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https://www.cenlanow.com/health-2/hand-sanitizer-recalled-due-to-presence-of-toxic-chemicals/ | (WFXR) – Two hand sanitizer products with Disney branding are being recalled because the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) found the presence of benzene and methanol, two toxic chemical compounds.
The products impacted are a Mickey Mouse hand sanitizer and two colors of The Mandalorian hand sanitizers with Baby Yoda on the packaging (see pictures below).
Exposures to large quantities of benzene, whether it’s through inhalation, orally, or through the skin, can result in cancers such as leukemia and other blood disorders.
People exposed to large amounts of methanol can experience nausea, vomiting, headaches, blurry vision, coma, seizures, blindness, damage to the central nervous system, or even death.
The FDA said anyone who ingests the hand sanitizers – whether intentionally or not – could suffer methanol poisoning.
Best Brands Consumer Products, Inc., which imported the hand sanitizers to the U.S., said the products impacted by this recall were manufactured between April and May 2020. The company said the affected lots were already taken off store shelves in April 2021 for other “unrelated commercial reasons.”
Below are the products that are impacted:
If you have these hand sanitizers, you should stop using them immediately and throw them away.
Those who would like to request a refund or have questions regarding the recall can contact Best Brand here. If you are experiencing any problems related to using this product you are asked to contact your doctor. | 0 | 2,075 | 0 | https://www.ozarksfirst.com/local-news/national-news/hand-sanitizer-recalled-due-to-presence-of-toxic-chemicals/ | 2022-04-04 22:24:35+00:00 | (WFXR) – Two hand sanitizer products with Disney branding are being recalled because the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) found the presence of benzene and methanol, two toxic chemical compounds.
The products impacted are a Mickey Mouse hand sanitizer and two colors of The Mandalorian hand sanitizers with Baby Yoda on the packaging (see pictures below).
Exposures to large quantities of benzene, whether it’s through inhalation, orally, or through the skin, can result in cancers such as leukemia and other blood disorders.
People exposed to large amounts of methanol can experience nausea, vomiting, headaches, blurry vision, coma, seizures, blindness, damage to the central nervous system, or even death.
The FDA said anyone who ingests the hand sanitizers – whether intentionally or not – could suffer methanol poisoning.
Best Brands Consumer Products, Inc., which imported the hand sanitizers to the U.S., said the products impacted by this recall were manufactured between April and May 2020. The company said the affected lots were already taken off store shelves in April 2021 for other “unrelated commercial reasons.”
Below are the products that are impacted:
If you have these hand sanitizers, you should stop using them immediately and throw them away.
Those who would like to request a refund or have questions regarding the recall can contact Best Brand here. If you are experiencing any problems related to using this product you are asked to contact your doctor. |
https://www.cenlanow.com/health-2/hand-sanitizer-recalled-due-to-presence-of-toxic-chemicals/ | (WFXR) – Two hand sanitizer products with Disney branding are being recalled because the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) found the presence of benzene and methanol, two toxic chemical compounds.
The products impacted are a Mickey Mouse hand sanitizer and two colors of The Mandalorian hand sanitizers with Baby Yoda on the packaging (see pictures below).
Exposures to large quantities of benzene, whether it’s through inhalation, orally, or through the skin, can result in cancers such as leukemia and other blood disorders.
People exposed to large amounts of methanol can experience nausea, vomiting, headaches, blurry vision, coma, seizures, blindness, damage to the central nervous system, or even death.
The FDA said anyone who ingests the hand sanitizers – whether intentionally or not – could suffer methanol poisoning.
Best Brands Consumer Products, Inc., which imported the hand sanitizers to the U.S., said the products impacted by this recall were manufactured between April and May 2020. The company said the affected lots were already taken off store shelves in April 2021 for other “unrelated commercial reasons.”
Below are the products that are impacted:
If you have these hand sanitizers, you should stop using them immediately and throw them away.
Those who would like to request a refund or have questions regarding the recall can contact Best Brand here. If you are experiencing any problems related to using this product you are asked to contact your doctor. | 1 | 2,721 | 0 | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/news/national-news/hand-sanitizer-recalled-due-to-presence-of-toxic-chemicals/ | 2022-04-04 22:27:24+00:00 | (WFXR) – Two hand sanitizer products with Disney branding are being recalled because the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) found the presence of benzene and methanol, two toxic chemical compounds.
The products impacted are a Mickey Mouse hand sanitizer and two colors of The Mandalorian hand sanitizers with Baby Yoda on the packaging (see pictures below).
Exposures to large quantities of benzene, whether it’s through inhalation, orally, or through the skin, can result in cancers such as leukemia and other blood disorders.
People exposed to large amounts of methanol can experience nausea, vomiting, headaches, blurry vision, coma, seizures, blindness, damage to the central nervous system, or even death.
The FDA said anyone who ingests the hand sanitizers – whether intentionally or not – could suffer methanol poisoning.
Best Brands Consumer Products, Inc., which imported the hand sanitizers to the U.S., said the products impacted by this recall were manufactured between April and May 2020. The company said the affected lots were already taken off store shelves in April 2021 for other “unrelated commercial reasons.”
Below are the products that are impacted:
If you have these hand sanitizers, you should stop using them immediately and throw them away.
Those who would like to request a refund or have questions regarding the recall can contact Best Brand here. If you are experiencing any problems related to using this product you are asked to contact your doctor. |
https://www.cenlanow.com/health-2/hand-sanitizer-recalled-due-to-presence-of-toxic-chemicals/ | (WFXR) – Two hand sanitizer products with Disney branding are being recalled because the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) found the presence of benzene and methanol, two toxic chemical compounds.
The products impacted are a Mickey Mouse hand sanitizer and two colors of The Mandalorian hand sanitizers with Baby Yoda on the packaging (see pictures below).
Exposures to large quantities of benzene, whether it’s through inhalation, orally, or through the skin, can result in cancers such as leukemia and other blood disorders.
People exposed to large amounts of methanol can experience nausea, vomiting, headaches, blurry vision, coma, seizures, blindness, damage to the central nervous system, or even death.
The FDA said anyone who ingests the hand sanitizers – whether intentionally or not – could suffer methanol poisoning.
Best Brands Consumer Products, Inc., which imported the hand sanitizers to the U.S., said the products impacted by this recall were manufactured between April and May 2020. The company said the affected lots were already taken off store shelves in April 2021 for other “unrelated commercial reasons.”
Below are the products that are impacted:
If you have these hand sanitizers, you should stop using them immediately and throw them away.
Those who would like to request a refund or have questions regarding the recall can contact Best Brand here. If you are experiencing any problems related to using this product you are asked to contact your doctor. | 2 | 4,433 | 0 | https://www.wfla.com/news/national/mickey-mouse-mandalorian-hand-sanitizer-recalled-due-to-presence-of-toxic-chemicals/ | 2022-04-04 22:34:18+00:00 | (WFXR) – Two hand sanitizer products with Disney branding are being recalled because the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) found the presence of benzene and methanol, two toxic chemical compounds.
The products impacted are a Mickey Mouse hand sanitizer and two colors of The Mandalorian hand sanitizers with Baby Yoda on the packaging (see pictures below).
Exposures to large quantities of benzene, whether it’s through inhalation, orally, or through the skin, can result in cancers such as leukemia and other blood disorders.
People exposed to large amounts of methanol can experience nausea, vomiting, headaches, blurry vision, coma, seizures, blindness, damage to the central nervous system, or even death.
The FDA said anyone who ingests the hand sanitizers – whether intentionally or not – could suffer methanol poisoning.
Best Brands Consumer Products, Inc., which imported the hand sanitizers to the U.S., said the products impacted by this recall were manufactured between April and May 2020. The company said the affected lots were already taken off store shelves in April 2021 for other “unrelated commercial reasons.”
Below are the products that are impacted:
If you have these hand sanitizers, you should stop using them immediately and throw them away.
Those who would like to request a refund or have questions regarding the recall can contact Best Brand here. If you are experiencing any problems related to using this product you are asked to contact your doctor. |
https://www.wowktv.com/news/west-virginia/how-many-confederate-memorials-still-exist-in-west-virginia/ | (Stacker) – Dozens of Confederate memorials around the United States were taken down on the heels of a 2015 mass shooting at a church in Charleston, South Carolina, carried out by American white supremacist Dylann Roof, who murdered nine Black parishioners including the church’s pastor.
Two years later, in defiance of plans to take down a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee in Charlottesville, Virginia, hundreds of self-described neo-Nazis and white supremacists gathered for a “Unite the Right” rally. Clashes at that rally with counter-protesters peaked when a man drove his car into a crowd of counter-protestors, injuring 19 people and killing one woman named Heather Heyer. At the end of the August event, three were dead, dozens injured, and the ongoing debate over whether Confederate monuments ought to be protected or removed remained unresolved.
The debate gained renewed fervor in 2020 following the May 25 murder of George Floyd. Protests in cities and small towns around the country and world included acts of civil disobedience such as covering Confederate monuments in graffiti or toppling Confederate statues and other monuments perceived as symbols of oppression and slavery. Across the United States, pressure mounted to take such monuments away and out of the public eye, with dozens of municipalities taking action to do so.
There remain more than 2,000 Confederate monuments in the U.S., according to the “Whose Heritage?” data project by the Southern Poverty Law Center. Stacker analyzed the SPLC’s research and ranked states according to which have the most Confederate memorials, including statues, parks, schools, streets, highways, or practically any structure which, in one way or another, honors a Confederate figure or the whole coalition of seceded states. Data was last updated Jan. 21, 2022 (released Feb. 1).
Keep reading to find out how many Confederate monuments still stand in your state, and to learn about recent debates over what to do with them, or read the national story here.
West Virginia by the numbers
- Total number of Confederate symbols: 20
- City with the most Confederate symbols: Charleston (5 symbols)
- Number of symbols removed since 1880: 2
West Virginia, the only state created in the Civil War when it seceded from Virginia to join the Union, is home to 21 Confederate memorials—many of which were donated by the Daughters of the Confederacy during the civil rights movement and Jim Crow era. The Harrison County Commission on June 17, 2020 denied a motion for the removal of a statue depicting Gen. Thomas Jonathan “Stonewall” Jackson in Clarksburg.
The first half-dozen Confederate monuments went up as soon as the Civil War ended in 1865. From then until 1900, most years saw between two and six monuments go up. Then, installations surged: In 1911 alone, 49 Confederate monuments were erected around the country, according to the SPLC. 1911 also coincides with the peak of Jim Crow laws designed to disadvantage Blacks and perpetuate segregation. Other surges appear throughout the first half of the 20th century, with pronounced increases in Confederate monuments going up throughout the civil rights movement and smaller increases at the turn of the 21st century and immediately following the election of President Barack Obama in 2008.
Various groups stand by claims that these memorials serve as important historical markers; others argue the memorials glorify white supremacists and ignore those who were hurt, enslaved, and killed by the scourge of racism in this country. Some historians suggest looking at how post-war Germany has handled its past: Concentration camps serve as museums that detail the horrors that occurred therein so people never forget what happened; with nary a Hitler or SS statue to be found. Instead, statues and monuments memorialize victims who were lost as well as those who survived.
Continue below to see which states have the most Confederate memorials in the country.
States with the most Confederate memorials
#1. Virginia: 290 Confederate symbols (107 removed since 1880)
#2. Georgia: 285 Confederate symbols (26 removed since 1880)
#3. Texas: 242 Confederate symbols (65 removed since 1880)
#4. South Carolina: 224 Confederate symbols (4 removed since 1880)
#5. North Carolina: 176 Confederate symbols (31 removed since 1880) | 0 | 103,917 | 0 | https://www.wtrf.com/west-virginia/see-how-many-confederate-memorials-still-exist-in-west-virginia/ | 2022-04-04 18:55:24+00:00 | (Stacker) – Dozens of Confederate memorials around the United States were taken down on the heels of a 2015 mass shooting at a church in Charleston, South Carolina, carried out by American white supremacist Dylann Roof, who murdered nine Black parishioners including the church’s pastor.
Two years later, in defiance of plans to take down a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee in Charlottesville, Virginia, hundreds of self-described neo-Nazis and white supremacists gathered for a “Unite the Right” rally. Clashes at that rally with counter-protesters peaked when a man drove his car into a crowd of counter-protestors, injuring 19 people and killing one woman named Heather Heyer. At the end of the August event, three were dead, dozens injured, and the ongoing debate over whether Confederate monuments ought to be protected or removed remained unresolved.
The debate gained renewed fervor in 2020 following the May 25 murder of George Floyd. Protests in cities and small towns around the country and world included acts of civil disobedience such as covering Confederate monuments in graffiti or toppling Confederate statues and other monuments perceived as symbols of oppression and slavery. Across the United States, pressure mounted to take such monuments away and out of the public eye, with dozens of municipalities taking action to do so.
There remain more than 2,000 Confederate monuments in the U.S., according to the “Whose Heritage?” data project by the Southern Poverty Law Center. Stacker analyzed the SPLC’s research and ranked states according to which have the most Confederate memorials, including statues, parks, schools, streets, highways, or practically any structure which, in one way or another, honors a Confederate figure or the whole coalition of seceded states. Data was last updated Jan. 21, 2022 (released Feb. 1).
Keep reading to find out how many Confederate monuments still stand in your state, and to learn about recent debates over what to do with them, or read the national story here.
West Virginia by the numbers
- Total number of Confederate symbols: 20
- City with the most Confederate symbols: Charleston (5 symbols)
- Number of symbols removed since 1880: 2
West Virginia, the only state created in the Civil War when it seceded from Virginia to join the Union, is home to 21 Confederate memorials—many of which were donated by the Daughters of the Confederacy during the civil rights movement and Jim Crow era. The Harrison County Commission on June 17, 2020 denied a motion for the removal of a statue depicting Gen. Thomas Jonathan “Stonewall” Jackson in Clarksburg.
The first half-dozen Confederate monuments went up as soon as the Civil War ended in 1865. From then until 1900, most years saw between two and six monuments go up. Then, installations surged: In 1911 alone, 49 Confederate monuments were erected around the country, according to the SPLC. 1911 also coincides with the peak of Jim Crow laws designed to disadvantage Blacks and perpetuate segregation. Other surges appear throughout the first half of the 20th century, with pronounced increases in Confederate monuments going up throughout the civil rights movement and smaller increases at the turn of the 21st century and immediately following the election of President Barack Obama in 2008.
Various groups stand by claims that these memorials serve as important historical markers; others argue the memorials glorify white supremacists and ignore those who were hurt, enslaved, and killed by the scourge of racism in this country. Some historians suggest looking at how post-war Germany has handled its past: Concentration camps serve as museums that detail the horrors that occurred therein so people never forget what happened; with nary a Hitler or SS statue to be found. Instead, statues and monuments memorialize victims who were lost as well as those who survived.
Continue below to see which states have the most Confederate memorials in the country.
States with the most Confederate memorials
#1. Virginia: 290 Confederate symbols (107 removed since 1880)
#2. Georgia: 285 Confederate symbols (26 removed since 1880)
#3. Texas: 242 Confederate symbols (65 removed since 1880)
#4. South Carolina: 224 Confederate symbols (4 removed since 1880)
#5. North Carolina: 176 Confederate symbols (31 removed since 1880) |
https://www.wowktv.com/news/west-virginia/how-many-confederate-memorials-still-exist-in-west-virginia/ | (Stacker) – Dozens of Confederate memorials around the United States were taken down on the heels of a 2015 mass shooting at a church in Charleston, South Carolina, carried out by American white supremacist Dylann Roof, who murdered nine Black parishioners including the church’s pastor.
Two years later, in defiance of plans to take down a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee in Charlottesville, Virginia, hundreds of self-described neo-Nazis and white supremacists gathered for a “Unite the Right” rally. Clashes at that rally with counter-protesters peaked when a man drove his car into a crowd of counter-protestors, injuring 19 people and killing one woman named Heather Heyer. At the end of the August event, three were dead, dozens injured, and the ongoing debate over whether Confederate monuments ought to be protected or removed remained unresolved.
The debate gained renewed fervor in 2020 following the May 25 murder of George Floyd. Protests in cities and small towns around the country and world included acts of civil disobedience such as covering Confederate monuments in graffiti or toppling Confederate statues and other monuments perceived as symbols of oppression and slavery. Across the United States, pressure mounted to take such monuments away and out of the public eye, with dozens of municipalities taking action to do so.
There remain more than 2,000 Confederate monuments in the U.S., according to the “Whose Heritage?” data project by the Southern Poverty Law Center. Stacker analyzed the SPLC’s research and ranked states according to which have the most Confederate memorials, including statues, parks, schools, streets, highways, or practically any structure which, in one way or another, honors a Confederate figure or the whole coalition of seceded states. Data was last updated Jan. 21, 2022 (released Feb. 1).
Keep reading to find out how many Confederate monuments still stand in your state, and to learn about recent debates over what to do with them, or read the national story here.
West Virginia by the numbers
- Total number of Confederate symbols: 20
- City with the most Confederate symbols: Charleston (5 symbols)
- Number of symbols removed since 1880: 2
West Virginia, the only state created in the Civil War when it seceded from Virginia to join the Union, is home to 21 Confederate memorials—many of which were donated by the Daughters of the Confederacy during the civil rights movement and Jim Crow era. The Harrison County Commission on June 17, 2020 denied a motion for the removal of a statue depicting Gen. Thomas Jonathan “Stonewall” Jackson in Clarksburg.
The first half-dozen Confederate monuments went up as soon as the Civil War ended in 1865. From then until 1900, most years saw between two and six monuments go up. Then, installations surged: In 1911 alone, 49 Confederate monuments were erected around the country, according to the SPLC. 1911 also coincides with the peak of Jim Crow laws designed to disadvantage Blacks and perpetuate segregation. Other surges appear throughout the first half of the 20th century, with pronounced increases in Confederate monuments going up throughout the civil rights movement and smaller increases at the turn of the 21st century and immediately following the election of President Barack Obama in 2008.
Various groups stand by claims that these memorials serve as important historical markers; others argue the memorials glorify white supremacists and ignore those who were hurt, enslaved, and killed by the scourge of racism in this country. Some historians suggest looking at how post-war Germany has handled its past: Concentration camps serve as museums that detail the horrors that occurred therein so people never forget what happened; with nary a Hitler or SS statue to be found. Instead, statues and monuments memorialize victims who were lost as well as those who survived.
Continue below to see which states have the most Confederate memorials in the country.
States with the most Confederate memorials
#1. Virginia: 290 Confederate symbols (107 removed since 1880)
#2. Georgia: 285 Confederate symbols (26 removed since 1880)
#3. Texas: 242 Confederate symbols (65 removed since 1880)
#4. South Carolina: 224 Confederate symbols (4 removed since 1880)
#5. North Carolina: 176 Confederate symbols (31 removed since 1880) | 1 | 119,044 | 0 | https://www.wboy.com/news/west-virginia/see-how-many-confederate-memorials-still-exist-in-west-virginia/ | 2022-04-04 20:10:27+00:00 | (Stacker) – Dozens of Confederate memorials around the United States were taken down on the heels of a 2015 mass shooting at a church in Charleston, South Carolina, carried out by American white supremacist Dylann Roof, who murdered nine Black parishioners including the church’s pastor.
Two years later, in defiance of plans to take down a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee in Charlottesville, Virginia, hundreds of self-described neo-Nazis and white supremacists gathered for a “Unite the Right” rally. Clashes at that rally with counter-protesters peaked when a man drove his car into a crowd of counter-protestors, injuring 19 people and killing one woman named Heather Heyer. At the end of the August event, three were dead, dozens injured, and the ongoing debate over whether Confederate monuments ought to be protected or removed remained unresolved.
The debate gained renewed fervor in 2020 following the May 25 murder of George Floyd. Protests in cities and small towns around the country and world included acts of civil disobedience such as covering Confederate monuments in graffiti or toppling Confederate statues and other monuments perceived as symbols of oppression and slavery. Across the United States, pressure mounted to take such monuments away and out of the public eye, with dozens of municipalities taking action to do so.
There remain more than 2,000 Confederate monuments in the U.S., according to the “Whose Heritage?” data project by the Southern Poverty Law Center. Stacker analyzed the SPLC’s research and ranked states according to which have the most Confederate memorials, including statues, parks, schools, streets, highways, or practically any structure which, in one way or another, honors a Confederate figure or the whole coalition of seceded states. Data was last updated Jan. 21, 2022 (released Feb. 1).
Keep reading to find out how many Confederate monuments still stand in your state, and to learn about recent debates over what to do with them, or read the national story here.
West Virginia by the numbers
- Total number of Confederate symbols: 20
- City with the most Confederate symbols: Charleston (5 symbols)
- Number of symbols removed since 1880: 2
West Virginia, the only state created in the Civil War when it seceded from Virginia to join the Union, is home to 21 Confederate memorials—many of which were donated by the Daughters of the Confederacy during the civil rights movement and Jim Crow era. The Harrison County Commission on June 17, 2020 denied a motion for the removal of a statue depicting Gen. Thomas Jonathan “Stonewall” Jackson in Clarksburg.
The first half-dozen Confederate monuments went up as soon as the Civil War ended in 1865. From then until 1900, most years saw between two and six monuments go up. Then, installations surged: In 1911 alone, 49 Confederate monuments were erected around the country, according to the SPLC. 1911 also coincides with the peak of Jim Crow laws designed to disadvantage Blacks and perpetuate segregation. Other surges appear throughout the first half of the 20th century, with pronounced increases in Confederate monuments going up throughout the civil rights movement and smaller increases at the turn of the 21st century and immediately following the election of President Barack Obama in 2008.
Various groups stand by claims that these memorials serve as important historical markers; others argue the memorials glorify white supremacists and ignore those who were hurt, enslaved, and killed by the scourge of racism in this country. Some historians suggest looking at how post-war Germany has handled its past: Concentration camps serve as museums that detail the horrors that occurred therein so people never forget what happened; with nary a Hitler or SS statue to be found. Instead, statues and monuments memorialize victims who were lost as well as those who survived.
Continue below to see which states have the most Confederate memorials in the country.
States with the most Confederate memorials
#1. Virginia: 290 Confederate symbols (107 removed since 1880)
#2. Georgia: 285 Confederate symbols (26 removed since 1880)
#3. Texas: 242 Confederate symbols (65 removed since 1880)
#4. South Carolina: 224 Confederate symbols (4 removed since 1880)
#5. North Carolina: 176 Confederate symbols (31 removed since 1880) |
https://www.wowktv.com/news/west-virginia/how-many-confederate-memorials-still-exist-in-west-virginia/ | (Stacker) – Dozens of Confederate memorials around the United States were taken down on the heels of a 2015 mass shooting at a church in Charleston, South Carolina, carried out by American white supremacist Dylann Roof, who murdered nine Black parishioners including the church’s pastor.
Two years later, in defiance of plans to take down a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee in Charlottesville, Virginia, hundreds of self-described neo-Nazis and white supremacists gathered for a “Unite the Right” rally. Clashes at that rally with counter-protesters peaked when a man drove his car into a crowd of counter-protestors, injuring 19 people and killing one woman named Heather Heyer. At the end of the August event, three were dead, dozens injured, and the ongoing debate over whether Confederate monuments ought to be protected or removed remained unresolved.
The debate gained renewed fervor in 2020 following the May 25 murder of George Floyd. Protests in cities and small towns around the country and world included acts of civil disobedience such as covering Confederate monuments in graffiti or toppling Confederate statues and other monuments perceived as symbols of oppression and slavery. Across the United States, pressure mounted to take such monuments away and out of the public eye, with dozens of municipalities taking action to do so.
There remain more than 2,000 Confederate monuments in the U.S., according to the “Whose Heritage?” data project by the Southern Poverty Law Center. Stacker analyzed the SPLC’s research and ranked states according to which have the most Confederate memorials, including statues, parks, schools, streets, highways, or practically any structure which, in one way or another, honors a Confederate figure or the whole coalition of seceded states. Data was last updated Jan. 21, 2022 (released Feb. 1).
Keep reading to find out how many Confederate monuments still stand in your state, and to learn about recent debates over what to do with them, or read the national story here.
West Virginia by the numbers
- Total number of Confederate symbols: 20
- City with the most Confederate symbols: Charleston (5 symbols)
- Number of symbols removed since 1880: 2
West Virginia, the only state created in the Civil War when it seceded from Virginia to join the Union, is home to 21 Confederate memorials—many of which were donated by the Daughters of the Confederacy during the civil rights movement and Jim Crow era. The Harrison County Commission on June 17, 2020 denied a motion for the removal of a statue depicting Gen. Thomas Jonathan “Stonewall” Jackson in Clarksburg.
The first half-dozen Confederate monuments went up as soon as the Civil War ended in 1865. From then until 1900, most years saw between two and six monuments go up. Then, installations surged: In 1911 alone, 49 Confederate monuments were erected around the country, according to the SPLC. 1911 also coincides with the peak of Jim Crow laws designed to disadvantage Blacks and perpetuate segregation. Other surges appear throughout the first half of the 20th century, with pronounced increases in Confederate monuments going up throughout the civil rights movement and smaller increases at the turn of the 21st century and immediately following the election of President Barack Obama in 2008.
Various groups stand by claims that these memorials serve as important historical markers; others argue the memorials glorify white supremacists and ignore those who were hurt, enslaved, and killed by the scourge of racism in this country. Some historians suggest looking at how post-war Germany has handled its past: Concentration camps serve as museums that detail the horrors that occurred therein so people never forget what happened; with nary a Hitler or SS statue to be found. Instead, statues and monuments memorialize victims who were lost as well as those who survived.
Continue below to see which states have the most Confederate memorials in the country.
States with the most Confederate memorials
#1. Virginia: 290 Confederate symbols (107 removed since 1880)
#2. Georgia: 285 Confederate symbols (26 removed since 1880)
#3. Texas: 242 Confederate symbols (65 removed since 1880)
#4. South Carolina: 224 Confederate symbols (4 removed since 1880)
#5. North Carolina: 176 Confederate symbols (31 removed since 1880) | 2 | 22,498 | 0.158037 | https://www.localdvm.com/news/virginia/virginia-the-state-with-the-most-confederate-memorials/ | 2022-04-05 00:06:57+00:00 | (STACKER) — Dozens of Confederate memorials around the United States were taken down on the heels of a 2015 mass shooting at a church in Charleston, South Carolina, carried out by American white supremacist Dylann Roof, who murdered nine Black parishioners including the church’s pastor.
Two years later, in defiance of plans to take down a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee in Charlottesville, Virginia, hundreds of self-described neo-Nazis and white supremacists gathered for a “Unite the Right” rally. Clashes at that rally with counter-protesters peaked when a man drove his car into a crowd of counter-protesters, injuring 19 people and killing one woman named Heather Heyer. At the end of the August event, three were dead, dozens injured, and the ongoing debate over whether Confederate monuments ought to be protected or removed remained unresolved.
The debate gained renewed fervor in 2020 following the May 25 murder of George Floyd. Protests in cities and small towns around the country and world included acts of civil disobedience such as covering Confederate monuments in graffiti or toppling Confederate statues and other monuments perceived as symbols of oppression and slavery. Across the United States, pressure mounted to take such monuments away and out of the public eye, with dozens of municipalities taking action to do so.
There remain more than 2,000 Confederate monuments in the U.S., according to the “Whose Heritage?” data project by the Southern Poverty Law Center.
Stacker analyzed the SPLC’s research and ranked states according to which have the most Confederate memorials, including statues, parks, schools, streets, highways, or practically any structure which, in one way or another, honors a Confederate figure or the whole coalition of seceded states. Data was last updated Jan. 21, 2022 (released Feb. 1).
Keep reading to find out how many Confederate monuments still stand in your state and to learn about recent debates over what to do with them.
Virginia by the numbers
– Total number of Confederate symbols: 290
– City with the most Confederate symbols: Lexington (31 symbols)
– Number of symbols removed since 1880: 107
Virginia, home to the most Confederate symbols in the United States, has been a central focus of protests that erupted worldwide following the death of George Floyd. Protesters took it upon themselves to take down monuments to Confederacy President Jefferson Davis and Christopher Columbus.
Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam on June 4, 2020 ordered the removal of a 60-foot monument of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee that stood downtown for 130 years. The move came amid extensive protests and widespread defacing of the sculpture. Hundreds of photographs taken following extensive graffiti work done on that and other Confederate monuments throughout Richmond depict families, dancers, couples, artists, and activists posing in front of the transformed symbols. The bronze statue of Lee in Richmond is slated for removal ahead of the stone base of the monument.
The first half-dozen Confederate monuments went up as soon as the Civil War ended in 1865. From then until 1900, most years saw between two and six monuments go up. Then, installations surged: In 1911 alone, 49 Confederate monuments were erected around the country, according to the SPLC. 1911 also coincides with the peak of Jim Crow laws designed to disadvantage Blacks and perpetuate segregation. Other surges appear throughout the first half of the 20th century, with pronounced increases in Confederate monuments going up throughout the civil rights movement and smaller increases at the turn of the 21st century and immediately following the election of President Barack Obama in 2008.
Various groups stand by claims that these memorials serve as important historical markers; others argue the memorials glorify white supremacists and ignore those who were hurt, enslaved, and killed by the scourge of racism in this country. Some historians suggest looking at how post-war Germany has handled its past: Concentration camps serve as museums that detail the horrors that occurred therein so people never forget what happened; with nary a Hitler or SS statue to be found. Instead, statues and monuments memorialize victims who were lost as well as those who survived.
Continue below to see which states have the most Confederate memorials in the country.
States with the most Confederate memorials
#1. Virginia: 290 Confederate symbols (107 removed since 1880)
#2. Georgia: 285 Confederate symbols (26 removed since 1880)
#3. Texas: 242 Confederate symbols (65 removed since 1880)
#4. South Carolina: 224 Confederate symbols (4 removed since 1880)
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https://news.yahoo.com/juror-sentenced-melissa-lucio-death-192021169.html | Juror who sentenced Melissa Lucio to death for daughter’s murder calls for retrial: ‘I was wrong’
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One of the jurors who sentenced Melissa Lucio to death has written a newspaper editorial claiming he was misled and pressured during the mother’s trial for murdering her two-year-old daughter.
Johnny Galvan Jr wrote in The Houston Chronicle that he was wrong to succumb to "peer pressure" and change his vote from a life sentence to the death penalty, or they’d "be there all day" if he didn’t.
Lucio, 53, was sentenced to death for the February 2007 homicide of her daughter Mariah, who the court found died from injuries caused by her mother’s abuse.
"But there were so many other details that went unmentioned. It wasn’t until after the trial was over that troubling information was brought to light," Mr Galvan wrote.
"If I had known all of this information, or even part of it, I would have stood by my vote for life no matter what anyone else on the jury said."
Lucio has vacillated between claiming innocence on arrest, confessing responsibility during interrogation, and claiming innocence during the trial and on death row.
Lawyers hope that Lucio’s 100 protestations of innocence before admitting "I guess I did it" in response to some of Mariah’s injuries will show a tainted investigation that failed to consider witness statements the child fell down the stairs.
Mr Galvan, who says he was the last hold out against the death penalty before changing his vote, wrote his op-ed amid a campaign for clemency from Texas governor Greg Abbot ahead of Lucio’s execution on 27 April.
Less than a month away from her planned execution, Mr Galvan says he feels "deep regret" and that hearing accounts from witnesses, that defence attorneys did not call to testify, about how the two-year-old fell downstairs "would have mattered".
"I did not know that her long history of physical and sexual abuse made her vulnerable to falsely confess when subjected to aggressive interrogation tactics on the night of her daughter’s death," he said.
"No one took us through the interrogation to show us how many times she asserted her innocence (over 100) or how she repeated the same words the interrogators fed to her. No evidence was presented of that and it would have mattered to me.
"I was led to believe that the medical examiner had scientific proof of abuse. We jurors did not know there was another medical explanation for the baby’s bruises, that experts couldn’t say for sure she had a bite mark on her back, or that she could have broken her arm in a fall or roughhousing with her brothers and sisters."
He continued with insight from within the deliberation room, saying their initial vote was evenly divided between sentencing her to a life sentence or the death penalty.
On the second vote, he says he was the "lone holdout" for a life sentence.
"The other jurors looked at me and I felt the peer pressure to change my vote. I remember one saying we would be there all day if I didn’t, " he wrote.
"I am now convinced that the jury got it wrong and I know that there is too much doubt to execute Lucio. If I could take back my vote, I would," he added.
The Independent and the nonprofit Responsible Business Initiative for Justice (RBIJ) have launched a joint campaign calling for an end to death penalty in the US. The RBIJ has attracted more than 150 well-known signatories to their Business Leaders Declaration Against the Death Penalty - with The Independent as the latest on the list. We join high-profile executives like Ariana Huffington, Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg, and Virgin Group founder Sir Richard Branson as part of this initiative and are making a pledge to highlight the injustices of the death penalty in our coverage. | 0 | 76,381 | 0.12918 | https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/crime/melissa-lucio-death-row-juror-b2050671.html?src=rss | 2022-04-05 05:42:35+00:00 | Juror who sentenced Melissa Lucio to death for daughter’s murder calls for retrial: ‘I was wrong’
Melissa Lucio is scheduled for execution on April 27 for beathing her daughter to death
One of the jurors who sentenced Melissa Lucio to death has written a newspaper editorial claiming he was misled and pressured during the mother’s trial for murdering her two-year-old daughter.
Johnny Galvan Jr wrote in The Houston Chronicle that he was wrong to succumb to "peer pressure" and change his vote from a life sentence to the death penalty, or they’d "be there all day" if he didn’t.
Lucio, 53, was sentenced to death for the February 2007 homicide of her daughter Mariah, who the court found died from injuries caused by her mother’s abuse.
"But there were so many other details that went unmentioned. It wasn’t until after the trial was over that troubling information was brought to light," Mr Galvan wrote.
"If I had known all of this information, or even part of it, I would have stood by my vote for life no matter what anyone else on the jury said."
Lucio has vacillated between claiming innocence on arrest, confessing responsibility during interrogation, and claiming innocence during the trial and on death row.
Lawyers hope that Lucio’s 100 protestations of innocence before admitting "I guess I did it" in response to some of Mariah’s injuries will show a tainted investigation that failed to consider witness statements the child fell down the stairs.
Mr Galvan, who says he was the last hold out against the death penalty before changing his vote, wrote his op-ed amid a campaign for clemency from Texas governor Greg Abbot ahead of Lucio’s execution on 27 April.
Less than a month away from her planned execution, Mr Galvan says he feels "deep regret" and that hearing accounts from witnesses, that defence attorneys did not call to testify, about how the two-year-old fell downstairs "would have mattered".
"I did not know that her long history of physical and sexual abuse made her vulnerable to falsely confess when subjected to aggressive interrogation tactics on the night of her daughter’s death," he said.
"No one took us through the interrogation to show us how many times she asserted her innocence (over 100) or how she repeated the same words the interrogators fed to her. No evidence was presented of that and it would have mattered to me.
"I was led to believe that the medical examiner had scientific proof of abuse. We jurors did not know there was another medical explanation for the baby’s bruises, that experts couldn’t say for sure she had a bite mark on her back, or that she could have broken her arm in a fall or roughhousing with her brothers and sisters."
He continued with insight from within the deliberation room, saying their initial vote was evenly divided between sentencing her to a life sentence or the death penalty.
On the second vote, he says he was the "lone holdout" for a life sentence.
"The other jurors looked at me and I felt the peer pressure to change my vote. I remember one saying we would be there all day if I didn’t, " he wrote.
"I am now convinced that the jury got it wrong and I know that there is too much doubt to execute Lucio. If I could take back my vote, I would," he added.
The Independent and the nonprofit Responsible Business Initiative for Justice (RBIJ) have launched a joint campaign calling for an end to death penalty in the US. The RBIJ has attracted more than 150 well-known signatories to their Business Leaders Declaration Against the Death Penalty - with The Independent as the latest on the list. We join high-profile executives like Ariana Huffington, Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg, and Virgin Group founder Sir Richard Branson as part of this initiative and are making a pledge to highlight the injustices of the death penalty in our coverage.
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https://news.yahoo.com/juror-sentenced-melissa-lucio-death-192021169.html | Juror who sentenced Melissa Lucio to death for daughter’s murder calls for retrial: ‘I was wrong’
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- Melissa Lucio
One of the jurors who sentenced Melissa Lucio to death has written a newspaper editorial claiming he was misled and pressured during the mother’s trial for murdering her two-year-old daughter.
Johnny Galvan Jr wrote in The Houston Chronicle that he was wrong to succumb to "peer pressure" and change his vote from a life sentence to the death penalty, or they’d "be there all day" if he didn’t.
Lucio, 53, was sentenced to death for the February 2007 homicide of her daughter Mariah, who the court found died from injuries caused by her mother’s abuse.
"But there were so many other details that went unmentioned. It wasn’t until after the trial was over that troubling information was brought to light," Mr Galvan wrote.
"If I had known all of this information, or even part of it, I would have stood by my vote for life no matter what anyone else on the jury said."
Lucio has vacillated between claiming innocence on arrest, confessing responsibility during interrogation, and claiming innocence during the trial and on death row.
Lawyers hope that Lucio’s 100 protestations of innocence before admitting "I guess I did it" in response to some of Mariah’s injuries will show a tainted investigation that failed to consider witness statements the child fell down the stairs.
Mr Galvan, who says he was the last hold out against the death penalty before changing his vote, wrote his op-ed amid a campaign for clemency from Texas governor Greg Abbot ahead of Lucio’s execution on 27 April.
Less than a month away from her planned execution, Mr Galvan says he feels "deep regret" and that hearing accounts from witnesses, that defence attorneys did not call to testify, about how the two-year-old fell downstairs "would have mattered".
"I did not know that her long history of physical and sexual abuse made her vulnerable to falsely confess when subjected to aggressive interrogation tactics on the night of her daughter’s death," he said.
"No one took us through the interrogation to show us how many times she asserted her innocence (over 100) or how she repeated the same words the interrogators fed to her. No evidence was presented of that and it would have mattered to me.
"I was led to believe that the medical examiner had scientific proof of abuse. We jurors did not know there was another medical explanation for the baby’s bruises, that experts couldn’t say for sure she had a bite mark on her back, or that she could have broken her arm in a fall or roughhousing with her brothers and sisters."
He continued with insight from within the deliberation room, saying their initial vote was evenly divided between sentencing her to a life sentence or the death penalty.
On the second vote, he says he was the "lone holdout" for a life sentence.
"The other jurors looked at me and I felt the peer pressure to change my vote. I remember one saying we would be there all day if I didn’t, " he wrote.
"I am now convinced that the jury got it wrong and I know that there is too much doubt to execute Lucio. If I could take back my vote, I would," he added.
The Independent and the nonprofit Responsible Business Initiative for Justice (RBIJ) have launched a joint campaign calling for an end to death penalty in the US. The RBIJ has attracted more than 150 well-known signatories to their Business Leaders Declaration Against the Death Penalty - with The Independent as the latest on the list. We join high-profile executives like Ariana Huffington, Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg, and Virgin Group founder Sir Richard Branson as part of this initiative and are making a pledge to highlight the injustices of the death penalty in our coverage. | 1 | 5,295 | 0.376861 | https://neptunepine.com/juror-who-sentenced-melissa-lucio-to-death-for-daughters-murder-calls-for-retrial-i-was-wrong/ | 2022-04-05 21:58:36+00:00 | One of the jurors who sentenced Melissa Lucio to death has written a newspaper editorial claiming he was misled and pressured during the mother’s trial for murdering her two-year-old daughter.
Johnny Galvan Jr wrote in The Houston Chronicle that he was wrong to succumb to “peer pressure” and change his vote from a life sentence to the death penalty, or they’d “be there all day” if he didn’t.
Lucio, 53, was sentenced to death for the February 2007 homicide of her daughter Mariah, who the court found died from injuries caused by her mother’s abuse.
“But there were so many other details that went unmentioned. It wasn’t until after the trial was over that troubling information was brought to light,” Mr Galvan wrote.
“If I had known all of this information, or even part of it, I would have stood by my vote for life no matter what anyone else on the jury said.”
Lucio has vacillated between claiming innocence on arrest, confessing responsibility during interrogation, and claiming innocence during the trial and on death row.
Lawyers hope that Lucio’s 100 protestations of innocence before admitting “I guess I did it” in response to some of Mariah’s injuries will show a tainted investigation that failed to consider witness statements the child fell down the stairs.
Mr Galvan, who says he was the last hold out against the death penalty before changing his vote, wrote his op-ed amid a campaign for clemency from Texas governor Greg Abbot ahead of Lucio’s execution on 27 April.
Less than a month away from her planned execution, Mr Galvan says he feels “deep regret” and that hearing accounts from witnesses, that defence attorneys did not call to testify, about how the two-year-old fell downstairs “would have mattered”.
“I did not know that her long history of physical and sexual abuse made her vulnerable to falsely confess when subjected to aggressive interrogation tactics on the night of her daughter’s death,” he said.
“No one took us through the interrogation to show us how many times she asserted her innocence (over 100) or how she repeated the same words the interrogators fed to her. No evidence was presented of that and it would have mattered to me.
“I was led to believe that the medical examiner had scientific proof of abuse. We jurors did not know there was another medical explanation for the baby’s bruises, that experts couldn’t say for sure she had a bite mark on her back, or that she could have broken her arm in a fall or roughhousing with her brothers and sisters.”
He continued with insight from within the deliberation room, saying their initial vote was evenly divided between sentencing her to a life sentence or the death penalty.
On the second vote, he says he was the “lone holdout” for a life sentence.
“The other jurors looked at me and I felt the peer pressure to change my vote. I remember one saying we would be there all day if I didn’t, ” he wrote.
“I am now convinced that the jury got it wrong and I know that there is too much doubt to execute Lucio. If I could take back my vote, I would,” he added.
The Independent and the nonprofit Responsible Business Initiative for Justice (RBIJ) have launched a joint campaign calling for an end to death penalty in the US. The RBIJ has attracted more than 150 well-known signatories to their Business Leaders Declaration Against the Death Penalty – with The Independent as the latest on the list. We join high-profile executives like Ariana Huffington, Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg, and Virgin Group founder Sir Richard Branson as part of this initiative and are making a pledge to highlight the injustices of the death penalty in our coverage.
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https://news.yahoo.com/juror-sentenced-melissa-lucio-death-192021169.html | Juror who sentenced Melissa Lucio to death for daughter’s murder calls for retrial: ‘I was wrong’
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- Melissa Lucio
One of the jurors who sentenced Melissa Lucio to death has written a newspaper editorial claiming he was misled and pressured during the mother’s trial for murdering her two-year-old daughter.
Johnny Galvan Jr wrote in The Houston Chronicle that he was wrong to succumb to "peer pressure" and change his vote from a life sentence to the death penalty, or they’d "be there all day" if he didn’t.
Lucio, 53, was sentenced to death for the February 2007 homicide of her daughter Mariah, who the court found died from injuries caused by her mother’s abuse.
"But there were so many other details that went unmentioned. It wasn’t until after the trial was over that troubling information was brought to light," Mr Galvan wrote.
"If I had known all of this information, or even part of it, I would have stood by my vote for life no matter what anyone else on the jury said."
Lucio has vacillated between claiming innocence on arrest, confessing responsibility during interrogation, and claiming innocence during the trial and on death row.
Lawyers hope that Lucio’s 100 protestations of innocence before admitting "I guess I did it" in response to some of Mariah’s injuries will show a tainted investigation that failed to consider witness statements the child fell down the stairs.
Mr Galvan, who says he was the last hold out against the death penalty before changing his vote, wrote his op-ed amid a campaign for clemency from Texas governor Greg Abbot ahead of Lucio’s execution on 27 April.
Less than a month away from her planned execution, Mr Galvan says he feels "deep regret" and that hearing accounts from witnesses, that defence attorneys did not call to testify, about how the two-year-old fell downstairs "would have mattered".
"I did not know that her long history of physical and sexual abuse made her vulnerable to falsely confess when subjected to aggressive interrogation tactics on the night of her daughter’s death," he said.
"No one took us through the interrogation to show us how many times she asserted her innocence (over 100) or how she repeated the same words the interrogators fed to her. No evidence was presented of that and it would have mattered to me.
"I was led to believe that the medical examiner had scientific proof of abuse. We jurors did not know there was another medical explanation for the baby’s bruises, that experts couldn’t say for sure she had a bite mark on her back, or that she could have broken her arm in a fall or roughhousing with her brothers and sisters."
He continued with insight from within the deliberation room, saying their initial vote was evenly divided between sentencing her to a life sentence or the death penalty.
On the second vote, he says he was the "lone holdout" for a life sentence.
"The other jurors looked at me and I felt the peer pressure to change my vote. I remember one saying we would be there all day if I didn’t, " he wrote.
"I am now convinced that the jury got it wrong and I know that there is too much doubt to execute Lucio. If I could take back my vote, I would," he added.
The Independent and the nonprofit Responsible Business Initiative for Justice (RBIJ) have launched a joint campaign calling for an end to death penalty in the US. The RBIJ has attracted more than 150 well-known signatories to their Business Leaders Declaration Against the Death Penalty - with The Independent as the latest on the list. We join high-profile executives like Ariana Huffington, Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg, and Virgin Group founder Sir Richard Branson as part of this initiative and are making a pledge to highlight the injustices of the death penalty in our coverage. | 2 | 36,143 | 0.45462 | https://news.yahoo.com/five-jury-members-sentenced-texas-161234773.html | 2022-04-25 17:09:19+00:00 | Five jury members who sentenced Texas woman to death call for new trial
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Nearly half the jury members who sentenced a Texas woman to death for the murder of her young child in 2007 are asking for her execution to be halted and for her to receive a new trial.
Five of the 12 jurors who sentenced 52-year-old Melissa Lucio of Cameron county to death for killing her two-year-old daughter, along with one alternate jury member, have questioned their original decision and asked for a new trial, reports the Associated Press.
Related: Texas mother set for execution – yet evidence suggests she did not kill her child
Lucio is scheduled to be executed on 27 April for the death of her daughter, Mariah, on 17 February 2007. But Lucio’s lawyers have argued that significant evidence suggests that Lucio did not commit the crime and that her previous confession, one of the main pieces of evidence used in the trial, was coerced.
“I knew that what I was accused of doing was not true,” Lucio wrote in a letter to Texas lawmakers, according to the AP. “My children have always been my world and although my choices in life were not good I would have never hurt any of my children in such a way.”
Lucio’s lawyers say that new evidence shows Mariah’s injuries, such as a blow sustained to the head, were caused by the toddler falling down the stairs.
Her lawyers also claim that prosecutors misled jurors hearing Lucio’s case by suggesting that Mariah’s injuries could only have been caused by physical abuse.
Lucio’s lawyers also maintain that prosecutors got Lucio to confess under duress by using the controversial “Reid technique”, an interrogation method that has led to previous wrongful convictions in the US.
Using the Reid method, officers got extremely close to Lucio’s face and berated her for hours, before switching to a softer tone and saying that Lucio could “put this to rest” if she confessed to killing her daughter.
After almost six hours of late night interrogation, in which Lucio said she was innocent more than 100 times, Lucio finally said: “I don’t know what you want me to say,” she told them. “I’m responsible for it … I guess I did it.”
Her attorneys also contend that the previous Cameron county district attorney who prosecuted Lucio’s case, Armando Villalobos, might have pushed Lucio’s conviction to support his own re-election campaign.
According to the AP, Villalobos was convicted in 2014 of accepting bribes in exchange for favorable prosecutorial decisions, including minimizing sentences and dismissing cases. He was sentenced to 13 years in prison.
The county’s current district attorney, Luis Saenz, has said that he disagrees with claims that new evidence will acquit Lucio. But after initially refusing to push to stop the execution under any circumstances, he said last month that he would intervene if needed.
“I don’t disagree with all the scrutiny this case is getting,” Saenz said. “I welcome that.”
Lucio’s attorneys have submitted several legal appeals to stop her execution. An application for her clemency is also set to be considered on Monday by the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles.
Calls to stay Lucio’s execution have received rare bipartisan support from Texas state officials, with more than half the members in the Texas house and senate asking for her execution to be halted.
Nationwide, protests have demanded clemency for Lucio, including a large show of support throughout Texas. Public figures including Kim Kardashian have also shared their support for Lucio via social media. Talkshow host John Oliver spotlighted Lucio’s case in an episode about wrongful convictions last month.
Any decision to commute Lucio’s execution would require the approval of Texas governor Greg Abbott, who has granted clemency for only one person on death row since taking office in 2015, according to AP.
Texas has executed more women than any other state, since the US supreme court brought back the death penalty in 1976, reported AP. Of the 17 women who have been executed nationwide, six have been put to death in Texas.
Lucio would be the first Hispanic woman ever executed in Texas and the first woman since 2014. |
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/covid-19-study-saw-volunteers-infected-reveals-how-virus-spreads/SX42JCBLRHWYQ775SUQPD4H6ZI/?c_id=2&objectid=12515670 | The first "controlled investigation" of Covid-19 has been carried out and it has allowed researchers to dispel a widespread myth about the way people become infected.
The human challenge study involved people being deliberately infected with a virus — in this case it was SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19.
The study, published last week in the journal Nature Medicine, found that only the most minuscule amount of the virus is needed to infect a person — as much as a single airborne droplet from a person sneezing, coughing or talking.
It also found that, despite what most people have been told, viral shedding and transmissibility occur at high levels when a person is infected regardless of whether they have severe or mild symptoms.
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Advertise with NZME.Researchers from University College London Hospital, Imperial College London and the University of Oxford, among others, were also able to bust another myth, one pushed mostly by anti-maskers.
They found the virus is "present at significantly higher [levels] in the nose than the throat", a finding they said provides "clear evidence that emphasises the critical importance of wearing face coverings over the nose as well as the mouth".
"Deliberate human infection of low-risk volunteers enables the exact longitudinal measurement of viral kinetics, immunological responses, transmission dynamics and duration of infectious shedding after a fixed dose of a well-characterised virus," authors wrote.
"Experimental challenge with human pathogens requires careful ethical scrutiny and regulation but can deliver unparalleled information that may inform clinical policy and refinement of infection control measures."
Those "unparalleled findings" were made possible thanks to 36 volunteers aged between 18-30 years.
The participants were each given a dose of the virus via a small tube into their nose, then housed in a high-containment quarantine unit at the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust with 24-hour close medical monitoring and full access to clinical care.
Researchers found that 18 participants — equating to 53 per cent — became infected with a viral load "rising steeply and peaking five days after inoculation".
They said the virus was "first detected in the throat but rose to significantly higher levels in the nose".
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Advertise with NZME."Viable virus was recoverable from the nose up to 10 days after inoculation, on average."
The researchers found that most of those who became infected recovered quickly. There were no serious adverse events and "mild-to-moderate symptoms were reported by 16 [of the 18] infected participants".
The other two who were infected remained asymptomatic.
The researchers also looked at how Covid-19 impacts a person's sense of smell.
They used smell identification tests with help from the University of Pennsylvania and found that 15 of the 18 participants who were infected reported "some degree of smell disturbance".
Nine participants experienced complete smell loss, known as anosmia, but researchers said they "improved noticeably before day 28".
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Advertise with NZME.Six months after the study ended, one of the participants has still not regained their full smell.
It comes after several recent groundbreaking studies into the way the virus spreads and how to best treat it.
One study found that Ivermectin, the anti-parasitic drug popularised as a treatment for Covid-19 by podcast host Joe Rogan, is "useless" against the disease.
Researchers with the TOGETHER study, a worldwide project involving a series of clinical trials designed to test the effectiveness of several repurposed drugs to treat Covid-19, conducted a double-blind, randomised, placebo-controlled trial involving 3515 patients at clinics in Brazil.
Patients who had had symptoms for up to seven days and at least one risk factor were randomly assigned to receive ivermectin or a placebo, with 679 people in each group – 2157 received another intervention.
Those who received ivermectin were given a dosage of 400 micrograms per kilogram of body weight, once daily for three days.
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Advertise with NZME."Treatment with ivermectin did not result in a lower incidence of medical admission to a hospital due to progression of Covid-19 or of prolonged emergency department observation among outpatients with an early diagnosis of Covid-19," concluded the paper summarising the findings, published this week in the New England Journal of Medicine. | 0 | 22,819 | 0.591304 | https://www.mirror.co.uk/lifestyle/health/brit-study-shows-covid-symptoms-26624701 | 2022-04-03 17:53:05+00:00 | British scientists have completed a world-beating challenge study on Covid. So, what is a challenge study?
It allows doctors to observe healthy people with Covid throughout the whole infection, something that’s not possible with Covid patients.
In the study, 36 healthy young adults with no immunity to the coronavirus were monitored.
Participants aged 18-30 years, unvaccinated against Covid-19 and with no prior infection of the disease, were given a low dose of the virus – introduced via drops up the nose – and then carefully monitored in a controlled environment during a two-week period.
They were exposed to the lowest possible dose of virus to cause infection, roughly equivalent to the amount found in a single droplet of nasal fluid when someone was at their most infectious.
The Human Challenge Programme is a partnership between Imperial College London, the Vaccine Taskforce, Department of Health and Social Care, and the Royal Free Hospital in London.
Key findings showed symptoms develop very fast, on average about two days after contact with the virus.
The infection starts in the throat, and peaks at five days – by which time it has become significantly more abundant in the nose.
This landmark study at the Royal Free Hospital showed that experimental infection of volunteers actually does mimic real infections, laying the groundwork for future challenge tests of new vaccines and medicines against Covid-19.
Among the 18 infected participants, the average time from first exposure to the virus to viral detection and early symptoms (incubation period) was 42 hours, significantly shorter than existing estimates of five to six days.
Following this period there was a steep rise in the amount of virus (viral load) found in swabs taken from participants’ noses or throats, peaking at around five days.
There were differences in where the most virus was found. The virus was detected first in the throat, much earlier than in the nose (40 hours in the throat compared to 58 hours in the nose).
Peak levels of virus were significantly higher in the nose than in the throat too.
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This indicates a potentially greater risk of virus being shed from the nose than the mouth – hence the importance of proper face mask use to cover both these areas.
Professor Jonathan Van-Tam, former deputy chief medical officer, says: “This important study has provided further key data on Covid-19 and how it spreads, which is invaluable in learning more about this novel virus, so we can fine-tune our response.
“Challenge studies could still prove to be important in the future to speed the development of ‘next-generation’ Covid-19 vaccines and antiviral drugs.”
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https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/covid-19-study-saw-volunteers-infected-reveals-how-virus-spreads/SX42JCBLRHWYQ775SUQPD4H6ZI/?c_id=2&objectid=12515670 | The first "controlled investigation" of Covid-19 has been carried out and it has allowed researchers to dispel a widespread myth about the way people become infected.
The human challenge study involved people being deliberately infected with a virus — in this case it was SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19.
The study, published last week in the journal Nature Medicine, found that only the most minuscule amount of the virus is needed to infect a person — as much as a single airborne droplet from a person sneezing, coughing or talking.
It also found that, despite what most people have been told, viral shedding and transmissibility occur at high levels when a person is infected regardless of whether they have severe or mild symptoms.
Advertisement
Advertise with NZME.Researchers from University College London Hospital, Imperial College London and the University of Oxford, among others, were also able to bust another myth, one pushed mostly by anti-maskers.
They found the virus is "present at significantly higher [levels] in the nose than the throat", a finding they said provides "clear evidence that emphasises the critical importance of wearing face coverings over the nose as well as the mouth".
"Deliberate human infection of low-risk volunteers enables the exact longitudinal measurement of viral kinetics, immunological responses, transmission dynamics and duration of infectious shedding after a fixed dose of a well-characterised virus," authors wrote.
"Experimental challenge with human pathogens requires careful ethical scrutiny and regulation but can deliver unparalleled information that may inform clinical policy and refinement of infection control measures."
Those "unparalleled findings" were made possible thanks to 36 volunteers aged between 18-30 years.
The participants were each given a dose of the virus via a small tube into their nose, then housed in a high-containment quarantine unit at the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust with 24-hour close medical monitoring and full access to clinical care.
Researchers found that 18 participants — equating to 53 per cent — became infected with a viral load "rising steeply and peaking five days after inoculation".
They said the virus was "first detected in the throat but rose to significantly higher levels in the nose".
Advertisement
Advertise with NZME."Viable virus was recoverable from the nose up to 10 days after inoculation, on average."
The researchers found that most of those who became infected recovered quickly. There were no serious adverse events and "mild-to-moderate symptoms were reported by 16 [of the 18] infected participants".
The other two who were infected remained asymptomatic.
The researchers also looked at how Covid-19 impacts a person's sense of smell.
They used smell identification tests with help from the University of Pennsylvania and found that 15 of the 18 participants who were infected reported "some degree of smell disturbance".
Nine participants experienced complete smell loss, known as anosmia, but researchers said they "improved noticeably before day 28".
Advertisement
Advertise with NZME.Six months after the study ended, one of the participants has still not regained their full smell.
It comes after several recent groundbreaking studies into the way the virus spreads and how to best treat it.
One study found that Ivermectin, the anti-parasitic drug popularised as a treatment for Covid-19 by podcast host Joe Rogan, is "useless" against the disease.
Researchers with the TOGETHER study, a worldwide project involving a series of clinical trials designed to test the effectiveness of several repurposed drugs to treat Covid-19, conducted a double-blind, randomised, placebo-controlled trial involving 3515 patients at clinics in Brazil.
Patients who had had symptoms for up to seven days and at least one risk factor were randomly assigned to receive ivermectin or a placebo, with 679 people in each group – 2157 received another intervention.
Those who received ivermectin were given a dosage of 400 micrograms per kilogram of body weight, once daily for three days.
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Advertise with NZME."Treatment with ivermectin did not result in a lower incidence of medical admission to a hospital due to progression of Covid-19 or of prolonged emergency department observation among outpatients with an early diagnosis of Covid-19," concluded the paper summarising the findings, published this week in the New England Journal of Medicine. | 1 | 33,761 | 0.612101 | https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/deliberate-infection-trial-finds-covid-symptoms-dont-indicate-viral-shedding-2022-04-01/ | 2022-04-01 15:48:39+00:00 | Deliberate infection trial finds COVID symptoms don't indicate viral shedding
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(Reuters) - The world's first human challenge trial in which volunteers were deliberately exposed to the coronavirus has found that symptoms had no effect on how likely an infected person is to pass the virus on to others.
The findings underscore the difficulty of preventing community infections as the Word Health Organization (WHO) warns of a rise in cases.
The research project, run by Open Orphan with Imperial College, London, showed that among the 18 participants who caught COVID-19, the severity of symptoms, or whether they developed symptoms at all, had nothing to do with the viral load in their airways.
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The viral load, which does correlate with tendency to shed the virus and likelihood of transmission, was measured by two methods known as focus-forming assay (FFA) and quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR).
"There was no correlation between the amount of viral shedding by qPCR or FFA and symptom score," the researchers said in paper published online by Nature Medicine.
"With virus present at significantly higher titers in the nose than the throat, these data provide clear evidence that emphasizes the critical importance of wearing face coverings over the nose as well as the mouth," the study team writes.
"Furthermore, our data clearly show that SARS-CoV-2 viral shedding occurs at high levels irrespective of symptom severity, thus explaining the high transmissibility of this infection and emphasizing that symptom severity cannot be considered a surrogate for transmission risk in this disease."
The Imperial trial exposed 36 healthy young adults without a history of infection or vaccination to the original SARS-CoV-2 strain of the virus and monitored them in a quarantined setting.
Since two volunteers were found to have had antibodies against the virus after all, they were excluded from the analysis. Slightly more than half of them contracted the virus.
No serious adverse events occurred, and the human challenge study model was shown to be safe and well tolerated in healthy young adults, the research team had said earlier this year.
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https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/covid-19-study-saw-volunteers-infected-reveals-how-virus-spreads/SX42JCBLRHWYQ775SUQPD4H6ZI/?c_id=2&objectid=12515670 | The first "controlled investigation" of Covid-19 has been carried out and it has allowed researchers to dispel a widespread myth about the way people become infected.
The human challenge study involved people being deliberately infected with a virus — in this case it was SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19.
The study, published last week in the journal Nature Medicine, found that only the most minuscule amount of the virus is needed to infect a person — as much as a single airborne droplet from a person sneezing, coughing or talking.
It also found that, despite what most people have been told, viral shedding and transmissibility occur at high levels when a person is infected regardless of whether they have severe or mild symptoms.
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Advertise with NZME.Researchers from University College London Hospital, Imperial College London and the University of Oxford, among others, were also able to bust another myth, one pushed mostly by anti-maskers.
They found the virus is "present at significantly higher [levels] in the nose than the throat", a finding they said provides "clear evidence that emphasises the critical importance of wearing face coverings over the nose as well as the mouth".
"Deliberate human infection of low-risk volunteers enables the exact longitudinal measurement of viral kinetics, immunological responses, transmission dynamics and duration of infectious shedding after a fixed dose of a well-characterised virus," authors wrote.
"Experimental challenge with human pathogens requires careful ethical scrutiny and regulation but can deliver unparalleled information that may inform clinical policy and refinement of infection control measures."
Those "unparalleled findings" were made possible thanks to 36 volunteers aged between 18-30 years.
