on the spot.
The monarch, who has faced multiple health issues in recent months, attended Prince Philip's memorial service last week
'That being said, we had some lovely photographs last week of an audience in her own living room. That's going to be happening more frequently now.'
'When it comes to the royal diary, they've got to prioritize quality over quantity.'
Speaking about the Queen's appearance at the Duke of Edinburgh's memorial service last week, she added: 'The memorial service was sacrosanct in the royal diary.
'Despite her own discomfort, she was determined to be there. Yes, concessions had to be made to ensure she was as comfortable as possible but it's these type of engagements she will move heaven and earth to attend.'
She continued: 'I think its only fitting she was there and leading from the front.'
The 95-year-old monarch used a stick as she was walked to and from her seat, supported by her disgraced son the Duke of York, to give her 'strength and stay' Philip the final farewell he had wanted
Her Majesty became emotional in Westminster Abbey - where she married Prince Philip in November 1947 - having personally ensured her beloved husband's final wishes were fulfilled after his Covid-hit funeral left her sat alone without the rousing hymns and guests he loved so much.
The service was attended by the Royal Family and his relatives, friends and people who benefitted from his charities and patronages.
The Queen had stood with tears in her eyes as the 1,800-strong congregation sang Guide Me O Thou Great Redeemer before the bells of Westminster Abbey rang out to mark the end of the memorial service in the central London church where she was crowned just over 70 years ago.
The 95-year-old monarch used a stick as she was walked to and from her seat, supported by her disgraced son the Duke of York, to give her 'strength and stay' Philip the final farewell he had wanted. Her Majesty's presence was only confirmed two hours before it started.
And despite battling mobility problems, she stood to pray and sing hymns that her husband of 73 years had asked for before his death last April. But in a controversial decision she chose Prince Andrew to aid her, clutching his elbow with one hand and a walking stick with the other.
After a poignant service limited to 40 minutes where the watery-eyed monarch sat in one of the Canada chairs with an additional cushion, she was driven the 22-miles back to Windsor Castle with the Duke of York beside her after her first major public engagement for approaching six months. | 0 | 1,059 | 0.309144 | https://www.express.co.uk/news/royal/1591226/Queen-health-update-Royal-Family-engagements-monarchy-Windsor-Queen-Elizabeth-II | 2022-04-04 22:20:56+00:00 | Queen tipped to conduct more duties 'from living room' as monarchy 'changes before eyes'
THE QUEEN is expected to hold "more engagements from her living room" over her "mobility issues", according to a royal expert.
Queen appears emotional during Prince Philip memorial service
Royal expert, Camilla Tominey, said the 95-year-old monarch will however move "heaven and earth" to attend certain engagements.
The Queen's health has been a source of concern in recent months, particularly since she spent a night in hospital last October.
She did, however, ensure that she was able to attend Prince Philip's memorial service last week.
Ms Tominey told The Telegraph: "The diary has become quite an agile piece of royal equipment in the sense that it's up to the Queen in the morning what she can and can't do...People are going to be coming to the Queen rather than her travelling to them."
The Queen has reportedly now made Windsor Castle her permanent home and main residence.
The royal expert said: "The monarchy is changing before our very eyes and arguably that's no bad thing.
"What we think is the Queen isn't having health problems but mobility problems - she can't stand for long periods or walk for long distances and therefore accommodations are being made."
She was seen walking with a stick when she attended Prince Philip's memorial service at Westminster Abbey last Tuesday.
Ms Tominey added: "I think the palace are handling this very much as they did when the Duke of Edinburgh retired and he was able to say which engagements he did or didn't want to attend at very short notice.
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"I think we're going to see more of the Queen in situ, and she might get to where she needs to be in private and then be photographed on the spot.
"That being said, we had some lovely photographs last week of an audience in her own living room. That's going to be happening more frequently now."
Speaking about Prince Philip's memorial service, she said: "The memorial service was sacrosanct in the royal diary.
"Despite her own discomfort, she was determined to be there. Yes, concessions had to be made to ensure she was as comfortable as possible but it's these type of engagements she will move heaven and earth to attend.
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"I think it's only fitting she was there and leading from the front."
Her Majesty's presence was only confirmed two hours before it started.
She stood with tears in her eyes as the 1,800 congregation sang hymns requested by Prince Philip before his death.
Alongside the Queen, the service was attended by the royal family and his relatives, friends and people who benefitted from Philip's charities and patronages. |
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-10684789/The-Queen-engagements-living-room-royal-expert-reveals.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | Queen will hold 'more engagements from her living room' due to her 'mobility issues' but will 'move heaven and earth' to make attend 'significant' events in person, royal expert claims
- The Queen, 95, will 'have more engagements from Windsor Castle', expert said
- The monarch would 'move heaven and earth' to be at significant events
- Queen Elizabeth has been seen using a walking stick for the past six months
- Comments come after Her Majesty appeared at Prince Philip's memorial service
The Queen will have 'more engagements from her living room' due to her 'mobility issues', a royal expert has claimed.
The monarch, 95, has faced multiple health issues in recent months, with the first scare beginning in October after she spent a night in hospital, with doctors ordering her to rest.
However she attended Prince Philip's memorial service last week, where she was seen walking along using a stick.
Speaking to The Telegraph, royal expert Camilla Tominey said: 'The diary has become quite an agile piece of royal equipment in the sense that it's up to the Queen in the morning what she can and can't do...People are going to be coming to the Queen rather than her travelling to them.'
Earlier this month it was reported that the Queen had decided to make Windsor Castle her permanent home and main residence.
The Queen, 95, will have 'more engagements from her living room' due to her 'mobility issues', a royal expert has claimed
The expert explained: 'The monarchy is changing before our very eyes and arguably that's no bad thing.
'What we think is the Queen isn't having health problems but mobility problems - she can't stand for long periods or walk for long distances and therefore accommodations are being made.'
Camilla continued: 'I think the palace are handling this vey much as they did when the Duke of Edinburgh retired and he was able to say which engagements he did or didn't want to attend at very short notice.'
The royal expert went on to make a prediction about future engagements for the Queen, saying: 'I think we're going to see more of the Queen in situ, and she might get to where she needs to be in private and then be photographed on the spot.
The monarch, who has faced multiple health issues in recent months, attended Prince Philip's memorial service last week
'That being said, we had some lovely photographs last week of an audience in her own living room. That's going to be happening more frequently now.'
'When it comes to the royal diary, they've got to prioritize quality over quantity.'
Speaking about the Queen's appearance at the Duke of Edinburgh's memorial service last week, she added: 'The memorial service was sacrosanct in the royal diary.
'Despite her own discomfort, she was determined to be there. Yes, concessions had to be made to ensure she was as comfortable as possible but it's these type of engagements she will move heaven and earth to attend.'
She continued: 'I think its only fitting she was there and leading from the front.'
The 95-year-old monarch used a stick as she was walked to and from her seat, supported by her disgraced son the Duke of York, to give her 'strength and stay' Philip the final farewell he had wanted
Her Majesty became emotional in Westminster Abbey - where she married Prince Philip in November 1947 - having personally ensured her beloved husband's final wishes were fulfilled after his Covid-hit funeral left her sat alone without the rousing hymns and guests he loved so much.
The service was attended by the Royal Family and his relatives, friends and people who benefitted from his charities and patronages.
The Queen had stood with tears in her eyes as the 1,800-strong congregation sang Guide Me O Thou Great Redeemer before the bells of Westminster Abbey rang out to mark the end of the memorial service in the central London church where she was crowned just over 70 years ago.
The 95-year-old monarch used a stick as she was walked to and from her seat, supported by her disgraced son the Duke of York, to give her 'strength and stay' Philip the final farewell he had wanted. Her Majesty's presence was only confirmed two hours before it started.
And despite battling mobility problems, she stood to pray and sing hymns that her husband of 73 years had asked for before his death last April. But in a controversial decision she chose Prince Andrew to aid her, clutching his elbow with one hand and a walking stick with the other.
After a poignant service limited to 40 minutes where the watery-eyed monarch sat in one of the Canada chairs with an additional cushion, she was driven the 22-miles back to Windsor Castle with the Duke of York beside her after her first major public engagement for approaching six months. | 1 | 22,151 | 0.421991 | https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/queen-hold-more-royal-engagements-26639308 | 2022-04-05 13:16:14+00:00 | The Queen will hold more royal engagements from her living room with people coming to see her rather than the monarch travelling to see them, an expert has said.
The 95-year-old has suffered several bouts of ill health recently and is believed to be experiencing problems with her mobility.
At Prince Philip's memorial service at Westminster Abbey last week, her attendance was only confirmed hours before the event and she entered the Abbey using a walking stick.
And according to royal expert Camilla Tominey, "people are going to be coming to the Queen rather than her travelling to them".
She explained in a video for the Telegraph : "I think we're going to see more of the Queen in situ, and she might get to where she needs to be in private and then be photographed on the spot.
"That being said, we had some lovely photographs last week of an audience in her own living room. That's going to be happening more frequently now.
"When it comes to the royal diary, they've got to prioritise quality over quantity."
However, Camilla did add that there are some events that are "sacrosanct" in the royal diary, such as Prince Philip's memorial service - and for these, the Queen will do all she can to attend.
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Camilla explained: "Despite her own discomfort, she was determined to be there. Yes, concessions had to be made to ensure she was as comfortable as possible but it's these types of engagements she will move heaven and earth to attend.
"The monarchy is changing before our very eyes and arguably that's no bad thing.
"What we think is the Queen isn't having health problems but mobility problems - she can't stand for long periods or walk for long distances and therefore accommodations are being made.
"I think the palace are handling this very much as they did when the Duke of Edinburgh retired and he was able to say which engagements he did or didn't want to attend at very short notice."
In order for the Queen to attend her beloved husband's memorial service last week, military-style plans were put in place to sweep her there in the most comfortable way possible.
She was transported from Windsor Castle to Buckingham Palace in a Land Rover, where she then swapped into her State Bentley.
The Bentley then made the short journey to the Abbey escorted by police outriders and parked outside the Abbey's discreet Poets' Yard entrance, which has fewer steps and is a shorter distance to where she was to sit for the service.
Other special arrangements put in place for the Queen’s comfort were the service limited to 40 minutes and the monarch sitting in one of the Canada chairs but with an additional cushion.
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-10684789/The-Queen-engagements-living-room-royal-expert-reveals.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | Queen will hold 'more engagements from her living room' due to her 'mobility issues' but will 'move heaven and earth' to make attend 'significant' events in person, royal expert claims
- The Queen, 95, will 'have more engagements from Windsor Castle', expert said
- The monarch would 'move heaven and earth' to be at significant events
- Queen Elizabeth has been seen using a walking stick for the past six months
- Comments come after Her Majesty appeared at Prince Philip's memorial service
The Queen will have 'more engagements from her living room' due to her 'mobility issues', a royal expert has claimed.
The monarch, 95, has faced multiple health issues in recent months, with the first scare beginning in October after she spent a night in hospital, with doctors ordering her to rest.
However she attended Prince Philip's memorial service last week, where she was seen walking along using a stick.
Speaking to The Telegraph, royal expert Camilla Tominey said: 'The diary has become quite an agile piece of royal equipment in the sense that it's up to the Queen in the morning what she can and can't do...People are going to be coming to the Queen rather than her travelling to them.'
Earlier this month it was reported that the Queen had decided to make Windsor Castle her permanent home and main residence.
The Queen, 95, will have 'more engagements from her living room' due to her 'mobility issues', a royal expert has claimed
The expert explained: 'The monarchy is changing before our very eyes and arguably that's no bad thing.
'What we think is the Queen isn't having health problems but mobility problems - she can't stand for long periods or walk for long distances and therefore accommodations are being made.'
Camilla continued: 'I think the palace are handling this vey much as they did when the Duke of Edinburgh retired and he was able to say which engagements he did or didn't want to attend at very short notice.'
The royal expert went on to make a prediction about future engagements for the Queen, saying: 'I think we're going to see more of the Queen in situ, and she might get to where she needs to be in private and then be photographed on the spot.
The monarch, who has faced multiple health issues in recent months, attended Prince Philip's memorial service last week
'That being said, we had some lovely photographs last week of an audience in her own living room. That's going to be happening more frequently now.'
'When it comes to the royal diary, they've got to prioritize quality over quantity.'
Speaking about the Queen's appearance at the Duke of Edinburgh's memorial service last week, she added: 'The memorial service was sacrosanct in the royal diary.
'Despite her own discomfort, she was determined to be there. Yes, concessions had to be made to ensure she was as comfortable as possible but it's these type of engagements she will move heaven and earth to attend.'
She continued: 'I think its only fitting she was there and leading from the front.'
The 95-year-old monarch used a stick as she was walked to and from her seat, supported by her disgraced son the Duke of York, to give her 'strength and stay' Philip the final farewell he had wanted
Her Majesty became emotional in Westminster Abbey - where she married Prince Philip in November 1947 - having personally ensured her beloved husband's final wishes were fulfilled after his Covid-hit funeral left her sat alone without the rousing hymns and guests he loved so much.
The service was attended by the Royal Family and his relatives, friends and people who benefitted from his charities and patronages.
The Queen had stood with tears in her eyes as the 1,800-strong congregation sang Guide Me O Thou Great Redeemer before the bells of Westminster Abbey rang out to mark the end of the memorial service in the central London church where she was crowned just over 70 years ago.
The 95-year-old monarch used a stick as she was walked to and from her seat, supported by her disgraced son the Duke of York, to give her 'strength and stay' Philip the final farewell he had wanted. Her Majesty's presence was only confirmed two hours before it started.
And despite battling mobility problems, she stood to pray and sing hymns that her husband of 73 years had asked for before his death last April. But in a controversial decision she chose Prince Andrew to aid her, clutching his elbow with one hand and a walking stick with the other.
After a poignant service limited to 40 minutes where the watery-eyed monarch sat in one of the Canada chairs with an additional cushion, she was driven the 22-miles back to Windsor Castle with the Duke of York beside her after her first major public engagement for approaching six months. | 2 | 135,639 | 0.468379 | https://www.mylondon.news/lifestyle/queen-having-more-engagements-living-23598147 | 2022-04-05 11:22:45+00:00 | A royal expert has said that the monarchy is changing “in front of our very eyes” as mobility issues force the Queen to have “more engagements from her living room”.
The monarch, 95, has faced a number of health scares over the past few months beginning in October after she was briefly admitted to hospital and given orders to rest.
Since then, the Queen has been conducting ‘light duties’ and has only made a few rare public appearances. She did attend her husband Prince Philip’s memorial service but was shown struggling with her mobility, requiring the use of a walking stick to enter and leave Westminster Abbey.
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Recently it was announced that Windsor, where the Queen has spent a majority of her time since the death of her husband, is to become her main residence. This is significant because there is an expectation that more and more people will come to visit the Queen rather than the other way around.
Speaking to The Telegraph, royal expert Camilla Tominey said: “The diary has become quite an agile piece of royal equipment in the sense that it's up to the Queen in the morning what she can and can't do...People are going to be coming to the Queen rather than her travelling to them.”
The expert explained: “The monarchy is changing before our very eyes and arguably that's no bad thing. What we think is the Queen isn't having health problems but mobility problems - she can't stand for long periods or walk for long distances and therefore accommodations are being made.”
Camilla continued: “I think the palace are handling this vey much as they did when the Duke of Edinburgh retired and he was able to say which engagements he did or didn't want to attend at very short notice.”
The royal expert went on to make a prediction about future engagements for the Queen, saying: “I think we're going to see more of the Queen in situ, and she might get to where she needs to be in private and then be photographed on the spot.
“That being said, we had some lovely photographs last week of an audience in her own living room. That's going to be happening more frequently now. When it comes to the royal diary, they've got to prioritize quality over quantity.”
Speaking about the Queen's appearance at the Duke of Edinburgh's memorial service last week, she added: “The memorial service was sacrosanct in the royal diary.
“Despite her own discomfort, she was determined to be there. Yes, concessions had to be made to ensure she was as comfortable as possible but it's these type of engagements she will move heaven and earth to attend.” She added: “I think its only fitting she was there and leading from the front.”
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https://www.wjhl.com/daytime-tri-cities/a-new-childrens-book-entitled-handpicked-shares-the-inspiring-story-of-adoption/ | by: Chris McIntosh Posted: Apr 4, 2022 / 12:10 PM EDT Updated: Apr 4, 2022 / 12:10 PM EDT SHARE Author Serina Marshall, shares with us her adoption story, and the story behind her new children’s book “Handpicked”. | 0 | 8,658 | 0.950012 | https://www.kyuk.org/2010-08-19/meant-for-each-other-scott-simons-adoption-story | 2022-08-28 13:17:11+00:00 | Scott Simon, host of NPR's Weekend Edition, remembers the moment he and his wife decided to adopt.
"We'd both been in places where there are a lot of children who'd been abandoned," he tells NPR's Steve Inskeep. "We just looked at each other and said, 'Why are we doing this? There are children in the world now who need our love, and we sure need them.'"
In his new book, Baby, We Were Meant for Each Other, Simon shares the journey -- from struggling to conceive, to deciding to adopt, to traveling halfway around the world -- that ended with him and his wife, Caroline, adopting two little girls from China.
Simon says the decision to adopt changed his life -- but it wasn't easy. He explains that the adoption process in the United States is particularly taxing and can discourage many potential parents.
"It is difficult, time-consuming and expensive to adopt a child in this country," he says. "For a lot of people, the assisted-fertility industry is just an obvious alternative to that."
Then there's the emotional toll that not everyone is prepared to pay. That said, Simon says he wants to help potential parents to see the natural beauty in adoption.
"I would like to open that door for people," he says. "The instinct to adopt -- to take children into our lives -- is, I think, practically as old as childbirth."
For Simon and Caroline, that instinct was so strong that it drowned out any concern they may have had about there being an ethnic barrier between them and their adopted children.
"That baby is so much more to you than its ethnicity," he says. "First of all, they're hungry, they're thirsty, they're crying, they need sleep -- all of these kinds of things that have nothing to do, certainly, with ethnicity."
And while Simon and Caroline are determined to expose their daughters to Chinese culture through history and travel, he says their ethnicity is still only a feature of their personality, not a defining trait.
But not everyone sees it that way. Simon says he was shocked when a friend asked Caroline if she felt guilty for taking her daughters away from their native culture: "My wife just answered, 'No, not really.' I think I would have had a tougher time holding my tongue."
Simon says it's best not to invest too much of one's identity in ethnicity. In his book, he writes about the experience of Martin Simon, the adopted son of the late Illinois Sen. Paul Simon (no relation to Scott Simon).
Because Martin's birth certificate stated that he was Native American, that ethnicity became a large part of his identity. So much so, that his high school friends described him as part Cherokee and his father even became a member of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs. It wasn't until later in life that Martin finally met his biological mother and discovered he wasn't Native American at all. It turned out that Martin's mother was a woman of Scandinavian origin who, stumped by the "ethnic" section of the adoption form, had simply identified herself as "All American."
For Simon, the vignette is proof of the power of suggestion -- but that's a subtlety his daughters aren't yet aware of.
At 7 years old, Simon's daughter Elise is at an age where she's starting to ask some pretty difficult questions -- like why her biological mother gave her up -- and the answers aren't always easy for her to understand.
"We tell her, 'Your mother loved you and she wanted to take care of you for the rest of your life and she wanted to be a mother to you but she just couldn't,' " Simon says. "Yet it's hard for a 7-year-old to understand. How do you explain China's one-child policy?"
What's important, he says, is that his children are comfortable with being adopted and that they know the truth about it -- sad though it may be.
"There is no way that we're going to spare them the sting and the hurt of feeling that at some point there was someone who gave them up," he says. "We learn from hurts in life, don't we? We put something over them and we keep on going. And I think our two daughters are going to be very strong, in part, because of that."
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https://www.wjhl.com/daytime-tri-cities/a-new-childrens-book-entitled-handpicked-shares-the-inspiring-story-of-adoption/ | by: Chris McIntosh Posted: Apr 4, 2022 / 12:10 PM EDT Updated: Apr 4, 2022 / 12:10 PM EDT SHARE Author Serina Marshall, shares with us her adoption story, and the story behind her new children’s book “Handpicked”. | 1 | 88,323 | 0.950012 | https://www.apr.org/arts-life/2010-08-19/meant-for-each-other-scott-simons-adoption-story | 2022-08-21 03:17:05+00:00 | Scott Simon, host of NPR's Weekend Edition, remembers the moment he and his wife decided to adopt.
"We'd both been in places where there are a lot of children who'd been abandoned," he tells NPR's Steve Inskeep. "We just looked at each other and said, 'Why are we doing this? There are children in the world now who need our love, and we sure need them.'"
In his new book, Baby, We Were Meant for Each Other, Simon shares the journey -- from struggling to conceive, to deciding to adopt, to traveling halfway around the world -- that ended with him and his wife, Caroline, adopting two little girls from China.
Simon says the decision to adopt changed his life -- but it wasn't easy. He explains that the adoption process in the United States is particularly taxing and can discourage many potential parents.
"It is difficult, time-consuming and expensive to adopt a child in this country," he says. "For a lot of people, the assisted-fertility industry is just an obvious alternative to that."
Then there's the emotional toll that not everyone is prepared to pay. That said, Simon says he wants to help potential parents to see the natural beauty in adoption.
"I would like to open that door for people," he says. "The instinct to adopt -- to take children into our lives -- is, I think, practically as old as childbirth."
For Simon and Caroline, that instinct was so strong that it drowned out any concern they may have had about there being an ethnic barrier between them and their adopted children.
"That baby is so much more to you than its ethnicity," he says. "First of all, they're hungry, they're thirsty, they're crying, they need sleep -- all of these kinds of things that have nothing to do, certainly, with ethnicity."
And while Simon and Caroline are determined to expose their daughters to Chinese culture through history and travel, he says their ethnicity is still only a feature of their personality, not a defining trait.
But not everyone sees it that way. Simon says he was shocked when a friend asked Caroline if she felt guilty for taking her daughters away from their native culture: "My wife just answered, 'No, not really.' I think I would have had a tougher time holding my tongue."
Simon says it's best not to invest too much of one's identity in ethnicity. In his book, he writes about the experience of Martin Simon, the adopted son of the late Illinois Sen. Paul Simon (no relation to Scott Simon).
Because Martin's birth certificate stated that he was Native American, that ethnicity became a large part of his identity. So much so, that his high school friends described him as part Cherokee and his father even became a member of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs. It wasn't until later in life that Martin finally met his biological mother and discovered he wasn't Native American at all. It turned out that Martin's mother was a woman of Scandinavian origin who, stumped by the "ethnic" section of the adoption form, had simply identified herself as "All American."
For Simon, the vignette is proof of the power of suggestion -- but that's a subtlety his daughters aren't yet aware of.
At 7 years old, Simon's daughter Elise is at an age where she's starting to ask some pretty difficult questions -- like why her biological mother gave her up -- and the answers aren't always easy for her to understand.
"We tell her, 'Your mother loved you and she wanted to take care of you for the rest of your life and she wanted to be a mother to you but she just couldn't,' " Simon says. "Yet it's hard for a 7-year-old to understand. How do you explain China's one-child policy?"
What's important, he says, is that his children are comfortable with being adopted and that they know the truth about it -- sad though it may be.
"There is no way that we're going to spare them the sting and the hurt of feeling that at some point there was someone who gave them up," he says. "We learn from hurts in life, don't we? We put something over them and we keep on going. And I think our two daughters are going to be very strong, in part, because of that."
Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. |
https://www.wjhl.com/daytime-tri-cities/a-new-childrens-book-entitled-handpicked-shares-the-inspiring-story-of-adoption/ | by: Chris McIntosh Posted: Apr 4, 2022 / 12:10 PM EDT Updated: Apr 4, 2022 / 12:10 PM EDT SHARE Author Serina Marshall, shares with us her adoption story, and the story behind her new children’s book “Handpicked”. | 2 | 16,951 | 0.950012 | https://radio.wpsu.org/2010-08-20/meant-for-each-other-scott-simons-adoption-story | 2022-08-15 07:46:18+00:00 | Scott Simon, host of NPR's Weekend Edition, remembers the moment he and his wife decided to adopt.
"We'd both been in places where there are a lot of children who'd been abandoned," he tells NPR's Steve Inskeep. "We just looked at each other and said, 'Why are we doing this? There are children in the world now who need our love, and we sure need them.'"
