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NEW YORK, April 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- IAC (NASDAQ: IAC) posted monthly metrics for March 2022 in the investor relations section of its website at https://ir.iac.com/.
About IAC
IAC (NASDAQ: IAC) builds companies. We are guided by curiosity, a questioning of the status quo, and a desire to invent or acquire new products and brands. From the single seed that started as IAC over two decades ago have emerged 11 public companies and generations of exceptional leaders. We will always evolve, but our basic principles of financially-disciplined opportunism will never change. IAC is today comprised of category-leading businesses including Angi Inc. (NASDAQ: ANGI), Dotdash Meredith and Care.com, among many others ranging from early stage to established businesses. IAC is headquartered in New York City with business locations worldwide.
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7th Annual FORTIFIED Awards Highlight Record-breaking Growth
RICHBURG, S.C., April 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Insurance Institute for Business & Home Safety (IBHS) announced recipients of its annual FORTIFIED Volume and Pioneer Awards today at an event celebrating a breakout year for the FORTIFIED program. FORTIFIED service providers – and particularly Volume Award recipients – were instrumental in the program reaching two key milestones. In 2021, FORTIFIED celebrated its 30,000th designation and set a program record for annual designations by helping nearly 12,000 families better protect their homes from severe weather.
"With increases in both the frequency and intensity of severe weather, it's imperative Americans take the opportunity to strengthen their homes during new construction or when it is time to re-roof," explains IBHS CEO Roy Wright, "Despite the challenges facing the building industry, the companies we honor today continued to provide the information, opportunity and expertise to guide homeowners to make their homes stronger and, in the process, helped further establish FORTIFIED as the national standard for resilient construction."
The FORTIFIED Home™ program, developed by IBHS and based on decades of research, is a voluntary beyond-code construction and re-roofing method that strengthens homes against storms. Each of FORTIFIED's three levels of protection (Roof, Silver, Gold) has been proven through lab testing and real-world events to reduce the risk of damage from severe weather, including high winds, hail, hurricanes and even tornadoes. The program offers homeowners three vital elements: the FORTIFIED Home standard, FORTIFIED-trained contractors and a verification process by independent FORTIFIED evaluators to confirm a home has been built or re-roofed meeting all FORTIFIED requirements.
"Intense and active hurricane seasons in 2020 and 2021 sparked a demand for resilient construction and re-roofing, and our network of contractors and evaluators worked tirelessly to meet it," says FORTIFIED Managing Director Fred Malik. "At the same time, FORTIFIED Pioneers were introducing the program to impacted communities across the country. As a result of this work, thousands of families will have a home to come back to after the next storm."
With the help of those FORTIFIED Pioneers, partner organizations and other service providers, FORTIFIED grew throughout the Southeast in 2021. That momentum has continued to build into this year, with the program garnering unprecedented interest throughout the country and on track to see its first designations in as many as six states in 2022.
For the first time, IBHS is presenting a FORTIFIED Pioneer Award to a manufacturer that has demonstrated a commitment to advancing resilient construction. The inaugural recipient is Huber Engineered Woods, recognized for being an innovator in manufacturing products compatible with the FORTIFIED standard, introducing the FORTIFIED program to contractors across the U.S. through training and marketing opportunities and, most recently, increasing visibility of the program and enabling roofing contractors to more easily identify products that meet the FORTIFIED standard by incorporating FORTIFIED branding and installation details on its newest product, Zip System™ Peel and Stick Underlayment.
Also for the first time, IBHS is recognizing government agencies who use the FORTIFIED program to help make their communities more resilient against severe weather. The New Orleans Redevelopment Authority is the first agency in the country to require new construction it funds to meet the beyond-code requirements of FORTIFIED. Similarly, the Louisiana Office of Community Development and the Louisiana Housing Corporation are working together to ensure the 14 multifamily projects funded through the PRIME program meet the FORTIFIED Multifamily standard. Each agency was honored with a Pioneer Award.
"Every year, we're reminded it only takes one storm to devastate a community," added Wright. "Our FORTIFIED Volume and Pioneer Award recipients are helping narrow the path of storm damage by ensuring thousands of families have a home that can withstand the severe weather it faces."
IBHS is proud to recognize the builders, roofers and certified FORTIFIED evaluators who put FORTIFIED into action across the country.
FORTIFIED Pioneer Recipients
- Huber Engineered Woods
- Louisiana Housing Corporation
- Louisiana Office of Community Development
- New Orleans Redevelopment Association
FORTIFIED Volume Award Recipients (Roofers and Homebuilders)
Crown Award Recipients (1000-2,499 designations)
- D.R. Horton, Inc. – Mobile/Baldwin County
Crystal Award Recipients (500-999 designations)
- All Weather Roofing
Spotlight Award Recipients (100-499 designations)
- 4U Roofing
- American Values Contracting
- Apex Roofing
- Ben Murphy Company
- Coastal Roofing & Siding, Inc.
- DSLD – Alabama
- Daniel Roofing Services LLC
- Foster Contracting
- Gallop Roofing & Remodeling
- Gulf Coast Home Inspections, Inc.
- Habitat for Humanity of Greater Birmingham
- Habitat for Humanity Tuscaloosa
- Intracoastal Roofing & Construction, Inc.
- Lemongrass Custom Homes
- McMurray Contracting
- Mobile Roofing
- MOcean Contracting, Inc.
- Pelican Roofing
- Protech Roofing
- Rapid Roofing
- Roof Doctors
- SunnBuilders
- Taylor Made Services
- Truland Homes
FORTIFIED Volume Award Recipients (Certified Evaluators)
Diamond Award Recipients (2,500-4,999 designations)
- Bethel Engineering, Inc.
- Knockout Home Inspections
Crown Award Recipients (1,000-2,499 designations)
- Fortified Inspections
- Pilot
Crystal Award Recipients (500-999 designations)
- Disaster Smart Consulting, Inc.
Spotlight Award Recipients (100-499 designations)
- Affordable Home Inspections, LLC
- Atlantic Insurance Adjusters
- Coastal Design Group, LLC
- Coastal Trim & Accessories
- Ellis Home Inspections
- Gulf Coast Home Inspections, Inc.
- JDL Homebuilders, Inc.
- NC Fortified
About FORTIFIED
Please visit FORTIFIEDHome.org to learn more about how the FORTIFIED programs, including FORTIFIED Home, FORTIFIED Commercial and FORTIFIED Multifamily, use IBHS science to help tens of thousands of families live in homes that can withstand severe weather.
About the Insurance Institute for Business & Home Safety (IBHS)
The IBHS mission is to conduct objective, scientific research to identify and promote effective actions that strengthen homes, businesses and communities against natural disasters and other causes of loss. Learn more about IBHS at DisasterSafety.org.
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Combined Remote Game Server patent portfolio offers compelling content for digital and social gaming
Game Feature and Remote Game Server patents can be sublicensed to third parties to advance innovation in the gaming industry
LONDON, April 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- International Game Technology PLC (NYSE:IGT) ("IGT") today announced that it has signed a broad patent cross-licensing agreement with Aristocrat Leisure Limited (ASX: ALL) ("Aristocrat") that includes valuable patents related to game features and remote game server (RGS) technologies. Under the agreement, IGT will be able to offer licenses to the companies' combined game feature and RGS patent portfolios to the global gaming industry. Financial terms of the agreement have not been disclosed.
"This agreement extends and expands the previous patent cross-license between IGT and Aristocrat. This combination of two of the gaming industry's most valuable game features and RGS patent portfolios can help propel the evolution of gaming with compelling content and advanced game mechanics," said Renato Ascoli, IGT CEO Global Gaming. "We look forward to providing the entire gaming industry with the opportunity to license IGT and Aristocrat patents, particularly the compelling content resulting from our combined RGS portfolios, in the spirit of competition and innovation."
IGT will continue in its efforts to protect its intellectual property, individually and through collaborations with gaming industry developers and suppliers, in an effort to advance innovation and excitement in the gaming market.
About IGT
IGT (NYSE:IGT) is a global leader in gaming. We deliver entertaining and responsible gaming experiences for players across all channels and regulated segments, from Lotteries and Gaming Machines to Sports Betting and Digital. Leveraging a wealth of compelling content, substantial investment in innovation, player insights, operational expertise, and leading-edge technology, our solutions deliver unrivaled gaming experiences that engage players and drive growth. We have a well-established local presence and relationships with governments and regulators in more than 100 countries around the world, and create value by adhering to the highest standards of service, integrity, and responsibility. IGT has approximately 10,500 employees. For more information, please visit www.igt.com.
Cautionary Statement Regarding Forward-Looking Statements
This news release may contain forward-looking statements (including within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995) concerning International Game Technology PLC and its consolidated subsidiaries (the "Company") and other matters. These statements may discuss goals, intentions, and expectations as to future plans, trends, events, dividends, results of operations, or financial condition, or otherwise, based on current beliefs of the management of the Company as well as assumptions made by, and information currently available to, such management. Forward-looking statements may be accompanied by words such as "aim," "anticipate," "believe," "plan," "could," "would," "should," "shall", "continue," "estimate," "expect," "forecast," "future," "guidance," "intend," "may," "will," "possible," "potential," "predict," "project" or the negative or other variations of them. These forward-looking statements speak only as of the date on which such statements are made and are subject to various risks and uncertainties, many of which are outside the Company's control. Should one or more of these risks or uncertainties materialize, or should any of the underlying assumptions prove incorrect, actual results may differ materially from those predicted in the forward-looking statements and from past results, performance, or achievements. Therefore, you should not place undue reliance on such statements. Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements include (but are not limited to) the factors and risks described in the Company's annual report on Form 20-F for the financial year ended December 31, 2021 and other documents filed from time to time with the SEC, which are available on the SEC's website at www.sec.gov and on the investor relations section of the Company's website at www.IGT.com. Except as required under applicable law, the Company does not assume any obligation to update these forward-looking statements. You should carefully consider these factors and other risks and uncertainties that affect the Company's business. All forward-looking statements contained in this news release are qualified in their entirety by this cautionary statement. All subsequent written or oral forward-looking statements attributable to International Game Technology PLC, or persons acting on its behalf, are expressly qualified in their entirety by this cautionary statement.
IGT Contacts
Phil O'Shaughnessy, Global Communications, toll free in U.S./Canada +1 (844) IGT-7452 and outside U.S./Canada +1 (401) 392-7452
Francesco Luti, Italian media inquiries, +39 06 5189 9184
James Hurley, Investor Relations, +1 (401) 392-7190
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KYNDRYL TO RELEASE QUARTERLY RESULTS ON MAY 4 AFTER MARKET CLOSE
Published: Apr. 12, 2022 at 1:20 PM MST|Updated: 5 hours ago
Company will host earnings call on May 5
NEW YORK, April 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Kyndryl Holdings, Inc. (NYSE:KD), the world's largest IT infrastructure services provider, announced today that it will release results for the quarter ended March 31, 2022 after market close on Wednesday, May 4, 2022. Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Martin Schroeter and Chief Financial Officer David Wyshner will host an earnings conference call and webcast at 8:30 a.m. ET on Thursday, May 5, 2022.
The live webcast can be accessed by visiting https://investors.kyndryl.com/events-and-presentations/events/ on Kyndryl's investor relations website or by dialing 866-831-8713 (from the U.S.) or 203-518-9797 (from all other locations), and providing conference ID KD0505. A slide presentation will be made available on the same website shortly before the call on May 5, 2022. Following the event, replays will be available via webcast for twelve months at https://investors.kyndryl.com/events-and-presentations/events/ and by telephone for two days by dialing 800-839-6975 (from the U.S.) or 402-220-6061 (from all other locations).
About Kyndryl
Kyndryl (NYSE: KD) is the world's largest IT infrastructure services provider. The Company designs, builds, manages and modernizes the complex, mission-critical information systems that the world depends on every day. Kyndryl's nearly 90,000 employees serve over 4,000 customers in more than 60 countries around the world, including 75 percent of the Fortune 100. For more information, visit www.kyndryl.com.
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MIAMI, April 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Lennar Corporation (NYSE: LEN and LEN.B), one of the nation's leading homebuilders, announced that its Board of Directors has declared a quarterly cash dividend of $0.375 per share for both Class A and Class B common stock payable on May 10, 2022 to holders of record at the close of business on April 26, 2022.
About Lennar
Lennar Corporation, founded in 1954, is one of the nation's leading builders of quality homes for all generations. Lennar builds affordable, move-up and active adult homes primarily under the Lennar brand name. Lennar's Financial Services segment provides mortgage financing, title and closing services primarily for buyers of Lennar's homes and, through LMF Commercial, originates mortgage loans secured primarily by commercial real estate properties throughout the United States. Lennar's Multifamily segment is a nationwide developer of high-quality multifamily rental properties. LENX drives Lennar's technology, innovation and strategic investments. For more information about Lennar, please visit www.lennar.com.
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MIAMI, April 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Lennar Corporation (the "Company") announces with great sadness that Steve Gerard, a 22-year member of the Company's Board of Directors, a member of the Company's Audit Committee and the Chairperson of the Company's Compensation Committee, passed away on April 12, 2022. Mr. Gerard joined Lennar's Board in 2000 with the Company's acquisition of U.S. Home Corporation. He had been a member of the U.S. Home Corporation Board since 1993. During his time on our Board, Mr. Gerard helped us navigate the many challenges we confronted through the economic downturn years ago. He was a great person who rendered invaluable leadership, service and counsel to our Board. It is with heartfelt admiration and appreciation that the Board thanks him for his terrific contributions.
Stuart Miller, Execuive Chairman of Lennar, said, "Steve Gerard was a true warrior. Steve's energy and passion drove us all at Lennar to reach higher and work harder to achieve excellence with a core focus on integrity. Steve brought professionalism to execution and determination to performance. Steve helped position our company with a balanced focus on both short-term performance and long-term stability. His continued engagement will be sorely missed."
About Lennar
Lennar Corporation, founded in 1954, is one of the nation's leading builders of quality homes for all generations. Lennar builds affordable, move-up and active adult homes primarily under the Lennar brand name. Lennar's Financial Services segment provides mortgage financing, title and closing services primarily for buyers of Lennar's homes and, through LMF Commercial, originates mortgage loans secured primarily by commercial real estate properties throughout the United States. Lennar's Multifamily segment is a nationwide developer of high-quality multifamily rental properties. LENX drives Lennar's technology, innovation and strategic investments. For more information about Lennar, please visit www.lennar.com.
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MONTREAL, April 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - The Lion Electric Company (NYSE: LEV) (TSX: LEV) ("Lion" or the "Company"), a leading manufacturer of all-electric medium and heavy-duty urban vehicles, today announced that it will release its 2022 first quarter results on May 3, 2022, after markets close. A conference call and webcast will be held on May 4, 2022, at 8:30 a.m. (Eastern Time) to discuss the results. The Company will also hold its virtual annual meeting of shareholders (the "Meeting") on May 6, 2022, at 11:00 am, via live webcast.
FIRST QUARTER 2022 RESULTS AND CONFERENCE CALL
The Company will announce its 2022 first quarter results on May 3, 2022, after market close. A conference call will be held on May 4, 2022, at 8:30 a.m. (Eastern Time) to discuss the results. To participate in the conference call, please dial (226) 828-7575 or (833) 950-0062 (toll free).
A live webcast of the conference call will also be available at www.thelionelectric.com under the "Events and Presentation" page of the "Investors" section. An archive of the event will be available shortly after the conference call.
ANNUAL MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS
This year, the Company will be holding its Annual Meeting as a completely virtual meeting, which will be conducted via live webcast on May 6, 2022, at 11:00 a.m. (Eastern Time). The decision to hold a virtual meeting was made in an effort to contain the spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19) and to prioritize and support the well-being of our shareholders, employees and other Meeting attendees.
All shareholders, regardless of their geographic location, will have an equal opportunity to participate at the virtual Meeting at https://web.lumiagm.com/442208210. To access the online Meeting platform, participants will need an Internet-connected device, such as laptops, computers, tablets or cellphones.
The Company's management information circular and notice of annual meeting of shareholders relating to the Meeting are available to shareholders on Lion's website at www.thelionelectric.com in the Investors section, under Events and Presentations, and have been filed on SEDAR at www.sedar.com and EDGAR at www.sec.gov.
ABOUT LION ELECTRIC
Lion Electric is an innovative manufacturer of zero-emission vehicles. The company creates, designs and manufactures all-electric class 5 to class 8 commercial urban trucks and all-electric buses and minibuses for the school, paratransit and mass transit segments. Lion is a North American leader in electric transportation and designs, builds and assembles many of its vehicles' components, including chassis, battery packs, truck cabins and bus bodies.
Always actively seeking new and reliable technologies, Lion vehicles have unique features that are specifically adapted to its users and their everyday needs. Lion believes that transitioning to all-electric vehicles will lead to major improvements in our society, environment and overall quality of life. Lion shares are traded on the New York Stock Exchange and the Toronto Stock Exchange under the symbol LEV.
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SÃO PAULO, April 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- ITAÚ UNIBANCO HOLDING S.A. ("Itaú Unibanco") informs its stockholders and the market in general that, as of this date, it entered into an agreement with TOTVS S.A. ("TOTVS") for the incorporation of a joint venture ("JV"), initially named TOTVS TECHFIN S.A. ("TECHFIN"), with the purpose of distributing and expanding financial services integrated into TOTVS's management systems, based on intensive data use, focused on corporate clients and their entire supply chain, clients and employees.
According to this agreement, before closing the transaction, TOTVS will transfer the assets of its current TECHFIN operation to the company of which Itaú Unibanco will be a partner with 50% of capital stock, and each partner will be entitled to nominate half of the members of its Board of Directors and Board of Officers.
Itaú Unibanco will pay R$610 million to TOTVS for its stake and up to R$450 million as earn-out after five years, subject to the achievement of the targets aligned with the growth and performance goals. Additionally, Itaú Unibanco has committed to contributing to funding current and future operations, providing credit expertise and development of new products at TECHFIN.
This partnership sets up a company that will combine technology and financial solutions, adding to the supplementary expertise of the partners to provide corporate clients with, in an expeditious and integrated manner, the best experiences in buying products directly from the platforms already offered by TOTVS.
The abilities of Itaú Unibanco and TOTVS together will also enable the new company to take advantage of opportunities in a customized and contextualized manner, anticipating clients' needs and fully aligned with the Open Finance strategy and evolution to companies. Furthermore, this partnership strengthens the leading position of Itaú Unibanco and TOTVS in digital transformation and evolution of the financial industry.
The completion of this operation is subject to the approvals from CADE (the Brazilian antitrust authority) and the Central Bank of Brazil.
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CALGARY, AB, April 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - TransAlta Corporation ("TransAlta") (TSX: TA) (NYSE: TAC) will release its first quarter 2022 results before markets open on Friday, May 6, 2022. A conference call and webcast to discuss the results will be held for investors, analysts, members of the media and other interested parties the same day beginning at 9:00 a.m. Mountain Time (11:00 a.m. ET). The media will be invited to ask questions following analysts.
TransAlta Renewables Inc. ("TransAlta Renewables") (TSX:RNW) will release its first quarter 2022 results before markets on Wednesday, May 4, 2022. Any questions regarding TransAlta Renewables may be asked on the TransAlta conference call.
Please contact the conference operator five minutes prior to the call, noting "TransAlta Corporation" as the company.
First Quarter 2022 Conference Call:
Toll-free North American participants call: 1-888-664-6392
Webcast link: https://produceredition.webcasts.com/starthere.jsp?ei=1542834&tp_key=e92110bb4b
Related materials will be available on the Investor Centre section of TransAlta's website at http://www.transalta.com/investors/events-and-presentations. If you are unable to participate in the call, the instant replay is accessible at 1-888-390-0541 (Canada and USA toll free) with TransAlta pass code 261631 followed by the # sign. A transcript of the broadcast will be posted on TransAlta's website once it becomes available.
TransAlta owns, operates and develops a diverse fleet of electrical power generation assets in Canada, the United States and Australia with a focus on long-term shareholder value. TransAlta provides municipalities, medium and large industries, businesses and utility customers clean, affordable, energy efficient, and reliable power. Today, TransAlta is one of Canada's largest producers of wind power and Alberta's largest producer of hydroelectric power. For over 100 years, TransAlta has been a responsible operator and a proud community-member where its employees work and live. TransAlta aligns its corporate goals with the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
For more information about TransAlta, visit our web site at transalta.com.
TransAlta Renewables is among the largest of any publicly traded renewable independent power producers ("IPP") in Canada. Our asset platform and economic interests are diversified in terms of geography, generation and counterparties and consist of interests in 26 wind facilities, 13 hydroelectric facilities, eight natural gas generation facilities, two solar facilities, one natural gas pipeline, and one battery storage project, representing an ownership interest of 2,968 megawatts of owned generating capacity, located in the provinces of British Columbia, Alberta, Ontario, Québec, New Brunswick, the States of Pennsylvania, New Hampshire, Wyoming, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, North Carolina, Washington and the State of Western Australia. Our objectives are to (i) provide stable, consistent returns for investors through the ownership of, and investment in, highly contracted renewable and natural gas power generation and other infrastructure assets that provide stable cash flow primarily through long-term contracts with strong counterparties; (ii) pursue and capitalize on strategic growth opportunities in the renewable and natural gas power generation and other infrastructure sectors; (iii) maintain diversity in terms of geography, generation and counterparties; and (iv) pay out 80 to 85 per cent of cash available for distribution to the shareholders of the Company on an annual basis.
For more information about TransAlta Renewables, visit its web site at transaltarenewables.com.
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Enters into Cooperation Agreement with AMS Advisors LLC
LINCOLN, Neb., April 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Midwest Holding Inc. ("Midwest") (NASDAQ: MDWT), today announced that it has entered into a cooperation agreement with AMS Advisors LLC ("AMS"), which currently owns approximately 5.4% of Midwest's outstanding voting common shares, to nominate Kevin Sheehan as a new independent director for election to the Midwest Board of Directors (the "Board") at its upcoming annual meeting of stockholders, which is scheduled to be held on June 14, 2022, in addition to two other persons to be nominated by the Company to serve on the Board.
"Midwest is committed to shareholder engagement and strong corporate governance practices, and we look forward to adding additional shareholder representation to our Board," said Georgette Nicholas, Chief Executive Officer and Director of Midwest. "This is an important time for Midwest, and we are eager to benefit from added perspectives and valuable experience and insights as we continue Midwest's establishment in the annuity market."
Sheehan has served as Managing Director of Mellon Stud Ventures, LLC, an investment firm, since 2016. Prior to Mellon Stud Ventures, Sheehan held positions at A&M Capital Opportunities, Berggruen Holdings, Bear Stearns and Merrill Lynch. He is a graduate of Dartmouth College.
Under the terms of the cooperation agreement, AMS and its Managing Member, A. Michael Salem, Midwest's former co-CEO, have agreed to customary standstill and voting commitments, among other provisions. The full agreement between the parties will be filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on a Current Report on Form 8-K. The Company will file its definitive proxy statement in the coming weeks.
About Midwest Holding Inc.
Midwest Holding Inc. (NASDAQ:MDWT) is a technology-enabled life and annuity company. Midwest develops and distributes annuity products with capital provided by these investors who are able to form, capitalize, and manage their own reinsurance capital vehicles utilizing Midwest's infrastructure and expertise. Ultimately, the goal is to build a platform capable of significant long-term earnings power for the company's stakeholders. For more information visit midwestholding.com.
Investor contact: ir@midwestholding.com
Media inquiries: press@midwestholding.com
CAUTIONARY NOTE REGARDING FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS
Certain statements contained in this release constitute forward-looking statements. These statements are based on management's expectations, estimates, projections, and assumptions. In some cases, you can identify forward-looking statements by terminology including "could," "may," "will," "should," "expect," "plan," "anticipate," "believe," "estimate," "predict," "potential," "intend," or "continue," the negative of these terms, or other comparable terminology used in connection with any discussion of future operating results or financial performance. These statements are only predictions and reflect our management's good faith present expectation of future events and are subject to a number of important factors and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those described in the forward-looking statements. Factors that may cause our actual results to differ materially from those contemplated in such forward-looking statements include among others, the following:
- the success of the recent changes in our executive leadership;
- our business plan, particularly including our reinsurance strategy, may not prove to be successful;
- our reliance on third-party insurance marketing organizations to market and sell our annuity insurance products through a network of independent agents; • failure to maintain adequate reinsurance;
- difficulties or delays in expanding our insurance operations outside the 22 states and the District of Columbia, in which we are currently licensed; • our annuity products may not achieve significant market acceptance;
- difficulty in obtaining new customers, retain existing customers, or reductions in policies in force by existing customers; and • higher service, administrative, or general expense due to the implementation of our business plan.
Readers are cautioned against placing undue reliance on any such forward-looking statements. For details on factors that could affect these expectations, see also the risk factors and other cautionary language included in Midwest's filings with the SEC, which can be obtained online at the website of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission at sec.gov or on Midwest's website at midwestholding.com. Except as required by law, Midwest does not undertake to update forward-looking statements contained in this release.
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MEMPHIS, Tenn., April 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Varsity Spirit – the global leader in cheerleading, dance team and band apparel, camps and competitions, and a division of Varsity Brands, the market leader in team sports, school spirit and achievement recognition -- is pleased to announce that the NCA & NDA Collegiate Cheer and Dance Championship, produced by the National Cheerleaders Association and National Dance Alliance, took place this past weekend in Daytona Beach, Florida.
This past weekend, college cheerleading and dance teams traveled from across the U.S. to compete oceanside at the historic Bandshell in hopes of winning a national title. More than 8,000 participants and 355 teams from colleges across the country competed for the National Champion title with approximately 20,000 spectators present – the highest ever in NCA & NDA Collegiate Cheer and Dance Championship history. Cheerleading teams are judged on their stunting and tumbling skills, crowd-leading ability, and overall performance, while the dance competition is judged on choreography, technique, execution, and overall effect. The College Game Day divisions, which offer cheer and dance teams the chance to recreate their performances from the sidelines are the newest divisions and have greatly expanded since they debuted in 2017.
"Year after year, teams from across the country come together at the NCA & NDA Collegiate Cheer and Dance Championship to showcase their skills and represent their universities," said Bill Seely, President of Varsity Spirit. "This much-anticipated event has grown in popularity every year, and we are thrilled with the turnout this year as the largest event in NCA & NDA College Nationals history. It's an honor and a privilege to provide a world-class event at one of the most iconic cheer and dance venues where we can recognize student athletes for their hard work, dedication to their universities and talent."
Select Division Champions Included:
Adv. Large Coed DIA: Oklahoma State University
Adv. Small Coed DIA: University of Louisville
Adv. All Girl DIA: University of Louisville
Adv. Large Coed DI: Weber State University
Adv. Small Coed DI: Weber State University
Adv. All Girl DI: California Baptist University
Adv. Large Coed DII: Lindenwood University
Adv. Small Coed DII: Lindenwood University
Adv. All Girl DII: Davenport University
Adv. Small Coed DIII: Elmira College
Adv. All Girl DIII: Alma College
Adv. Large Coed NAIA: Southwestern Christian University
Adv. Small Coed NAIA: Southwestern Christian University
Adv. Large Coed Junior College: Navarro College
Adv. Small Coed Junior College: Trinity Valley Community College
Game Day DIA: University of Michigan
Game Day DI: Utah Valley University
Game Day Open: Wingate University
Cheer Spirit Rally DI: University of North Texas
Cheer Spirit Rally Open: Henderson State University
Team Performance DIA: University of South Carolina
Team Performance DI: Sam Houston State University
Team Performance DII: Davenport University
Team Performance DIII: Alma College
Team Performance Junior College: McLennan Community College
Team Performance NAIA: Ottawa University
Pom DIA: Iowa State University
Pom DI: California Baptist University
Pom DII: Dallas Baptist University
Pom DIII: University of Wisconsin - Oshkosh
Pom Open: Orange Coast College
Jazz DIA: Brigham Young University
Jazz DI: Utah Valley University
Jazz DII: Lindenwood University
Jazz Open: Alma College
Jazz Junior College: Orange Coast College
Hip Hop DIA: Brigham Young University
Hip Hop DI: Elon University
Hip Hop DII: Valdosta State University
Hip Hop DIII: SUNY Cortland
Hip Hop Junior College: Odessa College
Hip Hop NAIA: Central Methodist University
Dance Spirit Rally DI: Stephen F Austin State University
Dance Spirit Rally Open: Northeastern State University
Mascot: Texas Tech University
For more information on the NCA & NDA College Nationals, please visit Varsity.com. Varsity Spirit live streamed the championship on Varsity TV, a website dedicated to exclusive live coverage and video libraries of Varsity Spirit cheer and dance competitions. Videos of the routines are available for fans who were otherwise unable to attend, and full results listings are available on Varsity TV.
About Varsity Spirit
Memphis-based Varsity Spirit, the driving force behind cheerleading's dynamic transformation into the high-energy, athletic activity it is today, is the leading global source for all things spirit, including cheerleading, dance team and performing arts. A division of Varsity Brands, Varsity Spirit is a leader in uniform innovation, as well as educational camps, clinics and competitions, impacting more than a million athletes each year. Focused on safety, entertainment and traditional school leadership, Varsity Spirit's employees have been dedicated to celebrating spirit through its brands since 1974. For more information about Varsity Spirit or Varsity Brands, please visit varsity.com or varsitybrands.com.
About Varsity Brands
With a mission to inspire achievement and create memorable experiences for young people, Varsity Brands elevates the student experience, promotes participation and celebrates achievement through three unique but interrelated businesses: BSN SPORTS, Varsity Spirit, and Herff Jones. Together, these assets promote personal, school and community pride through their customizable products and programs to elementary and middle schools, high schools, and colleges and universities, as well as church organizations, professional and collegiate sports teams and corporations. Through its dedicated employees and independent representatives, Varsity Brands reaches its individual and institutional customers each year through competitions, camps and sales.
MEDIA CONTACT:
Emily Albert
Varsity Spirit
ezemlachenko@varsity.com
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President Biden calls atrocities in Ukraine 'genocide' for the first time
President Joe Biden on Tuesday said Russia's war in Ukraine amounted to genocide, accusing President Vladimir Putin of trying to “wipe out the idea of even being a Ukrainian."
“Yes, I called it genocide," he told reporters in Iowa shortly before boarding Air Force One to return to Washington. “It’s become clearer and clearer that Putin is just trying to wipe out the idea of even being a Ukrainian."
At an earlier event in Menlo, Iowa, addressing spiking energy prices resulting from the war, Biden had implied that he thought Putin was carrying out genocide against Ukraine, but offered no details. Neither he nor his administration announced new consequences for Russia or assistance to Ukraine following Biden's public assessment.
Biden said it would be up to lawyers to decide if Russia's conduct met the international standard for genocide, as Ukrainian officials have claimed, but said “it sure seems that way to me.”
“More evidence is coming out literally of the horrible things that the Russians have done in Ukraine, and we’re only going to learn more and more about the devastation and let the lawyers decide internationally whether or not it qualifies,” he said.
Just last week Biden said he did not believe Russia's actions amounted to genocide, just that they constituted “war crimes.”
During a trip to Europe last month, Biden faced controversy for a nine-word statement seemingly supporting regime change in Moscow, which would have represented a dramatic shift toward direct confrontation with another nuclear-armed country. “For God’s sake, this man cannot remain in power," Biden said.
He clarified the comments days later, saying: “I was expressing the moral outrage that I felt toward this man. I wasn’t articulating a policy change.”
Past American leaders often have dodged formally declaring bloody campaigns such as Russia’s in Ukraine as genocide, hesitating to trigger an obligation under an international genocide convention that requires signing countries to intervene once genocide is formally identified. That obligation was seen as blocking President Bill Clinton from declaring Rwandan Hutus’ killing of 800,000 ethnic Tutsis in 1994 as genocide, for example.
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NEW YORK, April 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Bramshill Investments, an award-winning alternative asset management firm, today released its new report, The Case for Preferred Securities in a Rising Rate Environment. The report discusses how preferred securities, an often overlooked and underutilized fixed-income alternative, can offer investors compelling diversification and income opportunities in today's volatile and rising rate environment.
With yields and returns comparable to high-yield fixed income, quality nearing that of investment-grade credits, and low correlation with the fixed income and equity markets, today's preferred securities have evolved into a distinct and attractive income-generating asset class—boasting a variety of structures and serving as a meaningful component of an investment portfolio.
Preferred securities are a specialty of Bramshill, differentiating the firm from others in the fixed income investment management arena. The firm's multi-decade relationships, execution capabilities, quantitative modeling, and experienced research team help Bramshill maintain a competitive advantage in this asset class which already has and will continue to serve their clients well over many different market cycles.
For the full white paper, please visit Bramshill Preferred Securities White Paper 2022
Media Contact:
Danielle Van Calcar
646-993-1648
danielle@bramshillinvestments.com
About Bramshill Investments
Bramshill Investments, LLC, is a fixed income investment manager with over $4.6 billion in assets under management (as of (3/31/2022) The firm was co-founded in 2012 by former GLG portfolio manager, Arthur DeGaetano. The team's core investment strategy has an established combined track record of over thirteen years with an absolute return objective that can be accessed through various vehicles. Bramshill also offers other alternative investment strategies. Bramshill is an investment adviser registered with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission. Registration as an investment advisor with the SEC does not imply a certain level of skill or training of Bramshill or its employees. References to awards should not be construed as testimonials for our advisory services. For more information, please visit: https://bramshillinvestments.com
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LOS ANGELES, April 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Proof of Learn, a new Web3 learning platform with a mission to unlock accessible high-quality education across the world through blockchain technology unveiled its first project Metacrafters - a learn-to-earn education platform. The Proof of Learn team shared the Metacrafters teaser trailer at NFTLA with an immersive experience.
This mission-driven team with a focus on accessibility and equality is taking their global experience scaling Web2 solutions with a social impact to Web3, by creating Proof of Learn, a platform with a vision to make high-tech education accessible to people all over the world - and to give employers transparent access to students' skill sets. Proof of Learn is a learn-to-earn platform where students put their learned vocational skills into practice as they progress. What's more, it incentivizes learning by offering students cryptocurrency and NFTs upon mastering new skills. Proof of Learn aims to increase massive open online course completion rates, which studies show hover between 5-15%, by not only incentivizing completion with learn-to-earn economic rewards but also by providing a strong network community for the students.
Proof of Learn and Metacrafters is led by co-founders Sheila Lirio Marcelo, Kevin Yang, and Lauren Tornow. Marcelo founded and was former CEO and Chairwoman of Care.com — the world's largest online marketplace for care, serving more than 35 million people across 20 countries and growing more than 100% year-over-year from its founding in 2006 until the company went public in 2014, and then sold to IAC in 2020. Yang is a technology entrepreneur, blockchain developer, and Stanford Computer Science graduate, specializing in crypto and mobile apps, who helped build and scale the Philippines' leading mobile fast-food delivery app. Tornow also hails from Care.com, where she led marketing and international expansion; she also led marketing at Brainly, an online global learning community.
"Blockchain technology has already transformed the global industry, making its best-known impacts in finance, art, and real estate. This new tech remains largely untapped when it comes to innovating the way we learn and what we do with what we learn" says Founder and CEO of Proof of Learn, Sheila Lirio Marcelo.
Proof of Learn's mission is to target students who live in emergent economies such as Southeast Asia, Africa, and Latin America - regions with incredible potential and the need for access to Web3 education and job opportunities. On the employer side, Proof of Learn will give companies the ability to access real-time information about students' credentials, with the goal of transparency and overall meritocracy, improving the efficiency of employment matching across the globe.
Transition to Web3 is an opportunity to narrow the digital divide by equipping lower-income, high-potential people globally with skills to fit the internet's next iteration. "As a team with strong personal ties to developing countries, like the Philippines, we care deeply about creating new education and employment opportunities across the globe," says Sheila.
Proof of Learn connects promising global talent to professional global opportunities, guiding and rewarding that talent during their education and offering employers the best possible professionals to play meaningful, fulfilling roles in the new economy.
About Proof of Learn
Proof of Learn, Inc (POL) is a Web3 education platform with a mission to unlock accessible, high-quality education across the world through blockchain and a learn-to-earn protocol. With a focus on addressing the skills shortage experienced by the Web3 economy, the platform will facilitate learning in the metaverse with cryptocurrency rewards and collectible NFT credentials earned as on-chain representation of skills advancement. The company's vision is to ensure that anyone with an internet connection can gain a world-class online education, as well as direct access to income-earning opportunities and employment via its careers marketplace. View Proof of Learn on CrunchBase.
About Metacrafters
Metacrafters is a multichain learn-to-earn game that teaches users to write smart contracts and build on-chain. Metacrafters invites crafters to a world of wonder, growth, and possibility where developers can access a world-class Web3 education with immediate earning and employment opportunities in the metaverse. It bridges education and an immersive gaming experience that brings the history and lore of blockchain to life. With a learn-to-earn model, developers and engineers are offered grant-funded financial incentives to complete courses as they upskill from Web2 to Web3. Metacrafters is available to the 32 million developers around the globe for whom these new skills may be life-changing and serve to close the significant pay gap between engineers in developed nations and those in emerging markets.
