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- Latest financing round led by Acrew Capital and BNY Mellon, with continued investments from Goldman Sachs and Fidelity Investments.
- New funding will bolster the company's new crypto data intelligence product innovation and propel expansion into international markets.
- Coin Metrics has emerged as the clear market leader in the institutional space because it offers a comprehensive suite of institutional quality crypto intelligence products while maintaining open values.
BOSTON, April 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Coin Metrics, the leading provider of crypto financial intelligence, today announced that it raised $35 million in Series C financing, led by Acrew Capital and BNY Mellon. Goldman Sachs, Fidelity Investments, Highland Capital Partners, Avon Ventures and Morningside Technology Ventures are also continuing their investments in the company after participating in previous fundraising rounds. They are joined by new investors Cboe Global Markets, JAM FINTOP Blockchain, Mubadala Investment Company and Brevan Howard Digital.
Coin Metrics provides network data, market data, indexes and network risk solutions to the most prestigious institutions touching cryptoassets. This financing will bolster the company's new product innovation and help the company expand into adjacent spaces, elevating their ability to usher the world's premier financial institutions into crypto markets.
"Coin Metrics serves as a critical nexus for institutions in the digital asset space and has the potential to scale much further," said Tim Rice, co-founder and CEO of Coin Metrics. "This financing will enable us to accelerate both our business and product roadmap, including through continued investment in new novel risk, DeFi and other Dapp metrics, and in our world-class infrastructure. The quality of our crypto data and intelligence has generated tremendous interest from the growing number of premier financial institutions engaging in cryptoassets, prompting us to expand our customer success and growth efforts globally. We have assembled an experienced team of top crypto, data and financial services experts, and I am proud of the industry-leading work they continue to produce."
Following the completion of the company's $15 million Series B in 2021, Coin Metrics received SOC 2 Type 1 accreditation from Deloitte. Setting itself apart from other crypto data providers, Coin Metrics has emerged as the clear market leader in the institutional space because it offers a comprehensive suite of services – including on-chain data, a universal block explorer, market data and metrics, indexes and network risk management – while maintaining our core values of open, pioneering, elucidating and neutral.
"Developing a robust risk management framework is critical to our roadmap as we work toward launching digital asset services," said Katey Neate, Chief Risk Officer of BNY Mellon Asset Servicing & Digital. "Our strengthened alignment with Coin Metrics is another example of how we are leveraging leading technology solutions to develop this critical capability. With Coin Metrics, we have the opportunity to advance the capabilities and conversation, and ultimately raise the bar on risk management for digital assets as an industry."
"Given the complex, fragmented and decentralized nature of the crypto data space today, data providers that can organize this information in a transparent and accessible way are invaluable," said Mark Kraynak, Founding Partner of Acrew Capital. "Coin Metrics provides critical intelligence and superior crypto data insights to facilitate the path towards mainstream adoption of cryptoassets as more financial services firms and traditional investors look to enter this space. We are excited to be leading the company's Series C, which will help them continue to build out their institutional quality infrastructure."
Additional investors in previous fundraising rounds include Castle Island Ventures, Coinbase, Digital Currency Group, Communitas Capital, Dragonfly Capital, The Raptor Group, BlockFi, Animal Ventures and Collab+Currency.
With increased capital, the company will be able to make continued enhancements to infrastructure and reliability while scaling the business for greater international adoption. Coin Metrics' elite team of cryptonative experts and financial industry veterans will position the company to cement its reputation as the most trusted global provider of end-to-end crypto intelligence for institutions.
ABOUT COIN METRICS
Coin Metrics is the leading provider of crypto financial intelligence, offering network data, market data, indexes and network risk solutions to the most prestigious institutions touching cryptoassets. The company was founded in 2017 as an open-source project to determine the economic significance of public blockchains. Today, we expand on that original purpose to empower people and institutions to make informed crypto financial decisions. We aim to usher the world's premier financial institutions into crypto with the most trusted data and insights. For more information, visit www.coinmetrics.io.
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MIAMI, April 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- At the Bitcoin 2022 conference in Miami today, leading global payments provider Checkout.com debuted its Demystifying Crypto: Shedding light on the adoption of digital currencies for payments in 2022 report, pointing to increasingly positive trends in the adoption of and appetite for using digital currencies for eCommerce.
The comprehensive report independently surveyed a total of 30,000 consumers and 3,000 merchants in 11 countries*, looking at behaviors and sentiments regarding commercial activity using cryptocurrencies. The first chapter of the report hones in on the specific trends in the 18-35 year old age bracket, of which there were 16,000 participants.
According to the findings, crypto is rapidly gaining in appeal among younger demographics in particular, with 40% of 18-35 year old consumers wanting and planning to use cryptocurrencies to pay for goods or services within the next year. That's up from less than 30% last year, and marks a substantial shift in attitude from digital currencies being seen as solely an investment vehicle to a means of doing business on a regular basis. It also sees consumers pacing ahead of online businesses, only 23% of which say they are planning to offer crypto payment as a method of payment by 2024.
This increased consumer openness to cryptocurrency is driven by a broader appetite for more convenient, safer payment methods. That is then matched by more merchants and third parties providing the underlying infrastructure to support those methods.
As a result, crypto is already having a material impact on merchants and the market overall. More than $2.5 billion worth of payments were made through Visa's crypto-backed card in the first fiscal quarter of 2022 alone[1]. And those merchants that embraced cryptocurrency payments experienced net-new growth, with 82% saying those options allowed them to rapidly attract new customers and reach new demographics.
Almost 70% of the merchants surveyed believe that the speed with which crypto payments can be made and settled has the potential to revolutionize their business models—with over 80% of merchants with existing crypto-payment options saying it was easier to settle than using fiat currencies.
"We believe this is the largest consumer survey of its kind, and the findings present a clear evolution of attitudes towards cryptocurrencies around the world. This is a legitimate transition from the early adoption phase to one that's more practical, pragmatic and positive overall," said Jess Houlgrave, head of strategy for crypto at Checkout.com.
"This transition means there's a groundswell in demand for fintech companies that can provide easy-to-deploy solutions and services to get merchants up and running with crypto payment options—and then help them optimize the process over time. We expect that trend to only get stronger over the coming year as we bridge more services into Web3."
Consumer attitudes and trust
Even with a solid technology foundation underpinning crypto, the momentum can still be volatile. To date, vendors and merchants have made a considerable effort to build trust in these services. And the rising acceptance of crypto at a consumer level has started to influence the way larger corporates are working with digital currencies.
According to the Checkout.com report, over a third of survey participants—including CFOs and corporate treasurers—are increasingly interested in holding stablecoins on their balance sheets. They see this as a way to use decentralized finance for treasury management.
Some are going as far as planning to pay vendors and employees in stablecoins—primarily in response to demand from those audiences, with 51% of companies reporting that at least some employees had expressed an interest in being paid in crypto.
