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https://www.wrtv.com/news/national/russia-ukraine-conflict/russia-could-face-historic-default-after-u-s-bars-it-from-accessing-american-banks | The Treasury Department will not allow any Russian government debt payments from accounts at U.S. financial institutions to be made in U.S. dollars, an agency official says.
That restricts one of the strategies President Vladimir Putin is employing to stave off default.
Russia faces several April deadlines to make debt payments.
If it does not make those payments, Russia will face a historic default.
The country holds more than $600 million in reserves held in American banks.
The Kremlin must now choose between draining remaining valuable dollar reserves, new revenue coming in or possible default.
Treasury had previously said sanctions levied on Russia over its invasion of Ukraine still permit Russia to continue to make debt payments.
The debt is owed to foreign investors, among others, and comes from government investments to presumably spur economic growth in Russia. | 2 | 95,568 | 0 | https://www.wcpo.com/news/national/russia-ukraine-conflict/russia-could-face-historic-default-after-u-s-bars-it-from-accessing-american-banks | 2022-04-06 17:27:13+00:00 | The Treasury Department will not allow any Russian government debt payments from accounts at U.S. financial institutions to be made in U.S. dollars, an agency official says.
That restricts one of the strategies President Vladimir Putin is employing to stave off default.
Russia faces several April deadlines to make debt payments.
If it does not make those payments, Russia will face a historic default.
The country holds more than $600 million in reserves held in American banks.
The Kremlin must now choose between draining remaining valuable dollar reserves, new revenue coming in or possible default.
Treasury had previously said sanctions levied on Russia over its invasion of Ukraine still permit Russia to continue to make debt payments.
The debt is owed to foreign investors, among others, and comes from government investments to presumably spur economic growth in Russia. |
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https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/Police-say-NY-man-falls-to-death-trying-to-17061657.php | DEERPARK, N.Y. (AP) — A New York man fell to his death when he tried to retrieve a drone that had crashed into a steep river bank, police said.
Binh Ledinh, 42, of Lumberland, was flying a drone at Hawk's Nest in Orange County on Tuesday when the drone crashed 17 feet down an embankment overlooking the Delaware River, the New York state police said in a news release.
Ledinh tried to retrieve the drone and fell about 250 feet, police said.
Police located Ledinh after his wife reported him missing, but they could not reach him by foot because of the steep terrain.
Orange County rescue team members lowered themselves to Ledinh and determined he was dead, police said. Ledinh's body was then lowered into a boat and transported to the Orange County medical examiner’s office. | 0 | 88,961 | 0 | https://www.darientimes.com/news/article/Police-say-NY-man-falls-to-death-trying-to-17061657.php | 2022-04-06 17:05:10+00:00 | DEERPARK, N.Y. (AP) — A New York man fell to his death when he tried to retrieve a drone that had crashed into a steep river bank, police said.
Binh Ledinh, 42, of Lumberland, was flying a drone at Hawk's Nest in Orange County on Tuesday when the drone crashed 17 feet down an embankment overlooking the Delaware River, the New York state police said in a news release.
Ledinh tried to retrieve the drone and fell about 250 feet, police said.
Police located Ledinh after his wife reported him missing, but they could not reach him by foot because of the steep terrain.
Orange County rescue team members lowered themselves to Ledinh and determined he was dead, police said. Ledinh's body was then lowered into a boat and transported to the Orange County medical examiner’s office. |
https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/Police-say-NY-man-falls-to-death-trying-to-17061657.php | DEERPARK, N.Y. (AP) — A New York man fell to his death when he tried to retrieve a drone that had crashed into a steep river bank, police said.
Binh Ledinh, 42, of Lumberland, was flying a drone at Hawk's Nest in Orange County on Tuesday when the drone crashed 17 feet down an embankment overlooking the Delaware River, the New York state police said in a news release.
Ledinh tried to retrieve the drone and fell about 250 feet, police said.
Police located Ledinh after his wife reported him missing, but they could not reach him by foot because of the steep terrain.
Orange County rescue team members lowered themselves to Ledinh and determined he was dead, police said. Ledinh's body was then lowered into a boat and transported to the Orange County medical examiner’s office. | 1 | 89,315 | 0 | https://www.thetelegraph.com/news/article/Police-say-NY-man-falls-to-death-trying-to-17061657.php | 2022-04-06 17:06:21+00:00 | DEERPARK, N.Y. (AP) — A New York man fell to his death when he tried to retrieve a drone that had crashed into a steep river bank, police said.
Binh Ledinh, 42, of Lumberland, was flying a drone at Hawk's Nest in Orange County on Tuesday when the drone crashed 17 feet down an embankment overlooking the Delaware River, the New York state police said in a news release.
Ledinh tried to retrieve the drone and fell about 250 feet, police said.
Police located Ledinh after his wife reported him missing, but they could not reach him by foot because of the steep terrain.
Orange County rescue team members lowered themselves to Ledinh and determined he was dead, police said. Ledinh's body was then lowered into a boat and transported to the Orange County medical examiner’s office. |
https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/Police-say-NY-man-falls-to-death-trying-to-17061657.php | DEERPARK, N.Y. (AP) — A New York man fell to his death when he tried to retrieve a drone that had crashed into a steep river bank, police said.
Binh Ledinh, 42, of Lumberland, was flying a drone at Hawk's Nest in Orange County on Tuesday when the drone crashed 17 feet down an embankment overlooking the Delaware River, the New York state police said in a news release.
Ledinh tried to retrieve the drone and fell about 250 feet, police said.
Police located Ledinh after his wife reported him missing, but they could not reach him by foot because of the steep terrain.
Orange County rescue team members lowered themselves to Ledinh and determined he was dead, police said. Ledinh's body was then lowered into a boat and transported to the Orange County medical examiner’s office. | 2 | 89,596 | 0 | https://www.lmtonline.com/news/article/Police-say-NY-man-falls-to-death-trying-to-17061657.php | 2022-04-06 17:07:28+00:00 | DEERPARK, N.Y. (AP) — A New York man fell to his death when he tried to retrieve a drone that had crashed into a steep river bank, police said.
Binh Ledinh, 42, of Lumberland, was flying a drone at Hawk's Nest in Orange County on Tuesday when the drone crashed 17 feet down an embankment overlooking the Delaware River, the New York state police said in a news release.
Ledinh tried to retrieve the drone and fell about 250 feet, police said.
Police located Ledinh after his wife reported him missing, but they could not reach him by foot because of the steep terrain.
Orange County rescue team members lowered themselves to Ledinh and determined he was dead, police said. Ledinh's body was then lowered into a boat and transported to the Orange County medical examiner’s office. |
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-61011141?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA | Who are Putin's daughters? What we know about his family
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Russia's President, Vladimir Putin, has always been guarded when it comes to questions over his family.
In 2015, during one of his marathon news conferences, he dodged questions about his daughter's identities.
"My daughters live in Russia and studied only in Russia, I am proud of them," he said. "They speak three foreign languages fluently. I never discuss my family with anyone."
"Every person has a right for their fate, they live their own life and do it with dignity," he added.
He might not want to name them, but others have. The latest round of US sanctions has targeted Maria Vorontsova, 36, and Katerina Tikhonova, 35.
"We believe that many of Putin's assets are hidden with family members, and that's why we're targeting them," one US official said.
While little has been officially confirmed about President Putin's family life, documents, media reports and the occasional public pronouncement are enough to provide a portrait of the pair.
The two are the daughters of President Putin and his ex-wife Lyudmila. The pair married in 1983 when she was a flight attendant and he a KGB officer. Their marriage lasted 30 years, spanning Mr Putin's rapid rise to the top of Russia's political system.
In 2013, they split. Mr Putin said "it was a joint decision: we hardly see each other, each of us has our own life". She said he was "completely drowned in work".
Their eldest, Maria Vorontsova, was born in 1985. She studied biology at St Petersburg University and medicine at Moscow State University.
Mrs Vorontsova is now an academic, specialising in the endocrine system. She co-wrote a book on stunted growth in children, and is listed as a researcher at the Endocrinology Research Centre in Moscow.
She's also a businesswoman. BBC Russia identified her as co-owner of a company planning to build a massive medical centre.
Mrs Vorontsova is married to Dutch businessman Jorrit Joost Faassen, who once worked at Russian state energy giant Gazprom, although they have reportedly separated.
People who have spoken to her since the Ukraine invasion say she supports her father, and has cast doubt over international reporting of the conflict.
Compared to her sister Katerina Tikhonova has been much more in the public eye, not least due to her talents as a rock n' roll dancer. She and her partner came fifth at an international event in 2013.
That same year, she married Kirill Shamalov, the son of a long-time friend of President Putin. Their wedding was held at an exclusive ski resort near St Petersburg. Workers there said the couple arrived on a sleigh drawn by three white horses.
Mr Shamalov was sanctioned by the US in 2018 for his role in Russia's energy sector. The US Treasury said that "his fortunes drastically improved following the marriage". The pair have since split.
Following the invasion of Ukraine, two Russian activists were arrested for occupying a luxury villa in Biarritz said to be owned by Mr Shamalov.
Ms Tikhonova is now in academia and business. She made a brief appearance on Russian state media in 2018 to talk about neurotechnology and also at a business forum in 2021. In neither cases was her relationship to the president mentioned.
Neither woman is said to spend a lot of time with President Putin.
Mr Putin also has grandchildren. He mentioned them at a phone-in in 2017, but did not say how many he had or which of his daughters had them.
"Regarding my grandchildren, one is already in nursery school. Please understand, I don't want them to grow up like some kind of royal princes. I want them to grow up like normal people," he said.
- 28 minutes ago | 0 | 104,071 | 0 | https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-61011141 | 2022-04-06 18:01:34+00:00 | Who are Putin's daughters? What we know about his family
- Published
Russia's President, Vladimir Putin, has always been guarded when it comes to questions over his family.
In 2015, during one of his marathon news conferences, he dodged questions about his daughter's identities.
"My daughters live in Russia and studied only in Russia, I am proud of them," he said. "They speak three foreign languages fluently. I never discuss my family with anyone."
"Every person has a right for their fate, they live their own life and do it with dignity," he added.
He might not want to name them, but others have. The latest round of US sanctions has targeted Maria Vorontsova, 36, and Katerina Tikhonova, 35.
"We believe that many of Putin's assets are hidden with family members, and that's why we're targeting them," one US official said.
While little has been officially confirmed about President Putin's family life, documents, media reports and the occasional public pronouncement are enough to provide a portrait of the pair.
The two are the daughters of President Putin and his ex-wife Lyudmila. The pair married in 1983 when she was a flight attendant and he a KGB officer. Their marriage lasted 30 years, spanning Mr Putin's rapid rise to the top of Russia's political system.
In 2013, they split. Mr Putin said "it was a joint decision: we hardly see each other, each of us has our own life". She said he was "completely drowned in work".
Their eldest, Maria Vorontsova, was born in 1985. She studied biology at St Petersburg University and medicine at Moscow State University.
Mrs Vorontsova is now an academic, specialising in the endocrine system. She co-wrote a book on stunted growth in children, and is listed as a researcher at the Endocrinology Research Centre in Moscow.
She's also a businesswoman. BBC Russia identified her as co-owner of a company planning to build a massive medical centre.
Mrs Vorontsova is married to Dutch businessman Jorrit Joost Faassen, who once worked at Russian state energy giant Gazprom, although they have reportedly separated.
People who have spoken to her since the Ukraine invasion say she supports her father, and has cast doubt over international reporting of the conflict.
Compared to her sister Katerina Tikhonova has been much more in the public eye, not least due to her talents as a rock n' roll dancer. She and her partner came fifth at an international event in 2013.
That same year, she married Kirill Shamalov, the son of a long-time friend of President Putin. Their wedding was held at an exclusive ski resort near St Petersburg. Workers there said the couple arrived on a sleigh drawn by three white horses.
Mr Shamalov was sanctioned by the US in 2018 for his role in Russia's energy sector. The US Treasury said that "his fortunes drastically improved following the marriage". The pair have since split.
Following the invasion of Ukraine, two Russian activists were arrested for occupying a luxury villa in Biarritz said to be owned by Mr Shamalov.
Ms Tikhonova is now in academia and business. She made a brief appearance on Russian state media in 2018 to talk about neurotechnology and also at a business forum in 2021. In neither cases was her relationship to the president mentioned.
Neither woman is said to spend a lot of time with President Putin.
Mr Putin also has grandchildren. He mentioned them at a phone-in in 2017, but did not say how many he had or which of his daughters had them.
"Regarding my grandchildren, one is already in nursery school. Please understand, I don't want them to grow up like some kind of royal princes. I want them to grow up like normal people," he said.
- 37 minutes ago |
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-61011141?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA | Who are Putin's daughters? What we know about his family
- Published
Russia's President, Vladimir Putin, has always been guarded when it comes to questions over his family.
In 2015, during one of his marathon news conferences, he dodged questions about his daughter's identities.
"My daughters live in Russia and studied only in Russia, I am proud of them," he said. "They speak three foreign languages fluently. I never discuss my family with anyone."
"Every person has a right for their fate, they live their own life and do it with dignity," he added.
He might not want to name them, but others have. The latest round of US sanctions has targeted Maria Vorontsova, 36, and Katerina Tikhonova, 35.
"We believe that many of Putin's assets are hidden with family members, and that's why we're targeting them," one US official said.
While little has been officially confirmed about President Putin's family life, documents, media reports and the occasional public pronouncement are enough to provide a portrait of the pair.
The two are the daughters of President Putin and his ex-wife Lyudmila. The pair married in 1983 when she was a flight attendant and he a KGB officer. Their marriage lasted 30 years, spanning Mr Putin's rapid rise to the top of Russia's political system.
In 2013, they split. Mr Putin said "it was a joint decision: we hardly see each other, each of us has our own life". She said he was "completely drowned in work".
Their eldest, Maria Vorontsova, was born in 1985. She studied biology at St Petersburg University and medicine at Moscow State University.
Mrs Vorontsova is now an academic, specialising in the endocrine system. She co-wrote a book on stunted growth in children, and is listed as a researcher at the Endocrinology Research Centre in Moscow.
She's also a businesswoman. BBC Russia identified her as co-owner of a company planning to build a massive medical centre.
Mrs Vorontsova is married to Dutch businessman Jorrit Joost Faassen, who once worked at Russian state energy giant Gazprom, although they have reportedly separated.
People who have spoken to her since the Ukraine invasion say she supports her father, and has cast doubt over international reporting of the conflict.
Compared to her sister Katerina Tikhonova has been much more in the public eye, not least due to her talents as a rock n' roll dancer. She and her partner came fifth at an international event in 2013.
That same year, she married Kirill Shamalov, the son of a long-time friend of President Putin. Their wedding was held at an exclusive ski resort near St Petersburg. Workers there said the couple arrived on a sleigh drawn by three white horses.
Mr Shamalov was sanctioned by the US in 2018 for his role in Russia's energy sector. The US Treasury said that "his fortunes drastically improved following the marriage". The pair have since split.
Following the invasion of Ukraine, two Russian activists were arrested for occupying a luxury villa in Biarritz said to be owned by Mr Shamalov.
Ms Tikhonova is now in academia and business. She made a brief appearance on Russian state media in 2018 to talk about neurotechnology and also at a business forum in 2021. In neither cases was her relationship to the president mentioned.
Neither woman is said to spend a lot of time with President Putin.
Mr Putin also has grandchildren. He mentioned them at a phone-in in 2017, but did not say how many he had or which of his daughters had them.
"Regarding my grandchildren, one is already in nursery school. Please understand, I don't want them to grow up like some kind of royal princes. I want them to grow up like normal people," he said.
- 28 minutes ago | 1 | 43,803 | 0.076367 | https://nehandaradio.com/2022/04/06/who-are-putins-daughters-what-we-know-about-his-family/ | 2022-04-06 23:33:22+00:00 | Who are Putin’s daughters? What we know about his family
Russia’s President, Vladimir Putin, has always been guarded when it comes to questions over his family.
In 2015, during one of his marathon news conferences, he dodged questions about his daughter’s identities.
“My daughters live in Russia and studied only in Russia, I am proud of them,” he said. “They speak three foreign languages fluently. I never discuss my family with anyone.”
“Every person has a right for their fate, they live their own life and do it with dignity,” he added.
He might not want to name them, but others have. The latest round of US sanctions has targeted Maria Vorontsova, 36, and Katerina Tikhonova, 35.
“We believe that many of Putin’s assets are hidden with family members, and that’s why we’re targeting them,” one US official said.
While little has been officially confirmed about President Putin’s family life, documents, media reports and the occasional public pronouncement are enough to provide a portrait of the pair.
The two are the daughters of President Putin and his ex-wife Lyudmila. The pair married in 1983 when she was a flight attendant and he a KGB officer. Their marriage lasted 30 years, spanning Mr Putin’s rapid rise to the top of Russia’s political system.
In 2013, they split. Mr Putin said “it was a joint decision: we hardly see each other, each of us has our own life”. She said he was “completely drowned in work”.
Their eldest, Maria Vorontsova, was born in 1985. She studied biology at St Petersburg University and medicine at Moscow State University.
Mrs Vorontsova is now an academic, specialising in the endocrine system. She co-wrote a book on stunted growth in children, and is listed as a researcher at the Endocrinology Research Centre in Moscow.
She’s also a businesswoman. BBC Russia identified her as co-owner of a company planning to build a massive medical centre.
Mrs Vorontsova is married to Dutch businessman Jorrit Joost Faassen, who once worked at Russian state energy giant Gazprom, although they have reportedly separated.
People who have spoken to her since the Ukraine invasion say she supports her father, and has cast doubt over international reporting of the conflict.
Compared to her sister Katerina Tikhonova has been much more in the public eye, not least due to her talents as a rock n’ roll dancer. She and her partner came fifth at an international event in 2013.
That same year, she married Kirill Shamalov, the son of a long-time friend of President Putin. Their wedding was held at an exclusive ski resort near St Petersburg. Workers there said the couple arrived on a sleigh drawn by three white horses.
Mr Shamalov was sanctioned by the US in 2018 for his role in Russia’s energy sector. The US Treasury said that “his fortunes drastically improved following the marriage”. The pair have since split.
Following the invasion of Ukraine, two Russian activists were arrested for occupying a luxury villa in Biarritz said to be owned by Mr Shamalov.
Ms Tikhonova is now in academia and business. She made a brief appearance on Russian state media in 2018 to talk about neurotechnology and also at a business forum in 2021. In neither cases was her relationship to the president mentioned.
Neither woman is said to spend a lot of time with President Putin.
Mr Putin also has grandchildren. He mentioned them at a phone-in in 2017, but did not say how many he had or which of his daughters had them.
“Regarding my grandchildren, one is already in nursery school. Please understand, I don’t want them to grow up like some kind of royal princes. I want them to grow up like normal people,” he said. BBC News |
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-61011141?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA | Who are Putin's daughters? What we know about his family
- Published
Russia's President, Vladimir Putin, has always been guarded when it comes to questions over his family.
In 2015, during one of his marathon news conferences, he dodged questions about his daughter's identities.
"My daughters live in Russia and studied only in Russia, I am proud of them," he said. "They speak three foreign languages fluently. I never discuss my family with anyone."
"Every person has a right for their fate, they live their own life and do it with dignity," he added.
He might not want to name them, but others have. The latest round of US sanctions has targeted Maria Vorontsova, 36, and Katerina Tikhonova, 35.
"We believe that many of Putin's assets are hidden with family members, and that's why we're targeting them," one US official said.
While little has been officially confirmed about President Putin's family life, documents, media reports and the occasional public pronouncement are enough to provide a portrait of the pair.
The two are the daughters of President Putin and his ex-wife Lyudmila. The pair married in 1983 when she was a flight attendant and he a KGB officer. Their marriage lasted 30 years, spanning Mr Putin's rapid rise to the top of Russia's political system.
In 2013, they split. Mr Putin said "it was a joint decision: we hardly see each other, each of us has our own life". She said he was "completely drowned in work".
Their eldest, Maria Vorontsova, was born in 1985. She studied biology at St Petersburg University and medicine at Moscow State University.
Mrs Vorontsova is now an academic, specialising in the endocrine system. She co-wrote a book on stunted growth in children, and is listed as a researcher at the Endocrinology Research Centre in Moscow.
She's also a businesswoman. BBC Russia identified her as co-owner of a company planning to build a massive medical centre.
Mrs Vorontsova is married to Dutch businessman Jorrit Joost Faassen, who once worked at Russian state energy giant Gazprom, although they have reportedly separated.
People who have spoken to her since the Ukraine invasion say she supports her father, and has cast doubt over international reporting of the conflict.
Compared to her sister Katerina Tikhonova has been much more in the public eye, not least due to her talents as a rock n' roll dancer. She and her partner came fifth at an international event in 2013.
That same year, she married Kirill Shamalov, the son of a long-time friend of President Putin. Their wedding was held at an exclusive ski resort near St Petersburg. Workers there said the couple arrived on a sleigh drawn by three white horses.
Mr Shamalov was sanctioned by the US in 2018 for his role in Russia's energy sector. The US Treasury said that "his fortunes drastically improved following the marriage". The pair have since split.
Following the invasion of Ukraine, two Russian activists were arrested for occupying a luxury villa in Biarritz said to be owned by Mr Shamalov.
Ms Tikhonova is now in academia and business. She made a brief appearance on Russian state media in 2018 to talk about neurotechnology and also at a business forum in 2021. In neither cases was her relationship to the president mentioned.
Neither woman is said to spend a lot of time with President Putin.
Mr Putin also has grandchildren. He mentioned them at a phone-in in 2017, but did not say how many he had or which of his daughters had them.
"Regarding my grandchildren, one is already in nursery school. Please understand, I don't want them to grow up like some kind of royal princes. I want them to grow up like normal people," he said.
- 28 minutes ago | 2 | 14,796 | 0.377141 | https://zambianobserver.com/who-are-putins-daughters-what-we-know-about-his-family/ | 2022-04-10 12:04:02+00:00 | Russia’s President, Vladimir Putin, has always been guarded when it comes to questions over his family.
In 2015, during one of his marathon news conferences, he dodged questions about his daughter’s identities.
“My daughters live in Russia and studied only in Russia, I am proud of them,” he said. “They speak three foreign languages fluently. I never discuss my family with anyone.”
“Every person has a right for their fate, they live their own life and do it with dignity,” he added.
He might not want to name them, but others have. The latest round of US sanctions has targeted Maria Vorontsova, 36, and Katerina Tikhonova, 35.
“We believe that many of Putin’s assets are hidden with family members, and that’s why we’re targeting them,” one US official said.
While little has been officially confirmed about President Putin’s family life, documents, media reports and the occasional public pronouncement are enough to provide a portrait of the pair.
The two are the daughters of President Putin and his ex-wife Lyudmila. The pair married in 1983 when she was a flight attendant and he a KGB officer. Their marriage lasted 30 years, spanning Mr Putin’s rapid rise to the top of Russia’s political system.
In 2013, they split. Mr Putin said “it was a joint decision: we hardly see each other, each of us has our own life”. She said he was “completely drowned in work”.
Their eldest, Maria Vorontsova, was born in 1985. She studied biology at St Petersburg University and medicine at Moscow State University.
Mrs Vorontsova is now an academic, specialising in the endocrine system. She co-wrote a book on stunted growth in children, and is listed as a researcher at the Endocrinology Research Centre in Moscow.
She’s also a businesswoman. BBC Russia identified her as co-owner of a company planning to build a massive medical centre.
Mrs Vorontsova is married to Dutch businessman Jorrit Joost Faassen, who once worked at Russian state energy giant Gazprom, although they have reportedly separated.
People who have spoken to her since the Ukraine invasion say she supports her father, and has cast doubt over international reporting of the conflict.
Compared to her sister Katerina Tikhonova has been much more in the public eye, not least due to her talents as a rock n’ roll dancer. She and her partner came fifth at an international event in 2013.
That same year, she married Kirill Shamalov, the son of a long-time friend of President Putin. Their wedding was held at an exclusive ski resort near St Petersburg. Workers there said the couple arrived on a sleigh drawn by three white horses.
Mr Shamalov was sanctioned by the US in 2018 for his role in Russia’s energy sector. The US Treasury said that “his fortunes drastically improved following the marriage”. The pair have since split.
Following the invasion of Ukraine, two Russian activists were arrested for occupying a luxury villa in Biarritz said to be owned by Mr Shamalov.
Ms Tikhonova is now in academia and business. She made a brief appearance on Russian state media in 2018 to talk about neurotechnology and also at a business forum in 2021. In neither cases was her relationship to the president mentioned.
Neither woman is said to spend a lot of time with President Putin.
Mr Putin also has grandchildren. He mentioned them at a phone-in in 2017, but did not say how many he had or which of his daughters had them.
“Regarding my grandchildren, one is already in nursery school. Please understand, I don’t want them to grow up like some kind of royal princes. I want them to grow up like normal people,” he said. -BBC News |
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https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/lifestyle/food-drink/3170228/jamie-scott-adds-third-bakery-to-his-portfolio-st-andrews/ | MasterChef 2014 winner Jamie Scott, who owns The Newport Restaurant in Newport-on-Tay and Hard Grind Coffee in Arbroath and Dundee, plus Wrecking Ball Doughnuts, will open the new bakery in May at 206 South Street, St Andrews.
The venture comes as a result of their successful collaboration with The Cheesy Toast Shack at the East Sands Beach where they have been serving freshly baked goods for the past few weeks.
Jamie said: “We’ve looked at St Andrews for the last couple of years but decided to look somewhere else that better suited our needs at the time.
“I’ve been in contact with Sam, who owns The Cheesy Toast Shack, about working together and he offered me space to do something. That’s how we started the pop-up.”
Pop-up shop success
The Newport Bakery has a large customer base from St Andrews, so it felt right to find a permanent home in the town centre.
This will allow those in the area to purchase the firm’s popular bakes throughout the week, as well as during the weekend.
Jamie said: “Our new location will allow customers from across Fife to easily access their pastries.
“We didn’t think the pop-up would be this successful, I think we’ve sold out every day it’s been there.”
Familiar favourites
Jamie wants to bring a familiar feel to the new location but also adapt to the lifestyle of the busy student and tourist town.
At the other bakeries in both Dundee and Newport-on-Tay, customers can expect a ‘low and slow’ atmosphere for those who want to take their time to enjoy freshly baked goods and coffee.
Meanwhile, at the new venue customers can anticipate more of a café atmosphere, but still with some old favourites.
Jamie said: “The menu will be similar and have the same base content including our pastries, bread and sourdoughs.
“We want to adapt to the different clientele in St Andrews and to bring more of a lunch feel to the new bakery.
“We plan to introduce more lunch bites to the menu such as salads and sandwiches, whilst still incorporating our coffees from Daily Grind.”
Expanding the bakery
The Newport bakery is looking to grow its team and is currently looking for bakers and confectioners to join them in its new venture.
Above all for Jamie, it is essential to show progression within the core team by moving them onto a new project.
“We are continually expanding with the team, therefore we tend not to hire senior positions. We always like to promote within the team first,” he said.
“It’s the same for the restaurant, the bakery and Daily Grind. We make sure that we take on people who are doing well in other aspects of the team.”
Refurbishments on the new The Newport Bakery are already underway and in a matter of weeks, locals will be able to enjoy a wide range of fresh goods in the heart of the town centre.
Until then, the pop-up shop is still running for the next couple of weeks.
For more local food and drink…
- 6 restaurants in St Andrews to get a taste of the best seafood
- 12 Fife restaurants and cafes that opened during the pandemic | 0 | 58,870 | 0.759483 | https://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/food-and-drink/fisher-donaldson-bring-their-fudge-doughnuts-and-a-new-look-to-south-street-st-andrews-3723123 | 2022-06-07 16:08:18+00:00 | When you’ve been baking for 103 years, you have to make sure things don’t start to go a bit stale.That’s why Fisher & Donaldson have to keep on moving with the times. Thus, they’re launching their seventh branch - a new cafe - which, if all goes to schedule, will be opening mid-June at 197 South Street in St Andrews.Although the dust sheets are still up and doors are in the process of being fitted, it already has a rather hip and contemporary look, with a French blue exterior, pale grey tiles, plants, stained glass and traditional signwriting by Thomas Paints. The gilded letters on the window read; “For the love of baking, since 1919”.“It’s a beautiful shopfront very near the West Port Arch – the historical city gate – and we can’t wait to be open and welcome customers inside”, says Chloe Milne, who is one of the co-directors and fifth generation of Fisher & Donaldson owners.It looks very different from their traditional-looking but charming Church Street takeaway, just along the road, with its pink sign, fleur de lys emblazoned awning and staff in tabards.This upcoming launch will be their first stand alone cafe, rather than the slightly more old fashioned bakery counter with tea room set up that they have in Dundee and Cupar.“With a 100-year-old business, we have a lot of history, great recipes and products, but also some tired shops which could do with some love. We recently worked with LUX to do a brand refresh and after opening this new café in St Andrews we are looking to roll out our new branding into some of our existing shops and cafes”, says Milne.The newest property was already part of their portfolio, but formerly operated under a different name.“It’s been part of our family business for decades. When another local bakery closed (G H MacArthur) my grandfather bought it and we continued to run it as one of our bakery shops, still under the name/brand of MacArthur’s,” says Milne. “When we shut the doors in the first lockdown we chose to use the closure as a time for change and to finally open a café in St Andrews, something we have been longing to do - and have been asked for by customers - for a very long time. The old bakery counter was taken out and the space was completely gutted”.This will be a casual venue, where guests can eat cake along with a cup of tea or coffee, but there will also be a few savoury options, like stovies and sandwiches, for lunch. Of course, most customers will most likely be making a bee-line for Fisher & Donaldson’s cult bakes. According to Milne, their current top three best sellers are, in reverse order, the strawberry Danish, which is topped with Fife strawberries and was awarded Best Viennoiserie (pastry) in Scotland at the recent 2022 Scottish Baker Awards. At number two is the coffee tower - a choux pastry bun filled with coffee cream and topped by buff-coloured icing and a single chocolate button.“My grandmother came up with the idea”, says Milne. “My grandfather never thought it would catch on but relented and made it anyway, and the rest is history”.Number one will be no surprise to bakery pop pickers. It’s the fudge doughnut. They almost can’t bake them as fast as customers eat them. They even offer a birthday cake version, which is nine inches in diameter and can be cut into ten squishy and custard filled slices.“They are as popular as ever. We make more now than we ever have - the love for them is strong to say the least. People say if you come to St Andrews, Dundee or Fife you have to have one, it’s the law”, Milne says.There are also a few new creations and adaptations in the pipeline. These are mainly to cater to those with specific dietary requirements.“We’re currently looking at improving our gluten-free fudge doughnut to make it even tastier and closer to the real thing, and are also set to launch a new vegan savoury product soon, so watch this space,” she says. “Our most recent new product is our new-recipe Florentines. My Dad worked to adapt the decades-old family recipe to remove any wheat from the ingredients, so our milk chocolate version is now NGCI (no gluten containing ingredients) and our dark chocolate one is also vegan. They are as good as the original, and Val McDermid approved”.As well as the new place, these will presumably be served at this company’s Garden Cafe in Cupar. It’s outdoors, under a marquee, and was opened two years ago, so they could adapt their offering to suit lockdown restrictions. However, it proved so popular that it’s back again this year.Thanks to this, and other enterprises including a web shop, the business has survived the last couple of years relatively unscathed.“The past two years have been tricky for our family in terms of managing huge change and constant flux in the business but we have remained successful,” says Milne. “We have an amazing team of staff who have worked tirelessly throughout the pandemic and, without their hard work and our loyal customers, things could have looked very different”.
For updates on the new cafe, folllow them on Instagram @fisheranddonaldson |
https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/lifestyle/food-drink/3170228/jamie-scott-adds-third-bakery-to-his-portfolio-st-andrews/ | MasterChef 2014 winner Jamie Scott, who owns The Newport Restaurant in Newport-on-Tay and Hard Grind Coffee in Arbroath and Dundee, plus Wrecking Ball Doughnuts, will open the new bakery in May at 206 South Street, St Andrews.
The venture comes as a result of their successful collaboration with The Cheesy Toast Shack at the East Sands Beach where they have been serving freshly baked goods for the past few weeks.
Jamie said: “We’ve looked at St Andrews for the last couple of years but decided to look somewhere else that better suited our needs at the time.
“I’ve been in contact with Sam, who owns The Cheesy Toast Shack, about working together and he offered me space to do something. That’s how we started the pop-up.”
Pop-up shop success
The Newport Bakery has a large customer base from St Andrews, so it felt right to find a permanent home in the town centre.
This will allow those in the area to purchase the firm’s popular bakes throughout the week, as well as during the weekend.
Jamie said: “Our new location will allow customers from across Fife to easily access their pastries.
“We didn’t think the pop-up would be this successful, I think we’ve sold out every day it’s been there.”
Familiar favourites
Jamie wants to bring a familiar feel to the new location but also adapt to the lifestyle of the busy student and tourist town.
At the other bakeries in both Dundee and Newport-on-Tay, customers can expect a ‘low and slow’ atmosphere for those who want to take their time to enjoy freshly baked goods and coffee.
Meanwhile, at the new venue customers can anticipate more of a café atmosphere, but still with some old favourites.
Jamie said: “The menu will be similar and have the same base content including our pastries, bread and sourdoughs.
“We want to adapt to the different clientele in St Andrews and to bring more of a lunch feel to the new bakery.
“We plan to introduce more lunch bites to the menu such as salads and sandwiches, whilst still incorporating our coffees from Daily Grind.”
Expanding the bakery
The Newport bakery is looking to grow its team and is currently looking for bakers and confectioners to join them in its new venture.
Above all for Jamie, it is essential to show progression within the core team by moving them onto a new project.
“We are continually expanding with the team, therefore we tend not to hire senior positions. We always like to promote within the team first,” he said.
“It’s the same for the restaurant, the bakery and Daily Grind. We make sure that we take on people who are doing well in other aspects of the team.”
Refurbishments on the new The Newport Bakery are already underway and in a matter of weeks, locals will be able to enjoy a wide range of fresh goods in the heart of the town centre.
Until then, the pop-up shop is still running for the next couple of weeks.
For more local food and drink…
- 6 restaurants in St Andrews to get a taste of the best seafood
- 12 Fife restaurants and cafes that opened during the pandemic | 1 | 70,707 | 0.759483 | https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/lifestyle/food-and-drink/fisher-donaldson-bring-their-fudge-doughnuts-and-a-new-look-to-south-street-st-andrews-3723123 | 2022-06-07 16:50:40+00:00 | When you’ve been baking for 103 years, you have to make sure things don’t start to go a bit stale.That’s why Fisher & Donaldson have to keep on moving with the times. Thus, they’re launching their seventh branch - a new cafe - which, if all goes to schedule, will be opening mid-June at 197 South Street in St Andrews.Although the dust sheets are still up and doors are in the process of being fitted, it already has a rather hip and contemporary look, with a French blue exterior, pale grey tiles, plants, stained glass and traditional signwriting by Thomas Paints. The gilded letters on the window read; “For the love of baking, since 1919”.“It’s a beautiful shopfront very near the West Port Arch – the historical city gate – and we can’t wait to be open and welcome customers inside”, says Chloe Milne, who is one of the co-directors and fifth generation of Fisher & Donaldson owners.It looks very different from their traditional-looking but charming Church Street takeaway, just along the road, with its pink sign, fleur de lys emblazoned awning and staff in tabards.This upcoming launch will be their first stand alone cafe, rather than the slightly more old fashioned bakery counter with tea room set up that they have in Dundee and Cupar.“With a 100-year-old business, we have a lot of history, great recipes and products, but also some tired shops which could do with some love. We recently worked with LUX to do a brand refresh and after opening this new café in St Andrews we are looking to roll out our new branding into some of our existing shops and cafes”, says Milne.The newest property was already part of their portfolio, but formerly operated under a different name.“It’s been part of our family business for decades. When another local bakery closed (G H MacArthur) my grandfather bought it and we continued to run it as one of our bakery shops, still under the name/brand of MacArthur’s,” says Milne. “When we shut the doors in the first lockdown we chose to use the closure as a time for change and to finally open a café in St Andrews, something we have been longing to do - and have been asked for by customers - for a very long time. The old bakery counter was taken out and the space was completely gutted”.This will be a casual venue, where guests can eat cake along with a cup of tea or coffee, but there will also be a few savoury options, like stovies and sandwiches, for lunch. Of course, most customers will most likely be making a bee-line for Fisher & Donaldson’s cult bakes. According to Milne, their current top three best sellers are, in reverse order, the strawberry Danish, which is topped with Fife strawberries and was awarded Best Viennoiserie (pastry) in Scotland at the recent 2022 Scottish Baker Awards. At number two is the coffee tower - a choux pastry bun filled with coffee cream and topped by buff-coloured icing and a single chocolate button.“My grandmother came up with the idea”, says Milne. “My grandfather never thought it would catch on but relented and made it anyway, and the rest is history”.Number one will be no surprise to bakery pop pickers. It’s the fudge doughnut. They almost can’t bake them as fast as customers eat them. They even offer a birthday cake version, which is nine inches in diameter and can be cut into ten squishy and custard filled slices.“They are as popular as ever. We make more now than we ever have - the love for them is strong to say the least. People say if you come to St Andrews, Dundee or Fife you have to have one, it’s the law”, Milne says.There are also a few new creations and adaptations in the pipeline. These are mainly to cater to those with specific dietary requirements.“We’re currently looking at improving our gluten-free fudge doughnut to make it even tastier and closer to the real thing, and are also set to launch a new vegan savoury product soon, so watch this space,” she says. “Our most recent new product is our new-recipe Florentines. My Dad worked to adapt the decades-old family recipe to remove any wheat from the ingredients, so our milk chocolate version is now NGCI (no gluten containing ingredients) and our dark chocolate one is also vegan. They are as good as the original, and Val McDermid approved”.As well as the new place, these will presumably be served at this company’s Garden Cafe in Cupar. It’s outdoors, under a marquee, and was opened two years ago, so they could adapt their offering to suit lockdown restrictions. However, it proved so popular that it’s back again this year.Thanks to this, and other enterprises including a web shop, the business has survived the last couple of years relatively unscathed.“The past two years have been tricky for our family in terms of managing huge change and constant flux in the business but we have remained successful,” says Milne. “We have an amazing team of staff who have worked tirelessly throughout the pandemic and, without their hard work and our loyal customers, things could have looked very different”.
For updates on the new cafe, folllow them on Instagram @fisheranddonaldson |
https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/lifestyle/food-drink/3170228/jamie-scott-adds-third-bakery-to-his-portfolio-st-andrews/ | MasterChef 2014 winner Jamie Scott, who owns The Newport Restaurant in Newport-on-Tay and Hard Grind Coffee in Arbroath and Dundee, plus Wrecking Ball Doughnuts, will open the new bakery in May at 206 South Street, St Andrews.
The venture comes as a result of their successful collaboration with The Cheesy Toast Shack at the East Sands Beach where they have been serving freshly baked goods for the past few weeks.
Jamie said: “We’ve looked at St Andrews for the last couple of years but decided to look somewhere else that better suited our needs at the time.
“I’ve been in contact with Sam, who owns The Cheesy Toast Shack, about working together and he offered me space to do something. That’s how we started the pop-up.”
Pop-up shop success
The Newport Bakery has a large customer base from St Andrews, so it felt right to find a permanent home in the town centre.
This will allow those in the area to purchase the firm’s popular bakes throughout the week, as well as during the weekend.
Jamie said: “Our new location will allow customers from across Fife to easily access their pastries.
“We didn’t think the pop-up would be this successful, I think we’ve sold out every day it’s been there.”
Familiar favourites
Jamie wants to bring a familiar feel to the new location but also adapt to the lifestyle of the busy student and tourist town.
At the other bakeries in both Dundee and Newport-on-Tay, customers can expect a ‘low and slow’ atmosphere for those who want to take their time to enjoy freshly baked goods and coffee.
Meanwhile, at the new venue customers can anticipate more of a café atmosphere, but still with some old favourites.
Jamie said: “The menu will be similar and have the same base content including our pastries, bread and sourdoughs.
“We want to adapt to the different clientele in St Andrews and to bring more of a lunch feel to the new bakery.
“We plan to introduce more lunch bites to the menu such as salads and sandwiches, whilst still incorporating our coffees from Daily Grind.”
Expanding the bakery
The Newport bakery is looking to grow its team and is currently looking for bakers and confectioners to join them in its new venture.
Above all for Jamie, it is essential to show progression within the core team by moving them onto a new project.
“We are continually expanding with the team, therefore we tend not to hire senior positions. We always like to promote within the team first,” he said.
“It’s the same for the restaurant, the bakery and Daily Grind. We make sure that we take on people who are doing well in other aspects of the team.”
Refurbishments on the new The Newport Bakery are already underway and in a matter of weeks, locals will be able to enjoy a wide range of fresh goods in the heart of the town centre.
Until then, the pop-up shop is still running for the next couple of weeks.
For more local food and drink…
- 6 restaurants in St Andrews to get a taste of the best seafood
- 12 Fife restaurants and cafes that opened during the pandemic | 2 | 87,302 | 0.759483 | https://www.fifetoday.co.uk/lifestyle/food-and-drink/fisher-donaldson-bring-their-fudge-doughnuts-and-a-new-look-to-south-street-st-andrews-3723123 | 2022-06-07 17:47:14+00:00 | When you’ve been baking for 103 years, you have to make sure things don’t start to go a bit stale.That’s why Fisher & Donaldson have to keep on moving with the times. Thus, they’re launching their seventh branch - a new cafe - which, if all goes to schedule, will be opening mid-June at 197 South Street in St Andrews.Although the dust sheets are still up and doors are in the process of being fitted, it already has a rather hip and contemporary look, with a French blue exterior, pale grey tiles, plants, stained glass and traditional signwriting by Thomas Paints. The gilded letters on the window read; “For the love of baking, since 1919”.“It’s a beautiful shopfront very near the West Port Arch – the historical city gate – and we can’t wait to be open and welcome customers inside”, says Chloe Milne, who is one of the co-directors and fifth generation of Fisher & Donaldson owners.It looks very different from their traditional-looking but charming Church Street takeaway, just along the road, with its pink sign, fleur de lys emblazoned awning and staff in tabards.This upcoming launch will be their first stand alone cafe, rather than the slightly more old fashioned bakery counter with tea room set up that they have in Dundee and Cupar.“With a 100-year-old business, we have a lot of history, great recipes and products, but also some tired shops which could do with some love. We recently worked with LUX to do a brand refresh and after opening this new café in St Andrews we are looking to roll out our new branding into some of our existing shops and cafes”, says Milne.The newest property was already part of their portfolio, but formerly operated under a different name.“It’s been part of our family business for decades. When another local bakery closed (G H MacArthur) my grandfather bought it and we continued to run it as one of our bakery shops, still under the name/brand of MacArthur’s,” says Milne. “When we shut the doors in the first lockdown we chose to use the closure as a time for change and to finally open a café in St Andrews, something we have been longing to do - and have been asked for by customers - for a very long time. The old bakery counter was taken out and the space was completely gutted”.This will be a casual venue, where guests can eat cake along with a cup of tea or coffee, but there will also be a few savoury options, like stovies and sandwiches, for lunch. Of course, most customers will most likely be making a bee-line for Fisher & Donaldson’s cult bakes. According to Milne, their current top three best sellers are, in reverse order, the strawberry Danish, which is topped with Fife strawberries and was awarded Best Viennoiserie (pastry) in Scotland at the recent 2022 Scottish Baker Awards. At number two is the coffee tower - a choux pastry bun filled with coffee cream and topped by buff-coloured icing and a single chocolate button.“My grandmother came up with the idea”, says Milne. “My grandfather never thought it would catch on but relented and made it anyway, and the rest is history”.Number one will be no surprise to bakery pop pickers. It’s the fudge doughnut. They almost can’t bake them as fast as customers eat them. They even offer a birthday cake version, which is nine inches in diameter and can be cut into ten squishy and custard filled slices.“They are as popular as ever. We make more now than we ever have - the love for them is strong to say the least. People say if you come to St Andrews, Dundee or Fife you have to have one, it’s the law”, Milne says.There are also a few new creations and adaptations in the pipeline. These are mainly to cater to those with specific dietary requirements.“We’re currently looking at improving our gluten-free fudge doughnut to make it even tastier and closer to the real thing, and are also set to launch a new vegan savoury product soon, so watch this space,” she says. “Our most recent new product is our new-recipe Florentines. My Dad worked to adapt the decades-old family recipe to remove any wheat from the ingredients, so our milk chocolate version is now NGCI (no gluten containing ingredients) and our dark chocolate one is also vegan. They are as good as the original, and Val McDermid approved”.As well as the new place, these will presumably be served at this company’s Garden Cafe in Cupar. It’s outdoors, under a marquee, and was opened two years ago, so they could adapt their offering to suit lockdown restrictions. However, it proved so popular that it’s back again this year.Thanks to this, and other enterprises including a web shop, the business has survived the last couple of years relatively unscathed.“The past two years have been tricky for our family in terms of managing huge change and constant flux in the business but we have remained successful,” says Milne. “We have an amazing team of staff who have worked tirelessly throughout the pandemic and, without their hard work and our loyal customers, things could have looked very different”.
For updates on the new cafe, folllow them on Instagram @fisheranddonaldson |
https://www.wowktv.com/news/were-closing-in-on-them-says-ufo-expert-on-pentagon-findings/ | CHICAGO (NewsNation) — A newly-released Pentagon report says some witnesses who reported UFO sightings also experienced injuries including radiation burns, brain problems and damaged nerves.
While the memo from the Defense Intelligence Agency, or DIA, is not the hard evidence needed to confirm life on other planets, Nick Pope — a journalist who used to run the British Government’s UFO Project — says we’re closer than we’ve ever been.
“If they’re out there, we’re closing in on them and it will be the biggest discovery in human history,” he said Tuesday night during “On Balance with Leland Vittert.”
Titled “Anomalous Acute And Subacute Field Effects on Human and Biological Tissues,” the memo was part of more than 1,500 pages of DIA documents related to the Pentagon’s secretive UFO program called the Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program.
The document, which was requested in 2017 under the Freedom of Information Act, was finally released Tuesday. It confirms, at least according to Pope, what pilots have been reporting for years.
“We’ve seen multiple videos — U.S. Navy videos — of jets chasing these things tracked on radar and it’s not just UFOs,” Pope said. “Frankly, they’ve been looking at other things which sound like they come straight out of an “X-Files” script.”
In 2019, the U.S. government declassified, released and confirmed videos showing encounters between UFOs and U.S. Navy pilots in 2004 and 2015. Similarly, leaked Pentagon footage of a spherical flying object seen flying off the coast of San Diego was later confirmed as authentic by the Pentagon, as well.
But because there aren’t definitive confirmations on what these objects actually are, the possibilities are endless.
Pope says one theory he’s heard is that the occurrences are no more than next generation aerospace tech — secret prototype aircraft and drones.
Pope also says he’s heard people say it might be U.S. tech secretly tested on one part of the military by another to see how we react. Then, of course, there’s the theory that this is adversary technology from Russia or China.
“All of this is why Congress is now taking very close note of this. There are multiple UFO provisions in the latest defense bill. So people are taking this seriously,” Pope said.
Pope, who used to be in the minority in terms of official figures following this phenomenon, says public and government interest is one of necessity.
“I think there has been a realization that this is a serious defense and national security issue,” he said.
But the new interest is also because UFOs have become just that undeniable.
“The other thing is, we’ve just got a lot more evidence than was previously the case. We always knew pilots … saw these things. But it’s the DoD themselves that have recently put some of this on their website,” he continued.
Either way, Pope says the chances of us finding out what these UFOs are is “stronger than it ever was.” | 0 | 75,100 | 0 | https://www.wate.com/news/were-closing-in-on-them-says-ufo-expert-on-pentagon-findings/ | 2022-04-06 16:11:47+00:00 | CHICAGO (NewsNation) — A newly-released Pentagon report says some witnesses who reported UFO sightings also experienced injuries including radiation burns, brain problems and damaged nerves.
While the memo from the Defense Intelligence Agency, or DIA, is not the hard evidence needed to confirm life on other planets, Nick Pope — a journalist who used to run the British Government’s UFO Project — says we’re closer than we’ve ever been.
“If they’re out there, we’re closing in on them and it will be the biggest discovery in human history,” he said Tuesday night during “On Balance with Leland Vittert.”
Titled “Anomalous Acute And Subacute Field Effects on Human and Biological Tissues,” the memo was part of more than 1,500 pages of DIA documents related to the Pentagon’s secretive UFO program called the Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program.
The document, which was requested in 2017 under the Freedom of Information Act, was finally released Tuesday. It confirms, at least according to Pope, what pilots have been reporting for years.
“We’ve seen multiple videos — U.S. Navy videos — of jets chasing these things tracked on radar and it’s not just UFOs,” Pope said. “Frankly, they’ve been looking at other things which sound like they come straight out of an “X-Files” script.”
In 2019, the U.S. government declassified, released and confirmed videos showing encounters between UFOs and U.S. Navy pilots in 2004 and 2015. Similarly, leaked Pentagon footage of a spherical flying object seen flying off the coast of San Diego was later confirmed as authentic by the Pentagon, as well.
But because there aren’t definitive confirmations on what these objects actually are, the possibilities are endless.
Pope says one theory he’s heard is that the occurrences are no more than next generation aerospace tech — secret prototype aircraft and drones.
Pope also says he’s heard people say it might be U.S. tech secretly tested on one part of the military by another to see how we react. Then, of course, there’s the theory that this is adversary technology from Russia or China.
“All of this is why Congress is now taking very close note of this. There are multiple UFO provisions in the latest defense bill. So people are taking this seriously,” Pope said.
Pope, who used to be in the minority in terms of official figures following this phenomenon, says public and government interest is one of necessity.
“I think there has been a realization that this is a serious defense and national security issue,” he said.
But the new interest is also because UFOs have become just that undeniable.
“The other thing is, we’ve just got a lot more evidence than was previously the case. We always knew pilots … saw these things. But it’s the DoD themselves that have recently put some of this on their website,” he continued.
Either way, Pope says the chances of us finding out what these UFOs are is “stronger than it ever was.” |
https://www.wowktv.com/news/were-closing-in-on-them-says-ufo-expert-on-pentagon-findings/ | CHICAGO (NewsNation) — A newly-released Pentagon report says some witnesses who reported UFO sightings also experienced injuries including radiation burns, brain problems and damaged nerves.