In his new book, Baby, We Were Meant for Each Other, Simon shares the journey -- from struggling to conceive, to deciding to adopt, to traveling halfway around the world -- that ended with him and his wife, Caroline, adopting two little girls from China.
Simon says the decision to adopt changed his life -- but it wasn't easy. He explains that the adoption process in the United States is particularly taxing and can discourage many potential parents.
"It is difficult, time-consuming and expensive to adopt a child in this country," he says. "For a lot of people, the assisted-fertility industry is just an obvious alternative to that."
Then there's the emotional toll that not everyone is prepared to pay. That said, Simon says he wants to help potential parents to see the natural beauty in adoption.
"I would like to open that door for people," he says. "The instinct to adopt -- to take children into our lives -- is, I think, practically as old as childbirth."
For Simon and Caroline, that instinct was so strong that it drowned out any concern they may have had about there being an ethnic barrier between them and their adopted children.
"That baby is so much more to you than its ethnicity," he says. "First of all, they're hungry, they're thirsty, they're crying, they need sleep -- all of these kinds of things that have nothing to do, certainly, with ethnicity."
And while Simon and Caroline are determined to expose their daughters to Chinese culture through history and travel, he says their ethnicity is still only a feature of their personality, not a defining trait.
But not everyone sees it that way. Simon says he was shocked when a friend asked Caroline if she felt guilty for taking her daughters away from their native culture: "My wife just answered, 'No, not really.' I think I would have had a tougher time holding my tongue."
Simon says it's best not to invest too much of one's identity in ethnicity. In his book, he writes about the experience of Martin Simon, the adopted son of the late Illinois Sen. Paul Simon (no relation to Scott Simon).
Because Martin's birth certificate stated that he was Native American, that ethnicity became a large part of his identity. So much so, that his high school friends described him as part Cherokee and his father even became a member of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs. It wasn't until later in life that Martin finally met his biological mother and discovered he wasn't Native American at all. It turned out that Martin's mother was a woman of Scandinavian origin who, stumped by the "ethnic" section of the adoption form, had simply identified herself as "All American."
For Simon, the vignette is proof of the power of suggestion -- but that's a subtlety his daughters aren't yet aware of.
At 7 years old, Simon's daughter Elise is at an age where she's starting to ask some pretty difficult questions -- like why her biological mother gave her up -- and the answers aren't always easy for her to understand.
"We tell her, 'Your mother loved you and she wanted to take care of you for the rest of your life and she wanted to be a mother to you but she just couldn't,' " Simon says. "Yet it's hard for a 7-year-old to understand. How do you explain China's one-child policy?"
What's important, he says, is that his children are comfortable with being adopted and that they know the truth about it -- sad though it may be.
"There is no way that we're going to spare them the sting and the hurt of feeling that at some point there was someone who gave them up," he says. "We learn from hurts in life, don't we? We put something over them and we keep on going. And I think our two daughters are going to be very strong, in part, because of that."
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https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbeseq/2022/04/04/three-signs-its-time-to-hire-an-executive-assistant/ | Written by Julia Leibowitz, CEO, Cabinet
Of all the questions people ask me about assistants, this one is the most common: “I’m looking to hire an assistant, do you know any?”
It may seem like a simple question, but it is rather complicated.
Yes, I know many assistants. In fact, my team and I run the largest online community for Executive Assistants (EAs). The truth is, EA’s are in high demand right now. During Covid, many EA’s dropped out of the workforce to take care of their children, who were now at home. Those that managed to find peace with the work-from-home situation, found their biggest challenge suddenly disappear. They no longer had to open the office every morning and stay in their seat for 8-12 hours. The flexibility at home has given them a renewed sense of autonomy and balance – a reluctance to jump ship and work for someone else, especially if in an office. Therefore, finding a high-performing EA right now can take months, and if you’re a founder or at the C-Suite level, you better be prepared to shell out at least $90k-$130k.
So, what are the signs that it’s definitely time to hire an assistant, and why is it worth it?
● You already feel like you are an assistant
Even when you run an organization, it can sometimes feel like you’re an entry-level member of the team. Mailing packages? Sure, I’ll take care of that. Writing handwritten notes to customers? Those should probably come from me, right? Planning the logistics of a team dinner? I want this done right, I’ll just do it.
Many leaders incorrectly assume that making sure nothing falls through the cracks is an essential part of their job. In reality, these are exactly the kinds of things that you should be leaning on an EA to handle.
● You often say, “I wear many hats”
Unless you’re Queen Elizabeth, you shouldn’t be so proud of wearing many hats. After all, delegation is an essential aspect of good leadership. For example, if you find yourself stretched thin on the marketing side of your business, that doesn’t necessarily mean you need to hire a full-time employee for a marketing role. If you’re the one who’s been doing that task, it should be pretty easy to train your EA to take over. Our virtual assistant at Cabinet regularly sends out Amazon gift cards to the winners from various marketing promotions. We also just hired a community manager, but before that, we relied on a virtual assistant to do the work.
● You receive a recommendation for a great assistant
This may be the most important thing I tell you today. It’s extremely hard to hire a great assistant these days. Consider yourself lucky if you happen to come across one of these unicorns. If you are fortunate enough to receive a recommendation but aren’t sure if you’re ready, you should at least talk to them. If you like them, don’t be afraid to start right away with a minimal monthly commitment of just a few hours. I’m willing to bet that you’ll exceed those hours well within the first month.
The value of an assistant cannot be overstated. The time we spend on the details of execution we cannot get back. With scheduling, event planning, and other logistical parts of our day offloaded to someone who specializes in these areas, you will discover a new, invigorating level of mental clarity and energy.
Still unsure about what exactly you need? I advise exploring part-time virtual assistants before you go down the road of hiring a full-time EA. You’ll save a lot of time and you might realize that a full-time EA isn’t the right fit for you right now.
This is a content marketing post from a Forbes EQ participant. Forbes brand contributors’ opinions are their own. | 0 | 17,770 | 0.673694 | https://www.europeanbusinessreview.com/4-signs-that-its-time-to-hire-an-executive-assistant/ | 2022-05-24 06:33:15+00:00 | Getting a business off the ground is no small feat. You are responsible for planning, finances, marketing, hiring, customer service, and everything else all by yourself.
As your business scales, so does the workload, which means you will have to work more hours than usual.
While hard work is a virtue every entrepreneur should have, too much of it can lead to the downfall of what costs you a lot of effort to build. That is why you need to hire an executive assistant if you feel a little overwhelmed.
But before you make that move, you must be sure that it is the right time to get an extra pair of hands.
Finding the Right Candidates
While you need to know what to look for in an executive assistant, hiring the right person for the job is even more important.
A great executive assistant should be ready to assist you with general administrative tasks, including managing the day-to-day running of the organization and scheduling meetings or appointments. More importantly, they must exude a sheer level of self-discipline and problem-solving skills.
A good way to identify the right candidate is by paying attention to how they answer thought-provoking questions during the interview process. Interest in activities like volunteering or involvement in professional organizations can also indicate they are a good fit.
Signs That It’s Time to Get an Executive Assistant
1. You’re Overwhelmed with Responsibilities
As your business grows, your days will seem shorter than usual.
You start realizing that responsibilities are staking up, and tasks you could handle comfortably in a few hours are left undone for days. In other instances, you may experience double bookings and have issues keeping track of your schedule, deadlines, and other important appointments.
If these signs describe your typical day, it could be time to hire an assistant. Having an assistant will allow you to delegate some administrative tasks while you attend to duties that expressly demand your attention.
2. You Have Their Task Already Cut Out
Before thinking of hiring an executive assistant, you should consider incorporating technology to ease your workload. If this doesn’t help you free up enough time for more important things, hiring an executive assistant may be a viable option.
The best thing about incorporating technology first is that you will have a list of all the responsibilities that the executive assistant is expected to handle once they come on board. These can include handling emails, answering and returning phone calls, taking notes at meetings, and everything else you can’t automate.
3. You Have No Time to Think About Business Growth
Spending too much time doing day-to-day work is a good way to ensure productivity. However, too many short-term tasks will leave you with little or no time to think about development strategies, causing your business to stagnate.
An effective business owner must spend most of their time thinking about and planning for business growth. Therefore, if you have no time to think more strategically about your business growth, you may need to let an executive assistant take some tasks off your plate.
4. You Can Afford It
Like other investments, you must ensure you get a return on investment from hiring an executive assistant.
For example, an executive assistant for a small business will cost you approximately $39,680 per year. You must be sure you can afford one before you start looking for a potential candidate. If you can’t, it may not be time to get one yet, no matter how overwhelmed you feel. |
https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbeseq/2022/04/04/three-signs-its-time-to-hire-an-executive-assistant/ | Written by Julia Leibowitz, CEO, Cabinet
Of all the questions people ask me about assistants, this one is the most common: “I’m looking to hire an assistant, do you know any?”
It may seem like a simple question, but it is rather complicated.
Yes, I know many assistants. In fact, my team and I run the largest online community for Executive Assistants (EAs). The truth is, EA’s are in high demand right now. During Covid, many EA’s dropped out of the workforce to take care of their children, who were now at home. Those that managed to find peace with the work-from-home situation, found their biggest challenge suddenly disappear. They no longer had to open the office every morning and stay in their seat for 8-12 hours. The flexibility at home has given them a renewed sense of autonomy and balance – a reluctance to jump ship and work for someone else, especially if in an office. Therefore, finding a high-performing EA right now can take months, and if you’re a founder or at the C-Suite level, you better be prepared to shell out at least $90k-$130k.
So, what are the signs that it’s definitely time to hire an assistant, and why is it worth it?
● You already feel like you are an assistant
Even when you run an organization, it can sometimes feel like you’re an entry-level member of the team. Mailing packages? Sure, I’ll take care of that. Writing handwritten notes to customers? Those should probably come from me, right? Planning the logistics of a team dinner? I want this done right, I’ll just do it.
Many leaders incorrectly assume that making sure nothing falls through the cracks is an essential part of their job. In reality, these are exactly the kinds of things that you should be leaning on an EA to handle.
● You often say, “I wear many hats”
Unless you’re Queen Elizabeth, you shouldn’t be so proud of wearing many hats. After all, delegation is an essential aspect of good leadership. For example, if you find yourself stretched thin on the marketing side of your business, that doesn’t necessarily mean you need to hire a full-time employee for a marketing role. If you’re the one who’s been doing that task, it should be pretty easy to train your EA to take over. Our virtual assistant at Cabinet regularly sends out Amazon gift cards to the winners from various marketing promotions. We also just hired a community manager, but before that, we relied on a virtual assistant to do the work.
● You receive a recommendation for a great assistant
This may be the most important thing I tell you today. It’s extremely hard to hire a great assistant these days. Consider yourself lucky if you happen to come across one of these unicorns. If you are fortunate enough to receive a recommendation but aren’t sure if you’re ready, you should at least talk to them. If you like them, don’t be afraid to start right away with a minimal monthly commitment of just a few hours. I’m willing to bet that you’ll exceed those hours well within the first month.
The value of an assistant cannot be overstated. The time we spend on the details of execution we cannot get back. With scheduling, event planning, and other logistical parts of our day offloaded to someone who specializes in these areas, you will discover a new, invigorating level of mental clarity and energy.
Still unsure about what exactly you need? I advise exploring part-time virtual assistants before you go down the road of hiring a full-time EA. You’ll save a lot of time and you might realize that a full-time EA isn’t the right fit for you right now.
This is a content marketing post from a Forbes EQ participant. Forbes brand contributors’ opinions are their own. | 1 | 71,228 | 0.680436 | https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbeseq/2022/05/03/ai-will-not-replace-assistants/ | 2022-05-03 15:34:31+00:00 | Written by Julia Leibowitz, CEO, Cabinet
I am not an Artificial Intelligence expert. I am not even a software engineer, for that matter. But I do know one thing: Assistants are going be to among the last jobs in the office to be replaced by technology.
This is much more than a hot take. It’s a lesson in history.
For more than a century, since the invention of the typewriter, technology has been an invisible threat to the role of a secretary or administrative professional.
The idea became especially prolific during the advent of the computer and, more recently, email. Today, with even more technology and automation, this type of unsubstantiated logic exists with more fervor. But I am here to tell you, that it has never come to pass.
It’s true: changes do and will occur. Like in every role, assistants must adapt to new technology and new needs.
The day-to-day responsibilities are morphing. Thirty years ago, assistants’ roles were managing the phones and mailbox at the office. Today, they can be remote and totally online. Phone calls and letters in the mail have been replaced by 100x more correspondence over email, internal SaaS platforms, and social media.
The career trajectory of an assistant has also grown. Today, an assistant who earns the trust of their executives is given more strategic opportunities to provide support. Assistants who manage both administrative and strategic initiatives have negotiated higher salaries and better title — such as Executive Business Partner or Chief of Staff.
Every day looks incredibly different for assistants. But one thing that is generally true for all assistants: At its core, the role is relationship-based. There is a reason assistants have such high emotional intelligence scores. They have to understand their executives’ needs, wants, pet peeves and, most importantly, priorities. They need to not only build a close relationship with their boss, but build relationships with everyone their boss interacts with, and understand those people deeply.
AI-scheduling tools that seek to place people with an AI “assistant” are problematic. The tools make mistakes frequently and leave little room for personalization, ever-fluctuating preferences, or other considerations that are fundamental to relationship-building. Therein lies the issue. AI scheduling tools are a good idea in theory, but are built for people who don’t care about building relationships. Since those people are rare, most of these platforms have failed, and have left a very deep scar for investors.
In 2011, Harvard Business Review published an article titled “The Case for Executive Assistants.” The author tells the story of Trudy Vitti, who at the time was the executive assistant to Kevin Roberts, the then CEO Worldwide of Saatchi & Saatchi. Kevin said that often when anyone asks him a question, he’ll simply say, “Ask Trudy.” That’s because the Trudys of the world know everything, from what meeting can be moved based on priorities, to which type of wine should be ordered off the catering menu.
It will be a very long time before we ever hear a CEO say, “Ask my Google Assistant.”
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https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbeseq/2022/04/04/three-signs-its-time-to-hire-an-executive-assistant/ | Written by Julia Leibowitz, CEO, Cabinet
Of all the questions people ask me about assistants, this one is the most common: “I’m looking to hire an assistant, do you know any?”
It may seem like a simple question, but it is rather complicated.
Yes, I know many assistants. In fact, my team and I run the largest online community for Executive Assistants (EAs). The truth is, EA’s are in high demand right now. During Covid, many EA’s dropped out of the workforce to take care of their children, who were now at home. Those that managed to find peace with the work-from-home situation, found their biggest challenge suddenly disappear. They no longer had to open the office every morning and stay in their seat for 8-12 hours. The flexibility at home has given them a renewed sense of autonomy and balance – a reluctance to jump ship and work for someone else, especially if in an office. Therefore, finding a high-performing EA right now can take months, and if you’re a founder or at the C-Suite level, you better be prepared to shell out at least $90k-$130k.
So, what are the signs that it’s definitely time to hire an assistant, and why is it worth it?
● You already feel like you are an assistant
Even when you run an organization, it can sometimes feel like you’re an entry-level member of the team. Mailing packages? Sure, I’ll take care of that. Writing handwritten notes to customers? Those should probably come from me, right? Planning the logistics of a team dinner? I want this done right, I’ll just do it.
Many leaders incorrectly assume that making sure nothing falls through the cracks is an essential part of their job. In reality, these are exactly the kinds of things that you should be leaning on an EA to handle.
● You often say, “I wear many hats”
Unless you’re Queen Elizabeth, you shouldn’t be so proud of wearing many hats. After all, delegation is an essential aspect of good leadership. For example, if you find yourself stretched thin on the marketing side of your business, that doesn’t necessarily mean you need to hire a full-time employee for a marketing role. If you’re the one who’s been doing that task, it should be pretty easy to train your EA to take over. Our virtual assistant at Cabinet regularly sends out Amazon gift cards to the winners from various marketing promotions. We also just hired a community manager, but before that, we relied on a virtual assistant to do the work.
● You receive a recommendation for a great assistant
This may be the most important thing I tell you today. It’s extremely hard to hire a great assistant these days. Consider yourself lucky if you happen to come across one of these unicorns. If you are fortunate enough to receive a recommendation but aren’t sure if you’re ready, you should at least talk to them. If you like them, don’t be afraid to start right away with a minimal monthly commitment of just a few hours. I’m willing to bet that you’ll exceed those hours well within the first month.
The value of an assistant cannot be overstated. The time we spend on the details of execution we cannot get back. With scheduling, event planning, and other logistical parts of our day offloaded to someone who specializes in these areas, you will discover a new, invigorating level of mental clarity and energy.
Still unsure about what exactly you need? I advise exploring part-time virtual assistants before you go down the road of hiring a full-time EA. You’ll save a lot of time and you might realize that a full-time EA isn’t the right fit for you right now.
This is a content marketing post from a Forbes EQ participant. Forbes brand contributors’ opinions are their own. | 2 | 137,010 | 0.707614 | https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/what-executive-assistants-really-want-you-to-know-about-their-jobs_uk_62e3d346e4b09d14dc420df5 | 2022-08-01 05:26:26+00:00 | The most important person in the office is often not the CEO at the top of the organisational chart — it’s their executive assistant.
An executive assistant is not just answering emails and taking phone calls. EAs can also be strategic sounding boards for their boss’s ideas, and they use their administrative know-how to execute their boss’s vision.
“You wield a lot of power, knowingly or unknowingly. I will seldom use my executive’s name in communication,” said Maggie Jacobs, director of administration at 6sense and author of “The Elevated EA: Find Your Voice and Own Your Future as an Executive Assistant.” “If I use their name, people feel like they have to jump immediately.”
But too often, they are also the unsung heroes of the office.
“Even though we’re in 2022, it’s very common to hear old-school executives or VPs saying, ‘Oh, their job is just to get coffee and make copies,’” said Jeremy Burrows, executive assistant to the CEO of Capacity and author of “The Leader Assistant: Four Pillars of a Confident, Game-Changing Assistant.”
But as Burrows puts it, “an assistant is actually a chaos tamer, a culture creator, a pulse taker. Assistants are inefficiency disruptors, strategist partners, fearless negotiators, game changers, relationship builders, time benders, operations experts.”
That’s why HuffPost asked several executive assistants to clear up misunderstandings about what they do, what it’s like to be one and how they should be considered. Here’s what executive assistants want you to know:
1. It’s not a stepping stone. It can be a fulfilling, well-paid career on its own.
Although some people may see being an executive assistant as a step toward being a future chief of staff or other role, it can be a rewarding career all its own if someone wants it to be.
Jacobs said she initially saw her EA job as a stepping stone, but once she started in the role, she realised that with training and investment in herself — either her own investment or the company’s — it was a future she “could absolutely choose to create.”
That’s why Jacobs sees her profession as one with infinite possibilities. “You can actually choose to do anything that you want in the role. It may not be at your current company... but there are other companies and executives who buy into that vision.”
“I make $150,000 (£123,223) a year, and that’s my base. That’s not including my bonus. We are well-compensated when you are a career EA.”
And executive assistants can be well-compensated, depending on which industry they are in. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the top-paying industries for EAs are in computer manufacturing, water transportation, data processing and banking, where EAs can earn an average annual salary of $84,230 (£64K) to $95,350 (£78K).
“There’s a misconception that we don’t make money. That’s completely wrong. I don’t know anybody in my circle that does not make six figures. The ceiling keeps getting higher,” said D.D., a Latina executive assistant working in financial services who asked to be identified by her initials because she wasn’t allowed to speak on the record. “I make $150,000 (£123,223) a year, and that’s my base. That’s not including my bonus. We are well-compensated when you are a career EA.”
2. There are limits to what people should ask an EA to do. Wild, ridiculous requests are proof that not all people understand this.
Executive assistants see it all, and they all have wild stories about the requests they’ve gotten from their executives. Often there’s a confusing belief that an executive assistant is automatically a personal assistant.
“Even though it requires a service heart, you are not a servant,” D.D. said. “That, in a nutshell, is the biggest misconception.”
Jacobs said that in a previous EA job, she was asked to boil chicken and rice for her sick executive’s dog. “I thought, ‘Oh, wow, this is actually happening.’”
Sometimes even business-related requests can be outrageous. D.D. has been asked to fly with a laptop containing sensitive knowledge in order to deliver it in person. “I’d get on a plane to go drop it off to him, and then get back on a plane the next morning, on the first plane back, to make it back to the office,” she said. “I don’t think that’s completely uncommon for other assistants. We just don’t talk about it.“
Burrows realised he was going above and beyond when he was asked to clean out the roof gutters at his boss’s lake house during a previous job. “I’m on the roof. Pretty high roof, too, by the way, not a flat, low roof, and I’m sitting there thinking, ‘Something’s not right here.’”
It can be a struggle to deal with the conflict that arises when the desire to make an executive’s life easier meets a request that’s outside of the job duties.
“I really thought that, ‘Of course it’s a waste of my executive’s time to clean the gutters,’” he said. “But I was also like, just because it was alright for him to not have to deal with that, as far as prioritising his time, it didn’t make it right for me to be doing it personally.”
3. Don’t take it personally if you don’t get on the calendar.
Sometimes people see their failure to secure a meeting with an executive as proof that the executive assistant is personally out to get them, said Lindsay Robinson, an executive assistant at LinkedIn.
But behind the scenes, Robinson said, “I agonise over how to find time when there isn’t any. If they knew how many meetings I looked at to possibly, potentially move, and it just didn’t work out.”
“Act with a little grace when you’re asking for something, because it’s not just you,” she advised. “You’re thinking about what you have to do. I’m thinking about you and the other 30 people that have emailed me before eight o’ clock.”
4. It’s not cool if you only talk to an EA to get intel about leadership. It’s rude, and they can tell you’re doing it.
Since executive assistants often have access to a leader behind closed doors, some colleagues try to exploit that relationship for their own ends.
Burrows said that in a prior job as an EA at a different company, these kind of conversations happened all the time. He shared a typical scenario of how chats would go when he ran into co-workers outside the office:
“Oh, hey, how is it going? How is your boss doing?”
“He’s good, it’s busy, but he’s hanging in there.”
“OK, good, good. [Awkward pause.] Well, let him know I’m thinking about him. Tell him if he ever needs anything, give me a call. Tell him we should grab coffee soon.”
On the surface, these interactions may seem fine, but if they happen over and over, it becomes dehumanising to an executive assistant, Burrows said.
“Even if he is the biggest asshole in the world, there is only a limited amount that you can share.”
“It caused me to shut down emotionally and basically say, ‘OK, I’m just not going to be friends with my colleagues because they don’t care about me, they just care about, “Oh, what’s the latest scoop about what’s going on with the CEO?”’”
To be better colleagues, Burrows said, co-workers should trust that assistants will communicate crucial information to them if necessary and that if an EA cannot share, it doesn’t mean bad news like a layoff is coming.
“You don’t have to go fishing for information,” he said.
5. It can be isolating and lonely. Genuine thanks go a long way.
The knowledge that executive assistants have on the C-suite is a double-edged sword: They get access to conversations no one else in the company may be hearing, but they don’t have co-workers they can confide in, either.
“There’s only so much that you can share with your colleagues because your boss’s reputation is also your reputation,” D.D. said. “Even if he is the biggest asshole in the world, there is only a limited amount that you can share because either you’re the doormat working for him or you’re the idiot who is working for the asshole.”
Being an EA often means being overlooked. That’s why Robinson advises colleagues to make sure that EAs are getting the same benefits and kudos that other team members get, like vacations and birthday celebrations.
“We need all the other things that we help give other people,” she said, adding later that, “A thank you goes a long way.“
Consider the language that you use to compliment EAs when you are giving them their flowers, too. Robinson said during her career she has heard her role described in inhuman, otherworldly terms, like “robot,” “ninja” or “magician,” which she finds off-putting.
“That’s the other thing I hear, ‘You’re a robot.’ It’s like, ‘I’m a human being with feelings and needs.’” |
https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/ralf-rangnick-manutd-transfer-plan-26633930 | Ralf Rangnick has warned the Manchester United board it could take up to three transfer windows before they can rival Manchester City and Liverpool, after outlining his four-point plan to help the club return to top of English football.
The German watched on as his side squandered the chance to close the gap to top-four rivals Arsenal after a 1-1 draw with Leicester on Saturday — their third home draw in five games. The Gunners, who have two games in hand, will move six points clear if they beat Crystal Palace on Monday evening, which could bring an end to Man United's hopes of securing Champions League qualification.