About Sheila Lirio Marcelo
Sheila Lirio Marcelo is the Co-Founder and CEO of Proof of Learn, a Web3 learning platform with a mission to unlock accessible, high-quality education across the world. Prior to POL, Sheila was a Venture Partner at New Enterprise Associates (NEA). In 2006, before joining NEA, she founded Care.com, where she was Chairwoman and CEO until early 2020. Under Marcelo's leadership, Care.com experienced an over 100% year-over-year growth, went public in early 2014, and was sold to IAC in early 2020.
Marcelo has been honored with numerous accolades. She was one of Fortune magazine's "Top 10 Women Entrepreneurs", was recently honored with the esteemed Helen G. Drinan Visionary Leader Award by the Simmons University Institute for Inclusive Leadership, and she is a Henry Crown Fellow @Aspen Institute, a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum, a Marshall Memorial Fellowship awardee, and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
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Rakia Reynolds
Skai Blue Media
Rakia@skaibluemedia.com
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NEW YORK, April 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Nielsen Holdings plc (NYSE: NLSN) today announced that it will issue its financial results for the first quarter of 2022 before the market opens on Thursday, April 28th, 2022.
Nielsen will not hold an earnings conference call due to its March 29, 2022 announcement indicating the pending acquisition by a private equity consortium ("Consortium") led by Evergreen Coast Capital Corporation ("Evergreen"), an affiliate of Elliott Investment Management L.P. ("Elliott"), and Brookfield Business Partners L.P. together with institutional partners (collectively, "Brookfield").
Nielsen shapes the world's media and content as a global leader in audience measurement, data and analytics. Through our understanding of people and their behaviors across all channels and platforms, we empower our clients with independent and actionable intelligence so they can connect and engage with their audiences—now and into the future.
An S&P 500 company, Nielsen (NYSE: NLSN) operates around the world in more than 55 countries. Learn more at www.nielsen.com or www.nielsen.com/investors and connect with us on social media.
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Media Relations: Connie Kim, connie.kim@nielsen.com
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SUGAR LAND, Texas and COPENHAGEN, Denmark, April 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Noble Corporation (NYSE: NE) ("Noble") and The Drilling Company of 1972 A/S (CSE: DRLCO) ("Maersk Drilling", and together with Noble, the "Parties") today provided an update on the ongoing merger control process for the business combination announced on 10 November 2021 (the "Transaction").
At this point in time, the Transaction has been unconditionally approved by the competition authorities in Brazil, Norway, and the Republic of Trinidad & Tobago. Accordingly, the only outstanding pre-closing merger control clearances are in Angola and the United Kingdom ("UK"). The Parties expect the competition authority in Angola to unconditionally approve the Transaction during April 2022.
The merger control process for obtaining clearance in the UK remains ongoing with constructive discussions continuing between Noble, Maersk Drilling, and the UK Competition and Markets Authority ("CMA") ahead of the CMA expectedly publishing their phase 1 decision on 22 April 2022. While the CMA is yet to take its phase 1 decision, the Parties expect that it will be necessary to divest certain jackup rigs currently located in the North Sea (the "Remedy Rigs") to obtain conditional antitrust clearance in phase 1 from the CMA. The Parties currently expect the Remedy Rigs to comprise the Noble Hans Deul, Noble Sam Hartley, Noble Sam Turner, Noble Houston Colbert, and a CJ-70 design drilling rig which, at this point, the Parties believe is likely to be the Mærsk Innovator, although it is possible the Noble Lloyd Noble could be required to achieve phase 1 clearance. On this basis, the Parties have started to examine different options to divest the Remedy Rigs.
The Parties believe that the financial and strategic rationale underpinning the Transaction remains intact and compelling for all stakeholders irrespective of the divestment of the Remedy Rigs. The Parties' estimated annual run-rate cost synergies goal also remains unchanged. Further, the Parties do not intend to change the exchange ratio agreed between them for purposes of the Transaction.
Though the Parties expect that they will be required to divest the Remedy Rigs in order to gain CMA clearance, the duration and outcome of the CMA review process remains uncertain. If the Parties are able to obtain a conditional phase 1 antitrust clearance from the CMA, they expect closing of the Transaction will occur in mid-2022.
About Noble
Noble is a leading offshore drilling contractor for the oil and gas industry. The company owns and operates one of the most modern, versatile, and technically advanced fleets in the offshore drilling industry. Noble and its predecessors have been engaged in the contract drilling of oil and gas wells since 1921. Currently, Noble performs, through its subsidiaries, contract drilling services with a fleet of 19 offshore drilling units, consisting of 11 drillships and 8 jackups, focused largely on ultra-deepwater and high-specification jackup drilling opportunities in both established and emerging regions worldwide. Noble is an exempted company incorporated in the Cayman Islands with limited liability with registered office at P.O. BOX 309, Ugland House, S. Church Street, Grand Cayman, KY1-1104. Additional information on Noble is available at www.noblecorp.com.
About Maersk Drilling
With 50 years of experience operating in the most challenging offshore environments, Maersk Drilling (CSE:DRLCO) provides responsible drilling services to energy companies worldwide. Headquartered in Denmark, Maersk Drilling owns and operates a fleet of offshore drilling rigs and specialises in harsh environment and deepwater operations. For more information about Maersk Drilling, visit www.maerskdrilling.com.
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release includes forward-looking statements within the meaning of the federal securities laws with respect to the proposed transaction, including statements regarding the divestment of drilling rigs in connection with the CMA's review of the transaction, the rigs to be included in such divestment, the parties' ability to obtain the necessary merger control clearances to complete the transaction, benefits of the transaction, the anticipated timing of the transaction, the products and services offered by Noble and Maersk Drilling and the markets in which they operate, and Noble's and Maersk Drilling's projected future financial and operating results. These forward-looking statements are generally identified by terminology such as "believe," "may," "will," "potentially," "estimate," "continue," "anticipate," "intend," "could," "would," "should," "project," "target," "plan," "expect," or the negatives of these terms or variations of them or similar terminology. The absence of these words, however, does not mean that the statements are not forward-looking. These forward-looking statements are based upon current expectations, beliefs, estimates and assumptions that, while considered reasonable as and when made by Noble and its management, and Maersk Drilling and its management, as the case may be. Such forward-looking statements are subject to risks, uncertainties, and other factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. New risks and uncertainties may emerge from time to time, and it is not possible to predict all risks and uncertainties.
Many factors could cause actual future events to differ materially from the forward-looking statements in this press release, including but not limited to: (i) the risk that the transaction may not be completed in a timely manner or at all, which may adversely affect the price of Noble's and Maersk Drilling's securities, (ii) the failure to satisfy the conditions to the consummation of the transaction, including the adoption of the business combination agreement by the shareholders of Noble, the acceptance of the proposed exchange offer by the requisite number of Maersk Drilling shareholders and the receipt of certain governmental and regulatory approvals, including those described herein, (iii) the occurrence of any event, change or other circumstance that could give rise to the termination of the business combination agreement, (iv) the effects of public health threats, pandemics and epidemics, such as the ongoing outbreak of COVID-19, and the adverse impact thereof on Noble's or Maersk Drilling's business, financial condition and results of operations, (v) the effect of the announcement or pendency of the transaction on Noble's or Maersk Drilling's business relationships, performance, and business generally, (vi) risks that the proposed transaction disrupt current plans of Noble or Maersk Drilling and potential difficulties in Noble's or Maersk Drilling's employee retention as a result of the proposed transaction, (vii) the outcome of any legal proceedings that may be instituted against Noble or Maersk Drilling related to the business combination agreement or the proposed transaction, (viii) the ability of Noble Finco Limited ("Topco") to list the Topco shares on NYSE or the Nasdaq Copenhagen, (ix) volatility in the price of the combined company's securities due to a variety of factors, including changes in the competitive markets in which Topco plans to operate, variations in performance across competitors, changes in laws and regulations affecting Topco's business and changes in the combined capital structure, (x) the effects of actions by, or disputes among OPEC+ members with respect to production levels or other matters related to the price of oil, market conditions, factors affecting the level of activity in the oil and gas industry, and supply and demand of jackup rigs, (xi) factors affecting the duration of contracts, the actual amount of downtime, (xii) factors that reduce applicable dayrates, operating hazards and delays, (xiii) risks associated with operations outside the US, actions by regulatory authorities, credit rating agencies, customers, joint venture partners, contractors, lenders and other third parties, legislation and regulations affecting drilling operations, compliance with regulatory requirements, violations of anti-corruption laws, shipyard risk and timing, delays in mobilization of jackup rigs, hurricanes and other weather conditions, and the future price of oil and gas, and (xiv) the ability to implement business plans, forecasts, and other expectations (including with respect to synergies and financial and operational metrics, such as EBITDA and free cash flow) after the completion of the proposed transaction, and to identify and realize additional opportunities, (xv) the failure to realize anticipated benefits of the proposed transaction, (xvi) risks related to the ability to correctly estimate operating expenses and expenses associated with the transaction, (xvii) risks related to the ability to project future cash utilization and reserves needed for contingent future liabilities and business operations, (xviii) the potential impact of announcement or consummation of the proposed transaction on relationships with third parties, (xix) changes in law or regulations affecting Noble, Maersk Drilling or the combined company, (xx) international, national or local economic, social or political conditions that could adversely affect the companies and their business, (xxi) conditions in the credit markets that may negatively affect the companies and their business, and (xxii) risks associated with assumptions that parties make in connection with the parties' critical accounting estimates and other judgements. The foregoing list of factors is not exhaustive. There can be no assurance that the future developments affecting Noble, Maersk Drilling or any successor entity of the transaction will be those that we have anticipated.
These forward-looking statements involve a number of risks, uncertainties (some of which are beyond Noble's or Maersk Drilling's control) or other assumptions that may cause actual results or performance to be materially different from those expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements or from our historical experience and our present expectations or projects. You should carefully consider the foregoing factors and the other risks and uncertainties that affect the parties' businesses, including those described in Noble's Annual Report on Form 10-K, Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, Current Reports on Form 8-K and other documents filed from time to time by Noble and Topco with the SEC and those described in Maersk Drilling's annual reports, relevant reports and other documents published from time to time by Maersk Drilling. Noble and Maersk Drilling wish to caution you not to place undue reliance on any forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date hereof. Except as required by law, Noble and Maersk Drilling are not undertaking any obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.
Additional Information and Where to Find It
In connection with the proposed business combination, Topco has filed a Registration Statement on Form S-4 (which Registration Statement was declared effective on April 11, 2022) with the SEC that includes (1) a proxy statement of Noble that also constitutes a prospectus for Topco and (2) an offering prospectus of Topco to be used in connection with Topco's offer to exchange shares in Maersk Drilling for Topco shares. Noble will mail the proxy statement/prospectus to its shareholders in connection with the vote to approve the merger of Noble and a wholly-owned subsidiary of Topco, and Topco will distribute the offering prospectus in connection with the exchange offer. Should Maersk Drilling and Noble proceed with the proposed transaction, Maersk Drilling and Noble also expect that Topco will file an offer document with the Danish Financial Supervisory Authority (Finanstilsynet). This communication does not contain all the information that should be considered concerning the proposed transaction and is not intended to form the basis of any investment decision or any other decision in respect of the proposed business combination. INVESTORS AND STOCKHOLDERS ARE URGED TO CAREFULLY READ THE PROXY STATEMENT/PROSPECTUS AND THE OFFERING DOCUMENT RELATING TO THE PROPOSED BUSINESS COMBINATION IN THEIR ENTIRETY, IF AND WHEN THEY BECOME AVAILABLE, AND ANY OTHER DOCUMENTS FILED BY EACH OF TOPCO AND NOBLE WITH THE SEC IN CONNECTION WITH THE BUSINESS COMBINATION OR INCORPORATED BY REFERENCE THEREIN BECAUSE THEY WILL CONTAIN IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT TOPCO, MAERSK DRILLING AND NOBLE, THE PROPOSED BUSINESS COMBINATION AND RELATED MATTERS.
Investors and shareholders can obtain free copies of the proxy statement/prospectus and all other documents filed with the SEC by Topco and Noble through the website maintained by the SEC at www.sec.gov. In addition, investors and stockholders are able to obtain free copies of the proxy statement/prospectus and other documents related thereto on Maersk Drilling's website at www.maerskdrilling.com or Noble's website at www.noblecorp.com, or by written request to Noble at Noble Corporation, Attn: Richard B. Barker, 13135 Dairy Ashford, Suite 800, Sugar Land, Texas 77478.
Participants in the Solicitation
Maersk Drilling, Noble and their respective directors, executive officers and certain employees may be deemed to be participants in the solicitation of proxies from the shareholders of Maersk Drilling and Noble, respectively, in connection with the proposed transaction. Shareholders may obtain information regarding the names, affiliations and interests of Noble's directors and officers in Noble's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2021, which was filed with the SEC on February 17, 2022, and Items 10 through 14 of Part III of Amendment No. 1 thereto on Form 10-K/A, which was filed with the SEC on March 11, 2022. To the extent the holdings of Noble's securities by Noble's directors and executive officers have changed since the amounts set forth in such annual report, such changes have been or will be reflected on Statements of Change in Ownership on Form 4 filed with the SEC. Information regarding the names, affiliations and interests of Maersk Drilling's directors and officers is contained in Maersk Drilling's Annual Report for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2021, and can be obtained free of charge from the sources indicated above. Additional information regarding the interests of such individuals in the proposed business combination will be included in the proxy statement/prospectus relating to the proposed transaction when it is filed with the SEC. You may obtain free copies of these documents from the sources indicated above.
No Offer or Solicitation
This press release is not intended to and does not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to subscribe for or buy or an invitation to purchase or subscribe for any securities or the solicitation of any vote in any jurisdiction pursuant to the proposed transaction or otherwise, nor shall there be any sale, issuance or transfer of securities in any jurisdiction, in each case, in contravention of applicable law. No offer of securities shall be made except by means of a prospectus meeting the requirements of Section 10 of the Securities Act and applicable European or the UK, as appropriate, regulations. Subject to certain exceptions to be approved by the relevant regulators or certain facts to be ascertained, the public offer will not be made directly or indirectly, in or into any jurisdiction where to do so would constitute a violation of the laws of such jurisdiction, or by use of the mails or by any means or instrumentality (including, without limitation, facsimile transmission, telephone and the internet) of interstate or foreign commerce, or any facility of a national securities exchange, of any such jurisdiction.
Important Notice
This announcement is not a public takeover offer and this announcement does not represent a formal decision by Topco or Noble to make a public takeover offer within the meaning of section 4(1) of the Danish Takeover Order (Executive Order no. 636 dated 15 May 2020), and such formal decision by Topco to make a public takeover offer in accordance with section 4(1) of the Danish Takeover Order is conditional on the approval of a prospectus approved in accordance with Regulation (EU) No. 2017/1129 of 14 June 2017 (the "Prospectus Regulation") or a document that satisfies the exemptions in article 1, paragraph 4, subparagraph m and paragraph 5, subparagraph e of the Prospectus Regulation, by the Danish Financial Supervisory Authority. If and when Topco formally launches the exchange offer, it will be made in the form of an offer document to be approved by the Danish Financial Supervisory Authority in accordance with the Danish Capital Market Act (Consolidated Act no. 1767 of 27 November 2020 on Capital Markets, as amended) and the Danish Takeover Order.
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TEMPE, Ariz., April 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- NortonLifeLock Inc. (NASDAQ: NLOK), a global leader in consumer Cyber Safety, today announced that its fiscal 2022 fourth quarter and full year financial results will be released Thursday, May 5, 2022, after market close. Following the press release, NortonLifeLock management will host a conference call and webcast at 2 p.m. PT / 5 p.m. ET.
Fiscal 2022 Q4 and Full-Year Earnings Call
May 5, 2022
2 p.m. PT / 5 p.m. ET
Conference call dial-in and live webcast available on Investor.NortonLifeLock.com
NortonLifeLock Inc. (NASDAQ: NLOK) is a global leader in consumer Cyber Safety, protecting and empowering people to live their digital lives safely. We are the consumer's trusted ally in an increasingly complex and connected world. Learn more about how we're transforming Cyber Safety at www.NortonLifeLock.com.
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Gabrielle Rabinovitch will serve as interim Chief Financial Officer upon Rainey's departure
SAN JOSE, Calif., April 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- PayPal Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: PYPL) today announced the departure of John Rainey, PayPal's Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and executive vice president, Global Customer Operations. After almost seven years at PayPal, Rainey is leaving the company to join Walmart Inc. as its CFO. To support an orderly transition, Rainey will remain at PayPal until late May.
PayPal's Board of Directors has launched a formal search process to identify Rainey's permanent replacement. PayPal's Board of Directors has approved the appointment of Gabrielle Rabinovitch, senior vice president, Corporate Finance and Investor Relations, as interim CFO effective upon Rainey's departure. The Global Customer Operations team will join the Risk, Legal and Customer Operations organization led by Executive Vice President Aaron Karczmer.
"On behalf of everyone at PayPal, I'd like to express my gratitude to John for his outstanding leadership, selfless partnership and financial stewardship. John has been an instrumental contributor to PayPal's growth by helping lay the solid foundation that supports the company's innovation, global presence and financial strength," said Dan Schulman, president and CEO, PayPal. "We're not surprised that one of the world's top brands has recognized John and his contributions to building PayPal into one of the most innovative technology and financial services companies in the world. We are thrilled for him and we wish him all the best in his next chapter."
"I am immensely proud of our achievements since I joined PayPal almost seven years ago," said Rainey. "It has been an honor to work with Dan and the PayPal leadership team and so many exceptionally talented individuals as we grew and transformed the company into a true leader in the digital era. I am leaving knowing PayPal is well positioned for the future. Gabrielle Rabinovitch is an extremely well-respected and accomplished colleague, and she has my full confidence to assume the CFO role as the Board conducts its search."
About PayPal
PayPal has remained at the forefront of the digital payment revolution for more than 20 years. By leveraging technology to make financial services and commerce more convenient, affordable, and secure, the PayPal platform is empowering more than 425 million consumer and merchant accounts in more than 200 markets to join and thrive in the global economy. For more information, visit paypal.com.
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WASHINGTON, April 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Precision Cancer Consortium (PCC) is excited to announce its formation as a new collaboration of pharmaceutical companies with a shared vision of enabling access to comprehensive testing for all cancer patients globally. The PCC will drive a variety of initiatives aimed at increasing patient access to precision diagnostics using comprehensive genomic testing, including next generation sequencing (NGS). The PCC's founding members are Bayer, GlaxoSmithKline, Novartis, and Roche.
Despite significant treatment advances that target specific molecular alterations in cancer cells, many patients still do not undergo biomarker testing necessary to inform their treatment options. Currently, stakeholders may not be aware of the benefits of comprehensive genomic testing or may not know how to translate results into appropriate patient care. In addition to limited use of precision diagnostics in routine cancer treatment, there are other challenges related to recruiting patients into research studies investigating targeted therapies in biomarker subgroups defined by genomic alterations.
"With cancer, the earlier patients are diagnosed and begin treatment, the better their outcomes tend to be. Precision diagnostics, including comprehensive genomic testing, are an important part of developing treatment plans that can help patients," explains Espen Walker (Roche), Chair of the Precision Cancer Consortium. "The PCC is focused on addressing these barriers across the cancer ecosystem with the aim of improving outcomes for patients."
PCC's objective is to support efforts to improve patient access to comprehensive genomic testing in routine care and in clinical trials. The PCC currently has two workstreams. The first workstream aims to remove barriers to access and increase educational awareness on the value of genomic testing for healthcare stakeholders - including patients, healthcare providers, and health care systems. The second workstream focuses on improving efficiencies in genomic biomarker testing in clinical trials. The PCC will not endorse or promote any diagnostic or therapeutic products or services.
The PCC is open and welcomes additional members. The PCC invites pharmaceutical or biotechnology organizations engaging in or supporting the discovery, development, research of interventions and diagnostics related to precision oncology to join this important initiative. Membership inquiries can be directed to the PCC using the contact information below.
About the Precision Cancer Consortium (PCC)
The Precision Cancer Consortium is composed of pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies focused on fostering collaboration on issues and opportunities related to precision oncology with the goal of improving patient outcomes by increasing cancer patient access to comprehensive genomic testing, including next generation sequencing, and addressing major gaps in precision diagnostics availability.
The inaugural members of the PCC are Bayer, GlaxoSmithKline, Novartis, and Roche. Inquiries regarding PCC membership can be submitted to the PCC's Administrator at pccadministrator@faegredrinker.com.
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EAST HANOVER, N.J., April 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The World Institute on Disability (WID), along with Kessler Foundation, is pleased to announce the release of its redesigned New Jersey Disability Benefits 101 (NJ DB101) website. The new design site features upgrades in function, appearance, and accessibility enhancements. An early version of NJDB101 was initially launched and funded by the New Jersey Division of Disability Services in 2007.
Disability Benefits 101, a project of WID, provides tools and information on employment, health coverage, and benefits for ten states, including New Jersey. Kessler Foundation was instrumental in providing funds for the renewed state-specific website design.
The modified website highlights upgrades for easier navigation and accessibility from all types of devices. "This comprehensive, free, online resource enables people with disabilities and those that support them to make informed decisions about employment. NJ DB101 provides the ability to find accurate information 24/7 about Social Security benefits, healthcare, and more in an easy-to-use, intuitive source," said Mercedes Witowsky, executive director, New Jersey Council on Developmental Disabilities.
The site's new navigational structure guides users quickly to the most highly relevant content for their situation such as, "What Benefits Do I Get?" or "Benefits Planning Estimators." Users can now also customize and save frequently used content as favorites.
We invite you to explore NJ DB101 today at: https://nj.db101.org/
About World Institute on Disability
World Institute on Disability (WID) is dedicated to designing, building, and supporting whole community solutions by removing barriers to include people with disabilities. It provides training, technical assistance, and online tools to help people with disabilities and their circles of support make informed decisions about their employment, benefits, housing, and inclusive living goals. WID's website, Disability Benefits 101 (DB101), helps people with disabilities and service providers understand the connections between work and benefits. DB101 is free for users, does not host advertisements, and does not take payments from private businesses or attorneys to add articles, referrals, or other information.
About Kessler Foundation
Kessler Foundation, a major nonprofit organization in the field of disability, is a global leader in rehabilitation research that seeks to improve cognition, mobility, and long-term outcomes, including employment, for people with neurological disabilities caused by diseases and injuries of the brain and spinal cord. Kessler Foundation leads the nation in funding innovative programs that expand opportunities for employment for people with disabilities. For more information, visit KesslerFoundation.org.
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NEW YORK, April 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --
WHY: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, reminds purchasers of the securities of Grab Holdings Limited f/k/a Altimeter Growth Corp. (NASDAQ: GRAB, GRABW) between November 12, 2021 and March 3, 2022, inclusive (the "Class Period"), of the important May 16, 2022 lead plaintiff deadline.
SO WHAT: If you purchased Grab securities during the Class Period you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out of pocket fees or costs through a contingency fee arrangement.
WHAT TO DO NEXT: To join the Grab class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=3876 or call Phillip Kim, Esq. toll-free at 866-767-3653 or email pkim@rosenlegal.com or cases@rosenlegal.com for information on the class action. A class action lawsuit has already been filed. If you wish to serve as lead plaintiff, you must move the Court no later than May 16, 2022. A lead plaintiff is a representative party acting on behalf of other class members in directing the litigation.
WHY ROSEN LAW: We encourage investors to select qualified counsel with a track record of success in leadership roles. Often, firms issuing notices do not have comparable experience, resources or any meaningful peer recognition. Many of these firms do not actually handle securities class actions, but are merely middlemen that refer clients or partner with law firms that actually litigate the cases. Be wise in selecting counsel. The Rosen Law Firm represents investors throughout the globe, concentrating its practice in securities class actions and shareholder derivative litigation. Rosen Law Firm has achieved the largest ever securities class action settlement against a Chinese Company. Rosen Law Firm was Ranked No. 1 by ISS Securities Class Action Services for number of securities class action settlements in 2017. The firm has been ranked in the top 4 each year since 2013 and has recovered hundreds of millions of dollars for investors. In 2019 alone the firm secured over $438 million for investors. In 2020, founding partner Laurence Rosen was named by law360 as a Titan of Plaintiffs' Bar. Many of the firm's attorneys have been recognized by Lawdragon and Super Lawyers.
DETAILS OF THE CASE: According to the lawsuit, defendants throughout the Class Period made false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) Grab's driver supply declined during the third quarter; (2) as a result, Grab continued to invest heavily in driver and consumer incentives to "preemptively recalibrate driver supply"; (3) as a result, Grab's financial results would be adversely impacted, including, among other things, a significant decline in revenue; and (4) as a result of the foregoing, defendants' positive statements about Grab's business, operations, and prospects were materially misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis. When the true details entered the market, the lawsuit claims that investors suffered damages.
To join the Grab class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=3876 or call Phillip Kim, Esq. toll-free at 866-767-3653 or email pkim@rosenlegal.com or cases@rosenlegal.com for information on the class action.
No Class Has Been Certified. Until a class is certified, you are not represented by counsel unless you retain one. You may select counsel of your choice. You may also remain an absent class member and do nothing at this point. An investor's ability to share in any potential future recovery is not dependent upon serving as lead plaintiff.
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NEW YORK, April 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --
WHY: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, reminds purchasers of the securities of Lucid Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: LCID) between November 15, 2021, and February 28, 2022, inclusive (the "Class Period"), of the important May 31, 2022 lead plaintiff deadline.
SO WHAT: If you purchased Lucid securities during the Class Period you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out of pocket fees or costs through a contingency fee arrangement.
WHAT TO DO NEXT: To join the Lucid class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=4992 or call Phillip Kim, Esq. toll-free at 866-767-3653 or email pkim@rosenlegal.com or cases@rosenlegal.com for information on the class action. A class action lawsuit has already been filed. If you wish to serve as lead plaintiff, you must move the Court no later than May 31, 2022. A lead plaintiff is a representative party acting on behalf of other class members in directing the litigation.
WHY ROSEN LAW: We encourage investors to select qualified counsel with a track record of success in leadership roles. Often, firms issuing notices do not have comparable experience, resources or any meaningful peer recognition. Many of these firms do not actually handle securities class actions, but are merely middlemen that refer clients or partner with law firms that actually litigate the cases. Be wise in selecting counsel. The Rosen Law Firm represents investors throughout the globe, concentrating its practice in securities class actions and shareholder derivative litigation. Rosen Law Firm has achieved the largest ever securities class action settlement against a Chinese Company. Rosen Law Firm was Ranked No. 1 by ISS Securities Class Action Services for number of securities class action settlements in 2017. The firm has been ranked in the top 4 each year since 2013 and has recovered hundreds of millions of dollars for investors. In 2019 alone the firm secured over $438 million for investors. In 2020, founding partner Laurence Rosen was named by law360 as a Titan of Plaintiffs' Bar. Many of the firm's attorneys have been recognized by Lawdragon and Super Lawyers.
DETAILS OF THE CASE: According to the lawsuit, defendants throughout the Class Period made false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose material adverse facts about the Company's business and operations. Specifically, Defendants overstated Lucid's production capabilities while concealing that "extraordinary supply chain and logistics challenges" were already significantly hampering the Company's operations. When the true details entered the market, the lawsuit claims that investors suffered damages.
To join the Lucid class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=4992 or call Phillip Kim, Esq. toll-free at 866-767-3653 or email pkim@rosenlegal.com or cases@rosenlegal.com for information on the class action.
No Class Has Been Certified. Until a class is certified, you are not represented by counsel unless you retain one. You may select counsel of your choice. You may also remain an absent class member and do nothing at this point. An investor's ability to share in any potential future recovery is not dependent upon serving as lead plaintiff.
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NEW YORK, April 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Pomerantz LLP is investigating claims on behalf of investors of Mullen Automotive, Inc. ("Mullen" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: MULN). Such investors are advised to contact Robert S. Willoughby at newaction@pomlaw.com or 888-476-6529, ext. 7980.
The investigation concerns whether Mullen and certain of its officers and/or directors have engaged in securities fraud or other unlawful business practices.
On April 6, 2022, Hindenburg Research ("Hindenburg") published a report addressing Mullen, entitled "Mullen Automotive: Yet Another Fast Talking EV Hustle", calling the Company among the worst electric vehicle ("EV") hustles that Hindenburg has seen in a crowded field of contenders such as Nikola Corporation and Lordstown Motors Corp. Among other things, Hindenburg observed that "[d]espite only spending ~$3 million in R&D in 2021, Mullen claims its solid-state battery technology is on track for commercialization in 18 to 24 months, putting it [a]head of every major technology and automaker in the industry who have collectively invested billions on solving the problem." The Hindenburg report also alleged that the Chief Executive Officer of EV Grid, Inc. ("EV Grid"), which makes batteries and battery management systems for vehicles, refuted a press release issued by Mullen regarding test results for its battery, stating "[w]e never would have said that" and "[w]e never did say it and certainly wouldn't have said it based on the results of testing that battery." Additionally, the Hindenburg report alleged that Mullen's claims to be in a joint venture with NextMetals Ltd. ("NextMetals") to create a solid-state battery were refuted by a NextMetals senior executive who said it "'was a nonstarter' and 'didn't exist.'"
On this news, Mullen's stock price fell $0.07 per share, or 2.57%, to close at $2.65 per share on April 6, 2022.
Pomerantz LLP, with offices in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Paris, and Tel Aviv, is acknowledged as one of the premier firms in the areas of corporate, securities, and antitrust class litigation. Founded by the late Abraham L. Pomerantz, known as the dean of the class action bar, Pomerantz pioneered the field of securities class actions. Today, more than 85 years later, Pomerantz continues in the tradition he established, fighting for the rights of the victims of securities fraud, breaches of fiduciary duty, and corporate misconduct. The Firm has recovered numerous multimillion-dollar damages awards on behalf of class members. See www.pomlaw.com
CONTACT:
Robert S. Willoughby
Pomerantz LLP
rswilloughby@pomlaw.com
888-476-6529 ext. 7980
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NEW YORK, April 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Pomerantz LLP is investigating claims on behalf of investors of PLAYSTUDIOS, Inc. ("Playstudios" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: MYPS). Such investors are advised to contact Robert S. Willoughby at newaction@pomlaw.com or 888-476-6529, ext. 7980.
The investigation concerns whether Playstudios and certain of its officers and/or directors have engaged in securities fraud or other unlawful business practices.
On February 1, 2021, Acies Acquisition Corp., a special purpose acquisition company, announced that it had reached a merger agreement with Playstudios, a privately-held gaming company incorporated under the laws of Delaware (the "Merger"). On June 21, 2021, Playstudios announced that it had completed the Merger and that the Company would begin trading on the Nasdaq as "PLAYSTUDIOS, Inc." on June 22, 2021.
On August 11, 2021, Playstudios released its financial results for the second quarter of 2021. The financial results reported for the quarter were finalized on June 30, 2021, just nine days after the Merger closed. At that time, Playstudios revealed for the first time that the launch of its flagship game, Kingdom Boss, was being delayed until later in the year and investors should expect decreased revenues and profits during the year as a result.
On this news, Playstudios' stock price fell $0.66 per share, or 11.48%, to close at $5.09 per share on August 12, 2021.
Then, on February 24, 2022, Playstudios issued a press release summarizing its financial results for the fourth quarter and year ended December 31, 2021, and held an earnings call to discuss the Company's results. On that call, Playstudios' Chief Executive officer attributed the Company's failure to meet projections made for revenue and earnings to the failure to launch Kingdom Boss, and revealed that Kingdom Boss was not only delayed, but indefinitely "suspended".
On this news, Playstudios' stock price fell $0.24 per share, or 4.71%, to close at $4.86 per share on February 25, 2022, and continued to fall to $3.90 per share on March 1, 2022, or a total decline of 23.53%.
Pomerantz LLP, with offices in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Paris, and Tel Aviv, is acknowledged as one of the premier firms in the areas of corporate, securities, and antitrust class litigation. Founded by the late Abraham L. Pomerantz, known as the dean of the class action bar, Pomerantz pioneered the field of securities class actions. Today, more than 85 years later, Pomerantz continues in the tradition he established, fighting for the rights of the victims of securities fraud, breaches of fiduciary duty, and corporate misconduct. The Firm has recovered numerous multimillion-dollar damages awards on behalf of class members. See www.pomlaw.com
CONTACT:
Robert S. Willoughby
Pomerantz LLP
rswilloughby@pomlaw.com
888-476-6529 ext. 7980
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Trusted roofing and construction franchise expands footprint throughout Texas, Florida and North Carolina
FORT WORTH, Texas, April 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Storm Guard – an innovative and community-driven roofing and construction brand – is taking strides to expand its essential home restoration services in the cities of Charlotte, Fort Worth and Sarasota. Having some of the most unpredictable and severe weather in the country, Storm Guard's services are a necessity in these areas, making them the perfect market for franchise development. The newest franchise partners include Andrew and Stephanie White, Steve Kneller and Mike Gabele.
"Storm Guard brings trusted roofing, siding, painting, and window and gutter service to customers," stated Shane Lynch, President of Storm Guard. "The residents in Charlotte, Fort Worth and Sarasota deserve to have their homes protected by honest and reputable contractors who put integrity first. We are thrilled to have three new franchisees added to the Storm Guard family within these areas as we know we will bring trusted services to many residents here."
Since 2003, Storm Guard has been helping as many families as possible restore their homes after storms and solve problems that all property owners experience including roofing, siding, window improvements, painting, emergency tarping, and installing proper gutters. All repairs ranging from general home upgrades to storm restoration are completed with their customers' best interests in mind, with the brand taking measures to ensure their satisfaction such as alleviating the stress of dealing with insurance claims and providing high-quality work without the high cost.
"We know that the work we do is important to those who have been affected by severe weather," said Lynch. "The impact of our services on the families we have helped is evident and we are thrilled to continue to offer our services by expanding across the South."
Storm Guard is on a mission to provide their exceptional restoration services to households all across the country by creating franchising opportunities. The ideal Storm Guard franchisee is driven, a good communicator, and takes immense pride in helping their community.
For more information about Storm Guard, go to https://www.stormguardrc.com. To learn more about franchising opportunities, visit https://www.stormguardfranchising.com/.
About Storm Guard:
Founded in 2003, Storm Guard saw the demand for a company that specializes in roofing and construction. As a single location in Minnesota, Storm Guard found themselves traveling to help local communities that were devastated by natural disasters. After responding to a hurricane in Florida in 2012, the founders saw the need for their services all over the country and decided to turn it into a franchise. Today, Storm Guard has 38 franchise locations across 17 different states. They are looking for dedicated and exceptional individuals to help continue their success throughout the nation.
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HOUSTON, April 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- A Texas state appellate court panel has rejected Facebook, Inc.'s latest attempts to avoid facing alleged sex trafficking victims in court, according to the victims' lawyers at Annie McAdams PC, The Gallagher Law Firm, and Sico Hoelscher Harris LLP
In a ruling today, the Fourteenth Court of Appeals of Texas panel affirmed a trial court's earlier denial of Facebook's jurisdictional appeal. The new ruling follows an unprecedented one last year by the Texas Supreme Court which allowed alleged sex trafficking survivors to sue Facebook under a Texas anti-trafficking law. Facebook also has failed for nearly three years to have the Jane Doe case thrown out under Section 230 of the federal Communications Decency Act.
In the new ruling, the Fourteenth Court stated, "Texas has a strong interest in protecting citizens of the State by exercising jurisdiction over these types of claims."
In June 2021, the state supreme court ruled that the trafficking victims could proceed with lawsuits alleging that Facebook violated Texas Civil Practice and Remedies Code Chapter 98, an anti-trafficking law passed in 2009. The underlying cases, originally filed in state district courts in Harris County, Texas, allege that Facebook, Inc. benefited from sexual exploitation of the "Jane Doe" trafficking survivors.
The trafficking victims are represented by Annie McAdams of Annie McAdams PC, of Houston; Michael T. Gallagher of The Gallagher Law Firm, of Houston; and David E. Harris and Jeffrey Richter of Sico Hoelscher Harris LLP, of Corpus Christi, Texas.
Annie McAdams, of Annie McAdams PC, said, "These courageous trafficking survivors have fought for three years for their day in court against Facebook. Because of the state Chapter 98 protections, we believe trafficking survivors in Texas can expose and hold accountable businesses such as Facebook that benefit from these crimes of exploitation."
According to the lawsuits, the social media giant provided "an unrestricted platform to stalk, exploit, recruit, groom, and extort children into the sex trade. Facebook is now the first point of contact between sex traffickers and these children… Facebook not only provides an unrestricted platform for these sex traffickers to target children, but it also cloaks the traffickers with credibility."