While the memo from the Defense Intelligence Agency, or DIA, is not the hard evidence needed to confirm life on other planets, Nick Pope — a journalist who used to run the British Government’s UFO Project — says we’re closer than we’ve ever been.
“If they’re out there, we’re closing in on them and it will be the biggest discovery in human history,” he said Tuesday night during “On Balance with Leland Vittert.”
Titled “Anomalous Acute And Subacute Field Effects on Human and Biological Tissues,” the memo was part of more than 1,500 pages of DIA documents related to the Pentagon’s secretive UFO program called the Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program.
The document, which was requested in 2017 under the Freedom of Information Act, was finally released Tuesday. It confirms, at least according to Pope, what pilots have been reporting for years.
“We’ve seen multiple videos — U.S. Navy videos — of jets chasing these things tracked on radar and it’s not just UFOs,” Pope said. “Frankly, they’ve been looking at other things which sound like they come straight out of an “X-Files” script.”
In 2019, the U.S. government declassified, released and confirmed videos showing encounters between UFOs and U.S. Navy pilots in 2004 and 2015. Similarly, leaked Pentagon footage of a spherical flying object seen flying off the coast of San Diego was later confirmed as authentic by the Pentagon, as well.
But because there aren’t definitive confirmations on what these objects actually are, the possibilities are endless.
Pope says one theory he’s heard is that the occurrences are no more than next generation aerospace tech — secret prototype aircraft and drones.
Pope also says he’s heard people say it might be U.S. tech secretly tested on one part of the military by another to see how we react. Then, of course, there’s the theory that this is adversary technology from Russia or China.
“All of this is why Congress is now taking very close note of this. There are multiple UFO provisions in the latest defense bill. So people are taking this seriously,” Pope said.
Pope, who used to be in the minority in terms of official figures following this phenomenon, says public and government interest is one of necessity.
“I think there has been a realization that this is a serious defense and national security issue,” he said.
But the new interest is also because UFOs have become just that undeniable.
“The other thing is, we’ve just got a lot more evidence than was previously the case. We always knew pilots … saw these things. But it’s the DoD themselves that have recently put some of this on their website,” he continued.
Either way, Pope says the chances of us finding out what these UFOs are is “stronger than it ever was.” | 1 | 113,124 | 0.014718 | https://www.ktsm.com/news/were-closing-in-on-them-says-ufo-expert-on-pentagon-findings/ | 2022-04-22 12:30:50+00:00 | CHICAGO (NewsNation) — A newly-released Pentagon report says some witnesses who reported UFO sightings also experienced injuries including radiation burns, brain problems and damaged nerves.
While the memo from the Defense Intelligence Agency, or DIA, is not the hard evidence needed to confirm life on other planets, Nick Pope — a journalist who used to run the British Government’s UFO Project — says we’re closer than we’ve ever been.
“If they’re out there, we’re closing in on them and it will be the biggest discovery in human history,” he said Tuesday night during “On Balance with Leland Vittert.”
Titled “Anomalous Acute And Subacute Field Effects on Human and Biological Tissues,” the memo was part of more than 1,500 pages of DIA documents related to the Pentagon’s secretive UFO program called the Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program.
The document, which was requested in 2017 under the Freedom of Information Act, was finally released Tuesday. It confirms, at least according to Pope, what pilots have been reporting for years.
“We’ve seen multiple videos — U.S. Navy videos — of jets chasing these things tracked on radar and it’s not just UFOs,” Pope said. “Frankly, they’ve been looking at other things which sound like they come straight out of an “X-Files” script.”
In 2019, the U.S. government declassified, released and confirmed videos showing encounters between UFOs and U.S. Navy pilots in 2004 and 2015. Similarly, leaked Pentagon footage of a spherical flying object seen flying off the coast of San Diego was later confirmed as authentic by the Pentagon, as well.
But because there aren’t definitive confirmations on what these objects actually are, the possibilities are endless.
Pope says one theory he’s heard is that the occurrences are no more than next generation aerospace tech — secret prototype aircraft and drones.
Pope also says he’s heard people say it might be U.S. tech secretly tested on one part of the military by another to see how we react. Then, of course, there’s the theory that this is adversary technology from Russia or China.
“All of this is why Congress is now taking very close note of this. There are multiple UFO provisions in the the latest defense bill. So people are taking this seriously,” Pope said.
Pope, who used to be in the minority in terms of official figures following this phenomenon, says public and government interest is one of necessity.
“I think there has been a realization that this is a serious defense and national security issue,” he said.
But the new interest is also because UFOs have become just that undeniable.
“The other thing is, we’ve just got a lot more evidence than was previously the case. We always knew pilots … saw these things. But it’s the DoD themselves that have recently put some of this on their website,” he continued.
Either way, Pope says the chances of us finding out what these UFOs are is “stronger than it ever was.” |
https://www.wowktv.com/news/were-closing-in-on-them-says-ufo-expert-on-pentagon-findings/ | CHICAGO (NewsNation) — A newly-released Pentagon report says some witnesses who reported UFO sightings also experienced injuries including radiation burns, brain problems and damaged nerves.
While the memo from the Defense Intelligence Agency, or DIA, is not the hard evidence needed to confirm life on other planets, Nick Pope — a journalist who used to run the British Government’s UFO Project — says we’re closer than we’ve ever been.
“If they’re out there, we’re closing in on them and it will be the biggest discovery in human history,” he said Tuesday night during “On Balance with Leland Vittert.”
Titled “Anomalous Acute And Subacute Field Effects on Human and Biological Tissues,” the memo was part of more than 1,500 pages of DIA documents related to the Pentagon’s secretive UFO program called the Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program.
The document, which was requested in 2017 under the Freedom of Information Act, was finally released Tuesday. It confirms, at least according to Pope, what pilots have been reporting for years.
“We’ve seen multiple videos — U.S. Navy videos — of jets chasing these things tracked on radar and it’s not just UFOs,” Pope said. “Frankly, they’ve been looking at other things which sound like they come straight out of an “X-Files” script.”
In 2019, the U.S. government declassified, released and confirmed videos showing encounters between UFOs and U.S. Navy pilots in 2004 and 2015. Similarly, leaked Pentagon footage of a spherical flying object seen flying off the coast of San Diego was later confirmed as authentic by the Pentagon, as well.
But because there aren’t definitive confirmations on what these objects actually are, the possibilities are endless.
Pope says one theory he’s heard is that the occurrences are no more than next generation aerospace tech — secret prototype aircraft and drones.
Pope also says he’s heard people say it might be U.S. tech secretly tested on one part of the military by another to see how we react. Then, of course, there’s the theory that this is adversary technology from Russia or China.
“All of this is why Congress is now taking very close note of this. There are multiple UFO provisions in the latest defense bill. So people are taking this seriously,” Pope said.
Pope, who used to be in the minority in terms of official figures following this phenomenon, says public and government interest is one of necessity.
“I think there has been a realization that this is a serious defense and national security issue,” he said.
But the new interest is also because UFOs have become just that undeniable.
“The other thing is, we’ve just got a lot more evidence than was previously the case. We always knew pilots … saw these things. But it’s the DoD themselves that have recently put some of this on their website,” he continued.
Either way, Pope says the chances of us finding out what these UFOs are is “stronger than it ever was.” | 2 | 58,253 | 0.014718 | https://www.newsnationnow.com/on-balance-with-leland-vittert/were-closing-in-on-them-ufo-expert-on-pentagon-findings/ | 2022-04-06 02:53:00+00:00 | CHICAGO (NewsNation) — A newly-released Pentagon report says some witnesses who reported UFO sightings also experienced injuries including radiation burns, brain problems and damaged nerves.
While the memo from the Defense Intelligence Agency, or DIA, is not the hard evidence needed to confirm life on other planets, Nick Pope — a journalist who used to run the British Government’s UFO Project — says we’re closer than we’ve ever been.
“If they’re out there, we’re closing in on them and it will be the biggest discovery in human history,” he said Tuesday night during “On Balance with Leland Vittert.”
Titled “Anomalous Acute And Subacute Field Effects on Human and Biological Tissues,” the memo was part of more than 1,500 pages of DIA documents related to the Pentagon’s secretive UFO program called the Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program.
The document, which was requested in 2017 under the Freedom of Information Act, was finally released Tuesday. It confirms, at least according to Pope, what pilots have been reporting for years.
“We’ve seen multiple videos — U.S. Navy videos — of jets chasing these things tracked on radar and it’s not just UFOs,” Pope said. “Frankly, they’ve been looking at other things which sound like they come straight out of an “X-Files” script.”
In 2019, the U.S. government declassified, released and confirmed videos showing encounters between UFOs and U.S. Navy pilots in 2004 and 2015. Similarly, leaked Pentagon footage of a spherical flying object seen flying off the coast of San Diego was later confirmed as authentic by the Pentagon, as well.
But because there aren’t definitive confirmations on what these objects actually are, the possibilities are endless.
Pope says one theory he’s heard is that the occurrences are no more than next generation aerospace tech — secret prototype aircraft and drones.
Pope also says he’s heard people say it might be U.S. tech secretly tested on one part of the military by another to see how we react. Then, of course, there’s the theory that this is adversary technology from Russia or China.
“All of this is why Congress is now taking very close note of this. There are multiple UFO provisions in the the latest defense bill. So people are taking this seriously,” Pope said.
Pope, who used to be in the minority in terms of official figures following this phenomenon, says public and government interest is one of necessity.
“I think there has been a realization that this is a serious defense and national security issue,” he said.
But the new interest is also because UFOs have become just that undeniable.
“The other thing is, we’ve just got a lot more evidence than was previously the case. We always knew pilots … saw these things. But it’s the DoD themselves that have recently put some of this on their website,” he continued.
Either way, Pope says the chances of us finding out what these UFOs are is “stronger than it ever was.” |
https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/sport/football/dundee-united/3174851/dundee-united-and-dundee-fans-set-to-join-forces-at-derby-to-support-tangerines-business-chiefs-ukraine-mission/ | Dundee United and Dundee fans are set to join forces at this weekend’s derby in support of Tangerines business chief Ricardo Cerdan’s Ukraine mercy mission.
Proceeds from Saturday’s 50:50 prize draw – organised by the Dundee United Development Association (DUDA) – will be donated to Cerdan’s “United With Ukraine” fund, which has already raised over £16,000 to support refugee support and evacuation work in the war-torn country.
Fans of both Dundee sides will be able to show their support at Saturday’s Tannadice derby, with draw tickets available in both home and away sections of the stadium.
Both clubs have already come together in support of DUDA’s decision to donate its proceeds, which are normally sent to United’s academy.
Proceeds from this Saturday’s Matchday 50:50 draw at Tannadice will be donated to financially support the continued work of Dundee United employee Ricardo Cerdan who has visited Ukraine to volunteer and assist in the safe passage of refugees. https://t.co/MJ6nCjkipG
— Dundee Football Club (@DundeeFC) April 6, 2022
Colin Stewart, DUDA chairperson, said: “We encourage all supporters of both our city’s teams to support this initiative as this is an opportunity to provide financial assistance to help support the young people of Ukraine who are living in desperate and dangerous conditions.”
Cerdan, who is the Tangerines’ international business development manager, first travelled to Ukraine last month.
He distributed 70kg of Dundee United toys, jackets, blankets and other goods worth £2,000 to refugees and told the Courier how he helped two children across the border into Poland at the request of their desperate father.
The selfless Tannadice worker has now returned to the country on a second aid mission. | 0 | 45,754 | 0.811668 | https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/frank-lampard-everton-ukraine-tickets-24566199 | 2022-07-22 20:02:13+00:00 | Everton are liaising with councils across the Liverpool City Region to distribute free tickets to Ukrainian refugees for the upcoming ‘Match for Peace’ against Dynamo Kyiv. The club is working with the six councils: Liverpool; Wirral, St Helens, Sefton, Knowsley and Halton to ensure families who have been housed across the local area as part of the Government’s ‘Home For Ukraine’ scheme have the opportunity to attend the game.
The charity fundraising game at Goodison Park on Friday July 29 (kick-off 7:45pm) is the first played in the UK by Ukrainian giants, Dynamo Kyiv, as part of their ‘Match For Peace’ initiative. To mark the occasion, the club are donating free tickets to local councils to benefit the hundreds of Ukrainian families who are being housed in the region, having escaped the war in their homeland.
Everton manager Frank Lampard said: “We are delighted to work with councils across the city region to extend this invitation to the Ukrainian refugee families and their hosts living here on Merseyside. We are committed to doing all we can to help those people impacted by the shocking war in Ukraine.
“This game provides a spotlight on that fundraising activity and by raising funds together, we can help those affected by the ongoing conflict.”
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Proceeds from the game, including supporter donations, will go directly to humanitarian charities supporting the people of Ukraine. Each local council will liaise directly with the refugees in their area in order to distribute the free tickets for the game.
Everton's support for Ukraine during the ongoing conflict with Russia led to club majority shareholder Farhad Moshiri extending the invitation to Dynamo Kyiv to play their very first ‘Match For Peace’ on British soil at Goodison Park. Dynamo have also played games in Poland, Turkey, Croatia, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, France and Belgium since the start of the war.
Everton supported Ukraine by wearing the logo of the Disasters Emergency Committee Ukraine Humanitarian Appeal on shirt sleeves for the final 10 games of the 2021/22 season. The club also contributed £250,000 to the Ukraine Humanitarian Appeal in March – a total matched by both Mr Moshiri and chairman Bill Kenwright.
General tickets for the Dynamo Kyiv game – the Blues' final pre-season fixture ahead of the 2022/23 Premier League season – are now on general sale, priced at £15 for adults (18 to 64-year-olds) and £5 for concessions (under-18s and over-65s). Supporters will be given the option to add a donation of £1, £5 or £10 at the point of purchase, with the money raised bolstering the total raised for charity through ticket sales and other matchday activities.
Please note, there will be no Hospitality available for this game and Hospitality Members will need to purchase tickets through the general admission avenues. Fans can click here to book tickets.
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https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/sport/football/dundee-united/3174851/dundee-united-and-dundee-fans-set-to-join-forces-at-derby-to-support-tangerines-business-chiefs-ukraine-mission/ | Dundee United and Dundee fans are set to join forces at this weekend’s derby in support of Tangerines business chief Ricardo Cerdan’s Ukraine mercy mission.
Proceeds from Saturday’s 50:50 prize draw – organised by the Dundee United Development Association (DUDA) – will be donated to Cerdan’s “United With Ukraine” fund, which has already raised over £16,000 to support refugee support and evacuation work in the war-torn country.
Fans of both Dundee sides will be able to show their support at Saturday’s Tannadice derby, with draw tickets available in both home and away sections of the stadium.
Both clubs have already come together in support of DUDA’s decision to donate its proceeds, which are normally sent to United’s academy.
Proceeds from this Saturday’s Matchday 50:50 draw at Tannadice will be donated to financially support the continued work of Dundee United employee Ricardo Cerdan who has visited Ukraine to volunteer and assist in the safe passage of refugees. https://t.co/MJ6nCjkipG
— Dundee Football Club (@DundeeFC) April 6, 2022
Colin Stewart, DUDA chairperson, said: “We encourage all supporters of both our city’s teams to support this initiative as this is an opportunity to provide financial assistance to help support the young people of Ukraine who are living in desperate and dangerous conditions.”
Cerdan, who is the Tangerines’ international business development manager, first travelled to Ukraine last month.
He distributed 70kg of Dundee United toys, jackets, blankets and other goods worth £2,000 to refugees and told the Courier how he helped two children across the border into Poland at the request of their desperate father.
The selfless Tannadice worker has now returned to the country on a second aid mission. | 1 | 39,479 | 0.847848 | https://www.ireland-live.ie/news/football/867628/everton-to-offer-free-tickets-for-dynamo-kyiv-game-to-ukrainian-refugees.html | 2022-07-22 19:33:19+00:00 | Everton will offer Ukrainian refugees free tickets to their pre-season ‘Match for Peace’ against Dynamo Kyiv at Goodison Park.
The club is liaising with six councils – Wirral, St Helens, Sefton, Knowsley, Halton and Liverpool – to ensure families who have been housed across the region as part of the Government’s ‘Home For Ukraine’ scheme have the opportunity to attend next Friday.
“We are delighted to work with councils across the city region to extend this invitation to the Ukrainian refugee families and their hosts living here on Merseyside,” said a club statement.
“We are committed to doing all we can to help those people impacted by the shocking war in Ukraine.
“This game provides a spotlight on that fundraising activity and by raising funds together, we can help those affected by the ongoing conflict.”
Proceeds from the game, including supporter donations, will go directly to humanitarian charities supporting the people of Ukraine.
The club contributed £250,000 to the Ukraine Humanitarian Appeal in March and that was matched by Everton’s owner Farhad Moshiri and chairman Bill Kenwright.
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https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/sport/football/dundee-united/3174851/dundee-united-and-dundee-fans-set-to-join-forces-at-derby-to-support-tangerines-business-chiefs-ukraine-mission/ | Dundee United and Dundee fans are set to join forces at this weekend’s derby in support of Tangerines business chief Ricardo Cerdan’s Ukraine mercy mission.
Proceeds from Saturday’s 50:50 prize draw – organised by the Dundee United Development Association (DUDA) – will be donated to Cerdan’s “United With Ukraine” fund, which has already raised over £16,000 to support refugee support and evacuation work in the war-torn country.
Fans of both Dundee sides will be able to show their support at Saturday’s Tannadice derby, with draw tickets available in both home and away sections of the stadium.
Both clubs have already come together in support of DUDA’s decision to donate its proceeds, which are normally sent to United’s academy.
Proceeds from this Saturday’s Matchday 50:50 draw at Tannadice will be donated to financially support the continued work of Dundee United employee Ricardo Cerdan who has visited Ukraine to volunteer and assist in the safe passage of refugees. https://t.co/MJ6nCjkipG
— Dundee Football Club (@DundeeFC) April 6, 2022
Colin Stewart, DUDA chairperson, said: “We encourage all supporters of both our city’s teams to support this initiative as this is an opportunity to provide financial assistance to help support the young people of Ukraine who are living in desperate and dangerous conditions.”
Cerdan, who is the Tangerines’ international business development manager, first travelled to Ukraine last month.
He distributed 70kg of Dundee United toys, jackets, blankets and other goods worth £2,000 to refugees and told the Courier how he helped two children across the border into Poland at the request of their desperate father.
The selfless Tannadice worker has now returned to the country on a second aid mission. | 2 | 40,460 | 0.847848 | https://www.donegallive.ie/news/sport/867621/everton-to-offer-free-tickets-for-dynamo-kyiv-game-to-ukrainian-refugees.html | 2022-07-22 19:37:16+00:00 | Everton will offer Ukrainian refugees free tickets to their pre-season ‘Match for Peace’ against Dynamo Kyiv at Goodison Park.
The club is liaising with six councils – Wirral, St Helens, Sefton, Knowsley, Halton and Liverpool – to ensure families who have been housed across the region as part of the Government’s ‘Home For Ukraine’ scheme have the opportunity to attend next Friday.
“We are delighted to work with councils across the city region to extend this invitation to the Ukrainian refugee families and their hosts living here on Merseyside,” said a club statement.
“We are committed to doing all we can to help those people impacted by the shocking war in Ukraine.
“This game provides a spotlight on that fundraising activity and by raising funds together, we can help those affected by the ongoing conflict.”
Proceeds from the game, including supporter donations, will go directly to humanitarian charities supporting the people of Ukraine.
The club contributed £250,000 to the Ukraine Humanitarian Appeal in March and that was matched by Everton’s owner Farhad Moshiri and chairman Bill Kenwright.
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https://www.krqe.com/news/weird/hershey-unveils-limited-edition-kit-kat-flavor/ | HERSHEY, Pa. (WHTM) – Kit Kat fans are getting a new limited-edition flavor inspired by a classic baked good.
The Hershey Company unveiled the Blueberry Muffin Kit Kat, featuring a blueberry muffin-flavored creme “with notes of fresh and cooked blueberries, a cake batter-like muffin flavor, and graham cookie pieces folded into the bar.”
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The flavor will be available at retailers nationwide starting in April in a 1.5-ounce standard bar, a 3-ounce king bar, and 0.49-ounce snack size.
“Our product creators have such passion for deciding which flavor Kit Kat should take on next and making sure it delivers for our fans,” said Dan Williard, brand manager of Kit Kat. “Kit Kat Blueberry Muffin has already become one of our favorites; it has all the taste of a freshly baked blueberry muffin, but no baking required!”
More information about Blueberry Muffin Kit Kats is available on brand’s official website. | 0 | 104,190 | 0.200418 | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2564887812377/hershey-unveils-limited-edition-kit-kat-flavor | 2022-04-10 03:21:36+00:00 | Hershey unveils limited-edition Kit Kat flavor
HERSHEY, Pa. ( WHTM ) – Kit Kat fans are getting a new limited-edition flavor inspired by a classic baked good.
The Hershey Company unveiled the Blueberry Muffin Kit Kat, featuring a blueberry muffin-flavored creme “with notes of fresh and cooked blueberries, a cake batter-like muffin flavor, and graham cookie pieces folded into the bar.”
The flavor will be available at retailers nationwide starting in April in a 1.5-ounce standard bar, a 3-ounce king bar, and 0.49-ounce snack size.
“Our product creators have such passion for deciding which flavor Kit Kat should take on next and making sure it delivers for our fans,” said Dan Williard, brand manager of Kit Kat. “Kit Kat Blueberry Muffin has already become one of our favorites; it has all the taste of a freshly baked blueberry muffin, but no baking required!”
More information about Blueberry Muffin Kit Kats is available on brand’s official website .
Copyright 2022 Nexstar Media Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KXAN Austin. |
https://www.krqe.com/news/weird/hershey-unveils-limited-edition-kit-kat-flavor/ | HERSHEY, Pa. (WHTM) – Kit Kat fans are getting a new limited-edition flavor inspired by a classic baked good.
The Hershey Company unveiled the Blueberry Muffin Kit Kat, featuring a blueberry muffin-flavored creme “with notes of fresh and cooked blueberries, a cake batter-like muffin flavor, and graham cookie pieces folded into the bar.”
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The flavor will be available at retailers nationwide starting in April in a 1.5-ounce standard bar, a 3-ounce king bar, and 0.49-ounce snack size.
“Our product creators have such passion for deciding which flavor Kit Kat should take on next and making sure it delivers for our fans,” said Dan Williard, brand manager of Kit Kat. “Kit Kat Blueberry Muffin has already become one of our favorites; it has all the taste of a freshly baked blueberry muffin, but no baking required!”
More information about Blueberry Muffin Kit Kats is available on brand’s official website. | 1 | 99,371 | 0.202525 | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2564680268188/hershey-unveils-limited-edition-kit-kat-flavor | 2022-04-07 17:31:31+00:00 | Hershey unveils limited-edition Kit Kat flavor
HERSHEY, Pa. ( WHTM ) – Kit Kat fans are getting a new limited-edition flavor inspired by a classic baked good.
The Hershey Company unveiled the Blueberry Muffin Kit Kat, featuring a blueberry muffin-flavored creme “with notes of fresh and cooked blueberries, a cake batter-like muffin flavor, and graham cookie pieces folded into the bar.”
The flavor will be available at retailers nationwide starting in April in a 1.5-ounce standard bar, a 3-ounce king bar, and 0.49-ounce snack size.
Companies see largest profit growth in nearly 50 years, fed reports“Our product creators have such passion for deciding which flavor Kit Kat should take on next and making sure it delivers for our fans,” said Dan Williard, brand manager of Kit Kat. “Kit Kat Blueberry Muffin has already become one of our favorites; it has all the taste of a freshly baked blueberry muffin, but no baking required!”
More information about Blueberry Muffin Kit Kats is available on brand’s official website .
Copyright 2022 Nexstar Media Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WRBL. |
https://www.krqe.com/news/weird/hershey-unveils-limited-edition-kit-kat-flavor/ | HERSHEY, Pa. (WHTM) – Kit Kat fans are getting a new limited-edition flavor inspired by a classic baked good.
The Hershey Company unveiled the Blueberry Muffin Kit Kat, featuring a blueberry muffin-flavored creme “with notes of fresh and cooked blueberries, a cake batter-like muffin flavor, and graham cookie pieces folded into the bar.”
Story continues below
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- Crime: Driver caught doing 140 mph won’t get more jail time
- KRQE En Español: Martes 5 de Abril 2022
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The flavor will be available at retailers nationwide starting in April in a 1.5-ounce standard bar, a 3-ounce king bar, and 0.49-ounce snack size.
“Our product creators have such passion for deciding which flavor Kit Kat should take on next and making sure it delivers for our fans,” said Dan Williard, brand manager of Kit Kat. “Kit Kat Blueberry Muffin has already become one of our favorites; it has all the taste of a freshly baked blueberry muffin, but no baking required!”
More information about Blueberry Muffin Kit Kats is available on brand’s official website. | 2 | 76,473 | 0.21388 | https://www.informnny.com/news/hershey-unveils-limited-edition-kit-kat-flavor/ | 2022-04-06 16:16:23+00:00 | HERSHEY, Pa. (WHTM) – Kit Kat fans are getting a new limited-edition flavor inspired by a classic baked good.
The Hershey Company unveiled the Blueberry Muffin Kit Kat, featuring a blueberry muffin-flavored creme “with notes of fresh and cooked blueberries, a cake batter-like muffin flavor, and graham cookie pieces folded into the bar.”
The flavor will be available at retailers nationwide starting in April in a 1.5-ounce standard bar, a 3-ounce king bar, and a 0.49-ounce snack size.
“Our product creators have such passion for deciding which flavor Kit Kat should take on next and making sure it delivers for our fans,” said Dan Williard, brand manager of Kit Kat. “Kit Kat Blueberry Muffin has already become one of our favorites; it has all the taste of a freshly baked blueberry muffin, but no baking required!”
More information about Blueberry Muffin Kit Kats is available on brand’s official website. |
https://www.thecourier.co.uk/sport/3173585/ashes-winner-ian-bell-joins-derbyshire-for-stint-as-batting-consultant/ | Five-time Ashes winner Ian Bell has been announced as Derbyshire’s batting consultant for the first two months of the upcoming county season.
The former England batter’s 7,727 runs in 118 Tests at an average of 42.69 included 22 centuries while he was an instrumental part of the side that reached number one in the rankings in 2011.
Widely acknowledged as one of the most elegant batters of his era, Bell also featured in 161 one-day internationals and eight Twenty20s before hanging up his spikes at the end of the 2020 domestic season.
Bell, who has joined Derbyshire for the opening block of LV= Insurance County Championship fixtures and replaces batting lead Mal Loye, is relishing the chance to work with head coach Mickey Arthur.
The 39-year-old said: “As a young coach, the opportunity to learn from one of the biggest names in the game was massive. Mickey has big plans for the future of Derbyshire, and I’m really excited to be part of it for the next couple of months.
“There’s a lot of talent there. Now it’s about making sure that it’s always on show across all formats. Between them, our batters have more than 100 all-formats centuries and there’s the ability to make big scores, my job is to help them to continue progressing and perform at their best.”
Bell amassed in excess of 20,000 first-class runs in a distinguished 22-year playing career, helping Warwickshire claim six trophies, including two championship titles.
Arthur said: “As a player, Ian had a career which any batter would be proud of, and it will be a great opportunity for our players to learn from him and develop under his coaching.
“Last season, the batting was an aspect of the squad’s game that needed to improve, so Ian’s arrival gives us a real boost, he has considerable international experience and that will help us continue to drive the standards we’ve set for the team.” | 0 | 123,804 | 0 | https://www.shropshirestar.com/sport/uk-sports/2022/04/06/ashes-winner-ian-bell-joins-derbyshire-for-stint-as-batting-consultant/ | 2022-04-06 09:26:06+00:00 | Five-time Ashes winner Ian Bell has been announced as Derbyshire’s batting consultant for the first two months of the upcoming county season.
The former England batter’s 7,727 runs in 118 Tests at an average of 42.69 included 22 centuries while he was an instrumental part of the side that reached number one in the rankings in 2011.
Widely acknowledged as one of the most elegant batters of his era, Bell also featured in 161 one-day internationals and eight Twenty20s before hanging up his spikes at the end of the 2020 domestic season.
Bell, who has joined Derbyshire for the opening block of LV= Insurance County Championship fixtures and replaces batting lead Mal Loye, is relishing the chance to work with head coach Mickey Arthur.
The 39-year-old said: “As a young coach, the opportunity to learn from one of the biggest names in the game was massive. Mickey has big plans for the future of Derbyshire, and I’m really excited to be part of it for the next couple of months.
“There’s a lot of talent there. Now it’s about making sure that it’s always on show across all formats. Between them, our batters have more than 100 all-formats centuries and there’s the ability to make big scores, my job is to help them to continue progressing and perform at their best.”
Bell amassed in excess of 20,000 first-class runs in a distinguished 22-year playing career, helping Warwickshire claim six trophies, including two championship titles.
Arthur said: “As a player, Ian had a career which any batter would be proud of, and it will be a great opportunity for our players to learn from him and develop under his coaching.
“Last season, the batting was an aspect of the squad’s game that needed to improve, so Ian’s arrival gives us a real boost, he has considerable international experience and that will help us continue to drive the standards we’ve set for the team.” |
https://www.thecourier.co.uk/sport/3173585/ashes-winner-ian-bell-joins-derbyshire-for-stint-as-batting-consultant/ | Five-time Ashes winner Ian Bell has been announced as Derbyshire’s batting consultant for the first two months of the upcoming county season.
The former England batter’s 7,727 runs in 118 Tests at an average of 42.69 included 22 centuries while he was an instrumental part of the side that reached number one in the rankings in 2011.
Widely acknowledged as one of the most elegant batters of his era, Bell also featured in 161 one-day internationals and eight Twenty20s before hanging up his spikes at the end of the 2020 domestic season.
Bell, who has joined Derbyshire for the opening block of LV= Insurance County Championship fixtures and replaces batting lead Mal Loye, is relishing the chance to work with head coach Mickey Arthur.
The 39-year-old said: “As a young coach, the opportunity to learn from one of the biggest names in the game was massive. Mickey has big plans for the future of Derbyshire, and I’m really excited to be part of it for the next couple of months.
“There’s a lot of talent there. Now it’s about making sure that it’s always on show across all formats. Between them, our batters have more than 100 all-formats centuries and there’s the ability to make big scores, my job is to help them to continue progressing and perform at their best.”
Bell amassed in excess of 20,000 first-class runs in a distinguished 22-year playing career, helping Warwickshire claim six trophies, including two championship titles.
Arthur said: “As a player, Ian had a career which any batter would be proud of, and it will be a great opportunity for our players to learn from him and develop under his coaching.
“Last season, the batting was an aspect of the squad’s game that needed to improve, so Ian’s arrival gives us a real boost, he has considerable international experience and that will help us continue to drive the standards we’ve set for the team.” | 1 | 124,153 | 0 | https://www.expressandstar.com/sport/uk-sports/2022/04/06/ashes-winner-ian-bell-joins-derbyshire-for-stint-as-batting-consultant/ | 2022-04-06 09:27:22+00:00 | Five-time Ashes winner Ian Bell has been announced as Derbyshire’s batting consultant for the first two months of the upcoming county season.
The former England batter’s 7,727 runs in 118 Tests at an average of 42.69 included 22 centuries while he was an instrumental part of the side that reached number one in the rankings in 2011.
Widely acknowledged as one of the most elegant batters of his era, Bell also featured in 161 one-day internationals and eight Twenty20s before hanging up his spikes at the end of the 2020 domestic season.
Bell, who has joined Derbyshire for the opening block of LV= Insurance County Championship fixtures and replaces batting lead Mal Loye, is relishing the chance to work with head coach Mickey Arthur.
The 39-year-old said: “As a young coach, the opportunity to learn from one of the biggest names in the game was massive. Mickey has big plans for the future of Derbyshire, and I’m really excited to be part of it for the next couple of months.
“There’s a lot of talent there. Now it’s about making sure that it’s always on show across all formats. Between them, our batters have more than 100 all-formats centuries and there’s the ability to make big scores, my job is to help them to continue progressing and perform at their best.”
Bell amassed in excess of 20,000 first-class runs in a distinguished 22-year playing career, helping Warwickshire claim six trophies, including two championship titles.
Arthur said: “As a player, Ian had a career which any batter would be proud of, and it will be a great opportunity for our players to learn from him and develop under his coaching.
“Last season, the batting was an aspect of the squad’s game that needed to improve, so Ian’s arrival gives us a real boost, he has considerable international experience and that will help us continue to drive the standards we’ve set for the team.” |
https://www.thecourier.co.uk/sport/3173585/ashes-winner-ian-bell-joins-derbyshire-for-stint-as-batting-consultant/ | Five-time Ashes winner Ian Bell has been announced as Derbyshire’s batting consultant for the first two months of the upcoming county season.
The former England batter’s 7,727 runs in 118 Tests at an average of 42.69 included 22 centuries while he was an instrumental part of the side that reached number one in the rankings in 2011.
Widely acknowledged as one of the most elegant batters of his era, Bell also featured in 161 one-day internationals and eight Twenty20s before hanging up his spikes at the end of the 2020 domestic season.
Bell, who has joined Derbyshire for the opening block of LV= Insurance County Championship fixtures and replaces batting lead Mal Loye, is relishing the chance to work with head coach Mickey Arthur.
The 39-year-old said: “As a young coach, the opportunity to learn from one of the biggest names in the game was massive. Mickey has big plans for the future of Derbyshire, and I’m really excited to be part of it for the next couple of months.
“There’s a lot of talent there. Now it’s about making sure that it’s always on show across all formats. Between them, our batters have more than 100 all-formats centuries and there’s the ability to make big scores, my job is to help them to continue progressing and perform at their best.”
Bell amassed in excess of 20,000 first-class runs in a distinguished 22-year playing career, helping Warwickshire claim six trophies, including two championship titles.
Arthur said: “As a player, Ian had a career which any batter would be proud of, and it will be a great opportunity for our players to learn from him and develop under his coaching.
“Last season, the batting was an aspect of the squad’s game that needed to improve, so Ian’s arrival gives us a real boost, he has considerable international experience and that will help us continue to drive the standards we’ve set for the team.” | 2 | 101,700 | 0 | https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/sport/4138601/ashes-winner-ian-bell-joins-derbyshire-for-stint-as-batting-consultant/ | 2022-04-06 17:51:06+00:00 | Five-time Ashes winner Ian Bell has been announced as Derbyshire’s batting consultant for the first two months of the upcoming county season.
The former England batter’s 7,727 runs in 118 Tests at an average of 42.69 included 22 centuries while he was an instrumental part of the side that reached number one in the rankings in 2011.
Widely acknowledged as one of the most elegant batters of his era, Bell also featured in 161 one-day internationals and eight Twenty20s before hanging up his spikes at the end of the 2020 domestic season.
Bell, who has joined Derbyshire for the opening block of LV= Insurance County Championship fixtures and replaces batting lead Mal Loye, is relishing the chance to work with head coach Mickey Arthur.
The 39-year-old said: “As a young coach, the opportunity to learn from one of the biggest names in the game was massive. Mickey has big plans for the future of Derbyshire, and I’m really excited to be part of it for the next couple of months.
“There’s a lot of talent there. Now it’s about making sure that it’s always on show across all formats. Between them, our batters have more than 100 all-formats centuries and there’s the ability to make big scores, my job is to help them to continue progressing and perform at their best.”
Bell amassed in excess of 20,000 first-class runs in a distinguished 22-year playing career, helping Warwickshire claim six trophies, including two championship titles.
Arthur said: “As a player, Ian had a career which any batter would be proud of, and it will be a great opportunity for our players to learn from him and develop under his coaching.
“Last season, the batting was an aspect of the squad’s game that needed to improve, so Ian’s arrival gives us a real boost, he has considerable international experience and that will help us continue to drive the standards we’ve set for the team.” |
https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Fed-moves-toward-slashing-bond-holdings-to-fight-17061907.php | WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Reserve is moving closer to rapidly shrinking its huge $9 trillion stockpile of bonds in the coming months to fight high inflation, a move that would contribute to higher borrowing costs for consumers and businesses.
In minutes from their most recent policy meeting three weeks ago, released Wednesday, Fed policymakers said they would likely cut their holdings by about $95 billion a month — nearly double the pace they implemented five years ago when they last shrank their balance sheet.
At that meeting, the Fed raised its benchmark short-term rate for the first time in three years and signaled that it planned to continue raising rates well into next year.
The plan to quickly draw down their bond holdings marks the latest move by Fed officials to accelerate their inflation-fighting efforts. Prices are rising at the fastest pace in four decades, and Fed officials in recent speeches have expressed increasing concern about getting inflation under control. Financial markets now expect much steeper hikes this year than Fed officials had signaled as recently as their meeting in mid-March.
Higher rates from the Fed will heighten borrowing costs for mortgages, auto loans, credit cards and corporate loans. In doing so, the Fed hopes to cool economic growth and rising wages enough to rein in high inflation, which has caused hardships for millions of households and poses a severe political threat to President Joe Biden.
Many economists have said they worry that the Fed has waited too long to begin raising rates and that the policymakers might end up responding so aggressively as to trigger a recession.
Chair Jerome Powell opened the door two weeks ago to increasing rates by as much as a half-point at upcoming meetings, rather than by a traditional quarter-point. The Fed hasn't carried out any half-point rate increases since 2000. Lael Brainard, a key member of the Fed's Board of Governors, and other officials have also made clear that such sharp increases are possible. Most economists now expect the Fed to raise rates by a half-point at both its May and June meetings.
In a speech Tuesday, Brainard underscored the Fed's increasing aggressiveness by saying that the central bank's bond holdings will “shrink considerably more rapidly” over “a much shorter period" than the last time the Fed reduced its balance sheet, from 2017-2019. At that time, the balance sheet was about $4.5 trillion. Now, it's twice as large.
The Fed bought trillions of dollars of Treasurys and mortgage-backed securities after the pandemic hammered the economy, with the goal of lowering longer-term borrowing rates. It also cut its short-term benchmark rate to near zero. Last month, it increased that rate to a range between 0.25% and 0.5%, its first increase in three years.
As a sign of how fast the Fed is reversing its policy, the last time the Fed purchased bonds, there was a three-year gap between when it stopped its purchases, in 2014, and when it began reducing the balance sheet, in 2017. Now that shift is likely to happen in as few as three months, economists say.
Brainard's remarks caused a sharp rise in the interest rate on the 10-year Treasury note, a key rate that influences mortgage rates, business loans and other borrowing costs. On Wednesday, that rate reached 2.6%, up from 2.3% just a week earlier, a sharp increase for that rate. A month ago, it was just 1.7%.
Shorter-term bond yields have jumped even higher, in some cases to above the 10-year yield, a pattern that has in the past been seen as a sign of an impending recession. Fed officials say, however, that shorter-term bond market yields aren't flashing the same warning signals. | 0 | 108,050 | 0 | https://www.mrt.com/news/article/Fed-moves-toward-slashing-bond-holdings-to-fight-17061907.php | 2022-04-06 18:17:26+00:00 | WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Reserve is moving closer to rapidly shrinking its huge $9 trillion stockpile of bonds in the coming months to fight high inflation, a move that would contribute to higher borrowing costs for consumers and businesses.
In minutes from their most recent policy meeting three weeks ago, released Wednesday, Fed policymakers said they would likely cut their holdings by about $95 billion a month — nearly double the pace they implemented five years ago when they last shrank their balance sheet.
At that meeting, the Fed raised its benchmark short-term rate for the first time in three years and signaled that it planned to continue raising rates well into next year.
The plan to quickly draw down their bond holdings marks the latest move by Fed officials to accelerate their inflation-fighting efforts. Prices are rising at the fastest pace in four decades, and Fed officials in recent speeches have expressed increasing concern about getting inflation under control. Financial markets now expect much steeper hikes this year than Fed officials had signaled as recently as their meeting in mid-March.
Higher rates from the Fed will heighten borrowing costs for mortgages, auto loans, credit cards and corporate loans. In doing so, the Fed hopes to cool economic growth and rising wages enough to rein in high inflation, which has caused hardships for millions of households and poses a severe political threat to President Joe Biden.
Many economists have said they worry that the Fed has waited too long to begin raising rates and that the policymakers might end up responding so aggressively as to trigger a recession.
Chair Jerome Powell opened the door two weeks ago to increasing rates by as much as a half-point at upcoming meetings, rather than by a traditional quarter-point. The Fed hasn't carried out any half-point rate increases since 2000. Lael Brainard, a key member of the Fed's Board of Governors, and other officials have also made clear that such sharp increases are possible. Most economists now expect the Fed to raise rates by a half-point at both its May and June meetings.
In a speech Tuesday, Brainard underscored the Fed's increasing aggressiveness by saying that the central bank's bond holdings will “shrink considerably more rapidly” over “a much shorter period" than the last time the Fed reduced its balance sheet, from 2017-2019. At that time, the balance sheet was about $4.5 trillion. Now, it's twice as large.
The Fed bought trillions of dollars of Treasurys and mortgage-backed securities after the pandemic hammered the economy, with the goal of lowering longer-term borrowing rates. It also cut its short-term benchmark rate to near zero. Last month, it increased that rate to a range between 0.25% and 0.5%, its first increase in three years.
As a sign of how fast the Fed is reversing its policy, the last time the Fed purchased bonds, there was a three-year gap between when it stopped its purchases, in 2014, and when it began reducing the balance sheet, in 2017. Now that shift is likely to happen in as few as three months, economists say.
Brainard's remarks caused a sharp rise in the interest rate on the 10-year Treasury note, a key rate that influences mortgage rates, business loans and other borrowing costs. On Wednesday, that rate reached 2.6%, up from 2.3% just a week earlier, a sharp increase for that rate. A month ago, it was just 1.7%.
Shorter-term bond yields have jumped even higher, in some cases to above the 10-year yield, a pattern that has in the past been seen as a sign of an impending recession. Fed officials say, however, that shorter-term bond market yields aren't flashing the same warning signals. |
https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Fed-moves-toward-slashing-bond-holdings-to-fight-17061907.php | WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Reserve is moving closer to rapidly shrinking its huge $9 trillion stockpile of bonds in the coming months to fight high inflation, a move that would contribute to higher borrowing costs for consumers and businesses.
In minutes from their most recent policy meeting three weeks ago, released Wednesday, Fed policymakers said they would likely cut their holdings by about $95 billion a month — nearly double the pace they implemented five years ago when they last shrank their balance sheet.
At that meeting, the Fed raised its benchmark short-term rate for the first time in three years and signaled that it planned to continue raising rates well into next year.
The plan to quickly draw down their bond holdings marks the latest move by Fed officials to accelerate their inflation-fighting efforts. Prices are rising at the fastest pace in four decades, and Fed officials in recent speeches have expressed increasing concern about getting inflation under control. Financial markets now expect much steeper hikes this year than Fed officials had signaled as recently as their meeting in mid-March.
Higher rates from the Fed will heighten borrowing costs for mortgages, auto loans, credit cards and corporate loans. In doing so, the Fed hopes to cool economic growth and rising wages enough to rein in high inflation, which has caused hardships for millions of households and poses a severe political threat to President Joe Biden.
Many economists have said they worry that the Fed has waited too long to begin raising rates and that the policymakers might end up responding so aggressively as to trigger a recession.
Chair Jerome Powell opened the door two weeks ago to increasing rates by as much as a half-point at upcoming meetings, rather than by a traditional quarter-point. The Fed hasn't carried out any half-point rate increases since 2000. Lael Brainard, a key member of the Fed's Board of Governors, and other officials have also made clear that such sharp increases are possible. Most economists now expect the Fed to raise rates by a half-point at both its May and June meetings.
In a speech Tuesday, Brainard underscored the Fed's increasing aggressiveness by saying that the central bank's bond holdings will “shrink considerably more rapidly” over “a much shorter period" than the last time the Fed reduced its balance sheet, from 2017-2019. At that time, the balance sheet was about $4.5 trillion. Now, it's twice as large.
The Fed bought trillions of dollars of Treasurys and mortgage-backed securities after the pandemic hammered the economy, with the goal of lowering longer-term borrowing rates. It also cut its short-term benchmark rate to near zero. Last month, it increased that rate to a range between 0.25% and 0.5%, its first increase in three years.
As a sign of how fast the Fed is reversing its policy, the last time the Fed purchased bonds, there was a three-year gap between when it stopped its purchases, in 2014, and when it began reducing the balance sheet, in 2017. Now that shift is likely to happen in as few as three months, economists say.
Brainard's remarks caused a sharp rise in the interest rate on the 10-year Treasury note, a key rate that influences mortgage rates, business loans and other borrowing costs. On Wednesday, that rate reached 2.6%, up from 2.3% just a week earlier, a sharp increase for that rate. A month ago, it was just 1.7%.
Shorter-term bond yields have jumped even higher, in some cases to above the 10-year yield, a pattern that has in the past been seen as a sign of an impending recession. Fed officials say, however, that shorter-term bond market yields aren't flashing the same warning signals. | 1 | 108,568 | 0 | https://www.journal-news.com/nation-world/fed-moves-toward-slashing-bond-holdings-to-fight-inflation/Q3T3RFZ3JNELTGI7MZG4I3RGHQ/ | 2022-04-06 18:19:06+00:00 | WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Reserve is moving closer to rapidly shrinking its huge $9 trillion stockpile of bonds in the coming months to fight high inflation, a move that would contribute to higher borrowing costs for consumers and businesses.
In minutes from their most recent policy meeting three weeks ago, released Wednesday, Fed policymakers said they would likely cut their holdings by about $95 billion a month — nearly double the pace they implemented five years ago when they last shrank their balance sheet.
At that meeting, the Fed raised its benchmark short-term rate for the first time in three years and signaled that it planned to continue raising rates well into next year.
The plan to quickly draw down their bond holdings marks the latest move by Fed officials to accelerate their inflation-fighting efforts. Prices are rising at the fastest pace in four decades, and Fed officials in recent speeches have expressed increasing concern about getting inflation under control. Financial markets now expect much steeper hikes this year than Fed officials had signaled as recently as their meeting in mid-March.
Higher rates from the Fed will heighten borrowing costs for mortgages, auto loans, credit cards and corporate loans. In doing so, the Fed hopes to cool economic growth and rising wages enough to rein in high inflation, which has caused hardships for millions of households and poses a severe political threat to President Joe Biden.
Many economists have said they worry that the Fed has waited too long to begin raising rates and that the policymakers might end up responding so aggressively as to trigger a recession.
Chair Jerome Powell opened the door two weeks ago to increasing rates by as much as a half-point at upcoming meetings, rather than by a traditional quarter-point. The Fed hasn't carried out any half-point rate increases since 2000. Lael Brainard, a key member of the Fed's Board of Governors, and other officials have also made clear that such sharp increases are possible. Most economists now expect the Fed to raise rates by a half-point at both its May and June meetings.
In a speech Tuesday, Brainard underscored the Fed's increasing aggressiveness by saying that the central bank's bond holdings will “shrink considerably more rapidly” over “a much shorter period" than the last time the Fed reduced its balance sheet, from 2017-2019. At that time, the balance sheet was about $4.5 trillion. Now, it's twice as large.
The Fed bought trillions of dollars of Treasurys and mortgage-backed securities after the pandemic hammered the economy, with the goal of lowering longer-term borrowing rates. It also cut its short-term benchmark rate to near zero. Last month, it increased that rate to a range between 0.25% and 0.5%, its first increase in three years.
As a sign of how fast the Fed is reversing its policy, the last time the Fed purchased bonds, there was a three-year gap between when it stopped its purchases, in 2014, and when it began reducing the balance sheet, in 2017. Now that shift is likely to happen in as few as three months, economists say.
Brainard's remarks caused a sharp rise in the interest rate on the 10-year Treasury note, a key rate that influences mortgage rates, business loans and other borrowing costs. On Wednesday, that rate reached 2.6%, up from 2.3% just a week earlier, a sharp increase for that rate. A month ago, it was just 1.7%.
Shorter-term bond yields have jumped even higher, in some cases to above the 10-year yield, a pattern that has in the past been seen as a sign of an impending recession. Fed officials say, however, that shorter-term bond market yields aren't flashing the same warning signals. |
https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Fed-moves-toward-slashing-bond-holdings-to-fight-17061907.php | WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Reserve is moving closer to rapidly shrinking its huge $9 trillion stockpile of bonds in the coming months to fight high inflation, a move that would contribute to higher borrowing costs for consumers and businesses.
In minutes from their most recent policy meeting three weeks ago, released Wednesday, Fed policymakers said they would likely cut their holdings by about $95 billion a month — nearly double the pace they implemented five years ago when they last shrank their balance sheet.
At that meeting, the Fed raised its benchmark short-term rate for the first time in three years and signaled that it planned to continue raising rates well into next year.
The plan to quickly draw down their bond holdings marks the latest move by Fed officials to accelerate their inflation-fighting efforts. Prices are rising at the fastest pace in four decades, and Fed officials in recent speeches have expressed increasing concern about getting inflation under control. Financial markets now expect much steeper hikes this year than Fed officials had signaled as recently as their meeting in mid-March.
Higher rates from the Fed will heighten borrowing costs for mortgages, auto loans, credit cards and corporate loans. In doing so, the Fed hopes to cool economic growth and rising wages enough to rein in high inflation, which has caused hardships for millions of households and poses a severe political threat to President Joe Biden.
Many economists have said they worry that the Fed has waited too long to begin raising rates and that the policymakers might end up responding so aggressively as to trigger a recession.
Chair Jerome Powell opened the door two weeks ago to increasing rates by as much as a half-point at upcoming meetings, rather than by a traditional quarter-point. The Fed hasn't carried out any half-point rate increases since 2000. Lael Brainard, a key member of the Fed's Board of Governors, and other officials have also made clear that such sharp increases are possible. Most economists now expect the Fed to raise rates by a half-point at both its May and June meetings.
In a speech Tuesday, Brainard underscored the Fed's increasing aggressiveness by saying that the central bank's bond holdings will “shrink considerably more rapidly” over “a much shorter period" than the last time the Fed reduced its balance sheet, from 2017-2019. At that time, the balance sheet was about $4.5 trillion. Now, it's twice as large.
The Fed bought trillions of dollars of Treasurys and mortgage-backed securities after the pandemic hammered the economy, with the goal of lowering longer-term borrowing rates. It also cut its short-term benchmark rate to near zero. Last month, it increased that rate to a range between 0.25% and 0.5%, its first increase in three years.