More broadly, new communities of content creators, gamers, and gig workers are embracing crypto. Almost half (46%) of online creatives say their fans and audiences have sent them digital currencies to support their work. These communities are stretch-testing what is possible when it comes to the use of tokens and crypto, a preview of what's to come in the mainstream.
One other likely scenario held by 65% of C-level executives is that Web3 will materially change the B2C dynamic as consumers increasingly become producers. This market is expected to be significant, with the gaming economy forecasted to hit $260 billion by 2025[2], and the size of the creator economy hitting $104 billion[3]–and expected to rise.
"The cryptocurrency world is maturing and is increasingly being driven by utility, pragmatism and empowerment," added Houlgrave. "Checkout.com sees the potential for cryptocurrency to not only transform the way people transact, but also to potentially reinvent the dynamics of the entire digital economy."
The full report Demystifying Crypto: Shedding light on the adoption of digital currencies for payments in 2022 is now available for download at www.checkout.com/campaigns/demystifying-crypto. To learn more about Checkout.com's solutions for the crypto community, visit checkout.com/crypto.
*Report Methodology
The Demystifying Crypto report draws from an independent survey of 30,000 consumers and 3,000 merchants based in the US, UK, France, Spain, Italy, Germany, The United Arab Emirates (UAE), The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), Hong Kong (HK), Singapore and Australia. The research was fielded via market research platform Qualtrics between February 2 - March 1 2022.
The majority of our sample have not yet held a digital asset but 40% plan to do so in 2022. A quarter of the sample identifies as keen gamers and 1% as professional gamers. The survey was conducted online and is therefore highly skewed towards a population with internet access and 86% of respondents own a smartphone. The consumer data has been represented as statistics per total population in each country surveyed. Businesses surveyed are digital-first platforms and marketplaces, Saas, gaming and entertainment, fintech and eCommerce merchants. Job titles surveyed included CEOs, CFOs, COOs, Group Treasurers, heads of eCommerce, payments leaders and other senior finance leaders.
About Checkout.com
Checkout.com is a global payments solution provider that helps businesses and their communities thrive in the digital economy. Purpose-built with performance, scalability and speed in mind, our modular payments platform is ideal for enterprise businesses looking to seamlessly integrate better payment solutions. With more than 1800 people across 19 offices worldwide, we offer innovative solutions that flex to your needs, valuable insights that help you get smart about your payments' performance, and expertise you can count on as you navigate the complexities of an ever-shifting world. It's why businesses like Crypto.com, Binance, Sony, SHEIN, Grab, Frasers Group and Moonpay trust Checkout.com.
[1] Visa Earnings call Q1 2022 https://investor.visa.com/financial-information/quarterly-earnings/default.aspx
[2] Global video game market value from 2020 to 2025, Statista, 2021
[3] The Creator Economy Report, The Influencer Marketing Factory, 2021
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Financing accelerates company's global growth and development of its platform to enrich HCP messaging solutions on endemic and point-of-care networks for life sciences companies
PARSIPPANY, N.J., April 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Doceree Inc, the first global network of physician-only platforms for programmatic messaging, today announced the completion of $11 million Series A funding round led by F-Prime Capital, a global investment firm backed by Fidelity. Eight Roads Ventures and Alkemi Growth Capital also participated in the round.
Doceree will use the funds to scale its global operations, expand partnerships, augment its product portfolio and advance the platform's measurement and behavior lift capabilities to bring greater transparency to results. It will also help it embolden healthcare professional (HCP) communications for pharma and life sciences brands, agencies and health information technology platforms.
"It is critical for industry players like life sciences companies and HCP-only platforms to understand and react to the digital touchpoints and behaviors of HCPs for delivering messages they resonate with," says Harshit Jain, M.D., Founder & Global CEO, Doceree. "Our identity resolution technology and tailored products for different markets that adhere to the country-specific regulations and guidelines make it easy for life sciences brands to engage with HCPs on digital mediums, while enabling publishers to improve engagement on their platforms with relevant medical information from pharmaceutical and life sciences brands."
Doceree's industry-first solutions, powered by proprietary identity-resolution technology, ESPYIAN™, enable messaging and targeting of HCPs on endemic (sites physicians visit for knowledge, professional enhancement or to connect with their peer group) and point-of-care (platforms where physicians tend to their patients) platforms. The platform enhances engagement between life sciences companies and their target audience through its global publisher network in a fast-evolving digital pharma marketing ecosystem.
Founded in 2019 by Harshit, a former physician who transitioned into the healthcare marketing space, Doceree empowers life sciences brands and media agencies with solutions that seamlessly reach HCPs on professional HCP networks and within their digital workflow to achieve better patient health outcomes. The company has refined HCP communications through its programmatic messaging capabilities to help marketers with more efficient, effective and transparent messaging campaigns.
"Doceree has identified a largely overlooked white space in digital pharma marketing and is delivering innovative solutions to address some of the most critical challenges that pharma companies face today," says Carl Byers, Partner, F-Prime Capital. "We were drawn to the company's vision and are looking forward to our partnership and continued support as they evolve into their next stage of growth."
On the back of massive interest of pharma brands and publishers towards Doceree's custom-built product offerings within the programmatic pharma marketing space, the company expanded to key international locations, such as emerging markets in the UK & Europe, within two years of the platform's launch in the U.S. The sophistication of Doceree's platform capabilities has created enormous opportunities for marketers and publishers in these geographies as it transforms the way pharma brands communicate with HCPs globally on physician-only platforms. Currently, Doceree is working with eight of the top 10 global pharma brands and the company currently engages more than 1 million HCPs across the globe.
"Doceree is transforming the way digital interactions between pharmaceutical brands and prescribers are facilitated," says Ashish Venkataramani, Partner, Eight Roads Ventures. "Pharma marketers navigate significant complexity across point-of-care systems and health information systems. Doceree's technology platform seeks to disrupt the fragmented value chain for digital messaging to physicians, and will be at the forefront of this promising sector."
Doceree's AI-powered solutions facilitate hyper-targeting of HCPs based on multiple triggers and at various touchpoints that enrich marketing initiatives digitally. The platform can precisely identify HCPs on professional platforms based on their behavior traits, diagnoses they carry out, prescriptions they write, and the procedures they perform to deliver relevant messaging from life sciences brands in a regulatory compliant manner.
Doceree Perform, the company's latest product, provides exceptional measurement proficiency for life sciences companies to evaluate campaign performances and to improve script lift with data-driven messages in the U.S. In India, the U.K. and the EU, ESPYIAN™ enables marketers to target HCPs at a specialty level, allowing pharma brands to reach them at scale based on their area of expertise. The company is set to introduce behavioral lift measurement offerings globally.