United were knocked out of the competition by Atletico Madrid in March, confirming they will finish the campaign without a trophy for the fifth consecutive season since their Europa League triumph in May 2017. That is despite spending £120million last summer to bring in Cristiano Ronaldo, Jadon Sancho and Raphael Varane.
While Rangnick may have been responsible for some of their below-par performances and results, the 63-year-old believes there is an inherent lack of identity within the club. And the former RB Leipzig coach has provided recommendations to improve their fortunes on and off the pitch, including following the path of their rivals Liverpool and Man City.
According to The Telegraph, Rangnick has outlined his vision which includes: signing players that fit their new manager’s philosophy, recruiting aggressive and physical footballers after recognising United are “too soft”, profiling a player’s DNA and taking a patient approach to transfers, with three transfer windows needed to catch up to their rivals.
The first step in United's plan will be to appoint a new manager, with Erik ten Hag and Mauricio Pochettino believed to be the frontrunners. Ten Hag, who has won two Eredivisie titles in four years at Ajax, is understood to be Rangnick’s favoured choice and reportedly has a verbal agreement to leave the Dutch giants if United make an approach.
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In explaining his theory, Rangnick pointed to how Liverpool and Man City have grown over the past five years operating under a similar model with Jurgen Klopp and Pep Guardiola respectively: “Manchester City and Liverpool … have been built together and recruited over a period of five or six years - all of them under the premise of how the coaches want to play,” Rangnick said.
“I told the board this is what has to happen [at United]. Whenever the new head coach is clear, it has to be: how does he want to play and what kind of players do we need for that? Then we come back to DNA, speed, physicality, tempo. What do we need? This team does not lack technical players, it can do with more physicality.
“It takes right decisions and [clarity over] where you want to go: what kind of players, want kind of manager and then, in every transfer window, try to get the best possible. This is rocket science. It has to be done and, if that happens, it does not necessarily need three or four years. Maybe in two or three transfer windows, then the situation could be different.”
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Read More | 0 | 129,930 | 0.432566 | https://theathletic.com/news/manchester-united-may-need-two-or-three-transfer-windows-to-match-liverpool-and-city-rangnick/ZDV5eGoOQFgN/ | 2022-04-04 09:26:46+00:00 | Manchester United manager Ralf Rangnick has said that the club may be able to rival Manchester City and Liverpool after “two or three transfer windows”.
The interim manager was speaking after Saturday’s 1-1 draw with Leicester, in which United were outclassed for large spells of the game at Old Trafford.
Rangnick, a former sporting director of RB Leipzig, has outlined United’s need for a rebuild. On joining United, it was revealed that he has a two-year agreement to take up a consultancy role at the club from the end of the season.
“Manchester City and Liverpool… have been built together and recruited over a period of five or six years - all of them under the premise of how the coaches want to play,” Rangnick explained. “I told the board this is what has to happen (at United).
“Whenever the new head coach is clear, it has to be: how does he want to play and what kind of players do we need for that? Then we come back to DNA, speed, physicality, tempo. What do we need? This team does not lack technical players, it can do with more physicality.
“It takes right decisions and (clarity over) where you want to go: what kind of players, want kind of manager and then, in every transfer window, try to get the best possible. This is rocket science. It has to be done and, if that happens, it does not necessarily need three or four years. Maybe in two or three transfer windows, then the situation could be different.”
Having been knocked out of the Champions League by Atletico Madrid last month, United’s next game is against relegation-threatened Everton on Saturday.
(Photo: LINDSEY PARNABY/AFP via Getty Images) |
https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/ralf-rangnick-manutd-transfer-plan-26633930 | Ralf Rangnick has warned the Manchester United board it could take up to three transfer windows before they can rival Manchester City and Liverpool, after outlining his four-point plan to help the club return to top of English football.
The German watched on as his side squandered the chance to close the gap to top-four rivals Arsenal after a 1-1 draw with Leicester on Saturday — their third home draw in five games. The Gunners, who have two games in hand, will move six points clear if they beat Crystal Palace on Monday evening, which could bring an end to Man United's hopes of securing Champions League qualification.
United were knocked out of the competition by Atletico Madrid in March, confirming they will finish the campaign without a trophy for the fifth consecutive season since their Europa League triumph in May 2017. That is despite spending £120million last summer to bring in Cristiano Ronaldo, Jadon Sancho and Raphael Varane.
While Rangnick may have been responsible for some of their below-par performances and results, the 63-year-old believes there is an inherent lack of identity within the club. And the former RB Leipzig coach has provided recommendations to improve their fortunes on and off the pitch, including following the path of their rivals Liverpool and Man City.
According to The Telegraph, Rangnick has outlined his vision which includes: signing players that fit their new manager’s philosophy, recruiting aggressive and physical footballers after recognising United are “too soft”, profiling a player’s DNA and taking a patient approach to transfers, with three transfer windows needed to catch up to their rivals.
The first step in United's plan will be to appoint a new manager, with Erik ten Hag and Mauricio Pochettino believed to be the frontrunners. Ten Hag, who has won two Eredivisie titles in four years at Ajax, is understood to be Rangnick’s favoured choice and reportedly has a verbal agreement to leave the Dutch giants if United make an approach.
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In explaining his theory, Rangnick pointed to how Liverpool and Man City have grown over the past five years operating under a similar model with Jurgen Klopp and Pep Guardiola respectively: “Manchester City and Liverpool … have been built together and recruited over a period of five or six years - all of them under the premise of how the coaches want to play,” Rangnick said.
“I told the board this is what has to happen [at United]. Whenever the new head coach is clear, it has to be: how does he want to play and what kind of players do we need for that? Then we come back to DNA, speed, physicality, tempo. What do we need? This team does not lack technical players, it can do with more physicality.
“It takes right decisions and [clarity over] where you want to go: what kind of players, want kind of manager and then, in every transfer window, try to get the best possible. This is rocket science. It has to be done and, if that happens, it does not necessarily need three or four years. Maybe in two or three transfer windows, then the situation could be different.”
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Read More | 1 | 2,169 | 0.456795 | https://www.thisisanfield.com/2022/04/ralf-rangnick-says-man-united-need-two-or-three-transfer-windows-to-catch-lfc/ | 2022-04-04 10:58:42+00:00 | Man United manager Ralf Rangnick has claimed the club may need “two or three transfer windows” to catch up with Liverpool, after 10 years of mediocrity.
Rangnick has so far presided over a continued slump at Old Trafford, with only nine wins in 20 games since taking over as interim manager in November.
The 63-year-old has been candid in his assessment of the squad he has taken on, ahead of a full-time appointment for United in the summer – with Erik ten Hag the leading candidate.
With just over two months until the summer transfer market opens, and United outsiders in the race for a top-four finish, Rangnick has explained his belief that “two or three transfer windows” may be needed.
That is in order to bridge the gap between them and the two best sides in England: Liverpool and Man City.
“Those two teams have been built together and recruited over a period of five or six years, all of them under the premise of ‘how do the coaches want to play?’,” he told the Manchester Evening News.
He added: “It takes the right decisions and where you want to go to, what kind of players, what kind of manager, and then in every transfer window try to get the best possible.
“This is possible. This is not rocket science.
“It has to be done and if that happens it does not necessarily need three or four years, maybe two or three transfer windows, then the situation could be different.”
As Rangnick continued, he outlined how the DNA of the club must be led by their next manager, with the emphasis on Jurgen Klopp and Pep Guardiola at Liverpool and City as prime examples.
However, it seems wishful thinking given the repeated mistakes committed by United in terms of their structure and recruitment since Sir Alex Ferguson’s retirement.
Ferguson left the club in 2013, with 19 transfer windows having come and gone since then and over £1 billion spent by five different managers.
United are currently 21 points behind Liverpool in the Premier League table, and 22 points behind City, with Chelsea, Tottenham, Arsenal and West Ham all above them in the top-four hunt.
Rangnick’s side are still to head to Anfield on April 19, having lost 5-0 at Old Trafford back in October. |
https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/ralf-rangnick-manutd-transfer-plan-26633930 | Ralf Rangnick has warned the Manchester United board it could take up to three transfer windows before they can rival Manchester City and Liverpool, after outlining his four-point plan to help the club return to top of English football.
The German watched on as his side squandered the chance to close the gap to top-four rivals Arsenal after a 1-1 draw with Leicester on Saturday — their third home draw in five games. The Gunners, who have two games in hand, will move six points clear if they beat Crystal Palace on Monday evening, which could bring an end to Man United's hopes of securing Champions League qualification.
United were knocked out of the competition by Atletico Madrid in March, confirming they will finish the campaign without a trophy for the fifth consecutive season since their Europa League triumph in May 2017. That is despite spending £120million last summer to bring in Cristiano Ronaldo, Jadon Sancho and Raphael Varane.
While Rangnick may have been responsible for some of their below-par performances and results, the 63-year-old believes there is an inherent lack of identity within the club. And the former RB Leipzig coach has provided recommendations to improve their fortunes on and off the pitch, including following the path of their rivals Liverpool and Man City.
According to The Telegraph, Rangnick has outlined his vision which includes: signing players that fit their new manager’s philosophy, recruiting aggressive and physical footballers after recognising United are “too soft”, profiling a player’s DNA and taking a patient approach to transfers, with three transfer windows needed to catch up to their rivals.
The first step in United's plan will be to appoint a new manager, with Erik ten Hag and Mauricio Pochettino believed to be the frontrunners. Ten Hag, who has won two Eredivisie titles in four years at Ajax, is understood to be Rangnick’s favoured choice and reportedly has a verbal agreement to leave the Dutch giants if United make an approach.
Have Your Say! Will Manchester United challenge for the Premier League title in 2022-23? Comment below.
In explaining his theory, Rangnick pointed to how Liverpool and Man City have grown over the past five years operating under a similar model with Jurgen Klopp and Pep Guardiola respectively: “Manchester City and Liverpool … have been built together and recruited over a period of five or six years - all of them under the premise of how the coaches want to play,” Rangnick said.
“I told the board this is what has to happen [at United]. Whenever the new head coach is clear, it has to be: how does he want to play and what kind of players do we need for that? Then we come back to DNA, speed, physicality, tempo. What do we need? This team does not lack technical players, it can do with more physicality.
“It takes right decisions and [clarity over] where you want to go: what kind of players, want kind of manager and then, in every transfer window, try to get the best possible. This is rocket science. It has to be done and, if that happens, it does not necessarily need three or four years. Maybe in two or three transfer windows, then the situation could be different.”
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The Red Devils are currently five years without a trophy and will finish on their lowest-ever points haul in the Premier League this season as they sit sixth ahead of their final game against Crystal Palace.
New manager Erik ten Hag will take up his new role at Old Trafford in the next few weeks but will work with a squad heavily criticised by the club’s fans for a lack of quality and desire.
However, Rangnick, who took over from Ole Gunnar Solskjaer in November, says if United improve their recruitment they could be competing for the title sooner than expected.
Speaking ahead of their match against Crystal Palace, he told reporters: ‘If we bring in the right players, mentality players, I am positive we will be able to bring this club back to the top.
‘Maybe not possible in one window, but next two or three.’
Since Sir Alex Ferguson retired in 2013, United have spent over £1billion on new players, although most have failed to live up to the billing.
Last summer, the Manchester giants signed Jadon Sancho and Raphael Varane for over £100million, with both enduring disappointing seasons.
Meanwhile, the likes of Aaron Wan-Bissaka and Harry Maguire, bought for significant fees in 2019, have also performed poorly.
In contrast, Liverpool have been commended for their work in the transfer market, with Thiago Alcantara, Luis Diaz and Diogo Jota all turning out to be hits in the Premier League over the last two years.
Speaking after United’s 4-0 defeat to the Reds in April, Rangnick suggested the Red Devils could need as many as 12 new players.
Ten Hag will look to elevate United towards the title by bringing in fresh talent with Tottenham’s Harry Kane and West Ham’s Declan Rice linked with transfers.
But with no Champions League to offer and United struggling, a move to Old Trafford is not as tempting as it once was.
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https://www.annistonstar.com/news/nation_world/biden-calls-for-war-crimes-trial-of-putin-after-mass-graves-found-around-kyiv/article_e7f450aa-b426-11ec-bb69-b376361fb434.html | LVIV, Ukraine — President Joe Biden called for a war-crimes trial of Russian leader Vladimir Putin on Monday following the discovery of mass graves and streets littered with the bodies of dead civilians after the Russian retreat from suburbs around Kyiv.
“You saw what happened in Bucha,” Biden told reporters, referring to a town near Kyiv where numerous civilians were found dead, some bearing marks of torture or execution. The Ukrainian government said it has counted more than 400 civilian deaths so far in the suburbs of the capital city.
Biden previously branded Putin a “war criminal” in remarks March 17, but at that time the White House said he was speaking personally and not outlining a formal U.S. position. But six days later, the U.S. formally accused Russia of war crimes and said it was collecting evidence to help prove it.
“He is a war criminal,” Biden said of Putin on Monday, describing the longtime Russian leader as “brutal.” “But we have to gather information, we have to continue to provide Ukraine with the weapons they need to continue to fight.”
In a video address, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy warned that the most brutal images from newly liberated areas such as Bucha were still to come.
“After the expulsion of the occupiers, even worse things could be found there. Even more death and torture,” Zelenskyy said. “This is the nature of the Russian forces who came onto our land.”
Zelenskyy was photographed walking through charred rubble in Bucha on Monday as armed guards surrounded him. The president called on the media to come to the city to “show the world what happened here.”
Zelenskyy has described the scenes in Bucha, where photos and videos show mass graves and dead men and women face down on residential roads, as evidence of Russian “genocide” against Ukrainians.
He pledged to set up a special judicial mechanism, with the participation of international prosecutors and judges, to investigate alleged war atrocities. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen tweeted Monday that she had spoken with Zelenskyy about the European Union sending investigators to work with the Ukrainian government to “document war crimes.”
The horrific scenes outside Kyiv have generated calls for heavier sanctions on Moscow over the war, which is now in its 40th day.
“We will do everything to ensure that those who have perpetrated these war crimes do not go unpunished,” Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said Monday, citing “alleged cases of [crimes against] humanity, war crimes and — why not say it, too — genocide.”
French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday described the gruesome images as “unbearable.” Macron, who said he supported additional sanctions, said it was “very clear” that Russia committed war crimes.
And a top government official in Germany, a primary importer of Russian gas and one of the strongest holdouts against cutting off such trade, signaled Sunday that it might change course and support a ban. “There has to be a response,” Defense Minister Christine Lambrecht said. “Such crimes must not remain unanswered.”
More than half of Germany’s gas comes from Russia. Europe overall receives 40 percent of its gas and 25 percent of its oil from Russia.
Russia has repeatedly denied targeting civilians in Ukraine. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Monday dismissed the scenes outside Kyiv as a “stage-managed anti-Russian provocation,” saying that Bucha’s mayor had not spoken of atrocities immediately after Russian troops left the area last week.
On Monday, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield said the U.S. would support a move to suspend Russia’s membership on the U.N. Human Rights Council. Thomas-Greenfield said the “images out of Bucha and devastation across Ukraine require us now to match our words with action.” The Security Council, chaired by Britain, denied Moscow’s request for a meeting on “provocation by Ukrainian radicals” in Bucha.
Although they were never able to enter central Kyiv, Russia said its forces had successfully completed the “first phase” of the war against Ukraine and were shifting east to the industrial region of Donbas and other areas that are home to pro-Russia separatist movements.
Russian troops appeared to have left several towns around the northeastern city of Chernihiv by Monday, according to regional Gov. Viacheslav Chaus.
Chaus, who said that about 70 percentt of the city is destroyed, warned remaining residents not to get too comfortable. In a message posted to the Telegram app, he counseled patience as Ukrainian troops clear mines.
“We must avoid new victims,” he said.
Major aid routes into the city have been cut off for weeks, but Ukrainian news outlet RBK Ukraina reported a positive development: The 92-mile car route between Kyiv and Chernihiv had been partially reopened Monday morning.
Farther east in Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city, the local prosecutor’s office said Monday that shelling of residential buildings Sunday left seven people dead and 34 injured.
In Mariupol, a battered southern port city that has seen some of the worst publicly documented atrocities of the war, officials have continued to struggle to evacuate residents and send in aid.
Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk said Monday that evacuation buses were scheduled to arrive in Mariupol. But such efforts have repeatedly fallen apart, with Ukraine accusing Russian forces of failing to honor the pledge to allow safe corridors out of Mariupol.
The International Committee of the Red Cross also said Monday that one of its teams, which has tried to reach the city since Friday but ran into conditions that “made it impossible to proceed,” had still not made it in as of Sunday. It was unclear Monday if the group was able to enter the city, where only one-quarter of the prewar population of 430,000 remains.
New strikes were reported overnight on the historic Black Sea port of Odesa and the city of Mykolaiv, both in the south. No information was available on deaths or injuries.
The shifting terrain of war has left western parts of Ukraine in relative peace as local recovery efforts began even as war rages in the south and east.
The British Ministry of Defense warned Monday that Russian fighters were in a “consolidate and reorganize” phase as they planned more offensives in Donbas. The ministry said fighters from Wagner, a Russian paramilitary company, were staging in the area.
At the same time, the Ukrainian military said in a Monday report that a “hidden mobilization” was underway by Russians to regroup amid their pullback from some parts of Ukraine.
“The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation plan to engage around 60,000 people during the mobilization,” the report said.
According to the United Nations, at least 1,417 civilians have been killed since Russia launched the war Feb. 24. About a quarter of Ukraine’s population of 44 million has been displaced, with more than 4 million fleeing the country.
McDonnell reported from Lviv and Kaleem from London. | 0 | 97,241 | 0.039883 | https://www.murrayledger.com/news/national-world/biden-calls-for-war-crimes-trial-of-putin-after-mass-graves-found-around-kyiv/article_0ea3a8d0-b469-11ec-84ce-7bc093eacc6c.html | 2022-04-05 07:56:14+00:00 | LVIV, Ukraine — (TNS) President Joe Biden called for a war-crimes trial of Russian leader Vladimir Putin on Monday following the discovery of mass graves and streets littered with the bodies of dead civilians after the Russian retreat from suburbs around Kyiv.
“You saw what happened in Bucha,” Biden told reporters, referring to a town near Kyiv where numerous civilians were found dead, some bearing marks of torture or execution. The Ukrainian government said it has counted more than 400 civilian deaths so far in the suburbs of the capital city.
Biden previously branded Putin a “war criminal” in remarks March 17, but at that time the White House said he was speaking personally and not outlining a formal U.S. position. But six days later, the U.S. formally accused Russia of war crimes and said it was collecting evidence to help prove it.
“He is a war criminal,” Biden said of Putin on Monday, describing the longtime Russian leader as “brutal.” “But we have to gather information, we have to continue to provide Ukraine with the weapons they need to continue to fight.”
In a video address, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy warned that the most brutal images from newly liberated areas such as Bucha were still to come.
“After the expulsion of the occupiers, even worse things could be found there. Even more death and torture,” Zelenskyy said. “This is the nature of the Russian forces who came onto our land.”
Zelenskyy was photographed walking through charred rubble in Bucha on Monday as armed guards surrounded him. The president called on the media to come to the city to “show the world what happened here.”
Zelenskyy has described the scenes in Bucha, where photos and videos show mass graves and dead men and women face down on residential roads, as evidence of Russian “genocide” against Ukrainians.
He pledged to set up a special judicial mechanism, with the participation of international prosecutors and judges, to investigate alleged war atrocities. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen tweeted Monday that she had spoken with Zelenskyy about the European Union sending investigators to work with the Ukrainian government to “document war crimes.”
The horrific scenes outside Kyiv have generated calls for heavier sanctions on Moscow over the war, which is now in its 40th day.
“We will do everything to ensure that those who have perpetrated these war crimes do not go unpunished,” Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said Monday, citing “alleged cases of [crimes against] humanity, war crimes and — why not say it, too — genocide.”
French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday described the gruesome images as “unbearable.” Macron, who said he supported additional sanctions, said it was “very clear” that Russia committed war crimes.
And a top government official in Germany, a primary importer of Russian gas and one of the strongest holdouts against cutting off such trade, signaled Sunday that it might change course and support a ban. “There has to be a response,” Defense Minister Christine Lambrecht said. “Such crimes must not remain unanswered.”
More than half of Germany’s gas comes from Russia. Europe overall receives 40% of its gas and 25% of its oil from Russia.
Russia has repeatedly denied targeting civilians in Ukraine. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Monday dismissed the scenes outside Kyiv as a “stage-managed anti-Russian provocation,” saying that Bucha’s mayor had not spoken of atrocities immediately after Russian troops left the area last week.
On Monday, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield said the U.S. would support a move to suspend Russia’s membership on the U.N. Human Rights Council. Thomas-Greenfield said the “images out of Bucha and devastation across Ukraine require us now to match our words with action.” The Security Council, chaired by Britain, denied Moscow’s request for a meeting on “provocation by Ukrainian radicals” in Bucha.
Although they were never able to enter central Kyiv, Russia said its forces had successfully completed the “first phase” of the war against Ukraine and were shifting east to the industrial region of Donbas and other areas that are home to pro-Russia separatist movements.
Russian troops appeared to have left several towns around the northeastern city of Chernihiv by Monday, according to regional Gov. Viacheslav Chaus.
Chaus, who said that about 70% of the city is destroyed, warned remaining residents not to get too comfortable. In a message posted to the Telegram app, he counseled patience as Ukrainian troops clear mines.
“We must avoid new victims,” he said. |
https://www.annistonstar.com/news/nation_world/biden-calls-for-war-crimes-trial-of-putin-after-mass-graves-found-around-kyiv/article_e7f450aa-b426-11ec-bb69-b376361fb434.html | LVIV, Ukraine — President Joe Biden called for a war-crimes trial of Russian leader Vladimir Putin on Monday following the discovery of mass graves and streets littered with the bodies of dead civilians after the Russian retreat from suburbs around Kyiv.
“You saw what happened in Bucha,” Biden told reporters, referring to a town near Kyiv where numerous civilians were found dead, some bearing marks of torture or execution. The Ukrainian government said it has counted more than 400 civilian deaths so far in the suburbs of the capital city.
Biden previously branded Putin a “war criminal” in remarks March 17, but at that time the White House said he was speaking personally and not outlining a formal U.S. position. But six days later, the U.S. formally accused Russia of war crimes and said it was collecting evidence to help prove it.
“He is a war criminal,” Biden said of Putin on Monday, describing the longtime Russian leader as “brutal.” “But we have to gather information, we have to continue to provide Ukraine with the weapons they need to continue to fight.”
In a video address, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy warned that the most brutal images from newly liberated areas such as Bucha were still to come.
“After the expulsion of the occupiers, even worse things could be found there. Even more death and torture,” Zelenskyy said. “This is the nature of the Russian forces who came onto our land.”
Zelenskyy was photographed walking through charred rubble in Bucha on Monday as armed guards surrounded him. The president called on the media to come to the city to “show the world what happened here.”
Zelenskyy has described the scenes in Bucha, where photos and videos show mass graves and dead men and women face down on residential roads, as evidence of Russian “genocide” against Ukrainians.
He pledged to set up a special judicial mechanism, with the participation of international prosecutors and judges, to investigate alleged war atrocities. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen tweeted Monday that she had spoken with Zelenskyy about the European Union sending investigators to work with the Ukrainian government to “document war crimes.”
The horrific scenes outside Kyiv have generated calls for heavier sanctions on Moscow over the war, which is now in its 40th day.
“We will do everything to ensure that those who have perpetrated these war crimes do not go unpunished,” Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said Monday, citing “alleged cases of [crimes against] humanity, war crimes and — why not say it, too — genocide.”
French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday described the gruesome images as “unbearable.” Macron, who said he supported additional sanctions, said it was “very clear” that Russia committed war crimes.
And a top government official in Germany, a primary importer of Russian gas and one of the strongest holdouts against cutting off such trade, signaled Sunday that it might change course and support a ban. “There has to be a response,” Defense Minister Christine Lambrecht said. “Such crimes must not remain unanswered.”
More than half of Germany’s gas comes from Russia. Europe overall receives 40 percent of its gas and 25 percent of its oil from Russia.
Russia has repeatedly denied targeting civilians in Ukraine. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Monday dismissed the scenes outside Kyiv as a “stage-managed anti-Russian provocation,” saying that Bucha’s mayor had not spoken of atrocities immediately after Russian troops left the area last week.