As a sign of how fast the Fed is reversing its policy, the last time the Fed purchased bonds, there was a three-year gap between when it stopped its purchases, in 2014, and when it began reducing the balance sheet, in 2017. Now that shift is likely to happen in as few as three months, economists say.
Brainard's remarks caused a sharp rise in the interest rate on the 10-year Treasury note, a key rate that influences mortgage rates, business loans and other borrowing costs. On Wednesday, that rate reached 2.6%, up from 2.3% just a week earlier, a sharp increase for that rate. A month ago, it was just 1.7%.
Shorter-term bond yields have jumped even higher, in some cases to above the 10-year yield, a pattern that has in the past been seen as a sign of an impending recession. Fed officials say, however, that shorter-term bond market yields aren't flashing the same warning signals. | 2 | 43,306 | 0.063429 | https://www.newsmax.com/finance/streettalk/federal-open-market-committee-minutes-95-billion-balance-sheet-runoff/2022/04/06/id/1064594/ | 2022-04-06 23:31:29+00:00 | The Federal Reserve is moving closer to rapidly shrinking its huge $9 trillion stockpile of bonds in the coming months to fight high inflation, a move that would contribute to higher borrowing costs for consumers and businesses.
In minutes from their most recent policy meeting three weeks ago, released Wednesday, Fed policymakers said they would likely cut their holdings by about $95 billion a month — nearly double the pace they implemented five years ago when they last shrank their balance sheet.
At that meeting, the Fed raised its benchmark short-term rate for the first time in three years and signaled that it planned to continue raising rates well into next year.
The plan to quickly draw down their bond holdings marks the latest move by Fed officials to accelerate their inflation-fighting efforts. Prices are rising at the fastest pace in four decades, and Fed officials in recent speeches have expressed increasing concern about getting inflation under control. Financial markets now expect much steeper hikes this year than Fed officials had signaled as recently as their meeting in mid-March.
Higher rates from the Fed will heighten borrowing costs for mortgages, auto loans, credit cards and corporate loans. In doing so, the Fed hopes to cool economic growth and rising wages enough to rein in high inflation, which has caused hardships for millions of households and poses a severe political threat to President Joe Biden.
Many economists have said they worry that the Fed has waited too long to begin raising rates and that the policymakers might end up responding so aggressively as to trigger a recession.
Chair Jerome Powell opened the door two weeks ago to increasing rates by as much as a half-point at upcoming meetings, rather than by a traditional quarter-point. The Fed hasn't carried out any half-point rate increases since 2000.
Lael Brainard, a key member of the Fed's Board of Governors, and other officials have also made clear that such sharp increases are possible. Most economists now expect the Fed to raise rates by a half-point at both its May and June meetings.
In a speech Tuesday, Brainard underscored the Fed's increasing aggressiveness by saying that the central bank's bond holdings will “shrink considerably more rapidly” over “a much shorter period" than the last time the Fed reduced its balance sheet, from 2017-2019. At that time, the balance sheet was about $4.5 trillion. Now, it's twice as large.
The Fed bought trillions of dollars of Treasurys and mortgage-backed securities after the pandemic hammered the economy, with the goal of lowering longer-term borrowing rates. It also cut its short-term benchmark rate to near zero. Last month, it increased that rate to a range between 0.25% and 0.5%, its first increase in three years.
As a sign of how fast the Fed is reversing its policy, the last time the Fed purchased bonds, there was a three-year gap between when it stopped its purchases, in 2014, and when it began reducing the balance sheet, in 2017. Now that shift is likely to happen in as few as three months, economists say.
Brainard's remarks caused a sharp rise in the interest rate on the 10-year Treasury note, a key rate that influences mortgage rates, business loans and other borrowing costs. On Wednesday, that rate reached 2.6%, up from 2.3% just a week earlier, a sharp increase for that rate. A month ago, it was just 1.7%.
Shorter-term bond yields have jumped even higher, in some cases to above the 10-year yield, a pattern that has in the past been seen as a sign of an impending recession. Fed officials say, however, that shorter-term bond market yields aren't flashing the same warning signals.
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https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/Sister-Gunmen-took-83-year-old-nun-from-bed-in-17061892.php | NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Ten gunmen kidnapped an 83-year-old American nun from her bed in the west African nation of Burkina Faso and destroyed almost everything in the house where she lived, but left four other women unhurt, a Louisiana official for the order said Wednesday.
Sister Suellen Tennyson was taken late Monday “from her room in her pajamas — no shoes, no glasses, no phone, no medicine,” Sister Ann Lacour, U.S. congregational leader for the Marianites of Holy Cross in Covington, Louisiana, told The Associated Press. Lacour provided additional details of the kidnapping a day after the AP reported it.
Lacour said Tennyson takes blood pressure medicine and she is not sure how she would fare without it. “I do know without her glasses she’d be totally disoriented,” she said in a phone interview from the order’s worldwide headquarters in Lemans, France.
Two other nuns — one from Canada and one from Burkina Faso — and two young Burkinabè women who were living in the same house in Yalgo are now safely at the Kaya Diocese headquarters, even though the gunmen shot up their new truck so they couldn't use it, Lacour said. Yalgo is roughly 100 kilometers (62 miles) northeast of Kaya.
Lacour says she believes Tennyson was taken because she’s American, but the kidnappers have not been in touch with the order. Without Tennyson's phone, she noted, they might not have the phone numbers to do so.
“Was she targeted? We don't really know that,” Lacour said.
Tennyson had been a missionary in Burkina Faso since 2014, supporting Sister Pauline Drouin, a nurse from Lake Magantic in Canada, and Sister Pascaline Tougma, a midwife from Burkina Faso, Lacour said.
The once peaceful West African nation has seen a great deal of violence linked to al-Qaida and the Islamic State group over the past six years. Activist Daouda Diallo has documented more than 1,000 extrajudicial killings by security forces and jihadis over that period.
Jihadi groups linked to al-Qaida and the Islamic State in the Sahel, the vast expanse south of the Sahara Desert, have been taking hostages for ransom to fund operations and expand their presence. Twenty-eight foreigners have been abducted in the Sahel since 2015 and six, including two Americans, are still captive, according to Heni Nsaibia, a senior researcher at the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project. In addition to Tennyson, aid worker Jeffrey Woodke was kidnapped from Niger in 2016, he said.
Yalgo is in the north, near the province of Soum, where two attacks in November killed nearly 70 people, and not far from the nation of Mali, where Human Rights Watch said more than 100 civilians have been killed in recent months.
Tennyson worked in the New Orleans archdiocese for many years, Archbishop Gregory M. Aymond said.
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Associated Press reporter Sam Mednick in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, contributed to this report. | 0 | 108,455 | 0 | https://www.mrt.com/news/article/Sister-Gunmen-took-83-year-old-nun-from-bed-in-17061892.php | 2022-04-06 18:18:52+00:00 | NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Ten gunmen kidnapped an 83-year-old American nun from her bed in the west African nation of Burkina Faso and destroyed almost everything in the house where she lived, but left four other women unhurt, a Louisiana official for the order said Wednesday.
Sister Suellen Tennyson was taken late Monday “from her room in her pajamas — no shoes, no glasses, no phone, no medicine,” Sister Ann Lacour, U.S. congregational leader for the Marianites of Holy Cross in Covington, Louisiana, told The Associated Press. Lacour provided additional details of the kidnapping a day after the AP reported it.
Lacour said Tennyson takes blood pressure medicine and she is not sure how she would fare without it. “I do know without her glasses she’d be totally disoriented,” she said in a phone interview from the order’s worldwide headquarters in Lemans, France.
Two other nuns — one from Canada and one from Burkina Faso — and two young Burkinabè women who were living in the same house in Yalgo are now safely at the Kaya Diocese headquarters, even though the gunmen shot up their new truck so they couldn't use it, Lacour said. Yalgo is roughly 100 kilometers (62 miles) northeast of Kaya.
Lacour says she believes Tennyson was taken because she’s American, but the kidnappers have not been in touch with the order. Without Tennyson's phone, she noted, they might not have the phone numbers to do so.
“Was she targeted? We don't really know that,” Lacour said.
Tennyson had been a missionary in Burkina Faso since 2014, supporting Sister Pauline Drouin, a nurse from Lake Magantic in Canada, and Sister Pascaline Tougma, a midwife from Burkina Faso, Lacour said.
The once peaceful West African nation has seen a great deal of violence linked to al-Qaida and the Islamic State group over the past six years. Activist Daouda Diallo has documented more than 1,000 extrajudicial killings by security forces and jihadis over that period.
Jihadi groups linked to al-Qaida and the Islamic State in the Sahel, the vast expanse south of the Sahara Desert, have been taking hostages for ransom to fund operations and expand their presence. Twenty-eight foreigners have been abducted in the Sahel since 2015 and six, including two Americans, are still captive, according to Heni Nsaibia, a senior researcher at the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project. In addition to Tennyson, aid worker Jeffrey Woodke was kidnapped from Niger in 2016, he said.
Yalgo is in the north, near the province of Soum, where two attacks in November killed nearly 70 people, and not far from the nation of Mali, where Human Rights Watch said more than 100 civilians have been killed in recent months.
Tennyson worked in the New Orleans archdiocese for many years, Archbishop Gregory M. Aymond said.
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Associated Press reporter Sam Mednick in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, contributed to this report. |
https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/Sister-Gunmen-took-83-year-old-nun-from-bed-in-17061892.php | NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Ten gunmen kidnapped an 83-year-old American nun from her bed in the west African nation of Burkina Faso and destroyed almost everything in the house where she lived, but left four other women unhurt, a Louisiana official for the order said Wednesday.
Sister Suellen Tennyson was taken late Monday “from her room in her pajamas — no shoes, no glasses, no phone, no medicine,” Sister Ann Lacour, U.S. congregational leader for the Marianites of Holy Cross in Covington, Louisiana, told The Associated Press. Lacour provided additional details of the kidnapping a day after the AP reported it.
Lacour said Tennyson takes blood pressure medicine and she is not sure how she would fare without it. “I do know without her glasses she’d be totally disoriented,” she said in a phone interview from the order’s worldwide headquarters in Lemans, France.
Two other nuns — one from Canada and one from Burkina Faso — and two young Burkinabè women who were living in the same house in Yalgo are now safely at the Kaya Diocese headquarters, even though the gunmen shot up their new truck so they couldn't use it, Lacour said. Yalgo is roughly 100 kilometers (62 miles) northeast of Kaya.
Lacour says she believes Tennyson was taken because she’s American, but the kidnappers have not been in touch with the order. Without Tennyson's phone, she noted, they might not have the phone numbers to do so.
“Was she targeted? We don't really know that,” Lacour said.
Tennyson had been a missionary in Burkina Faso since 2014, supporting Sister Pauline Drouin, a nurse from Lake Magantic in Canada, and Sister Pascaline Tougma, a midwife from Burkina Faso, Lacour said.
The once peaceful West African nation has seen a great deal of violence linked to al-Qaida and the Islamic State group over the past six years. Activist Daouda Diallo has documented more than 1,000 extrajudicial killings by security forces and jihadis over that period.
Jihadi groups linked to al-Qaida and the Islamic State in the Sahel, the vast expanse south of the Sahara Desert, have been taking hostages for ransom to fund operations and expand their presence. Twenty-eight foreigners have been abducted in the Sahel since 2015 and six, including two Americans, are still captive, according to Heni Nsaibia, a senior researcher at the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project. In addition to Tennyson, aid worker Jeffrey Woodke was kidnapped from Niger in 2016, he said.
Yalgo is in the north, near the province of Soum, where two attacks in November killed nearly 70 people, and not far from the nation of Mali, where Human Rights Watch said more than 100 civilians have been killed in recent months.
Tennyson worked in the New Orleans archdiocese for many years, Archbishop Gregory M. Aymond said.
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Associated Press reporter Sam Mednick in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, contributed to this report. | 1 | 109,078 | 0 | https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Sister-Gunmen-took-83-year-old-nun-from-bed-in-17061892.php | 2022-04-06 18:21:11+00:00 | NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Ten gunmen kidnapped an 83-year-old American nun from her bed in the west African nation of Burkina Faso and destroyed almost everything in the house where she lived, but left four other women unhurt, a Louisiana official for the order said Wednesday.
Sister Suellen Tennyson was taken late Monday “from her room in her pajamas — no shoes, no glasses, no phone, no medicine,” Sister Ann Lacour, U.S. congregational leader for the Marianites of Holy Cross in Covington, Louisiana, told The Associated Press. Lacour provided additional details of the kidnapping a day after the AP reported it.
Lacour said Tennyson takes blood pressure medicine and she is not sure how she would fare without it. “I do know without her glasses she’d be totally disoriented,” she said in a phone interview from the order’s worldwide headquarters in Lemans, France.
Two other nuns — one from Canada and one from Burkina Faso — and two young Burkinabè women who were living in the same house in Yalgo are now safely at the Kaya Diocese headquarters, even though the gunmen shot up their new truck so they couldn't use it, Lacour said. Yalgo is roughly 100 kilometers (62 miles) northeast of Kaya.
Lacour says she believes Tennyson was taken because she’s American, but the kidnappers have not been in touch with the order. Without Tennyson's phone, she noted, they might not have the phone numbers to do so.
“Was she targeted? We don't really know that,” Lacour said.
Tennyson had been a missionary in Burkina Faso since 2014, supporting Sister Pauline Drouin, a nurse from Lake Magantic in Canada, and Sister Pascaline Tougma, a midwife from Burkina Faso, Lacour said.
The once peaceful West African nation has seen a great deal of violence linked to al-Qaida and the Islamic State group over the past six years. Activist Daouda Diallo has documented more than 1,000 extrajudicial killings by security forces and jihadis over that period.
Jihadi groups linked to al-Qaida and the Islamic State in the Sahel, the vast expanse south of the Sahara Desert, have been taking hostages for ransom to fund operations and expand their presence. Twenty-eight foreigners have been abducted in the Sahel since 2015 and six, including two Americans, are still captive, according to Heni Nsaibia, a senior researcher at the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project. In addition to Tennyson, aid worker Jeffrey Woodke was kidnapped from Niger in 2016, he said.
Yalgo is in the north, near the province of Soum, where two attacks in November killed nearly 70 people, and not far from the nation of Mali, where Human Rights Watch said more than 100 civilians have been killed in recent months.
Tennyson worked in the New Orleans archdiocese for many years, Archbishop Gregory M. Aymond said.
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Associated Press reporter Sam Mednick in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, contributed to this report. |
https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/Sister-Gunmen-took-83-year-old-nun-from-bed-in-17061892.php | NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Ten gunmen kidnapped an 83-year-old American nun from her bed in the west African nation of Burkina Faso and destroyed almost everything in the house where she lived, but left four other women unhurt, a Louisiana official for the order said Wednesday.
Sister Suellen Tennyson was taken late Monday “from her room in her pajamas — no shoes, no glasses, no phone, no medicine,” Sister Ann Lacour, U.S. congregational leader for the Marianites of Holy Cross in Covington, Louisiana, told The Associated Press. Lacour provided additional details of the kidnapping a day after the AP reported it.
Lacour said Tennyson takes blood pressure medicine and she is not sure how she would fare without it. “I do know without her glasses she’d be totally disoriented,” she said in a phone interview from the order’s worldwide headquarters in Lemans, France.
Two other nuns — one from Canada and one from Burkina Faso — and two young Burkinabè women who were living in the same house in Yalgo are now safely at the Kaya Diocese headquarters, even though the gunmen shot up their new truck so they couldn't use it, Lacour said. Yalgo is roughly 100 kilometers (62 miles) northeast of Kaya.
Lacour says she believes Tennyson was taken because she’s American, but the kidnappers have not been in touch with the order. Without Tennyson's phone, she noted, they might not have the phone numbers to do so.
“Was she targeted? We don't really know that,” Lacour said.
Tennyson had been a missionary in Burkina Faso since 2014, supporting Sister Pauline Drouin, a nurse from Lake Magantic in Canada, and Sister Pascaline Tougma, a midwife from Burkina Faso, Lacour said.
The once peaceful West African nation has seen a great deal of violence linked to al-Qaida and the Islamic State group over the past six years. Activist Daouda Diallo has documented more than 1,000 extrajudicial killings by security forces and jihadis over that period.
Jihadi groups linked to al-Qaida and the Islamic State in the Sahel, the vast expanse south of the Sahara Desert, have been taking hostages for ransom to fund operations and expand their presence. Twenty-eight foreigners have been abducted in the Sahel since 2015 and six, including two Americans, are still captive, according to Heni Nsaibia, a senior researcher at the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project. In addition to Tennyson, aid worker Jeffrey Woodke was kidnapped from Niger in 2016, he said.
Yalgo is in the north, near the province of Soum, where two attacks in November killed nearly 70 people, and not far from the nation of Mali, where Human Rights Watch said more than 100 civilians have been killed in recent months.
Tennyson worked in the New Orleans archdiocese for many years, Archbishop Gregory M. Aymond said.
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Associated Press reporter Sam Mednick in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, contributed to this report. | 2 | 127,195 | 0 | https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/4498934 | 2022-04-07 08:27:34+00:00 | NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Ten gunmen kidnapped an 83-year-old American nun from her bed in the west African nation of Burkina Faso and destroyed almost everything in the house where she lived, but left four other women unhurt, a Louisiana official for the order said Wednesday.
Sister Suellen Tennyson was taken late Monday “from her room in her pajamas — no shoes, no glasses, no phone, no medicine,” Sister Ann Lacour, U.S. congregational leader for the Marianites of Holy Cross in Covington, Louisiana, told The Associated Press. Lacour provided additional details of the kidnapping a day after the AP reported it.
Lacour said Tennyson takes blood pressure medicine and she is not sure how she would fare without it. “I do know without her glasses she’d be totally disoriented,” she said in a phone interview from the order’s worldwide headquarters in Lemans, France.
Two other nuns — one from Canada and one from Burkina Faso — and two young Burkinabè women who were living in the same house in Yalgo are now safely at the Kaya Diocese headquarters, even though the gunmen shot up their new truck so they couldn't use it, Lacour said. Yalgo is roughly 100 kilometers (62 miles) northeast of Kaya.
Lacour says she believes Tennyson was taken because she’s American, but the kidnappers have not been in touch with the order. Without Tennyson's phone, she noted, they might not have the phone numbers to do so.
“Was she targeted? We don't really know that,” Lacour said.
Tennyson had been a missionary in Burkina Faso since 2014, supporting Sister Pauline Drouin, a nurse from Lake Magantic in Canada, and Sister Pascaline Tougma, a midwife from Burkina Faso, Lacour said.
The once peaceful West African nation has seen a great deal of violence linked to al-Qaida and the Islamic State group over the past six years. Activist Daouda Diallo has documented more than 1,000 extrajudicial killings by security forces and jihadis over that period.
Jihadi groups linked to al-Qaida and the Islamic State in the Sahel, the vast expanse south of the Sahara Desert, have been taking hostages for ransom to fund operations and expand their presence. Twenty-eight foreigners have been abducted in the Sahel since 2015 and six, including two Americans, are still captive, according to Heni Nsaibia, a senior researcher at the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project. In addition to Tennyson, aid worker Jeffrey Woodke was kidnapped from Niger in 2016, he said.
Yalgo is in the north, near the province of Soum, where two attacks in November killed nearly 70 people, and not far from the nation of Mali, where Human Rights Watch said more than 100 civilians have been killed in recent months.
Tennyson worked in the New Orleans archdiocese for many years, Archbishop Gregory M. Aymond said.
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Associated Press reporter Sam Mednick in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, contributed to this report. |
https://journalstar.com/news/local/after-viral-first-edition-josh-fight-sequel-planned-for-may-in-lincoln/article_552fa926-b0ba-594f-be7a-c617f5b159bc.html | What’s better than hundreds of people named Josh hitting each other with pool noodles?
Hundreds of Joshes fighting two years in a row — but this time with food trucks, a costume contest and prizes.
A year ago, Arizona native Josh Swain hit send on a tweet, joking that he would fight everyone with the same name. The idea went viral on social media, and much to Swain’s surprise, people began talking about visiting the random coordinates he’d mentioned.
Swain knew he had to follow through on his plan, so he made his way to Lincoln, where hundreds of Joshes grabbed pool noodles in an open field in Air Park for the first series of Josh Fights on April 23, 2021.
Now, Swain is looking to defend his name yet again with an anniversary Josh Fight on May 21. This year, the event will be at 11 a.m. at Bowling Lake Park. Ticket sales ($11 fighters, $10 spectators) will go to Children’s Hospital and Medical Center in Omaha.
Joshes and non-Joshes are welcome to attend, as food trucks from Tastee Trailer and Taco Loco will be there. Winners of the costume contest will receive gift baskets courtesy of the Lincoln Airport.
Swain is also selling Josh Fight merchandise. All the proceeds from the T-shirts and pins will go to Partners in Health, a national organization that prevents maternal and infant mortality.
Last year, Swain’s event raised more than $44,000 for Children’s Hospital and Medical Center in Omaha.
Part of the reason the event went over so well, he believes, is because of its location. Swain said Nebraskans are generous, and they welcomed the Josh Fight with open arms. He’s now an honorary citizen of Lincoln, an honor bestowed by the mayor after last year's fight.
“I don’t think this event would work anywhere else,” Swain said. “The people of Lincoln are just so nice."
Last year's event turned out much better than Swain ever would’ve guessed, he said. It was a miracle everything came together last-minute. With more time to plan this year, he's hoping for bigger and better.
“People loved it last year and they said they wanted it again,” Swain said. “Who am I to deprive them of that?”
And maybe — just maybe — Swain said, the Josh Fight will become an annual event.
"If all goes well this year, we just might have to keep it going," he said.
Photos: Hundreds battle with pool noodles for the name Josh
Jenna Thompson is a news intern who has previous writing and editing experience with her college paper and several literary journals. She is a senior at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln pursuing degrees in English and journalism.
Melissa Eusterwiemann said she set the wheelchair at the end of the driveway for the bus to pick up while she assisted her daughter Lily, a first grader at Randolph Elementary who has spina bifida.
Some students come to school but never attend class; hallways and bathrooms smell like marijuana and the smoke sets off fire alarms; and teachers have been injured while breaking up fights, according to students and staff members.
The girl told police she began communicating with the man on social media as early as September 2021. By December, the unidentified man was trafficking her across the country, according to police.
The two people killed, who have not been identified by law enforcement, were heading west on the interstate when the driver lost control of the semi and overturned at around 3:15 a.m., the Seward County Sheriff's office said.
Kalvin Eichelberger is accused of supplying the cocaine the men overdosed on, which authorities suspect was laced with fentanyl, according to the affidavit for the Wisconsin man's arrest.
Hope Npimnee was standing outside of his vehicle in the lot near 19th and Vine Streets when University Police first contacted him in the early morning hours of July 9, 2021, according to court filings.
Robinson Juarez was arrested on suspicion of fleeing the scene of an injury accident. He was also ticketed for DUI, no proof of insurance and violating a traffic signal.
Multiple people named Josh fight with pool noodles last year in Air Park. What started as a mid-pandemic joke came to life, and now plans are in the works for a 2022 event. | 0 | 51,616 | 0 | https://journalstar.com/news/local/after-viral-first-edition-josh-fight-sequel-planned-for-may/article_552fa926-b0ba-594f-be7a-c617f5b159bc.html | 2022-04-06 02:07:22+00:00 | What’s better than hundreds of people named Josh hitting each other with pool noodles?
Hundreds of Joshes fighting two years in a row — but this time with food trucks, a costume contest and prizes.
A year ago, Arizona native Josh Swain hit send on a tweet, joking that he would fight everyone with the same name. The idea went viral on social media, and much to Swain’s surprise, people began talking about visiting the random coordinates he’d mentioned.
Swain knew he had to follow through on his plan, so he made his way to Lincoln, where hundreds of Joshes grabbed pool noodles in an open field in Air Park for the first series of Josh Fights on April 23, 2021.
Now, Swain is looking to defend his name yet again with an anniversary Josh Fight on May 21. This year, the event will be at 11 a.m. at Bowling Lake Park. Ticket sales ($11 fighters, $10 spectators) will go to Children’s Hospital and Medical Center in Omaha.
Joshes and non-Joshes are welcome to attend, as food trucks from Tastee Trailer and Taco Loco will be there. Winners of the costume contest will receive gift baskets courtesy of the Lincoln Airport.
Swain is also selling Josh Fight merchandise. All the proceeds from the T-shirts and pins will go to Partners in Health, a national organization that prevents maternal and infant mortality.
Last year, Swain’s event raised more than $44,000 for Children’s Hospital and Medical Center in Omaha.
Part of the reason the event went over so well, he believes, is because of its location. Swain said Nebraskans are generous, and they welcomed the Josh Fight with open arms. He’s now an honorary citizen of Lincoln, an honor bestowed by the mayor after last year's fight.
“I don’t think this event would work anywhere else,” Swain said. “The people of Lincoln are just so nice."
Last year's event turned out much better than Swain ever would’ve guessed, he said. It was a miracle everything came together last-minute. With more time to plan this year, he's hoping for bigger and better.
“People loved it last year and they said they wanted it again,” Swain said. “Who am I to deprive them of that?”
And maybe — just maybe — Swain said, the Josh Fight will become an annual event.
"If all goes well this year, we just might have to keep it going," he said.
Photos: Hundreds battle with pool noodles for the name Josh
Jenna Thompson is a news intern who has previous writing and editing experience with her college paper and several literary journals. She is a senior at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln pursuing degrees in English and journalism.
Melissa Eusterwiemann said she set the wheelchair at the end of the driveway for the bus to pick up while she assisted her daughter Lily, a first grader at Randolph Elementary who has spina bifida.
Some students come to school but never attend class; hallways and bathrooms smell like marijuana and the smoke sets off fire alarms; and teachers have been injured while breaking up fights, according to students and staff members.
The girl told police she began communicating with the man on social media as early as September 2021. By December, the unidentified man was trafficking her across the country, according to police.
The two people killed, who have not been identified by law enforcement, were heading west on the interstate when the driver lost control of the semi and overturned at around 3:15 a.m., the Seward County Sheriff's office said.
Kalvin Eichelberger is accused of supplying the cocaine the men overdosed on, which authorities suspect was laced with fentanyl, according to the affidavit for the Wisconsin man's arrest.
Hope Npimnee was standing outside of his vehicle in the lot near 19th and Vine Streets when University Police first contacted him in the early morning hours of July 9, 2021, according to court filings.
Multiple people named Josh fight with pool noodles last year in Air Park. What started as a mid-pandemic joke came to life, and now plans are in the works for a 2022 event. |
https://journalstar.com/news/local/after-viral-first-edition-josh-fight-sequel-planned-for-may-in-lincoln/article_552fa926-b0ba-594f-be7a-c617f5b159bc.html | What’s better than hundreds of people named Josh hitting each other with pool noodles?
Hundreds of Joshes fighting two years in a row — but this time with food trucks, a costume contest and prizes.
A year ago, Arizona native Josh Swain hit send on a tweet, joking that he would fight everyone with the same name. The idea went viral on social media, and much to Swain’s surprise, people began talking about visiting the random coordinates he’d mentioned.
Swain knew he had to follow through on his plan, so he made his way to Lincoln, where hundreds of Joshes grabbed pool noodles in an open field in Air Park for the first series of Josh Fights on April 23, 2021.
Now, Swain is looking to defend his name yet again with an anniversary Josh Fight on May 21. This year, the event will be at 11 a.m. at Bowling Lake Park. Ticket sales ($11 fighters, $10 spectators) will go to Children’s Hospital and Medical Center in Omaha.
Joshes and non-Joshes are welcome to attend, as food trucks from Tastee Trailer and Taco Loco will be there. Winners of the costume contest will receive gift baskets courtesy of the Lincoln Airport.
Swain is also selling Josh Fight merchandise. All the proceeds from the T-shirts and pins will go to Partners in Health, a national organization that prevents maternal and infant mortality.
Last year, Swain’s event raised more than $44,000 for Children’s Hospital and Medical Center in Omaha.
Part of the reason the event went over so well, he believes, is because of its location. Swain said Nebraskans are generous, and they welcomed the Josh Fight with open arms. He’s now an honorary citizen of Lincoln, an honor bestowed by the mayor after last year's fight.
“I don’t think this event would work anywhere else,” Swain said. “The people of Lincoln are just so nice."
Last year's event turned out much better than Swain ever would’ve guessed, he said. It was a miracle everything came together last-minute. With more time to plan this year, he's hoping for bigger and better.
“People loved it last year and they said they wanted it again,” Swain said. “Who am I to deprive them of that?”
And maybe — just maybe — Swain said, the Josh Fight will become an annual event.
"If all goes well this year, we just might have to keep it going," he said.
Photos: Hundreds battle with pool noodles for the name Josh
Jenna Thompson is a news intern who has previous writing and editing experience with her college paper and several literary journals. She is a senior at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln pursuing degrees in English and journalism.
Melissa Eusterwiemann said she set the wheelchair at the end of the driveway for the bus to pick up while she assisted her daughter Lily, a first grader at Randolph Elementary who has spina bifida.
Some students come to school but never attend class; hallways and bathrooms smell like marijuana and the smoke sets off fire alarms; and teachers have been injured while breaking up fights, according to students and staff members.
The girl told police she began communicating with the man on social media as early as September 2021. By December, the unidentified man was trafficking her across the country, according to police.
The two people killed, who have not been identified by law enforcement, were heading west on the interstate when the driver lost control of the semi and overturned at around 3:15 a.m., the Seward County Sheriff's office said.
Kalvin Eichelberger is accused of supplying the cocaine the men overdosed on, which authorities suspect was laced with fentanyl, according to the affidavit for the Wisconsin man's arrest.
Hope Npimnee was standing outside of his vehicle in the lot near 19th and Vine Streets when University Police first contacted him in the early morning hours of July 9, 2021, according to court filings.
Robinson Juarez was arrested on suspicion of fleeing the scene of an injury accident. He was also ticketed for DUI, no proof of insurance and violating a traffic signal.
Multiple people named Josh fight with pool noodles last year in Air Park. What started as a mid-pandemic joke came to life, and now plans are in the works for a 2022 event. | 1 | 52,604 | 0.034483 | https://omaha.com/after-viral-first-edition-josh-fight-sequel-planned-for-may/article_3431c15a-b5b2-11ec-a1c9-9b44f675583f.html | 2022-04-06 14:38:47+00:00 | What’s better than hundreds of people named Josh hitting each other with pool noodles?
Hundreds of Joshes fighting two years in a row — but this time with food trucks, a costume contest and prizes.
A year ago, Arizona native Josh Swain hit send on a tweet, joking that he would fight everyone with the same name. The idea went viral on social media, and much to Swain’s surprise, people began talking about visiting the random coordinates he’d mentioned.
Swain knew he had to follow through on his plan, so he made his way to Lincoln, where hundreds of Joshes grabbed pool noodles in an open field in Air Park for the first series of Josh Fights on April 23, 2021.
Now, Swain is looking to defend his name yet again with an anniversary Josh Fight on May 21. This year, the event will be at 11 a.m. at Bowling Lake Park. Ticket sales ($11 fighters, $10 spectators) will go to Children’s Hospital & Medical Center in Omaha.
Joshes and non-Joshes are welcome to attend, as food trucks from Tastee Trailer and Taco Loco will be there. Winners of the costume contest will receive gift baskets courtesy of the Lincoln Airport.
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Swain is also selling Josh Fight merchandise. All the proceeds from the T-shirts and pins will go to Partners in Health, a national organization that prevents maternal and infant mortality.
Last year, Swain’s event raised more than $44,000 for Children’s Hospital & Medical Center in Omaha.
Part of the reason the event went over so well, he believes, is because of its location. Swain said Nebraskans are generous, and they welcomed the Josh Fight with open arms. He’s now an honorary citizen of Lincoln, an honor bestowed by the mayor after last year's fight.
“I don’t think this event would work anywhere else,” Swain said. “The people of Lincoln are just so nice."
Last year's event turned out much better than Swain ever would’ve guessed, he said. It was a miracle everything came together last-minute. With more time to plan this year, he's hoping for bigger and better.
“People loved it last year and they said they wanted it again,” Swain said. “Who am I to deprive them of that?”
And maybe — just maybe — Swain said, the Josh Fight will become an annual event.
"If all goes well this year, we just might have to keep it going," he said. |
https://journalstar.com/news/local/after-viral-first-edition-josh-fight-sequel-planned-for-may-in-lincoln/article_552fa926-b0ba-594f-be7a-c617f5b159bc.html | What’s better than hundreds of people named Josh hitting each other with pool noodles?
Hundreds of Joshes fighting two years in a row — but this time with food trucks, a costume contest and prizes.
A year ago, Arizona native Josh Swain hit send on a tweet, joking that he would fight everyone with the same name. The idea went viral on social media, and much to Swain’s surprise, people began talking about visiting the random coordinates he’d mentioned.
Swain knew he had to follow through on his plan, so he made his way to Lincoln, where hundreds of Joshes grabbed pool noodles in an open field in Air Park for the first series of Josh Fights on April 23, 2021.
Now, Swain is looking to defend his name yet again with an anniversary Josh Fight on May 21. This year, the event will be at 11 a.m. at Bowling Lake Park. Ticket sales ($11 fighters, $10 spectators) will go to Children’s Hospital and Medical Center in Omaha.
Joshes and non-Joshes are welcome to attend, as food trucks from Tastee Trailer and Taco Loco will be there. Winners of the costume contest will receive gift baskets courtesy of the Lincoln Airport.
Swain is also selling Josh Fight merchandise. All the proceeds from the T-shirts and pins will go to Partners in Health, a national organization that prevents maternal and infant mortality.
Last year, Swain’s event raised more than $44,000 for Children’s Hospital and Medical Center in Omaha.
Part of the reason the event went over so well, he believes, is because of its location. Swain said Nebraskans are generous, and they welcomed the Josh Fight with open arms. He’s now an honorary citizen of Lincoln, an honor bestowed by the mayor after last year's fight.
“I don’t think this event would work anywhere else,” Swain said. “The people of Lincoln are just so nice."
Last year's event turned out much better than Swain ever would’ve guessed, he said. It was a miracle everything came together last-minute. With more time to plan this year, he's hoping for bigger and better.
“People loved it last year and they said they wanted it again,” Swain said. “Who am I to deprive them of that?”
And maybe — just maybe — Swain said, the Josh Fight will become an annual event.
"If all goes well this year, we just might have to keep it going," he said.
Photos: Hundreds battle with pool noodles for the name Josh
Jenna Thompson is a news intern who has previous writing and editing experience with her college paper and several literary journals. She is a senior at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln pursuing degrees in English and journalism.
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Multiple people named Josh fight with pool noodles last year in Air Park. What started as a mid-pandemic joke came to life, and now plans are in the works for a 2022 event. | 2 | 122,951 | 0.343197 | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2564026409456/after-viral-first-edition-josh-fight-sequel-planned-for-may-in-lincoln | 2022-04-08 19:34:10+00:00 | After viral first edition, Josh Fight sequel planned for May in Lincoln
What’s better than hundreds of people named Josh hitting each other with pool noodles?
Hundreds of Joshes fighting two years in a row — but this time with food trucks, a costume contest and prizes.
A year ago, Arizona native Josh Swain hit send on a tweet, joking that he would fight everyone with the same name. The idea went viral on social media, and much to Swain’s surprise, people began talking about visiting the random coordinates he’d mentioned.
Swain knew he had to follow through on his plan, so he made his way to Lincoln, where hundreds of Joshes grabbed pool noodles in an open field in Air Park for the first series of Josh Fights on April 23, 2021.
Now, Swain is looking to defend his name yet again with an anniversary Josh Fight on May 21. This year, the event will be at 11 a.m. at Bowling Lake Park. Ticket sales ($11 fighters, $10 spectators) will go to Children’s Hospital and Medical Center in Omaha.
Joshes and non-Joshes are welcome to attend, as food trucks from Tastee Trailer and Taco Loco will be there. Winners of the costume contest will receive gift baskets courtesy of the Lincoln Airport.
People are also reading…
Swain is also selling Josh Fight merchandise. All the proceeds from the T-shirts and pins will go to Partners in Health, a national organization that prevents maternal and infant mortality.
Last year, Swain’s event raised more than $44,000 for Children’s Hospital and Medical Center in Omaha.
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Part of the reason the event went over so well, he believes, is because of its location. Swain said Nebraskans are generous, and they welcomed the Josh Fight with open arms. He’s now an honorary citizen of Lincoln, an honor bestowed by the mayor after last year's fight.
“I don’t think this event would work anywhere else,” Swain said. “The people of Lincoln are just so nice."
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Last year's event turned out much better than Swain ever would’ve guessed, he said. It was a miracle everything came together last-minute. With more time to plan this year, he's hoping for bigger and better.
“People loved it last year and they said they wanted it again,” Swain said. “Who am I to deprive them of that?”
And maybe — just maybe — Swain said, the Josh Fight will become an annual event.
"If all goes well this year, we just might have to keep it going," he said. |
https://www.indiatoday.in/newsmo/video/russia-ukraine-war-russian-troops-accused-of-raping-ukrainian-women-evidence-for-war-crime-1934248-2022-04-06 | A Ukrainian MP has claimed that Russian soldiers raped minors and branded women's bodies in the country. Rape is an underreported crime and the reports coming in from the survivors in Ukraine might be the tip of the iceberg. These are evidence to build a case of war crimes committed by Russia. Rape and assault are deemed war crimes and a breach of international humanitarian law as well. | 0 | 101,295 | 0.524333 | https://bykvu.com/eng/bukvy/russian-troops-in-bucha-raped-boy-11-and-girl-14-ukraine-s-ombudsperson/ | 2022-04-09 08:24:30+00:00 | Ukrainian officials have documented cases when Russian troops raped minors in towns they occupied, said human rights ombudsperson Lyudmyla Denasova in a statement on Facebook.
Two confirmed stories of wartime rape come from Bucha where, according to reports, a boy as young as 11 years old was raped in front of her mother while she was tied to a chair and made to watch the horrific scene.
Another sexual violence attack left a 14-year-old girl from Bucha impregnated after she was gang-raped by five Russian troops.
The similar case was reported in nearby Irpin where three Russian soldiers gang-raped a 20-year-old girl.
Ukraine’s ombudsperson promised the perpetrators will be held to account:
‘There is no place on earth on in hell where Rasist criminals can hide from retribution!’, said Denysova, adding these crimes outlawed by the Geneva Convention must be addressed by the UN Commission for Investigation Human Rights Violations and OSCE member countries. |
https://www.indiatoday.in/newsmo/video/russia-ukraine-war-russian-troops-accused-of-raping-ukrainian-women-evidence-for-war-crime-1934248-2022-04-06 | A Ukrainian MP has claimed that Russian soldiers raped minors and branded women's bodies in the country. Rape is an underreported crime and the reports coming in from the survivors in Ukraine might be the tip of the iceberg. These are evidence to build a case of war crimes committed by Russia. Rape and assault are deemed war crimes and a breach of international humanitarian law as well. | 1 | 17,224 | 0.530191 | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10781397/Russian-soldiers-raping-Ukrainian-men-boys-women-says-war-crimes-investigator.html | 2022-05-04 10:35:54+00:00 | Russian soldiers are raping Ukrainian men and boys as well as women, says UN war crimes investigator
- UN special representative on sexual violence in war Pramila Patten spoke in Kyiv
- She said among dozens of cases of rape by Russian soldiers being investigated, some were against men and boys. She urged victims to come forward
- Yesterday, Ukraine's prosecutor general called Russian President Vladimir Putin 'the main war criminal of the 21st century' over his invasion of Ukraine
- Venediktova accused Putin's forces of using rape as a 'strategy' to 'scare society'
- She was there collecting information on allegations of Russian war crimes
- Russia has denied its force have committed war crimes, despite evidence
Russian soldiers allegedly raped Ukrainian men and boys as well as women, UN and Kyiv officials said on Tuesday, amid an on-going investigation into dozens of cases.
Speaking on Tuesday, UN special representative on sexual violence in war Pramila Patten warned cases already under investigation were just 'the tip of the iceberg.'
'I have received reports, not yet verified… about sexual violence cases against men and boys in Ukraine,' she said during a press conference in Kyiv.
She urged all survivors of rape to come forward and report any such crimes at the hands of Russian soldiers, while acknowledging how challenging it is to do so amid fears of reprisals or of Moscow's forces returning.
She continued to say the world has allowed sexual violence to be used as a 'cheap' weapon of war for too long.
'Cheap, because it is cost free. Very effective, because it does not only affect the victim, it affects whole families, the communities. It is biological warfare. It is psychological warfare,' she said.
Speaking on Tuesday, UN special representative on sexual violence in war Pramila Patten (pictured left along-side Ukraine's deputy prime minister Olga Stefanishnina on Tuesday) warned cases already under investigation were just 'the tip of the iceberg'
Ms Patten warned that there are likely many cases that have yet to be reported. Those that are already under investigation so far 'only represent the tip of the iceberg,' she said.
The UN official also called on the international community to track down perpetrators and hold them to account.
'Today's documentation will be tomorrow's prosecution,' she told reporters.
Ukraine's prosecutor general Iryna Venediktova said on Wednesday that the first stage of investigations into Russian war crimes in the suburban town of Irpin had concluded, having spoken to 228 witnesses.
In one brutal attack, she said a woman with her 12-year-old son and husband were fired at by a Russian tank while trying to evacuate the town in their car.
Earlier on Tuesday, Ms Venediktova called Russian President Vladimir Putin 'the main war criminal of the 21st century' and accused Russia of using rape as a tactic in its brutal invasion.
Visiting the devastated city of Irpin near Kyiv, Ms Venediktova said Ukraine was collecting information on allegations of rape, torture and other suspected war crimes by Russian forces which occupied the region for a month.
Venediktova said the allegations included the rape of women, men, children and an old woman. Asked whether rape was a deliberate Russian strategy in the war, she told a news conference: 'I am sure actually that it was strategy.'
'This is, of course, to scare civil society... to do everything to (force Ukraine to) capitulate,' she said on Tuesday.
She provided no specific details of the rape allegations, saying some of the victims remained in Ukraine and were afraid of speaking out for fear of Russian forces returning.
UN envoy Patten said she was in Kyiv due to the growing evidence of mass sexual violence carried out by Russian soldiers during the war in Ukraine, and because of the risk human traffickers pose to vulnerable Ukrainian refugees fleeing their homes.
'All the warning signals are flashing red in Ukraine, with allegations of brutal sexual violence emerging,' she said at Tuesday's press conference.
'I could not stay back in my office in New York, in the face of such harrowing reports of sexual violence. I'm here because we must spare no effort to ensure zero tolerance and consistent consequences for these crimes.'
Standing along-side Ukraine's deputy prime minister Olga Stefanishnina, Ms Patten urged all victims to come forward and to report Russian war crimes.
'It's hard for women and girls to report [rape] because of stigma amongst other reasons, but it's often even harder for men and boys to report,' she said.
'We have to create that safe space for all victims to report cases of sexual violence.'
Visiting the devastated city of Irpin near Kyiv, Prosecutor General Iryna Venediktova (pictured on Tuesday) said Ukraine was collecting information on allegations of rape, torture and other suspected war crimes by Russian forces which occupied the region for a month
Rapes carried out by Russian soldiers have been widely reported in towns that were occupied by Putin's forces in the early days of the invasion, and have since been liberated after Moscow's armies pulled back and re-focused their efforts in the east.
When Ukrainian forces, journalists and civilians re-entered Irpin and neighbouring Bucha, they discovered hundreds of bodies of civilians that had been raped, tortured and executed - some with their hands tied behind their backs.
Russia has previously denied targeting civilians and has rejected allegations that its forces have committed war crimes in Ukraine, despite mounting evidence.
Team of prosecutors have been gathering testimonies from those who experienced the Russian occupation, and have painted a picture of wide-spread sexual violence.
There have been accounts of gang-rapes, rapes at gunpoint and assaults in front of children. The Ombudsman for Human Rights in Ukraine, Lyudmyla Denisova, has said officials have documented cases of 25 women who were kept in basements and systematically raped in Bucha.
Venediktova said Putin bore responsibility for what happened in Ukraine as commander-in-chief of the Russian armed forces.
'Putin is the main war criminal of the 21st century,' she said, recalling Russian military interventions in the former Soviet republic of Georgia, Russia's Chechnya region, Syria and in Ukraine in 2014.
'If we speak about (the) crime of aggression, we all know who started this war, and this person is Vladimir Putin,' she said.
The Kremlin did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment on the accusations and has dismissed previous suggestions that Putin is a war criminal.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov in March dismissed as 'unforgivable' a comment by U.S. President Joe Biden in which he said Putin was a war criminal.
Daria Piven, 33, lights a candle on the grave of her parents Nadia and Volodymyr, who were killed during the Russian occupation, on May 1, 2022 in Irpin, Ukraine
Ukrainian Prosecutor General Iryna Venediktova called Russian President Vladimir Putin 'The main war criminal of the 21st century'
Speaking on Monday, Ukraine's ambassador to Canada said Russia must be held accountable for its troops committing sex crimes, including against children.
Echoing Venediktova's comments, Yulia Kovaliv told a Canadian House of Commons committee that Russia is using sexual violence as a weapon of war and said rape and sexual assault must be investigated as war crimes.
She said Russia also has kidnapped Ukrainian children and taken them to Russian-occupied territories and now Russia itself. Ukraine is working with partners to find the children and bring them back.
'Russians, a few days ago, killed a young mother and taped her living child to her body and attached a mine between them,' the ambassador said. She said the mine detonated.
All of Russian society, and not just President Vladimir Putin 'and his proxies,' should bear responsibility for the war on Ukraine because more than 70% of Russians support the invasion, Kovaliv said.
Last month, a hotline for rape and sexual assault victims at the hands of Russian troops received 400 calls in just two weeks.
Denisova, said the line was so overwhelmed that the five psychologists who operate it 'cannot cope with the load'.
Victims include adults and children, both male and female, with some attacked while terrified relatives were forced to watch.
In Bucha, 25 victims aged 14 to 25 were 'systematically' raped while being held captive in a basement. Nine are now pregnant.
Pictured: Destroyed houses are photographed in Irpin, on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, April 30, 2022
The line, set up with Unicef, received 400 calls between April 1 and April 14 as Russian began to withdraw from the Kyiv region, after a failed attempt to capture the capital. Mrs Denisova said: 'Our five psychologists cannot cope with this load.
'I asked Unicef to almost double the number of psychologists, to ensure that the care is of good quality and that there is no burnout, including those psychologists who receive such appeals day and night. And these cases are very terrible.'
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said earlier this month: 'Hundreds of cases of rape have been recorded, including those of young girls and very young children. Even of a baby.'
Speaking to Lithuanian lawmakers in April, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said: 'In areas freed from the occupiers, the recording and investigation of war crimes committed by Russia continues. New mass graves are found almost daily.
'Testimonials are being collected. Thousands and thousands of victims. Hundreds of cases of torture. Bodies continue to be found in drains and cellars.
'Hundreds of cases of rape have been recorded, including those of young girls and very young children. Even of a baby!'
His comments came after a Russian soldier was arrested after allegedly recording himself abusing a Ukrainian baby.
The International Criminal Court has also opened an investigation into Russia's actions in Ukraine. |
https://www.indiatoday.in/newsmo/video/russia-ukraine-war-russian-troops-accused-of-raping-ukrainian-women-evidence-for-war-crime-1934248-2022-04-06 | A Ukrainian MP has claimed that Russian soldiers raped minors and branded women's bodies in the country. Rape is an underreported crime and the reports coming in from the survivors in Ukraine might be the tip of the iceberg. These are evidence to build a case of war crimes committed by Russia. Rape and assault are deemed war crimes and a breach of international humanitarian law as well. | 2 | 37,022 | 0.54473 | https://www.republicworld.com/world-news/russia-ukraine-crisis/british-ambassador-to-ukraine-warns-rape-is-a-weapon-of-war-part-of-russias-arsenal-articleshow.html | 2022-04-06 00:33:23+00:00 | Quick links:
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Russian troops have allegedly been committing rape crimes against Ukrainian women as an ‘instrument of war’ and in the recent week, “several cases” of violent sexual acts have emerged since Russia’s President Vladimir Putin ordered an all-out military invasion in Kyiv. While millions of civilians have taken shelter in the neighbouring EU nations to flee the war atrocities, the women and young girls in Ukrainian cities are being subjected to horrifying acts of sexual violence by the invading Russian soldiers, as is being claimed by the Ukraine Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba and Ukrainian MP Maria Mezentseva.
The Ukrainian ministers have cited several incidents where Russian soldiers have raped and later killed the victims as the brutal armed conflict ensues on Ukrainian soil. Many such cases have not yet been revealed to the public by the rape victims, Maria Mezentseva said in a TV interview, referencing a singled out case in Brovary, an eastern suburb of Kyiv.
On Saturday, British Ambassador to Ukraine Melinda Simmons warned that Russian soldiers are committing rapes as ‘a weapon of war'. While the extent of use of such sexual crimes in war-torn Ukraine isn’t fully understood, “it’s already clear it is being used as a part of the arsenal,” Simmons warned.
“Women [are] raped in front of their kids, girls in front of their families, as a deliberate act of subjugation,” she said in a disturbing claim. “Rape is a war crime,” the British Ambassador to Ukraine said.
Rape is a weapon of war. Though we don’t yet know the full extent of its use in #Ukraine it’s already clear it was part of 🇷🇺 arsenal. Women raped in front of their kids, girls in front of their families, as a deliberate act of subjugation. Rape is a war crime.
— Melinda Simmons (@MelSimmonsFCDO) April 3, 2022
As cases of rape by the Russian soldiers and increased sexual violence against women came to light recently, UK Foreign Office minister Vicky Ford told MPs during an urgent question in the Commons that the UK has involved international partners to strengthen the response to tackling sexual violence in conflict and “all options are on the table”. The Labour Party called for a tribunal on reports of sexual violence by Russian troops.
“We are working through the ICC [International Criminal Court] because we believe that that is the best way to take people to court for war crimes. Setting up a new body could take many years and as I said, we have seen from the experience in the Democratic Republic of Congo that the ICC can be effective in holding people to account,” said Ford.