Jeffrey Richter, of Sico Hoelscher Harris LLP, said, "We continue to believe Facebook has an obligation to safeguard its users, both through its online platform and otherwise, of the dangers of human traffickers using Facebook as a tool to entrap and enslave children into sex trafficking."
In April 2018 testimony before Congress, Facebook Chairman and CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the company had not "taken a broad enough view of Facebook's responsibility to the community and content." He added, "We [Facebook] need to make sure that people aren't using it to harm other people or to spread misinformation. Across the board we have a responsibility to not just build tools, but to make sure they're used for good."
The appellate case is "Facebook, Inc., Appellant v. Jane Doe, Appellee," No. 14-19-00854 in the Fourteenth Court of Appeals of Texas. The underlying cases, from the state district courts, are Cause Nos. 2018-69816, 2018-82214, and 2019-16262.
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WEST CHICAGO, Ill., April 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Titan International, Inc. will release its first quarter 2022 financial results on Tuesday, May 3, to be followed by a teleconference and webcast at 9:00 a.m. Eastern Time.
The real-time, listen-only webcast can be accessed using the following link https://events.q4inc.com/attendee/321965608 or on our website at www.titan-intl.com within the "Investor Relations" page under the "News & Events" menu (https://ir.titan-intl.com/news-and-events/events/default.aspx). Listeners should access the website at least 15 minutes prior to the live event to download and install any necessary audio software.
A webcast replay of the teleconference will be available on our website (https://ir.titan-intl.com/news-and-events/events/default.aspx) soon after the live event.
In order to participate in the real-time teleconference, with live audio Q&A, participants should use one of the following dial in numbers:
United States Toll Free: 1 844 200 6205
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Participants Access Code: 629933
About Titan: Titan International, Inc. (NYSE: TWI) is a leading global manufacturer of off-highway wheels, tires, assemblies, and undercarriage products. Headquartered in West Chicago, Illinois, the company globally produces a broad range of products to meet the specifications of original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and aftermarket customers in the agricultural, earthmoving/construction, and consumer markets. For more information, visit www.titan-intl.com.
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OAK BROOK, Ill., April 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- TreeHouse Foods, Inc. ("TreeHouse Foods" or the "Company") (NYSE: THS) today announced the appointment of Scott Ostfeld, Partner of JANA Partners LLC and Co-Portfolio Manager of its engaged investing strategy JANA Strategic Investments, to the TreeHouse Foods Board of Directors. The appointment is in connection with an agreement with JANA Partners LLC ("JANA"), which owns approximately 9.2% of TreeHouse Foods' outstanding common stock.
"The TreeHouse Board and JANA share a common appreciation regarding the opportunity for TreeHouse Foods, and we are united behind the shared goal of enhancing value for our stockholders and other stakeholders," said Ann M. Sardini, Chair of the Board. "As a shareholder, Scott understands our company and our industry well. His appointment to the Board follows continued, constructive engagement with JANA and reflects our commitment to pursuing the best path towards maximum value creation."
Mr. Ostfeld commented, "TreeHouse Foods is an incredibly attractive company well-positioned to benefit from favorable secular tailwinds and with multiple avenues to unlock and drive shareholder value. I am appreciative of the Board's continued engagement, and I am excited to work alongside Steve and all of the other TreeHouse Foods directors to enhance value for all stockholders."
Steve Oakland, Chief Executive Officer and President, said, "Over the past several years, TreeHouse Foods has made meaningful progress against our strategic goals to support our customers, simplify our structure and enhance our supply chain as we capitalize on the strong, long-term demand for private-label food and TreeHouse Foods products. I welcome Scott to the Board and look forward to working with all of our directors as we continue to drive value for our customers and deliver improved results."
Mr. Ostfeld will join the Board as a Class III director, with a term expiring at the TreeHouse Foods 2023 annual meeting of stockholders. Following his appointment, the TreeHouse Foods Board will be comprised of eleven directors.
In connection with the appointment of Mr. Ostfeld to the Board, TreeHouse Foods and JANA Partners have entered into an appointment agreement. A copy of the agreement will be included as an exhibit to the Company's Current Report on Form 8-K to be filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
About Scott Ostfeld
Mr. Ostfeld was previously a member of the Board of Directors of Conagra Brands, HD Supply Holdings and Team Health Holdings. Mr. Ostfeld has more than 17 years of experience investing in companies and driving shareholder value. He is a Partner of JANA Partners LLC and Co-Portfolio Manager of JANA Strategic Investments, a strategy specializing in enhancing shareholder value through active engagement. Prior to joining JANA Partners in 2006, Mr. Ostfeld was at GSC Partners, where he served in their distressed debt private equity group and focused on acquiring companies through the restructuring process and enhancing value as an equity owner. Mr. Ostfeld was previously an investment banker at Credit Suisse First Boston Corporation, where he worked on M&A and capital raising. He serves as a member of the advisory board of Columbia University's Richman Center for Business, Law, and Public Policy. Mr. Ostfeld holds a B.A. from Columbia University, a J.D. from Columbia Law School and an M.B.A. from Columbia Business School.
About TreeHouse Foods
TreeHouse Foods, Inc. is a leading manufacturer and distributor of private label foods and beverages in North America. We operate in 29 product categories across two divisions and have approximately 40 production facilities across North America and Italy. Across our diverse portfolio, we have a private label leadership position in many categories and offer a range of better-for-you and nutritional solutions, such as items considered to be organic, or gluten-free, across nearly every category. Our purpose is to make high quality food and beverages affordable to all. Our mission is to create value as our customers' preferred manufacturing and distribution partner, providing thought leadership, superior innovation, and a relentless focus on execution.
Additional information, including our most recent Form 10-K, may be found at our website, http://www.treehousefoods.com.
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains "forward-looking" statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements and other information are based on our beliefs, as well as assumptions made by us, using information currently available. The words "anticipate," "believe," "continue," "estimate," "project," "expect," "intend," "plan," "should," and similar expressions, as they relate to us, are intended to identify forward-looking statements. Such statements reflect our current views with respect to future events and are subject to certain risks, uncertainties, and assumptions. Should one or more of these risks or uncertainties materialize, or should underlying assumptions prove incorrect, actual results may vary materially from those described herein as anticipated, believed, estimated, expected, or intended. We do not intend to update these forward-looking statements following the date of this press release. Such forward-looking statements, because they relate to future events, are by their very nature subject to many important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those contemplated by the forward-looking statements contained in this press release and other public statements we make. Such factors include, but are not limited to: risks related to the impact of the ongoing COVID-19 outbreak on our business, suppliers, consumers, customers, and employees; the success of our growth, reinvestment, and restructuring programs; our level of indebtedness and related obligations; disruptions in the financial markets; interest rates; changes in foreign currency exchange rates; customer concentration and consolidation; raw material and commodity costs; competition; loss of key suppliers; disruptions or inefficiencies in our supply chain and/or operations, including from the ongoing COVID-19 outbreak; our ability to continue to make acquisitions and execute on divestitures in accordance with our business strategy or effectively manage the growth from acquisitions; impairment of goodwill or long lived assets; changes and developments affecting our industry, including customer preferences; the outcome of litigation and regulatory proceedings to which we may be a party; product recalls; changes in laws and regulations applicable to us; shareholder activism; disruptions in or failures of our information technology systems; disruptions resulting from the announcement of the exploration of strategic alternatives; changes in weather conditions, climate changes, and natural disasters; labor strikes or work stoppages; multiemployer pension plans; labor shortages and increased competition for labor; and other risks that are set forth in the Risk Factors section, the Legal Proceedings section, the Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations section, and other sections of our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2021, and from time to time in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. You are cautioned not to unduly rely on such forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date made when evaluating the information presented in this press release. The Company expressly disclaims any obligation or undertaking to disseminate any updates or revisions to any forward-looking statement contained in this press release, to reflect any change in its expectations with regard thereto, or any other change in events, conditions, or circumstances on which any statement is based.
Additional Information
The Company intends to file a proxy statement on Schedule 14A, an accompanying WHITE proxy card and other relevant documents with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") in connection with the solicitation of proxies from the Company's stockholders for the Company's 2022 annual meeting of stockholders. STOCKHOLDERS OF THE COMPANY ARE STRONGLY ENCOURAGED TO READ THE COMPANY'S DEFINITIVE PROXY STATEMENT (INCLUDING ANY AMENDMENTS OR SUPPLEMENTS THERETO) AND ALL OTHER DOCUMENTS FILED WITH THE SEC CAREFULLY AND IN THEIR ENTIRETY WHEN THEY BECOME AVAILABLE BECAUSE THEY WILL CONTAIN IMPORTANT INFORMATION. Investors and stockholders may obtain a copy of the definitive proxy statement, an accompanying WHITE proxy card, any amendments or supplements to the definitive proxy statement, and other documents filed by the Company with the SEC at no charge at the SEC's website at www.sec.gov. Copies will also be available at no charge in the "SEC Filings" subsection of the "Financials" section of the Company's Investor Relations website at https://www.treehousefoods.com/investors or by contacting the Company's Investor Relations department at 708.483.1331, as soon as reasonably practicable after such materials are electronically filed with, or furnished to, the SEC.
Participants in the Solicitation
The Company, its directors, and certain of its executive officers are participants in the solicitation of proxies from the Company's stockholders in connection with matters to be considered at the Company's 2022 annual meeting of stockholders. Information regarding the direct and indirect interests, by security holdings or otherwise, of the Company's directors and executive officers is included in the Company's Proxy Statement on Schedule 14A for its 2021 annual meeting of stockholders, filed with the SEC on March 19, 2021. Changes to the direct or indirect interests of the Company's directors and executive officers are set forth in SEC filings on Initial Statements of Beneficial Ownership on Form 3 or Statements of Change in Ownership on Form 4. These documents are available free of charge as described above. Updated information regarding the identities of potential participants and their direct or indirect interests, by security holdings or otherwise, in the Company will be set forth in the Proxy Statement for the Company's 2022 annual meeting of stockholders and other relevant documents to be filed with the SEC, if and when they become available.
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DUBLIN, Calif., April 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- TriNet (NYSE: TNET), a leading provider of comprehensive human resources solutions for small and medium-size businesses (SMBs), today announced it will release financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2022 after U.S. market hours on Tuesday, April 26, 2022.
TriNet will host a conference call at 2:00 p.m. PT (5:00 p.m. ET) on April 26, 2022 to discuss the financial results. TriNet encourages participants to pre-register for the conference call. Callers who pre-register will be given a unique PIN to gain immediate access to the call and bypass the live operator. To pre-register, go to: https://dpregister.com/sreg/10165328/f237e25d40.
For those who would like to join the call but have not pre-registered, they can do so by dialing +1 (412) 317-5426 and requesting the "TriNet Conference Call."
The live webcast of the conference call can be accessed on the Investor Relations section of TriNet's website at investor.trinet.com. A replay of the webcast will be available on this site for approximately one year. A telephonic replay will be available for two weeks following the conference call at +1 (412) 317-0088 conference ID: 3514623.
About TriNet
TriNet (NYSE: TNET) provides small and medium-size businesses (SMBs) with full-service HR solutions tailored by industry. To free SMBs from HR complexities, TriNet offers access to human capital expertise, benefits, risk mitigation and compliance, payroll, all enabled by industry leading technology capabilities. TriNet's suite of products also includes services and software-based solutions to help streamline workflows by connecting HR, Benefits, Employee Engagement, Payroll and Time & Attendance. From Main Street to Wall Street, TriNet empowers SMBs to focus on what matters most—growing their business and enabling their people. TriNet, incredible starts here. For more information, visit TriNet.com or follow us on Twitter.
TriNet and the TriNet logo are registered trademarks of TriNet. All other trademarks, service marks, registered trademarks, or registered service marks are the property of their respective owners.
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Also clinically proven to significantly reduce back, ankle and foot pain
LOS ANGELES, April 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- With one in four American adults suffering from chronic knee pain[1], a promising study out of UCLA points to a viable, non-surgical solution: GDEFY® medically engineered shoes. In fact, study participants wearing the GDEFY shoes with patented VersoShock® technology reported an average reduction in knee pain of 85%, as well as significant decreases in other common conditions including back, ankle, and foot pain.
A double-blind, randomized study conducted at Olive View UCLA Medical Center, recently published in the Journal of the American Podiatric Medical Association, shows wearing shoes with VersoShock soles decreases knee pain by up to 85% vs. wearing shoes with conventional soles during prolonged standing and walking.
"Our mission is to maximize comfort and boost performance for people who have foot biomechanics that keep them from walking properly, and to enable normal pronation (foot movement)," said Alexander Elnekaveh, founder and Executive Chairman of Gravity Defyer Medical Technology Corporation, GDEFY's parent company. "The goal is to ensure our customers can lead productive, pain-free lives anywhere—on the go or in the workplace."
In the UCLA study, fifty-two adults with overuse symptoms of knee pain were enrolled and randomly assigned to use the intervention sole or the traditional sole shoes. For five weeks, participants wore either the shoe with the intervention sole or the shoe with the conventional sole, rating their knee pain on a 10-point visual analog scale at study onset, midway, and study completion.
After five weeks, participants using the GDEFY intervention sole shoe with shock-absorbing VersoShock technology reported an average reduction in knee pain of 85%, significantly better than participants using the traditional sole shoe (P < .01), whose average pain scores increased. Also observed were positive effects on back, ankle, and foot pain in those with the intervention sole shoe compared with the traditional sole shoe.
"We are committed to helping individuals stay active and pain-free. And the UCLA study proves that our powerful VersoShock technology significantly relieves discomfort," said Elnekaveh.
About Gravity Defyer Medical Technology Corporation
Gravity Defyer Medical Technology Corporation was founded in 2008 by Alexander Elnekaveh following the development of the patented VersoShock® technology in 2004 by Impact Research Technology Group (a renowned team of podiatrists, physical therapists, biochemical and material engineers convened under Elnekaveh's leadership). Since its launch, the company has developed hundreds of new styles for various activities and lifestyles. Shoes with potent shock-absorbing VersoShock technology are clinically proven to reduce pain in four key areas: knee (85%), back (91%), ankle (92%), and foot pain (75%). GDEFY customers receive a premium Comfort Fit insole and Corrective Fit orthodontic insole with each shoe purchase (excluding sandals).
The Gravity Defyer Backstory
It all began after Elnekaveh's 14-year-old nephew was diagnosed with a cancerous growth in his heel. Even after successful heel replacement surgery, physical therapy, and help from leading doctors in pain management, his nephew had little chance to walk pain-free again. Already an avid inventor of high-quality products, Elnekaveh set out to develop a solution.
Following his development of the first Gravity Defyer (GDEFY) shoe with VersoShock® technology by Impact Research Technology Group, Elnekaveh started using the prototypes to relieve his own issues with pain, and he was shocked by the results. It worked better than he ever imagined, not just for heel pain but also for back pain, knee pain, and a host of other aches and discomforts.
[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3408027/.
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Agreement will expand Univar Solutions' diverse excipient portfolio, helping customers with drug delivery in Brazil and Mexico
DOWNERS GROVE, Ill., April 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Univar Solutions Inc. (NYSE: UNVR) ("Univar Solutions" or "the Company"), a global chemical and ingredient distributor and provider of value-added services, today expanded its specialty ingredient portfolio in Mexico and Brazil through a new distribution agreement with Ashland, a focused additives and specialty ingredients company. The agreement combines the strengths and offerings of two sustainability-focused and innovation driven organizations and will benefit formulators and manufacturers focused on delivering science-based pharmaceutical solutions in Latin America and across the globe.
"Univar Solutions proudly serves pharmaceutical manufacturers and formulators through our relationships with premier suppliers like Ashland, offering the ingredients and solutions our customers are seeking for their high quality and high performing products, globally," said Jorge Buckup, president of Latin America for Univar Solutions. "Together with Ashland, we're better able to help customers formulate next-generation products, work to improve time to market and achieve a sustainability advantage using more environmentally conscious ingredients and innovations. We're proud to team up with a supplier who is also passionate about working at the intersection of science and technology to deliver products that help keep communities healthy and safe."
Under the agreement, Univar Solutions customers in Brazil and Mexico will have access to Ashland's binders and disintegrants for solid dosage forms, matrix formers for modulated release drugs and coatings for regular and modulated release solid dosage forms. Pharmaceutical ingredient customers are supported by Univar Solutions' global Solution Centers scientists, who help solve formulation challenges, address changing regulatory requirements, innovate to meet market trends and help customers work toward sustainability and other environmental, social and governance (ESG) goals.
"Ashland's specialty ingredients are a perfect complement and addition to our existing portfolio and with it we look forward to offering an even more expansive range of excipients to customers in Brazil and Mexico," said James Peterson, vice president, global Pharmaceutical Ingredients for Univar Solutions. "Partnering with Ashland will help further our approach to manufacturers and formulators as we work together to meet the ever-changing pharmaceutical market demands in Latin America, backed by the technical expertise from our global network of Solution Centers."
"As a global leader in pharmaceutical oral solid dose (OSD) excipients, Ashland is innovating for safe, easy-care, patient-centric formulations and we will continue to grow by building out our pipeline with these innovations and new sales opportunities," said Alejandra Alvarez, strategic global marketing and business development of Latin America for Ashland. "We are excited for our customers that will be supported by Univar Solutions as they help us address evolving global pharmaceutical needs coinciding with the growing pharmaceutical industry in Brazil and Mexico."
For more information about Univar Solutions' pharmaceutical ingredients business, visit univarsolutions.com/pharma.
Univar Solutions (NYSE: UNVR) is a leading global commodity and specialty chemical and ingredient distributor representing a premier portfolio from the world's leading producers. With the industry's largest private transportation fleet and technical sales force, unparalleled logistics know-how, deep market and regulatory knowledge, formulation and recipe development, and leading digital tools, the Company is well-positioned to offer tailored solutions and value-added services to a wide range of markets, industries, and applications. While fulfilling its purpose to help keep communities healthy, fed, clean and safe, Univar Solutions is committed to helping customers and suppliers innovate and focus on Growing Together. Learn more at univarsolutions.com.
Ashland is a global, consumer market-focused additives and specialty ingredients company that is responsibly solving for a better world. Through science and a conscious and proactive mindset for sustainability, the company serves customers in pharmaceutical, personal care, architectural coatings, construction, energy, food, beverage, and nutraceuticals. There are approximately 3,800* passionate, tenacious solvers at Ashland who thrive on developing practical, innovative, and elegant solutions to complex problems for customers in more than 100 countries. Visit www.ashland.com and www.ashland.com/sustainability to learn more.
* Reflects employee base following the planned sale in 2022 of performance adhesives.
This press release includes certain statements relating to future events and our intentions, beliefs, expectations, and predictions for the future, which are "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. Forward-looking statements are subject to known and unknown risks and uncertainties, many of which may be beyond the Company's control. These forward-looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from the expectations and assumptions. A detailed discussion of these factors and uncertainties is contained in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Potential factors that could affect such forward-looking statements include, among others: the ultimate geographic spread of the COVID-19 pandemic; the duration and severity of the COVID-19 pandemic; actions that may be taken by governmental authorities to address or otherwise mitigate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic; the potential negative impacts of COVID-19 on the global economy and our customers and suppliers; the overall impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on our business, results of operations and financial condition; other fluctuations in general economic conditions, particularly in industrial production and the demands of our customers; significant changes in the business strategies of producers or in the operations of our customers; increased competitive pressures, including as a result of competitor consolidation; significant changes in the pricing, demand and availability of chemicals; our levels of indebtedness, the restrictions imposed by our debt instruments, and our ability to obtain additional financing when needed; the broad spectrum of laws and regulations that we are subject to, including extensive environmental, health and safety laws and regulations; an inability to integrate the business and systems of companies we acquire, including of Nexeo Solutions, Inc., or to realize the anticipated benefits of such acquisitions; potential business disruptions and security breaches, including cybersecurity incidents; an inability to generate sufficient working capital; increases in transportation and fuel costs and changes in our relationship with third party providers; accidents, safety failures, environmental damage, product quality and liability issues and recalls; major or systemic delivery failures involving our distribution network or the products we carry; operational risks for which we may not be adequately insured; ongoing litigation and other legal and regulatory risks; challenges associated with international operations; exposure to interest rate and currency fluctuations; potential impairment of goodwill; liabilities associated with acquisitions, ventures and strategic investments; negative developments affecting our pension plans and multi-employer pensions; labor disruptions associated with the unionized portion of our workforce; and the other factors described in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. We caution you that the forward-looking information presented in this press release is not a guarantee of future events or results, and that actual events or results may differ materially from those made in or suggested by the forward-looking information contained in this press release. In addition, forward-looking statements generally can be identified by the use of forward-looking terminology such as "may," "plan," "seek, "will," "expect," "intend," "estimate," "anticipate," "believe" or "continue" or the negative thereof or variations thereon or similar terminology. Any forward-looking information presented herein is made only as of the date of this press release, and the Company does not undertake any obligation to update or revise any forward-looking information to reflect changes in assumptions, the occurrence of unanticipated events, or otherwise, except as required by law.
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DOWNERS GROVE, Ill., April 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Univar Solutions Inc. (NYSE: UNVR) ("Univar Solutions" or "the Company"), a global chemical and ingredient distributor and provider of value-added services, today announced that on May 9, 2022 it plans to report financial results for the first quarter of fiscal 2022.
After the market closes on Monday, May 9, Univar Solutions plans to issue its first quarter news release. At the same time, the Company will post a slide presentation in the investor relations section of its website at https://investors.univarsolutions.com. Following the release, at 9:00 a.m. ET on Tuesday, May 10, the Company will host a webcast with investors to discuss the first quarter results. The webcast will be accessible through the investor relations section on the Univar Solutions' website.
Following the event, an archived version of the webcast and supporting materials will be available on the Univar Solutions' website at https://investors.univarsolutions.com.
Univar Solutions (NYSE: UNVR) is a leading global commodity and specialty chemical and ingredient distributor representing a premier portfolio from the world's leading producers. With the industry's largest private transportation fleet and technical sales force, unparalleled logistics know-how, deep market and regulatory knowledge, formulation and recipe development, and leading digital tools, the Company is well-positioned to offer tailored solutions and value-added services to a wide range of markets, industries, and applications. While fulfilling its purpose to help keep communities healthy, fed, clean and safe, Univar Solutions is committed to helping customers and suppliers innovate and focus on Growing Together. Learn more at univarsoltions.com.
This press release includes certain statements relating to future events and our intentions, beliefs, expectations, and predictions for the future, which are "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. Forward-looking statements are subject to known and unknown risks and uncertainties, many of which may be beyond the Company's control. These forward-looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from the expectations and assumptions. A detailed discussion of these factors and uncertainties is contained in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Potential factors that could affect such forward-looking statements include, among others: the ultimate geographic spread of the COVID-19 pandemic; the duration and severity of the COVID-19 pandemic; actions that may be taken by governmental authorities to address or otherwise mitigate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic; the potential negative impacts of COVID-19 on the global economy and our customers and suppliers; the overall impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on our business, results of operations and financial condition; other fluctuations in general economic conditions, particularly in industrial production and the demands of our customers; significant changes in the business strategies of producers or in the operations of our customers; increased competitive pressures, including as a result of competitor consolidation; significant changes in the pricing, demand and availability of chemicals; our levels of indebtedness, the restrictions imposed by our debt instruments, and our ability to obtain additional financing when needed; the broad spectrum of laws and regulations that we are subject to, including extensive environmental, health and safety laws and regulations; an inability to integrate the business and systems of companies we acquire, including of Nexeo Solutions, Inc., or to realize the anticipated benefits of such acquisitions; potential business disruptions and security breaches, including cybersecurity incidents; an inability to generate sufficient working capital; increases in transportation and fuel costs and changes in our relationship with third party providers; accidents, safety failures, environmental damage, product quality and liability issues and recalls; major or systemic delivery failures involving our distribution network or the products we carry; operational risks for which we may not be adequately insured; ongoing litigation and other legal and regulatory risks; challenges associated with international operations; exposure to interest rate and currency fluctuations; potential impairment of goodwill; liabilities associated with acquisitions, ventures and strategic investments; negative developments affecting our pension plans and multi-employer pensions; labor disruptions associated with the unionized portion of our workforce; and the other factors described in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. We caution you that the forward-looking information presented in this press release is not a guarantee of future events or results, and that actual events or results may differ materially from those made in or suggested by the forward-looking information contained in this press release. In addition, forward-looking statements generally can be identified by the use of forward-looking terminology such as "may," "plan," "seek, "will," "expect," "intend," "estimate," "anticipate," "believe" or "continue" or the negative thereof or variations thereon or similar terminology. Any forward-looking information presented herein is made only as of the date of this press release, and the Company does not undertake any obligation to update or revise any forward-looking information to reflect changes in assumptions, the occurrence of unanticipated events, or otherwise, except as required by law.
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BOSTON and PARIS, April 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Atlassian announced today that Valiantys has received the Atlassian Partner of the Year Enterprise Services award for their outstanding contribution and achievements during the calendar year 2021. This award recognizes an Atlassian Solution Partner providing exceptional effort in developing new business, forward-looking perspectives, and delivering products and services at scale that complement Atlassian. Valiantys continues to earn the trust and praise of large enterprise customers, as they successfully deliver complex transformation solutions and ensure positive client experiences on a global scale.
"We are delighted to receive this award from Atlassian," said Lucas Dussurget, CEO at Valiantys. "It is a testament to the caliber and talent of the entire Valiantys team, and validates our continued effort and investment in scaling our services and delivery capabilities worldwide."
"Atlassian would like to congratulate this year's Partner of the Year award recipients," said Ko Mistry, Atlassian's Head of Global Channels. "Our partners go above and beyond for our customers and play an instrumental role in our customers' success. We are excited to spotlight some of our top partners who provide cutting edge solutions and Atlassian services to our customers."
About Valiantys
Valiantys is the leading global consulting and services firm dedicated to Atlassian. We accelerate business transformation by digitizing processes and modernizing teamwork, using the best Agile methods and tools. Our Atlassian technical expertise is unparalleled and we support our customers across the entire spectrum of their projects on those platforms. As a recognized Agile at Scale and Cloud Specialized Partner, we help organizations accelerate time to value with Agile at scale, cloud, and ITSM implementations. Because teamwork requires more than just tools, we help bridge the gap between applications and strategic practices such as SAFe® and ITIL. Over the last 15 years, we have helped more than 5,000 customers achieve their desired business outcomes at a reduced time to value, through improved team collaboration.
Find out how Valiantys can lead the way with you and your business transformation at valiantys.com
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BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Crime Stoppers WNY is offering up to $7,500 for information leading to the arrest or indictment of the person or people responsible for deaths in two separate homicide investigations.
Davaughn Harper was killed on Feb. 19 on Northland Avenue. Shawn Carmichael and Lonnie Coleman were killed on March 5 on Genesee Street.
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STAMFORD, Conn., April 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Webster Financial Corporation (NYSE: WBS), the holding company for Webster Bank, N.A. and its HSA Bank division, today announced the following details for its first quarter 2022 earnings release and conference call:
About Webster Financial Corporation
Webster Financial Corporation (NYSE:WBS) is the holding company for Webster Bank, N.A. and its HSA Bank Division. Webster is a leading commercial bank in the Northeast that provides a wide range of digital and traditional financial solutions across three differentiated lines of business: Commercial Banking, Consumer Banking and its HSA Bank division, one of the country's largest providers of employee benefits solutions. Headquartered in Stamford, CT, Webster is a values-driven organization with $65 billion in assets. Its core footprint spans the northeastern U.S. from New York to Massachusetts, with certain businesses operating in extended geographies. Webster Bank is a member of the FDIC and an equal housing lender. For more information about Webster, including past press releases and the latest annual report, visit the Webster website at www.websterbank.com.
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Guide aims to help educators bridge the growing digital literacy gap for American adults
SEATTLE, April 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy and Digital Promise have partnered to release a new resource guide, "Promoting Digital Literacy for Adult Learners," to support educators, tutors and mentors who are working with adult learners on building digital literacy skills. The guide was introduced to an audience of adult education leaders and practitioners at the Coalition on Adult Basic Education's national conference in Seattle today.
Digital literacy – the skills needed to live, learn and work in today's increasingly technology-driven society – is more important than ever. As jobs become more automated and require greater technological skills, it is essential that workers have the basic skills and foundational knowledge needed to tackle any new technology. Digital skills are also increasingly necessary to complete everyday tasks such as navigating a telehealth visit, finding and applying for jobs, or helping children with remote learning. Yet, the digital literacy gap is a growing equity issue.
- Nearly one out of three Americans currently struggles to perform their job effectively due to limited digital problem-solving skills, especially among people of color from both immigrant and non-immigrant backgrounds. (National Skills Coalition)
- Adults earning low wages show less use of the internet for tasks like finding health or employment information. (Journal of Applied Gerontology)
- An estimated 30% of Americans – especially those with a high school diploma or less – will have to switch jobs in the coming years or develop the skills that employers are now seeking. (McKinsey Global Institute)
- More than 50% of jobs that require a high school diploma or less are expected to be automated in the next decade. (McKinsey Global Institute)
- A growing digital racial gap could cause 76% of Black Americans and 62% of Hispanic Americans to be shut out or be under-prepared for 86% of jobs in the U.S. by 2045. (Deutsche Bank)
"Over the past two years, technology has truly been a lifeline for so many of us – allowing us to keep working, learning and connecting with friends and family. But we know that our fellow Americans who struggle with digital literacy have had a very different experience," said British A. Robinson, President and CEO of the Barbara Bush Foundation. "Access to devices and connectivity are important, but it is critical that every adult is equipped with the skills to use technology so that they can fully participate in our society as parents, workers and citizens."
The Barbara Bush Foundation and Digital Promise partnered to create the resource guide to meet the growing professional development needs of adult educators, large employers, workplaces and volunteers who work with adult learners – specifically in digital literacy. The guide, which was peer reviewed by 16 adult literacy experts and corporate partners, is grounded in adult learning theory and includes practical approaches for working with adult learners.
"Digital skills have become fundamental for social mobility. As such, adult learners must have access to powerful learning experiences that prioritize digital literacy," said Digital Promise President and CEO Jean-Claude Brizard. "While there is a great focus in K-12 education on understanding the 'whole child,' understanding the 'whole learner' is equally critical for adults as they strive to acquire digital literacy skills that are vital for successful careers and family and community engagement."
The "Promoting Digital Literacy for Adult Learners" resource guide is now available online at no cost (https://rb.gy/bivejs). Additional professional development resources to support educators' use of the guide will be available this summer.
About the Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy: The Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy has been the nation's leading advocate for family literacy for more than three decades. Established by former First Lady Barbara Bush in 1989, the Foundation is a public charity dedicated to creating a stronger, more equitable America in which everyone can read, write and comprehend in order to navigate the world with dignity. To learn more, visit www.BarbaraBush.org.
About Digital Promise: Digital Promise is a nonprofit organization that builds powerful networks and takes on grand challenges by working at the intersection of researchers, entrepreneurs, and educators. Our vision is that all people, at every stage of their lives, have access to learning experiences that help them acquire the knowledge and skills they need to thrive and continuously learn in an ever-changing world. For more information, visit www.digitalpromise.org.
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Cybersecurity veteran, Sumit Bansal, appointed as vice president Asia Pacific and Japan
SINGAPORE, April 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- BlueVoyant, an industry-leading internal and external cyber defense platform, today announced expanded portfolio operations of cybersecurity services in Asia Pacific and Japan (APJ). In addition, BlueVoyant announced the appointment of Sumit Bansal as vice president APJ.
BlueVoyant is adding Singapore as a regional headquarters and will be expanding its local team to focus on specifically-designed services. This includes Third-Party Cyber Risk Management, which helps protect against, and remediate, threats in the supply chain or the vendors they are connected to. Along with other services, BlueVoyant will also offer its Managed Detection and Response (MDR) capabilities that give customers the ability to control their own data in the Microsoft or Splunk cloud environments.
Bansal brings to BlueVoyant more than 30 years of cybersecurity and network technology experience in APJ. He has led hypergrowth and rapid market expansion, including time at Nokia, RSA, and Symantec. He most recently served as managing director, South East Asia and Korea, at cybersecurity company Sophos.
"We are excited to bring our end-to-end cybersecurity portfolio to more organizations in APJ to keep them one step ahead of the increasingly sophisticated cyber threats they face," said Paul "PK" Kleinschnitz, chief commercial officer at BlueVoyant. "Our expanded presence in APJ will provide local organizations the tools they need to protect their digital ecosystem inside and out. Sumit has the right experience to lead our newly expanded team and give APJ organizations the robust support they deserve."
The new Singapore regional headquarters join BlueVoyant's existing regional headquarters in the Philippines. The company has significant partnerships with key businesses and industries in the Philippines. BlueVoyant also has an existing presence and key partnership with Telstra in Australia and New Zealand.
"I am excited about the opportunity to bring third-party cyber risk protection to organizations in APJ, as many big breaches have come from connections to organizations' vendors and their networks," said Bansal. "The external ecosystem is often an organization's weak link and BlueVoyant is especially able to detect and mitigate these risks. BlueVoyant also brings industry-leading, cloud-based internal defense with 24/7 detection and response, among other best-in-class services."
BlueVoyant recently announced the close of its $250-million Series D, led by Liberty Strategic Capital, a private equity firm founded and spearheaded by former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Steven T. Mnuchin, with participation from new investors as well as existing investors. The company also recently announced that CRN®, a brand of The Channel Company, has named BlueVoyant to its annual Security 100 list, as well as awarded BlueVoyant the prestigious 5-star rating in its 2022 Partner Program Guide.
About BlueVoyant
At BlueVoyant, we recognize that effective cybersecurity requires active prevention and defense across both your organization and supply chain. Our proprietary data, analytics, and technology, coupled with deep expertise, work as a force multiplier to secure your full ecosystem.
Accuracy. Actionability. Timeliness. Scalability.
Founded in 2017 by former Fortune 500 and former government cyber officials, BlueVoyant is headquartered in New York City and has presence in Washington, D.C., Maryland, San Francisco, Israel, Philippines, Singapore, Canada, U.K., Spain, Australia, Hungary, Czech Republic, Romania, Slovakia, Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Sweden, Denmark, El Salvador, Colombia, Mexico, and Panama. Visit https://www.bluevoyant.com/.
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VANCOUVER, BC, April 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - GoldMining Inc. (the "Company") (TSX: GOLD) (NYSE-American: GLDG) is issuing this press release under Section 3.1 of National Instrument 62-103 – The Early Warning System and Related Take-Over Bid and Insider Reporting Requirements ("NI 62-103") and pursuant to Multilateral Instrument 62-104 – Take-Over Bids and Issuer Bids with respect to the acquisition by the Company of common shares (the "GROY Shares") of Gold Royalty Corp. ("GROY").
On April 12, 2022, the Company acquired 250,000 GROY Shares at an average price of US$4.23 (C$5.33) per share through open market purchases over the facilities of the NYSE American.
Prior to the acquisition, the Company beneficially owned and exercised control and direction of 20,000,000 GROY Shares, representing approximately 14.9% of the outstanding GROY Shares. Immediately following the acquisition, the Company beneficially owned and exercised control and direction of 20,250,000 GROY Shares, representing 15.1% of the outstanding GROY Shares.
The GROY Shares were acquired by the Company for investment purposes, and in the future, the Company may acquire additional securities of GROY, dispose of some or all of the existing or additional securities the Company holds or will hold, or may continue to hold its current position, depending on market conditions, reformulation of plans and/or other relevant factors.
An early warning report (the "Report") will be filed by the Company pursuant to NI 62-103 on SEDAR at www.sedar.com under the profile of GROY. The Company's head office is located at 1030 West Georgia Street, Suite 1830, Vancouver, British Columbia, V6E 2Y3. To obtain a copy of the Report, please contact the Company as follows:
GoldMining Inc.
Attn: Pat Obara, Chief Financial Officer
1030 West Georgia Street, Suite 1830
Vancouver, BC V6E 2Y3
Tel: (855) 630-1001
The Company is a public mineral exploration company focused on the acquisition and development of gold assets in the Americas. Through its disciplined acquisition strategy, the Company now controls a diversified portfolio of resource-stage gold and gold-copper projects in Canada, U.S.A., Brazil, Colombia and Peru.
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- HanAll Biopharma and Daewoong Pharmaceutical invest in the broad potential of Turn Biotechnologies
- Turn has developed a novel cell rejuvenating platform with significant potential for application in an array of age-related diseases
SEOUL, South Korea, April 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- HanAll Biopharma (KRX: 009420.KS) and Daewoong Pharmaceutical (KRX: 069620.KS) today announced expansion of their open collaboration strategy by investing in Turn Biotechnologies, a Silicon Valley based company focused on developing novel mRNA medicines. The companies are supporting Turn Bio's continued development of a high-potential platform and are009420 considering future long-term collaborations.