On Monday, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield said the U.S. would support a move to suspend Russia’s membership on the U.N. Human Rights Council. Thomas-Greenfield said the “images out of Bucha and devastation across Ukraine require us now to match our words with action.” The Security Council, chaired by Britain, denied Moscow’s request for a meeting on “provocation by Ukrainian radicals” in Bucha.
Although they were never able to enter central Kyiv, Russia said its forces had successfully completed the “first phase” of the war against Ukraine and were shifting east to the industrial region of Donbas and other areas that are home to pro-Russia separatist movements.
Russian troops appeared to have left several towns around the northeastern city of Chernihiv by Monday, according to regional Gov. Viacheslav Chaus.
Chaus, who said that about 70 percentt of the city is destroyed, warned remaining residents not to get too comfortable. In a message posted to the Telegram app, he counseled patience as Ukrainian troops clear mines.
“We must avoid new victims,” he said.
Major aid routes into the city have been cut off for weeks, but Ukrainian news outlet RBK Ukraina reported a positive development: The 92-mile car route between Kyiv and Chernihiv had been partially reopened Monday morning.
Farther east in Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city, the local prosecutor’s office said Monday that shelling of residential buildings Sunday left seven people dead and 34 injured.
In Mariupol, a battered southern port city that has seen some of the worst publicly documented atrocities of the war, officials have continued to struggle to evacuate residents and send in aid.
Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk said Monday that evacuation buses were scheduled to arrive in Mariupol. But such efforts have repeatedly fallen apart, with Ukraine accusing Russian forces of failing to honor the pledge to allow safe corridors out of Mariupol.
The International Committee of the Red Cross also said Monday that one of its teams, which has tried to reach the city since Friday but ran into conditions that “made it impossible to proceed,” had still not made it in as of Sunday. It was unclear Monday if the group was able to enter the city, where only one-quarter of the prewar population of 430,000 remains.
New strikes were reported overnight on the historic Black Sea port of Odesa and the city of Mykolaiv, both in the south. No information was available on deaths or injuries.
The shifting terrain of war has left western parts of Ukraine in relative peace as local recovery efforts began even as war rages in the south and east.
The British Ministry of Defense warned Monday that Russian fighters were in a “consolidate and reorganize” phase as they planned more offensives in Donbas. The ministry said fighters from Wagner, a Russian paramilitary company, were staging in the area.
At the same time, the Ukrainian military said in a Monday report that a “hidden mobilization” was underway by Russians to regroup amid their pullback from some parts of Ukraine.
“The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation plan to engage around 60,000 people during the mobilization,” the report said.
According to the United Nations, at least 1,417 civilians have been killed since Russia launched the war Feb. 24. About a quarter of Ukraine’s population of 44 million has been displaced, with more than 4 million fleeing the country.
McDonnell reported from Lviv and Kaleem from London. | 1 | 101,727 | 0.267431 | https://www.newdelhitimes.com/biden-calls-for-war-crimes-trial-against-putin-for-ukraine-atrocities | 2022-04-05 08:27:07+00:00 | U.S. President Joe Biden called Monday for a war crimes trial against Russian President Vladimir Putin, condemning him for the atrocities allegedly committed by Russian troops that have been discovered in recent days in Bucha, a suburb of the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv.
“You may remember I got criticized for calling Putin a war criminal,” Biden told reporters at the White House. “Well, the truth of the matter, you saw what happened in Bucha. This warrants — he is a war criminal. But we have to gather the information.”
“This guy is brutal and what’s happening in Bucha is outrageous, and everyone’s seen it,” Biden said, referring to Putin as the U.S. leader returned to Washington after a weekend in his home state of Delaware. “Yes, I’m going to continue to add sanctions.”
The bodies of 410 civilians have been removed from Kyiv-area towns that were recently retaken from Russian forces, Ukraine’s prosecutor-general, Iryna Venediktova, said.
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen tweeted Monday that the European Union will send investigators to Ukraine to help her “document war crimes.”
The U.S. State Department said that Washington, at the request of Ukraine, would support a multinational team of prosecutors who will collect evidence of alleged atrocities.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy visited war-devastated Bucha on Monday, telling his people on national television it is now harder to negotiate an end to the war with Russia as the atrocities committed by Moscow’s troops become more apparent.
With evidence of civilians tied together and shot at close range, a mass grave and bodies strewn on the streets of Bucha, Zelenskyy declared, “These are war crimes and will be recognized by the world as genocide.”
Moscow has denied accusations of killing civilians in Bucha, with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov characterizing the scenes outside Kyiv as a “stage-managed anti-Russian provocation.”
Zelenskyy, wearing body armor and surrounded by military personnel in his first reported trip outside Kyiv since the February 24 Russian invasion, said, “It’s very difficult to talk when you see what they’ve done here. The longer the Russian Federation drags out the meeting process, the worse it is for them and for this situation and for this war.”
“We know of thousands of people killed and tortured, with severed limbs, raped women and murdered children,” he said.
Later Monday, in a video address to the Romanian parliament, Zelenskyy said he fears there are more places where even worse atrocities have taken place.
“We have every reason to believe that there are many more people killed,” he said. “Much more than we know now.”
Ukranian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba echoed those comments Monday saying, “The horrors that we have seen in Bucha is just a tip of the iceberg.” During a news conference with British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss in Warsaw, he said, “I can tell you without an exaggeration but with great sorrow, that the situation in Mariupol is much worse.”
The Mariupol mayor said Monday that about 130,000 residents remain trapped there and that “everything” has been destroyed in the southern city, including all its municipal buses.
A spokesperson for the International Committee of the Red Cross said that it had been unable for a fourth day to move an evacuation convoy and humanitarian aid into the city.
Russian troops pulled out of Kyiv suburbs in recent days to concentrate their attacks on Ukrainian cities near the Black Sea and in the contested Donbas region of eastern Ukraine. The scenes of devastation left behind in Bucha and other suburbs have galvanized condemnation of Moscow.
U.S. State Department spokesperson Ned Price said images from Bucha “suggest these atrocities are not the act of a rogue soldier. They are part of a broader, troubling campaign. Those responsible for atrocities must be held accountable.”
Lithuania expelled the Russian ambassador stationed in Vilnius and recalled its own ambassador from Moscow. Meanwhile, both France and Germany said they are expelling Russian diplomats from their countries.
Europe gets 40% of its natural gas and 25% of its oil from Russia, with European governments trying to find ways to reduce that reliance without curbing economic growth. Over the weekend, Lithuania announced it cut itself off entirely from gas imports from Russia.
German Vice Chancellor Robert Habeck, who is also the country’s economy minister, said Europe can go “significantly further” in imposing sanctions against Russia. He said Germany, which has faced opposition for taking a longer-term approach to abandoning Russian energy imports, hopes to end Russian coal imports this summer and oil imports by the end of the year.
“We are working every day on creating the conditions for and steps toward an embargo,” Habeck said. “We are on the right track.”
Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki assailed the French and German leaders by name for not doing more against Russia, while calling for actions “that will finally break Putin’s war machine.”
“President (Emmanuel) Macron, how many times have you negotiated with Putin? What have you achieved? … Would you negotiate with Hitler, with Stalin, with Pol Pot?” Morawiecki asked. “Chancellor Scholz, Olaf, it is not the voices of German businesses that should be heard aloud in Berlin today. It is the voice of these innocent women and children.”
He said, “The bloody massacres perpetrated by Russian soldiers deserve to be called by name: This is genocide.”
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https://www.annistonstar.com/news/nation_world/biden-calls-for-war-crimes-trial-of-putin-after-mass-graves-found-around-kyiv/article_e7f450aa-b426-11ec-bb69-b376361fb434.html | LVIV, Ukraine — President Joe Biden called for a war-crimes trial of Russian leader Vladimir Putin on Monday following the discovery of mass graves and streets littered with the bodies of dead civilians after the Russian retreat from suburbs around Kyiv.
“You saw what happened in Bucha,” Biden told reporters, referring to a town near Kyiv where numerous civilians were found dead, some bearing marks of torture or execution. The Ukrainian government said it has counted more than 400 civilian deaths so far in the suburbs of the capital city.
Biden previously branded Putin a “war criminal” in remarks March 17, but at that time the White House said he was speaking personally and not outlining a formal U.S. position. But six days later, the U.S. formally accused Russia of war crimes and said it was collecting evidence to help prove it.
“He is a war criminal,” Biden said of Putin on Monday, describing the longtime Russian leader as “brutal.” “But we have to gather information, we have to continue to provide Ukraine with the weapons they need to continue to fight.”
In a video address, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy warned that the most brutal images from newly liberated areas such as Bucha were still to come.
“After the expulsion of the occupiers, even worse things could be found there. Even more death and torture,” Zelenskyy said. “This is the nature of the Russian forces who came onto our land.”
Zelenskyy was photographed walking through charred rubble in Bucha on Monday as armed guards surrounded him. The president called on the media to come to the city to “show the world what happened here.”
Zelenskyy has described the scenes in Bucha, where photos and videos show mass graves and dead men and women face down on residential roads, as evidence of Russian “genocide” against Ukrainians.
He pledged to set up a special judicial mechanism, with the participation of international prosecutors and judges, to investigate alleged war atrocities. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen tweeted Monday that she had spoken with Zelenskyy about the European Union sending investigators to work with the Ukrainian government to “document war crimes.”
The horrific scenes outside Kyiv have generated calls for heavier sanctions on Moscow over the war, which is now in its 40th day.
“We will do everything to ensure that those who have perpetrated these war crimes do not go unpunished,” Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said Monday, citing “alleged cases of [crimes against] humanity, war crimes and — why not say it, too — genocide.”
French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday described the gruesome images as “unbearable.” Macron, who said he supported additional sanctions, said it was “very clear” that Russia committed war crimes.
And a top government official in Germany, a primary importer of Russian gas and one of the strongest holdouts against cutting off such trade, signaled Sunday that it might change course and support a ban. “There has to be a response,” Defense Minister Christine Lambrecht said. “Such crimes must not remain unanswered.”
More than half of Germany’s gas comes from Russia. Europe overall receives 40 percent of its gas and 25 percent of its oil from Russia.
Russia has repeatedly denied targeting civilians in Ukraine. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Monday dismissed the scenes outside Kyiv as a “stage-managed anti-Russian provocation,” saying that Bucha’s mayor had not spoken of atrocities immediately after Russian troops left the area last week.
On Monday, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield said the U.S. would support a move to suspend Russia’s membership on the U.N. Human Rights Council. Thomas-Greenfield said the “images out of Bucha and devastation across Ukraine require us now to match our words with action.” The Security Council, chaired by Britain, denied Moscow’s request for a meeting on “provocation by Ukrainian radicals” in Bucha.
Although they were never able to enter central Kyiv, Russia said its forces had successfully completed the “first phase” of the war against Ukraine and were shifting east to the industrial region of Donbas and other areas that are home to pro-Russia separatist movements.
Russian troops appeared to have left several towns around the northeastern city of Chernihiv by Monday, according to regional Gov. Viacheslav Chaus.
Chaus, who said that about 70 percentt of the city is destroyed, warned remaining residents not to get too comfortable. In a message posted to the Telegram app, he counseled patience as Ukrainian troops clear mines.
“We must avoid new victims,” he said.
Major aid routes into the city have been cut off for weeks, but Ukrainian news outlet RBK Ukraina reported a positive development: The 92-mile car route between Kyiv and Chernihiv had been partially reopened Monday morning.
Farther east in Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city, the local prosecutor’s office said Monday that shelling of residential buildings Sunday left seven people dead and 34 injured.
In Mariupol, a battered southern port city that has seen some of the worst publicly documented atrocities of the war, officials have continued to struggle to evacuate residents and send in aid.
Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk said Monday that evacuation buses were scheduled to arrive in Mariupol. But such efforts have repeatedly fallen apart, with Ukraine accusing Russian forces of failing to honor the pledge to allow safe corridors out of Mariupol.
The International Committee of the Red Cross also said Monday that one of its teams, which has tried to reach the city since Friday but ran into conditions that “made it impossible to proceed,” had still not made it in as of Sunday. It was unclear Monday if the group was able to enter the city, where only one-quarter of the prewar population of 430,000 remains.
New strikes were reported overnight on the historic Black Sea port of Odesa and the city of Mykolaiv, both in the south. No information was available on deaths or injuries.
The shifting terrain of war has left western parts of Ukraine in relative peace as local recovery efforts began even as war rages in the south and east.
The British Ministry of Defense warned Monday that Russian fighters were in a “consolidate and reorganize” phase as they planned more offensives in Donbas. The ministry said fighters from Wagner, a Russian paramilitary company, were staging in the area.
At the same time, the Ukrainian military said in a Monday report that a “hidden mobilization” was underway by Russians to regroup amid their pullback from some parts of Ukraine.
“The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation plan to engage around 60,000 people during the mobilization,” the report said.
According to the United Nations, at least 1,417 civilians have been killed since Russia launched the war Feb. 24. About a quarter of Ukraine’s population of 44 million has been displaced, with more than 4 million fleeing the country.
McDonnell reported from Lviv and Kaleem from London. | 2 | 25,453 | 0.279354 | https://www.eagletribune.com/region/biden-calls-for-war-crimes-trial-of-putin-after-mass-graves-found-around-ukraine-capital/article_8f864bab-4d73-58c0-a1b1-76c3df51eb20.html | 2022-04-05 00:23:10+00:00 | LVIV, Ukraine — Russian leader Vladimir Putin faced mounting global condemnation Monday, with President Joe Biden and a growing number of world leaders calling for a war crimes trial, following the discovery in Ukraine of mass graves and streets littered with the bodies of civilians around the suburbs of Kyiv.
“This guy is brutal, and what’s happening in Bucha is outrageous,” Biden told reporters, referring to a town near Kyiv where numerous civilians were found dead, some bearing marks of torture or execution. The Ukrainian government said it has counted more than 400 civilian deaths so far in the suburbs of the capital city.
Biden previously branded Putin a “war criminal” in remarks March 17, but at that time the White House said he was speaking personally and not outlining a formal U.S. position. But six days later, the U.S. formally accused Russia of war crimes and said it was collecting evidence to help prove it.
“He is a war criminal,” Biden said of Putin on Monday. “But we have to gather information, we have to continue to provide Ukraine with the weapons they need to continue to fight.”
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy visited the charred rubble in Bucha as armed guards surrounded him. The president called on the media to come to the city to “show the world what happened here.”
Zelenskyy has described the scenes in Bucha, where photos and videos show mass graves and dead men and women face down on residential roads, as evidence of Russian “genocide” against Ukrainians.
“Ordinary residents of an ordinary city near Kyiv,” Zelenskyy said later in an address to Romanian parliament. “Their hands were tied behind their backs, they were shot in the back of the head or in the eye, killed just in the streets. Civilian vehicles were crushed by military equipment. Vehicles with people! They raped women and girls.”
Zelenskyy also warned that the most brutal images from newly liberated areas, such as Bucha, were still to come.
“Not all evidence has been collected yet,” he said. “Not all burials have been discovered yet. Not all basements where the Russian military tortured people have been inspected yet.”
He pledged to set up a special judicial mechanism, with the participation of international prosecutors and judges, to investigate alleged war atrocities. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said Monday that she had spoken with Zelenskyy and the European Union had set up a joint investigation team to work with the Ukrainian government to “investigate war crimes and crimes against humanity.”
“The perpetrators of these heinous crimes must not go unpunished,” she said in a statement.
Russia has repeatedly denied targeting civilians in Ukraine. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on Monday dismissed the scenes outside Kyiv as a “stage-managed anti-Russian provocation,” saying that Bucha’s mayor had not spoken of atrocities immediately after Russian troops left the area last week.
The horrific scenes have generated calls for tougher sanctions on Moscow over the war, which is in its 40th day.
“We will do everything to ensure that those who have perpetrated these war crimes do not go unpunished,” Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said Monday, citing “alleged cases of (crimes against) humanity, war crimes and — why not say it too — genocide.”
Germany and France on Monday expelled dozens of Russian diplomats. French President Emmanuel Macron described the gruesome images as “unbearable.” Macron, who said he supported additional sanctions, such as banning imports of Russian oil and coal into the European Union, said it was “very clear” that Russia committed war crimes.
And a top government official in Germany, a primary importer of Russian gas and one of the strongest holdouts against cutting off such trade, signaled Sunday that it might change course and support a ban. “There has to be a response,” Defense Minister Christine Lambrecht said. “Such crimes must not remain unanswered.”
More than half of Germany’s gas comes from Russia. Europe overall receives 40% of its gas and 25% of its oil from Russia.
The Biden administration said Monday that it will try to get Russia kicked off the main human rights body of the United Nations.
“Russia’s participation on the Human Rights Council is a farce,” the U.S. ambassador to the U.N., Linda Thomas-Greenfield, said at a news conference in Bucharest, Romania. “We cannot let a member state that is subverting every principle we hold dear to continue to sit on the U.N. Human Rights Council.”
The 47-nation Human Rights Council, based in Geneva, has been criticized in the past for including countries with questionable human rights records, such as Saudi Arabia and Cuba. The Trump administration pulled the United States from the group, but U.S. membership was restored this year.
Removing a member requires a two-thirds vote in the full 193-nation U.N. General Assembly. It has been done only once: Libya was suspended in 2011 during the chaos surrounding the overthrow of dictator Moammar Gadhafi.
State Department spokesman Ned Price acknowledged that removal is a “rare” and “extraordinary” action but that the administration believes the atrocities reported in Ukraine have outraged a sufficient number of nations to join the vote against Russia.
At a White House briefing, Jake Sullivan, U.S. national security adviser, said Russia appeared to be “revising its war aims” and scaling back its initial goal of toppling Zelenskyy and conquering the entire country.
Russian forces were “retreating” from Kyiv and “repositioning” to concentrate on taking over already contested regions in eastern and southern Ukraine, Sullivan said, where they would probably “seek to surround and overwhelm Ukrainian forces.” Meanwhile, he said, the administration expects Moscow to continue its aerial assault on Kyiv and other major cities to cause “damage” and “terror.”
“Russia’s goal in the end is to weaken Ukraine as much as possible,” he said, warning that the conflict is shifting into what will probably be a “protracted” phase with fighting continuing for months to come.
The U.S. and NATO allies are planning to impose additional economic sanctions on Russia this week, Sullivan said, adding that he expected “additional new (defense) capabilities beyond what’s already been sent to Ukraine” to be delivered in the near future.
Pressed on why the administration rejected Zelenskyy’s characterization of the Bucha atrocities as a genocide, Sullivan said: “We have not yet seen a level of systematic deprivation of life of the Ukrainian people to rise to the level of genocide.”
Although they were unable to enter central Kyiv, Russia said its forces had successfully completed the “first phase” of the war against Ukraine and were shifting east to the industrial Donbas region and other areas that are home to pro-Russia separatist movements.
Russian troops appeared to have left several towns around the northeastern city of Chernihiv by Monday, according to regional Gov. Viacheslav Chaus.
Chaus, who said that about 70% of the city is destroyed, warned remaining residents not to get too comfortable. In a message posted to the Telegram app, he counseled patience as Ukrainian troops clear mines.
“We must avoid new victims,” he said.
Major aid routes into the city have been cut off for weeks, but Ukrainian news outlet RBK Ukraina reported a positive development: The 92-mile car route between Kyiv and Chernihiv had been partially reopened Monday morning.
Farther east in Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city, the local prosecutor’s office said Monday that shelling of residential buildings Sunday left seven people dead and 34 injured.
In Mariupol, a battered southern port city that has seen some of the worst publicly documented atrocities of the war, officials have continued to struggle to evacuate residents and send in aid.
Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk said Monday that a convoy of seven buses bound for Mariupol had been blocked in the Russian-held city of Manhush. Efforts to bring aid and evacuate residents have repeatedly fallen apart, with Ukraine accusing Russian forces of failing to honor the pledge to allow safe corridors out of Mariupol.
New strikes were reported overnight on the historic Black Sea port of Odesa and the city of Mykolaiv, both in the south. No information was available on deaths or injuries.
The shifting terrain of war has left western parts of Ukraine in relative peace as local recovery efforts began even as war rages in the south and east.
The British Ministry of Defense warned Monday that Russian fighters were in a “consolidate and reorganize” phase as they planned more offensives in the Donbas. The ministry said fighters from Wagner, a Russian paramilitary company, were staging in the area.
At the same time, the Ukrainian military said in a Monday report that a “hidden mobilization” was underway by Russians to regroup amid their pullback from some parts of Ukraine.
“The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation plan to engage around 60,000 people during the mobilization,” the report said.
According to the United Nations, at least 1,417 civilians have been killed since Russia launched the war Feb. 24. About a quarter of Ukraine’s population of 44 million has been displaced, with more than 4 million fleeing the country.
(McDonnell reported from Lviv, Kaleem from London and Jarvie from Atlanta. Tracy Wilkinson and Eli Stokols contributed to this report from Washington.)
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https://www.wistv.com/prnewswire/2022/04/04/advocate-aurora-enterprises-acquires-leading-provider-health-monitoring-emergency-response-solutions/ | MobileHelp and its sister company Clear Arch Health offer a range of innovative personal safety and medical monitoring systems.
DOWNERS GROVE, Ill. and BOCA RATON, Fla., April 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Advocate Aurora Enterprises today announced its acquisition of MobileHelp, a leading provider of remote patient monitoring capabilities and personal emergency response systems.
This is the fourth transaction for Advocate Aurora Enterprises, a subsidiary of Advocate Aurora Health that strategically invests in and acquires consumer health and wellness companies to advance innovative solutions that go beyond traditional clinical care. Advocate Aurora's robust suite of services for the aging population ranges from clinical health system offerings, including home health and hospice care, to in-home personal care services provided by Senior Helpers, which it acquired last year.
By providing more consumer touchpoints outside health system walls, MobileHelp's personal safety and medical monitoring systems support the industrywide shift from episodic care to a more holistic approach. And as the population ages, so does the need for technology that facilitates high-quality interactions between health care providers and home-based patients.
"The future of health care includes using innovative technology to help consumers take better control of their health," Advocate Aurora Health CEO Jim Skogsbergh said. "The addition of MobileHelp underscores our dedication to investing in solutions that are complementary to our clinical offerings, advancing whole person health and our purpose of helping people live well."
"MobileHelp shares our commitment to enabling more people to age independently, comfortably and affordably," Advocate Aurora Enterprises President Scott Powder said. "With a range of innovative personal safety and medical monitoring systems, this investment lends itself to synergistic opportunities that will strengthen the care continuum and improve health outcomes."
MobileHelp's personal emergency response systems with GPS tracking can pinpoint a user's location, enabling emergency assistance to reach them quicker. The remote life safety systems currently provide peace of mind for consumers across more than 300,000 households. In the future, bundling the technology with Senior Helpers could offer an even higher level of support to those aging independently.
Additionally, remote patient monitoring capabilities offered through Clear Arch Health, MobileHelp's sister company, allow health care professionals to create customized monitoring plans to drive stronger adherence, deliver personalized care and strengthen a patient's support system. Tightly integrated with electronic health records, Clear Arch can help providers improve care coordination and better manage patients, including those who have chronic conditions like diabetes and hypertension.
"Advocate Aurora's purpose to help people live well aligns with MobileHelp's mission to be somebody's hero every day," MobileHelp CEO Rob Flippo said. "Being part of this organization, which is so deeply embedded in the home health and senior care sectors, gives us an opportunity to innovate and improve care for those aging in place."
The MobileHelp leadership team will continue in their current roles.
Triple Tree served as exclusive financial advisor to Advocate Aurora Enterprises and Foley & Lardner LLP served as legal advisor. Raymond James served as exclusive financial advisor to MobileHelp.
About Advocate Aurora Enterprises
Advocate Aurora Enterprises (AAE) strategically invests in and acquires consumer health and wellness companies to advance innovative solutions that go beyond traditional clinical care. Grounded by our health care experience, AAE's growing portfolio of companies aims to address people's broader health needs to help them live well at every stage of life. AAE is a subsidiary of Advocate Aurora Health, one of the largest not-for-profit health systems in the nation.
About MobileHelp
MobileHelp is a leading provider of mobile Personal Emergency Response Systems (mPERS). MobileHelp mPERS devices are integrated with nationwide wireless voice, data and GPS technology to provide real-time medical alert monitoring services and expedited personal emergency assistance. In addition, MobileHelp offers proactive health management services through its healthcare division, Clear Arch Health.