Credit: Associated Press/Vadim Ghirda
The UK Foreign Office has emphasised that it now becomes increasingly “important” to gather all the evidence, adding that a new convention is needed or a new international agreement Preventing Sexual Violence in Conflict Initiative to have the victims raped by invading soldiers to speak. The legal body will support survivors, document crimes, and prosecute perpetrator soldiers in coordination with local courts. The UK is “horrified” by cases of sexual violence and rape by Russian armed forces, said a British Foreign Office minister. “We have been clear that Russia’s barbaric acts must be investigated and those responsible be held to account,” she told MPs in Commons.
“Sadly, rape in war is not new and before the war started in Ukraine, the foreign secretary committed the UK to do more to tackle sexual violence in conflict, including – but not limited to – its use as a method of warfare,” said UK Foreign Office minister.
UK will do “all we can to bring the perpetrators of war crimes, including sexual violence, to justice.”
A Ukrainian soldier looks at a damaged bridge in Bucha, on the outskirts of Kyiv. Credit: Associated Press
Among the horrifying documented rape war crimes in Ukraine, as confirmed by Kherson resident Svetlana Zorina in televised accounts, a woman was brutally raped and killed by a Russian soldier. “Russian soldiers shot her husband dead before repeatedly raping her as her minor-aged young son sobbed,” the documented account revealed. Ukraine’s MP Maria Mezentseva in a televised interview confirmed that Russian soldiers have been raping and sexually assaulting women since the invasion.
“There is one case which was very widely discussed recently because it’s been recorded and proceeded with (by) the prosecutor’s office, and we’re not going into details, but it’s quite a scary scene when a civilian was shot dead in his house in a small town next to Kyiv,” Mezentseva told Sky News. “His wife was — I’m sorry but I have to say it — raped several times in front of her underage child.” Public record because “justice has to prevail,” she added, describing the scenes of violence against Ukrainian women as “scary” and “horror striking.”
“There are many more victims rather than just this one case which has been made public by the prosecutor general,” said Ukraine MP Maria Mezentseva. “And of course, we are expecting many more of them, which will be public once victims will be ready to talk about that.”
Credit: Associated Press
In Ukraine’s embattled southern city of Mariupol, the most heavily bombarded region by the invading Russian troops, a woman who was brutally raped by the soldiers had died. Ukraine’s defence ministry announced the news of the woman’s death on Twitter, and the account was verified by the Polish journal niezalezna.pl. “This is not a horror movie. Rape, violence, murder - such is the meaning of Russian peace,” the Ukrainian defence ministry wrote in the post.
"We are in the middle of the biggest refugee crisis in Europe since the Second World War.
— PES Group Committee of the Regions (@PES_CoR) March 30, 2022
I want to start by thanking you, because cities and regions are doing an extraordinary work to welcome refugees."
🗨️ @YlvaJohansson at @EU_CoR 🇺🇦🇪🇺 pic.twitter.com/JQcvHWeAzu
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— PES Group Committee of the Regions (@PES_CoR) March 30, 2022
Following Ukraine Defence Ministry’s updates on rape crimes against women, European Union Commissioner for Home Affairs, Ylva Johansson said that “scary scenes from Mariupol and other cities” make it obvious that Ukrainians “are suffering from trauma.” Delivering an address before the EU’s European Committee of the Regions, an advisory body comprising government officials from all 27 member states of the bloc, Johansson said that “Russian troops are systematically raping women, often in front of children.” She called atrocities, destruction, and crimes wreaked inside Ukraine as “biggest crisis since the Second World War.”
In 2008, the UN Security Council had outlined a warning in a resolution that women and girls “were particularly targeted by troops by the use of sexual violence in wars as a tactic of war to humiliate, dominate [and] instill fear.”
A Kherson woman Svetlana Zorina who spoke in a televised interview with American broadcaster CNN, told journalist Nora Neus: "We are scared.” Narrating the rapes committed by the Russian troops during their fierce invasion, she said, “they already started to rape our women. There was information from people who I personally know, that a 17-year-old girl, it's happened to her and then they killed her.” "So we are terrified and scared but we are not going to give up,” she said.
Cases documented for new @hrw report describe horrific abuses committed by Russian forces in Ukraine, including rape and summary executions.
— Yulia Gorbunova (@yuliagorbunova_) April 3, 2022
In the village of Staryi Bykiv, Russian soldiers rounded up six men from the village and shot them. https://t.co/Ypzr4737KN
In an event organised by London's Chatham House think tank, Ukraine Foreign Minister Kuleba noted the atrocities faced by the civilians, particularly women, as he said, "When bombs fall on your cities, when soldiers rape women in the occupied cites.” Continuing further, he questioned international laws. “We have numerous cases of, unfortunately, when Russian soldiers rape women in Ukrainian cities, it's difficult, of course, to speak about the efficiency of international law.”
In a social media post earlier this week, Ukraine’s prosecutor general Iryna Venediktova stated that it was investigating the reports of rapes as for the first time a rape charge has been brought against a Russian soldier by a survivor. Although, the prosecutor general did not divulge other details or evidence gathered. She informed that Ukraine’s prosecutor general office last week, in coordination with the Ukrainian authorities, have identified Russian soldiers who killed a 33-year-old woman's husband on the morning of March 9 and invaded her home, despite the fact that a white sheet was hanging outside to indicate there were no military targets.
Mass executions. Mass rape. Starved cities. Deliberate shelling of hospitals, libraries, schools & apartments. Genocide & war crimes in Ukraine by an army that committed genocide in Syria & Chechnya. The case for unlimited military support to Ukraine is irrefutable: do it.
— Chris Alexander 🌻 (@calxandr) April 3, 2022
.@ServiceSsu published another piece of intercepted talks of russian invaders in Ukraine. They rape minors and eat dogs. Moreover, neither them, nor their interlocutors: moms, wives or friends seem to be shocked or ashamed pic.twitter.com/DXGCbnjo3K
— Olena Halushka (@OlenaHalushka) March 30, 2022
The two allegedly drunk soldiers gunned down the family’s dog and threatened to shoot the son. “I heard a single shot, the sounds of the gate opening, and then the sound of footsteps in the house,” the woman identified only as Natalya told the Times. Then I looked outside and I saw him on the ground by the gate. This younger guy pulled a gun to my head and said: ‘I shot your husband because he’s a Nazi.’” The soldiers later advanced on the woman, armed, asking if they shall "kill her or keep her alive?’” as they brutally raped her.
The two soldiers were identified by the Ukrainian authorities, and a warrant was out for their arrest, said Venediktova in an update. “We will find every villain and make him answer to the fullest extent of the law,” she wrote on Facebook.
In response to the reports, Lesia Vasylenko, a Ukrainian MP took to her Twitter handle to deride Russian soldiers. “Two million people were raped in Germany by Russians during World War Two. Russia again is using rape as an instrument of war. This time in Ukraine. History repeats itself,” she said.
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-04-07/hypermiling-save-money-fuel-bills/100959818 | Some motorists have been changing their driving habits after petrol prices soared above $2.20 last month.
The "hypermiling" phenomenon has seen commuters turning off their air conditioners and keeping their feet off their accelerators in a bid to get more kilometres out of each tank of fuel.
So what is hypermiling, and can it help you save money on your fuel bill?
What is hypermiling?
The term covers a range of techniques, including:
- Keeping up to date with your car's service schedule
- Checking tyre pressure
- Losing excess weight in the car — taking stuff out of your boot, for example
- Driving as slowly as reasonable in the highest possible gear without over-working the engine
- Driving smoothly, with no harsh accelerating or braking
- Parking in a forward-facing spot
- Coasting as much as possible, reading the road to know what's happening ahead
- Keeping air conditioner use to a minimum
Hypermilers share other tips and tricks (like planning journeys to take advantage of tailwinds) and shots of their fuel consumption figures online.
But a word of warning: techniques like drafting or slip-streaming the vehicle ahead should be avoided, as they are highly dangerous.
Will it save me money on my fuel bill?
University of Southern Queensland researcher and mechanical engineering expert Ray Malpress says hypermiling has the potential to reduce fuel consumption by around 10 per cent.
"Anything more than that would take a lot of extra thinking and planning to reduce how much fuel you use," he cautions.
Two things which will save you fuel are accelerating smoothly away from the lights, and braking smoothly and gradually when coming to a halt.
Harsh acceleration and sudden heavy braking both increase fuel consumption, Dr Malpress says.
What's the catch?
There is a "modest awareness of the phenomenon" and anyone can incorporate these techniques into their driving, but there are some things to consider, Dr Malpress says.
"Of course you can’t just crawl around because you’re just going to upset everyone else on the road. But there are ways you can be conscious of reducing the rate that you accelerate."
Hypermiling can be difficult in instances where there's lots of traffic or someone is in a rush.
"If you had a family in the morning and you had to drop kids to school and get to work then there’s a limit to how much time you’ve got, and accelerating up to the speed limits quickly will use more fuel."
Remember, always drive to the road conditions and obey the law.
What are other ways to save fuel?
The best way to reduce fuel is simple — drive less.
Walking, riding a bike or catching public transport are great ways to avoid high fuel prices and be environmentally savvy at the same time.
While it may not be in everyone's budget, Dr Malpress says having a hybrid car goes a lot further in terms of fuel efficiency than hypermiling. | 0 | 39,546 | 0.482012 | https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/what-hypermiling-drivers-urged-try-26683037 | 2022-04-11 11:22:26+00:00 | Most motorists are looking for ways to reduce the amount of petrol used, as struggles over fuel shortages and rising petrol prices continues to put pressure on them.
Though we all try to use our fuel sparingly, this isn't always easy since many of us depend on our cars for essential journeys such as travel for work or study.
However, there are still a number of simple driving techniques that we can use to cut your fuel consumption. Here's what you need to know about hypermiling, which involves employing different tactics to increase the efficiency of the fuel in your tank.
What is hypermiling?
Hypermiling is not a single technique, but a collection of different driving techniques to help with cutting fuel consumption. Unlike simple fuel saving tips, hypermilers tend to go to extreme lengths to conserve fuel, even not driving at all wherever possible.
Kevin Brooker, who is one of the most successful hypermilers in the UK, shared fuel saving techniques learned on his 70 mile round trip from his home in Swansea to his job at the National Parks in Brecon, which saved him up to £50.
He shared that one of the best tips to avoid using too much fuel is to avoid harsh braking or accelerating, which can be a waste of energy, especially in conventional cars that don't have regenerative braking, that returns energy from the brakes to the battery.
Another simple but vital trick is to anticipate the flow of traffic by looking ahead. Mr Brooker explained: "Read the road ahead for traffic lights and roundabouts, so you always keep moving."
He continued: "If there’s a green light a fair distance off, there’s a high probability it will be red by the time you get to it. It’s all about pacing, so you get there when it’s green. With roundabouts, feed into them rather than stop."
Another piece of advice is to slow down whenever reasonable to do so as well as get into the highest possible gear as soon as possible without labouring the engine, since low gears can burn through fuel more quickly.
One more tip, which is more costly is switching your car. Though this is more pricey it could end up saving you money in the long run.
What are other tips to save fuel while driving?
Besides hypermiling technique, there are a few other tips that can help you save fuel while driving.
Ditch unnecessary weight
The heavier your car is, the more fuel it ends up consuming to move around. So remove anything that is unnecessary from your boot, roof and glove box. The lesser weight your car is carrying, the more efficient it will be.
Check tyre pressure
Before you start driving, take five minutes to make sure your tyre pressure is not too low, as the lower the pressure the more fuel your car will need to move.
If you're unsure about what the tyre pressure should be, you'll typically find the figures near the lock inside the driver's door.
Turn off aircon
As tempting as it might be to turn your aircon on in the car, regardless of the temperature outside. However, using air conditioners takes up a lot of fuel so it's more sensible to turn it off and save it for extreme temperatures. |
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-04-07/hypermiling-save-money-fuel-bills/100959818 | Some motorists have been changing their driving habits after petrol prices soared above $2.20 last month.
The "hypermiling" phenomenon has seen commuters turning off their air conditioners and keeping their feet off their accelerators in a bid to get more kilometres out of each tank of fuel.
So what is hypermiling, and can it help you save money on your fuel bill?
What is hypermiling?
The term covers a range of techniques, including:
- Keeping up to date with your car's service schedule
- Checking tyre pressure
- Losing excess weight in the car — taking stuff out of your boot, for example
- Driving as slowly as reasonable in the highest possible gear without over-working the engine
- Driving smoothly, with no harsh accelerating or braking
- Parking in a forward-facing spot
- Coasting as much as possible, reading the road to know what's happening ahead
- Keeping air conditioner use to a minimum
Hypermilers share other tips and tricks (like planning journeys to take advantage of tailwinds) and shots of their fuel consumption figures online.
But a word of warning: techniques like drafting or slip-streaming the vehicle ahead should be avoided, as they are highly dangerous.
Will it save me money on my fuel bill?
University of Southern Queensland researcher and mechanical engineering expert Ray Malpress says hypermiling has the potential to reduce fuel consumption by around 10 per cent.
"Anything more than that would take a lot of extra thinking and planning to reduce how much fuel you use," he cautions.
Two things which will save you fuel are accelerating smoothly away from the lights, and braking smoothly and gradually when coming to a halt.
Harsh acceleration and sudden heavy braking both increase fuel consumption, Dr Malpress says.
What's the catch?
There is a "modest awareness of the phenomenon" and anyone can incorporate these techniques into their driving, but there are some things to consider, Dr Malpress says.
"Of course you can’t just crawl around because you’re just going to upset everyone else on the road. But there are ways you can be conscious of reducing the rate that you accelerate."
Hypermiling can be difficult in instances where there's lots of traffic or someone is in a rush.
"If you had a family in the morning and you had to drop kids to school and get to work then there’s a limit to how much time you’ve got, and accelerating up to the speed limits quickly will use more fuel."
Remember, always drive to the road conditions and obey the law.
What are other ways to save fuel?
The best way to reduce fuel is simple — drive less.
Walking, riding a bike or catching public transport are great ways to avoid high fuel prices and be environmentally savvy at the same time.
While it may not be in everyone's budget, Dr Malpress says having a hybrid car goes a lot further in terms of fuel efficiency than hypermiling. | 1 | 59,143 | 0.52291 | https://newslanes.com/2022/09/08/not-worth-it-drivers-warned-of-dangerous-fuel-saving-methods/ | 2022-09-08 09:03:27+00:00 | Despite weeks of near-constant price drops, drivers are seeing the cost of petrol and diesel stagnate. Based on data from RAC Fuel Watch, a motorist will pay an average of 168.59p per litre for unleaded and 183.27p for diesel.
While these prices are a significant drop from the record-breaking prices seen at the beginning of July, many are still struggling, especially with other rising household bills.
With fuel prices soaring in recent months, hypermiling, a driving style where drivers attempt to get the best mileage from their cars, has crossed into the mainstream.
Hypermilers suggest that their techniques, including measures such as turning off the air-con and driving below the speed limit, can boost a vehicle’s mpg by up to 40 percent.
The official hypermiling website urges drivers to adopt the correct techniques for the road and traffic conditions when using fuel-saving methods, adding that “safety is paramount”.
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Reaction times and braking distance are severely reduced at this range, making a collision more likely should the car in front suddenly slow.
Following too closely is responsible for five percent of traffic collisions, while sudden braking makes up a further five percent of accidents.
Sarah Tooze, consumer editor at CarSite, warned motorists who were looking to dramatically alter their driving habits to save fuel.
She said: “While there is merit in some of the suggestions, some techniques, such as drafting and coasting, are potentially dangerous for the driver and other road users.
“Risking an expensive (and potentially fatal) crash in an attempt to save fuel is not worth it.”
According to the latest Department for Transport statistics, reckless driving accounts for 18 percent of all road accidents in the UK.
Some hypermiling techniques have the potential to endanger both the driver and other road users, so should be avoided.
Instead, drivers are being urged to make smaller changes which can still have a dramatic impact on their fuel economy.
Driving slower has been praised as being the best way to cut fuel costs and still remain safe on the road.
By applying the throttle in a lighter manner, the engine doesn’t have to work as hard and is more efficient.
This also helps with the longevity of the engine, as parts do not tire out as quickly, saving money on potential repairs in the long term.
A driver on a 45-mile journey from Manchester to Leeds, using an average car, can save around £4.30 if they go at 50mph, rather than the national speed limit on a motorway of 70mph, the RAC claim.
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-04-07/hypermiling-save-money-fuel-bills/100959818 | Some motorists have been changing their driving habits after petrol prices soared above $2.20 last month.
The "hypermiling" phenomenon has seen commuters turning off their air conditioners and keeping their feet off their accelerators in a bid to get more kilometres out of each tank of fuel.
So what is hypermiling, and can it help you save money on your fuel bill?
What is hypermiling?
The term covers a range of techniques, including:
- Keeping up to date with your car's service schedule
- Checking tyre pressure
- Losing excess weight in the car — taking stuff out of your boot, for example
- Driving as slowly as reasonable in the highest possible gear without over-working the engine
- Driving smoothly, with no harsh accelerating or braking
- Parking in a forward-facing spot
- Coasting as much as possible, reading the road to know what's happening ahead
- Keeping air conditioner use to a minimum
Hypermilers share other tips and tricks (like planning journeys to take advantage of tailwinds) and shots of their fuel consumption figures online.
But a word of warning: techniques like drafting or slip-streaming the vehicle ahead should be avoided, as they are highly dangerous.
Will it save me money on my fuel bill?
University of Southern Queensland researcher and mechanical engineering expert Ray Malpress says hypermiling has the potential to reduce fuel consumption by around 10 per cent.
"Anything more than that would take a lot of extra thinking and planning to reduce how much fuel you use," he cautions.
Two things which will save you fuel are accelerating smoothly away from the lights, and braking smoothly and gradually when coming to a halt.
Harsh acceleration and sudden heavy braking both increase fuel consumption, Dr Malpress says.
What's the catch?
There is a "modest awareness of the phenomenon" and anyone can incorporate these techniques into their driving, but there are some things to consider, Dr Malpress says.
"Of course you can’t just crawl around because you’re just going to upset everyone else on the road. But there are ways you can be conscious of reducing the rate that you accelerate."
Hypermiling can be difficult in instances where there's lots of traffic or someone is in a rush.
"If you had a family in the morning and you had to drop kids to school and get to work then there’s a limit to how much time you’ve got, and accelerating up to the speed limits quickly will use more fuel."
Remember, always drive to the road conditions and obey the law.
What are other ways to save fuel?
The best way to reduce fuel is simple — drive less.
Walking, riding a bike or catching public transport are great ways to avoid high fuel prices and be environmentally savvy at the same time.
While it may not be in everyone's budget, Dr Malpress says having a hybrid car goes a lot further in terms of fuel efficiency than hypermiling. | 2 | 21,068 | 0.52428 | https://www.capetalk.co.za/articles/449101/hypermiling-101-taking-fuel-efficient-driving-to-the-utter-extreme | 2022-07-07 12:32:29+00:00 | Hypermiling 101 – taking fuel-efficient driving to the utter extreme
Hypermiling refers to the gamification of fuel-efficient driving.
Motorists, who are called hypermilers employ various driving techniques to wring as much mileage out of each drop of fuel as they can.
Some methods make sense and can be safely emulated, while others are downright dangerous.
Here are eight hypermiling techniques that can save you a fortune:
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Cruise at the lowest possible speed in top gear. If you can drive at, say, 60 km per hour in top gear without labouring the engine, then that’s probably the most fuel-efficient way to be on the road.
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Gear up as fast as possible. Be gentle on the accelerator and gear up as fast as you can without labouring the engine.
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Maintain accelerator position while going up and down hills. You’ll slow down when going up and speed up while going down, gaining momentum to take you back up again. When the road is level; cruise at the lowest speed you can in top gear.
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Drive as though you don’t have brakes. Every time you brake, you must burn fuel to speed up again. Leave lots of space between you and the car in front, and coast as much as you can. Anticipate having to stop and release the accelerator the moment you need to.
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Turn your engine off if you’re stopping for more than a minute. Idling uses fuel without moving an inch.
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Don’t use your air conditioner (AC) at speeds below 70 km/h. At low speeds, it’s more efficient to drive with a window open than to use the air conditioner. At higher speeds, the aerodynamic drag will cause efficiency to plummet. Consider cycling between having the AC on and off.
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Keep your car in tip-top shape and tyres inflated to the manufacturer’s recommendation.
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Empty your boot and interior of all unnecessary items, especially weighty ones.
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The president announced the extension until Aug. 31 in a statement, citing the still ongoing recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic.
“To enable Americans to continue to get back on their feet after two of the hardest years this nation has ever faced, my Administration is extending the pause on federal student loan repayments through August 31st, 2022. That additional time will assist borrowers in achieving greater financial security and support the Department of Education’s efforts to continue improving student loan programs,” Biden said.
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“However, as I recognized in recently extending the COVID-19 national emergency, we are still recovering from the pandemic and the unprecedented economic disruption it caused,” the president said. “If loan payments were to resume on schedule in May, analysis of recent data from the Federal Reserve suggests that millions of student loan borrowers would face significant economic hardship, and delinquencies and defaults could threaten Americans’ financial stability.”
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The president announced the extension until Aug. 31 in a statement, citing the still ongoing recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic.
“To enable Americans to continue to get back on their feet after two of the hardest years this nation has ever faced, my Administration is extending the pause on federal student loan repayments through August 31st, 2022. That additional time will assist borrowers in achieving greater financial security and support the Department of Education’s efforts to continue improving student loan programs,” Biden said.
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Biden said on Wednesday that “the economy was barely growing” when he first continued the pause in January 2021, and that now “America is stronger than we were a year ago.”
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The new timeline falls short of the extension timeline that some Democrats had requested. Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) was the leading voice in urging the president to extend the freeze through the end of the year, which would start payments up again after the midterm elections.
Biden, in his statement on Wednesday, did not mention the cancellation of student loans. In the 2020 campaign, he supported forgiving at least $10,000 in federal student loans per person.
A year ago, Biden requested a memo from the Department of Education to determine his authority to forgive student debt through executive action. Since then, the administration has not publicly announced if the memo is complete.
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Meanwhile, Republican lawmakers were critical of Biden for the freeze extension. Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) called the moratorium “an insult” and reckless on Tuesday.
“President Biden’s perpetual student loan payment moratorium is an insult to every American who responsibly paid debts. There’s no free lunch: this reckless move puts taxpayers on the hook for billions,” the senator said.
Thomas Gokey, an organizer with the Debt Collective, which advocates for student loan cancellation, called it “political malpractice” to restart loan payments before the midterms.
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https://fox59.com/news/national-world/biden-extends-student-loan-freeze-through-august/ | (The Hill) — President Joe Biden on Wednesday extended the pandemic moratorium on federal student loan payments and interest accrual through August, ending just three months before the midterm elections.
The president announced the extension until Aug. 31 in a statement, citing the still ongoing recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic.
“To enable Americans to continue to get back on their feet after two of the hardest years this nation has ever faced, my Administration is extending the pause on federal student loan repayments through August 31st, 2022. That additional time will assist borrowers in achieving greater financial security and support the Department of Education’s efforts to continue improving student loan programs,” Biden said.
The freeze was set to lapse on May 1 per an extension signed by Biden in December, and the White House was under pressure by nearly 100 Democrats across both chambers to extend it. Loan payments were first put on hold in March 2020 under former President Trump, and the freeze has since been extended five times.
Trump’s order froze the accrual of interest on federal student loans, effectively freezing $1.6 trillion in debt owed by more than 40 million Americans.
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“Debtors had to fight to win even an extension to the pause. We know that you can’t pause a crisis, Biden can cancel the debt today with a signature. It would be political malpractice to restart payments right before the midterms,” he told The Hill. | 1 | 74,190 | 0 | https://wgntv.com/news/biden-extends-student-loan-freeze-through-august/ | 2022-04-06 16:08:11+00:00 | (The Hill) — President Joe Biden on Wednesday extended the pandemic moratorium on federal student loan payments and interest accrual through August, ending just three months before the midterm elections.
The president announced the extension until Aug. 31 in a statement, citing the still ongoing recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic.
“To enable Americans to continue to get back on their feet after two of the hardest years this nation has ever faced, my Administration is extending the pause on federal student loan repayments through August 31st, 2022. That additional time will assist borrowers in achieving greater financial security and support the Department of Education’s efforts to continue improving student loan programs,” Biden said.
The freeze was set to lapse on May 1 per an extension signed by Biden in December, and the White House was under pressure by nearly 100 Democrats across both chambers to extend it. Loan payments were first put on hold in March 2020 under former President Trump, and the freeze has since been extended five times.
Trump’s order froze the accrual of interest on federal student loans, effectively freezing $1.6 trillion in debt owed by more than 40 million Americans.
Biden said on Wednesday that “the economy was barely growing” when he first continued the pause in January 2021, and that now “America is stronger than we were a year ago.”
“However, as I recognized in recently extending the COVID-19 national emergency, we are still recovering from the pandemic and the unprecedented economic disruption it caused,” the president said. “If loan payments were to resume on schedule in May, analysis of recent data from the Federal Reserve suggests that millions of student loan borrowers would face significant economic hardship, and delinquencies and defaults could threaten Americans’ financial stability.”
The Hill first reported on Tuesday that the announcement of another extension was expected to come this week, citing multiple sources.
Biden said that in September, when payments start again, the Department of Education will “offer additional flexibilities and support for all borrowers.”
“The Department of Education is committed to ensuring that student loan borrowers have a smooth transition back to repayment,” Education Secretary Miguel Cardona said in a statement. “This additional extension will allow borrowers to gain more financial security as the economy continues to improve and as the nation continues to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic.”
The new timeline falls short of the extension timeline that some Democrats had requested. Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) was the leading voice in urging the president to extend the freeze through the end of the year, which would start payments up again after the midterm elections.
Biden, in his statement on Wednesday, did not mention the cancellation of student loans. In the 2020 campaign, he supported forgiving at least $10,000 in federal student loans per person.
A year ago, Biden requested a memo from the Department of Education to determine his authority to forgive student debt through executive action. Since then, the administration has not publicly announced if the memo is complete.
Advocates and other Democrats, including Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.), have pressed for forgiveness of $50,000 per borrower or to cancel debt entirely. Schumer on Tuesday called for $50,000 forgiveness again after reports that the freeze would be extended.
“To extend the moratorium is a good thing, but of course, I believe the president should go further and forgive $50,000 in student loans permanently,” he said in remarks at the Capitol.
Meanwhile, Republican lawmakers were critical of Biden for the freeze extension. Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) called the moratorium “an insult” and reckless on Tuesday.
“President Biden’s perpetual student loan payment moratorium is an insult to every American who responsibly paid debts. There’s no free lunch: this reckless move puts taxpayers on the hook for billions,” the senator said.
Thomas Gokey, an organizer with the Debt Collective, which advocates for student loan cancellation, called it “political malpractice” to restart loan payments before the midterms.
“Debtors had to fight to win even an extension to the pause. We know that you can’t pause a crisis, Biden can cancel the debt today with a signature. It would be political malpractice to restart payments right before the midterms,” he told The Hill. |
https://fox59.com/news/national-world/biden-extends-student-loan-freeze-through-august/ | (The Hill) — President Joe Biden on Wednesday extended the pandemic moratorium on federal student loan payments and interest accrual through August, ending just three months before the midterm elections.
The president announced the extension until Aug. 31 in a statement, citing the still ongoing recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic.
“To enable Americans to continue to get back on their feet after two of the hardest years this nation has ever faced, my Administration is extending the pause on federal student loan repayments through August 31st, 2022. That additional time will assist borrowers in achieving greater financial security and support the Department of Education’s efforts to continue improving student loan programs,” Biden said.
The freeze was set to lapse on May 1 per an extension signed by Biden in December, and the White House was under pressure by nearly 100 Democrats across both chambers to extend it. Loan payments were first put on hold in March 2020 under former President Trump, and the freeze has since been extended five times.
Trump’s order froze the accrual of interest on federal student loans, effectively freezing $1.6 trillion in debt owed by more than 40 million Americans.
Biden said on Wednesday that “the economy was barely growing” when he first continued the pause in January 2021, and that now “America is stronger than we were a year ago.”
“However, as I recognized in recently extending the COVID-19 national emergency, we are still recovering from the pandemic and the unprecedented economic disruption it caused,” the president said. “If loan payments were to resume on schedule in May, analysis of recent data from the Federal Reserve suggests that millions of student loan borrowers would face significant economic hardship, and delinquencies and defaults could threaten Americans’ financial stability.”
The Hill first reported on Tuesday that the announcement of another extension was expected to come this week, citing multiple sources.
Biden said that in September, when payments start again, the Department of Education will “offer additional flexibilities and support for all borrowers.”
“The Department of Education is committed to ensuring that student loan borrowers have a smooth transition back to repayment,” Education Secretary Miguel Cardona said in a statement. “This additional extension will allow borrowers to gain more financial security as the economy continues to improve and as the nation continues to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic.”
The new timeline falls short of the extension timeline that some Democrats had requested. Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) was the leading voice in urging the president to extend the freeze through the end of the year, which would start payments up again after the midterm elections.
Biden, in his statement on Wednesday, did not mention the cancellation of student loans. In the 2020 campaign, he supported forgiving at least $10,000 in federal student loans per person.
A year ago, Biden requested a memo from the Department of Education to determine his authority to forgive student debt through executive action. Since then, the administration has not publicly announced if the memo is complete.
Advocates and other Democrats, including Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.), have pressed for forgiveness of $50,000 per borrower or to cancel debt entirely. Schumer on Tuesday called for $50,000 forgiveness again after reports that the freeze would be extended.
“To extend the moratorium is a good thing, but of course, I believe the president should go further and forgive $50,000 in student loans permanently,” he said in remarks at the Capitol.
Meanwhile, Republican lawmakers were critical of Biden for the freeze extension. Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) called the moratorium “an insult” and reckless on Tuesday.
“President Biden’s perpetual student loan payment moratorium is an insult to every American who responsibly paid debts. There’s no free lunch: this reckless move puts taxpayers on the hook for billions,” the senator said.
Thomas Gokey, an organizer with the Debt Collective, which advocates for student loan cancellation, called it “political malpractice” to restart loan payments before the midterms.
“Debtors had to fight to win even an extension to the pause. We know that you can’t pause a crisis, Biden can cancel the debt today with a signature. It would be political malpractice to restart payments right before the midterms,” he told The Hill. | 2 | 74,259 | 0 | https://www.ketk.com/news/politics/biden-extends-student-loan-freeze-through-august/ | 2022-04-06 16:08:19+00:00 | (The Hill) — President Joe Biden on Wednesday extended the pandemic moratorium on federal student loan payments and interest accrual through August, ending just three months before the midterm elections.
The president announced the extension until Aug. 31 in a statement, citing the still ongoing recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic.
“To enable Americans to continue to get back on their feet after two of the hardest years this nation has ever faced, my Administration is extending the pause on federal student loan repayments through August 31st, 2022. That additional time will assist borrowers in achieving greater financial security and support the Department of Education’s efforts to continue improving student loan programs,” Biden said.
The freeze was set to lapse on May 1 per an extension signed by Biden in December, and the White House was under pressure by nearly 100 Democrats across both chambers to extend it. Loan payments were first put on hold in March 2020 under former President Trump, and the freeze has since been extended five times.
Trump’s order froze the accrual of interest on federal student loans, effectively freezing $1.6 trillion in debt owed by more than 40 million Americans.
Biden said on Wednesday that “the economy was barely growing” when he first continued the pause in January 2021, and that now “America is stronger than we were a year ago.”
“However, as I recognized in recently extending the COVID-19 national emergency, we are still recovering from the pandemic and the unprecedented economic disruption it caused,” the president said. “If loan payments were to resume on schedule in May, analysis of recent data from the Federal Reserve suggests that millions of student loan borrowers would face significant economic hardship, and delinquencies and defaults could threaten Americans’ financial stability.”
The Hill first reported on Tuesday that the announcement of another extension was expected to come this week, citing multiple sources.
Biden said that in September, when payments start again, the Department of Education will “offer additional flexibilities and support for all borrowers.”
“The Department of Education is committed to ensuring that student loan borrowers have a smooth transition back to repayment,” Education Secretary Miguel Cardona said in a statement. “This additional extension will allow borrowers to gain more financial security as the economy continues to improve and as the nation continues to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic.”
The new timeline falls short of the extension timeline that some Democrats had requested. Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) was the leading voice in urging the president to extend the freeze through the end of the year, which would start payments up again after the midterm elections.
Biden, in his statement on Wednesday, did not mention the cancellation of student loans. In the 2020 campaign, he supported forgiving at least $10,000 in federal student loans per person.
A year ago, Biden requested a memo from the Department of Education to determine his authority to forgive student debt through executive action. Since then, the administration has not publicly announced if the memo is complete.
Advocates and other Democrats, including Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.), have pressed for forgiveness of $50,000 per borrower or to cancel debt entirely. Schumer on Tuesday called for $50,000 forgiveness again after reports that the freeze would be extended.
“To extend the moratorium is a good thing, but of course, I believe the president should go further and forgive $50,000 in student loans permanently,” he said in remarks at the Capitol.
Meanwhile, Republican lawmakers were critical of Biden for the freeze extension. Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) called the moratorium “an insult” and reckless on Tuesday.
“President Biden’s perpetual student loan payment moratorium is an insult to every American who responsibly paid debts. There’s no free lunch: this reckless move puts taxpayers on the hook for billions,” the senator said.
Thomas Gokey, an organizer with the Debt Collective, which advocates for student loan cancellation, called it “political malpractice” to restart loan payments before the midterms.
“Debtors had to fight to win even an extension to the pause. We know that you can’t pause a crisis, Biden can cancel the debt today with a signature. It would be political malpractice to restart payments right before the midterms,” he told The Hill. |
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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Mother of Amir Locke after Minneapolis police officer isn't charged in her son’s fatal shooting: "You are guilty." |
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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Mother of Amir Locke after Minneapolis police officer isn't charged in her son’s fatal shooting: "You are guilty." |
https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/Alert-Mother-of-Amir-Locke-after-Minneapolis-17061915.php | MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Mother of Amir Locke after Minneapolis police officer isn't charged in her son’s fatal shooting: "You are guilty."
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-10692593/Podcast-listeners-open-intellectually-curious-non-listeners.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | People who listen to PODCASTS are more open, intellectually curious, and less neurotic than those who don't, study finds
- Podcast listeners are more open and non-neurotic than non-listeners, study says
- Experts asked over 300 participants questions on their podcast listening habits
- They then compared them to their personality traits and reasons for listening
- People did not tune in for mindfulness reasons or due to smartphone addiction
People who listen to podcasts are on average more open, intellectually curious, and less neurotic than those who don't, a new study has found.
Researchers said that one-sided relationships and the social engagement of tuning-in were related to positive outcomes for listeners, while people with a higher need to belong were less likely to have listened to a podcast.
Queensland University of Technology researchers asked more than 300 participants questions on their podcast listening habits and compared them to their personality traits and reasons for listening.
People who listen to podcasts are on average more open, intellectually curious, and non-neurotic than non-listeners, a new study has found (stock image)
The authors wrote in their paper: 'As predicted, we found that people who were higher in openness to experience, interest type epistemic curiosity, and need for cognition were more likely to have listened to a podcast.
'This indicates that those who listen to podcasts have stronger informational needs.
'These findings are consistent with past research which found that openness, curiosity, or need for cognition was associated with use of other new technologies and using online platforms for informational purposes.'
Researchers said that, contrary to their predictions, those who listened to podcasts did not do so for mindfulness reasons or because of smartphone addiction.
They added: 'Participants who were higher in need to belong were less likely to have listened to a podcast.
'Furthermore, when we examined other Big Five factors, we found that participants who were higher in neuroticism were less likely to have listened to a podcast.
'These two findings help to differentiate podcast listening from social media use, which is positively associated with the need to belong and neuroticism.'
The aim of their study was to identify predictors of podcast listening and examine the associations between aspects of podcast listening and psychological outcomes.
Participants from a range of countries were asked to complete an online questionnaire that assessed the 'Big Five' personality factors – including curiosity, need for cognition, need to belong, age, and gender – and aspects of podcast listening, such as the amount, format, setting and device.
Researchers said that, contrary to their predictions, those who listened to podcasts did not do so for mindfulness reasons or because of smartphone addiction (stock image)
It also looked at potential reasons for listening to a podcast, including autonomy, competence, relatedness, meaning, mindfulness, and smartphone addiction.
The researchers said that openness to experience, interest-based curiosity and need for cognition positively predicted podcast listening.
Men were also more likely to have tuned-in to a podcast than women, which is consistent with other studies that have found that similar gender differences in podcast listening.
The experts found people didn't tune in to feel more autonomous, competent, related or meaningful, despite believing this might be the case.
Overall, researchers said their findings support the idea that informational motives can play a role in podcast listening, and that some aspects of listening are associated with positive outcomes.
In conclusion, they wrote: 'Together, these findings suggest that informational needs rather than social or emotional needs may be more relevant motivations for podcast listening.
'This is consistent with past findings that information was a more strongly endorsed motive for podcast listening than other more social motives among regular podcast listeners.'
The study has been published in the journal PLOS ONE. | 0 | 112,141 | 0.385758 | https://centralrecorder.com/podcast-listeners-tend-to-be-curious-non-neurotic-global-survey/ | 2022-04-17 10:30:29+00:00 | - Podcast listenership has soared globally in the past several years.
- A study of listeners around the world revealed that people who listen to podcasts tend to be more open to experience.
- Compared to social media users, podcast fans tend to be less neurotic and less concerned with belonging.
People who listen to podcasts tend to be motivated by the pursuit of new information, more so that a need for belonging or or social relatedness, according to results of an international survey out Wednesday.
Researchers in Australia and California teamed up with the goal of better understanding why people listen to podcasts. Previous research has revealed that most regular podcast listeners in the US are seeking entertainment or information, or they simply prefer audio as a medium.
The latest survey, from Queensland Institute of Technology in Australia, was open to listeners abroad as well. About 300 participants answered the survey, and 240 indicated that they had listened to a podcast before. That pool of respondents went on to answer questions about how often they listen to podcasts and what kinds they prefer.
Overall, podcast listeners seemed to be driven by a sense of intellectual curiosity, the authors wrote. They were correct in predicting that people who are more open to new information would be more likely to listen to podcasts. But to the researchers’ surprise, people who reported a strong need to belong were less likely to have listened to a podcast, and listening to podcasts was not associated with a sense of autonomy, social relatedness, or meaning.
Compared to social media users — who tend to be relatively neurotic and seek belonging, according to past surveys — podcast listeners represent a more independent, information-seeking demographic, the authors concluded.
The number of podcast listeners in the US is on the rise; according to Statista, estimated listenership jumped from 46.1 million to 75.9 million between 2017 and 2020.
The survey ranked personality by the Big Five traits
The authors used the Big Five factors to consider differences in personality. Of the five traits — openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism — they predicted openness to experience would have the greatest bearing on listening behaviors, since podcasts offer the opportunity to explore new topics.
As they expected, participants who scored high in openness on the Big Five personality inventory were more likely to have listened to a podcast than those who scored low. A similar trend has been observed separately with active Twitter users and early bloggers.
Although the study authors didn’t make predictions about the other four personality traits, they did consider the whole inventory when surveying podcast listeners. They found that people with high scores for neuroticism, or negative emotionality, were less likely to listen to podcasts. The opposite is true for social media users, who reported higher levels of neuroticism in a previous survey.
Men were overall more likely to have listened to a podcast than women
Based on the survey results, men tended to be bigger podcast fans compared to women. This is consistent with previous findings, but it doesn’t accurately capture non-binary people and other genders.
However, the male-female gap in listenership could correlate with gendered motives for using technology, the authors suggested. A separate survey published in 2013 found that more women use technology as a means to connect, while men place a greater value on online information-seeking.
Motives for listening to podcasts were self-reported, so there’s a chance of bias towards more positive, media-centric responses over deeper, psychological reflections. |
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-10692593/Podcast-listeners-open-intellectually-curious-non-listeners.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | People who listen to PODCASTS are more open, intellectually curious, and less neurotic than those who don't, study finds
- Podcast listeners are more open and non-neurotic than non-listeners, study says
- Experts asked over 300 participants questions on their podcast listening habits
- They then compared them to their personality traits and reasons for listening
- People did not tune in for mindfulness reasons or due to smartphone addiction
People who listen to podcasts are on average more open, intellectually curious, and less neurotic than those who don't, a new study has found.
Researchers said that one-sided relationships and the social engagement of tuning-in were related to positive outcomes for listeners, while people with a higher need to belong were less likely to have listened to a podcast.
Queensland University of Technology researchers asked more than 300 participants questions on their podcast listening habits and compared them to their personality traits and reasons for listening.
People who listen to podcasts are on average more open, intellectually curious, and non-neurotic than non-listeners, a new study has found (stock image)
The authors wrote in their paper: 'As predicted, we found that people who were higher in openness to experience, interest type epistemic curiosity, and need for cognition were more likely to have listened to a podcast.
'This indicates that those who listen to podcasts have stronger informational needs.
'These findings are consistent with past research which found that openness, curiosity, or need for cognition was associated with use of other new technologies and using online platforms for informational purposes.'
Researchers said that, contrary to their predictions, those who listened to podcasts did not do so for mindfulness reasons or because of smartphone addiction.
They added: 'Participants who were higher in need to belong were less likely to have listened to a podcast.
'Furthermore, when we examined other Big Five factors, we found that participants who were higher in neuroticism were less likely to have listened to a podcast.
'These two findings help to differentiate podcast listening from social media use, which is positively associated with the need to belong and neuroticism.'
The aim of their study was to identify predictors of podcast listening and examine the associations between aspects of podcast listening and psychological outcomes.
Participants from a range of countries were asked to complete an online questionnaire that assessed the 'Big Five' personality factors – including curiosity, need for cognition, need to belong, age, and gender – and aspects of podcast listening, such as the amount, format, setting and device.
Researchers said that, contrary to their predictions, those who listened to podcasts did not do so for mindfulness reasons or because of smartphone addiction (stock image)
It also looked at potential reasons for listening to a podcast, including autonomy, competence, relatedness, meaning, mindfulness, and smartphone addiction.
The researchers said that openness to experience, interest-based curiosity and need for cognition positively predicted podcast listening.
Men were also more likely to have tuned-in to a podcast than women, which is consistent with other studies that have found that similar gender differences in podcast listening.
The experts found people didn't tune in to feel more autonomous, competent, related or meaningful, despite believing this might be the case.
Overall, researchers said their findings support the idea that informational motives can play a role in podcast listening, and that some aspects of listening are associated with positive outcomes.
In conclusion, they wrote: 'Together, these findings suggest that informational needs rather than social or emotional needs may be more relevant motivations for podcast listening.
'This is consistent with past findings that information was a more strongly endorsed motive for podcast listening than other more social motives among regular podcast listeners.'
The study has been published in the journal PLOS ONE. | 1 | 79,755 | 0.460504 | https://www.malaymail.com/news/life/2022/04/08/listening-to-podcasts-could-speak-volumes-about-your-personality/2052273 | 2022-04-08 02:41:59+00:00 | NEW YORK, April 8 —M ore and more listeners are incorporating podcasts into their daily lives. And this habit could say a lot about who they are, according to a new study. Scientists found that fans of the format are, on average, more curious than others.
To come to this conclusion, Stephanie Tobin and Rosanna Guadagno interviewed 306 people from around a dozen countries about their relationship with this form of entertainment. They then compared their listening habits with different personality traits, such as curiosity, openness to experience and the need to belong.
The researchers found that respondents who had ever listened to a podcast tended to score higher than others in the areas of openness to experience, interest-based curiosity, and need for cognition. Individuals with a high need for cognition tend to enjoy engaging in extensive reasoning processes: They systematically seek to make sense of the information they encounter. And this appears to be the case of podcast fans, according to the study findings, published in the journal, Plos One.
The scientists also found that podcast listeners were less likely to have high scores for neuroticism. This personality trait refers to the propensity of some people to experience negative emotions like anxiety. Podcast fans seem to be less prone to this. According to Stephanie Tobin, co-author of the study and a senior lecturer at Queensland University of Technology, this result is particularly surprising. “That’s quite different from social media use,” she told The Guardian. “There’s a positive association between neuroticism and using social media.”
The ultimate format for an intimate listening experience
The podcast is often described as an intimate medium. It facilitates self-narration and personal exploration, while giving listeners a sense of a special connection with the host of their favourite show. The researchers noted that participants who experienced this kind of connection had, on average, higher scores on agreeableness. In other words, feeling close to a podcaster indicates a certain ease in feeling caring towards others.
Researchers at the Rady School of Management at UC San Diego, UCLA and UC Berkeley have also looked at the sense of closeness and intimacy that some listeners may experience with the voice in their ears. They argue that wearing headphones or earbuds promotes a phenomenon called “in-head localisation.” Listeners feel that the speaker is in their head, and therefore feel close to them. As such, they feel more empathy towards them and tend to be more easily persuaded by what they say.
While Stephanie Tobin and Rosanna Guadagno’s study supports this trend, the researchers were surprised to find that the podcast fans they surveyed did not score highly on the need to belong. They expected the opposite to be true. “People with a higher need to belong report more addictive social networking site tendencies. They also form stronger parasocial relationships with their favourite TV personalities. Podcasts offer informal and intimate conversation, which could be attractive to those with a high need to belong,” they wrote in the study.
However, the scientists note that while certain personality traits were associated with listening to podcasts, they were unable to formally establish causal links. — ETX Studio |
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-10692593/Podcast-listeners-open-intellectually-curious-non-listeners.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | People who listen to PODCASTS are more open, intellectually curious, and less neurotic than those who don't, study finds
- Podcast listeners are more open and non-neurotic than non-listeners, study says
- Experts asked over 300 participants questions on their podcast listening habits
- They then compared them to their personality traits and reasons for listening
- People did not tune in for mindfulness reasons or due to smartphone addiction
People who listen to podcasts are on average more open, intellectually curious, and less neurotic than those who don't, a new study has found.
Researchers said that one-sided relationships and the social engagement of tuning-in were related to positive outcomes for listeners, while people with a higher need to belong were less likely to have listened to a podcast.
Queensland University of Technology researchers asked more than 300 participants questions on their podcast listening habits and compared them to their personality traits and reasons for listening.
People who listen to podcasts are on average more open, intellectually curious, and non-neurotic than non-listeners, a new study has found (stock image)
The authors wrote in their paper: 'As predicted, we found that people who were higher in openness to experience, interest type epistemic curiosity, and need for cognition were more likely to have listened to a podcast.
'This indicates that those who listen to podcasts have stronger informational needs.
'These findings are consistent with past research which found that openness, curiosity, or need for cognition was associated with use of other new technologies and using online platforms for informational purposes.'
Researchers said that, contrary to their predictions, those who listened to podcasts did not do so for mindfulness reasons or because of smartphone addiction.
They added: 'Participants who were higher in need to belong were less likely to have listened to a podcast.
'Furthermore, when we examined other Big Five factors, we found that participants who were higher in neuroticism were less likely to have listened to a podcast.
'These two findings help to differentiate podcast listening from social media use, which is positively associated with the need to belong and neuroticism.'
The aim of their study was to identify predictors of podcast listening and examine the associations between aspects of podcast listening and psychological outcomes.
Participants from a range of countries were asked to complete an online questionnaire that assessed the 'Big Five' personality factors – including curiosity, need for cognition, need to belong, age, and gender – and aspects of podcast listening, such as the amount, format, setting and device.
Researchers said that, contrary to their predictions, those who listened to podcasts did not do so for mindfulness reasons or because of smartphone addiction (stock image)
It also looked at potential reasons for listening to a podcast, including autonomy, competence, relatedness, meaning, mindfulness, and smartphone addiction.
The researchers said that openness to experience, interest-based curiosity and need for cognition positively predicted podcast listening.
Men were also more likely to have tuned-in to a podcast than women, which is consistent with other studies that have found that similar gender differences in podcast listening.
The experts found people didn't tune in to feel more autonomous, competent, related or meaningful, despite believing this might be the case.
Overall, researchers said their findings support the idea that informational motives can play a role in podcast listening, and that some aspects of listening are associated with positive outcomes.
In conclusion, they wrote: 'Together, these findings suggest that informational needs rather than social or emotional needs may be more relevant motivations for podcast listening.
'This is consistent with past findings that information was a more strongly endorsed motive for podcast listening than other more social motives among regular podcast listeners.'
The study has been published in the journal PLOS ONE. | 2 | 62,079 | 0.466526 | https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2022/04/08/2003776245 | 2022-04-08 00:43:14+00:00 | People who listen to podcasts are more likely to be curious, more open to experience and less neurotic on average than non-listeners, a new study said.
Researchers surveyed 306 people from more than 10 countries on their podcast listening habits, comparing their listening habits with measures of personality.
Researchers found headphones are a superconductor for emotional connection due to the phenomenon of “in-head localization.”
They found that people who reported ever having listened to a podcast scored more highly for openness to experience, interest-based curiosity and need for cognition — a measure reflecting an individual enjoyment of “effortful cognitive endeavors.”
Podcast listeners were also less likely to score highly for neuroticism, the tendency to experience negative emotions.
“That’s quite different from social media use,” said study coauthor Stephanie Tobin, a senior lecturer at the Queensland University of Technology.
“There’s a positive association between neuroticism and using social media,” she said.
Of podcast listeners, those who scored more highly on the trait of agreeableness were more likely to report forming parasocial relationships with their favorite podcast hosts.
“Parasocial relationships were associated with listening for longer and listening to podcasts by known hosts,” the study’s authors found.
“The more you listen, the more you socially engage and feel like the favorite host is a friend,” Tobin said, adding that this association seemed to have positive outcomes.
“Feeling like the podcast host was your friend was related to feeling generally more connected with other people,” she said.
Previous research has shown that the method of podcast listening can affect “perceived intimacy,” finding that people felt more empathic and persuadable when hearing podcasts through headphones compared with through speakers.
The study participants ranged in age from 18 to 64, with average age of 27.9. Of the respondents, 78 percent reported being podcast listeners. The most popular podcast categories were comedy (48 percent), games and hobbies (34 percent), society and culture (23 percent), music (23 percent), and news and politics (23 percent).
Fewer than half of listeners engaged with podcast less than monthly, while 30 percent listened weekly and 12.5 percent were daily listeners.
Podcast listening was negatively correlated with the need to belong, which Tobin said was an unexpected finding.