Turn Bio is a pre-clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on cellular repair via epigenetic reprogramming of cells. The technological foundation for Turn Bio's proprietary Epigenetic Reprogramming of Age (ERA™) methodology was developed by Turn Bio's co-founders in the Sebastiano Lab, Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Stanford School of Medicine. The technology has since been patented and Turn Bio is currently using it to complete pre-clinical research on therapies targeting indications in dermatology and immunology, as well as developing therapies for ophthalmology, osteoarthritis and the muscular system.
"Many age-related diseases have long been significant areas of patients' unmet need," said Dr. Almira Chabi, chief medical officer and chief development officer at HanAll Pharmaceutical International. "Turn Bio's innovative platform may bring a pivotal transformation to a wide array of therapeutic areas. HanAll is committing support and investment to help realize the full potential of this pioneering technology as Turn Bio advances to a new phase of growth."
"The support of Daewoong Pharmaceutical and HanAll Biopharma validates our approach to cellular rejuvenation and enables Turn to expand its efforts in multiple therapeutic indications," said Anja Krammer, the company's CEO. "We are thrilled that a company as well known for its innovation, has taken interest in our promise to transform the way medicine treats diseases of aging and we look forward to further collaborations to help change quality of life and healthcare economics globally."
The proceeds from this round of financing will support Turn Bio's advancement towards a phase 1 trial of its mRNA therapy candidate TRN-001, which targets indications in dermatology.
About HanAll Biopharma Co., Ltd.
HanAll Biopharma (KRX: 009420.KS) is a global biopharmaceutical company founded in 1973, with a mission of making meaningful contributions to patients' lives by introducing innovative, impactful therapies to address severe unmet medical needs. HanAll has been operating a portfolio of pharmaceutical products in areas ranging from endocrine, circulatory, and urologic diseases for more than 48 years.
HanAll has also expanded its focus to ophthalmology, immunology, oncology and neurology to discover and develop innovative medicines for patients with diseases for which there are no effective treatments. A leading pipeline asset, HL161 (INN: batoclimab), an anti-FcRn antibody drug, is in Phase 3 and Phase 2 trials across the world for the treatment of rare autoimmune disorders including myasthenia gravis, thyroid eye disease, warm autoimmune hymolytic anemia, neuromyelitis optica, and immune thrombocytopenia. Another main asset, HL036 (INN: tanfanercept), an anti-TNF alpha protein drug, is in Phase 3 clinical trials in the US and China for the treatment of dry eye disease.
For further information visit our website, and connect with us on linkedin. For any media inquiries, please contact HanAll PR/IR (pr@hanall.com, ir@hanall.com).
About Daewoong Pharmaceutical. Co., Ltd.
(https://www.daewoong.co.kr/en)
Established in 1945, Daewoong Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. is a leading South Korean pharmaceutical company that develops, manufactures, and commercializes pharmaceuticals for both domestic and international markets. With a strong and innovative in-house R&D and advanced manufacturing facilities, Daewoong provides a total healthcare solution to customers across the globe. Continuing on their course of building a strong global healthcare company, Daewoong has broadened international operations by establishing branch offices and research centers throughout Asia and the United States. Daewoong has also expanded strategic partnerships in more than 100 countries worldwide.
About Turn Biotechnologies
Turn Bio is a pre-clinical-stage company focused on repairing tissue at the cellular level. The company's proprietary mRNA platform technology, ERA™, restores optimal gene expression by combatting the effects of aging in the epigenome. This restores the cells' ability to prevent or treat disease, and heal or regenerate tissue and will help to fight incurable chronic diseases.
Turn Bio's technology provides a platform from which to attack a variety of now incurable chronic diseases. The company is currently completing pre-clinical research on tailored therapies targeting indications in dermatology and immunology, as well as developing therapies for ophthalmology, osteo-arthritis and the muscular system. For more information, see turn.bio or contact Jim Martinez, rightstorygroup / jim@rightstorygroup.com or (312) 543-9026
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Stake MULTI, get Multichain fee rewards
SINGAPORE, April 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Multichain recently announced the veMULTI proposal, which means token holders who stake MULTI will receive rewards from accumulated Multichain fees. The proposal determines that except for the 10% of bridge fees set aside for the Safety Fund, 50% of the remaining 2022 Q1 bridge fees (nearly $4 million) will be distributed to veMULTI stakers in USD. MULTI staking rewards are calculated according to veMULTI. The longer (up to 4 years) and the more MULTI you stake, the more rewards MULTI you will receive.
Why did Multichain initiate the veMULTI Proposal?
Multichain (formerly Anyswap) used to offer a 'buyback' program, which ended last year with two rounds of ANY token buyback. The total amount of ANY burnt was 276,027.4 (160,485.25 + 115,542.15), which accounted for 20% of the bridge fees. Following the rebranding to Multichain, the governance token was converted from ANY to MULTI, and Multichain was also formally transformed into a DAO, with the DAO community having the capacity to make decisions. As seen by Telegram polls in our Multichain DAO, the veMULTI proposal was discussed and presented by a large number of community members. To foster the long-term growth of multiDAO, we launched the veMULTI proposal. Future proposals will be made through veMULTI governance voting.
How does veMULTI work?
MULTI staking and rewards will be implemented by veMULTI contract. Anyone who stakes the MULTI token will receive a NFT (veMULTI). The value and power of the NFT is decided by the staking amount and lock duration (up to four years). After the end of each quarter, the rewards will be distributed and dispersed in USD.
With the exception of the 10% bridge fees for the purpose of the Safety Fund, 50% of the remaining bridge fees will be distributed as incentives and dispersed every quarter in USD. This proportion of bridge fees from Q1 2022 will be distributed in Q2 2022 as rewards.
- Q1 Multichain bridge fees: $10,807,780.81
- Q1 Multichain bridge cost (gas fee): $2,136,725.16
- veMULTI Distribution: $ 3,901,975.04 ($8,671,055.65*0.9/2)
When will veMULTI officially be launched?
It will be launched in 2022 Q2, shortly after the code audit. Stay tuned, it won't be long. Here you can find more info about veMULTI.
Shout-out to
Curve Finance & Michael Egorov for their ve design
Solidly Exchange & Andre Cronje for the veNFT design
About Multichain:
Multichain has been the pioneer of decentralized bridging solutions. The team is thrilled to be the pioneer in rewarding the true believers of our technology with the veMULTI reward program. Multichain has always cared deeply about the community. With veMULTI the community has the ability and the means to make governance decisions.
Multichain, born as Anyswap on the 20th July 2020, is positioned as a fully decentralized Cross-Chain Router Protocol (CRP), an infrastructure supporting multi-chain ecosystem. Multichain envisions to be the ultimate router for web3.
Multichain is now the leader in the cross-chain field with a rapidly expanding ecosystem. It currently supports over 40 blockchains and has deployed nearly 2,000 crypto bridges.
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Black youth are almost 6X more likely to drown than White children
PORTLAND, Ore., April 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- KEEN, Inc. (KEEN), the global footwear brand on a mission to make outside inclusive and accessible to all, today announced its "Making Waves" partnership with Outdoor Afro, the nation's foremost not-for-profit organization celebrating and inspiring Black connections and leadership in nature, and the YMCA, the leading U.S. nonprofit committed to strengthening communities. The national program, which aims to impact 100,000 Black youth and their caregivers over the next 10 years, launches with an awareness and fundraising campaign highlighting the alarming statistic that Black children are nearly 6X more likely to die from drowning than white kids, according to the CDC. A limited edition Outdoor Afro x KEEN sandal collection releases April 12 in support of the program and is designed to increase attention while helping to raise funds for Swimmerships™, scholarships for swimming lessons happening primarily at YMCAs.
"These alarming statistics demanded action," said Rue Mapp, founder, and CEO of Outdoor Afro. "We need to stop the drownings and give kids confidence in and around the water. It's about saving lives and enabling stronger connections to our waterways and the outdoors. This is an important step in the right direction. We are most grateful that our partner of a decade, KEEN, has supported Making Waves for the last three years, and are excited that the YMCA is adding its strength to the effort. It's great to see this all coming together."
Outdoor Afro created Making Waves in 2019 with KEEN and the YMCA first supporting a pilot program in New York, Atlanta, Charlotte, and Phoenix in 2021. The expanded partnership will now help Outdoor Afro grow in key markets across the country in 2022. Kids and their caregivers may sign up for Swimmerships™ on Outdoor Afro's website beginning this summer. Each Swimmership™ provides a new swimmer with a full swim course of 8-10 lessons. Swim lessons take place at local YMCA's and select community pools. Individuals may sponsor a swimmer on Outdoor Afro's website. $10 = a lesson, $100 = a Swimmership™, $1,000 funds a full class.
"The statistics speak for themselves," says Erik Burbank, vice president of the KEEN Effect. "We're proud to be supporting Outdoor Afro on this movement, and it's really motivating to have the YMCA joining the effort. Having a partner that can help us scale the program over time reinforces our ability to create change and have a significant effect on this issue."
"As the nation's largest and best-in-class provider of swim lessons, the Y has decades of experience working to address and eliminate the disparities associated with swimming," noted YMCA of the USA Director of Movement Engagement, Innovative Priorities & Aquatics Safety Lindsay Mondick. "This initiative is what the Y is all about—making meaningful impact on communities and creating connective learning opportunities for all—and our expertise around water safety and drowning prevention makes this partnership a perfect fit."
The YMCA over the years has worked to increase participation in swimming among Black children and reduce drowning rates in those and other communities of color. Through public service campaigns, inspiring storytelling across multiple platforms, and partnering with the CDC to explore and analyze the barriers that Black/African American families face with swimming, the Y has made a difference in these areas. The YMCA's commitment is to help all children become strong, confident swimmers and reduce water-related injuries in every community.
The Outdoor Afro x KEEN sandal collection features artwork from Outdoor Afro volunteer leader Leandra Taylor. Taylor has been an inspiration, teacher, and friend to kids hungry to learn about the outdoor experience. Her art is incorporated in silhouettes for the whole family, including Newport H2 for men; Astoria West for women; Newport H2; and Stingrays for kids. The collection will be available on keenfootwear.com and at retailers across the U.S., as well as select retailers in Canada, Europe, and Japan. One percent of all sales will go to fund new Swimmerships™. To learn more or to sign up for a Swimmership™, please visit.
Go to outdoorafro.com, www.ymca.org and www.keenfootwear.com/the-keen-effect/ for additional information.
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SHANGHAI, April 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ – Forbes released the 2022 Midas List on April 12, a ranking of the world's top 100 venture capitalists. Nisa Leung, Managing Partner of Qiming Venture Partners, and Duane Kuang, Founding Managing Partner of Qiming Venture Partners, ranked on the list.
Since 2001, Forbes announces its annual Midas List of the top VC investors in the world. The name is an allusion to Greek mythology where King Midas is renowned for his ability to turn everything he touched into gold.
Nisa has been on the list for four consecutive years, ranking No.61 and up 12 places from last year. In the past three years, Nisa was ranked as No.1 healthcare investor in China and she has also been consistently ranked as one of Forbes China's best female venture capitalists, topping the list for the first time in 2022.
Nisa and her team invest with a desire to improve China's healthcare environment and address unmet healthcare needs for the people's betterment. As one of the earliest investors in the sector, Nisa and her team invested in over 170 healthcare companies, including Zai Lab (NASDAQ:ZLAB, SEHK:9688), CanSino Biologics (SEHK:6185, SHSE:688185), Gan & Lee Pharmaceuticals (SHSE:603087), New Horizon Health (SEHK:6606), Venus MedTech (SEHK:2500), and Schrödinger (NASDAQ:SDGR) for the past decade.
For the past fifteen months, thirteen of Qiming's healthcare companies completed public offerings. Notable exits include New Horizon Health and Sino Biological.
Nisa believes that China healthcare companies will increasingly develop global footprint in the future. As a trailblazer and leader in the healthcare investment, Qiming Venture Partners works closely with its entrepreneurs and looks for outstanding companies in the fields of innovative drug research and development, devices, diagnostics, services and digital health, and continues to work towards high-quality development of China's healthcare industry.
Duane has been named on the Midas list for the third time, ranking No.74 this year. Duane co-founded Qiming Venture Partners in 2006 and has been leading the TMT team.
As Founding Managing Partner of Qiming Venture Partners, Duane has over 30 years of corporate management and investment experience, and has been active in the front line of the venture capital field. His portfolio includes star companies such as Xiaomi, RoboRock, Unisound, Qiniu, UBTech, Hesai Technology and WeRide. The technology sector covering artificial intelligence, enterprise services, semiconductors, blockchain and other fields has been a focus of Qiming Venture Partners for 15 years.
Today, Qiming Venture Partners is recognized as one of the most professional investment institutions in the field of AI, semiconductors and SaaS. Building presence in the "hardcore technology" field in 2021, Duane and his team have invested in many high-growth enterprises equipped with cutting-edge technologies.
At present, China's investment and innovation environment is undergoing tremendous changes. Duane believes that the key factor in innovation is the development of science and technology and that China's new economy is blazing a different innovation trail from the past; the new generation of entrepreneurs has stronger capabilities to innovate in technology, and products are becoming more and more internationally competitive. Qiming Venture Partners upholds the belief of being entrepreneur-friendly and provides more systematic services to its portfolio companies.
Currently Qiming Venture Partners manages ten US Dollar funds and six RMB funds with $6.2 billion assets under management. Qiming invests in outstanding companies in the TMT and healthcare sectors at the early and growth stages. In 2021, Qiming closed over 70 deals; 13 portfolio companies completed public offerings, and over 100 companies raised new financing rounds.
While achieving outstanding investment performance and being widely recognized by LPs around the world, Qiming is also proactive in practicing social responsibility. In 2021, Qiming partnered with China Foundation for Poverty Alleviation to launch a new initiative dedicated to empowering rural entrepreneurs with a donation of CNY 100 million, so as to contribute to China's rural revitalization.
Qiming Venture Partners believes in ESG and will continue to identify companies which can play an essential role in economic and social development. The company will also facilitate cutting-edge technologies and promote the transformation of scientific research through ecosystem construction and resource integration, so as to improve efficiency and enhance human well-being.
About Qiming Venture Partners
Founded in 2006, Qiming Venture Partners is a leading China venture capital firm with offices in Shanghai, Beijing, Suzhou, Hong Kong, Seattle, Boston and the San Francisco Bay Area.
Currently, Qiming Venture Partners manages ten US Dollar funds and six RMB funds with $6.2 billion in AUM capital raised. Since our establishment, we have invested in outstanding companies in the TMT and healthcare industries at the early and growth stages.
Since our debut, we have backed over 430 fast-growing and innovative companies. Over 170 companies are already listed on NYSE, NASDAQ, HKEx, Gretai Securities Market, Shanghai Stock Exchange and Shenzhen Stock Exchange, or achieved exit through M&A and other means. There are also over 40 portfolio companies that have achieved unicorn status.
Many of our portfolio companies are today's most influential firms in their respective sectors, including Xiaomi (SEHK:1810), Meituan (SEHK:3690), Bilibili (NASDAQ:BILI, SEHK:9626), Zhihu (NYSE: ZH), Roborock (SHSE:688169), Gan & Lee Pharmaceuticals (SHSE: 603087), Tigermed (SZSE:300347, SEHK:3347), Zai Lab (NASDAQ:ZLAB, SEHK:9688), CanSino Biologics (SEHK:6185, SHSE:688185), Schrödinger (NASDAQ:SDGR), APT Medical (SHSE:688617), New Horizon Health (SEHK:6606), Venus MedTech (SEHK:2500), Sanyou Medical (SHSE:688085), AmoyDx (SZSE:300685), Berry Genomics (SZSE:000710), SinocellTech (SHSE: 688520), Yuanxin Technology, and UBTech among many others.
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LOMPOC, Calif. , April 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Bureau of Land Management's annual population estimate for wild horses and burros on BLM-managed public lands shows a second straight decrease, from 86,189 horses and burros in 2021 to 82,384 as of March 1, 2022.
"This should not be mistaken for a win by the Bureau of Land Management," said Neda DeMayo, president of Return to Freedom (RTF), a national nonprofit wild horse advocacy organization. "The agency's decades-old practice of reactionary, roundup-only management will only result in the BLM continuing to chase and, at most, briefly achieve its arbitrary and low population targets on some Herd Management Areas.
"If mares are not treated with fertility control to slow reproduction on the range and released, these roundups will be followed by increases in herd populations, and then, as usual, BLM returning with helicopters to capture and place more wild horses alongside more than 60,000 warehoused in off-range holding."
Previously, the total number of wild horses and burros increased for nine straight years, from 37,294 in 2012 to a record high estimate of 95,114 in 2020.
The agency's goal is to reach its set "Appropriate Management Level" (AML) of just 26,785 total wild horses and burros across 177 Herd Management Areas in 10 Western states.
Although the BLM's annual population estimates are viewed with skepticism by wild horse advocates, they are the only range-wide figures available. The population decreases are consistent with the agency's recent actions and its plans for more of the same:
--Over the past four fiscal years, BLM has removed 43,941 wild horses and burros from their home ranges while treating only 3,257 with some form of fertility control.
--BLM plans to remove "at least" a record 19,000 wild horses and burros this year while treating just 2,300 with fertility control.
RTF believes that BLM's plan for continued aggressive removals is excessive and irresponsible – especially because 60,611 captured wild horses and burros already live in off-range holding, 21,784 of them in overcrowded government corrals, as of February 2022. Last year, the agency spent $72.4 million (64% of its budget) on off-range holding.
The plan is all the more irresponsible because BLM lacks the infrastructure, staff and contracts to run its own program, much less properly protect and care for captured wild horses and burros that the agency should be moving to more natural, cost-effective pastures.
Population modeling has shown that the BLM must immediately implement fertility control to stabilize herd growth so that removals, which decimate family bands and herds, can be brought to an end, and off-range holding, which costs taxpayers millions more each year, phased out.
"Lawmakers have begun providing funding for fertility control, but they must hold BLM's feet to the fire on its correct and immediate implementation," DeMayo said. "BLM's actions are that of an agency stuck in the past, one fixated on removing wild horses from the range without enough thought for the welfare of the animals, the cost to taxpayers, or the future of our wild herds and public lands.
"Congress must demand that BLM begin the long-overdue transition to proven, safe and humane fertility control as its primary management tool now and not be misled by the agency into thinking it can be postponed."
Return to Freedom Wild Horse Conservation (RTF) is a national nonprofit organization dedicated to wild horse preservation through sanctuary, education, conservation, and advocacy since 1998. It also operates the American Wild Horse Sanctuary at three California locations, caring for more than 450 wild horses and burros. Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram for updates about wild horses and burros on the range and at our sanctuary.
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DENVER, April 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- RiverNorth Opportunities Fund, Inc. (NYSE: RIV) (the "Fund") today announced that it has priced an underwritten public offering of 3,400,000 shares of 6.00% Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock (the "Preferred Stock") at a public offering price of $25.00 per share, which will result in net proceeds to the Fund of approximately $81,877,500 after payment of underwriting discounts and commissions and estimated offering expenses payable by the Fund. In addition, the Fund has granted the underwriters a 30-day option to purchase up to an additional 510,000 shares of Preferred Stock to cover overallotments, if any.
The Fund has applied to list the Preferred Stock on the New York Stock Exchange ("NYSE") under the ticker symbol "RIVPRA". If the application is approved, trading on the NYSE in the Preferred Stock is expected to begin within 30 days following the issuance date of the Preferred Stock.
The Fund plans to use the net proceeds from the offering of the Preferred Stock to invest in accordance with its investment objective and policies, repay borrowings under the Fund's credit facility and for general working capital purposes.
The offering is expected to close on April 20, 2022, subject to customary closing conditions.
UBS Securities LLC, Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC and RBC Capital Markets, LLC are acting as the joint book-running managers for the offering.
The information in the preliminary prospectus supplement, the accompanying prospectus and this press release is not complete and may be changed. A registration statement relating to these securities has been filed with and declared effective by the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC"). This press release is not an offer to sell these securities and is not soliciting offers to buy these securities in any jurisdiction where the offer or sale is not permitted.
Investors should consider the Fund's investment objective, risks, and expenses carefully before investing. The preliminary prospectus supplement (and the final prospectus supplement, when available) and accompanying prospectus contains this and other information about the Fund and should be read carefully before investing. Copies of the preliminary prospectus supplement, final prospectus supplement (when complete) and accompanying prospectus may be obtained for no charge by calling UBS Securities LLC toll-free at 1-888-827-7275, Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC at 1-866-718-1649 or RBC Capital Markets, LLC at 1-866-375-6829. Copies of these documents, when finalized, and other documents the Fund has filed with the SEC may also be obtained by visiting EDGAR on the SEC's website at www.sec.gov or on the Fund's website at www.rivernorthcef.com.
The investment objective of the Fund is total return consisting of capital appreciation and current income. The Fund had approximately $286 million of net assets and 17.5 million shares of common stock outstanding as of December 31, 2021.
Closed-end funds are traded on the secondary market through one of the stock exchanges. The Fund's investment return and principal value will fluctuate so that an investor's shares may be worth more or less than the original cost. Shares of closed-end funds may trade above (a premium) or below (a discount) the net asset value of the fund's portfolio. There is no assurance that the Fund will achieve its investment objective.
ALPS Advisors, Inc. is the investment adviser to the Fund.
RiverNorth Capital Management, LLC is the investment sub-adviser to the Fund. RiverNorth Capital Management, LLC is not affiliated with ALPS Advisors, Inc. or any of its affiliates.
ALPS Portfolio Solutions Distributor, Inc. is the FINRA Member firm.
NOT FDIC INSURED | May Lose Value | No Bank Guarantee
About SS&C Technologies
SS&C Technologies, Inc. ("SS&C") is a global provider of services and software for the financial services and healthcare industries. Founded in 1986, SS&C is headquartered in Windsor, Connecticut, and has offices around the world. Some 18,000 financial services and healthcare organizations, from the world's largest companies to small and mid-market firms, rely on SS&C for expertise, scale, and technology.
About SS&C ALPS Advisors
ALPS Advisors, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of SS&C, is a leading provider of investment products for advisors and institutions. With over $17 billion in assets under management as of December 31, 2021, the firm provides access to asset classes and boutique asset managers in real assets, alternatives, thematic/factor and fixed income through both ETF and open-end mutual fund structures.
About RiverNorth Capital Management, LLC
RiverNorth Capital Management, LLC is an investment management firm founded in 2000. With $5.8 billion1 in assets under management as of December 31, 2021, RiverNorth specializes in opportunistic investment strategies in niche markets where the potential to exploit inefficiencies is greatest. RiverNorth is an institutional investment manager to registered funds, private funds and separately managed accounts.
1 Firm AUM reflects Managed Assets which includes the effects of leverage and investments in affiliated funds.
This press release contains certain statements that may include "forward-looking statements." Forward-looking statements can be identified by the words "may," "will," "intend," "expect," "estimate," "continue," "plan," "anticipate," and similar terms and the negatives of such terms. By their nature, all forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties, and actual results could differ materially from those contemplated by the forward-looking statements. Many factors that could materially affect the Fund's actual results are the performance of the portfolio of securities held by the Fund, the conditions in the U.S. and international financial and other markets, the price at which Preferred Stock trades in the public markets and other factors discussed in the Fund's preliminary prospectus supplement and accompanying prospectus and to be discussed in the Fund's periodic filings with the SEC.
Although the Fund believes that the expectations expressed in such forward-looking statements are reasonable, actual results could differ materially from those expressed or implied in such forward-looking statements. The Fund's future financial condition and results of operations, as well as any forward-looking statements, are subject to change and are subject to inherent risks and uncertainties. You are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which are made as of the date of this press release. Except for the Fund's ongoing obligations under the federal securities laws, the Fund does not intend, and the Fund undertakes no obligation, to update any forward-looking statement.
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Police warn parents of scary ‘Huggy Wuggy’ character in children’s media online
(Gray News) – While Disney may offer plenty of movies, videos and games that are safe for unsupervised children, not all kids’ content is as safe as it seems.
Police are now warning the parents of susceptible kids of a fearsome character that has been making its way into content geared towards children.
The Lafayette County Sheriff’s Office in Wisconsin looked at the origins of “Huggy Wuggy” and shared their findings in a post on Facebook.
The character, which resembles a lanky, blue-furred teddy bear with razor sharp teeth, comes from a recent survival horror video game called “Poppy Playtime.”
In the game, the player controls the former employee of an abandoned toy factory, who has come back to the company’s location to investigate what happened to all of the staff who mysteriously vanished.
As the player explores, their character encounters various enemies, including Huggy Wuggy.
The game was originally rated for ages 8 and above but was updated to 12 or above for containing scary images and scenarios, such as toys coming to life and wanting to harm the children they belong to.
The character has made its way from this independently developed video game into fan-made videos on websites like YouTube.
The sheriff’s office says the videos they want to warn parents about are featured on a number of YouTube channels, including those on this list compiled by the sheriff’s office:
- GameToons
- SamToons
- GH’s
- Monster School Story
- Game My
- Secret4Studio
- HornStromp 3D
- Siren Studio
- Bunny Games
- Slime Channel
The sheriff’s office says the videos include, but are not limited to, offensive language, cartoon representations of alcohol use, blood, stabbings, decapitations, attempted murder, murder and the bloody aftermath of a car crash.
Police are urging parents to monitor their children’s use of YouTube and other video sharing social media platforms for content that may be inappropriate or too intense for their viewing.
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Pastors Cite Family Values, Pennsylvania Roots
HARRISBURG, Pa., April 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- More than 50 pastors in over 20 Pennsylvania counties have joined Ambassador Carla Sands' new Faith Leaders Coalition, the Republican candidate for U.S. Senate announced today. "I am truly honored to have the support – especially in the form of much-needed prayer – of so many pastors and people of faith across the Commonwealth," Ambassador Sands said today.
The Faith Leaders Coalition is led by John March, executive pastor at Christ Community Church in Ambassadors Sands' hometown of Camp Hill, Pennsylvania. "Carla learned from her parents' own Christian ministry right here in Camp Hill – and spent her summers in a Halifax Christian youth camp," March noted today. "From these Pennsylvania roots, Carla became the servant-leader we have come to know and love – and that's exactly what our nation so desperately needs."
Charles Stock, senior pastor at Harrisburg's Life Center Ministries, cited Ambassador Sands' "pro-life, pro-family" values in his endorsement of the candidate. "I am thrilled to officially join Carla's Faith Leaders Coalition," Stock said today. "I know Carla – and I know that her convictions are deeply held. I have no doubt that Carla will remain a steadfast voice for human dignity and freedom."
Members of the Faith Leaders Coalition will energize and mobilize "values voters" across Pennsylvania, according to Sands for Senate Campaign Manager Alec Jones. "Families know that Carla will have their backs. Carla will fight to remove divisive ideology from our public schools and protect our children's innocence while fighting to give families real educational freedom through school choice," Jones said.
"Carla is a genuine conservative with Pennsylvania roots and Pennsylvania values – and a record of public service in defense of those values," said Jones. "That's why faith leaders are concluding that Carla is not just right on the issues – she is the best candidate to run and win this November."
To join the Faith Leaders Coalition, visit CarlaSands.com/FaithLeaders.
Republican Carla Sands is running for U.S. Senate in Pennsylvania. In 2017, President Donald Trump named her Ambassador to Denmark. To learn more, visit carlasands.com. For exclusive comments or interview requests, please contact press@carlasands.com.
Contact: Nathan Brinkman
703.375.9204, press@carlasands.com
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‘We haven’t received a dime’: New homeowners say squatters have taken over their house
LAS VEGAS (KVVU) - A Las Vegas-area family says squatters have taken over a home they recently purchased.
A four-bedroom, 2,700-square-foot home was supposed to be a dream home for Jen Larsen, her mother, Donna Edmonds, and three kids, but it has turned into nothing short of a nightmare.
“My mom and I decided to buy a house together about two months ago because both of our rents were going to go up dramatically, about $500 apiece,” Larsen said.
But someone they say isn’t paying the mortgage on their new home is inside their property and not leaving.
“We gave the seller seven days to move out because they said they needed the money from the sale of the house to move everything out,” Larsen said.
However, during that week, Larsen and her mother said somehow somebody else moved in and has lived in the home ever since.
“The two of us scrimped and scraped to get this, and we were so excited. Now, I can’t eat. I can’t sleep. It’s been really stressful,” Edmonds said.
The women have a deed for the property with a closing date of March 4, but they have never been able to occupy the home.
FOX5 reports a news crew went to the home’s front door to ask the people living inside for their side of the story, but no one answered while the crew was there.
A woman at the property later emailed FOX5, writing she has a legal lease with the home’s former owner that runs until July 2. However, a copy of the lease was not immediately shared.
“My kids and I will be homeless. Meanwhile, this woman is living in the home that we paid for and living there for free. We haven’t received a dime,” Larsen said.
Larsen and her mother did not immediately report if they have notified authorities.
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Revolutionary endurance consumer products company to unveil 'Fastest and Cleanest Gel in the West' and showcase other signature products at Ironman Expo
RALEIGH, N.C., April 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- SFuels – one of the leaders in consumer products featuring innovative, right-time right-fuel nutrition for sport, work and life – announces the launch of Race+ Gel and Race+ Bullets as they gear up for the 2022 Ironman World Championships in St. George, Utah from Tuesday, May 3 – Saturday, May 7, 2022.
Race+ Gel is a concentrated powder that mixes into a gel format for efficient in-race fueling. SFuels Race+ uses only pre-digested branch chain starch for carbs and they empty from the gut faster than glucose. Providing a concentration of highly-branched cyclic starches, medium chain triglycerides (MCTs) and electrolytes, Race+ Gel enables efficient simultaneous fat-carb oxidation and energy, without the typical gut issues of fructose based gels.
"Our Race+ Gel provides rapidly absorbed fast transport carbohydrates and MCTs for stable energy in the fastest, cleanest, environmentally-friendly gel dispensing system on the market, which we call the Race+ Bullet," said SFuels Co-Founder, Leighton Phillips. "We're looking forward to our involvement with the Ironman World Championship Expo and having our athletes showing why Race+ Gel is the fastest and cleanest gel on the market."
Multiple servings of Race+ Gel can be stored in the SFuels Race+ Bullets – a compact, ultra-lightweight one-way valve gel delivery system, making it the only truly environmentally-friendly option on the market. "Athletes are all in on leaving no trace at these races – we want to help athletes leave their mark on the podium, not on the planet," added Phillips.
Race+ Gel is currently available in Tropical flavor, and can be mixed with SFuels PRIMED watermelon or pineapple caffeine powders. SFuels is one of the sponsoring participants in the Ironman Expo, and will be sampling it's signature training, racing products and the Race+ Gel – in the expo, providing all competing athletes with a sample-bag of products.
SFuels Race+ Gel Powder is gluten-free, and there are no added sugars, artificial colors or flavors. It comes in a 7.93oz container and there are 6 servings per container. Each serving provides 22g of carbohydrates, 6g of fat and 750g of glutamine. SFuels Race+ Gel Powder is sold individually at MSRP of $32.95 and comes with one Race+ Gel Bullet. To purchase, please visit: https://www.sfuelsgolonger.com/products/race-gel-powder.
SFuels also plans to host a 'Breakfast by the Water' on Thursday, May 5, sampling complimentary products for the SFuels and Endure.IQ athletes after their morning swim. Breakfast will be hosted by one of this year's Age-Group World Championship contenders, Matt Kerr.
About SFuels:
SFuels was founded in 2018 by Leighton and Nicole Phillips and is committed to creating clean nutrition products that provide the right fuel at the right time for both performance athletes and active lifestylers. The company emphasizes the importance of performance in the moment but also long-term health and wellness. Their SFuels product line is carefully formulated with lower carbohydrates, is gluten-free, and contains no artificial flavors, colors or sugar alcohols. Its formulation allows for use in highly competitive sports, as well as, for active health-conscious consumers who wish to go longer every day. To learn more visit www.sfuelsgolonger.com.
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LOS ANGELES, April 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Sylvox, a global leading smart TV R&D, manufacturing, and Internet application development services company, recently announced the official release of its latest slimmer and lighter 3rd generation Outdoor TV. This is an Outdoor TV that can work in the extreme environment such as heavy rain, heat, sand, ice, and snow for a long time. It still ensures stability in the case of rapid changes in climate and temperature differences between -35°C and 50°C.
Applicable in all Outdoor Environments
More and more families are willing to spend more time in back gardens, swimming pools, open-air balconies, rooftops and other places to enjoy outdoor fun activities such as swimming, BBQ, and sports.
In order to meet the needs of users for watching movies at any time and anywhere, with its 13 years of experience in special TV production, Sylvox has launched a more powerful 3rd generation outdoor TVs with foresight, creativity, and determination in view of the complexity and variability of the outdoor environment so that users no longer need to worry about the effect of possible rain, exposure, corrosion, scratches, dust to the TV and enjoy a happy outdoor time.
The Best Sun, Water and Corrosion Resistant Outdoor TVs
The Sylvox DECK series outdoor TV perform better than other outdoor TVs on the market. It has better sun protection, waterproof, anti-corrosion, anti-moisture, and scratch-resistant performance, it also has stronger heat dissipation of the TV inside, longer service life as well as a smoother system, and more genuine APPs.
Unique Thermal Technology
The Sylvox outdoor TVs can work stably under the hot sun with its 2 mm aluminum heat dissipation bar, Low power lamp with low heat Anti-exposure process, screen direct heat dissipation function, customized motherboard cooling system, Built-in adjustable fans and cabinet vent design.
Long Lasting
The internal circuit boards and main boards have undergone special protection treatment and are all coated with special paint, which is moisture resistant, anti-corrosion resistance and dust protection, ensuring the stability in the case of extreme environments.
True Waterproof TVs
The Sylvox deck series model is a truly waterproof outdoor TV, with IP55 waterproof and dust proof grade, and thanks to the excellent one-piece forming process, hidden waterproof splicing and opening, and professional waterproof adhesive bonding, it can work perfectly in heavy rain for a long time.
Other products with poor waterproof performance, such as rain or splashing water, may cause short circuits, damage to internal parts, and even electric shock.
Anti-Scratch Technology
The body of Sylvox outdoor TV adopts diamond paint anti-scratch coating, the advanced anti-scratch technology protects the TV body from metal scratches, it can be used 8 years still as new due to its scratch-resistant surface treatment, anti-corrosion, anti-oxidation, and no discoloration technology.
Other products with imperfect housing protection may be more prone to bumps, rust, discoloration, deformation and scratches in complex outdoor environments.
Thinner and lighter Outdoor TVs
The Sylvox outdoor TV adopt a lighter aluminum back panel and ultra-thin design process which make the product lighter and thinner, fits the wall more space-saving, and more beautiful.
Better Compatibility Streaming TVs
Sylvox outdoor TV adopt streaming technology, compatible with a variety of home entertainment devices, such as external DVD, MP4, speakers, etc., Realize the synchronous control and volume synchronous adjustment function of external devices, seamlessly connect your digital life into one.
Genuine Netflix license
Pre-install genuine Netflix, Pandora, Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, AccuWeather, Mirroacast RX, Vudu and other mainstream software.
Amazing Price
The third generation of Sylvox Outdoor TV, featuring two products of the DECK series and the upgraded QLED series, adopts the same fine manufacturing process.
The DECK series focuses on comprehensive quality improvement and is more cost-effective. On the basis of the advantages of the DECK series, the QLED series adds QLED display technology. The brightness and color saturation are 50% higher than traditional LED screens, which are more suitable for the pursuit of perfect display buyers.
For more information on Sylvox Outdoor TV, please visit
Sylvox Official website: https://www.sylvoxtv.com
Amazon Store: https://amzn.to/3qlZtv9
With the global release of Sylvox's third-generation models and two series, it marks that Sylvox will lead a new round of global outdoor TV technology innovation. Promote the development of the industry with the introduction of more innovative technologies and products. Sylvox will continue to provide users with the highest quality products and services, to achieve "create a better future,Your vision is everywhere".
About Sylvox
Sylvox is a global smart special TV development, manufacturing and Internet application development services company. They have accumulated more than 13 years of special TV industry, Their industry chain covers Europe, America, Africa, China, Japan.
Sylvox aims to provide users with multi-scene TVs solutions beyond the living room. Focus on home furnishing, commercial TVs, Including outdoor TVs, Bathroom TVs, Kitchen TVs, Fitness TVs, Dance and Game TVs, Bedroom farm TVs, Bedside lift TVs, Caravan TVs, Yacht TVs, Solar power TVs, Portable TVs, etc... To meet the needs of users anywhere at any time, Integrate the TV perfectly with the user's usage and home design, give the users a premium and comfortable experience at home and outdoor, enjoy watching TV anywhere at any time.