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DOWNERS GROVE, Ill. and BOCA RATON, Fla., April 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Advocate Aurora Enterprises today announced its acquisition of MobileHelp, a leading provider of remote patient monitoring capabilities and personal emergency response systems.
This is the fourth transaction for Advocate Aurora Enterprises, a subsidiary of Advocate Aurora Health that strategically invests in and acquires consumer health and wellness companies to advance innovative solutions that go beyond traditional clinical care. Advocate Aurora's robust suite of services for the aging population ranges from clinical health system offerings, including home health and hospice care, to in-home personal care services provided by Senior Helpers, which it acquired last year.
By providing more consumer touchpoints outside health system walls, MobileHelp's personal safety and medical monitoring systems support the industrywide shift from episodic care to a more holistic approach. And as the population ages, so does the need for technology that facilitates high-quality interactions between health care providers and home-based patients.
"The future of health care includes using innovative technology to help consumers take better control of their health," Advocate Aurora Health CEO Jim Skogsbergh said. "The addition of MobileHelp underscores our dedication to investing in solutions that are complementary to our clinical offerings, advancing whole person health and our purpose of helping people live well."
"MobileHelp shares our commitment to enabling more people to age independently, comfortably and affordably," Advocate Aurora Enterprises President Scott Powder said. "With a range of innovative personal safety and medical monitoring systems, this investment lends itself to synergistic opportunities that will strengthen the care continuum and improve health outcomes."
MobileHelp's personal emergency response systems with GPS tracking can pinpoint a user's location, enabling emergency assistance to reach them quicker. The remote life safety systems currently provide peace of mind for consumers across more than 300,000 households. In the future, bundling the technology with Senior Helpers could offer an even higher level of support to those aging independently.
Additionally, remote patient monitoring capabilities offered through Clear Arch Health, MobileHelp's sister company, allow health care professionals to create customized monitoring plans to drive stronger adherence, deliver personalized care and strengthen a patient's support system. Tightly integrated with electronic health records, Clear Arch can help providers improve care coordination and better manage patients, including those who have chronic conditions like diabetes and hypertension.
"Advocate Aurora's purpose to help people live well aligns with MobileHelp's mission to be somebody's hero every day," MobileHelp CEO Rob Flippo said. "Being part of this organization, which is so deeply embedded in the home health and senior care sectors, gives us an opportunity to innovate and improve care for those aging in place."
The MobileHelp leadership team will continue in their current roles.
Triple Tree served as exclusive financial advisor to Advocate Aurora Enterprises and Foley & Lardner LLP served as legal advisor. Raymond James served as exclusive financial advisor to MobileHelp.
About Advocate Aurora Enterprises
Advocate Aurora Enterprises (AAE) strategically invests in and acquires consumer health and wellness companies to advance innovative solutions that go beyond traditional clinical care. Grounded by our health care experience, AAE's growing portfolio of companies aims to address people's broader health needs to help them live well at every stage of life. AAE is a subsidiary of Advocate Aurora Health, one of the largest not-for-profit health systems in the nation.
About MobileHelp
MobileHelp is a leading provider of mobile Personal Emergency Response Systems (mPERS). MobileHelp mPERS devices are integrated with nationwide wireless voice, data and GPS technology to provide real-time medical alert monitoring services and expedited personal emergency assistance. In addition, MobileHelp offers proactive health management services through its healthcare division, Clear Arch Health.
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SOURCE Advocate Aurora Enterprises; MobileHelp |
https://www.wistv.com/prnewswire/2022/04/04/advocate-aurora-enterprises-acquires-leading-provider-health-monitoring-emergency-response-solutions/ | MobileHelp and its sister company Clear Arch Health offer a range of innovative personal safety and medical monitoring systems.
DOWNERS GROVE, Ill. and BOCA RATON, Fla., April 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Advocate Aurora Enterprises today announced its acquisition of MobileHelp, a leading provider of remote patient monitoring capabilities and personal emergency response systems.
This is the fourth transaction for Advocate Aurora Enterprises, a subsidiary of Advocate Aurora Health that strategically invests in and acquires consumer health and wellness companies to advance innovative solutions that go beyond traditional clinical care. Advocate Aurora's robust suite of services for the aging population ranges from clinical health system offerings, including home health and hospice care, to in-home personal care services provided by Senior Helpers, which it acquired last year.
By providing more consumer touchpoints outside health system walls, MobileHelp's personal safety and medical monitoring systems support the industrywide shift from episodic care to a more holistic approach. And as the population ages, so does the need for technology that facilitates high-quality interactions between health care providers and home-based patients.
"The future of health care includes using innovative technology to help consumers take better control of their health," Advocate Aurora Health CEO Jim Skogsbergh said. "The addition of MobileHelp underscores our dedication to investing in solutions that are complementary to our clinical offerings, advancing whole person health and our purpose of helping people live well."
"MobileHelp shares our commitment to enabling more people to age independently, comfortably and affordably," Advocate Aurora Enterprises President Scott Powder said. "With a range of innovative personal safety and medical monitoring systems, this investment lends itself to synergistic opportunities that will strengthen the care continuum and improve health outcomes."
MobileHelp's personal emergency response systems with GPS tracking can pinpoint a user's location, enabling emergency assistance to reach them quicker. The remote life safety systems currently provide peace of mind for consumers across more than 300,000 households. In the future, bundling the technology with Senior Helpers could offer an even higher level of support to those aging independently.
Additionally, remote patient monitoring capabilities offered through Clear Arch Health, MobileHelp's sister company, allow health care professionals to create customized monitoring plans to drive stronger adherence, deliver personalized care and strengthen a patient's support system. Tightly integrated with electronic health records, Clear Arch can help providers improve care coordination and better manage patients, including those who have chronic conditions like diabetes and hypertension.
"Advocate Aurora's purpose to help people live well aligns with MobileHelp's mission to be somebody's hero every day," MobileHelp CEO Rob Flippo said. "Being part of this organization, which is so deeply embedded in the home health and senior care sectors, gives us an opportunity to innovate and improve care for those aging in place."
The MobileHelp leadership team will continue in their current roles.
Triple Tree served as exclusive financial advisor to Advocate Aurora Enterprises and Foley & Lardner LLP served as legal advisor. Raymond James served as exclusive financial advisor to MobileHelp.
About Advocate Aurora Enterprises
Advocate Aurora Enterprises (AAE) strategically invests in and acquires consumer health and wellness companies to advance innovative solutions that go beyond traditional clinical care. Grounded by our health care experience, AAE's growing portfolio of companies aims to address people's broader health needs to help them live well at every stage of life. AAE is a subsidiary of Advocate Aurora Health, one of the largest not-for-profit health systems in the nation.
About MobileHelp
MobileHelp is a leading provider of mobile Personal Emergency Response Systems (mPERS). MobileHelp mPERS devices are integrated with nationwide wireless voice, data and GPS technology to provide real-time medical alert monitoring services and expedited personal emergency assistance. In addition, MobileHelp offers proactive health management services through its healthcare division, Clear Arch Health.
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SOURCE Advocate Aurora Enterprises; MobileHelp | 1 | 55,920 | 0 | https://www.1011now.com/prnewswire/2022/04/04/advocate-aurora-enterprises-acquires-leading-provider-health-monitoring-emergency-response-solutions/ | 2022-04-04 15:18:34+00:00 | MobileHelp and its sister company Clear Arch Health offer a range of innovative personal safety and medical monitoring systems.
DOWNERS GROVE, Ill. and BOCA RATON, Fla., April 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Advocate Aurora Enterprises today announced its acquisition of MobileHelp, a leading provider of remote patient monitoring capabilities and personal emergency response systems.
This is the fourth transaction for Advocate Aurora Enterprises, a subsidiary of Advocate Aurora Health that strategically invests in and acquires consumer health and wellness companies to advance innovative solutions that go beyond traditional clinical care. Advocate Aurora's robust suite of services for the aging population ranges from clinical health system offerings, including home health and hospice care, to in-home personal care services provided by Senior Helpers, which it acquired last year.
By providing more consumer touchpoints outside health system walls, MobileHelp's personal safety and medical monitoring systems support the industrywide shift from episodic care to a more holistic approach. And as the population ages, so does the need for technology that facilitates high-quality interactions between health care providers and home-based patients.
"The future of health care includes using innovative technology to help consumers take better control of their health," Advocate Aurora Health CEO Jim Skogsbergh said. "The addition of MobileHelp underscores our dedication to investing in solutions that are complementary to our clinical offerings, advancing whole person health and our purpose of helping people live well."
"MobileHelp shares our commitment to enabling more people to age independently, comfortably and affordably," Advocate Aurora Enterprises President Scott Powder said. "With a range of innovative personal safety and medical monitoring systems, this investment lends itself to synergistic opportunities that will strengthen the care continuum and improve health outcomes."
MobileHelp's personal emergency response systems with GPS tracking can pinpoint a user's location, enabling emergency assistance to reach them quicker. The remote life safety systems currently provide peace of mind for consumers across more than 300,000 households. In the future, bundling the technology with Senior Helpers could offer an even higher level of support to those aging independently.
Additionally, remote patient monitoring capabilities offered through Clear Arch Health, MobileHelp's sister company, allow health care professionals to create customized monitoring plans to drive stronger adherence, deliver personalized care and strengthen a patient's support system. Tightly integrated with electronic health records, Clear Arch can help providers improve care coordination and better manage patients, including those who have chronic conditions like diabetes and hypertension.
"Advocate Aurora's purpose to help people live well aligns with MobileHelp's mission to be somebody's hero every day," MobileHelp CEO Rob Flippo said. "Being part of this organization, which is so deeply embedded in the home health and senior care sectors, gives us an opportunity to innovate and improve care for those aging in place."
The MobileHelp leadership team will continue in their current roles.
Triple Tree served as exclusive financial advisor to Advocate Aurora Enterprises and Foley & Lardner LLP served as legal advisor. Raymond James served as exclusive financial advisor to MobileHelp.
About Advocate Aurora Enterprises
Advocate Aurora Enterprises (AAE) strategically invests in and acquires consumer health and wellness companies to advance innovative solutions that go beyond traditional clinical care. Grounded by our health care experience, AAE's growing portfolio of companies aims to address people's broader health needs to help them live well at every stage of life. AAE is a subsidiary of Advocate Aurora Health, one of the largest not-for-profit health systems in the nation.
About MobileHelp
MobileHelp is a leading provider of mobile Personal Emergency Response Systems (mPERS). MobileHelp mPERS devices are integrated with nationwide wireless voice, data and GPS technology to provide real-time medical alert monitoring services and expedited personal emergency assistance. In addition, MobileHelp offers proactive health management services through its healthcare division, Clear Arch Health.
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SOURCE Advocate Aurora Enterprises; MobileHelp |
https://www.wistv.com/prnewswire/2022/04/04/advocate-aurora-enterprises-acquires-leading-provider-health-monitoring-emergency-response-solutions/ | MobileHelp and its sister company Clear Arch Health offer a range of innovative personal safety and medical monitoring systems.
DOWNERS GROVE, Ill. and BOCA RATON, Fla., April 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Advocate Aurora Enterprises today announced its acquisition of MobileHelp, a leading provider of remote patient monitoring capabilities and personal emergency response systems.
This is the fourth transaction for Advocate Aurora Enterprises, a subsidiary of Advocate Aurora Health that strategically invests in and acquires consumer health and wellness companies to advance innovative solutions that go beyond traditional clinical care. Advocate Aurora's robust suite of services for the aging population ranges from clinical health system offerings, including home health and hospice care, to in-home personal care services provided by Senior Helpers, which it acquired last year.
By providing more consumer touchpoints outside health system walls, MobileHelp's personal safety and medical monitoring systems support the industrywide shift from episodic care to a more holistic approach. And as the population ages, so does the need for technology that facilitates high-quality interactions between health care providers and home-based patients.
"The future of health care includes using innovative technology to help consumers take better control of their health," Advocate Aurora Health CEO Jim Skogsbergh said. "The addition of MobileHelp underscores our dedication to investing in solutions that are complementary to our clinical offerings, advancing whole person health and our purpose of helping people live well."
"MobileHelp shares our commitment to enabling more people to age independently, comfortably and affordably," Advocate Aurora Enterprises President Scott Powder said. "With a range of innovative personal safety and medical monitoring systems, this investment lends itself to synergistic opportunities that will strengthen the care continuum and improve health outcomes."
MobileHelp's personal emergency response systems with GPS tracking can pinpoint a user's location, enabling emergency assistance to reach them quicker. The remote life safety systems currently provide peace of mind for consumers across more than 300,000 households. In the future, bundling the technology with Senior Helpers could offer an even higher level of support to those aging independently.
Additionally, remote patient monitoring capabilities offered through Clear Arch Health, MobileHelp's sister company, allow health care professionals to create customized monitoring plans to drive stronger adherence, deliver personalized care and strengthen a patient's support system. Tightly integrated with electronic health records, Clear Arch can help providers improve care coordination and better manage patients, including those who have chronic conditions like diabetes and hypertension.
"Advocate Aurora's purpose to help people live well aligns with MobileHelp's mission to be somebody's hero every day," MobileHelp CEO Rob Flippo said. "Being part of this organization, which is so deeply embedded in the home health and senior care sectors, gives us an opportunity to innovate and improve care for those aging in place."
The MobileHelp leadership team will continue in their current roles.
Triple Tree served as exclusive financial advisor to Advocate Aurora Enterprises and Foley & Lardner LLP served as legal advisor. Raymond James served as exclusive financial advisor to MobileHelp.
About Advocate Aurora Enterprises
Advocate Aurora Enterprises (AAE) strategically invests in and acquires consumer health and wellness companies to advance innovative solutions that go beyond traditional clinical care. Grounded by our health care experience, AAE's growing portfolio of companies aims to address people's broader health needs to help them live well at every stage of life. AAE is a subsidiary of Advocate Aurora Health, one of the largest not-for-profit health systems in the nation.
About MobileHelp
MobileHelp is a leading provider of mobile Personal Emergency Response Systems (mPERS). MobileHelp mPERS devices are integrated with nationwide wireless voice, data and GPS technology to provide real-time medical alert monitoring services and expedited personal emergency assistance. In addition, MobileHelp offers proactive health management services through its healthcare division, Clear Arch Health.
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SOURCE Advocate Aurora Enterprises; MobileHelp | 2 | 57,479 | 0 | https://www.wibw.com/prnewswire/2022/04/04/advocate-aurora-enterprises-acquires-leading-provider-health-monitoring-emergency-response-solutions/ | 2022-04-04 15:26:41+00:00 | MobileHelp and its sister company Clear Arch Health offer a range of innovative personal safety and medical monitoring systems.
DOWNERS GROVE, Ill. and BOCA RATON, Fla., April 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Advocate Aurora Enterprises today announced its acquisition of MobileHelp, a leading provider of remote patient monitoring capabilities and personal emergency response systems.
This is the fourth transaction for Advocate Aurora Enterprises, a subsidiary of Advocate Aurora Health that strategically invests in and acquires consumer health and wellness companies to advance innovative solutions that go beyond traditional clinical care. Advocate Aurora's robust suite of services for the aging population ranges from clinical health system offerings, including home health and hospice care, to in-home personal care services provided by Senior Helpers, which it acquired last year.
By providing more consumer touchpoints outside health system walls, MobileHelp's personal safety and medical monitoring systems support the industrywide shift from episodic care to a more holistic approach. And as the population ages, so does the need for technology that facilitates high-quality interactions between health care providers and home-based patients.
"The future of health care includes using innovative technology to help consumers take better control of their health," Advocate Aurora Health CEO Jim Skogsbergh said. "The addition of MobileHelp underscores our dedication to investing in solutions that are complementary to our clinical offerings, advancing whole person health and our purpose of helping people live well."
"MobileHelp shares our commitment to enabling more people to age independently, comfortably and affordably," Advocate Aurora Enterprises President Scott Powder said. "With a range of innovative personal safety and medical monitoring systems, this investment lends itself to synergistic opportunities that will strengthen the care continuum and improve health outcomes."
MobileHelp's personal emergency response systems with GPS tracking can pinpoint a user's location, enabling emergency assistance to reach them quicker. The remote life safety systems currently provide peace of mind for consumers across more than 300,000 households. In the future, bundling the technology with Senior Helpers could offer an even higher level of support to those aging independently.
Additionally, remote patient monitoring capabilities offered through Clear Arch Health, MobileHelp's sister company, allow health care professionals to create customized monitoring plans to drive stronger adherence, deliver personalized care and strengthen a patient's support system. Tightly integrated with electronic health records, Clear Arch can help providers improve care coordination and better manage patients, including those who have chronic conditions like diabetes and hypertension.
"Advocate Aurora's purpose to help people live well aligns with MobileHelp's mission to be somebody's hero every day," MobileHelp CEO Rob Flippo said. "Being part of this organization, which is so deeply embedded in the home health and senior care sectors, gives us an opportunity to innovate and improve care for those aging in place."
The MobileHelp leadership team will continue in their current roles.
Triple Tree served as exclusive financial advisor to Advocate Aurora Enterprises and Foley & Lardner LLP served as legal advisor. Raymond James served as exclusive financial advisor to MobileHelp.
About Advocate Aurora Enterprises
Advocate Aurora Enterprises (AAE) strategically invests in and acquires consumer health and wellness companies to advance innovative solutions that go beyond traditional clinical care. Grounded by our health care experience, AAE's growing portfolio of companies aims to address people's broader health needs to help them live well at every stage of life. AAE is a subsidiary of Advocate Aurora Health, one of the largest not-for-profit health systems in the nation.
About MobileHelp
MobileHelp is a leading provider of mobile Personal Emergency Response Systems (mPERS). MobileHelp mPERS devices are integrated with nationwide wireless voice, data and GPS technology to provide real-time medical alert monitoring services and expedited personal emergency assistance. In addition, MobileHelp offers proactive health management services through its healthcare division, Clear Arch Health.
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https://bismarcktribune.com/news/local/accident-and-incident/mandan-refinery-responds-to-chemical-release-no-indication-of-public-threat/article_e2251d50-b42e-11ec-b5a7-abb42ae74f1f.html | Emergency and refinery officials responded Monday morning to a chemical release at the Mandan Refinery.
The North Dakota Department of Environmental Quality confirmed a release of hydrofluoric acid, which the oil refinery operator said began around 8 a.m. Marathon Petroleum said it was taking steps to monitor air quality and that there "is no indication of community impact."
Local and state officials told the Tribune that they, too, did not believe the release posed a risk to the public.
Morton County Emergency Manager Cody Mattson late Monday morning said his office would take steps to notify residents if the incident posed any threat, "but at this time there was no threat."
Marathon crews were able to stop the release Monday morning, said Rebekah Pfaff, a state environmental scientist who was in touch with the company.
"They fired water cannons, which then react with the gas so it then becomes a liquid so it won't leave the site," she said.
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Marathon told the Tribune that "the release has been isolated." Workers were seen walking back toward the refinery midmorning.
The company added that no injuries had been reported and said it would conduct an investigation to determine the incident's cause.
"The top priorities at this time are to ensure the safety of responders, the community and to limit environmental impact," Marathon said.
Pfaff said she did not know what caused the incident, and she was not familiar with any other past releases of the chemical in North Dakota. She expects Marathon will file a report with the state with more details on the release once the company has had time to investigate. She also did not know how much of the chemical was released.
It was not immediately clear how Marathon was monitoring air quality.
The Department of Environmental Quality has an ambient air quality monitor in Bismarck, but it would not detect hydrofluoric acid, Pfaff said.
A slight wind was present Monday morning in Bismarck-Mandan, blowing from south to north, according to the National Weather Service. The refinery sits on the north edge of Mandan along the Missouri River.
Hydrofluoric acid is used extensively in oil refining and other industrial processes, according to the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. The substance "is considered a weak acid but is is still extremely harmful due to its ability to penetrate tissue," according to the institute.
(Check back for updates.)
Reach Amy R. Sisk at 701-250-8252 or amy.sisk@bismarcktribune.com. | 0 | 112,281 | 0.161921 | https://bismarcktribune.com/community/mandannews/news/mandan-refinery-responds-to-chemical-release-no-indication-of-public-threat/article_ac552e78-b4f0-11ec-8f39-e39f32e2b6cd.html | 2022-04-08 06:26:30+00:00 | Emergency and refinery officials responded Monday morning to a chemical release at the Mandan Refinery that prompted an evacuation of some workers until the issue was resolved.
The North Dakota Department of Environmental Quality confirmed a release of hydrofluoric acid, which the oil refinery operator said began around 8 a.m. Marathon Petroleum did not know how much of the chemical was released but said it was taking steps to monitor air quality and that there "is no indication of community impact."
Local and state officials told the Tribune that they, too, did not believe the release posed a risk to the public.
Morton County Emergency Manager Cody Mattson late Monday morning said his office would take steps to notify residents if the incident posed any threat, "but at this time there was no threat."
Marathon crews were able to stop the release Monday morning, said Rebekah Pfaff, a state environmental scientist who was in touch with the company.
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"They fired water cannons, which then react with the gas so it then becomes a liquid so it won't leave the site," she said.
Workers were seen walking back toward the refinery midmorning.
Marathon said no injuries had been reported and that it would conduct an investigation to determine the incident's cause.
"The top priorities at this time are to ensure the safety of responders, the community and to limit environmental impact," Marathon said.
Pfaff said she did not know what caused the incident, and she was not familiar with any other past releases of the chemical in North Dakota. She expects Marathon will file a report with the state with more details on the release once the company has had time to investigate. She also did not know how much of the chemical was released. Marathon said it would determine the volume during its investigation.
The company said it is monitoring the air with "technology commonly used in industrial emergency response practices," and it's able to detect a variety of potential emissions.
The Department of Environmental Quality has an ambient air quality monitor in Bismarck, but it would not detect hydrofluoric acid, Pfaff said.
A slight wind was present Monday morning in Bismarck-Mandan, blowing from south to north, according to the National Weather Service. The refinery sits on the north edge of Mandan along the Missouri River.
Hydrofluoric acid is used extensively in oil refining and other industrial processes, according to the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. The substance "is considered a weak acid but is still extremely harmful due to its ability to penetrate tissue," according to the institute.
Breathing in the chemical can irritate the eyes, nose and respiratory tract, and skin contact can cause burns and be fatal in some cases, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The severity of a person's reaction depends on the amount and length of exposure.
Incidents involving hydrofluoric acid at oil refineries have occurred in the past. An explosion in 2019 at a Philadelphia refinery released more than 5,000 pounds of the chemical and prompted local legislation to prohibit refineries from using the substance, according to reporting from StateImpact Pennsylvania.
Monday's incident is the second emergency reported over the past half year at the Mandan Refinery. The plant flared a larger-than-normal amount of gas in November 2021 when the plant's cooling tower circulation pumps unexpectedly shut down, according to a report Marathon filed with the state. The company attributed the incident to an "equipment communication problem."
Reach Amy R. Sisk at 701-250-8252 or amy.sisk@bismarcktribune.com. |
https://bismarcktribune.com/news/local/accident-and-incident/mandan-refinery-responds-to-chemical-release-no-indication-of-public-threat/article_e2251d50-b42e-11ec-b5a7-abb42ae74f1f.html | Emergency and refinery officials responded Monday morning to a chemical release at the Mandan Refinery.
The North Dakota Department of Environmental Quality confirmed a release of hydrofluoric acid, which the oil refinery operator said began around 8 a.m. Marathon Petroleum said it was taking steps to monitor air quality and that there "is no indication of community impact."
Local and state officials told the Tribune that they, too, did not believe the release posed a risk to the public.
Morton County Emergency Manager Cody Mattson late Monday morning said his office would take steps to notify residents if the incident posed any threat, "but at this time there was no threat."
Marathon crews were able to stop the release Monday morning, said Rebekah Pfaff, a state environmental scientist who was in touch with the company.
"They fired water cannons, which then react with the gas so it then becomes a liquid so it won't leave the site," she said.
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Marathon told the Tribune that "the release has been isolated." Workers were seen walking back toward the refinery midmorning.
The company added that no injuries had been reported and said it would conduct an investigation to determine the incident's cause.
"The top priorities at this time are to ensure the safety of responders, the community and to limit environmental impact," Marathon said.