“In the past, [the need to belong] has been related to some aspects of social media use and parasocial relationships with other kinds of media figures,” Tobin said.
The study was published in the journal Plos One.
DETERRENCE: The South Korean president-elect is seeking a more constant US security presence to deter threats from North Korea as it steps up weapons tests Advisers to South Korean president-elect Yoon Suk-yeol sought redeployment of US strategic assets, such as nuclear bombers and submarines, to the Korean Peninsula during talks held on a visit to Washington, one of the advisers said yesterday. The team of foreign policy and security aides to Yoon met US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan, as Yoon seeks a more constant security presence to deter threats from North Korea as it steps up weapons tests. “Deploying the strategic assets is an important element of reinforcing the extended deterrence, and the issue naturally came up during the discussions,” Park Jin, a four-term lawmaker who
At a secret location in Lviv, Ukraine, with windows taped up to ward off unwanted attention, underground hobbyists improvise deadly drones bound for the front line of the war against Russia. On a cluttered table the x-shaped frame of one drone stands among bundles of plastic propellers and sachets of minuscule screws. Soon it is to take flight with its payload: a wine bottle-sized anti-tank grenade designed to plunge on Russian armor. Two other drones are already affixed with quad propellers, their squat bodies gaping with miniature bomb bays to rain explosives on Russian infantry challenging Ukrainian defenders to the north and east. One
CORONAVIRUS FIGHT: Some children as young as three months have reportedly been separated from their mothers, while others have been left without adult supervision Esther Zhao thought she was doing the right thing when she brought her two-and-a-half-year-old daughter to a Shanghai hospital with a fever on Saturday last week. Three days later, Zhao was begging health authorities not to separate them after she and the little girl tested positive for COVID-19, saying her daughter was too young to be taken away to a quarantine center for children. Doctors then allegedly threatened Zhao that her daughter would be left at the hospital, while she was sent to the center, if she did not agree to transfer the girl to the Shanghai Public Health Clinical Center in
RARE MOVE: Japan’s foreign minister traveled back with the evacuees from Poland, where he met with officials and organizations to assess how Tokyo could assist Kyiv Twenty Ukrainians yesterday arrived in Tokyo on a government plane with Japanese Minister of Foreign Affairs Yoshimasa Hayashi after his trip to Poland, as Japan cautiously welcomes those fleeing Moscow’s invasion. Japan typically accepts just a few dozen refugees a year from thousands of applicants, and while it has cracked open its doors to Ukrainians, it calls them “evacuees” rather than refugees. The 20 Ukrainians flew with Hayashi from Poland, where he was on a three-day trip to assess how Japan can support Kyiv as it battles Russia’s invasion. Hayashi visited facilities for Ukrainian refugees in Warsaw and held talks with Polish officials, |
https://www.mrt.com/news/article/City-of-Midland-wins-award-for-water-conservation-17060990.php | The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality released its 2022 Governor’s Texas Environmental Excellence Award winners in a press release on April 4. The city of Midland was the winner in the water conservation category for its water pollution control plant secondary treatment upgrades. The city partnered with oil and natural gas company Pioneer Natural Resources for the upgrades.
The awards have been an annual program since 1993 and recognize achievements in environmental preservation and protection, the release said.
“We are excited to be a winner of the Texas Environmental Excellence Award,” the city wrote in a tweet. “Thank you to [Pioneer Natural Resources] for partnering with us to be an example of how public & private entities can maximize conservation efforts & resources by working together.”
“Congratulations to the [City of Midland] for winning the [Texas Commission on Environmental Quality]'s Environmental Excellence Award in the water conservation category!” Pioneer wrote in a tweet. “Pioneer is proud to be a community partner in your water conservation efforts.”
The city and Pioneer made a $125 million deal in December 2016 for improvements to Midland’s wastewater treatment plant. As part of the deal, Pioneer would receive a supply of reclaimed water and pay the city $2.5 million annually for the sale of water.
An additional $8 million of improvements were added in June 2018. The improvements were completed in March 2021. | 0 | 108,801 | 0.407763 | https://www.newswest9.com/article/news/local/midland-wins-governors-texas-environmental-excellence-award/513-ef2554ba-badd-47d6-9131-37f529ca3a2e | 2022-04-06 18:19:58+00:00 | MIDLAND, Texas — The City of Midland Utilities has won a 2022 Governor's Texas Environmental Excellence award.
This award was in the water conservation category and was the result of the joint effort with Pioneer Natural Resources for the Water Pollution Control Plant Secondary Treatment upgrades.
According to the city, the program created a new clean water plant for Midland and offered Pioneer an alternative to ground water.
"Our team is proud to be part of a project that has helped the City and Pioneer achieve their goals of providing a sustainable long-term source of water," said Cory Moose, Assistant Utilities Director. "In an area where water resources are scarce and depleting, this project and the City's partnership with Pioneer is critical in creating an affordable, reliable, long-term source of water for Pioneer while providing the city with necessary infrastructure improvements." |
https://www.mrt.com/news/article/City-of-Midland-wins-award-for-water-conservation-17060990.php | The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality released its 2022 Governor’s Texas Environmental Excellence Award winners in a press release on April 4. The city of Midland was the winner in the water conservation category for its water pollution control plant secondary treatment upgrades. The city partnered with oil and natural gas company Pioneer Natural Resources for the upgrades.
The awards have been an annual program since 1993 and recognize achievements in environmental preservation and protection, the release said.
“We are excited to be a winner of the Texas Environmental Excellence Award,” the city wrote in a tweet. “Thank you to [Pioneer Natural Resources] for partnering with us to be an example of how public & private entities can maximize conservation efforts & resources by working together.”
“Congratulations to the [City of Midland] for winning the [Texas Commission on Environmental Quality]'s Environmental Excellence Award in the water conservation category!” Pioneer wrote in a tweet. “Pioneer is proud to be a community partner in your water conservation efforts.”
The city and Pioneer made a $125 million deal in December 2016 for improvements to Midland’s wastewater treatment plant. As part of the deal, Pioneer would receive a supply of reclaimed water and pay the city $2.5 million annually for the sale of water.
An additional $8 million of improvements were added in June 2018. The improvements were completed in March 2021. | 1 | 96,160 | 0.815261 | https://www.einpresswire.com/article/567498895/tceq-announces-texas-environmental-excellence-award-winners | 2022-04-04 18:18:45+00:00 | TCEQ announces Texas Environmental Excellence Award winners
The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality is pleased to announce the 2022 Governor’s Texas Environmental Excellence Award winners.
This year’s winners include a Dallas-area youth who boosted the solitary bee population in the native Blackland Prairies by creating sustainable pollinator zones and developing wildflower seed balls to foster pollinator gardens in the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex region.
A Texas school system was also recognized for its innovative approach to achieving energy and water savings through conservation and increased efficiency. The program features opportunities for local educators that allows students to take energy readings before and after lighting upgrades, quantifying the efficiency of the new technology.
TCEQ applauds the creativity and resourcefulness of this year’s complete list of TEEA winners and finalists:
Agriculture:
WINNER
Bird and Bee Farm LLC, Rockdale — Bird and Bee Farm
Civic/Community:
WINNER
City of San Marcos, San Marcos — San Marcos River Litter Abatement
FINALISTS
City of Denton – Sustainability Division, Denton — Sustainable Denton
Exploration Green Conservancy, Houston — Exploration Green
Education:
WINNER
USFWS – Houston Community Partnerships and Engagement Program, Houston — Virtually Wild! Texas
FINALIST
McAllen Public Utility, McAllen — Water Education Programming
Environmental Educator of the Year:
WINNERS
Katie Doyle, Flour Bluff ISD, Corpus Christi — Oceans Teacher
FINALISTS
Kent Page, Northside Independent School District, San Antonio — Elementary Environmental Education Teacher
Tevin Gray, Corpus Christi Montessori School, Corpus Christi — Outdoor Educator
Innovative Operations/Management:
WINNER
SAISD Energy & Sustainability Program, San Antonio — SAISD Energy & Sustainability Program
FINALISTS
Altman Specialty Plants, LLC, Giddings — Altman Plants Floating Solar Array
ConocoPhillips Company, Houston — Continuous Fugitive Monitoring and Emission Event Curtailment
San Antonio River Authority, San Antonio — Water Quality Modeling Tool Development
Technical/Technology:
WINNER
Samsung Austin Semiconductor — Copper Ion Exchange
FINALIST
Travis County Sustainability — Travis County Waste and Recycling Drop-off Locator
Pollution Prevention:
WINNER
Kelly-Moore Paint Company, Inc., Hurst — Wash Water Reduction to Landfill
FINALIST
Goodman Manufacturing Company L.P., Waller — Zero Waste
Water Conservation:
WINNER
City of Midland, Midland — City of Midland Water Pollution Control Plant Secondary Treatment Upgrades
FINALIST
CEMEX Construction Materials South LLC, New Braunfels — CEMEX Balcones Quarry Blue Gold Conservation Project
Youth:
WINNER
Spencer Jackson Burke, Dallas — Preserve the Pollinators
FINALIST
Keep Coppell Beautiful, Coppell — Keep Coppell Beautiful Teens
The Texas Environmental Excellence Awards is an annual awards program that recognizes achievements in environmental preservation and protection. Since 1993, the program has honored more than 250 successful environmental projects and activities. Through the TEEA, TCEQ hopes to encourage others to initiate like-minded projects and reinforce a spirit of environmental stewardship. |
https://www.mrt.com/news/article/City-of-Midland-wins-award-for-water-conservation-17060990.php | The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality released its 2022 Governor’s Texas Environmental Excellence Award winners in a press release on April 4. The city of Midland was the winner in the water conservation category for its water pollution control plant secondary treatment upgrades. The city partnered with oil and natural gas company Pioneer Natural Resources for the upgrades.
The awards have been an annual program since 1993 and recognize achievements in environmental preservation and protection, the release said.
“We are excited to be a winner of the Texas Environmental Excellence Award,” the city wrote in a tweet. “Thank you to [Pioneer Natural Resources] for partnering with us to be an example of how public & private entities can maximize conservation efforts & resources by working together.”
“Congratulations to the [City of Midland] for winning the [Texas Commission on Environmental Quality]'s Environmental Excellence Award in the water conservation category!” Pioneer wrote in a tweet. “Pioneer is proud to be a community partner in your water conservation efforts.”
The city and Pioneer made a $125 million deal in December 2016 for improvements to Midland’s wastewater treatment plant. As part of the deal, Pioneer would receive a supply of reclaimed water and pay the city $2.5 million annually for the sale of water.
An additional $8 million of improvements were added in June 2018. The improvements were completed in March 2021. | 2 | 45,359 | 0.829696 | https://www.fbherald.com/community/rosenberg-wins-public-water-system-reclamation-award/article_a1ecedaf-c0fb-59f6-b3dc-ee87e1f5b873.html | 2022-05-14 00:12:04+00:00 | The city of Rosenberg was recently awarded the Bob Derrington Reclamation Award by the Water Environment Association of Texas for the Seabourne Creek Nature Park Reclaimed Water System Project at the Texas Water Awards Program held in San Antonio.
The Bob Derrington Reuse Award is awarded to cities that strongly advocate and understand the beneficial use of treated effluent water and water conservation. The City of Rosenberg recently completed its sixth project in a series of reclaimed water facility and pipeline infrastructure improvements over the last 10 years. The Seabourne Creek Reclaimed Water System uses over 40,000 linear feet of 4-inch to 10- inch pipelines, tertiary wastewater treatment, a 500,000-gallon earthen storage pond, cloth media filter units and a four-pump skid to treat and distribute up to 280,000 gallon per day of reclaimed water.
The system currently serves an annual average of 170,000 gallons per day of reclaimed water to sports ball fields, high school fields, parks and trails, a duck pond, and even helps sustain an artificially created wetlands and native prairie attraction. The Seabourne Creek Nature Park uses reuse water as sprinkled irrigation in addition to drop structures for filling ponds and an artificial wetland. Also, over 25,000 linear feet of 6-inch to 10-inch reclaimed water distribution piping has been extended out of the park limits to serve commercial customers.
Using reuse water is a major component of the city’s overall strategy to reduce its reliance on groundwater in accordance with the Fort Bend Subsidence District groundwater reduction mandates and to achieve the city’s plans of overall water conservancy and sustainability. The City has invested over $3.5 million to construct, operate, and maintain this reclaimed water system over the last 10 years. This effort has proven that treated wastewater can be used for a variety of sustainable ecological, amenity, and practical uses.
For more information about the City’s Water Utilities Department, visit the website at rosenbergtx.gov/water, or call 832-595-3400. |
https://www.news-journalonline.com/story/sports/columns/2022/04/06/masters-2022-tiger-woods-stands-taller-than-pines-augusta-national-jack-nicklaus/7264138001/ | KEN WILLIS: It's Tiger, Tiger, Tiger as the Masters prepares to tee off
AUGUSTA, GA. — Some 365 acres spread across rolling Georgia terrain. Mammoth pines, thick magnolias, the forecaster’s promise of wall-to-wall blue skies to come, complete with crisp springtime air whipped across the greenery by brisk breezes.
And not an ounce of oxygen available for 90 of the 91 golfers who’ll step to the first tee Thursday morning at Augusta National.
’Twas a time when the Masters was bigger than any golfer. Any group of golfers, actually. Bigger than Arnie. Bigger than Jack. And frankly, bigger than Tiger.
HE'S BACK:2022 Masters Tournament: Tiger Woods 'plans to play' and says he feels like he can win
HONORARY STARTERS:The Masters: As Tom Watson joins Augusta National's list of honorary starters, how did it all start?
Until this year, when Tiger Woods’ name remained on the entry list as tournament week approached, and remained, and remained, right through his Tuesday press conference when he declared, “As of right now, I feel like I am going to play.”
It's big. People who don’t know a sand wedge from a sandwich are talking about it. In Monday and Tuesday practice rounds, where Tiger has always drawn the biggest crowds, his audience somehow swelled to Papal standards.
As they used to say about Palmer, even his gallery has a gallery.
TIGER TALK:The Tiger Tease is in full bloom ahead of Augusta National's Masters | Ken Willis
GIVE UP A FINGER?:So, you wanna play Augusta National? Let's negotiate the terms | KEN WILLIS
Folks, the word gets thrown around way too much these days, but this is what a cultural icon looks like.
Suddenly, a battered 46-year-old golfer is dominating the international sports headlines. Looking back 14 months, to the horrendous car crash in L.A., this seemed the longest of longshots. In fact, we’d already basically settled into gaining familiarity with golf’s rising generation of star power.
Remember golf’s youth movement?
Fun while it lasted.
In recent months, the overriding theme was the generational change atop the leaderboards and, in the bigger picture, the world golf rankings, where eight of the current top 10 are 30 or younger.
Collin Morikawa, Jon Rahm, Scottie Scheffler, others.
Suddenly they’re all Jordanaires to Tiger’s Elvis. Background noise, for now anyway. Tiger, in building his legend and collecting idolizing young golf fans along the way, played a huge role in building this latest generation of immense talent.
Think about it. It was 25 years ago, at the ’97 Masters, when Tiger introduced himself to the world at large. Twenty-one years ago when he won the Masters and invented the “Tiger Slam,” winning four straight majors over two years. For the next eight years, there was no let-up.
Today’s 20-somethings grew up with that and, you have to imagine, were inspired to stretch the limits of their own beliefs in how good they could golf their balls. And now here they are, just as they were prepared to test themselves against peers, they find themselves overshadowed by the poster on their childhood bedroom wall.
You can’t help but think back to another 46-year-old legend who had nothing to prove but did. Jack Nicklaus, in 1986, was well into winding down his unmatched career when he tapped the well and overtook a Who’s Who of the day’s best talent.
This, by the way, isn’t that. Jack was only overcoming several months of uneven play that drew no concern because, you know, back then mid-40s was a different animal than today’s mid-40s.
Unlike Jack, Tiger is coming back from something a bit more concerning than, say, a missed cut at the TPC.
How far back he’s come, we’ll see. Maybe this will be the next miracle, as Tiger’s 2019 Masters win was dubbed, though he arrived that April in good form. Or maybe it’ll just be a modest first step in the next chapter of his career, which, if all goes well, will include an abbreviated schedule slotted around the major championships April through July.
By Sunday, maybe even by Saturday, Tiger’s shadow may be removed from the 2022 Masters Tournament. But for now, he’s even towering above the tallest pines on a property not accustomed to being overshadowed.
— Reach Ken Willis at ken.willis@news-jrnl.com | 0 | 133,571 | 0.524619 | https://www.newschainonline.com/sport/mens-sport/golf/the-masters-all-eyes-on-tiger-woods-on-day-one-at-augusta-263789 | 2022-04-07 09:03:54+00:00 | The Masters: All eyes on Tiger Woods on day one at Augusta
All eyes were on Tiger Woods ahead of the 86th Masters at Augusta National.
Less than 14 months after suffering severe injuries to his right leg in a car accident, Woods had defied the odds once again by recovering in time to take his place in the 91-man field for the year’s first major championship.
“It’s just truly amazing,” Masters chairman Fred Ridley said in his annual pre-tournament press conference. “I don’t even know how else to say it.
“I would have probably taken some pretty high odds a few weeks or a few months ago whether or not he would be here.
“But when you think about it, it really shouldn’t surprise us. He is one of the most determined, dedicated athletes that I have ever seen in my life.
“I saw him last Tuesday when he was out practicing, he was in great spirits and had (his son) Charlie with him.
“It was interesting in his press conference that he said the only real issue is walking, that his golf swing’s fine. So who knows what might happen this week. But we are excited he’s here.”
Is there anything new for 2022?
Tom Watson, who won the Masters in 1977 and 1981, joins fellow former champions Gary Player and Jack Nicklaus as an honorary starter. The 72-year-old made his debut as an amateur in 1970 and a further 42 consecutive appearances from 1975 to 2016. Despite no longer competing in the Masters, Watson won the par-three contest in 2018 at the age of 68, making him the oldest ever winner of the event. Since Arnold Palmer’s death in 2016, Palmer and Nicklaus have started the Masters as a twosome, but were joined by Lee Elder last year.
Course specialist?
Spain’s Jon Rahm has finished in the top 10 in each of the last four years in the Masters (2018 4th, 2019 T9, 2020 T7, 2021 T5) and could have some extra motivation to claim a second major title after losing his status as world number one.
Key tee times
1534BST – Tiger Woods, Louis Oosthuizen, Joaquin Niemann1556BST – Adam Scott, Scottie Scheffler, Tony Finau1841BST – Will Zalatoris, Patrick Cantlay, Jon Rahm1903BST – Matt Fitzpatrick, Brooks Koepka, Rory McIlroy
Weather forecast
Scattered thunderstorms remained possible on Wednesday evening, but the cold front passing through on Thursday morning was forecast to bring an end to the rain. Clearing skies and breezy conditions are then expected the rest of the day. A 40 per cent chance of early morning showers and thunderstorms until 8am, then becoming mostly sunny and breezy, with winds of 10-15mph, gusting up to 23mph.
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AUGUSTA, GA. — Some 365 acres spread across rolling Georgia terrain. Mammoth pines, thick magnolias, the forecaster’s promise of wall-to-wall blue skies to come, complete with crisp springtime air whipped across the greenery by brisk breezes.
And not an ounce of oxygen available for 90 of the 91 golfers who’ll step to the first tee Thursday morning at Augusta National.
’Twas a time when the Masters was bigger than any golfer. Any group of golfers, actually. Bigger than Arnie. Bigger than Jack. And frankly, bigger than Tiger.
HE'S BACK:2022 Masters Tournament: Tiger Woods 'plans to play' and says he feels like he can win
HONORARY STARTERS:The Masters: As Tom Watson joins Augusta National's list of honorary starters, how did it all start?
Until this year, when Tiger Woods’ name remained on the entry list as tournament week approached, and remained, and remained, right through his Tuesday press conference when he declared, “As of right now, I feel like I am going to play.”
It's big. People who don’t know a sand wedge from a sandwich are talking about it. In Monday and Tuesday practice rounds, where Tiger has always drawn the biggest crowds, his audience somehow swelled to Papal standards.
As they used to say about Palmer, even his gallery has a gallery.
TIGER TALK:The Tiger Tease is in full bloom ahead of Augusta National's Masters | Ken Willis
GIVE UP A FINGER?:So, you wanna play Augusta National? Let's negotiate the terms | KEN WILLIS
Folks, the word gets thrown around way too much these days, but this is what a cultural icon looks like.
Suddenly, a battered 46-year-old golfer is dominating the international sports headlines. Looking back 14 months, to the horrendous car crash in L.A., this seemed the longest of longshots. In fact, we’d already basically settled into gaining familiarity with golf’s rising generation of star power.
Remember golf’s youth movement?
Fun while it lasted.
In recent months, the overriding theme was the generational change atop the leaderboards and, in the bigger picture, the world golf rankings, where eight of the current top 10 are 30 or younger.
Collin Morikawa, Jon Rahm, Scottie Scheffler, others.
Suddenly they’re all Jordanaires to Tiger’s Elvis. Background noise, for now anyway. Tiger, in building his legend and collecting idolizing young golf fans along the way, played a huge role in building this latest generation of immense talent.
Think about it. It was 25 years ago, at the ’97 Masters, when Tiger introduced himself to the world at large. Twenty-one years ago when he won the Masters and invented the “Tiger Slam,” winning four straight majors over two years. For the next eight years, there was no let-up.
Today’s 20-somethings grew up with that and, you have to imagine, were inspired to stretch the limits of their own beliefs in how good they could golf their balls. And now here they are, just as they were prepared to test themselves against peers, they find themselves overshadowed by the poster on their childhood bedroom wall.
You can’t help but think back to another 46-year-old legend who had nothing to prove but did. Jack Nicklaus, in 1986, was well into winding down his unmatched career when he tapped the well and overtook a Who’s Who of the day’s best talent.
This, by the way, isn’t that. Jack was only overcoming several months of uneven play that drew no concern because, you know, back then mid-40s was a different animal than today’s mid-40s.
Unlike Jack, Tiger is coming back from something a bit more concerning than, say, a missed cut at the TPC.
How far back he’s come, we’ll see. Maybe this will be the next miracle, as Tiger’s 2019 Masters win was dubbed, though he arrived that April in good form. Or maybe it’ll just be a modest first step in the next chapter of his career, which, if all goes well, will include an abbreviated schedule slotted around the major championships April through July.
By Sunday, maybe even by Saturday, Tiger’s shadow may be removed from the 2022 Masters Tournament. But for now, he’s even towering above the tallest pines on a property not accustomed to being overshadowed.
— Reach Ken Willis at ken.willis@news-jrnl.com | 1 | 89,864 | 0.541157 | https://www.newschainonline.com/sport/masters-day-one-all-eyes-on-tiger-woods-at-augusta-263789 | 2022-04-07 04:23:59+00:00 | Masters Day One: All eyes on Tiger Woods at Augusta
All eyes were on Tiger Woods ahead of the 86th Masters at Augusta National.
Less than 14 months after suffering severe injuries to his right leg in a car accident, Woods had defied the odds once again by recovering in time to take his place in the 91-man field for the year’s first major championship.
“It’s just truly amazing,” Masters chairman Fred Ridley said in his annual pre-tournament press conference. “I don’t even know how else to say it.
“I would have probably taken some pretty high odds a few weeks or a few months ago whether or not he would be here.
“But when you think about it, it really shouldn’t surprise us. He is one of the most determined, dedicated athletes that I have ever seen in my life.
“I saw him last Tuesday when he was out practicing, he was in great spirits and had (his son) Charlie with him.
“It was interesting in his press conference that he said the only real issue is walking, that his golf swing’s fine. So who knows what might happen this week. But we are excited he’s here.”
Is there anything new for 2022?
Tom Watson, who won the Masters in 1977 and 1981, joins fellow former champions Gary Player and Jack Nicklaus as an honorary starter. The 72-year-old made his debut as an amateur in 1970 and a further 42 consecutive appearances from 1975 to 2016. Despite no longer competing in the Masters, Watson won the par-three contest in 2018 at the age of 68, making him the oldest ever winner of the event. Since Arnold Palmer’s death in 2016, Palmer and Nicklaus have started the Masters as a twosome, but were joined by Lee Elder last year.
Course specialist?
Spain’s Jon Rahm has finished in the top 10 in each of the last four years in the Masters (2018 4th, 2019 T9, 2020 T7, 2021 T5) and could have some extra motivation to claim a second major title after losing his status as world number one.
Key tee times
1534BST – Tiger Woods, Louis Oosthuizen, Joaquin Niemann1556BST – Adam Scott, Scottie Scheffler, Tony Finau1841BST – Will Zalatoris, Patrick Cantlay, Jon Rahm1903BST – Matt Fitzpatrick, Brooks Koepka, Rory McIlroy
Weather forecast
Scattered thunderstorms remained possible on Wednesday evening, but the cold front passing through on Thursday morning was forecast to bring an end to the rain. Clearing skies and breezy conditions are then expected the rest of the day. A 40 per cent chance of early morning showers and thunderstorms until 8am, then becoming mostly sunny and breezy, with winds of 10-15mph, gusting up to 23mph.
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https://www.news-journalonline.com/story/sports/columns/2022/04/06/masters-2022-tiger-woods-stands-taller-than-pines-augusta-national-jack-nicklaus/7264138001/ | KEN WILLIS: It's Tiger, Tiger, Tiger as the Masters prepares to tee off
AUGUSTA, GA. — Some 365 acres spread across rolling Georgia terrain. Mammoth pines, thick magnolias, the forecaster’s promise of wall-to-wall blue skies to come, complete with crisp springtime air whipped across the greenery by brisk breezes.
And not an ounce of oxygen available for 90 of the 91 golfers who’ll step to the first tee Thursday morning at Augusta National.
’Twas a time when the Masters was bigger than any golfer. Any group of golfers, actually. Bigger than Arnie. Bigger than Jack. And frankly, bigger than Tiger.
HE'S BACK:2022 Masters Tournament: Tiger Woods 'plans to play' and says he feels like he can win
HONORARY STARTERS:The Masters: As Tom Watson joins Augusta National's list of honorary starters, how did it all start?
Until this year, when Tiger Woods’ name remained on the entry list as tournament week approached, and remained, and remained, right through his Tuesday press conference when he declared, “As of right now, I feel like I am going to play.”
It's big. People who don’t know a sand wedge from a sandwich are talking about it. In Monday and Tuesday practice rounds, where Tiger has always drawn the biggest crowds, his audience somehow swelled to Papal standards.
As they used to say about Palmer, even his gallery has a gallery.
TIGER TALK:The Tiger Tease is in full bloom ahead of Augusta National's Masters | Ken Willis
GIVE UP A FINGER?:So, you wanna play Augusta National? Let's negotiate the terms | KEN WILLIS
Folks, the word gets thrown around way too much these days, but this is what a cultural icon looks like.
Suddenly, a battered 46-year-old golfer is dominating the international sports headlines. Looking back 14 months, to the horrendous car crash in L.A., this seemed the longest of longshots. In fact, we’d already basically settled into gaining familiarity with golf’s rising generation of star power.
Remember golf’s youth movement?
Fun while it lasted.
In recent months, the overriding theme was the generational change atop the leaderboards and, in the bigger picture, the world golf rankings, where eight of the current top 10 are 30 or younger.
Collin Morikawa, Jon Rahm, Scottie Scheffler, others.
Suddenly they’re all Jordanaires to Tiger’s Elvis. Background noise, for now anyway. Tiger, in building his legend and collecting idolizing young golf fans along the way, played a huge role in building this latest generation of immense talent.
Think about it. It was 25 years ago, at the ’97 Masters, when Tiger introduced himself to the world at large. Twenty-one years ago when he won the Masters and invented the “Tiger Slam,” winning four straight majors over two years. For the next eight years, there was no let-up.
Today’s 20-somethings grew up with that and, you have to imagine, were inspired to stretch the limits of their own beliefs in how good they could golf their balls. And now here they are, just as they were prepared to test themselves against peers, they find themselves overshadowed by the poster on their childhood bedroom wall.
You can’t help but think back to another 46-year-old legend who had nothing to prove but did. Jack Nicklaus, in 1986, was well into winding down his unmatched career when he tapped the well and overtook a Who’s Who of the day’s best talent.
This, by the way, isn’t that. Jack was only overcoming several months of uneven play that drew no concern because, you know, back then mid-40s was a different animal than today’s mid-40s.
Unlike Jack, Tiger is coming back from something a bit more concerning than, say, a missed cut at the TPC.
How far back he’s come, we’ll see. Maybe this will be the next miracle, as Tiger’s 2019 Masters win was dubbed, though he arrived that April in good form. Or maybe it’ll just be a modest first step in the next chapter of his career, which, if all goes well, will include an abbreviated schedule slotted around the major championships April through July.
By Sunday, maybe even by Saturday, Tiger’s shadow may be removed from the 2022 Masters Tournament. But for now, he’s even towering above the tallest pines on a property not accustomed to being overshadowed.
— Reach Ken Willis at ken.willis@news-jrnl.com | 2 | 96,961 | 0.551764 | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/pa/article-10694573/Masters-Day-One-All-eyes-Tiger-Woods-Augusta.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | 2022-04-07 05:15:20+00:00 | Masters Day One: All eyes on Tiger Woods at Augusta
All eyes were on Tiger Woods ahead of the 86th Masters at Augusta National.
Less than 14 months after suffering severe injuries to his right leg in a car accident, Woods had defied the odds once again by recovering in time to take his place in the 91-man field for the year’s first major championship.
“It’s just truly amazing,” Masters chairman Fred Ridley said in his annual pre-tournament press conference. “I don’t even know how else to say it.
“I would have probably taken some pretty high odds a few weeks or a few months ago whether or not he would be here.
“But when you think about it, it really shouldn’t surprise us. He is one of the most determined, dedicated athletes that I have ever seen in my life.
“I saw him last Tuesday when he was out practicing, he was in great spirits and had (his son) Charlie with him.
“It was interesting in his press conference that he said the only real issue is walking, that his golf swing’s fine. So who knows what might happen this week. But we are excited he’s here.”
Is there anything new for 2022?
Tom Watson, who won the Masters in 1977 and 1981, joins fellow former champions Gary Player and Jack Nicklaus as an honorary starter. The 72-year-old made his debut as an amateur in 1970 and a further 42 consecutive appearances from 1975 to 2016. Despite no longer competing in the Masters, Watson won the par-three contest in 2018 at the age of 68, making him the oldest ever winner of the event. Since Arnold Palmer’s death in 2016, Palmer and Nicklaus have started the Masters as a twosome, but were joined by Lee Elder last year.
Course specialist?
Spain’s Jon Rahm has finished in the top 10 in each of the last four years in the Masters (2018 4th, 2019 T9, 2020 T7, 2021 T5) and could have some extra motivation to claim a second major title after losing his status as world number one.
Key tee times
1534BST – Tiger Woods, Louis Oosthuizen, Joaquin Niemann
1556BST – Adam Scott, Scottie Scheffler, Tony Finau
1841BST – Will Zalatoris, Patrick Cantlay, Jon Rahm
1903BST – Matt Fitzpatrick, Brooks Koepka, Rory McIlroy
Weather forecast
Scattered thunderstorms remained possible on Wednesday evening, but the cold front passing through on Thursday morning was forecast to bring an end to the rain. Clearing skies and breezy conditions are then expected the rest of the day. A 40 per cent chance of early morning showers and thunderstorms until 8am, then becoming mostly sunny and breezy, with winds of 10-15mph, gusting up to 23mph. |
https://www.news-journalonline.com/story/sports/nascar/2022/04/06/ranking-dale-earnhardt-jr-s-top-nascar-wins-xfinity-series-daytona-talladega-wrangler-texas-richmond/9483395002/ | Dale Earnhardt Jr. returns at Martinsville. Here are his 5 best NASCAR Xfinity Series wins
Move over Chase Elliott, NASCAR's Most Popular Driver is back in town for this weekend.
Dale Earnhardt Jr. is set to make his lone Xfinity start of the season Friday night at Martinsville, driving the No. 88 Hellmann's Chevy for his JR Motorsports team.
Since retiring from full-time Cup racing in 2017, Junior has made one Xfinity start a year, finishing 14th at Richmond last fall, fifth at Homestead (2020), fifth at Darlington (2019) and fourth at Richmond (2018).
Earnhardt Jr. has one career win at Martinsville in 35 Cup races (2014), and 24 career Xfinity Series wins. His first Busch race (yes, it will be called the Busch Series from here on out for nostalgia purposes) came in 1996 at Myrtle Beach. Yep, Myrtle Beach!
All right. Let's get to the good stuff. Here are Dale Jr.'s top Busch Series wins:
JUNIOR'S BACK:Through the Gears: NASCAR youth movement slows at Richmond with Dale Earnhardt Jr. up next
NASCAR Martinsville odds:Early lines, sleepers and best value picks for Blue-Emu Maximum Pain Relief 400
1998: Dale Jr.'s first NASCAR win
You'll always remember your first, and Junior's breakthrough at Texas in '98 was certainly memorable.
Dale restarted second behind Front Row Joe Nemechek with six laps to go. Ironically, Nemechek's second Busch Series win came at New Hampshire in 1992, when he beat Dale Earnhardt Sr. to the stripe.
This time, though, it was Junior who ruled the day, passing Nemechek as the two took the white flag to win his first career NASCAR race with his father watching from the pit box.
2002: Dale Earnhardt Jr., Daytona, and the No. 3 Chevy
Driving a Richard Childress No. 3, Junior won the Busch Series opener at Daytona in 2002 — the year after his dad died on the final turn of the Daytona 500.
Earnhardt Jr. held off Michael Waltrip (those two know a thing or two about Daytona I hear) and Matt Kenseth over the final few laps to win his first Busch race at Daytona. Dale, driving the No. 3 Oreos Chevy, led 59 of the 120 laps.
"This was a special deal," Junior said after the win. "This was for fun and this was what was supposed to happen. This is great ... the No. 3 is back in Victory Lane."
2003: Talladega is Earnhardt country
Dale Jr. won plenty at 'Dega in a Cup car, and finally broke through on a Saturday in the 2003 Aarons 312.
He led the field to green on a restart with four to go in the No. 8 Chevy and held off Nemechek over the next two laps until the caution flew, and ended the race, with two to go.
Junior and Front Row Joe combined to lead all but three of the 117 laps. Earnhardt had to be pushed to Victory Lane after his Chevy ran out of gas after taking the checkers.
"If it had went (back) green, I doubt we would've made it," he said.
2010: Earnhardt's No. 3 Wrangler back at Daytona
Dale Sr.'s famous No. 3 blue and yellow Jeans Machine is returning to Darlington next month for throwback weekend, but it'll be tough to top what took place in 2010.
Junior got behind the wheel of his dad's famous machine, and paint scheme, for the 2010 July race and proceeded to win, beating Joey Logano, Ricky Stenhouse Jr. and Brad Keselowski back to the line.
It was Junior's second-to-last Busch Series win.
"I feel lucky ... I feel really lucky," Dale said after the race. "I was so worried that I wasn't going to win because nothing but a win would've been good enough."
2016: Dale Jr.'s final win at Richmond
Up until 2016, Junior had never won a Busch race in his own equipment.
That changed when he absolutely dominated the afternoon in the No. 88 JR Motorsports Chevy, leading 128 of 149 laps and beating Ty Dillon's No. 3 back to the line in overtime.
For Junior, it was his 24th Busch Series win, and first in six years. | 0 | 125,945 | 0 | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2564658990760/dale-earnhardt-jr-returns-at-martinsville-here-are-his-5-best-nascar-xfinity-series-wins | 2022-04-07 19:18:24+00:00 | Dale Earnhardt Jr. returns at Martinsville. Here are his 5 best NASCAR Xfinity Series wins
Move over Chase Elliott, NASCAR's Most Popular Driver is back in town for this weekend.
Dale Earnhardt Jr. is set to make his lone Xfinity start of the season Friday night at Martinsville, driving the No. 88 Hellmann's Chevy for his JR Motorsports team.
Since retiring from full-time Cup racing in 2017, Junior has made one Xfinity start a year, finishing 14th at Richmond last fall, fifth at Homestead (2020), fifth at Darlington (2019) and fourth at Richmond (2018).
Earnhardt Jr. has one career win at Martinsville in 35 Cup races (2014), and 24 career Xfinity Series wins. His first Busch race (yes, it will be called the Busch Series from here on out for nostalgia purposes) came in 1996 at Myrtle Beach. Yep, Myrtle Beach!
All right. Let's get to the good stuff. Here are Dale Jr.'s top Busch Series wins:
JUNIOR'S BACK:Through the Gears: NASCAR youth movement slows at Richmond with Dale Earnhardt Jr. up next
NASCAR Martinsville odds:Early lines, sleepers and best value picks for Blue-Emu Maximum Pain Relief 400
1998: Dale Jr.'s first NASCAR win
You'll always remember your first, and Junior's breakthrough at Texas in '98 was certainly memorable.
Dale restarted second behind Front Row Joe Nemechek with six laps to go. Ironically, Nemechek's second Busch Series win came at New Hampshire in 1992, when he beat Dale Earnhardt Sr. to the stripe.
This time, though, it was Junior who ruled the day, passing Nemechek as the two took the white flag to win his first career NASCAR race with his father watching from the pit box.
2002: Dale Earnhardt Jr., Daytona, and the No. 3 Chevy
Driving a Richard Childress No. 3, Junior won the Busch Series opener at Daytona in 2002 — the year after his dad died on the final turn of the Daytona 500.
Earnhardt Jr. held off Michael Waltrip (those two know a thing or two about Daytona I hear) and Matt Kenseth over the final few laps to win his first Busch race at Daytona. Dale, driving the No. 3 Oreos Chevy, led 59 of the 120 laps.
"This was a special deal," Junior said after the win. "This was for fun and this was what was supposed to happen. This is great ... the No. 3 is back in Victory Lane."
2003: Talladega is Earnhardt country
Dale Jr. won plenty at 'Dega in a Cup car, and finally broke through on a Saturday in the 2003 Aarons 312.
He led the field to green on a restart with four to go in the No. 8 Chevy and held off Nemechek over the next two laps until the caution flew, and ended the race, with two to go.
Junior and Front Row Joe combined to lead all but three of the 117 laps. Earnhardt had to be pushed to Victory Lane after his Chevy ran out of gas after taking the checkers.
"If it had went (back) green, I doubt we would've made it," he said.
2010: Earnhardt's No. 3 Wrangler back at Daytona
Dale Sr.'s famous No. 3 blue and yellow Jeans Machine is returning to Darlington next month for throwback weekend, but it'll be tough to top what took place in 2010.
Junior got behind the wheel of his dad's famous machine, and paint scheme, for the 2010 July race and proceeded to win, beating Joey Logano, Ricky Stenhouse Jr. and Brad Keselowski back to the line.
It was Junior's second-to-last Busch Series win.
"I feel lucky ... I feel really lucky," Dale said after the race. "I was so worried that I wasn't going to win because nothing but a win would've been good enough."
2016: Dale Jr.'s final win at Richmond
Up until 2016, Junior had never won a Busch race in his own equipment.
That changed when he absolutely dominated the afternoon in the No. 88 JR Motorsports Chevy, leading 128 of 149 laps and beating Ty Dillon's No. 3 back to the line in overtime.
For Junior, it was his 24th Busch Series win, and first in six years. |
https://www.news-journalonline.com/story/sports/nascar/2022/04/06/ranking-dale-earnhardt-jr-s-top-nascar-wins-xfinity-series-daytona-talladega-wrangler-texas-richmond/9483395002/ | Dale Earnhardt Jr. returns at Martinsville. Here are his 5 best NASCAR Xfinity Series wins
Move over Chase Elliott, NASCAR's Most Popular Driver is back in town for this weekend.
Dale Earnhardt Jr. is set to make his lone Xfinity start of the season Friday night at Martinsville, driving the No. 88 Hellmann's Chevy for his JR Motorsports team.
Since retiring from full-time Cup racing in 2017, Junior has made one Xfinity start a year, finishing 14th at Richmond last fall, fifth at Homestead (2020), fifth at Darlington (2019) and fourth at Richmond (2018).
Earnhardt Jr. has one career win at Martinsville in 35 Cup races (2014), and 24 career Xfinity Series wins. His first Busch race (yes, it will be called the Busch Series from here on out for nostalgia purposes) came in 1996 at Myrtle Beach. Yep, Myrtle Beach!
All right. Let's get to the good stuff. Here are Dale Jr.'s top Busch Series wins:
JUNIOR'S BACK:Through the Gears: NASCAR youth movement slows at Richmond with Dale Earnhardt Jr. up next
NASCAR Martinsville odds:Early lines, sleepers and best value picks for Blue-Emu Maximum Pain Relief 400
1998: Dale Jr.'s first NASCAR win
You'll always remember your first, and Junior's breakthrough at Texas in '98 was certainly memorable.
Dale restarted second behind Front Row Joe Nemechek with six laps to go. Ironically, Nemechek's second Busch Series win came at New Hampshire in 1992, when he beat Dale Earnhardt Sr. to the stripe.
This time, though, it was Junior who ruled the day, passing Nemechek as the two took the white flag to win his first career NASCAR race with his father watching from the pit box.
2002: Dale Earnhardt Jr., Daytona, and the No. 3 Chevy
Driving a Richard Childress No. 3, Junior won the Busch Series opener at Daytona in 2002 — the year after his dad died on the final turn of the Daytona 500.
Earnhardt Jr. held off Michael Waltrip (those two know a thing or two about Daytona I hear) and Matt Kenseth over the final few laps to win his first Busch race at Daytona. Dale, driving the No. 3 Oreos Chevy, led 59 of the 120 laps.
"This was a special deal," Junior said after the win. "This was for fun and this was what was supposed to happen. This is great ... the No. 3 is back in Victory Lane."
2003: Talladega is Earnhardt country
Dale Jr. won plenty at 'Dega in a Cup car, and finally broke through on a Saturday in the 2003 Aarons 312.
He led the field to green on a restart with four to go in the No. 8 Chevy and held off Nemechek over the next two laps until the caution flew, and ended the race, with two to go.
Junior and Front Row Joe combined to lead all but three of the 117 laps. Earnhardt had to be pushed to Victory Lane after his Chevy ran out of gas after taking the checkers.
"If it had went (back) green, I doubt we would've made it," he said.
2010: Earnhardt's No. 3 Wrangler back at Daytona
Dale Sr.'s famous No. 3 blue and yellow Jeans Machine is returning to Darlington next month for throwback weekend, but it'll be tough to top what took place in 2010.
Junior got behind the wheel of his dad's famous machine, and paint scheme, for the 2010 July race and proceeded to win, beating Joey Logano, Ricky Stenhouse Jr. and Brad Keselowski back to the line.
It was Junior's second-to-last Busch Series win.
"I feel lucky ... I feel really lucky," Dale said after the race. "I was so worried that I wasn't going to win because nothing but a win would've been good enough."
2016: Dale Jr.'s final win at Richmond
Up until 2016, Junior had never won a Busch race in his own equipment.
That changed when he absolutely dominated the afternoon in the No. 88 JR Motorsports Chevy, leading 128 of 149 laps and beating Ty Dillon's No. 3 back to the line in overtime.
For Junior, it was his 24th Busch Series win, and first in six years. | 1 | 34,749 | 0.575153 | https://sports.yahoo.com/martinsville-lookback-time-dale-earnhardt-133620425.html?src=rss | 2022-04-07 13:01:19+00:00 | Martinsville lookback: The right time for Dale Earnhardt Jr.
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- Jeff GordonAmerican racing driver
- Kevin HarvickAmerican racing driver
- Dale Earnhardt Jr.American racecar driver
- Brad KeselowskiAmerican stock car racing driver
Ahead of Friday’s NASCAR Xfinity Series race at Martinsville Speedway — a race in which NASCAR Hall of Famer Dale Earnhardt Jr. will compete in his lone national series start of the year — we look back at Dale Earnhardt Jr.’s iconic 2014 Cup Series victory at the historic track.
The scene
It was the first year of NASCAR’s elimination-style format, and drivers still were getting accustomed to the strategies and nuances of the 16-driver postseason. Title favorites Kevin Harvick, Brad Keselowski and Jeff Gordon were still in the playoffs as the series moved to Martinsville to open the Round of 8. Upstart Joey Logano joined the three title favorites in advancing from the Round of 12, along with Carl Edwards, Denny Hamlin, Matt Kenseth and the plucky Ryan Newman. Others, like regular-season points stalwarts Jimmie Johnson and Dale Earnhardt Jr., had been eliminated following the Round of 12.
Harvick was widely considered the championship favorite, as he and crew chief Rodney Childers — both in their first year together at Stewart-Haas Racing — were in the midst of a season for the ages. Jeff Gordon looked like the Jeff Gordon of old, and Keselowski and Logano gave Team Penske a powerful 1-2 punch.
PHOTOS: Dale Jr. through the years
The action
Gordon controlled the first half of the race among the playoff contenders, leading 105 circuits in the first 250 laps despite qualifying 15th. One of the best racers in the garage on the unique .526-mile layout, it appeared to be Gordon’s race to lose early as he battled with non-playoff driver Jamie McMurray at the front of the pack.
Harvick, meanwhile, struggled at a venue that hadn’t been kind to him over the years. Keselowski, a strong short-track racer, had an issue with fewer than 100 laps to go and was caught up in a calamitous wreck that sent his mangled car to the garage.
With those two titans out of the picture, a final late-race wreck stacked the field back up for a restart and set the stage for a magical ending. Tony Stewart led a small group of drivers to stay out on old tires, with Earnhardt Jr. and Gordon behind them as the first drivers with fresh rubber.
In a five-lap sprint to the finish, Junior bumped his way to the front and moved past Tony Stewart, and Gordon followed suit.
RELATED: See full race results
The winner
The final three laps consisted of Gordon chasing down his Hendrick Motorsports teammate, but not quite being able to catch him. Dale Jr. won his first Martinsville race and earned his first grandfather clock, capping a four-win season that was his best in years.
“When we won there, just … I had been trying to get that win for so long,” Earnhardt Jr. would say years later. “And everybody wants a clock. … It’s a hard race to win. It’s an easy track to have the best car and get beat.”
Goes on the list of “ones that got away”. One of the best cars I ever drove at @MartinsvilleSwy. https://t.co/rzuJgxyCoX
— Jeff Gordon (@JeffGordonWeb) October 25, 2018
The impact
Dale Jr. would go on to win three more times in his Cup Series career, but this was one he cites to this day as his most memorable. Brad Keselowski and Kevin Harvick exited Martinsville well below the cutoff line and needing a win over the next two races to qualify for Miami. That led to a gutsy, risky move from Keselowski the next week at Texas that ensnared Gordon in a wreck, sending the drivers and pit crews into a fistfight on pit road.
Kevin Harvick would rally to win at Phoenix and go on to win the title, while Ryan Newman bumped Gordon by a single position at Phoenix to qualify for the championship race — the same one position Gordon was short at Martinsville.
Junior, meanwhile, would retire from full-time driving following the end of the 2017 season. He’s annually competed in one Xfinity Series race since, notching three top-five finishes in those four starts. |
https://www.news-journalonline.com/story/sports/nascar/2022/04/06/ranking-dale-earnhardt-jr-s-top-nascar-wins-xfinity-series-daytona-talladega-wrangler-texas-richmond/9483395002/ | Dale Earnhardt Jr. returns at Martinsville. Here are his 5 best NASCAR Xfinity Series wins
Move over Chase Elliott, NASCAR's Most Popular Driver is back in town for this weekend.
Dale Earnhardt Jr. is set to make his lone Xfinity start of the season Friday night at Martinsville, driving the No. 88 Hellmann's Chevy for his JR Motorsports team.
Since retiring from full-time Cup racing in 2017, Junior has made one Xfinity start a year, finishing 14th at Richmond last fall, fifth at Homestead (2020), fifth at Darlington (2019) and fourth at Richmond (2018).
Earnhardt Jr. has one career win at Martinsville in 35 Cup races (2014), and 24 career Xfinity Series wins. His first Busch race (yes, it will be called the Busch Series from here on out for nostalgia purposes) came in 1996 at Myrtle Beach. Yep, Myrtle Beach!
All right. Let's get to the good stuff. Here are Dale Jr.'s top Busch Series wins:
JUNIOR'S BACK:Through the Gears: NASCAR youth movement slows at Richmond with Dale Earnhardt Jr. up next
NASCAR Martinsville odds:Early lines, sleepers and best value picks for Blue-Emu Maximum Pain Relief 400
1998: Dale Jr.'s first NASCAR win
You'll always remember your first, and Junior's breakthrough at Texas in '98 was certainly memorable.
Dale restarted second behind Front Row Joe Nemechek with six laps to go. Ironically, Nemechek's second Busch Series win came at New Hampshire in 1992, when he beat Dale Earnhardt Sr. to the stripe.
This time, though, it was Junior who ruled the day, passing Nemechek as the two took the white flag to win his first career NASCAR race with his father watching from the pit box.
2002: Dale Earnhardt Jr., Daytona, and the No. 3 Chevy
Driving a Richard Childress No. 3, Junior won the Busch Series opener at Daytona in 2002 — the year after his dad died on the final turn of the Daytona 500.
Earnhardt Jr. held off Michael Waltrip (those two know a thing or two about Daytona I hear) and Matt Kenseth over the final few laps to win his first Busch race at Daytona. Dale, driving the No. 3 Oreos Chevy, led 59 of the 120 laps.
"This was a special deal," Junior said after the win. "This was for fun and this was what was supposed to happen. This is great ... the No. 3 is back in Victory Lane."
2003: Talladega is Earnhardt country
Dale Jr. won plenty at 'Dega in a Cup car, and finally broke through on a Saturday in the 2003 Aarons 312.
He led the field to green on a restart with four to go in the No. 8 Chevy and held off Nemechek over the next two laps until the caution flew, and ended the race, with two to go.
Junior and Front Row Joe combined to lead all but three of the 117 laps. Earnhardt had to be pushed to Victory Lane after his Chevy ran out of gas after taking the checkers.
"If it had went (back) green, I doubt we would've made it," he said.
2010: Earnhardt's No. 3 Wrangler back at Daytona
Dale Sr.'s famous No. 3 blue and yellow Jeans Machine is returning to Darlington next month for throwback weekend, but it'll be tough to top what took place in 2010.