"For pharma, life sciences companies and publishers, having access to data-driven, actionable insights to strategize and implement communication initiatives is critical to reaching HCPs," says Rahul Gupta, Board Member, Doceree. "Doceree has proven the ability to efficiently connect stakeholders and is well-positioned to serve the needs of the pharma industry."
"In a world that has embraced online channels for virtual care during the last two years, reaching HCPs within digital point-of-care and endemic networks is having a resounding impact on communications for life sciences market," says Alka Goel, Founder, Alkemi Growth Captial. "Doceree's solutions are set to fuel adoption of programmatic messaging in the pharma marketing space."
About Doceree
Doceree is the first global network of HCP-only platforms for programmatic messaging. Doceree facilitates messaging between life sciences brands and healthcare professionals (HCPs) through an extensive global network of digital endemic and point-of-care platforms to programmatically deliver at scale accurate and transparent messages to HCPs. To learn more, visit doceree.com
About F-Prime Capital
F-Prime Capital, formerly Fidelity Biosciences and Devonshire Investors, is a global venture capital firm investing in life sciences, healthcare and technology. Since 1969, F-Prime has worked closely with entrepreneurs and academics to create innovative solutions to some of the world's most significant challenges in healthcare and technology. https://fprimecapital.com/
About Eight Roads Ventures
Eight Roads Ventures is a global venture capital firm managing $8bn of assets across offices in the UK, China, India, Japan, and the US. Our 50-year history of investing includes partnerships with over 300 companies such as Alibaba, AppsFlyer, BlackDuck, Cazoo, Chewy, Devoted Health, Flywire, Gloat, Hibob, Icertis, Kensho, Letgo, Made.com, Neo4j, Paidy, Ping Identity, Pony.ai, Toast, Wallapop, WuXi PharmaTech, and Xoom.
www.eightroads.com
About Alkemi Growth Capital
Alkemi Growth Capital is a growth investment firm that seeks to invest in healthcare and consumer wellness industry. The firm was founded in 2018 and is based in New Delhi, India. https://www.alkemivp.com/
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Strong partnership support through new investments by Repsol and Monarch and additional investments from Avenue and other existing shareholders
Financial data is expressed in Canadian dollars
MONTRÉAL, April 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Enerkem, a world leader in the production of low-carbon intensity biofuels and circular chemicals from waste materials, announces the closing of a new financing totaling $255 million.
Repsol invests $170 million, of which $75 million is in Enerkem's equity. In doing so, Repsol joins existing shareholder Suncor Energy as a strategic shareholder to accelerate the adoption and deployment of Enerkem's technology and to develop new projects in the Iberian Peninsula (Spain and Portugal).
In addition, Monarch Alternative Capital, a new investor, is contributing $30 million to the round while Avenue Capital Group is reinvesting $30 million. Finally, there is $25 million reinvested by some existing shareholders.
Repsol becomes a strategic partner to accelerate Enerkem's deployment in Europe
Repsol is a global multi-energy company operating in 24 countries and leading the energy transition with its ambition of achieving zero net emissions by 2050. For Repsol, this partnership is a natural fit with the technological solution developed by Enerkem.
Since last year, the company has partnered with Enerkem and Agbar to build Ecoplanta Molecular Solutions in El Morrell, near Tarragona, Spain. The plant, scheduled to be operational in 2026, will use Enerkem's technology to process some 400,000 tonnes of non-recyclable solid waste per year and produce close to 240,000 tonnes of methanol. Among over 300 projects submitted by major European industrial groups last year, Ecoplanta Molecular Solutions was one of seven projects selected for financial support from the European Commission, with a confirmed grant of up to €106 million.
"We are pleased to welcome Repsol as a shareholder," said Dominique Boies, Chief Executive Officer of Enerkem. "Repsol is a global multi-energy supplier that will greatly assist in accelerating the deployment of our technology in new markets. Repsol's equity investment in Enerkem strengthens our position as a leader in the renewable fuels and chemicals sectors and in building a circular economy."
"At Repsol, we are truly proud to become a shareholder in Enerkem thus supporting its development to consolidate as a leader in waste gasification technology to produce renewable fuels and chemicals," added Juan Abascal, Executive Director for Industrial Transformation and Circular Economy of Repsol. "We anticipate that its cutting-edge technology, recently recognized by the EU Innovation Fund, will be key to the decarbonization and circularity of the chemical and fuel industry. Enerkem has several projects in different stages of development that will help Repsol accelerate its circular economy initiatives and open new paths for production of low-carbon fuels, synthetic fuels, and renewable chemical products."
Additional support from Monarch Alternative Capital and Avenue Capital Group
Monarch Alternative Capital, a leading investment firm with approximately US$9.5 billion of assets under management, is a new $30 million investor in Enerkem, attracted by the potential of Enerkem's technology to have a tangible impact on greenhouse gas reduction.
"We believe Enerkem's team and technology are uniquely positioned to provide a compelling, scalable solution to some of the world's hardest to decarbonize sectors," said Joseph Citarrella, Managing Principal at Monarch Alternative Capital. "Through our experience in and focus on reducing the carbon footprint of fuels and chemicals, we are delighted to partner with Enerkem and its investors to advance its important strategic objectives."
As an investor in Enerkem since 2020, Avenue Capital Group, through the Avenue Sustainable Solutions Fund, is reinvesting over $30 million. The fund promotes investments in private companies and projects with the goal of generating positive and measurable environmental and social impacts as well as financial returns.
"Enerkem continues to be a natural fit with our mission to drive measurable environmental impact," said John Larkin, co-manager of the Avenue Sustainable Solutions Fund and Head of Impact Investments. "We are excited to continue to back Enerkem's vision of decarbonizing industrial chemicals while offering a solution to municipal solid waste. Both are critical solutions in a sustainable future. "
These new investors are a great complement to the support of existing Enerkem investors such as Rho Ventures, Braemar Energy Ventures, Investissement Québec, Cycle Capital, Fonds de solidarité FTQ, Fondaction and Suncor Energy.
"We are privileged to have high-calibre international investors supporting our vision and the deployment of our disruptive technology. These endorsements confirm the added value of our technology in the efficient and sustainable management of residual waste and forest biomass, transforming them into circular chemicals and advanced biofuels for road, air and sea transportation. In this way, we will contribute to decarbonizing sectors of activity that have a large environmental footprint. The geographic expansion of our investor base will help position Enerkem as a leading provider of technology to improve the global environment. We hope that this financing round will have a significant ripple effect on other Quebec and Canadian investors to stimulate innovative clean technologies," concluded Dominique Boies.
J.P. Morgan Securities LLC served as exclusive placement agent to Enerkem Inc. in connection with the financing.