The participants were each given a dose of the virus via a small tube into their nose, then housed in a high-containment quarantine unit at the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust with 24-hour close medical monitoring and full access to clinical care.
Researchers found that 18 participants — equating to 53 per cent — became infected with a viral load "rising steeply and peaking five days after inoculation".
They said the virus was "first detected in the throat but rose to significantly higher levels in the nose".
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Advertise with NZME."Viable virus was recoverable from the nose up to 10 days after inoculation, on average."
The researchers found that most of those who became infected recovered quickly. There were no serious adverse events and "mild-to-moderate symptoms were reported by 16 [of the 18] infected participants".
The other two who were infected remained asymptomatic.
The researchers also looked at how Covid-19 impacts a person's sense of smell.
They used smell identification tests with help from the University of Pennsylvania and found that 15 of the 18 participants who were infected reported "some degree of smell disturbance".
Nine participants experienced complete smell loss, known as anosmia, but researchers said they "improved noticeably before day 28".
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Advertise with NZME.Six months after the study ended, one of the participants has still not regained their full smell.
It comes after several recent groundbreaking studies into the way the virus spreads and how to best treat it.
One study found that Ivermectin, the anti-parasitic drug popularised as a treatment for Covid-19 by podcast host Joe Rogan, is "useless" against the disease.
Researchers with the TOGETHER study, a worldwide project involving a series of clinical trials designed to test the effectiveness of several repurposed drugs to treat Covid-19, conducted a double-blind, randomised, placebo-controlled trial involving 3515 patients at clinics in Brazil.
Patients who had had symptoms for up to seven days and at least one risk factor were randomly assigned to receive ivermectin or a placebo, with 679 people in each group – 2157 received another intervention.
Those who received ivermectin were given a dosage of 400 micrograms per kilogram of body weight, once daily for three days.
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Advertise with NZME."Treatment with ivermectin did not result in a lower incidence of medical admission to a hospital due to progression of Covid-19 or of prolonged emergency department observation among outpatients with an early diagnosis of Covid-19," concluded the paper summarising the findings, published this week in the New England Journal of Medicine. | 2 | 28,118 | 0.617188 | https://www.irishmirror.ie/lifestyle/health/brit-study-shows-covid-symptoms-26625042 | 2022-04-03 18:44:43+00:00 | British scientists have completed a world-beating challenge study on Covid. So, what is a challenge study?
It allows doctors to observe healthy people with Covid throughout the whole infection, something that’s not possible with Covid patients.
In the study, 36 healthy young adults with no immunity to the coronavirus were monitored.
Participants aged 18-30 years, unvaccinated against Covid-19 and with no prior infection of the disease, were given a low dose of the virus – introduced via drops up the nose – and then carefully monitored in a controlled environment during a two-week period.
They were exposed to the lowest possible dose of virus to cause infection, roughly equivalent to the amount found in a single droplet of nasal fluid when someone was at their most infectious.
The Human Challenge Programme is a partnership between Imperial College London, the Vaccine Taskforce, Department of Health and Social Care, and the Royal Free Hospital in London.
Key findings showed symptoms develop very fast, on average about two days after contact with the virus.
The infection starts in the throat, and peaks at five days – by which time it has become significantly more abundant in the nose.
This landmark study at the Royal Free Hospital showed that experimental infection of volunteers actually does mimic real infections, laying the groundwork for future challenge tests of new vaccines and medicines against Covid-19.
Among the 18 infected participants, the average time from first exposure to the virus to viral detection and early symptoms (incubation period) was 42 hours, significantly shorter than existing estimates of five to six days.
Following this period there was a steep rise in the amount of virus (viral load) found in swabs taken from participants’ noses or throats, peaking at around five days.
There were differences in where the most virus was found. The virus was detected first in the throat, much earlier than in the nose (40 hours in the throat compared to 58 hours in the nose).
Peak levels of virus were significantly higher in the nose than in the throat too.
This indicates a potentially greater risk of virus being shed from the nose than the mouth – hence the importance of proper face mask use to cover both these areas.
Professor Jonathan Van-Tam, former deputy chief medical officer, says: “This important study has provided further key data on Covid-19 and how it spreads, which is invaluable in learning more about this novel virus, so we can fine-tune our response.
“Challenge studies could still prove to be important in the future to speed the development of ‘next-generation’ Covid-19 vaccines and antiviral drugs.” |
https://www.kens5.com/article/news/nation-world/elon-musk-now-twitters-largest-shareholder/507-71415487-d5d6-42d6-8ec4-8b92344b37d2 | WASHINGTON — Tesla CEO Elon Musk has taken a 9% stake in Twitter to become its largest shareholder after raising questions about the social media platform’s dedication to free speech.
The ultimate aim of Musk's 73.5 million share purchase worth $2.9 billion, based on the closing price Friday, is not clear. Yet in recent weeks Musk, who has 80 million Twitter followers and posts there often, has questioned free speech on Twitter and whether the platform is undermining democracy.
The regulatory filing Monday describes Musk as a long-term investor looking to minimize his buying and selling of the shares.
He has also pondered starting a rival social media network, and industry analysts are skeptical about whether the mercurial CEO would remain on the sidelines for long.
“We would expect this passive stake as just the start of broader conversations with the Twitter board/management that could ultimately lead to an active stake and a potential more aggressive ownership role of Twitter," Dan Ives of Wedbush Securities said in a client note early Monday.
Twitter's stock surged 20% before the opening bell Monday.
Musk told his more than 80 million followers on Twitter that he was “ giving serious thought " to creating his own social media platform and has clashed repeatedly with financial regulators about his use of Twitter.
His Twitter stock purchase comes as Musk is locked into a bitter dispute with U.S. securities regulators over his ability to post on Twitter. Musk’s lawyer has contended in court motions that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is infringing on the Tesla CEO’s First Amendment rights.
In October of 2018, Musk and Tesla agreed to pay $40 million in civil fines and for Musk to have his tweets approved by a corporate lawyer after he tweeted about having the money to take Tesla private at $420 per share.
The funding was far from secured and the electric vehicle company remains public, but Tesla’s stock price jumped. The settlement specified governance changes, including Musk’s ouster as board chairman, as well as pre-approval of his tweets. The SEC brought a securities fraud charge, alleging that Musk was manipulating the stock price with his posts.
Musk’s lawyer is now asking a U.S. District Court judge in Manhattan to throw out the settlement, contending that the SEC is harassing him and infringing on his First Amendment rights.
Early in March, Musk asked Judge Alison Nathan to nullify an SEC subpoena and throw out the settlement agreement. His lawyer, Alex Spiro, said the SEC has used the court agreement “to trample on Mr. Musk’s First Amendment rights and to impose prior restraints on his speech.”
The SEC responded in a court motion, saying it has legal authority to subpoena Tesla and Musk about his tweets, and that Musk’s move to throw out the settlement is not valid.
The SEC disclosed that it is investigating Musk’s Nov. 6, 2021 tweets that asked followers whether he should sell 10% of his Tesla stake. The commission confirmed that it issued administrative subpoenas while investigating whether Musk and Tesla are complying with disclosure controls in the 2018 agreement.
The commission also is investigating whether Tesla described accurately in public filings with the agency whether it complied with the controls.
The commission maintains that the subpoenas were lawful, and that Musk isn’t following proper legal procedure to challenge them. SEC attorney Melissa Armstrong called Musk’s challenge “frivolous,” and pointed out that Musk and Tesla agreed to have his tweets pre-approved by other company officials.
“Courts have long recognized that ‘congress has vested the SEC with broad authority to conduct investigations into possible violations of federal securities laws and to demand production of evidence relevant to such investigations,’” Armstrong wrote.
The subpoenas, issued under seal, come from a formal order by the commission authorizing the investigation. They seek all written communications concerning the Nov. 6 tweets and whether they were shown to Tesla lawyers for pre-approval.
Musk attorney Spiro has asked for verbal arguments in the case.
Musk's revelation about his stake in Twitter shares comes two days after Tesla Inc. posted first-quarter delivery numbers. While the company delivered 310,000 vehicles in the period, the figure was slightly below expectations.
Shortly after the November tweets about the Tesla stock sale Musk began selling off shares, and he wrote on Twitter that the sale would go to pay tax obligations on stock options. Analysts estimate his tax obligation at $10 billion to $15 billion. But some of the money could have been used to buy the Twitter stake.
So far he has sold more than 15 million shares worth roughly $16.4 billion. With some sales in late December, Musk is close to selling 10%.
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Krisher reported from Detroit. | 0 | 6,454 | 0 | https://www.wltx.com/article/news/nation-world/elon-musk-now-twitters-largest-shareholder/507-71415487-d5d6-42d6-8ec4-8b92344b37d2 | 2022-04-04 22:42:54+00:00 | WASHINGTON — Tesla CEO Elon Musk has taken a 9% stake in Twitter to become its largest shareholder after raising questions about the social media platform’s dedication to free speech.
The ultimate aim of Musk's 73.5 million share purchase worth $2.9 billion, based on the closing price Friday, is not clear. Yet in recent weeks Musk, who has 80 million Twitter followers and posts there often, has questioned free speech on Twitter and whether the platform is undermining democracy.
The regulatory filing Monday describes Musk as a long-term investor looking to minimize his buying and selling of the shares.
He has also pondered starting a rival social media network, and industry analysts are skeptical about whether the mercurial CEO would remain on the sidelines for long.
“We would expect this passive stake as just the start of broader conversations with the Twitter board/management that could ultimately lead to an active stake and a potential more aggressive ownership role of Twitter," Dan Ives of Wedbush Securities said in a client note early Monday.
Twitter's stock surged 20% before the opening bell Monday.
Musk told his more than 80 million followers on Twitter that he was “ giving serious thought " to creating his own social media platform and has clashed repeatedly with financial regulators about his use of Twitter.
His Twitter stock purchase comes as Musk is locked into a bitter dispute with U.S. securities regulators over his ability to post on Twitter. Musk’s lawyer has contended in court motions that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is infringing on the Tesla CEO’s First Amendment rights.
In October of 2018, Musk and Tesla agreed to pay $40 million in civil fines and for Musk to have his tweets approved by a corporate lawyer after he tweeted about having the money to take Tesla private at $420 per share.
The funding was far from secured and the electric vehicle company remains public, but Tesla’s stock price jumped. The settlement specified governance changes, including Musk’s ouster as board chairman, as well as pre-approval of his tweets. The SEC brought a securities fraud charge, alleging that Musk was manipulating the stock price with his posts.
Musk’s lawyer is now asking a U.S. District Court judge in Manhattan to throw out the settlement, contending that the SEC is harassing him and infringing on his First Amendment rights.
Early in March, Musk asked Judge Alison Nathan to nullify an SEC subpoena and throw out the settlement agreement. His lawyer, Alex Spiro, said the SEC has used the court agreement “to trample on Mr. Musk’s First Amendment rights and to impose prior restraints on his speech.”
The SEC responded in a court motion, saying it has legal authority to subpoena Tesla and Musk about his tweets, and that Musk’s move to throw out the settlement is not valid.
The SEC disclosed that it is investigating Musk’s Nov. 6, 2021 tweets that asked followers whether he should sell 10% of his Tesla stake. The commission confirmed that it issued administrative subpoenas while investigating whether Musk and Tesla are complying with disclosure controls in the 2018 agreement.
The commission also is investigating whether Tesla described accurately in public filings with the agency whether it complied with the controls.
The commission maintains that the subpoenas were lawful, and that Musk isn’t following proper legal procedure to challenge them. SEC attorney Melissa Armstrong called Musk’s challenge “frivolous,” and pointed out that Musk and Tesla agreed to have his tweets pre-approved by other company officials.
“Courts have long recognized that ‘congress has vested the SEC with broad authority to conduct investigations into possible violations of federal securities laws and to demand production of evidence relevant to such investigations,’” Armstrong wrote.
The subpoenas, issued under seal, come from a formal order by the commission authorizing the investigation. They seek all written communications concerning the Nov. 6 tweets and whether they were shown to Tesla lawyers for pre-approval.
Musk attorney Spiro has asked for verbal arguments in the case.
Musk's revelation about his stake in Twitter shares comes two days after Tesla Inc. posted first-quarter delivery numbers. While the company delivered 310,000 vehicles in the period, the figure was slightly below expectations.
Shortly after the November tweets about the Tesla stock sale Musk began selling off shares, and he wrote on Twitter that the sale would go to pay tax obligations on stock options. Analysts estimate his tax obligation at $10 billion to $15 billion. But some of the money could have been used to buy the Twitter stake.
So far he has sold more than 15 million shares worth roughly $16.4 billion. With some sales in late December, Musk is close to selling 10%.
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Krisher reported from Detroit. |
https://www.kens5.com/article/news/nation-world/elon-musk-now-twitters-largest-shareholder/507-71415487-d5d6-42d6-8ec4-8b92344b37d2 | WASHINGTON — Tesla CEO Elon Musk has taken a 9% stake in Twitter to become its largest shareholder after raising questions about the social media platform’s dedication to free speech.
The ultimate aim of Musk's 73.5 million share purchase worth $2.9 billion, based on the closing price Friday, is not clear. Yet in recent weeks Musk, who has 80 million Twitter followers and posts there often, has questioned free speech on Twitter and whether the platform is undermining democracy.
The regulatory filing Monday describes Musk as a long-term investor looking to minimize his buying and selling of the shares.
He has also pondered starting a rival social media network, and industry analysts are skeptical about whether the mercurial CEO would remain on the sidelines for long.
“We would expect this passive stake as just the start of broader conversations with the Twitter board/management that could ultimately lead to an active stake and a potential more aggressive ownership role of Twitter," Dan Ives of Wedbush Securities said in a client note early Monday.
Twitter's stock surged 20% before the opening bell Monday.
Musk told his more than 80 million followers on Twitter that he was “ giving serious thought " to creating his own social media platform and has clashed repeatedly with financial regulators about his use of Twitter.
His Twitter stock purchase comes as Musk is locked into a bitter dispute with U.S. securities regulators over his ability to post on Twitter. Musk’s lawyer has contended in court motions that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is infringing on the Tesla CEO’s First Amendment rights.
In October of 2018, Musk and Tesla agreed to pay $40 million in civil fines and for Musk to have his tweets approved by a corporate lawyer after he tweeted about having the money to take Tesla private at $420 per share.
The funding was far from secured and the electric vehicle company remains public, but Tesla’s stock price jumped. The settlement specified governance changes, including Musk’s ouster as board chairman, as well as pre-approval of his tweets. The SEC brought a securities fraud charge, alleging that Musk was manipulating the stock price with his posts.
Musk’s lawyer is now asking a U.S. District Court judge in Manhattan to throw out the settlement, contending that the SEC is harassing him and infringing on his First Amendment rights.
Early in March, Musk asked Judge Alison Nathan to nullify an SEC subpoena and throw out the settlement agreement. His lawyer, Alex Spiro, said the SEC has used the court agreement “to trample on Mr. Musk’s First Amendment rights and to impose prior restraints on his speech.”
The SEC responded in a court motion, saying it has legal authority to subpoena Tesla and Musk about his tweets, and that Musk’s move to throw out the settlement is not valid.
The SEC disclosed that it is investigating Musk’s Nov. 6, 2021 tweets that asked followers whether he should sell 10% of his Tesla stake. The commission confirmed that it issued administrative subpoenas while investigating whether Musk and Tesla are complying with disclosure controls in the 2018 agreement.
The commission also is investigating whether Tesla described accurately in public filings with the agency whether it complied with the controls.
The commission maintains that the subpoenas were lawful, and that Musk isn’t following proper legal procedure to challenge them. SEC attorney Melissa Armstrong called Musk’s challenge “frivolous,” and pointed out that Musk and Tesla agreed to have his tweets pre-approved by other company officials.
“Courts have long recognized that ‘congress has vested the SEC with broad authority to conduct investigations into possible violations of federal securities laws and to demand production of evidence relevant to such investigations,’” Armstrong wrote.
The subpoenas, issued under seal, come from a formal order by the commission authorizing the investigation. They seek all written communications concerning the Nov. 6 tweets and whether they were shown to Tesla lawyers for pre-approval.
Musk attorney Spiro has asked for verbal arguments in the case.
Musk's revelation about his stake in Twitter shares comes two days after Tesla Inc. posted first-quarter delivery numbers. While the company delivered 310,000 vehicles in the period, the figure was slightly below expectations.
Shortly after the November tweets about the Tesla stock sale Musk began selling off shares, and he wrote on Twitter that the sale would go to pay tax obligations on stock options. Analysts estimate his tax obligation at $10 billion to $15 billion. But some of the money could have been used to buy the Twitter stake.
So far he has sold more than 15 million shares worth roughly $16.4 billion. With some sales in late December, Musk is close to selling 10%.
____
Krisher reported from Detroit. | 1 | 18,967 | 0 | https://www.5newsonline.com/article/news/nation-world/elon-musk-now-twitters-largest-shareholder/507-71415487-d5d6-42d6-8ec4-8b92344b37d2 | 2022-04-04 23:49:19+00:00 | WASHINGTON — Tesla CEO Elon Musk has taken a 9% stake in Twitter to become its largest shareholder after raising questions about the social media platform’s dedication to free speech.
The ultimate aim of Musk's 73.5 million share purchase worth $2.9 billion, based on the closing price Friday, is not clear. Yet in recent weeks Musk, who has 80 million Twitter followers and posts there often, has questioned free speech on Twitter and whether the platform is undermining democracy.
The regulatory filing Monday describes Musk as a long-term investor looking to minimize his buying and selling of the shares.
He has also pondered starting a rival social media network, and industry analysts are skeptical about whether the mercurial CEO would remain on the sidelines for long.
“We would expect this passive stake as just the start of broader conversations with the Twitter board/management that could ultimately lead to an active stake and a potential more aggressive ownership role of Twitter," Dan Ives of Wedbush Securities said in a client note early Monday.
Twitter's stock surged 20% before the opening bell Monday.
Musk told his more than 80 million followers on Twitter that he was “ giving serious thought " to creating his own social media platform and has clashed repeatedly with financial regulators about his use of Twitter.
His Twitter stock purchase comes as Musk is locked into a bitter dispute with U.S. securities regulators over his ability to post on Twitter. Musk’s lawyer has contended in court motions that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is infringing on the Tesla CEO’s First Amendment rights.
In October of 2018, Musk and Tesla agreed to pay $40 million in civil fines and for Musk to have his tweets approved by a corporate lawyer after he tweeted about having the money to take Tesla private at $420 per share.
The funding was far from secured and the electric vehicle company remains public, but Tesla’s stock price jumped. The settlement specified governance changes, including Musk’s ouster as board chairman, as well as pre-approval of his tweets. The SEC brought a securities fraud charge, alleging that Musk was manipulating the stock price with his posts.
Musk’s lawyer is now asking a U.S. District Court judge in Manhattan to throw out the settlement, contending that the SEC is harassing him and infringing on his First Amendment rights.
Early in March, Musk asked Judge Alison Nathan to nullify an SEC subpoena and throw out the settlement agreement. His lawyer, Alex Spiro, said the SEC has used the court agreement “to trample on Mr. Musk’s First Amendment rights and to impose prior restraints on his speech.”
The SEC responded in a court motion, saying it has legal authority to subpoena Tesla and Musk about his tweets, and that Musk’s move to throw out the settlement is not valid.
The SEC disclosed that it is investigating Musk’s Nov. 6, 2021 tweets that asked followers whether he should sell 10% of his Tesla stake. The commission confirmed that it issued administrative subpoenas while investigating whether Musk and Tesla are complying with disclosure controls in the 2018 agreement.
The commission also is investigating whether Tesla described accurately in public filings with the agency whether it complied with the controls.
The commission maintains that the subpoenas were lawful, and that Musk isn’t following proper legal procedure to challenge them. SEC attorney Melissa Armstrong called Musk’s challenge “frivolous,” and pointed out that Musk and Tesla agreed to have his tweets pre-approved by other company officials.
“Courts have long recognized that ‘congress has vested the SEC with broad authority to conduct investigations into possible violations of federal securities laws and to demand production of evidence relevant to such investigations,’” Armstrong wrote.
The subpoenas, issued under seal, come from a formal order by the commission authorizing the investigation. They seek all written communications concerning the Nov. 6 tweets and whether they were shown to Tesla lawyers for pre-approval.
Musk attorney Spiro has asked for verbal arguments in the case.
Musk's revelation about his stake in Twitter shares comes two days after Tesla Inc. posted first-quarter delivery numbers. While the company delivered 310,000 vehicles in the period, the figure was slightly below expectations.
Shortly after the November tweets about the Tesla stock sale Musk began selling off shares, and he wrote on Twitter that the sale would go to pay tax obligations on stock options. Analysts estimate his tax obligation at $10 billion to $15 billion. But some of the money could have been used to buy the Twitter stake.
So far he has sold more than 15 million shares worth roughly $16.4 billion. With some sales in late December, Musk is close to selling 10%.
____
Krisher reported from Detroit. |
https://www.kens5.com/article/news/nation-world/elon-musk-now-twitters-largest-shareholder/507-71415487-d5d6-42d6-8ec4-8b92344b37d2 | WASHINGTON — Tesla CEO Elon Musk has taken a 9% stake in Twitter to become its largest shareholder after raising questions about the social media platform’s dedication to free speech.
The ultimate aim of Musk's 73.5 million share purchase worth $2.9 billion, based on the closing price Friday, is not clear. Yet in recent weeks Musk, who has 80 million Twitter followers and posts there often, has questioned free speech on Twitter and whether the platform is undermining democracy.
The regulatory filing Monday describes Musk as a long-term investor looking to minimize his buying and selling of the shares.
He has also pondered starting a rival social media network, and industry analysts are skeptical about whether the mercurial CEO would remain on the sidelines for long.
“We would expect this passive stake as just the start of broader conversations with the Twitter board/management that could ultimately lead to an active stake and a potential more aggressive ownership role of Twitter," Dan Ives of Wedbush Securities said in a client note early Monday.
Twitter's stock surged 20% before the opening bell Monday.
Musk told his more than 80 million followers on Twitter that he was “ giving serious thought " to creating his own social media platform and has clashed repeatedly with financial regulators about his use of Twitter.
His Twitter stock purchase comes as Musk is locked into a bitter dispute with U.S. securities regulators over his ability to post on Twitter. Musk’s lawyer has contended in court motions that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is infringing on the Tesla CEO’s First Amendment rights.
In October of 2018, Musk and Tesla agreed to pay $40 million in civil fines and for Musk to have his tweets approved by a corporate lawyer after he tweeted about having the money to take Tesla private at $420 per share.
The funding was far from secured and the electric vehicle company remains public, but Tesla’s stock price jumped. The settlement specified governance changes, including Musk’s ouster as board chairman, as well as pre-approval of his tweets. The SEC brought a securities fraud charge, alleging that Musk was manipulating the stock price with his posts.
Musk’s lawyer is now asking a U.S. District Court judge in Manhattan to throw out the settlement, contending that the SEC is harassing him and infringing on his First Amendment rights.
Early in March, Musk asked Judge Alison Nathan to nullify an SEC subpoena and throw out the settlement agreement. His lawyer, Alex Spiro, said the SEC has used the court agreement “to trample on Mr. Musk’s First Amendment rights and to impose prior restraints on his speech.”
The SEC responded in a court motion, saying it has legal authority to subpoena Tesla and Musk about his tweets, and that Musk’s move to throw out the settlement is not valid.
The SEC disclosed that it is investigating Musk’s Nov. 6, 2021 tweets that asked followers whether he should sell 10% of his Tesla stake. The commission confirmed that it issued administrative subpoenas while investigating whether Musk and Tesla are complying with disclosure controls in the 2018 agreement.
The commission also is investigating whether Tesla described accurately in public filings with the agency whether it complied with the controls.
The commission maintains that the subpoenas were lawful, and that Musk isn’t following proper legal procedure to challenge them. SEC attorney Melissa Armstrong called Musk’s challenge “frivolous,” and pointed out that Musk and Tesla agreed to have his tweets pre-approved by other company officials.
“Courts have long recognized that ‘congress has vested the SEC with broad authority to conduct investigations into possible violations of federal securities laws and to demand production of evidence relevant to such investigations,’” Armstrong wrote.
The subpoenas, issued under seal, come from a formal order by the commission authorizing the investigation. They seek all written communications concerning the Nov. 6 tweets and whether they were shown to Tesla lawyers for pre-approval.
Musk attorney Spiro has asked for verbal arguments in the case.
Musk's revelation about his stake in Twitter shares comes two days after Tesla Inc. posted first-quarter delivery numbers. While the company delivered 310,000 vehicles in the period, the figure was slightly below expectations.
Shortly after the November tweets about the Tesla stock sale Musk began selling off shares, and he wrote on Twitter that the sale would go to pay tax obligations on stock options. Analysts estimate his tax obligation at $10 billion to $15 billion. But some of the money could have been used to buy the Twitter stake.
So far he has sold more than 15 million shares worth roughly $16.4 billion. With some sales in late December, Musk is close to selling 10%.
____
Krisher reported from Detroit. | 2 | 29,848 | 0 | https://www.kagstv.com/article/news/nation-world/elon-musk-now-twitters-largest-shareholder/507-71415487-d5d6-42d6-8ec4-8b92344b37d2 | 2022-04-05 00:48:38+00:00 | WASHINGTON — Tesla CEO Elon Musk has taken a 9% stake in Twitter to become its largest shareholder after raising questions about the social media platform’s dedication to free speech.
The ultimate aim of Musk's 73.5 million share purchase worth $2.9 billion, based on the closing price Friday, is not clear. Yet in recent weeks Musk, who has 80 million Twitter followers and posts there often, has questioned free speech on Twitter and whether the platform is undermining democracy.
The regulatory filing Monday describes Musk as a long-term investor looking to minimize his buying and selling of the shares.
He has also pondered starting a rival social media network, and industry analysts are skeptical about whether the mercurial CEO would remain on the sidelines for long.
“We would expect this passive stake as just the start of broader conversations with the Twitter board/management that could ultimately lead to an active stake and a potential more aggressive ownership role of Twitter," Dan Ives of Wedbush Securities said in a client note early Monday.
Twitter's stock surged 20% before the opening bell Monday.
Musk told his more than 80 million followers on Twitter that he was “ giving serious thought " to creating his own social media platform and has clashed repeatedly with financial regulators about his use of Twitter.
His Twitter stock purchase comes as Musk is locked into a bitter dispute with U.S. securities regulators over his ability to post on Twitter. Musk’s lawyer has contended in court motions that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is infringing on the Tesla CEO’s First Amendment rights.
In October of 2018, Musk and Tesla agreed to pay $40 million in civil fines and for Musk to have his tweets approved by a corporate lawyer after he tweeted about having the money to take Tesla private at $420 per share.
The funding was far from secured and the electric vehicle company remains public, but Tesla’s stock price jumped. The settlement specified governance changes, including Musk’s ouster as board chairman, as well as pre-approval of his tweets. The SEC brought a securities fraud charge, alleging that Musk was manipulating the stock price with his posts.
Musk’s lawyer is now asking a U.S. District Court judge in Manhattan to throw out the settlement, contending that the SEC is harassing him and infringing on his First Amendment rights.
Early in March, Musk asked Judge Alison Nathan to nullify an SEC subpoena and throw out the settlement agreement. His lawyer, Alex Spiro, said the SEC has used the court agreement “to trample on Mr. Musk’s First Amendment rights and to impose prior restraints on his speech.”
The SEC responded in a court motion, saying it has legal authority to subpoena Tesla and Musk about his tweets, and that Musk’s move to throw out the settlement is not valid.
The SEC disclosed that it is investigating Musk’s Nov. 6, 2021 tweets that asked followers whether he should sell 10% of his Tesla stake. The commission confirmed that it issued administrative subpoenas while investigating whether Musk and Tesla are complying with disclosure controls in the 2018 agreement.
The commission also is investigating whether Tesla described accurately in public filings with the agency whether it complied with the controls.
The commission maintains that the subpoenas were lawful, and that Musk isn’t following proper legal procedure to challenge them. SEC attorney Melissa Armstrong called Musk’s challenge “frivolous,” and pointed out that Musk and Tesla agreed to have his tweets pre-approved by other company officials.
“Courts have long recognized that ‘congress has vested the SEC with broad authority to conduct investigations into possible violations of federal securities laws and to demand production of evidence relevant to such investigations,’” Armstrong wrote.
The subpoenas, issued under seal, come from a formal order by the commission authorizing the investigation. They seek all written communications concerning the Nov. 6 tweets and whether they were shown to Tesla lawyers for pre-approval.
Musk attorney Spiro has asked for verbal arguments in the case.
Musk's revelation about his stake in Twitter shares comes two days after Tesla Inc. posted first-quarter delivery numbers. While the company delivered 310,000 vehicles in the period, the figure was slightly below expectations.
Shortly after the November tweets about the Tesla stock sale Musk began selling off shares, and he wrote on Twitter that the sale would go to pay tax obligations on stock options. Analysts estimate his tax obligation at $10 billion to $15 billion. But some of the money could have been used to buy the Twitter stake.
So far he has sold more than 15 million shares worth roughly $16.4 billion. With some sales in late December, Musk is close to selling 10%.
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Krisher reported from Detroit. |
https://www.wfmz.com/news/area/lehighvalley/lehigh-county-coroner-s-office-seeking-bethlehem-mans-next-of-kin/article_bd78333a-b455-11ec-80dd-336bc332dd2d.html | BETHLEHEM, Pa. - The Lehigh County Coroner’s Office is asking for the public's help in a next of kin search.
Dale Wetzel, 58, of Bethlehem, was pronounced dead on Wednesday at 10:02 p.m. in the St. Luke’s Hospital, Bethlehem Campus.
The death is due to natural causes.
Anyone with information on his family is requested to call the Coroner’s Office at 610-782-3426. | 0 | 44,059 | 0.383121 | https://www.lehighvalleylive.com/bethlehem/2022/04/lehigh-county-coroner-seeks-59-year-old-bethlehem-mans-next-of-kin.html | 2022-04-05 02:16:08+00:00 | The Lehigh County Coroner’s Office is seeking the family of a Bethlehem man who died last week.
Dale Wetzel, 59, died on March 30 of natural causes, the county coroner said.
Anyone with information about Wetzel’s family is asked to contact the coroner’s office at 610-782-3426.
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Dale Wetzel, 58, of Bethlehem, was pronounced dead on Wednesday at 10:02 p.m. in the St. Luke’s Hospital, Bethlehem Campus.
The death is due to natural causes.
Anyone with information on his family is requested to call the Coroner’s Office at 610-782-3426. | 1 | 54,013 | 0.783619 | https://www.ferndalerecord.com/dale-dewaard/ | 2022-04-29 03:10:12+00:00 | Dale Abram DeWaard went to be with his Lord and Savior on Friday, April 22.
Dale was born May 16, 1952 in Bellingham. He was the third of seven children born to parents Joe and Henrietta (Kornelis) DeWaard.
Dale graduated from Lynden Christian High School in 1972. He worked on the family dairy farm for many years. He was always very prompt, never needing an alarm clock even for the early morning milkings.
Dale had a gentle nature and always expressed his thankfulness when someone would pay him a visit. He would ask about the family and enjoyed hearing about what everyone was doing.
For many years, Dale could be seen walking on the Guide heading to or from the many coffee shops around Lynden. Many friends and neighbors would stop and give him a ride or visit with him over coffee, for which he and his family were very appreciative. He enjoyed many fishing outings with Chuck and Cheryl. He loved the warmth of the sunshine, all kinds of animals, boating, collecting toy farm tractors and implements, dill pickles, and his immaculate 1966 Chev Impala.
Dale spent his last years at North Cascades Health and Rehabilitation Center in Bellingham. The family is very thankful for the wonderful care he received from many health care workers over the years.
Dale was preceded in death by his parents, sister-in-law Cheryl DeWaard, brother-in-law Jim Bouma, and special friend Nancy.
Dale is survived by his siblings, Stan (Harriet) DeWaard, Joanne (John) Odens, Terry (Karen) DeWaard, Chuck DeWaard, Sharon Bouma and Joel (Ruth) DeWaard, and many nieces and nephews.
A private family graveside service will be held in Monumenta Cemetery on Tuesday, April 26 at 2:15 p.m. followed by at 3 p.m. memorial service at Mountain View Christian Reformed Church, 6678 Old Guide Road.
Funeral arrangements are entrusted to Gillies Funeral Home and Cremation Services. |
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Dale Wetzel, 58, of Bethlehem, was pronounced dead on Wednesday at 10:02 p.m. in the St. Luke’s Hospital, Bethlehem Campus.
The death is due to natural causes.
Anyone with information on his family is requested to call the Coroner’s Office at 610-782-3426. | 2 | 36,147 | 0.787151 | https://vermontjournal.com/news/dale-a-knowles-1963-2022/ | 2022-05-18 06:02:02+00:00 | CHARLESTOWN, N.H. – Dale Arthur Knowles, 58, of Charlestown, N.H., passed away unexpectedly on March 17, 2022.
Dale is predeceased by his parents, Sandra (nee Seavey) and Duane Knowles, his maternal grandparents, Doris and Donald Seavey, his paternal grandmother, Katherine Knowles, and his uncle, Marcel Knowles. He is survived by his wife, Helen, his sister, Maggie and her husband Mike, his sister, Nancey and her life partner Brian, along with uncles, aunts, cousins, and many close friends who were like family to him.
Dale was born April 25, 1963, in Bellows Falls, Vt., and attended North Walpole Elementary, Walpole Junior High, and Fall Mountain Regional High schools. He lived in the Fall Mountain region his entire life. Dale was an avid fisherman and was happiest when he was fishing in Pittsburg, N.H. with his dad and Uncle Mark. When not fishing, Dale could often be found hanging out with his friends, Gary or Joe.
A private graveside service will be held at St. Peter’s Cemetery, Walpole, N.H.
Arrangements are with Stringer Funeral Homes and Crematorium, 146 Broad St., Claremont, NH 03743. To view an online memorial or send a private message of condolence, visit www.stringerfh.com. |
https://www.mychamplainvalley.com/news/national-news/terry-wallis-arkansas-man-who-woke-from-19-year-coma-and-said-mom-dies-at-57/ | (NEXSTAR) – An Arkansas man whose story made national headlines when he regained consciousness after nearly two decades in a coma has died at the age of 57, according to his obituary.
A car accident in 1984 left Terry Wayne Wallis, of Big Flat, in a coma for 19 years until he stunned family members and doctors in 2003 by regaining awareness and speaking.
“He started out with ‘Mom’ and surprised her and then it was ‘Pepsi’ and then it was ‘milk,’” Stone County Nursing and Rehabilitation Center social director Alesha Badgley told the Associated Press shortly after Wallis returned to consciousness.
Wallis had been riding with a friend when the vehicle they were in veered off the road and down into a creek, killing his friend and leaving him comatose.
The accident left Wallis unable to use his limbs, but his vocabulary returned steadily and he was soon talking almost “nonstop,” Wallis’ father, Jerry Wallis, told the AP.
For Wallis, however, the world stopped with the accident – he believed Ronald Reagan was still president and requested a call to his grandmother, who had died several years earlier. He even recited her phone number from memory.
Wallis became known as “The Man Who Slept for 19 Years,” and his remarkable story was the source of numerous news and medical articles over the years, according to his obituary.
“His mother and all of his family cared for him relentlessly during his coma and afterwards,” according to his obituary. “His family would bring him home on alternate weekends for years. Doctors believe that this stimulation contributed to his awakening period.”
He “enjoyed eating anything at anytime and loved drinking Pepsi” and is remembered for his “wonderful sense of humor.”
“Terry was a great teaser and loved to tease his sister,” the obituary continues. “His wonderful sense of humor will be greatly missed by his family.”
Wallis is survived by his daughter, Amber, who was born shortly before the accident, as well as his father and grandchildren.
Wallis died on Tuesday, March 29, at Advanced Care in Searcy, Arkansas, according to the obituary. | 0 | 2,530 | 0 | https://www.ozarksfirst.com/local-news/regional-news/terry-wallis-arkansas-man-who-woke-from-19-year-coma-and-said-mom-dies-at-57/ | 2022-04-04 22:26:42+00:00 | (NEXSTAR) – An Arkansas man whose story made national headlines when he regained consciousness after nearly two decades in a coma has died at the age of 57, according to his obituary.
A car accident in 1984 left Terry Wayne Wallis, of Big Flat, in a coma for 19 years until he stunned family members and doctors in 2003 by regaining awareness and speaking.
“He started out with ‘Mom’ and surprised her and then it was ‘Pepsi’ and then it was ‘milk,’” Stone County Nursing and Rehabilitation Center social director Alesha Badgley told the Associated Press shortly after Wallis returned to consciousness.
Wallis had been riding with a friend when the vehicle they were in veered off the road and down into a creek, killing his friend and leaving him comatose.
The accident left Wallis unable to use his limbs, but his vocabulary returned steadily and he was soon talking almost “nonstop,” Wallis’ father, Jerry Wallis, told the AP.
For Wallis, however, the world stopped with the accident – he believed Ronald Reagan was still president and requested a call to his grandmother, who had died several years earlier. He even recited her phone number from memory.
Wallis became known as “The Man Who Slept for 19 Years,” and his remarkable story was the source of numerous news and medical articles over the years, according to his obituary.
“His mother and all of his family cared for him relentlessly during his coma and afterwards,” according to his obituary. “His family would bring him home on alternate weekends for years. Doctors believe that this stimulation contributed to his awakening period.”
He “enjoyed eating anything at anytime and loved drinking Pepsi” and is remembered for his “wonderful sense of humor.”
“Terry was a great teaser and loved to tease his sister,” the obituary continues. “His wonderful sense of humor will be greatly missed by his family.”
Wallis is survived by his daughter, Amber, who was born shortly before the accident, as well as his father and grandchildren.
Wallis died on Tuesday, March 29, at Advanced Care in Searcy, Arkansas, according to the obituary. |
https://www.mychamplainvalley.com/news/national-news/terry-wallis-arkansas-man-who-woke-from-19-year-coma-and-said-mom-dies-at-57/ | (NEXSTAR) – An Arkansas man whose story made national headlines when he regained consciousness after nearly two decades in a coma has died at the age of 57, according to his obituary.
A car accident in 1984 left Terry Wayne Wallis, of Big Flat, in a coma for 19 years until he stunned family members and doctors in 2003 by regaining awareness and speaking.
“He started out with ‘Mom’ and surprised her and then it was ‘Pepsi’ and then it was ‘milk,’” Stone County Nursing and Rehabilitation Center social director Alesha Badgley told the Associated Press shortly after Wallis returned to consciousness.
Wallis had been riding with a friend when the vehicle they were in veered off the road and down into a creek, killing his friend and leaving him comatose.
The accident left Wallis unable to use his limbs, but his vocabulary returned steadily and he was soon talking almost “nonstop,” Wallis’ father, Jerry Wallis, told the AP.
For Wallis, however, the world stopped with the accident – he believed Ronald Reagan was still president and requested a call to his grandmother, who had died several years earlier. He even recited her phone number from memory.
Wallis became known as “The Man Who Slept for 19 Years,” and his remarkable story was the source of numerous news and medical articles over the years, according to his obituary.
“His mother and all of his family cared for him relentlessly during his coma and afterwards,” according to his obituary. “His family would bring him home on alternate weekends for years. Doctors believe that this stimulation contributed to his awakening period.”
He “enjoyed eating anything at anytime and loved drinking Pepsi” and is remembered for his “wonderful sense of humor.”
“Terry was a great teaser and loved to tease his sister,” the obituary continues. “His wonderful sense of humor will be greatly missed by his family.”
Wallis is survived by his daughter, Amber, who was born shortly before the accident, as well as his father and grandchildren.
Wallis died on Tuesday, March 29, at Advanced Care in Searcy, Arkansas, according to the obituary. | 1 | 2,983 | 0 | https://www.mystateline.com/news/terry-wallis-arkansas-man-who-woke-from-19-year-coma-and-said-mom-dies-at-57/ | 2022-04-04 22:28:27+00:00 | (NEXSTAR) – An Arkansas man whose story made national headlines when he regained consciousness after nearly two decades in a coma has died at the age of 57, according to his obituary.
A car accident in 1984 left Terry Wayne Wallis, of Big Flat, in a coma for 19 years until he stunned family members and doctors in 2003 by regaining awareness and speaking.
“He started out with ‘Mom’ and surprised her and then it was ‘Pepsi’ and then it was ‘milk,’” Stone County Nursing and Rehabilitation Center social director Alesha Badgley told the Associated Press shortly after Wallis returned to consciousness.
Wallis had been riding with a friend when the vehicle they were in veered off the road and down into a creek, killing his friend and leaving him comatose.
The accident left Wallis unable to use his limbs, but his vocabulary returned steadily and he was soon talking almost “nonstop,” Wallis’ father, Jerry Wallis, told the AP.
For Wallis, however, the world stopped with the accident – he believed Ronald Reagan was still president and requested a call to his grandmother, who had died several years earlier. He even recited her phone number from memory.
Wallis became known as “The Man Who Slept for 19 Years,” and his remarkable story was the source of numerous news and medical articles over the years, according to his obituary.
“His mother and all of his family cared for him relentlessly during his coma and afterwards,” according to his obituary. “His family would bring him home on alternate weekends for years. Doctors believe that this stimulation contributed to his awakening period.”
He “enjoyed eating anything at anytime and loved drinking Pepsi” and is remembered for his “wonderful sense of humor.”
“Terry was a great teaser and loved to tease his sister,” the obituary continues. “His wonderful sense of humor will be greatly missed by his family.”
Wallis is survived by his daughter, Amber, who was born shortly before the accident, as well as his father and grandchildren.
Wallis died on Tuesday, March 29, at Advanced Care in Searcy, Arkansas, according to the obituary. |
https://www.mychamplainvalley.com/news/national-news/terry-wallis-arkansas-man-who-woke-from-19-year-coma-and-said-mom-dies-at-57/ | (NEXSTAR) – An Arkansas man whose story made national headlines when he regained consciousness after nearly two decades in a coma has died at the age of 57, according to his obituary.
A car accident in 1984 left Terry Wayne Wallis, of Big Flat, in a coma for 19 years until he stunned family members and doctors in 2003 by regaining awareness and speaking.
“He started out with ‘Mom’ and surprised her and then it was ‘Pepsi’ and then it was ‘milk,’” Stone County Nursing and Rehabilitation Center social director Alesha Badgley told the Associated Press shortly after Wallis returned to consciousness.
Wallis had been riding with a friend when the vehicle they were in veered off the road and down into a creek, killing his friend and leaving him comatose.
The accident left Wallis unable to use his limbs, but his vocabulary returned steadily and he was soon talking almost “nonstop,” Wallis’ father, Jerry Wallis, told the AP.
For Wallis, however, the world stopped with the accident – he believed Ronald Reagan was still president and requested a call to his grandmother, who had died several years earlier. He even recited her phone number from memory.
Wallis became known as “The Man Who Slept for 19 Years,” and his remarkable story was the source of numerous news and medical articles over the years, according to his obituary.
“His mother and all of his family cared for him relentlessly during his coma and afterwards,” according to his obituary. “His family would bring him home on alternate weekends for years. Doctors believe that this stimulation contributed to his awakening period.”
He “enjoyed eating anything at anytime and loved drinking Pepsi” and is remembered for his “wonderful sense of humor.”
“Terry was a great teaser and loved to tease his sister,” the obituary continues. “His wonderful sense of humor will be greatly missed by his family.”
Wallis is survived by his daughter, Amber, who was born shortly before the accident, as well as his father and grandchildren.
Wallis died on Tuesday, March 29, at Advanced Care in Searcy, Arkansas, according to the obituary. | 2 | 5,429 | 0 | https://www.koin.com/news/terry-wallis-arkansas-man-who-woke-from-19-year-coma-and-said-mom-dies-at-57/ | 2022-04-04 22:38:30+00:00 | (NEXSTAR) – An Arkansas man whose story made national headlines when he regained consciousness after nearly two decades in a coma has died at the age of 57, according to his obituary.
A car accident in 1984 left Terry Wayne Wallis, of Big Flat, in a coma for 19 years until he stunned family members and doctors in 2003 by regaining awareness and speaking.
“He started out with ‘Mom’ and surprised her and then it was ‘Pepsi’ and then it was ‘milk,’” Stone County Nursing and Rehabilitation Center social director Alesha Badgley told the Associated Press shortly after Wallis returned to consciousness.
Wallis had been riding with a friend when the vehicle they were in veered off the road and down into a creek, killing his friend and leaving him comatose.
The accident left Wallis unable to use his limbs, but his vocabulary returned steadily and he was soon talking almost “nonstop,” Wallis’ father, Jerry Wallis, told the AP.
For Wallis, however, the world stopped with the accident – he believed Ronald Reagan was still president and requested a call to his grandmother, who had died several years earlier. He even recited her phone number from memory.
Wallis became known as “The Man Who Slept for 19 Years,” and his remarkable story was the source of numerous news and medical articles over the years, according to his obituary.
“His mother and all of his family cared for him relentlessly during his coma and afterwards,” according to his obituary. “His family would bring him home on alternate weekends for years. Doctors believe that this stimulation contributed to his awakening period.”
He “enjoyed eating anything at anytime and loved drinking Pepsi” and is remembered for his “wonderful sense of humor.”
“Terry was a great teaser and loved to tease his sister,” the obituary continues. “His wonderful sense of humor will be greatly missed by his family.”
Wallis is survived by his daughter, Amber, who was born shortly before the accident, as well as his father and grandchildren.
Wallis died on Tuesday, March 29, at Advanced Care in Searcy, Arkansas, according to the obituary. |
https://www.mychamplainvalley.com/news/national-news/un-warns-earth-firmly-on-track-toward-an-unlivable-world/ | BERLIN (AP) — Temperatures on Earth will shoot past a key danger point unless greenhouse gas emissions fall faster than countries have committed, the world’s top body of climate scientists said Monday, warning of the consequences of inaction but also noting hopeful signs of progress.
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said the report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change revealed “a litany of broken climate promises” by governments and corporations, accusing them of stoking global warming by clinging to harmful fossil fuels.
“It is a file of shame, cataloguing the empty pledges that put us firmly on track toward an unlivable world,” he said.
Governments agreed in the 2015 Paris accord to keep global warming well below 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 Fahrenheit) this century, ideally no more than 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 Fahrenheit). Yet temperatures have already increased by over 1.1C (2F) since pre-industrial times, resulting in measurable increases in disasters such flash floods, extreme heat, more intense hurricanes and longer-burning wildfires, putting human lives in danger and costing governments hundreds of billions of dollars to confront.
“Projected global emissions from (national pledges) place limiting global warming to 1.5C beyond reach and make it harder after 2030 to limit warming to 2C,” the panel said.
In other words, the report’s co-chair, James Skea of Imperial College London, told The Associated Press: “If we continue acting as we are now, we’re not even going to limit warming to 2 degrees, never mind 1.5 degrees.”
Ongoing investments in fossil fuel infrastructure and clearing large swaths of forest for agriculture undermine the massive curbs in emissions needed to meet the Paris goal, the report found.
Emissions in 2019 were about 12% higher than they were in 2010 and 54% higher than in 1990, said Skea.
The rate of growth has slowed from 2.1% per year in the early part of this century to 1.3% per year between 2010 and 2019, the report’s authors said. But they voiced “high confidence” that unless countries step up their efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions, the planet will on average be 2.4C to 3.5C (4.3 to 6.3F) warmer by the end of the century — a level experts say is sure to cause severe impacts for much of the world’s population.
“Limiting warming to 1.5C requires global greenhouse gas emissions to peak before 2025 at the latest and be reduced by 43% by 2030,” he said.
Such cuts would be hard to achieve without without drastic, economy-wide measures, the panel acknowledged. It’s more likely that the world will pass 1.5C and efforts will then need to be made to bring temperatures back down again, including by removing vast amounts of carbon dioxide — the main greenhouse gas — from the atmosphere.
Many experts say this is unfeasible with current technologies, and even if it could be done it would be far costlier than preventing the emissions in the first place.
The report, numbering thousands of pages, doesn’t single out individual countries for blame. But the figures show much of the carbon dioxide already in the atmosphere was released by rich countries that were the first to burn coal, oil and gas beginning with the industrial revolution.
The U.N. panel said 40% of emissions since then came from Europe and North America. Just over 12% can be attributed to East Asia, which includes China. But China took over the position as world’s top emissions polluter from the United States in the mid-2000s.
Many countries and companies have used recent climate meetings to paint rosy pictures of their emissions-cutting efforts, while continuing to invest in fossil fuels and other polluting activities, Guterres charged.
“Some government and business leaders are saying one thing but doing another,” he said. “Simply put, they are lying. And the results will be catastrophic.”
The report isn’t without some hope, however.
Its authors highlight myriad ways in which the world can be brought back on track to 2C or even, with great effort, return to 1.5C after that threshold has been passed. This could require measures such as the removal of CO2 from the atmosphere with natural or artificial means, but also potentially risky technologies such as pumping aerosols into the sky to reflect sunlight.
Among the solutions recommended are a rapid shift away from fossil fuels toward renewable energy such as increasingly cheap solar and wind power, the electrification of transport, less meat consumption, more efficient use of resources and massive financial support for poor countries unable to pay for such measures without help.
The situation is as if humanity has “gone to the doctor in a very unhealthy condition,” and the doctor is saying “you need to change, it’s a radical change. If you don’t you’re in trouble,” said report co-author Pete Smith, a professor of soils and global change at the University Aberdeen.
“It’s not like a diet,” Smith said. “It is a fundamental lifestyle change. It’s changing what you eat, how much you eat and get on a more active lifestyle.”
One move often described as “low-hanging fruit” by scientists is to plug methane leaks from mines, wells and landfills that release the potent but short-lived greenhouse gas into the atmosphere. A pact forged between the United States and China at last year’s U.N. climate conference in Glasgow aims to do just that.
“The big message we’ve got (is that) human activities got us into this problem and human agency can actually get us out of it again,” said Skea, the panel’s co-chair.
The panel’s reports have become increasingly blunt since the first one was published in 1990, and the latest may be the last before the planet passes 1.5C of warming, Skea told the AP.
Last August, it said climate change caused by humans was “an established fact” and warned that some effects of global warming are already inevitable. In late February, the panel published a report that outlined how further temperature increases will multiply the risk of floods, storms, drought and heat waves worldwide.
Still, the British government’s former chief science adviser David King, who wasn’t involved in writing the report, said there are too optimistic assumptions about how much CO2 the world can afford to emit.
“We don’t actually have a remaining carbon budget to burn,” said King, who now chairs the Climate Crisis Advisory Group.
“It’s just the reverse. We’ve already done too much in the way of putting greenhouse gases up there,” he said, arguing that the IPCC’s calculation omits new risks and potentially self-reinforcing effects already happening, such as the increased absorption of heat into the oceans from sea ice loss and the release of methane as permafrost melts.
Such warnings were echoed by U.N. chief Guterres, citing scientists’ warnings that the planet is moving “perilously close to tipping points that could lead to cascading and irreversible climate impacts.”
“But high-emitting governments and corporations are not just turning a blind eye; they are adding fuel to the flames,” he said, calling for an end to further coal, oil and gas extraction. “Investing in new fossil fuels infrastructure is moral and economic madness.”
Vulnerable nations said the report showed big polluters have to step up their efforts before the next U.N. climate summit in Egypt this fall.
“We are looking to the G-20, to the world’s biggest emitters, to set ambitious targets ahead of COP27, and to reach those targets – by investing in renewables, cutting out coal and fossil fuel subsidies,” said Tina Stege, climate envoy for the Marshall Islands. “It’s long past time to deliver on promises made.” | 0 | 1,118 | 0 | https://www.conchovalleyhomepage.com/news/un-warns-earth-firmly-on-track-toward-an-unlivable-world/ | 2022-04-04 22:21:05+00:00 | BERLIN (AP) — Temperatures on Earth will shoot past a key danger point unless greenhouse gas emissions fall faster than countries have committed, the world’s top body of climate scientists said Monday, warning of the consequences of inaction but also noting hopeful signs of progress.
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said the report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change revealed “a litany of broken climate promises” by governments and corporations, accusing them of stoking global warming by clinging to harmful fossil fuels.
“It is a file of shame, cataloguing the empty pledges that put us firmly on track toward an unlivable world,” he said.
Governments agreed in the 2015 Paris accord to keep global warming well below 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 Fahrenheit) this century, ideally no more than 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 Fahrenheit). Yet temperatures have already increased by over 1.1C (2F) since pre-industrial times, resulting in measurable increases in disasters such flash floods, extreme heat, more intense hurricanes and longer-burning wildfires, putting human lives in danger and costing governments hundreds of billions of dollars to confront.
“Projected global emissions from (national pledges) place limiting global warming to 1.5C beyond reach and make it harder after 2030 to limit warming to 2C,” the panel said.
In other words, the report’s co-chair, James Skea of Imperial College London, told The Associated Press: “If we continue acting as we are now, we’re not even going to limit warming to 2 degrees, never mind 1.5 degrees.”
Ongoing investments in fossil fuel infrastructure and clearing large swaths of forest for agriculture undermine the massive curbs in emissions needed to meet the Paris goal, the report found.
Emissions in 2019 were about 12% higher than they were in 2010 and 54% higher than in 1990, said Skea.
The rate of growth has slowed from 2.1% per year in the early part of this century to 1.3% per year between 2010 and 2019, the report’s authors said. But they voiced “high confidence” that unless countries step up their efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions, the planet will on average be 2.4C to 3.5C (4.3 to 6.3F) warmer by the end of the century — a level experts say is sure to cause severe impacts for much of the world’s population.
“Limiting warming to 1.5C requires global greenhouse gas emissions to peak before 2025 at the latest and be reduced by 43% by 2030,” he said.
Such cuts would be hard to achieve without without drastic, economy-wide measures, the panel acknowledged. It’s more likely that the world will pass 1.5C and efforts will then need to be made to bring temperatures back down again, including by removing vast amounts of carbon dioxide — the main greenhouse gas — from the atmosphere.
Many experts say this is unfeasible with current technologies, and even if it could be done it would be far costlier than preventing the emissions in the first place.
The report, numbering thousands of pages, doesn’t single out individual countries for blame. But the figures show much of the carbon dioxide already in the atmosphere was released by rich countries that were the first to burn coal, oil and gas beginning with the industrial revolution.
The U.N. panel said 40% of emissions since then came from Europe and North America. Just over 12% can be attributed to East Asia, which includes China. But China took over the position as world’s top emissions polluter from the United States in the mid-2000s.
Many countries and companies have used recent climate meetings to paint rosy pictures of their emissions-cutting efforts, while continuing to invest in fossil fuels and other polluting activities, Guterres charged.
“Some government and business leaders are saying one thing but doing another,” he said. “Simply put, they are lying. And the results will be catastrophic.”
The report isn’t without some hope, however.
Its authors highlight myriad ways in which the world can be brought back on track to 2C or even, with great effort, return to 1.5C after that threshold has been passed. This could require measures such as the removal of CO2 from the atmosphere with natural or artificial means, but also potentially risky technologies such as pumping aerosols into the sky to reflect sunlight.
Among the solutions recommended are a rapid shift away from fossil fuels toward renewable energy such as increasingly cheap solar and wind power, the electrification of transport, less meat consumption, more efficient use of resources and massive financial support for poor countries unable to pay for such measures without help.
The situation is as if humanity has “gone to the doctor in a very unhealthy condition,” and the doctor is saying “you need to change, it’s a radical change. If you don’t you’re in trouble,” said report co-author Pete Smith, a professor of soils and global change at the University Aberdeen.
“It’s not like a diet,” Smith said. “It is a fundamental lifestyle change. It’s changing what you eat, how much you eat and get on a more active lifestyle.”
One move often described as “low-hanging fruit” by scientists is to plug methane leaks from mines, wells and landfills that release the potent but short-lived greenhouse gas into the atmosphere. A pact forged between the United States and China at last year’s U.N. climate conference in Glasgow aims to do just that.
“The big message we’ve got (is that) human activities got us into this problem and human agency can actually get us out of it again,” said Skea, the panel’s co-chair.
The panel’s reports have become increasingly blunt since the first one was published in 1990, and the latest may be the last before the planet passes 1.5C of warming, Skea told the AP.
Last August, it said climate change caused by humans was “an established fact” and warned that some effects of global warming are already inevitable. In late February, the panel published a report that outlined how further temperature increases will multiply the risk of floods, storms, drought and heat waves worldwide.
Still, the British government’s former chief science adviser David King, who wasn’t involved in writing the report, said there are too optimistic assumptions about how much CO2 the world can afford to emit.
“We don’t actually have a remaining carbon budget to burn,” said King, who now chairs the Climate Crisis Advisory Group.
“It’s just the reverse. We’ve already done too much in the way of putting greenhouse gases up there,” he said, arguing that the IPCC’s calculation omits new risks and potentially self-reinforcing effects already happening, such as the increased absorption of heat into the oceans from sea ice loss and the release of methane as permafrost melts.
Such warnings were echoed by U.N. chief Guterres, citing scientists’ warnings that the planet is moving “perilously close to tipping points that could lead to cascading and irreversible climate impacts.”
“But high-emitting governments and corporations are not just turning a blind eye; they are adding fuel to the flames,” he said, calling for an end to further coal, oil and gas extraction. “Investing in new fossil fuels infrastructure is moral and economic madness.”
Vulnerable nations said the report showed big polluters have to step up their efforts before the next U.N. climate summit in Egypt this fall.
“We are looking to the G-20, to the world’s biggest emitters, to set ambitious targets ahead of COP27, and to reach those targets – by investing in renewables, cutting out coal and fossil fuel subsidies,” said Tina Stege, climate envoy for the Marshall Islands. “It’s long past time to deliver on promises made.” |
https://www.mychamplainvalley.com/news/national-news/un-warns-earth-firmly-on-track-toward-an-unlivable-world/ | BERLIN (AP) — Temperatures on Earth will shoot past a key danger point unless greenhouse gas emissions fall faster than countries have committed, the world’s top body of climate scientists said Monday, warning of the consequences of inaction but also noting hopeful signs of progress.
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said the report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change revealed “a litany of broken climate promises” by governments and corporations, accusing them of stoking global warming by clinging to harmful fossil fuels.
“It is a file of shame, cataloguing the empty pledges that put us firmly on track toward an unlivable world,” he said.
Governments agreed in the 2015 Paris accord to keep global warming well below 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 Fahrenheit) this century, ideally no more than 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 Fahrenheit). Yet temperatures have already increased by over 1.1C (2F) since pre-industrial times, resulting in measurable increases in disasters such flash floods, extreme heat, more intense hurricanes and longer-burning wildfires, putting human lives in danger and costing governments hundreds of billions of dollars to confront.
“Projected global emissions from (national pledges) place limiting global warming to 1.5C beyond reach and make it harder after 2030 to limit warming to 2C,” the panel said.
In other words, the report’s co-chair, James Skea of Imperial College London, told The Associated Press: “If we continue acting as we are now, we’re not even going to limit warming to 2 degrees, never mind 1.5 degrees.”
Ongoing investments in fossil fuel infrastructure and clearing large swaths of forest for agriculture undermine the massive curbs in emissions needed to meet the Paris goal, the report found.
Emissions in 2019 were about 12% higher than they were in 2010 and 54% higher than in 1990, said Skea.
The rate of growth has slowed from 2.1% per year in the early part of this century to 1.3% per year between 2010 and 2019, the report’s authors said. But they voiced “high confidence” that unless countries step up their efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions, the planet will on average be 2.4C to 3.5C (4.3 to 6.3F) warmer by the end of the century — a level experts say is sure to cause severe impacts for much of the world’s population.
“Limiting warming to 1.5C requires global greenhouse gas emissions to peak before 2025 at the latest and be reduced by 43% by 2030,” he said.
Such cuts would be hard to achieve without without drastic, economy-wide measures, the panel acknowledged. It’s more likely that the world will pass 1.5C and efforts will then need to be made to bring temperatures back down again, including by removing vast amounts of carbon dioxide — the main greenhouse gas — from the atmosphere.
Many experts say this is unfeasible with current technologies, and even if it could be done it would be far costlier than preventing the emissions in the first place.
The report, numbering thousands of pages, doesn’t single out individual countries for blame. But the figures show much of the carbon dioxide already in the atmosphere was released by rich countries that were the first to burn coal, oil and gas beginning with the industrial revolution.
The U.N. panel said 40% of emissions since then came from Europe and North America. Just over 12% can be attributed to East Asia, which includes China. But China took over the position as world’s top emissions polluter from the United States in the mid-2000s.
Many countries and companies have used recent climate meetings to paint rosy pictures of their emissions-cutting efforts, while continuing to invest in fossil fuels and other polluting activities, Guterres charged.
“Some government and business leaders are saying one thing but doing another,” he said. “Simply put, they are lying. And the results will be catastrophic.”
The report isn’t without some hope, however.
Its authors highlight myriad ways in which the world can be brought back on track to 2C or even, with great effort, return to 1.5C after that threshold has been passed. This could require measures such as the removal of CO2 from the atmosphere with natural or artificial means, but also potentially risky technologies such as pumping aerosols into the sky to reflect sunlight.