Junior got behind the wheel of his dad's famous machine, and paint scheme, for the 2010 July race and proceeded to win, beating Joey Logano, Ricky Stenhouse Jr. and Brad Keselowski back to the line.
It was Junior's second-to-last Busch Series win.
"I feel lucky ... I feel really lucky," Dale said after the race. "I was so worried that I wasn't going to win because nothing but a win would've been good enough."
2016: Dale Jr.'s final win at Richmond
Up until 2016, Junior had never won a Busch race in his own equipment.
That changed when he absolutely dominated the afternoon in the No. 88 JR Motorsports Chevy, leading 128 of 149 laps and beating Ty Dillon's No. 3 back to the line in overtime.
For Junior, it was his 24th Busch Series win, and first in six years. | 2 | 116,539 | 0.608621 | https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2564680750450/racing-report-04-06-22-dale-jr-to-make-annual-xfinity-start-friday-in-martinsville | 2022-04-07 18:43:16+00:00 | Racing Report 04-06-22: Dale Jr. To Make Annual Xfinity Start Friday In Martinsville
Dale Earnhardt Jr., the 26-time NASCAR Cup Series winner, NBC broadcaster and JR Motorsports team owner, will make his lone NASCAR Xfinity Series start of the season Friday...
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Sumaira FH Published April 06, 2022 | 10:34 PM
The United States has sanctioned 18 more Russian officials and their family members as well as dozens of companies, including those linked to Sberbank and Alfa-Bank, the Treasury Department said on Wednesday
WASHINGTON (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 06th April, 2022) The United States has sanctioned 18 more Russian officials and their family members as well as dozens of companies, including those linked to Sberbank and Alfa-Bank, the Treasury Department said on Wednesday.
Along with President Vladimir Putin's daughters and Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov's wife and daughter, the list includes top members of the Russian Security Council.
"Today, OFAC is designating the remaining members of Russia's Security Council, including ... Aleksandr Dmitrievich Beglov is a member of Russia's Security Council and Governor of Saint Petersburg .
.. Konstantin Anatolyevich Chuychenko is a member of Russia's Security Council and Russia's Minister of Justice ... Anton Germanovich Siluanov is a member of Russia's Security Council and Russia's Finance Minister," the Treasury said.
The Treasury further said other designated Russian officials include Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin, Chief of Staff of the Presidential Executive Office Anton Vaino, and Russia's Prosecutor General Igor Krasnov.
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Russia has imposed personal sanctions on 61 US officials including Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm and leading defence and media executives, the Russian foreign ministry said on Monday.
The ministry said it had imposed personal sanctions, which ban those named from entering Russia, in retaliation for "constantly expanding US sanctions against Russian political and public figures, as well as representatives of domestic business."
It said the individuals were the heads of leading military-industrial corporations, media platforms, rating agencies and aircraft and shipbuilding companies, as well as individual US State Department officials "involved in fake reports about 'malicious' Russian cyber attacks".
Among those named on the list were:
- US Trade Representative Katherine Tai
- Edward Bastian, chief executive of Delta Air Lines
- White House Communications Director Kate Bedingfield
- White House Budget director Shalanda Young
- James O'Brien, head of the State Department Office of Sanctions Coordination
- New York Stock Exchange Chairman Jeffrey Sprecher
- Fitch Group President and Chief Executive Paul Taylor |
https://www.urdupoint.com/en/world/us-imposes-russia-related-sanctions-on-18-ind-1493771.html | US Imposes Russia-Related Sanctions On 18 Individuals, Several Entities - Treasury
Sumaira FH Published April 06, 2022 | 10:34 PM
The United States has sanctioned 18 more Russian officials and their family members as well as dozens of companies, including those linked to Sberbank and Alfa-Bank, the Treasury Department said on Wednesday
WASHINGTON (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 06th April, 2022) The United States has sanctioned 18 more Russian officials and their family members as well as dozens of companies, including those linked to Sberbank and Alfa-Bank, the Treasury Department said on Wednesday.
Along with President Vladimir Putin's daughters and Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov's wife and daughter, the list includes top members of the Russian Security Council.
"Today, OFAC is designating the remaining members of Russia's Security Council, including ... Aleksandr Dmitrievich Beglov is a member of Russia's Security Council and Governor of Saint Petersburg .
.. Konstantin Anatolyevich Chuychenko is a member of Russia's Security Council and Russia's Minister of Justice ... Anton Germanovich Siluanov is a member of Russia's Security Council and Russia's Finance Minister," the Treasury said.
The Treasury further said other designated Russian officials include Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin, Chief of Staff of the Presidential Executive Office Anton Vaino, and Russia's Prosecutor General Igor Krasnov.
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All rights of the publication are reserved by UrduPoint.com. Reproduction without proper consent is not allowed. | 1 | 93,546 | 0.608446 | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/reuters/article-10890271/Russia-sanctions-U-S-Treasury-energy-secretaries-defence-media-executives.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | 2022-06-06 19:52:34+00:00 | Russia sanctions U.S. Treasury and energy secretaries, defence and media executives
June 6 (Reuters) - Russia has imposed personal sanctions on 61 U.S. officials including Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm and leading defence and media executives, the Russian foreign ministry said on Monday.
The ministry said it had imposed personal sanctions, which ban those named from entering Russia, in retaliation for "constantly expanding U.S. sanctions against Russian political and public figures, as well as representatives of domestic business."
It said the individuals were the heads of leading military-industrial corporations, media platforms, rating agencies and aircraft and shipbuilding companies, as well as individual U.S. State Department officials "involved in fake reports about 'malicious' Russian cyber attacks".
Among those named on the list were:
- U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai
- Edward Bastian, chief executive of Delta Air Lines
- White House Communications Director Kate Bedingfield
- White House Budget director Shalanda Young
- James O'Brien, head of the State Department Office of Sanctions Coordination
- New York Stock Exchange Chairman Jeffrey Sprecher
- Fitch Group President and Chief Executive Paul Taylor (Writing by Kevin Liffey; Editing by Mark Porter) |
https://www.urdupoint.com/en/world/us-imposes-russia-related-sanctions-on-18-ind-1493771.html | US Imposes Russia-Related Sanctions On 18 Individuals, Several Entities - Treasury
Sumaira FH Published April 06, 2022 | 10:34 PM
The United States has sanctioned 18 more Russian officials and their family members as well as dozens of companies, including those linked to Sberbank and Alfa-Bank, the Treasury Department said on Wednesday
WASHINGTON (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 06th April, 2022) The United States has sanctioned 18 more Russian officials and their family members as well as dozens of companies, including those linked to Sberbank and Alfa-Bank, the Treasury Department said on Wednesday.
Along with President Vladimir Putin's daughters and Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov's wife and daughter, the list includes top members of the Russian Security Council.
"Today, OFAC is designating the remaining members of Russia's Security Council, including ... Aleksandr Dmitrievich Beglov is a member of Russia's Security Council and Governor of Saint Petersburg .
.. Konstantin Anatolyevich Chuychenko is a member of Russia's Security Council and Russia's Minister of Justice ... Anton Germanovich Siluanov is a member of Russia's Security Council and Russia's Finance Minister," the Treasury said.
The Treasury further said other designated Russian officials include Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin, Chief of Staff of the Presidential Executive Office Anton Vaino, and Russia's Prosecutor General Igor Krasnov.
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Fahad Shabbir (@FahadShabbir) Published June 02, 2022 | 11:07 PM
The United States has introduced a new round of Russia-related sanctions targeting 17 individuals and 16 entities, including Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova, two yachts allegedly linked to Russian President Vladimir Putin and Russia's steel and mining company Severstal, the Department of the Treasury said on Thursday
WASHINGTON (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 02nd June, 2022) The United States has introduced a new round of Russia-related sanctions targeting 17 individuals and 16 entities, including Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova, two yachts allegedly linked to Russian President Vladimir Putin and Russia's steel and mining company Severstal, the Department of the Treasury said on Thursday.
"The US Department of State imposed sanctions on five of Russia's oligarchs and elites, including Maria Zakharova, the spokesperson of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs; Alexey Mordashov, the leader of Severgroup and one of Russia's wealthiest billionaires; and family members and entities associated with the oligarchs and elites," the Treasury Department said in a press release.
The United States also sanctioned Russian Economic Development Minister Maxim Reshetnikov, Russian Construction and Housing Minister Irek Envarovich Faizullin, and Russian Trasportation Minister Vitaly Savelyev, the release said.
The Treasury department noted that Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitriy Grigorenko has also been designated as has Sergei Pavlovich Roldugin, who is allegedly a close friend of Putin, and his wife and opera singer Elena Yuryevna Mirtova.
The new wave of sanctions also targeted several Russian businessmen and their firms, including on Yury Slyusar, who is president of United Aircraft Corporation, and on Russia's steel and mining company Severstal and its Chairman Alexey Mordashov, the release said.
In addition, the US government designated seven vessels, including the Sea Rhapsody, Flying Fox, Shellest, Nega, Imperial Yachts and two yachts� allegedly linked to Putin - the Graceful and the Olympia, the release said.
Moreover, the Treasury Department said in the release that it designated� the Madame Gu yacht and the 3A-MGU helicopter housed on the yacht as well as the private airplane P4-MGU.
Other entities and individuals hit by the new US sanctions include SRL Skyline Aviation and its aircraft T7-OKY, Ironstone Marine Investments, JSC Argument, and O'Neill Assets Corporation, Imperial Yachts CEO Evgeniy Borisovich Kochman, entities OOO Nord Marine, OOO Yakht-Treid, OOO Bilding Management, and OOO Nord Marin Inzhiniring, SCF Management Services Cyprus Ltd, Non-Profit Partnership Revival of Maritime Traditions (Revival of Maritime Traditions) and its Russian subsidiary Limited Liability Company Gelios, according to the release.
The US Department of Commerce said it is adding 71 additional parties located in Russia and Belarus that will be cut off from US-origin items.
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https://www.bigcountryhomepage.com/news/national-news/fed-signals-more-aggressive-steps-to-fight-inflation/ | WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal Reserve officials are signaling that they will take a more aggressive approach to fighting high inflation in the coming months — actions that will make borrowing sharply more expensive for consumers and businesses and heighten risks to the economy.
In minutes from their policy meeting three weeks ago released Wednesday, Fed officials said that aggressive half-point rate hikes, rather than traditional quarter-point increases — “could be appropriate” multiple times this year. At last month’s meeting, many of the Fed policymakers favored a half-point increase, the minutes said, but held off because of the uncertainties created by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Instead, the Fed raised its key short-term rate by a quarter-point and signaled that it planned to continue raising rates well into next year.
The minutes said the Fed is also moving closer to rapidly shrinking its huge $9 trillion stockpile of bonds in the coming months, a move that would contribute to higher borrowing costs. The policymakers said they would likely cut their holdings by about $95 billion a month — nearly double the pace they implemented five years ago when they last shrank their balance sheet.
The plan to quickly draw down their bond holdings marks the latest move by Fed officials to accelerate their inflation-fighting efforts. Prices are rising at the fastest pace in four decades, and the officials in recent speeches have expressed increasing concern about getting inflation under control.
Financial markets now expect much steeper hikes this year than Fed officials had signaled as recently as their meeting in mid-March.
Higher rates from the Fed will heighten borrowing costs for mortgages, auto loans, credit cards and corporate loans. In doing so, the Fed hopes to cool economic growth and rising wages enough to rein in high inflation, which has caused hardships for millions of households and poses a severe political threat to President Joe Biden.
Many economists have said they worry that the Fed has waited too long to begin raising rates and that the policymakers might end up responding so aggressively as to trigger a recession.
Chair Jerome Powell opened the door two weeks ago to increasing rates by as much as a half-point at upcoming meetings, rather than by a traditional quarter-point. The Fed hasn’t carried out any half-point rate increases since 2000. Lael Brainard, a key member of the Fed’s Board of Governors, and other officials have also made clear that such sharp increases are possible. Most economists now expect the Fed to raise rates by a half-point at both its May and June meetings.
In a speech Tuesday, Brainard underscored the Fed’s increasing aggressiveness by saying that the central bank’s bond holdings will “shrink considerably more rapidly” over “a much shorter period” than the last time the Fed reduced its balance sheet, from 2017-2019. At that time, the balance sheet was about $4.5 trillion. Now, it’s twice as large.
The Fed bought trillions of dollars of Treasurys and mortgage-backed securities after the pandemic hammered the economy, with the goal of lowering longer-term borrowing rates. It also cut its short-term benchmark rate to near zero. Last month, it increased that rate to a range between 0.25% and 0.5%, its first increase in three years.
As a sign of how fast the Fed is reversing its policy, the last time the Fed purchased bonds, there was a three-year gap between when it stopped its purchases, in 2014, and when it began reducing the balance sheet, in 2017. Now that shift is likely to happen in as few as three months, economists say.
Brainard’s remarks caused a sharp rise in the interest rate on the 10-year Treasury note, a key rate that influences mortgage rates, business loans and other borrowing costs. On Wednesday, that rate reached 2.6%, up from 2.3% just a week earlier, a sharp increase for that rate. A month ago, it was just 1.7%.
Shorter-term bond yields have jumped even higher, in some cases to above the 10-year yield, a pattern that has in the past been seen as a sign of an impending recession. Fed officials say, however, that shorter-term bond market yields aren’t flashing the same warning signals. | 0 | 112,389 | 0 | https://www.seattletimes.com/business/fed-moves-toward-slashing-bond-holdings-to-fight-inflation/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_nation-world | 2022-04-06 18:36:10+00:00 | WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal Reserve officials are signaling that they will take a more aggressive approach to fighting high inflation in the coming months — actions that will make borrowing sharply more expensive for consumers and businesses and heighten risks to the economy.
In minutes from their policy meeting three weeks ago released Wednesday, Fed officials said that aggressive half-point rate hikes, rather than traditional quarter-point increases — “could be appropriate” multiple times this year. At last month’s meeting, many of the Fed policymakers favored a half-point increase, the minutes said, but held off because of the uncertainties created by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Instead, the Fed raised its key short-term rate by a quarter-point and signaled that it planned to continue raising rates well into next year.
The minutes said the Fed is also moving closer to rapidly shrinking its huge $9 trillion stockpile of bonds in the coming months, a move that would contribute to higher borrowing costs. The policymakers said they would likely cut their holdings by about $95 billion a month — nearly double the pace they implemented five years ago when they last shrank their balance sheet.
The plan to quickly draw down their bond holdings marks the latest move by Fed officials to accelerate their inflation-fighting efforts. Prices are rising at the fastest pace in four decades, and the officials in recent speeches have expressed increasing concern about getting inflation under control.
Financial markets now expect much steeper hikes this year than Fed officials had signaled as recently as their meeting in mid-March.
Higher rates from the Fed will heighten borrowing costs for mortgages, auto loans, credit cards and corporate loans. In doing so, the Fed hopes to cool economic growth and rising wages enough to rein in high inflation, which has caused hardships for millions of households and poses a severe political threat to President Joe Biden.
Many economists have said they worry that the Fed has waited too long to begin raising rates and that the policymakers might end up responding so aggressively as to trigger a recession.
Chair Jerome Powell opened the door two weeks ago to increasing rates by as much as a half-point at upcoming meetings, rather than by a traditional quarter-point. The Fed hasn’t carried out any half-point rate increases since 2000. Lael Brainard, a key member of the Fed’s Board of Governors, and other officials have also made clear that such sharp increases are possible. Most economists now expect the Fed to raise rates by a half-point at both its May and June meetings.
In a speech Tuesday, Brainard underscored the Fed’s increasing aggressiveness by saying that the central bank’s bond holdings will “shrink considerably more rapidly” over “a much shorter period” than the last time the Fed reduced its balance sheet, from 2017-2019. At that time, the balance sheet was about $4.5 trillion. Now, it’s twice as large.
The Fed bought trillions of dollars of Treasurys and mortgage-backed securities after the pandemic hammered the economy, with the goal of lowering longer-term borrowing rates. It also cut its short-term benchmark rate to near zero. Last month, it increased that rate to a range between 0.25% and 0.5%, its first increase in three years.
As a sign of how fast the Fed is reversing its policy, the last time the Fed purchased bonds, there was a three-year gap between when it stopped its purchases, in 2014, and when it began reducing the balance sheet, in 2017. Now that shift is likely to happen in as few as three months, economists say.
Brainard’s remarks caused a sharp rise in the interest rate on the 10-year Treasury note, a key rate that influences mortgage rates, business loans and other borrowing costs. On Wednesday, that rate reached 2.6%, up from 2.3% just a week earlier, a sharp increase for that rate. A month ago, it was just 1.7%.
Shorter-term bond yields have jumped even higher, in some cases to above the 10-year yield, a pattern that has in the past been seen as a sign of an impending recession. Fed officials say, however, that shorter-term bond market yields aren’t flashing the same warning signals. |
https://www.bigcountryhomepage.com/news/national-news/fed-signals-more-aggressive-steps-to-fight-inflation/ | WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal Reserve officials are signaling that they will take a more aggressive approach to fighting high inflation in the coming months — actions that will make borrowing sharply more expensive for consumers and businesses and heighten risks to the economy.
In minutes from their policy meeting three weeks ago released Wednesday, Fed officials said that aggressive half-point rate hikes, rather than traditional quarter-point increases — “could be appropriate” multiple times this year. At last month’s meeting, many of the Fed policymakers favored a half-point increase, the minutes said, but held off because of the uncertainties created by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Instead, the Fed raised its key short-term rate by a quarter-point and signaled that it planned to continue raising rates well into next year.
The minutes said the Fed is also moving closer to rapidly shrinking its huge $9 trillion stockpile of bonds in the coming months, a move that would contribute to higher borrowing costs. The policymakers said they would likely cut their holdings by about $95 billion a month — nearly double the pace they implemented five years ago when they last shrank their balance sheet.
The plan to quickly draw down their bond holdings marks the latest move by Fed officials to accelerate their inflation-fighting efforts. Prices are rising at the fastest pace in four decades, and the officials in recent speeches have expressed increasing concern about getting inflation under control.
Financial markets now expect much steeper hikes this year than Fed officials had signaled as recently as their meeting in mid-March.
Higher rates from the Fed will heighten borrowing costs for mortgages, auto loans, credit cards and corporate loans. In doing so, the Fed hopes to cool economic growth and rising wages enough to rein in high inflation, which has caused hardships for millions of households and poses a severe political threat to President Joe Biden.
Many economists have said they worry that the Fed has waited too long to begin raising rates and that the policymakers might end up responding so aggressively as to trigger a recession.
Chair Jerome Powell opened the door two weeks ago to increasing rates by as much as a half-point at upcoming meetings, rather than by a traditional quarter-point. The Fed hasn’t carried out any half-point rate increases since 2000. Lael Brainard, a key member of the Fed’s Board of Governors, and other officials have also made clear that such sharp increases are possible. Most economists now expect the Fed to raise rates by a half-point at both its May and June meetings.
In a speech Tuesday, Brainard underscored the Fed’s increasing aggressiveness by saying that the central bank’s bond holdings will “shrink considerably more rapidly” over “a much shorter period” than the last time the Fed reduced its balance sheet, from 2017-2019. At that time, the balance sheet was about $4.5 trillion. Now, it’s twice as large.
The Fed bought trillions of dollars of Treasurys and mortgage-backed securities after the pandemic hammered the economy, with the goal of lowering longer-term borrowing rates. It also cut its short-term benchmark rate to near zero. Last month, it increased that rate to a range between 0.25% and 0.5%, its first increase in three years.
As a sign of how fast the Fed is reversing its policy, the last time the Fed purchased bonds, there was a three-year gap between when it stopped its purchases, in 2014, and when it began reducing the balance sheet, in 2017. Now that shift is likely to happen in as few as three months, economists say.
Brainard’s remarks caused a sharp rise in the interest rate on the 10-year Treasury note, a key rate that influences mortgage rates, business loans and other borrowing costs. On Wednesday, that rate reached 2.6%, up from 2.3% just a week earlier, a sharp increase for that rate. A month ago, it was just 1.7%.
Shorter-term bond yields have jumped even higher, in some cases to above the 10-year yield, a pattern that has in the past been seen as a sign of an impending recession. Fed officials say, however, that shorter-term bond market yields aren’t flashing the same warning signals. | 1 | 335 | 0 | https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/federal-reserve-minutes-march-aggressive-action-curb-inflation-rcna23287 | 2022-04-06 20:22:56+00:00 | WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal Reserve officials are signaling that they will take a more aggressive approach to fighting high inflation in the coming months — actions that will make borrowing sharply more expensive for consumers and businesses and heighten risks to the economy.
In minutes from their policy meeting three weeks ago released Wednesday, Fed officials said that aggressive half-point rate hikes, rather than traditional quarter-point increases — “could be appropriate” multiple times this year. At last month’s meeting, many of the Fed policymakers favored a half-point increase, the minutes said, but held off because of the uncertainties created by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Instead, the Fed raised its key short-term rate by a quarter-point and signaled that it planned to continue raising rates well into next year.
The minutes said the Fed is also moving closer to rapidly shrinking its huge $9 trillion stockpile of bonds in the coming months, a move that would contribute to higher borrowing costs. The policymakers said they would likely cut their holdings by about $95 billion a month — nearly double the pace they implemented five years ago when they last shrank their balance sheet.
The plan to quickly draw down their bond holdings marks the latest move by Fed officials to accelerate their inflation-fighting efforts. Prices are rising at the fastest pace in four decades, and the officials in recent speeches have expressed increasing concern about getting inflation under control.
Financial markets now expect much steeper hikes this year than Fed officials had signaled as recently as their meeting in mid-March.
Higher rates from the Fed will heighten borrowing costs for mortgages, auto loans, credit cards and corporate loans. In doing so, the Fed hopes to cool economic growth and rising wages enough to rein in high inflation, which has caused hardships for millions of households and poses a severe political threat to President Joe Biden.
Many economists have said they worry that the Fed has waited too long to begin raising rates and that the policymakers might end up responding so aggressively as to trigger a recession.
Chair Jerome Powell opened the door two weeks ago to increasing rates by as much as a half-point at upcoming meetings, rather than by a traditional quarter-point. The Fed hasn’t carried out any half-point rate increases since 2000. Lael Brainard, a key member of the Fed’s Board of Governors, and other officials have also made clear that such sharp increases are possible. Most economists now expect the Fed to raise rates by a half-point at both its May and June meetings.
In a speech Tuesday, Brainard underscored the Fed’s increasing aggressiveness by saying that the central bank’s bond holdings will “shrink considerably more rapidly” over “a much shorter period” than the last time the Fed reduced its balance sheet, from 2017-2019. At that time, the balance sheet was about $4.5 trillion. Now, it’s twice as large.
The Fed bought trillions of dollars of Treasurys and mortgage-backed securities after the pandemic hammered the economy, with the goal of lowering longer-term borrowing rates. It also cut its short-term benchmark rate to near zero. Last month, it increased that rate to a range between 0.25% and 0.5%, its first increase in three years.
As a sign of how fast the Fed is reversing its policy, the last time the Fed purchased bonds, there was a three-year gap between when it stopped its purchases, in 2014, and when it began reducing the balance sheet, in 2017. Now that shift is likely to happen in as few as three months, economists say.
Brainard’s remarks caused a sharp rise in the interest rate on the 10-year Treasury note, a key rate that influences mortgage rates, business loans and other borrowing costs. On Wednesday, that rate reached 2.6%, up from 2.3% just a week earlier, a sharp increase for that rate. A month ago, it was just 1.7%.
Shorter-term bond yields have jumped even higher, in some cases to above the 10-year yield, a pattern that has in the past been seen as a sign of an impending recession. Fed officials say, however, that shorter-term bond market yields aren’t flashing the same warning signals. |
https://www.bigcountryhomepage.com/news/national-news/fed-signals-more-aggressive-steps-to-fight-inflation/ | WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal Reserve officials are signaling that they will take a more aggressive approach to fighting high inflation in the coming months — actions that will make borrowing sharply more expensive for consumers and businesses and heighten risks to the economy.
In minutes from their policy meeting three weeks ago released Wednesday, Fed officials said that aggressive half-point rate hikes, rather than traditional quarter-point increases — “could be appropriate” multiple times this year. At last month’s meeting, many of the Fed policymakers favored a half-point increase, the minutes said, but held off because of the uncertainties created by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Instead, the Fed raised its key short-term rate by a quarter-point and signaled that it planned to continue raising rates well into next year.
The minutes said the Fed is also moving closer to rapidly shrinking its huge $9 trillion stockpile of bonds in the coming months, a move that would contribute to higher borrowing costs. The policymakers said they would likely cut their holdings by about $95 billion a month — nearly double the pace they implemented five years ago when they last shrank their balance sheet.
The plan to quickly draw down their bond holdings marks the latest move by Fed officials to accelerate their inflation-fighting efforts. Prices are rising at the fastest pace in four decades, and the officials in recent speeches have expressed increasing concern about getting inflation under control.
Financial markets now expect much steeper hikes this year than Fed officials had signaled as recently as their meeting in mid-March.
Higher rates from the Fed will heighten borrowing costs for mortgages, auto loans, credit cards and corporate loans. In doing so, the Fed hopes to cool economic growth and rising wages enough to rein in high inflation, which has caused hardships for millions of households and poses a severe political threat to President Joe Biden.
Many economists have said they worry that the Fed has waited too long to begin raising rates and that the policymakers might end up responding so aggressively as to trigger a recession.
Chair Jerome Powell opened the door two weeks ago to increasing rates by as much as a half-point at upcoming meetings, rather than by a traditional quarter-point. The Fed hasn’t carried out any half-point rate increases since 2000. Lael Brainard, a key member of the Fed’s Board of Governors, and other officials have also made clear that such sharp increases are possible. Most economists now expect the Fed to raise rates by a half-point at both its May and June meetings.
In a speech Tuesday, Brainard underscored the Fed’s increasing aggressiveness by saying that the central bank’s bond holdings will “shrink considerably more rapidly” over “a much shorter period” than the last time the Fed reduced its balance sheet, from 2017-2019. At that time, the balance sheet was about $4.5 trillion. Now, it’s twice as large.
The Fed bought trillions of dollars of Treasurys and mortgage-backed securities after the pandemic hammered the economy, with the goal of lowering longer-term borrowing rates. It also cut its short-term benchmark rate to near zero. Last month, it increased that rate to a range between 0.25% and 0.5%, its first increase in three years.
As a sign of how fast the Fed is reversing its policy, the last time the Fed purchased bonds, there was a three-year gap between when it stopped its purchases, in 2014, and when it began reducing the balance sheet, in 2017. Now that shift is likely to happen in as few as three months, economists say.
Brainard’s remarks caused a sharp rise in the interest rate on the 10-year Treasury note, a key rate that influences mortgage rates, business loans and other borrowing costs. On Wednesday, that rate reached 2.6%, up from 2.3% just a week earlier, a sharp increase for that rate. A month ago, it was just 1.7%.
Shorter-term bond yields have jumped even higher, in some cases to above the 10-year yield, a pattern that has in the past been seen as a sign of an impending recession. Fed officials say, however, that shorter-term bond market yields aren’t flashing the same warning signals. | 2 | 26,943 | 0 | https://www.nwahomepage.com/news/national/fed-signals-more-aggressive-steps-to-fight-inflation/ | 2022-04-06 22:17:07+00:00 | WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal Reserve officials are signaling that they will take a more aggressive approach to fighting high inflation in the coming months — actions that will make borrowing sharply more expensive for consumers and businesses and heighten risks to the economy.
In minutes from their policy meeting three weeks ago released Wednesday, Fed officials said that aggressive half-point rate hikes, rather than traditional quarter-point increases — “could be appropriate” multiple times this year. At last month’s meeting, many of the Fed policymakers favored a half-point increase, the minutes said, but held off because of the uncertainties created by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Instead, the Fed raised its key short-term rate by a quarter-point and signaled that it planned to continue raising rates well into next year.
The minutes said the Fed is also moving closer to rapidly shrinking its huge $9 trillion stockpile of bonds in the coming months, a move that would contribute to higher borrowing costs. The policymakers said they would likely cut their holdings by about $95 billion a month — nearly double the pace they implemented five years ago when they last shrank their balance sheet.
The plan to quickly draw down their bond holdings marks the latest move by Fed officials to accelerate their inflation-fighting efforts. Prices are rising at the fastest pace in four decades, and the officials in recent speeches have expressed increasing concern about getting inflation under control.
Financial markets now expect much steeper hikes this year than Fed officials had signaled as recently as their meeting in mid-March.
Higher rates from the Fed will heighten borrowing costs for mortgages, auto loans, credit cards and corporate loans. In doing so, the Fed hopes to cool economic growth and rising wages enough to rein in high inflation, which has caused hardships for millions of households and poses a severe political threat to President Joe Biden.
Many economists have said they worry that the Fed has waited too long to begin raising rates and that the policymakers might end up responding so aggressively as to trigger a recession.
Chair Jerome Powell opened the door two weeks ago to increasing rates by as much as a half-point at upcoming meetings, rather than by a traditional quarter-point. The Fed hasn’t carried out any half-point rate increases since 2000. Lael Brainard, a key member of the Fed’s Board of Governors, and other officials have also made clear that such sharp increases are possible. Most economists now expect the Fed to raise rates by a half-point at both its May and June meetings.
In a speech Tuesday, Brainard underscored the Fed’s increasing aggressiveness by saying that the central bank’s bond holdings will “shrink considerably more rapidly” over “a much shorter period” than the last time the Fed reduced its balance sheet, from 2017-2019. At that time, the balance sheet was about $4.5 trillion. Now, it’s twice as large.
The Fed bought trillions of dollars of Treasurys and mortgage-backed securities after the pandemic hammered the economy, with the goal of lowering longer-term borrowing rates. It also cut its short-term benchmark rate to near zero. Last month, it increased that rate to a range between 0.25% and 0.5%, its first increase in three years.
As a sign of how fast the Fed is reversing its policy, the last time the Fed purchased bonds, there was a three-year gap between when it stopped its purchases, in 2014, and when it began reducing the balance sheet, in 2017. Now that shift is likely to happen in as few as three months, economists say.
Brainard’s remarks caused a sharp rise in the interest rate on the 10-year Treasury note, a key rate that influences mortgage rates, business loans and other borrowing costs. On Wednesday, that rate reached 2.6%, up from 2.3% just a week earlier, a sharp increase for that rate. A month ago, it was just 1.7%.
Shorter-term bond yields have jumped even higher, in some cases to above the 10-year yield, a pattern that has in the past been seen as a sign of an impending recession. Fed officials say, however, that shorter-term bond market yields aren’t flashing the same warning signals. |
https://www.4barsrest.com/news/53756/knight-records-vaughan-williams-tuba-concerto | Tredegar Band recently completed the last portion of its forthcoming 150th anniversary recording project for the Ralph Vaughan Williams Society.
'Vaughan Williams on Brass' will be released on the Albion Records label around August this year and will feature his seminal works written for the medium — including the 'Tuba Concerto' which was recorded last week with Scottish virtuoso Ross Knight.
Great time
Ross flew in from Switzerland for the recording which has been made in its entirety at the Brangwyn Hall in Swansea.
"I had a great time with the band, who were on superb form,"he said. "The project has already created a great deal of interest and profile, and I was thrilled to be part of it with such an iconic work for the tuba."
Fortunate
Speaking about the collaboration, MD, Ian Pothouse added: "We have been very fortunate to work with several world class musicians in recent years — including Ross.
We are delighted that a musician of his standing wishes to come to perform with us. His performance was simply superb. It would have been great if we could have recorded a few more pieces if we had the time!"
Also included on the release, which is conducted by Martyn Brabbins and Ian Porthouse will be 'Variations for Brass Band' in a newly realised version by Philip Littlemore as well as 'English Folk Song Suite', 'Sea Songs' and the music to the evocative 1941 film 'The 49th Parallel'. | 0 | 55,990 | 0.462036 | https://www.4barsrest.com/news/54240/tredegar-continues-to-make-high-profile-mark-with-cd-release | 2022-08-21 18:27:56+00:00 | Tredegar continues to make a high-profile mark with their music making with the news that their latest CD release, 'Vaughan Williams on Brass' remains high in the official classical music charts.
After coming straight on at number 2 following its release on the Albion Recording label, it now sits at number 4 after its second week and re-print run, alongside recordings from the giant Decca and Deutsche Grammophon labels from Ludovico Einaudi, Max Richet and Jonathan Tetelman.
Conducted by Martyn Brabbins and Ian Porthouse, it features the composer's 'Variations for Brass Band', and 'Prelude on Rhosymedre' which the band performed in their recent Proms concert performance at the Royal Albert Hall, as well as, 'English Folk Song Suite', 'Sea Songs' and 'Suite from 49th Parallel'.
The featured soloist is Scottish virtuoso Ross Knight playing the iconic 'Tuba Concerto'.
Plaudits
Plaudits have already come form a wide variety of critical sources.
The 5-star review from James Altena from the influential Fanfare Archive called it "a class production"that is "enthusiastically recommended".
Meanwhile, Andrew Palmer of 'The Yorkshire Post', summed his review up by saying "the ebullient playing is engaging and heart-warming"on "a lovely album showcasing wonderful gems from the pen of RVW", with Ross Knight's playing "adding sparkle".
Alan Cooper of the British Music Society described Ross Knight's performance as being "ultra-smooth"with a "perfectly pointed, sizzling finale"on release that contains playing from the band that is "rich, gleaming and glorious".
Recording of the month
In his extensive 'Recording of the Month' review for the Music Web International website, Nick Barnard said that "...if one disc from this 150th anniversary is going to make it into my "recordings of the year"I suspect it might be this."
He described Ross Knight's playing on the 'Tuba Concerto' as displaying an "alert wit"that "is particularly successful".
Very special
Elsewhere, his colleague John France calls the recording "a splendid contribution"to the Vaughan Williams celebrations aided by Ross Knight's "remarkable contribution".
Closer closer to home there have been a number of highly recommended reviews with Brass Band World magazine reviewer Chris Thomas stating that it is "brass playing of the very highest order and the result is very, very special indeed."
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https://www.4barsrest.com/news/53756/knight-records-vaughan-williams-tuba-concerto | Tredegar Band recently completed the last portion of its forthcoming 150th anniversary recording project for the Ralph Vaughan Williams Society.
'Vaughan Williams on Brass' will be released on the Albion Records label around August this year and will feature his seminal works written for the medium — including the 'Tuba Concerto' which was recorded last week with Scottish virtuoso Ross Knight.
Great time
Ross flew in from Switzerland for the recording which has been made in its entirety at the Brangwyn Hall in Swansea.
"I had a great time with the band, who were on superb form,"he said. "The project has already created a great deal of interest and profile, and I was thrilled to be part of it with such an iconic work for the tuba."
Fortunate
Speaking about the collaboration, MD, Ian Pothouse added: "We have been very fortunate to work with several world class musicians in recent years — including Ross.
We are delighted that a musician of his standing wishes to come to perform with us. His performance was simply superb. It would have been great if we could have recorded a few more pieces if we had the time!"
Also included on the release, which is conducted by Martyn Brabbins and Ian Porthouse will be 'Variations for Brass Band' in a newly realised version by Philip Littlemore as well as 'English Folk Song Suite', 'Sea Songs' and the music to the evocative 1941 film 'The 49th Parallel'. | 1 | 111,825 | 0.838366 | https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/aug/13/bbc-proms-30-32-tredegar-band-review-hms-pinafore-opera-holland-park-ohp-poulenc-double-bill-glyndebourne | 2022-08-13 11:46:01+00:00 | The high gleam of five tubas, bells up, held at a tilt as if choreographed, each player almost hidden behind an expanse of shining brass. This is the image I will carry from Tredegar Band’s thrilling performances at two BBC Proms. In orchestral concerts, the phrase “bells up” has a specific meaning, used especially in a Mahler symphony, when the french horns are instructed to play with instruments raised to achieve a visual and aural climax. In a brass band, that spectacle is part of its very nature: cornets, flugelhorns, tenor and baritone horns, euphoniums and, lowest of all, tubas, a bobbing sea of coiled pipes, valves, pistons, playing as one. If the band is world class, as in the case of this prize-winning Welsh ensemble, its performance will have subtlety, precision and rock-steady discipline.
On Monday, the band, founded in 1876, collaborated with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales and conductor Ryan Bancroft to give the world premiere of Concerto Grosso by Gavin Higgins. The composer grew up in an ex-mining community, playing in bands, and understands the idiom and range. In five movements, this ingenious work united the two soundworlds and drew on the best-known brass styles: fanfares, expressive chorales and breakneck, contest-style virtuosity. In Tuesday’s late-night Prom, the band were led by Ian Porthouse, their inspirational conductor for the past 14 years. Music ranged from Richard Strauss to a Judy Garland medley via Vaughan Williams, encapsulating a short history of brass band music in the process.
Tredegar and suchlike bands feed the brass sections, especially trumpets, of our symphony orchestras. But most of the players are amateurs, with full-time jobs in other walks of life. Later I asked for more information. After the late Prom, they arrived back home in south Wales at 4.45am “still buzzing”. One member, a radiographer, was back at work at 8am. Brass bands have moved beyond the old association with heavy industry, but the close-knit community of musicians they attract, across generations and families, continues to link them closely to geographical regions.
In the Tredegar Band, Porthouse’s wife and son play in the cornets. (Tredegar has included women since the 1950s.) The chairman, nearly 90, followed his father into the band, the connection thus spanning more than a century. To watch Porthouse beat a neat, nimble four, as if in a regular march, for a wild version of The Devil in I by heavy metal group Slipknot, was a lesson in sangfroid. He could conduct any mainstream rival off the podium. The encores went on, ever more exuberant, as the clock moved towards midnight. Bring them back soon.
Getting to the late Prom involved scaling the railings (literally, perilously; details on request) to make the dash from Opera Holland Park’s sparkling HMS Pinafore to the Royal Albert Hall. This collaboration with Charles Court Opera, directed by John Savournin, who also sang Captain Corcoran, updated Gilbert and Sullivan to the 1940s. As ever with OHP, the excellent, dozen-strong chorus were adroit in voice and movement, and fitness levels too, charging around the large stage while singing.
By playing it straight, without effortful contemporary references and with an emphasis on drill, the work’s humour was given full flight. The City of London Sinfonia, conducted by David Eaton, were crisp and energetic. With Lucy Schaufer, showing impeccable comic timing as Little Buttercup, the canny bumboat woman, and Richard Burkhard as Sir Joseph Porter leading a lively cast, Opera Holland Park has ended its season in high style.
Glyndebourne’s Poulenc double bill, conducted by Robin Ticciati, directed by Laurent Pelly and designed by Caroline Ginet, deserves uncomplicated but hearty praise for its achievement. In La Voix Humaine, Stéphanie d’Oustrac played Elle, spilling her heart out into a telephone on a predominantly black stage, with a voice dredged in pain, at times rasping, at others lyrical.
In contrast, the comedy Les Mamelles de Tirésias (The Breasts of Tiresias), based on the play by Apollinaire, invited us into a surreal, sherbert-coloured world in which underlying darknesses – gender issues, a postwar population crisis – are triumphantly banished by mercurial music, stylishly played by the London Philharmonic Orchestra in Pelly’s faultless staging. Elsa Benoit and Régis Mengus charmed as the frustrated wife and her by no means ordinary husband.
Star ratings (out of five)
Tredegar Band ★★★★★
HMS Pinafore ★★★★
Poulenc double bill ★★★★
All Proms are on BBC Sounds. The Proms continue until 10 September
The Poulenc double bill is at Glyndebourne, East Sussex, until 28 August, and available on demand from October |
https://www.4barsrest.com/news/53756/knight-records-vaughan-williams-tuba-concerto | Tredegar Band recently completed the last portion of its forthcoming 150th anniversary recording project for the Ralph Vaughan Williams Society.
'Vaughan Williams on Brass' will be released on the Albion Records label around August this year and will feature his seminal works written for the medium — including the 'Tuba Concerto' which was recorded last week with Scottish virtuoso Ross Knight.
Great time
Ross flew in from Switzerland for the recording which has been made in its entirety at the Brangwyn Hall in Swansea.
"I had a great time with the band, who were on superb form,"he said. "The project has already created a great deal of interest and profile, and I was thrilled to be part of it with such an iconic work for the tuba."
Fortunate
Speaking about the collaboration, MD, Ian Pothouse added: "We have been very fortunate to work with several world class musicians in recent years — including Ross.
We are delighted that a musician of his standing wishes to come to perform with us. His performance was simply superb. It would have been great if we could have recorded a few more pieces if we had the time!"
Also included on the release, which is conducted by Martyn Brabbins and Ian Porthouse will be 'Variations for Brass Band' in a newly realised version by Philip Littlemore as well as 'English Folk Song Suite', 'Sea Songs' and the music to the evocative 1941 film 'The 49th Parallel'. | 2 | 28,350 | 0.858258 | https://www.4barsrest.com/news/53975/tredegar-retain-proms-focus-with-latest-visit | 2022-06-09 09:09:57+00:00 | Tredegar's preparations for their forthcoming Proms performance with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales (NoW) gathered pace this week with a visit from the orchestra's principal conductor Ryan Bancroft.
Concerto Grosso
The American was joined at the rehearsal by composer Gavin Higgins and orchestra Director Lisa Tregale (above) to listen to excerpts of Gavin's 'Concerto Grosso for Brass Band and Orchestra' which Ryan will direct with the combined forces of the NoW and band at the Royal Albert Hall on Monday 8th August (Prom 30).
Ian Porthouse also led the band through performances of Gavin's 'So Spoke Albion', 'Vienna Philharmonic Fanfare' and Philip Littlemore's realisation of the 'Suite: 49th Parallel' by Vaughan Williams.
All this and David Childs whipped through 'Zeibekikos' from Philip Wilby's 'Euphonium Concerto' before the band rounded off the night with a special request from Ryan of 'MacArthur Park'.
Special
Ian told 4BR: "It was great to welcome Ryan, Gavin and Lisa to a rehearsal — and especially as it was one to really keep the lips in shape! Gavin's work is going to be something quite special."
There has been a great deal of media interest in the joint Proms performance and the band's own late-night Proms the following night (Prom 32).
'The Times' newspaper featured both events in their 'Dozen Proms to Book', whilst 'The Guardian' also highlighted both, calling the late-night Prom, "unmissable".
https://www.royalalberthall.com/tickets/proms/bbc-proms-2022/prom-30-the-tredegar-band-joins-bbc-now/
'The Times' newspaper featured both events in their 'Dozen Proms to Book', whilst 'The Guardian' also highlighted both, calling the late-night Prom, "unmissable"4BR
Birmingham return
The Welsh band will maintain its busy schedule in the coming weeks with a performance at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire on June 15th where they will join the RBC Brass Band.
Tredegar will perform 'So Spoke Albion' alongside 'Vienna Philharmonic Fanfare' and 'Suite: 49th Parallel', whilst guest soloist David Childs will perform 'Zeibekikos'. The RBC Brass will feature 'La Peri' as well as Philip Sparke's 'Year of the Dragon' and Johan de Meij's 'Extreme Makeover'.
They then head back to Birmingham for a concert with Birmingham Citadel Band on Sunday 26th July.
https://www.bcu.ac.uk/conservatoire/events-calendar/brass-band-concert-15-06-2022 |
https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/preview-razors-edge%3A-canadas-liberals-eye-more-spending-as-inflation-burns-0 | PREVIEW-Razor's edge: Canada's Liberals eye more spending as inflation burns
By Julie Gordon
OTTAWA, April 5 (Reuters) - Canada's Liberals find themselves in a bind ahead of this week's budget: the economy has recovered from the pandemic, yet Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has pledged billions in new stimulus, a political poker chip that could further torch runaway inflation.
Trudeau's Liberals will present their 2022 budget on Thursday, just seven months after promising C$78 billion ($62.7 billion) in new spending in a re-election campaign. Much of that, to be spread over five years, has not yet been budgeted.
But fresh fiscal spending could be risky at a time when inflation is already running at a 30-year high. If too broad, measures could fuel further price increases and end up hurting lower-income Canadians.
"When you look at the impact of this elevated inflation on lower-income households, clearly they are hurting," said Rebekah Young, director of fiscal & provincial economics at Scotiabank.
"But at the same time, from an economic perspective, there's a risk that if you put even more money at the problem, it can create more pressures."
Young said major new spending initiatives should be set aside for the near term, even though total government revenues are expected to be higher than previously forecast due to higher inflation-linked tax revenue.
But that may be easier said than done. The government has already committed to spend more on defense following Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Trudeau's Liberals currently spend less than 1.4% of GDP on defence, under the NATO threshold of 2%.
The budget will also include about C$2 billion on a strategy to accelerate Canada's production and processing of critical minerals needed for the electric vehicle supply chain, Reuters reported exclusively on Monday.
Green technologies and initiatives on housing will be focal points of the budget, said one senior source.
And the Liberals will have to start to deliver a national dental-care program for low-income Canadians - a costly initiative that is a cornerstone of a support deal with the New Democrats meant to keep Trudeau in power until 2025.
Structural spending will end up adding to the deficit once the stronger than expected revenues are no longer rolling in.
This could derail efforts to reduce Canada's debt-to-GDP ratio, which skyrocketed during the pandemic amid extraordinary emergency spending and was last forecast to peak at 48.0% this year.
"Any near-term drop in the federal deficit from today's improved economic outlook could be fleeting. As such, we feel the risks to our baseline debt-to-GDP forecast are very much skewed to the upside," said Randall Bartlett, senior director of Canadian economics at Desjardins.
Rising interest rates - the Bank of Canada is widely expected to hike its policy rate by 50 basis points to 1% at a decision on April 13 - will add to debt pressures. Canada's federal debt was last forecast to top C$1.19 trillion this year.
Trudeau, facing backlash over surging home prices and rents, has also promised to make housing more affordable, including measures to make it easier for first-time buyers to get into the market.
"That does get us into a problem where typically the prices just adjust to reflect the improvement in affordability," said Stephen Brown, senior Canada economist at Capital Economics.
($1 = 1.2449 Canadian dollars)
(Reporting by Julie Gordon in Ottawa Editing by Matthew Lewis)
((julie.gordon@thomsonreuters.com; 343-961-4020;))
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By Julie Gordon
OTTAWA, April 5 (Reuters) - Canada's Liberals find themselves in a bind ahead of this week's budget: the economy has recovered from the pandemic, yet Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has pledged billions in new stimulus, a political poker chip that could further torch runaway inflation.
Trudeau's Liberals will present their 2022 budget on Thursday, just seven months after promising C$78 billion ($62.7 billion) in new spending in a re-election campaign. Much of that, to be spread over five years, has not yet been budgeted.
But fresh fiscal spending could be risky at a time when inflation is already running at a 30-year high. If too broad, measures could fuel further price increases and end up hurting lower-income Canadians.
"When you look at the impact of this elevated inflation on lower-income households, clearly they are hurting," said Rebekah Young, director of fiscal & provincial economics at Scotiabank.
"But at the same time, from an economic perspective, there's a risk that if you put even more money at the problem, it can create more pressures."
Young said major new spending initiatives should be set aside for the near term, even though total government revenues are expected to be higher than previously forecast due to higher inflation-linked tax revenue.
But that may be easier said than done. The government has already committed to spend more on defense following Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Trudeau's Liberals currently spend less than 1.4% of GDP on defence, under the NATO threshold of 2%.
The budget will also include about C$2 billion on a strategy to accelerate Canada's production and processing of critical minerals needed for the electric vehicle supply chain, Reuters reported exclusively on Monday.
Green technologies and initiatives on housing will be focal points of the budget, said one senior source.
And the Liberals will have to start to deliver a national dental-care program for low-income Canadians - a costly initiative that is a cornerstone of a support deal with the New Democrats meant to keep Trudeau in power until 2025.
Structural spending will end up adding to the deficit once the stronger than expected revenues are no longer rolling in.
This could derail efforts to reduce Canada's debt-to-GDP ratio, which skyrocketed during the pandemic amid extraordinary emergency spending and was last forecast to peak at 48.0% this year.
"Any near-term drop in the federal deficit from today's improved economic outlook could be fleeting. As such, we feel the risks to our baseline debt-to-GDP forecast are very much skewed to the upside," said Randall Bartlett, senior director of Canadian economics at Desjardins.
Rising interest rates - the Bank of Canada is widely expected to hike its policy rate by 50 basis points to 1% at a decision on April 13 - will add to debt pressures. Canada's federal debt was last forecast to top C$1.19 trillion this year.
Trudeau, facing backlash over surging home prices and rents, has also promised to make housing more affordable, including measures to make it easier for first-time buyers to get into the market.
"That does get us into a problem where typically the prices just adjust to reflect the improvement in affordability," said Stephen Brown, senior Canada economist at Capital Economics.
($1 = 1.2449 Canadian dollars)
(Reporting by Julie Gordon in Ottawa Editing by Matthew Lewis)
((julie.gordon@thomsonreuters.com; 343-961-4020;))
The views and opinions expressed herein are the views and opinions of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of Nasdaq, Inc. |
https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/preview-razors-edge%3A-canadas-liberals-eye-more-spending-as-inflation-burns-0 | PREVIEW-Razor's edge: Canada's Liberals eye more spending as inflation burns
By Julie Gordon
OTTAWA, April 5 (Reuters) - Canada's Liberals find themselves in a bind ahead of this week's budget: the economy has recovered from the pandemic, yet Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has pledged billions in new stimulus, a political poker chip that could further torch runaway inflation.
Trudeau's Liberals will present their 2022 budget on Thursday, just seven months after promising C$78 billion ($62.7 billion) in new spending in a re-election campaign. Much of that, to be spread over five years, has not yet been budgeted.
But fresh fiscal spending could be risky at a time when inflation is already running at a 30-year high. If too broad, measures could fuel further price increases and end up hurting lower-income Canadians.
"When you look at the impact of this elevated inflation on lower-income households, clearly they are hurting," said Rebekah Young, director of fiscal & provincial economics at Scotiabank.
"But at the same time, from an economic perspective, there's a risk that if you put even more money at the problem, it can create more pressures."
Young said major new spending initiatives should be set aside for the near term, even though total government revenues are expected to be higher than previously forecast due to higher inflation-linked tax revenue.
But that may be easier said than done. The government has already committed to spend more on defense following Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Trudeau's Liberals currently spend less than 1.4% of GDP on defence, under the NATO threshold of 2%.
The budget will also include about C$2 billion on a strategy to accelerate Canada's production and processing of critical minerals needed for the electric vehicle supply chain, Reuters reported exclusively on Monday.