About Enerkem
Enerkem has developed and is marketing its breakthrough technology to produce, from non-recyclable waste, circular chemicals and advanced biofuels intended for hard to decarbonize sectors, such as sustainable aviation and marine fuels. Headquartered in Montreal, Quebec (Canada), Enerkem operates a full-scale commercial demonstration plant in Edmonton, Alberta, as well as an innovation centre in Quebec. A large-scale commercial facility is currently under construction in Varennes, Quebec (Canada) which will use Enerkem's technology. This also applies to agroforestry waste that, like urban waste, can be recycled into new products. Such technology can therefore diversify energy and chemical portfolios, as well as produce greener everyday products. It also provides a smart and sustainable alternative to landfilling and incineration. For more information, visit www.enerkem.com, follow us on Twitter @Enerkem or visit our LinkedIn or Facebook page.
About Repsol
Repsol is a global multi-energy supplier that facilitates the transition to a lower-emission energy model. It owns low-emission electricity generation assets and is developing several photovoltaic and wind renewable energy projects. Repsol has set itself the ambitious goal of being a company with zero net emissions by 2050 and has had a circular economy strategy in place since 2016, which it applies throughout the company's value chain, from obtaining raw materials to marketing products and services.
Focused on the circular economy, the company's chemical business will also make a decisive contribution to a more decarbonized economy and is committed to the efficiency of its industrial chemical processes. Its products are used to manufacture everyday objects that improve people's quality of life, well-being, and safety. Its wide range of chemical products extends from base petrochemicals to derivatives, and includes a wide range of polyolefins, all of which are 100% recyclable. The company also has three large petrochemical facilities in Europe where differentiated high value-added products are developed.
For more information, please visit: www.repsol.com
About Monarch Alternative Capital
Monarch Alternative Capital is a global investment firm founded in 2002 with approximately US$9.5 billion in assets under management. Monarch focuses primarily on opportunistic situations across corporate debt, real estate, capital solutions, and other market segments. Monarch draws on the skills and experience of its employees across offices in New York and London. For more information, visit www.monarchlp.com.
About Avenue Sustainable Solutions
The Avenue Sustainable Solutions Fund, L.P. seeks to provide creative financing solutions to high-growth companies that can demonstrate a measurable, positive environmental outcome alongside competitive financial returns. For additional information on Avenue Capital Group, which is a global investment firm with assets estimated to be approximately US$11.8 billion as of February 28, 2022, please visit www.avenuecapital.com.
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Combined BI solution is designed to help government and utility fleets solve rapidly growing challenges around sustainability initiatives and operational efficiencies.
MINNEAPOLIS, April 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Utilimarc, an industry leader in fleet analytics and authorized Geotab premier reseller, today announced its partnership with Geotab, a global leader in IoT and connected transportation. Through this partnership, Utilimarc and Geotab provide utility companies and municipalities with rich data-insights via a combined business intelligence (BI) solution to help solve proliferating problems in the industry including sustainability initiatives and operational efficiencies.
As the largest provider of Geotab telematics to utilities already, Utilimarc is expanding to provide its solutions to municipal government fleets. The combined solution empowers fleets with access to an advanced analytics platform that integrates Geotab's vehicle and driver data with operational system data- maintenance, charging station, and fuel cards- to deliver a single reporting solution.
Meeting electrification and emissions mandates while optimizing operational efficiencies and cutting costs, pose continual challenges for fleets today. Through this partnership, the Geotab and Utilimarc BI solution will enable utility and government fleets to effectively navigate emissions reduction, preventative maintenance, vehicle replacement and rightsizing initiatives.
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"Geotab and Utilimarc's missions remain strongly aligned: to be a source of trust and reliability for our customers. Through this partnership, our goal is to remain the go-to source to help utilities and municipalities better support their fleet and create proactive strategies to enhance fleet operations," said Chris Shaffer, CEO at Utilimarc.
The partnership has developed upon a collective understanding of the many challenges that these specific fleet industries face including:
- Data quality issues from disparate and unreliable fleet management systems
- Supply chain issues leading to procurement challenges
- Sustainability and reporting demands
- Pricing and costs associated with emerging technologies
Currently, Utilimarc and Geotab have partnered to help optimize fleets nationwide, click here to see some of those fleets.
About Geotab
Geotab is advancing security, connecting commercial vehicles to the cloud and providing data-driven analytics to help customers better manage their fleets. Geotab's open platform and Marketplace, offering hundreds of third-party solution options, allows both small and large businesses to automate operations by integrating vehicle data with their other data assets. As an IoT hub, the in-vehicle device provides additional functionality through IOX Add-Ons. Processing billions of data points a day, Geotab leverages data analytics and machine learning to help customers improve productivity, optimize fleets through the reduction of fuel consumption, enhance driver safety, and achieve strong compliance to regulatory changes. Geotab's products are represented and sold worldwide through Authorized Geotab Resellers. To learn more, please visit www.geotab.com and follow us @GEOTAB and on LinkedIn.
About Utilimarc
Headquartered in Minneapolis with remote teams around the world, Utilimarc is leading the industry in business intelligence solutions for enterprise fleets. They work alongside North America's highest performing fleet organizations to ensure their data is actionable and reliable to inform sustainable change. With 20 years of industry experience working with diverse data silos from the nation's largest utility fleets, Utilimarc developed their BI platform that connects and unifies fleet data sources into a single environment. The results of unifying data sources empower their customers to have a true understanding of the daily performance and utilization of their fleet assets. For more information visit www.utilimarc.com.
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Diluted EPS of $0.38 on revenue of $683 million
Orders for 8,500 new railcars valued at $930 million creates largest new railcar backlog in six years
Fleet utilization increases to 98%
LAKE OSWEGO, Ore., April 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Greenbrier Companies, Inc. (NYSE: GBX) ("Greenbrier"), a leading international supplier of equipment and services to global freight transportation markets, today reported financial results for its second fiscal quarter ended February 28, 2022.
Second Quarter Highlights
- New railcar orders for 8,500 units valued at $930 million and deliveries of 4,800 units resulted in a 1.8x book-to-bill.
- Diversified new railcar backlog as of February 28, 2022 was 32,100 units with a value of $3.6 billion.
- Railcar refurbishment and other transportation equipment backlog of 3,200 units valued at $180 million for delivery during fiscal 2022 and 2023 reflects Greenbrier's strong engineering and innovation capabilities. This activity is not included in new railcar backlog.
- Increased lease fleet utilization to 98%.
- Regular lease fleet optimization and monetization generated $120 million of proceeds and $25 million of gains.
- Net earnings attributable to Greenbrier for the quarter were $13 million, or $0.38 per diluted share, on revenue of $683 million.
- Quarter end liquidity increased to $804 million, including $587 million in cash and $217 million of available borrowing capacity.
- GBX Leasing completed the issuance of $323 million of asset-backed notes with a blended rate of 2.9%. The notes have a weighted average life of six years.
- Board declared a quarterly dividend of $0.27 per share, payable on May 10, 2022 to shareholders of record as of April 19, 2022 representing Greenbrier's 32nd consecutive quarterly dividend.