Among the solutions recommended are a rapid shift away from fossil fuels toward renewable energy such as increasingly cheap solar and wind power, the electrification of transport, less meat consumption, more efficient use of resources and massive financial support for poor countries unable to pay for such measures without help.
The situation is as if humanity has “gone to the doctor in a very unhealthy condition,” and the doctor is saying “you need to change, it’s a radical change. If you don’t you’re in trouble,” said report co-author Pete Smith, a professor of soils and global change at the University Aberdeen.
“It’s not like a diet,” Smith said. “It is a fundamental lifestyle change. It’s changing what you eat, how much you eat and get on a more active lifestyle.”
One move often described as “low-hanging fruit” by scientists is to plug methane leaks from mines, wells and landfills that release the potent but short-lived greenhouse gas into the atmosphere. A pact forged between the United States and China at last year’s U.N. climate conference in Glasgow aims to do just that.
“The big message we’ve got (is that) human activities got us into this problem and human agency can actually get us out of it again,” said Skea, the panel’s co-chair.
The panel’s reports have become increasingly blunt since the first one was published in 1990, and the latest may be the last before the planet passes 1.5C of warming, Skea told the AP.
Last August, it said climate change caused by humans was “an established fact” and warned that some effects of global warming are already inevitable. In late February, the panel published a report that outlined how further temperature increases will multiply the risk of floods, storms, drought and heat waves worldwide.
Still, the British government’s former chief science adviser David King, who wasn’t involved in writing the report, said there are too optimistic assumptions about how much CO2 the world can afford to emit.
“We don’t actually have a remaining carbon budget to burn,” said King, who now chairs the Climate Crisis Advisory Group.
“It’s just the reverse. We’ve already done too much in the way of putting greenhouse gases up there,” he said, arguing that the IPCC’s calculation omits new risks and potentially self-reinforcing effects already happening, such as the increased absorption of heat into the oceans from sea ice loss and the release of methane as permafrost melts.
Such warnings were echoed by U.N. chief Guterres, citing scientists’ warnings that the planet is moving “perilously close to tipping points that could lead to cascading and irreversible climate impacts.”
“But high-emitting governments and corporations are not just turning a blind eye; they are adding fuel to the flames,” he said, calling for an end to further coal, oil and gas extraction. “Investing in new fossil fuels infrastructure is moral and economic madness.”
Vulnerable nations said the report showed big polluters have to step up their efforts before the next U.N. climate summit in Egypt this fall.
“We are looking to the G-20, to the world’s biggest emitters, to set ambitious targets ahead of COP27, and to reach those targets – by investing in renewables, cutting out coal and fossil fuel subsidies,” said Tina Stege, climate envoy for the Marshall Islands. “It’s long past time to deliver on promises made.” | 1 | 2,213 | 0 | https://www.ozarksfirst.com/local-news/national-news/un-warns-earth-firmly-on-track-toward-an-unlivable-world/ | 2022-04-04 22:25:15+00:00 | BERLIN (AP) — Temperatures on Earth will shoot past a key danger point unless greenhouse gas emissions fall faster than countries have committed, the world’s top body of climate scientists said Monday, warning of the consequences of inaction but also noting hopeful signs of progress.
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said the report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change revealed “a litany of broken climate promises” by governments and corporations, accusing them of stoking global warming by clinging to harmful fossil fuels.
“It is a file of shame, cataloguing the empty pledges that put us firmly on track toward an unlivable world,” he said.
Governments agreed in the 2015 Paris accord to keep global warming well below 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 Fahrenheit) this century, ideally no more than 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 Fahrenheit). Yet temperatures have already increased by over 1.1C (2F) since pre-industrial times, resulting in measurable increases in disasters such flash floods, extreme heat, more intense hurricanes and longer-burning wildfires, putting human lives in danger and costing governments hundreds of billions of dollars to confront.
“Projected global emissions from (national pledges) place limiting global warming to 1.5C beyond reach and make it harder after 2030 to limit warming to 2C,” the panel said.
In other words, the report’s co-chair, James Skea of Imperial College London, told The Associated Press: “If we continue acting as we are now, we’re not even going to limit warming to 2 degrees, never mind 1.5 degrees.”
Ongoing investments in fossil fuel infrastructure and clearing large swaths of forest for agriculture undermine the massive curbs in emissions needed to meet the Paris goal, the report found.
Emissions in 2019 were about 12% higher than they were in 2010 and 54% higher than in 1990, said Skea.
The rate of growth has slowed from 2.1% per year in the early part of this century to 1.3% per year between 2010 and 2019, the report’s authors said. But they voiced “high confidence” that unless countries step up their efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions, the planet will on average be 2.4C to 3.5C (4.3 to 6.3F) warmer by the end of the century — a level experts say is sure to cause severe impacts for much of the world’s population.
“Limiting warming to 1.5C requires global greenhouse gas emissions to peak before 2025 at the latest and be reduced by 43% by 2030,” he said.
Such cuts would be hard to achieve without without drastic, economy-wide measures, the panel acknowledged. It’s more likely that the world will pass 1.5C and efforts will then need to be made to bring temperatures back down again, including by removing vast amounts of carbon dioxide — the main greenhouse gas — from the atmosphere.
Many experts say this is unfeasible with current technologies, and even if it could be done it would be far costlier than preventing the emissions in the first place.
The report, numbering thousands of pages, doesn’t single out individual countries for blame. But the figures show much of the carbon dioxide already in the atmosphere was released by rich countries that were the first to burn coal, oil and gas beginning with the industrial revolution.
The U.N. panel said 40% of emissions since then came from Europe and North America. Just over 12% can be attributed to East Asia, which includes China. But China took over the position as world’s top emissions polluter from the United States in the mid-2000s.
Many countries and companies have used recent climate meetings to paint rosy pictures of their emissions-cutting efforts, while continuing to invest in fossil fuels and other polluting activities, Guterres charged.
“Some government and business leaders are saying one thing but doing another,” he said. “Simply put, they are lying. And the results will be catastrophic.”
The report isn’t without some hope, however.
Its authors highlight myriad ways in which the world can be brought back on track to 2C or even, with great effort, return to 1.5C after that threshold has been passed. This could require measures such as the removal of CO2 from the atmosphere with natural or artificial means, but also potentially risky technologies such as pumping aerosols into the sky to reflect sunlight.
Among the solutions recommended are a rapid shift away from fossil fuels toward renewable energy such as increasingly cheap solar and wind power, the electrification of transport, less meat consumption, more efficient use of resources and massive financial support for poor countries unable to pay for such measures without help.
The situation is as if humanity has “gone to the doctor in a very unhealthy condition,” and the doctor is saying “you need to change, it’s a radical change. If you don’t you’re in trouble,” said report co-author Pete Smith, a professor of soils and global change at the University Aberdeen.
“It’s not like a diet,” Smith said. “It is a fundamental lifestyle change. It’s changing what you eat, how much you eat and get on a more active lifestyle.”
One move often described as “low-hanging fruit” by scientists is to plug methane leaks from mines, wells and landfills that release the potent but short-lived greenhouse gas into the atmosphere. A pact forged between the United States and China at last year’s U.N. climate conference in Glasgow aims to do just that.
“The big message we’ve got (is that) human activities got us into this problem and human agency can actually get us out of it again,” said Skea, the panel’s co-chair.
The panel’s reports have become increasingly blunt since the first one was published in 1990, and the latest may be the last before the planet passes 1.5C of warming, Skea told the AP.
Last August, it said climate change caused by humans was “an established fact” and warned that some effects of global warming are already inevitable. In late February, the panel published a report that outlined how further temperature increases will multiply the risk of floods, storms, drought and heat waves worldwide.
Still, the British government’s former chief science adviser David King, who wasn’t involved in writing the report, said there are too optimistic assumptions about how much CO2 the world can afford to emit.
“We don’t actually have a remaining carbon budget to burn,” said King, who now chairs the Climate Crisis Advisory Group.
“It’s just the reverse. We’ve already done too much in the way of putting greenhouse gases up there,” he said, arguing that the IPCC’s calculation omits new risks and potentially self-reinforcing effects already happening, such as the increased absorption of heat into the oceans from sea ice loss and the release of methane as permafrost melts.
Such warnings were echoed by U.N. chief Guterres, citing scientists’ warnings that the planet is moving “perilously close to tipping points that could lead to cascading and irreversible climate impacts.”
“But high-emitting governments and corporations are not just turning a blind eye; they are adding fuel to the flames,” he said, calling for an end to further coal, oil and gas extraction. “Investing in new fossil fuels infrastructure is moral and economic madness.”
Vulnerable nations said the report showed big polluters have to step up their efforts before the next U.N. climate summit in Egypt this fall.
“We are looking to the G-20, to the world’s biggest emitters, to set ambitious targets ahead of COP27, and to reach those targets – by investing in renewables, cutting out coal and fossil fuel subsidies,” said Tina Stege, climate envoy for the Marshall Islands. “It’s long past time to deliver on promises made.”
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https://www.mychamplainvalley.com/news/national-news/un-warns-earth-firmly-on-track-toward-an-unlivable-world/ | BERLIN (AP) — Temperatures on Earth will shoot past a key danger point unless greenhouse gas emissions fall faster than countries have committed, the world’s top body of climate scientists said Monday, warning of the consequences of inaction but also noting hopeful signs of progress.
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said the report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change revealed “a litany of broken climate promises” by governments and corporations, accusing them of stoking global warming by clinging to harmful fossil fuels.
“It is a file of shame, cataloguing the empty pledges that put us firmly on track toward an unlivable world,” he said.
Governments agreed in the 2015 Paris accord to keep global warming well below 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 Fahrenheit) this century, ideally no more than 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 Fahrenheit). Yet temperatures have already increased by over 1.1C (2F) since pre-industrial times, resulting in measurable increases in disasters such flash floods, extreme heat, more intense hurricanes and longer-burning wildfires, putting human lives in danger and costing governments hundreds of billions of dollars to confront.
“Projected global emissions from (national pledges) place limiting global warming to 1.5C beyond reach and make it harder after 2030 to limit warming to 2C,” the panel said.
In other words, the report’s co-chair, James Skea of Imperial College London, told The Associated Press: “If we continue acting as we are now, we’re not even going to limit warming to 2 degrees, never mind 1.5 degrees.”
Ongoing investments in fossil fuel infrastructure and clearing large swaths of forest for agriculture undermine the massive curbs in emissions needed to meet the Paris goal, the report found.
Emissions in 2019 were about 12% higher than they were in 2010 and 54% higher than in 1990, said Skea.
The rate of growth has slowed from 2.1% per year in the early part of this century to 1.3% per year between 2010 and 2019, the report’s authors said. But they voiced “high confidence” that unless countries step up their efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions, the planet will on average be 2.4C to 3.5C (4.3 to 6.3F) warmer by the end of the century — a level experts say is sure to cause severe impacts for much of the world’s population.
“Limiting warming to 1.5C requires global greenhouse gas emissions to peak before 2025 at the latest and be reduced by 43% by 2030,” he said.
Such cuts would be hard to achieve without without drastic, economy-wide measures, the panel acknowledged. It’s more likely that the world will pass 1.5C and efforts will then need to be made to bring temperatures back down again, including by removing vast amounts of carbon dioxide — the main greenhouse gas — from the atmosphere.
Many experts say this is unfeasible with current technologies, and even if it could be done it would be far costlier than preventing the emissions in the first place.
The report, numbering thousands of pages, doesn’t single out individual countries for blame. But the figures show much of the carbon dioxide already in the atmosphere was released by rich countries that were the first to burn coal, oil and gas beginning with the industrial revolution.
The U.N. panel said 40% of emissions since then came from Europe and North America. Just over 12% can be attributed to East Asia, which includes China. But China took over the position as world’s top emissions polluter from the United States in the mid-2000s.
Many countries and companies have used recent climate meetings to paint rosy pictures of their emissions-cutting efforts, while continuing to invest in fossil fuels and other polluting activities, Guterres charged.
“Some government and business leaders are saying one thing but doing another,” he said. “Simply put, they are lying. And the results will be catastrophic.”
The report isn’t without some hope, however.
Its authors highlight myriad ways in which the world can be brought back on track to 2C or even, with great effort, return to 1.5C after that threshold has been passed. This could require measures such as the removal of CO2 from the atmosphere with natural or artificial means, but also potentially risky technologies such as pumping aerosols into the sky to reflect sunlight.
Among the solutions recommended are a rapid shift away from fossil fuels toward renewable energy such as increasingly cheap solar and wind power, the electrification of transport, less meat consumption, more efficient use of resources and massive financial support for poor countries unable to pay for such measures without help.
The situation is as if humanity has “gone to the doctor in a very unhealthy condition,” and the doctor is saying “you need to change, it’s a radical change. If you don’t you’re in trouble,” said report co-author Pete Smith, a professor of soils and global change at the University Aberdeen.
“It’s not like a diet,” Smith said. “It is a fundamental lifestyle change. It’s changing what you eat, how much you eat and get on a more active lifestyle.”
One move often described as “low-hanging fruit” by scientists is to plug methane leaks from mines, wells and landfills that release the potent but short-lived greenhouse gas into the atmosphere. A pact forged between the United States and China at last year’s U.N. climate conference in Glasgow aims to do just that.
“The big message we’ve got (is that) human activities got us into this problem and human agency can actually get us out of it again,” said Skea, the panel’s co-chair.
The panel’s reports have become increasingly blunt since the first one was published in 1990, and the latest may be the last before the planet passes 1.5C of warming, Skea told the AP.
Last August, it said climate change caused by humans was “an established fact” and warned that some effects of global warming are already inevitable. In late February, the panel published a report that outlined how further temperature increases will multiply the risk of floods, storms, drought and heat waves worldwide.
Still, the British government’s former chief science adviser David King, who wasn’t involved in writing the report, said there are too optimistic assumptions about how much CO2 the world can afford to emit.
“We don’t actually have a remaining carbon budget to burn,” said King, who now chairs the Climate Crisis Advisory Group.
“It’s just the reverse. We’ve already done too much in the way of putting greenhouse gases up there,” he said, arguing that the IPCC’s calculation omits new risks and potentially self-reinforcing effects already happening, such as the increased absorption of heat into the oceans from sea ice loss and the release of methane as permafrost melts.
Such warnings were echoed by U.N. chief Guterres, citing scientists’ warnings that the planet is moving “perilously close to tipping points that could lead to cascading and irreversible climate impacts.”
“But high-emitting governments and corporations are not just turning a blind eye; they are adding fuel to the flames,” he said, calling for an end to further coal, oil and gas extraction. “Investing in new fossil fuels infrastructure is moral and economic madness.”
Vulnerable nations said the report showed big polluters have to step up their efforts before the next U.N. climate summit in Egypt this fall.
“We are looking to the G-20, to the world’s biggest emitters, to set ambitious targets ahead of COP27, and to reach those targets – by investing in renewables, cutting out coal and fossil fuel subsidies,” said Tina Stege, climate envoy for the Marshall Islands. “It’s long past time to deliver on promises made.” | 2 | 2,633 | 0 | https://cbs4indy.com/news/national-world/earth-firmly-on-track-toward-an-unlivable-world-un-warns/ | 2022-04-04 22:27:03+00:00 | BERLIN (AP) — Temperatures on Earth will shoot past a key danger point unless greenhouse gas emissions fall faster than countries have committed, the world’s top body of climate scientists said Monday, warning of the consequences of inaction but also noting hopeful signs of progress.
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said the report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change revealed “a litany of broken climate promises” by governments and corporations, accusing them of stoking global warming by clinging to harmful fossil fuels.
“It is a file of shame, cataloguing the empty pledges that put us firmly on track toward an unlivable world,” he said.
Governments agreed in the 2015 Paris accord to keep global warming well below 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 Fahrenheit) this century, ideally no more than 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 Fahrenheit). Yet temperatures have already increased by over 1.1C (2F) since pre-industrial times, resulting in measurable increases in disasters such flash floods, extreme heat, more intense hurricanes and longer-burning wildfires, putting human lives in danger and costing governments hundreds of billions of dollars to confront.
“Projected global emissions from (national pledges) place limiting global warming to 1.5C beyond reach and make it harder after 2030 to limit warming to 2C,” the panel said.
In other words, the report’s co-chair, James Skea of Imperial College London, told The Associated Press: “If we continue acting as we are now, we’re not even going to limit warming to 2 degrees, never mind 1.5 degrees.”
Ongoing investments in fossil fuel infrastructure and clearing large swaths of forest for agriculture undermine the massive curbs in emissions needed to meet the Paris goal, the report found.
Emissions in 2019 were about 12% higher than they were in 2010 and 54% higher than in 1990, said Skea.
The rate of growth has slowed from 2.1% per year in the early part of this century to 1.3% per year between 2010 and 2019, the report’s authors said. But they voiced “high confidence” that unless countries step up their efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions, the planet will on average be 2.4C to 3.5C (4.3 to 6.3F) warmer by the end of the century — a level experts say is sure to cause severe impacts for much of the world’s population.
“Limiting warming to 1.5C requires global greenhouse gas emissions to peak before 2025 at the latest and be reduced by 43% by 2030,” he said.
Such cuts would be hard to achieve without without drastic, economy-wide measures, the panel acknowledged. It’s more likely that the world will pass 1.5C and efforts will then need to be made to bring temperatures back down again, including by removing vast amounts of carbon dioxide — the main greenhouse gas — from the atmosphere.
Many experts say this is unfeasible with current technologies, and even if it could be done it would be far costlier than preventing the emissions in the first place.
The report, numbering thousands of pages, doesn’t single out individual countries for blame. But the figures show much of the carbon dioxide already in the atmosphere was released by rich countries that were the first to burn coal, oil and gas beginning with the industrial revolution.
The U.N. panel said 40% of emissions since then came from Europe and North America. Just over 12% can be attributed to East Asia, which includes China. But China took over the position as world’s top emissions polluter from the United States in the mid-2000s.
Many countries and companies have used recent climate meetings to paint rosy pictures of their emissions-cutting efforts, while continuing to invest in fossil fuels and other polluting activities, Guterres charged.
“Some government and business leaders are saying one thing but doing another,” he said. “Simply put, they are lying. And the results will be catastrophic.”
The report isn’t without some hope, however.
Its authors highlight myriad ways in which the world can be brought back on track to 2C or even, with great effort, return to 1.5C after that threshold has been passed. This could require measures such as the removal of CO2 from the atmosphere with natural or artificial means, but also potentially risky technologies such as pumping aerosols into the sky to reflect sunlight.
Among the solutions recommended are a rapid shift away from fossil fuels toward renewable energy such as increasingly cheap solar and wind power, the electrification of transport, less meat consumption, more efficient use of resources and massive financial support for poor countries unable to pay for such measures without help.
The situation is as if humanity has “gone to the doctor in a very unhealthy condition,” and the doctor is saying “you need to change, it’s a radical change. If you don’t you’re in trouble,” said report co-author Pete Smith, a professor of soils and global change at the University Aberdeen.
“It’s not like a diet,” Smith said. “It is a fundamental lifestyle change. It’s changing what you eat, how much you eat and get on a more active lifestyle.”
One move often described as “low-hanging fruit” by scientists is to plug methane leaks from mines, wells and landfills that release the potent but short-lived greenhouse gas into the atmosphere. A pact forged between the United States and China at last year’s U.N. climate conference in Glasgow aims to do just that.
“The big message we’ve got (is that) human activities got us into this problem and human agency can actually get us out of it again,” said Skea, the panel’s co-chair.
The panel’s reports have become increasingly blunt since the first one was published in 1990, and the latest may be the last before the planet passes 1.5C of warming, Skea told the AP.
Last August, it said climate change caused by humans was “an established fact” and warned that some effects of global warming are already inevitable. In late February, the panel published a report that outlined how further temperature increases will multiply the risk of floods, storms, drought and heat waves worldwide.
Still, the British government’s former chief science adviser David King, who wasn’t involved in writing the report, said there are too optimistic assumptions about how much CO2 the world can afford to emit.
“We don’t actually have a remaining carbon budget to burn,” said King, who now chairs the Climate Crisis Advisory Group.
“It’s just the reverse. We’ve already done too much in the way of putting greenhouse gases up there,” he said, arguing that the IPCC’s calculation omits new risks and potentially self-reinforcing effects already happening, such as the increased absorption of heat into the oceans from sea ice loss and the release of methane as permafrost melts.
Such warnings were echoed by U.N. chief Guterres, citing scientists’ warnings that the planet is moving “perilously close to tipping points that could lead to cascading and irreversible climate impacts.”
“But high-emitting governments and corporations are not just turning a blind eye; they are adding fuel to the flames,” he said, calling for an end to further coal, oil and gas extraction. “Investing in new fossil fuels infrastructure is moral and economic madness.”
Vulnerable nations said the report showed big polluters have to step up their efforts before the next U.N. climate summit in Egypt this fall.
“We are looking to the G-20, to the world’s biggest emitters, to set ambitious targets ahead of COP27, and to reach those targets – by investing in renewables, cutting out coal and fossil fuel subsidies,” said Tina Stege, climate envoy for the Marshall Islands. “It’s long past time to deliver on promises made.” |
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Take a ride through the grocery store aisles and you’ll see soaring prices.
"The prices are astronomical," said shopper Carole Rosen.
"It’s getting way out of control," said shopper Rebekah Bearden.
Typical bought items are nearly doubling in price.
"It’s terrible, absolutely terrible. I’ve never seen prices this high," Bearden said.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture said food prices are expected to rise up to 4% by the end of this year. Breaking that down, dairy product prices are predicted to increase up to 10%, poultry prices are expected at 12%, and meat up to 15 1/2%,
"Part of that is because the shortage of supply, and then the transportation issues, getting the food to the stores," said accountant Mark Parks.
The war in Ukraine has caused gas prices to spike. Parks said the job shortages from the pandemic and the increase in gas are some reasons for the increase in food items.
"When gas goes up, everything goes up," Parks said.
To save money, budget first and plan ahead before your trip to the grocery store. No impulse buys now.
"First of all, you never want to go to the grocery store when you’re hungry because you will pick up stuff that you hadn’t planned to get," Parks said. "Items that are at eye level tend to be items that are higher priced items."
"I get certain things at Publix, I go to Aldi, I go to Winn Dixie. I shop around for whatever I'm going to buy that week, whoever has the best price," Bearden said. "You can buy in bulk and pay less for what you’re getting, but even these prices are going up."
Planning can be time consuming, but Parks said to think long-term with your money
"That time consuming process can save you tens, twenties, hundreds of dollars," Parks said. | 0 | 49,695 | 0.869811 | https://www.tv20detroit.com/news/national/what-effect-does-ukraine-conflict-have-on-grocery-prices | 2022-04-05 02:54:14+00:00 | Soaring prices are sparking tough decisions in the grocery store aisles. It’s all supply and demand affected by the COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine.
Take a ride through the grocery store aisles and you’ll see soaring prices.
"The prices are astronomical," said shopper Carole Rosen.
"It’s getting way out of control," said shopper Rebekah Bearden.
Typical bought items are nearly doubling in price.
"It’s terrible, absolutely terrible. I’ve never seen prices this high," Bearden said.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture said food prices are expected to rise up to 4% by the end of this year. Breaking that down, dairy product prices are predicted to increase up to 10%, poultry prices are expected at 12%, and meat up to 15 1/2%,
"Part of that is because the shortage of supply, and then the transportation issues, getting the food to the stores," said accountant Mark Parks.
The war in Ukraine has caused gas prices to spike. Parks said the job shortages from the pandemic and the increase in gas are some reasons for the increase in food items.
"When gas goes up, everything goes up," Parks said.
To save money, budget first and plan ahead before your trip to the grocery store. No impulse buys now.
"First of all, you never want to go to the grocery store when you’re hungry because you will pick up stuff that you hadn’t planned to get," Parks said. "Items that are at eye level tend to be items that are higher-priced items."
"I get certain things at Publix, I go to Aldi, I go to Winn Dixie. I shop around for whatever I'm going to buy that week, whoever has the best price," Bearden said. "You can buy in bulk and pay less for what you’re getting, but even these prices are going up."
Planning can be time-consuming, but Parks said to think long-term with your money
"That time-consuming process can save you tens, twenties, hundreds of dollars," Parks said. |
https://www.wptv.com/news/national/russia-ukraine-conflict/what-effect-does-ukraine-conflict-have-on-grocery-prices | Our most versatile model...our Original Fiesta bow has a lovely 63\" circle design bow shape is accesoritseble via its hook! No tying on strings are involved. In fact its beautiful tarnilla, and silver alder finish have many buyers thinking theres' a matching decoration around. A perfect item in our large display! Made over four months as its own pattern! WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — Soaring prices are sparking tough decisions in the grocery store aisles. It’s all supply and demand affected by the COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine.
Take a ride through the grocery store aisles and you’ll see soaring prices.
"The prices are astronomical," said shopper Carole Rosen.
"It’s getting way out of control," said shopper Rebekah Bearden.
Typical bought items are nearly doubling in price.
"It’s terrible, absolutely terrible. I’ve never seen prices this high," Bearden said.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture said food prices are expected to rise up to 4% by the end of this year. Breaking that down, dairy product prices are predicted to increase up to 10%, poultry prices are expected at 12%, and meat up to 15 1/2%,
"Part of that is because the shortage of supply, and then the transportation issues, getting the food to the stores," said accountant Mark Parks.
The war in Ukraine has caused gas prices to spike. Parks said the job shortages from the pandemic and the increase in gas are some reasons for the increase in food items.
"When gas goes up, everything goes up," Parks said.
To save money, budget first and plan ahead before your trip to the grocery store. No impulse buys now.
"First of all, you never want to go to the grocery store when you’re hungry because you will pick up stuff that you hadn’t planned to get," Parks said. "Items that are at eye level tend to be items that are higher priced items."
"I get certain things at Publix, I go to Aldi, I go to Winn Dixie. I shop around for whatever I'm going to buy that week, whoever has the best price," Bearden said. "You can buy in bulk and pay less for what you’re getting, but even these prices are going up."
Planning can be time consuming, but Parks said to think long-term with your money
"That time consuming process can save you tens, twenties, hundreds of dollars," Parks said. | 1 | 49,702 | 0.869811 | https://www.kxlf.com/news/national/what-effect-does-ukraine-conflict-have-on-grocery-prices | 2022-04-05 02:54:15+00:00 | Soaring prices are sparking tough decisions in the grocery store aisles. It’s all supply and demand affected by the COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine.
Take a ride through the grocery store aisles and you’ll see soaring prices.
"The prices are astronomical," said shopper Carole Rosen.
"It’s getting way out of control," said shopper Rebekah Bearden.
Typical bought items are nearly doubling in price.
"It’s terrible, absolutely terrible. I’ve never seen prices this high," Bearden said.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture said food prices are expected to rise up to 4% by the end of this year. Breaking that down, dairy product prices are predicted to increase up to 10%, poultry prices are expected at 12%, and meat up to 15 1/2%,
"Part of that is because the shortage of supply, and then the transportation issues, getting the food to the stores," said accountant Mark Parks.
The war in Ukraine has caused gas prices to spike. Parks said the job shortages from the pandemic and the increase in gas are some reasons for the increase in food items.
"When gas goes up, everything goes up," Parks said.
To save money, budget first and plan ahead before your trip to the grocery store. No impulse buys now.
"First of all, you never want to go to the grocery store when you’re hungry because you will pick up stuff that you hadn’t planned to get," Parks said. "Items that are at eye level tend to be items that are higher-priced items."
"I get certain things at Publix, I go to Aldi, I go to Winn Dixie. I shop around for whatever I'm going to buy that week, whoever has the best price," Bearden said. "You can buy in bulk and pay less for what you’re getting, but even these prices are going up."
Planning can be time-consuming, but Parks said to think long-term with your money
"That time-consuming process can save you tens, twenties, hundreds of dollars," Parks said. |
https://www.wptv.com/news/national/russia-ukraine-conflict/what-effect-does-ukraine-conflict-have-on-grocery-prices | Our most versatile model...our Original Fiesta bow has a lovely 63\" circle design bow shape is accesoritseble via its hook! No tying on strings are involved. In fact its beautiful tarnilla, and silver alder finish have many buyers thinking theres' a matching decoration around. A perfect item in our large display! Made over four months as its own pattern! WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — Soaring prices are sparking tough decisions in the grocery store aisles. It’s all supply and demand affected by the COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine.
Take a ride through the grocery store aisles and you’ll see soaring prices.
"The prices are astronomical," said shopper Carole Rosen.
"It’s getting way out of control," said shopper Rebekah Bearden.
Typical bought items are nearly doubling in price.
"It’s terrible, absolutely terrible. I’ve never seen prices this high," Bearden said.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture said food prices are expected to rise up to 4% by the end of this year. Breaking that down, dairy product prices are predicted to increase up to 10%, poultry prices are expected at 12%, and meat up to 15 1/2%,
"Part of that is because the shortage of supply, and then the transportation issues, getting the food to the stores," said accountant Mark Parks.
The war in Ukraine has caused gas prices to spike. Parks said the job shortages from the pandemic and the increase in gas are some reasons for the increase in food items.
"When gas goes up, everything goes up," Parks said.
To save money, budget first and plan ahead before your trip to the grocery store. No impulse buys now.
"First of all, you never want to go to the grocery store when you’re hungry because you will pick up stuff that you hadn’t planned to get," Parks said. "Items that are at eye level tend to be items that are higher priced items."
"I get certain things at Publix, I go to Aldi, I go to Winn Dixie. I shop around for whatever I'm going to buy that week, whoever has the best price," Bearden said. "You can buy in bulk and pay less for what you’re getting, but even these prices are going up."
Planning can be time consuming, but Parks said to think long-term with your money
"That time consuming process can save you tens, twenties, hundreds of dollars," Parks said. | 2 | 49,713 | 0.869811 | https://www.wsfltv.com/news/national/what-effect-does-ukraine-conflict-have-on-grocery-prices | 2022-04-05 02:54:20+00:00 | Soaring prices are sparking tough decisions in the grocery store aisles. It’s all supply and demand affected by the COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine.
Take a ride through the grocery store aisles and you’ll see soaring prices.
"The prices are astronomical," said shopper Carole Rosen.
"It’s getting way out of control," said shopper Rebekah Bearden.
Typical bought items are nearly doubling in price.
"It’s terrible, absolutely terrible. I’ve never seen prices this high," Bearden said.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture said food prices are expected to rise up to 4% by the end of this year. Breaking that down, dairy product prices are predicted to increase up to 10%, poultry prices are expected at 12%, and meat up to 15 1/2%,
"Part of that is because the shortage of supply, and then the transportation issues, getting the food to the stores," said accountant Mark Parks.
The war in Ukraine has caused gas prices to spike. Parks said the job shortages from the pandemic and the increase in gas are some reasons for the increase in food items.
"When gas goes up, everything goes up," Parks said.
To save money, budget first and plan ahead before your trip to the grocery store. No impulse buys now.
"First of all, you never want to go to the grocery store when you’re hungry because you will pick up stuff that you hadn’t planned to get," Parks said. "Items that are at eye level tend to be items that are higher-priced items."
"I get certain things at Publix, I go to Aldi, I go to Winn Dixie. I shop around for whatever I'm going to buy that week, whoever has the best price," Bearden said. "You can buy in bulk and pay less for what you’re getting, but even these prices are going up."
Planning can be time-consuming, but Parks said to think long-term with your money
"That time-consuming process can save you tens, twenties, hundreds of dollars," Parks said. |
https://www.beaumontenterprise.com/news/article/Charges-dropped-against-Danish-man-in-Colorado-17056992.php | DENVER (AP) — A judge on Monday dismissed criminal charges against a Danish man accused of starting a Colorado wildfire that destroyed about 140 homes in 2018 after he was repeatedly found unable to stand trial.
It was not clear what would happen to Jesper Joergensen, who has been diagnosed with delusional disorder, once he is released from the state mental hospital, which was expected to happen later in the day, but he will apparently be a free man.
Judge Gregory Lyman had hoped Joergensen, who was in the country illegally when he was accused of starting the fire while living in his truck and cooking food outside, would be deported if the charges were dropped. However, he said U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement had no intention of doing that, without elaborating. Despite that and following an unsuccessful attempt to have Joergensen forcibly medicated, Lyman said he believed the law required him to dismiss the case.
A spokesperson for ICE said she did not immediately have details on the case.
Rikke Andresen of the Danish consulate in Chicago said she was aware of what had happened but said she couldn't comment on the case, including whether the Danish government would offer assistance to Joergensen or help him return to Denmark.
According to court filings, Joergensen has falsely claimed to have had a romantic relationship with the singer Alanis Morissette and that various people associated with her have set him up.
Lyman said he believed Joergensen did not intentionally start the fire and noted that the former U.S. Forest Service worker, Terry Barton, convicted of accidentally starting a large wildfire that destroyed 133 homes near Denver in 2002, a similarly dry year, was sentenced to six years in prison. Joergensen has been in custody for nearly four years, since shortly after the fire started and burned more than 156 square miles (404 square kilometers) about 205 miles (330 kilometers) south of Denver. He would likely get a similar sentence if he had gone to trial, Lyman said. Unlike Barton though, Joergensen will not be required to provide restitution to those who lost their homes since he was not convicted of a crime, he noted.
“If punishment was determined by the level of loss to victims, then punishment would never end," said Lyman, who said he hoped Joergensen would get support to keep him from living in his truck again.
The decision frustrated Tim and Marge Thomsen, who lost their mountain home where they lived for 20 years and had planned to spend their retirement, prompting a big renovation project. The fire hit after a mild and dry winter, right after Tim Thomsen had finished the window trim in the house, and the blaze quickly spread over the parched landscape. They lost all the money they put into their house and were forced to move to the more affordable high desert nearby since they were underinsured, Marge Thomsen said.
"I feel like he’s had more rights than we’ve had,” she said of Joergensen.
Lyman considered dropping the charges against Joergensen early last year after his lawyers said he would be deported. However, he abandoned that idea because of the new Biden administration's changes that would not make him a priority for deportation.
Lyman then ordered Joergensen to be sent to the Colorado Mental Health Institute in Pueblo, where patients can be forcibly medicated if a judge agrees certain legal criteria are met. He was admitted in June after the normally slow admissions process was slowed further by pandemic restrictions.
In August, another judge allowed Joergensen to be forcibly medicated to treat his significant personality disorder and delusional disorder at the state hospital but reversed the order in December after Joergensen’s lawyers intervened.
According to a court filing by Joergensen’s lawyers seeking to dismiss the case, Joergensen showed “slight improvements” after taking the medication himself at the hospital, to avoid having it forcibly administered.
However, his lawyers argued he would likely regress after being sent back to a county jail where he would stay while standing trial because the jail does not have staff to forcibly medicate people. | 0 | 14,313 | 0 | https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/4496520 | 2022-04-04 23:22:39+00:00 | DENVER (AP) — A judge on Monday dismissed criminal charges against a Danish man accused of starting a Colorado wildfire that destroyed about 140 homes in 2018 after he was repeatedly found unable to stand trial.
It was not clear what would happen to Jesper Joergensen, who has been diagnosed with delusional disorder, once he is released from the state mental hospital, which was expected to happen later in the day, but he will apparently be a free man.
Judge Gregory Lyman had hoped Joergensen, who was in the country illegally when he was accused of starting the fire while living in his truck and cooking food outside, would be deported if the charges were dropped. However, he said U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement had no intention of doing that, without elaborating. Despite that and following an unsuccessful attempt to have Joergensen forcibly medicated, Lyman said he believed the law required him to dismiss the case.
A spokesperson for ICE said she did not immediately have details on the case.
Rikke Andresen of the Danish consulate in Chicago said she was aware of what had happened but said she couldn't comment on the case, including whether the Danish government would offer assistance to Joergensen or help him return to Denmark.
According to court filings, Joergensen has falsely claimed to have had a romantic relationship with the singer Alanis Morissette and that various people associated with her have set him up.
Lyman said he believed Joergensen did not intentionally start the fire and noted that the former U.S. Forest Service worker, Terry Barton, convicted of accidentally starting a large wildfire that destroyed 133 homes near Denver in 2002, a similarly dry year, was sentenced to six years in prison. Joergensen has been in custody for nearly four years, since shortly after the fire started and burned more than 156 square miles (404 square kilometers) about 205 miles (330 kilometers) south of Denver. He would likely get a similar sentence if he had gone to trial, Lyman said. Unlike Barton though, Joergensen will not be required to provide restitution to those who lost their homes since he was not convicted of a crime, he noted.
“If punishment was determined by the level of loss to victims, then punishment would never end," said Lyman, who said he hoped Joergensen would get support to keep him from living in his truck again.
The decision frustrated Tim and Marge Thomsen, who lost their mountain home where they lived for 20 years and had planned to spend their retirement, prompting a big renovation project. The fire hit after a mild and dry winter, right after Tim Thomsen had finished the window trim in the house, and the blaze quickly spread over the parched landscape. They lost all the money they put into their house and were forced to move to the more affordable high desert nearby since they were underinsured, Marge Thomsen said.
"I feel like he’s had more rights than we’ve had,” she said of Joergensen.
Lyman considered dropping the charges against Joergensen early last year after his lawyers said he would be deported. However, he abandoned that idea because of the new Biden administration's changes that would not make him a priority for deportation.
Lyman then ordered Joergensen to be sent to the Colorado Mental Health Institute in Pueblo, where patients can be forcibly medicated if a judge agrees certain legal criteria are met. He was admitted in June after the normally slow admissions process was slowed further by pandemic restrictions.
In August, another judge allowed Joergensen to be forcibly medicated to treat his significant personality disorder and delusional disorder at the state hospital but reversed the order in December after Joergensen’s lawyers intervened.
According to a court filing by Joergensen’s lawyers seeking to dismiss the case, Joergensen showed “slight improvements” after taking the medication himself at the hospital, to avoid having it forcibly administered.
However, his lawyers argued he would likely regress after being sent back to a county jail where he would stay while standing trial because the jail does not have staff to forcibly medicate people. |
https://www.beaumontenterprise.com/news/article/Charges-dropped-against-Danish-man-in-Colorado-17056992.php | DENVER (AP) — A judge on Monday dismissed criminal charges against a Danish man accused of starting a Colorado wildfire that destroyed about 140 homes in 2018 after he was repeatedly found unable to stand trial.
It was not clear what would happen to Jesper Joergensen, who has been diagnosed with delusional disorder, once he is released from the state mental hospital, which was expected to happen later in the day, but he will apparently be a free man.
Judge Gregory Lyman had hoped Joergensen, who was in the country illegally when he was accused of starting the fire while living in his truck and cooking food outside, would be deported if the charges were dropped. However, he said U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement had no intention of doing that, without elaborating. Despite that and following an unsuccessful attempt to have Joergensen forcibly medicated, Lyman said he believed the law required him to dismiss the case.
A spokesperson for ICE said she did not immediately have details on the case.
Rikke Andresen of the Danish consulate in Chicago said she was aware of what had happened but said she couldn't comment on the case, including whether the Danish government would offer assistance to Joergensen or help him return to Denmark.
According to court filings, Joergensen has falsely claimed to have had a romantic relationship with the singer Alanis Morissette and that various people associated with her have set him up.
Lyman said he believed Joergensen did not intentionally start the fire and noted that the former U.S. Forest Service worker, Terry Barton, convicted of accidentally starting a large wildfire that destroyed 133 homes near Denver in 2002, a similarly dry year, was sentenced to six years in prison. Joergensen has been in custody for nearly four years, since shortly after the fire started and burned more than 156 square miles (404 square kilometers) about 205 miles (330 kilometers) south of Denver. He would likely get a similar sentence if he had gone to trial, Lyman said. Unlike Barton though, Joergensen will not be required to provide restitution to those who lost their homes since he was not convicted of a crime, he noted.
“If punishment was determined by the level of loss to victims, then punishment would never end," said Lyman, who said he hoped Joergensen would get support to keep him from living in his truck again.
The decision frustrated Tim and Marge Thomsen, who lost their mountain home where they lived for 20 years and had planned to spend their retirement, prompting a big renovation project. The fire hit after a mild and dry winter, right after Tim Thomsen had finished the window trim in the house, and the blaze quickly spread over the parched landscape. They lost all the money they put into their house and were forced to move to the more affordable high desert nearby since they were underinsured, Marge Thomsen said.
"I feel like he’s had more rights than we’ve had,” she said of Joergensen.
Lyman considered dropping the charges against Joergensen early last year after his lawyers said he would be deported. However, he abandoned that idea because of the new Biden administration's changes that would not make him a priority for deportation.
Lyman then ordered Joergensen to be sent to the Colorado Mental Health Institute in Pueblo, where patients can be forcibly medicated if a judge agrees certain legal criteria are met. He was admitted in June after the normally slow admissions process was slowed further by pandemic restrictions.
In August, another judge allowed Joergensen to be forcibly medicated to treat his significant personality disorder and delusional disorder at the state hospital but reversed the order in December after Joergensen’s lawyers intervened.
According to a court filing by Joergensen’s lawyers seeking to dismiss the case, Joergensen showed “slight improvements” after taking the medication himself at the hospital, to avoid having it forcibly administered.
However, his lawyers argued he would likely regress after being sent back to a county jail where he would stay while standing trial because the jail does not have staff to forcibly medicate people. | 1 | 124,506 | 0 | https://www.milfordmirror.com/news/article/Charges-dropped-against-Danish-man-in-Colorado-17056992.php | 2022-04-04 20:36:40+00:00 | DENVER (AP) — A judge on Monday dismissed criminal charges against a Danish man accused of starting a Colorado wildfire that destroyed about 140 homes in 2018 after he was repeatedly found unable to stand trial.
It was not clear what would happen to Jesper Joergensen, who has been diagnosed with delusional disorder, once he is released from the state mental hospital, which was expected to happen later in the day, but he will apparently be a free man.
Judge Gregory Lyman had hoped Joergensen, who was in the country illegally when he was accused of starting the fire while living in his truck and cooking food outside, would be deported if the charges were dropped. However, he said U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement had no intention of doing that, without elaborating. Despite that and following an unsuccessful attempt to have Joergensen forcibly medicated, Lyman said he believed the law required him to dismiss the case.
A spokesperson for ICE said she did not immediately have details on the case.
Rikke Andresen of the Danish consulate in Chicago said she was aware of what had happened but said she couldn't comment on the case, including whether the Danish government would offer assistance to Joergensen or help him return to Denmark.
According to court filings, Joergensen has falsely claimed to have had a romantic relationship with the singer Alanis Morissette and that various people associated with her have set him up.
Lyman said he believed Joergensen did not intentionally start the fire and noted that the former U.S. Forest Service worker, Terry Barton, convicted of accidentally starting a large wildfire that destroyed 133 homes near Denver in 2002, a similarly dry year, was sentenced to six years in prison. Joergensen has been in custody for nearly four years, since shortly after the fire started and burned more than 156 square miles (404 square kilometers) about 205 miles (330 kilometers) south of Denver. He would likely get a similar sentence if he had gone to trial, Lyman said. Unlike Barton though, Joergensen will not be required to provide restitution to those who lost their homes since he was not convicted of a crime, he noted.
“If punishment was determined by the level of loss to victims, then punishment would never end," said Lyman, who said he hoped Joergensen would get support to keep him from living in his truck again.
The decision frustrated Tim and Marge Thomsen, who lost their mountain home where they lived for 20 years and had planned to spend their retirement, prompting a big renovation project. The fire hit after a mild and dry winter, right after Tim Thomsen had finished the window trim in the house, and the blaze quickly spread over the parched landscape. They lost all the money they put into their house and were forced to move to the more affordable high desert nearby since they were underinsured, Marge Thomsen said.
"I feel like he’s had more rights than we’ve had,” she said of Joergensen.
Lyman considered dropping the charges against Joergensen early last year after his lawyers said he would be deported. However, he abandoned that idea because of the new Biden administration's changes that would not make him a priority for deportation.
Lyman then ordered Joergensen to be sent to the Colorado Mental Health Institute in Pueblo, where patients can be forcibly medicated if a judge agrees certain legal criteria are met. He was admitted in June after the normally slow admissions process was slowed further by pandemic restrictions.
In August, another judge allowed Joergensen to be forcibly medicated to treat his significant personality disorder and delusional disorder at the state hospital but reversed the order in December after Joergensen’s lawyers intervened.
According to a court filing by Joergensen’s lawyers seeking to dismiss the case, Joergensen showed “slight improvements” after taking the medication himself at the hospital, to avoid having it forcibly administered.
However, his lawyers argued he would likely regress after being sent back to a county jail where he would stay while standing trial because the jail does not have staff to forcibly medicate people. |
https://www.beaumontenterprise.com/news/article/Charges-dropped-against-Danish-man-in-Colorado-17056992.php | DENVER (AP) — A judge on Monday dismissed criminal charges against a Danish man accused of starting a Colorado wildfire that destroyed about 140 homes in 2018 after he was repeatedly found unable to stand trial.
It was not clear what would happen to Jesper Joergensen, who has been diagnosed with delusional disorder, once he is released from the state mental hospital, which was expected to happen later in the day, but he will apparently be a free man.
Judge Gregory Lyman had hoped Joergensen, who was in the country illegally when he was accused of starting the fire while living in his truck and cooking food outside, would be deported if the charges were dropped. However, he said U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement had no intention of doing that, without elaborating. Despite that and following an unsuccessful attempt to have Joergensen forcibly medicated, Lyman said he believed the law required him to dismiss the case.
A spokesperson for ICE said she did not immediately have details on the case.
Rikke Andresen of the Danish consulate in Chicago said she was aware of what had happened but said she couldn't comment on the case, including whether the Danish government would offer assistance to Joergensen or help him return to Denmark.
According to court filings, Joergensen has falsely claimed to have had a romantic relationship with the singer Alanis Morissette and that various people associated with her have set him up.
Lyman said he believed Joergensen did not intentionally start the fire and noted that the former U.S. Forest Service worker, Terry Barton, convicted of accidentally starting a large wildfire that destroyed 133 homes near Denver in 2002, a similarly dry year, was sentenced to six years in prison. Joergensen has been in custody for nearly four years, since shortly after the fire started and burned more than 156 square miles (404 square kilometers) about 205 miles (330 kilometers) south of Denver. He would likely get a similar sentence if he had gone to trial, Lyman said. Unlike Barton though, Joergensen will not be required to provide restitution to those who lost their homes since he was not convicted of a crime, he noted.
“If punishment was determined by the level of loss to victims, then punishment would never end," said Lyman, who said he hoped Joergensen would get support to keep him from living in his truck again.
The decision frustrated Tim and Marge Thomsen, who lost their mountain home where they lived for 20 years and had planned to spend their retirement, prompting a big renovation project. The fire hit after a mild and dry winter, right after Tim Thomsen had finished the window trim in the house, and the blaze quickly spread over the parched landscape. They lost all the money they put into their house and were forced to move to the more affordable high desert nearby since they were underinsured, Marge Thomsen said.
"I feel like he’s had more rights than we’ve had,” she said of Joergensen.
Lyman considered dropping the charges against Joergensen early last year after his lawyers said he would be deported. However, he abandoned that idea because of the new Biden administration's changes that would not make him a priority for deportation.
Lyman then ordered Joergensen to be sent to the Colorado Mental Health Institute in Pueblo, where patients can be forcibly medicated if a judge agrees certain legal criteria are met. He was admitted in June after the normally slow admissions process was slowed further by pandemic restrictions.
In August, another judge allowed Joergensen to be forcibly medicated to treat his significant personality disorder and delusional disorder at the state hospital but reversed the order in December after Joergensen’s lawyers intervened.
According to a court filing by Joergensen’s lawyers seeking to dismiss the case, Joergensen showed “slight improvements” after taking the medication himself at the hospital, to avoid having it forcibly administered.
However, his lawyers argued he would likely regress after being sent back to a county jail where he would stay while standing trial because the jail does not have staff to forcibly medicate people. | 2 | 124,710 | 0 | https://www.trumbulltimes.com/news/article/Charges-dropped-against-Danish-man-in-Colorado-17056992.php | 2022-04-04 20:37:40+00:00 | DENVER (AP) — A judge on Monday dismissed criminal charges against a Danish man accused of starting a Colorado wildfire that destroyed about 140 homes in 2018 after he was repeatedly found unable to stand trial.
It was not clear what would happen to Jesper Joergensen, who has been diagnosed with delusional disorder, once he is released from the state mental hospital, which was expected to happen later in the day, but he will apparently be a free man.
Judge Gregory Lyman had hoped Joergensen, who was in the country illegally when he was accused of starting the fire while living in his truck and cooking food outside, would be deported if the charges were dropped. However, he said U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement had no intention of doing that, without elaborating. Despite that and following an unsuccessful attempt to have Joergensen forcibly medicated, Lyman said he believed the law required him to dismiss the case.
A spokesperson for ICE said she did not immediately have details on the case.
Rikke Andresen of the Danish consulate in Chicago said she was aware of what had happened but said she couldn't comment on the case, including whether the Danish government would offer assistance to Joergensen or help him return to Denmark.
According to court filings, Joergensen has falsely claimed to have had a romantic relationship with the singer Alanis Morissette and that various people associated with her have set him up.
Lyman said he believed Joergensen did not intentionally start the fire and noted that the former U.S. Forest Service worker, Terry Barton, convicted of accidentally starting a large wildfire that destroyed 133 homes near Denver in 2002, a similarly dry year, was sentenced to six years in prison. Joergensen has been in custody for nearly four years, since shortly after the fire started and burned more than 156 square miles (404 square kilometers) about 205 miles (330 kilometers) south of Denver. He would likely get a similar sentence if he had gone to trial, Lyman said. Unlike Barton though, Joergensen will not be required to provide restitution to those who lost their homes since he was not convicted of a crime, he noted.
“If punishment was determined by the level of loss to victims, then punishment would never end," said Lyman, who said he hoped Joergensen would get support to keep him from living in his truck again.
The decision frustrated Tim and Marge Thomsen, who lost their mountain home where they lived for 20 years and had planned to spend their retirement, prompting a big renovation project. The fire hit after a mild and dry winter, right after Tim Thomsen had finished the window trim in the house, and the blaze quickly spread over the parched landscape. They lost all the money they put into their house and were forced to move to the more affordable high desert nearby since they were underinsured, Marge Thomsen said.
"I feel like he’s had more rights than we’ve had,” she said of Joergensen.
Lyman considered dropping the charges against Joergensen early last year after his lawyers said he would be deported. However, he abandoned that idea because of the new Biden administration's changes that would not make him a priority for deportation.
Lyman then ordered Joergensen to be sent to the Colorado Mental Health Institute in Pueblo, where patients can be forcibly medicated if a judge agrees certain legal criteria are met. He was admitted in June after the normally slow admissions process was slowed further by pandemic restrictions.
In August, another judge allowed Joergensen to be forcibly medicated to treat his significant personality disorder and delusional disorder at the state hospital but reversed the order in December after Joergensen’s lawyers intervened.
According to a court filing by Joergensen’s lawyers seeking to dismiss the case, Joergensen showed “slight improvements” after taking the medication himself at the hospital, to avoid having it forcibly administered.
However, his lawyers argued he would likely regress after being sent back to a county jail where he would stay while standing trial because the jail does not have staff to forcibly medicate people. |
https://www.sfgate.com/food/article/San-Francisco-Popeyes-is-for-sale-17056841.php | If you’ve ever had a night out along Divisadero Street, whether it be Club Waziema, Mini Bar, The Page or other spots, no doubt you’ve had at least the late-night craving for Popeyes fried chicken. It’s hard not to, with the smell that wafts down the street from the aioli-colored restaurant on the corner of Hayes and Divisadero.
According to Hoodline, San Francisco is at risk of losing that Popeyes location at 599 Divisadero.
The building was recently listed for sale with a price tag of $2.395 million on the website of Marcus & Millichap, a national commercial real estate company.
The Divisadero Popeyes, which opened 36 years ago, had its ups and downs in recent years. In 2019, the fast-food restaurant was cited for "major violations that constitute an immediate danger to public health or safety and/or operating without a valid health permit" and was briefly shut down by the Department of Public Health. In 2014, it reportedly hit the open market, but the leaseholder made renovations to the building instead and it stayed put.
The key takeaway from the real estate listing is that the land is zoned for “mixed-use development,” which includes residential units. In a city that keeps growing new apartment buildings, this location could be added to that long list.
There are still four years remaining on the current lease, but property development starts years in advance. You’ll still have a few years to grab that box of crunchy, sobering chicken after a booze-fueled night out.
The site originally sold for $350,000 in 1988, according to SocketSite. | 0 | 111,310 | 0.770222 | https://www.pjstar.com/story/business/2022/08/31/popeyes-on-knoxville-ave-in-peoria-reopening-after-remodeling/65416483007/ | 2022-08-31 12:46:56+00:00 | What's going on with the Popeyes on Knoxville Avenue in Peoria? Here's what to know
PEORIA - A Popeyes location on Knoxville Avenue plans to reopen following a remodeling, according to the city's Planning and Zoning Division.
Kerilyn Weick, a senior urban planner with Planning and Zoning, said that the fried chicken restaurant is undergoing changes to its façade and will retain the same footprint.
A permit for an interior and exterior remodeling of the location was issued on July 28 to RNS Electric, a contractor based in Washington, Illinois. The Popeyes channel letters have been removed from the side of the building and the site is surrounded by a chain link fence.
The restaurant's most recent closure has prompted speculation from residents that the site might be demolished or be slated to house a different business.
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In January, local health and public-development officials ordered the restaurant to close temporarily, citing inappropriate disposal and storage of used cooking grease. Grease had leaked onto the restaurant's drive-thru lanes and sidewalks and threatened to leak into a nearby stormwater-retention pond and the city sewer system, the city's community development director said at the time.
The Dhanani Group, the Texas-based firm that owns the Knoxville Avenue Popeye's, did not return a request for comment.
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https://www.sfgate.com/food/article/San-Francisco-Popeyes-is-for-sale-17056841.php | If you’ve ever had a night out along Divisadero Street, whether it be Club Waziema, Mini Bar, The Page or other spots, no doubt you’ve had at least the late-night craving for Popeyes fried chicken. It’s hard not to, with the smell that wafts down the street from the aioli-colored restaurant on the corner of Hayes and Divisadero.
According to Hoodline, San Francisco is at risk of losing that Popeyes location at 599 Divisadero.
The building was recently listed for sale with a price tag of $2.395 million on the website of Marcus & Millichap, a national commercial real estate company.
The Divisadero Popeyes, which opened 36 years ago, had its ups and downs in recent years. In 2019, the fast-food restaurant was cited for "major violations that constitute an immediate danger to public health or safety and/or operating without a valid health permit" and was briefly shut down by the Department of Public Health. In 2014, it reportedly hit the open market, but the leaseholder made renovations to the building instead and it stayed put.
The key takeaway from the real estate listing is that the land is zoned for “mixed-use development,” which includes residential units. In a city that keeps growing new apartment buildings, this location could be added to that long list.
There are still four years remaining on the current lease, but property development starts years in advance. You’ll still have a few years to grab that box of crunchy, sobering chicken after a booze-fueled night out.
The site originally sold for $350,000 in 1988, according to SocketSite. | 1 | 110,380 | 0.792572 | https://www.sfgate.com/food/article/Popeyes-is-opening-a-new-restaurant-in-SF-17263646.php | 2022-06-24 20:12:36+00:00 | Popular fried chicken chain Popeyes is opening a new San Francisco location inside the Westfield San Francisco Centre. The restaurant will replace a former Chipotle, according to San Francisco Planning records, and confirmed to SFGATE by a Westfield representative.
Popeyes is a multinational chain that’s been around since 1972, but it experienced a new surge in popularity after launching a viral chicken sandwich in August 2019. The extreme demand for the sandwich quickly spiraled out of control, with long lines overwhelming employees and even resulting in violence.
Fortunately, the Popeyes chicken sandwich craze has calmed down since then. San Francisco is home to three existing Popeyes locations, although the building for the Divisadero Street location was recently listed for sale (but still has four years left on its current lease).
The opening date for the new Popeyes at the Westfield remains unclear, as Popeyes could not be reached for comment at time of publication. However, a permit for the business was approved in March, according to permitting documents.
Popeyes is not the first national chain to take up residence in the Westfield as of late. About a year ago, the mall welcomed a new location of Shake Shack, an East Coast-based burger restaurant. Meanwhile, just a few months ago, the news broke that the Westfield may change hands by 2024 — its Paris-based owners announced plans to sell off most of its American malls.
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https://www.sfgate.com/food/article/San-Francisco-Popeyes-is-for-sale-17056841.php | If you’ve ever had a night out along Divisadero Street, whether it be Club Waziema, Mini Bar, The Page or other spots, no doubt you’ve had at least the late-night craving for Popeyes fried chicken. It’s hard not to, with the smell that wafts down the street from the aioli-colored restaurant on the corner of Hayes and Divisadero.
According to Hoodline, San Francisco is at risk of losing that Popeyes location at 599 Divisadero.
The building was recently listed for sale with a price tag of $2.395 million on the website of Marcus & Millichap, a national commercial real estate company.
The Divisadero Popeyes, which opened 36 years ago, had its ups and downs in recent years. In 2019, the fast-food restaurant was cited for "major violations that constitute an immediate danger to public health or safety and/or operating without a valid health permit" and was briefly shut down by the Department of Public Health. In 2014, it reportedly hit the open market, but the leaseholder made renovations to the building instead and it stayed put.
The key takeaway from the real estate listing is that the land is zoned for “mixed-use development,” which includes residential units. In a city that keeps growing new apartment buildings, this location could be added to that long list.
There are still four years remaining on the current lease, but property development starts years in advance. You’ll still have a few years to grab that box of crunchy, sobering chicken after a booze-fueled night out.
The site originally sold for $350,000 in 1988, according to SocketSite. | 2 | 5,792 | 0.795855 | https://www.press-citizen.com/story/news/2022/06/14/popeyes-eyes-new-location-fast-food-iowa-citys-south-district/7611273001/ | 2022-06-15 03:52:54+00:00 | 'Good chicken and greasy fries': Popeyes gets approval for new restaurant in Iowa City's South District
A new Popeyes restaurant cleared an early hurdle to get approval for a location in Pepperwood Plaza in Iowa City's South District.
The Iowa City Board of Adjustment voted 4-0 for a special exception for a two-lane drive through for the fried chicken restaurant last week, clearing the way for city officials to begin evaluating the site's plan and designs. Before building the new location, land owner Jam Investments LLC needs to get city staff approval on its site plan review, which could take several months.
The fast food-chain is planning to rebuild what is now the empty husk of a former Pizza Hut restaurant at 1926 Keokuk St., which is currently peppered with signs reading "Free COVID-19 Testing" in the windows. Though the structure is empty, the new Popeyes location could breathe new life into the building in a growing commercial area.
The owner has applied to redevelop the site, likely demolishing or remodeling the current building to construct the Popeyes.
Architectural plans for the site posted on the city's website in January show a 3,000- square-foot building with two drive-through lanes and two drive-up windows with 18 parking spots on the northern side of the building.
Thomas Scesniak, the architect on the project, told the Board of Adjustment that the restaurant would likely be open from 10:30 a.m. to 11 p.m. on weekdays and on Friday and Saturday until midnight.
He joked that this would help the restaurant "get those late partygoers to get that good chicken and greasy fries."
Jam Investments of Altoona owns 14 other Popeyes locations in Iowa, including the only other one in the Iowa City metro, at 750 Coral Ridge Ave. in Coralville. Three locations in Cedar Falls, Dubuque and Waterloo and an upcoming location in Ankeny are owned by the franchisee. Asif Poonja is listed as the registered agent of the LLC on the Iowa Secretary of State's website.
The Popeyes location would join a commercial district that local residents are attempting to revitalize with the use of a Self-Supported Municipal Improvement District, which is a self-imposed taxing district meant to fund improvements to a certain area.
The plaza also contains a Taco Bell, Midwest One Bank, Stuff Etc. and more businesses. A second building that also used to be a Pizza Hut sits across the street from this location and now houses Southside Liquor and Tobacco.
The Iowa City area recently got its first Raising Cane's Chicken Fingers location in Coralville that opened in May.
George Shillcock is the Press-Citizen's local government and development reporter covering Iowa City and Johnson County. He can be reached at (515) 350-6307, GShillcock@press-citizen.com and on Twitter @ShillcockGeorge |
https://wpst.com/a-new-muppets-mayhem-show-is-coming-to-disney-plus/ | A New ‘Muppets Mayhem’ Show Is Coming to Disney Plus
Disney is bringing yet another new Muppet show to Disney+. This is the second series starring Jim Henson’s famous creations on the streaming service in less than two years; a third was developed by a group of producers including Josh Gad but never made it to air. Plus, Disney+ also has a Muppets original movie, Muppets Haunted Mansion, which premiered last fall.
This new series is called The Muppets Mayhem and it focuses on the Electric Mayhem, the outlandish musical group that’s been part of the Muppets cast since the days of The Muppet Show. The band includes Dr. Teeth on keyboards, Floyd Pepper on bass, Janice on guitar, Zoot on saxophone, Lips on trumpet, and of course Animal on drums — who, I just noticed in the picture above, has kind of disturbing sharp teeth. (Maybe Dr. Teeth gave them to him?)