Green technologies and initiatives on housing will be focal points of the budget, said one senior source.
And the Liberals will have to start to deliver a national dental-care program for low-income Canadians - a costly initiative that is a cornerstone of a support deal with the New Democrats meant to keep Trudeau in power until 2025.
Structural spending will end up adding to the deficit once the stronger than expected revenues are no longer rolling in.
This could derail efforts to reduce Canada's debt-to-GDP ratio, which skyrocketed during the pandemic amid extraordinary emergency spending and was last forecast to peak at 48.0% this year.
"Any near-term drop in the federal deficit from today's improved economic outlook could be fleeting. As such, we feel the risks to our baseline debt-to-GDP forecast are very much skewed to the upside," said Randall Bartlett, senior director of Canadian economics at Desjardins.
Rising interest rates - the Bank of Canada is widely expected to hike its policy rate by 50 basis points to 1% at a decision on April 13 - will add to debt pressures. Canada's federal debt was last forecast to top C$1.19 trillion this year.
Trudeau, facing backlash over surging home prices and rents, has also promised to make housing more affordable, including measures to make it easier for first-time buyers to get into the market.
"That does get us into a problem where typically the prices just adjust to reflect the improvement in affordability," said Stephen Brown, senior Canada economist at Capital Economics.
($1 = 1.2449 Canadian dollars)
(Reporting by Julie Gordon in Ottawa Editing by Matthew Lewis)
((julie.gordon@thomsonreuters.com; 343-961-4020;))
The views and opinions expressed herein are the views and opinions of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of Nasdaq, Inc. | 1 | 123,135 | 0.062277 | https://ca.sports.yahoo.com/news/razors-edge-canadas-liberals-eye-101426235.html?src=rss | 2022-04-05 10:24:22+00:00 | Razor's edge: Canada's Liberals eye more spending as inflation burns
By Julie Gordon
OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada's Liberals find themselves in a bind ahead of this week's budget: the economy has recovered from the pandemic, yet Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has pledged billions in new stimulus, a political poker chip that could further torch runaway inflation.
Trudeau's Liberals will present their 2022 budget on Thursday, just seven months after promising C$78 billion ($62.7 billion) in new spending in a re-election campaign. Much of that, to be spread over five years, has not yet been budgeted.
But fresh fiscal spending could be risky at a time when inflation is already running at a 30-year high. If too broad, measures could fuel further price increases and end up hurting lower-income Canadians.
"When you look at the impact of this elevated inflation on lower-income households, clearly they are hurting," said Rebekah Young, director of fiscal & provincial economics at Scotiabank.
"But at the same time, from an economic perspective, there's a risk that if you put even more money at the problem, it can create more pressures."
Young said major new spending initiatives should be set aside for the near term, even though total government revenues are expected to be higher than previously forecast due to higher inflation-linked tax revenue.
But that may be easier said than done. The government has already committed to spend more on defense following Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Trudeau's Liberals currently spend less than 1.4% of GDP on defence, under the NATO threshold of 2%.
The budget will also include about C$2 billion on a strategy to accelerate Canada's production and processing of critical minerals needed for the electric vehicle supply chain, Reuters reported exclusively on Monday.
Green technologies and initiatives on housing will be focal points of the budget, said one senior source.
And the Liberals will have to start to deliver a national dental-care program for low-income Canadians - a costly initiative that is a cornerstone of a support deal with the New Democrats meant to keep Trudeau in power until 2025.
Structural spending will end up adding to the deficit once the stronger than expected revenues are no longer rolling in.
This could derail efforts to reduce Canada's debt-to-GDP ratio, which skyrocketed during the pandemic amid extraordinary emergency spending and was last forecast to peak at 48.0% this year.
"Any near-term drop in the federal deficit from today's improved economic outlook could be fleeting. As such, we feel the risks to our baseline debt-to-GDP forecast are very much skewed to the upside," said Randall Bartlett, senior director of Canadian economics at Desjardins.
Rising interest rates - the Bank of Canada is widely expected to hike its policy rate by 50 basis points to 1% at a decision on April 13 - will add to debt pressures. Canada's federal debt was last forecast to top C$1.19 trillion this year.
Trudeau, facing backlash over surging home prices and rents, has also promised to make housing more affordable, including measures to make it easier for first-time buyers to get into the market.
"That does get us into a problem where typically the prices just adjust to reflect the improvement in affordability," said Stephen Brown, senior Canada economist at Capital Economics.
($1 = 1.2449 Canadian dollars)
(Reporting by Julie Gordon in Ottawa; Editing by Matthew Lewis) |
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By Julie Gordon
OTTAWA, April 5 (Reuters) - Canada's Liberals find themselves in a bind ahead of this week's budget: the economy has recovered from the pandemic, yet Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has pledged billions in new stimulus, a political poker chip that could further torch runaway inflation.
Trudeau's Liberals will present their 2022 budget on Thursday, just seven months after promising C$78 billion ($62.7 billion) in new spending in a re-election campaign. Much of that, to be spread over five years, has not yet been budgeted.
But fresh fiscal spending could be risky at a time when inflation is already running at a 30-year high. If too broad, measures could fuel further price increases and end up hurting lower-income Canadians.
"When you look at the impact of this elevated inflation on lower-income households, clearly they are hurting," said Rebekah Young, director of fiscal & provincial economics at Scotiabank.
"But at the same time, from an economic perspective, there's a risk that if you put even more money at the problem, it can create more pressures."
Young said major new spending initiatives should be set aside for the near term, even though total government revenues are expected to be higher than previously forecast due to higher inflation-linked tax revenue.
But that may be easier said than done. The government has already committed to spend more on defense following Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Trudeau's Liberals currently spend less than 1.4% of GDP on defence, under the NATO threshold of 2%.
The budget will also include about C$2 billion on a strategy to accelerate Canada's production and processing of critical minerals needed for the electric vehicle supply chain, Reuters reported exclusively on Monday.
Green technologies and initiatives on housing will be focal points of the budget, said one senior source.
And the Liberals will have to start to deliver a national dental-care program for low-income Canadians - a costly initiative that is a cornerstone of a support deal with the New Democrats meant to keep Trudeau in power until 2025.
Structural spending will end up adding to the deficit once the stronger than expected revenues are no longer rolling in.
This could derail efforts to reduce Canada's debt-to-GDP ratio, which skyrocketed during the pandemic amid extraordinary emergency spending and was last forecast to peak at 48.0% this year.
"Any near-term drop in the federal deficit from today's improved economic outlook could be fleeting. As such, we feel the risks to our baseline debt-to-GDP forecast are very much skewed to the upside," said Randall Bartlett, senior director of Canadian economics at Desjardins.
Rising interest rates - the Bank of Canada is widely expected to hike its policy rate by 50 basis points to 1% at a decision on April 13 - will add to debt pressures. Canada's federal debt was last forecast to top C$1.19 trillion this year.
Trudeau, facing backlash over surging home prices and rents, has also promised to make housing more affordable, including measures to make it easier for first-time buyers to get into the market.
"That does get us into a problem where typically the prices just adjust to reflect the improvement in affordability," said Stephen Brown, senior Canada economist at Capital Economics.
($1 = 1.2449 Canadian dollars)
(Reporting by Julie Gordon in Ottawa Editing by Matthew Lewis)
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OTTAWA, April 5 (Reuters) - Canada's Liberals find themselves in a bind ahead of this week's budget: the economy has recovered from the pandemic, yet Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has pledged billions in new stimulus, a political poker chip that could further torch runaway inflation.
Trudeau's Liberals will present their 2022 budget on Thursday, just seven months after promising C$78 billion ($62.7 billion) in new spending in a re-election campaign. Much of that, to be spread over five years, has not yet been budgeted.
But fresh fiscal spending could be risky at a time when inflation is already running at a 30-year high. If too broad, measures could fuel further price increases and end up hurting lower-income Canadians.
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"When you look at the impact of this elevated inflation on lower-income households, clearly they are hurting," said Rebekah Young, director of fiscal & provincial economics at Scotiabank.
"But at the same time, from an economic perspective, there's a risk that if you put even more money at the problem, it can create more pressures."
Young said major new spending initiatives should be set aside for the near term, even though total government revenues are expected to be higher than previously forecast due to higher inflation-linked tax revenue.
But that may be easier said than done. The government has already committed to spend more on defense following Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Trudeau's Liberals currently spend less than 1.4% of GDP on defence, under the NATO threshold of 2%.
The budget will also include about C$2 billion on a strategy to accelerate Canada's production and processing of critical minerals needed for the electric vehicle supply chain, Reuters reported exclusively on Monday.
Green technologies and initiatives on housing will be focal points of the budget, said one senior source.
And the Liberals will have to start to deliver a national dental-care program for low-income Canadians - a costly initiative that is a cornerstone of a support deal with the New Democrats meant to keep Trudeau in power until 2025.
Structural spending will end up adding to the deficit once the stronger than expected revenues are no longer rolling in.
This could derail efforts to reduce Canada's debt-to-GDP ratio, which skyrocketed during the pandemic amid extraordinary emergency spending and was last forecast to peak at 48.0% this year.
"Any near-term drop in the federal deficit from today's improved economic outlook could be fleeting. As such, we feel the risks to our baseline debt-to-GDP forecast are very much skewed to the upside," said Randall Bartlett, senior director of Canadian economics at Desjardins.
Rising interest rates - the Bank of Canada is widely expected to hike its policy rate by 50 basis points to 1% at a decision on April 13 - will add to debt pressures. Canada's federal debt was last forecast to top C$1.19 trillion this year.
Trudeau, facing backlash over surging home prices and rents, has also promised to make housing more affordable, including measures to make it easier for first-time buyers to get into the market.
"That does get us into a problem where typically the prices just adjust to reflect the improvement in affordability," said Stephen Brown, senior Canada economist at Capital Economics.
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https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-703430 | Have you ever thought about that exalted position of head of state? If you did, and tried to describe the position of a president, you may find some difficulty.
Yes, it is the head of state who without exception lives in beautiful premises, sometimes even palaces. State functions take place there and visiting statesmen and their wives are hosted at exquisite banquets, to which the county’s high society are invited and turn up in their finery.
Sometimes, important political decisions emanate from a private tête-à-tête across a coffee table decorated with the national flag of the visitor’s country. Unless they follow it with a press conference, all we see is a photo of smiling faces shaking hands, even when sometimes serious disagreements hide behind the public façade.
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The term of office is five years and at end, the incumbent may stand just once more as candidate for election. Unlike in the United States, once the official campaign has begun, each candidate must have exactly the same amount of airtime on TV and radio, and there is also a strict limit on election expenditure.
In Germany, the election of the state president is even more complicated. He or she is elected by a federal convention that meets only every five years for that single purpose. It is comprised of all members of the Bundestag, the German parliament and an equal number of members elected by the parliaments of the 16 Länder, the counties. The number of representatives which the individual Länder may send to the federal convention is calculated based on the population of each Land. The term of five years can be renewed multiple times. The procedure is then similar to the French system.
In some democracies, the president is installed by parliamentary vote and renewable after every term. Israel’s president, until now only male, is elected by parliament for one non-renewable term of seven years. He has no political power, although his usual previous experience in government or executive positions does command influence. All these are semi-presidential systems with both a president and a prime minister who is responsible to parliament.
Then there are countries where the presidency changes by a coup d’etat, the forceful acquisition of power by a general or another dictatorial strongman, who hopes to remain the head of state for life. They then exercise sole rule with dictatorial powers. That method is particularly prevalent in Latin American countries. Some dictators have adapted to present themselves as civilians, organizing sham elections and creating make-believe democracies. Many poorer countries in the southern hemisphere are subjected to such systems.
In some true parliamentary democracies like the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Denmark or Sweden, the head of state used to be a queen or king, who ruled with absolute power and an iron hand. Today, their head of state is still a monarch, but a figurehead to preside at state occasions, such as the opening of a new parliamentary session.
Quite a different and unusual system remains in the Russian Federation. Although there is a parliament, however, since the turn of the millennium, the position of president and prime minister alternated between several ministers on the one hand and Vladimir Putin. Since 2012, he has remained president and recently enacted a law that guarantees his position until 2036. The prime minister is subservient to the president, who effectively rules with dictatorial power.
So, in different countries the state president is in office for different terms and with different powers.
While on the subject of Putin, it is not possible to avoid comment on his war in Ukraine. There, the situation changes very fast, so that any assessment is almost out of date before it is published.
It is believed that Russian intelligence was inaccurately informed about the determined will of the Ukraine population to oppose the invasion, which was to be a blitzkrieg during which they thought to be welcomed. Sources report that Putin has sacked several of his closest advisers, some were even sentenced to house arrest.
It is now obvious that everything did not go as planned and that the Russian Army was not prepared for the opposition that they met. Yet, Putin announced that the first phase of the operation has been successfully completed. Now, he is withdrawing from the cities northwest of the capital Kyiv, closely pursued by Ukrainian troops and leaving behind a land of scorched earth and cruel murder of civilians.
They have also left the area around the nuclear power plant at Chernobyl, carrying contaminated soil in their tracks and wheels into Belarus. It is believed that the new Russian objective is to complete the line of occupation of southern Ukraine to prevent local access to the Black Sea ports for supplies by sea.
On the other hand, if Turkey would heed Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelenzky’s pleads and decide to close the Bosphoros Strait to Russian ships, those in the Black Sea would not be able to leave, nor any others enter and supplies to the Russian occupied Crimean Peninsula would be severely curtailed.
I believe that the only alternative for Putin without losing face is to concentrate on consolidating his hold on the Donbas region in the eastern part of Ukraine, where he has support from the ethnic Russians, who comprise an estimated 30% of the population of that area. That would serve as a bargaining chip in peace negotiations with Ukraine.
In the meantime, Putin continues to punish Ukrainian cities with heavy bombardment and artillery fire. That tactic has already been condemned as war crimes by the Western world, which has called for a Nuremberg style war crimes tribunal.
The writer, 98, holds both Guinness world records as the oldest working journalist and oldest active radio show host. He presents Walter’s World on Israel National Radio (Arutz 7) and The Walter Bingham File on Israel News Talk Radio. Both are in English. | 0 | 56,400 | 0.855938 | https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-712134 | 2022-07-14 16:10:09+00:00 | Whenever there is a presidential visit to the Holy Land, it naturally has its serious moments, but also its lighter ones.
A few were on display at Ben-Gurion Airport on Wednesday, after Joe Biden touched down in Israel for the first time as president. It was his 10th visit, and without doubt the most consequential.
When Donald Trump came to Israel in 2017, there was the infamous selfie with Oren Hazan, a Likud MK at the time who somehow got invited to the ceremony.
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Another moment was when Israeli government ministers took their seats ahead of the ceremony, under the scorching sun in a humid climate. Defense Minister Benny Gantz picked up a bottle of water and proceeded – over a few seconds - to try and open it with his teeth. You can find the video online.
Why did he use his teeth? Who knows.
Then there was Opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu, who took a seat next to Transportation Minister Merav Michaeli and Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz. It was the closest Netanyahu has been seen next to this government since it was sworn in last June. At one point, Michaeli tried to find a tissue to give Netanyahu so he could wipe away the sweat from his forehead, but she couldn’t find one. Communications Minister Yoaz Hendel, a row behind, leaned over and handed a tissue to Netanyahu, for whom he had served as a spokesman in 2012. “I promise it is not used,” he told his former boss.
The visit also had its emotional moments: there was Biden’s comment upon landing that you don’t have to be a Jew to be a Zionist; the story of his religious upbringing and what his father taught him about the Holocaust; and the most touching and memorable moment, when he kneeled down next to two survivors at Yad Vashem. It was hard not to be moved. Politics aside, there is no questioning this man’s love and commitment to Israel and the Jewish people.
And that is really what this trip was about. Biden admitted as much when he said that while he supported a two-state solution, he understood that it was not going to happen in the “near term.” Yes, there is Iran and its continued pursuit of a nuclear capability, but no big breakthrough is expected there in the near term either. Biden is still committed to a diplomatic resolution and a return to the JCPOA, while Israel wants to try to get him to agree to a “Plan B” if that doesn’t happen. He does not seem so pressed to move that along.
Lapid knows this. He also knows that Israel is the sideshow to the real purpose of Biden’s visit to the Middle East: his flight on Friday to Saudi Arabia. And that is why he is here. He did not want to be seen as only traveling to the Saudis, so the Americans added the Israel stop. That way, it looks like a tour of the Middle East and not just a capitulation to the murderous MBS, as many members of the president’s own party refer to the Saudi crown prince.
But even if Israel is the sideshow and the president’s trip is more about inflation in the US, which hit a 40-year record on Wednesday, the value of American engagement in the region cannot be exaggerated from Israel’s perspective.
This was best illustrated by two announcements earlier this week: one that Iran will supply Russia with advanced drones to help its war in Ukraine, the other that Russian President Vladimir Putin will visit Iran next week.
There is a battle going on for control in the region. One side is led by Iran, which wants to undermine stability in the Middle East, spread its hegemony throughout the region, and weaken moderate Sunni regimes while trying to advance toward a nuclear capability. Its allies in this are Lebanon, Syria and Russia.
On the other side is Israel, which is part of a bloc of nations that includes Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Egypt, Bahrain, Jordan and others wanting to see Iran restrained and look to the US for leadership. Part of Biden’s trip is an attempt to provide those countries with a sense of confidence and security that America is not leaving this region in a vacuum. Time will tell if he succeeds.
Beyond the substance of the trip, there is another point that needs to be mentioned.
The first is the location of the arrival ceremony: Ben-Gurion Airport. When the president of the United States receives a foreign leader, he does not go to meet them at Joint Base Andrews. When the president of France greets someone, it does not take place at Charles de Gaulle Airport. In Washington it is at the White House, and in Paris at the Élysée Palace.
So why was it at the airport? Because Israel, after 74 years, still does not have a proper residence/office for its prime minister. There is the President’s Residence, but that is for the president; and there is the Knesset, but that is for the parliament. The government, whose leader is the prime minister, works out of an ugly office building in Jerusalem, and the prime minister lives, for now, in an apartment, since the official residence is still under renovation. Even if the Balfour Street residence was open, it would still not be big enough for a national reception.
And then there is the airplane. Biden arrived on Air Force One, probably the most protected and luxurious aircraft that flies any head of state or government. It is quite the sight. When Lapid flew to Paris last week, he chartered an El Al plane and sat like a regular business-class traveler. The same happened when President Isaac Herzog flew earlier this week to Prague.
The thing is, there is a plane that Israel has built for its heads of state and government. Called “Wing of Zion,” it sits on a tarmac not far from where Air Force One was parked during Biden’s stay. Lapid and Herzog refuse to use it. It has been bought, refurbished, designed and outfitted with the most sophisticated technology, but they won’t step foot inside because the plane is associated with Netanyahu, and they want nothing to do with it.
This situation is ridiculous
A country that presents a visiting president with the Iron Beam – an unprecedented laser system that can intercept rockets – and is being chased after by Europe to supply it with gas does not have to live like it is still a shtetl in eastern Europe.
Israel is strong, wealthy and sophisticated. It can afford to build an office/residence that would respect its occupants as well as visiting dignitaries. Its political leaders should not be ashamed to use a plane (that has already been built!) allowing them to fly to meetings and summits respectably, as they deserve.
Biden’s visit underscores how it is time for this to change. |
https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-703430 | Have you ever thought about that exalted position of head of state? If you did, and tried to describe the position of a president, you may find some difficulty.
Yes, it is the head of state who without exception lives in beautiful premises, sometimes even palaces. State functions take place there and visiting statesmen and their wives are hosted at exquisite banquets, to which the county’s high society are invited and turn up in their finery.
Sometimes, important political decisions emanate from a private tête-à-tête across a coffee table decorated with the national flag of the visitor’s country. Unless they follow it with a press conference, all we see is a photo of smiling faces shaking hands, even when sometimes serious disagreements hide behind the public façade.
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The term of office is five years and at end, the incumbent may stand just once more as candidate for election. Unlike in the United States, once the official campaign has begun, each candidate must have exactly the same amount of airtime on TV and radio, and there is also a strict limit on election expenditure.
In Germany, the election of the state president is even more complicated. He or she is elected by a federal convention that meets only every five years for that single purpose. It is comprised of all members of the Bundestag, the German parliament and an equal number of members elected by the parliaments of the 16 Länder, the counties. The number of representatives which the individual Länder may send to the federal convention is calculated based on the population of each Land. The term of five years can be renewed multiple times. The procedure is then similar to the French system.
In some democracies, the president is installed by parliamentary vote and renewable after every term. Israel’s president, until now only male, is elected by parliament for one non-renewable term of seven years. He has no political power, although his usual previous experience in government or executive positions does command influence. All these are semi-presidential systems with both a president and a prime minister who is responsible to parliament.
Then there are countries where the presidency changes by a coup d’etat, the forceful acquisition of power by a general or another dictatorial strongman, who hopes to remain the head of state for life. They then exercise sole rule with dictatorial powers. That method is particularly prevalent in Latin American countries. Some dictators have adapted to present themselves as civilians, organizing sham elections and creating make-believe democracies. Many poorer countries in the southern hemisphere are subjected to such systems.
In some true parliamentary democracies like the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Denmark or Sweden, the head of state used to be a queen or king, who ruled with absolute power and an iron hand. Today, their head of state is still a monarch, but a figurehead to preside at state occasions, such as the opening of a new parliamentary session.
Quite a different and unusual system remains in the Russian Federation. Although there is a parliament, however, since the turn of the millennium, the position of president and prime minister alternated between several ministers on the one hand and Vladimir Putin. Since 2012, he has remained president and recently enacted a law that guarantees his position until 2036. The prime minister is subservient to the president, who effectively rules with dictatorial power.
So, in different countries the state president is in office for different terms and with different powers.
While on the subject of Putin, it is not possible to avoid comment on his war in Ukraine. There, the situation changes very fast, so that any assessment is almost out of date before it is published.
It is believed that Russian intelligence was inaccurately informed about the determined will of the Ukraine population to oppose the invasion, which was to be a blitzkrieg during which they thought to be welcomed. Sources report that Putin has sacked several of his closest advisers, some were even sentenced to house arrest.
It is now obvious that everything did not go as planned and that the Russian Army was not prepared for the opposition that they met. Yet, Putin announced that the first phase of the operation has been successfully completed. Now, he is withdrawing from the cities northwest of the capital Kyiv, closely pursued by Ukrainian troops and leaving behind a land of scorched earth and cruel murder of civilians.
They have also left the area around the nuclear power plant at Chernobyl, carrying contaminated soil in their tracks and wheels into Belarus. It is believed that the new Russian objective is to complete the line of occupation of southern Ukraine to prevent local access to the Black Sea ports for supplies by sea.
On the other hand, if Turkey would heed Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelenzky’s pleads and decide to close the Bosphoros Strait to Russian ships, those in the Black Sea would not be able to leave, nor any others enter and supplies to the Russian occupied Crimean Peninsula would be severely curtailed.
I believe that the only alternative for Putin without losing face is to concentrate on consolidating his hold on the Donbas region in the eastern part of Ukraine, where he has support from the ethnic Russians, who comprise an estimated 30% of the population of that area. That would serve as a bargaining chip in peace negotiations with Ukraine.
In the meantime, Putin continues to punish Ukrainian cities with heavy bombardment and artillery fire. That tactic has already been condemned as war crimes by the Western world, which has called for a Nuremberg style war crimes tribunal.
The writer, 98, holds both Guinness world records as the oldest working journalist and oldest active radio show host. He presents Walter’s World on Israel National Radio (Arutz 7) and The Walter Bingham File on Israel News Talk Radio. Both are in English. | 1 | 103,248 | 0.899813 | https://www.jpost.com/israeli-news/article-711801 | 2022-07-11 16:40:02+00:00 | President Isaac Herzog and his wife Michal returned home on Monday from a visit to the Czech Republic and were welcomed by staff to a different residence than they had departed from on Sunday.
During their brief absence, their employees, under the supervision of Director-General of the President’s Residence Eyal Shviki, began preparations for US President Joe Biden’s visit this week.
They laid out freshly cleaned red carpets, which will be cleaned repeatedly before Biden sets foot on them. Israeli and American flags were set up in the small reception room, where the president converses with visiting dignitaries. The flags have been strategically placed in various areas throughout the presidential compound.
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Czech president Milos Zeman
A large tent has been set up in the garden for media teams, and a huge stage has been built and installed in the middle of the plaza. There are also lighting effects and floral displays in the colors of the star-spangled banner.
In January 2020, the President’s Residence was similarly transformed beyond recognition. At that time, former president Reuven Rivlin hosted world leaders that had come to Israel for the Fifth International Holocaust Forum, which coincided with the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz and was held just ahead of Holocaust Remembrance Day.
American presidents and secretaries of state have always received a warmer welcome in Israel than their counterparts from other countries. Biden, despite disagreements on certain issues (most notably Iran), will not be an exception. In fact, Herzog will bestow upon him the Presidential Medal of Distinction.
Herzog returned on a high note from the Czech Republic despite reports of increasing antisemitism in the country. But at an official level, there is much goodwill towards Israel and the Jewish people.
Israel's best friend in Europe
President Milos Zeman, who invited the Herzogs to the Czech Republic, calls himself Israel’s best friend in Europe. Although not Jewish himself, in an address to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) in 2015, Zeman urged the world to demonstrate solidarity with the Jewish people. Addressing a packed auditorium in Washington, he declared, “Now we must all say ‘I am a Jew.’”
He has since repeated this on several occasions, including saying it in Hebrew: “Ani Yehudi.”
In an address to the Knesset in November 2018, Zeman again emphasized the importance of solidarity with Israel. “If we betray Israel, we betray ourselves,” he said.
On Monday, Zeman inadvertently upstaged Biden by being the first person to whom Herzog awarded the Presidential Medal of Distinction. The process had been initiated by former president Shimon Peres, but the medal had not been awarded during Rivlin’s term as president.
“We thank you for your support for the State of Israel in international forums,” Herzog said before presenting the award at the Prague Castle. “We thank you for your clear moral stance in taking Israel’s side against the many enemies who wish to destabilize the Middle East. I thank you for your staunch support and your decision concerning the relocation of the Czech Embassy to Jerusalem, the capital of Israel. This is yet another example of your friendship.”
Czech support for Israel since 1948
Herzog also made a point of speaking about Czech support for the establishment of the State of Israel and of the great Czech leaders who had stood by Israel’s side.
“We face another opportunity to strengthen our collaboration in many fields, including defense, security and technology,” Zeman said as he welcomed Herzog to Prague Castle.
He reiterated the Czech Republic’s full support of Israel, and condemned the decision by the UN Human Rights Council to censure Israel. |
https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-703430 | Have you ever thought about that exalted position of head of state? If you did, and tried to describe the position of a president, you may find some difficulty.
Yes, it is the head of state who without exception lives in beautiful premises, sometimes even palaces. State functions take place there and visiting statesmen and their wives are hosted at exquisite banquets, to which the county’s high society are invited and turn up in their finery.
Sometimes, important political decisions emanate from a private tête-à-tête across a coffee table decorated with the national flag of the visitor’s country. Unless they follow it with a press conference, all we see is a photo of smiling faces shaking hands, even when sometimes serious disagreements hide behind the public façade.
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The term of office is five years and at end, the incumbent may stand just once more as candidate for election. Unlike in the United States, once the official campaign has begun, each candidate must have exactly the same amount of airtime on TV and radio, and there is also a strict limit on election expenditure.
In Germany, the election of the state president is even more complicated. He or she is elected by a federal convention that meets only every five years for that single purpose. It is comprised of all members of the Bundestag, the German parliament and an equal number of members elected by the parliaments of the 16 Länder, the counties. The number of representatives which the individual Länder may send to the federal convention is calculated based on the population of each Land. The term of five years can be renewed multiple times. The procedure is then similar to the French system.
In some democracies, the president is installed by parliamentary vote and renewable after every term. Israel’s president, until now only male, is elected by parliament for one non-renewable term of seven years. He has no political power, although his usual previous experience in government or executive positions does command influence. All these are semi-presidential systems with both a president and a prime minister who is responsible to parliament.
Then there are countries where the presidency changes by a coup d’etat, the forceful acquisition of power by a general or another dictatorial strongman, who hopes to remain the head of state for life. They then exercise sole rule with dictatorial powers. That method is particularly prevalent in Latin American countries. Some dictators have adapted to present themselves as civilians, organizing sham elections and creating make-believe democracies. Many poorer countries in the southern hemisphere are subjected to such systems.
In some true parliamentary democracies like the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Denmark or Sweden, the head of state used to be a queen or king, who ruled with absolute power and an iron hand. Today, their head of state is still a monarch, but a figurehead to preside at state occasions, such as the opening of a new parliamentary session.
Quite a different and unusual system remains in the Russian Federation. Although there is a parliament, however, since the turn of the millennium, the position of president and prime minister alternated between several ministers on the one hand and Vladimir Putin. Since 2012, he has remained president and recently enacted a law that guarantees his position until 2036. The prime minister is subservient to the president, who effectively rules with dictatorial power.
So, in different countries the state president is in office for different terms and with different powers.
While on the subject of Putin, it is not possible to avoid comment on his war in Ukraine. There, the situation changes very fast, so that any assessment is almost out of date before it is published.
It is believed that Russian intelligence was inaccurately informed about the determined will of the Ukraine population to oppose the invasion, which was to be a blitzkrieg during which they thought to be welcomed. Sources report that Putin has sacked several of his closest advisers, some were even sentenced to house arrest.
It is now obvious that everything did not go as planned and that the Russian Army was not prepared for the opposition that they met. Yet, Putin announced that the first phase of the operation has been successfully completed. Now, he is withdrawing from the cities northwest of the capital Kyiv, closely pursued by Ukrainian troops and leaving behind a land of scorched earth and cruel murder of civilians.
They have also left the area around the nuclear power plant at Chernobyl, carrying contaminated soil in their tracks and wheels into Belarus. It is believed that the new Russian objective is to complete the line of occupation of southern Ukraine to prevent local access to the Black Sea ports for supplies by sea.
On the other hand, if Turkey would heed Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelenzky’s pleads and decide to close the Bosphoros Strait to Russian ships, those in the Black Sea would not be able to leave, nor any others enter and supplies to the Russian occupied Crimean Peninsula would be severely curtailed.
I believe that the only alternative for Putin without losing face is to concentrate on consolidating his hold on the Donbas region in the eastern part of Ukraine, where he has support from the ethnic Russians, who comprise an estimated 30% of the population of that area. That would serve as a bargaining chip in peace negotiations with Ukraine.
In the meantime, Putin continues to punish Ukrainian cities with heavy bombardment and artillery fire. That tactic has already been condemned as war crimes by the Western world, which has called for a Nuremberg style war crimes tribunal.
The writer, 98, holds both Guinness world records as the oldest working journalist and oldest active radio show host. He presents Walter’s World on Israel National Radio (Arutz 7) and The Walter Bingham File on Israel News Talk Radio. Both are in English. | 2 | 23,036 | 0.919257 | https://www.jpost.com/middle-east-news/article-712326 | 2022-07-17 14:08:28+00:00 | US President Joe Biden left Jeddah, Saudi Arabia aboard Air Force One on Saturday, ending his first Middle East visit since taking office after four days in the region without major announcements.
The lukewarm reception and lack of enthusiasm were evident when the governor of the Mecca Region, Khalid Al-Faisal, was sent to the airport to receive President Biden upon his arrival in the city of Jeddah, in striking contrast to the extravagant reception that was given to then-President Donald Trump when he visited Riyadh in 2017, making the kingdom his first destination on his first trip abroad as president.
The way President Biden greeted Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, with a fist bump rather than a handshake, and the serious expressions they maintained as they barely moved their lips, left no doubt about how they felt toward each other.
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The Jeddah summit brought together the heads of government of the states producing about 50% of the world’s oil and was a chance for many of the United States’ Middle Eastern allies, who strongly believe the US has shifted its focus from their region to Asia, to reset relations with Washington.
“The United States is invested in building a positive future of the region, in partnership with all of you − and the United States is not going anywhere,” the president told Arab leaders in a speech during the summit, attended by the six Gulf Cooperation Council states − Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates − as well as Egypt, Jordan, and Iraq.
In the end, the summit communiqué didn’t live up to the hype that preceded the highly-anticipated event, as it failed to produce a strong public front on Iran or establish a security pact or announce any steps on normalization between Israel and Saudi Arabia.
Opening airspace to Israeli airlines
Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister, Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud, told reporters after the US-Arab summit that Riyadh’s decision to open its airspace to all air carriers had nothing to do with establishing diplomatic relations with Israel and was not a prelude to further steps.
Retired Iraqi Maj. Gen. Majid al-Qubaisi told The Media Line that the US president was greeted by “a different Middle East that Biden did not read correctly.”
The Iraqi position was clear through a statement by Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi, who refused to let Baghdad be part of any military or security axis directed at Iran.
“Iraq’s policy is to be at an equal distance from all parties. Iraq’s political and security situation does not allow it to play a role in this region by entering into alliances against anyone,” the statement reads.
Qubaisi says Baghdad plays a positive role in the convergence of views between Tehran and Riyadh, and “won’t jeopardize its efforts.”
Although there is a strong American and Israeli attempt to unite the region against Iran and create a military alliance, Qubaisi confirms that President Biden has failed in his efforts.
“No alliance or security or military action against Iran has been announced due to the absence of any coordination or homogeneity between the countries participating in the summit, and there are many political differences, as some of them have political and economic relations with Iran.”
Maj.-Gen. Majid al-Qubaisi
“No alliance or security or military action against Iran has been announced due to the absence of any coordination or homogeneity between the countries participating in the summit, and there are many political differences, as some of them have political and economic relations with Iran,” says Qubaisi.
Iran's influence
Iran has significant political influence in majority Shi’ite Iraq, while Qatar shares one of the largest gas fields with Iran in the Gulf. Meanwhile, Kuwait and Oman adopt a more neutral policy on the issue of Iran’s nuclear program.
Fahad al-Shelaimi, president of the Middle East Center for Strategic and Political Studies in Kuwait, told The Media Line the main catalyst for the visit was that there are global geopolitical variables forcing President Biden to change his position on Saudi Arabia.
Shelaimi says the US withdrawal from the region encouraged China and Russia to fill the vacuum, economic and strategic, by building partnerships with the Gulf states. The Gulf-Arab-Russian-Chinese rapprochement forced the Americans to rethink their approach in the region, he says.
“There is a need to build new bridges of trust or to restore old bridges of trust and political partnerships,” says Shelaimi.
Another factor, he says, that influenced the Biden Administration to reconnect with its Middle East allies is the Russo-Ukrainian War's impact on the international energy market, as well as on regional and international political and military alliances and food security.
American domestic concerns also contributed to President Biden’s visit to Saudi Arabia, Shelaimi explains, “in an attempt to persuade the energy-rich Gulf Cooperation Council countries to increase their production until the price of oil drops.”
There is also Washington’s desire to help European allies, who rely heavily on energy from Russia, face the crippling sanctions imposed by the West on Moscow, as they look for alternative sources of energy.
The Iranian nuclear file was also on the agenda, “a priority of the Gulf and regional countries in the region,” says Shelaimi.
“Biden’s visit to the region and his meeting with the GCC is considered as sending a message to Iran, as these countries consider Iran’s nuclear program and ballistic missile program a threat to their national security,” he says.
Prof. Mohammad Marandi, head of the North American Studies Department at the University of Tehran, told The Media Line the Islamic Republic doesn’t see President Biden’s trip’s main intention as targeting them.
“I think the view here is predominantly that Biden is looking for Saudi oil to offset the current energy crisis and he didn’t get what he wanted.”
The feeling in Tehran is that the trip failed to achieve its objectives, Marandi says.
Talk of Israel forging some sort of military alliance with Arab states has intensified ahead of President Biden’s trip to the region, as caretaker Prime Minister Yair Lapid reiterated his country’s position on Iran, threatening the use of military force and insisting that “words” and “diplomacy” were not enough to stop Iran’s nuclear ambitions.
“Diplomacy will not stop them. The only thing that will stop Iran is knowing that if they continue to develop their nuclear program the free world will use force. The only way to stop them is to put a credible military threat on the table,” Lapid told reporters standing next to the American president in Jerusalem on Thursday.
“Threats against Iran from Israel are nothing new. We’ve seen this often, during the Trump years we’ve heard the same language, also during the Obama years ‘all options were always on the table,’ the same was true with Bush,” says Marandi, adding that “the Israelis know if they carry out a strike on Iran,” Tehran will respond swiftly.
He says the chances of a security pact forming against Iran are slim because “regional countries, especially in the Persian Gulf, simply don’t trust each other.”
“Iran’s allies in Iraq are very powerful and therefore there’s no possibility for such a pact,” says Marandi. |
https://abc11.com/gallery-small-business-prune-redmond-manayunk/11495776/ | PHILADELPHIA -- Prune Redmond is the owner of Prune Redmond Gallery in Manayunk.
With a background in comedy, Redmond had a great idea to help promote his shop. Ever since its opening four years ago, he would make funny videos using items in his shop as props.
"Laughter and fun is something we all have in common," said Redmond.
Redmond says that he loves Manayunk and wanted to also use his talent to promote the shops in his area.
"Well the first time I heard him outside, I ran to the door, I thought somebody was being attacked or something," said Teresa Davis, owner of Vamp Boutique.
He says he does it all for fun, not for money or for fame.
"But then I was like ok, he was dressed up in like this big fluffy costume," said Davis.
Redmond says that he has gained a lot of friends along the way. Local shop owners love the videos and energy he brings to the block.
"Just something light-hearted that you know makes everyone laugh is always good for the block," said Davis.
"Everybody that sees me do my thing, they like it cause they can see how much fun I'm having," said Redmond.
Prune Redmond Gallery promotes local business with comedy
By 6abc Digital Staff | 0 | 108,596 | 0 | https://abc7ny.com/gallery-small-business-prune-redmond-manayunk/11495776/ | 2022-04-06 18:19:11+00:00 | PHILADELPHIA -- Prune Redmond is the owner of Prune Redmond Gallery in Manayunk.
With a background in comedy, Redmond had a great idea to help promote his shop. Ever since its opening four years ago, he would make funny videos using items in his shop as props.
"Laughter and fun is something we all have in common," said Redmond.
Redmond says that he loves Manayunk and wanted to also use his talent to promote the shops in his area.
"Well the first time I heard him outside, I ran to the door, I thought somebody was being attacked or something," said Teresa Davis, owner of Vamp Boutique.
He says he does it all for fun, not for money or for fame.
"But then I was like ok, he was dressed up in like this big fluffy costume," said Davis.
Redmond says that he has gained a lot of friends along the way. Local shop owners love the videos and energy he brings to the block.
"Just something light-hearted that you know makes everyone laugh is always good for the block," said Davis.
"Everybody that sees me do my thing, they like it cause they can see how much fun I'm having," said Redmond.
Prune Redmond Gallery promotes local business with comedy
By 6abc Digital Staff |
https://abc11.com/gallery-small-business-prune-redmond-manayunk/11495776/ | PHILADELPHIA -- Prune Redmond is the owner of Prune Redmond Gallery in Manayunk.
With a background in comedy, Redmond had a great idea to help promote his shop. Ever since its opening four years ago, he would make funny videos using items in his shop as props.
"Laughter and fun is something we all have in common," said Redmond.
Redmond says that he loves Manayunk and wanted to also use his talent to promote the shops in his area.
"Well the first time I heard him outside, I ran to the door, I thought somebody was being attacked or something," said Teresa Davis, owner of Vamp Boutique.
He says he does it all for fun, not for money or for fame.
"But then I was like ok, he was dressed up in like this big fluffy costume," said Davis.
Redmond says that he has gained a lot of friends along the way. Local shop owners love the videos and energy he brings to the block.
"Just something light-hearted that you know makes everyone laugh is always good for the block," said Davis.
"Everybody that sees me do my thing, they like it cause they can see how much fun I'm having," said Redmond.
Prune Redmond Gallery promotes local business with comedy
By 6abc Digital Staff | 1 | 111,911 | 0 | https://abc7chicago.com/gallery-small-business-prune-redmond-manayunk/11495776/ | 2022-04-06 18:34:12+00:00 | PHILADELPHIA -- Prune Redmond is the owner of Prune Redmond Gallery in Manayunk.
With a background in comedy, Redmond had a great idea to help promote his shop. Ever since its opening four years ago, he would make funny videos using items in his shop as props.
"Laughter and fun is something we all have in common," said Redmond.
Redmond says that he loves Manayunk and wanted to also use his talent to promote the shops in his area.
"Well the first time I heard him outside, I ran to the door, I thought somebody was being attacked or something," said Teresa Davis, owner of Vamp Boutique.
He says he does it all for fun, not for money or for fame.
"But then I was like ok, he was dressed up in like this big fluffy costume," said Davis.
Redmond says that he has gained a lot of friends along the way. Local shop owners love the videos and energy he brings to the block.
"Just something light-hearted that you know makes everyone laugh is always good for the block," said Davis.
"Everybody that sees me do my thing, they like it cause they can see how much fun I'm having," said Redmond.
Prune Redmond Gallery promotes local business with comedy
By 6abc Digital Staff |
https://abc11.com/gallery-small-business-prune-redmond-manayunk/11495776/ | PHILADELPHIA -- Prune Redmond is the owner of Prune Redmond Gallery in Manayunk.
With a background in comedy, Redmond had a great idea to help promote his shop. Ever since its opening four years ago, he would make funny videos using items in his shop as props.
"Laughter and fun is something we all have in common," said Redmond.
Redmond says that he loves Manayunk and wanted to also use his talent to promote the shops in his area.
"Well the first time I heard him outside, I ran to the door, I thought somebody was being attacked or something," said Teresa Davis, owner of Vamp Boutique.
He says he does it all for fun, not for money or for fame.
"But then I was like ok, he was dressed up in like this big fluffy costume," said Davis.
Redmond says that he has gained a lot of friends along the way. Local shop owners love the videos and energy he brings to the block.
"Just something light-hearted that you know makes everyone laugh is always good for the block," said Davis.
"Everybody that sees me do my thing, they like it cause they can see how much fun I'm having," said Redmond.
Prune Redmond Gallery promotes local business with comedy
By 6abc Digital Staff | 2 | 116,254 | 0 | https://abc7.com/gallery-small-business-prune-redmond-manayunk/11495776/ | 2022-04-06 18:49:36+00:00 | PHILADELPHIA -- Prune Redmond is the owner of Prune Redmond Gallery in Manayunk.
With a background in comedy, Redmond had a great idea to help promote his shop. Ever since its opening four years ago, he would make funny videos using items in his shop as props.
"Laughter and fun is something we all have in common," said Redmond.
Redmond says that he loves Manayunk and wanted to also use his talent to promote the shops in his area.
"Well the first time I heard him outside, I ran to the door, I thought somebody was being attacked or something," said Teresa Davis, owner of Vamp Boutique.
He says he does it all for fun, not for money or for fame.
"But then I was like ok, he was dressed up in like this big fluffy costume," said Davis.
Redmond says that he has gained a lot of friends along the way. Local shop owners love the videos and energy he brings to the block.
"Just something light-hearted that you know makes everyone laugh is always good for the block," said Davis.
"Everybody that sees me do my thing, they like it cause they can see how much fun I'm having," said Redmond.
Prune Redmond Gallery promotes local business with comedy
By 6abc Digital Staff |
https://kitchener.ctvnews.ca/humane-society-seeing-more-stray-and-abandoned-rabbits-1.5850950 | Humane Society seeing more stray and abandoned rabbits
The Humane Society of Kitchener Waterloo & Stratford are seeing an increase in the number of abandoned rabbits.
Six stray rabbits were found outside the Kitchener Waterloo Animal Centre on Monday morning.
The agency believes they were left there sometime overnight and were loose on the property when staff members arrived for work.
The Humane Society is now caring for 18 rabbits at their Kitchener and Stratford centres, as well as foster homes.
"We've had an increasing number of requests for rabbit surrenders over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, with 34 rabbits on our waiting list at the moment," said Amanda Hawkins, the senior manager of animal care, in a press release. "Abandoning an animal is not only extremely dangerous for their health and well-being but can also be deemed an offence under provincial legislation. We are here to support our communities and are trying to bring rabbits in as fast as we have space and foster homes to assist us."
One of the rabbits at the Humane Society of Kitchener Waterloo & Stratford. (Apr. 6, 2022)
The agency said it's hoping to find the animals new homes soon, and they currently have five available for adoption on their website.
The Humane Society also identified their immediate needs for the rabbits. Besides foster homes, they are requesting donations to cover medical costs for the rabbits, food (such as fresh greens, timothy and alfalfa hay), chew toys and gift cards for other essential items.
They also want to remind the public that abandoning an animal is an offence under the Provincial Animal Welfare Service (PAWS) Act. Anyone with information on the abandoned rabbits found at the humane society is asked to contact the PAWS team at 1-833-9ANIMAL.
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A former judge appointed to assess two Vancouver officers' actions when they handcuffed an innocent Indigenous man and his granddaughter in 2019 has determined they 'acted oppressively,' a B.C. First Nation says. | 0 | 21,312 | 0.748413 | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/news/local-news/13-rabbits-removed-from-abandoned-sergeant-bluff-home/ | 2022-08-11 15:26:08+00:00 | SIOUX CITY, Iowa (KCAU) — More than a dozen rabbits were removed from an abandoned home, some of which were injured due to neglect.
According to a release from the Siouxland Humane Society, 13 rabbits were discovered in an abandoned home in Sergeant Bluff.
The release stated that the conditions were “deplorable,” and they had no food or water. It was specified that it had been apparent to officials that the rabbits had been left there for many days.
Most of the bunnies are available for adoption, and two of the rabbits need veterinary care for injuries related to living in poor conditions. Four of the bunnies have been placed in foster care because of their distressing bodily condition, according to the release.
“The shelter is way past full capacity, overfull with these rabbits and lots of other small critters,” said PR and Volunteer Manager Kelly Erie, “There are no empty kennels and we had to go out and purchase additional rabbit cages.”
The shelter already has a rabbit, 4 ferrets, and eight guinea pigs aside from the 13 rabbits taken from the abandoned home. The release specified that they expect more rabbits to come, and they are asking Siouxland to consider adopting or donating to help pay for their care.
“A shelter is never prepared for a situation like this to happen. The staff all pitch in and knows what needs to be done, we just can’t do it alone. Please help, adopt or donate.” |
https://kitchener.ctvnews.ca/humane-society-seeing-more-stray-and-abandoned-rabbits-1.5850950 | Humane Society seeing more stray and abandoned rabbits
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Six stray rabbits were found outside the Kitchener Waterloo Animal Centre on Monday morning.
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The Humane Society is now caring for 18 rabbits at their Kitchener and Stratford centres, as well as foster homes.
"We've had an increasing number of requests for rabbit surrenders over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, with 34 rabbits on our waiting list at the moment," said Amanda Hawkins, the senior manager of animal care, in a press release. "Abandoning an animal is not only extremely dangerous for their health and well-being but can also be deemed an offence under provincial legislation. We are here to support our communities and are trying to bring rabbits in as fast as we have space and foster homes to assist us."
One of the rabbits at the Humane Society of Kitchener Waterloo & Stratford. (Apr. 6, 2022)
The agency said it's hoping to find the animals new homes soon, and they currently have five available for adoption on their website.
The Humane Society also identified their immediate needs for the rabbits. Besides foster homes, they are requesting donations to cover medical costs for the rabbits, food (such as fresh greens, timothy and alfalfa hay), chew toys and gift cards for other essential items.
They also want to remind the public that abandoning an animal is an offence under the Provincial Animal Welfare Service (PAWS) Act. Anyone with information on the abandoned rabbits found at the humane society is asked to contact the PAWS team at 1-833-9ANIMAL.
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A former judge appointed to assess two Vancouver officers' actions when they handcuffed an innocent Indigenous man and his granddaughter in 2019 has determined they 'acted oppressively,' a B.C. First Nation says. | 1 | 95,024 | 0.749278 | https://abc-7.com/news/local/2022/06/02/bunny-dumping-has-naples-residents-hopping-mad/ | 2022-06-02 08:20:04+00:00 | NAPLES, Fla. — A Naples neighborhood is hopping mad after discovering more than 50 white domesticated rabbits in their front yards earlier this week.
Chelsea Mckee is a Naples resident and volunteer with the SWFL House Rabbit Rescue. She said she heard about 50-100 rabbits being dumped in the area of Woodside Avenue in East Naples early Tuesday morning.
“It seems that the bunnies kind of appeared overnight,” said Mckee. “This happens all the time in Naples. It happens everywhere.”
She and neighbors began scouring a nearby wooded area, eventually finding about 20 of the dumped rabbits. Mckee said when domesticated rabbits are placed outside, it’s a death sentence because the rabbits are not even the same species as wild rabbits and don’t have the skills to defend or feed themselves.
Jennifer MacBeth is the President of the SWFL House Rabbit Rescue. She said shelters are overflowing with rabbits, her rescue has about 70 rabbits in their shelters or at foster homes around the area. She said the influx always occurs around this time of year because the rabbits are often discarded Easter gifts.
“They get a cute rabbit about 8 weeks of age from the pet store and very quickly the novelty wears off,” she said.
MacBeth added that this year is particularly bad for rabbits. They believe COVID could be a big contributor to the spike.
“We think people got rabbits during COVID as a pet and they’re back to work and functioning and they just don’t want the rabbits anymore,” she added.
Wednesday night, Mckee was back on Woodside Avenue searching for any other rabbits she may have missed the day before. She advises anyone buying a rabbit to know how much work it takes and if you are going to buy one, shelters are the perfect place to shop.
For more information on adoption–contact the SWFL House Rabbit Rescue at 410-382-2433. |
https://kitchener.ctvnews.ca/humane-society-seeing-more-stray-and-abandoned-rabbits-1.5850950 | Humane Society seeing more stray and abandoned rabbits
The Humane Society of Kitchener Waterloo & Stratford are seeing an increase in the number of abandoned rabbits.
Six stray rabbits were found outside the Kitchener Waterloo Animal Centre on Monday morning.
The agency believes they were left there sometime overnight and were loose on the property when staff members arrived for work.
The Humane Society is now caring for 18 rabbits at their Kitchener and Stratford centres, as well as foster homes.