Sylvox stands out in special TV industry. On April 2021, Sylvox is trusted by Amazon as a supplier. Supplying Outdoor TVs, Waterproof TV, Caravan TV and others. Further development of global markets.
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CHANGZHOU, China, April 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Trina Solar has reached a remarkable milestone, having shipped 100GW of modules in the 25 years since the company was founded in 1997.
100GW, equivalent to planting 7.2 billion trees
Inspired by the signing of the Kyoto Protocol in 1997, Trina Solar was founded that year with its headquarters in China's Changzhou city, making it one of the world's earliest photovoltaic (PV) companies.
As a leading PV company, Trina Solar has been pioneering solar technology for the past 25 years, while the diameter of silicon wafers has grown from 125mm to 210mm and module power has grown from less than 100W to 690W.
PV power generation is a major source of clean energy deployed in many areas, from utility projects to household rooftops, around the world.
Trina Solar's 100GW of PV modules have been shipped to more than 100 countries.
Collectively, this 100GW of PV modules can generate about 135 billion kWh of clean-energy power, reducing annual global CO2 emissions by 135 million tons, and standard coal consumption by 54.54 million tons, the equivalent of planting 7.29 billion trees.
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As Oklahoma prepares for its 18th consecutive appearance in the NCAA semifinal, K.J. Kindler made one thing clear.
This year’s team is not in the same place as last season.
The Sooners’ narrowly missed out on their fifth championship last year, finishing second to Michigan by .0875 points. Though Kindler would’ve preferred her team win it all, it didn’t feel like a disappointment as the team battled adversity.
“It felt like a win for us,” the Sooners’ coach said. “It was really incredible because we had seven walk-on routines. We had health issues throughout the year. We really were almost down to no bar workers when we got to the national meet. We only had seven total, with Jordan Draper stepping in at the last minute and having to step in basically for the first time in her career."
Not only do the Sooners’ enter this year’s NCAA semifinal as the top overall seed, they boast the top-ranked bars lineup. They also rank no. 3 on beam, No. 4 on vault No. 5 on floor.
Plus, they’re mostly healthy, which is a big difference from last season.
“We’re in a different place this year,” Kindler said. “In terms of health, we’ve been incredible healthy… We have much better depth and we’re in a much better spot. If we need to dig into that depth, we’re ready… In total, we’re just a completely different team than we were last year. We have a lot of youth.”
The youth she mentioned is another key reason why this year’s team is different. Along with sophomore standouts Katherine LaVasseur, Audrey Davis and Bell Johnson, several freshmen have made a significant impact.
Jordan Bowers has been one of the more impressive freshmen in the country this season. She’s second on the team in points scored on vault and bars, third on floor and she leads the Sooners in total points scored. She competed in all four events in the Sooners’ first six meets, and she finished with a score of 9.900 or higher in all three events she competed in during the Sooners’ regional championship victory last month.
“I think for Jordan, her strong will and her desire to be the best she can be definitely stands out,” Kindler said.
Danae Fletcher has been a strong contributor for the Sooners in recent weeks, scoring a 9.950 on vault in the regional semifinal and a 9.900 on floor in the championship. Danielle Sievers competed in three events during regionals, posting a 9.920 on bars in the championship.
The success of this year's freshmen class is not surprising to Kindler.
“Our staff definitely knew that they would make a huge impact and obviously that was the plan going in,” Kindler said. “They certainly haven’t disappointed… They’re really, really amazing and as freshmen, they’ve done a lot. Danae had COVID at the beginning of the year and missed the first meet, so she had to recover from that physically to get her stamina back.
"(Sievers) had that little fracture in her foot. If not for those two things for those two women, they may be doing even more right now. I look at this class as one of the best we’ve brought in, with Jordan obviously on board. They’re going to be incredible down the line. Just look at what they’ve done as freshmen.”
The Sooners also have several seniors, including Olivia Trautmen and Carly Woodard, who have continued to be productive while helping lead the underclassmen.
“I think obviously experience can never be underestimated,” Kindler said. “Their experience, that’s what they're going to bring this weekend is calmness. You really have to be calm in these moments and not project too much importance on them because we’ve worked hard all season. This is the seventh season we’ve been the No. 1 team at the end of the regular season. We’ve done the work.”
The Sooners will face some familiar foes this week, including second-ranked Florida, No. 3 Michigan and no. 4 Utah. The Gators and the Utes were the only teams to knock off the Sooners during the regular season, which Kindler said helped her team grow.
“We’ve lost twice on the road to really incredible teams. Those were learning moments. We needed them and we still need them. Those pushed us forward this year. When we were on the road early on in the season against Utah, that was definitely a moment where we said, ‘We’ve got to change some things here.’”
The Sooners have earned another chance at a national championship, and there’s a lot of differences compared to last season.
Kindler’s excited to see how it will all unfold.
“I’m looking at a totally different group with a totally different dynamic,” Kindler said. “It’s not better or worse, just different and I’m just excited to see what they can do.”
The Sooners will compete in Thursday's semifinal at 12 p.m. in Fort Worth. If they place in the top two, they'll move on to Saturday's final at 12 p.m. | https://www.normantranscript.com/sports/ou-womens-gymnastics-compared-to-last-season-sooners-in-a-different-place-heading-into-national/article_6cb51104-bac5-11ec-a41a-63a0c05eb190.html | 2022-04-13T02:01:08 | 1 | https://www.normantranscript.com/sports/ou-womens-gymnastics-compared-to-last-season-sooners-in-a-different-place-heading-into-national/article_6cb51104-bac5-11ec-a41a-63a0c05eb190.html |
ESSEX, Md. — Three weeks ago, the state took over the troubled Back River Wastewater Treatment plant in Essex.
Tuesday evening, community members gathered for a public meeting to discuss what’s being done to fix the issues there moving forward.
MORE: Community to meet with experts about Back River issues
Since the state takeover, those community members have been hopeful the water quality would improve.
However, their faith is being tested.
The Back River Restoration committee found some solids floating in the water near the plant on Tuesday.
Community members are frustrated with the continued water problems.
“We actually get fish kill and polluted water," said community member Melody Arbaugh, who lives directly across from the Back River Wastewater Treatment Plant.
RELATED: Back River water quality impacting businesses, conservation efforts
Arbaugh was one of many community members who attended the public meeting in Essex about the troubled facility.
“It affects all of us, from local seafood that we consume, from the fishermen," Arbaugh said. "You’re out at a local restaurant, is it safe to know that it didn’t come out of any of these waters.”
Last month, a state inspection found extensive violation at the plant, including maintenance and operational issues, as well as pollutants being discharged into the Back River.
MORE: State takes control over Baltimore City's Back River Wastewater Treatment Plant
The violations and the continuous issues are what led the state to take over the facility.
“When we see what we saw it was disturbing. It was upsetting," said state Senator Johnny Ray Salling, who represents Baltimroe County.
MORE: Baltimore City asks judge to halt State's takeover of Back River Wastewater Plant
Salling said it’s now in the state budget for Back River to provide legislators bi-weekly reports on the changes made to improve the facility.
“We’re going to continue bi-weekly to make sure we get those reports and if anything in any shape or form changes for the worse, the people is going to know," Salling said. "There’s got to be transparency."
The state currently has a few employees at the Back River site to help get the facility back on track.
The state is also conducting a review on what needs to be done to get the plant into compliance.
That review is expected to be finished by June.
Arbaugh calls what’s happening "an environmental crisis," and she hopes it’s now a top priority for the city and state to fix the problems.
“Which requires immediate oversight to ensure, not telephone calls just to ensure operations, maintenance, all compliances," Arbaugh said. "Everything is in working order and doing what they’re supposed to keep the public and the environment safe.” | https://www.wmar2news.com/news/local-news/it-affects-all-of-us-public-meeting-held-on-troubled-back-river-wastewater-treatment-plant | 2022-04-13T02:12:06 | 0 | https://www.wmar2news.com/news/local-news/it-affects-all-of-us-public-meeting-held-on-troubled-back-river-wastewater-treatment-plant |
BALTIMORE — Back in October, WMAR-2 introduced you to Rosalind Bell.
The Greenmount West resident was living in her home without heat. Her walls were taken down to the studs. It was all the result of scammers following a weather-related event.
It’s been five months since Greenmount Community West, a Baltimore community, launched its campaign to fix the community elder’s home.
RELATED: Greenmount West Community Center launches campaign to rebuild senior's home
Raising $40,000, they’re nearing the final stages of the project.
“We learned a lot through this project,” he center’s executive director Kisha Webster. said. “We were getting a lot of high quotes and learned a lot of the money would be going towards labor.”
To help cut down on costs, contractors donated their time.
“We just had to buy the supplies,” Webster said. “The time people donated, offering their specialized skills. That was amazing.”
Volunteers have also been instrumental. From clearing out the house to painting, they've donated countless hours. A log list showed no less than five people coming down to help on any given day.
“Some days we have sign-in sheets full of names,” said Webster.
On Tuesday, core staff members were busy installing flooring in an upstairs bedroom.
“The funny thing is, they tell you laminate flooring is supposed to just a click,” joked Akilah McCrorey. “It’s not just a click!”
It’s at least a two-person team.
McCrorey had the help of Christopher Johnson. She lined up the flooring and Johnson used a rubber mallet to connect the flooring.
“Before this project I knew nothing about flooring,” McCrorey said. “Now I can do laminate flooring, tiling, it’s really been an experience.”
While the project is underway, Rosalind Bell has been staying in temporary housing, the cost paid for by the community center.
“She wasn’t able to be here today, she had a doctor’s appointment,” said a staff member.
“She has been so appreciative, expressing her joy. She’s been baking us food. I think that’s why we’ve all put on weight,” Webster joked. “She’s been baking a great deal for us as a form of showing her gratitude.”
While the project is for Bell, volunteers said they’ve taken valuable lessons away from the rebuild project.”
“Volunteers, they all come with different skills,” Johnson said. “I’ve learned so much and I’m looking forward to the celebration that comes next.”
“This has changed how Isee myself, how I see my community, how I see my responsibility to the people around me,” Kennedy McDaniel said. “It’s been life-changing.”
Volunteers are still needed for minor touch appliance installation, painting and touch-ups.
If you’d like to help with the project visit Greenmount West Community Center’s website here. | https://www.wmar2news.com/news/local-news/volunteers-work-to-restore-greenmount-west-following-scam | 2022-04-13T02:12:13 | 1 | https://www.wmar2news.com/news/local-news/volunteers-work-to-restore-greenmount-west-following-scam |
Kentucky's Governor Andy Beshear has officially signed a bill to toughen punishment for "swatting" in Kentucky.
Last year a story broke in Kentucky highlighting one couple's experience. Someone called in a fake report of violence at their home, drawing armed police straight to their door.
Lawmakers decided to do something this session in Kentucky, making it a crime punishable by jail time.
Governor Beshear signed their bill into law on Friday.
As CNN reported, "swatting" is a dangerous style of prank that has even affected some high profile celebrities like Justin Beiber, Kim Kardashian and Ashton Kutcher.
In December of 2017, 28-year-old Andrew Finch was killed by police in Kansas at his home when after a swatting prank, according to a police affidavit reported on by CNN.
As the New York Times reported, in April of 2020 a Tennessee man named Mark Herring was at his home at night when after someone called the police using a British accent and claiming to have shot a woman at Herring's address. Police soon after swarmed his home in the town of Bethpage.
Police drew their guns when they arrived to the home and told the 60-year-old computer programmer with six grandchildren to exit the home. As Herring was exiting the home he suffered a heart attack that he ultimately died from.
A 20-year-old was sentenced to 5 years in prison in connection to the prank call, the Times reported.
This story was originally published by WLEX in Lexington, Kentucky. | https://www.wmar2news.com/news/national/bill-that-would-make-swatting-a-felony-in-kentucky-becomes-law | 2022-04-13T02:12:19 | 1 | https://www.wmar2news.com/news/national/bill-that-would-make-swatting-a-felony-in-kentucky-becomes-law |
During a Tuesday Board of Education meeting, members discussed recent feedback regarding a committee suggestion to revise social studies standards by excluding LGBTQ references in the curriculum before students reach the 4th grade in Colorado classrooms.
According to the committee, the state has received 17,344 items of feedback regarding the issue.
While some board members said the suggestion is a threat to equity, others supported the suggestion and said teachers should not have to teach gender identity.
“The problem is not inclusion or exclusion. But whether the discussion of sex in its various forms is appropriate for Kindergarteners. I think most parents would conclude that a public discussion in front of Kindergarteners of sex is not appropriate,” Board member Steve Durham said. “Leaving these kinds of discussions of sex out of our classrooms does not inflame the divisions, it makes the discussion of those issues more relevant and more appropriate at a later age.”
Durham also said conversations about gender identity and sex should be led by parents, not teachers.
But other board members said including references to the LGBTQ community in the curriculum has nothing to do with sexual acts.
“Even when we talk about mom and dad, we don't go into sexual education. We just say there's a mom and a dad. If you say this family has two dads, you're just saying there are two dads. It's a gender identification, it is not sexual education,” Board member Karla Esser said. “I think it's very important for every kid to see themselves in the curriculum. It has nothing to do with sexual education.”
Northfield High School student Jude Ruscha identifies as gay and uses they/them pronouns. Ruscha said if the state board decides to exclude LGBTQ references from the curriculum for lower grades, it will further isolate students like them.
“I think that not only is the suggestion unnecessary, but it's also actually harmful. When kids are exposed to differences at a young age, it helps them understand and develop more empathy,” Ruscha said. “The queer community does more than just have sex. We’ve made history, we have accomplishments. You don't have to teach kids about sex to teach about queer people. It's not just a sexual orientation.”
But other parents wrote to the school board and said LGBTQ references will likely lead to discussions about sex.
In a letter to the school board, a mother of three Douglas County School District students said, “I understand that students come from diverse home life. But again, these topics belong between parents and their children at home.”
Nadine Bridges, the executive director of One Colorado, an LGBTQ advocacy organization, said inclusivity means including everyone in the curriculum.
“The thing about our country is that we're not a monolith. We are representative of every identity out there, whether that's around disability, LGBTQ issues, women. And just like any discussion, we want to make sure that we are holistically representing everyone who has contributed to the United States,” Bridges said.
The state school board will meet again to set aside time for public comment.
This story was originally published by Micah Smith of KMGH in Denver, Colorado. | https://www.wmar2news.com/news/national/board-of-education-debates-removing-lgbtq-topics-from-classrooms-until-4th-grade-in-colorado | 2022-04-13T02:12:25 | 1 | https://www.wmar2news.com/news/national/board-of-education-debates-removing-lgbtq-topics-from-classrooms-until-4th-grade-in-colorado |
A judge is accused of more than 100 serious incidents of misconduct, and her team went before the Ohio Supreme Court Tuesday morning. Her defense for her misbehavior? Menopause and sleep apnea caused a generalized anxiety disorder.
Cleveland Municipal Court Judge Pinkey Susan Carr is accused of these incidents from the end 2017 to 2020. Most notable among them is her issuing of arrest warrants for defendants who didn't appear for court during the government-issued stay-at-home order during the pandemic. She also allegedly jailed defendants without "suitable" reason, according to a 58-page report filed with the Supreme Court of Ohio by the Board of Professional Conduct.
"There is no question that the conduct engaged in by Judge Pinkey Carr was egregious and it lasted for a period of approximately two years," Cleveland attorney Nicholas Froning said.
It may seem Froning is arguing on behalf of the Office of Disciplinary Counsel in its case against Carr, but you would be wrong. She has admitted to many of her wrongdoings so the argument is no longer "did she commit the allegations" but rather, "why did she do it?"
The court has established three offices— Office of Disciplinary Counsel, Board of Professional Conduct, and the Lawyers' Fund for Client Protection. Each of these has its own role under the Disciplinary System for the Supreme Court of Ohio and the Ohio Judicial System. The Disciplinary Counsel investigates allegations and initiates complaints concerning ethical misconduct and/or mental illness of judges or attorneys.
Carr is accused of dozens of instances of misconduct over two years that fall into five broad categories and counts:
- Issuance Capiases and False Statements
- Ex Parte Communications, Improper Plea Bargaining, Arbitrary Dispositions
- Improper use of Capiases and Bond to Compel Payment of Fines and Court Costs
- Public Confidence, Lack of Decorum and Dignity Consistent with Judicial Office
- Abuse of Contempt Power and Failure to Recuse
Read about the allegations below.
The main argument that Froning made was that the board didn't follow the law in the application of the "contribution standard." The lawyer argued about the wording of the board's analysis, citing that the board didn't apply the legal standard required in determining if Judge Carr's disorders contributed to cause the misconduct. The board used words such as "attribution" or "causal link."
"Causation defined is 'expresses or implies a cause,'" Froning said, explaining the difference to the justices when one asked. "It's a cause and effect relationship, whereas a contribution — contribute is defined as tending to bring a result."
The back-and-forth continued between the court and the attorney on the rhetoric.
"It's written 'the determination that, the, that the disorders contributed to cause the misconduct," he said. "And in so, in its, in the panel report, in its 58 page report, the panel discusses attribute, discusses a causal link, but does not utilize the word contribution in its analysis."
After the fourth question trying to figure out why contribution isn't a subset of causation, the justices seemed frustrated. For clarity, the disorders Froning is referring to are menopause and sleep apnea.
"How did this contribution cause five people to spend 28 days in jail?" asked Patrick Fischer, one of the court justices.
"The issue here is that her treaters were mis— essentially mistreating the conditions, causing there to be counteracting issues," the attorney responded. "So when it comes to sleep apnea, she was unable to get the sleep necessary. When it comes to the menopause, she was dealing with issues wherein she wasn't able to function to 100%."
Fischer didn't seem to buy it.
"How does sleep apnea or menopause contribute to lying?" he asked.
"Well, it it affects her, her, her, her mood; it affects her ability to think," Froning said. "Clearly, it affected numerous areas of her life....Everyone reacts differently. One of the arguments of the panel and the board is that thousands of lawyers have suffered from sleep apnea and/or menopause and not engaged in misconduct. I would agree with that. The issue is that everyone reacts differently if we think about."
She was already being treated at this point, so Carr misled her lawyer, her character witnesses and her therapists to make her misconduct appear less serious, Fischer said. It was considered with her lies to the judge and the media early on. These lies, to the lawyer and therapist, demonstrated disturbing dishonesty that pervades response behavior in this case, he added while reading from the board's report.
"Connect, please, the sleep apnea or menopause to those actions," Fischer said, digging his heels in.
It's their expert in this matter that shared those disorders contributed to cause misconduct, Froning said. The rule calls for a qualified health care professional to to make these opinions, and this expert, Dr. Jason R. Riebe, Psy.D., was given great credibility by the Panel and board, he claimed.
"The reality of it is, is that while the board treated Dr. Riebe with the respect that he deserved, they completely eviscerated his credibility based upon several factors," said Joseph Caligiuri, the attorney representing the Office of Disciplinary Counsel. "There was a pervasive pattern of dishonesty in this case; the board found that his opinions were of limited utility in this particular case."
There was a conflict of interest because of the dual roles the psychologist undertook in this case, Caligiuri said. He started out as an objective forensic psychologist who was there to give advice and testimony, and within a month of authoring his report, he transitioned to be Carr's treating clinician in which he was obligated to do his client no harm, the attorney added.
Chief Justice Maureen O'Connor brought up that Riebe didn't read the record, who admitted to only glancing at the reports and the seven hours of video.
"When he responded to the amount of video that he watched, I believe it's in the record, it says somewhere between 15 and 30 minutes," Froning said. "But when when questioned further on that, he said it might have been longer."
O'Connor then asked if it was 31 minutes, instead.
"Relator [the Board of Professional Conduct] provided him well in advance of seven hours and 38 minutes of video, and there was simply no reason for him not to have viewed the entirety of those videos," Caligiuri said.
During the testimony, Riebe had no idea about the issues involving Carr and a 20-year-old-woman, name A.B. in court documents, who was held in contempt of court and thrown in jail for 15 days, the attorney said.
A.B. was arguably the most extreme example of misconduct, referenced in the Board's document as Count V, Abuse of Contempt Power and Failure to Recuse. A.B. was charged with assault, a first-degree misdemeanor, and disorderly conduct, a fourth-degree misdemeanor, for allegedly assaulting a 16-year-old girl.
"For reasons that are not clear from the video record of the arraignment, Respondent [Carr] took an immediate dislike to A.B."
Carr admitted that she charged A.B. with the first contempt citation for "rolling her eyes and her comments in the lockup," she said during an August 2021 disciplinary hearing. The judge "admitted to antagonizing A.B. from the bench, acting in a rude and discourteous manner, and instigating the incident that led to A.B.'s second contempt citation."
Read the relevant section on pages 26-37 of the complaint filed against Carr below:
Complaint against Judge Pinkey Susan Carr by Wews WebStaff on Scribd
Caligiuri then brought back up the whole causation—contribution issue.
"He says, 'well, you can't just mix these words together, causation and contribution,'" the attorney said. "But that overlooks an obvious fact, and that is that the rule itself contains both of those words — it contributes to cause the misconduct.
"And that's exactly the standard that the board applied in evaluating Dr. Riebe's diagnosis and the misconduct," Caligiuri said. "And of course, again, even if you were to accept that argument, Dr. Riebe himself admitted that there was no contribution or causation or however you want to describe it with regard to the lying and the lying was such a huge portion of this case, so it cannot be overlooked."
He also cited numerous other cases in which this court used those terms interchangeably.
"There is absolutely no reason to remand this case," Caligiuri said. "First of all, even if this court were to entertain respondent's argument, the record is completely developed. There's no reason to send it back. The respondent presented her complete picture of mitigation to the board. So if this court wanted to adopt this argument in its de novo review, you can simply apply the facts that have already been developed in the record. Of course, I would suggest that there's no reason to accept respondent's argument, but there's definitely no reason for a remand counsel."
That being said, Carr did cooperate in the sense that she entered into complete stipulations during her examination, he added. She admitted to all the factual allegations and all of the 25 different rule violations and did seem to express genuine remorse, he said.
"When you look at the volume of misconduct, we feel that given the fact that she is addressing her mental health issues and she ultimately did stipulate and come around on the misconduct here, that two years would be a sufficient sanction that would not only recognize her misconduct, but also just deter other members of our judiciary from engaging in a similar type of misconduct," he added. "But there's no question that the recommendation between two years and indefinite was very thin."
In an interview after the hearing, Froning said he is confident that the court will take the appropriate amount of time to review and hopes that they ultimately remand the matter, give Judge Carr the full mitigate of credit for her mental health disorder or suspend her for 24 months with 18 months stayed on the conditions outlined throughout this case.
The decision is in the Supreme Court's hands now.
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— Morgan Trau (@MorganTrau) April 12, 2022
I’m at the OH Supreme Court hearing for Cleveland Municipal Judge Pinkey Carr.
She is accused of 100+ instances of misconduct, including issuing warrants for those who didn’t appear for court during the government-issued stay-at-home order in the pandemic.@WEWS pic.twitter.com/OtXWDovCB1
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While more affordable housing is being built in areas like Kentucky, some people are still trying to navigate the process of finding an affordable place to live right now. Pamela Morel says she’s been trying to find housing using her section 8 housing choice voucher in Winchester since August.
"There is absolutely nothing for rent in Winchester-no three bedrooms,” said Morel.
With the housing choice voucher, people who qualify and meet certain requirements can choose to have some or all their rent paid for by the federal government. However, for months Morel says she's had no luck trying to use her voucher in Winchester to move her family of five to a three-bedroom home that they can afford.
She says she’s also had no luck trying to transfer her voucher to use in Lexington. She’s struggling to figure out why.
“Nobody has answers,” said Morel. “If you have a question about portability about anything, nobody has the answers. They'll give you a cut and dry like well you have to fill out this paperwork."
Shay Lamarr with the Fair Housing Council says they heard from and have tried to help several frustrated tenants navigate the program.
“We get calls every single day about people. Can you help me? I can't find a place that's going to take my voucher. The landlord refused me,” said Lamarr. “There is indeed a serious problem with the availability of housing for people who go on Section 8 vouchers."
Morel is currently in the portability process to expand her options from Winchester to Lexington. Lamarr says that the process can take time.
“There is not just the issue of transferring the vouchers, although that is a huge obstacle for people. There's also the issue of the time stamp on the vouchers. There's a limited amount of time that people have to use them and the process for getting them extended is very difficult,” said Lamarr.
The timestamp for Morel is winding down. After filing an extension, she has until April 30 to find a unit before her voucher expires. If that happens, she’ll have to rejoin a waitlist.
The manager of Lexington's program, Aldean Pleasant says the federal program operates as a choice for tenants. They can choose to wait out the process and do the work to find a landlord willing to work with them. Some choose to find other housing options instead.
“It's called the Housing Choice Voucher and that's what we tell our clients you know, it's a choice. Housing Choice Voucher. So, it's your choice if they find their own unit. You know, they decide, can they pay utilities, or do they want a landlord to pay the utilities. All those things are negotiable with the landlord,” said Pleasant.
Pleasant says there are around 3,500 people in the program with active vouchers and most of their participants are not experiencing any issues or problems with their system.
Right now, Pleasant says there is a closed waitlist of 800 people the Lexington housing authority is working through. They've been able to move 30-40 people off per month with an average wait time of a few months.
Pleasant says what can make the process complicated for some is a lack of understanding of the process and what’s expected of the applicant.
Tenants are largely responsible for navigating the paperwork and finding their own housing.
Local public housing authorities don’t have the power to change the program-just administer the funds and assure each participant- landlord, and tenant are aware of their role and guidelines.
The process typically looks like this after a tenant receives a housing voucher:
- Tenants given around 120 days to search
- Must find a unit that accepts housing voucher
- Fill out lease packet with participating landlord
- Turn the packet into the housing authority
The process can take time.
"Sometimes just given the sheer number of people on Section 8 getting through the phone lines getting to caseworkers, things like that can be really, really challenging,” said Lamarr.
That’s why Morel is trying to use her resources and reach out to whoever she can get the answers she needs before time runs out. She believes her disability and supplemental income may have something to do with the confusion.
"One person points you to another, points you to another. You run around in circles until your voucher runs out,” said Morel.
While Section 8 housing vouchers and affordable housing are not the same, they both exist to help low-income renters. Low-income renters can apply for affordable housing instead of using their voucher if they choose to and can find a unit.
The mayor's office says they are focused on improving the availability of affordable housing and have already invested a total investment of $350 million in affordable housing in the community leveraging $23.6 million in government funds.
“Almost 3,000 additional families have a clean, safe, affordable place to live because of the work we have done in affordable housing since 2014. This year we have dedicated an additional $10 million in federal funds, plus $3.5 million in local funds, to build or rehabilitate affordable housing, plus additional funds for rental assistance. Since it was created in 2014, the City’s Affordable Housing Fund has provided funding to for-profit and non-profit developers for the creation and preservation of 2,933 units of affordable housing,” said Susan Straub, Director of Communications.
As far as the work going on now to help those looking for affordable housing, Housing Commissioner Charlie Lanter says progress is being made.
Lanter says the Housing Advocate position is scheduled to go to Council for approval at the end of this month. They hope to advertise in May and have someone in the position in June.
“The first employee of the office other than myself started last week and she has not yet started work on a housing resource solution, but it is on our project list. The Housing Advocate will be an important part of that project. Designing and implementing this solution will be a complex project and likely take some time. In the meantime, we continue to provide citizens with all the information and support we have available about affordable housing resources in the community,” said Lanter.
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Americans are increasingly facing outrageous totals at checkout counters. What's to blame? Those in the financial sector say record inflation, sitting at 8.5%.
To combat the high prices, lawmakers across the U.S. have been stepping in to help.
In Tennessee, Governor Bill Lee has a plan to freeze state and local grocery taxes. That's 4%, plus whatever the local government may tack on, which will disappear from store receipts. In Pennsylvania, they're looking into a property tax subsidy.
In Minnesota, New Mexico, Kansas and California lawmakers are mulling over an idea to send checks to residents to cover the cost of high inflation. Edward Mitchell has two teenagers and says it's hard to make his groceries stretch. He says we're not just in troubling times, we're in struggling times.
"I come here [Family Dollar] at least twice a week due to the fact economically it's better," Mitchell said. "I've went [sic] from Ralph's to different stores, from Wal-Mart to stores like the 99 cent store and things of this nature just because of the economy and affording it."
Economist Mike Bailey blames price hikes on multiple factors.
"Really, the three core drivers have been energy, you think investors. You pay at the pump. You're seeing that. Goods prices. So it costs money to transport things ... and then housing. Certainly, I think a lot of folks are aware of a hot housing market," Bailey said.
But like most good things, this relief will come to an end. The temporary tax freeze in Tennessee is only proposed to be around for a month. This has some people asking for more.
"I really think they need to go further and look at doing away with grocery tax," said grocery shopper John Griffith.
High prices may be hard to swallow now, but economists say with legislation to soften the blow, there's a chance this uptick in price could slowly go down.
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AP source: DOJ denies panel details in Trump records probe
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department declined a request this week from the House oversight committee to disclose the contents of records that former President Donald Trump took to his Florida residence after leaving the White House, according to a person familiar with the matter.
The move could serve as a setback for Democrats on the House Committee on Oversight and Reform as it was ramping up its investigation into Trump’s handling of sensitive and even classified information during his time as president and after he left the White House. It remains unclear what implications the decision could have for the panel’s probe, which was announced in March.
The Justice Department’s decision is part of an effort to protect confidential information that may compromise an ongoing investigation, according to the person, who was not authorized to discuss the matter by name and spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity. The development was first reported Tuesday by The Washington Post.
The National Archives had referred the matter of Trump’s handling of those records to the Justice Department earlier this year. Because of that, the DOJ is asking the National Archives not to share information related directly to it, including the contents of the 15 boxes that Trump took to his Mar-a-Lago residence.
The notice to the committee comes days after its chair, Rep. Carolyn Maloney, D-N.Y., accused the Justice Department of “obstructing” the panel’s expanded investigation by preventing the release of information from the National Archives.
The Justice Department has not formally announced it is investigating Trump’s handling of the records, but letters between the committee and the department seem to indicate that investigators are taking steps toward it.
A spokesperson for the Justice Department declined a request for comment Tuesday.
In addition, the FBI has taken steps to begin examining the potential mishandling of classified information related to the documents in the boxes, according to two other people familiar with the investigation who were not authorized to discuss it by name and spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity. It wasn’t clear exactly what work investigators had done so far or what additional steps they were planning to take.
In a letter to the National Archives last month, Maloney made a series of requests for information she said the committee needs to determine if Trump violated federal records laws over his handling of sensitive and even classified information. In response, the general counsel for the archivist wrote on March 28 that “based on our consultation with the Department of Justice, we are unable to provide any comment.”
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Associated Press writers Michael Balsamo and Eric Tucker in Washington contributed to this report.
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Elon Musk accused of breaking law while buying Twitter stock
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Elon Musk’s huge Twitter investment took a new twist Tuesday with the filing of a lawsuit alleging that the colorful billionaire illegally delayed disclosing his stake in the social media company so he could buy more shares at lower prices.
The complaint in New York federal court accuses Musk of violating a regulatory deadline to reveal he had accumulated a stake of at least 5%. Instead, according to the complaint, Musk didn’t disclose his position in Twitter until he’d almost doubled his stake to more than 9%. That strategy, the lawsuit alleges, hurt less wealthy investors who sold shares in the San Francisco company in the nearly two weeks before Musk acknowledged holding a major stake.
Musk’s regulatory filings show that he bought a little more than 620,000 shares at $36.83 apiece on Jan. 31 and then continued to accumulate more shares on nearly every single trading day through April 1. Musk, best known as CEO of the electric car maker Tesla, held 73.1 million Twitter shares as of the most recent count Monday. That represents a 9.1% stake in Twitter.
The lawsuit alleges that by March 14, Musk’s stake in Twitter had reached a 5% threshold that required him to publicly disclose his holdings under U.S. securities law by March 24. Musk didn’t make the required disclosure until April 4.
That revelation caused Twitter’s stock to soar 27% from its April 1 close to nearly $50 by the end of April 4′s trading, depriving investors who sold shares before Musk’s improperly delayed disclosure the chance to realize significant gains, according to the lawsuit filed on behalf of an investor named Marc Bain Rasella. Musk, meanwhile, was able to continue to buy shares that traded in prices ranging from $37.69 to $40.96.
The lawsuit is seeking to be certified as a class action representing Twitter shareholders who sold shares between March 24 and April 4, a process that could take a year or more.
Musk spent about $2.6 billion on Twitter stock — a fraction of his estimated wealth of $265 billion, the largest individual fortune in the world. In a regulatory filing Monday, Musk disclosed he may increase his stake after backing out of an agreement reached last week to join Twitter’s board of directors.
Jacob Walker, one of the lawyers that filed the lawsuit against Musk, told The Associated Press that he hadn’t reached out to the Securities and Exchange Commission about Musk’s alleged violations about the disclosure of his Twitter stake. “I assume the SEC is well aware of what he did,” Walker said.
An SEC spokesperson declined to comment.
The SEC and Musk have been wrangling in court since 2018 when Musk and Tesla agreed to pay a $40 million fine to settle allegations that he used his Twitter account to mislead investors about a potential buyout of the electric car company that never materialized. As part of that deal, Musk was supposed to obtain legal approval for his tweets about information that could affect Tesla’s stock price — a provision that regulators contend he has occasionally violated and that he now argues unfairly muzzles him.
Musk didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment posted on Twitter, where he often shares his opinion and thoughts. Alex Spiro, a New York lawyer representing Musk in his ongoing dispute with the SEC, also didn’t immediately respond to a query from The Associated Press.
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Fire south of Wymore now 80 percent contained
LINCOLN, Neb. (KOLN) - A controlled burn spread into a working fire south of Wymore on Tuesday, but officials say the fire is now roughly 80 percent contained.
According to Wymore Fire and Rescue Fire Chief Mark Meints, the controlled burn spread due to the high winds, burning roughly 2 and a half miles along Highway 8 between South 10th and South 23rd streets.
Meints said the fire was stopped just before reaching the Big Indian Creek Reservoir.
Wymore Fire Department, Blue Springs Volunteer Fire Department, Odell Fire Department, Beatrice Rural Fire Department, and Barneston Rural Volunteer Fire Department all helped fighting the fire throughout the day on Tuesday.
Meints said crews were forced to take a break from fighting the fire due to severe weather that rolled through on Tuesday night.
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Former teacher accused of raping student several times over two years
BROOKLINE, Mass. (Gray News) - A former Massachusetts teacher was arrested Monday and facing several charges in connection with an alleged sexual assault against a student.
The Brookline Police Department reported it arrested 36-year-old Larry Chen after a former student told officers about sexual assaults that occurred over the course of two years.
Chen was a teacher in Brookline, Massachusetts, from 2013 through his resignation in 2018, according to police. The sexual assaults allegedly occurred in a classroom at the Heath School in Brookline, starting in 2016 and continuing into 2018.
According to police, the accuser was a student of Chen’s and was 12 years old when the abuse allegedly started.
Authorities said Chen is charged with 18 counts of aggravated statutory rape, rape of a child under the age of 16, indecent assault and battery on a person under 14.
Brookline police said Chen has an active tutoring business called School Beyond School LLC, and a warrant was requested for his arrest.
Anyone with additional information about Chen or the case was asked to contact Brookline police at 617-730-2222.
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Police warn parents of scary ‘Huggy Wuggy’ character in children’s media online
(Gray News) – While Disney may offer plenty of movies, videos and games that are safe for unsupervised children, not all kids’ content is as safe as it seems.
Police are now warning the parents of susceptible kids of a fearsome character that has been making its way into content geared towards children.
The Lafayette County Sheriff’s Office in Wisconsin looked at the origins of “Huggy Wuggy” and shared their findings in a post on Facebook.
The character, which resembles a lanky, blue-furred teddy bear with razor sharp teeth, comes from a recent survival horror video game called “Poppy Playtime.”
In the game, the player controls the former employee of an abandoned toy factory, who has come back to the company’s location to investigate what happened to all of the staff who mysteriously vanished.
As the player explores, their character encounters various enemies, including Huggy Wuggy.
The game was originally rated for ages 8 and above but was updated to 12 or above for containing scary images and scenarios, such as toys coming to life and wanting to harm the children they belong to.
The character has made its way from this independently developed video game into fan-made videos on websites like YouTube.
The sheriff’s office says the videos they want to warn parents about are featured on a number of YouTube channels, including those on this list compiled by the sheriff’s office:
- GameToons
- SamToons
- GH’s
- Monster School Story
- Game My
- Secret4Studio
- HornStromp 3D
- Siren Studio
- Bunny Games
- Slime Channel
The sheriff’s office says the videos include, but are not limited to, offensive language, cartoon representations of alcohol use, blood, stabbings, decapitations, attempted murder, murder and the bloody aftermath of a car crash.