Lorie Tekorius, President and CEO, commented, "Greenbrier's commercial momentum continued during the second fiscal quarter of 2022, as we achieved our fifth consecutive quarter with a book-to-bill ratio exceeding 1.0x on orders approaching $1 billion. Greenbrier ended the quarter with backlog at levels last seen six years ago. Financial results in the quarter reflect our unique business model and the opportunities our lease fleet provides to further enhance our performance. This matters, particularly when we face evolving pandemic-related challenges, like intermittent labor shortages. Securing and receiving inputs for our products has the full attention of our global sourcing team. We are successfully navigating a supply chain experiencing higher raw material costs and, frequently, more expensive logistics activity. Robust order activity, strong liquidity and the evolution of our leasing business continues to strengthen Greenbrier, expanding our market position and earnings potential as we manage escalating costs and other operating strains."
William A. Furman, Executive Chairman, added, "The tragedy in Ukraine and its impact on commodity prices are likely to have far-reaching consequences to the global railcar industry, including growth in rail freight in many sectors. We are closely watching global commodity markets, including crude oil, grain and fertilizers, that are traditionally leading indicators for expansion in freight rail loadings. Now operating on four continents, Greenbrier is continuously assessing the effect of geopolitical developments, and actively working to support the safety and security of our employees and the cybersecurity of our information and data infrastructure. Since 2020, we have experienced some of the most daunting operating conditions in Greenbrier's history. We have not only survived, but we have thrived in this changing environment. Our industry-leading manufacturing footprint, our growing services business and our established capabilities allow us to meet these challenges directly, bringing customers the solutions that meet their needs."
Business Update & Outlook
Greenbrier continues to meet the challenges of emerging COVID variants while balancing economic, supply chain and labor volatility. Based on current business trends and production schedules for fiscal 2022, Greenbrier expects:
- Deliveries of 17,500 – 19,500 units including approximately 1,500 units in Greenbrier-Maxion (Brazil).
- Selling & administrative expense to be $200 - $210 million.
- Capital expenditures of $275 million in Leasing & Management Services, $55 million in Manufacturing and $10 million in Maintenance Services. Net of proceeds of equipment sales of approximately $150 million, capital expenditures in Leasing & Management Services will be $125 million.
Financial Summary
Segment Summary
Conference Call
Greenbrier will host a teleconference to discuss its second quarter of 2022 results. In conjunction with this news release, Greenbrier has posted a supplemental earnings presentation to our website.
Teleconference details are as follows:
- April 6, 2022
- 8:00 a.m. Pacific Daylight Time
- Phone: 1-888-317-6003 (Toll Free) 1-412-317-6061 (International), Entry Number "8138307"
- Real-time Audio Access: ("Newsroom" at http://www.gbrx.com)
Please access the site 10-15 minutes prior to the start time.
About Greenbrier
Greenbrier, headquartered in Lake Oswego, Oregon, is a leading international supplier of equipment and services to global freight transportation markets. Through its wholly-owned subsidiaries and joint ventures, Greenbrier designs, builds and markets freight railcars and marine barges in North America, Europe and Brazil. We are a leading provider of freight railcar wheel services, parts, maintenance and retrofitting services in North America through our rail services business unit. Greenbrier manages 431,000 railcars and offers railcar management, regulatory compliance services and leasing services to railroads and other railcars owners in North America. GBX Leasing (GBXL) is a special purpose subsidiary that owns and manages a portfolio of leased railcars that originate primarily from Greenbrier's manufacturing operations. GBXL and Greenbrier own a lease fleet of 11,000 railcars. Learn more about Greenbrier at www.gbrx.com.
THE GREENBRIER COMPANIES, INC.
Supplemental Leasing Information
(In millions, except owned and managed fleet, unaudited)
GBX Leasing (GBXL) was formed in April 2021 as a joint venture with The Longwood Group to own and manage a portfolio of leased railcars primarily built by Greenbrier. Greenbrier owns approximately 95% of GBXL and consolidates it in Greenbrier's financial statements in the Leasing & Management Services segment. GBXL provides an additional "go to market" element to Greenbrier's Commercial strategy of direct sales, partnerships with operating leasing companies, and origination of leases for syndication partners as well as providing a platform for further growth at scale. GBXL will produce strong tax-advantaged cash flows. The goal is to add at least $200 million in railcar assets annually at about 3:1 debt to equity (or 75%) based on the fair market value of assets with a five-year target of $1 billion of assets. GBX Leasing observes Greenbrier's established portfolio standards including investing in strong credits with a diverse equipment mix and staggered maturity ladders.
GBX Leasing's fleet value was nearly $400 million as of February 28, 2022 and Greenbrier expects to continue to grow GBX Leasing in the second half of fiscal 2022, utilizing the $350 million non-recourse railcar warehouse facility. In Q2, GBX Leasing issued $323 million of asset-backed ("ABS") notes with a blended rate of 2.9% and a weighted average life of six years. Subsequent to quarter end, Greenbrier entered into an additional interest rate swap agreement to fix the remaining floating portion of the Leasing non-recourse term loan. With this activity, the weighted average cost of debt for Greenbrier Leasing and GBX Leasing is 3.4%. Investing in leasing assets reduces Greenbrier's Manufacturing revenue and margin in the short-term but provides meaningful tax benefits, longer-term earnings and cash flow stability.
Key information for the consolidated Leasing & Management Services segment
"SAFE HARBOR" STATEMENT UNDER THE PRIVATE SECURITIES LITIGATION REFORM ACT OF 1995: This press release may contain forward-looking statements, including any statements that are not purely statements of historical fact. Greenbrier uses words, and variations of words, such as "believe", "build", "continue," "expect," "goal," "looking forward", "outlook," "position," "reduce," "will," and similar expressions to identify forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements include, without limitation, statements about backlog and other orders, leasing performance, financing, future liquidity, cash flow, our ability to grow market share and deliver future value to our shareholders, tax treatment, and other information regarding future performance and strategies and appear throughout this press release including in the headlines and the sections titled "Second Quarter Highlights," a "Business Update & Outlook," and "Supplemental Leasing Information." These forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and are subject to certain risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from the results contemplated by the forward-looking statements. Factors that might cause such a difference include, but are not limited to, the following: We are unable to predict when, how, or with what magnitude COVID-19, variants thereof, governmental reaction thereto, and related economic disruptions (including, among other factors, supply disruptions, inflation, and increases in interest rates) will negatively impact our business. General inflation (including rising energy prices, interest rates and wages and other escalators), currency volatility and policy interventions in reaction to such events could have negative impacts on our business by increasing our operating and borrowing costs as well as decreasing the capital available for our customers to purchase our goods and services, among other factors. Our business may be negatively impacted as a result of armed conflict in Ukraine and related events. The risks to our business that may emerge include, among others, transportation disruptions in Europe, heightened inflation, cyber disruptions or attacks, higher manufacturing and borrowing costs, disruptions in supply chains and availability of raw materials, interruptions in manufacturing operations and disruptions in credit markets. Our backlog of railcar units and marine vessels and other orders not included in backlog are not necessarily indicative of future results of operations. Certain orders in backlog are subject to customary documentation which may not occur. More information on potential factors that could cause our results to differ from our forward-looking statements is included in the Company's filings with the SEC, including in the "Risk Factors" and "Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations" sections of the Company's most recently filed periodic report on Form 10-K and subsequent reports on 10-Q. Except as otherwise required by law, the Company assumes no obligation to update any forward-looking statements or information, which speak as of their respective dates. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which reflect management's opinions only as of the date hereof.