According to Disney’s official announcement, the series follows the Electric Mayhem, as they go “on an epic musical journey to finally record their first studio album. With the help of a driven young music executive, Nora, the old-school Muppet band comes face to face with the current day music scene as they try to finally go platinum.” In addition to Animal, Dr. Teeth, and the rest of the crew, the show will also star Lilly Singh.
The series comes from Adam F. Goldberg, Bill Barretta and Jeff Yorkes; Goldberg is the creator of The Goldbergs while Barretta is a longtime Muppet performer (his characters include Dr. Teeth, Rowlf, the Swedish Chef, and Pepe the Prawn) who also produces and directs many Muppets projects. Barretta worked on the last Muppets show for Disney+, Muppets Now, which put the characters into an improv comedy format. So far, that series has only produced one season of six episodes, which premiered in the summer of 2020.
The music industry could provide the Muppets with some fertile ground for satire. We’ll see how the show turns out. So far, it doesn’t have an announced premiere date on Disney+.
Sign up for Disney+ here. | 0 | 67,564 | 0.382445 | https://kidotalkradio.com/muppets-mayhem-show-disney-plus-dr-teeth-band/ | 2022-04-05 04:48:09+00:00 | New Show ‘The Muppets Mayhem’ Will Follow a Struggling Muppet Band
The Muppets' unmistakable Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem are getting their very own streaming TV show about trying to be band. It's called The Muppets Mayhem, and it will soon premiere on Disney+ after being officially greenlit there this week.
The series will follow the beloved Muppet band — titular vocalist-keyboardist Dr. Teeth, lively drummer Animal, bassist Floyd Pepper, singer-guitarist Janice and saxophonist Zoot — as they try to record their first studio album. We're sure there'll be plenty of high jinks along the way.
Longtime Muppets fans will remember the musically comical crew from Jim Henson's original The Muppet Show that premiered in 1975, as well as from various Muppet movies and specials thereafter. The new show is a project of The Goldbergs creator Adam F. Goldberg with longtime puppeteer Bill Barretta and Jeff Yorkes.
In The Muppets Mayhem, Lilly Singh (A Little Late with Lilly Singh) stars alongside the puppet rockers as Nora, a human A&R executive "tasked with managing and wrangling the mayhem that is The Electric Mayhem Band," according to a press release.
"The Muppets are renowned for quality, creativity and unrivaled, fun storytelling for the whole family," Disney Branded Television president Ayo Davis said in a statement picked up by Deadline. "We are thrilled to have Adam, Bill and Jeff at the helm to bring all of these iconic and great new characters to life in fresh and dynamic ways."
Jonnie Davis, president of ABC Signature, added, "Adam F. Goldberg is our resident Muppet enthusiast at Signature and getting to play in the sandbox with Bill, a longtime Muppet performer, as well as these beloved characters, was a dream come true for him, Bill and Jeff. Their take is fresh, fun, musical and of course, hilarious. We couldn't be happier to be the studio that is helping them get the band back together."
Keep your eyes peeled to Disney+ for The Muppets Mayhem. Earlier this year, Foo Fighters went Muppet for Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock on the song "Fraggle Rock Rock." |
https://wpst.com/a-new-muppets-mayhem-show-is-coming-to-disney-plus/ | A New ‘Muppets Mayhem’ Show Is Coming to Disney Plus
Disney is bringing yet another new Muppet show to Disney+. This is the second series starring Jim Henson’s famous creations on the streaming service in less than two years; a third was developed by a group of producers including Josh Gad but never made it to air. Plus, Disney+ also has a Muppets original movie, Muppets Haunted Mansion, which premiered last fall.
This new series is called The Muppets Mayhem and it focuses on the Electric Mayhem, the outlandish musical group that’s been part of the Muppets cast since the days of The Muppet Show. The band includes Dr. Teeth on keyboards, Floyd Pepper on bass, Janice on guitar, Zoot on saxophone, Lips on trumpet, and of course Animal on drums — who, I just noticed in the picture above, has kind of disturbing sharp teeth. (Maybe Dr. Teeth gave them to him?)
According to Disney’s official announcement, the series follows the Electric Mayhem, as they go “on an epic musical journey to finally record their first studio album. With the help of a driven young music executive, Nora, the old-school Muppet band comes face to face with the current day music scene as they try to finally go platinum.” In addition to Animal, Dr. Teeth, and the rest of the crew, the show will also star Lilly Singh.
The series comes from Adam F. Goldberg, Bill Barretta and Jeff Yorkes; Goldberg is the creator of The Goldbergs while Barretta is a longtime Muppet performer (his characters include Dr. Teeth, Rowlf, the Swedish Chef, and Pepe the Prawn) who also produces and directs many Muppets projects. Barretta worked on the last Muppets show for Disney+, Muppets Now, which put the characters into an improv comedy format. So far, that series has only produced one season of six episodes, which premiered in the summer of 2020.
The music industry could provide the Muppets with some fertile ground for satire. We’ll see how the show turns out. So far, it doesn’t have an announced premiere date on Disney+.
Sign up for Disney+ here. | 1 | 6,128 | 0.382445 | https://q961.com/muppets-mayhem-show-disney-plus-dr-teeth-band/ | 2022-04-06 11:06:48+00:00 | New Show ‘The Muppets Mayhem’ Will Follow a Struggling Muppet Band
The Muppets' unmistakable Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem are getting their very own streaming TV show about trying to be band. It's called The Muppets Mayhem, and it will soon premiere on Disney+ after being officially greenlit there this week.
The series will follow the beloved Muppet band — titular vocalist-keyboardist Dr. Teeth, lively drummer Animal, bassist Floyd Pepper, singer-guitarist Janice and saxophonist Zoot — as they try to record their first studio album. We're sure there'll be plenty of high jinks along the way.
Longtime Muppets fans will remember the musically comical crew from Jim Henson's original The Muppet Show that premiered in 1975, as well as from various Muppet movies and specials thereafter. The new show is a project of The Goldbergs creator Adam F. Goldberg with longtime puppeteer Bill Barretta and Jeff Yorkes.
In The Muppets Mayhem, Lilly Singh (A Little Late with Lilly Singh) stars alongside the puppet rockers as Nora, a human A&R executive "tasked with managing and wrangling the mayhem that is The Electric Mayhem Band," according to a press release.
"The Muppets are renowned for quality, creativity and unrivaled, fun storytelling for the whole family," Disney Branded Television president Ayo Davis said in a statement picked up by Deadline. "We are thrilled to have Adam, Bill and Jeff at the helm to bring all of these iconic and great new characters to life in fresh and dynamic ways."
Jonnie Davis, president of ABC Signature, added, "Adam F. Goldberg is our resident Muppet enthusiast at Signature and getting to play in the sandbox with Bill, a longtime Muppet performer, as well as these beloved characters, was a dream come true for him, Bill and Jeff. Their take is fresh, fun, musical and of course, hilarious. We couldn't be happier to be the studio that is helping them get the band back together."
Keep your eyes peeled to Disney+ for The Muppets Mayhem. Earlier this year, Foo Fighters went Muppet for Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock on the song "Fraggle Rock Rock." |
https://wpst.com/a-new-muppets-mayhem-show-is-coming-to-disney-plus/ | A New ‘Muppets Mayhem’ Show Is Coming to Disney Plus
Disney is bringing yet another new Muppet show to Disney+. This is the second series starring Jim Henson’s famous creations on the streaming service in less than two years; a third was developed by a group of producers including Josh Gad but never made it to air. Plus, Disney+ also has a Muppets original movie, Muppets Haunted Mansion, which premiered last fall.
This new series is called The Muppets Mayhem and it focuses on the Electric Mayhem, the outlandish musical group that’s been part of the Muppets cast since the days of The Muppet Show. The band includes Dr. Teeth on keyboards, Floyd Pepper on bass, Janice on guitar, Zoot on saxophone, Lips on trumpet, and of course Animal on drums — who, I just noticed in the picture above, has kind of disturbing sharp teeth. (Maybe Dr. Teeth gave them to him?)
According to Disney’s official announcement, the series follows the Electric Mayhem, as they go “on an epic musical journey to finally record their first studio album. With the help of a driven young music executive, Nora, the old-school Muppet band comes face to face with the current day music scene as they try to finally go platinum.” In addition to Animal, Dr. Teeth, and the rest of the crew, the show will also star Lilly Singh.
The series comes from Adam F. Goldberg, Bill Barretta and Jeff Yorkes; Goldberg is the creator of The Goldbergs while Barretta is a longtime Muppet performer (his characters include Dr. Teeth, Rowlf, the Swedish Chef, and Pepe the Prawn) who also produces and directs many Muppets projects. Barretta worked on the last Muppets show for Disney+, Muppets Now, which put the characters into an improv comedy format. So far, that series has only produced one season of six episodes, which premiered in the summer of 2020.
The music industry could provide the Muppets with some fertile ground for satire. We’ll see how the show turns out. So far, it doesn’t have an announced premiere date on Disney+.
Sign up for Disney+ here. | 2 | 46,879 | 0.382445 | https://1019therock.com/muppets-mayhem-show-disney-plus-dr-teeth-band/ | 2022-04-06 23:48:29+00:00 | New Show ‘The Muppets Mayhem’ Will Follow a Struggling Muppet Band
The Muppets' unmistakable Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem are getting their very own streaming TV show about trying to be band. It's called The Muppets Mayhem, and it will soon premiere on Disney+ after being officially greenlit there this week.
The series will follow the beloved Muppet band — titular vocalist-keyboardist Dr. Teeth, lively drummer Animal, bassist Floyd Pepper, singer-guitarist Janice and saxophonist Zoot — as they try to record their first studio album. We're sure there'll be plenty of high jinks along the way.
Longtime Muppets fans will remember the musically comical crew from Jim Henson's original The Muppet Show that premiered in 1975, as well as from various Muppet movies and specials thereafter. The new show is a project of The Goldbergs creator Adam F. Goldberg with longtime puppeteer Bill Barretta and Jeff Yorkes.
In The Muppets Mayhem, Lilly Singh (A Little Late with Lilly Singh) stars alongside the puppet rockers as Nora, a human A&R executive "tasked with managing and wrangling the mayhem that is The Electric Mayhem Band," according to a press release.
"The Muppets are renowned for quality, creativity and unrivaled, fun storytelling for the whole family," Disney Branded Television president Ayo Davis said in a statement picked up by Deadline. "We are thrilled to have Adam, Bill and Jeff at the helm to bring all of these iconic and great new characters to life in fresh and dynamic ways."
Jonnie Davis, president of ABC Signature, added, "Adam F. Goldberg is our resident Muppet enthusiast at Signature and getting to play in the sandbox with Bill, a longtime Muppet performer, as well as these beloved characters, was a dream come true for him, Bill and Jeff. Their take is fresh, fun, musical and of course, hilarious. We couldn't be happier to be the studio that is helping them get the band back together."
Keep your eyes peeled to Disney+ for The Muppets Mayhem. Earlier this year, Foo Fighters went Muppet for Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock on the song "Fraggle Rock Rock." |
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/aap/article-10685555/Labor-looks-forgotten-WA-boost.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | Labor looks to 'forgotten' WA for boost
When the sun sets over the east coast on election night, it may be ballots cast on the other side of the country that play the decisive role in the result.
Western Australia, a federal Liberal stronghold at the last election, looms as a key battleground in this year's election, and is drawing plenty of attention from both major party leaders.
The increased attention is a welcome change for Shellie Attwood, whose East Victoria Park cafe and floristry business Green Bunch sits within the Liberal-held Perth electorate of Swan, one of several marginal seats in Labor's sights.
"People forget about us over here," she tells AAP.
"I think Perth is very much forgotten as far as the east coast goes. When you go over there, you watch the news, they don't even mention us.
"It's like, 'we're the ones with all these mining royalties, we're the ones that have kept everybody going'."
WA's independent streak has been reaffirmed by its experience during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Labor Premier Mark McGowan implemented a hard border for almost two years, a period in which the state managed to dramatically limit infections and deaths, lower unemployment and cash in on record commodity prices.
Last year the state banked a $5.6 billion budget surplus fuelled largely by mining royalties.
While Mr McGowan eventually removed the border restrictions as Omicron infiltrated the state, his hardline approach has proved overwhelmingly popular.
Labor won 53 out of 59 lower house seats at last year's state election in one of the most one-sided election results ever recorded in the country.
Unsurprisingly, both the prime minister and Anthony Albanese are seeking to capitalise on the Labor premier's popularity.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison, for his part, has emphasised his working partnership with the premier and pledged to preserve WA's beneficial GST deal that governs how the tax revenue is distributed around the country.
He stressed that however West Australians vote federally, Mr McGowan will still be the premier.
Labor has sought to remind voters that the Morrison government initially supported billionaire Clive Palmer's hard border challenge.
Mr Palmer went to the High Court in 2020, arguing it was unconstitutional for WA to deny entry to other Australians.
The federal government withdrew its intervention after facing backlash in WA, and the court ultimately ruled against Mr Palmer.
Ms Attwood, who runs Green Bunch with the help of her daughter Mollie Marwood, says she is happy with the state government. She says she is concerned by cost of living pressures and remains uncertain about the prime minister.
"I do think (the pandemic) hasn't been handled overly great from his side, but he's had a lot going on too," she tells AAP.
"Here in Perth, we have been in our own bubble. Things have been relatively OK ... I quite like how Mark McGowan has handled things.
"Would I vote Labor here in WA again? Probably. Would I vote Labor on a federal level? I don't know."
Recent polls have Labor ahead in Swan and Pearce, where incumbent MPs Steve Irons and Christian Porter are retiring. Liberal MP Ken Wyatt also faces a difficult task to retain Hasluck.
Nonetheless, the opposition would need to defy history in a state that has been a coalition stronghold.
Back in 2007, WA was the only state where the Liberals actually gained seats, defying the strong national swing to Kevin Rudd.
In 2019, Bill Shorten had been confident of winning over West Australians before falling well short of his aspirations.
A trifecta in Swan, Pearce and Hasluck would deliver Labor its best result in WA since 1998 when the party was led by a West Australian, Kim Beazley.
Engineer Zaneta Mascarenhas, who is running for Labor in Swan, says cost of living is the primary issue facing people in the diverse electorate which stretches from the affluent inner suburbs of Victoria Park and South Perth to industrial Welshpool and the edge of the Perth hills.
After 15 years under a Liberal member, she believes locals are ready for change.
"I see crises as the opportunity to show strong leadership and WA saw that from Mark McGowan," she tells AAP.
"The truth is, we haven't seen leadership material from Scott Morrison. At every turn rather than helping West Australians, he's been wanting to attack us."
Liberal candidate for Swan, media commentator Kristy McSweeney, did not respond to interview requests.
WA's popular premier is expected to feature prominently in Labor's campaign.
But Ms Mascarenhas acknowledged it would take hard work to win over cautious voters.
"The thing that we need to do as federal Labor is to show that the Anthony Albanese team is more talented and has the interests of the electorate at heart, and that we can fundamentally do a better job," she says. | 0 | 129,064 | 0 | https://thewest.com.au/politics/labor-looks-to-forgotten-wa-for-boost-c-6335234 | 2022-04-04 20:58:28+00:00 | Labor looks to 'forgotten' WA for boost
When the sun sets over the east coast on election night, it may be ballots cast on the other side of the country that play the decisive role in the result.
Western Australia, a federal Liberal stronghold at the last election, looms as a key battleground in this year's election, and is drawing plenty of attention from both major party leaders.
The increased attention is a welcome change for Shellie Attwood, whose East Victoria Park cafe and floristry business Green Bunch sits within the Liberal-held Perth electorate of Swan, one of several marginal seats in Labor's sights.
"People forget about us over here," she tells AAP.
"I think Perth is very much forgotten as far as the east coast goes. When you go over there, you watch the news, they don't even mention us.
"It's like, 'we're the ones with all these mining royalties, we're the ones that have kept everybody going'."
WA's independent streak has been reaffirmed by its experience during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Labor Premier Mark McGowan implemented a hard border for almost two years, a period in which the state managed to dramatically limit infections and deaths, lower unemployment and cash in on record commodity prices.
Last year the state banked a $5.6 billion budget surplus fuelled largely by mining royalties.
While Mr McGowan eventually removed the border restrictions as Omicron infiltrated the state, his hardline approach has proved overwhelmingly popular.
Labor won 53 out of 59 lower house seats at last year's state election in one of the most one-sided election results ever recorded in the country.
Unsurprisingly, both the prime minister and Anthony Albanese are seeking to capitalise on the Labor premier's popularity.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison, for his part, has emphasised his working partnership with the premier and pledged to preserve WA's beneficial GST deal that governs how the tax revenue is distributed around the country.
He stressed that however West Australians vote federally, Mr McGowan will still be the premier.
Labor has sought to remind voters that the Morrison government initially supported billionaire Clive Palmer's hard border challenge.
Mr Palmer went to the High Court in 2020, arguing it was unconstitutional for WA to deny entry to other Australians.
The federal government withdrew its intervention after facing backlash in WA, and the court ultimately ruled against Mr Palmer.
Ms Attwood, who runs Green Bunch with the help of her daughter Mollie Marwood, says she is happy with the state government. She says she is concerned by cost of living pressures and remains uncertain about the prime minister.
"I do think (the pandemic) hasn't been handled overly great from his side, but he's had a lot going on too," she tells AAP.
"Here in Perth, we have been in our own bubble. Things have been relatively OK ... I quite like how Mark McGowan has handled things.
"Would I vote Labor here in WA again? Probably. Would I vote Labor on a federal level? I don't know."
Recent polls have Labor ahead in Swan and Pearce, where incumbent MPs Steve Irons and Christian Porter are retiring. Liberal MP Ken Wyatt also faces a difficult task to retain Hasluck.
Nonetheless, the opposition would need to defy history in a state that has been a coalition stronghold.
Back in 2007, WA was the only state where the Liberals actually gained seats, defying the strong national swing to Kevin Rudd.
In 2019, Bill Shorten had been confident of winning over West Australians before falling well short of his aspirations.
A trifecta in Swan, Pearce and Hasluck would deliver Labor its best result in WA since 1998 when the party was led by a West Australian, Kim Beazley.
Engineer Zaneta Mascarenhas, who is running for Labor in Swan, says cost of living is the primary issue facing people in the diverse electorate which stretches from the affluent inner suburbs of Victoria Park and South Perth to industrial Welshpool and the edge of the Perth hills.
After 15 years under a Liberal member, she believes locals are ready for change.
"I see crises as the opportunity to show strong leadership and WA saw that from Mark McGowan," she tells AAP.
"The truth is, we haven't seen leadership material from Scott Morrison. At every turn rather than helping West Australians, he's been wanting to attack us."
Liberal candidate for Swan, media commentator Kristy McSweeney, did not respond to interview requests.
WA's popular premier is expected to feature prominently in Labor's campaign.
But Ms Mascarenhas acknowledged it would take hard work to win over cautious voters.
"The thing that we need to do as federal Labor is to show that the Anthony Albanese team is more talented and has the interests of the electorate at heart, and that we can fundamentally do a better job," she says.
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When the sun sets over the east coast on election night, it may be ballots cast on the other side of the country that play the decisive role in the result.
Western Australia, a federal Liberal stronghold at the last election, looms as a key battleground in this year's election, and is drawing plenty of attention from both major party leaders.
The increased attention is a welcome change for Shellie Attwood, whose East Victoria Park cafe and floristry business Green Bunch sits within the Liberal-held Perth electorate of Swan, one of several marginal seats in Labor's sights.
"People forget about us over here," she tells AAP.
"I think Perth is very much forgotten as far as the east coast goes. When you go over there, you watch the news, they don't even mention us.
"It's like, 'we're the ones with all these mining royalties, we're the ones that have kept everybody going'."
WA's independent streak has been reaffirmed by its experience during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Labor Premier Mark McGowan implemented a hard border for almost two years, a period in which the state managed to dramatically limit infections and deaths, lower unemployment and cash in on record commodity prices.
Last year the state banked a $5.6 billion budget surplus fuelled largely by mining royalties.
While Mr McGowan eventually removed the border restrictions as Omicron infiltrated the state, his hardline approach has proved overwhelmingly popular.
Labor won 53 out of 59 lower house seats at last year's state election in one of the most one-sided election results ever recorded in the country.
Unsurprisingly, both the prime minister and Anthony Albanese are seeking to capitalise on the Labor premier's popularity.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison, for his part, has emphasised his working partnership with the premier and pledged to preserve WA's beneficial GST deal that governs how the tax revenue is distributed around the country.
He stressed that however West Australians vote federally, Mr McGowan will still be the premier.
Labor has sought to remind voters that the Morrison government initially supported billionaire Clive Palmer's hard border challenge.
Mr Palmer went to the High Court in 2020, arguing it was unconstitutional for WA to deny entry to other Australians.
The federal government withdrew its intervention after facing backlash in WA, and the court ultimately ruled against Mr Palmer.
Ms Attwood, who runs Green Bunch with the help of her daughter Mollie Marwood, says she is happy with the state government. She says she is concerned by cost of living pressures and remains uncertain about the prime minister.
"I do think (the pandemic) hasn't been handled overly great from his side, but he's had a lot going on too," she tells AAP.
"Here in Perth, we have been in our own bubble. Things have been relatively OK ... I quite like how Mark McGowan has handled things.
"Would I vote Labor here in WA again? Probably. Would I vote Labor on a federal level? I don't know."
Recent polls have Labor ahead in Swan and Pearce, where incumbent MPs Steve Irons and Christian Porter are retiring. Liberal MP Ken Wyatt also faces a difficult task to retain Hasluck.
Nonetheless, the opposition would need to defy history in a state that has been a coalition stronghold.
Back in 2007, WA was the only state where the Liberals actually gained seats, defying the strong national swing to Kevin Rudd.
In 2019, Bill Shorten had been confident of winning over West Australians before falling well short of his aspirations.
A trifecta in Swan, Pearce and Hasluck would deliver Labor its best result in WA since 1998 when the party was led by a West Australian, Kim Beazley.
Engineer Zaneta Mascarenhas, who is running for Labor in Swan, says cost of living is the primary issue facing people in the diverse electorate which stretches from the affluent inner suburbs of Victoria Park and South Perth to industrial Welshpool and the edge of the Perth hills.
After 15 years under a Liberal member, she believes locals are ready for change.
"I see crises as the opportunity to show strong leadership and WA saw that from Mark McGowan," she tells AAP.
"The truth is, we haven't seen leadership material from Scott Morrison. At every turn rather than helping West Australians, he's been wanting to attack us."
Liberal candidate for Swan, media commentator Kristy McSweeney, did not respond to interview requests.
WA's popular premier is expected to feature prominently in Labor's campaign.
But Ms Mascarenhas acknowledged it would take hard work to win over cautious voters.
"The thing that we need to do as federal Labor is to show that the Anthony Albanese team is more talented and has the interests of the electorate at heart, and that we can fundamentally do a better job," she says. | 1 | 128,711 | 0.258438 | https://7news.com.au/politics/labor-looks-to-forgotten-wa-for-boost-c-6335224 | 2022-04-04 20:57:22+00:00 | When the sun sets over the east coast on election night, it may be ballots cast on the other side of the country that play the decisive role in the result.
Western Australia, a federal Liberal stronghold at the last election, looms as a key battleground in this year's election, and is drawing plenty of attention from both major party leaders.
The increased attention is a welcome change for Shellie Attwood, whose East Victoria Park cafe and floristry business Green Bunch sits within the Liberal-held Perth electorate of Swan, one of several marginal seats in Labor's sights.
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"People forget about us over here," she tells AAP.
"I think Perth is very much forgotten as far as the east coast goes. When you go over there, you watch the news, they don't even mention us.
"It's like, 'we're the ones with all these mining royalties, we're the ones that have kept everybody going'."
WA's independent streak has been reaffirmed by its experience during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Labor Premier Mark McGowan implemented a hard border for almost two years, a period in which the state managed to dramatically limit infections and deaths, lower unemployment and cash in on record commodity prices.
Last year the state banked a $5.6 billion budget surplus fuelled largely by mining royalties.
While Mr McGowan eventually removed the border restrictions as Omicron infiltrated the state, his hardline approach has proved overwhelmingly popular.
Labor won 53 out of 59 lower house seats at last year's state election in one of the most one-sided election results ever recorded in the country.
Unsurprisingly, both the prime minister and Anthony Albanese are seeking to capitalise on the Labor premier's popularity.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison, for his part, has emphasised his working partnership with the premier and pledged to preserve WA's beneficial GST deal that governs how the tax revenue is distributed around the country.
He stressed that however West Australians vote federally, Mr McGowan will still be the premier.
Labor has sought to remind voters that the Morrison government initially supported billionaire Clive Palmer's hard border challenge.
Mr Palmer went to the High Court in 2020, arguing it was unconstitutional for WA to deny entry to other Australians.
The federal government withdrew its intervention after facing backlash in WA, and the court ultimately ruled against Mr Palmer.
Ms Attwood, who runs Green Bunch with the help of her daughter Mollie Marwood, says she is happy with the state government. She says she is concerned by cost of living pressures and remains uncertain about the prime minister.
"I do think (the pandemic) hasn't been handled overly great from his side, but he's had a lot going on too," she tells AAP.
"Here in Perth, we have been in our own bubble. Things have been relatively OK ... I quite like how Mark McGowan has handled things.
"Would I vote Labor here in WA again? Probably. Would I vote Labor on a federal level? I don't know."
Recent polls have Labor ahead in Swan and Pearce, where incumbent MPs Steve Irons and Christian Porter are retiring. Liberal MP Ken Wyatt also faces a difficult task to retain Hasluck.
Nonetheless, the opposition would need to defy history in a state that has been a coalition stronghold.
Back in 2007, WA was the only state where the Liberals actually gained seats, defying the strong national swing to Kevin Rudd.
In 2019, Bill Shorten had been confident of winning over West Australians before falling well short of his aspirations.
A trifecta in Swan, Pearce and Hasluck would deliver Labor its best result in WA since 1998 when the party was led by a West Australian, Kim Beazley.
Engineer Zaneta Mascarenhas, who is running for Labor in Swan, says cost of living is the primary issue facing people in the diverse electorate which stretches from the affluent inner suburbs of Victoria Park and South Perth to industrial Welshpool and the edge of the Perth hills.
After 15 years under a Liberal member, she believes locals are ready for change.
"I see crises as the opportunity to show strong leadership and WA saw that from Mark McGowan," she tells AAP.
"The truth is, we haven't seen leadership material from Scott Morrison. At every turn rather than helping West Australians, he's been wanting to attack us."
Liberal candidate for Swan, media commentator Kristy McSweeney, did not respond to interview requests.
WA's popular premier is expected to feature prominently in Labor's campaign.
But Ms Mascarenhas acknowledged it would take hard work to win over cautious voters.
"The thing that we need to do as federal Labor is to show that the Anthony Albanese team is more talented and has the interests of the electorate at heart, and that we can fundamentally do a better job," she says.
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When the sun sets over the east coast on election night, it may be ballots cast on the other side of the country that play the decisive role in the result.
Western Australia, a federal Liberal stronghold at the last election, looms as a key battleground in this year's election, and is drawing plenty of attention from both major party leaders.
The increased attention is a welcome change for Shellie Attwood, whose East Victoria Park cafe and floristry business Green Bunch sits within the Liberal-held Perth electorate of Swan, one of several marginal seats in Labor's sights.
"People forget about us over here," she tells AAP.
"I think Perth is very much forgotten as far as the east coast goes. When you go over there, you watch the news, they don't even mention us.
"It's like, 'we're the ones with all these mining royalties, we're the ones that have kept everybody going'."
WA's independent streak has been reaffirmed by its experience during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Labor Premier Mark McGowan implemented a hard border for almost two years, a period in which the state managed to dramatically limit infections and deaths, lower unemployment and cash in on record commodity prices.
Last year the state banked a $5.6 billion budget surplus fuelled largely by mining royalties.
While Mr McGowan eventually removed the border restrictions as Omicron infiltrated the state, his hardline approach has proved overwhelmingly popular.
Labor won 53 out of 59 lower house seats at last year's state election in one of the most one-sided election results ever recorded in the country.
Unsurprisingly, both the prime minister and Anthony Albanese are seeking to capitalise on the Labor premier's popularity.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison, for his part, has emphasised his working partnership with the premier and pledged to preserve WA's beneficial GST deal that governs how the tax revenue is distributed around the country.
He stressed that however West Australians vote federally, Mr McGowan will still be the premier.
Labor has sought to remind voters that the Morrison government initially supported billionaire Clive Palmer's hard border challenge.
Mr Palmer went to the High Court in 2020, arguing it was unconstitutional for WA to deny entry to other Australians.
The federal government withdrew its intervention after facing backlash in WA, and the court ultimately ruled against Mr Palmer.
Ms Attwood, who runs Green Bunch with the help of her daughter Mollie Marwood, says she is happy with the state government. She says she is concerned by cost of living pressures and remains uncertain about the prime minister.
"I do think (the pandemic) hasn't been handled overly great from his side, but he's had a lot going on too," she tells AAP.
"Here in Perth, we have been in our own bubble. Things have been relatively OK ... I quite like how Mark McGowan has handled things.
"Would I vote Labor here in WA again? Probably. Would I vote Labor on a federal level? I don't know."
Recent polls have Labor ahead in Swan and Pearce, where incumbent MPs Steve Irons and Christian Porter are retiring. Liberal MP Ken Wyatt also faces a difficult task to retain Hasluck.
Nonetheless, the opposition would need to defy history in a state that has been a coalition stronghold.
Back in 2007, WA was the only state where the Liberals actually gained seats, defying the strong national swing to Kevin Rudd.
In 2019, Bill Shorten had been confident of winning over West Australians before falling well short of his aspirations.
A trifecta in Swan, Pearce and Hasluck would deliver Labor its best result in WA since 1998 when the party was led by a West Australian, Kim Beazley.
Engineer Zaneta Mascarenhas, who is running for Labor in Swan, says cost of living is the primary issue facing people in the diverse electorate which stretches from the affluent inner suburbs of Victoria Park and South Perth to industrial Welshpool and the edge of the Perth hills.
After 15 years under a Liberal member, she believes locals are ready for change.
"I see crises as the opportunity to show strong leadership and WA saw that from Mark McGowan," she tells AAP.
"The truth is, we haven't seen leadership material from Scott Morrison. At every turn rather than helping West Australians, he's been wanting to attack us."
Liberal candidate for Swan, media commentator Kristy McSweeney, did not respond to interview requests.
WA's popular premier is expected to feature prominently in Labor's campaign.
But Ms Mascarenhas acknowledged it would take hard work to win over cautious voters.
"The thing that we need to do as federal Labor is to show that the Anthony Albanese team is more talented and has the interests of the electorate at heart, and that we can fundamentally do a better job," she says. | 2 | 13,174 | 0.269917 | https://www.aap.com.au/news/labor-looks-to-forgotten-wa-for-boost/ | 2022-04-04 23:16:53+00:00 | When the sun sets over the east coast on election night, it may be ballots cast on the other side of the country that play the decisive role in the result.
Western Australia, a federal Liberal stronghold at the last election, looms as a key battleground in this year’s election, and is drawing plenty of attention from both major party leaders.
The increased attention is a welcome change for Shellie Attwood, whose East Victoria Park cafe and floristry business Green Bunch sits within the Liberal-held Perth electorate of Swan, one of several marginal seats in Labor’s sights.
“People forget about us over here,” she tells AAP.
“I think Perth is very much forgotten as far as the east coast goes. When you go over there, you watch the news, they don’t even mention us.
“It’s like, ‘we’re the ones with all these mining royalties, we’re the ones that have kept everybody going’.”
WA’s independent streak has been reaffirmed by its experience during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Labor Premier Mark McGowan implemented a hard border for almost two years, a period in which the state managed to dramatically limit infections and deaths, lower unemployment and cash in on record commodity prices.
Last year the state banked a $5.6 billion budget surplus fuelled largely by mining royalties.
While Mr McGowan eventually removed the border restrictions as Omicron infiltrated the state, his hardline approach has proved overwhelmingly popular.
Labor won 53 out of 59 lower house seats at last year’s state election in one of the most one-sided election results ever recorded in the country.
Unsurprisingly, both the prime minister and Anthony Albanese are seeking to capitalise on the Labor premier’s popularity.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison, for his part, has emphasised his working partnership with the premier and pledged to preserve WA’s beneficial GST deal that governs how the tax revenue is distributed around the country.
He stressed that however West Australians vote federally, Mr McGowan will still be the premier.
Labor has sought to remind voters that the Morrison government initially supported billionaire Clive Palmer’s hard border challenge.
Mr Palmer went to the High Court in 2020, arguing it was unconstitutional for WA to deny entry to other Australians.
The federal government withdrew its intervention after facing backlash in WA, and the court ultimately ruled against Mr Palmer.
Ms Attwood, who runs Green Bunch with the help of her daughter Mollie Marwood, says she is happy with the state government. She says she is concerned by cost of living pressures and remains uncertain about the prime minister.
“I do think (the pandemic) hasn’t been handled overly great from his side, but he’s had a lot going on too,” she tells AAP.
“Here in Perth, we have been in our own bubble. Things have been relatively OK … I quite like how Mark McGowan has handled things.
“Would I vote Labor here in WA again? Probably. Would I vote Labor on a federal level? I don’t know.”
Recent polls have Labor ahead in Swan and Pearce, where incumbent MPs Steve Irons and Christian Porter are retiring. Liberal MP Ken Wyatt also faces a difficult task to retain Hasluck.
Nonetheless, the opposition would need to defy history in a state that has been a coalition stronghold.
Back in 2007, WA was the only state where the Liberals actually gained seats, defying the strong national swing to Kevin Rudd.
In 2019, Bill Shorten had been confident of winning over West Australians before falling well short of his aspirations.
A trifecta in Swan, Pearce and Hasluck would deliver Labor its best result in WA since 1998 when the party was led by a West Australian, Kim Beazley.
Engineer Zaneta Mascarenhas, who is running for Labor in Swan, says cost of living is the primary issue facing people in the diverse electorate which stretches from the affluent inner suburbs of Victoria Park and South Perth to industrial Welshpool and the edge of the Perth hills.
After 15 years under a Liberal member, she believes locals are ready for change.
“I see crises as the opportunity to show strong leadership and WA saw that from Mark McGowan,” she tells AAP.
“The truth is, we haven’t seen leadership material from Scott Morrison. At every turn rather than helping West Australians, he’s been wanting to attack us.”
Liberal candidate for Swan, media commentator Kristy McSweeney, did not respond to interview requests.
WA’s popular premier is expected to feature prominently in Labor’s campaign.
But Ms Mascarenhas acknowledged it would take hard work to win over cautious voters.
“The thing that we need to do as federal Labor is to show that the Anthony Albanese team is more talented and has the interests of the electorate at heart, and that we can fundamentally do a better job,” she says. |
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JERUSALEM (AP) - Israeli police arrested several Palestinians accused of throwing rocks and other objects at officers outside the contested Old City of Jerusalem on Monday as tensions flared during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.
Police said officers arrested eight people suspected of throwing rocks, bottles and fireworks at officers during Ramadan revelries outside the Damascus Gate. There were no immediate reports of injuries.
Police said in a statement that "most of the people at the scene were not actively participating in these disturbances." Video footage from the scene showed officers being pelted by water bottles and other objects and detaining suspects.
It was the third consecutive night of unrest outside the Old City, a frequent flashpoint of Israeli-Palestinian violence.
On Sunday, Palestinian youths and Israeli police scuffled outside the Damascus Gate, a central gathering place in the heart of historic Jerusalem. Police said officers arrested 10 people suspected of attacking officers while the area was packed with hundreds of revelers after the day´s fast. Several people suffered minor injuries, paramedics said.
Israeli police are on high alert after three deadly attacks by Palestinians in Israel in recent weeks that killed 11 Israelis. An Israeli raid on a refugee camp in the occupied West Bank last week in search of a gunman´s suspected accomplices set off a gunbattle in which two Palestinians were killed and 15 were wounded.On Saturday, Israeli police said its officers killed three Palestinian militants who were involved in recent attacks on Israeli forces and were planning another.
Israeli border police officers detain a protester during clashes between Israeli security forces and Palestinians next to Damascus Gate, outside the Old City of Jerusalem, during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, Monday, April 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)
Israeli authorities have sought to avoid a repeat of last year´s violence during the month-long Muslim holiday. Israeli, Jordanian and Palestinian leaders have held a flurry of meetings in recent weeks, and Israel has announced a series of goodwill gestures, in an effort to maintain calm during Ramadan.
Clashes between Palestinians and Israeli police around the historic Old City, the emotional epicenter of the more than century-long conflict, during Ramadan last year helped precipitate the 11-day war between Israel and the Islamist militant group Hamas in the Gaza Strip in May.
Israel captured east Jerusalem, along with its holy sites to the three monotheistic faiths, in the 1967 Mideast war and later annexed it in a move unrecognized by most of the international community. The Palestinians seek east Jerusalem as capital of a future state that would include the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Israel considers the city its united capital.
Israeli border police officers stand guard during clashes between Israeli security forces and Palestinians next to Damascus Gate, outside the Old City of Jerusalem, during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, Monday, April 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)
Israeli border police officers take position during clashes between Israeli security forces and Palestinians next to Damascus Gate, outside the Old City of Jerusalem, during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, Monday, April 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean) | 0 | 6,103 | 0.115584 | https://www.independent.co.uk/news/palestinians-ap-jerusalem-police-muslim-b2050882.html | 2022-04-04 22:41:21+00:00 | Israel police arrest 8 in third night of Jerusalem unrest
Israeli police have arrested several Palestinians accused of throwing rocks and other objects at officers outside the contested Old City of Jerusalem as tensions flare during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan
Israel police arrest 8 in third night of Jerusalem unrest
Show all 3Israeli police arrested several Palestinians accused of throwing rocks and other objects at officers outside the contested Old City of Jerusalem on Monday as tensions flared during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.
Police said officers arrested eight people suspected of throwing rocks, bottles and fireworks at officers during Ramadan revelries outside the Damascus Gate. There were no immediate reports of injuries.
Police said in a statement that “most of the people at the scene were not actively participating in these disturbances.” Video footage from the scene showed officers being pelted by water bottles and other objects and detaining suspects.
It was the third consecutive night of unrest outside the Old City, a frequent flashpoint of Israeli-Palestinian violence.
On Sunday, Palestinian youths and Israeli police scuffled outside the Damascus Gate, a central gathering place in the heart of historic Jerusalem. Police said officers arrested 10 people suspected of attacking officers while the area was packed with hundreds of revelers after the day’s fast. Several people suffered minor injuries, paramedics said.
Israeli police are on high alert after three deadly attacks by Palestinians in Israel in recent weeks that killed 11 Israelis. An Israeli raid on a refugee camp in the occupied West Bank last week in search of a gunman’s suspected accomplices set off a gunbattle in which two Palestinians were killed and 15 were wounded.On Saturday, Israeli police said its officers killed three Palestinian militants who were involved in recent attacks on Israeli forces and were planning another.
Israeli authorities have sought to avoid a repeat of last year’s violence during the month-long Muslim holiday. Israeli, Jordanian and Palestinian leaders have held a flurry of meetings in recent weeks, and Israel has announced a series of goodwill gestures, in an effort to maintain calm during Ramadan.
Clashes between Palestinians and Israeli police around the historic Old City, the emotional epicenter of the more than century-long conflict, during Ramadan last year helped precipitate the 11-day war between Israel and the Islamist militant group Hamas in the Gaza Strip in May.
Israel captured east Jerusalem, along with its holy sites to the three monotheistic faiths, in the 1967 Mideast war and later annexed it in a move unrecognized by most of the international community. The Palestinians seek east Jerusalem as capital of a future state that would include the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Israel considers the city its united capital.
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JERUSALEM (AP) - Israeli police arrested several Palestinians accused of throwing rocks and other objects at officers outside the contested Old City of Jerusalem on Monday as tensions flared during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.
Police said officers arrested eight people suspected of throwing rocks, bottles and fireworks at officers during Ramadan revelries outside the Damascus Gate. There were no immediate reports of injuries.
Police said in a statement that "most of the people at the scene were not actively participating in these disturbances." Video footage from the scene showed officers being pelted by water bottles and other objects and detaining suspects.
It was the third consecutive night of unrest outside the Old City, a frequent flashpoint of Israeli-Palestinian violence.
On Sunday, Palestinian youths and Israeli police scuffled outside the Damascus Gate, a central gathering place in the heart of historic Jerusalem. Police said officers arrested 10 people suspected of attacking officers while the area was packed with hundreds of revelers after the day´s fast. Several people suffered minor injuries, paramedics said.
Israeli police are on high alert after three deadly attacks by Palestinians in Israel in recent weeks that killed 11 Israelis. An Israeli raid on a refugee camp in the occupied West Bank last week in search of a gunman´s suspected accomplices set off a gunbattle in which two Palestinians were killed and 15 were wounded.On Saturday, Israeli police said its officers killed three Palestinian militants who were involved in recent attacks on Israeli forces and were planning another.
Israeli border police officers detain a protester during clashes between Israeli security forces and Palestinians next to Damascus Gate, outside the Old City of Jerusalem, during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, Monday, April 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)
Israeli authorities have sought to avoid a repeat of last year´s violence during the month-long Muslim holiday. Israeli, Jordanian and Palestinian leaders have held a flurry of meetings in recent weeks, and Israel has announced a series of goodwill gestures, in an effort to maintain calm during Ramadan.
Clashes between Palestinians and Israeli police around the historic Old City, the emotional epicenter of the more than century-long conflict, during Ramadan last year helped precipitate the 11-day war between Israel and the Islamist militant group Hamas in the Gaza Strip in May.
Israel captured east Jerusalem, along with its holy sites to the three monotheistic faiths, in the 1967 Mideast war and later annexed it in a move unrecognized by most of the international community. The Palestinians seek east Jerusalem as capital of a future state that would include the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Israel considers the city its united capital.
Israeli border police officers stand guard during clashes between Israeli security forces and Palestinians next to Damascus Gate, outside the Old City of Jerusalem, during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, Monday, April 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)
Israeli border police officers take position during clashes between Israeli security forces and Palestinians next to Damascus Gate, outside the Old City of Jerusalem, during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, Monday, April 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean) | 1 | 3,928 | 0.135492 | https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/israel-police-arrest-night-jerusalem-unrest-83871906 | 2022-04-04 22:32:15+00:00 | Israel police arrest 8 in third night of Jerusalem unrest
Israeli police have arrested several Palestinians accused of throwing rocks and other objects at officers outside the contested Old City of Jerusalem as tensions flare during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan
JERUSALEM -- Israeli police arrested several Palestinians accused of throwing rocks and other objects at officers outside the contested Old City of Jerusalem on Monday as tensions flared during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.
Police said officers arrested eight people suspected of throwing rocks, bottles and fireworks at officers during Ramadan revelries outside the Damascus Gate. There were no immediate reports of injuries.
Police said in a statement that “most of the people at the scene were not actively participating in these disturbances.” Video footage from the scene showed officers being pelted by water bottles and other objects and detaining suspects.
It was the third consecutive night of unrest outside the Old City, a frequent flashpoint of Israeli-Palestinian violence.
On Sunday, Palestinian youths and Israeli police scuffled outside the Damascus Gate, a central gathering place in the heart of historic Jerusalem. Police said officers arrested 10 people suspected of attacking officers while the area was packed with hundreds of revelers after the day’s fast. Several people suffered minor injuries, paramedics said.
Israeli police are on high alert after three deadly attacks by Palestinians in Israel in recent weeks that killed 11 Israelis. An Israeli raid on a refugee camp in the occupied West Bank last week in search of a gunman’s suspected accomplices set off a gunbattle in which two Palestinians were killed and 15 were wounded.On Saturday, Israeli police said its officers killed three Palestinian militants who were involved in recent attacks on Israeli forces and were planning another.
Israeli authorities have sought to avoid a repeat of last year’s violence during the month-long Muslim holiday. Israeli, Jordanian and Palestinian leaders have held a flurry of meetings in recent weeks, and Israel has announced a series of goodwill gestures, in an effort to maintain calm during Ramadan.
Clashes between Palestinians and Israeli police around the historic Old City, the emotional epicenter of the more than century-long conflict, during Ramadan last year helped precipitate the 11-day war between Israel and the Islamist militant group Hamas in the Gaza Strip in May.
Israel captured east Jerusalem, along with its holy sites to the three monotheistic faiths, in the 1967 Mideast war and later annexed it in a move unrecognized by most of the international community. The Palestinians seek east Jerusalem as capital of a future state that would include the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Israel considers the city its united capital. |
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/article-10685769/Israel-police-arrest-8-night-Jerusalem-unrest.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | Israel police arrest 8 in third night of Jerusalem unrest
JERUSALEM (AP) - Israeli police arrested several Palestinians accused of throwing rocks and other objects at officers outside the contested Old City of Jerusalem on Monday as tensions flared during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.
Police said officers arrested eight people suspected of throwing rocks, bottles and fireworks at officers during Ramadan revelries outside the Damascus Gate. There were no immediate reports of injuries.
Police said in a statement that "most of the people at the scene were not actively participating in these disturbances." Video footage from the scene showed officers being pelted by water bottles and other objects and detaining suspects.
It was the third consecutive night of unrest outside the Old City, a frequent flashpoint of Israeli-Palestinian violence.
On Sunday, Palestinian youths and Israeli police scuffled outside the Damascus Gate, a central gathering place in the heart of historic Jerusalem. Police said officers arrested 10 people suspected of attacking officers while the area was packed with hundreds of revelers after the day´s fast. Several people suffered minor injuries, paramedics said.
Israeli police are on high alert after three deadly attacks by Palestinians in Israel in recent weeks that killed 11 Israelis. An Israeli raid on a refugee camp in the occupied West Bank last week in search of a gunman´s suspected accomplices set off a gunbattle in which two Palestinians were killed and 15 were wounded.On Saturday, Israeli police said its officers killed three Palestinian militants who were involved in recent attacks on Israeli forces and were planning another.
Israeli border police officers detain a protester during clashes between Israeli security forces and Palestinians next to Damascus Gate, outside the Old City of Jerusalem, during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, Monday, April 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)
Israeli authorities have sought to avoid a repeat of last year´s violence during the month-long Muslim holiday. Israeli, Jordanian and Palestinian leaders have held a flurry of meetings in recent weeks, and Israel has announced a series of goodwill gestures, in an effort to maintain calm during Ramadan.
Clashes between Palestinians and Israeli police around the historic Old City, the emotional epicenter of the more than century-long conflict, during Ramadan last year helped precipitate the 11-day war between Israel and the Islamist militant group Hamas in the Gaza Strip in May.
Israel captured east Jerusalem, along with its holy sites to the three monotheistic faiths, in the 1967 Mideast war and later annexed it in a move unrecognized by most of the international community. The Palestinians seek east Jerusalem as capital of a future state that would include the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Israel considers the city its united capital.
Israeli border police officers stand guard during clashes between Israeli security forces and Palestinians next to Damascus Gate, outside the Old City of Jerusalem, during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, Monday, April 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)
Israeli border police officers take position during clashes between Israeli security forces and Palestinians next to Damascus Gate, outside the Old City of Jerusalem, during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, Monday, April 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean) | 2 | 5,527 | 0.147762 | https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/nation-world/story/2022-04-04/israel-police-arrest-8-in-third-night-of-jerusalem-unrest | 2022-04-04 22:38:57+00:00 | Israel police arrest 8 in third night of Jerusalem unrest
Israeli police arrested several Palestinians accused of throwing rocks and other objects at officers outside the contested Old City of Jerusalem on Monday as tensions flared during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.
Police said officers arrested eight people suspected of throwing rocks, bottles and fireworks at officers during Ramadan revelries outside the Damascus Gate. There were no immediate reports of injuries.
Police said in a statement that “most of the people at the scene were not actively participating in these disturbances.” Video footage from the scene showed officers being pelted by water bottles and other objects and detaining suspects.
It was the third consecutive night of unrest outside the Old City, a frequent flashpoint of Israeli-Palestinian violence.
On Sunday, Palestinian youths and Israeli police scuffled outside the Damascus Gate, a central gathering place in the heart of historic Jerusalem. Police said officers arrested 10 people suspected of attacking officers while the area was packed with hundreds of revelers after the day’s fast. Several people suffered minor injuries, paramedics said.
Israeli police are on high alert after three deadly attacks by Palestinians in Israel in recent weeks that killed 11 Israelis. An Israeli raid on a refugee camp in the occupied West Bank last week in search of a gunman’s suspected accomplices set off a gunbattle in which two Palestinians were killed and 15 were wounded.On Saturday, Israeli police said its officers killed three Palestinian militants who were involved in recent attacks on Israeli forces and were planning another.
Israeli authorities have sought to avoid a repeat of last year’s violence during the month-long Muslim holiday. Israeli, Jordanian and Palestinian leaders have held a flurry of meetings in recent weeks, and Israel has announced a series of goodwill gestures, in an effort to maintain calm during Ramadan.
Clashes between Palestinians and Israeli police around the historic Old City, the emotional epicenter of the more than century-long conflict, during Ramadan last year helped precipitate the 11-day war between Israel and the Islamist militant group Hamas in the Gaza Strip in May.
Israel captured east Jerusalem, along with its holy sites to the three monotheistic faiths, in the 1967 Mideast war and later annexed it in a move unrecognized by most of the international community. The Palestinians seek east Jerusalem as capital of a future state that would include the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Israel considers the city its united capital.
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https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/andhra-pradesh/top-officials-take-charge-in-ntr-and-krishna-districts/article65290441.ece/amp/ | Top officials take charge in NTR and Krishna districts
VIJAYAWADA April 05, 2022 02:23 ISTNTR District and Krishna district officially began functioning as two separate districts from Monday, with top officials taking charge.
Senior IAS officer S. Dilli Rao assumed charge as Collector of NTR District at the new Collectorate in Vijayawada, while former Vijayawada Municipal Corporation (VMC) Commissioner S. Ranjit Basha assumed charge as Collector of the residuary Krishna district, headquartered at Machilipatnam.
Mahesh Kumar Ravirala took charge as Joint Collector of Krishna while Shrivas Nupur Ajay Kumar assumed charge as Joint Collector of NTR District.
Mr. Dilli Rao inspected the ward secretariat at Krishnalanka and also visited the Nirmala Sishu Bhavan in the area.
Speaking to reporters, he said the district has a population of over 22.18 lakh in 20 mandals. He said he would strive to ensure that the district ranks among the top three in the State on all indices.
Mr. Ranjit Basha said that all department offices were set up and the State government is planning to establish integrated Collectorates in all districts.
Meanwhile, C.V. Renuka took charge as District Education Officer and G. Umadevi took charge as District Women and Child Welfare Empowerment Officer for NTR District.
The new Collectorate established in the 129-year-old Vijayawada Sub-Collector's office was illuminated to mark the first day of the new district. | 0 | 139,847 | 0.143544 | https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/andhra-pradesh/top-officials-take-charge-in-ntr-and-krishna-districts/article65290441.ece | 2022-04-04 21:45:27+00:00 | Top officials take charge in NTR and Krishna districts
NTR District and Krishna district officially began functioning as two separate districts from Monday, with top officials taking charge.
Senior IAS officer S. Dilli Rao assumed charge as Collector of NTR District at the new Collectorate in Vijayawada, while former Vijayawada Municipal Corporation (VMC) Commissioner S. Ranjit Basha assumed charge as Collector of the residuary Krishna district, headquartered at Machilipatnam.
Mahesh Kumar Ravirala took charge as Joint Collector of Krishna while Shrivas Nupur Ajay Kumar assumed charge as Joint Collector of NTR District.
Mr. Dilli Rao inspected the ward secretariat at Krishnalanka and also visited the Nirmala Sishu Bhavan in the area.
Speaking to reporters, he said the district has a population of over 22.18 lakh in 20 mandals. He said he would strive to ensure that the district ranks among the top three in the State on all indices.
Mr. Ranjit Basha said that all department offices were set up and the State government is planning to establish integrated Collectorates in all districts.
Meanwhile, C.V. Renuka took charge as District Education Officer and G. Umadevi took charge as District Women and Child Welfare Empowerment Officer for NTR District.
The new Collectorate established in the 129-year-old Vijayawada Sub-Collector's office was illuminated to mark the first day of the new district.
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https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/andhra-pradesh/top-officials-take-charge-in-ntr-and-krishna-districts/article65290441.ece/amp/ | Top officials take charge in NTR and Krishna districts
VIJAYAWADA April 05, 2022 02:23 ISTNTR District and Krishna district officially began functioning as two separate districts from Monday, with top officials taking charge.
Senior IAS officer S. Dilli Rao assumed charge as Collector of NTR District at the new Collectorate in Vijayawada, while former Vijayawada Municipal Corporation (VMC) Commissioner S. Ranjit Basha assumed charge as Collector of the residuary Krishna district, headquartered at Machilipatnam.
Mahesh Kumar Ravirala took charge as Joint Collector of Krishna while Shrivas Nupur Ajay Kumar assumed charge as Joint Collector of NTR District.
Mr. Dilli Rao inspected the ward secretariat at Krishnalanka and also visited the Nirmala Sishu Bhavan in the area.
Speaking to reporters, he said the district has a population of over 22.18 lakh in 20 mandals. He said he would strive to ensure that the district ranks among the top three in the State on all indices.
Mr. Ranjit Basha said that all department offices were set up and the State government is planning to establish integrated Collectorates in all districts.
Meanwhile, C.V. Renuka took charge as District Education Officer and G. Umadevi took charge as District Women and Child Welfare Empowerment Officer for NTR District.
The new Collectorate established in the 129-year-old Vijayawada Sub-Collector's office was illuminated to mark the first day of the new district. | 1 | 11,185 | 0.744576 | https://english.sakshi.com/news/telangana/these-telangana-districts-get-new-collectors-156502 | 2022-06-12 17:46:20+00:00 | These Telangana Districts Get New Collectors
HYDERABAD: In a minor reshuffle of IAS officers, the Telangana State Government has transferred PR and RD Commissioner Dr. A Sharath as a collector, Sangareddy. M. Hanumantha Rao who is placed in Full Additional Charge as Siddipet Collector has been relived and posted as PR and RD Director.
Nalgonda Collector Prashant Jeevan Patil has been transferred and posted as Siddipet Collector. Nalgonda district Additional Collector (Local Bodies)- Rahul Sharma is placed in Full Additional Charge as Nalgonda district collector until further orders. Koya Sree Harsha, Additional collector (Local Bodies) Jogulamba Gadwal is placed in a full additional charge of the district collector.
Kumrambheem Asifabad additional collector Karnati Varun Reddy has been transferred and posted as Project Officer, ITDA Utnoor. Ankit, who has been working as a project officer, ITDA Utnoor is posted as a project officer, ITDA Eturunagaram. Chahat Bajpai, who is waiting for posting is posted as an Additional Collector , Kumrambheem Asifabad.
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https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/andhra-pradesh/top-officials-take-charge-in-ntr-and-krishna-districts/article65290441.ece/amp/ | Top officials take charge in NTR and Krishna districts
VIJAYAWADA April 05, 2022 02:23 ISTNTR District and Krishna district officially began functioning as two separate districts from Monday, with top officials taking charge.
Senior IAS officer S. Dilli Rao assumed charge as Collector of NTR District at the new Collectorate in Vijayawada, while former Vijayawada Municipal Corporation (VMC) Commissioner S. Ranjit Basha assumed charge as Collector of the residuary Krishna district, headquartered at Machilipatnam.
Mahesh Kumar Ravirala took charge as Joint Collector of Krishna while Shrivas Nupur Ajay Kumar assumed charge as Joint Collector of NTR District.
Mr. Dilli Rao inspected the ward secretariat at Krishnalanka and also visited the Nirmala Sishu Bhavan in the area.
Speaking to reporters, he said the district has a population of over 22.18 lakh in 20 mandals. He said he would strive to ensure that the district ranks among the top three in the State on all indices.
Mr. Ranjit Basha said that all department offices were set up and the State government is planning to establish integrated Collectorates in all districts.
Meanwhile, C.V. Renuka took charge as District Education Officer and G. Umadevi took charge as District Women and Child Welfare Empowerment Officer for NTR District.
The new Collectorate established in the 129-year-old Vijayawada Sub-Collector's office was illuminated to mark the first day of the new district. | 2 | 79,720 | 0.757659 | https://www.thehansindia.com/andhra-pradesh/andhra-pradesh-govt-appoints-district-collectors-to-26-districts-736334 | 2022-04-03 05:11:22+00:00 | Andhra Pradesh govt. appoints district collectors to 26 districts
The YS Jagan Mohan Reddy (YS Jagan) government has taken another crucial decision as part of the reorganisation of Andhra Pradesh districts. The AP government, which has already approved the final draft on the formation of districts, on Saturday night issued orders appointing collectors and SPs for 26 districts.
The YS Jagan Mohan Reddy (YS Jagan) government has taken another crucial decision as part of the reorganisation of Andhra Pradesh districts. The AP government, which has already approved the final draft on the formation of districts, on Saturday night issued orders appointing collectors and SPs for 26 districts. The AP government has approved a total of 26 districts across the state. While there are 13 districts in the state till now, the government has formed another 13 new districts.
Here is the District wise details of Collectors...
Srikesh Balaji Rao as Srikakulam District Collector
Surya Kumari as District Collector, Vijayanagar
Nishant Kumar as the District Collector of Manyam
Mallikarjuna as District Collector, Visakhapatnam
Sumit Kumar as Alluri Sitaramaraj District Collector
Ravi Subhash as Anakapalli Collector
Kritika Shukla as Kakinada Collector
Madhavi Latha as Collector of East Godavari
Himanshu Shukla as Konaseema Collector
P. Prashanthi as the Collector of West Godavari
Prasanna Venkatesh as Eluru Collector
Ranjith Basha as Krishna District Collector
S. Dillirao as District Collector of NTR district
Venugopal Reddy as Guntur Collector
Shivshankar as Palnadu District Collector
Vijaya as Bapatla District Collector
Dinesh Kumar as Prakasam District Collector
Chakradhar Babu as Nellore district
Venkataramana Reddy as the District Collector of Sribalaji
Harinarayana as Chittoor District Collector
Shri Girisha as Annamaiah District Collector
Vijayaraja as Kadapa Collector
P. Basant Kumar as the District Collector of Sreesatyasai
S. Naga Lakshmi as Anantapur Collector
Manajir District Shamun as Nandyala Collector
Koteshwara Rao is the District Collector of Kurnool |
https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona-weather/2022/04/04/temps-rise-mid-90-s-week-central-southwest-arizona/9460987002/ | Temps to reach mid-90s this week in central, southwest Arizona
Residents of Phoenix, Blythe, Yuma and El Centro can expect temperatures to rise to the mid-90s this week, according to the National Weather Service in Phoenix.
Forecasters predict the low heat to start Tuesday and last into the weekend with the highest temperatures on Friday and Saturday. Skies are expected to remain clear with a chance for some clouds by the weekend.
Officials also warn that a combination of wind gusts as fast as 30 mph and relatively low humidity in southwest Arizona may lead to elevated fire weather potential in the region Wednesday and Thursday.
Residents are advised to check fire advisories before using a fireplace or designated campfire spot on those days.
Reach breaking news intern Brock Blasdell at Bblasdell@arizonarepublic.com or on Twitter @BrockBlasdell.
Support local journalism. Subscribe to azcentral.com today. | 0 | 127,698 | 0.518508 | https://www.azfamily.com/2022/04/26/cooler-temperatures-some-wind-ahead-rest-week/ | 2022-04-27 01:04:44+00:00 | Cooler temperatures and some wind ahead for Arizona the rest of the week
PHOENIX (3TV/CBS 5) - The high in Phoenix for Tuesday was 99 degrees, so we still haven’t had that first 100 yet. That’s okay with us. The rest of this week we’ll see temperatures come down a bit and with storms passing to the north of Arizona, we’re going to start picking up some winds in northern Arizona again. As a result, Fire Weather alerts have been issued starting at noon on Wednesday for portions of Arizona. Thursday will probably be even windier in northern AZ and across the state.
It was pretty hazy around the Valley on Tuesday. Much of that was from high clouds but also some of the smoke filtering south from the Crooks Fire south of Prescott. We expect that smoke to be swept out of the Valley by late tomorrow but it could return by next weekend. In the meantime, much of northern and eastern Arizona will be dealing with smoke the rest of the week.
Look for highs around 94 on Wednesday for metro Phoenix and around 90 on Thursday and Friday. We’ll be a bit warmer for the weekend and into early next week with highs in the mid-90s.
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https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona-weather/2022/04/04/temps-rise-mid-90-s-week-central-southwest-arizona/9460987002/ | Temps to reach mid-90s this week in central, southwest Arizona
Residents of Phoenix, Blythe, Yuma and El Centro can expect temperatures to rise to the mid-90s this week, according to the National Weather Service in Phoenix.
Forecasters predict the low heat to start Tuesday and last into the weekend with the highest temperatures on Friday and Saturday. Skies are expected to remain clear with a chance for some clouds by the weekend.
Officials also warn that a combination of wind gusts as fast as 30 mph and relatively low humidity in southwest Arizona may lead to elevated fire weather potential in the region Wednesday and Thursday.