Police are urging parents to monitor their children’s use of YouTube and other video sharing social media platforms for content that may be inappropriate or too intense for their viewing.
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State Climatologist: Dry spring brings ideal fire conditions to Nebraska
LINCOLN, Neb. (KOLN) - Right now, 98% of Nebraska is experiencing drought conditions, and as spring rolls on that’s expected to continue.
Experts said the recent massive wildfire in central Nebraska isn’t surprising and there’s a possibility of more in the coming weeks.
That fire in south-central Nebraska took over about 35,000 acres and still isn’t fully contained. Nebraska’s State Climatologist Martha Shulski said this spring is proving to be perfect conditions for fire.
“Combined with the windy days when a spark does happen it’s gonna be very difficult to control fires,” Shulski said. “THey’re going to get out of control pretty easily and pretty quickly.”
Shulski said looking ahead while fires may not exactly be the new normal for spring, Nebraskans should expect to see more variables in potential weather, that are more intense.
“Extreme weather conditions will be in play for us,” Shulski said. “And that’s something that we need to think about and consider and even looking at what was a typical fire weather season that’s going to be changed.”
Shulski said it’s important to keep in mind how varying Nebraska’s weather can be, especially during this time of year. So a long wet spell would help us catch up and be back on track for our normal wet season, which typically starts this month.
“So if we can even get normal rainfall we would be in a little bit better condition,” Shulski said. “We would like to see above-normal rainfall but I don’t know how likely that is to happen.”
As for what you can do, awareness is key. From driving a stake into the ground to hitting a pothole, and beyond is now something you should be paying close attention to.
“Really be cognisant of the conditions around you and anything that might cause a spark could result in something that is very, very dangerous because we are so dry,” Shulski said.
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‘We haven’t received a dime’: New homeowners say squatters have taken over their house
LAS VEGAS (KVVU) - A Las Vegas-area family says squatters have taken over a home they recently purchased.
A four-bedroom, 2,700-square-foot home was supposed to be a dream home for Jen Larsen, her mother, Donna Edmonds, and three kids, but it has turned into nothing short of a nightmare.
“My mom and I decided to buy a house together about two months ago because both of our rents were going to go up dramatically, about $500 apiece,” Larsen said.
But someone they say isn’t paying the mortgage on their new home is inside their property and not leaving.
“We gave the seller seven days to move out because they said they needed the money from the sale of the house to move everything out,” Larsen said.
However, during that week, Larsen and her mother said somehow somebody else moved in and has lived in the home ever since.
“The two of us scrimped and scraped to get this, and we were so excited. Now, I can’t eat. I can’t sleep. It’s been really stressful,” Edmonds said.
The women have a deed for the property with a closing date of March 4, but they have never been able to occupy the home.
FOX5 reports a news crew went to the home’s front door to ask the people living inside for their side of the story, but no one answered while the crew was there.
A woman at the property later emailed FOX5, writing she has a legal lease with the home’s former owner that runs until July 2. However, a copy of the lease was not immediately shared.
“My kids and I will be homeless. Meanwhile, this woman is living in the home that we paid for and living there for free. We haven’t received a dime,” Larsen said.
Larsen and her mother did not immediately report if they have notified authorities.
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EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) — Longer-than-average wait times and the subsequent supply chain disruptions are due to additional and “unnecessary inspections” being conducted by the Texas Department of Public Safety at the order of Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, U.S. Customs and Border Protection said Tuesday.
CBP said the additional border truck inspection process is not necessary to protect the safety and security of Texas communities and is resulting in significant impacts to local supply chains that “will impact consumers and businesses nationally,” adding that local trade associations, officials, and businesses are requesting the Texas state government discontinue them.
CBP said the delays are unrelated to CBP screening activities.
Several ports of entry remained closed on Tuesday, including the Pharr-Reynosa International Bridge in Pharr, Texas, and the Ysleta Port of Entry in El Paso, and even the Santa Teresa Port of Entry in New Mexico.
Mexican truck drivers created blockades to protest the inspections, prompting officials to close some Texas ports of entry.
The federal agency explained that CBP comprehensively inspects and clears all vehicles to enter the United States. However, DPS is inspecting the same vehicles once they exitthe federal inspection are, leading to traffic disruptions and “critical impacts to an already-strained supply chain.”
CBP said commercial traffic has dropped by as much as 60 percent at Texas border crossings, with truck drivers facing wait times exceeding five hours at some border crossings.
“Every day, at ports of entry, the employees of U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s (CBP) Office of Field Operations (OFO) are at work for the American people ensuring the efficient flow of lawful trade and travel that is so vital to a strong economy, while enforcing hundreds of different laws for multiple federal, state, and local agencies,” CBP said in a statement. “The ports of entry along our Southwest border allow for the continuous flow of legitimate trade and travel, which is critical to our nation’s economic stability and vibrancy, but they also are the frontline of defense against threats posed by transnational criminal organizations (TCOs). Our efforts ensure shipments of perishable goods, like fruits, vegetables and meat products destined to grocery stores, medical supplies and medicines reach doctor’s offices and hospitals and manufacturing supplies reach plants to keep them open. The movement of these goods are vital not only to communities along the border but across the United States as these goods are used across every business sector and industry in the U.S. The strength of the American economy relies heavily on the efficient flow of cross-border commerce.” | https://www.wane.com/border-report-tour/cbp-texas-governors-unnecessary-inspections-are-causing-delays-at-ports-of-entry/ | 2022-04-13T02:18:22 | 1 | https://www.wane.com/border-report-tour/cbp-texas-governors-unnecessary-inspections-are-causing-delays-at-ports-of-entry/ |
EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) – With two-thirds of the U.S. trade with Mexico passing through Texas, no state stands to lose more from disruptions in binational commerce flow, experts say.
Yet Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is exacerbating supply chain issues by ordering stepped-up truck inspections at the Mexican border that delay produce getting to market and are idling Texas-based logistics, trucking and warehousing operations, they note.
“Close to 75-80 percent of all imported vegetables come from Mexico and about 50 percent of all imported fruit. […] Then you have transportation and sorting operations, so for every dollar in value of produce that comes through from Mexico, 13 cents stays” in Texas, said Luis A. Ribera, director of the Center for North American Studies at Texas A&M University.
Truckers on Friday began reporting delays of up to 12 hours to cross from Mexico to the United States in ports of entry from El Paso to Pharr, Texas. That coincided with the start of the Enhanced Border Inspection program by the Texas Department of Transportation. Mexican truckers responded by blocking commercial lanes in Pharr, El Paso and Santa Teresa, New Mexico. The obstruction continued through Tuesday evening.
These delays are already impacting produce prices and depriving U.S. factories of imported parts used in the production of anything from cars to computers.
“It creates a lot of uncertainty. Even just with the perception of something happening, prices will react,” Ribera said. “The overall take is producers and brokers and a lot of industry in Texas and the U.S. are suffering. Nobody wins with this situation. It will take time to figure out the exact economic impact. As of right now, this is a no-win situation for everyone.”
Abbott directed DPS to effect enhanced border inspections in response to the federal government announcing the end of the Title 42 order that allowed border agents to expel 1.7 million unauthorized migrants on public health grounds. DPS officials have set up shop immediately north of U.S. Customs and Border Protection inspection areas and are checking trucks coming over from Mexico for concealed drugs, migrants or safety violations.
CBP on Tuesday called such secondary inspections “unnecessary” and one political science expert said they likely won’t make a dent in either drug trafficking or unauthorized migration but will hurt businesses that include some of his political supporters.
“Greg Abbott has made the argument that he is in disagreement with the Biden administration ending Title 42 […] He has responded in a way he thought was appropriate, but which essentially is creating an international crisis,” said Tony Payan, director of the Center for U.S.-Mexico Studies at Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy.
Greg Abbott has made the argument that he is in disagreement with the Biden administration ending Title 42 […] He has responded in a way he thought was appropriate, but which essentially is creating an international crisis.”
Tony Payan, director of the Center for U.S.-Mexico Studies at Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy
The DPS inspections are “an open confrontation” with the Biden administration Abbott believes will bring attention to an immigration issue he’s pushing with his Republican base in an election year, Payan said.
“Texas has been throwing millions of dollars for several years now at the border by mobilizing the National Guard and DPS and that investment of Texas taxpayers’ dollars has not paid off. Nothing makes me believe what the governor is doing today will make a difference on immigration or drug smuggling,” he said.
Payan said election polls show Abbott with a slight advantage over Democratic rival Beto O’Rourke heading into the November general election.
Border Report contacted Abbott’s office for comment but was referred to DPS. The state police agency had previously sent this reporter a statement saying it doesn’t discuss operational details.
“It’s a manufactured crisis. The governor doesn’t want to talk to Joe Biden, he doesn’t want to talk to the federal government, he doesn’t want to negotiate. He’s in a confrontational mode,” Payan said.
But a third party has joined the fray, and that’s bringing uncertainty to the outcome. Mexican truckers in Reynosa and in Juarez have taken the law into their own hands and blocked access to U.S. ports of entry until they get assurances they won’t be made to wait half a day to cross the border. Payan said the truckers likely have the backing of their companies, who are the ones enduring economic losses from delivery delays.
“The governor is creating bottlenecks and affecting the entire supply chain and binational trade. Companies are unhappy about that,” he said. The truckers and their employers are upping the ante to force a quick solution. “They’re saying, we’re going to close the ports of entry and maybe the governor will hear from his constituents how he’s hurting the state economy.”
Payan said the conflict will drag out for at least a few days. “I don’t’ see any sign of political negotiation between the governor and the federal government. It’s eventually going to fizzle out as I don’t think the governor can maintain this very long. He’s going to be hurting the Texas economy,” he said. | https://www.wane.com/border-report-tour/election-year-politics-behind-border-trucking-crisis-analyst-says/ | 2022-04-13T02:18:28 | 1 | https://www.wane.com/border-report-tour/election-year-politics-behind-border-trucking-crisis-analyst-says/ |
SANTA TERESA, New Mexico (Border Report) – New Mexico industry officials late Tuesday persuaded Mexican truckers to lift a blockade at the commercial lanes of the Santa Teresa port of entry that began earlier that day.
Truckers in North-Central and Northeast Mexico are unhappy with increased wait times at U.S. ports of entry that coincided with the start of the Enhanced Border Inspection program by the Texas Department of Public Safety. The truckers as of late Tuesday afternoon were blocking access to ports of entry in Pharr and El Paso, Texas.
“We had some state officials cross the border, talk to the protesters and explain to them this is a different state. Santa Teresa is not part of Texas; we don’t adhere to the policies being enacted by (Texas) Gov. Greg Abbott,” said Jerry Pacheco, president and CEO of the Border Industrial Association.
The port was to remain open through 8 p.m. on Tuesday and through 10 p.m. on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday — two hours longer than usual — to accommodate pent up demand, Pacheco said.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection says commercial wait times have shot up since April 8, but not because of more stringent federal inspections at ports of entry. In a news release issued late Tuesday, CBP said the delays are the result of “unnecessary” secondary inspections being done by Texas DPS.
The confusion has been exacerbated by early press reports in Mexico saying the delays were the result of “hardened” CBP inspections due to the war in Ukraine. That may explain why the demonstrators targeted Santa Teresa.
Pacheco said the Mexican truckers “were very appreciative” that New Mexico trade representatives took the time to explain to them what was going on. However, the blockade continued for several additional hours while the truckers discussed what to do. They want wait times at the border to return to normal.
The Border Industrial Association says regular passenger traffic was unaffected during the protest.
“I would hope we don’t have these blockades for very long because we shoot ourselves in the foot and exacerbate supply chain issues that are already a mess,” Pacheco said. “We are all part of a global supply chain. If you order a Dell computer and they told you it’s going to be there on Monday, you are probably not going to get it on time because we lost a day. The produce from Mexico is not going to get to the market, to the restaurant on time.”
Abbott reportedly ordered the enhanced inspections to counter human and drug trafficking, and truck safety issues he says the federal government is not addressing.
But while Texas and Washington, D.C., figure out their differences, local officials will try to get the border crossings reopened.
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YUMA, Arizona (Border Report) — Conservative members of Congress are finishing their second day of touring border crossings and other facilities in California and Arizona.
House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer, R-Kentucky; U.S. Rep. Andy Biggs, R-Arizona, and U.S. Rep. Yvette Herrell, R-New Mexico, on Monday visited facilities such as Ped West in San Diego, where hundreds of Ukrainian refugees are being granted access into the U.S.
While in California, they also toured areas along the border barrier including an iconic section where the fence runs into the Pacific Ocean.
Their goal, according to a news release issued by the group, is to “examine firsthand President Biden’s border crisis.”
On Tuesday, they toured CBP facilities in southwest Arizona around the city of Yuma.
“We’re here, we learned a lot, we’re angry, we came here upset with this administration and now we’re leaving even more upset,” Comer said during a news conference held at the conclusion of the border tour.
Other lawmakers involved in the visits are Glenn Grothman, R-Wisconsin; Pete Sessions, R-Texas; Byron Donalds, R-Floriday; and Paul Gosar, R-Arizona.
“If the administration just said, ‘We will process asylum claims, but we won’t do it at the southern border this would end overnight,” Donalds said. “The cartels would know you can’t charge people to take the journey to get here.”
Comer and the others involved in the tour believe President Biden’s border policies are flawed.
“Quite frankly, this is as bad, worse than I’ve ever seen it,” Gosar said. “And it’s going to get worse as Title 42 goes away there will be more people coming in than ever.”
They say Biden’s administration is “rewarding illegal immigration,” and they expect illegal crossings to surge once Title 42 is removed next month.
“What we’ve been told by DHS is that they are expecting 18,000 crossings per day,” said Rep. Gosar.
Title 42 is a federal mandate that has allowed border agents to expel 1.7 million newly arrived migrants to prevent the spread of COVID-19. The Biden administration says the order is ending on May 23.
Immigration advocates in the past few weeks have welcomed the end of the Title 42 policy, pointing out that that showing up at U.S. borders to apply for asylum is lawful and allege that Title 42 has left thousands of asylum seekers no other choice but to enter the country illegally, turn themselves in to Border Patrol and request asylum.
The people involved in the tour also believe the planned end of Title 42 expulsions will generate a national security and humanitarian crisis at the border.”
In 2021, there were more than two million apprehensions of undocumented border crossers according to the U.S. Border Patrol.
In the Yuma sector, the numbers jumped from 8,800 in 2020 to almost 115,000 last year. | https://www.wane.com/border-report-tour/republican-congressional-delegation-bashes-bidens-border-policies/ | 2022-04-13T02:18:41 | 1 | https://www.wane.com/border-report-tour/republican-congressional-delegation-bashes-bidens-border-policies/ |
LEO, Ind. (WANE) – Leo High School’s Donivan Massing (baseball/Adrian College), Trinity Mukensturm (soccer/Indiana Tech), and David Slick (track/Indiana Tech) all put pen to paper on Tuesday to continue their athletic and academic careers in college.
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EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) – Enhanced inspections of trucks crossing the border from Juarez to El Paso slowing the line as protestors block commercial lines completely at some ports of entry.
The new inspections, by the Texas Department of Public Safety, are part of a directive from Governor Greg Abbott, as part of an initiative to stop human trafficking and illegal activities.
“They’re checking everything, how the truck is, everything on the truck,” said truck driver Christian Sanchez after he went through the new inspections at the Bridge of the Americas on Tuesday.
On the Mexican side of the border trucks and people block the commercial lanes in protest of the long wait times in enhanced inspections are causing.
“No, they’re stopped, those are blocked and you can’t cross, just this bridge,” said Rogelio Perez Acuna a truck driver who passed through the Bridge of the Americas on Tuesday, as it was the only bridge open to commercial traffic throughout most of the day as protestors blocked the others.
University of Texas Economics Professor Tom Fullerton saying the back up of commercial trucks will have an impact on the economy.
“A lot of different parts of final products that are now getting delayed in terms of being able to be finished and we’ve observed in 2020 and 2021 what this has implied in terms of consumer electronics and automobiles, and this is just going to worsen an already bad situation,” said Fullerton.
Another economic expert, a professor at Texas A&M saying Americans will see an impact from the slow moving traffic at the ports of entry and the grocery store.
“They don’t know when this is going to resume so prices are going to react now when you look at grocery prices they’re already reacting, how long is this going to take, how long is this going to take to go back to normal that is also unknown,” said Luis A Ribera the Director for the Center for North American Studies at Texas A&M.
U.S. Customs and Border Protections calling for the Texas Government to remove the enhanced inspections.
“These unnecessary inspections are occurring when vehicles exit U.S. ports of entry within the El Paso and Laredo areas of operation after being comprehensively inspected and cleared to enter the United States by CBP. As a result, vehicles have been significantly delayed in exiting the federal inspection plaza, leading to traffic disruptions and critical impacts to an already-strained supply chain.”
Portion of the statement from U.S. Customs and Border Protection
Governor Greg Abbott visited El Paso on Monday, speaking about the end of Title 42 coming to an end on May 23. Which is a federal mandate that allowed for Border Patrol Agents to expel migrants arriving to the U.S. back to Mexico.
The same day as the governors visit is when protestors on the Mexican side started blocking commercial lanes at the Ysleta Port of Entry and then by Tuesday the Santa Teresa commercial lanes.
Santa Teresa commercial lanes did reopen Tuesday afternoon and hours of operation will be extended on Wednesday from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m.
On Tuesday, Candidate for Texas Governor Beto O’rouke speaking about the impact of blocked ports across the Texas / U.S. Mexico Border.
“That is causing higher prices, higher inflation, it is worsening a supply chain problem that we already had in the united states,” said O’Rouke.
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INDIANAPOLIS – Food banks are preparing for an additional spike in demand as the federal pandemic SNAP benefits are set to expire in a few weeks.
Since the start of the pandemic, families on food stamps have been able to receive the maximum benefit allowed for their household size.
Due to a new state law, May will be the last month families on SNAP receive the enhanced benefit, according to the Indiana Family and Social Services Administration.
“I’m very concerned,” said Richard Gordon, senior resource manager for Gleaners Food Bank of Indiana.
Gordon, who helps people apply for SNAP benefits, said he has seen a growing number of people in recent months asking for information about food stamps, including many who have never received them before.
“A lot of families with … the rising cost of gas, food, what have you, are experiencing hardships right now and just really having trouble making ends meet,” Gordon said.
Food banks have already seen an increase in demand in recent months.
Gleaners sent 10 million pounds of food to its food pantries last month – more than any other time in the pandemic, according to officials.
It’s a similar story for the Midwest Food Bank, whose food pantries have seen a 10% increase in demand in the past two months.
“The hardest hit seem to be right here in the main Indianapolis area but we also have some deep embedded poverty in the rural counties as well,” said John Whitaker, executive director of the Midwest Food Bank.
The amount each family’s monthly SNAP benefits will decline in June will vary, based on household size, income and allowable deductions.
Meanwhile, the Midwest Food Bank is planning additional pop-up distributions in anticipation of the increased demand, Whitaker said.
“Some people try to make it, but then it just takes one incident to move them to where they really need to count on SNAP and with the way it’s being drawn back now, we going to have to step up our efforts,” he said.
As of February, more than 619,000 Hoosiers receive SNAP benefits.
For more information on how the end of the enhanced SNAP benefits may impact your family, click here. | https://www.wane.com/news/food-banks-preparing-for-additional-spike-after-indiana-ends-enhanced-snap-benefits/ | 2022-04-13T02:18:59 | 0 | https://www.wane.com/news/food-banks-preparing-for-additional-spike-after-indiana-ends-enhanced-snap-benefits/ |
FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) – It was a special night at Purdue Fort Wayne Tuesday. After two years of waiting, the Fort Wayne Community Band finally debuted the piece commissioned for their 40th Anniversary.
Three years ago, Director Scott Humphries reached out to composer Anthony O’Toole through Facebook about creating a piece to mark the occasion. Unfortunately, the pandemic hit in spring 2020 before it was scheduled to debut.
After two years of waiting, O’Toole flew in from Los Angeles to work with the band this week and hear the piece’s premiere on Tuesday. O’Toole is 33 years old and has been composing for a long time. He first got into music when he was five. He took piano lessons that instilled a love for music. He hold two music degrees. He graduated from Indiana University of Pennsylvania with an undergraduate in composition. He then went on to George Mason University to earn a master’s degree in composition. After graduating from George Mason, he moved to Los Angeles and has been a percussionist and composer ever since. He works on typically a few commissioned pieces per year.
The piece O’Toole has commissioned for the band is called “The Crossroads.” He debated on whether to make it a celebratory piece or something more elaborate that could be played by other bands in the future. He ultimately decided on the latter, as he wanted the piece to live on past the 40th Anniversary celebration. He decided to write something satisfying and workable for a community band.
The title was inspired by Indiana being the Crossroads of America. He also wanted to capture the 19th century explorative spirit of America. This is done through lots of train imagery and sounds similar to locomotives busting down the rails. The piece also conveys the boundless expanse of American landscapes.
The piece is about 10 minutes long. It starts with a fanfare, then transitions into a fast section. A lyrical, slow section follows, with a singable tune. Then the piece goes back to the fast section with a sprinkle of the same singable tune. The piece then concludes with a big finale.
O’Toole says the delayed gratification of hearing his piece come to life has been odd. Usually the process happens sooner, but it has been worth the wait. It can feel like a child being born and it captures where he was in life at the time he composed the piece. O’Toole views every one of his compositions as a chance to explore and learn.
Ultimately, O’Toole has enjoyed his time in Fort Wayne and says the whole process has been special. He also went on to say that there is always a place for bands beyond school. As an adult, playing music is a way to express yourself outside of your workplace and making music with others is special.
To learn more about O’Toole’s work, visit his website here. To view upcoming FWACB performances, visit their website here. | https://www.wane.com/news/local-news/fort-wayne-area-community-band-debuts-commissioned-piece-delayed-by-the-pandemic/ | 2022-04-13T02:19:03 | 1 | https://www.wane.com/news/local-news/fort-wayne-area-community-band-debuts-commissioned-piece-delayed-by-the-pandemic/ |
WASHINGTON (KNWA/KFTA) — On April 12, Richard Barnett, 61, of Gravette, Arkansas, turned down the government’s offer of a plea deal in the case stemming from his alleged participation in the January 6, 2021 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. Barnett was photographed sitting at a desk in House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office that day.
In a virtual pre-trial hearing Tuesday, prosecutor Mary Dohrmann informed the court that the government had presented a plea agreement offer in which Barnett would plead guilty to one charge, with the others being dismissed.
Defense attorney Joseph McBride stated that the defense could not accept the offer “in good conscience.” McBride cited Barnett’s advanced age and the sentencing guideline of 70-87 months for the charge in question as factors in the defendant’s decision to reject the offer.
“He wasn’t violent that day by any stretch of the imagination,” the defense counsel added. Judge Chris Cooper quickly acknowledged the rejection, noting that the court itself has no role when such an offer is made.
“It takes two to tango,” Judge Cooper added, referring to the prosecution and the defense. He noted that he has been involved in other insurrection cases that have already reached plea agreements.
The call ended with Judge Cooper stating that he would “sit back and wait for any motions” before the next pretrial conference. The defense previously requested an extension to deal with a “voluminous amount” of discovery material.
Barnett is charged with: Obstruction of an Official Proceeding; Aiding and Abetting; Entering and Remaining in a Restricted Building or Grounds with a Deadly or Dangerous Weapon; Disorderly and Disruptive Conduct in a Restricted Building or Grounds with a Deadly or Dangerous Weapon; Entering and Remaining in Certain Rooms in the Capitol Building; Disorderly Conduct in a Capitol Building; Parading, Demonstrating, or Picketing in a Capitol Building; Theft of Government Property.
He has pleaded not guilty to all charges, and his trial is scheduled to begin on September 6.
According to the Associated Press, more than 700 people were arrested for the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol with more than 160 reaching plea deals.
A Proud Boys leader, 34-year-old Charles Donohue, recently pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding and one count of assaulting, resisting or impeding a law enforcement officer, The Hill reports. The man photographed carrying Pelosi’s lectern in the Capitol, Adam Johnson, was sentenced to 75 days in prison earlier this year. | https://www.wane.com/news/man-photographed-in-pelosis-office-on-jan-6-rejects-plea-deal/ | 2022-04-13T02:19:09 | 1 | https://www.wane.com/news/man-photographed-in-pelosis-office-on-jan-6-rejects-plea-deal/ |
WASHINGTON, D.C. (The Hill) — Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Tuesday said the political atmosphere is good for Republicans heading into the midterms but warned that the party could bungle its chances if “unacceptable” candidates win their primaries but go on to lose in November.
Republicans are feeling optimistic about their chances to win back the Senate, but they face several messy primaries that could have ramifications for the general election map and the GOP’s chances of picking up, or holding onto, a seat.
McConnell, speaking at a chamber event in Kentucky, said that 1994 had been the best year for Republicans and that the atmosphere heading into November “is better than it was in 1994.”
“From an atmospheric point of view, it’s a perfect storm of problems for the Democrats,” McConnell said. “How could you screw this up? It’s actually possible. And we’ve had some experience with that in the past.”
“In the Senate, if you look at where we have to compete in order to get into a majority, there are places that are competitive in the general election. So you can’t nominate somebody who’s just sort of unacceptable to a broader group of people and win. We had that experience in 2010 and 2012,” McConnell added.
To win back the Senate in November, Republicans would need a net pickup of just one seat to tip the current 50-50 balance. Republicans are defending 21 seats, compared to Democrats’ 14, including two seats currently held by Republicans that are in states President Biden won in 2020.
Five seats are rated by The Cook Political Report as toss-ups. Three of those — Nevada, Georgia and Arizona — are currently held by Democrats, while two — Pennsylvania and Wisconsin — are currently held by Republicans. In Pennsylvania, GOP Sen. Pat Toomey is retiring.
Meanwhile, three of the seats currently held by Republicans are ranked as “lean” Republican: Florida, Ohio and North Carolina. In Florida, GOP Sen. Marco Rubio is running for reelection, while Ohio and North Carolina are open races because GOP Sens. Rob Portman and Richard Burr are retiring.
Only one seat currently held by Democrats is ranked “lean” Democrat: New Hampshire, where Democratic Sen. Maggie Hassan is running for reelection.
Despite having to play defense on a larger swath of seats, Republicans are increasingly confident about their chances of winning back the majority in November as Biden struggles to rebound in polling and Americans remain concerned about inflation and the economy more broadly.
But first Republicans need to navigate several crowded primaries that will determine who their nominee is in the general election.
Former President Trump over the weekend irked some allies when he endorsed Mehmet Oz in the Pennsylvania Senate race. There’s also been running high-profile tension in the North Carolina GOP primary, where Trump has endorsed Rep. Ted Budd.
Top GOP figures have also raised red flags over Senate candidate Eric Greitens in Missouri. Greitens’s ex-wife is accusing him of abusing her and their children while they were married. The accusations, which Greitens has denied, sparked calls for him to drop out of the race.
Republicans in previous cycles have watched GOP nominees win the party’s primary only to lose the Senate seat in the general election. McConnell has warned that he and his allies could step in where a candidate they view as unable to win in November appears poised to win the primary.
The fight for the Senate is running through several states, most of which McConnell mentioned on Tuesday: Georgia, Arizona, Missouri, Nevada, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, New Hampshire, Ohio and Wisconsin.
“So far, I’m optimistic that in the places that are going to determine who the next majority leader is we’re going to have fully electable nominees,” McConnell said. | https://www.wane.com/news/mcconnell-gop-could-flub-midterms-with-unacceptable-candidates/ | 2022-04-13T02:19:15 | 1 | https://www.wane.com/news/mcconnell-gop-could-flub-midterms-with-unacceptable-candidates/ |
FORT SMITH, Ark. — If you had hail like this at your home or business, Fort Smith Shelter Insurance Agent Wade Gilkey says there are some steps you need to follow.
“The first thing you need to do is contact your insurance company, contact your agent and get those claims, Gilkey said. “It’s very important.”
Once you contact your insurance company, he says, you can begin the search for someone to repair your vehicle or home.
However, Gilkey says it's best to look for local help and ask your insurance company for any referrals because there are scammers who prey on the devastation.
“If someone’s asking to come out on the roof and they need you to sign a waiver allowing them to give you a free estimate, don’t sign anything until you’ve got the adjuster has time to come out and review the loss,” Gilkey said.
Gilkey also adds that insurance companies are getting an influx of calls right now. So, it might take three to four days for them to file your claim and assess it.
“It’s going to take some time for our body shops,” Gilkey said. “It’s going to take time for a lot of our local roofers to get those schedules created and get the damages prepared. Patience is a virtue.”
With more storms expected later this season, some things you can do to prevent damage is making sure you have a place to park your vehicle in a garage and have your insurance nearby.
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RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) -- A second person reportedly has died after a weekend crash with a GoRaleigh bus.
Our newsgathering partners at Univision reported that a 9-year-old boy died Tuesday morning from crash injuries.
The news comes just one day after his father died from injuries sustained in the crash.
Raleigh Police said Juan Lebrón and his son Juan Steven Lebrón were in an Acura sedan that was hit Sunday morning by the GoRaleigh bus on Garner Road.
ABC11 is working to learn whether the driver, who was already cited for failure to yield causing serious bodily injury, will face more serious charges.
The crash remains under investigation. | https://abc11.com/goraleigh-bus-crash-fatal-crash-juan-lebrn-child-dies/11742723/ | 2022-04-13T02:21:17 | 1 | https://abc11.com/goraleigh-bus-crash-fatal-crash-juan-lebrn-child-dies/11742723/ |
MORRISVILLE, N.C. (WTVD) -- A Cary man is accused of dragging a Morrisville police officer a quarter of a mile with his car, police said Tuesday.
Waylon Deshawn McIver, 24, of Cary, was arrested and is charged with assault.
The incident began about 4 p.m. when K-9 Officer C. Rodrigues was conducting a traffic stop in the 100 block of Orianna Drive. McIver then sped by and the officer went to stop McIver's vehicle.
McIver pulled over and handed the officer his driver's license but then put the car in drive and sped off. When Rodrigues tried to stop him, the officer was dragged about a quarter-mile north on Orianna Drive and then west onto Morrisville Carpenter Road.
McIver was arrested by another Morrisville police officer and taken into custody.
He was charged with assault with a deadly weapon inflicting serious injury on a law enforcement officer; resist, delay, and obstruct; and simple possession of marijuana.
Rodrigues was treated at a hospital for non-life-threatening injuries and was released later Monday. | https://abc11.com/morrisville-police-officer-dragged-traffic-stop-cary-driver-arrested-waylon-deshawn-mciver/11741400/ | 2022-04-13T02:21:23 | 0 | https://abc11.com/morrisville-police-officer-dragged-traffic-stop-cary-driver-arrested-waylon-deshawn-mciver/11741400/ |
CONCORD — A $500-a-day fine started accumulating on Monday against “River Dave” Lidstone, the 82-year-old hermit who has waged a protracted fight to stay on a homestead on land off the Merrimack River.
Two weeks ago, Merrimack County Superior Court Judge Andrew Schulman said the fine would start accumulating as of Monday. He set the fine after finding Lidstone in civil contempt for refusing to leave the property and not showing up for a March 31 court hearing.
Lidstone has lived on the property on and off for about 27 years. A message left on his mobile phone was not returned.
Robert Albini, who lives in Canterbury and is a neighbor of Lidstone, said Lidstone is aware of the fine.
“That’s terrible,” he said about the fine. Albini said he is not at liberty to speak about Lidstone’s whereabouts or his plans. Likewise, a filmmaker who is preparing a documentary on Lidstone avoided specifics.
“It’s best if I don’t say,” said Rod Webber.
Last week, Lidstone picked up a check for more than $200,000 from a Concord bank, the proceeds from donations made on his behalf last summer when his plight made international news.
The money had ended up in a trust, but the trust dissolved this month as Lidstone battled with trustees over access to the funds.
A trust protects a person’s fortune from debts and court judgments, but with the money now in hand, Lidstone will be more vulnerable to losing it.
Trustees have been wary about disclosing the size of the trust. In previous articles, it’s been described as more than $220,000 and shy of $250,000.
If Lidstone buys property with the money, a creditor could attach a lien to it, but the lien could only be collected once the property is sold, said Sarah Ambrogi, a long-term trust lawyer in Manchester.
If Lidstone deposited the money in a bank, it would be discovered during an asset search, she said.
“If he’s sitting on in in the form of a check, there’s not much they can do,” Ambrogi said. “With no real estate, it’s a little hard (to collect a judgment).”
Ambrogi said she hasn’t seen the documents that established the Lidstone trust, but it was probably an irrevocable trust, which would have protected Lidstone’s money from a judgment by creditors.
Things must have gotten heated for the trustees to dissolve the trust, she said.
“It’s a really bad idea, and it’s unfortunate,” Ambrogi said.
Lisa Snow Wade, the Concord lawyer who represents the landowner, did not return an email. Schulman awarded Wade, who charges $350 an hour, attorney fees associated with the March 31 court hearing regarding Lidstone.
She has said that the landowner, Leonard Giles of South Burlington, Vt., has spent more than $39,000 over several years trying to remove Lidstone from the property. The judge refused Wade’s request for a judgment regarding the $39,000.
Schulman has ruled that the $500 daily contempt fine will go to Giles. | https://www.unionleader.com/news/courts/contempt-fine-of-500-a-day-started-monday-against-river-dave/article_771f887c-022a-566e-8bd7-914177bcced4.html | 2022-04-13T02:32:58 | 0 | https://www.unionleader.com/news/courts/contempt-fine-of-500-a-day-started-monday-against-river-dave/article_771f887c-022a-566e-8bd7-914177bcced4.html |
Manchester school board members Monday approved contracting with New Hampshire Listens to coordinate outreach efforts associated with the search for a new superintendent of schools, but not before some aired concerns with the partnership.
School board members previously approved using up to an additional $10,000 to cover the cost of outreach efforts, and members of the Special Committee on the Superintendent Search voted 2-1 to recommend working with New Hampshire Listens, a project of the University of New Hampshire Carsey School of Policy developed to promote dialogue and civic engagement in local communities.
Search committee and school board member Peter Argeropoulos was the lone vote against the proposal.
“I think there would have been other ways that we could have done this that would have been a lot cheaper to get feedback,” Argeropoulos said. said. “I’ve also received several calls from community members saying they would oppose this specific group.”
School board member Gary Hamer, who joined the school board in January, said the issue has generated the most constituent responses from residents in his ward and across the city.
John Goldhardt resigned as superintendent of the Manchester school district on Feb. 11, with more than a year left in his contract. He later claimed eggs were thrown at him while he walked his dog, piles of feces were left on his doorstep. and he was attacked in Union Leader editorials before he stepped down.
Goldhardt was hired as superintendent of New Hampshire’s largest school district in July 2019, replacing Bolgen Vargas. He will continue to be paid by Manchester through April 15, according to a separation agreement obtained through a Right-to-Know request.
“The overwhelming response is that we should not do this,” Hamer said. “While no one is adverse to community input regarding the new superintendent, the belief is that this effort is happening too late. To spend it on getting feedback that may or may not be able to be used for the sake of getting feedback, which seems ridiculous. The public is closely watching how we’re conducting the super search. The clock is ticking.”
School board member Chris Potter said he was “disappointed we’re even debating this.”
“It’s embarrassing to our city,” Potter said. “New Hampshire Listens is a respectable, quality shop that will do an excellent job getting diverse input from our city, that we need not only for this search, but our district in general. It’s very important given the timeline of this search that we start right away.”
“I think it’s wild we’re still arguing this,” school board member Jason Bonilla said. “I’m seeing this pattern every time we’re going toward building equity. We seem to hesitate, and I don’t like seeing that as we unconsciously cause harm, especially toward those individuals who have. What are we doing here?”
School board member Julie Turner pointed out New Hampshire Listens isn’t a search committee.
“They aren’t searching for a new superintendent for us,” Turner said. “They are a group that is helping us reach into every corner of the city to make sure their voices are being heard and that they have a seat at the table.”
Representatives from New Hampshire Listens are expected to hold four or five stakeholder conversations.
“The questions and design for these sessions will be drafted in collaboration with the chief diversity officer and district leadership,” the New Hampshire Listens proposal says. “The overall purpose will be to support understanding the values, practices, and principles most important among families, educators, community partners, and students.”
The Manchester School District will “work with community partners to bring together people from communities of color,” the proposal says.
Five or six community partners will focus on recruitment (NAACP, MCAC, Safari/Spark the Dream, Victory Women of Vision, two parent groups, student group, business community group). Bilingual liaisons and community partners will join broader parent meetings for support and connections.