Adjusted Financial Metric Definitions
EBITDA is not a financial measure under generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP). This metric is a performance measurement tool used by rail supply companies and Greenbrier. You should not consider this metric in isolation or as a substitute for other financial statement data determined in accordance with GAAP. In addition, because this metric is not a measure of financial performance under GAAP and is susceptible to varying calculations, the measure presented may differ from and may not be comparable to similarly titled measures used by other companies.
We define EBITDA as Net earnings (loss) before Interest and foreign exchange, Income tax benefit (expense), Depreciation and amortization and Net loss on extinguishment of debt. We believe the presentation of EBITDA provides useful information as it excludes the impact of financing, foreign exchange, income taxes and the accounting effects of capital spending. These items may vary for different companies for reasons unrelated to the overall operating performance of a company's core business. We believe this assists in comparing our performance across reporting periods.
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Market barriers include regulatory, technical, and economical challenges coupled with the lack of hydrogen infrastructure
BOULDER, Colo., April 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- A new report from Guidehouse Insights explores the growth and market penetration of water electrolysis technologies that use renewable energy to produce hydrogen and estimates capacity and revenue growth for these electrolyzers globally.
Hydrogen is an important topic in the energy transition. When produced using renewable energy, hydrogen has the potential to provide large-scale decarbonization solutions in sectors that have been hard to abate. The reduction in costs for producing green hydrogen is propelling the hydrogen economy, a trend that will most likely continue until 2031. According to a new report from Guidehouse Insights, the global capacity for water electrolysis technologies is expected to reach approximately 104.6 GW by 2031, growing at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 62.6%.
"Market growth for electrolyzers is expected to be driven by factors such as decreasing capital costs, declining feedstock costs, and an overall push for decarbonization," says Shantanu Chakraborty, senior research analyst with Guidehouse Insights. "Additionally, policies, such as subsidies, limits on fossil fuels, and carbon taxes, can drive the market even further."
While alternative methods for producing hydrogen through water electrolysis are becoming more desirable and cost-effective, they still face various barriers that stem from regulatory, technical, and economical challenges coupled with the lack of hydrogen infrastructure, according to the report.
The report, Market Data: Electrolyzers, explores the growth and market penetration of water electrolysis technologies that use renewable energy to produce hydrogen. Technologies covered in this report include alkaline electrolyzers (AELs), proton exchange membrane (PEM) electrolyzers, solid oxide electrolysis cells (SOECs), and anion exchange membrane (AEM) electrolyzers. The goal of this report is to estimate capacity and revenue growth for these electrolyzers globally. These estimates are segmented geographically across North America, Europe, Asia Pacific, Latin America, and the Middle East & Africa. For each region, in-depth analysis on the distribution of electrolyzer capacity by type and their associated revenue is provided. An executive summary of the report is available for free download on the Guidehouse Insights website.
About Guidehouse Insights
Guidehouse Insights, the dedicated market intelligence arm of Guidehouse, provides research, data, and benchmarking services for today's rapidly changing and highly regulated industries. Our insights are built on in-depth analysis of global clean technology markets. The team's research methodology combines supply-side industry analysis, end-user primary research, and demand assessment, paired with a deep examination of technology trends, to provide a comprehensive view of emerging resilient infrastructure systems. Additional information about Guidehouse Insights can be found at www.guidehouseinsights.com.
About Guidehouse
Guidehouse is a leading global provider of consulting services to the public sector and commercial markets, with broad capabilities in management, technology, and risk consulting. By combining our public and private sector expertise, we help clients address their most complex challenges and navigate significant regulatory pressures focusing on transformational change, business resiliency, and technology-driven innovation. Across a range of advisory, consulting, outsourcing, and digital services, we create scalable, innovative solutions that help our clients outwit complexity and position them for future growth and success. The company has more than 12,000 professionals in over 50 locations globally. Guidehouse is a Veritas Capital portfolio company, led by seasoned professionals with proven and diverse expertise in traditional and emerging technologies, markets, and agenda-setting issues driving national and global economies. For more information, please visit www.guidehouse.com.
* The information contained in this press release concerning the report, Market Data: Electrolyzers, is a summary and reflects the current expectations of Guidehouse Insights based on market data and trend analysis. Market predictions and expectations are inherently uncertain and actual results may differ materially from those contained in this press release or the report. Please refer to the full report for a complete understanding of the assumptions underlying the report's conclusions and the methodologies used to create the report. Neither Guidehouse Insights nor Guidehouse undertakes any obligation to update any of the information contained in this press release or the report.
For more information, contact:
Jennifer Peacock
+1.404.575.3859
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- The Pacific Cigar Co. LTD and Infifon Hong Kong Limited, exclusive distributors of Habanos, S.A., have presented in a 'virtual unboxing' the new H. Upmann Magnum 52 vitola, in commemoration of the Chinese New Year
HAVANA, April 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Habanos, S.A., together with its distributors for Asia Pacific and China, The Pacific Cigar Company and Infifon Hong Kong Limited, presented its new H. Upmann Magnum 52 vitola through a virtual "unboxing" to celebrate the product's arrival on the market.
H. Upmann's Magnum 52 (52 x 148 mm length) is a vitola that is produced in limited quantities but will be available in all Habanos's markets. This vitola is presented in a special box containing 18 Habanos "Totally Handmade with Long Filler," after a careful selection of the wrapper, filler and binder leaves from the Vuelta Abajo* area in the Pinar del Río* region (Cuba), which is considered to be the origin of the world's best tobacco products.
"Considering that China was Habanos, S.A.'s leading market in terms of sales volume in 2020, we are pleased to commemorate the Chinese New Year for the third consecutive year with a vitola such as 'Magnum 52' under the H. Upmann brand. We are convinced that Habanos aficionados will enthusiastically welcome this worldwide launch, which will be available in all markets, albeit in limited quantities as it is an exclusive production," said Mr. Leopoldo Cintra González, Commercial Vice President, and Mr. José María López Inchaurbe, Vice President of Development at Habanos, S.A.