Residents are advised to check fire advisories before using a fireplace or designated campfire spot on those days.
Reach breaking news intern Brock Blasdell at Bblasdell@arizonarepublic.com or on Twitter @BrockBlasdell.
Support local journalism. Subscribe to azcentral.com today. | 1 | 14,151 | 0.522758 | https://www.azfamily.com/2022/05/09/mild-temperatures-start-week/ | 2022-05-09 23:44:45+00:00 | Mild temperatures to start the week
PHOENIX (3TV/CBS 5) -- We start the week with the jet stream dipped into Arizona. That’s fairly unusual for this time of year. As a result, we’ll stay on the cool side for the next several days. No precipitation is expected anywhere in the stay, but a stray shower could pop up now and then.
A series of storm systems passing to the north of Arizona will keep us on the windy and cool side for the next several days. The fire danger, of course, remains high until the healthy rains of the monsoon kick into Arizona. Specifically, however, a Red Flag Warning was posted for northern and eastern Arizona through Monday night. We might see many warnings in the next couple of days.
Look for highs of around 90 degrees for the next several days. By Saturday, we should start climbing into the mid-90s, and by Sunday, we’ll be back to 100 degrees or more. In fact, at this point, don’t be surprised if we see high temps around 105 degrees by early next week.
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https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona-weather/2022/04/04/temps-rise-mid-90-s-week-central-southwest-arizona/9460987002/ | Temps to reach mid-90s this week in central, southwest Arizona
Residents of Phoenix, Blythe, Yuma and El Centro can expect temperatures to rise to the mid-90s this week, according to the National Weather Service in Phoenix.
Forecasters predict the low heat to start Tuesday and last into the weekend with the highest temperatures on Friday and Saturday. Skies are expected to remain clear with a chance for some clouds by the weekend.
Officials also warn that a combination of wind gusts as fast as 30 mph and relatively low humidity in southwest Arizona may lead to elevated fire weather potential in the region Wednesday and Thursday.
Residents are advised to check fire advisories before using a fireplace or designated campfire spot on those days.
Reach breaking news intern Brock Blasdell at Bblasdell@arizonarepublic.com or on Twitter @BrockBlasdell.
Support local journalism. Subscribe to azcentral.com today. | 2 | 92,437 | 0.532897 | https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona-weather/2022/05/06/fire-weather-across-northern-arizona-phoenix-may-hit-100-degrees/9677358002/ | 2022-05-06 21:49:08+00:00 | Fire weather conditions forecast for northern Arizona; Phoenix likely to hit triple digits
Fire weather conditions are expected across northern Arizona over the weekend as strong winds and low humidity return to the area, according to the National Weather Service.
Dry conditions and winds are in the forecast Friday with temperatures above seasonal averages, between 70 and 75 degrees in higher elevations and around the mid-80s in the lower areas.
On Saturday, winds will pick up and increase throughout the morning. Gusts up to 50 mph are possible Saturday, and they could become stronger Sunday, according to Jeremy Mazon, meteorologist with the weather service in Flagstaff.
"Fire weather conditions continue to be the main thing that we're messaging with. That critical fire weather potentially leading to disaster if any flames or sparks do catch just with these very strong, persistent winds," Mazon said.
No precipitation is in the forecast and "extremely dry" conditions will continue over the weekend, Mazon said. Relative humidity is expected to be around 15% for most of northern Arizona and could be lower in some areas.
Due to these conditions, a red flag warning will be in effect for much of northern Arizona from 11 a.m. Saturday until 11 p.m. Sunday.
The strong winds expected during the weekend are likely to continue through at least Thursday, according to Mazon.
"So we're really emphasizing to everyone, not only this weekend, but throughout next week, pay attention to all fire restrictions," Mazon said. "We want to emphasize that folks are properly disposing of their cigarettes', that if they're using heavy machinery, they're very conscientious about where they're using it."
Even vehicles parking on top of dry grass could lead to fires in these conditions, according to Mazon.
Temperatures over the weekend will be closer to seasonal averages for most of northern Arizona. Mazon said it will be around the low 80s in the valleys and range around 70 degrees in higher elevations Saturday.
On Sunday, it will be cooler in higher elevations of northern Arizona with temperatures around the mid-60s.
Phoenix could hit 100 degrees
In Phoenix, there is a "good chance" of reaching temperatures in the triple digits on Friday and Saturday, according to the NWS.
Over the weekend in Phoenix, increased winds and dry conditions are in the forecast. According to the weather service website, a cooling trend will begin Sunday.
Reach breaking news reporter Angela Cordoba Perez at Angela.CordobaPerez@Gannett.com or on Twitter @AngelaCordobaP.
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NEW YORK, April 4 (Reuters) - Famed trainer Bob Baffert was banned by the New York State Gaming Commission on Monday through at least July 2 after his 90-day suspension by the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission.
Racing stewards in February nullified colt Medina Spirit's victory in the 2021 Kentucky Derby due to the presence of a banned drug in his system and handed the trainer a 90-day ban.
Baffert's request for a stay of the suspension was denied last month and a Kentucky Court of Appeals ruled against his motion for emergency relief last week.
The trainer has sought to draw a distinction between injectable betamethasone and betamethasone that is absorbed through an ointment, which is how he believes the drug entered Medina Spirit's system.
A spokesman for Baffert did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The New York commission said its ban was the result of reciprocity that honours out-of-state suspensions.
The move will prevent Baffert entering horses at any track in the state and stop him competing in the Belmont Stakes, the final race in the prestigious Triple Crown series, in June. (Reporting by Amy Tennery in New York; Editing by Ken Ferris) | 0 | 134,155 | 0.098981 | https://nationalpost.com/pmn/sports-pmn/horse-racing-new-york-suspends-baffert-citing-kentucky-ban | 2022-04-04 21:20:35+00:00 | Horse racing-New York suspends Baffert, citing Kentucky ban
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NEW YORK — Famed trainer Bob Baffert was banned by the New York State Gaming Commission on Monday through at least July 2 after his 90-day suspension by the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission.
Racing stewards in February nullified colt Medina Spirit’s victory in the 2021 Kentucky Derby due to the presence of a banned drug in his system and handed the trainer a 90-day ban.
Baffert’s request for a stay of the suspension was denied last month and a Kentucky Court of Appeals ruled against his motion for emergency relief last week.
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The trainer has sought to draw a distinction between injectable betamethasone and betamethasone that is absorbed through an ointment, which is how he believes the drug entered Medina Spirit’s system.
A spokesman for Baffert did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The New York commission said its ban was the result of reciprocity that honors out-of-state suspensions.
The move will prevent Baffert entering horses at any track in the state and stop him competing in the Belmont Stakes, the final race in the prestigious Triple Crown series, in June. (Reporting by Amy Tennery in New York; Editing by Ken Ferris) |
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/reuters/article-10685745/Horse-racing-New-York-suspends-Baffert-citing-Kentucky-ban.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | Horse racing-New York suspends Baffert, citing Kentucky ban
NEW YORK, April 4 (Reuters) - Famed trainer Bob Baffert was banned by the New York State Gaming Commission on Monday through at least July 2 after his 90-day suspension by the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission.
Racing stewards in February nullified colt Medina Spirit's victory in the 2021 Kentucky Derby due to the presence of a banned drug in his system and handed the trainer a 90-day ban.
Baffert's request for a stay of the suspension was denied last month and a Kentucky Court of Appeals ruled against his motion for emergency relief last week.
The trainer has sought to draw a distinction between injectable betamethasone and betamethasone that is absorbed through an ointment, which is how he believes the drug entered Medina Spirit's system.
A spokesman for Baffert did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The New York commission said its ban was the result of reciprocity that honours out-of-state suspensions.
The move will prevent Baffert entering horses at any track in the state and stop him competing in the Belmont Stakes, the final race in the prestigious Triple Crown series, in June. (Reporting by Amy Tennery in New York; Editing by Ken Ferris) | 1 | 145,911 | 0.202049 | https://www.devdiscourse.com/article/sports-games/1990672-horse-racing-new-york-suspends-baffert-citing-kentucky-ban | 2022-04-04 22:12:30+00:00 | Horse racing-New York suspends Baffert, citing Kentucky ban
Famed trainer Bob Baffert was banned by the New York State Gaming Commission on Monday through at least July 2 after his 90-day suspension by the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission.
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Famed trainer Bob Baffert was banned by the New York State Gaming Commission on Monday through at least July 2 after his 90-day suspension by the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission. Racing stewards in February nullified colt Medina Spirit's victory in the 2021 Kentucky Derby due to the presence of a banned drug in his system and handed the trainer a 90-day ban.
Baffert's request for a stay of the suspension was denied last month and a Kentucky Court of Appeals ruled against his motion for emergency relief last week. The trainer has sought to draw a distinction between injectable betamethasone and betamethasone that is absorbed through an ointment, which is how he believes the drug entered Medina Spirit's system.
A spokesman for Baffert did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The New York commission said its ban was the result of reciprocity that honours out-of-state suspensions.
The move will prevent Baffert entering horses at any track in the state and stop him competing in the Belmont Stakes, the final race in the prestigious Triple Crown series, in June.
(This story has not been edited by Devdiscourse staff and is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.)
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NEW YORK, April 4 (Reuters) - Famed trainer Bob Baffert was banned by the New York State Gaming Commission on Monday through at least July 2 after his 90-day suspension by the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission.
Racing stewards in February nullified colt Medina Spirit's victory in the 2021 Kentucky Derby due to the presence of a banned drug in his system and handed the trainer a 90-day ban.
Baffert's request for a stay of the suspension was denied last month and a Kentucky Court of Appeals ruled against his motion for emergency relief last week.
The trainer has sought to draw a distinction between injectable betamethasone and betamethasone that is absorbed through an ointment, which is how he believes the drug entered Medina Spirit's system.
A spokesman for Baffert did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The New York commission said its ban was the result of reciprocity that honours out-of-state suspensions.
The move will prevent Baffert entering horses at any track in the state and stop him competing in the Belmont Stakes, the final race in the prestigious Triple Crown series, in June. (Reporting by Amy Tennery in New York; Editing by Ken Ferris) | 2 | 41,463 | 0.370549 | https://www.syracuse.com/state/2022/04/bob-baffert-banned-from-new-york-horse-racing-through-july-2.html | 2022-04-05 14:47:13+00:00 | By Emilie Munson | Times Union, Albany
Albany, N.Y. — Thoroughbred trainer Bob Baffert will not be allowed to compete at New York horse racing tracks through at least July 2, the New York Gaming Commission said Monday, in an announcement that it would honor the suspension issued by Kentucky regulators.
Baffert, a renowned trainer, was suspended for 90 days in Kentucky after one of his horses, Medina Spirit, who placed first in the 2021 Kentucky Derby, tested positive for betamethasone, a drug that’s not permitted on race day. Medina Spirit was disqualified and later died. Baffert also received multiple other drug violations in 2021 and preceding years.
The Kentucky Court of Appeals denied Baffert a stay of his suspension on Friday.
The New York Gaming Commission is one of 38 states with horse racing that honors suspensions in other states, according to the commission.
Baffert is also facing a possible separate suspension from New York Racing Association tracks, including Saratoga Race Course. NYRA took the unprecedented step of launching an administrative proceeding to suspend Baffert and held multiple days of hearings in January. An administrative judge has not issued a decision from that hearing.
Baffert was banned for two years from Churchill Downs, the home of the Kentucky Derby.
A spokesman for Baffert did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Marty Irby, executive director at Animal Wellness Action, said in a statement, “We applaud the New York State Gaming Commission for reciprocating and suspending Bob Baffert just as its Kentucky counterpart, and the State of California have. Baffert’s flagrant disregard for the rules and repeated violations have resulted in this long overdue consequence.” |
https://who13.com/reviews/br/tools-br/best-ground-screw/ | Which ground screw is best?
Often, all it takes to make a good idea great is adding a little twist. Ground stakes have been in use since at least the 4th century BC. But they have their limitations. The updated version is a ground screw. These handy fastening tools can help when camping, putting up holiday decorations, installing sports equipment and more.
The best ground screws are suitable for a range of soil conditions and are easy to install. Orange Screw’s The Ultimate Ground Anchor is a durable, lightweight option that can be used in a wide variety of applications and comes with a lifetime breakage warranty.
What to know before you buy a ground screw
How a ground screw works
A ground screw or ground anchor works similarly to a wood screw. The deep threads cut through the ground when twisted and hold the screw in place, making it resistant to an upward force, so it cannot be easily removed.
Benefits of using a ground screw
A ground screw is a quick, reliable solution that is affordable and easy to install. Many models do not require any tools (other than what comes with the ground screw). They aren’t permanent, which makes them ideal for camping or holiday decorations. Also, ground screws are reusable items. Once you buy a durable set, you should never have to purchase ground screws again. Lastly, if you are using ground screws for a permanent installation, such as would be needed for a mailbox, ground screws are much kinder to the landscape than digging a hole and pouring concrete.
What to look for in a quality ground screw
Purpose
Ground screws serve different purposes. Models suitable for tents, canopies, inflatables and other tie-down needs will feature a screw eye at the top. Models for decking, mailboxes and fencing will feature a mount that accepts a 4-inch by 4-inch post.
Thread spacing
The closer the threads are spaced on a ground screw, the easier it will be to install. On the downside, this will also mean it requires more rotations to screw into the soil.
Length
A longer ground screw will have more holding power. However, it will also be harder to install. If the soil is compact, you may not be able to fully install a longer ground screw without the use of power tools.
Color
After installation, a small portion of the screw will remain above the ground. This can be a tripping hazard. A brightly colored ground screw can help prevent accidents.
Corrosion-resistant
Since ground screws are installed in soil, they must be durable and corrosion resistant. The best models will either be made of coated steel, or, in light-duty applications, rugged plastic.
Warranty
A warranty reveals the manufacturer’s faith in its product. It is not unlikely to find ground screws with lengthy warranties. Some models are even guaranteed for life.
How much you can expect to spend on a ground screw
Ground screws that are suitable for tents, tarps and light-duty applications cost roughly between $25-$35 for a four-pack. If you need to install a mailbox, deck or fencing, those ground screws may cost $30-$40 each.
Ground screw FAQ
What can I secure with ground screws?
A. A ground screw is an incredibly versatile tool. While it is essential to first consult the accompanying literature (or a professional) to see if the model you have is approved for a specific application, ground screws can be used to secure tents, canopies, beach shelters, RV awnings, tarps, inflatable decorations and more. The right ground screw can be used as a tree anchor, a soccer net anchor, a mount for a mailbox, the foundation for a deck, or to secure a trampoline.
What type of soil is best for ground screws?
A. Since a ground screw is held in place by the soil, the type of soil you have is crucial to the success of a ground screw. If it is installed in loose soil, such as sand, the screw may not hold as expected. If you try to install a ground screw in gravel, clay or highly compacted soil, the screw might not be able to penetrate deep enough to create a secure installation. The best soil is in the middle — penetrable, but not too loose, and firm, but not too compact.
What’s the best ground screw to buy?
Top ground screw
Orange Screw: The Ultimate Ground Anchor
What you need to know: This four-pack of cleverly designed ground screws has a case that doubles as a torque handle, making it perfect for people on the go.
What you’ll love: These ground screws are made with 100% recycled materials. They are available in orange or black. They are lightweight, rustproof, designed to work in a variety of soils and come with a lifetime breakage warranty.
What you should consider: These ground anchors can be hard to install in dry or compact soil.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top ground screw for the money
What you need to know: This durable set of steel ground screws is suitable for repeated use.
What you’ll love: These screws can be installed by hand or with a powered drill and an 18-millimeter socket. The aggressive design lets them penetrate even compacted soil.
What you should consider: While these ground screws hold well, the weld at the top is the weak spot. It may break when drilling into compact soil.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
What you need to know: If you would like to install a Mayne mail post, this is the best option available.
What you’ll love: This is a timesaving, no-dig option for people wishing to install a Mayne mail post. It is made of steel with a powder coating and accommodates a 4-inch by 4-inch post. This ground screw is suitable for average soil conditions.
What you should consider: Depending on your soil, this model can require a bit of effort to install.
Where to buy: Sold by Home Depot
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Often, all it takes to make a good idea great is adding a little twist. Ground stakes have been in use since at least the 4th century BC. But they have their limitations. The updated version is a ground screw. These handy fastening tools can help when camping, putting up holiday decorations, installing sports equipment and more.
The best ground screws are suitable for a range of soil conditions and are easy to install. Orange Screw’s The Ultimate Ground Anchor is a durable, lightweight option that can be used in a wide variety of applications and comes with a lifetime breakage warranty.
What to know before you buy a ground screw
How a ground screw works
A ground screw or ground anchor works similarly to a wood screw. The deep threads cut through the ground when twisted and hold the screw in place, making it resistant to an upward force, so it cannot be easily removed.
Benefits of using a ground screw
A ground screw is a quick, reliable solution that is affordable and easy to install. Many models do not require any tools (other than what comes with the ground screw). They aren’t permanent, which makes them ideal for camping or holiday decorations. Also, ground screws are reusable items. Once you buy a durable set, you should never have to purchase ground screws again. Lastly, if you are using ground screws for a permanent installation, such as would be needed for a mailbox, ground screws are much kinder to the landscape than digging a hole and pouring concrete.
What to look for in a quality ground screw
Purpose
Ground screws serve different purposes. Models suitable for tents, canopies, inflatables and other tie-down needs will feature a screw eye at the top. Models for decking, mailboxes and fencing will feature a mount that accepts a 4-inch by 4-inch post.
Thread spacing
The closer the threads are spaced on a ground screw, the easier it will be to install. On the downside, this will also mean it requires more rotations to screw into the soil.
Length
A longer ground screw will have more holding power. However, it will also be harder to install. If the soil is compact, you may not be able to fully install a longer ground screw without the use of power tools.
Color
After installation, a small portion of the screw will remain above the ground. This can be a tripping hazard. A brightly colored ground screw can help prevent accidents.
Corrosion-resistant
Since ground screws are installed in soil, they must be durable and corrosion resistant. The best models will either be made of coated steel, or, in light-duty applications, rugged plastic.
Warranty
A warranty reveals the manufacturer’s faith in its product. It is not unlikely to find ground screws with lengthy warranties. Some models are even guaranteed for life.
How much you can expect to spend on a ground screw
Ground screws that are suitable for tents, tarps and light-duty applications cost roughly between $25-$35 for a four-pack. If you need to install a mailbox, deck or fencing, those ground screws may cost $30-$40 each.
Ground screw FAQ
What can I secure with ground screws?
A. A ground screw is an incredibly versatile tool. While it is essential to first consult the accompanying literature (or a professional) to see if the model you have is approved for a specific application, ground screws can be used to secure tents, canopies, beach shelters, RV awnings, tarps, inflatable decorations and more. The right ground screw can be used as a tree anchor, a soccer net anchor, a mount for a mailbox, the foundation for a deck, or to secure a trampoline.
What type of soil is best for ground screws?
A. Since a ground screw is held in place by the soil, the type of soil you have is crucial to the success of a ground screw. If it is installed in loose soil, such as sand, the screw may not hold as expected. If you try to install a ground screw in gravel, clay or highly compacted soil, the screw might not be able to penetrate deep enough to create a secure installation. The best soil is in the middle — penetrable, but not too loose, and firm, but not too compact.
What’s the best ground screw to buy?
Top ground screw
Orange Screw: The Ultimate Ground Anchor
What you need to know: This four-pack of cleverly designed ground screws has a case that doubles as a torque handle, making it perfect for people on the go.
What you’ll love: These ground screws are made with 100% recycled materials. They are available in orange or black. They are lightweight, rustproof, designed to work in a variety of soils and come with a lifetime breakage warranty.
What you should consider: These ground anchors can be hard to install in dry or compact soil.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top ground screw for the money
What you need to know: This durable set of steel ground screws is suitable for repeated use.
What you’ll love: These screws can be installed by hand or with a powered drill and an 18-millimeter socket. The aggressive design lets them penetrate even compacted soil.
What you should consider: While these ground screws hold well, the weld at the top is the weak spot. It may break when drilling into compact soil.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
What you need to know: If you would like to install a Mayne mail post, this is the best option available.
What you’ll love: This is a timesaving, no-dig option for people wishing to install a Mayne mail post. It is made of steel with a powder coating and accommodates a 4-inch by 4-inch post. This ground screw is suitable for average soil conditions.
What you should consider: Depending on your soil, this model can require a bit of effort to install.
Where to buy: Sold by Home Depot
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https://who13.com/reviews/br/tools-br/best-ground-screw/ | Which ground screw is best?
Often, all it takes to make a good idea great is adding a little twist. Ground stakes have been in use since at least the 4th century BC. But they have their limitations. The updated version is a ground screw. These handy fastening tools can help when camping, putting up holiday decorations, installing sports equipment and more.
The best ground screws are suitable for a range of soil conditions and are easy to install. Orange Screw’s The Ultimate Ground Anchor is a durable, lightweight option that can be used in a wide variety of applications and comes with a lifetime breakage warranty.
What to know before you buy a ground screw
How a ground screw works
A ground screw or ground anchor works similarly to a wood screw. The deep threads cut through the ground when twisted and hold the screw in place, making it resistant to an upward force, so it cannot be easily removed.
Benefits of using a ground screw
A ground screw is a quick, reliable solution that is affordable and easy to install. Many models do not require any tools (other than what comes with the ground screw). They aren’t permanent, which makes them ideal for camping or holiday decorations. Also, ground screws are reusable items. Once you buy a durable set, you should never have to purchase ground screws again. Lastly, if you are using ground screws for a permanent installation, such as would be needed for a mailbox, ground screws are much kinder to the landscape than digging a hole and pouring concrete.
What to look for in a quality ground screw
Purpose
Ground screws serve different purposes. Models suitable for tents, canopies, inflatables and other tie-down needs will feature a screw eye at the top. Models for decking, mailboxes and fencing will feature a mount that accepts a 4-inch by 4-inch post.
Thread spacing
The closer the threads are spaced on a ground screw, the easier it will be to install. On the downside, this will also mean it requires more rotations to screw into the soil.
Length
A longer ground screw will have more holding power. However, it will also be harder to install. If the soil is compact, you may not be able to fully install a longer ground screw without the use of power tools.
Color
After installation, a small portion of the screw will remain above the ground. This can be a tripping hazard. A brightly colored ground screw can help prevent accidents.
Corrosion-resistant
Since ground screws are installed in soil, they must be durable and corrosion resistant. The best models will either be made of coated steel, or, in light-duty applications, rugged plastic.
Warranty
A warranty reveals the manufacturer’s faith in its product. It is not unlikely to find ground screws with lengthy warranties. Some models are even guaranteed for life.
How much you can expect to spend on a ground screw
Ground screws that are suitable for tents, tarps and light-duty applications cost roughly between $25-$35 for a four-pack. If you need to install a mailbox, deck or fencing, those ground screws may cost $30-$40 each.
Ground screw FAQ
What can I secure with ground screws?
A. A ground screw is an incredibly versatile tool. While it is essential to first consult the accompanying literature (or a professional) to see if the model you have is approved for a specific application, ground screws can be used to secure tents, canopies, beach shelters, RV awnings, tarps, inflatable decorations and more. The right ground screw can be used as a tree anchor, a soccer net anchor, a mount for a mailbox, the foundation for a deck, or to secure a trampoline.
What type of soil is best for ground screws?
A. Since a ground screw is held in place by the soil, the type of soil you have is crucial to the success of a ground screw. If it is installed in loose soil, such as sand, the screw may not hold as expected. If you try to install a ground screw in gravel, clay or highly compacted soil, the screw might not be able to penetrate deep enough to create a secure installation. The best soil is in the middle — penetrable, but not too loose, and firm, but not too compact.
What’s the best ground screw to buy?
Top ground screw
Orange Screw: The Ultimate Ground Anchor
What you need to know: This four-pack of cleverly designed ground screws has a case that doubles as a torque handle, making it perfect for people on the go.
What you’ll love: These ground screws are made with 100% recycled materials. They are available in orange or black. They are lightweight, rustproof, designed to work in a variety of soils and come with a lifetime breakage warranty.
What you should consider: These ground anchors can be hard to install in dry or compact soil.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top ground screw for the money
What you need to know: This durable set of steel ground screws is suitable for repeated use.
What you’ll love: These screws can be installed by hand or with a powered drill and an 18-millimeter socket. The aggressive design lets them penetrate even compacted soil.
What you should consider: While these ground screws hold well, the weld at the top is the weak spot. It may break when drilling into compact soil.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
What you need to know: If you would like to install a Mayne mail post, this is the best option available.
What you’ll love: This is a timesaving, no-dig option for people wishing to install a Mayne mail post. It is made of steel with a powder coating and accommodates a 4-inch by 4-inch post. This ground screw is suitable for average soil conditions.
What you should consider: Depending on your soil, this model can require a bit of effort to install.
Where to buy: Sold by Home Depot
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Copyright 2022 BestReviews, a Nexstar company. All rights reserved. | 1 | 4,609 | 0 | https://www.tristatehomepage.com/reviews/br/tools-br/best-ground-screw/ | 2022-04-04 22:34:59+00:00 | Which ground screw is best?
Often, all it takes to make a good idea great is adding a little twist. Ground stakes have been in use since at least the 4th century BC. But they have their limitations. The updated version is a ground screw. These handy fastening tools can help when camping, putting up holiday decorations, installing sports equipment and more.
The best ground screws are suitable for a range of soil conditions and are easy to install. Orange Screw’s The Ultimate Ground Anchor is a durable, lightweight option that can be used in a wide variety of applications and comes with a lifetime breakage warranty.
What to know before you buy a ground screw
How a ground screw works
A ground screw or ground anchor works similarly to a wood screw. The deep threads cut through the ground when twisted and hold the screw in place, making it resistant to an upward force, so it cannot be easily removed.
Benefits of using a ground screw
A ground screw is a quick, reliable solution that is affordable and easy to install. Many models do not require any tools (other than what comes with the ground screw). They aren’t permanent, which makes them ideal for camping or holiday decorations. Also, ground screws are reusable items. Once you buy a durable set, you should never have to purchase ground screws again. Lastly, if you are using ground screws for a permanent installation, such as would be needed for a mailbox, ground screws are much kinder to the landscape than digging a hole and pouring concrete.
What to look for in a quality ground screw
Purpose
Ground screws serve different purposes. Models suitable for tents, canopies, inflatables and other tie-down needs will feature a screw eye at the top. Models for decking, mailboxes and fencing will feature a mount that accepts a 4-inch by 4-inch post.
Thread spacing
The closer the threads are spaced on a ground screw, the easier it will be to install. On the downside, this will also mean it requires more rotations to screw into the soil.
Length
A longer ground screw will have more holding power. However, it will also be harder to install. If the soil is compact, you may not be able to fully install a longer ground screw without the use of power tools.
Color
After installation, a small portion of the screw will remain above the ground. This can be a tripping hazard. A brightly colored ground screw can help prevent accidents.
Corrosion-resistant
Since ground screws are installed in soil, they must be durable and corrosion resistant. The best models will either be made of coated steel, or, in light-duty applications, rugged plastic.
Warranty
A warranty reveals the manufacturer’s faith in its product. It is not unlikely to find ground screws with lengthy warranties. Some models are even guaranteed for life.
How much you can expect to spend on a ground screw
Ground screws that are suitable for tents, tarps and light-duty applications cost roughly between $25-$35 for a four-pack. If you need to install a mailbox, deck or fencing, those ground screws may cost $30-$40 each.
Ground screw FAQ
What can I secure with ground screws?
A. A ground screw is an incredibly versatile tool. While it is essential to first consult the accompanying literature (or a professional) to see if the model you have is approved for a specific application, ground screws can be used to secure tents, canopies, beach shelters, RV awnings, tarps, inflatable decorations and more. The right ground screw can be used as a tree anchor, a soccer net anchor, a mount for a mailbox, the foundation for a deck, or to secure a trampoline.
What type of soil is best for ground screws?
A. Since a ground screw is held in place by the soil, the type of soil you have is crucial to the success of a ground screw. If it is installed in loose soil, such as sand, the screw may not hold as expected. If you try to install a ground screw in gravel, clay or highly compacted soil, the screw might not be able to penetrate deep enough to create a secure installation. The best soil is in the middle — penetrable, but not too loose, and firm, but not too compact.
What’s the best ground screw to buy?
Top ground screw
Orange Screw: The Ultimate Ground Anchor
What you need to know: This four-pack of cleverly designed ground screws has a case that doubles as a torque handle, making it perfect for people on the go.
What you’ll love: These ground screws are made with 100% recycled materials. They are available in orange or black. They are lightweight, rustproof, designed to work in a variety of soils and come with a lifetime breakage warranty.
What you should consider: These ground anchors can be hard to install in dry or compact soil.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top ground screw for the money
What you need to know: This durable set of steel ground screws is suitable for repeated use.
What you’ll love: These screws can be installed by hand or with a powered drill and an 18-millimeter socket. The aggressive design lets them penetrate even compacted soil.
What you should consider: While these ground screws hold well, the weld at the top is the weak spot. It may break when drilling into compact soil.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
What you need to know: If you would like to install a Mayne mail post, this is the best option available.
What you’ll love: This is a timesaving, no-dig option for people wishing to install a Mayne mail post. It is made of steel with a powder coating and accommodates a 4-inch by 4-inch post. This ground screw is suitable for average soil conditions.
What you should consider: Depending on your soil, this model can require a bit of effort to install.
Where to buy: Sold by Home Depot
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https://who13.com/reviews/br/tools-br/best-ground-screw/ | Which ground screw is best?
Often, all it takes to make a good idea great is adding a little twist. Ground stakes have been in use since at least the 4th century BC. But they have their limitations. The updated version is a ground screw. These handy fastening tools can help when camping, putting up holiday decorations, installing sports equipment and more.
The best ground screws are suitable for a range of soil conditions and are easy to install. Orange Screw’s The Ultimate Ground Anchor is a durable, lightweight option that can be used in a wide variety of applications and comes with a lifetime breakage warranty.
What to know before you buy a ground screw
How a ground screw works
A ground screw or ground anchor works similarly to a wood screw. The deep threads cut through the ground when twisted and hold the screw in place, making it resistant to an upward force, so it cannot be easily removed.
Benefits of using a ground screw
A ground screw is a quick, reliable solution that is affordable and easy to install. Many models do not require any tools (other than what comes with the ground screw). They aren’t permanent, which makes them ideal for camping or holiday decorations. Also, ground screws are reusable items. Once you buy a durable set, you should never have to purchase ground screws again. Lastly, if you are using ground screws for a permanent installation, such as would be needed for a mailbox, ground screws are much kinder to the landscape than digging a hole and pouring concrete.
What to look for in a quality ground screw
Purpose
Ground screws serve different purposes. Models suitable for tents, canopies, inflatables and other tie-down needs will feature a screw eye at the top. Models for decking, mailboxes and fencing will feature a mount that accepts a 4-inch by 4-inch post.
Thread spacing
The closer the threads are spaced on a ground screw, the easier it will be to install. On the downside, this will also mean it requires more rotations to screw into the soil.
Length
A longer ground screw will have more holding power. However, it will also be harder to install. If the soil is compact, you may not be able to fully install a longer ground screw without the use of power tools.
Color
After installation, a small portion of the screw will remain above the ground. This can be a tripping hazard. A brightly colored ground screw can help prevent accidents.
Corrosion-resistant
Since ground screws are installed in soil, they must be durable and corrosion resistant. The best models will either be made of coated steel, or, in light-duty applications, rugged plastic.
Warranty
A warranty reveals the manufacturer’s faith in its product. It is not unlikely to find ground screws with lengthy warranties. Some models are even guaranteed for life.
How much you can expect to spend on a ground screw
Ground screws that are suitable for tents, tarps and light-duty applications cost roughly between $25-$35 for a four-pack. If you need to install a mailbox, deck or fencing, those ground screws may cost $30-$40 each.
Ground screw FAQ
What can I secure with ground screws?
A. A ground screw is an incredibly versatile tool. While it is essential to first consult the accompanying literature (or a professional) to see if the model you have is approved for a specific application, ground screws can be used to secure tents, canopies, beach shelters, RV awnings, tarps, inflatable decorations and more. The right ground screw can be used as a tree anchor, a soccer net anchor, a mount for a mailbox, the foundation for a deck, or to secure a trampoline.
What type of soil is best for ground screws?
A. Since a ground screw is held in place by the soil, the type of soil you have is crucial to the success of a ground screw. If it is installed in loose soil, such as sand, the screw may not hold as expected. If you try to install a ground screw in gravel, clay or highly compacted soil, the screw might not be able to penetrate deep enough to create a secure installation. The best soil is in the middle — penetrable, but not too loose, and firm, but not too compact.
What’s the best ground screw to buy?
Top ground screw
Orange Screw: The Ultimate Ground Anchor
What you need to know: This four-pack of cleverly designed ground screws has a case that doubles as a torque handle, making it perfect for people on the go.
What you’ll love: These ground screws are made with 100% recycled materials. They are available in orange or black. They are lightweight, rustproof, designed to work in a variety of soils and come with a lifetime breakage warranty.
What you should consider: These ground anchors can be hard to install in dry or compact soil.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top ground screw for the money
What you need to know: This durable set of steel ground screws is suitable for repeated use.
What you’ll love: These screws can be installed by hand or with a powered drill and an 18-millimeter socket. The aggressive design lets them penetrate even compacted soil.
What you should consider: While these ground screws hold well, the weld at the top is the weak spot. It may break when drilling into compact soil.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
What you need to know: If you would like to install a Mayne mail post, this is the best option available.
What you’ll love: This is a timesaving, no-dig option for people wishing to install a Mayne mail post. It is made of steel with a powder coating and accommodates a 4-inch by 4-inch post. This ground screw is suitable for average soil conditions.
What you should consider: Depending on your soil, this model can require a bit of effort to install.
Where to buy: Sold by Home Depot
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Often, all it takes to make a good idea great is adding a little twist. Ground stakes have been in use since at least the 4th century BC. But they have their limitations. The updated version is a ground screw. These handy fastening tools can help when camping, putting up holiday decorations, installing sports equipment and more.
The best ground screws are suitable for a range of soil conditions and are easy to install. Orange Screw’s The Ultimate Ground Anchor is a durable, lightweight option that can be used in a wide variety of applications and comes with a lifetime breakage warranty.
What to know before you buy a ground screw
How a ground screw works
A ground screw or ground anchor works similarly to a wood screw. The deep threads cut through the ground when twisted and hold the screw in place, making it resistant to an upward force, so it cannot be easily removed.
Benefits of using a ground screw
A ground screw is a quick, reliable solution that is affordable and easy to install. Many models do not require any tools (other than what comes with the ground screw). They aren’t permanent, which makes them ideal for camping or holiday decorations. Also, ground screws are reusable items. Once you buy a durable set, you should never have to purchase ground screws again. Lastly, if you are using ground screws for a permanent installation, such as would be needed for a mailbox, ground screws are much kinder to the landscape than digging a hole and pouring concrete.
What to look for in a quality ground screw
Purpose
Ground screws serve different purposes. Models suitable for tents, canopies, inflatables and other tie-down needs will feature a screw eye at the top. Models for decking, mailboxes and fencing will feature a mount that accepts a 4-inch by 4-inch post.
Thread spacing
The closer the threads are spaced on a ground screw, the easier it will be to install. On the downside, this will also mean it requires more rotations to screw into the soil.
Length
A longer ground screw will have more holding power. However, it will also be harder to install. If the soil is compact, you may not be able to fully install a longer ground screw without the use of power tools.
Color
After installation, a small portion of the screw will remain above the ground. This can be a tripping hazard. A brightly colored ground screw can help prevent accidents.
Corrosion-resistant
Since ground screws are installed in soil, they must be durable and corrosion resistant. The best models will either be made of coated steel, or, in light-duty applications, rugged plastic.
Warranty
A warranty reveals the manufacturer’s faith in its product. It is not unlikely to find ground screws with lengthy warranties. Some models are even guaranteed for life.
How much you can expect to spend on a ground screw
Ground screws that are suitable for tents, tarps and light-duty applications cost roughly between $25-$35 for a four-pack. If you need to install a mailbox, deck or fencing, those ground screws may cost $30-$40 each.
Ground screw FAQ
What can I secure with ground screws?
A. A ground screw is an incredibly versatile tool. While it is essential to first consult the accompanying literature (or a professional) to see if the model you have is approved for a specific application, ground screws can be used to secure tents, canopies, beach shelters, RV awnings, tarps, inflatable decorations and more. The right ground screw can be used as a tree anchor, a soccer net anchor, a mount for a mailbox, the foundation for a deck, or to secure a trampoline.
What type of soil is best for ground screws?
A. Since a ground screw is held in place by the soil, the type of soil you have is crucial to the success of a ground screw. If it is installed in loose soil, such as sand, the screw may not hold as expected. If you try to install a ground screw in gravel, clay or highly compacted soil, the screw might not be able to penetrate deep enough to create a secure installation. The best soil is in the middle — penetrable, but not too loose, and firm, but not too compact.
What’s the best ground screw to buy?
Top ground screw
Orange Screw: The Ultimate Ground Anchor
What you need to know: This four-pack of cleverly designed ground screws has a case that doubles as a torque handle, making it perfect for people on the go.
What you’ll love: These ground screws are made with 100% recycled materials. They are available in orange or black. They are lightweight, rustproof, designed to work in a variety of soils and come with a lifetime breakage warranty.
What you should consider: These ground anchors can be hard to install in dry or compact soil.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top ground screw for the money
What you need to know: This durable set of steel ground screws is suitable for repeated use.
What you’ll love: These screws can be installed by hand or with a powered drill and an 18-millimeter socket. The aggressive design lets them penetrate even compacted soil.
What you should consider: While these ground screws hold well, the weld at the top is the weak spot. It may break when drilling into compact soil.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
What you need to know: If you would like to install a Mayne mail post, this is the best option available.
What you’ll love: This is a timesaving, no-dig option for people wishing to install a Mayne mail post. It is made of steel with a powder coating and accommodates a 4-inch by 4-inch post. This ground screw is suitable for average soil conditions.
What you should consider: Depending on your soil, this model can require a bit of effort to install.
Where to buy: Sold by Home Depot
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Comedian Tim Brooke-Taylor's wife, Christine, was devastated when he died with coronavirus in 2020. Now, she's lost their beloved home.
I can reveal that the couple's £3 million Berkshire mansion was destroyed in a huge fire at the weekend.
'For Christine, it's like losing Tim all over again,' a close friend of the couple tells me. 'They shared so many happy memories in the house and she's devastated that she might have lost irreplaceable items of huge sentimental value.'
It's not clear what caused the blaze at Cookham Dean or if Christine was at home at the time. A spokesman says she is unharmed but too upset to comment.
Her husband was best known as one third of the popular 1970s show The Goodies and for his anarchic wit on Radio 4's I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue.
Comedian Tim Brooke-Taylor's wife, Christine, was devastated when he died with coronavirus in 2020. Now, she's lost their beloved home. I can reveal that the couple's £3 million Berkshire mansion was destroyed in a huge fire at the weekend
It's not clear what caused the blaze at Cookham Dean or if Christine was at home at the time. A spokesman says she is unharmed but too upset to comment. Her husband was best known as one third of the popular 1970s show The Goodies and for his anarchic wit on Radio 4's I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue
He was one of Prince Charles's favourite comedians and once received a letter addressed to him and his co-stars in The Goodies, praising their work.
Such was the heir to the throne's admiration for him, Bill Oddie and Graeme Garden, that Charles said Princess Anne had got 'quite short' with him for 'guffawing like a drain' at their antics. Brooke-Taylor was awarded an OBE in 2011 for services to light entertainment.
Last year, the Mail Diary revealed that Christine had been left just £2,000 in her husband's will. He left a gross estate of £19,023, but, after his outstanding affairs had been finalised, this produced a figure of just over £2,000.
A spokesman said at the time: 'She has not been left destitute.'
He was one of Prince Charles's favourite comedians and once received a letter addressed to him and his co-stars in The Goodies, praising their work. Pictured: Firefighters at the former Berkshire home of Tim Brooke-Taylor
The couple were married in 1968 and have two sons, Ben and Edward. Brooke-Taylor started his performing career while studying law at Cambridge University, where he shared a house with John Cleese. He became president of the Footlights drama club, where he first met Garden and Oddie.
One of his biggest contributions to British comedy was co-writing and performing the famous Four Yorkshiremen sketch with John Cleese, Graham Chapman and Marty Feldman, originally for the ITV comedy programme At Last The 1948 Show!
It later became a popular fixture of Monty Python's live shows, and he said he was glad the Pythons kept going for long enough so that he did eventually earn royalties from the sketch.
Hospital drama for Poldark star's baby
Poldark star Gabriella Wilde was so keen to combine motherhood with her role in the BBC's hit period drama that she had her costumes adapted so she could breastfeed her baby, Skye, on set in Cornwall.
Now, the 32-year-old actress, who comes from the aristocratic Anstruther-Gough-Calthorpe family, has revealed that her son, now three , was recently admitted to hospital for an undisclosed condition.
Poldark star Gabriella Wilde was so keen to combine motherhood with her role in the BBC's hit period drama that she had her costumes adapted so she could breastfeed her baby, Skye, on set in Cornwall
Now, the 32-year-old actress, who comes from the aristocratic Anstruther-Gough-Calthorpe family, has revealed that her son, now three , was recently admitted to hospital for an undisclosed condition
'My darling Skye was being cared for by the incredible team of doctors and nurses at Royal United Hospital Bath,' says Gabriella, who has two other sons with her husband, the singer Alan Pownall, 37.
'I am so deeply grateful to all of those angels who looked after him and with such grace and care.'
As the offspring of pop royalty, photographer Mary McCartney is used to meeting some of the world's most famous people, but she admits to being overwhelmed when she was asked to take a portrait of the Queen. 'It was the most scared I've ever been,' says Sir Paul's daughter, 52, who in 2015 took the shots to mark the longest-reigning British monarch. 'I was waiting in a hallway in the palace when, in my mind, I had this sort of out-of-body nervous moment.'
Hollywood heart-throb Rob Lowe has revealed his heart lies in the home counties. 'Surrey is one of my most favourite places — it's so beautiful,' gushes The West Wing star, 58. 'I've a kind of fantasy that I could retire as a gentleman farmer in Surrey with my tweeds and my wellies.' The American fell in love with the county while filming the comedy-drama You, Me And The Apocalypse in 2015.
Hollywood heart-throb Rob Lowe has revealed his heart lies in the home counties. 'Surrey is one of my most favourite places — it's so beautiful,' gushes The West Wing star, 58
Top chef says charging extra is a piece of cake
You've heard of restaurants charging 'corkage' for guests who bring their own wine. Well, now a Michelin-starred chef has admitted to charging 'cakeage' to patrons who bring their own birthday cakes.
Paul Foster, who runs the acclaimed Salt restaurant in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, says: 'I'm a big fan of cakeage. It's a sensible business decision. Would you walk into a pub with your own beer?'
A regular on Saturday Kitchen Live, Foster, 39, tells me: 'It used to only ever be charged if guests didn't order dessert. We would charge £5 or £6 a head to cover costs. We don't charge any more as we have a set price menu.'
Given that the menu is £95 per person, with a minimum of a further £50 each for the drinks pairings, he might have been pushing his luck . . .
Queen guitarist Brian May has an unlikely secret role — as fashion stylist to his wife, actress Anita Dobson. 'He bought me the dress, shoes and bag I'm wearing right now, and it wasn't even my birthday,' the former EastEnders star tells me at a champagne event at the Royal Festival Hall on London's Southbank. 'I tried the dress on beforehand, but there have been times when he's bought me clothes without me being there. Some have been spot on, and then others that have been way off. 'He takes a punt and sees how he's doing. He's got a good eye.'
Queen guitarist Brian May has an unlikely secret role — as fashion stylist to his wife, actress Anita Dobson
Sir Ian, 82, is still young enough to chair dance
Sir Ian McKellen turns 83 next month, but The Lord Of The Rings star shows no signs of slowing down.
He joined Olympic champion Tom Daley at a London nightclub at the weekend wearing strings of beads, while the 27-year-old diver sported a mesh string vest.
The event was at The Troxy in East London, a former bingo hall founded by Maurice Cheepen, a Jewish immigrant from Nazi Germany.
In a reference to the venue's Jewish roots, the night's Passover celebration featured rituals associated with a bar mitzvah including chair dancing and shofar [a ram's horn] blowing.
Sir Ian McKellen turns 83 next month, but The Lord Of The Rings star shows no signs of slowing down. He joined Olympic champion Tom Daley at a London nightclub at the weekend wearing strings of beads, while the 27-year-old diver sported a mesh string vest | 0 | 25,393 | 0.905268 | https://nordot.app/919305756640165888 | 2022-07-11 20:17:51+00:00 | Richard Curtis’ country house has been devastated by fire.
It is not known if the 65-year-old ‘Love Actually’ and ‘Notting Hill’ scriptwriter or his partner Emma Freud, 60, were at the property when the blaze took hold, but there were individuals seen in the house by locals.
No injuries have been reported in connection with the inferno, which took 14 fire crews to tackle.
They arrived just before 10pm on Sunday as the blaze ripped through the first and second floors of the 18th century property in the seaside village of Walberswick, Suffolk.
Firefighters ripped tiles from a section of the roof to dampen hotspots as the fire spread throughout the house, severely damaging its ancient structure.
Curtis has been with Freud more than 30 years but the couple never married and have their main home in Notting Hill, west London.
A villager told The Sun about the fire: “There were people at the house, but I don’t know whether Richard and Emma were there.
“We suddenly saw the fire engines arrive just before 10pm. There was tons of smoke. It was white smoke coming out of the roof and the sides, and crazy out of the chimney. The smoke was looking for a way out.
“The firefighters went inside with their breathing apparatus and opened all the windows. They had big hoses and were spraying the roof. I assume it was to cool it off.
“Later they put up hook ladders, and they went up those to take off tiles which made even more smoke come out.”
The semi-detached house in Walberswick has been in Freud’s family since the 1930s, and is believed to be where Curtis, best known for his romantic comedies including ‘Four Weddings and a Funeral’ and ‘Bridget Jones’s Diary’, wrote some of his best known films.
He is also known for co-creating the ‘Comic Relief’ charity event with Sir Lenny Henry, 63, which has raised more than £1 billion, and for his TV writing credits on shows including ‘Blackadder’, ‘Mr Bean’ and the ‘Vicar of Dibley’. |
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-10685615/EDEN-CONFIDENTIAL-Giant-blaze-rips-late-Goodies-star-Tim-Brooke-Taylors-3m-mansion.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | EDEN CONFIDENTIAL: Giant blaze destroys late Goodies star Tim Brooke-Taylor's £3m Berkshire mansion almost two years to the day after he died with Covid
Comedian Tim Brooke-Taylor's wife, Christine, was devastated when he died with coronavirus in 2020. Now, she's lost their beloved home.
I can reveal that the couple's £3 million Berkshire mansion was destroyed in a huge fire at the weekend.
'For Christine, it's like losing Tim all over again,' a close friend of the couple tells me. 'They shared so many happy memories in the house and she's devastated that she might have lost irreplaceable items of huge sentimental value.'
It's not clear what caused the blaze at Cookham Dean or if Christine was at home at the time. A spokesman says she is unharmed but too upset to comment.
Her husband was best known as one third of the popular 1970s show The Goodies and for his anarchic wit on Radio 4's I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue.
Comedian Tim Brooke-Taylor's wife, Christine, was devastated when he died with coronavirus in 2020. Now, she's lost their beloved home. I can reveal that the couple's £3 million Berkshire mansion was destroyed in a huge fire at the weekend
It's not clear what caused the blaze at Cookham Dean or if Christine was at home at the time. A spokesman says she is unharmed but too upset to comment. Her husband was best known as one third of the popular 1970s show The Goodies and for his anarchic wit on Radio 4's I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue
He was one of Prince Charles's favourite comedians and once received a letter addressed to him and his co-stars in The Goodies, praising their work.
Such was the heir to the throne's admiration for him, Bill Oddie and Graeme Garden, that Charles said Princess Anne had got 'quite short' with him for 'guffawing like a drain' at their antics. Brooke-Taylor was awarded an OBE in 2011 for services to light entertainment.
Last year, the Mail Diary revealed that Christine had been left just £2,000 in her husband's will. He left a gross estate of £19,023, but, after his outstanding affairs had been finalised, this produced a figure of just over £2,000.
A spokesman said at the time: 'She has not been left destitute.'
He was one of Prince Charles's favourite comedians and once received a letter addressed to him and his co-stars in The Goodies, praising their work. Pictured: Firefighters at the former Berkshire home of Tim Brooke-Taylor
The couple were married in 1968 and have two sons, Ben and Edward. Brooke-Taylor started his performing career while studying law at Cambridge University, where he shared a house with John Cleese. He became president of the Footlights drama club, where he first met Garden and Oddie.
One of his biggest contributions to British comedy was co-writing and performing the famous Four Yorkshiremen sketch with John Cleese, Graham Chapman and Marty Feldman, originally for the ITV comedy programme At Last The 1948 Show!
It later became a popular fixture of Monty Python's live shows, and he said he was glad the Pythons kept going for long enough so that he did eventually earn royalties from the sketch.
Hospital drama for Poldark star's baby
Poldark star Gabriella Wilde was so keen to combine motherhood with her role in the BBC's hit period drama that she had her costumes adapted so she could breastfeed her baby, Skye, on set in Cornwall.
Now, the 32-year-old actress, who comes from the aristocratic Anstruther-Gough-Calthorpe family, has revealed that her son, now three , was recently admitted to hospital for an undisclosed condition.
Poldark star Gabriella Wilde was so keen to combine motherhood with her role in the BBC's hit period drama that she had her costumes adapted so she could breastfeed her baby, Skye, on set in Cornwall
Now, the 32-year-old actress, who comes from the aristocratic Anstruther-Gough-Calthorpe family, has revealed that her son, now three , was recently admitted to hospital for an undisclosed condition
'My darling Skye was being cared for by the incredible team of doctors and nurses at Royal United Hospital Bath,' says Gabriella, who has two other sons with her husband, the singer Alan Pownall, 37.
'I am so deeply grateful to all of those angels who looked after him and with such grace and care.'
As the offspring of pop royalty, photographer Mary McCartney is used to meeting some of the world's most famous people, but she admits to being overwhelmed when she was asked to take a portrait of the Queen. 'It was the most scared I've ever been,' says Sir Paul's daughter, 52, who in 2015 took the shots to mark the longest-reigning British monarch. 'I was waiting in a hallway in the palace when, in my mind, I had this sort of out-of-body nervous moment.'
Hollywood heart-throb Rob Lowe has revealed his heart lies in the home counties. 'Surrey is one of my most favourite places — it's so beautiful,' gushes The West Wing star, 58. 'I've a kind of fantasy that I could retire as a gentleman farmer in Surrey with my tweeds and my wellies.' The American fell in love with the county while filming the comedy-drama You, Me And The Apocalypse in 2015.
Hollywood heart-throb Rob Lowe has revealed his heart lies in the home counties. 'Surrey is one of my most favourite places — it's so beautiful,' gushes The West Wing star, 58
Top chef says charging extra is a piece of cake
You've heard of restaurants charging 'corkage' for guests who bring their own wine. Well, now a Michelin-starred chef has admitted to charging 'cakeage' to patrons who bring their own birthday cakes.
Paul Foster, who runs the acclaimed Salt restaurant in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, says: 'I'm a big fan of cakeage. It's a sensible business decision. Would you walk into a pub with your own beer?'
A regular on Saturday Kitchen Live, Foster, 39, tells me: 'It used to only ever be charged if guests didn't order dessert. We would charge £5 or £6 a head to cover costs. We don't charge any more as we have a set price menu.'
Given that the menu is £95 per person, with a minimum of a further £50 each for the drinks pairings, he might have been pushing his luck . . .
Queen guitarist Brian May has an unlikely secret role — as fashion stylist to his wife, actress Anita Dobson. 'He bought me the dress, shoes and bag I'm wearing right now, and it wasn't even my birthday,' the former EastEnders star tells me at a champagne event at the Royal Festival Hall on London's Southbank. 'I tried the dress on beforehand, but there have been times when he's bought me clothes without me being there. Some have been spot on, and then others that have been way off. 'He takes a punt and sees how he's doing. He's got a good eye.'
Queen guitarist Brian May has an unlikely secret role — as fashion stylist to his wife, actress Anita Dobson
Sir Ian, 82, is still young enough to chair dance
Sir Ian McKellen turns 83 next month, but The Lord Of The Rings star shows no signs of slowing down.
He joined Olympic champion Tom Daley at a London nightclub at the weekend wearing strings of beads, while the 27-year-old diver sported a mesh string vest.
The event was at The Troxy in East London, a former bingo hall founded by Maurice Cheepen, a Jewish immigrant from Nazi Germany.
In a reference to the venue's Jewish roots, the night's Passover celebration featured rituals associated with a bar mitzvah including chair dancing and shofar [a ram's horn] blowing.
Sir Ian McKellen turns 83 next month, but The Lord Of The Rings star shows no signs of slowing down. He joined Olympic champion Tom Daley at a London nightclub at the weekend wearing strings of beads, while the 27-year-old diver sported a mesh string vest | 1 | 111,582 | 0.934715 | https://www.mylondon.news/news/east-london-news/wennington-fire-our-home-38-24626746 | 2022-07-29 18:33:40+00:00 | An elderly couple who are both disabled were left heartbroken when their home of nearly 40 years was destroyed when a blaze ripped through their tiny East London village. Alfie and Helen Taylor, from Wennington, Havering, have "lost everything" as a result of the horrific fire which destroyed their house on the hottest day of the year so far.
As temperatures soared to 40C in some parts of the capital, London Fire Brigade resources were stretched thin as they tackled more than a dozen incidents across the city. Perhaps the most serious, however, was in Wennington where 14 buildings, five cars and 12 stables were burnt to the ground.
Speaking to Sky News, Helen said: "It's not sunk in yet that we've lost our home. We've lost everything. All of our belongings. It's devastating." Alfie, who is disabled, was at the scene when the fire ripped through the village but was forced to flee the scene without grabbing any of his precious belongings.
READ MORE: 'I watched my house burning down on TV during London heatwave wildfire'
A classic car which Alfie has spent years looking after was crushed and partly melted as a result of the horrific blaze. The one thing that they are thankful for is that they still have each other.
Originating from a poor area in East London, Alfie says he was told he would never amount to anything due to the struggles he had with reading and writing as a child. He set out on a mission to prove them wrong. Grafting hard all his life, he managed to secure a mortgage on the then run down property in Wennington 38 years ago. Alfie and Helen say they enjoyed many "glorious years" with their family making happy memories together while the paid off their mortgage.
Moving into retirement, Alf cared for his disabled wife Helen more and more in their forever home until the day it was destroyed. Their worldly belongs, including sentimental piece such as Alfie's loving restored old car, and table and chairs Helen’s mum gave her before she died went up in flames along with all their photos and memories of their life together.
The couple has fortunately been able to access temporary accommodation which has already been furnished. Now, a GoFundMe campaign has been set up by friends of the couple to help them as they look for a permanent home to live in for the rest of their lives together.
The home was completely destroyed in the wildfire that occurred during the day of record temperatures in the UK. Several houses were destroyed and others were severely damaged in the East London village where day after grass fires broke out, engulfing properties, as black smoke billowed into the air.
During the record heatwave, Mayor of London Sadiq Khan said the London Fire Brigade received more than 2,600 calls throughout the day – seven times the usual number. A fire chief described the terrifying events in the aftermath of the Wennington blaze as more than a dozen firefighters suffered injuries while battling the huge grass fire. It was so extensive that it even threatened to burn down the village's fire station as firefighters tried to save their village.
The destruction in Wennington came amid a spate of fires across London that saw the capital’s fire brigade experience its busiest day since the Second World War. In Wennington, up to 40 hectares of grassland are thought to have been affected.
At the height of the blaze, the London Fire Brigade reported that two detached houses, two semi-detached houses, two rows of terraced houses, two outbuildings, six single-storey garages, 12 stables and five cars were destroyed.
A GoFundMe campaign has been set up to help Alfie and Helen. You can donate here .
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Comedian Tim Brooke-Taylor's wife, Christine, was devastated when he died with coronavirus in 2020. Now, she's lost their beloved home.
I can reveal that the couple's £3 million Berkshire mansion was destroyed in a huge fire at the weekend.
'For Christine, it's like losing Tim all over again,' a close friend of the couple tells me. 'They shared so many happy memories in the house and she's devastated that she might have lost irreplaceable items of huge sentimental value.'
It's not clear what caused the blaze at Cookham Dean or if Christine was at home at the time. A spokesman says she is unharmed but too upset to comment.
Her husband was best known as one third of the popular 1970s show The Goodies and for his anarchic wit on Radio 4's I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue.
Comedian Tim Brooke-Taylor's wife, Christine, was devastated when he died with coronavirus in 2020. Now, she's lost their beloved home. I can reveal that the couple's £3 million Berkshire mansion was destroyed in a huge fire at the weekend
It's not clear what caused the blaze at Cookham Dean or if Christine was at home at the time. A spokesman says she is unharmed but too upset to comment. Her husband was best known as one third of the popular 1970s show The Goodies and for his anarchic wit on Radio 4's I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue
He was one of Prince Charles's favourite comedians and once received a letter addressed to him and his co-stars in The Goodies, praising their work.
Such was the heir to the throne's admiration for him, Bill Oddie and Graeme Garden, that Charles said Princess Anne had got 'quite short' with him for 'guffawing like a drain' at their antics. Brooke-Taylor was awarded an OBE in 2011 for services to light entertainment.
Last year, the Mail Diary revealed that Christine had been left just £2,000 in her husband's will. He left a gross estate of £19,023, but, after his outstanding affairs had been finalised, this produced a figure of just over £2,000.
A spokesman said at the time: 'She has not been left destitute.'
He was one of Prince Charles's favourite comedians and once received a letter addressed to him and his co-stars in The Goodies, praising their work. Pictured: Firefighters at the former Berkshire home of Tim Brooke-Taylor
The couple were married in 1968 and have two sons, Ben and Edward. Brooke-Taylor started his performing career while studying law at Cambridge University, where he shared a house with John Cleese. He became president of the Footlights drama club, where he first met Garden and Oddie.
One of his biggest contributions to British comedy was co-writing and performing the famous Four Yorkshiremen sketch with John Cleese, Graham Chapman and Marty Feldman, originally for the ITV comedy programme At Last The 1948 Show!
It later became a popular fixture of Monty Python's live shows, and he said he was glad the Pythons kept going for long enough so that he did eventually earn royalties from the sketch.
Hospital drama for Poldark star's baby
Poldark star Gabriella Wilde was so keen to combine motherhood with her role in the BBC's hit period drama that she had her costumes adapted so she could breastfeed her baby, Skye, on set in Cornwall.
Now, the 32-year-old actress, who comes from the aristocratic Anstruther-Gough-Calthorpe family, has revealed that her son, now three , was recently admitted to hospital for an undisclosed condition.
Poldark star Gabriella Wilde was so keen to combine motherhood with her role in the BBC's hit period drama that she had her costumes adapted so she could breastfeed her baby, Skye, on set in Cornwall
Now, the 32-year-old actress, who comes from the aristocratic Anstruther-Gough-Calthorpe family, has revealed that her son, now three , was recently admitted to hospital for an undisclosed condition
'My darling Skye was being cared for by the incredible team of doctors and nurses at Royal United Hospital Bath,' says Gabriella, who has two other sons with her husband, the singer Alan Pownall, 37.
'I am so deeply grateful to all of those angels who looked after him and with such grace and care.'
As the offspring of pop royalty, photographer Mary McCartney is used to meeting some of the world's most famous people, but she admits to being overwhelmed when she was asked to take a portrait of the Queen. 'It was the most scared I've ever been,' says Sir Paul's daughter, 52, who in 2015 took the shots to mark the longest-reigning British monarch. 'I was waiting in a hallway in the palace when, in my mind, I had this sort of out-of-body nervous moment.'
Hollywood heart-throb Rob Lowe has revealed his heart lies in the home counties. 'Surrey is one of my most favourite places — it's so beautiful,' gushes The West Wing star, 58. 'I've a kind of fantasy that I could retire as a gentleman farmer in Surrey with my tweeds and my wellies.' The American fell in love with the county while filming the comedy-drama You, Me And The Apocalypse in 2015.
Hollywood heart-throb Rob Lowe has revealed his heart lies in the home counties. 'Surrey is one of my most favourite places — it's so beautiful,' gushes The West Wing star, 58
Top chef says charging extra is a piece of cake
You've heard of restaurants charging 'corkage' for guests who bring their own wine. Well, now a Michelin-starred chef has admitted to charging 'cakeage' to patrons who bring their own birthday cakes.
Paul Foster, who runs the acclaimed Salt restaurant in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, says: 'I'm a big fan of cakeage. It's a sensible business decision. Would you walk into a pub with your own beer?'
A regular on Saturday Kitchen Live, Foster, 39, tells me: 'It used to only ever be charged if guests didn't order dessert. We would charge £5 or £6 a head to cover costs. We don't charge any more as we have a set price menu.'