Search committee members hope to begin screening applications by April 29, with a final recommendation submitted to the full board by May 27. | https://www.unionleader.com/news/education/manchester-school-board-approves-nh-listens-outreach-plans/article_f97ff72c-90d0-5fb1-8475-0bd64837df48.html | 2022-04-13T02:33:04 | 0 | https://www.unionleader.com/news/education/manchester-school-board-approves-nh-listens-outreach-plans/article_f97ff72c-90d0-5fb1-8475-0bd64837df48.html |
FROM ANDREWS MCMEEL SYNDICATION
FOR RELEASE: WEDNESDAY, APRIL 13, 2022
DEAR ABBY by Abigail Van Buren
HUSBAND MAKES A CONNECTION AS 17-YEAR MARRIAGE TEETERS
DEAR ABBY: I have been married for 17 years with three great kids. My wife and I have struggled on and off during those 17 years. I often feel like maybe I don't love her. We are complete opposites. I'm adventurous, daring and extroverted. She denies me sex a lot. This last time was for four months.
During that time, I met someone who has the same adventurous spirit as I do. We have hung out and we text often. She's currently getting a divorce. I'm falling for her and I have expressed it to her. She likes me, but she doesn't want a relationship right now because she isn't sure what she really wants. She's also afraid we both won't really leave our spouses if we start something.
I stopped texting her, but she said she will wait for me. How do I manage this because I'm hurting in my marriage and hurting by not texting her? -- TORN IN OHIO
DEAR TORN: Inform your wife that the current status of your marriage is no longer acceptable. Denying marital relations appears to be her way of punishing you, which is unfair, so offer her the option of marriage counseling. If she refuses, I hope you will go alone to help you decide rationally which, if any, next steps you want to take.
If you decide to leave your marriage, there is no guarantee the woman you have been seeing will follow through with her divorce, but let her know what your plans are. I should add that for many people, the first relationship after a divorce does not lead to marriage, if you're contemplating jumping from the frying pan into the fire.
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DEAR ABBY: I was a birth mom 45 years ago. My mother forced me to give up my child at birth. Not one person supported my wish to keep my child. My heart and mind screamed, "No, don't do it!" Now, the birth father says he's sorry because he's having serious health problems and thinks he could be dying. I have forgiven everyone involved, over and over. But I've lived with depression, PTSD, etc., all these years and I cry about it still. The older I get, the more loss I feel.
I found my adult child 15 years ago. It started out OK and went downhill from there. My heart aches so much to have a connection with this child of mine. I'm shutting down inside while still waiting. I'm too tired to keep going on. My dreams are gone. My hopes are shattered. I'm ready to curl up and die. What can I do? -- DESTROYED IN WASHINGTON
DEAR DESTROYED: I am sorry for your overwhelming pain. What you need to do -- and quickly, before you shut down further -- is summon the strength to seek help from a licensed mental health professional.
Forty-five years ago, attitudes about out-of-wedlock births were far different than they are today. Neither you nor the father of that child were equipped to properly care for the baby. Because you have forgiven everyone else over and over, it is time to find a way to forgive yourself and put a stop to your endless grieving.
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Stephanie Hindle and Justin Rodriguez, in their new gear, just moved to Manchester from Colorado and were excited to be at their first Fisher Cats game.
Todd Gagnon of Woburn, Mass., with his son, Finn Hart, 5, during the national anthem at the first Fisher Cats home game of the season. It’s Finn’s first game but the family has attended games for years.
Stephanie Hindle and Justin Rodriguez, in their new gear, just moved to Manchester from Colorado and were excited to be at their first Fisher Cats game.
Todd Gagnon of Woburn, Mass., with his son, Finn Hart, 5, during the national anthem at the first Fisher Cats home game of the season. It’s Finn’s first game but the family has attended games for years.
Telltale signs of summer were everywhere on Tuesday evening, as the Fisher Cats played their home opener in Manchester.
Strains of the national anthem and the scent of popcorn wafted across Granite Street. A teenager in a neon vest waved cars into a parking lot. Fans in red-white-and-blue jerseys and hats filtered down Commercial Street.
Hundreds of fans found their seats and settled in for the Fisher Cats’ game against the Hartford Yard Goats, the first of a six-game series against the Connecticut team.
Some fans, like Sharon Jones of Litchfield, have been going to the games since the Fisher Cats’ first season in Manchester.
Jones said she went to the first home opener at Gill Stadium, and has tried to get to every home opener and most Sunday afternoon games since. “And whatever else I can squeeze in,” Jones said.
Even if she has to go alone, Jones said, she’s happy to be out at the park.
“I love baseball,” Jones said. “Baseball, beer and food!”
Justin Rodriguez and Stephanie Hindle, who moved from Colorado to Manchester in January, jumped headfirst into Fisher Cats fandom, stopping at the team store just before the game to get decked out in hats and jerseys.
The stands weren’t exactly packed as the sun set over the Merrimack River and the game began. But the fans who turned out said they loved the game, and couldn’t be happier to be back at the stadium.
“Good ballpark, clean, reasonably priced,” said John Wadsworth, of Methuen, Mass. “That, and it’s a good game.”
John Wadsworth and his wife, Susan, said they were happy to get out of the house after the winter, and they loved seeing the players develop.
“You can turn around and say, I watched that guy grow into that — like Guerrero,” Wadsworth said. Vladimir Guerrero Jr., now a star on the Toronto Blue Jays, played in Manchester in 2018.
“This is one of our favorite things to do in the summertime,” said Elaine Demers of Goffstown, who has been to every home opener since the Cats’ first in 2004, and plenty of the big moments since — including the night the team won the Eastern League championship for the first time.
“They were like little boys, jumping up and down,” Demers said.
Even if the Fisher Cats don’t win the title this year, Demers said, she’s happy to keep coming to games, enjoying summer evenings by the river and supporting the team.
“They’re kids, living out their dream,” she said. “And we get to cheer them on.” | https://www.unionleader.com/news/local/die-hard-crowd-cheers-fisher-cats-at-home-opener/article_3452bc63-1c32-5b05-a2f5-50a793e0c0f5.html | 2022-04-13T02:33:16 | 0 | https://www.unionleader.com/news/local/die-hard-crowd-cheers-fisher-cats-at-home-opener/article_3452bc63-1c32-5b05-a2f5-50a793e0c0f5.html |
CONCORD — A new pilot project that could make school districts eligible to get $60 million more in education aid came under attack from conservatives who charge it would be an unconstitutional invasion of family privacy.
Greg Moore, state director of Americans for Prosperity, told the Senate Education Committee it would violate the spirit of a personal privacy amendment to the state constitution that 81% of voters approved in 2018.
“This concept is not new, but it is a bad concept,” Moore told the Senate Education Committee. “There may well be reasons why someone would want to sign up for one program, but not for another, and that is their choice.”
The House-passed plan would have New Hampshire join 27 states that allow state health care agencies to share Medicaid enrollment information with state educators.
The goal is to identify and automatically make students from poorer families eligible for a free or reduced school lunch even though their parents never filled out an application for the benefit.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, the Trump and Biden administrations waived requirements and made all families eligible for these meals.
That’s because so many parents across the country didn’t bother with the paperwork because many of their children were learning from home.
State officials report enrollment in the subsidized lunch program here has not returned to pre-pandemic levels.
“We have seen so many children, for whatever reason, whose folks have not filled out the forms,” said Rep. Mary Heath, D-Manchester, a former deputy education commissioner. “This is an important number, and we want it to be as accurate as possible.”
More fed aid possible
House Education Committee Chairman Rick Ladd, R-Haverhill, said a House working group on reforming education aid saw this as a way for state officials to locate all poor families in New Hampshire.
This could result in not just increasing state education aid by $60 million, but also making New Hampshire eligible for millions more in federal aid based on the state’s extent of income poverty, Ladd said.
“Is seeking information through this program going to net us a higher revenue stream? This whole issue is extremely important,” Ladd said. “This is not something we should let go in terms of eligibility for adequacy.”
House budget writers attached this plan as an amendment to a non-controversial bill (HB 1627) that would create an administrator to manage the state’s Education Freedom Account program.
In response, House conservatives were so upset by this change to the bill that they tried to sink it by trying to add six unrelated pieces of legislation to it.
All those attempts failed, and the House passed the bill, 203-131.
House Republicans voted, 130-48, against it.
Jessica Gorhan, deputy director of NH Hunger Solutions, urged the Senate to embrace this change.
“This ensures the most at-risk school children will receive nutritional meals without their parents having to fill out cumbersome forms,” Gorhan said.
Rep. Alicia Lekas, R-Hudson, said the federal pilot project requires New Hampshire to set up this program before applying for entry into it.
Since 2006, the Department of Health and Human Services has shared with the Education Department enrollment data in other anti-poverty programs such as federal welfare, the Women, Infants and Children Program, food stamps and foster care aid.
Caitlin Davis, state education division director, said her agency only uses basic identifying information from those transfers to qualify these children for free lunches.
An administrative tweak to process Medicaid cases would be necessary because some of them make more income than the other welfare programs and would only qualify for a reduced-priced meal, Davis said.
Moore said the Senate last month approved a “closed loop referral” bill (SB 423) that puts privacy and security restrictions in how the HHS uses “personally identifiable information.”
“This bill would run counter to that approach,” Moore said. | https://www.unionleader.com/news/politics/state/critics-cite-privacy-concerns-in-move-to-increase-ed-aid/article_33e99a19-08f5-59f4-9460-4fa67b20d72a.html | 2022-04-13T02:33:22 | 1 | https://www.unionleader.com/news/politics/state/critics-cite-privacy-concerns-in-move-to-increase-ed-aid/article_33e99a19-08f5-59f4-9460-4fa67b20d72a.html |
She may not be able to tell you which came first, the chicken or the egg, but food writer Lisa Steele is an expert on everything else poultry-related.
Her new “Fresh Eggs Daily Cookbook” (Harper Horizon, $28) dishes on not just recipes — more than 100 of them — but common mistakes you may be making in the kitchen.
Here are five to avoid.
1. Using old eggs.
Fresh eggs — no more than two to three weeks old — not only taste better, they’re easier to handle. That’s because both the egg white and the thin membrane holding the yolk together thin out as an egg ages.
Old eggs result in wispy poached eggs or fried eggs whose yolks break in the pan. And because old eggs have more time for air to seep through the shell, your hard-boiled eggs may be easier to peel, but they’re likelier to have big dimples at one end, which makes for lopsided deviled eggs.
“Fresh eggs will peel perfectly,” Steele says, “if you steam them in a double boiler for 12 minutes, then put them into a bowl of ice water until they’re cool enough to handle.”
2. Using high heat.
Eggs cook swiftly, so if you’re using high heat, your eggs will be dry and overcooked. Instead, cook them slowly over low heat and take the pan off the stove before they’re quite done.
They should be barely set and still moist when they hit the plate, where they will continue to set.
3. Cracking eggs on a sharp edge.
It may be tempting to crack your egg on the edge of a bowl or countertop, but you risk pushing eggshell shards into the egg. Instead, use a flat surface — like a cutting board.
4. Baking with cold eggs.
Yes, cold eggs are much easier to separate, but then let the yolks and whites come to room temperature — 30 minutes should do it — before adding them to batter. Adding chilled eggs to cake or cookie batter will make the butter or other fats seize up or curdle. And cold egg whites, in particular, won’t whip or incorporate properly.
5. Tossing the extras.
Angel food cake may strand you with unused yolks, while lemon curd leaves the whites behind. But don’t throw away those extras. Both egg whites and yolks freeze really well. (Freeze the whites as is; lightly whisk the yolks and add a pinch of salt so the texture doesn’t get weird.) Then use those leftovers later when you’re making meringue — 2 tablespoons equal 1 egg white — or hollandaise (1 tablespoon equals a yolk).
— Adapted from Lisa Steele’s “Fresh Eggs Daily Cookbook” (Harper Horizon, 2022) | https://www.unionleader.com/nh/food/5-common-egg-cooking-mistakes-you-may-be-making/article_9e2339b6-0d31-5e5b-afce-7c4c8f213d9d.html | 2022-04-13T02:33:28 | 1 | https://www.unionleader.com/nh/food/5-common-egg-cooking-mistakes-you-may-be-making/article_9e2339b6-0d31-5e5b-afce-7c4c8f213d9d.html |
A TRIED-AND-TRUE way to put leftover eggs to good use is by whipping up an egg salad. It’s no coincidence that National Egg Salad Week starts the Monday after Easter.
Egg salad, of course, is that classic mixture of hard-boiled eggs and mayonnaise.
You start by peeling eggs. A quick tip to make removing the shells from hard-boiled eggs a snap is to plunge the just-boiled eggs into ice water. Once they’ve cooled you can just crack the shell and pull, and it should slip right off.
There are dozens of ways to make egg salad. I recently tried a white egg salad recipe that uses sour cream instead of mayonnaise to mix egg whites with other ingredients such as peas, and it’s served in lettuce cups.
You can also use Greek-style yogurt instead of sour cream and get a similar, creamy result.
Two additional combinations I put together include a creamy bacon and egg salad with a little tangy relish. Also, I added curry powder to egg salad and mixed in crunchy carrots, shallots or capers for a more sophisticated flavor.
White Egg Salad
6 eggs, hard-boiled and peeled
1/2 cup celery, diced
1/4 cup green onion, chopped
1/4 cup sour cream (or Greek-style yogurt)
2 teaspoons fresh lemon juice
1/2 tablespoon apple cider vinegar
Pinch of white pepper
1/2 teaspoon garlic salt
1/4 cup fresh watercress leaves, for garnish if desired
Fresh ground black pepper for garnish, if desired
Fresh Boston lettuce leaves for serving, if desired
Cut the shelled boiled eggs in half, remove the yolks and discard them.
Chop up the egg whites and add them to a mixing bowl.
Add the celery and green onion and stir.
Put the sour cream, lemon juice, apple cider vinegar, white pepper and garlic salt in a separate bowl and whisk together.
Add the sour cream mixture to the chopped egg mixture and stir together. Adjust seasonings to suit your taste.
Serve in lettuce cups and garnish with watercress and fresh black pepper, if desired.
Bacon and Egg Salad
6 eggs, hard-boiled, peeled and chopped
4 slices of bacon, cooked and chopped
1 shallot, chopped
1/3 cup mayonnaise
2 tablespoons Dijon mustard
2 tablespoons relish
1/2 tablespoon red wine vinegar
Salt and pepper to taste
Bread for serving
Put the chopped egg, bacon and shallot in a mixing bowl and stir to combine.
In a separate bowl, whisk together the mayonnaise, mustard, relish and red wine vinegar.
Add the mayonnaise mixture to the egg mixture and combine. Add salt and pepper to taste.
Curry Egg Salad
6 eggs, hard-boiled, peeled and chopped
1/2 cup carrot, finely chopped or grated
1/4 cup frozen green peas, thawed
1/4 cup green onions, chopped
1/3 cup mayonnaise
1/2 tablespoon Dijon mustard
1/2 tablespoon curry powder
1/4 teaspoon Kosher salt
1/4 teaspoon pepper
Put eggs, carrots and peas in a mixing bowl and stir to combine.
In a separate bowl, whisk together the remaining ingredients.
Add the mayonnaise mixture to the egg mixture and stir together; adjust seasonings to suit your taste. | https://www.unionleader.com/nh/food/granite_kitchen/granite-kitchen-three-delicious-ways-to-use-up-your-leftover-eggs/article_76d68e7d-896c-5406-a308-c10d0d4a77e6.html | 2022-04-13T02:33:34 | 0 | https://www.unionleader.com/nh/food/granite_kitchen/granite-kitchen-three-delicious-ways-to-use-up-your-leftover-eggs/article_76d68e7d-896c-5406-a308-c10d0d4a77e6.html |
WE JOURNALISTS MAKE it a point to double-check everything, because there’s nothing worse than getting your facts wrong in print. The same scrupulous checking would have come in handy on a recent day off, when I was trying to organize a get-together with three friends.
I was responsible for picking the place and the meeting time, and I relied on Google for all the details. I didn’t think to check the restaurant’s website or Facebook page. It was only when two of us were driving through a downpour toward the destination that the third member of the group sounded the alarm, that the place we thought was opening at noon in fact wouldn’t open until 5 p.m.
Hungry and faced with the prospect of cooling our heels for a couple of hours, we decided to bail on Destination No. 1 and find an alternative. The friend who sounded the alarm on the first place came up with a viable substitute.
The caressing voice of Andrea Bocelli greeted us as we entered the portals of Ronaldo’s in North Hampton, which set the tone for an evening of appetizers accompanied by a soundtrack of “The Godfather” theme and standards by Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin.
In fact, we felt a little like a Rat Pack ourselves as a life-sized cutout of Ol’ Blue Eyes watched over us a few feet away from our table.
A basket of warm bread was presented, and the bottle of oil strongly infused with garlic made a delicious dipping sauce.
The delicious aroma of roasted garlic filled the room as we surveyed the antipasti offerings. We selected five.
The sauteed mussels ($20.99) — served in a skillet and bathed in white wine, olive oil and more garlic (“red” and a spicy “fra diavolo” were other options) — were the star of the show for me. We asked our server for a second basket of bread to dip in the rich sauce, and polished off a two-pound portion.
Another favorite was the Eggplant Rollatini ($11.99), a delicate balance of savory and sweet. Basil was the base note for this veggie rollup wrapped around ricotta, roasted red peppers and spinach.
The Fried Calamari ($17.99) was just short of being burned, and while crispy, had lost its signature sweetness. We needed the tasty marinara sauce served on the side to provide some missing moisture.
A honey balsamic sauce accompanied our order of Crab Cakes Ronaldo ($14.99). While a bit overwhelmed visually by the bed of greens they were served on, the two cakes were tender and delicately flavored — even with green and red peppers in the mix — so as not to overwhelm the crab. Very nicely done.
We also ordered the Antipasto ($17.99), which turned out to be a mixed-greens salad with shaved Parmesan, diced ham and olives, served with a creamy Italian dressing.
Ronaldo’s has been a local favorite in North Hampton for more than 30 years. It got a refresh in 2013 when Vickie Fjelseth and her son-in-law, Don, took over.
The staff was friendly, the mood informal, and the Saturday evening business was steady. The menu is extensive and very traditional. Pricing is a bit on the high side — our tab for five apps and two drinks came to $116.
But if you’re looking for a good, old-fashioned family Italian restaurant, Ronaldo’s is a great fit. | https://www.unionleader.com/nh/food/our_gourmet/our-gourmet-a-family-italian-favorite-in-north-hampton/article_743d1b41-8357-591c-95c5-de971cd4e735.html | 2022-04-13T02:33:40 | 0 | https://www.unionleader.com/nh/food/our_gourmet/our-gourmet-a-family-italian-favorite-in-north-hampton/article_743d1b41-8357-591c-95c5-de971cd4e735.html |
MANCHESTER — What type of team will the New Hampshire Fisher Cats have this season? That’s what Fisher Cats manager Cesar Martin was asked before Tuesday night’s home opener against Hartford.
“That’s a good question,” Martin said. “I’m still learning about the team that we have. Obviously I know all of them (the players) because I saw them in spring training, but not many were here last year. We’re still learning about the players.
“Right now we seem like we have a little bit of everything — a mix. Some guys with power. Some guys who put the ball in play. Some guys with speed.”
New Hampshire opened the season by winning two of three games against Portland. After dropping the opener 11-6, the Fisher Cats beat the Sea Dogs 3-0 and 6-2. Fisher Cats pitching had a stretch of 17 scoreless innings against the Sea Dogs.
“We have good pitching,” Martin said. “Young arms.”
Last season the Fisher Cats led the Eastern League — then known as the Double A Northeast League — in on-base percentage (.341) and ranked second in batting average (.259).
Martin said he’d like to have a team that’s aggressive on the bases.
“I like stealing bases, but you need to have speed,” he said. “You need to have that type of team. It all depends on the type of team that you have, and as I said before that’s something that we’re learning right now. Maybe in two or three weeks we’ll know exactly what kind of team we have.”
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New Hampshire’s current roster includes five of Toronto’s Top 25 prospects, as ranked by MLB.com: infielder Orelvis Martinez (No. 2), pitcher Hagen Danner (No. 17), pitcher Adrian Hernandez (No. 18), pitcher Joey Murray (No. 24) and outfielder Sebastian Espino (No. 25). Danner is the only player on the team who is on Toronto’s 40-man roster.
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Hartford, Colorado’s AA affiliate, could be the next stop for Bedford’s Grant Lavigne, who is currently playing for High-A Spokane in the Northwest League.
The Rockies selected Lavigne, a first baseman, with the 42nd pick in the 2018 draft. He split the 2021 season between Low-A Fresno and Spokane. In 104 games he hit .264 with a .380 on-base percentage, nine home runs, 58 RBIs and 18 doubles.
Through three games this season, Lavigne is hitting a team-high .417 (5-for-12) with one home run and four RBIs.
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Infielder Spencer Horwitz is off to a fast start at the plate for the Fisher Cats. He’s 5-for-11 (.455) with three RBIs. His five hits lead the team.
Horwitz entered Tuesday’s game with a seven-game hitting streak dating back to last season. He was promoted from Class A Vancouver to New Hampshire last September and went 6-for-16 with two doubles and two home runs during his time with the Fisher Cats ...
Wednesday’s probable starters are Elvis Luciano (New Hampshire) and Karl Kauffmann (Hartford). Luciano is one of 11 current Fisher Cats who were with the team last season. | https://www.unionleader.com/sports/fisher_cats/on-opening-night-fisher-cats-manager-martin-likes-team-s-mix-of-power-speed/article_ef3722bd-6ceb-554c-a3bb-ca976d322de8.html | 2022-04-13T02:33:47 | 1 | https://www.unionleader.com/sports/fisher_cats/on-opening-night-fisher-cats-manager-martin-likes-team-s-mix-of-power-speed/article_ef3722bd-6ceb-554c-a3bb-ca976d322de8.html |
Results received at the Union Leader (schoolsports@unionleader.com)
BOYS TENNIS
Portsmouth 5, Goffstown 4
Harrison Neff, G, def Aiden Shilman 8-2; Raphael Hey Tene, P, def Reid Guillemette 8-4; Gunner Burnha, G, def Josh White 8-3; Chris Umstead, G, def Ben Welsh 9-7; Aiden Holt, P, def Gavan Murdoch 9-8 (tiebreaker); Lucas Drakatos, P, def Chase Wooding 8-0.
Neff/Guillemette, G, def Shilman/Hey Tene 8-5; White/Welsh, P, def Burnham/Umstead 8-5; Holt/Drakakotas, P, def Murdoch/Wooding 8-0.
Records: G, 0-1; P, 3-0.
Bow 6, ConVal 3
D. Jurcins, B, def. Viles, 8-6; Yvars, B, def. Calcutt, 8-0; Leuchtenberger, B, def. Maggs 8-8; Smith, B, def. Burbank, 8-2; Burgess, CV, def. Dolcino, 8-2; Subbakaran, B, def. Daniels, CV, 8-5.
D. Jurcins/Yvars, B, def. Maggs/Calcutt, 8-3; Viles/Burbank, CV, def. Luechtenberger/Smith, 8-5; Burgess/Daniels, CV, def. Dolcino/P. Jurcins, 8-5.
Hanover 8, Nashua So. 1 (Mon.)
Evan Yang (H) def. Atul Phadke 8-4; Abhinav Avvaru (S) def. Alex Rockmore 8-6; Kevin Pillsbury (H) def. Shubh Dubey 8-0; Charlie Birkmeyer (H) def. Shreenath Mohane, 8-1; Zach Pearson (H) def. Mihir Garimella 8-0; Ming Liu (H) def. Tyler Maccabe 9-7.
Evan Yang/Alex Rockmore (H) def. Atul Phadke/Abhinav Avvaru 8-5; Kevin Pillsbury/Charlie Birkmeyer (H) def. Shubh Dubey/Shreenath Mohane 8-3; Zach Pearson/Ryder Wilson (H) def. Mihir Garimella/Tyler Maccabe 8-1.
Hanover 9, Salem 0 (Tues.)
Yang, H, def. Ozcar Lacharitie, 8-0; Rockmore, H, def. Nathaniel Gates, 8-0; Pillsbury, H, def. Wyatt Beutler, 8-1; Birkmeyer, H, def. Jackson Marietta, 8-0; Pearson, H, def. Luc Goodnow, 8-2; Pablo Martin Asensio, H, def. Max Condon, 9-7.
Yank/Rockmore, H, def. Lacharitie/Buetler, 8-0; Birkmeyer/Pillsbury, H, def. Marietta/Gavin Chase, 8-0; Ryder Wilson/Ming Liu, H, def. Gates/Om Patel, 8-0.
GIRLS TENNIS
Salem 6, BG 3
Laura Salamanca, S, def. Laura Bucci 8-3; Joah Debrocke, S, def. Sophia Sears 8-4; Alexa Peseridis, BG, def. Sophie Norcross, 8-3; Abby Linskey, BG, def. Ally Coyle 8-0; Kassie Smeltzer, S, def. Renee LeBlanc 8-1; Ava Rastello, S, def. Taylor Guibord 8-2.
Bucci/Peseridis, BG, def. Debrocke, Norcross 8-4; Salamanca/Rastello, S, def. Sears/Anna Moore 8-1; Coyle, Smeltzer, S, def. Claire Montgomery, Skyler Skinner 8-0.
Moultonborough 6, Inter-Lakes 3
Julia Pendergast (IL) def Alyssa Flitschka (M), 8-2; Caroline Elliot (M) def Ruby Preisendorfer (IL), 8-1; Grace Elliot (M) def Marissa Anastasio (IL), 8-0; Laura Cove (IL) def Abigail Bryant (M), 8-2; Lilly Glazier (M) def Jen Madigan (IL), 8-1; Brooke Hoag (M) def Chrissy Kangas (IL), 8-2.
Pendergast/Preisendorfer (IL) def Flitschka/C Elliot (M), 8-6; G Elliot/Bryant (M) def Anastasio/Cove (IL), 8-2; Glazier/Hoag (M) def Madigan/Addie Harper (IL), 8-2
BOYS LACROSSE
BG 19, Londonderry 5
BG: Quinn Cepel, Brady Dumont, 4 G each; Connor Bouvier, 2 G; Zach Connerty, 7 saves.
Timberlane 7, ConVal 2
T: Braidon Bowman, Ethan Gerry, Eric George, 2 G each; Brady Marston, 8 saves.
Derryfield 9, Winnacunnet 6
Derryfield: Alex Murray, 3 G, 2 A; Tate Flint, 2 G, 3 A; Parker Lebiedz, 12 saves.
Winnacunnet: Caleb White, Kyle Tilley, Tanyon Ziolkowski, 2 G each; Naish Kelly, 7 saves.
Trinity 6, Lebanon 5, OT
Trinity: Austin Pepin, GWG; Tyler Manning, 3 G; Andrew Overy, 1 G, 2A; Lucas Frazier, 1 G, won 7 of 10 faceoffs; Nick Guerra, 5 saves; Chase Hunt, 12 saves.
Kearsarge 16, Hillsboro-Deering 4
HD: Colby Macey, Ryan McCrumb, Jacob Davies, Paulo Vazquez, 1 G each; Jared O’Connor, 14 saves.
GIRLS LACROSSE
Pinkerton 19, Central 1
Cait Seleny, 4 A; Hannah Lisauskas, 1 G, 3 A; Bella Pinardi, 2 G; Hailey Schider, 3 G, 1 A; Ali Lamphere, 4 G, 1A; Lauren Sweeney, 8 saves (on 8 shots).
SOFTBALL
Goffstown 17, Nashua South 5
Goffstown: Sophie Roussel, Ashley Pinard, 2-run HR each; Lilly Trnka, 3 hits, 2 runs; Makayla Strickulis, Brit LeClair, 2 hits each.
Milford 22, Pelham 7
Milford: Well, 2 HRs, 7 RBIs; Fortin, 5 hits including 2 doubles, HR; Harrington, 3 hits, 2 RBIs.
Pelham: Beisang, 2-run HR, 2-run 2B; Hinton, Louh, 2 hits each.
Alvirne 7, Pinkerton 4
Alvirne: WP Rambeau, 7 IP, 9 H, 4 ER, 1 K, 0 BB; Testa, 3 hits.
Pinkerton: WP Lemay, 6 IP, 7 H, 3 ER, 5 Ks, 3 BBs; Child, 2 hits.
Pinkerton 4, Bedford 2
Pinkerton: Ashleigh Lemay, 2 RBIs; Maddie Schoenenberger, triple, single; Lily Mason, double. WP Paige Murray, 5 H, 13 Ks.
Bedford: LP McCarthy, 5 H, 5 Ks.
BOYS VOLLEYBALL
Hollis/Brookline 3, BG 0
H/B: Jake Laborde, 10 kills, 6 aces; John Sommer, 8 kills, 7 aces; Aidan Norris, 4 kills, 3 aces; Bradley Noble, 2 blocks; Ethan Norris, 28 assists.
Salem 3, Pinkerton 0
Pinkerton: Tate Thompson, 7 kills; Quinn Hammer, 4 blocks; John Collins, 5 assists; Zach Youkstetter, 4 digs.
BASEBALL
Souhegan 2, Londonderry 1
Souhegan: Kyan Bagshaw, 5 2/3 IP, 4 H, 1 R, 11 Ks; Wil Jacques, 1 1/3 IP, save.
Nashua South 4, Goffstown 3
Goffstown: Ryan Strand, 3 hits; Parker Bradley, Braeden Lambert, 2 hits each; Aiden O’Connell, 5 IP, 1 R, 8 Ks.
Exeter 12, Timberlane 0
Exeter: Zach Ferris, 4 IP, 1 ER, 1 H, 9 Ks, 4 BBs; Parker Lendrum, 2 hits, 3 RBIs; Ryan Morgado, 2 2B, 3 R; Jake Wiberg, 2 R, 2 RBIs; George Young, 2 RBIs.
Bedford 10, Keene 0
Bedford: Ryan Juliano, 4 1/3 IP, 1 H, 6 Ks; Cade Corbett, Armand Rouleau, Patrick Foulis, 2 hits each; Ethan Larochelle, 2-run single. | https://www.unionleader.com/sports/highschool/tuesday-high-school-results/article_5cf5ff5e-3555-54d9-9226-5f441d93ceec.html | 2022-04-13T02:33:53 | 1 | https://www.unionleader.com/sports/highschool/tuesday-high-school-results/article_5cf5ff5e-3555-54d9-9226-5f441d93ceec.html |
Rafael Devers had three hits, two runs scored and two RBIs, and Garrett Whitlock pitched four innings of scoreless relief as the visiting Boston Red Sox rallied past the Detroit Tigers 5-3 on Tuesday.
Enrique Hernandez had two doubles, scored two runs and drove in another for the Red Sox, who rallied from a 3-0 deficit after dropping the series opener 3-1 on Monday.
Javier Baez had an RBI double for Detroit and Spencer Torkelson delivered his first major league hit in the third inning. The Tigers were limited to five hits.
Red Sox starter Rich Hill allowed three runs on five hits in 4 1/3 innings. The 42-year-old Hill, who entered the league in 2005, began his third stint with the franchise. Detroit starter Tyler Alexander gave up three runs on five hits in 5 1/3 innings.
Detroit grabbed a 3-0 lead in the third.
Neither side had a baserunner until Torkelson, the top overall selection in the 2020 major league draft, doubled to left-center with one out in the third. He moved to third on Dustin Garneau’s single and scored on Robbie Grossman’s grounder. Jonathan Schoop’s bloop to right brought home Garneau and Baez’s double to left-center knocked in Schoop.
Devers and Xander Bogaerts singled with one out in the fourth, the first baserunners allowed by Alexander, but J.D. Martinez then tapped into a double play.
Boston tied it with three runs in the sixth.
Kevin Plawecki led off with a single and scored on Hernandez’ RBI double. Devers brought in Hernandez with a single, ending Alexander’s outing. Martinez’s two-out double to right off Jacob Barnes knocked in Devers.
The Red Sox scored two runs in the eighth to gain a 5-3 lead.
Hernandez led off with a walk and advanced on Alex Lange’s wild pitch. Devers brought him home with a single and advanced on center fielder Akil Baddoo’s error. Devers scored four batters later on Christian Arroyo’s single to left. | https://www.unionleader.com/sports/red_sox/devers-stars-as-red-sox-rally-to-clip-tigers-5-3/article_dd80d2e5-f450-519e-9028-dda54d05d966.html | 2022-04-13T02:33:59 | 0 | https://www.unionleader.com/sports/red_sox/devers-stars-as-red-sox-rally-to-clip-tigers-5-3/article_dd80d2e5-f450-519e-9028-dda54d05d966.html |
THE LIGHTS weren’t on, but they played Knight baseball at Gill Stadium on Monday.
That’s when the Manchester Central/West Knights cooperative high school team played its first NHIAA game since the schools banded together. Central/West came away with a 5-1 Division I victory over Trinity in the season opener for each program.
Of Manchester’s three public high schools, only Memorial was able to field a varsity and a junior varsity baseball team last year. Without the cooperative team being formed, West would not have had any team this season.
“The kids wouldn’t have had any place to play, JV or varsity,” said Dan Colburn, who was hired as West’s head coach in 2014 and is serving as co-head coach of the Knights with Central’s Ernie Yerrington. “I only had nine kids sign up.”
Things have run smoothly so far according to Yerrington, who, before the merger, was concerned Central would have no junior varsity team again this season.
“It’s been fantastic,” Yerrington said following Monday’s game. “They Jelled from Day 1. A lot of them know each other from baseball or other sports.”
Why are there so few high school students playing baseball in Manchester? Colburn said at least part of the reason is a lack of feeder programs in the city.
“There’s no middle school teams,” he said. “Babe Ruth is gone. There’s one 90-foot diamond on the West Side, and there’s no upkeep for it, really. There’s no place for the kids to play.”
Yerrington said there’s been talk of forming one team with players from Manchester’s five middle schools. In an attempt to generate interest, the Central/West and Memorial programs will hold a free clinic Saturday from 9 a.m. to noon at Gill Stadium. The event is open to all Manchester middle school students.
“I really would love to see 50 to 100 kids,” Yerrington said. “We’ll have coaches and players from all teams available for pitching, catching, hitting, fielding, baserunning. We’re going to give the kids three hours of really good baseball to let them know that this is available once they graduate from eighth grade.”
Jake Filip, who is in his eighth season as Trinity’s head coach, hasn’t felt the numbers crunch during his time with the Pioneers. Of course being a private school allows Trinity to attract some students who reside outside the Manchester school district. Filip said less than half of the players on his roster would be eligible to attend public high school in Manchester.
“Keep my fingers crossed we’ve never had an issue (with low participation),” Filip said. “Last year we almost had a freshman team. We could have had one because we had more than 30 come out, but with the (limited) pitching it would have been tough. We had a varsity and a JV team with high numbers on JV.”
There are five West students on this year’s Central/West varsity roster, and three of them were in Monday’s starting lineup. Senior Jacob Plamondon is one of those West students. Plamondon pitched a complete game Monday (eight hits allowed, three strikeouts). He also collected two hits and scored twice.
“When I heard about it (teaming up with Central) I was really happy because I’ve played a lot of summer ball with these guys, so when it comes to chemistry we clicked right away,” Plamondon said. “I’m just glad we were able to co-op with them because there’s a lot of good guys on this Central team.”
Central/West first baseman Declan Ryan, a junior, had two hits in Monday’s victory. Designated hitter Matt Labrecque (West) and catcher David Hood (Central) also collected two hits. Center fielder Jack Service, shortstop Tyler Nolan and pitcher Sean Kuhlhoff each had two-hit performances for Trinity.
Ryan, a Hooksett resident, suggested the Knights name and also helped come up with a logo for the hats. The uniforms are white with black pinstripes with a touch of gold, similar to what the New York Knights wore in “The Natural.”
Ryan said Green Knights was discussed as a team name, but discarded because they wanted colors that were neutral to each school.
“I wanted to scrap the whole blue and green and create something new,” Ryan said. “I heard we were gonna merge and I was like, ‘What a great opportunity. What a great opportunity for some guys to get together and put a good ballclub together.’ It’s been great so far. It’s been a pleasure playing with these West kids. Why be mad when we have more kids bringing more stuff to the table?
“The chemistry together on the team is wonderful. No one has an issue with anybody. We’re all together. We’re all one and we’re really excited for the season.” | https://www.unionleader.com/sports/roger-browns-state-of-sports-central-west-co-op-necessary-and-not-one-bit-evil/article_f745ec53-91eb-5066-a720-b3beee569725.html | 2022-04-13T02:34:05 | 0 | https://www.unionleader.com/sports/roger-browns-state-of-sports-central-west-co-op-necessary-and-not-one-bit-evil/article_f745ec53-91eb-5066-a720-b3beee569725.html |
FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) — Ahead of Indiana’s May 3 primary election, WANE 15 will profile select contested primary races without an incumbent.
Due to redistricting, Indiana House District 82 is wide open. The redrawn seat covers much of central Fort Wayne and is expected to lean Democratic.