Mr. Dag Holmboe, CEO of The Pacific Cigar Company, said: "H. Upmann's Magnum 52 is a new vitola that manifests the refined character of the brand with mild to medium strength, and that offers its very high quality and inimitable aroma. We expect a great reception from Habanos aficionados in the Asian market."
Herman Upmann was a German banker whose love for Cuban cigars led him to settle in Havana in 1840. He founded a bank and a Habanos factory in the city. Eventually, the bank closed down, but his brand of premium cigars remains to this day. All its cigars are "Totally Handmade with Long Filler," with leaves from the Vuelta Abajo* area, in the Pinar del Rio* region.
The Pacific Cigar Company Limited (PCC) and Infifon HK Ltd. are the exclusive distributors of Habanos, S.A. for the Asian region.
Tasting notes
H. Upmann Magnum 52
Size: 52 x 148 mm long
- Beautiful wrapper and masterfully crafted
- Roasted aromas right from the start
- Excellent combustion
- Perfect draw
- An Habano with great quality and balance
- Balanced medium strength
- Perfect with Ron 11 Years Old and medium roast Arabica coffee
- Smoking time about one hour
Corporación Habanos, S.A.
Corporación Habanos, S.A. is a world leader in the commercialization of Premium cigars both in Cuba and in the rest of the world. For this purpose, it has an exclusive distribution network present in the five continents and in more than 150 countries. For more information, please visit www.habanos.com.
Habanos, S.A. commercializes 27 Premium brands made entirely by hand and identified as Protected Designation of Origin (P.D.O.), including Cohiba, Montecristo, Romeo y Julieta, Partagás, Hoyo de Monterrey and H. Upmann, among others. Habanos Cuban cigars have been made entirely by hand for more than 500 years and since then they have become a benchmark worldwide.
* Protected Designation of Origin
Further information about Habanos, S.A.:
www.habanos.com
https://www.instagram.com/habanos_oficial/
https://twitter.com/Habanos_Oficial
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HOUSTON — The 19th annual Ag Safety Day will be held Thursday, April 14 from 9:30 - 1 p.m. at the Agri Center in Houston.
The program’s goal is to help youngsters learn to stay safe, and handle emergency situations, event organizers said this week.
It’s sponsored by the Chickasaw County Extension Office and conducted by Chickasaw County 4H Program Associate Angie Abrams, and County Director Cody Mills.
Several hundred 5th grade students from Houston, Houlka and Okolona schools will likely attend, if previous years are any indication.
There will be 11 safety stations at the event dealing with food, fire, firearms, ATVs, electricity, the Heimlich Maneuver, sun safety, first aid, dealing safely with animals, lookalike poisons, and snake identification.
The stations offer information about some of the most frequent hazards many of the students may face.
The event’s most important goals are for the children to be advocates of safety, learn some things that can help them if they ever find themselves in some type of unsafe situation at home, and spread the lessons they learn, event organizers said.
“i hope children share with their parents what they learn at Ag Safety Day. If someday they know to leave a downed power line alone or what to do if it’s across the car, or if they see an animal they don’t know and know to stay clear, they’ll have learned an important lesson,” Mills said.
The program will not only help youngsters attending the event, but also some of the teenagers manning some of the stations.
“4-H members are helping by taking leadership roles in the entire process of the Safety Day.
“Among benefits youngsters will get from working at the program are the development of leadership skills, community service, and “just being able to make a hands-on difference in someone’s life.
“We actually have some teens help with the teaching of some stops. To me, they get as more benefit from teaching their younger peers than they realize,” Abrams said.
The event offers lessons everyone can benefit from, not just students who live on a farm.
“It’s for anyone who lives in a small community, Houston, Houlka or wherever.
“I know a lot of our kids are one or two generations removed from production agriculture, but they’re the same kids who visit Grandpa or Grandma on the farm, have uncles, maybe a sleepover at a classmate’s, so they’re all exposed to it,” Abrams said.
List of sponsoring organizations for Ag Day:
Natchez Trace Electric Power Association
State Farm Insurance
Houston Vocational School
Houston Fire Department
Chickasaw County Sheriff s Department
Houston Police Department
MS Department of Wildlife and Fisheries
Chickasaw County EMA—Linda Griffin
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SAN FRANCISCO, April 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- House Rx, Inc. a health technology company focused on improving affordability and patient access to specialty medications, announced an agreement with the National Cancer Treatment Alliance (NCTA), a coalition of independent community oncology practices organized in a clinically integrated network (CIN), to develop software that provides analytics around the network's physician dispensing quality measures.
House Rx, which has developed a proprietary technology platform for specialty clinics to integrate specialty medication dispensing into their operations, will develop software for NCTA to extract data from NCTA's clinically integrated network data warehouse and calculate performance against established quality metrics for participating specialty clinics. House Rx will also create user-friendly analytics dashboards for clinics to use in complying with NCTA's CIN quality guidelines and to track and compare their dispensing quality metrics to other participating clinics. At the outset of the partnership, House Rx will develop software for 10 clinical metrics established by NCTA's data use committee.
"Quality metrics are the backbone of value-based contracting agreements important to both employers and commercial payers," said Robert Baird, RN, MSA, President of NCTA. "We are proud to partner with House Rx to deploy its software and give our physician partners deep insights into their quality initiatives, along with using those metrics to demonstrate the value of medically integrated dispensing as well as the value of independent, community oncology to purchasers."
NCTA is led by the Community Oncology Alliance (COA), the only national non-profit organization dedicated solely to advocating for independent, community oncology practices and, most importantly, the patients they serve. A subsidiary of COA, NCTA has created a clinically integrated network of oncology practices to contract directly with employers and insurers for cancer drugs and services. The goal is to enable self-funded health care purchasers and their covered lives to have access to the high quality, affordable, and locally accessible cancer care.
House Rx, which was founded in 2021 by former Flatiron Health executives Ogi Kavazovic and Tesh Khullar, recently announced it secured $25 million in Series A funding and also signed a partnership agreement with Northwest Medical Specialists, a leading oncology practice with 14 medical oncologists and 14 advanced practice providers caring for patients at seven locations across Washington state.
"Our expertise – both in developing software and helping oncology practices easily implement it – will help NCTA's CIN members demonstrate tremendous value to employers and payers, who are increasingly looking for high-quality oncology practices to manage their cancer care programs," said Tesh Khullar, Co-Founder and President of House Rx. "We're excited to use our expertise to showcase the clinical value of medically integrated dispensing for patients."
About House Rx:
House Rx is a technology-enabled service company focused on making specialty medication more accessible and affordable. We do so by helping clinics dispense specialty medications to their patients in a medically-integrated way using pharmacist expertise and modern technology. By helping physicians and pharmacists collaborate on patient care, we're able to improve patient outcomes, lower the cost of care, and create a better experience for patients and their caregivers.