Pfaff said she did not know what caused the incident, and she was not familiar with any other past releases of the chemical in North Dakota. She expects Marathon will file a report with the state with more details on the release once the company has had time to investigate. She also did not know how much of the chemical was released.
It was not immediately clear how Marathon was monitoring air quality.
The Department of Environmental Quality has an ambient air quality monitor in Bismarck, but it would not detect hydrofluoric acid, Pfaff said.
A slight wind was present Monday morning in Bismarck-Mandan, blowing from south to north, according to the National Weather Service. The refinery sits on the north edge of Mandan along the Missouri River.
Hydrofluoric acid is used extensively in oil refining and other industrial processes, according to the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. The substance "is considered a weak acid but is is still extremely harmful due to its ability to penetrate tissue," according to the institute.
(Check back for updates.)
Reach Amy R. Sisk at 701-250-8252 or amy.sisk@bismarcktribune.com. | 1 | 534 | 0.466961 | https://www.kfyrtv.com/2022/04/04/hydrofluoric-acid-release-mandan-refinery-quickly-contained-officials-say-no-threat-public/ | 2022-04-04 22:18:29+00:00 | Hydrofluoric acid release at Mandan Refinery quickly contained, officials say no threat to public
Published: Apr. 4, 2022 at 4:57 PM CDT|Updated: 20 minutes ago
BISMARCK, N.D. (KFYR) - Crews at the Mandan Refinery quickly stopped a hydrofluoric acid release Monday morning. It happened at around 8 a.m. Company officials say the release was isolated and nobody was hurt.
Morton County emergency responders say they do not believe the incident posed a threat to the public.
The cause of the release is under investigation.
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https://bismarcktribune.com/news/local/accident-and-incident/mandan-refinery-responds-to-chemical-release-no-indication-of-public-threat/article_e2251d50-b42e-11ec-b5a7-abb42ae74f1f.html | Emergency and refinery officials responded Monday morning to a chemical release at the Mandan Refinery.
The North Dakota Department of Environmental Quality confirmed a release of hydrofluoric acid, which the oil refinery operator said began around 8 a.m. Marathon Petroleum said it was taking steps to monitor air quality and that there "is no indication of community impact."
Local and state officials told the Tribune that they, too, did not believe the release posed a risk to the public.
Morton County Emergency Manager Cody Mattson late Monday morning said his office would take steps to notify residents if the incident posed any threat, "but at this time there was no threat."
Marathon crews were able to stop the release Monday morning, said Rebekah Pfaff, a state environmental scientist who was in touch with the company.
"They fired water cannons, which then react with the gas so it then becomes a liquid so it won't leave the site," she said.
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Marathon told the Tribune that "the release has been isolated." Workers were seen walking back toward the refinery midmorning.
The company added that no injuries had been reported and said it would conduct an investigation to determine the incident's cause.
"The top priorities at this time are to ensure the safety of responders, the community and to limit environmental impact," Marathon said.
Pfaff said she did not know what caused the incident, and she was not familiar with any other past releases of the chemical in North Dakota. She expects Marathon will file a report with the state with more details on the release once the company has had time to investigate. She also did not know how much of the chemical was released.
It was not immediately clear how Marathon was monitoring air quality.
The Department of Environmental Quality has an ambient air quality monitor in Bismarck, but it would not detect hydrofluoric acid, Pfaff said.
A slight wind was present Monday morning in Bismarck-Mandan, blowing from south to north, according to the National Weather Service. The refinery sits on the north edge of Mandan along the Missouri River.
Hydrofluoric acid is used extensively in oil refining and other industrial processes, according to the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. The substance "is considered a weak acid but is is still extremely harmful due to its ability to penetrate tissue," according to the institute.
(Check back for updates.)
Reach Amy R. Sisk at 701-250-8252 or amy.sisk@bismarcktribune.com. | 2 | 133,533 | 0.600674 | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2561756211350/marathon-refinery-leak-forces-early-evacuation | 2022-04-06 10:14:14+00:00 | Marathon Refinery leak forces early evacuation
A chemical leak at the Marathon Refinery in Mandan Monday morning forced workers to evacuate. The leak began around 8.
The Department of Environmental Quality says it was gaseous hydroflouric aci– which is used in oil refining and other chemical processes.
While hydrofluoric acid is considered a “weak acid”, it is still dangerous to humans and is capable of irritating and dissolving skin.
Employees were ordered to leave the refinery immediately once the leak was discovered.
In order to seal the released acid, Marathon safety teams used water cannons that blasted the gas- transforming it into a liquid and preventing it from escaping the site.
The department says crews quickly and safely cleared up the acid, and employees were able to return to work mid-morning.
Marathon says there were no injuries, and the cause of the leak is still under investigation.
Both the company and state official have declared that the leak did not pose a risk to the public.
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https://www.portsmouth.co.uk/sport/football/portsmouth-fc/update-development-over-portsmouth-interest-in-cheltenham-town-defender-chased-by-sheffield-wednesday-and-preston-north-end-3640190 | UPDATE: Development over Portsmouth interest in Cheltenham Town defender chased by Sheffield Wednesday and Preston North End
Defensive priorities may see Pompey ease their interest in Cheltenham’s Will Boyle.
The Blues are keen on the central defender, who is out of contract with their League One rivals this summer.
But Danny Cowley may have to focus on adding to other areas of his back line, as he reshapes his squad in his third transfer window at Fratton Park.
And that may lead to a deal for the man, who is also interesting Preston North End and Sheffield Wednesday, failing to accelerate.
Cheltenham boss Michael Duff is resigned to losing his captain this summer, with his existing agreement coming to a close.
Boyle’s stock has risen considerably in his five years at Whaddon Road, with 26 goals bagged in 191 appearances and a League Two title in the bag.
The former Huddersfield man is a left-footed central defender, however, and Cowley already has two contracted players in that mould for next season in Clark Robertson and Connor Ogilvie.
It’s a right-footed centre-back which may become a priority, with Sean Raggett out of contract and Hayden Carter on loan from Blackburn.
Meanwhile, right-back Mahlon Romeo’s loan from Millwall comes to an end this summer, with Kieron Freeman battling back from an ankle injury which has kept him out since the start of February.
When quizzed about Boyle Cowley was remaining coy, although he hinted the 26-year-old is the type of player he needs to be aware of when they become available.
He said: ‘For us, I wouldn’t want other people to talk about our players - so I’m not going to talk about individual players at other clubs.
‘Our responsibility is to know all the players who are available and make sure we’ve got a really good handle on them, as both players as well as people.
‘Then we have to find the right profiles to make this team and squad better.’
A message from the Editor, Mark Waldron
You can support our local team of expert Pompey writers by subscribing here for all the latest news from Fratton Park for less than 25p per week. | 0 | 12,610 | 0.603596 | https://the72.co.uk/273820/stockport-county-keen-on-departing-cheltenham-town-defender-will-boyle/ | 2022-05-22 10:25:23+00:00 | Stockport County keen on departing Cheltenham Town defender Will Boyle
Stockport County want departing Cheltenham Town man Will Boyle, according to journalist Alan Nixon on Patreon.
Stockport County are keen to lure the centre-back back up north this summer.
Boyle, 26, is out of contract at the end of next month and is due to become available on a free transfer.
The defender is poised to leave Michael Duff’s side after rejecting their offer of a new deal.
Read: Released Cheltenham Town man finds new home in the Football League
Cheltenham Town to lose key player
Boyle has been a key player for Cheltenham Town over the past five seasons and played a big role in their promotion from League Two last year.
He has since adapted well to the step up a division in League One but is set to depart Gloucestershire for a new chapter in his career.
The Yorkshireman linked up with the Robins back in 2017 and has since made 196 appearances for them in all competitions, chipping in with 26 goals and eight assists.
He started his career at Huddersfield Town and went on to play twice for their first-team as a youngster, as well as having loan spells away at Kidderminster Harriers, Macclesfield Town, York City and Kilmarnock to gain experience.
Boyle has been linked with a few clubs over recent times with The News suggesting Portsmouth, Sheffield Wednesday and Preston North End are interested.
National League champions Stockport County have entered the race for his signature and could see him as an ideal replacement for Liam Hogan, who is leaving after their promotion. |
https://www.portsmouth.co.uk/sport/football/portsmouth-fc/update-development-over-portsmouth-interest-in-cheltenham-town-defender-chased-by-sheffield-wednesday-and-preston-north-end-3640190 | UPDATE: Development over Portsmouth interest in Cheltenham Town defender chased by Sheffield Wednesday and Preston North End
Defensive priorities may see Pompey ease their interest in Cheltenham’s Will Boyle.
The Blues are keen on the central defender, who is out of contract with their League One rivals this summer.
But Danny Cowley may have to focus on adding to other areas of his back line, as he reshapes his squad in his third transfer window at Fratton Park.
And that may lead to a deal for the man, who is also interesting Preston North End and Sheffield Wednesday, failing to accelerate.
Cheltenham boss Michael Duff is resigned to losing his captain this summer, with his existing agreement coming to a close.
Boyle’s stock has risen considerably in his five years at Whaddon Road, with 26 goals bagged in 191 appearances and a League Two title in the bag.
The former Huddersfield man is a left-footed central defender, however, and Cowley already has two contracted players in that mould for next season in Clark Robertson and Connor Ogilvie.
It’s a right-footed centre-back which may become a priority, with Sean Raggett out of contract and Hayden Carter on loan from Blackburn.
Meanwhile, right-back Mahlon Romeo’s loan from Millwall comes to an end this summer, with Kieron Freeman battling back from an ankle injury which has kept him out since the start of February.
When quizzed about Boyle Cowley was remaining coy, although he hinted the 26-year-old is the type of player he needs to be aware of when they become available.
He said: ‘For us, I wouldn’t want other people to talk about our players - so I’m not going to talk about individual players at other clubs.
‘Our responsibility is to know all the players who are available and make sure we’ve got a really good handle on them, as both players as well as people.
‘Then we have to find the right profiles to make this team and squad better.’
A message from the Editor, Mark Waldron
You can support our local team of expert Pompey writers by subscribing here for all the latest news from Fratton Park for less than 25p per week. | 1 | 98,719 | 0.64054 | https://www.portsmouth.co.uk/sport/football/portsmouth-fc/portsmouth-transfer-news-pompey-huddersfield-sheffield-wednesday-and-preston-linked-defender-will-boyle-told-he-deserves-his-move-3666422 | 2022-04-24 12:12:12+00:00 | The 26-year-old defender has acquired a host of admirers following his performances for the Robins.
And with his contract at Cheltenham set to expire at the end of the season, he is set for a fresh challenge after turning down the offer of a new deal.
Boyle will be not be short of offers, with Huddersfield, Sheffield Wednesday and Preston all joining the Blues in running the rule over the left-footed centre-back.
Pompey – whose interest emerged in January – are not short of options on the left-hand side of defence and boss Danny Cowley has admitted his focus could be on adding a right-footed centre-back to his ranks this summer – especially as Hayden Carter will return to parent club Blackburn once this term has finished.
He also hinted the former Kilmarnock ace is the type of player he needs to be aware of when they become available – putting the Blues firmly in the mix when it comes to Boyle.
But, no matter where the Robins skipper choses to play his football next season, current manager Duff believes the player is deserving of the opportunity after 194 appearances and 26 goals for his side over five-and-a-half years.
Speaking to Gloucestershire Live, the Cheltenham manager said: ‘He’s been great all season and if he goes, he deserves his move.
‘I don’t think anyone can begrudge him his move for the service he’s given to the football club and the way he’s been around the place.
‘I’ve not really had a conversation with him for a couple of months because he made it quite clear he didn’t want to sign it, no problem.’ |
https://www.portsmouth.co.uk/sport/football/portsmouth-fc/update-development-over-portsmouth-interest-in-cheltenham-town-defender-chased-by-sheffield-wednesday-and-preston-north-end-3640190 | UPDATE: Development over Portsmouth interest in Cheltenham Town defender chased by Sheffield Wednesday and Preston North End
Defensive priorities may see Pompey ease their interest in Cheltenham’s Will Boyle.
The Blues are keen on the central defender, who is out of contract with their League One rivals this summer.
But Danny Cowley may have to focus on adding to other areas of his back line, as he reshapes his squad in his third transfer window at Fratton Park.
And that may lead to a deal for the man, who is also interesting Preston North End and Sheffield Wednesday, failing to accelerate.
Cheltenham boss Michael Duff is resigned to losing his captain this summer, with his existing agreement coming to a close.
Boyle’s stock has risen considerably in his five years at Whaddon Road, with 26 goals bagged in 191 appearances and a League Two title in the bag.
The former Huddersfield man is a left-footed central defender, however, and Cowley already has two contracted players in that mould for next season in Clark Robertson and Connor Ogilvie.
It’s a right-footed centre-back which may become a priority, with Sean Raggett out of contract and Hayden Carter on loan from Blackburn.
Meanwhile, right-back Mahlon Romeo’s loan from Millwall comes to an end this summer, with Kieron Freeman battling back from an ankle injury which has kept him out since the start of February.
When quizzed about Boyle Cowley was remaining coy, although he hinted the 26-year-old is the type of player he needs to be aware of when they become available.
He said: ‘For us, I wouldn’t want other people to talk about our players - so I’m not going to talk about individual players at other clubs.
‘Our responsibility is to know all the players who are available and make sure we’ve got a really good handle on them, as both players as well as people.
‘Then we have to find the right profiles to make this team and squad better.’
A message from the Editor, Mark Waldron
You can support our local team of expert Pompey writers by subscribing here for all the latest news from Fratton Park for less than 25p per week. | 2 | 57,355 | 0.64221 | https://www.thestar.co.uk/sport/football/sheffield-wednesday/sheffield-wednesday-linked-defender-confirmed-to-be-available-on-a-free-this-summer-3666636 | 2022-04-25 05:01:39+00:00 | Yorkshire-born Will Boyle looks set to leave Cheltenham Town in the coming months with a handful of clubs said to be keeping tabs on his situation.
The 26-year-old has made 32 appearances across all competitions this season and has been among the standout performers for the overachieving side.
Standing at six-foot-three, Boyle is reportedly of interest to Wednesday’s League One rivals Portsmouth as well as Championship sides Preston North End and Huddersfield Town, where he served as an apprentice and made two senior appearances as a teenager.
A left-footed centre-half capable of playing out from the back, he would appear to fit Darren Moore’s preferred profile as the Owls look towards what looks likely to be a busy summer transfer window at S6.
As it stands, Dominic Iorfa is the only senior central defender contracted to the club looking ahead to next season. Bradford City captain Paudie O’Connor is among the other defenders under consideration by Wednesday.
Asked about Boyle’s situation, Cheltenham boss Michael Duff admitted Boyle had turned down a contract offer to stay at the Whaddon Road club and that he looked likely to leave when his current deal expires.
“He’s been great all season and if he goes, he deserves his move,” Duff said.
“I don’t think anyone can begrudge him his move for the service he’s given to the football club and the way he’s been around the place.
“I’ve not really had a conversation with him for a couple of months because he made it quite clear he didn’t want to sign it, no problem.” |
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https://timesofmalta.com/articles/view/man-injured-by-falling-objects-in-construction-site.946140 | A man was seriously injured when he was hit by falling steel items on a construction site on Monday afternoon.
The police said the accident happened at about 1.15pm on a site near Triq Sant’ Andrija, St Julians.
The 48-year-old, from Għajnsielem, was given first aid on site by an ambulance crew and rushed to hospital in critical condition. The police are investigating.
Swieqi traffic accident
In a separate accident, the police said a 45-year-old man from Swieqi was seriously injured when he was hit by a car in his hometown.
The accident happened at 9.15 am in Triq is-Swieqi.
The man was hit by a Honda Accord driven by a 43-year-old man from Marsascala.
The police are investigating.
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Support Us | 0 | 41,382 | 0.705327 | https://timesofmalta.com/articles/view/construction-worker-injured-in-occupational-accident.951190 | 2022-04-28 16:06:20+00:00 | A man was grievously injured on Thursday in an occupational accident at a construction site close to Triq Ġuże D’Amato in Paola.
The police said the accident happened at around 11am.
The victim, a 26-year-old Turkish man who lives in Birkirkara, was injured when he was hit by a metal object while unloading a truck.
He was given first aid by a medical team and members of the Civil Protection Department on site and then taken to Mater Dei Hospital by ambulance.
The police are investigating.
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https://timesofmalta.com/articles/view/man-injured-by-falling-objects-in-construction-site.946140 | A man was seriously injured when he was hit by falling steel items on a construction site on Monday afternoon.
The police said the accident happened at about 1.15pm on a site near Triq Sant’ Andrija, St Julians.
The 48-year-old, from Għajnsielem, was given first aid on site by an ambulance crew and rushed to hospital in critical condition. The police are investigating.
Swieqi traffic accident
In a separate accident, the police said a 45-year-old man from Swieqi was seriously injured when he was hit by a car in his hometown.
The accident happened at 9.15 am in Triq is-Swieqi.
The man was hit by a Honda Accord driven by a 43-year-old man from Marsascala.
The police are investigating.
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Support Us | 1 | 27,194 | 0.741151 | https://timesofmalta.com/articles/view/man-injured-part-balcony-collapses.974438 | 2022-08-15 09:12:04+00:00 | A 32-year-old man from Attard was seriously injured early on Monday when part of a balcony collapsed and he fell onto Triq l-Imrejkba, St Paul's Bay.
The police said the incident took place at 2am but were unable to immediately give further details.
Cyclist, motorists injured
The police also reported that a cyclist was seriously injured when he was involved in a collision with a truck on Sunday afternoon.
The cyclist, from Hamrun, was riding a bike in Dom Mintoff Street, Cospicua, when the accident happened. The truck was a DAF driven by a 67-year-old man from Qrendi.
The police are investigating.
In a separate accident, a man and a woman were injured when two cars collided at Tas-Salib near Rabat.
The police said the accident happened at 6.30pm on Sunday and involved a Hyundai Amica driven by a 66-year-old man from Mtarfa and a Honda Civic driven by an 18-year-old man from Dingli accompanied by a 16-year-old girl.
The 66-year-old man and the girl were hospitalised, with the latter found to be suffering serious injuries.
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https://timesofmalta.com/articles/view/man-injured-by-falling-objects-in-construction-site.946140 | A man was seriously injured when he was hit by falling steel items on a construction site on Monday afternoon.
The police said the accident happened at about 1.15pm on a site near Triq Sant’ Andrija, St Julians.
The 48-year-old, from Għajnsielem, was given first aid on site by an ambulance crew and rushed to hospital in critical condition. The police are investigating.
Swieqi traffic accident
In a separate accident, the police said a 45-year-old man from Swieqi was seriously injured when he was hit by a car in his hometown.
The accident happened at 9.15 am in Triq is-Swieqi.
The man was hit by a Honda Accord driven by a 43-year-old man from Marsascala.
The police are investigating.
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Support Us | 2 | 104,238 | 0.762563 | https://timesofmalta.com/articles/view/man-hit-car-san-Gwann.974882 | 2022-08-17 17:25:48+00:00 | A 66-year-old man was grievously injured on Wednesday when he was hit by a car in San Ġwann.
The police said the accident happened in Triq Oreste Kirkop at 9am.
The victim, who is from San Ġwann, was hit by a Chevrolet that was being driven by a 71-year-old woman from Gżira.
He was given first aid by a medical team on site and then transferred to Mater Dei Hospital by ambulance.
The police are investigating.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-humber-60983234 | P&O's Pride of Hull ferry will not sail until 23 April
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P&O Ferries' Pride of Hull will not return to service until the end of the month, the company has said.
The vessel is docked in Rotterdam after sailing from Hull following P&O's decision to sack 800 workers in favour of lower-paid replacements.
It was expected to restart its nightly North Sea crossing on 4 April, but in a tweet the ferry firm said it hoped to "resume service from the 23rd April".
Sister ship Pride of Rotterdam began sailing again last week.
The BBC has contacted P&O for an update on the Pride of Hull.
It was cleared to sail with passengers and cargo after passing an inspection by the UK's Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA).
We hope that the other vessel on this route will resume service from the 23rd April. If your booking is affected we will be in contact with you directly. We apologise for the inconvenience and uncertainty at this time
— P&O Ferries Updates (@POferriesupdate) April 3, 2022
The Pride of Hull, which is classed as a foreign vessel, is registered in the Bahamas. Countries where ships are flagged bear overall responsibility for their safety, the MCA said.
Responding on Twitter to a customer asking about a booking in May, the company said "If your booking is affected we will be in contact with you directly. We apologise for the inconvenience and uncertainty at this time".
More than 80 crew members in Hull were sacked without warning by P&O in a video call on 17 March.
The firings triggered a sit-in by the Pride of Hull crew who occupied the vessel in the city's King George Dock for more than five hours.
Protests were also held at the quayside.
P&O Ferries claimed that without the redundancies the business was "not sustainable" after losing £100m last year.
Follow BBC East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk. | 0 | 87,573 | 0 | https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-humber-60983234 | 2022-04-04 17:42:01+00:00 | P&O's Pride of Hull ferry will not sail until 23 April
- Published
P&O Ferries' Pride of Hull will not return to service until the end of the month, the company has said.
The vessel is docked in Rotterdam after sailing from Hull following P&O's decision to sack 800 workers in favour of lower-paid replacements.
It was expected to restart its nightly North Sea crossing on 4 April, but in a tweet the ferry firm said it hoped to "resume service from the 23rd April".
Sister ship Pride of Rotterdam began sailing again last week.
The BBC has contacted P&O for an update on the Pride of Hull.
It was cleared to sail with passengers and cargo after passing an inspection by the UK's Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA).
We hope that the other vessel on this route will resume service from the 23rd April. If your booking is affected we will be in contact with you directly. We apologise for the inconvenience and uncertainty at this time
— P&O Ferries Updates (@POferriesupdate) April 3, 2022
The Pride of Hull, which is classed as a foreign vessel, is registered in the Bahamas. Countries where ships are flagged bear overall responsibility for their safety, the MCA said.
Responding on Twitter to a customer asking about a booking in May, the company said "If your booking is affected we will be in contact with you directly. We apologise for the inconvenience and uncertainty at this time".
More than 80 crew members in Hull were sacked without warning by P&O in a video call on 17 March.
The firings triggered a sit-in by the Pride of Hull crew who occupied the vessel in the city's King George Dock for more than five hours.
Protests were also held at the quayside.
P&O Ferries claimed that without the redundancies the business was "not sustainable" after losing £100m last year.
Follow BBC East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk. |
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-humber-60983234 | P&O's Pride of Hull ferry will not sail until 23 April
- Published
P&O Ferries' Pride of Hull will not return to service until the end of the month, the company has said.
The vessel is docked in Rotterdam after sailing from Hull following P&O's decision to sack 800 workers in favour of lower-paid replacements.
It was expected to restart its nightly North Sea crossing on 4 April, but in a tweet the ferry firm said it hoped to "resume service from the 23rd April".
Sister ship Pride of Rotterdam began sailing again last week.
The BBC has contacted P&O for an update on the Pride of Hull.
It was cleared to sail with passengers and cargo after passing an inspection by the UK's Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA).
We hope that the other vessel on this route will resume service from the 23rd April. If your booking is affected we will be in contact with you directly. We apologise for the inconvenience and uncertainty at this time
— P&O Ferries Updates (@POferriesupdate) April 3, 2022
The Pride of Hull, which is classed as a foreign vessel, is registered in the Bahamas. Countries where ships are flagged bear overall responsibility for their safety, the MCA said.
Responding on Twitter to a customer asking about a booking in May, the company said "If your booking is affected we will be in contact with you directly. We apologise for the inconvenience and uncertainty at this time".
More than 80 crew members in Hull were sacked without warning by P&O in a video call on 17 March.
The firings triggered a sit-in by the Pride of Hull crew who occupied the vessel in the city's King George Dock for more than five hours.
Protests were also held at the quayside.
P&O Ferries claimed that without the redundancies the business was "not sustainable" after losing £100m last year.
Follow BBC East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk. | 1 | 125,067 | 0.392332 | https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-humber-61087359 | 2022-04-12 18:55:03+00:00 | P&O ferry Pride of Hull set for first service since mass sacking
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A ferry which has been out of service since the sacking of 800 P&O workers is due to sail to Holland later, the company has said.
The Pride of Hull will carry freight from Hull to Rotterdam and return with passengers on Wednesday.
It will be the first service since P&O's decision last month to sack staff in favour of lower-paid replacements.