Davyd Jones is the sole Republican candidate.
The Democratic candidates are Kathy Zoucha, Kyle Miller and Melissa Rinehart.
In the above video, they share a bit of their background and qualifications. They were asked to keep their answers to around one minute in length. | https://www.wane.com/news/your-local-election-hq/side-by-side-interviews-with-democratic-candidates-for-district-82-state-rep/ | 2022-04-13T02:35:46 | 1 | https://www.wane.com/news/your-local-election-hq/side-by-side-interviews-with-democratic-candidates-for-district-82-state-rep/ |
PORTLAND, Ore. — Day six of the trial of romance novelist Nancy Brophy began on Tuesday.
Nancy Brophy is accused of shooting and killing her husband, Dan Brophy, at the Oregon Culinary Institute where he worked as an instructor in June 2018.
The state continued to call witnesses to the stand, as they will for the next couple of weeks. The state continued with their questioning of lead homicide detective on the case Anthony Merrill with the Portland Police Bureau (PPB). Questioning revealed that the van believed to be Nancy Brophy’s was seen around the culinary institute on the date of the homicide, June 2, 2018, much earlier than was ever made public before this trial.
Surveillance video
Merrill testified that two detectives took Nancy Brophy home, one driving in her van for her since she was in an emotional state, then he returned to review surveillance footage first from Bellagios, a business down the street from the culinary institute. He said he and the detective viewing the footage were in shock because they believed that a van they saw in the footage looked like Nancy Brophy’s van they had just seen.
Merrill said he called one of the detectives with Nancy Brophy, Rico Beniga, and asked him to take photos of the van.
Using surveillance video, law enforcement was able to piece together that the van was seen at 6:39 a.m. driving eastbound on Jefferson and turns right on 20th. It is seen again going around the roundabout in the area and it goes northbound on 18th at 6:41 a.m. It is seen on KGW surveillance cameras between 7 a.m. And 7:01 a.m. going westbound on Jefferson. It then sits, parallel parked, in front of KGW for approximately seven minutes before it continues down Jefferson.
Originally, in court documents, it was only released that the van was seen in the area at 7:09 a.m., which it was. The minivan is not seen from 7:09 a.m. until 7:28 a.m. when it is seen turning the corner from the direction of the Oregon Culinary Institute, Merrill said.
This is significant to the state because it was previously stated by Nancy Brophy in a recorded death notification and information gathering conversation that Nancy Brophy had said she woke up and was alert and in bed around 6:45 a.m. - 6:50 a.m. that morning. She also said she had seen Dan Brophy, her husband and the victim in the case leave around 7:05 a.m. - 7:10 a.m.
The defense, during its cross-examination, went down the road of homeless people once more. It pointed out a man in surveillance footage that Merrill said police never identified or talked to. This man was seen on surveillance footage loitering in an empty parking lot near Oregon Culinary Institute. He is seen looking over the wall when he sees police go by, he looks in a bag, then walks off.
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It also focused on a man named Oscar Taylor who police did make contact with. Taylor had prior convictions which include robbery, theft and assault against police. Merrill and a colleague had interviewed Taylor after the event. The defense noted that Merrill took notes that said Taylor had said he took “cabernet with a candle,” but there was no context for this statement. It did not make it in the report which was written by Merrill’s colleague. The defense also alleged that in Merrill’s notes he wrote that Taylor had said of the people around OCI, “lots of crazy guys down there carry guns.” However, the “carry guns” portion did not make it into the report. The defense alleges that this shows bias in both Merrill and his colleague who worked the case to have written him off as not a person of interest.
The gun and the van
Both detectives who drove Nancy Brophy home took the stand on Tuesday. Scott Broughton drove Nancy Brophy’s van back to her house. He said she gave clear directions and when they got to her home, she allowed them inside without hesitating and gave him and detective Beniga the gun she had told them about earlier.
Detective Beniga testified that while he was at the Brophys' home, he received a call asking him to take photos of Nancy Brophy’s van, following detectives seeing a similar one on surveillance footage at the crime scene.
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Beniga said he took photos of the van and returned inside to ask Brophy if it was okay that he took the photos, as part of the documentation of vehicles at the scene. He said she responded, “Why? I wasn’t there this morning. I was at home.”
Both detectives noted, on a photo of the firearm Brophy had turned over to them, that the slide was “out of battery” or seated incorrectly on the base of the gun. Beniga testified that this was a difficult thing to do on accident. To move a slide on a gun, two levers, one on either side of the weapon, must be pressed simultaneously and the slide moved off.
There was a zip tie in the barrel of the gun, both detectives noted. Beniga said Brophy made a point to show him that
Broughton said he spoke with Brophy while he drove her home and she explained she had bought the gun at the gun expo. When he asked how she settled on a Glock, he was under the impression she made the decision while at the gun show. She did not mention she had done research on guns prior, nor that she had bought a ghost gun kit before.
He said he was under the impression that the gun had never been used and that Brophy was happy for police to take it off her hands for safekeeping.
Next, the state called PPB officer Aaron Dauchy to the stand. At the time, Dauchy was assigned to TriMet and he was on light duty. He worked a lot with video and was asked to assist in the case to try and identify a license plate on the van detectives believed to be Brophy’s. Dauchy said he could make out the first four characters as 067 B and the final two could have either been a Q or a D and a K or an X.
He reported this and was told the actual license plate number to Brophy’s van was 067BQX.
Court concluded on Tuesday with the state still questioning Kelsey Guay who works with PPB and dealt with cell phone site data and surveillance video. She was asked by detectives to put together a compilation video from all the surveillance video collected that best showed the path the van traveled from 6:39 a.m. – 7:28 a.m.
Court will resume tomorrow and continue with questioning from the state of Guay. Court was delayed on Monday due to snow and according to KGW’s meteorologists, there may be more snow on the valley floor overnight. No word on any delays at this time. | https://www.kgw.com/article/news/crime/nancy-brophy-murder-trial-day-6/283-d7b18e9c-bd10-45ae-8d19-0b469f6812de | 2022-04-13T02:36:06 | 0 | https://www.kgw.com/article/news/crime/nancy-brophy-murder-trial-day-6/283-d7b18e9c-bd10-45ae-8d19-0b469f6812de |
PORTLAND, Ore. — Many families are getting ready to travel or host get-togethers for the coming Passover and Easter holidays — and while it may feel like things are starting to get back to a somewhat normal state, COVID-19 is still around.
On Tuesday, KGW caught up with Dr. Peter Graven at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU), the lead data scientist who provides Oregon state COVID forecasts, for some insight on what we can expect in the coming weeks.
For more than two months Oregon had been seeing a decline in cases, but that’s starting to change. With COVID-19 restrictions loosened, health officials say case rates are starting to tick up in Oregon and in nearly half the country.
“We are seeing signs of some increase. So I think, you know, we are probably going to have another sort of wave now,” said Graven.
While "wave" sounds like the kind of overwhelming surge that Oregon has seen several times before, Graven said that a wave involving the omicron BA.2 subvariant could be different.
“It is more transmissible than the previous one, but your immunity will hold from if you've been previously infected with BA.1 — and if you've been boosted recently you should have some protection,” Graven said.
BA.2 has lately become the dominant strain in Europe, Graven said. The subvariant has now also become the dominant strain in the United States, with hotspots across the country. In the northeast, Philadelphia just reinstated its indoor mask mandate due to increasing cases. The subvariant is dominant in Washington and, according to Graven, that's also the case in Oregon.
“What I'm expecting is probably a doubling to a tripling in case rate over the next month or two,” said Graven.
But Graven said that’s not necessarily cause for panic, since BA.2 doesn’t seem to be causing a surge of hospitalizations.
“If infections are happening and people are able to take care of them at home, that's usually a good sign that we've done our things, including getting vaccinated and other preventive measures,” Graven said.
With the Easter and Passover holidays approaching, the nation’s top infectious disease expert, Dr. Anthony Fauci weighed in this week as well.
“Each individual is going to have to make their calculation of the amount of risk that they want to take in going to indoor dinners and in going to functions,” Fauci said.
National health experts have also said it’s important to keep perspective, and to be careful but not excessively concerned.
Still, doctors say people with a high risk of complications should be more aware of the increase in cases around them.
Some have wondered how likely it is that a mask mandate may be restored.
Graven said that if cases go up quickly, it might mean that a mask mandate would be back on the table — or, he said, more people may also choose to wear masks on their own.
Last month, Oregon Health Authority Director Patrick Allen didn’t rule out the possibility of reinstating a mask mandate or other statewide restrictions if a future COVID surge threatened hospital capacity. | https://www.kgw.com/article/news/health/coronavirus/oregon-covid-easter-passover-dr-peter-graven-ohsu-wave/283-4ee86557-6d93-4d6e-9e20-6eca531d3912 | 2022-04-13T02:36:12 | 1 | https://www.kgw.com/article/news/health/coronavirus/oregon-covid-easter-passover-dr-peter-graven-ohsu-wave/283-4ee86557-6d93-4d6e-9e20-6eca531d3912 |
After deploying four COVID-19 shots in a little more than two years, the nation is absorbing a troubling realization: That’s a pace that’s impossible to sustain.
This past week, experts began charting a path to a future that is less perfect – but more practical.
It means building a vaccine that targets more than one strain of the virus. It would reduce severe disease and death, but not prevent every infection. If the design is changed, all vaccines will be updated. Manufacturers will likely offer the same vaccine formulation to everyone, rather than a mélange of different products for different people on different schedules.
And the goal is to have it ready by next fall when the risk of illness is likely to soar. That’s a very tight deadline.
Faced with the triple threats of fading immunity, an evolving virus and holiday gatherings, “we have to be prepared, from a standpoint of national security, making sure that we can protect our population with a vaccine in hand,” Dr. Peter Marks told an expert advisory FDA committee on Wednesday.
What will that look like?
“If we settle down to one shot per year that combines COVID and flu, I think that will be sustainable,” said UC San Francisco infectious disease expert Dr. Peter Chin-Hong.
“Nobody will want to get a vaccine every six months,” he said. “So we have to change the strategy.”
The creation and distribution of COVID-19 vaccines will go down in history as one of medicine’s greatest achievements. Only one year after cases were first documented, a shot was available. Fifteen months later, an impressive total of four doses were available for many people: a two-dose primary series and two boosters.
But, with each announced dose, interest fades. While 77% of the eligible U.S. population has gotten one shot, that rate dips to 65% who have gotten two shots and only 50% who have gotten three shots. The fourth dose is just beginning to be rolled out.
Vaccine protection is fading, too. After every shot, our immunity follows the same disappointing downward trajectory. Vaccines that are 91% effective in preventing hospitalization during the first two months fall to 78% after four months – and, over time, keep declining.
This means that people who got their one shot back in early 2021 are increasingly vulnerable.
Funding also will fade. Today’s federal funding free-for-all strategy won’t continue indefinitely, predict experts. Costs will be shifted to private insurers. That puts pressure on efficiency and effectiveness.
Yet the virus is here to stay. And it will keep changing. The virus has mutated two to 10 times faster than the flu, depending on the strain, reported virologist Trevor Bedford of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle. He said it will continue mutating a little or a lot – either is possible.
Initially, experts hoped that a three-dose regimen would offer long-term protection. That strategy works for measles, mumps, rubella, hepatitis B, HPV and other viruses.
But COVID is different because it changes more, said Chin-Hong. That creates special challenges for vaccination planning.
This means things must move fast. The FDA hopes to decide on the composition of a future vaccine in May or June. While some clinical trials of potential products are already underway, vaccine manufacturers need several months to produce enough doses of a reconfigured vaccine, according to Robert Johnson, director of an infectious disease division within the Department of Health and Human Services.
The panel agreed on these points:
• The promise of a new “bivalent” or “multivalent” vaccine.
There’s a diminishing return by repeatedly giving the same “monovalent” vaccine, which targets the original strain, especially as new variants emerge. It also seems unlikely that an omicron-specific booster is the best idea. The virus changes so frequently that it could quickly be out of date.
A better approach may be to design something that targets two or more strains of the virus, called a “bivalent” or “multivalent” vaccine. Such vaccines are already in the works at Moderna and Novovax.
“A multivalent vaccine is going to be important in hopefully prolonging the duration of protection,” said Dr. Mark Sawyer, professor of clinical pediatrics at UC San Diego.
• Therapeutics must play a growing role.
Rather than constantly adding vaccines, we should seek the help of antiviral drugs, monoclonal antibodies and other future therapies to treat infections to keep people out of hospitals.
With 80% protection against hospitalization in older and sicker adults, “I think we may have to accept that level of protection and then use other alternative ways to protect individuals with therapeutics and other measures,” said Amanda Cohn of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
• Take a more unified approach to manufacturing.
Vaccine makers should target the same strains, using similar doses, panelists said. It will prove impossible to keep track of multiple vaccines with different compositions.
The CDC must take the lead in deciding when the vaccines are no longer effective against severe illness, said Dr. Paul Offit, professor of pediatrics at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. “At some level, the companies kind of dictate the conversation here,” he said.
If a new vaccine is needed to respond to a scary variant, it won’t just be a booster. The whole two-dose “primary series” would be replaced.
• Better data and new designs are needed.
Because we’re in a rush, we’re relying on what the data tells us about the immune response in blood. But we also need to get better at interpreting what these lab studies mean for protection out in the real world, said Dr. Hayley Gans, professor of pediatrics at Stanford University Medical Center. Antibody counts are important, she said. But so are other parts of the immune system, as well as clinical outcomes.
Finally, we need to know what future products await us in the research pipeline, even if they are not yet FDA authorized.
“The current mRNA vaccines are great. They can be turned around quickly,” said infectious disease expert Dr. Ofer Levy of Boston Children’s Hospital. “But it may be that other platforms emerge that give broader protection. So as we move forward, we don’t want to bake in a system that excludes other types of vaccines.” | https://www.twincities.com/2022/04/10/your-next-covid-19-vaccine-will-be-different/ | 2022-04-13T02:40:14 | 0 | https://www.twincities.com/2022/04/10/your-next-covid-19-vaccine-will-be-different/ |
While the world was contending with the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, sexually transmitted diseases were causing their own brand of stateside chaos, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The agency in a news release Tuesday released new data showing that despite the decrease in reported sexually transmitted diseases early in 2020, “most resurged by the end of that year” in the U.S., with reports of gonorrhea, syphilis and congenital syphilis exceeding those of the prior year. Meanwhile, reports of chlamydia decreased by 13%.
Reports of gonorrhea increased by 10% in 2020 while those of primary and secondary syphilis saw a 7% increase, compared to the year prior, according to the CDC. The syphilis uptick was also seen among newborns, known as congenital syphilis, with reports up by close to 15%. That syphilis uptick also bled into last year, according to early data.
That data proves “alarming,” said Myron S. Cohen, MD, who teaches medicine, microbiology and epidemiology at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
“Each of these infections — when untreated — have serious health consequences, and also increase the risk of HIV transmission,” said Cohen, who also serves as the director for the university’s Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases.
Cohen pointed to 2020′s “reduced resources in public health,” as a result of the prioritization of COVID-19, as one of the potential explanations for the increase, noting that “failure to seek treatment early leaves more time for STI transmission.” But it wasn’t just the overwhelmed public health sector that could have influenced the statistics, said Cohen, who said lockdowns’ effects on “sexual behaviors and risk taking behaviors” may also have impacted the STD landscape.
The increased reports of congenital syphilis cases, he said, signify “a special and tragic problem that must reflect failure to detect and treat syphilis in pregnant women, with disastrous consequences.”
“The COVID-19 pandemic put enormous pressure on an already strained public health infrastructure,” said Dr. Jonathan Mermin, director of the CDC’s National Center for HIV, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention. “There were moments in 2020 when it felt like the world was standing still, but STDs weren’t. The unrelenting momentum of the STD epidemic continued even as STD prevention services were disrupted.”
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TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — Women in Florida will have to wait 24 hours before getting an abortion.
On Tuesday, a Tallahassee judge tossed out a challenge to the waiting period. The decision comes after a nearly seven-year legal battle.
Circuit Judge Angela Dempsey in Tallahassee tossed out a lawsuit filed on behalf of a Gainesville women’s clinic, saying other medical procedures have a similar waiting period and other important decisions like getting married, getting divorced and buying a gun have longer waiting periods.
She said 24 hours is the minimum amount of time to let a woman think over the decision after consulting with a doctor.
Former governor and current U.S. Sen. Rick Scott signed the bill into law in 2015 and it was immediately challenged.
Representative Michele Rayner represents parts of Hillsborough, Manatee, Pinellas and Sarasota Counties. She says this is another barrier for women.
“It’s very presumptuous that someone hasn’t given careful thought to this,” Rayner said. “It’s just another way we’re seeing the Republicans chip away at the right to privacy and the right for people to make their own decisions about their lives and bodies.”
John Stemberger is the president of the Florida Family Policy Council, a pro-life organization in the state. He calls it good law and policy, citing about 26 other states that have a similar law.
“You don’t find in many medical procedures you just don’t get your bladder removed, you set up an appointment and then you come back, so this is not unusual or unconstitutional,” Stemberger said. “It doesn’t prohibit the woman from getting the procedure, it just requires her to reflect to take a moment and come back to have the procedure.”
Staff Attorney at ACLU National Julia Kaye said in a statement:
“On Friday, a Florida state trial court upheld a state abortion restriction that will force Floridians to delay obtaining time-sensitive care for at least 24 hours after meeting with a physician and to make an additional, medically unnecessary trip to a clinic. Once the Court signs one additional technical document (which we expect to happen imminently), the law will permanently take effect for the first time since April 2016, when the Florida Supreme Court put the delay law back on hold after a lower appellate court had briefly allowed it to take effect. This ruling comes after a hearing in late March at which the state trial court indicated it intended to rule for the state and reject the plaintiffs’ challenge to the restriction. The Court’s ruling on Friday stated that it will put the law into effect immediately, without any grace period for implementation, which will cause further harm, upending health care operations and forcing patients across the state to scramble to reschedule appointments. The legal team is still assessing next steps for the litigation.
“Since the passage of this law, Florida politicians have continued to place hurdles in the path of people seeking abortion care as part of a larger effort to push care out of reach. The state legislature took its most extreme step yet in attacking reproductive freedom earlier last month when politicians passed a ban on abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy.
“The medically unnecessary delay law singles out abortion and does not apply to other medical procedures, even those that involve far greater health risks. Florida’s law requires patients to make an additional trip to a clinic, which will force many people to miss work, lose wages, and spend more on transportation and childcare, frequently leading to delays of multiple days or even weeks as patients navigate the additional barriers caused by the two-trip requirement. Data show that Florida’s delay law effectively increases the cost of an abortion by $200 on average because of the lost wages, transportation, and childcare costs associated with an extra trip to the clinic. Those without the means to overcome these obstacles could be prevented from getting care entirely. Delaying access to abortion is another tactic designed to take away people’s ability to get care when they’ve decided to have an abortion. Laws that require people to delay care push people to have abortions later in pregnancy, which increases both the cost and the risks of the procedure. In fact, when a similar 24-hour delay law took effect in Mississippi, abortions later in pregnancy increased by 53 percent.
“In short, Florida politicians are closing the window on both sides for patients seeking abortion, imposing medically unnecessary restrictions that delay care while at the same time banning abortion earlier and earlier in pregnancy. The end goal is clear: outlawing abortion entirely.”
President and CEO of Planned Parenthood of Southwest and Central Florida Stephanie Fraim said in a statement:
“This is outrageous. This 24-hour delay isn’t about health care, it’s about who has power over you and who can control you. This purely politically motivated law will cause medically unnecessary obstacles to care. Forcing someone to wait between two appointments to think about their decision is just a nuisance, designed to impact care and make it harder for patients to access abortion. Planned Parenthood is prepared to support our patients through this change – but we’re already seeing the damage and cruelty as our patients call us in tears about the added challenges they are facing in planning their lives around having two appointments instead of one.”
“Over the past 7 years this law has been fought in the courts, and all the while women and pregnant people have been making well-informed, sound decisions about their medical care. Floridians have had enough of politicians and our courts continuing to restrict people’s freedom. Women and pregnant people do not need our health care choices second guessed by politicians in Tallahassee who know nothing of our lives, our stories. The repercussion of this mandatory delay will be even worse now that the Florida legislature has taken the extreme step of passing a ban on abortions after 15 weeks. Planned Parenthood is here fighting back and all the while providing compassionate, comprehensive health care.” | https://www.wfla.com/news/florida/florida-women-to-wait-24-hours-prior-to-abortion-judge/ | 2022-04-13T02:45:01 | 0 | https://www.wfla.com/news/florida/florida-women-to-wait-24-hours-prior-to-abortion-judge/ |
Yesterday, ASU Gammage announced the lineup for its 2022-23 Desert Financial Broadway Across America series, and it's packed with popular titles.
Highlights of the season include the live musical version of the Disney smash hit movie
Frozen, and Academy Award-winning screenwriter Aaron Sorkin's new version of
To Kill a Mockingbird, based on Harper Lee's classic novel.
“We cannot thank our patrons and supporters enough for believing in ASU Gammage this past year as we brought Broadway tours back into our theater. The 2022–2023 season is something to celebrate. It is packed with amazing productions and premieres, and we know our audiences will not only love these shows on stage but will love the experience that goes along with seeing live theater at ASU Gammage,” said Colleen Jennings-Roggensack, ASU vice president for cultural affairs and executive director of ASU Gammage.
click to enlarge The lineup of ASU Gammage's 2022-23 Broadway season.
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The full ASU Gammage Desert Financial Broadway Across America season includes:
Six, October 4 to 9, 2022
This 2017 British musical comedy imagines the six wives of Tudor monarch Henry VIII as members of a pop group at a concert. Each queen tells her story, and the one who had the worst time as Henry's wife gets to be the lead singer.
To Kill a Mockingbird, December 6 to 11, 2022
Harper Lee's 1960 novel about attorney Atticus Finch and his children is one of the most celebrated titles in American Literature. In 2018, Academy Award-winning screenwriter Aaron Sorkin adapted the book for the screen in a version
Rolling Stone called “an emotionally shattering landmark production of an American classic.”
Jesus Christ Superstar, January 31 to February 5, 2023
Andrew Lloyd Webber's classic musical, which celebrated its 50th anniversary last year, returns to the stage in a mesmerizing new production. This version, a musical telling of the Biblical story of the life of Jesus Christ, won the 2017 Olivier Award for Best Musical Revival.
Frozen, February 22 to March 5, 2023
In the tradition of earlier Disney-to-Broadway titles like Beauty and the Beast and The Lion King, Frozen is now a hit musical. Featuring beloved songs like "Let It Go" and "Do You Want to Build a Snowman?" Frozen the musical also includes a dozen new numbers by the film's Oscar-winning songwriters.
A Soldier's Play, May 16 to 21, 2023
The 2020 Tony Award winner for Best Revival of a Play tells the story of the murder of a sergeant on a Louisiana Army base in 1944. Playwright Charles Fuller won the Pulitzer Prime for his tense drama that
examines questions about sacrifice, service, and identity in America.
Hairspray, June 20 to 25, 2023
Filmmaker John Waters' story of 16-year-old Tracy Turnblad, a teen in 1960s Baltimore who sets out to dance her way onto TV’s most popular show, originally got the Broadway musical treatment in 2002. This all-new touring production will reunite the original Broadway creative team and bring
Hairspray to a new generation of theater audiences.
Beetlejuice, August 22 to 27, 2023
Tim Burton’s comic film will turn 35 years old next year when its Broadway musical version takes the stage at ASU Gammage. The show tells the story of Lydia Deetz, a strange and unusual teenager whose whole life changes when she meets a recently deceased couple and a demon with a thing for stripes.
Season Option: Annie, March 24 to 26, 2023
This new production of the classic Broadway musical about the plucky Depression-era orphan and her fabulously wealthy benefactor, Daddy Warbucks, is full of beloved songs like "Tomorrow" and "It's a Hard-Knock Life."
Subscribers to the 2021-22 season can now renew their subscriptions for the upcoming season. New subscriptions and single ticket sales will open up later this year. For more information, visit
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The clock is ticking for Clarence Dixon, a 66-year-old man the state of Arizona plans to put to death in less than a month.
Attorney General Mark Brnovich issued a death warrant for Dixon last week, setting his execution date as May 11. It would be the first time Arizona has carried out the death penalty in eight years — after a badly botched execution drew heightened scrutiny and legal challenges to the program.
But Dixon's attorneys have launched a new challenge to the state's plans, in a special action suit filed Monday in Maricopa County Superior Court. They argue the Arizona Board of Executive Clemency — a body that has the power to recommend Dixon not be executed — is made up of too many cops and violates the law and Dixon's legal rights.
Dixon was sentenced to death in 2008 for the murder of Arizona State University student Deana Bowdoin. He is one of 112 people on death row in Arizona.
Bowdoin was sexually assaulted and killed in 1978. She was found strangled and stabbed to death, alone in her Tempe apartment. For decades, no one had answered for her death.
In the years after Bowdoin died, Dixon had been convicted of raping another woman at knifepoint. He was already in prison for life when a jury handed down a death sentence in the Bowdoin case. DNA evidence connected Dixon, Bowdoin's neighbor at the time, to the crime.
Bowdoin's family has voiced support for the death penalty in Dixon's case.
His attorneys have called the state's decision to execute him "unconscionable." Dixon, they argue, is now frail and blind. He has a long history of mental illness. He suffered abuse as a child. He's also a member of the Navajo Nation, which opposes the death penalty on cultural and spiritual grounds.
An elderly, disabled man who has been in prison for many years, Dixon could be a relatively strong candidate for clemency. His attorneys have asked for mercy, given his current state.
But Dixon will face a board made up almost entirely of former law enforcement officials. As his attorneys emphasize in a recent filing, three of the four board members have a combined 85 years of experience in the profession.
The Arizona Board of Executive Clemency hears petitions from incarcerated people in Arizona seeking to commute their sentences. Although only the governor has this power, the board's recommendations carry weight.
In capital cases like Dixon's, clemency hearings are scheduled, automatically, once a death warrant is issued. Asking for clemency is often one of the final chances for being spared from a death sentence, and it's an important one, because the attorneys do not have to make a case solely based on legal arguments.
Typically, commutation is given when a sentence is found to be "clearly excessive," taking into account the facts of the case and testimony from victims and the convicted person.
Arizona statute requires that "no more than two members from the same professional discipline may be members of the Board at the same time." Dixon's attorney Joshua Spears said in a Monday statement it's a "plain requirement of Arizona law."
Usually, there are five members of the clemency panel, but one seat was recently vacated.
The remaining board members are Salvatore Freni, Louis Quiñonez, and Michael Johnson. Johnson and Quiñonez were appointed to the board by Governor Doug Ducey in 2017. Freni was appointed more recently, in 2021.
All three worked as law enforcement officers for most of their career. Before his appointment, Freni had only ever worked at the Phoenix Police Department, spending 30 years with the department as an officer and later lieutenant.
Quiñonez, meanwhile, worked for 27 years as a federal law enforcement officer, mostly as a special agent for the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. In 2014, he departed to work for International Police Training and Consulting Services, a law enforcement-related firm, for several years. More recently, he took a job as an instructor at Glendale Community College, teaching criminal justice.
Then there is Johnson. He has spent more time out of law enforcement compared to the other two, serving for three terms as a Phoenix city councilmember. But before that, Johnson worked for 21 years as an officer and detective with the Phoenix Police Department, then founded a security company.
His bio credits the "skills and knowledge he acquired from policing" as key to the time Johnson has spent in public office.
According to Senate nominating documents, the state says Johnson's professional discipline is that of "public policy," not law enforcement.
None of the board members returned Phoenix New Times' requests for comment.
This issue has come up before. When Quiñonez was reappointed in March 2021, Arizona State Senator Martín Quezada spoke against his presence on the board at a Senate committee meeting. "What we have here is a board as a whole that is extremely law enforcement heavy," said Quezada, a Democrat representing the West Valley.
The Senate committee voted 4-2 to reappoint Quiñonez.
It's also notable that the board chair, Mina Méndez, worked for years as an assistant attorney general for the state. This, Dixon's attorneys noted, meant she also had spent time working for "a state prosecuting agency that supports and works in partnership with law enforcement agencies."
"Mr. Dixon is entitled to a fair clemency hearing before an impartial Clemency Board," Spears said. "If the Board proceeds with three of its four members being law enforcement officers, it will violate Mr. Dixon's right to a fair hearing."
His attorneys are requesting a hearing on the issue, but it's not clear yet how the suit will progress. Currently, the case is before Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Patricia Starr.
The state has not yet filed a response in court.
At the same time, Dixon's attorneys are looking for other ways to halt Dixon's execution. Last week, attorneys filed a motion arguing that because Dixon is mentally incompetent, the death penalty would be unconstitutional in his case. Dixon has a documented history of schizophrenia and, in one older case, was determined to be legally insane by court psychiatrists.
Mental illness alone does not — legally — bar the death penalty. The U.S. Supreme Court has set a higher standard of "mental incompetence," which means the person lacks "a rational understanding of the reason for the execution."
But states have fairly broad latitude in determining mental incompetence, which has meant that many severely mentally ill people often remain on death row and, in some cases, receive the death penalty.
Dixon's fate is now in the hands of the Arizona courts — and, depending on the results of his clemency hearing, Ducey's office.
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Chicago Cubs manager David Ross had been banished from the dugout and clubhouse, forced to watch Tuesday’s series opener against the Pittsburgh Pirates from elsewhere in PNC Park.
Ross served a one-game suspension from Saturday’s incident involving right-hander Keegan Thompson intentionally hitting Milwaukee Brewers outfielder Andrew McCutchen with a pitch. That meant as soon as the pregame on-field festivities ended for the Pirates’ home opener, Ross had to find somewhere away from the Cubs to watch the game.
He didn’t wait long to rejoin his team, greeting the players as they entered the visitors’ clubhouse after securing a 2-1 win over the Pirates.
Ross’ voice boomed into the hallway, clearly fired up after the Cubs’ all-around win.
“Attaboy!” Ross said, greeting Seiya Suzuki and interpreter Toy Matsushita, the last people in after finishing a postgame interview on the field. Suzuki’s torrid start to his rookie season included driving in both Cubs runs with his first multi-homer game in the majors.
He won a six-pitch battle against Pirates left-hander José Quintana in the fifth for the first run. Suzuki slugged a full-count elevated fastball over the right-center-field wall.
In his next at-bat in the seventh, Suzuki jumped an inside fastball on the second pitch from Pirates reliever Anthony Banda. The Cubs right fielder has three home runs in his last two games.
“He’s good,” acting manager Andy Green said. “I mean, it’s not rocket science. He can flat swing the bat. He’s really done a good job of controlling the strike zone.”
Suzuki is the only major-league player with eight-plus RBIs and four-plus walks in his first four career games since RBIs became an official stat in 1920, according to STATS.
“He’s been extremely impressive to everybody,” Cubs starter Drew Smyly said. “That’s what’s caught my eye the most: He doesn’t chase. He waits for the pitcher to come to him and he’s got a really pretty swing. He’s the real deal.”
The Cubs’ first four games could not have played out much better. All four starters pitched at least five innings coming out of the shortened spring training. They have a combined 0.89 ERA (two runs in 20⅓ innings) with seven walks and 16 strikeouts the first turn through.
Smyly was the least built up, yet his effectiveness allowed him to pitch five innings. The Pirates managed just three hits off the lefty. The Cubs’ five pitchers — Smyly, Chris Martin, Ethan Roberts, Mychal Givens and David Robertson — did not issue a walk in the win.
Smyly relied on a three-pitch mix — curveball, four-seam fastball and cutter — to keep the Pirates in check. He thought about incorporating the changeup he worked on in the offseason, but he wanted the Pirates to show they could hit his curveball first. They didn’t do much against the pitch, which generated six whiffs and had just one hit off it.
“They were extremely aggressive swinging early and often,” Smyly said. “I did a pretty good job landing my off-speed for strikes, throwing cutters in for strikes and curveballs away for strikes and just keeping them off balance.”
It’s early — obligatory small sample size in full effect — but the Cubs are playing the type of games this roster was built for. They have generally done well putting the ball in play and limiting strikeouts from too many spots in the lineup. The relievers they signed during camp have been pretty solid, particularly Givens and Robertson in the eighth and ninth innings.
Their infield defense has held up behind a contact-dominant rotation. On Tuesday that meant shortstop Nico Hoerner unleashing another jump throw from the hole to nail Ke’Bryan Hayes at first for the second out of the third. It kept the potential tying run, a leadoff double by Roberto Pérez, at second base.
Smyly said the sequence was a huge turning point for his outing.
“The play Nico made, that was insane,” Smyly said. “I thought he was going to put it in his back pocket and then he jumped up and threw it and Hayes, he’s not slow, so for him to make that play was incredible.”
Smyly induced 11 groundouts and the defense held up.
“We’ve been really aggressive moving our infielders around early in the season, and so far we’ve been good,” said Green, who also serves as the Cubs infield coach. “But we’ve also been a little bit lucky. Stuff’s been going right at us and when it hasn’t, Nico makes plays like he did today.
“The way we get the ball on the ground with that rotation, it’s going to be huge for us if we keep that up.”
The Cubs don’t have much wiggle room for things to go wrong. The bullpen must hold up as Ross and pitching coach Tommy Hottovy figure out which pitchers best fit certain roles. While the Cubs needed Suzuki’s two home runs to win Tuesday, the offense has shown it can move runners and score without solely relying on the long ball. Too often last year the Cubs featured a boom-or-bust lineup.
Again, it’s very early in a 162-game season. But there are signs the Cubs possess some interesting pieces for 2022 and beyond.
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Brevyn Spann-Ford stood in front of a line of TV cameras and a gaggle of reporters for the first time Tuesday. It was a sign of a changing of the guard at the Gophers’ tight end position and the heightened expectations that will be thrust on the fifth-year player come fall.
The 6-foot-7 St. Cloud native recently talked about what he wants in offensive coordinator Kirk Ciarrocca’s office.
“He has a really big vision for himself on where he wants to go,” Ciarrocca shared. “My comment back to him was, ‘You need to show me you are willing to do the work that it’s going to take to get there.’ He was like, “Coach, I will.”
Spann-Ford has done that, Ciarrocca relayed after the seventh spring practice. As for the exact “vision,” Spann-Ford directed it back to being there for his teammates.
Spann-Ford will need to assume the mantle of blocking tight end, which Ko Kieft established, and build on the promise as a pass-catcher. Spann Ford had 23 receptions for 296 yards and one touchdown, including a stunning 48-yard reception where he hurdled an Indiana defender in a 35-14 win last November.
UP AND DOWN KALIAKMANIS
Backup quarterback Athan Kaliakmanis brought practice to a standstill Tuesday as head coach P.J. Fleck had a one-on-one conversation with him. On the next play, Kaliakmanis threw a roughly 25-yard dart to freshman Ike White in the corner of the end zone. Then Kaliakmanis was tagged with a penalty and had a pass over the middle broken up by safety Michael Dixon.
That’s the rollercoaster life for a second-year QB, but it’s his upside behind incumbent Tanner Morgan that went into Ciarroccaa’s decision to return to Minnesota after two years away.
“I’d be lying to you if I didn’t say that when I decided to come back here that I didn’t think about him and having an opportunity to work with him,” said Ciarrocca, who helped recruit Kaliakmanis before taking a job at Penn State in December 2019.
KEY ABSENCES
Notable players out of Tuesday’s practice: offensive tackle JJ Guedet, cornerback Terell Smith and receiver Lemeke Brockington. They were also out for the previous open practice last week. The absence of Guedet was the most glaring with the Gophers needing to replace four starting offensive linemen from last season, including both tackles.
STARTING O-LINE
Center John Michael Schmitz, the only returning starter up front, had injured his lower leg in the Guaranteed Rate Bowl but avoided a serious setback to be able to anchor the O-line in spring ball.
On Tuesday, the other starters appeared to be right tackle Martes Lewis, right guard Chuck Filiaga, left tackle Axel Ruschmeyer and left tackle Aireontae Ersery. Filiaga is a Michigan transfer.
The need for tackle/guard Quinn Carroll to arrive is apparent; the Edina native is finishing classes at Notre Dame and is expected to join the program in June.
‘DANGEROUS’ SAFETIES
Jordan Howden has started 36 career games and Tyler Nubin 20; that vast experience has led to a strong chemistry at the back of the Gophers’ defense.
“I can give him a little hand signal, and he knows exactly what it means,” Nubin said last week. “I don’t have to do anything crazy, just to know he’s going to do his job always. We got that trust factor between us. It’s going to be dangerous this year.” | https://www.twincities.com/2022/04/12/gophers-tight-end-brevyn-spann-ford-has-big-vision/ | 2022-04-13T02:53:22 | 1 | https://www.twincities.com/2022/04/12/gophers-tight-end-brevyn-spann-ford-has-big-vision/ |