Given that the menu is £95 per person, with a minimum of a further £50 each for the drinks pairings, he might have been pushing his luck . . .
Queen guitarist Brian May has an unlikely secret role — as fashion stylist to his wife, actress Anita Dobson. 'He bought me the dress, shoes and bag I'm wearing right now, and it wasn't even my birthday,' the former EastEnders star tells me at a champagne event at the Royal Festival Hall on London's Southbank. 'I tried the dress on beforehand, but there have been times when he's bought me clothes without me being there. Some have been spot on, and then others that have been way off. 'He takes a punt and sees how he's doing. He's got a good eye.'
Queen guitarist Brian May has an unlikely secret role — as fashion stylist to his wife, actress Anita Dobson
Sir Ian, 82, is still young enough to chair dance
Sir Ian McKellen turns 83 next month, but The Lord Of The Rings star shows no signs of slowing down.
He joined Olympic champion Tom Daley at a London nightclub at the weekend wearing strings of beads, while the 27-year-old diver sported a mesh string vest.
The event was at The Troxy in East London, a former bingo hall founded by Maurice Cheepen, a Jewish immigrant from Nazi Germany.
In a reference to the venue's Jewish roots, the night's Passover celebration featured rituals associated with a bar mitzvah including chair dancing and shofar [a ram's horn] blowing.
Sir Ian McKellen turns 83 next month, but The Lord Of The Rings star shows no signs of slowing down. He joined Olympic champion Tom Daley at a London nightclub at the weekend wearing strings of beads, while the 27-year-old diver sported a mesh string vest | 2 | 99,542 | 0.945252 | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11032949/Widower-house-went-flames-reveals-picture-late-wife-tattoo-arm.html | 2022-07-20 19:48:53+00:00 | Widower whose house went up in flames on hottest day of the year reveals his only remaining picture of his late wife is the tattoo on his arm
- Keith Gant was married to his wife Olwyn for 40 years before she died aged 64
- A field fire in Ashmanhaugh, Norfolk, spread to Mr Gant's house yesterday
- It left the widower with a tattoo of his late wife the only picture he has of her
A widower whose home burned down yesterday on the hottest day of the year only has revealed the one picture he has left of his late wife is a tattoo of her on his arm.
Keith Gant was married to his wife Olwyn for 40 years before she died aged 64 in 2019 and the couple had lived in their house for three decades.
As the mercury soared to almost 40C in Norfolk a field fire in Ashmanhaugh spread to Mr Gant's house, as well as the home of his neighbour.
He said there were 'a lot of memories' in the home he and his wife shared and he was 'devastated' to lose it.
'My wife and I had a lot of happy days here,' he told ITV Anglia. 'Everything is gone.'
This is the only surviving picture Keith Gant has of his late wife after every other photo of her was burnt in their home. Olwyn Gant died aged 64 in 2019
The house they had lived in together for around 30 years burned down yesterday
A field fire spread to two houses in Ashmanhaugh, Norfolk, on the hottest day of the year
Mr Gant said there were 'a lot of memories' in the home he and his wife shared and he was 'devastated' to lose it
Mr Gant had been watching TV with his blinds drawn in a bid to keep the house cool when the fire took hold.
He only realised his home was on fire when his smoke alarm sounded.
'Smoke was blowing and flames were up the trees,' he said.
The blaze was one of 280 across the county yesterday as UK temperatures peaked at 40.3C in Coningsby, Lincolnshire. Pictured: A fire engine in Ashmanhaugh after two homes burned down yesterday
This map shows scale of damage across the UK after wildfires tore through homes from Wennington and Dagenham to Norfolk and Barnsley leaving villages 'looking like warzones'
Every photograph of his wife was burned, the windows of his home melted and the roof completely destroyed.
The widower said he was distraught and had lost the place where he made memories with his wife of four decades.
The blaze was one of 280 across the county yesterday as UK temperatures peaked at 40.3C in Coningsby, Lincolnshire. |
https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/New-interim-chancellor-named-at-UW-Whitewater-17057169.php | MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The University of Wisconsin-Whitewater has a new interim chancellor.
UW-Whitewater Provost John Chenoweth will take over the position from Jim Henderson, who resigned unexpectedly on Monday. Henderson had been interim chancellor since July 1, following the resignation of Chancellor Dwight Watson due to health reasons.
“This is an unexpected situation, but I am confident that Provost Chenoweth will maintain continuity at UW-Whitewater,” said Michael Falbo, University of Wisconsin System interim president. “I thank Jim for his service.”
Chenoweth was named provost on July 1. He previously served as dean of business and economics.
An update on the search for a permanent chancellor at the school is expected later this week, according to higher education officials. | 0 | 1,102 | 0 | https://www.newstimes.com/news/article/New-interim-chancellor-named-at-UW-Whitewater-17057169.php | 2022-04-04 22:21:02+00:00 | MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The University of Wisconsin-Whitewater has a new interim chancellor.
UW-Whitewater Provost John Chenoweth will take over the position from Jim Henderson, who resigned unexpectedly on Monday. Henderson had been interim chancellor since July 1, following the resignation of Chancellor Dwight Watson due to health reasons.
“This is an unexpected situation, but I am confident that Provost Chenoweth will maintain continuity at UW-Whitewater,” said Michael Falbo, University of Wisconsin System interim president. “I thank Jim for his service.”
Chenoweth was named provost on July 1. He previously served as dean of business and economics.
An update on the search for a permanent chancellor at the school is expected later this week, according to higher education officials. |
https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/New-interim-chancellor-named-at-UW-Whitewater-17057169.php | MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The University of Wisconsin-Whitewater has a new interim chancellor.
UW-Whitewater Provost John Chenoweth will take over the position from Jim Henderson, who resigned unexpectedly on Monday. Henderson had been interim chancellor since July 1, following the resignation of Chancellor Dwight Watson due to health reasons.
“This is an unexpected situation, but I am confident that Provost Chenoweth will maintain continuity at UW-Whitewater,” said Michael Falbo, University of Wisconsin System interim president. “I thank Jim for his service.”
Chenoweth was named provost on July 1. He previously served as dean of business and economics.
An update on the search for a permanent chancellor at the school is expected later this week, according to higher education officials. | 1 | 1,111 | 0 | https://www.middletownpress.com/news/article/New-interim-chancellor-named-at-UW-Whitewater-17057169.php | 2022-04-04 22:21:04+00:00 | MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The University of Wisconsin-Whitewater has a new interim chancellor.
UW-Whitewater Provost John Chenoweth will take over the position from Jim Henderson, who resigned unexpectedly on Monday. Henderson had been interim chancellor since July 1, following the resignation of Chancellor Dwight Watson due to health reasons.
“This is an unexpected situation, but I am confident that Provost Chenoweth will maintain continuity at UW-Whitewater,” said Michael Falbo, University of Wisconsin System interim president. “I thank Jim for his service.”
Chenoweth was named provost on July 1. He previously served as dean of business and economics.
An update on the search for a permanent chancellor at the school is expected later this week, according to higher education officials. |
https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/New-interim-chancellor-named-at-UW-Whitewater-17057169.php | MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The University of Wisconsin-Whitewater has a new interim chancellor.
UW-Whitewater Provost John Chenoweth will take over the position from Jim Henderson, who resigned unexpectedly on Monday. Henderson had been interim chancellor since July 1, following the resignation of Chancellor Dwight Watson due to health reasons.
“This is an unexpected situation, but I am confident that Provost Chenoweth will maintain continuity at UW-Whitewater,” said Michael Falbo, University of Wisconsin System interim president. “I thank Jim for his service.”
Chenoweth was named provost on July 1. He previously served as dean of business and economics.
An update on the search for a permanent chancellor at the school is expected later this week, according to higher education officials. | 2 | 1,117 | 0 | https://www.darientimes.com/news/article/New-interim-chancellor-named-at-UW-Whitewater-17057169.php | 2022-04-04 22:21:05+00:00 | MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The University of Wisconsin-Whitewater has a new interim chancellor.
UW-Whitewater Provost John Chenoweth will take over the position from Jim Henderson, who resigned unexpectedly on Monday. Henderson had been interim chancellor since July 1, following the resignation of Chancellor Dwight Watson due to health reasons.
“This is an unexpected situation, but I am confident that Provost Chenoweth will maintain continuity at UW-Whitewater,” said Michael Falbo, University of Wisconsin System interim president. “I thank Jim for his service.”
Chenoweth was named provost on July 1. He previously served as dean of business and economics.
An update on the search for a permanent chancellor at the school is expected later this week, according to higher education officials. |
https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/notable-two-hundred-day-moving-average-cross-six-0 | In trading on Monday, shares of Six Flags Entertainment Corp (Symbol: SIX) crossed below their 200 day moving average of $41.85, changing hands as low as $41.57 per share. Six Flags Entertainment Corp shares are currently trading down about 1.7% on the day. The chart below shows the one year performance of SIX shares, versus its 200 day moving average:
Looking at the chart above, SIX's low point in its 52 week range is $35.75 per share, with $50.56 as the 52 week high point — that compares with a last trade of $41.80.
The views and opinions expressed herein are the views and opinions of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of Nasdaq, Inc. | 0 | 15,926 | 0.516715 | https://www.tickerreport.com/banking-finance/8607222/six-flags-entertainment-co-nysesix-receives-54-75-consensus-pt-from-brokerages.html | 2022-04-03 16:59:14+00:00 | Shares of Six Flags Entertainment Co. (NYSE:SIX – Get Rating) have earned an average recommendation of “Buy” from the fifteen brokerages that are covering the firm, MarketBeat Ratings reports. Two investment analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating and ten have issued a buy rating on the company. The average 1-year price objective among analysts that have issued ratings on the stock in the last year is $54.75.
A number of equities analysts have weighed in on the stock. Credit Suisse Group upgraded shares of Six Flags Entertainment from a “neutral” rating to an “outperform” rating and increased their target price for the stock from $52.00 to $53.00 in a research report on Friday, December 17th. Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft upgraded shares of Six Flags Entertainment from a “hold” rating to a “buy” rating and increased their target price for the stock from $45.00 to $57.00 in a research report on Friday, March 4th. StockNews.com assumed coverage on shares of Six Flags Entertainment in a research report on Thursday. They set a “hold” rating for the company. Citigroup started coverage on shares of Six Flags Entertainment in a research report on Thursday, February 10th. They set a “buy” rating and a $54.00 target price for the company. Finally, Zacks Investment Research lowered shares of Six Flags Entertainment from a “buy” rating to a “hold” rating in a research report on Tuesday, March 1st.
NYSE SIX traded down $0.99 during trading hours on Thursday, reaching $42.51. 980,109 shares of the company were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 1,464,930. Six Flags Entertainment has a 1 year low of $35.75 and a 1 year high of $50.56. The business’s 50 day simple moving average is $42.29 and its 200-day simple moving average is $42.01. The stock has a market capitalization of $3.66 billion, a P/E ratio of 28.92 and a beta of 2.31.
A number of institutional investors and hedge funds have recently made changes to their positions in the stock. State of Michigan Retirement System raised its stake in Six Flags Entertainment by 1.6% in the fourth quarter. State of Michigan Retirement System now owns 19,629 shares of the company’s stock valued at $836,000 after purchasing an additional 300 shares in the last quarter. Belpointe Asset Management LLC raised its stake in Six Flags Entertainment by 7.0% in the fourth quarter. Belpointe Asset Management LLC now owns 6,075 shares of the company’s stock valued at $259,000 after purchasing an additional 400 shares in the last quarter. State of Alaska Department of Revenue raised its stake in Six Flags Entertainment by 3.6% in the third quarter. State of Alaska Department of Revenue now owns 12,184 shares of the company’s stock valued at $517,000 after purchasing an additional 423 shares in the last quarter. Legal & General Group Plc raised its stake in Six Flags Entertainment by 0.4% in the fourth quarter. Legal & General Group Plc now owns 121,082 shares of the company’s stock valued at $5,156,000 after purchasing an additional 499 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Texas Permanent School Fund raised its stake in shares of Six Flags Entertainment by 0.9% during the third quarter. Texas Permanent School Fund now owns 57,171 shares of the company’s stock worth $2,430,000 after acquiring an additional 535 shares in the last quarter. 87.55% of the stock is currently owned by institutional investors and hedge funds.
About Six Flags Entertainment (Get Rating)
Six Flags Entertainment Corp. engages in operating of theme parks. It operates under the brand name Six Flags, which offers rides, water attractions, themed areas, concerts and shows, restaurants, game venues, and retail outlets. The company was founded by Angus G. Wynne Jr. in 1961 and is headquartered in Arlington, TX.
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https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/notable-two-hundred-day-moving-average-cross-six-0 | In trading on Monday, shares of Six Flags Entertainment Corp (Symbol: SIX) crossed below their 200 day moving average of $41.85, changing hands as low as $41.57 per share. Six Flags Entertainment Corp shares are currently trading down about 1.7% on the day. The chart below shows the one year performance of SIX shares, versus its 200 day moving average:
Looking at the chart above, SIX's low point in its 52 week range is $35.75 per share, with $50.56 as the 52 week high point — that compares with a last trade of $41.80.
The views and opinions expressed herein are the views and opinions of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of Nasdaq, Inc. | 1 | 130,071 | 0.542935 | https://www.equities.com/news/price-alert-shares-of-six-flags-entertainment-six-trade-5-18-lower-at-midday-june-10 | 2022-06-10 22:09:14+00:00 | Price Alert: Shares of Six Flags Entertainment (SIX) Trade 5.18% Lower at Midday June 10
Equities Staff Follow |Six Flags Entertainment Corp (NYSE: SIX) shares lost 5.18%, or $1.49 per share, as on 12:11:07 est today. Since opening at $28.13, 1,443,274 shares of Six Flags Entertainment have been traded today and the stock has traded between $28.47 and $27.25.
This year the company is down 32.50%.
Six Flags Entertainment is set to release earnings on 2022-07-27.
For technical charts, analysis, and more on Six Flags Entertainment visit the company profile.
About Six Flags Entertainment Corp
Six Flags Entertainment Corporation is the world's largest regional theme park company and the largest operator of waterparks in North America, with 26 parks across the United States, Mexico and Canada. For 59 years, Six Flags has entertained millions of families with world-class coasters, themed rides, thrilling waterparks and unique attractions.
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https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/notable-two-hundred-day-moving-average-cross-six-0 | In trading on Monday, shares of Six Flags Entertainment Corp (Symbol: SIX) crossed below their 200 day moving average of $41.85, changing hands as low as $41.57 per share. Six Flags Entertainment Corp shares are currently trading down about 1.7% on the day. The chart below shows the one year performance of SIX shares, versus its 200 day moving average:
Looking at the chart above, SIX's low point in its 52 week range is $35.75 per share, with $50.56 as the 52 week high point — that compares with a last trade of $41.80.
The views and opinions expressed herein are the views and opinions of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of Nasdaq, Inc. | 2 | 59,288 | 0.545548 | https://investchronicle.com/2022/07/08/here-is-why-six-flags-entertainment-corporation-six-stock-volatility-recorded-over-the-last-month-was-6-60/ | 2022-07-08 13:39:52+00:00 | At the end of the latest market close, Six Flags Entertainment Corporation (SIX) was valued at $22.56. In that particular session, Stock kicked-off at the price of $22.59 while reaching the peak value of $23.735 and lowest value recorded on the day was $22.59. The stock current value is $23.46.Recently in News on July 6, 2022, Six Flags Sets Date to Announce Second Quarter 2022 Earnings. Six Flags Entertainment Corporation (NYSE: SIX) today announced it will release second quarter financial results before the market opens on Thursday, August 11, 2022. An investor conference call will follow beginning at 7:00 a.m. Central Time. The call can be accessed through the Six Flags Investor Relations website, investors.sixflags.com, or by dialing 1-833-629-0614 in the United States or +1-412-317-9257 outside the United States and requesting the Six Flags earnings call. You can read further details here
Six Flags Entertainment Corporation had a pretty Dodgy run when it comes to the market performance. The 1-year high price for the company’s stock is recorded $47.24 on 02/10/22, with the lowest value was $19.91 for the same time period, recorded on 06/16/22.
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Six Flags Entertainment Corporation (SIX) full year performance was -42.82%
Price records that include history of low and high prices in the period of 52 weeks can tell a lot about the stock’s existing status and the future performance. Presently, Six Flags Entertainment Corporation shares are logging -50.34% during the 52-week period from high price, and 17.83% higher than the lowest price point for the same timeframe. The stock’s price range for the 52-week period managed to maintain the performance between $19.91 and $47.24.
The company’s shares, operating in the sector of Consumer Cyclical managed to top a trading volume set approximately around 2647225 for the day, which was evidently higher, when compared to the average daily volumes of the shares.
When it comes to the year-to-date metrics, the Six Flags Entertainment Corporation (SIX) recorded performance in the market was -44.90%, having the revenues showcasing -42.36% on a quarterly basis in comparison with the same period year before. At the time of this writing, the total market value of the company is set at 1.91B, as it employees total of 1970 workers.
The Analysts eye on Six Flags Entertainment Corporation (SIX)
During the last month, 11 analysts gave the Six Flags Entertainment Corporation a BUY rating, 1 of the polled analysts branded the stock as an OVERWEIGHT, 2 analysts were recommending to HOLD this stock, 0 of them gave the stock UNDERWEIGHT rating, and 0 of the polled analysts provided SELL rating.
According to the data provided on Barchart.com, the moving average of the company in the 100-day period was set at 35.23, with a change in the price was noted -21.71. In a similar fashion, Six Flags Entertainment Corporation posted a movement of -48.06% for the period of last 100 days, recording 2,131,043 in trading volumes.
Technical rundown of Six Flags Entertainment Corporation (SIX)
Raw Stochastic average of Six Flags Entertainment Corporation in the period of last 50 days is set at 15.93%. The result represents downgrade in oppose to Raw Stochastic average for the period of the last 20 days, recording 35.60%. In the last 20 days, the company’s Stochastic %K was 32.36% and its Stochastic %D was recorded 31.76%.
Considering, the past performance of Six Flags Entertainment Corporation, multiple moving trends are noted. Year-to-date Price performance of the company’s stock appears to be encouraging, given the fact the metric is recording -44.90%. Additionally, trading for the stock in the period of the last six months notably deteriorated by -46.43%, alongside a downfall of -42.82% for the period of the last 12 months. The shares increased approximately by 6.78% in the 7-day charts and went up by -19.79% in the period of the last 30 days. Common stock shares were lifted by -42.36% during last recorded quarter. |
https://www.kvue.com/article/entertainment/entertainment-tonight/90-day-fiance-tell-all-jasmine-gets-candid-about-her-and-ginos-sex-life/603-7de13d5f-c61f-41d6-a229-d529ab72536f | Jasmine was definitely in a sharing mood during part one of this season of 90 Day Fiancé: Before the 90 Days' tell-all special that aired on Sunday. Jasmine made a virtual appearance while Gino filmed in studio, and she shockingly begged Gino to have more sex with her.
This season of 90 Day Fiancé: Before the 90 Days ended with Gino and Jasmine getting engaged despite all their ups and downs, and the two saying a tearful goodbye at the airport in Panama as Gino returned to Michigan. However, it's clear the two still have plenty of trust issues. During the season, Jasmine insisted on checking Gino's phone and emails to make sure he wasn't communicating with other women, and later felt justified when his ex told her that he sent her topless pictures of Jasmine that Jasmine sent to Gino in private. During the tell-all, Gino was once again caught lying when he said he never communicated with fellow 90 Day Fiancé cast member Benjamin's friend, Jessica, but host Shaun Robinson pulled up the DMs. Gino asked Jessica if she was Sicilian, and Jessica responded that her husband was. While Gino insisted that Jessica reached out to him first to say hi, he couldn't provide any proof and said he deleted their exchange. Not surprisingly, Jasmine got upset and took off her engagement ring and told Gino he was "in trouble."
"Everyone can call me crazy or whatever, but I've never disrespected you, Gino," she said. "I have never cheated on you, and I'm so sick and tired of you playing the nerdy, the naive, and you always keep doing the same sh** to me and over and over again."
Gino insisted that he never cheated on Jasmine and was just having a "friendly conversation" with Jessica.
"There's nothing there because I love Jasmine," he said.
Later, the two got candid about their sex life, and Jasmine shockingly said that when Gino went to Panama to visit her for one month, they only had sex one time. She said he preferred pleasuring himself rather than having sex with her.
"Physically, for a man, you need to drain your balls one freaking way or another," she said, as her fellow 90 Day Fiancé cast members laughed uncomfortably. "If I'm not the one draining your balls, who is it?"
"And why you punish me with sex?" she also asked him, stressing that she was completely attracted to his "unsexiness." "If you know that I love f**king with you. It's so freaking good. I love it, Gino. I'm vegan but I want your freaking meat! Give me the meat, I want it! Gino, I'm 35, I shouldn't be begging a man for sex."
Gino said that part of him not wanting to have sex with Jasmine was that they argued a lot. Another revelation from the tell-all was that Gino actually met Jasmine through a sugar daddy website even though Jasmine proudly proclaimed during the season that she didn't need a sugar daddy. Jasmine said her best friend is the one who put her on the website and she claimed she initially didn't know what it was. Jasmine also called out Gino when he said that being on a sugar daddy website was part of his past and that he went on less than five dates through the website. Jasmine said he'd been on a minimum of 30 dates.
"That is in the past, OK?" she told Gino. "I forgave you. I gave you a new opportunity to be with me because I love you and when I love, I'm stupid."
ET spoke with Jasmine in February, and she further explained why she has forgiven Gino for his questionable dating history.
"We all have a past," she said. "And I cannot judge Gino for what he did in his past relationships. I do believe that so far, you can see in the show that he has shown me that he's a good person, that he's so into me. I mean, this man has not run away from me after showing my super crazy and wild side."
"Even if he did it, I don't see a sick man, like a pervert abusing women, anything like that," she continued. "If he did it, it's just out of loneliness and wanting company. And I know back in the United States, before he lost his job, he was a very busy man, was working all the time, and maybe, I don't know, he didn't have the time to go and meet girls and he relied on this website. I don't truly know, but I believe that Gino is overall a good man and he would never disrespect a woman."
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This season of 90 Day Fiancé: Before the 90 Days ended with Gino and Jasmine getting engaged despite all their ups and downs, and the two saying a tearful goodbye at the airport in Panama as Gino returned to Michigan. However, it's clear the two still have plenty of trust issues. During the season, Jasmine insisted on checking Gino's phone and emails to make sure he wasn't communicating with other women, and later felt justified when his ex told her that he sent her topless pictures of Jasmine that Jasmine sent to Gino in private. During the tell-all, Gino was once again caught lying when he said he never communicated with fellow 90 Day Fiancé cast member Benjamin's friend, Jessica, but host Shaun Robinson pulled up the DMs. Gino asked Jessica if she was Sicilian, and Jessica responded that her husband was. While Gino insisted that Jessica reached out to him first to say hi, he couldn't provide any proof and said he deleted their exchange. Not surprisingly, Jasmine got upset and took off her engagement ring and told Gino he was "in trouble."
"Everyone can call me crazy or whatever, but I've never disrespected you, Gino," she said. "I have never cheated on you, and I'm so sick and tired of you playing the nerdy, the naive, and you always keep doing the same sh** to me and over and over again."
Gino insisted that he never cheated on Jasmine and was just having a "friendly conversation" with Jessica.
"There's nothing there because I love Jasmine," he said.
Later, the two got candid about their sex life, and Jasmine shockingly said that when Gino went to Panama to visit her for one month, they only had sex one time. She said he preferred pleasuring himself rather than having sex with her.
"Physically, for a man, you need to drain your balls one freaking way or another," she said, as her fellow 90 Day Fiancé cast members laughed uncomfortably. "If I'm not the one draining your balls, who is it?"
"And why you punish me with sex?" she also asked him, stressing that she was completely attracted to his "unsexiness." "If you know that I love f**king with you. It's so freaking good. I love it, Gino. I'm vegan but I want your freaking meat! Give me the meat, I want it! Gino, I'm 35, I shouldn't be begging a man for sex."
Gino said that part of him not wanting to have sex with Jasmine was that they argued a lot. Another revelation from the tell-all was that Gino actually met Jasmine through a sugar daddy website even though Jasmine proudly proclaimed during the season that she didn't need a sugar daddy. Jasmine said her best friend is the one who put her on the website and she claimed she initially didn't know what it was. Jasmine also called out Gino when he said that being on a sugar daddy website was part of his past and that he went on less than five dates through the website. Jasmine said he'd been on a minimum of 30 dates.
"That is in the past, OK?" she told Gino. "I forgave you. I gave you a new opportunity to be with me because I love you and when I love, I'm stupid."
ET spoke with Jasmine in February, and she further explained why she has forgiven Gino for his questionable dating history.
"We all have a past," she said. "And I cannot judge Gino for what he did in his past relationships. I do believe that so far, you can see in the show that he has shown me that he's a good person, that he's so into me. I mean, this man has not run away from me after showing my super crazy and wild side."
"Even if he did it, I don't see a sick man, like a pervert abusing women, anything like that," she continued. "If he did it, it's just out of loneliness and wanting company. And I know back in the United States, before he lost his job, he was a very busy man, was working all the time, and maybe, I don't know, he didn't have the time to go and meet girls and he relied on this website. I don't truly know, but I believe that Gino is overall a good man and he would never disrespect a woman."
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https://www.kvue.com/article/entertainment/entertainment-tonight/90-day-fiance-tell-all-jasmine-gets-candid-about-her-and-ginos-sex-life/603-7de13d5f-c61f-41d6-a229-d529ab72536f | Jasmine was definitely in a sharing mood during part one of this season of 90 Day Fiancé: Before the 90 Days' tell-all special that aired on Sunday. Jasmine made a virtual appearance while Gino filmed in studio, and she shockingly begged Gino to have more sex with her.
This season of 90 Day Fiancé: Before the 90 Days ended with Gino and Jasmine getting engaged despite all their ups and downs, and the two saying a tearful goodbye at the airport in Panama as Gino returned to Michigan. However, it's clear the two still have plenty of trust issues. During the season, Jasmine insisted on checking Gino's phone and emails to make sure he wasn't communicating with other women, and later felt justified when his ex told her that he sent her topless pictures of Jasmine that Jasmine sent to Gino in private. During the tell-all, Gino was once again caught lying when he said he never communicated with fellow 90 Day Fiancé cast member Benjamin's friend, Jessica, but host Shaun Robinson pulled up the DMs. Gino asked Jessica if she was Sicilian, and Jessica responded that her husband was. While Gino insisted that Jessica reached out to him first to say hi, he couldn't provide any proof and said he deleted their exchange. Not surprisingly, Jasmine got upset and took off her engagement ring and told Gino he was "in trouble."
"Everyone can call me crazy or whatever, but I've never disrespected you, Gino," she said. "I have never cheated on you, and I'm so sick and tired of you playing the nerdy, the naive, and you always keep doing the same sh** to me and over and over again."
Gino insisted that he never cheated on Jasmine and was just having a "friendly conversation" with Jessica.
"There's nothing there because I love Jasmine," he said.
Later, the two got candid about their sex life, and Jasmine shockingly said that when Gino went to Panama to visit her for one month, they only had sex one time. She said he preferred pleasuring himself rather than having sex with her.
"Physically, for a man, you need to drain your balls one freaking way or another," she said, as her fellow 90 Day Fiancé cast members laughed uncomfortably. "If I'm not the one draining your balls, who is it?"
"And why you punish me with sex?" she also asked him, stressing that she was completely attracted to his "unsexiness." "If you know that I love f**king with you. It's so freaking good. I love it, Gino. I'm vegan but I want your freaking meat! Give me the meat, I want it! Gino, I'm 35, I shouldn't be begging a man for sex."
Gino said that part of him not wanting to have sex with Jasmine was that they argued a lot. Another revelation from the tell-all was that Gino actually met Jasmine through a sugar daddy website even though Jasmine proudly proclaimed during the season that she didn't need a sugar daddy. Jasmine said her best friend is the one who put her on the website and she claimed she initially didn't know what it was. Jasmine also called out Gino when he said that being on a sugar daddy website was part of his past and that he went on less than five dates through the website. Jasmine said he'd been on a minimum of 30 dates.
"That is in the past, OK?" she told Gino. "I forgave you. I gave you a new opportunity to be with me because I love you and when I love, I'm stupid."
ET spoke with Jasmine in February, and she further explained why she has forgiven Gino for his questionable dating history.
"We all have a past," she said. "And I cannot judge Gino for what he did in his past relationships. I do believe that so far, you can see in the show that he has shown me that he's a good person, that he's so into me. I mean, this man has not run away from me after showing my super crazy and wild side."
"Even if he did it, I don't see a sick man, like a pervert abusing women, anything like that," she continued. "If he did it, it's just out of loneliness and wanting company. And I know back in the United States, before he lost his job, he was a very busy man, was working all the time, and maybe, I don't know, he didn't have the time to go and meet girls and he relied on this website. I don't truly know, but I believe that Gino is overall a good man and he would never disrespect a woman."
RELATED CONTENT: | 1 | 3,198 | 0 | https://www.cbs8.com/article/entertainment/entertainment-tonight/90-day-fiance-tell-all-jasmine-gets-candid-about-her-and-ginos-sex-life/603-7de13d5f-c61f-41d6-a229-d529ab72536f | 2022-04-04 22:29:19+00:00 | Jasmine was definitely in a sharing mood during part one of this season of 90 Day Fiancé: Before the 90 Days' tell-all special that aired on Sunday. Jasmine made a virtual appearance while Gino filmed in studio, and she shockingly begged Gino to have more sex with her.
This season of 90 Day Fiancé: Before the 90 Days ended with Gino and Jasmine getting engaged despite all their ups and downs, and the two saying a tearful goodbye at the airport in Panama as Gino returned to Michigan. However, it's clear the two still have plenty of trust issues. During the season, Jasmine insisted on checking Gino's phone and emails to make sure he wasn't communicating with other women, and later felt justified when his ex told her that he sent her topless pictures of Jasmine that Jasmine sent to Gino in private. During the tell-all, Gino was once again caught lying when he said he never communicated with fellow 90 Day Fiancé cast member Benjamin's friend, Jessica, but host Shaun Robinson pulled up the DMs. Gino asked Jessica if she was Sicilian, and Jessica responded that her husband was. While Gino insisted that Jessica reached out to him first to say hi, he couldn't provide any proof and said he deleted their exchange. Not surprisingly, Jasmine got upset and took off her engagement ring and told Gino he was "in trouble."
"Everyone can call me crazy or whatever, but I've never disrespected you, Gino," she said. "I have never cheated on you, and I'm so sick and tired of you playing the nerdy, the naive, and you always keep doing the same sh** to me and over and over again."
Gino insisted that he never cheated on Jasmine and was just having a "friendly conversation" with Jessica.
"There's nothing there because I love Jasmine," he said.
Later, the two got candid about their sex life, and Jasmine shockingly said that when Gino went to Panama to visit her for one month, they only had sex one time. She said he preferred pleasuring himself rather than having sex with her.
"Physically, for a man, you need to drain your balls one freaking way or another," she said, as her fellow 90 Day Fiancé cast members laughed uncomfortably. "If I'm not the one draining your balls, who is it?"
"And why you punish me with sex?" she also asked him, stressing that she was completely attracted to his "unsexiness." "If you know that I love f**king with you. It's so freaking good. I love it, Gino. I'm vegan but I want your freaking meat! Give me the meat, I want it! Gino, I'm 35, I shouldn't be begging a man for sex."
Gino said that part of him not wanting to have sex with Jasmine was that they argued a lot. Another revelation from the tell-all was that Gino actually met Jasmine through a sugar daddy website even though Jasmine proudly proclaimed during the season that she didn't need a sugar daddy. Jasmine said her best friend is the one who put her on the website and she claimed she initially didn't know what it was. Jasmine also called out Gino when he said that being on a sugar daddy website was part of his past and that he went on less than five dates through the website. Jasmine said he'd been on a minimum of 30 dates.
"That is in the past, OK?" she told Gino. "I forgave you. I gave you a new opportunity to be with me because I love you and when I love, I'm stupid."
ET spoke with Jasmine in February, and she further explained why she has forgiven Gino for his questionable dating history.
"We all have a past," she said. "And I cannot judge Gino for what he did in his past relationships. I do believe that so far, you can see in the show that he has shown me that he's a good person, that he's so into me. I mean, this man has not run away from me after showing my super crazy and wild side."
"Even if he did it, I don't see a sick man, like a pervert abusing women, anything like that," she continued. "If he did it, it's just out of loneliness and wanting company. And I know back in the United States, before he lost his job, he was a very busy man, was working all the time, and maybe, I don't know, he didn't have the time to go and meet girls and he relied on this website. I don't truly know, but I believe that Gino is overall a good man and he would never disrespect a woman."
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https://www.kvue.com/article/entertainment/entertainment-tonight/90-day-fiance-tell-all-jasmine-gets-candid-about-her-and-ginos-sex-life/603-7de13d5f-c61f-41d6-a229-d529ab72536f | Jasmine was definitely in a sharing mood during part one of this season of 90 Day Fiancé: Before the 90 Days' tell-all special that aired on Sunday. Jasmine made a virtual appearance while Gino filmed in studio, and she shockingly begged Gino to have more sex with her.
This season of 90 Day Fiancé: Before the 90 Days ended with Gino and Jasmine getting engaged despite all their ups and downs, and the two saying a tearful goodbye at the airport in Panama as Gino returned to Michigan. However, it's clear the two still have plenty of trust issues. During the season, Jasmine insisted on checking Gino's phone and emails to make sure he wasn't communicating with other women, and later felt justified when his ex told her that he sent her topless pictures of Jasmine that Jasmine sent to Gino in private. During the tell-all, Gino was once again caught lying when he said he never communicated with fellow 90 Day Fiancé cast member Benjamin's friend, Jessica, but host Shaun Robinson pulled up the DMs. Gino asked Jessica if she was Sicilian, and Jessica responded that her husband was. While Gino insisted that Jessica reached out to him first to say hi, he couldn't provide any proof and said he deleted their exchange. Not surprisingly, Jasmine got upset and took off her engagement ring and told Gino he was "in trouble."
"Everyone can call me crazy or whatever, but I've never disrespected you, Gino," she said. "I have never cheated on you, and I'm so sick and tired of you playing the nerdy, the naive, and you always keep doing the same sh** to me and over and over again."
Gino insisted that he never cheated on Jasmine and was just having a "friendly conversation" with Jessica.
"There's nothing there because I love Jasmine," he said.
Later, the two got candid about their sex life, and Jasmine shockingly said that when Gino went to Panama to visit her for one month, they only had sex one time. She said he preferred pleasuring himself rather than having sex with her.
"Physically, for a man, you need to drain your balls one freaking way or another," she said, as her fellow 90 Day Fiancé cast members laughed uncomfortably. "If I'm not the one draining your balls, who is it?"
"And why you punish me with sex?" she also asked him, stressing that she was completely attracted to his "unsexiness." "If you know that I love f**king with you. It's so freaking good. I love it, Gino. I'm vegan but I want your freaking meat! Give me the meat, I want it! Gino, I'm 35, I shouldn't be begging a man for sex."
Gino said that part of him not wanting to have sex with Jasmine was that they argued a lot. Another revelation from the tell-all was that Gino actually met Jasmine through a sugar daddy website even though Jasmine proudly proclaimed during the season that she didn't need a sugar daddy. Jasmine said her best friend is the one who put her on the website and she claimed she initially didn't know what it was. Jasmine also called out Gino when he said that being on a sugar daddy website was part of his past and that he went on less than five dates through the website. Jasmine said he'd been on a minimum of 30 dates.
"That is in the past, OK?" she told Gino. "I forgave you. I gave you a new opportunity to be with me because I love you and when I love, I'm stupid."
ET spoke with Jasmine in February, and she further explained why she has forgiven Gino for his questionable dating history.
"We all have a past," she said. "And I cannot judge Gino for what he did in his past relationships. I do believe that so far, you can see in the show that he has shown me that he's a good person, that he's so into me. I mean, this man has not run away from me after showing my super crazy and wild side."
"Even if he did it, I don't see a sick man, like a pervert abusing women, anything like that," she continued. "If he did it, it's just out of loneliness and wanting company. And I know back in the United States, before he lost his job, he was a very busy man, was working all the time, and maybe, I don't know, he didn't have the time to go and meet girls and he relied on this website. I don't truly know, but I believe that Gino is overall a good man and he would never disrespect a woman."
RELATED CONTENT: | 2 | 126,362 | 0 | https://www.wfaa.com/article/entertainment/entertainment-tonight/90-day-fiance-tell-all-jasmine-gets-candid-about-her-and-ginos-sex-life/603-7de13d5f-c61f-41d6-a229-d529ab72536f | 2022-04-04 20:47:05+00:00 | Jasmine was definitely in a sharing mood during part one of this season of 90 Day Fiancé: Before the 90 Days' tell-all special that aired on Sunday. Jasmine made a virtual appearance while Gino filmed in studio, and she shockingly begged Gino to have more sex with her.
This season of 90 Day Fiancé: Before the 90 Days ended with Gino and Jasmine getting engaged despite all their ups and downs, and the two saying a tearful goodbye at the airport in Panama as Gino returned to Michigan. However, it's clear the two still have plenty of trust issues. During the season, Jasmine insisted on checking Gino's phone and emails to make sure he wasn't communicating with other women, and later felt justified when his ex told her that he sent her topless pictures of Jasmine that Jasmine sent to Gino in private. During the tell-all, Gino was once again caught lying when he said he never communicated with fellow 90 Day Fiancé cast member Benjamin's friend, Jessica, but host Shaun Robinson pulled up the DMs. Gino asked Jessica if she was Sicilian, and Jessica responded that her husband was. While Gino insisted that Jessica reached out to him first to say hi, he couldn't provide any proof and said he deleted their exchange. Not surprisingly, Jasmine got upset and took off her engagement ring and told Gino he was "in trouble."
"Everyone can call me crazy or whatever, but I've never disrespected you, Gino," she said. "I have never cheated on you, and I'm so sick and tired of you playing the nerdy, the naive, and you always keep doing the same sh** to me and over and over again."
Gino insisted that he never cheated on Jasmine and was just having a "friendly conversation" with Jessica.
"There's nothing there because I love Jasmine," he said.
Later, the two got candid about their sex life, and Jasmine shockingly said that when Gino went to Panama to visit her for one month, they only had sex one time. She said he preferred pleasuring himself rather than having sex with her.
"Physically, for a man, you need to drain your balls one freaking way or another," she said, as her fellow 90 Day Fiancé cast members laughed uncomfortably. "If I'm not the one draining your balls, who is it?"
"And why you punish me with sex?" she also asked him, stressing that she was completely attracted to his "unsexiness." "If you know that I love f**king with you. It's so freaking good. I love it, Gino. I'm vegan but I want your freaking meat! Give me the meat, I want it! Gino, I'm 35, I shouldn't be begging a man for sex."
Gino said that part of him not wanting to have sex with Jasmine was that they argued a lot. Another revelation from the tell-all was that Gino actually met Jasmine through a sugar daddy website even though Jasmine proudly proclaimed during the season that she didn't need a sugar daddy. Jasmine said her best friend is the one who put her on the website and she claimed she initially didn't know what it was. Jasmine also called out Gino when he said that being on a sugar daddy website was part of his past and that he went on less than five dates through the website. Jasmine said he'd been on a minimum of 30 dates.
"That is in the past, OK?" she told Gino. "I forgave you. I gave you a new opportunity to be with me because I love you and when I love, I'm stupid."
ET spoke with Jasmine in February, and she further explained why she has forgiven Gino for his questionable dating history.
"We all have a past," she said. "And I cannot judge Gino for what he did in his past relationships. I do believe that so far, you can see in the show that he has shown me that he's a good person, that he's so into me. I mean, this man has not run away from me after showing my super crazy and wild side."
"Even if he did it, I don't see a sick man, like a pervert abusing women, anything like that," she continued. "If he did it, it's just out of loneliness and wanting company. And I know back in the United States, before he lost his job, he was a very busy man, was working all the time, and maybe, I don't know, he didn't have the time to go and meet girls and he relied on this website. I don't truly know, but I believe that Gino is overall a good man and he would never disrespect a woman."
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-04-05/mclaren-to-feature-deadly-science-logo-on-f1-cars/100964280 | F1 giant McLaren and Daniel Ricciardo to feature Australian Indigenous charity Deadly Science on grand prix cars
By Justin Huntsdale and Lindsay McDougallWhen Corey Tutt was told the logo for his organisation Deadly Science was going to be put on McLaren's F1 cars for this week's Australian Grand Prix, he thought someone was playing a practical joke on him.
Key points:
- Formula 1 racing team McLaren will display the Deadly Science logo on its cars at this weekend's Australian Grand Prix
- One of the car's sponsors elected to donate the advertising space to a worthwhile organisation
- Deadly Science provides science books and early reading material to remote Indigenous communities
F1 livery is prized real estate usually occupied by the world's biggest brands that spend millions of dollars to be there.
This weekend, the charity that provides science books and early reading material to remote Australian Indigenous communities will have its logo beamed around the world.
"I was in a pub when I drew the logo on a napkin and now it will become a world-renowned logo.
"McLaren has also handed over their social media account with 9.1m followers to share the story of Deadly Science."
It is fitting McLaren will display an Australian not-for-profit on its car because Australian Daniel Ricciardo is one of the team's two drivers.
"I can't wait for the fans to see this, it's going to be awesome," Ricciardo said.
How it happened
This F1 season, one of McLaren's sponsors is donating its space on the car to worthy not-for-profit organisations.
Ricciardo said the advertising space was being used "to tell the world about work that matters".
The logo was originally only going to feature on the side of the car, but McLaren decided to add it to the halo as well — the safety ring around the driver's head which also displays sponsorship.
"It's something that has never happened before — companies pay millions of dollars to have their brand on an F1 car and the fact this charity that is grass roots and born and bred in the Illawarra is going to be on a car is unbelievable."
The Deadly Science logo is also likely to appear in the next series of Netflix's smash hit series Drive To Survive as they film the current F1 season.
Mr Tutt has been given VIP access to this weekend's Grand Prix and he will be taking one of his students.
"I want to let the mob embrace the experience and this opportunity so they can take it back," he said.
F1 move gives organisation more confidence
Mr Tutt is on a mission to get young Indigenous students to see themselves as scientists.
He says seeing a logo they know appear as part of such a high-profile event brings credibility.
"We're setting a high standard for ourselves to get resources out there to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students. | 0 | 85,715 | 0.500837 | https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2022/04/mclaren-racing-deadlyscience-cars/ | 2022-04-04 03:37:15+00:00 | McLaren Racing will run a DeadlyScience logo, a First Nations nonprofit, on its car at this weekend’s Formula 1 Australian Grand Prix in Melbourne.
Workflow giant Smartsheet donated its sponsorship spot on both of McLaren’s MCL36 2022 Formula 1 race cars to make the change happen.
DeadlyScience is a nonprofit organisation dedicated to providing remote Australian communities with STEM resources and mentoring. DeadlyScience was founded by Kamilaroi man Corey Tutt after finding under-resourced schools were discouraging Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander kids from pursuing STEM. Since its founding, DeadlyScience has put over 20,000 books and stem resources in over 100 remote communities across Australia.
And this weekend, the DeadlyScience logo will take pride of place on both McLaren cars as they take to Melbourne’s Albert Park street circuit.
For Tutt, it’s a small gesture with a potentially massive impact. “DeadlyScience is a small team with a big mission: to introduce STEM education to kids who have so much potential, but just need someone to believe in them,” said Tutt in a statement. “It means the world for Smartsheet to donate this sponsorship and believe in the important work we are doing. When the kids see DeadlyScience on the car, they’re going to know it represents them.”
What’s genuinely wild is that the Sponsor X program marks a world-first. Formula 1 sponsorship slots are as coveted as they are expensive. Getting your logo on a Formula 1 car is a special kind of miracle. As a result, people lucky enough to secure these slots aren’t exactly eager to give them away. This, of course, was all part of the plan for Smartsheet when it signed its deal with McLaren. In a sport with a habit of throwing morality overboard in return for a bag of money, it’s nice to see a genuine social good win out for once.
For Smartsheet to give up its extremely prominent slot to spotlight an organisation that would struggle to get this kind of visibility is wonderful, but it shouldn’t be a world-first move. It shouldn’t come as a surprise. It should be something we see happen a lot more.
McLaren Racing is home to Formula 1’s sole Australian driver, Daniel Ricciardo. This weekend, he will race at home for the first time since the Australian Grand Prix’s cancellation in 2020.
Find out more about DeadlyScience, and make a donation if you’re so inclined, at its website. |
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-04-05/mclaren-to-feature-deadly-science-logo-on-f1-cars/100964280 | F1 giant McLaren and Daniel Ricciardo to feature Australian Indigenous charity Deadly Science on grand prix cars
By Justin Huntsdale and Lindsay McDougallWhen Corey Tutt was told the logo for his organisation Deadly Science was going to be put on McLaren's F1 cars for this week's Australian Grand Prix, he thought someone was playing a practical joke on him.
Key points:
- Formula 1 racing team McLaren will display the Deadly Science logo on its cars at this weekend's Australian Grand Prix
- One of the car's sponsors elected to donate the advertising space to a worthwhile organisation
- Deadly Science provides science books and early reading material to remote Indigenous communities
F1 livery is prized real estate usually occupied by the world's biggest brands that spend millions of dollars to be there.
This weekend, the charity that provides science books and early reading material to remote Australian Indigenous communities will have its logo beamed around the world.
"I was in a pub when I drew the logo on a napkin and now it will become a world-renowned logo.
"McLaren has also handed over their social media account with 9.1m followers to share the story of Deadly Science."
It is fitting McLaren will display an Australian not-for-profit on its car because Australian Daniel Ricciardo is one of the team's two drivers.
"I can't wait for the fans to see this, it's going to be awesome," Ricciardo said.
How it happened
This F1 season, one of McLaren's sponsors is donating its space on the car to worthy not-for-profit organisations.
Ricciardo said the advertising space was being used "to tell the world about work that matters".
The logo was originally only going to feature on the side of the car, but McLaren decided to add it to the halo as well — the safety ring around the driver's head which also displays sponsorship.
"It's something that has never happened before — companies pay millions of dollars to have their brand on an F1 car and the fact this charity that is grass roots and born and bred in the Illawarra is going to be on a car is unbelievable."
The Deadly Science logo is also likely to appear in the next series of Netflix's smash hit series Drive To Survive as they film the current F1 season.
Mr Tutt has been given VIP access to this weekend's Grand Prix and he will be taking one of his students.
"I want to let the mob embrace the experience and this opportunity so they can take it back," he said.
F1 move gives organisation more confidence
Mr Tutt is on a mission to get young Indigenous students to see themselves as scientists.
He says seeing a logo they know appear as part of such a high-profile event brings credibility.
"We're setting a high standard for ourselves to get resources out there to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students. | 1 | 97,039 | 0.563652 | https://pakobserver.net/mclaren-to-run-an-indigenous-sponsor-in-australia/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=mclaren-to-run-an-indigenous-sponsor-in-australia | 2022-04-05 07:55:20+00:00 | McLaren F1 will become the first team in Formula1 to feature branding from an Indigenous organization at the Australian GP.
McLaren F1 and their sponsor Smartsheet have partnered up on a project called “Sponsor X.”
As part of the concept, Smartsheet’s logo on the side of the MCL36 will instead be replaced by an organization lacking such financial strength, allowing for funds to be raised and awareness built for their cause.
For this year’s Australian Grand Prix, the organization which shall see its branding featured on the MCL36 is DeadlyScience, a nonprofit firm that provides educational resources to remote Australian communities.
Founded by Kamilaroi Corey Tutt, DeadlyScience will become the first Indigenous brand to see its logo featured on a Formula 1 car.
“It means the world for Smartsheet to donate this sponsorship and believe in the important work we are doing,” said Tutt.
When the kids see DeadlyScience on the car, they’re going to know it represents them.”
“I want people to get behind DeadlyScience as a community organization, and really be proud of this grassroots charity that started off in the heart of Redfern,” he added.
“We want to make sure that every single child in this country has access to STEM [Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics] resources and the same opportunities as those in the city.
“I’m really excited to see Sponsor X come to life. A lot of this is going to change a lot of lives.
“The mob are really proud that we’re going to be on this car. And it’s just really exciting. And it’s a proud moment for me, my family, and everyone that is part of DeadlyScience.”
DeadlySciene has provided more than 20,000 books, as well as a range of other STEM materials to 100+ Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children communities throughout Australia.
On top of their logo on the MCL36 at the Australian Grand Prix, DeadlyScience will also feature in spotlight posts on McLaren’s social media, while Smartsheet has promised to provide them with software licenses, consultancy, and training at no cost.
Australian Grand Prix will take place from 8th-10th April in Melbourne Australia with continued hope of another brilliant race between the reigning drivers champion Max Verstappen and his newest challenger in Charles Leclerc. |
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-04-05/mclaren-to-feature-deadly-science-logo-on-f1-cars/100964280 | F1 giant McLaren and Daniel Ricciardo to feature Australian Indigenous charity Deadly Science on grand prix cars
By Justin Huntsdale and Lindsay McDougallWhen Corey Tutt was told the logo for his organisation Deadly Science was going to be put on McLaren's F1 cars for this week's Australian Grand Prix, he thought someone was playing a practical joke on him.
Key points:
- Formula 1 racing team McLaren will display the Deadly Science logo on its cars at this weekend's Australian Grand Prix
- One of the car's sponsors elected to donate the advertising space to a worthwhile organisation
- Deadly Science provides science books and early reading material to remote Indigenous communities
F1 livery is prized real estate usually occupied by the world's biggest brands that spend millions of dollars to be there.
This weekend, the charity that provides science books and early reading material to remote Australian Indigenous communities will have its logo beamed around the world.
"I was in a pub when I drew the logo on a napkin and now it will become a world-renowned logo.
"McLaren has also handed over their social media account with 9.1m followers to share the story of Deadly Science."
It is fitting McLaren will display an Australian not-for-profit on its car because Australian Daniel Ricciardo is one of the team's two drivers.
"I can't wait for the fans to see this, it's going to be awesome," Ricciardo said.
How it happened
This F1 season, one of McLaren's sponsors is donating its space on the car to worthy not-for-profit organisations.
Ricciardo said the advertising space was being used "to tell the world about work that matters".
The logo was originally only going to feature on the side of the car, but McLaren decided to add it to the halo as well — the safety ring around the driver's head which also displays sponsorship.
"It's something that has never happened before — companies pay millions of dollars to have their brand on an F1 car and the fact this charity that is grass roots and born and bred in the Illawarra is going to be on a car is unbelievable."
The Deadly Science logo is also likely to appear in the next series of Netflix's smash hit series Drive To Survive as they film the current F1 season.
Mr Tutt has been given VIP access to this weekend's Grand Prix and he will be taking one of his students.
"I want to let the mob embrace the experience and this opportunity so they can take it back," he said.
F1 move gives organisation more confidence
Mr Tutt is on a mission to get young Indigenous students to see themselves as scientists.
He says seeing a logo they know appear as part of such a high-profile event brings credibility.
"We're setting a high standard for ourselves to get resources out there to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students. | 2 | 65,265 | 0.612148 | https://nit.com.au/deadlyscience-logo-adorns-mclaren-f1-cars-at-australian-grand-prix/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=deadlyscience-logo-adorns-mclaren-f1-cars-at-australian-grand-prix | 2022-04-12 14:30:02+00:00 | The Australian Grand Prix took place in Naarm (Melbourne) over the weekend, with the McLaren F1 racecars sporting the DeadlyScience logo for the first time.
DeadlyScience is a nonprofit providing remote Australian communities with STEM resources and mentoring, started by Kamilaroi man Corey Tutt.
Mr Tutt said he was approached by the team at Smartsheet to partner with the Sponsor X initiative and McLaren.
“The fact that STEM hits so close to home for both Smartsheet and McLaren made all the sense for us to partner together,” he said.
“The Smartsheet team came down to one of our schools in Redfern to meet the kids and see first-hand the work we’re doing with them.
“This deepened our mutual respect and commitment and made clear what Smartsheet’s Sponsor X initiative would mean for the kids when they see DeadlyScience on the cars representing them.”
This collaboration also marks the first time an Indigenous logo has been featured on a F1 car, which Tutt said he was proud of.
With the funding DeadlyScience has received over the weekend, Mr Tutt said they would be able to send thousands of books and resources to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students in remote communities.
“We want to ensure all Mob have access to equal opportunities in STEM because our people were the First Scientists and have such a strong rich history with STEM and we want to continue that into the future,” Mr Tutt said. |
https://www.conchovalleyhomepage.com/news/google-autocomplete-helps-legitimize-conspiracy-theorists-study-says/ | BURNABY, British Columbia – (StudyFinds.org) – Google’s autocomplete feature attempts to make internet browsing and the retrieval of accurate information easier, but is this supposedly convenient attribute helping fuel conspiracy theories and mislead the public? Unfortunately, the answer to that question is yes, according to researchers from Simon Fraser University.
Study authors report that Google’s autocomplete algorithms often place oversimplified, innocuous subtitles on prominent conspiracy theorists. For example, while classifying Alex Jones as an “American radio host” may technically be true, it’s leaving out a pretty major portion of the story. Researchers argue this trend may seem minor in scope at first but may be misleading countless internet users and even helping amplify extremist views.
Another example is Gavin McInnes, the creator of the neo-fascist Proud Boys organization. Officials consider the group a terrorist entity in Canada and a hate group in the United States, yet Google’s algorithm displays a subtitle for Mr. McInnes that reads “Canadian writer.”
Jerad Miller killed multiple people in a 2014 Las Vegas shooting. Google’s algorithm says he was an “American performer.”
In collaboration with The Disinformation Project at the School of Communication at SFU, the research team analyzed the automatic subtitles displayed by Google for 37 alleged conspiracy theorists. They found “in all cases, Google’s subtitle was never consistent with the actor’s conspiratorial behavior.”
No way to change Google’s algorithms?
We’re not just talking about one website or even social media platform here. Google is synonymous with the internet itself at this point. Considering the sheer volume of daily traffic seen on Google’s server, study authors worry the subtitles “can pose a threat by normalizing individuals who spread conspiracy theories, sow dissension and distrust in institutions and cause harm to minority groups and vulnerable individuals,” according to Nicole Stewart, a communication instructor of communication and PhD student on The Disinformation Project.
For what it’s worth, according to Google, a series of complex algorithms automatically generate those subtitles. In other words, the search engine itself can’t accept or create custom subtitles.
Researchers explain that these subtitles are universally either neutral or positive – but never negative, even when it would be appropriate.
“Users’ preferences and understanding of information can be manipulated upon their trust in Google search results, thus allowing these labels to be widely accepted instead of providing a full picture of the harm their ideologies and belief cause,” says Nathan Worku, a Master’s student on The Disinformation Project, in a university release.
This study focused specifically on conspiracy theorists, but study authors say similar results appear when searching for widely known terrorists or mass murderers.
“This study highlights the urgent need for Google to review the subtitles attributed to conspiracy theorists, terrorists, and mass murderers, to better inform the public about the negative nature of these actors, rather than always labelling them in neutral or positive ways,” researchers conclude.
The study is published in M/C Journal. | 0 | 15,300 | 0 | https://www.yourbasin.com/news/google-autocomplete-helps-legitimize-conspiracy-theorists-study-says/ | 2022-04-04 23:28:09+00:00 | BURNABY, British Columbia – (StudyFinds.org) – Google’s autocomplete feature attempts to make internet browsing and the retrieval of accurate information easier, but is this supposedly convenient attribute helping fuel conspiracy theories and mislead the public? Unfortunately, the answer to that question is yes, according to researchers from Simon Fraser University.
Study authors report that Google’s autocomplete algorithms often place oversimplified, innocuous subtitles on prominent conspiracy theorists. For example, while classifying Alex Jones as an “American radio host” may technically be true, it’s leaving out a pretty major portion of the story. Researchers argue this trend may seem minor in scope at first but may be misleading countless internet users and even helping amplify extremist views.
Another example is Gavin McInnes, the creator of the neo-fascist Proud Boys organization. Officials consider the group a terrorist entity in Canada and a hate group in the United States, yet Google’s algorithm displays a subtitle for Mr. McInnes that reads “Canadian writer.”
Jerad Miller killed multiple people in a 2014 Las Vegas shooting. Google’s algorithm says he was an “American performer.”
In collaboration with The Disinformation Project at the School of Communication at SFU, the research team analyzed the automatic subtitles displayed by Google for 37 alleged conspiracy theorists. They found “in all cases, Google’s subtitle was never consistent with the actor’s conspiratorial behavior.”
No way to change Google’s algorithms?
We’re not just talking about one website or even social media platform here. Google is synonymous with the internet itself at this point. Considering the sheer volume of daily traffic seen on Google’s server, study authors worry the subtitles “can pose a threat by normalizing individuals who spread conspiracy theories, sow dissension and distrust in institutions and cause harm to minority groups and vulnerable individuals,” according to Nicole Stewart, a communication instructor of communication and PhD student on The Disinformation Project.
For what it’s worth, according to Google, a series of complex algorithms automatically generate those subtitles. In other words, the search engine itself can’t accept or create custom subtitles.
Researchers explain that these subtitles are universally either neutral or positive – but never negative, even when it would be appropriate.
“Users’ preferences and understanding of information can be manipulated upon their trust in Google search results, thus allowing these labels to be widely accepted instead of providing a full picture of the harm their ideologies and belief cause,” says Nathan Worku, a Master’s student on The Disinformation Project, in a university release.
This study focused specifically on conspiracy theorists, but study authors say similar results appear when searching for widely known terrorists or mass murderers.
“This study highlights the urgent need for Google to review the subtitles attributed to conspiracy theorists, terrorists, and mass murderers, to better inform the public about the negative nature of these actors, rather than always labelling them in neutral or positive ways,” researchers conclude.
The study is published in M/C Journal. |
https://www.conchovalleyhomepage.com/news/google-autocomplete-helps-legitimize-conspiracy-theorists-study-says/ | BURNABY, British Columbia – (StudyFinds.org) – Google’s autocomplete feature attempts to make internet browsing and the retrieval of accurate information easier, but is this supposedly convenient attribute helping fuel conspiracy theories and mislead the public? Unfortunately, the answer to that question is yes, according to researchers from Simon Fraser University.
Study authors report that Google’s autocomplete algorithms often place oversimplified, innocuous subtitles on prominent conspiracy theorists. For example, while classifying Alex Jones as an “American radio host” may technically be true, it’s leaving out a pretty major portion of the story. Researchers argue this trend may seem minor in scope at first but may be misleading countless internet users and even helping amplify extremist views.
Another example is Gavin McInnes, the creator of the neo-fascist Proud Boys organization. Officials consider the group a terrorist entity in Canada and a hate group in the United States, yet Google’s algorithm displays a subtitle for Mr. McInnes that reads “Canadian writer.”
Jerad Miller killed multiple people in a 2014 Las Vegas shooting. Google’s algorithm says he was an “American performer.”
In collaboration with The Disinformation Project at the School of Communication at SFU, the research team analyzed the automatic subtitles displayed by Google for 37 alleged conspiracy theorists. They found “in all cases, Google’s subtitle was never consistent with the actor’s conspiratorial behavior.”
No way to change Google’s algorithms?
We’re not just talking about one website or even social media platform here. Google is synonymous with the internet itself at this point. Considering the sheer volume of daily traffic seen on Google’s server, study authors worry the subtitles “can pose a threat by normalizing individuals who spread conspiracy theories, sow dissension and distrust in institutions and cause harm to minority groups and vulnerable individuals,” according to Nicole Stewart, a communication instructor of communication and PhD student on The Disinformation Project.
For what it’s worth, according to Google, a series of complex algorithms automatically generate those subtitles. In other words, the search engine itself can’t accept or create custom subtitles.
Researchers explain that these subtitles are universally either neutral or positive – but never negative, even when it would be appropriate.
“Users’ preferences and understanding of information can be manipulated upon their trust in Google search results, thus allowing these labels to be widely accepted instead of providing a full picture of the harm their ideologies and belief cause,” says Nathan Worku, a Master’s student on The Disinformation Project, in a university release.
This study focused specifically on conspiracy theorists, but study authors say similar results appear when searching for widely known terrorists or mass murderers.
“This study highlights the urgent need for Google to review the subtitles attributed to conspiracy theorists, terrorists, and mass murderers, to better inform the public about the negative nature of these actors, rather than always labelling them in neutral or positive ways,” researchers conclude.
The study is published in M/C Journal. | 1 | 17,363 | 0 | https://www.abc4.com/news/national/google-autocomplete-helps-legitimize-conspiracy-theorists-study-says/ | 2022-04-04 23:40:45+00:00 | BURNABY, British Columbia – (StudyFinds.org) – Google’s autocomplete feature attempts to make internet browsing and the retrieval of accurate information easier, but is this supposedly convenient attribute helping fuel conspiracy theories and mislead the public? Unfortunately, the answer to that question is yes, according to researchers from Simon Fraser University.