However, despite passing checks to carry cargo and passengers, the RMT union says the ferry should be stopped.
Union representatives have written to Transport Secretary Grant Shapps urging him to ban the ship from sailing on safety grounds.
More than 80 crew members in Hull were sacked without warning by P&O in a video call on 17 March.
The firings triggered a sit-in by the Pride of Hull crew, who occupied the vessel in the city's King George Dock for more than five hours.
Protests were also held at the quayside.
P&O Ferries claimed that without the redundancies the business was "not sustainable" after losing £100m last year.A ferry which has not sailed since the sacking of 800 P&O workers is due to return to service later, the company has said.
Follow BBC East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk. |
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-humber-60983234 | P&O's Pride of Hull ferry will not sail until 23 April
- Published
P&O Ferries' Pride of Hull will not return to service until the end of the month, the company has said.
The vessel is docked in Rotterdam after sailing from Hull following P&O's decision to sack 800 workers in favour of lower-paid replacements.
It was expected to restart its nightly North Sea crossing on 4 April, but in a tweet the ferry firm said it hoped to "resume service from the 23rd April".
Sister ship Pride of Rotterdam began sailing again last week.
The BBC has contacted P&O for an update on the Pride of Hull.
It was cleared to sail with passengers and cargo after passing an inspection by the UK's Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA).
We hope that the other vessel on this route will resume service from the 23rd April. If your booking is affected we will be in contact with you directly. We apologise for the inconvenience and uncertainty at this time
— P&O Ferries Updates (@POferriesupdate) April 3, 2022
The Pride of Hull, which is classed as a foreign vessel, is registered in the Bahamas. Countries where ships are flagged bear overall responsibility for their safety, the MCA said.
Responding on Twitter to a customer asking about a booking in May, the company said "If your booking is affected we will be in contact with you directly. We apologise for the inconvenience and uncertainty at this time".
More than 80 crew members in Hull were sacked without warning by P&O in a video call on 17 March.
The firings triggered a sit-in by the Pride of Hull crew who occupied the vessel in the city's King George Dock for more than five hours.
Protests were also held at the quayside.
P&O Ferries claimed that without the redundancies the business was "not sustainable" after losing £100m last year.
Follow BBC East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk. | 2 | 94,597 | 0.444345 | https://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/news/hull-east-yorkshire-news/po-says-pride-hull-restart-6915972 | 2022-04-06 17:24:49+00:00 | P&O Ferries has announced it is preparing to restart sailings of the Pride of Hull for the first time since the company sacked nearly 800 staff including dozens on the Hull-based super ferry.
The firm revealed plans to resume operations for four of its ships on routes suspended after the sackings. It has been prevented from running all but one of its vessels since it announced widespread redundancies on March 17. The company sparked outrage by replacing its crews with cheaper agency workers, without notice and on a video call.
The Pride of Hull, which together with the Pride of Rotterdam sails the North Sea route from Hull to the Netherlands, has been berthed in Rotterdam since sailing out of King George dock under cover of darkness than two weeks ago.
Read more: We went on the first P&O ghost ship sailing out of Hull
A spokesman for P&O Ferries said: “From this weekend, P&O Ferries are getting ready to resume services across a number of vital routes.
“P&O has been working closely with regulators to ensure our ships are safe to sail. P&O is looking forward to welcoming back vital services and we expect to have two of our vessels ready to sail on the Dover/Calais route by next week, subject to regulatory sign-off, namely both the Pride of Kent and Spirit of Britain between Dover/Calais.
“P&O are also expecting to be able to sail both the European Causeway, which runs between Larne and Cairnryan, and the Pride of Hull, which runs services between Hull and Rotterdam.”
He added: “We thank our customers for their patience during this time and we apologise to those customers whose journeys have been cancelled and disrupted.”
The ferries will need to pass inspections by the Maritime Coastguard Agency (MCA) before operations can restart. However, the MCA said: “There are no further inspections of P&O Ferries at the moment and we will reinspect at the appropriate time”. It is understood the Pride of Hull has already been inspected.
The announcement comes as a former P&O Ferries chef is reportedly suing the company for unfair dismissal, racial discrimination and harassment. The BBC reported that John Lansdown has filed a tribunal claim against the firm and its chief executive, and is seeking financial compensation and exemplary damages of up to £76 million.
P&O Ferries said its job cuts were “categorically not based on race or the nationality of the staff involved”, in a statement carried by the broadcaster. Mr Lansdown said the action was about the “bigger picture”.
On board the Pride of Rotterdam
“This is not just about me. Seven hundred and ninety nine of my seafaring family have lost their livelihoods, their way of life, their homes for half the year,” he told the BBC.
Criminal and civil investigations have also been launched into P&O Ferries’ move. Business Secretary, Kwasi Kwarteng, said on April 1 that the Insolvency Service had started “formal criminal and civil investigations”.
The Insolvency Service said: “Following its inquiries, the Insolvency Service has commenced formal criminal and civil investigations into the circumstances surrounding the recent redundancies made by P&O Ferries.
“As these are ongoing investigations, no further comment or information can be provided at this time.”
P&O Ferries chief executive, Peter Hebblethwaite, told a joint hearing of the Commons’ business and transport committees that his company broke the law by not consulting with trade unions before sacking workers. |
https://www.goal.com/en-au/news/uzoho-experiencing-the-worst-days-of-his-life-after-failing/blt549622e4841477f0 | Uzoho experiencing 'the worst days' of his life after failing to guide Nigeria to 2022 World Cup
Nigeria goalkeeper Francis Uzoho has promised to give his best in future international engagements to bring a smile back to the faces of fans.
The Omonia goalkeeper was partly to blame as Ghana claimed a 1-1 draw in Abuja to qualify for the 2022 World Cup, on the away goals rule, at the expense of the Super Eagles.
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In the match played on Tuesday, March 29, Arsenal midfielder Thomas Partey's seemingly harmless shot crept past Uzoho. Despite William Troost-Ekong equalising, the Black Stars held on to ensure the game ended in a scoring draw after a goalless result recorded in the first leg.
"These past couple of days have been the worst in my lifetime," Uzoho posted on his official social media account.
"I wanted to take my nation to Qatar but rather did the opposite. I know what football means to you all and to myself. I can’t promise not to make mistakes again but I can promise not to give up until I bring back that smile on your faces.
"Thank you for the support and God bless."
Uzoho has made 18 appearances for the West African nation since making his debut in 2017.
Meanwhile, Ex-Nigeria international striker Daniel Amokachi has challenged the football administrators in the country to return to developmental structures that saw the team reach greater heights.
"Quality-wise we can't take it away from Nigeria. Every day Nigeria is blessed with one immigrant player who is playing out there and he'll always come up and say I turned down my birth country, I want to play for Nigeria when their country of birth never looked for them. They won't even make their birth nation squads," Amokachi told SuperSport.
"Unfortunately for us in Nigeria, we've thrown away our developmental structure which we had that made us win the 1996 Olympic gold medal, that made that generation so great.
"Stephen Keshi came into play and revived it and we saw how we won the 2013 Africa Cup of Nations." | 0 | 87,177 | 0.209066 | https://www.goal.com/en-ph/news/uzoho-experiencing-the-worst-days-of-his-life-after-failing/blt549622e4841477f0 | 2022-04-04 17:39:27+00:00 | Uzoho experiencing 'the worst days' of his life after failing to guide Nigeria to 2022 World Cup
Nigeria goalkeeper Francis Uzoho has promised to give his best in future international engagements to bring a smile back to the faces of fans.
The Omonia goalkeeper was partly to blame as Ghana claimed a 1-1 draw in Abuja to qualify for the 2022 World Cup, on the away goals rule, at the expense of the Super Eagles.
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In the match played on Tuesday, March 29, Arsenal midfielder Thomas Partey's seemingly harmless shot crept past Uzoho. Despite William Troost-Ekong equalising, the Black Stars held on to ensure the game ended in a scoring draw after a goalless result recorded in the first leg.
"These past couple of days have been the worst in my lifetime," Uzoho posted on his official social media account.
"I wanted to take my nation to Qatar but rather did the opposite. I know what football means to you all and to myself. I can’t promise not to make mistakes again but I can promise not to give up until I bring back that smile on your faces.
"Thank you for the support and God bless."
Uzoho has made 18 appearances for the West African nation since making his debut in 2017.
Meanwhile, Ex-Nigeria international striker Daniel Amokachi has challenged the football administrators in the country to return to developmental structures that saw the team reach greater heights.
"Quality-wise we can't take it away from Nigeria. Every day Nigeria is blessed with one immigrant player who is playing out there and he'll always come up and say I turned down my birth country, I want to play for Nigeria when their country of birth never looked for them. They won't even make their birth nation squads," Amokachi told SuperSport.
"Unfortunately for us in Nigeria, we've thrown away our developmental structure which we had that made us win the 1996 Olympic gold medal, that made that generation so great.
"Stephen Keshi came into play and revived it and we saw how we won the 2013 Africa Cup of Nations." |
https://www.goal.com/en-au/news/uzoho-experiencing-the-worst-days-of-his-life-after-failing/blt549622e4841477f0 | Uzoho experiencing 'the worst days' of his life after failing to guide Nigeria to 2022 World Cup
Nigeria goalkeeper Francis Uzoho has promised to give his best in future international engagements to bring a smile back to the faces of fans.
The Omonia goalkeeper was partly to blame as Ghana claimed a 1-1 draw in Abuja to qualify for the 2022 World Cup, on the away goals rule, at the expense of the Super Eagles.
Editors' Picks
In the match played on Tuesday, March 29, Arsenal midfielder Thomas Partey's seemingly harmless shot crept past Uzoho. Despite William Troost-Ekong equalising, the Black Stars held on to ensure the game ended in a scoring draw after a goalless result recorded in the first leg.
"These past couple of days have been the worst in my lifetime," Uzoho posted on his official social media account.
"I wanted to take my nation to Qatar but rather did the opposite. I know what football means to you all and to myself. I can’t promise not to make mistakes again but I can promise not to give up until I bring back that smile on your faces.
"Thank you for the support and God bless."
Uzoho has made 18 appearances for the West African nation since making his debut in 2017.
Meanwhile, Ex-Nigeria international striker Daniel Amokachi has challenged the football administrators in the country to return to developmental structures that saw the team reach greater heights.
"Quality-wise we can't take it away from Nigeria. Every day Nigeria is blessed with one immigrant player who is playing out there and he'll always come up and say I turned down my birth country, I want to play for Nigeria when their country of birth never looked for them. They won't even make their birth nation squads," Amokachi told SuperSport.
"Unfortunately for us in Nigeria, we've thrown away our developmental structure which we had that made us win the 1996 Olympic gold medal, that made that generation so great.
"Stephen Keshi came into play and revived it and we saw how we won the 2013 Africa Cup of Nations." | 1 | 89,915 | 0.209066 | https://www.goal.com/en-qa/news/uzoho-experiencing-the-worst-days-of-his-life-after-failing/blt549622e4841477f0 | 2022-04-04 17:52:32+00:00 | Uzoho experiencing 'the worst days' of his life after failing to guide Nigeria to 2022 World Cup
Nigeria goalkeeper Francis Uzoho has promised to give his best in future international engagements to bring a smile back to the faces of fans.
The Omonia goalkeeper was partly to blame as Ghana claimed a 1-1 draw in Abuja to qualify for the 2022 World Cup, on the away goals rule, at the expense of the Super Eagles.
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In the match played on Tuesday, March 29, Arsenal midfielder Thomas Partey's seemingly harmless shot crept past Uzoho. Despite William Troost-Ekong equalising, the Black Stars held on to ensure the game ended in a scoring draw after a goalless result recorded in the first leg.
"These past couple of days have been the worst in my lifetime," Uzoho posted on his official social media account.
"I wanted to take my nation to Qatar but rather did the opposite. I know what football means to you all and to myself. I can’t promise not to make mistakes again but I can promise not to give up until I bring back that smile on your faces.
"Thank you for the support and God bless."
Uzoho has made 18 appearances for the West African nation since making his debut in 2017.
Meanwhile, Ex-Nigeria international striker Daniel Amokachi has challenged the football administrators in the country to return to developmental structures that saw the team reach greater heights.
"Quality-wise we can't take it away from Nigeria. Every day Nigeria is blessed with one immigrant player who is playing out there and he'll always come up and say I turned down my birth country, I want to play for Nigeria when their country of birth never looked for them. They won't even make their birth nation squads," Amokachi told SuperSport.
"Unfortunately for us in Nigeria, we've thrown away our developmental structure which we had that made us win the 1996 Olympic gold medal, that made that generation so great.
"Stephen Keshi came into play and revived it and we saw how we won the 2013 Africa Cup of Nations." |
https://www.goal.com/en-au/news/uzoho-experiencing-the-worst-days-of-his-life-after-failing/blt549622e4841477f0 | Uzoho experiencing 'the worst days' of his life after failing to guide Nigeria to 2022 World Cup
Nigeria goalkeeper Francis Uzoho has promised to give his best in future international engagements to bring a smile back to the faces of fans.
The Omonia goalkeeper was partly to blame as Ghana claimed a 1-1 draw in Abuja to qualify for the 2022 World Cup, on the away goals rule, at the expense of the Super Eagles.
Editors' Picks
In the match played on Tuesday, March 29, Arsenal midfielder Thomas Partey's seemingly harmless shot crept past Uzoho. Despite William Troost-Ekong equalising, the Black Stars held on to ensure the game ended in a scoring draw after a goalless result recorded in the first leg.
"These past couple of days have been the worst in my lifetime," Uzoho posted on his official social media account.
"I wanted to take my nation to Qatar but rather did the opposite. I know what football means to you all and to myself. I can’t promise not to make mistakes again but I can promise not to give up until I bring back that smile on your faces.
"Thank you for the support and God bless."
Uzoho has made 18 appearances for the West African nation since making his debut in 2017.
Meanwhile, Ex-Nigeria international striker Daniel Amokachi has challenged the football administrators in the country to return to developmental structures that saw the team reach greater heights.
"Quality-wise we can't take it away from Nigeria. Every day Nigeria is blessed with one immigrant player who is playing out there and he'll always come up and say I turned down my birth country, I want to play for Nigeria when their country of birth never looked for them. They won't even make their birth nation squads," Amokachi told SuperSport.
"Unfortunately for us in Nigeria, we've thrown away our developmental structure which we had that made us win the 1996 Olympic gold medal, that made that generation so great.
"Stephen Keshi came into play and revived it and we saw how we won the 2013 Africa Cup of Nations." | 2 | 46,731 | 0.444233 | https://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2022/04/05/uzoho-breaks-silence-describes-parteys-goal-worst-day-of-his-life/ | 2022-04-07 23:23:04+00:00 | Femi Solaja with agency report
Super Eagles goalkeeper, Francis Uzoho, has described the 10th minute goal he conceded against Black Stars of Ghana at the Moshood Abiola Stadium in Abuja last Tuesday as the worse in his fledgling career.
As it turned out, that goal by Thomas Partey in the second leg 2022 World Cup Playoff, eventually became an albatross for Nigeria.
It earned the Ghanaians the away goal rule that eventually stopped Super Eagles from qualifying for a fourth consecutive and seventh overall appearance at the FIFA World Cup.
After a brilliant performance in Kumasi, it was Uzoho’s howler that caused Abuja fans to visit their anger on the Moshood Abiola Stadium, destroying everything in sight after the Tunisian referee called off the game after added five minutes to regulation time.
Speaking for the first time since the costly mistake of allowing Partey’s harmless shot crept past him, the Omonia Nicosia goalkeeper in the Cyprus league, said yesterday on social media that he remains very pained by the gaffe.
“These past couple of days have been the worst in my lifetime,” Uzoho posted on his official social media account.
“I wanted to take my nation to Qatar but rather did the opposite. I know what football means to you all and to myself. I can’t promise not to make mistakes again but I can promise not to give up until I bring back that smile on your faces.
“Thank you for the support and God bless,” was Uzoho’s message to his compatriots still raging with anger over the World Cup miss.
Although William Troost-Ekong equalized Partey’s goal, the Black Stars held on to that advantage of an away goal to ensure the game ended in their favour.
Uzoho has made 18 appearances for the three times African champions since his debut in 2017.
Meanwhile, Ex-Nigeria international striker, Daniel Amokachi, has challenged football administrators in the country to return to developmental structures that saw the team reach greater heights in the past.
“Quality-wise, we can’t take it away from Nigeria. Every day, Nigeria is blessed with one immigrant player who is playing out there and he’ll always come up and say I turned down my birth country, I want to play for Nigeria when their country of birth never looked for them. They won’t even make their birth nation squads,” Amokachi told SuperSport.
“Unfortunately for us in Nigeria, we’ve thrown away our developmental structure which we had that made us win the 1996 Olympic gold medal, that made that generation so great. |
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Will Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) see any business dropoff if fewer of its chips are being used in the crypto space? In this video clip from "The Crypto Show" on Motley Fool Live , recorded on March 23 , Fool.com contributors Jon Quast, Travis Hoium, and Chris MacDonald answer a member's question about whether there would be any impact on Nvidia if Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH) 2.0 requires less GPU power.
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Jon Quast: Am I correct that Ethereum 2.0 and other proof of stake crypto require much less GPU power? What impact do you think this will have on Nvidia? My understanding, Mike, and we can look into this more. I know that I said we're going to talk about the merge in future episodes here, maybe next week. Yes, it's a completely different system of running the blockchain and so yeah, you don't have miners anymore, you have stakers.
What impact will it have on Nvidia? I know that Nvidia has tried very hard [laughs] to not have its GPUs for cryptocurrency miners as much as it can. Honestly, I don't think it's going to have that outsize of an impact on Nvidia. Not to say it won't have any impact, but I don't see it having much of an impact.
Travis Hoium: Yeah. A lot of the Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) mining is going to custom-made chipsets as well. There are publicly traded companies that design these. Incrementally, it may have a negative impact on Nvidia, but it's not something that I would worry about as an investor. The other way to think about this too is that the theory is that this will make the Ethereum network more efficient. But you're also going to have, again, theoretically more people using it.
If you're a company like Nvidia or you're any of these blockchain developers, you want to have those lower costs so that you have more transactions and more people in the ecosystem. It may be a little bit like this is what the chip business has been forever. The cost per chip is coming down, but the number of chips is going up faster than the cost is coming down, so your revenue grows.
Chris MacDonald: Yeah. That's my understanding as well is that whether you're talking about Bitmain or Antminers or what have you, the various machines that are used for crypto mining, those are produced by various companies. I do believe Nvidia chips are used for some of that, but it's a small portion, so I wouldn't necessarily be worried about that.
Maybe another interesting angle too, is there's a number of projects such as Livepeer that I've been looking at, that are video platforms on top of crypto that require additional GPU. My understanding is some of those are Nvidia chips. There's some growth potential as well for projects built on top of the blockchain, and the extent to which that's negative for the environment remains to be seen.
It seems like Ethereum and a lot of projects are shifting toward proof of stake for the environmental benefit. Ethereum's merge is going to be a big deal. That's going be something that I think Jon, you mentioned we're going to cover that in the future show, but I think that is a big thing, so we should definitely focus on that.
Hoium: Another thing I want to add to that is that if you're a believer in the utility of cryptocurrencies and NFTs in building things like the metaverse, that's going to be probably a lot of 3D graphics, who runs 3D graphics? Nvidia chips. One thing that may be a negative for Nvidia on an incremental basis, may actually be an indication that there's going to be a flood of demand coming long-term.
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Today's video focuses on Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) and how the crypto decline could create short-term pain for investors. As crypto continues to go down, the number of used graphics cards entering the market increases, which can cause a surplus of supply. Check out the short video below to learn more and why I believe Nvidia can still be a long-term winner.
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https://www.campaignlive.com/article/l-c-nyc-hires-kelly-stevens-first-managing-director/1751962 | Award-winning Peruvian creative duo Gian Carlo Lanfranco and Rolando Cordova have hired Kelly Stevens as the first-ever managing director for their agency, L&C NYC.
The appointment comes at a strategic time for the pair, who met as global creative directors at McCann New York. They told Campaign US that the agency is experiencing “great momentum, creatively and with organic business growth,” which led to the need for a managing director.
“Our priority is growth and building the right talent infrastructure to support it, while innovating a global way of working,” Lanfranco said. “Kelly will be the driver in those areas of the business.”
Stevens will be responsible for guiding the agency’s marketing and business management strategy as it cultivates new business and organic growth from existing clients.
“From the moment I met Gian and Rolando, I knew they would be very successful with L&C,” Stevens said. “I knew instantly I wanted to be part of the journey of building the agency with them. In many ways, this feels like the role I have been preparing for my entire career.”
Before L&C, Stevens was CMO at both YARD NYC and The&Partnership. She was also brand director at FIG and managing director at Spring Studios.
She said that the instant connection she created with Lanfranco and Cordova led her to their agency.
“L&C is offering something very different — a small creative agency that can perform globally at an expert level,” she said. “Gian and Rolo have worked worldwide and have the talent network to continue to create marketing that incorporates diverse ideas and voices. There is not a marketer who doesn’t respond well to this.”
L&C is continuing to expand its team to deliver on its promise to be a “small agency with a global sensibility and modern way of working,” which Stevens will help it deliver on.
“We became aware of Kelly two years ago when we first started L&C. What made her stand out initially is her roles at some great small agencies that we admire,” Cordova said. “You need energy, optimism, and a great work ethic to spur growth. And it would be best if you had someone super smart and strategic who is not afraid to roll up their sleeves. That’s exactly who Kelly is.” | 0 | 83,546 | 0.853906 | https://www.einpresswire.com/article/578125061/the-partnership-announces-arrival-of-proven-industry-visionary-as-head-of-creative-department | 2022-06-23 19:24:30+00:00 | The Partnership Announces Arrival of Proven Industry Visionary as Head of Creative Department
Lindsay Zarczynski joins The Partnership as Senior Group Creative Director, brings track record of success working on creative campaigns for major brands.
I’m excited about the enthusiasm she brings in building teams and pushing the work to new heights. ”
ATLANTA, GEORGIA, UNITED STATES, June 23, 2022 /EINPresswire.com/ -- The Partnership announces the arrival of Lindsay Zarczynski as new head of the creative department at the Atlanta-based marketing and brand communications agency. — Amanda Lucey
Zarczynski brings a decade of experience in the advertising industry to her role with The Partnership, having worked with global brands such as Samsung, Southwest Airlines, Ace Hardware, SharkNinja, and Carnival Cruise Lines.
“My passion lies in opening a toolbox of media, strategy, design, and copy to find the best creative solution to any business problem a client presents,” said Zarczynski. “Anything can be a creative opportunity if we look at the assignment holistically, finding the best way to solve partner needs while ensuring beautifully crafted, strategic execution.”
Zarczynski’s approach has a proven track record throughout her career, having enjoyed consistent success in her professional endeavors. Most recently, she spearheaded 10 campaigns in two years for SharkNinja, delivering impactful results for the client while raising the bar for what was creatively possible.
Beyond her ability to execute complex creative campaigns, Zarczynski also shares The Partnership’s values of contributing to the local community by building up those around her.
“I believe strongly in building an agency culture that mentors and grows talent and gives back as an active member of the community,” Zarczynski said. “These values have played a big role in my career and are big reasons I am thrilled to be joining The Partnership and working with this amazing group of talented individuals.”
In her role as the Senior Group Creative Director, Zarczynski will expand on The Partnership’s track record of fast-paced growth while delivering exceptional results. Her distinct combination of experience, interpersonal skills, and endless creativity will make her a valued and impactful member of the team.
“Lindsay is passionate about opening a toolbox of media, strategy, design, and copy to find the best creative solution for brand campaigns,” said Amanda Lucey, CEO of The Partnership. “I’m excited about the enthusiasm she brings in building teams and pushing the work to new heights. She has a proven track record and embodies the values we share purpose, passion, and partnership.”
For additional details, contact Shaheen Solomon at shaheen@ThePartnership.comor 470-889-8092. To find out more about The Partnership, visit www.ThePartnership.com.
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https://www.campaignlive.com/article/l-c-nyc-hires-kelly-stevens-first-managing-director/1751962 | Award-winning Peruvian creative duo Gian Carlo Lanfranco and Rolando Cordova have hired Kelly Stevens as the first-ever managing director for their agency, L&C NYC.
The appointment comes at a strategic time for the pair, who met as global creative directors at McCann New York. They told Campaign US that the agency is experiencing “great momentum, creatively and with organic business growth,” which led to the need for a managing director.