"We've had an increasing number of requests for rabbit surrenders over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, with 34 rabbits on our waiting list at the moment," said Amanda Hawkins, the senior manager of animal care, in a press release. "Abandoning an animal is not only extremely dangerous for their health and well-being but can also be deemed an offence under provincial legislation. We are here to support our communities and are trying to bring rabbits in as fast as we have space and foster homes to assist us."
One of the rabbits at the Humane Society of Kitchener Waterloo & Stratford. (Apr. 6, 2022)
The agency said it's hoping to find the animals new homes soon, and they currently have five available for adoption on their website.
The Humane Society also identified their immediate needs for the rabbits. Besides foster homes, they are requesting donations to cover medical costs for the rabbits, food (such as fresh greens, timothy and alfalfa hay), chew toys and gift cards for other essential items.
They also want to remind the public that abandoning an animal is an offence under the Provincial Animal Welfare Service (PAWS) Act. Anyone with information on the abandoned rabbits found at the humane society is asked to contact the PAWS team at 1-833-9ANIMAL.
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LIVERMORE, Calif. - A Livermore rescue group is asking community help to adopt or foster more bunnies.
Local animal shelters and rescues in the East Bay are "facing an unprecedented number of abandoned rabbits, many at high risk," East Bay Rabbit Rescue wrote on a Facebook post.
For every rabbit adopted, three more are taking their place at the shelter, the head of the rescue operations said.
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Rising cost of living and vet care were to blame for the increased in abandoned bunnies, the group said.
The rescue group welcomes people to foster a bunny for a few weeks even if you are not ready to fully adopt one.
You can visit their website for more information about adopting or fostering bunnies. |
https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/Texas-lawmakers-to-meet-with-woman-facing-17062082.php | HOUSTON (AP) — A group of bipartisan Texas lawmakers planned on Wednesday to visit a death row inmate whose execution they are trying to stop amid doubts about whether she fatally beat her 2-year-old daughter.
State Reps. Jeff Leach, a Republican, and Joe Moody, a Democrat, were set to lead a group of lawmakers to the Mountain View Unit in Gatesville, Texas, where the state houses women on death row. Melissa Lucio faces execution on April 27.
Lucio was convicted of capital murder for the 2007 death of her daughter Mariah. Prosecutors say Mariah was the victim of child abuse and there is no evidence that would acquit Lucio of her daughter’s death.
But Lucio’s lawyers say jurors never heard forensic evidence that would have explained Mariah’s various injuries were actually caused by a fall days before her death. They also say Lucio wasn’t allowed to present evidence questioning the validity of her confession, which they allege was not actually a confession and was given under duress after hours of relentless questioning.
Among those who have doubts about Lucio’s guilt are a bipartisan group of 83 Texas House members led by Leach and Moody. They sent the state’s Board of Pardons and Paroles and Gov. Greg Abbott a letter last month asking them to grant an execution reprieve or commute her sentence.
“Looking forward to a great and productive day with my colleagues. Doing everything we can to fight for justice for Melissa Lucio,” Leach tweeted before meeting with Lucio.
The meeting was first reported by The Quorum Report, which covers Texas politics.
A spokeswoman for Abbott’s office did not immediately return an email seeking comment.
Efforts to stop Lucio’s execution have also received support from reality TV star Kim Kardashian West and from several jurors at her trial who are now expressing doubts about her conviction.
In an op-ed published Sunday in the Houston Chronicle, juror Johnny Galvan Jr. said he believes jurors weren’t given all the information needed to make a proper decision and he now feels “deep regret” for sentencing Lucio to death.
“The idea that my decision to take another person’s life was not based on complete and accurate information in a fair trial is horrifying. There are so many problems in this case that I believe she must not be executed,” Galvan wrote.
In 2019, a three-judge panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overturned Lucio’s conviction, ruling she was deprived of “her constitutional right to present a meaningful defense.” However, the full court in 2021 said the conviction had to be upheld for procedural reasons.
Lucio’s attorneys had asked the appeals court to recall its decision but the request was denied last week.
But in a footnote in the brief decision, 5th Circuit Judge Patrick Higginbotham called Lucio’s case “a systemic failure, producing a train of injustice which only the hand of the Governor can halt.”
Lucio, 53, would be the first Latina executed by Texas and the first woman since 2014. Only 17 women have been executed in the U.S. since the Supreme Court lifted its ban on the death penalty in 1976, most recently in January 2021.
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Follow Juan A. Lozano on Twitter: https://twitter.com/juanlozano70 | 0 | 118,859 | 0 | https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/article/Texas-lawmakers-to-meet-with-woman-facing-17062082.php | 2022-04-06 19:00:44+00:00 | HOUSTON (AP) — A group of bipartisan Texas lawmakers planned on Wednesday to visit a death row inmate whose execution they are trying to stop amid doubts about whether she fatally beat her 2-year-old daughter.
State Reps. Jeff Leach, a Republican, and Joe Moody, a Democrat, were set to lead a group of lawmakers to the Mountain View Unit in Gatesville, Texas, where the state houses women on death row. Melissa Lucio faces execution on April 27.
Lucio was convicted of capital murder for the 2007 death of her daughter Mariah. Prosecutors say Mariah was the victim of child abuse and there is no evidence that would acquit Lucio of her daughter’s death.
But Lucio’s lawyers say jurors never heard forensic evidence that would have explained Mariah’s various injuries were actually caused by a fall days before her death. They also say Lucio wasn’t allowed to present evidence questioning the validity of her confession, which they allege was not actually a confession and was given under duress after hours of relentless questioning.
Among those who have doubts about Lucio’s guilt are a bipartisan group of 83 Texas House members led by Leach and Moody. They sent the state’s Board of Pardons and Paroles and Gov. Greg Abbott a letter last month asking them to grant an execution reprieve or commute her sentence.
“Looking forward to a great and productive day with my colleagues. Doing everything we can to fight for justice for Melissa Lucio,” Leach tweeted before meeting with Lucio.
The meeting was first reported by The Quorum Report, which covers Texas politics.
A spokeswoman for Abbott’s office did not immediately return an email seeking comment.
Efforts to stop Lucio’s execution have also received support from reality TV star Kim Kardashian West and from several jurors at her trial who are now expressing doubts about her conviction.
In an op-ed published Sunday in the Houston Chronicle, juror Johnny Galvan Jr. said he believes jurors weren’t given all the information needed to make a proper decision and he now feels “deep regret” for sentencing Lucio to death.
“The idea that my decision to take another person’s life was not based on complete and accurate information in a fair trial is horrifying. There are so many problems in this case that I believe she must not be executed,” Galvan wrote.
In 2019, a three-judge panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overturned Lucio’s conviction, ruling she was deprived of “her constitutional right to present a meaningful defense.” However, the full court in 2021 said the conviction had to be upheld for procedural reasons.
Lucio’s attorneys had asked the appeals court to recall its decision but the request was denied last week.
But in a footnote in the brief decision, 5th Circuit Judge Patrick Higginbotham called Lucio’s case “a systemic failure, producing a train of injustice which only the hand of the Governor can halt.”
Lucio, 53, would be the first Latina executed by Texas and the first woman since 2014. Only 17 women have been executed in the U.S. since the Supreme Court lifted its ban on the death penalty in 1976, most recently in January 2021.
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https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/Texas-lawmakers-to-meet-with-woman-facing-17062082.php | HOUSTON (AP) — A group of bipartisan Texas lawmakers planned on Wednesday to visit a death row inmate whose execution they are trying to stop amid doubts about whether she fatally beat her 2-year-old daughter.
State Reps. Jeff Leach, a Republican, and Joe Moody, a Democrat, were set to lead a group of lawmakers to the Mountain View Unit in Gatesville, Texas, where the state houses women on death row. Melissa Lucio faces execution on April 27.
Lucio was convicted of capital murder for the 2007 death of her daughter Mariah. Prosecutors say Mariah was the victim of child abuse and there is no evidence that would acquit Lucio of her daughter’s death.
But Lucio’s lawyers say jurors never heard forensic evidence that would have explained Mariah’s various injuries were actually caused by a fall days before her death. They also say Lucio wasn’t allowed to present evidence questioning the validity of her confession, which they allege was not actually a confession and was given under duress after hours of relentless questioning.
Among those who have doubts about Lucio’s guilt are a bipartisan group of 83 Texas House members led by Leach and Moody. They sent the state’s Board of Pardons and Paroles and Gov. Greg Abbott a letter last month asking them to grant an execution reprieve or commute her sentence.
“Looking forward to a great and productive day with my colleagues. Doing everything we can to fight for justice for Melissa Lucio,” Leach tweeted before meeting with Lucio.
The meeting was first reported by The Quorum Report, which covers Texas politics.
A spokeswoman for Abbott’s office did not immediately return an email seeking comment.
Efforts to stop Lucio’s execution have also received support from reality TV star Kim Kardashian West and from several jurors at her trial who are now expressing doubts about her conviction.
In an op-ed published Sunday in the Houston Chronicle, juror Johnny Galvan Jr. said he believes jurors weren’t given all the information needed to make a proper decision and he now feels “deep regret” for sentencing Lucio to death.
“The idea that my decision to take another person’s life was not based on complete and accurate information in a fair trial is horrifying. There are so many problems in this case that I believe she must not be executed,” Galvan wrote.
In 2019, a three-judge panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overturned Lucio’s conviction, ruling she was deprived of “her constitutional right to present a meaningful defense.” However, the full court in 2021 said the conviction had to be upheld for procedural reasons.
Lucio’s attorneys had asked the appeals court to recall its decision but the request was denied last week.
But in a footnote in the brief decision, 5th Circuit Judge Patrick Higginbotham called Lucio’s case “a systemic failure, producing a train of injustice which only the hand of the Governor can halt.”
Lucio, 53, would be the first Latina executed by Texas and the first woman since 2014. Only 17 women have been executed in the U.S. since the Supreme Court lifted its ban on the death penalty in 1976, most recently in January 2021.
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Follow Juan A. Lozano on Twitter: https://twitter.com/juanlozano70 | 1 | 120,073 | 0 | https://www.wiltonbulletin.com/news/article/Texas-lawmakers-to-meet-with-woman-facing-17062082.php | 2022-04-06 19:05:46+00:00 | HOUSTON (AP) — A group of bipartisan Texas lawmakers planned on Wednesday to visit a death row inmate whose execution they are trying to stop amid doubts about whether she fatally beat her 2-year-old daughter.
State Reps. Jeff Leach, a Republican, and Joe Moody, a Democrat, were set to lead a group of lawmakers to the Mountain View Unit in Gatesville, Texas, where the state houses women on death row. Melissa Lucio faces execution on April 27.
Lucio was convicted of capital murder for the 2007 death of her daughter Mariah. Prosecutors say Mariah was the victim of child abuse and there is no evidence that would acquit Lucio of her daughter’s death.
But Lucio’s lawyers say jurors never heard forensic evidence that would have explained Mariah’s various injuries were actually caused by a fall days before her death. They also say Lucio wasn’t allowed to present evidence questioning the validity of her confession, which they allege was not actually a confession and was given under duress after hours of relentless questioning.
Among those who have doubts about Lucio’s guilt are a bipartisan group of 83 Texas House members led by Leach and Moody. They sent the state’s Board of Pardons and Paroles and Gov. Greg Abbott a letter last month asking them to grant an execution reprieve or commute her sentence.
“Looking forward to a great and productive day with my colleagues. Doing everything we can to fight for justice for Melissa Lucio,” Leach tweeted before meeting with Lucio.
The meeting was first reported by The Quorum Report, which covers Texas politics.
A spokeswoman for Abbott’s office did not immediately return an email seeking comment.
Efforts to stop Lucio’s execution have also received support from reality TV star Kim Kardashian West and from several jurors at her trial who are now expressing doubts about her conviction.
In an op-ed published Sunday in the Houston Chronicle, juror Johnny Galvan Jr. said he believes jurors weren’t given all the information needed to make a proper decision and he now feels “deep regret” for sentencing Lucio to death.
“The idea that my decision to take another person’s life was not based on complete and accurate information in a fair trial is horrifying. There are so many problems in this case that I believe she must not be executed,” Galvan wrote.
In 2019, a three-judge panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overturned Lucio’s conviction, ruling she was deprived of “her constitutional right to present a meaningful defense.” However, the full court in 2021 said the conviction had to be upheld for procedural reasons.
Lucio’s attorneys had asked the appeals court to recall its decision but the request was denied last week.
But in a footnote in the brief decision, 5th Circuit Judge Patrick Higginbotham called Lucio’s case “a systemic failure, producing a train of injustice which only the hand of the Governor can halt.”
Lucio, 53, would be the first Latina executed by Texas and the first woman since 2014. Only 17 women have been executed in the U.S. since the Supreme Court lifted its ban on the death penalty in 1976, most recently in January 2021.
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https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/Texas-lawmakers-to-meet-with-woman-facing-17062082.php | HOUSTON (AP) — A group of bipartisan Texas lawmakers planned on Wednesday to visit a death row inmate whose execution they are trying to stop amid doubts about whether she fatally beat her 2-year-old daughter.
State Reps. Jeff Leach, a Republican, and Joe Moody, a Democrat, were set to lead a group of lawmakers to the Mountain View Unit in Gatesville, Texas, where the state houses women on death row. Melissa Lucio faces execution on April 27.
Lucio was convicted of capital murder for the 2007 death of her daughter Mariah. Prosecutors say Mariah was the victim of child abuse and there is no evidence that would acquit Lucio of her daughter’s death.
But Lucio’s lawyers say jurors never heard forensic evidence that would have explained Mariah’s various injuries were actually caused by a fall days before her death. They also say Lucio wasn’t allowed to present evidence questioning the validity of her confession, which they allege was not actually a confession and was given under duress after hours of relentless questioning.
Among those who have doubts about Lucio’s guilt are a bipartisan group of 83 Texas House members led by Leach and Moody. They sent the state’s Board of Pardons and Paroles and Gov. Greg Abbott a letter last month asking them to grant an execution reprieve or commute her sentence.
“Looking forward to a great and productive day with my colleagues. Doing everything we can to fight for justice for Melissa Lucio,” Leach tweeted before meeting with Lucio.
The meeting was first reported by The Quorum Report, which covers Texas politics.
A spokeswoman for Abbott’s office did not immediately return an email seeking comment.
Efforts to stop Lucio’s execution have also received support from reality TV star Kim Kardashian West and from several jurors at her trial who are now expressing doubts about her conviction.
In an op-ed published Sunday in the Houston Chronicle, juror Johnny Galvan Jr. said he believes jurors weren’t given all the information needed to make a proper decision and he now feels “deep regret” for sentencing Lucio to death.
“The idea that my decision to take another person’s life was not based on complete and accurate information in a fair trial is horrifying. There are so many problems in this case that I believe she must not be executed,” Galvan wrote.
In 2019, a three-judge panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overturned Lucio’s conviction, ruling she was deprived of “her constitutional right to present a meaningful defense.” However, the full court in 2021 said the conviction had to be upheld for procedural reasons.
Lucio’s attorneys had asked the appeals court to recall its decision but the request was denied last week.
But in a footnote in the brief decision, 5th Circuit Judge Patrick Higginbotham called Lucio’s case “a systemic failure, producing a train of injustice which only the hand of the Governor can halt.”
Lucio, 53, would be the first Latina executed by Texas and the first woman since 2014. Only 17 women have been executed in the U.S. since the Supreme Court lifted its ban on the death penalty in 1976, most recently in January 2021.
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Follow Juan A. Lozano on Twitter: https://twitter.com/juanlozano70 | 2 | 121,091 | 0 | https://wtop.com/national/2022/04/texas-lawmakers-to-meet-with-woman-facing-execution/ | 2022-04-06 19:10:31+00:00 | HOUSTON (AP) — A group of bipartisan Texas lawmakers planned on Wednesday to visit a death row inmate whose execution they are trying to stop amid doubts about whether she fatally beat her 2-year-old daughter.
State Reps. Jeff Leach, a Republican, and Joe Moody, a Democrat, were set to lead a group of lawmakers to the Mountain View Unit in Gatesville, Texas, where the state houses women on death row. Melissa Lucio faces execution on April 27.
Lucio was convicted of capital murder for the 2007 death of her daughter Mariah. Prosecutors say Mariah was the victim of child abuse and there is no evidence that would acquit Lucio of her daughter’s death.
But Lucio’s lawyers say jurors never heard forensic evidence that would have explained Mariah’s various injuries were actually caused by a fall days before her death. They also say Lucio wasn’t allowed to present evidence questioning the validity of her confession, which they allege was not actually a confession and was given under duress after hours of relentless questioning.
Among those who have doubts about Lucio’s guilt are a bipartisan group of 83 Texas House members led by Leach and Moody. They sent the state’s Board of Pardons and Paroles and Gov. Greg Abbott a letter last month asking them to grant an execution reprieve or commute her sentence.
“Looking forward to a great and productive day with my colleagues. Doing everything we can to fight for justice for Melissa Lucio,” Leach tweeted before meeting with Lucio.
The meeting was first reported by The Quorum Report, which covers Texas politics.
A spokeswoman for Abbott’s office did not immediately return an email seeking comment.
Efforts to stop Lucio’s execution have also received support from reality TV star Kim Kardashian West and from several jurors at her trial who are now expressing doubts about her conviction.
In an op-ed published Sunday in the Houston Chronicle, juror Johnny Galvan Jr. said he believes jurors weren’t given all the information needed to make a proper decision and he now feels “deep regret” for sentencing Lucio to death.
“The idea that my decision to take another person’s life was not based on complete and accurate information in a fair trial is horrifying. There are so many problems in this case that I believe she must not be executed,” Galvan wrote.
In 2019, a three-judge panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overturned Lucio’s conviction, ruling she was deprived of “her constitutional right to present a meaningful defense.” However, the full court in 2021 said the conviction had to be upheld for procedural reasons.
Lucio’s attorneys had asked the appeals court to recall its decision but the request was denied last week.
But in a footnote in the brief decision, 5th Circuit Judge Patrick Higginbotham called Lucio’s case “a systemic failure, producing a train of injustice which only the hand of the Governor can halt.”
Lucio, 53, would be the first Latina executed by Texas and the first woman since 2014. Only 17 women have been executed in the U.S. since the Supreme Court lifted its ban on the death penalty in 1976, most recently in January 2021.
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https://www.wflx.com/2022/04/06/live-driver-arrested-deadly-royal-palm-beach-school-bus-stop-crash/ | LIVE: Driver arrested for deadly Royal Palm Beach school bus stop crash
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A Palm Beach County man has been arrested after authorities said he was driving under the influence and crashed into a group of Royal Palm Beach students at a school bus stop last month, killing two 15-year-old children.
Investigators said Angel Antonio Lopez, 57, was taken into custody Wednesday on charges of DUI manslaughter, vehicular homicide, driving under the influence causing serious bodily injury, driving under the influence causing property damage or injury, and reckless driving.
The sheriff's office said Lopez was driving a 2018 Alfa Romero Stelvio around 7 a.m. on March 22 and lost control, drove onto a sidewalk, and struck four Royal Palm Beach Community High School students who were waiting for their school bus at the intersection of Crestwood Boulevard South and Cypress Lake Drive.
Two of those children, a boy and girl, both 15, tragically passed away. Two others — ages 16 and 17 — are out of the hospital and recovering from their injuries.
This is a breaking news story and will be updated.
Scripps Only Content 2022 | 0 | 124,920 | 0.08295 | https://www.wflx.com/2022/04/06/driver-arrested-deadly-royal-palm-beach-school-bus-stop-crash/ | 2022-04-06 19:26:44+00:00 | Driver arrested for deadly Royal Palm Beach school bus stop crash
A Palm Beach County man has been arrested after authorities said he was driving under the influence and crashed into a group of Royal Palm Beach students at a school bus stop last month, killing two 15-year-old children.
Investigators said Angel Antonio Lopez, 57, was taken into custody Wednesday on charges of DUI manslaughter, vehicular homicide, driving under the influence causing serious bodily injury, driving under the influence causing property damage or injury, and reckless driving.
The sheriff's office said Lopez was driving a 2018 Alfa Romero Stelvio around 7 a.m. on March 22 and lost control, drove onto a sidewalk, and struck four Royal Palm Beach Community High School students who were waiting for their school bus at the intersection of Crestwood Boulevard South and Cypress Lake Drive.
Two of those children, a boy and girl, both 15, tragically passed away. Two others — ages 16 and 17 — are out of the hospital and recovering from their injuries.
This is a breaking news story and will be updated.
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https://www.wflx.com/2022/04/06/live-driver-arrested-deadly-royal-palm-beach-school-bus-stop-crash/ | LIVE: Driver arrested for deadly Royal Palm Beach school bus stop crash
WATCH LIVE COVERAGE:
A Palm Beach County man has been arrested after authorities said he was driving under the influence and crashed into a group of Royal Palm Beach students at a school bus stop last month, killing two 15-year-old children.
Investigators said Angel Antonio Lopez, 57, was taken into custody Wednesday on charges of DUI manslaughter, vehicular homicide, driving under the influence causing serious bodily injury, driving under the influence causing property damage or injury, and reckless driving.
The sheriff's office said Lopez was driving a 2018 Alfa Romero Stelvio around 7 a.m. on March 22 and lost control, drove onto a sidewalk, and struck four Royal Palm Beach Community High School students who were waiting for their school bus at the intersection of Crestwood Boulevard South and Cypress Lake Drive.
Two of those children, a boy and girl, both 15, tragically passed away. Two others — ages 16 and 17 — are out of the hospital and recovering from their injuries.
This is a breaking news story and will be updated.
Scripps Only Content 2022 | 1 | 33,030 | 0.575715 | https://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/florida/fl-ne-driver-charged-high-school-student-deaths-20220406-noaniwg4yjhhjdsltea4enevsa-story.html | 2022-04-06 22:43:39+00:00 | After the death of two Royal Palm Beach Community High School students, the man accused of driving under the influence and up onto a sidewalk, slamming into a group of teenagers who were waiting for their school bus, has been arrested.
Angel Antonio Lopez, 57, of Royal Palm Beach, is facing two counts of DUI manslaughter, two counts of vehicular homicide, one count of driving under the influence causing serious bodily injury, one count of driving under the influence causing property damage or injury, reckless driving causing serious bodily injury, and reckless driving causing injury to person or property.
Tiana Johnson, 15, Chand Wazir, 15, and two other students — a 16-year-old boy and a 17-year-old boy — were waiting at their bus stop shortly before 7 a.m. March 22 on the corner of Crestwood Boulevard and Cypress Lakes Drive. The students were heading back to school on the first day after Spring Break, Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office Major Talal Masri said at a news conference Wednesday.
The South Florida Sun Sentinel is not naming the two surviving minors, who were seriously injured but are expected to recover.
Lopez, driving a 2018 Alfa Romeo Stelvio north on Crestwood Boulevard, lost control and drove into the students on the sidewalk. Johnson died the morning after the crash at St. Mary’s Medical Center and Wazir died at the same hospital days later.
Masri said Lopez’s toxicology results showed he had over four times the legal limit of a prescription medicine in his system at the time of the crash, and the first officers to interact with him at the scene that day noticed slurred speech and signs of impairment.
Lopez was arrested in front of his home after he left work at the Wellington Mall, Masri said.
At a news conference announcing Lopez’s arrest and the arrest of Noah Galle in a high-speed crash that killed six in Delray Beach, Palm Beach County State Attorney Dave Aronberg said that these two cases “are extremely labor-intensive investigations.”
“It’s unfortunate that too many people drive recklessly on our roadways and put lives at risk, and in cases like this, any time we have sufficient evidence that someone has broken the law, we will prosecute them,” Aronberg said. “You can’t have a safe community without having safe streets, and we intend to hold defendants in cases like this accountable for their actions and seek justice for victims.”
Palm Beach County Commissioner Melissa McKinlay, whose district includes Royal Palm Beach, attended the news conference Wednesday to thank the Sheriff’s Office for their work in this case.
“My thoughts and my prayers go out to the two families who tonight will go to sleep without their two children in their beds,” she said.
Royal Palm Beach Community High School Principal Michelle Fleming said in a note to parents whose students are assigned to the same bus stop that the stop was moved to another location “out of respect for the victims and families.”
The School District of Palm Beach County said the stop has changed for students living in The Estates and the Grandview Community. Students who live at The Estates will now use the stop at Cypress Lakes Drive at a turnaround in front of the community, and students living in the Grandview Community will use a private transportation company until a long-term change is decided. |
https://www.wflx.com/2022/04/06/live-driver-arrested-deadly-royal-palm-beach-school-bus-stop-crash/ | LIVE: Driver arrested for deadly Royal Palm Beach school bus stop crash
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A Palm Beach County man has been arrested after authorities said he was driving under the influence and crashed into a group of Royal Palm Beach students at a school bus stop last month, killing two 15-year-old children.
Investigators said Angel Antonio Lopez, 57, was taken into custody Wednesday on charges of DUI manslaughter, vehicular homicide, driving under the influence causing serious bodily injury, driving under the influence causing property damage or injury, and reckless driving.
The sheriff's office said Lopez was driving a 2018 Alfa Romero Stelvio around 7 a.m. on March 22 and lost control, drove onto a sidewalk, and struck four Royal Palm Beach Community High School students who were waiting for their school bus at the intersection of Crestwood Boulevard South and Cypress Lake Drive.
Two of those children, a boy and girl, both 15, tragically passed away. Two others — ages 16 and 17 — are out of the hospital and recovering from their injuries.
This is a breaking news story and will be updated.
Scripps Only Content 2022 | 2 | 21,586 | 0.614029 | https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/two-florida-students-hit-car-waiting-school-bus-die-injuries-officials-rcna22403 | 2022-04-02 02:28:49+00:00 | Two of the four Florida students hit by a car last week while waiting for their school bus have died of their injuries, authorities said.
The students, who attended Royal Palm Beach Community High School, were hospitalized after they were hit shortly before 7 a.m. on March 22, the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office said.
They were struck by a driver who lost control and drove up the sidewalk at Crestwood Boulevard and Cypress Lake Drive in Royal Palm Beach, authorities said.
Tiana Johnson, 15, died of her injuries at St. Mary’s Medical Center a day later, the sheriff's office said in press release.
A second student, identified as Chand Wazir, 15, also died, the sheriff’s office said Monday, but did not say when.
The two other students — Kkoi Phan, 17, and Rondell Lawrence, 16 — are recovering from their injuries.
Angel Antonio Lopez, 57, was identified as the driver, in a 2018 Alfa Romeo Stelvio.
He sustained minor injuries and refused medical attention, officials said.
Charges against Lopez are pending and investigators are waiting for toxicology test results to see if he was under the influence of drugs or alcohol at the time, NBC affiliate WPTV of West Palm Beach reported. He is under investigation for DUI manslaughter, according to search warrants obtained by the station.
The schools' principal, Michelle Fleming, told parents in a letter last week that the bus stop will be moved “out of respect for the victims and families of Tuesday’s devastating vehicle accident, and in an effort to be sensitive to all students utilizing that stop,” WPTV reported.
The stop was relocated effective Monday. |
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/sport/football/erik-ten-hag-manchester-united-26652548 | Erik ten Hag admitted that he had doubts about the Manchester United job as he laid out his project during his interview for the role.
It is reported that Ten Hag is set to be appointed as the new United boss, replacing interim manager Ralf Rangnick, who has been in temporary charge since Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's dismissal earlier this season.
The Dutch boss was amongst the first potential managerial candidates to be interviewed for the vacant Red Devils job and told the United board that he sees the job as a five-year project during his interview, according to The Independent.
Amongst the issues raised by ten Hag in relation to the current state of the club, physical conditioning is said to have been first on his list.
United had been wary of appointing ten Hag, who is currently the manager of Ajax, due to the mixed records of figures adapting to the Premier League from the Eredivisie in the past.
This has extended to player recruitment, with United said to be undertaking greater diligence when signing players from the Netherlands, following the underwhelming past signings of Donny van de Beek and Memphis Depay.
United's reluctance to sign players from the Eredivisie could cause early tensions with Ten Hag, given that he reportedly named several transfer targets during his interview, including several Ajax players.
Will Manchester United qualify for the Champions League this season? Let us know in the comments section below.
He is also understood to have presented the board with a comprehensive dossier on the current United squad and argued that the club have been some way off "Champions League shape" for a considerable period of time.
Sources have previously said that the United squad are split on the potential appointment of Ten Hag and are unconvinced by his credentials.
One source told The Independent that he "has not blown people away" at the club, having also reportedly missed out on the Tottenham Hotspur job last summer due to a perceived lack of charisma.
Regardless, Ten Hag now looks set to be given the chance to implement his project at Old Trafford after five years with Ajax, in which time he has won two league and cup doubles. | 0 | 11,394 | 0.409156 | https://www.irishmirror.ie/sport/soccer/manchester-united-ten-hag-ajax-26794519 | 2022-04-25 15:12:08+00:00 | Manchester United players have already apparently expressed one major doubt surrounding Erik ten Hag ahead of the Dutchman’s arrival at Old Trafford.
The current Ajax boss has already been confirmed as the club’s next boss following a lengthy process since they sacked Ole Gunnar Solskjaer. German Ralf Rangnick was entrusted with the responsibility on an interim basis ahead of moving into a consultancy role ahead of next season.
There were tentative links to current Paris Saint-Germain head coach Mauricio Pochettino but Ten Hag is to be the man to take the reins - and will certainly hope to restore the Old Trafford club to their former glory sooner rather than later following a hugely underwhelming 2021/22 campaign.
The Red Devils were defeated 3-1 by Arsenal at the weekend and look on the verge of missing out on Champions League football next term. Whilst there is optimism that Ten Hag will lift the mood at the club following his arrival from Ajax, it appears that doubts have already started to creep into the dressing room regarding his appointment.
According to The Times, whilst some players are looking forward to working with the Dutchman, some have a concern over whether he is a strong enough personality to reverse the current mire that the club find themselves in. Ten Hag already has a few decisions to make over the state of his current squad.
Jesse Lingard, Edinson Cavani, Paul Pogba and Juan Mata are all out of contract at the end of the current season, whilst midfielder enforcer Nemanja Matic has already indicated his desire to leave the club sooner rather than later.
Do you think Erik ten Hag will be a success at Manchester United? Have your say in the comments section below.
Despite that, Ten Hag has indicated his excitement at taking control of the club once having penned a contract until the summer of 2025. Speaking to United’s official website, he said: “It is a great honour to be appointed manager of Manchester United and I am hugely excited by the challenge ahead.
“I know the history of this great club and the passion of the fans, and I am absolutely determined to develop a team capable of delivering the success they deserve. It will be difficult to leave Ajax after these incredible years, and I can assure our fans of my complete commitment and focus on bringing this season to a successful conclusion before I move to Manchester United.”
The 52-year-old could potentially arrive in Manchester a league champion, with his current side Ajax sitting four points clear at the top of the Eredivisie. Should the Amsterdam outfit run out successful once more, it would represent Ten Hag’s third league success with the club, whilst he has also twice claimed the Dutch Cup.
Manchester United meanwhile have not lifted silverware since winning the Europa League under the stewardship of Jose Mourinho in 2017. They were runners-up in the same competition last term under Solskjaer before his sacking in November. |
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/sport/football/erik-ten-hag-manchester-united-26652548 | Erik ten Hag admitted that he had doubts about the Manchester United job as he laid out his project during his interview for the role.
It is reported that Ten Hag is set to be appointed as the new United boss, replacing interim manager Ralf Rangnick, who has been in temporary charge since Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's dismissal earlier this season.
The Dutch boss was amongst the first potential managerial candidates to be interviewed for the vacant Red Devils job and told the United board that he sees the job as a five-year project during his interview, according to The Independent.
Amongst the issues raised by ten Hag in relation to the current state of the club, physical conditioning is said to have been first on his list.
United had been wary of appointing ten Hag, who is currently the manager of Ajax, due to the mixed records of figures adapting to the Premier League from the Eredivisie in the past.
This has extended to player recruitment, with United said to be undertaking greater diligence when signing players from the Netherlands, following the underwhelming past signings of Donny van de Beek and Memphis Depay.
United's reluctance to sign players from the Eredivisie could cause early tensions with Ten Hag, given that he reportedly named several transfer targets during his interview, including several Ajax players.
Will Manchester United qualify for the Champions League this season? Let us know in the comments section below.
He is also understood to have presented the board with a comprehensive dossier on the current United squad and argued that the club have been some way off "Champions League shape" for a considerable period of time.
Sources have previously said that the United squad are split on the potential appointment of Ten Hag and are unconvinced by his credentials.
One source told The Independent that he "has not blown people away" at the club, having also reportedly missed out on the Tottenham Hotspur job last summer due to a perceived lack of charisma.
Regardless, Ten Hag now looks set to be given the chance to implement his project at Old Trafford after five years with Ajax, in which time he has won two league and cup doubles. | 1 | 13,415 | 0.409156 | https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/manchester-united-ten-hag-ajax-26794151 | 2022-04-25 15:23:53+00:00 | Manchester United players have already apparently expressed one major doubt surrounding Erik ten Hag ahead of the Dutchman’s arrival at Old Trafford.
The current Ajax boss has already been confirmed as the club’s next boss following a lengthy process since they sacked Ole Gunnar Solskjaer. German Ralf Rangnick was entrusted with the responsibility on an interim basis ahead of moving into a consultancy role ahead of next season.
There were tentative links to current Paris Saint-Germain head coach Mauricio Pochettino but Ten Hag is to be the man to take the reins - and will certainly hope to restore the Old Trafford club to their former glory sooner rather than later following a hugely underwhelming 2021/22 campaign.
The Red Devils were defeated 3-1 by Arsenal at the weekend and look on the verge of missing out on Champions League football next term. Whilst there is optimism that Ten Hag will lift the mood at the club following his arrival from Ajax, it appears that doubts have already started to creep into the dressing room regarding his appointment.
According to The Times, whilst some players are looking forward to working with the Dutchman, some have a concern over whether he is a strong enough personality to reverse the current mire that the club find themselves in. Ten Hag already has a few decisions to make over the state of his current squad.
Jesse Lingard, Edinson Cavani, Paul Pogba and Juan Mata are all out of contract at the end of the current season, whilst midfielder enforcer Nemanja Matic has already indicated his desire to leave the club sooner rather than later.
Do you think Erik ten Hag will be a success at Manchester United? Have your say in the comments section below.
Despite that, Ten Hag has indicated his excitement at taking control of the club once having penned a contract until the summer of 2025. Speaking to United’s official website, he said: “It is a great honour to be appointed manager of Manchester United and I am hugely excited by the challenge ahead.
“I know the history of this great club and the passion of the fans, and I am absolutely determined to develop a team capable of delivering the success they deserve. It will be difficult to leave Ajax after these incredible years, and I can assure our fans of my complete commitment and focus on bringing this season to a successful conclusion before I move to Manchester United.”
The 52-year-old could potentially arrive in Manchester a league champion, with his current side Ajax sitting four points clear at the top of the Eredivisie. Should the Amsterdam outfit run out successful once more, it would represent Ten Hag’s third league success with the club, whilst he has also twice claimed the Dutch Cup.
Manchester United meanwhile have not lifted silverware since winning the Europa League under the stewardship of Jose Mourinho in 2017. They were runners-up in the same competition last term under Solskjaer before his sacking in November.
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https://www.dailystar.co.uk/sport/football/erik-ten-hag-manchester-united-26652548 | Erik ten Hag admitted that he had doubts about the Manchester United job as he laid out his project during his interview for the role.
It is reported that Ten Hag is set to be appointed as the new United boss, replacing interim manager Ralf Rangnick, who has been in temporary charge since Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's dismissal earlier this season.
The Dutch boss was amongst the first potential managerial candidates to be interviewed for the vacant Red Devils job and told the United board that he sees the job as a five-year project during his interview, according to The Independent.
Amongst the issues raised by ten Hag in relation to the current state of the club, physical conditioning is said to have been first on his list.
United had been wary of appointing ten Hag, who is currently the manager of Ajax, due to the mixed records of figures adapting to the Premier League from the Eredivisie in the past.
This has extended to player recruitment, with United said to be undertaking greater diligence when signing players from the Netherlands, following the underwhelming past signings of Donny van de Beek and Memphis Depay.
United's reluctance to sign players from the Eredivisie could cause early tensions with Ten Hag, given that he reportedly named several transfer targets during his interview, including several Ajax players.
Will Manchester United qualify for the Champions League this season? Let us know in the comments section below.
He is also understood to have presented the board with a comprehensive dossier on the current United squad and argued that the club have been some way off "Champions League shape" for a considerable period of time.
Sources have previously said that the United squad are split on the potential appointment of Ten Hag and are unconvinced by his credentials.
One source told The Independent that he "has not blown people away" at the club, having also reportedly missed out on the Tottenham Hotspur job last summer due to a perceived lack of charisma.
Regardless, Ten Hag now looks set to be given the chance to implement his project at Old Trafford after five years with Ajax, in which time he has won two league and cup doubles. | 2 | 110,841 | 0.430724 | https://metro.co.uk/2022/04/06/what-erik-ten-hag-told-manchester-united-about-the-players-in-job-interview-16419513/ | 2022-04-06 18:27:53+00:00 | Erik ten Hag will want to sign some of his Ajax players if he becomes Manchester United manager, reportedly claiming that the current Red Devils squad is not worthy of the Champions League.
The Independent reports that Ten Hag told the United hierarchy that he views the job as a five-year project during his interview with the club a fortnight ago.
The 52-year-old has emerged as the favourite to take over the reins at Old Trafford from interim manager Ralf Rangnick, although a number of other names are being considered, most notably Paris Saint-Germain’s Mauricio Pochettino.
Sources say that as part of his interview, Ten Hag compiled a comprehensive dossier on United’s squad and argued they have been some way off ‘Champions League shape’ for a while, citing fitness issues, elaborating that the first thing he would work on would be physical conditioning.
However, United are not entirely sold on Ten Hag’s plans and are wary of bringing in another manager steeped in Eredivisie ideals following the underwhelming reign of Louis van Gaal from 2014 to 2016.
There is also concern about bringing in players from the Dutch league, something Ten Hag would like to do, as recent signings from that division, including forward Memphis Depay and midfielder Donny van de Beek, have not worked out.
Multiple sources have also claimed that the current crop of United players are split over the potential appointment, saying that: ‘[Ten Hag] has not blown people away,’ and that the club are nowhere ready to make a decision on the next manager, saying: ‘It is not a Pep Guardiola to Manchester City situation.’
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https://www.1011now.com/2022/04/06/fda-warns-raw-oysters-potentially-contaminated-with-norovirus/ | FDA warns of raw oysters potentially contaminated with norovirus
(Gray News) – The Food and Drug Administration is working with Canadian food and health agencies to investigate a multi-state outbreak of norovirus illnesses linked to raw oysters from British Columbia.
The oysters were distributed to restaurants and retailers in at least 13 states, the FDA confirmed.
These states include:
- California
- Colorado
- Florida
- Hawaii
- Illinois
- Massachusetts
- Minnesota
- New Jersey
- Nevada
- New York
- Oregon
- Texas
- Washington
The FDA says oysters can cause illness if eaten raw, particularly in people with compromised immune systems.
Food contaminated with norovirus may also look, smell and taste normal.
Norovirus can infect people of all ages, and the most common symptoms of infection are diarrhea, vomiting, nausea and stomach pain. Additional symptoms can include fever, headache and body ache.
These symptoms will usually develop 12 to 48 hours after exposure to the virus. People typically recover from norovirus in one to three days.
To protect yourself from norovirus infection, the FDA urges you to avoid eating raw oysters in any of the locations listed above. If you have any of the products, the agency recommends throwing them away or returning them to the distributor.
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(Gray News) – The Food and Drug Administration is working with Canadian food and health agencies to investigate a multi-state outbreak of norovirus illnesses linked to raw oysters from British Columbia.
The oysters were distributed to restaurants and retailers in at least 13 states, the FDA confirmed.
These states include:
- California
- Colorado
- Florida
- Hawaii
- Illinois
- Massachusetts
- Minnesota
- New Jersey
- Nevada
- New York
- Oregon
- Texas
- Washington
The FDA says oysters can cause illness if eaten raw, particularly in people with compromised immune systems.
Food contaminated with norovirus may also look, smell and taste normal.
Norovirus can infect people of all ages, and the most common symptoms of infection are diarrhea, vomiting, nausea and stomach pain. Additional symptoms can include fever, headache and body ache.
These symptoms will usually develop 12 to 48 hours after exposure to the virus. People typically recover from norovirus in one to three days.
To protect yourself from norovirus infection, the FDA urges you to avoid eating raw oysters in any of the locations listed above. If you have any of the products, the agency recommends throwing them away or returning them to the distributor.
Copyright 2022 Gray Media Group, Inc. All rights reserved. CNN Newsource contributed to this report. |
https://www.1011now.com/2022/04/06/fda-warns-raw-oysters-potentially-contaminated-with-norovirus/ | FDA warns of raw oysters potentially contaminated with norovirus
(Gray News) – The Food and Drug Administration is working with Canadian food and health agencies to investigate a multi-state outbreak of norovirus illnesses linked to raw oysters from British Columbia.
The oysters were distributed to restaurants and retailers in at least 13 states, the FDA confirmed.
These states include:
- California
- Colorado
- Florida
- Hawaii
- Illinois
- Massachusetts
- Minnesota
- New Jersey
- Nevada
- New York
- Oregon
- Texas
- Washington
The FDA says oysters can cause illness if eaten raw, particularly in people with compromised immune systems.
Food contaminated with norovirus may also look, smell and taste normal.
Norovirus can infect people of all ages, and the most common symptoms of infection are diarrhea, vomiting, nausea and stomach pain. Additional symptoms can include fever, headache and body ache.
These symptoms will usually develop 12 to 48 hours after exposure to the virus. People typically recover from norovirus in one to three days.
To protect yourself from norovirus infection, the FDA urges you to avoid eating raw oysters in any of the locations listed above. If you have any of the products, the agency recommends throwing them away or returning them to the distributor.
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(Gray News) – The Food and Drug Administration is working with Canadian food and health agencies to investigate a multi-state outbreak of norovirus illnesses linked to raw oysters from British Columbia.
The oysters were distributed to restaurants and retailers in at least 13 states, the FDA confirmed.
These states include:
- California
- Colorado
- Florida
- Hawaii
- Illinois
- Massachusetts
- Minnesota
- New Jersey
- Nevada
- New York
- Oregon
- Texas
- Washington
The FDA says oysters can cause illness if eaten raw, particularly in people with compromised immune systems.
Food contaminated with norovirus may also look, smell and taste normal.
Norovirus can infect people of all ages, and the most common symptoms of infection are diarrhea, vomiting, nausea and stomach pain. Additional symptoms can include fever, headache and body ache.
These symptoms will usually develop 12 to 48 hours after exposure to the virus. People typically recover from norovirus in one to three days.
To protect yourself from norovirus infection, the FDA urges you to avoid eating raw oysters in any of the locations listed above. If you have any of the products, the agency recommends throwing them away or returning them to the distributor.
Copyright 2022 Gray Media Group, Inc. All rights reserved. CNN Newsource contributed to this report. |
https://www.1011now.com/2022/04/06/fda-warns-raw-oysters-potentially-contaminated-with-norovirus/ | FDA warns of raw oysters potentially contaminated with norovirus
(Gray News) – The Food and Drug Administration is working with Canadian food and health agencies to investigate a multi-state outbreak of norovirus illnesses linked to raw oysters from British Columbia.
The oysters were distributed to restaurants and retailers in at least 13 states, the FDA confirmed.
These states include:
- California
- Colorado
- Florida
- Hawaii
- Illinois
- Massachusetts
- Minnesota
- New Jersey
- Nevada
- New York
- Oregon
- Texas
- Washington
The FDA says oysters can cause illness if eaten raw, particularly in people with compromised immune systems.
Food contaminated with norovirus may also look, smell and taste normal.
Norovirus can infect people of all ages, and the most common symptoms of infection are diarrhea, vomiting, nausea and stomach pain. Additional symptoms can include fever, headache and body ache.
These symptoms will usually develop 12 to 48 hours after exposure to the virus. People typically recover from norovirus in one to three days.
To protect yourself from norovirus infection, the FDA urges you to avoid eating raw oysters in any of the locations listed above. If you have any of the products, the agency recommends throwing them away or returning them to the distributor.
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(Gray News) – The Food and Drug Administration is working with Canadian food and health agencies to investigate a multi-state outbreak of norovirus illnesses linked to raw oysters from British Columbia.
The oysters were distributed to restaurants and retailers in at least 13 states, the FDA confirmed.
These states include:
- California
- Colorado
- Florida
- Hawaii
- Illinois
- Massachusetts
- Minnesota
- New Jersey
- Nevada
- New York
- Oregon
- Texas
- Washington
The FDA says oysters can cause illness if eaten raw, particularly in people with compromised immune systems.
Food contaminated with norovirus may also look, smell and taste normal.
Norovirus can infect people of all ages, and the most common symptoms of infection are diarrhea, vomiting, nausea and stomach pain. Additional symptoms can include fever, headache and body ache.
These symptoms will usually develop 12 to 48 hours after exposure to the virus. People typically recover from norovirus in one to three days.
To protect yourself from norovirus infection, the FDA urges you to avoid eating raw oysters in any of the locations listed above. If you have any of the products, the agency recommends throwing them away or returning them to the distributor.
Copyright 2022 Gray Media Group, Inc. All rights reserved. CNN Newsource contributed to this report. |
https://www.1011now.com/2022/04/06/garland-raimondo-test-positive-covid-19/ | AG Garland, Commerce Sec. Raimondo test positive for COVID-19
WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General Merrick Garland has tested positive for COVID-19 and will quarantine at home for five days, the Justice Department said Wednesday.
Garland is the second Cabinet official to announce a positive test result on Wednesday. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo also tested positive for the virus using an at-home antigen test.
The announcement from the Justice Department comes hours after Garland held a news conference in Washington, standing side-by-side with the deputy attorney general, FBI director and other Justice Department officials.
The Justice Department says Garland asked to be tested “after learning that he may have been exposed to the virus.” Officials say he is not experiencing symptoms, is fully vaccinated and has received a booster.
The Justice Department said Garland would isolate at his home for at least five days and work remotely. The department said it would also conduct contact tracing in line with guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Raimondo’s office said she was experiencing “mild symptoms” and was sharing the news “out of an abundance of transparency.”
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General Merrick Garland has tested positive for COVID-19 and will quarantine at home for five days, the Justice Department said Wednesday.
Garland is the second Cabinet official to announce a positive test result on Wednesday. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo also tested positive for the virus using an at-home antigen test.
The announcement from the Justice Department comes hours after Garland held a news conference in Washington, standing side-by-side with the deputy attorney general, FBI director and other Justice Department officials.
The Justice Department says Garland asked to be tested “after learning that he may have been exposed to the virus.” Officials say he is not experiencing symptoms, is fully vaccinated and has received a booster.
The Justice Department said Garland would isolate at his home for at least five days and work remotely. The department said it would also conduct contact tracing in line with guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Raimondo’s office said she was experiencing “mild symptoms” and was sharing the news “out of an abundance of transparency.”
Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. |
https://www.1011now.com/2022/04/06/garland-raimondo-test-positive-covid-19/ | AG Garland, Commerce Sec. Raimondo test positive for COVID-19
WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General Merrick Garland has tested positive for COVID-19 and will quarantine at home for five days, the Justice Department said Wednesday.
Garland is the second Cabinet official to announce a positive test result on Wednesday. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo also tested positive for the virus using an at-home antigen test.
The announcement from the Justice Department comes hours after Garland held a news conference in Washington, standing side-by-side with the deputy attorney general, FBI director and other Justice Department officials.
The Justice Department says Garland asked to be tested “after learning that he may have been exposed to the virus.” Officials say he is not experiencing symptoms, is fully vaccinated and has received a booster.
The Justice Department said Garland would isolate at his home for at least five days and work remotely. The department said it would also conduct contact tracing in line with guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Raimondo’s office said she was experiencing “mild symptoms” and was sharing the news “out of an abundance of transparency.”
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General Merrick Garland has tested positive for COVID-19 and will quarantine at home for five days, the Justice Department said Wednesday.
Garland is the second Cabinet official to announce a positive test result on Wednesday. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo also tested positive for the virus using an at-home antigen test.
The announcement from the Justice Department comes hours after Garland held a news conference in Washington, standing side-by-side with the deputy attorney general, FBI director and other Justice Department officials.
The Justice Department says Garland asked to be tested “after learning that he may have been exposed to the virus.” Officials say he is not experiencing symptoms, is fully vaccinated and has received a booster.
The Justice Department said Garland would isolate at his home for at least five days and work remotely. The department said it would also conduct contact tracing in line with guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Raimondo’s office said she was experiencing “mild symptoms” and was sharing the news “out of an abundance of transparency.”
Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. |
https://www.1011now.com/2022/04/06/garland-raimondo-test-positive-covid-19/ | AG Garland, Commerce Sec. Raimondo test positive for COVID-19
WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General Merrick Garland has tested positive for COVID-19 and will quarantine at home for five days, the Justice Department said Wednesday.
Garland is the second Cabinet official to announce a positive test result on Wednesday. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo also tested positive for the virus using an at-home antigen test.
The announcement from the Justice Department comes hours after Garland held a news conference in Washington, standing side-by-side with the deputy attorney general, FBI director and other Justice Department officials.
The Justice Department says Garland asked to be tested “after learning that he may have been exposed to the virus.” Officials say he is not experiencing symptoms, is fully vaccinated and has received a booster.
The Justice Department said Garland would isolate at his home for at least five days and work remotely. The department said it would also conduct contact tracing in line with guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Raimondo’s office said she was experiencing “mild symptoms” and was sharing the news “out of an abundance of transparency.”
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General Merrick Garland has tested positive for COVID-19 and will quarantine at home for five days, the Justice Department said Wednesday.
Garland is the second Cabinet official to announce a positive test result on Wednesday. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo also tested positive for the virus using an at-home antigen test.
The announcement from the Justice Department comes hours after Garland held a news conference in Washington, standing side-by-side with the deputy attorney general, FBI director and other Justice Department officials.
The Justice Department says Garland asked to be tested “after learning that he may have been exposed to the virus.” Officials say he is not experiencing symptoms, is fully vaccinated and has received a booster.
The Justice Department said Garland would isolate at his home for at least five days and work remotely. The department said it would also conduct contact tracing in line with guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Raimondo’s office said she was experiencing “mild symptoms” and was sharing the news “out of an abundance of transparency.”
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