Study authors report that Google’s autocomplete algorithms often place oversimplified, innocuous subtitles on prominent conspiracy theorists. For example, while classifying Alex Jones as an “American radio host” may technically be true, it’s leaving out a pretty major portion of the story. Researchers argue this trend may seem minor in scope at first but may be misleading countless internet users and even helping amplify extremist views.
Another example is Gavin McInnes, the creator of the neo-fascist Proud Boys organization. Officials consider the group a terrorist entity in Canada and a hate group in the United States, yet Google’s algorithm displays a subtitle for Mr. McInnes that reads “Canadian writer.”
Jerad Miller killed multiple people in a 2014 Las Vegas shooting. Google’s algorithm says he was an “American performer.”
In collaboration with The Disinformation Project at the School of Communication at SFU, the research team analyzed the automatic subtitles displayed by Google for 37 alleged conspiracy theorists. They found “in all cases, Google’s subtitle was never consistent with the actor’s conspiratorial behavior.”
No way to change Google’s algorithms?
We’re not just talking about one website or even social media platform here. Google is synonymous with the internet itself at this point. Considering the sheer volume of daily traffic seen on Google’s server, study authors worry the subtitles “can pose a threat by normalizing individuals who spread conspiracy theories, sow dissension and distrust in institutions and cause harm to minority groups and vulnerable individuals,” according to Nicole Stewart, a communication instructor of communication and PhD student on The Disinformation Project.
For what it’s worth, according to Google, a series of complex algorithms automatically generate those subtitles. In other words, the search engine itself can’t accept or create custom subtitles.
Researchers explain that these subtitles are universally either neutral or positive – but never negative, even when it would be appropriate.
“Users’ preferences and understanding of information can be manipulated upon their trust in Google search results, thus allowing these labels to be widely accepted instead of providing a full picture of the harm their ideologies and belief cause,” says Nathan Worku, a Master’s student on The Disinformation Project, in a university release.
This study focused specifically on conspiracy theorists, but study authors say similar results appear when searching for widely known terrorists or mass murderers.
“This study highlights the urgent need for Google to review the subtitles attributed to conspiracy theorists, terrorists, and mass murderers, to better inform the public about the negative nature of these actors, rather than always labelling them in neutral or positive ways,” researchers conclude.
The study is published in M/C Journal. |
https://www.conchovalleyhomepage.com/news/google-autocomplete-helps-legitimize-conspiracy-theorists-study-says/ | BURNABY, British Columbia – (StudyFinds.org) – Google’s autocomplete feature attempts to make internet browsing and the retrieval of accurate information easier, but is this supposedly convenient attribute helping fuel conspiracy theories and mislead the public? Unfortunately, the answer to that question is yes, according to researchers from Simon Fraser University.
Study authors report that Google’s autocomplete algorithms often place oversimplified, innocuous subtitles on prominent conspiracy theorists. For example, while classifying Alex Jones as an “American radio host” may technically be true, it’s leaving out a pretty major portion of the story. Researchers argue this trend may seem minor in scope at first but may be misleading countless internet users and even helping amplify extremist views.
Another example is Gavin McInnes, the creator of the neo-fascist Proud Boys organization. Officials consider the group a terrorist entity in Canada and a hate group in the United States, yet Google’s algorithm displays a subtitle for Mr. McInnes that reads “Canadian writer.”
Jerad Miller killed multiple people in a 2014 Las Vegas shooting. Google’s algorithm says he was an “American performer.”
In collaboration with The Disinformation Project at the School of Communication at SFU, the research team analyzed the automatic subtitles displayed by Google for 37 alleged conspiracy theorists. They found “in all cases, Google’s subtitle was never consistent with the actor’s conspiratorial behavior.”
No way to change Google’s algorithms?
We’re not just talking about one website or even social media platform here. Google is synonymous with the internet itself at this point. Considering the sheer volume of daily traffic seen on Google’s server, study authors worry the subtitles “can pose a threat by normalizing individuals who spread conspiracy theories, sow dissension and distrust in institutions and cause harm to minority groups and vulnerable individuals,” according to Nicole Stewart, a communication instructor of communication and PhD student on The Disinformation Project.
For what it’s worth, according to Google, a series of complex algorithms automatically generate those subtitles. In other words, the search engine itself can’t accept or create custom subtitles.
Researchers explain that these subtitles are universally either neutral or positive – but never negative, even when it would be appropriate.
“Users’ preferences and understanding of information can be manipulated upon their trust in Google search results, thus allowing these labels to be widely accepted instead of providing a full picture of the harm their ideologies and belief cause,” says Nathan Worku, a Master’s student on The Disinformation Project, in a university release.
This study focused specifically on conspiracy theorists, but study authors say similar results appear when searching for widely known terrorists or mass murderers.
“This study highlights the urgent need for Google to review the subtitles attributed to conspiracy theorists, terrorists, and mass murderers, to better inform the public about the negative nature of these actors, rather than always labelling them in neutral or positive ways,” researchers conclude.
The study is published in M/C Journal. | 2 | 13,319 | 0 | https://www.wrbl.com/news/google-autocomplete-helps-legitimize-conspiracy-theorists-study-says/ | 2022-04-05 12:29:49+00:00 | BURNABY, British Columbia – (StudyFinds.org) – Google’s autocomplete feature attempts to make internet browsing and the retrieval of accurate information easier, but is this supposedly convenient attribute helping fuel conspiracy theories and mislead the public? Unfortunately, the answer to that question is yes, according to researchers from Simon Fraser University.
Study authors report that Google’s autocomplete algorithms often place oversimplified, innocuous subtitles on prominent conspiracy theorists. For example, while classifying Alex Jones as an “American radio host” may technically be true, it’s leaving out a pretty major portion of the story. Researchers argue this trend may seem minor in scope at first but may be misleading countless internet users and even helping amplify extremist views.
Another example is Gavin McInnes, the creator of the neo-fascist Proud Boys organization. Officials consider the group a terrorist entity in Canada and a hate group in the United States, yet Google’s algorithm displays a subtitle for Mr. McInnes that reads “Canadian writer.”
Jerad Miller killed multiple people in a 2014 Las Vegas shooting. Google’s algorithm says he was an “American performer.”
In collaboration with The Disinformation Project at the School of Communication at SFU, the research team analyzed the automatic subtitles displayed by Google for 37 alleged conspiracy theorists. They found “in all cases, Google’s subtitle was never consistent with the actor’s conspiratorial behavior.”
No way to change Google’s algorithms?
We’re not just talking about one website or even social media platform here. Google is synonymous with the internet itself at this point. Considering the sheer volume of daily traffic seen on Google’s server, study authors worry the subtitles “can pose a threat by normalizing individuals who spread conspiracy theories, sow dissension and distrust in institutions and cause harm to minority groups and vulnerable individuals,” according to Nicole Stewart, a communication instructor of communication and PhD student on The Disinformation Project.
For what it’s worth, according to Google, a series of complex algorithms automatically generate those subtitles. In other words, the search engine itself can’t accept or create custom subtitles.
Researchers explain that these subtitles are universally either neutral or positive – but never negative, even when it would be appropriate.
“Users’ preferences and understanding of information can be manipulated upon their trust in Google search results, thus allowing these labels to be widely accepted instead of providing a full picture of the harm their ideologies and belief cause,” says Nathan Worku, a Master’s student on The Disinformation Project, in a university release.
This study focused specifically on conspiracy theorists, but study authors say similar results appear when searching for widely known terrorists or mass murderers.
“This study highlights the urgent need for Google to review the subtitles attributed to conspiracy theorists, terrorists, and mass murderers, to better inform the public about the negative nature of these actors, rather than always labelling them in neutral or positive ways,” researchers conclude.
The study is published in M/C Journal. |
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https://www.pahomepage.com/washington/washington-dc/he-is-a-war-criminal-biden-promises-swift-action-for-putin/ | WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) — The White House said there will be consequences for Russian President Vladimir Putin, as new evidence of Russian war crimes emerged over the weekend in communities just outside the capitol of Kyiv.
Russian military forces pulled back from the suburbs of the capital of Kyiv. Ukrainian forces found bodies in crushed cars, front yards and mass graves.
President Joe Biden said Putin should face a war crimes trial.
“He is a war criminal,” Biden said. “This guy is brutal.”
On Capitol Hill, Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., called for more economic sanctions to stop the money that’s paying for Putin’s violent rampage.
“It’s gut wrenching,” Blumenthal said. “The banks that process his oil and gas revenue have no sanctions, they’re the ones who need to be sanctioned.”
Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said it’s time the U.S. and NATO up the ante.
“This is a turning point for me, I think this should be a turning point for the world,” Graham said. “Putin is not a legitimate leader, he needs to be considered a pariah. He should be kicked out of the UN.”
The president of Ukraine is calling the killings an act of genocide. Biden stopped short of using that term Monday, but he promised swift action.
National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan on Monday said more sanctions are on the way this week and promised more military aid to Ukraine as Russia ramps up attacks in other parts of the country.
“To raise the pressure and raise the cost on Putin and on Russia,” Sullivan said. “We should be under no illusions that Russia will adjust its tactics.”
Sullivan said the recent actions are a shock but not a surprise. He argued the killing of civilians was always part of Putin’s plans.
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba warned the new evidence is only a glimpse of the carnage, saying it’s “just the tip of the iceberg.”
The Russian government continues to deny allegations that their forces are targeting Ukrainian civilians.
The Biden administration said it will work with allies to determine what next steps should be taken to hold Putin accountable for war crimes on the world’s stage. | 0 | 106 | 0 | https://www.cbs42.com/washington/washington-dc/he-is-a-war-criminal-biden-promises-swift-action-for-putin/ | 2022-04-04 22:16:29+00:00 | WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) — The White House said there will be consequences for Russian President Vladimir Putin, as new evidence of Russian war crimes emerged over the weekend in communities just outside the capitol of Kyiv.
Russian military forces pulled back from the suburbs of the capital of Kyiv. Ukrainian forces found bodies in crushed cars, front yards and mass graves.
President Joe Biden said Putin should face a war crimes trial.
“He is a war criminal,” Biden said. “This guy is brutal.”
On Capitol Hill, Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., called for more economic sanctions to stop the money that’s paying for Putin’s violent rampage.
“It’s gut wrenching,” Blumenthal said. “The banks that process his oil and gas revenue have no sanctions, they’re the ones who need to be sanctioned.”
Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said it’s time the U.S. and NATO up the ante.
“This is a turning point for me, I think this should be a turning point for the world,” Graham said. “Putin is not a legitimate leader, he needs to be considered a pariah. He should be kicked out of the UN.”
The president of Ukraine is calling the killings an act of genocide. Biden stopped short of using that term Monday, but he promised swift action.
National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan on Monday said more sanctions are on the way this week and promised more military aid to Ukraine as Russia ramps up attacks in other parts of the country.
“To raise the pressure and raise the cost on Putin and on Russia,” Sullivan said. “We should be under no illusions that Russia will adjust its tactics.”
Sullivan said the recent actions are a shock but not a surprise. He argued the killing of civilians was always part of Putin’s plans.
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba warned the new evidence is only a glimpse of the carnage, saying it’s “just the tip of the iceberg.”
The Russian government continues to deny allegations that their forces are targeting Ukrainian civilians.
The Biden administration said it will work with allies to determine what next steps should be taken to hold Putin accountable for war crimes on the world’s stage. |
https://www.pahomepage.com/washington/washington-dc/he-is-a-war-criminal-biden-promises-swift-action-for-putin/ | WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) — The White House said there will be consequences for Russian President Vladimir Putin, as new evidence of Russian war crimes emerged over the weekend in communities just outside the capitol of Kyiv.
Russian military forces pulled back from the suburbs of the capital of Kyiv. Ukrainian forces found bodies in crushed cars, front yards and mass graves.
President Joe Biden said Putin should face a war crimes trial.
“He is a war criminal,” Biden said. “This guy is brutal.”
On Capitol Hill, Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., called for more economic sanctions to stop the money that’s paying for Putin’s violent rampage.
“It’s gut wrenching,” Blumenthal said. “The banks that process his oil and gas revenue have no sanctions, they’re the ones who need to be sanctioned.”
Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said it’s time the U.S. and NATO up the ante.
“This is a turning point for me, I think this should be a turning point for the world,” Graham said. “Putin is not a legitimate leader, he needs to be considered a pariah. He should be kicked out of the UN.”
The president of Ukraine is calling the killings an act of genocide. Biden stopped short of using that term Monday, but he promised swift action.
National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan on Monday said more sanctions are on the way this week and promised more military aid to Ukraine as Russia ramps up attacks in other parts of the country.
“To raise the pressure and raise the cost on Putin and on Russia,” Sullivan said. “We should be under no illusions that Russia will adjust its tactics.”
Sullivan said the recent actions are a shock but not a surprise. He argued the killing of civilians was always part of Putin’s plans.
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba warned the new evidence is only a glimpse of the carnage, saying it’s “just the tip of the iceberg.”
The Russian government continues to deny allegations that their forces are targeting Ukrainian civilians.
The Biden administration said it will work with allies to determine what next steps should be taken to hold Putin accountable for war crimes on the world’s stage. | 1 | 186 | 0 | https://www.ktsm.com/news/washington-dc/he-is-a-war-criminal-biden-promises-swift-action-for-putin/ | 2022-04-04 22:16:47+00:00 | WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) — The White House said there will be consequences for Russian President Vladimir Putin, as new evidence of Russian war crimes emerged over the weekend in communities just outside the capitol of Kyiv.
Russian military forces pulled back from the suburbs of the capital of Kyiv. Ukrainian forces found bodies in crushed cars, front yards and mass graves.
President Joe Biden said Putin should face a war crimes trial.
“He is a war criminal,” Biden said. “This guy is brutal.”
On Capitol Hill, Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., called for more economic sanctions to stop the money that’s paying for Putin’s violent rampage.
“It’s gut wrenching,” Blumenthal said. “The banks that process his oil and gas revenue have no sanctions, they’re the ones who need to be sanctioned.”
Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said it’s time the U.S. and NATO up the ante.
“This is a turning point for me, I think this should be a turning point for the world,” Graham said. “Putin is not a legitimate leader, he needs to be considered a pariah. He should be kicked out of the UN.”
The president of Ukraine is calling the killings an act of genocide. Biden stopped short of using that term Monday, but he promised swift action.
National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan on Monday said more sanctions are on the way this week and promised more military aid to Ukraine as Russia ramps up attacks in other parts of the country.
“To raise the pressure and raise the cost on Putin and on Russia,” Sullivan said. “We should be under no illusions that Russia will adjust its tactics.”
Sullivan said the recent actions are a shock but not a surprise. He argued the killing of civilians was always part of Putin’s plans.
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba warned the new evidence is only a glimpse of the carnage, saying it’s “just the tip of the iceberg.”
The Russian government continues to deny allegations that their forces are targeting Ukrainian civilians.
The Biden administration said it will work with allies to determine what next steps should be taken to hold Putin accountable for war crimes on the world’s stage. |
https://www.pahomepage.com/washington/washington-dc/he-is-a-war-criminal-biden-promises-swift-action-for-putin/ | WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) — The White House said there will be consequences for Russian President Vladimir Putin, as new evidence of Russian war crimes emerged over the weekend in communities just outside the capitol of Kyiv.
Russian military forces pulled back from the suburbs of the capital of Kyiv. Ukrainian forces found bodies in crushed cars, front yards and mass graves.
President Joe Biden said Putin should face a war crimes trial.
“He is a war criminal,” Biden said. “This guy is brutal.”
On Capitol Hill, Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., called for more economic sanctions to stop the money that’s paying for Putin’s violent rampage.
“It’s gut wrenching,” Blumenthal said. “The banks that process his oil and gas revenue have no sanctions, they’re the ones who need to be sanctioned.”
Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said it’s time the U.S. and NATO up the ante.
“This is a turning point for me, I think this should be a turning point for the world,” Graham said. “Putin is not a legitimate leader, he needs to be considered a pariah. He should be kicked out of the UN.”
The president of Ukraine is calling the killings an act of genocide. Biden stopped short of using that term Monday, but he promised swift action.
National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan on Monday said more sanctions are on the way this week and promised more military aid to Ukraine as Russia ramps up attacks in other parts of the country.
“To raise the pressure and raise the cost on Putin and on Russia,” Sullivan said. “We should be under no illusions that Russia will adjust its tactics.”
Sullivan said the recent actions are a shock but not a surprise. He argued the killing of civilians was always part of Putin’s plans.
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba warned the new evidence is only a glimpse of the carnage, saying it’s “just the tip of the iceberg.”
The Russian government continues to deny allegations that their forces are targeting Ukrainian civilians.
The Biden administration said it will work with allies to determine what next steps should be taken to hold Putin accountable for war crimes on the world’s stage. | 2 | 422 | 0 | https://ktla.com/news/washington-dc-bureau/he-is-a-war-criminal-biden-promises-swift-action-for-putin/ | 2022-04-04 22:17:58+00:00 | WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) — The White House said there will be consequences for Russian President Vladimir Putin, as new evidence of Russian war crimes emerged over the weekend in communities just outside the capitol of Kyiv.
Russian military forces pulled back from the suburbs of the capital of Kyiv. Ukrainian forces found bodies in crushed cars, front yards and mass graves.
President Joe Biden said Putin should face a war crimes trial.
“He is a war criminal,” Biden said. “This guy is brutal.”
On Capitol Hill, Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., called for more economic sanctions to stop the money that’s paying for Putin’s violent rampage.
“It’s gut wrenching,” Blumenthal said. “The banks that process his oil and gas revenue have no sanctions, they’re the ones who need to be sanctioned.”
Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said it’s time the U.S. and NATO up the ante.
“This is a turning point for me, I think this should be a turning point for the world,” Graham said. “Putin is not a legitimate leader, he needs to be considered a pariah. He should be kicked out of the UN.”
The president of Ukraine is calling the killings an act of genocide. Biden stopped short of using that term Monday, but he promised swift action.
National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan on Monday said more sanctions are on the way this week and promised more military aid to Ukraine as Russia ramps up attacks in other parts of the country.
“To raise the pressure and raise the cost on Putin and on Russia,” Sullivan said. “We should be under no illusions that Russia will adjust its tactics.”
Sullivan said the recent actions are a shock but not a surprise. He argued the killing of civilians was always part of Putin’s plans.
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba warned the new evidence is only a glimpse of the carnage, saying it’s “just the tip of the iceberg.”
The Russian government continues to deny allegations that their forces are targeting Ukrainian civilians.
The Biden administration said it will work with allies to determine what next steps should be taken to hold Putin accountable for war crimes on the world’s stage. |
https://nordot.app/883840470574448640 | Carrie Underwood says her dog Ace died on the same night as the 64th Grammy Awards.
The ‘Before He Cheats’ hitmaker had a rollercoaster evening on Sunday (03.04.22) - after winning in the Best Roots Gospel Album category for her record ‘My Saviour’ and performing her new single ‘Ghost Story’ at the event - after her “true friend” passed away.
The 39-year-old country superstar wrote on Instagram: “Last night my sweet Ace left this world…he will forever live on in our hearts and be forever missed. He was there for me when I was on my own trying to figure out life when it was at its craziest!
"He was with me through 3 houses, 6 tours and 2 kids…always ready to snuggle and play…through all the highs and lows. He was a true friend and a good boy till the very end."
Carrie added: "I love you, sweet Ace…see you on the other side… [broken heart emoji]”
The ‘American Idol’ winner also shared how she was “eternally grateful” after snagging her victory at the awards, which were hosted by comedian Trevor Noah.
Before sharing the tragic news, Carrie wrote on Instagram: "I am eternally grateful! Glory to God!"
The ‘Jesus Take The Wheel’ hitmaker - who is married to former hockey player Mike Fisher, with whom she shares Isaiah, seven, and Jacob, three - called getting to rock the stage at the biggest night in music as “such an iconic thing”.
Carrie said: “I mean, the GRAMMYs and performing at the GRAMMYs, that is such an iconic thing. There are so many incredibly talented musical acts in so many different genres of music that only a select few actually get to perform on the stage even if they’re nominated for multiple ones per night." | 0 | 102,138 | 0 | https://www.hiawathaworldonline.com/news/entertainment/carrie-underwood-says-her-dog-ace-died-the-same-night-as-the-grammys/article_a3f81a22-4521-5b55-87f1-a6f769960534.html | 2022-04-05 08:30:34+00:00 | Carrie Underwood says her dog Ace died on the same night as the 64th Grammy Awards.
The ‘Before He Cheats’ hitmaker had a rollercoaster evening on Sunday (03.04.22) - after winning in the Best Roots Gospel Album category for her record ‘My Saviour’ and performing her new single ‘Ghost Story’ at the event - after her “true friend” passed away.
The 39-year-old country superstar wrote on Instagram: “Last night my sweet Ace left this world…he will forever live on in our hearts and be forever missed. He was there for me when I was on my own trying to figure out life when it was at its craziest!
"He was with me through 3 houses, 6 tours and 2 kids…always ready to snuggle and play…through all the highs and lows. He was a true friend and a good boy till the very end."
Carrie added: "I love you, sweet Ace…see you on the other side… [broken heart emoji]”
The ‘American Idol’ winner also shared how she was “eternally grateful” after snagging her victory at the awards, which were hosted by comedian Trevor Noah.
Before sharing the tragic news, Carrie wrote on Instagram: "I am eternally grateful! Glory to God!"
The ‘Jesus Take The Wheel’ hitmaker - who is married to former hockey player Mike Fisher, with whom she shares Isaiah, seven, and Jacob, three - called getting to rock the stage at the biggest night in music as “such an iconic thing”.
Carrie said: “I mean, the GRAMMYs and performing at the GRAMMYs, that is such an iconic thing. There are so many incredibly talented musical acts in so many different genres of music that only a select few actually get to perform on the stage even if they’re nominated for multiple ones per night." |
https://nordot.app/883840470574448640 | Carrie Underwood says her dog Ace died on the same night as the 64th Grammy Awards.
The ‘Before He Cheats’ hitmaker had a rollercoaster evening on Sunday (03.04.22) - after winning in the Best Roots Gospel Album category for her record ‘My Saviour’ and performing her new single ‘Ghost Story’ at the event - after her “true friend” passed away.
The 39-year-old country superstar wrote on Instagram: “Last night my sweet Ace left this world…he will forever live on in our hearts and be forever missed. He was there for me when I was on my own trying to figure out life when it was at its craziest!
"He was with me through 3 houses, 6 tours and 2 kids…always ready to snuggle and play…through all the highs and lows. He was a true friend and a good boy till the very end."
Carrie added: "I love you, sweet Ace…see you on the other side… [broken heart emoji]”
The ‘American Idol’ winner also shared how she was “eternally grateful” after snagging her victory at the awards, which were hosted by comedian Trevor Noah.
Before sharing the tragic news, Carrie wrote on Instagram: "I am eternally grateful! Glory to God!"
The ‘Jesus Take The Wheel’ hitmaker - who is married to former hockey player Mike Fisher, with whom she shares Isaiah, seven, and Jacob, three - called getting to rock the stage at the biggest night in music as “such an iconic thing”.
Carrie said: “I mean, the GRAMMYs and performing at the GRAMMYs, that is such an iconic thing. There are so many incredibly talented musical acts in so many different genres of music that only a select few actually get to perform on the stage even if they’re nominated for multiple ones per night." | 1 | 46,773 | 0.180258 | https://torontosun.com/entertainment/celebrity/carrie-underwood-says-her-dog-ace-died-on-grammys-night | 2022-04-05 02:33:26+00:00 | Carrie Underwood says her dog Ace died on Grammys night
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The ‘Before He Cheats’ hitmaker had a rollercoaster evening on Sunday – after winning in the Best Roots Gospel Album category for her record ‘My Saviour’ and performing her new single ‘Ghost Story’ at the event – after her “true friend” passed away.
The 39-year-old country superstar wrote on Instagram: “Last night my sweet Ace left this world…he will forever live on in our hearts and be forever missed. He was there for me when I was on my own trying to figure out life when it was at its craziest!
“He was with me through 3 houses, 6 tours and 2 kids…always ready to snuggle and play…through all the highs and lows. He was a true friend and a good boy till the very end.”
Carrie added: “I love you, sweet Ace…see you on the other side… [broken heart emoji]”
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The ‘American Idol’ winner also shared how she was “eternally grateful” after snagging her victory at the awards, which were hosted by comedian Trevor Noah.
Before sharing the tragic news, Carrie wrote on Instagram: “I am eternally grateful! Glory to God!”
The ‘Jesus Take The Wheel’ hitmaker – who is married to former hockey player Mike Fisher, with whom she shares Isaiah, seven, and Jacob, three – called getting to rock the stage at the biggest night in music as “such an iconic thing”.
Carrie said: “I mean, the GRAMMYs and performing at the GRAMMYs, that is such an iconic thing. There are so many incredibly talented musical acts in so many different genres of music that only a select few actually get to perform on the stage even if they’re nominated for multiple ones per night.” |
https://nordot.app/883840470574448640 | Carrie Underwood says her dog Ace died on the same night as the 64th Grammy Awards.
The ‘Before He Cheats’ hitmaker had a rollercoaster evening on Sunday (03.04.22) - after winning in the Best Roots Gospel Album category for her record ‘My Saviour’ and performing her new single ‘Ghost Story’ at the event - after her “true friend” passed away.
The 39-year-old country superstar wrote on Instagram: “Last night my sweet Ace left this world…he will forever live on in our hearts and be forever missed. He was there for me when I was on my own trying to figure out life when it was at its craziest!
"He was with me through 3 houses, 6 tours and 2 kids…always ready to snuggle and play…through all the highs and lows. He was a true friend and a good boy till the very end."
Carrie added: "I love you, sweet Ace…see you on the other side… [broken heart emoji]”
The ‘American Idol’ winner also shared how she was “eternally grateful” after snagging her victory at the awards, which were hosted by comedian Trevor Noah.
Before sharing the tragic news, Carrie wrote on Instagram: "I am eternally grateful! Glory to God!"
The ‘Jesus Take The Wheel’ hitmaker - who is married to former hockey player Mike Fisher, with whom she shares Isaiah, seven, and Jacob, three - called getting to rock the stage at the biggest night in music as “such an iconic thing”.
Carrie said: “I mean, the GRAMMYs and performing at the GRAMMYs, that is such an iconic thing. There are so many incredibly talented musical acts in so many different genres of music that only a select few actually get to perform on the stage even if they’re nominated for multiple ones per night." | 2 | 73,138 | 0.339346 | https://themiracletech.com/latest/carrie-underwood-says-her-dog-ace-died-on-grammy-night/ | 2022-04-05 17:01:27+00:00 | Reviews and recommendations are unbiased and products are independently selected. Postmedia may earn affiliate commissions from purchases made through links on this page.
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Sunday was a rollercoaster evening for the ‘Before He Cheats’ hitmaker – after winning in the Best Roots Gospel Album category for his record ‘My Savior’ and performing his new single ‘Ghost Story’ at the event – with his ” Away after the passing of “true friend”.
The country’s 39-year-old superstar wrote on Instagram, “Last night my lovely ace passed away from this world…she will live on in our hearts and will always be remembered. She was there for me as I explore life on my own.” When I was trying…
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10685705/As-June-Brown-dies-95-CHRISTOPHER-STEVENS-charts-dramatic-journey.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ito=1490&ns_campaign=1490 | The night Lady Gaga invited Dot Cotton to go clubbing: As June Brown dies at 95, CHRISTOPHER STEVENS charts her dramatic journey from wartime Wren to RSC then love, loss and serial affairs
- EastEnders actress June Brown died aged 95 at her home in Surrey with family
- It comes two years after her final appearance on the soap and 35 after her debut
- She refused to stub out her ciggies, even turning up for an appearance on Graham Norton Show in 2013 promoting her autobiography holding a cigarette
Actress June Brown refused to say how many cigarettes she smoked each day. She wasn’t counting, she insisted.
She’d been a smoker since her teens and, she joked, her blood was the colour of nicotine, so something was bound to kill her soon enough — why should she bother to quit?
She took the same attitude to work. After eight decades in the theatre and on television, she wouldn’t know what else to do with herself.
‘Even if I feel like death warmed up, I find when I get on set that my energy comes,’ declared Brown, beloved as the disapproving, Bible-quoting Dot Cotton (later Dot Branning), queen of the Albert Square launderette on EastEnders.
June, who died at her home in Surrey on Sunday, aged 95, lived a life defiant of all regrets.
She refused to stub out her ciggies, even turning up for an appearance on the Graham Norton Show in 2013 to promote her autobiography with a fag in one hand.
Her fellow guest that night was Stefani Germanotta, alias Lady Gaga, who was instantly besotted with June’s haughty insouciance.
June turned down an invitation to go night-clubbing with the pop goddess on the grounds that she had another chat-show the following day and intended to be on time and unfuddled.
That was the other side of June Brown’s character — she was a professional to the tobacco-stained tips of her fingers.
Soap legend: June Brown as Dot Cotton in BBC1’s EastEnders
This mixture of the outrageously unconventional and the stoically dependable enabled her to enjoy a career that stretched from her beginnings at the Old Vic and the Royal Shakespeare Company after World War II, to recurring appearances on panel shows such as Loose Women in her 90s. Her attitude to everything was relentlessly matter-of-fact. She had no time for stage fright, for instance.
During a short stint on Coronation Street in the 1970s, she asked William Roache (who played Ken Barlow) why so many in the cast seemed anxious, and he told her that nerves got worse with age.
‘I thought, “What a waste of time,” and decided never to be nervous again,’ she said.
She never forgot her theatrical training, once demonstrating to Terry Wogan on his 1980s chat show a breathing technique that she had learned from the singing coach at the Glyndebourne Opera Company.
She called it ‘the fish’s gills — a way of breathing that wasn’t just about the diaphragm. We had to use the base of our backs, like a lavatory being flushed from a cistern, the water going down into the bowl and suddenly flushing up on each side’.
That gave her a voice of great strength, though by the time she came to play Dot it was a throaty rasp. Typically, she didn’t blame the cigarettes, but ‘too much television work, not enough acting in large theatres’.
Another of the contradictory aspects to her character was her willingness to take the blame for other people’s mistakes, telling EastEnders co-stars to blame anything that went wrong on her.
‘Just tell them it’s me, dear,’ she’d say. ‘I tell everybody to say that — just blame me.’
But in her own life, she frequently put the blame on fate. Superstitious by nature, she discovered palm-reading aged 16, and all her life she was convinced that her sudden changes in fortune were due to a broken ‘line of fate’ that split in two, halfway across the palm of her right hand.
She continued to read friends’ palms for many years and would sometimes seek out old theatre colleagues to discover if her predictions had come true.
She blamed her volatile love life on the death of her sister, Micie, in 1934. June was seven, Micie (pronounced Meecie) a year older. The two girls were devoted to each other, sharing a room in the attic of the family home in Needham Market, Suffolk.
She refused to stub out her ciggies, even turning up for an appearance on the Graham Norton Show in 2013 to promote her autobiography with a fag in one hand. Her fellow guest that night was Stefani Germanotta, alias Lady Gaga, (pictured together) who was instantly besotted with June’s haughty insouciance
June remembered being sent to school one morning, with her elder sister tucked up ill in their parents’ bed. Their grandmother looked into the room and declared: ‘There is a dying child!’
Within days, Micie had died of meningitis. Her coffin was placed in the drawing room, though June and her baby sister, Rosebud, were not allowed to see it.
Micie was buried in the children’s section of Ipswich cemetery, alongside their brother, John Peter, who had died of pneumonia just 15 days old.
‘The loss of her affected my whole character and shaped the way I behaved for a long time,’ she wrote. ‘In particular it influenced my expectations of men. Too dependent, I found it impossible to be happy alone. I was constantly in and out of love, always looking for the kind of caring Micie had given me.’
Their grandmother blamed June’s father, Henry, a heavy drinker, for Micie’s death. A beating had brought on the final illness, she said.
When June’s parents split up, she and her mother, Louisa, went to live with the gran. Henry came round to order them home, and his mother-in-law punched him on the nose, breaking his glasses.
June had hoped to train as a doctor but, after her father went bankrupt, there was no money for university.
This was a blow because she had always been a dab hand with a scalpel. As a child, she used to practise dissection on wild rabbits, putting them in a biscuit tin to gas them before cutting them up.
‘Nowadays, people would scream in horror at the thought,’ she said. ‘But we were not sentimental about field animals.’
June’s first romance came early. Aged 14, she fell for a Belgian refugee named Ralph, who was ten years her senior. She called him Raoul, he called her Juanita, and after he was drafted into the British medical corps they exchanged passionate letters for four years.
When he stopped writing, he broke her heart. At last, after months of silence, she received a greetings card from him. It said coldly: ‘Best wishes for Christmas, Raoul.’
June joined the Women’s Royal Naval Service [WRNS] and a series of lively affairs followed, first with a young officer named Colin, then with a Canadian pilot named Glen who ‘taught me to ride Western style, reins in the left hand, right hand ready to shoot or throw a lasso’.
After leaving the WRNS, nothing much appealed to her as a job and it was her little sister, Rosebud, who urged her to apply to the Old Vic theatre school in 1947, which she did successfully.
Three years later she married a fellow actor, Johnny Garley. Neither was faithful, before or after the wedding, but while June took the affairs in her stride, Johnny became depressed.
June, who died at her home in Surrey on Sunday, aged 95, lived a life defiant of all regrets
In 1957, aged 30, he killed himself, the day after threatening June with a breadknife. She returned to their flat to find he had closed the doors and windows, switched on the gas and lain down to die. A suicide note was scribbled on the back of a page from a script.
She married again the following year to Robert Arnold, also an actor, and had six babies in seven years. ‘I used to take the children to work with me,’ she said. The smallest would sit in a pram in the theatre dressing room while she was on stage.
A solid career in repertory theatre and then as a character actress on TV followed— including roles in Z Cars, Doctor Who, Dixon Of Dock Green and The Duchess Of Duke Street. She also won plaudits on stage as Hedda Gabler and Lady Macbeth.
But she did not become well-known until she was nearly 60, when the leading star of EastEnders, Leslie Grantham — better known as Dirty Den — recommended her for the role of Dot, the stern Christian mother of Cockney bad lad Nick Cotton (John Altman).
She played Dot for more than 30 years, with storylines that became national talking points — including the episode where she helped her old friend, Ethel (Gretchen Franklin) to die with an overdose of morphine, and another in which she survived Nick’s attempt to murder her.
Later, she watched Nick die from an overdose of the heroin she had bought for him. ‘I ain’t called the ambulance,’ she told him. ‘I prayed to let Jesus decide whether the world was a better place without you.’
But her most celebrated episode came in 2008, with a monologue in which she dictated her life story onto a cassette for her husband, who had suffered a stroke. No soap had ever devoted a full half-hour to one character, and the performance earned June a Bafta nomination.
The following year, she was awarded the MBE, with an OBE following in 2021. The rest of the cast thought that was a pale recognition of her talents, and Adam Woodyatt, who plays Ian Beale, once revealed they had campaigned for her to be made a Dame. Shortly after, she appeared in a West End production of Calendar Girls, naked for her photoshoot scene with a bag of knitting clasped to preserve her modesty.
Her husband, Robert, to whom she was married for 45 years, died in 2003, but widowhood didn’t impact her work rate — dancing a tango on a Strictly Christmas Special, for instance, when she was 83.
Her delight in stirring mischief didn’t ebb either. In 2009, she gleefully told a Guardian reporter that she had always voted Tory: ‘I wouldn’t vote Labour, dear, if you paid me.’
She left EastEnders in 2020, but never lost her gift for the provocative one-liner.
‘I want to be buried at sea,’ she announced. ‘The Britannia Shipping Company drops you off round the Isle of Wight. I’ll be in a nice white nightie and they wrap you in a balsa wood coffin and weight it.’
There had better be room in there for a carton of ciggies. | 0 | 53,817 | 0.511727 | https://www.walesonline.co.uk/lifestyle/showbiz/unlikely-friendship-between-june-brown-23590894 | 2022-04-04 15:09:56+00:00 | The sad death of EastEnders actress June Brown has caused an outpouring of love for the seasoned Dot Cotton star. And it's a meeting between the Albert Square veteran and global popstar Lady Gaga which is just one of the moments that highlight the 95-year-old's status as an icon.
Appearing on The Graham Norton Show back in 2013, June sashayed on with a glass of wine in one hand and a cigarette in the other, and bowled over the Bad Romance singer in an instant. Gaga was impressed by her style, fur coat and beehive with pearls, and told the soap star: "I am a really big fan of yours. You are so fabulously dressed. I am honoured to be sitting next to you,"
Lady Gaga went on to pick up her fellow guest's glass of wine, commenting: "I want to drink from your cup to see what those genes are." In 2019, June revealed how kind Lady Gaga was to her behind-the-scenes, telling the Daily Star: "She was so funny, intelligent and down to earth, but when she went in front of the press, you could see her put the Gaga persona on."
Read more:EastEnders star June Brown, who played Dot Cotton, dies aged 95
The Poker Face singer was so invested in her new friendship that she even invited June on a night out in London. "She saw me sitting on my own and came back, dropped the whole Gaga thing and invited me to a nightclub," June revealed. "Sadly I couldn't make it, but I thought what a charming and talented girl."
June died on Sunday, April 3, as revealed in a statement from her family which said: "We are deeply saddened to announce our beloved mother, June, passed away very peacefully at her home in Surrey on Sunday evening, with her family by her side. We would kindly ask that our privacy is respected at this very difficult time."
An EastEnders spokeswoman also said: "We are deeply saddened to announce that our beloved June Brown, OBE, MBE, sadly passed away last night. There are not enough words to describe how much June was loved and adored by everyone at EastEnders, her loving warmth, wit and great humour will never be forgotten.
"June created one of the most iconic characters in Dot Cotton, not just in soap but in British television, and having appeared in 2,884 episodes, June’s remarkable performances created some of EastEnders’ finest moments.
"We send all our love and deepest sympathies to June’s family and friends. A very bright light has gone out at EastEnders today but we shall all be raising a sweet sherry in June’s memory. Rest in peace, our dearest June. You will never be forgotten." |
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10685705/As-June-Brown-dies-95-CHRISTOPHER-STEVENS-charts-dramatic-journey.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ito=1490&ns_campaign=1490 | The night Lady Gaga invited Dot Cotton to go clubbing: As June Brown dies at 95, CHRISTOPHER STEVENS charts her dramatic journey from wartime Wren to RSC then love, loss and serial affairs
- EastEnders actress June Brown died aged 95 at her home in Surrey with family
- It comes two years after her final appearance on the soap and 35 after her debut
- She refused to stub out her ciggies, even turning up for an appearance on Graham Norton Show in 2013 promoting her autobiography holding a cigarette
Actress June Brown refused to say how many cigarettes she smoked each day. She wasn’t counting, she insisted.
She’d been a smoker since her teens and, she joked, her blood was the colour of nicotine, so something was bound to kill her soon enough — why should she bother to quit?
She took the same attitude to work. After eight decades in the theatre and on television, she wouldn’t know what else to do with herself.
‘Even if I feel like death warmed up, I find when I get on set that my energy comes,’ declared Brown, beloved as the disapproving, Bible-quoting Dot Cotton (later Dot Branning), queen of the Albert Square launderette on EastEnders.
June, who died at her home in Surrey on Sunday, aged 95, lived a life defiant of all regrets.
She refused to stub out her ciggies, even turning up for an appearance on the Graham Norton Show in 2013 to promote her autobiography with a fag in one hand.
Her fellow guest that night was Stefani Germanotta, alias Lady Gaga, who was instantly besotted with June’s haughty insouciance.
June turned down an invitation to go night-clubbing with the pop goddess on the grounds that she had another chat-show the following day and intended to be on time and unfuddled.
That was the other side of June Brown’s character — she was a professional to the tobacco-stained tips of her fingers.
Soap legend: June Brown as Dot Cotton in BBC1’s EastEnders
This mixture of the outrageously unconventional and the stoically dependable enabled her to enjoy a career that stretched from her beginnings at the Old Vic and the Royal Shakespeare Company after World War II, to recurring appearances on panel shows such as Loose Women in her 90s. Her attitude to everything was relentlessly matter-of-fact. She had no time for stage fright, for instance.
During a short stint on Coronation Street in the 1970s, she asked William Roache (who played Ken Barlow) why so many in the cast seemed anxious, and he told her that nerves got worse with age.
‘I thought, “What a waste of time,” and decided never to be nervous again,’ she said.
She never forgot her theatrical training, once demonstrating to Terry Wogan on his 1980s chat show a breathing technique that she had learned from the singing coach at the Glyndebourne Opera Company.
She called it ‘the fish’s gills — a way of breathing that wasn’t just about the diaphragm. We had to use the base of our backs, like a lavatory being flushed from a cistern, the water going down into the bowl and suddenly flushing up on each side’.
That gave her a voice of great strength, though by the time she came to play Dot it was a throaty rasp. Typically, she didn’t blame the cigarettes, but ‘too much television work, not enough acting in large theatres’.
Another of the contradictory aspects to her character was her willingness to take the blame for other people’s mistakes, telling EastEnders co-stars to blame anything that went wrong on her.
‘Just tell them it’s me, dear,’ she’d say. ‘I tell everybody to say that — just blame me.’
But in her own life, she frequently put the blame on fate. Superstitious by nature, she discovered palm-reading aged 16, and all her life she was convinced that her sudden changes in fortune were due to a broken ‘line of fate’ that split in two, halfway across the palm of her right hand.
She continued to read friends’ palms for many years and would sometimes seek out old theatre colleagues to discover if her predictions had come true.
She blamed her volatile love life on the death of her sister, Micie, in 1934. June was seven, Micie (pronounced Meecie) a year older. The two girls were devoted to each other, sharing a room in the attic of the family home in Needham Market, Suffolk.
She refused to stub out her ciggies, even turning up for an appearance on the Graham Norton Show in 2013 to promote her autobiography with a fag in one hand. Her fellow guest that night was Stefani Germanotta, alias Lady Gaga, (pictured together) who was instantly besotted with June’s haughty insouciance
June remembered being sent to school one morning, with her elder sister tucked up ill in their parents’ bed. Their grandmother looked into the room and declared: ‘There is a dying child!’
Within days, Micie had died of meningitis. Her coffin was placed in the drawing room, though June and her baby sister, Rosebud, were not allowed to see it.
Micie was buried in the children’s section of Ipswich cemetery, alongside their brother, John Peter, who had died of pneumonia just 15 days old.
‘The loss of her affected my whole character and shaped the way I behaved for a long time,’ she wrote. ‘In particular it influenced my expectations of men. Too dependent, I found it impossible to be happy alone. I was constantly in and out of love, always looking for the kind of caring Micie had given me.’
Their grandmother blamed June’s father, Henry, a heavy drinker, for Micie’s death. A beating had brought on the final illness, she said.
When June’s parents split up, she and her mother, Louisa, went to live with the gran. Henry came round to order them home, and his mother-in-law punched him on the nose, breaking his glasses.
June had hoped to train as a doctor but, after her father went bankrupt, there was no money for university.
This was a blow because she had always been a dab hand with a scalpel. As a child, she used to practise dissection on wild rabbits, putting them in a biscuit tin to gas them before cutting them up.
‘Nowadays, people would scream in horror at the thought,’ she said. ‘But we were not sentimental about field animals.’
June’s first romance came early. Aged 14, she fell for a Belgian refugee named Ralph, who was ten years her senior. She called him Raoul, he called her Juanita, and after he was drafted into the British medical corps they exchanged passionate letters for four years.
When he stopped writing, he broke her heart. At last, after months of silence, she received a greetings card from him. It said coldly: ‘Best wishes for Christmas, Raoul.’
June joined the Women’s Royal Naval Service [WRNS] and a series of lively affairs followed, first with a young officer named Colin, then with a Canadian pilot named Glen who ‘taught me to ride Western style, reins in the left hand, right hand ready to shoot or throw a lasso’.
After leaving the WRNS, nothing much appealed to her as a job and it was her little sister, Rosebud, who urged her to apply to the Old Vic theatre school in 1947, which she did successfully.
Three years later she married a fellow actor, Johnny Garley. Neither was faithful, before or after the wedding, but while June took the affairs in her stride, Johnny became depressed.
June, who died at her home in Surrey on Sunday, aged 95, lived a life defiant of all regrets
In 1957, aged 30, he killed himself, the day after threatening June with a breadknife. She returned to their flat to find he had closed the doors and windows, switched on the gas and lain down to die. A suicide note was scribbled on the back of a page from a script.
She married again the following year to Robert Arnold, also an actor, and had six babies in seven years. ‘I used to take the children to work with me,’ she said. The smallest would sit in a pram in the theatre dressing room while she was on stage.
A solid career in repertory theatre and then as a character actress on TV followed— including roles in Z Cars, Doctor Who, Dixon Of Dock Green and The Duchess Of Duke Street. She also won plaudits on stage as Hedda Gabler and Lady Macbeth.
But she did not become well-known until she was nearly 60, when the leading star of EastEnders, Leslie Grantham — better known as Dirty Den — recommended her for the role of Dot, the stern Christian mother of Cockney bad lad Nick Cotton (John Altman).
She played Dot for more than 30 years, with storylines that became national talking points — including the episode where she helped her old friend, Ethel (Gretchen Franklin) to die with an overdose of morphine, and another in which she survived Nick’s attempt to murder her.
Later, she watched Nick die from an overdose of the heroin she had bought for him. ‘I ain’t called the ambulance,’ she told him. ‘I prayed to let Jesus decide whether the world was a better place without you.’
But her most celebrated episode came in 2008, with a monologue in which she dictated her life story onto a cassette for her husband, who had suffered a stroke. No soap had ever devoted a full half-hour to one character, and the performance earned June a Bafta nomination.
The following year, she was awarded the MBE, with an OBE following in 2021. The rest of the cast thought that was a pale recognition of her talents, and Adam Woodyatt, who plays Ian Beale, once revealed they had campaigned for her to be made a Dame. Shortly after, she appeared in a West End production of Calendar Girls, naked for her photoshoot scene with a bag of knitting clasped to preserve her modesty.
Her husband, Robert, to whom she was married for 45 years, died in 2003, but widowhood didn’t impact her work rate — dancing a tango on a Strictly Christmas Special, for instance, when she was 83.
Her delight in stirring mischief didn’t ebb either. In 2009, she gleefully told a Guardian reporter that she had always voted Tory: ‘I wouldn’t vote Labour, dear, if you paid me.’
She left EastEnders in 2020, but never lost her gift for the provocative one-liner.
‘I want to be buried at sea,’ she announced. ‘The Britannia Shipping Company drops you off round the Isle of Wight. I’ll be in a nice white nightie and they wrap you in a balsa wood coffin and weight it.’
There had better be room in there for a carton of ciggies. | 1 | 46,249 | 0.512448 | https://www.indy100.com/tv/video-june-brown-meeting-lady-gaga | 2022-04-04 14:36:50+00:00 | EastEnders fans are paying tribute to June Brown, best known for playing Dot Cotton, who has died at the age of 95.
The actress played the legendary soap character for thousands of episodes after the show first aired in 1985, and the chain-smoking Dot was a favourite among many viewers.
People have been sharing their memories of Brown’s performances over the years, and plenty have also been remembering her by posting a sweet clip of the time she met Lady Gaga.
The pair appeared together on an episode of The Graham Norton Show back in 2013 and the unlikely duo formed quite the bond almost immediately.
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The clip shows Gaga saying she loved Brown’s “fabulous” purse and e-cigarette as she sits down on the couch.
“You look so amazing,” Gaga says, appearing alongside Jude Law and Greg Davies.
She then ‘shows off her legs’ much to Gaga’s amusement, before saying she felt she had to ‘out-do her’.
Never forget when June Brown met Lady Gaga. \n\nBoth = icons.pic.twitter.com/zlGkklNCg7— Scott Bryan (@Scott Bryan) 1649075559
When Norton then asked if Gaga was familiar with EastEnders, Brown told her: “No, don’t say yes darling. If you’re not, you’re not, and I don’t blame you.”
“I actually am a very big fan of yours,” Gaga said. “I just don’t watch a lot of television.”
“I don’t watch any,” Brown replied, sending the crowd into spontaneous laughter.
The actress starred in the show until 2020Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images
It comes after a spokesperson for the BBC soap confirmed the news of Brown’s death, stating: “There are not enough words to describe how much June was loved and adored by everyone at EastEnders, her loving warmth, wit and great humour will never be forgotten.
“June created one of the most iconic characters in Dot Cotton, not just in soap but in British television, and having appeared in 2884 episodes, June’s remarkable performances created some of EastEnders finest moments.”
Brown was the soap’s longest-running character, despite departing the series from 1992 to 1997, and leaving for six months during 2012 in order to write her autobiography. She appeared on the programme until 2020.
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10685705/As-June-Brown-dies-95-CHRISTOPHER-STEVENS-charts-dramatic-journey.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ito=1490&ns_campaign=1490 | The night Lady Gaga invited Dot Cotton to go clubbing: As June Brown dies at 95, CHRISTOPHER STEVENS charts her dramatic journey from wartime Wren to RSC then love, loss and serial affairs
- EastEnders actress June Brown died aged 95 at her home in Surrey with family
- It comes two years after her final appearance on the soap and 35 after her debut
- She refused to stub out her ciggies, even turning up for an appearance on Graham Norton Show in 2013 promoting her autobiography holding a cigarette
Actress June Brown refused to say how many cigarettes she smoked each day. She wasn’t counting, she insisted.
She’d been a smoker since her teens and, she joked, her blood was the colour of nicotine, so something was bound to kill her soon enough — why should she bother to quit?
She took the same attitude to work. After eight decades in the theatre and on television, she wouldn’t know what else to do with herself.
‘Even if I feel like death warmed up, I find when I get on set that my energy comes,’ declared Brown, beloved as the disapproving, Bible-quoting Dot Cotton (later Dot Branning), queen of the Albert Square launderette on EastEnders.
June, who died at her home in Surrey on Sunday, aged 95, lived a life defiant of all regrets.
She refused to stub out her ciggies, even turning up for an appearance on the Graham Norton Show in 2013 to promote her autobiography with a fag in one hand.
Her fellow guest that night was Stefani Germanotta, alias Lady Gaga, who was instantly besotted with June’s haughty insouciance.
June turned down an invitation to go night-clubbing with the pop goddess on the grounds that she had another chat-show the following day and intended to be on time and unfuddled.
That was the other side of June Brown’s character — she was a professional to the tobacco-stained tips of her fingers.
Soap legend: June Brown as Dot Cotton in BBC1’s EastEnders
This mixture of the outrageously unconventional and the stoically dependable enabled her to enjoy a career that stretched from her beginnings at the Old Vic and the Royal Shakespeare Company after World War II, to recurring appearances on panel shows such as Loose Women in her 90s. Her attitude to everything was relentlessly matter-of-fact. She had no time for stage fright, for instance.
During a short stint on Coronation Street in the 1970s, she asked William Roache (who played Ken Barlow) why so many in the cast seemed anxious, and he told her that nerves got worse with age.
‘I thought, “What a waste of time,” and decided never to be nervous again,’ she said.
She never forgot her theatrical training, once demonstrating to Terry Wogan on his 1980s chat show a breathing technique that she had learned from the singing coach at the Glyndebourne Opera Company.
She called it ‘the fish’s gills — a way of breathing that wasn’t just about the diaphragm. We had to use the base of our backs, like a lavatory being flushed from a cistern, the water going down into the bowl and suddenly flushing up on each side’.
That gave her a voice of great strength, though by the time she came to play Dot it was a throaty rasp. Typically, she didn’t blame the cigarettes, but ‘too much television work, not enough acting in large theatres’.
Another of the contradictory aspects to her character was her willingness to take the blame for other people’s mistakes, telling EastEnders co-stars to blame anything that went wrong on her.
‘Just tell them it’s me, dear,’ she’d say. ‘I tell everybody to say that — just blame me.’
But in her own life, she frequently put the blame on fate. Superstitious by nature, she discovered palm-reading aged 16, and all her life she was convinced that her sudden changes in fortune were due to a broken ‘line of fate’ that split in two, halfway across the palm of her right hand.
She continued to read friends’ palms for many years and would sometimes seek out old theatre colleagues to discover if her predictions had come true.
She blamed her volatile love life on the death of her sister, Micie, in 1934. June was seven, Micie (pronounced Meecie) a year older. The two girls were devoted to each other, sharing a room in the attic of the family home in Needham Market, Suffolk.
She refused to stub out her ciggies, even turning up for an appearance on the Graham Norton Show in 2013 to promote her autobiography with a fag in one hand. Her fellow guest that night was Stefani Germanotta, alias Lady Gaga, (pictured together) who was instantly besotted with June’s haughty insouciance
June remembered being sent to school one morning, with her elder sister tucked up ill in their parents’ bed. Their grandmother looked into the room and declared: ‘There is a dying child!’
Within days, Micie had died of meningitis. Her coffin was placed in the drawing room, though June and her baby sister, Rosebud, were not allowed to see it.
Micie was buried in the children’s section of Ipswich cemetery, alongside their brother, John Peter, who had died of pneumonia just 15 days old.
‘The loss of her affected my whole character and shaped the way I behaved for a long time,’ she wrote. ‘In particular it influenced my expectations of men. Too dependent, I found it impossible to be happy alone. I was constantly in and out of love, always looking for the kind of caring Micie had given me.’
Their grandmother blamed June’s father, Henry, a heavy drinker, for Micie’s death. A beating had brought on the final illness, she said.
When June’s parents split up, she and her mother, Louisa, went to live with the gran. Henry came round to order them home, and his mother-in-law punched him on the nose, breaking his glasses.
June had hoped to train as a doctor but, after her father went bankrupt, there was no money for university.
This was a blow because she had always been a dab hand with a scalpel. As a child, she used to practise dissection on wild rabbits, putting them in a biscuit tin to gas them before cutting them up.
‘Nowadays, people would scream in horror at the thought,’ she said. ‘But we were not sentimental about field animals.’
June’s first romance came early. Aged 14, she fell for a Belgian refugee named Ralph, who was ten years her senior. She called him Raoul, he called her Juanita, and after he was drafted into the British medical corps they exchanged passionate letters for four years.
When he stopped writing, he broke her heart. At last, after months of silence, she received a greetings card from him. It said coldly: ‘Best wishes for Christmas, Raoul.’
June joined the Women’s Royal Naval Service [WRNS] and a series of lively affairs followed, first with a young officer named Colin, then with a Canadian pilot named Glen who ‘taught me to ride Western style, reins in the left hand, right hand ready to shoot or throw a lasso’.
After leaving the WRNS, nothing much appealed to her as a job and it was her little sister, Rosebud, who urged her to apply to the Old Vic theatre school in 1947, which she did successfully.
Three years later she married a fellow actor, Johnny Garley. Neither was faithful, before or after the wedding, but while June took the affairs in her stride, Johnny became depressed.
June, who died at her home in Surrey on Sunday, aged 95, lived a life defiant of all regrets
In 1957, aged 30, he killed himself, the day after threatening June with a breadknife. She returned to their flat to find he had closed the doors and windows, switched on the gas and lain down to die. A suicide note was scribbled on the back of a page from a script.
She married again the following year to Robert Arnold, also an actor, and had six babies in seven years. ‘I used to take the children to work with me,’ she said. The smallest would sit in a pram in the theatre dressing room while she was on stage.
A solid career in repertory theatre and then as a character actress on TV followed— including roles in Z Cars, Doctor Who, Dixon Of Dock Green and The Duchess Of Duke Street. She also won plaudits on stage as Hedda Gabler and Lady Macbeth.
But she did not become well-known until she was nearly 60, when the leading star of EastEnders, Leslie Grantham — better known as Dirty Den — recommended her for the role of Dot, the stern Christian mother of Cockney bad lad Nick Cotton (John Altman).
She played Dot for more than 30 years, with storylines that became national talking points — including the episode where she helped her old friend, Ethel (Gretchen Franklin) to die with an overdose of morphine, and another in which she survived Nick’s attempt to murder her.
Later, she watched Nick die from an overdose of the heroin she had bought for him. ‘I ain’t called the ambulance,’ she told him. ‘I prayed to let Jesus decide whether the world was a better place without you.’
But her most celebrated episode came in 2008, with a monologue in which she dictated her life story onto a cassette for her husband, who had suffered a stroke. No soap had ever devoted a full half-hour to one character, and the performance earned June a Bafta nomination.
The following year, she was awarded the MBE, with an OBE following in 2021. The rest of the cast thought that was a pale recognition of her talents, and Adam Woodyatt, who plays Ian Beale, once revealed they had campaigned for her to be made a Dame. Shortly after, she appeared in a West End production of Calendar Girls, naked for her photoshoot scene with a bag of knitting clasped to preserve her modesty.
Her husband, Robert, to whom she was married for 45 years, died in 2003, but widowhood didn’t impact her work rate — dancing a tango on a Strictly Christmas Special, for instance, when she was 83.
Her delight in stirring mischief didn’t ebb either. In 2009, she gleefully told a Guardian reporter that she had always voted Tory: ‘I wouldn’t vote Labour, dear, if you paid me.’
She left EastEnders in 2020, but never lost her gift for the provocative one-liner.
‘I want to be buried at sea,’ she announced. ‘The Britannia Shipping Company drops you off round the Isle of Wight. I’ll be in a nice white nightie and they wrap you in a balsa wood coffin and weight it.’
There had better be room in there for a carton of ciggies. | 2 | 2,526 | 0.553264 | https://www.thesun.ie/tv/8604867/june-brown-dead-eastenders-beloved-dot-cottons-final-appearances/ | 2022-04-04 22:26:40+00:00 | June Brown dead – EastEnders’ beloved Dot Cotton’s final emotional appearance before death aged 95
LEGENDARY EastEnders actress June Brown left the soap with an emotional farewell before her death aged 95.
The acting icon, best known for her role as Dot Cotton in the much-loved BBC show, passed away peacefully on Sunday with her family by her side.
The BBC announced her death this afternoon - as EastEnders hailed her as the actress behind one of the "most iconic characters."
June made her final appearance on the soap in January 2020, when her character Dot Cotton left for Ireland.
She left a card and a voice note for Sonia, Natalie Cassidy, after being told that Martin, played by James Bye, had stolen money, before asking him to leave.
Devastated fans at the time demanded a fitting farewell for the popular character, after her shock announcement that she was leaving after playing the role for 35 years.
Brown first played Dot, a chain-smoking, devout Christian and hypochondriac, in 1985 until her final TV appearance in 2020.
Before stepping away from the soap, she struck up an unlikely friendship with Lady Gaga after appearing on the Graham Norton show together in April 2019.
As the last star to get on Graham's infamous red sofa, June was sat alongside the singer, as well as comedian Greg Davies and actor Jude Law.
Lady Gaga was thrilled when the legendary actress joined her on the show, holding her ever present e-cigarette.
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The singer called her “fabulous” and said that she looked “amazing” before Jude helped the then 92-year-old out of her coat.
She added: “I’m a very big fan of yours, you are so fabulously dressed and I’m very honoured to be seated next to you. She speaks my language.”
Speaking when she appeared on Loose Woman a month later, in May 2019, June said that she and the Applause singer had hit it off.
She told the panel: "I just met her on The Graham Norton Show. I was last to come on, and she was so lovely.
“So respectful. Once I got on, we sort of took over the show. I was wondering if I should've sat on Graham's lap."
The pair then shared a glass of wine backstage at the show and Gaga invited June to a London nightclub.
June added: "Lady Gaga invited me to go to Annabels, unfortunately I was doing Piers Morgan the next day.
"I had to be early in the morning – and I thought to myself 'I can’t go clubbing.'"
Soap royalty June was on the ITV series to talk about her life as Dot, as well as staking part on “Hard to Please: OAPS”.
Paying tribute to the star after confirming her death today, a spokesperson for the soap said: "There are not enough words to describe how much June was loved and adored by everyone at EastEnders, her loving warmth, wit and great humour will never be forgotten.
"June created one of the most iconic characters in Dot Cotton, not just in soap but in British television, and having appeared in 2884 episodes, June's remarkable performances created some of EastEnders finest moments.
"We send all our love and deepest sympathies to June's family and friends.
"A very bright light has gone out at EastEnders today but we shall all be raising a sweet sherry in June's memory.
"Rest in peace, our dearest June. You will never be forgotten."
A statement from Brown's family said: "We are deeply saddened to announce our beloved mother, June, passed away very peacefully at her home in Surrey on Sunday evening, with her family by her side.
"We would kindly ask that our privacy is respected at this very difficult time." |
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/aap/article-10685937/Labor-standardise-business-support.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | Labor to standardise business support
A standard business support package for times of crisis will be developed under a Labor government, deputy leader Richard Marles has pledged.
Mr Marles says Labor will provide certainty around the timeliness for disaster payments as well as cut red tape and transaction fees, which could save businesses more than $800 million a year in merchant fees.
"A lack of federal leadership has compounded the anxiety felt by small-business owners, eroding confidence and certainty about the future," he said.
"These measures are targeted at making it easier for small business to bounce back from the ongoing pandemic and recovering from the bushfires and floods which have ravaged parts of Australia."
Labor will direct the tax office to review ways of reducing the administrative burden on small businesses.
The consumer watchdog's anti-scamming unit will also be beefed up to protect small businesses and more opportunities will be provided for Commonwealth procurements.