“Our priority is growth and building the right talent infrastructure to support it, while innovating a global way of working,” Lanfranco said. “Kelly will be the driver in those areas of the business.”
Stevens will be responsible for guiding the agency’s marketing and business management strategy as it cultivates new business and organic growth from existing clients.
“From the moment I met Gian and Rolando, I knew they would be very successful with L&C,” Stevens said. “I knew instantly I wanted to be part of the journey of building the agency with them. In many ways, this feels like the role I have been preparing for my entire career.”
Before L&C, Stevens was CMO at both YARD NYC and The&Partnership. She was also brand director at FIG and managing director at Spring Studios.
She said that the instant connection she created with Lanfranco and Cordova led her to their agency.
“L&C is offering something very different — a small creative agency that can perform globally at an expert level,” she said. “Gian and Rolo have worked worldwide and have the talent network to continue to create marketing that incorporates diverse ideas and voices. There is not a marketer who doesn’t respond well to this.”
L&C is continuing to expand its team to deliver on its promise to be a “small agency with a global sensibility and modern way of working,” which Stevens will help it deliver on.
“We became aware of Kelly two years ago when we first started L&C. What made her stand out initially is her roles at some great small agencies that we admire,” Cordova said. “You need energy, optimism, and a great work ethic to spur growth. And it would be best if you had someone super smart and strategic who is not afraid to roll up their sleeves. That’s exactly who Kelly is.” | 1 | 56,115 | 0.871573 | https://www.campaignasia.com/article/msl-names-roya-partovi-first-chief-creative-officer/477192 | 2022-04-14 13:16:27+00:00 | MSL has appointed Roya Partovi its first chief creative officer.
In the newly created role, Partovi is responsible for all of MSL’s creative work including strategy, design and editorial. Based in New York, she will report to MSL US CEO Diana Littman.
Partovi’s role was created to keep up with the growth of MSL’s client work over the past two years, and her broad leadership expertise was the right fit for the job, according to Littman.
“Clients are hungry for bigger, more multidisciplinary creative work, so we needed to build a high-performing team that spans all aspects of creative work,” Littman said. “[Partovi and I] spent some time exploring what we envision for our creative future for the agency, and we fell in love with the opportunity we see.”
With Partovi’s appointment, executive creative director Marc Levy will lead MSL’s creative strategy team and report to Partovi.
Partovi was drawn to MSL’s body of work and Littman's multidimensional team, and she has a clear goal to make clients more influential, particularly in the digital space, by building culture and getting ahead of trends.
“It’s really about elevating the creative excellence within MSL to continuously deliver kickass work,” Partovi said. “We have an outstanding team, where everyone is super passionate with the work they’re doing and they continue to mentor and help get the most out of everyone continuously.”
Partovi comes to MSL from Merge, where she was chief creative officer and DE&I chair, leading a nearly 100-person creative team across four offices.
Before Merge, Partovi was chief creative officer at Aterian, a Google Ventures-backed brand launchpad that combined creative and branding with AI, data and digital channels.
A Publicis alumna, she has worked in creative roles at Fallon, Saatchi & Saatchi and Publicis NY, as well as at Havas. |
https://www.campaignlive.com/article/l-c-nyc-hires-kelly-stevens-first-managing-director/1751962 | Award-winning Peruvian creative duo Gian Carlo Lanfranco and Rolando Cordova have hired Kelly Stevens as the first-ever managing director for their agency, L&C NYC.
The appointment comes at a strategic time for the pair, who met as global creative directors at McCann New York. They told Campaign US that the agency is experiencing “great momentum, creatively and with organic business growth,” which led to the need for a managing director.
“Our priority is growth and building the right talent infrastructure to support it, while innovating a global way of working,” Lanfranco said. “Kelly will be the driver in those areas of the business.”
Stevens will be responsible for guiding the agency’s marketing and business management strategy as it cultivates new business and organic growth from existing clients.
“From the moment I met Gian and Rolando, I knew they would be very successful with L&C,” Stevens said. “I knew instantly I wanted to be part of the journey of building the agency with them. In many ways, this feels like the role I have been preparing for my entire career.”
Before L&C, Stevens was CMO at both YARD NYC and The&Partnership. She was also brand director at FIG and managing director at Spring Studios.
She said that the instant connection she created with Lanfranco and Cordova led her to their agency.
“L&C is offering something very different — a small creative agency that can perform globally at an expert level,” she said. “Gian and Rolo have worked worldwide and have the talent network to continue to create marketing that incorporates diverse ideas and voices. There is not a marketer who doesn’t respond well to this.”
L&C is continuing to expand its team to deliver on its promise to be a “small agency with a global sensibility and modern way of working,” which Stevens will help it deliver on.
“We became aware of Kelly two years ago when we first started L&C. What made her stand out initially is her roles at some great small agencies that we admire,” Cordova said. “You need energy, optimism, and a great work ethic to spur growth. And it would be best if you had someone super smart and strategic who is not afraid to roll up their sleeves. That’s exactly who Kelly is.” | 2 | 104,685 | 0.875399 | https://www.campaignlive.com/article/msl-names-roya-partovi-first-chief-creative-officer/1752821 | 2022-04-13 03:54:13+00:00 | MSL has appointed Roya Partovi its first chief creative officer.
In the newly created role, Partovi is responsible for all of MSL’s creative work including strategy, design and editorial. Based in New York, she will report to MSL U.S. CEO Diana Littman.
Partovi’s role was created to keep up with the growth of MSL’s client work over the past two years, and her broad leadership expertise was the right fit for the job, according to Littman.
“Clients are hungry for bigger, more multidisciplinary creative work, so we needed to build a high-performing team that spans all aspects of creative work,” Littman said. “[Partovi and I] spent some time exploring what we envision for our creative future for the agency, and we fell in love with the opportunity we see.”
With Partovi’s appointment, executive creative director Marc Levy will lead MSL’s creative strategy team and report to Partovi.
Partovi was drawn to MSL’s body of work and Littman's multidimensional team, and she has a clear goal to make clients more influential, particularly in the digital space, by building culture and getting ahead of trends.
“It’s really about elevating the creative excellence within MSL to continuously deliver kickass work,” Partovi said. “We have an outstanding team, where everyone is super passionate with the work they’re doing and they continue to mentor and help get the most out of everyone continuously.”
Partovi comes to MSL from Merge, where she was chief creative officer and DE&I chair, leading a nearly 100-person creative team across four offices.
Before Merge, Partovi was chief creative officer at Aterian, a Google Ventures-backed brand launchpad that combined creative and branding with AI, data and digital channels.
A Publicis alumna, she has worked in creative roles at Fallon, Saatchi & Saatchi and
Publicis NY, as well as at Havas.
In other growth-induced moves, MSL hired Robert John Davis as its chief digital innovation officer in February.
This story first appeared on PRWeek US. |
https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/steris-ste-hits-a-new-52-week-high%3A-whats-driving-it-0 | STERIS (STE) Hits a New 52-Week High: What's Driving It?
Shares of STERIS plc STE reached a new 52-week high of $249.06 on Apr 1, before closing the session marginally lower at $248.
Over the past year, this Zacks Rank #3 (Hold) stock has gained 26.6% compared with 3% growth of the industry and 12% rise of the S&P 500 composite.
STERIS is witnessing an upward trend in its stock price, prompted by robust performance across three of STERIS’ reporting segments. The seamless integration process of Cantel Medical, ahead of expectations, buoys optimism. Stiff competition and pricing pressure are the major downsides.
Key Growth Catalysts
Strong Segmental Business Amid Pandemic: In the third quarter of fiscal 2022, revenues improved 49.5% year over year, while organic revenues at constant currency or CER rose 9% year over year. Meanwhile, revenues at Healthcare rose 45.6% year over year (up 5% on a CER organic basis) on an 84% increase in consumable revenues, a 19% increase in service revenues and a 47% improvement in capital equipment revenues. Revenues at Applied Sterilization Technologies improved 22.6% year over year (up 18% on a CER organic basis).
Revenues in the Life Sciences segment rose 15.4% year over year (up 9% on a CER organic basis) on 23% growth in consumable revenues, a 5% rise in capital equipment revenues and a 13% increase in service revenues.
STERIS' Infection Prevention and Sterilization Wing Grow Well Globally: With the acquisition of U.K.-based outsourced sterilization services provider Synergy Health, STERIS has become the new global leader in infection prevention and sterilization. The company is currently providing improved healthcare services to medical device companies, pharma companies, hospitals and other healthcare facilities across the globe.
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The company continues to benefit from the acquisition of Synergy Health. The consolidation, since its inception, has boosted STERIS' presence in the international markets as it combines STERIS’ strong presence in North America with Synergy's solid footprint across Europe. It has also provided STERIS an opportunity to better serve the emerging markets of Asia-Pacific and Latin America.
Progress in Healthcare and Pharmaceutical Industries: The bulk of STERIS’ revenues are obtained from the healthcare and pharmaceutical industries. The aging of the global population primarily drives growth in these industries as an increasing number of individuals are entering their prime healthcare consumption years.
Further, these industries depend on advancements in healthcare delivery, acceptance of new technologies, government policies and general economic conditions. With life expectancy on the rise globally, a larger aging population increases the demand for medical procedures. This, in turn, translates into higher consumption of single-use medical devices and surgical kits processed by STERIS.
Downsides
Competitive Landscape: STERIS competes for pharmaceutical, research and industrial customers against several large companies that have robust product portfolios and global reach as well as several small companies with limited product offerings and operations in one or a few countries. In the Healthcare segment, STERIS’ notable competitors include 3M, Belimed, Ecolab, Getinge, Go Jo, Johnson & Johnson, Kimberly-Clark, Skytron and Stryker.
Pricing Pressure: STERIS purchases raw materials, fabricated and other components, and energy supplies from various suppliers. Availability and price of raw materials and energy supplies are subject to volatility. These are influenced by worldwide economic conditions, speculative action, world supply and demand balances, inventory levels, availability of substitute materials, currency exchange rates, anticipated or perceived shortages and various other factors.
Key Picks
Some better-ranked stocks in the broader medical space are McKesson Corporation MCK, AMN Healthcare Services, Inc. AMN and Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc. BIO.
McKesson, carrying a Zacks Rank #2 (Buy), reported third-quarter fiscal 2022 adjusted earnings per share (EPS) of $6.15, which beat the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $5.38 by 14.3%. You can see the complete list of today’s Zacks #1 Rank (Strong Buy) stocks here.
McKesson has a long-term earnings growth rate of 11.8%. MCK has gained 57.7% compared with the industry’s 9.6% growth in the past year.
AMN Healthcare, flaunting a Zacks Rank #1, has a long-term earnings growth rate of 16.2%. The company surpassed earnings estimates in the trailing four quarters, delivering a surprise of 19.5%, on average.
AMN Healthcare has outperformed its industry in the past year. AMN has gained 40.5% versus the 53.9% industry decline.
Bio-Rad reported fourth-quarter 2021 adjusted EPS of $3.21, which surpassed the Zacks Consensus Estimate by 11.9%. It currently has a Zacks Rank #2.
Bio-Rad has an earnings yield of 2.3% versus the industry’s negative yield. BIO surpassed earnings estimates in the trailing four quarters, the average surprise being 66.9%.
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The views and opinions expressed herein are the views and opinions of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of Nasdaq, Inc. | 0 | 64,876 | 0.591917 | https://www.zacks.com/stock/news/1969352/heres-why-investors-should-retain-steris-ste-stock-for-now | 2022-08-18 19:34:52+00:00 | STERIS plc (STE - Free Report) has been gaining from continued strength across its operating segments. The company achieved substantial cost synergies in the first quarter of fiscal 2023 quarter, instilling optimism. The ongoing integration of Cantel Medical is expected to strengthen STERIS’ Endoscopy offerings. However, a challenging macroeconomic environment and stiff competition raise apprehension.
In the past year, shares of this Zacks Rank #3 (Hold) company have dropped 1.7% against the industry’s 22.2% decline and the S&P 500’s 3.2% fall.
The renowned provider of infection prevention, as well as other procedural products and services, has a market capitalization of $21.25 billion. Its earnings surpassed estimates in the trailing three quarters and met in one, the average surprise being 4.9%.
The company’s projected earnings growth rate of 13.3% for the next year compares with the industry’s growth projection of 22.2% and the S&P 500’s estimated 3.9% increase.
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Let’s delve deeper.
Factors at Play
Q1 Upsides: STERIS’ first-quarter fiscal 2023 constant currency organic revenue increased 6% year over year. The company registered strong performances across three of its reporting segments in the reported quarter. Growth was driven by organic volume and 240 basis points favorable impact of price. The net impact of acquisitions and divestitures added approximately $151 million to the quarter’s revenues. Further, the company achieved roughly $20 million of cost synergies in the quarter under review. Expansion in gross margin is an added advantage.
Strong Segmental Performance: STERIS’ fiscal first-quarter revenues improved 19% year over year. Revenues at Healthcare arm rose 4% on a CER organic basis driven by a 22% increase in consumable revenues, a 19% rise in capital equipment revenues and a 9% increase in service revenues. Meanwhile, revenues at Applied Sterilization Technologies (AST) segment improved 10% year over year on a CER organic basis led by increased demand from medical device and biopharma customers.
The Life Sciences segment, too, registered revenue growth of 10% on a CER organic basis year over year. The upside was driven by a 5% growth in consumable revenues, a 24% rise in capital equipment revenues and flat service revenues.
Progress in Healthcare and Pharmaceutical Industries: STERIS derives a bulk of revenues from the healthcare and pharmaceutical industries. The company’s acquisition of Cantel Medical, a global provider of infection prevention products and services, has strengthened its performance in this space. The Cantel Medical integration is expected to add a full suite of high-level disinfection consumables, capital equipment and services as well as additional single-use accessories to STERIS’ Endoscopy offerings. This acquisition added approximately $40 million to the company’s fiscal 2022 revenues, raising optimism.
Downsides
Tough Competition: STERIS competes for pharmaceutical, research and industrial customers against several large and small companies. The company expects to face continued competition in the future as new infection prevention, sterile processing, contamination control, gastrointestinal and surgical support products and services enter the market.
Macroeconomic Woes: The current macroeconomic environment across the globe has adversely affected STERIS’ financial operations. Supply chain disruptions are slowing the company’s ability to ship capital equipment. In its earnings call for first-quarter of fiscal 2023, the company noted that it anticipates additional headwinds from inflation on raw materials in the coming months.
Pricing Pressure: STERIS purchases raw materials and energy supplies from various suppliers, the availability and price of which are subject to volatility. Changes in regulatory requirements, unavailability or short supply of these products might disrupt STERIS’ AST operations, in addition to other adverse consequences.
Estimate Trends
In the past 60 days, the Zacks Consensus Estimate for STERIS’ earnings has moved 1.2% down to $8.60.
The Zacks Consensus Estimate for fiscal 2023 revenues is pegged at $4.98 billion, suggesting an 8.7% growth from the fiscal 2022 reported number.
Key Picks
A few better-ranked stocks in the broader medical space that investors can consider are AMN Healthcare Services, Inc. (AMN - Free Report) , Molina Healthcare, Inc. (MOH - Free Report) and Patterson Companies, Inc. (PDCO - Free Report) .
AMN Healthcare has a long-term earnings growth rate of 3.2%. The company surpassed earnings estimates in the trailing four quarters, delivering a surprise of 15.7%, on average. It currently flaunts a Zacks Rank #1 (Strong Buy). You can see the complete list of today’s Zacks #1 Rank stocks here.
AMN Healthcare has outperformed its industry in the past year. AMN has lost 0.4% against the industry’s 27.6% fall.
Molina Healthcare has a long-term earnings growth rate of 16.4%. The company surpassed earnings estimates in the trailing four quarters, delivering a surprise of 3.2%, on average. It currently carries a Zacks Rank #2 (Buy).
Molina Healthcare has outperformed its industry in the past year. MOH has gained 30.7% against the industry’s 30.6% growth.
Patterson Companies has an estimated long-term growth rate of 7.9%. The company’s earnings surpassed estimates in all the trailing four quarters, the average beat being 16.5%. It currently flaunts a Zacks Rank #2.
Patterson Companies has outperformed its industry in the past year. PDCO has gained 1.6% compared with the industry’s 4.1% fall in the past year.
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https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/steris-ste-hits-a-new-52-week-high%3A-whats-driving-it-0 | STERIS (STE) Hits a New 52-Week High: What's Driving It?
Shares of STERIS plc STE reached a new 52-week high of $249.06 on Apr 1, before closing the session marginally lower at $248.
Over the past year, this Zacks Rank #3 (Hold) stock has gained 26.6% compared with 3% growth of the industry and 12% rise of the S&P 500 composite.
STERIS is witnessing an upward trend in its stock price, prompted by robust performance across three of STERIS’ reporting segments. The seamless integration process of Cantel Medical, ahead of expectations, buoys optimism. Stiff competition and pricing pressure are the major downsides.
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Strong Segmental Business Amid Pandemic: In the third quarter of fiscal 2022, revenues improved 49.5% year over year, while organic revenues at constant currency or CER rose 9% year over year. Meanwhile, revenues at Healthcare rose 45.6% year over year (up 5% on a CER organic basis) on an 84% increase in consumable revenues, a 19% increase in service revenues and a 47% improvement in capital equipment revenues. Revenues at Applied Sterilization Technologies improved 22.6% year over year (up 18% on a CER organic basis).
Revenues in the Life Sciences segment rose 15.4% year over year (up 9% on a CER organic basis) on 23% growth in consumable revenues, a 5% rise in capital equipment revenues and a 13% increase in service revenues.
STERIS' Infection Prevention and Sterilization Wing Grow Well Globally: With the acquisition of U.K.-based outsourced sterilization services provider Synergy Health, STERIS has become the new global leader in infection prevention and sterilization. The company is currently providing improved healthcare services to medical device companies, pharma companies, hospitals and other healthcare facilities across the globe.
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The company continues to benefit from the acquisition of Synergy Health. The consolidation, since its inception, has boosted STERIS' presence in the international markets as it combines STERIS’ strong presence in North America with Synergy's solid footprint across Europe. It has also provided STERIS an opportunity to better serve the emerging markets of Asia-Pacific and Latin America.
Progress in Healthcare and Pharmaceutical Industries: The bulk of STERIS’ revenues are obtained from the healthcare and pharmaceutical industries. The aging of the global population primarily drives growth in these industries as an increasing number of individuals are entering their prime healthcare consumption years.
Further, these industries depend on advancements in healthcare delivery, acceptance of new technologies, government policies and general economic conditions. With life expectancy on the rise globally, a larger aging population increases the demand for medical procedures. This, in turn, translates into higher consumption of single-use medical devices and surgical kits processed by STERIS.
Downsides
Competitive Landscape: STERIS competes for pharmaceutical, research and industrial customers against several large companies that have robust product portfolios and global reach as well as several small companies with limited product offerings and operations in one or a few countries. In the Healthcare segment, STERIS’ notable competitors include 3M, Belimed, Ecolab, Getinge, Go Jo, Johnson & Johnson, Kimberly-Clark, Skytron and Stryker.
Pricing Pressure: STERIS purchases raw materials, fabricated and other components, and energy supplies from various suppliers. Availability and price of raw materials and energy supplies are subject to volatility. These are influenced by worldwide economic conditions, speculative action, world supply and demand balances, inventory levels, availability of substitute materials, currency exchange rates, anticipated or perceived shortages and various other factors.
Key Picks
Some better-ranked stocks in the broader medical space are McKesson Corporation MCK, AMN Healthcare Services, Inc. AMN and Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc. BIO.
McKesson, carrying a Zacks Rank #2 (Buy), reported third-quarter fiscal 2022 adjusted earnings per share (EPS) of $6.15, which beat the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $5.38 by 14.3%. You can see the complete list of today’s Zacks #1 Rank (Strong Buy) stocks here.
McKesson has a long-term earnings growth rate of 11.8%. MCK has gained 57.7% compared with the industry’s 9.6% growth in the past year.
AMN Healthcare, flaunting a Zacks Rank #1, has a long-term earnings growth rate of 16.2%. The company surpassed earnings estimates in the trailing four quarters, delivering a surprise of 19.5%, on average.
AMN Healthcare has outperformed its industry in the past year. AMN has gained 40.5% versus the 53.9% industry decline.
Bio-Rad reported fourth-quarter 2021 adjusted EPS of $3.21, which surpassed the Zacks Consensus Estimate by 11.9%. It currently has a Zacks Rank #2.
Bio-Rad has an earnings yield of 2.3% versus the industry’s negative yield. BIO surpassed earnings estimates in the trailing four quarters, the average surprise being 66.9%.
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STERIS STE business is gaining market share following the Cantel Medical acquisition. However, the continuous adverse impact by the current customer consolidation scenario is a major downside for the company’s business. The stock currently carries a Zacks Rank #3 (Hold).
Over the past year, STERIS has outperformed the industry it belongs to. The stock has lost 3.2% compared with the industry’s 20.9% fall. STERIS’ first-quarter fiscal 2023 constant currency organic revenues increased 6% year over year. The company registered strong performances across three of its reporting segments in Q1. Growth was driven by organic volume as well as a 240-basis point favorable impact of price.
The net impact of acquisitions and divestitures added approximately $151 million to revenues in the quarter. Further, the company achieved approximately $20 million of cost synergies in the first quarter and is on track to achieve a total of $50 million in fiscal 2023. The expansion in gross margin is an added advantage.
In the first quarter of fiscal 2023, revenues improved 19% year over year, led by robust sales across the company’s Healthcare, AST and Life Sciences segments.
Revenues at Applied Sterilization Technologies improved 10% year over year on a CER organic basis. CER organic revenue growth was driven by increased demand from medical device and biopharma customers. Revenues at the Life Sciences segment rose 10% on a CER organic basis year over year on 5% growth in consumable revenues, a 24% rise in capital equipment revenues and flat service revenues.
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In June 2021, STERIS acquired Cantel Medical, a global provider of infection prevention products and services, primarily catering to endoscopy and dental customers. The integration is expected to strengthen and expand STERIS’ Endoscopy offerings, adding a full suite of high-level disinfection consumables, capital equipment and services as well as additional single-use accessories. The Cantel acquisition added approximately $40 million to the company’s fiscal 2022 revenues.
On the flip side, STERIS exited first-quarter fiscal 2023 with in-line earnings and a revenue miss. The company during the quarter faced significant supply chain and inflation-related challenges. In the quarter, strong capital equipment and service growth were offset by an organic decline in consumables, largely attributable to the timing of orders against very strong comparisons in the prior year.
Within AST, growth was somewhat limited by the timing of large capital shipments from the Mevex business unit. Dental segment revenues were limited by supply chain challenges. The lowered earnings and organic growth guidance for fiscal 2023 indicates that this gloomy trend will continue.
Stiff competition, pricing pressure and macroeconomic issues are other downsides.
Key Picks
Some better-ranked stocks in the broader medical space that have announced quarterly results are Quest Diagnostics Incorporated DGX, Molina Healthcare, Inc. MOH and Merck & Co. MRK.
Quest Diagnostics, carrying a Zacks Rank #2 (Buy), reported second-quarter 2022 adjusted EPS of $2.36, which beat the Zacks Consensus Estimate by 9.8%. Revenues of $2.45 billion outpaced the consensus mark by 7.5%. You can see the complete list of today’s Zacks #1 Rank (Strong Buy) stocks here.
Quest Diagnostics has an earnings yield of 6.9% compared with the industry’s 3.9%. DGX’s earnings surpassed estimates in three of the trailing four quarters and missed the same in one, the average being 12.1%.
Molina Healthcare, having a Zacks Rank #2, reported second-quarter 2022 adjusted EPS of $4.55, which beat the Zacks Consensus Estimate by 4.8%. Revenues of $8.1 billion outpaced the consensus mark by 6.2%.
Molina Healthcare has a long-term estimated growth rate of 16.4%. MOH’s earnings surpassed estimates in the trailing four quarters, the average being 3.2%.
Merck reported second-quarter 2022 adjusted earnings of $1.87 per share, beating the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $1.67. Revenues of $14.6 billion surpassed the Zacks Consensus Estimate by 5.4%. It currently has a Zacks Rank #2.
Merck has a long-term estimated growth rate of 10.1%. MRK’s earnings surpassed estimates in the trailing four quarters, the average surprise being 16.8%.
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