The threshold for agencies to directly engage with small businesses will be raised from $200,000 to $500,000 to ensure greater representation on government procurement panels.
Labor Leader Anthony Albanese and Prime Minister Scott Morrison will on Tuesday address National Farmers Federation conference.
Farmers have called for more than $4 billion into 20 regional development precincts across Australia and $5 billion for a rural telecommunications fund to improve connectivity in remote areas. | 0 | 4,332 | 0.047661 | https://thewest.com.au/business/small-business/labor-to-standardise-business-support-c-6336104 | 2022-04-04 22:33:57+00:00 | Labor to standardise business support
A standard business support package for times of crisis will be developed under a Labor government, deputy leader Richard Marles has pledged.
Mr Marles says Labor will provide certainty around the timeliness for disaster payments as well as cut red tape and transaction fees, which could save businesses more than $800 million a year in merchant fees.
“A lack of federal leadership has compounded the anxiety felt by small-business owners, eroding confidence and certainty about the future,” he said.
“These measures are targeted at making it easier for small business to bounce back from the ongoing pandemic and recovering from the bushfires and floods which have ravaged parts of Australia.”
Labor will direct the tax office to review ways of reducing the administrative burden on small businesses.
The consumer watchdog’s anti-scamming unit will also be beefed up to protect small businesses and more opportunities will be provided for Commonwealth procurements.
The threshold for agencies to directly engage with small businesses will be raised from $200,000 to $500,000 to ensure greater representation on government procurement panels.
Labor Leader Anthony Albanese and Prime Minister Scott Morrison will on Tuesday address National Farmers Federation conference.
Farmers have called for more than $4 billion into 20 regional development precincts across Australia and $5 billion for a rural telecommunications fund to improve connectivity in remote areas.
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/aap/article-10685937/Labor-standardise-business-support.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | Labor to standardise business support
A standard business support package for times of crisis will be developed under a Labor government, deputy leader Richard Marles has pledged.
Mr Marles says Labor will provide certainty around the timeliness for disaster payments as well as cut red tape and transaction fees, which could save businesses more than $800 million a year in merchant fees.
"A lack of federal leadership has compounded the anxiety felt by small-business owners, eroding confidence and certainty about the future," he said.
"These measures are targeted at making it easier for small business to bounce back from the ongoing pandemic and recovering from the bushfires and floods which have ravaged parts of Australia."
Labor will direct the tax office to review ways of reducing the administrative burden on small businesses.
The consumer watchdog's anti-scamming unit will also be beefed up to protect small businesses and more opportunities will be provided for Commonwealth procurements.
The threshold for agencies to directly engage with small businesses will be raised from $200,000 to $500,000 to ensure greater representation on government procurement panels.
Labor Leader Anthony Albanese and Prime Minister Scott Morrison will on Tuesday address National Farmers Federation conference.
Farmers have called for more than $4 billion into 20 regional development precincts across Australia and $5 billion for a rural telecommunications fund to improve connectivity in remote areas. | 1 | 7,785 | 0.200751 | https://www.perthnow.com.au/politics/labor-to-standardise-business-support-c-6336105 | 2022-04-04 22:48:16+00:00 | A standard business support package for times of crisis will be developed under a Labor government, deputy leader Richard Marles has pledged.
Mr Marles says Labor will provide certainty around the timeliness for disaster payments as well as cut red tape and transaction fees, which could save businesses more than $800 million a year in merchant fees.
"A lack of federal leadership has compounded the anxiety felt by small-business owners, eroding confidence and certainty about the future," he said.
"These measures are targeted at making it easier for small business to bounce back from the ongoing pandemic and recovering from the bushfires and floods which have ravaged parts of Australia."
Labor will direct the tax office to review ways of reducing the administrative burden on small businesses.
The consumer watchdog's anti-scamming unit will also be beefed up to protect small businesses and more opportunities will be provided for Commonwealth procurements.
The threshold for agencies to directly engage with small businesses will be raised from $200,000 to $500,000 to ensure greater representation on government procurement panels.
Labor Leader Anthony Albanese and Prime Minister Scott Morrison will on Tuesday address National Farmers Federation conference.
Farmers have called for more than $4 billion into 20 regional development precincts across Australia and $5 billion for a rural telecommunications fund to improve connectivity in remote areas. |
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/aap/article-10685937/Labor-standardise-business-support.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | Labor to standardise business support
A standard business support package for times of crisis will be developed under a Labor government, deputy leader Richard Marles has pledged.
Mr Marles says Labor will provide certainty around the timeliness for disaster payments as well as cut red tape and transaction fees, which could save businesses more than $800 million a year in merchant fees.
"A lack of federal leadership has compounded the anxiety felt by small-business owners, eroding confidence and certainty about the future," he said.
"These measures are targeted at making it easier for small business to bounce back from the ongoing pandemic and recovering from the bushfires and floods which have ravaged parts of Australia."
Labor will direct the tax office to review ways of reducing the administrative burden on small businesses.
The consumer watchdog's anti-scamming unit will also be beefed up to protect small businesses and more opportunities will be provided for Commonwealth procurements.
The threshold for agencies to directly engage with small businesses will be raised from $200,000 to $500,000 to ensure greater representation on government procurement panels.
Labor Leader Anthony Albanese and Prime Minister Scott Morrison will on Tuesday address National Farmers Federation conference.
Farmers have called for more than $4 billion into 20 regional development precincts across Australia and $5 billion for a rural telecommunications fund to improve connectivity in remote areas. | 2 | 97,289 | 0.718136 | https://www.bluemountainsgazette.com.au/story/7689074/federal-labor-pushes-support-for-small-business-in-campaign-visit-to-blue-mountains/ | 2022-04-08 17:46:40+00:00 | Federal Labor pushes support for small business in campaign visit to Blue Mountains
Plans to attract more skilled workers and reduce EFTPOS costs on small businesses were two of the issues raised when federal Labor deputy leader Richard Marles campaigned in the Blue Mountains on Tuesday, April 5.
Mr Marles visited small business owners in Glenbrook and Springwood during the campaign stop with Federal Member for Macquarie Susan Templeman.
"We know this region has been severely impacted by bushfires, and more recently floods and small businesses deserve to know that a federal government will be there to support them," said Mr Marles.
"Under federal Labor's better deal for small businesses, the more than 12,000 small businesses across the Macquarie electorate can know that we will have their back, unlike what we have seen from Scott Morrison and the Liberals in the last three years."
Ms Templeman said local businesses have been "doing it tough since the bushfires and every bit of bushfire support has been hard fought-for by the community".
"It's very disappointing that the $10,000 grants for businesses affected indirectly by floods and storms are not being made available by Scott Morrison to this region," she said.
"Labor's better deal for small business will make sure that no small business across Macquarie is left behind. We are going to cut unnecessary red tape and reduce transactions costs with the banks."
But the Liberal candidate for Macquarie, Sarah Richards, said "backing small business is part of the DNA of the Morrison Government".
"The tax rate for small businesses is now 25 per cent. When Labor was last in office, the tax rate was a whopping 30 per cent," she said.
"We're backing local businesses to grow and invest by extending the popular instant asset write-off.
"The Blue Mountains community know that Labor can't be trusted to deliver for small businesses."
Following the campaign visit by Mr Marles, Susan Templeman said that hearing from small businesses firsthand showed how hard the last three months have been for them.
"Small business owners say they need skilled workers, would love a reduction in ongoing EFTPOS costs and would appreciate certainty about government support in times of crisis, which Labor's plan will deliver," she said.
Among Labor's plans for small business is a commitment to reduce small business transaction costs at the point of payment with a clear timeline for implementing least cost routing. This could save businesses up to $804 million a year in merchant fees, Labor said. |
https://wcfcourier.com/news/national/ever-forward-to-be-unloaded-before-next-refloat-try/article_82e2bac8-e835-514e-b6e8-33a9e97d5e0c.html | BALTIMORE (AP) — After two unsuccessful attempts to free the grounded Ever Forward in the Chesapeake Bay, the U.S. Coast Guard announced Monday that containers will be removed to lighten the load before another try.
Salvage experts determined they wouldn’t be able to overcome the ground force of the more than 1,000-foot (305-meter) Ever Forward, loaded with nearly 5,000 containers, the U.S. Coast Guard, Maryland Department of the Environment and Taiwan-based Evergreen Marine Corp., the ship's operator, said in a news release. Unloading the ship offers the best chance to refloat it, officials said.
Dredging will continue to a depth of 43 feet (13 meters), but as soon as two crane barges are installed, containers will be removed and taken back to Baltimore's Seagirt Marine Terminal, officials said. Then, tugs and pull barges will try again to refloat the ship. The shipping channel will remain open to one-way traffic during the operation, which is expected to take about two weeks.
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The ship was headed from the Port of Baltimore to Norfolk, Virginia, on March 13 when it ran aground just north of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge. Officials have said there were no reports of injuries, damage or pollution.
The Coast Guard has said it hasn't determined what caused the Ever Forward to run aground. The ship is outside the shipping channel and has not been blocking navigation, unlike last year’s high-profile grounding in the Suez Canal of its sister vessel, the Ever Given, which disrupted the global supply chain for days.
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Salvage experts determined they wouldn’t be able to overcome the ground force of the more than 1,000-foot (305-meter) Ever Forward, loaded with nearly 5,000 containers, the U.S. Coast Guard, Maryland Department of the Environment and Taiwan-based Evergreen Marine Corp., the ship's operator, said in a news release. Unloading the ship offers the best chance to refloat it, officials said.
Dredging will continue to a depth of 43 feet (13 meters), but as soon as two crane barges are installed, containers will be removed and taken back to Baltimore's Seagirt Marine Terminal, officials said. Then, tugs and pull barges will try again to refloat the ship. The shipping channel will remain open to one-way traffic during the operation, which is expected to take about two weeks.
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The ship was headed from the Port of Baltimore to Norfolk, Virginia, on March 13 when it ran aground just north of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge. Officials have said there were no reports of injuries, damage or pollution.
The Coast Guard has said it hasn't determined what caused the Ever Forward to run aground. The ship is outside the shipping channel and has not been blocking navigation, unlike last year’s high-profile grounding in the Suez Canal of its sister vessel, the Ever Given, which disrupted the global supply chain for days.
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https://wcfcourier.com/news/national/ever-forward-to-be-unloaded-before-next-refloat-try/article_82e2bac8-e835-514e-b6e8-33a9e97d5e0c.html | BALTIMORE (AP) — After two unsuccessful attempts to free the grounded Ever Forward in the Chesapeake Bay, the U.S. Coast Guard announced Monday that containers will be removed to lighten the load before another try.
Salvage experts determined they wouldn’t be able to overcome the ground force of the more than 1,000-foot (305-meter) Ever Forward, loaded with nearly 5,000 containers, the U.S. Coast Guard, Maryland Department of the Environment and Taiwan-based Evergreen Marine Corp., the ship's operator, said in a news release. Unloading the ship offers the best chance to refloat it, officials said.
Dredging will continue to a depth of 43 feet (13 meters), but as soon as two crane barges are installed, containers will be removed and taken back to Baltimore's Seagirt Marine Terminal, officials said. Then, tugs and pull barges will try again to refloat the ship. The shipping channel will remain open to one-way traffic during the operation, which is expected to take about two weeks.
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The ship was headed from the Port of Baltimore to Norfolk, Virginia, on March 13 when it ran aground just north of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge. Officials have said there were no reports of injuries, damage or pollution.
The Coast Guard has said it hasn't determined what caused the Ever Forward to run aground. The ship is outside the shipping channel and has not been blocking navigation, unlike last year’s high-profile grounding in the Suez Canal of its sister vessel, the Ever Given, which disrupted the global supply chain for days.
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Salvage experts determined they wouldn’t be able to overcome the ground force of the more than 1,000-foot (305-meter) Ever Forward, loaded with nearly 5,000 containers, the U.S. Coast Guard, Maryland Department of the Environment and Taiwan-based Evergreen Marine Corp., the ship’s operator, said in a news release. Unloading the ship offers the best chance to refloat it, officials said.
Dredging will continue to a depth of 43 feet (13 meters), but as soon as two crane barges are installed, containers will be removed and taken back to Baltimore’s Seagirt Marine Terminal, officials said. Then, tugs and pull barges will try again to refloat the ship. The shipping channel will remain open to one-way traffic during the operation, which is expected to take about two weeks.
The ship was headed from the Port of Baltimore to Norfolk, Virginia, on March 13 when it ran aground just north of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge. Officials have said there were no reports of injuries, damage or pollution.
The Coast Guard has said it hasn’t determined what caused the Ever Forward to run aground. The ship is outside the shipping channel and has not been blocking navigation, unlike last year’s high-profile grounding in the Suez Canal of its sister vessel, the Ever Given, which disrupted the global supply chain for days.
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https://wcfcourier.com/news/national/ever-forward-to-be-unloaded-before-next-refloat-try/article_82e2bac8-e835-514e-b6e8-33a9e97d5e0c.html | BALTIMORE (AP) — After two unsuccessful attempts to free the grounded Ever Forward in the Chesapeake Bay, the U.S. Coast Guard announced Monday that containers will be removed to lighten the load before another try.
Salvage experts determined they wouldn’t be able to overcome the ground force of the more than 1,000-foot (305-meter) Ever Forward, loaded with nearly 5,000 containers, the U.S. Coast Guard, Maryland Department of the Environment and Taiwan-based Evergreen Marine Corp., the ship's operator, said in a news release. Unloading the ship offers the best chance to refloat it, officials said.
Dredging will continue to a depth of 43 feet (13 meters), but as soon as two crane barges are installed, containers will be removed and taken back to Baltimore's Seagirt Marine Terminal, officials said. Then, tugs and pull barges will try again to refloat the ship. The shipping channel will remain open to one-way traffic during the operation, which is expected to take about two weeks.
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The ship was headed from the Port of Baltimore to Norfolk, Virginia, on March 13 when it ran aground just north of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge. Officials have said there were no reports of injuries, damage or pollution.
The Coast Guard has said it hasn't determined what caused the Ever Forward to run aground. The ship is outside the shipping channel and has not been blocking navigation, unlike last year’s high-profile grounding in the Suez Canal of its sister vessel, the Ever Given, which disrupted the global supply chain for days.
Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission. | 2 | 129,354 | 0.05948 | https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/4496572 | 2022-04-05 20:56:50+00:00 | BALTIMORE (AP) — After two unsuccessful attempts to free the grounded Ever Forward in the Chesapeake Bay, the U.S. Coast Guard announced Monday that containers will be removed to lighten the load before another try.
Salvage experts determined they wouldn’t be able to overcome the ground force of the more than 1,000-foot (305-meter) Ever Forward, loaded with nearly 5,000 containers, the U.S. Coast Guard, Maryland Department of the Environment and Taiwan-based Evergreen Marine Corp., the ship's operator, said in a news release. Unloading the ship offers the best chance to refloat it, officials said.
Dredging will continue to a depth of 43 feet (13 meters), but as soon as two crane barges are installed, containers will be removed and taken back to Baltimore's Seagirt Marine Terminal, officials said. Then, tugs and pull barges will try again to refloat the ship. The shipping channel will remain open to one-way traffic during the operation, which is expected to take about two weeks.
The ship was headed from the Port of Baltimore to Norfolk, Virginia, on March 13 when it ran aground just north of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge. Officials have said there were no reports of injuries, damage or pollution.
The Coast Guard has said it hasn't determined what caused the Ever Forward to run aground. The ship is outside the shipping channel and has not been blocking navigation, unlike last year’s high-profile grounding in the Suez Canal of its sister vessel, the Ever Given, which disrupted the global supply chain for days. |
https://www.fox16.com/news/national-news/new-york-mobster-recaptured-after-escaping-custody-in-florida/ | ORLANDO, F.L. (WROC) — A Rochester mobster who escaped custody by walking away from a halfway house on March 28 was recaptured in Florida Monday.
According to the U.S. Marshals Service, Dominic Taddeo was caught “without incident” around 11:00 a.m. in Hialeah, roughly 200 miles from Orlando, where he’d been staying at a halfway house.
“The tenacious work of the involved deputy marshals and the cooperation between our offices resulted in the quick capture of Mr. Taddeo,“ said U.S. Marshal Bill Berger of the Middle District of Florida.
Taddeo, 64, was a hitman for a Rochester-area crime family. He pleaded guilty in 1992 to federal racketeering charges that included the killings of three men during mob wars in the 1980s, along with weapons offenses, drugs, and enterprise corruption.
Taddeo was imprisoned at a medium-security lockup in Florida before being sent to the halfway house. He was placed on escape status by the Bureau of Prisons after failing to return from an authorized medical appointment March 28. | 0 | 16,962 | 0 | https://www.kark.com/news/national-news/new-york-mobster-recaptured-after-escaping-custody-in-florida/ | 2022-04-04 23:37:42+00:00 | ORLANDO, F.L. (WROC) — A Rochester mobster who escaped custody by walking away from a halfway house on March 28 was recaptured in Florida Monday.
According to the U.S. Marshals Service, Dominic Taddeo was caught “without incident” around 11:00 a.m. in Hialeah, roughly 200 miles from Orlando, where he’d been staying at a halfway house.
“The tenacious work of the involved deputy marshals and the cooperation between our offices resulted in the quick capture of Mr. Taddeo,“ said U.S. Marshal Bill Berger of the Middle District of Florida.
Taddeo, 64, was a hitman for a Rochester-area crime family. He pleaded guilty in 1992 to federal racketeering charges that included the killings of three men during mob wars in the 1980s, along with weapons offenses, drugs, and enterprise corruption.
Taddeo was imprisoned at a medium-security lockup in Florida before being sent to the halfway house. He was placed on escape status by the Bureau of Prisons after failing to return from an authorized medical appointment March 28. |
https://www.fox16.com/news/national-news/new-york-mobster-recaptured-after-escaping-custody-in-florida/ | ORLANDO, F.L. (WROC) — A Rochester mobster who escaped custody by walking away from a halfway house on March 28 was recaptured in Florida Monday.
According to the U.S. Marshals Service, Dominic Taddeo was caught “without incident” around 11:00 a.m. in Hialeah, roughly 200 miles from Orlando, where he’d been staying at a halfway house.
“The tenacious work of the involved deputy marshals and the cooperation between our offices resulted in the quick capture of Mr. Taddeo,“ said U.S. Marshal Bill Berger of the Middle District of Florida.
Taddeo, 64, was a hitman for a Rochester-area crime family. He pleaded guilty in 1992 to federal racketeering charges that included the killings of three men during mob wars in the 1980s, along with weapons offenses, drugs, and enterprise corruption.
Taddeo was imprisoned at a medium-security lockup in Florida before being sent to the halfway house. He was placed on escape status by the Bureau of Prisons after failing to return from an authorized medical appointment March 28. | 1 | 3,087 | 0.004538 | https://www.wkbn.com/news/national-world/rochester-mobster-recaptured-after-escaping-custody-in-florida/ | 2022-04-04 22:28:56+00:00 | ORLANDO, F.L. (WROC) — A Rochester mobster who escaped custody by walking away from a halfway house on March 28 was recaptured in Florida Monday.
According to the U.S. Marshals Service, Dominic Taddeo was caught “without incident” around 11:00 a.m. in Hialeah, roughly 200 miles from Orlando, where he’d been staying at a halfway house.
“The tenacious work of the involved deputy marshals and the cooperation between our offices resulted in the quick capture of Mr. Taddeo,“ said U.S. Marshal Bill Berger of the Middle District of Florida.
Taddeo, 64, was a hitman for a Rochester-area crime family. He pleaded guilty in 1992 to federal racketeering charges that included the killings of three men during mob wars in the 1980s, along with weapons offenses, drugs, and enterprise corruption.
Taddeo was imprisoned at a medium-security lockup in Florida before being sent to the halfway house. He was placed on escape status by the Bureau of Prisons after failing to return from an authorized medical appointment on March 28. |
https://www.fox16.com/news/national-news/new-york-mobster-recaptured-after-escaping-custody-in-florida/ | ORLANDO, F.L. (WROC) — A Rochester mobster who escaped custody by walking away from a halfway house on March 28 was recaptured in Florida Monday.
According to the U.S. Marshals Service, Dominic Taddeo was caught “without incident” around 11:00 a.m. in Hialeah, roughly 200 miles from Orlando, where he’d been staying at a halfway house.
“The tenacious work of the involved deputy marshals and the cooperation between our offices resulted in the quick capture of Mr. Taddeo,“ said U.S. Marshal Bill Berger of the Middle District of Florida.
Taddeo, 64, was a hitman for a Rochester-area crime family. He pleaded guilty in 1992 to federal racketeering charges that included the killings of three men during mob wars in the 1980s, along with weapons offenses, drugs, and enterprise corruption.
Taddeo was imprisoned at a medium-security lockup in Florida before being sent to the halfway house. He was placed on escape status by the Bureau of Prisons after failing to return from an authorized medical appointment March 28. | 2 | 31,414 | 0.025981 | https://www.tristatehomepage.com/news/national-world/rochester-mobster-recaptured-after-escaping-custody-in-florida/ | 2022-04-05 13:58:00+00:00 | ORLANDO, F.L. (WROC) — A Rochester mobster who escaped custody by walking away from a halfway house on March 28 was recaptured in Florida Monday.
According to the U.S. Marshals Service, Dominic Taddeo was caught “without incident” around 11:00 a.m. in Hialeah, roughly 200 miles from Orlando, where he’d been staying at a halfway house.
“The tenacious work of the involved deputy marshals and the cooperation between our offices resulted in the quick capture of Mr. Taddeo,“ said U.S. Marshal Bill Berger of the Middle District of Florida.
Taddeo, 64, was a hit man for a Rochester-area crime family. He pleaded guilty in 1992 to federal racketeering charges that included the killings of three men during mob wars in the 1980s, along with weapons offenses, drugs, and enterprise corruption.
Taddeo was imprisoned at a medium-security lockup in Florida before being sent to the halfway house. He was placed on escape status by the Bureau of Prisons after failing to return from an authorized medical appointment March 28. |
https://www.12newsnow.com/article/news/health/coronavirus/medicare-free-at-home-covid-test/507-c48fbd95-298c-450c-bd0c-aa27bb9be1e0 | WASHINGTON — Amid worries that the latest coronavirus variant could spark another rise in cases, Medicare announced Monday that millions of enrollees will finally have access to free over-the-counter COVID-19 tests at drug stores.
More than 59 million people with Medicare's “Part B” outpatient coverage will be able to get up to eight free at-home tests per month, or enough for an individual to test twice a week, as some doctors have recommended.
Medicare has lagged private insurance in following the Biden administration's directive to cover at-home tests because rules and regulations stood in the way, and officials had to find a work-around. This is the first time the health insurance program for older people and those with disabilities has covered an over-the-counter test at no cost to recipients.
Where can Medicare enrollees get a COVID test?
National pharmacy chains participating in Medicare's give-away include: Albertsons Companies, Inc., Costco Pharmacy, CVS, Food Lion, Giant Food, The Giant Company, Hannaford Pharmacies, H-E-B Pharmacy, Hy-Vee Pharmacy, Kroger Family of Pharmacies, Rite Aid Corp., Shop & Stop, Walgreens and Walmart.
If your pharmacy isn't on that list, Medicare's website recommends calling your pharmacy or provider to check if they're participating.
Looking for other ways to get tested? Americans can order at-home COVID tests at no cost through the federal government at COVIDtests.gov. Each household can currently order four tests. Since those tests may take a few weeks to arrive, they aren't a good option if you're currently sick or recently exposed. Instead, they should be ordered in advance and kept for when you might need them.
You can also get tested for COVID for free at more than 20,000 community-based testing sites nationwide.
Timely move?
COVID restrictions have been largely lifted, but some areas are seeing increasing cases tied to the BA.2 omicron variant.
The BA.2 omicron variant now accounts for more than half of U.S. cases, having rapidly overtaken the original strain. That initial omicron wave this winter caused the biggest spike yet in virus cases, straining many hospitals to the limit. Since then, cases nationally have rapidly dropped to the lowest level since before last summer's delta surge. Coronavirus restrictions have been largely lifted. But some areas where BA.2 took hold early are seeing increasing cases.
Monday's announcement followed another precautionary move last week, when government health officials authorized a second round of booster shots for people 50 and older as well as those with weakened immune systems. | 0 | 5,598 | 0 | https://www.wbir.com/article/news/health/coronavirus/medicare-free-at-home-covid-test/507-c48fbd95-298c-450c-bd0c-aa27bb9be1e0 | 2022-04-04 22:39:15+00:00 | WASHINGTON — Amid worries that the latest coronavirus variant could spark another rise in cases, Medicare announced Monday that millions of enrollees will finally have access to free over-the-counter COVID-19 tests at drug stores.
More than 59 million people with Medicare's “Part B” outpatient coverage will be able to get up to eight free at-home tests per month, or enough for an individual to test twice a week, as some doctors have recommended.
Medicare has lagged private insurance in following the Biden administration's directive to cover at-home tests because rules and regulations stood in the way, and officials had to find a work-around. This is the first time the health insurance program for older people and those with disabilities has covered an over-the-counter test at no cost to recipients.
Where can Medicare enrollees get a COVID test?
National pharmacy chains participating in Medicare's give-away include: Albertsons Companies, Inc., Costco Pharmacy, CVS, Food Lion, Giant Food, The Giant Company, Hannaford Pharmacies, H-E-B Pharmacy, Hy-Vee Pharmacy, Kroger Family of Pharmacies, Rite Aid Corp., Shop & Stop, Walgreens and Walmart.
If your pharmacy isn't on that list, Medicare's website recommends calling your pharmacy or provider to check if they're participating.
Looking for other ways to get tested? Americans can order at-home COVID tests at no cost through the federal government at COVIDtests.gov. Each household can currently order four tests. Since those tests may take a few weeks to arrive, they aren't a good option if you're currently sick or recently exposed. Instead, they should be ordered in advance and kept for when you might need them.
You can also get tested for COVID for free at more than 20,000 community-based testing sites nationwide.
Timely move?
COVID restrictions have been largely lifted, but some areas are seeing increasing cases tied to the BA.2 omicron variant.
The BA.2 omicron variant now accounts for more than half of U.S. cases, having rapidly overtaken the original strain. That initial omicron wave this winter caused the biggest spike yet in virus cases, straining many hospitals to the limit. Since then, cases nationally have rapidly dropped to the lowest level since before last summer's delta surge. Coronavirus restrictions have been largely lifted. But some areas where BA.2 took hold early are seeing increasing cases.
Monday's announcement followed another precautionary move last week, when government health officials authorized a second round of booster shots for people 50 and older as well as those with weakened immune systems. |
https://www.12newsnow.com/article/news/health/coronavirus/medicare-free-at-home-covid-test/507-c48fbd95-298c-450c-bd0c-aa27bb9be1e0 | WASHINGTON — Amid worries that the latest coronavirus variant could spark another rise in cases, Medicare announced Monday that millions of enrollees will finally have access to free over-the-counter COVID-19 tests at drug stores.
More than 59 million people with Medicare's “Part B” outpatient coverage will be able to get up to eight free at-home tests per month, or enough for an individual to test twice a week, as some doctors have recommended.
Medicare has lagged private insurance in following the Biden administration's directive to cover at-home tests because rules and regulations stood in the way, and officials had to find a work-around. This is the first time the health insurance program for older people and those with disabilities has covered an over-the-counter test at no cost to recipients.
Where can Medicare enrollees get a COVID test?
National pharmacy chains participating in Medicare's give-away include: Albertsons Companies, Inc., Costco Pharmacy, CVS, Food Lion, Giant Food, The Giant Company, Hannaford Pharmacies, H-E-B Pharmacy, Hy-Vee Pharmacy, Kroger Family of Pharmacies, Rite Aid Corp., Shop & Stop, Walgreens and Walmart.
If your pharmacy isn't on that list, Medicare's website recommends calling your pharmacy or provider to check if they're participating.
Looking for other ways to get tested? Americans can order at-home COVID tests at no cost through the federal government at COVIDtests.gov. Each household can currently order four tests. Since those tests may take a few weeks to arrive, they aren't a good option if you're currently sick or recently exposed. Instead, they should be ordered in advance and kept for when you might need them.
You can also get tested for COVID for free at more than 20,000 community-based testing sites nationwide.
Timely move?
COVID restrictions have been largely lifted, but some areas are seeing increasing cases tied to the BA.2 omicron variant.
The BA.2 omicron variant now accounts for more than half of U.S. cases, having rapidly overtaken the original strain. That initial omicron wave this winter caused the biggest spike yet in virus cases, straining many hospitals to the limit. Since then, cases nationally have rapidly dropped to the lowest level since before last summer's delta surge. Coronavirus restrictions have been largely lifted. But some areas where BA.2 took hold early are seeing increasing cases.
Monday's announcement followed another precautionary move last week, when government health officials authorized a second round of booster shots for people 50 and older as well as those with weakened immune systems. | 1 | 6,428 | 0 | https://www.wltx.com/article/news/health/coronavirus/medicare-free-at-home-covid-test/507-c48fbd95-298c-450c-bd0c-aa27bb9be1e0 | 2022-04-04 22:42:48+00:00 | WASHINGTON — Amid worries that the latest coronavirus variant could spark another rise in cases, Medicare announced Monday that millions of enrollees will finally have access to free over-the-counter COVID-19 tests at drug stores.
More than 59 million people with Medicare's “Part B” outpatient coverage will be able to get up to eight free at-home tests per month, or enough for an individual to test twice a week, as some doctors have recommended.
Medicare has lagged private insurance in following the Biden administration's directive to cover at-home tests because rules and regulations stood in the way, and officials had to find a work-around. This is the first time the health insurance program for older people and those with disabilities has covered an over-the-counter test at no cost to recipients.
Where can Medicare enrollees get a COVID test?
National pharmacy chains participating in Medicare's give-away include: Albertsons Companies, Inc., Costco Pharmacy, CVS, Food Lion, Giant Food, The Giant Company, Hannaford Pharmacies, H-E-B Pharmacy, Hy-Vee Pharmacy, Kroger Family of Pharmacies, Rite Aid Corp., Shop & Stop, Walgreens and Walmart.
If your pharmacy isn't on that list, Medicare's website recommends calling your pharmacy or provider to check if they're participating.
Looking for other ways to get tested? Americans can order at-home COVID tests at no cost through the federal government at COVIDtests.gov. Each household can currently order four tests. Since those tests may take a few weeks to arrive, they aren't a good option if you're currently sick or recently exposed. Instead, they should be ordered in advance and kept for when you might need them.
You can also get tested for COVID for free at more than 20,000 community-based testing sites nationwide.
Timely move?
COVID restrictions have been largely lifted, but some areas are seeing increasing cases tied to the BA.2 omicron variant.
The BA.2 omicron variant now accounts for more than half of U.S. cases, having rapidly overtaken the original strain. That initial omicron wave this winter caused the biggest spike yet in virus cases, straining many hospitals to the limit. Since then, cases nationally have rapidly dropped to the lowest level since before last summer's delta surge. Coronavirus restrictions have been largely lifted. But some areas where BA.2 took hold early are seeing increasing cases.
Monday's announcement followed another precautionary move last week, when government health officials authorized a second round of booster shots for people 50 and older as well as those with weakened immune systems. |
https://www.12newsnow.com/article/news/health/coronavirus/medicare-free-at-home-covid-test/507-c48fbd95-298c-450c-bd0c-aa27bb9be1e0 | WASHINGTON — Amid worries that the latest coronavirus variant could spark another rise in cases, Medicare announced Monday that millions of enrollees will finally have access to free over-the-counter COVID-19 tests at drug stores.
More than 59 million people with Medicare's “Part B” outpatient coverage will be able to get up to eight free at-home tests per month, or enough for an individual to test twice a week, as some doctors have recommended.
Medicare has lagged private insurance in following the Biden administration's directive to cover at-home tests because rules and regulations stood in the way, and officials had to find a work-around. This is the first time the health insurance program for older people and those with disabilities has covered an over-the-counter test at no cost to recipients.
Where can Medicare enrollees get a COVID test?
National pharmacy chains participating in Medicare's give-away include: Albertsons Companies, Inc., Costco Pharmacy, CVS, Food Lion, Giant Food, The Giant Company, Hannaford Pharmacies, H-E-B Pharmacy, Hy-Vee Pharmacy, Kroger Family of Pharmacies, Rite Aid Corp., Shop & Stop, Walgreens and Walmart.
If your pharmacy isn't on that list, Medicare's website recommends calling your pharmacy or provider to check if they're participating.
Looking for other ways to get tested? Americans can order at-home COVID tests at no cost through the federal government at COVIDtests.gov. Each household can currently order four tests. Since those tests may take a few weeks to arrive, they aren't a good option if you're currently sick or recently exposed. Instead, they should be ordered in advance and kept for when you might need them.
You can also get tested for COVID for free at more than 20,000 community-based testing sites nationwide.
Timely move?
COVID restrictions have been largely lifted, but some areas are seeing increasing cases tied to the BA.2 omicron variant.
The BA.2 omicron variant now accounts for more than half of U.S. cases, having rapidly overtaken the original strain. That initial omicron wave this winter caused the biggest spike yet in virus cases, straining many hospitals to the limit. Since then, cases nationally have rapidly dropped to the lowest level since before last summer's delta surge. Coronavirus restrictions have been largely lifted. But some areas where BA.2 took hold early are seeing increasing cases.
Monday's announcement followed another precautionary move last week, when government health officials authorized a second round of booster shots for people 50 and older as well as those with weakened immune systems. | 2 | 11,674 | 0 | https://www.newscentermaine.com/article/news/health/coronavirus/medicare-free-at-home-covid-test/507-c48fbd95-298c-450c-bd0c-aa27bb9be1e0 | 2022-04-04 23:10:02+00:00 | WASHINGTON — Amid worries that the latest coronavirus variant could spark another rise in cases, Medicare announced Monday that millions of enrollees will finally have access to free over-the-counter COVID-19 tests at drug stores.
More than 59 million people with Medicare's “Part B” outpatient coverage will be able to get up to eight free at-home tests per month, or enough for an individual to test twice a week, as some doctors have recommended.
Medicare has lagged private insurance in following the Biden administration's directive to cover at-home tests because rules and regulations stood in the way, and officials had to find a work-around. This is the first time the health insurance program for older people and those with disabilities has covered an over-the-counter test at no cost to recipients.
Where can Medicare enrollees get a COVID test?
National pharmacy chains participating in Medicare's give-away include: Albertsons Companies, Inc., Costco Pharmacy, CVS, Food Lion, Giant Food, The Giant Company, Hannaford Pharmacies, H-E-B Pharmacy, Hy-Vee Pharmacy, Kroger Family of Pharmacies, Rite Aid Corp., Shop & Stop, Walgreens and Walmart.
If your pharmacy isn't on that list, Medicare's website recommends calling your pharmacy or provider to check if they're participating.
Looking for other ways to get tested? Americans can order at-home COVID tests at no cost through the federal government at COVIDtests.gov. Each household can currently order four tests. Since those tests may take a few weeks to arrive, they aren't a good option if you're currently sick or recently exposed. Instead, they should be ordered in advance and kept for when you might need them.
You can also get tested for COVID for free at more than 20,000 community-based testing sites nationwide.
Timely move?
COVID restrictions have been largely lifted, but some areas are seeing increasing cases tied to the BA.2 omicron variant.
The BA.2 omicron variant now accounts for more than half of U.S. cases, having rapidly overtaken the original strain. That initial omicron wave this winter caused the biggest spike yet in virus cases, straining many hospitals to the limit. Since then, cases nationally have rapidly dropped to the lowest level since before last summer's delta surge. Coronavirus restrictions have been largely lifted. But some areas where BA.2 took hold early are seeing increasing cases.
Monday's announcement followed another precautionary move last week, when government health officials authorized a second round of booster shots for people 50 and older as well as those with weakened immune systems. |
https://tucson.com/news/local/subscriber/heres-your-guide-to-the-2022-country-thunder-arizona-music-fest/article_d67d2af0-a6d8-11ec-90a7-bf4ba1699d71.html | Six months after its historic 2021 festival in October, Country Thunder is back this weekend to pick up where it left off.
The four-day festival featuring one of country music’s most popular and controversial artists and two fan-favorite headlining acts returns to its April run, which was interrupted in 2020 and 2021 courtesy of the COVID-19 pandemic. The festival runs Thursday, April 7, through Sunday, April 10, at the festival grounds in Florence.
Riley Green (“If It Wasn’t for Trucks,” “I Wish Grandpas Never Died”) headlines the opening night Thursday — entertainment begins at 2:30 p.m. Thursday, and at noon Friday through Sunday — with a supporting cast that includes newcomer Nolan Sotillo, Canadian singer-songwriter Lindsay Ell and veteran country singer Randy Houser.
This is Country Thunder’s 29th Arizona festival, and it includes the return of popular headliners Blake Shelton on Friday and Florida Georgia Line on Sunday.
But Saturday might turn out to be the biggest night in the festival’s Arizona history when Morgan Wallen headlines.
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Wallen was supposed to headline the canceled 2020 event, and organizers expected he would be on the lineup for the rescheduled 2021 festival. But he ended up canceling almost all of his touring after he was caught on video using the “N” word in February 2021.
The fallout was swift: Wallen’s record label suspended him, and radio and streaming services dropped his music. He apologized a couple of times and announced that he was canceling all of his 2021 shows, with the exception of a few events.
But country music and his fans weren’t ready to “cancel” the young country artist.
Last March, Big Machine Records released Wallen’s sophomore album “Dangerous: The Double Album.” The album debuted at No. 1 on Billboard, where it remained for 10 weeks.
To date, album sales have topped 3 million (triple platinum), and the album has been streamed more than 3 billion times, according to Rolling Stone magazine. In March, “Dangerous” earned the 28-year-old Wallen the Academy of Country Music’s coveted Album of the Year award.
Wallen resumed touring this February, and the fan reaction has been nothing shy of remarkable. Every show he has played from Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena to New York’s Madison Square Garden has sold out.
The same is true for his show in Florence on Saturday.
Last October’s festival set ticket sales records for the Arizona event, one of seven Country Thunder festivals held annually throughout North America. Attendance topped 30,000 each night to see headliners Dustin Lynch, Luke Combs, Eric Church and Old Dominion.
In addition to Thursday’s lineup, the 2022 festival includes:
Friday — Jackson Dean, James Barker Band, Phil Vassar, Michael Ray, Gabby Barrett and Blake Shelton
Saturday — Tyler Braden, MacKenzie Porter, Blanco Brown, Tracy Lawrence, Hardy and Morgan Wallen
Sunday — Maggie Rose, Sawyer Brown, Jameson Rodgers, Chase Rice and Florida Georgia Line.
4 fun facts about Country Thunder
1. Tucson country singer Drew Cooper is among at least 16 independent regional and national acts performing on side stages throughout the festival.
2. In addition to the Jumbotrons, the main stage will have video walls that will make it easier for folks in the festival grounds to see the artists.
3. New to this year’s festival: an adult jumping castle. We can only imagine.
4. File this under you may not know him, but: Blanco Brown might not have the immediate name recognition as others on the Country Thunder lineup, but you surely know his music. The singer-songwriter-rapper who has produced for such superstars as Chris Brown and Pitbull, had a viral hit in 2019 with “The Git Up” dance song, which had more than 143 million YouTube views and had people of all shades of country music doing his dance.
Contact reporter Cathalena E. Burch at cburch@tucson.com. On Twitter @Starburch | 0 | 75,258 | 0.605735 | https://www.12news.com/article/news/local/valley/4-things-to-know-about-country-thunder-this-weekend-in-arizona/75-ce4b1b79-af23-4b53-97e3-901fa65af7a5 | 2022-04-06 16:12:30+00:00 | FLORENCE, Ariz. — Country thunder is back this Thursday and country lovers are ready to put on their cowboy boots and move to the music.
“It's the people, especially of this community in this area that really make this festival special,” said Country Thunder General Manager Kim Blevins.
Here are four things you need to know:
There is a star-studded lineup.
This year’s headliners are Blake Shelton, Florida Georgia Line, Riley Green, and Morgan Wallen.
Wallen was supposed to headline last year, but dropped out after video showed him saying the “n word” and other profanities. He apologized in a video on his YouTube channel afterwards.
Blevins said Country Thunder is excited to have him.
“This kid is on fire. He's selling out all over America,” said Blevins.
Be sure to arrive early.
Even if your goal is to just see the headliners. 30,000 people are expected to go to the festival, which means there will be a lot of traffic.
“Don't try and come out for the headliner and expect not to be in traffic,” said Blevins.
Friday and Saturday are expected to be the busiest days.
Buy your parking passes in advance online.
It will save you a lot of time. You can purchase them online here.
Download or print your tickets before you enter the festival grounds.
Service tends to be spotty out there, so make sure you download or print your tickets just in case you are unable to get a signal at the event.
It's expected to be a warm weekend, so make sure you take sunscreen and drink plenty of water while you're enjoying the festivities.
And if you are going out to the event, share your photos and videos with us on social media using the hashtag #BeOn12.
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https://tucson.com/news/local/subscriber/heres-your-guide-to-the-2022-country-thunder-arizona-music-fest/article_d67d2af0-a6d8-11ec-90a7-bf4ba1699d71.html | Six months after its historic 2021 festival in October, Country Thunder is back this weekend to pick up where it left off.
The four-day festival featuring one of country music’s most popular and controversial artists and two fan-favorite headlining acts returns to its April run, which was interrupted in 2020 and 2021 courtesy of the COVID-19 pandemic. The festival runs Thursday, April 7, through Sunday, April 10, at the festival grounds in Florence.
Riley Green (“If It Wasn’t for Trucks,” “I Wish Grandpas Never Died”) headlines the opening night Thursday — entertainment begins at 2:30 p.m. Thursday, and at noon Friday through Sunday — with a supporting cast that includes newcomer Nolan Sotillo, Canadian singer-songwriter Lindsay Ell and veteran country singer Randy Houser.
This is Country Thunder’s 29th Arizona festival, and it includes the return of popular headliners Blake Shelton on Friday and Florida Georgia Line on Sunday.
But Saturday might turn out to be the biggest night in the festival’s Arizona history when Morgan Wallen headlines.
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Wallen was supposed to headline the canceled 2020 event, and organizers expected he would be on the lineup for the rescheduled 2021 festival. But he ended up canceling almost all of his touring after he was caught on video using the “N” word in February 2021.
The fallout was swift: Wallen’s record label suspended him, and radio and streaming services dropped his music. He apologized a couple of times and announced that he was canceling all of his 2021 shows, with the exception of a few events.
But country music and his fans weren’t ready to “cancel” the young country artist.
Last March, Big Machine Records released Wallen’s sophomore album “Dangerous: The Double Album.” The album debuted at No. 1 on Billboard, where it remained for 10 weeks.
To date, album sales have topped 3 million (triple platinum), and the album has been streamed more than 3 billion times, according to Rolling Stone magazine. In March, “Dangerous” earned the 28-year-old Wallen the Academy of Country Music’s coveted Album of the Year award.
Wallen resumed touring this February, and the fan reaction has been nothing shy of remarkable. Every show he has played from Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena to New York’s Madison Square Garden has sold out.
The same is true for his show in Florence on Saturday.
Last October’s festival set ticket sales records for the Arizona event, one of seven Country Thunder festivals held annually throughout North America. Attendance topped 30,000 each night to see headliners Dustin Lynch, Luke Combs, Eric Church and Old Dominion.
In addition to Thursday’s lineup, the 2022 festival includes:
Friday — Jackson Dean, James Barker Band, Phil Vassar, Michael Ray, Gabby Barrett and Blake Shelton
Saturday — Tyler Braden, MacKenzie Porter, Blanco Brown, Tracy Lawrence, Hardy and Morgan Wallen
Sunday — Maggie Rose, Sawyer Brown, Jameson Rodgers, Chase Rice and Florida Georgia Line.
4 fun facts about Country Thunder
1. Tucson country singer Drew Cooper is among at least 16 independent regional and national acts performing on side stages throughout the festival.
2. In addition to the Jumbotrons, the main stage will have video walls that will make it easier for folks in the festival grounds to see the artists.
3. New to this year’s festival: an adult jumping castle. We can only imagine.
4. File this under you may not know him, but: Blanco Brown might not have the immediate name recognition as others on the Country Thunder lineup, but you surely know his music. The singer-songwriter-rapper who has produced for such superstars as Chris Brown and Pitbull, had a viral hit in 2019 with “The Git Up” dance song, which had more than 143 million YouTube views and had people of all shades of country music doing his dance.
Contact reporter Cathalena E. Burch at cburch@tucson.com. On Twitter @Starburch | 1 | 120,459 | 0.637371 | https://www.cantonrep.com/story/entertainment/2022/06/14/country-fest-ready-roll-stark-morgan-wallen-jason-aldean/7587215001/ | 2022-06-14 16:43:21+00:00 | Country Fest grows from humble beginnings to 25,000 fans and major headliner Morgan Wallen
LAWRENCE TWP. – Memories come quickly for Aaron J. Green and Joel Beichler when asked about the early days of Country Fest.
Walking the grounds last week at Clay's Resort Jellystone Park, Green stood less than a football field's length from a massive stage, recalling the meager start to ticket sales about 12 years ago.
"We sold five tickets some days," he said, sharing laughter with Beichler. The longtime pals co-founded the event as a pipe dream and way to secure steadier and more satisfying employment.
Green was still working at Smith Dairy in Orrville while trying to launch the inaugural festival in 2010.
Working the milk jug line, Green's cellphone rested atop a piece of equipment, dinging every time a ticket was sold. Dings didn't come often at first, he said, chuckling again.
But those days are a footnote in the rich history of a four-day music festival that attracts top-tier country music talent, including this year's hottest act Morgan Wallen, who will headline the final day of the extravaganza on Saturday.
Several thousand tickets were sold online the first day Country Fest went on sale this year. Traffic was so heavy it caused the ticket site to crash; sales were postponed until the next day, Green said.
And fans say this year's lineup is a stellar one. Wallen is the top touring act in all of music at the moment, Green said.
In 2021, he was set to perform at Country Fest, but after a video surfaced of him making a racial slur, Wallen faced backlash. Wallen's recording contract had been suspended and some radio stations stopped playing his music.
But after an apology, and meeting with minorities, Wallen, a country Billboard chart topping artist, is back.
"Everyone deserves a second chance," Green said. "And we honored our commitment to having Morgan at our festival."
Wallen has performed at Country Fest in the past. "He's the first sold-out show we ever had," Green added. "And we can't be more excited."
Granger Smith and Kameron Marlowe perform Wednesday night — what Green considers a bonus day. Thursday is the first full day of music, continuing through Saturday, with four artists each day.
Ticket sales are near capacity for Thursday and Friday. Saturday is a sellout. Around 25,000 fans — a possible record attendance — are expected, according to festival organizers.
Other notable performers are Jason Aldean and Brantley Gilbert. Artists also include include Gabby Barrett, Chase Rice, HARDY, LANCO, Elvie Shane and Lily Rose.
To purchase any remaining tickets and for a full lineup and schedule, go to www.thecountryfest.com/schedule. No tickets will be sold at the gate.
Annette Correll, 52, of Monroeville, Pennsylvania, confirmed that Wallen is a red hot ticket. Perusing the comments section of the Country Fest Facebook page is more proof — scores of fans are seeking Saturday tickets.
Correll has been a country music lover since the early '90s. She recently went to a George Strait concert in Las Vegas. A Kenny Chesney show was more recent. She's been to 13 Jason Aldean concerts.
"The lineup this year is amazing," she said. "It's pretty sure all of my favorites. I was scheduled to go two years ago, and that didn't work out, so this year I'm getting back to the concerts.
"I've been trying around here to get one Morgan Wallen ticket," Correll said. "And one Morgan Wallen ticket out here actually within four different venues in the tri-state area (costs) more than three days of camping at (Country Fest)."
Country Fest: Two dudes with a country music dream
Green and Beichler don't act like music festival executives who have hung out with superstars like Luke Combs and legends such as Dierks Bentley. And many others — Miranda Lambert, Luke Bryan, Lady Antebellum, Blake Shelton, Thomas Rhett, The Band Perry, Trace Adkins, Eric Paslay, Eric Church and Brantley Gilbert.
Whether it's preparing the Clay's Resort site or stopping into the Country Fest headquarters, the duo appears most comfortable wearing ball caps, T-shirts and jeans.
Country Fest offices are modern and spacious but not lavish.
An opened bag of Gold'n Krisp potato chips was on a conference table. Massillon-based Gold'n Krisp is among scores of festival sponsors.
Mostly, it was "organized chaos," Beichler said, which seemed just fine with both men.
A small group of employees were working feverishly in a large room. Autographed guitars hung on the wall. Walls were decorated with the original Country Fest Logo; at the other end was a sprawling photo of an early Country Fest show, fans swarming the stage.
During a conversation, Green and Beichler said they still have "pinch me" moments when they marvel at how the event has grown and maintained its popularity.
And they keep the show running amid a flurry of questions from ticketholders about camping rules, prices and fees, online ticket sales and many other issues.
Out of 24,000 people, there were 18 arrests at last summer's Country Fest
Lawrence Township Police Chief Dave Brown admits that it's a challenge to funnel thousands of vehicles and fans into Clay's Resort.
But all things considered, the event runs smoothly. And he commended Beichler and Green for meeting with law enforcement and first responders and taking suggestions for improvements.
"We've been doing it long enough, and every year, they do things to make improvements," Brown said. "It is a well-oiled machine. Everyone there ... kind of knows what their job is, and what their place is, and you have a good event."
The 11-officer township department will receive support from police in Canal Fulton, Brewster, Massillon, Navarre, Minerva and Uniontown, as well as the Stark County Sheriff's Department, Brown said.
More acreage has been purchased and leased for parking, Green said. A small bridge was added to improve pedestrian flow in and out of the concert grounds.
Country Fest joins thousands of people together for a giant party. With alcohol involved, there's bound to be a few problems, Brown admitted.
A total of 18 arrests were made at last summer's festival, including for theft of services (sneaking into the venue) and disorderly conduct by fighting. Nobody was seriously injured, the chief said.
"That many people in one event, 25,000 a night, you're going to have a small percentage that gets out of hand," Brown said.
Thomas Rhett tried out his new bow behind the Lawrence Township police department
Brown, meanwhile, said it's fun for the community to host some of country music's biggest names.
At one Country Fest, Thomas Rhett was eager to try out a new compound bow he had purchased. The chief invited him to a small field behind the police department, where Rhett, his security and some other officers gathered while the musician enjoyed target practice for about 30 minutes.
Country music artists also have been spotted in the Canal Fulton and Orrville areas.
"Most of these stars, they are normal people, and they act like normal people," Brown said. "Some stay in their trailers and have things to do. The ones that come out, they're more than happy to have a conversation with you.
"You think because of the aura of who they are, they would be different," he added. "But they are down-to-earth and easy to get along with."
'Those three or four days we all come together. There's no politics. Everybody is on the same page.'
Correll said Country Fest brings peace to the world.
"From a fan's aspect, I will tell you this," she said by phone a day before she was departing for Stark County. "When you are in a crowd thousands deep like we will be for Country Fest, that is how we live.
"Those songs, those artists, those lyrics. Those three or four days we all come together. There's no politics. Everybody is on the same page. We're doing the same thing. We're feeling the same things, and it's just like one big family, and that's why I do it."
Reach Ed at 330-580-8315 and ebalint@gannett.com
On Twitter @ebalintREP |
https://tucson.com/news/local/subscriber/heres-your-guide-to-the-2022-country-thunder-arizona-music-fest/article_d67d2af0-a6d8-11ec-90a7-bf4ba1699d71.html | Six months after its historic 2021 festival in October, Country Thunder is back this weekend to pick up where it left off.
The four-day festival featuring one of country music’s most popular and controversial artists and two fan-favorite headlining acts returns to its April run, which was interrupted in 2020 and 2021 courtesy of the COVID-19 pandemic. The festival runs Thursday, April 7, through Sunday, April 10, at the festival grounds in Florence.
Riley Green (“If It Wasn’t for Trucks,” “I Wish Grandpas Never Died”) headlines the opening night Thursday — entertainment begins at 2:30 p.m. Thursday, and at noon Friday through Sunday — with a supporting cast that includes newcomer Nolan Sotillo, Canadian singer-songwriter Lindsay Ell and veteran country singer Randy Houser.
This is Country Thunder’s 29th Arizona festival, and it includes the return of popular headliners Blake Shelton on Friday and Florida Georgia Line on Sunday.
But Saturday might turn out to be the biggest night in the festival’s Arizona history when Morgan Wallen headlines.
People are also reading…
Wallen was supposed to headline the canceled 2020 event, and organizers expected he would be on the lineup for the rescheduled 2021 festival. But he ended up canceling almost all of his touring after he was caught on video using the “N” word in February 2021.
The fallout was swift: Wallen’s record label suspended him, and radio and streaming services dropped his music. He apologized a couple of times and announced that he was canceling all of his 2021 shows, with the exception of a few events.
But country music and his fans weren’t ready to “cancel” the young country artist.
Last March, Big Machine Records released Wallen’s sophomore album “Dangerous: The Double Album.” The album debuted at No. 1 on Billboard, where it remained for 10 weeks.
To date, album sales have topped 3 million (triple platinum), and the album has been streamed more than 3 billion times, according to Rolling Stone magazine. In March, “Dangerous” earned the 28-year-old Wallen the Academy of Country Music’s coveted Album of the Year award.
Wallen resumed touring this February, and the fan reaction has been nothing shy of remarkable. Every show he has played from Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena to New York’s Madison Square Garden has sold out.
The same is true for his show in Florence on Saturday.
Last October’s festival set ticket sales records for the Arizona event, one of seven Country Thunder festivals held annually throughout North America. Attendance topped 30,000 each night to see headliners Dustin Lynch, Luke Combs, Eric Church and Old Dominion.
In addition to Thursday’s lineup, the 2022 festival includes:
Friday — Jackson Dean, James Barker Band, Phil Vassar, Michael Ray, Gabby Barrett and Blake Shelton
Saturday — Tyler Braden, MacKenzie Porter, Blanco Brown, Tracy Lawrence, Hardy and Morgan Wallen
Sunday — Maggie Rose, Sawyer Brown, Jameson Rodgers, Chase Rice and Florida Georgia Line.
4 fun facts about Country Thunder
1. Tucson country singer Drew Cooper is among at least 16 independent regional and national acts performing on side stages throughout the festival.
2. In addition to the Jumbotrons, the main stage will have video walls that will make it easier for folks in the festival grounds to see the artists.
3. New to this year’s festival: an adult jumping castle. We can only imagine.
4. File this under you may not know him, but: Blanco Brown might not have the immediate name recognition as others on the Country Thunder lineup, but you surely know his music. The singer-songwriter-rapper who has produced for such superstars as Chris Brown and Pitbull, had a viral hit in 2019 with “The Git Up” dance song, which had more than 143 million YouTube views and had people of all shades of country music doing his dance.
Contact reporter Cathalena E. Burch at cburch@tucson.com. On Twitter @Starburch | 2 | 128,769 | 0.654771 | https://www.azcentral.com/story/entertainment/music/country-thunder/2022/04/02/country-thunder-arizona-2022-daily-lineup-schedule-and-tickets/7246836001/ | 2022-04-02 16:18:45+00:00 | Country Thunder Arizona 2022: The complete daily lineup and schedule
Morgan Wallen, Blake Shelton, Florida Georgia Line and Riley Green will headline Country Thunder Arizona when the four-day festival returns to Canyon Moon Ranch near Florence Thursday, April 7-Sunday, April 10.
But those are just the highest-profile artists on a weekend packed with entertainers well worth checking out, from seasoned veterans to up-and-coming artists who, for all we know, could come back in a couple of years and headline.
Here's a look at this year's daily schedule and set times, including such obvious highlights as Hardy, Gabby Barrett, Randy Houser, Chase Rice, Lindsay Ell, Michael Ray, Tracy Lawrence, Jameson Rogers and Phil Vassar.
Morgan Wallen at Country Thunder:Festival offers more chances to see the controversial singer
Thursday Country Thunder lineup
- 5 p.m. Nolan Sotillo
- 6:30 p.m. Lindsay Ell
- 8 p.m. Randy Houser
- 10 p.m. Riley Green
Friday Country Thunder lineup
- 2 p.m. Jackson Dean
- 3:30 p.m. James Barker Band
- 5 p.m. Phil Vassar
- 6:30 p.m. Michael Ray
- 8 p.m. Gabby Barrett
- 10 p.m. Blake Shelton
Saturday Country Thunder lineup
- 2 p.m. Tyler Braden
- 3:30 p.m. Mackenzie Porter
- 5 p.m. Blanco Brown
- 6:30 p.m. Tracy Lawrence
- 8 p.m. Hardy
- 10 p.m. Morgan Wallen
Sunday Country Thunder lineup
- 2:30 p.m. Maggie Rose
- 4 p.m. Sawyer Brown
- 5:30 p.m. Jameson Rodgers
- 7 p.m. Chase Rice
- 9 p.m. Florida Georgia Line
There's also a mix of local and national talent on the Copperhead stage, including a second chance to check out Tyler Braden.
Thursday Copperhead Stage lineup
- 4 p.m. Salt River String Band
- 5:30 p.m. Young Country
- 7 p.m. Ryan Sims
- 9 p.m. Kaylee Rose
- 11:30 p.m. Robby Johnson
Friday Copperhead Stage lineup
- 2:30 p.m. Parker Jenkins Band
- 4 p.m. Britnee Kellogg
- 5:30 p.m. Bailey Callahan
- 7 p.m. 10th & Main
- 9 p.m. Steven Cade
- 11:30 p.m. Caiden Brewer
Saturday Copperhead Stage lineup
- 2:30 p.m. Caiden Brewer
- 4 p.m. Palmer Anthony
- 5:30 p.m. Shari Rowe
- 7 p.m. Jaty and the Black Stallions
- 9 p.m. Tyler Braden
- 11:30 p.m. Drew Cooper
Sunday Copperhead Stage lineup
- 4:30 p.m. The Pompous Beggars
- 6 p.m. Ryan and the Renegades
- 8 p.m. Drew Cooper
- 10:30 p.m. Nathan Dean and the Damn Band
Reach the reporter at ed.masley@arizonarepublic.com or 602-444-4495. Follow him on Twitter @EdMasley.
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/reuters/article-10685885/Germans-face-drastic-price-rises-EU-bars-Russian-gas-E-ON-Germany-chief-says-RND.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | Germans face drastic price rises if EU bars Russian gas, E.ON Germany chief says -RND
BERLIN, April 5 (Reuters) - German consumers must prepare for drastic electricity and gas price increases if the European Union cuts off Russian gas, E.ON Germany's chief executive said on Tuesday, adding prices were already rising rapidly even without such a move.
Speaking to German news organisation RND, Filip Thon warned that the energy firm was already seeing wholesale retail prices 20 times higher and electricity prices eight times higher this spring than a year ago.
How much further prices would rise in the event of a ban on gas from Russia depended on the extent to which Germany increases its reserves, currently at around 25 to 27 percent of capacity, ahead of the next cold season, Thon said.
"The situation is very tense, even without a stop in deliveries," Thon told RND, adding that the end of Russian gas imports would have "drastic consequences for the German economy."
The CEO called for the state to provide more financial support to private households to soften the blow, such as by lowering taxes on energy bills.
After years of prospering from Russian energy imports, Germany is convulsed by a debate over how to unwind a business relationship that critics say is financing Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Russia supplies 40% of Europe's gas needs.
German Finance Minister Christian Lindner on Monday rejected an EU embargo on Russian gas imports as mounting civilian deaths in Ukraine increase pressure on the bloc to impose sanctions on Russia's energy sector. (Reporting by Victoria Waldersee; editing by Richard Pullin) | 0 | 46,051 | 0.041983 | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2561740313641/germans-face-drastic-price-rises-if-eu-bars-russian-gas-e-on-germany-chief-says-rnd | 2022-04-06 14:11:17+00:00 | Germans face drastic price rises if EU bars Russian gas, E.ON Germany chief says - RND
BERLIN (Reuters) - German consumers must prepare for drastic electricity and gas price increases if the European Union cuts off Russian gas, E.ON Germany’s chief executive said on Tuesday, adding prices were already rising rapidly even without such a move.
Speaking to German news organisation RND, Filip Thon warned that the energy firm was already seeing wholesale retail prices 20 times higher and electricity prices eight times higher this spring than a year ago.
How much further prices would rise in the event of a ban on gas from Russia depended on the extent to which Germany increases its reserves, currently at around 25 to 27 percent of capacity, ahead of the next cold season, Thon said.
“The situation is very tense, even without a stop in deliveries,” Thon told RND, adding that the end of Russian gas imports would have “drastic consequences for the German economy.”
The CEO called for the state to provide more financial support to private households to soften the blow, such as by lowering taxes on energy bills.
After years of prospering from Russian energy imports, Germany is convulsed by a debate over how to unwind a business relationship that critics say is financing Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Russia supplies 40% of Europe’s gas needs.
German Finance Minister Christian Lindner on Monday rejected an EU embargo on Russian gas imports as mounting civilian deaths in Ukraine increase pressure on the bloc to impose sanctions on Russia’s energy sector. |
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