About NCTA:
The National Cancer Treatment Alliance (NCTA) is a national network of leading, independent community oncology practices that are making cancer care better by enabling self-funded health care purchasers and their covered lives to have access to the high quality, affordable, and locally accessible cancer care. A public benefit corporation, NCTA is solely owned by the Community Oncology Alliance (COA), the only organization dedicated solely to independent, community oncology where the majority of Americans with cancer are treated. Working with a national network of independent, community oncology practices, NCTA provides information, resources, and education to employers and other stakeholders to improve our nation's cancer care system. Learn more at www.NCTAcancer.com.
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HOUSTON – The Chickasaw Development Foundation (CDF) held their annual CDF Banquet last week.
The theme of this year’s banquet was “The future is now,” and the guest speaker was Lori Watts, Executive Director of the Marion County Economic Development District and the President of the Marion County Development Partnership.
The evening started with a meal prepared by Carol Koutroulis.
Following the meal, there was the annual presentation of awards, however, this year was different from year’s past. Instead of multiple awards across numerous categories, they gave out a sole award, the Spirit of Chickasaw County Award, and this year’s recipient was the Citizens of Chickasaw County.
“All through this Covid, the last two or three years, there’s been so much down, and Houston has really grown,” said CDF Board Member Mike Colbert, who presented the award. “In the last few years, Houston has moved forward, and it’s all about spirit and it’s all about what our clubs and our committees and our city and our county is doing right here in Houston, Miss., and I’m just so glad to be a part of this. Tonight, we have an award here, and it’s to the citizens of Chickasaw County for what everybody has done, we couldn’t just lay it on one person this year, we needed everybody to pull through in these hard times, and we’ve done it.”
The award was presented to Houston Mayor Stacey Parker, and it will be displayed in Houston City Hall.
“I have to just reiterate what Mike said, it’s a team effort,” he said. “Not everybody is going to agree on everything that we do, but the main thing is us pushing forward and it takes everybody to make it happen. It takes and idea and running with it and everybody being a team player.”
Following the awards, Watts took to the podium to address the crowd.
She spoke about the Experience Columbia campaign that she has been running in Columbia, Miss., for the last few years.
“Patsy [Gregory] asked me to come share some information about what we have been doing for the last several years in Columbia with our Experience Columbia Christmas Event,” she said. “We produce light, music, drama, fireworks show in the middle of downtown with ice skating rinks and all sorts of other activities for people to do and we are attracting really great crowds and have had businesses start to pop up in our downtown area. Since we’ve started doing the lights in 2018, we’ve added 17 new businesses in our downtown district, which is huge. We’re a small rural town, kind of like Houston, and so, it’s been a real game changer for us to have so many people come to our little town at Christmas Time to see all of that.”
She said that her goal was to share how they came to do the project in Columbia, hoping that it might offer some insight and perhaps help people to see what direction they might want to take Houston in.
What I hope that I will be able to share with the folks here is how we came to do that, and maybe they will recognize where those sparks are coming from in Houston so that they can apply some of that. Who knows what the idea will be that comes from the talk!”
Anyone interested in becoming a member of the CDF and getting to participate in events such as this one, can do so by filling out an application and picking the membership level they wish to join.
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Including 25.4 g/t Au over 3.9 m & 12.6 g/t Au over 3.0 m
RENO, Nev., April 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - i-80 GOLD CORP. (TSX: IAU) (OTCQX: IAUCF) ("i-80", or the "Company") is pleased to announce continued positive assay results from the ongoing underground drill program at the Company's Granite Creek Property ("Granite Creek" or "the Property") located in Humboldt County, Nevada.
New high-grade results are from drilling from the 4790 Level targeting mineralization in the Range Front, Adam Peak, and Otto fault horizons, the first area being targeted for mining and located proximal to and below existing mine workings (see Table 1). Multiple target areas are being drilled from underground including testing the down-dip potential of the Otto, Adam Peak and Ogee Zones. The deepest hole drilled to test the extension at depth of the main mine horizons in the ongoing program, iGS21-15, intersected high-grade gold mineralization in multiple horizons including 13.3 g/t Au over 13.1m & 20.3 g/t Au over 7.5m & 10.1 g/t over 17.5 m with true width being 33-55% of intercepts.
Highlight results from initial underground drilling from Level 4790 include:
- 25.4 g/t (grams per tonne) Au (gold) over 3.9 m in hole iGU21-27
- 12.6 g/t Au over 3.0 m in hole iGU21-28
- 10.8 g/t Au over 1.2 m in hole iGU21-29
- 13.4 g/t Au over 1.1 m in hole iGU21-30
- 14.7 g/t Au over 1.5 m, 10.2 g/t Au over 3.5 m & 7.5 g/t Au over 6.1 m in hole iGU21-31
- 19.3 g/t Au over 1.1 m, 8.0 g/t Au over 3.0 m & 9.4 g/t Au over 2.9 m in hole iGU21-32
The current program is expected to comprise more than 30,000 metres (m) from surface and underground with continued assay results to be provided as received. The primary goal of the 2022 drill program is to advance underground opportunities to production with refractory mineralization from the underground operation at Granite Creek initially trucked to Twin Creeks for processing, pursuant to the agreement recently entered into with Nevada Gold Mines, until such time that the Company's Lone Tree facility is operational.
Tyler Hill, Senior Geologist of i-80, commented: "These results continue to delineate high-grade mineralization in multiple zones being defined in advance of mining at Granite Creek. We have added additional underground infrastructure in order to commence stepping out at depth where we continue to see high-grade intercepts including 7.4 g/t Au across 73.2 metres in iGS21-15 (see press release dated February 8, 2022). We also remain primarily focused on defining the new South Pacific Zone where we are seeing strong alteration and faulting in most holes drilled to-date."
The Granite Creek Property is strategically located proximal to Nevada Gold Mines' Turquoise Ridge and Twin Creeks mines at the north end of the Battle Mountain-Eureka Trend, at its intersection with the Getchell gold belt in Nevada. High-grade mineralization occurs in a near-identical geological setting as that at the multi-million ounce Turquoise Ridge Mine located immediately to the north; proximal to a major regional fault (the Getchell or Range Front fault) on the eastern edge of the large Osgood Mountains intrusive complex (see Figure 3). The Granite Creek deposit remains open at depth and along strike from the existing underground workings and step-out drilling aimed at expanding resources is currently underway.
Table 1 – Summary Assay Results from Level 4790 Drilling
Owing to the success of the ongoing drilling in expanding mineralization, the program has been increased to 30,000 metres in 2022. In addition to the underground program at Granite Creek, the Company continues to advance permitting for open pit mine on the Property including heap leach processing on-site.
All samples were submitted to either ALS Minerals (ALS) or Paragon Geochemical Assay Laboratories (PAL) both of Sparks, NV, which are ISO 9001 and 17025 certified and accredited laboratories, independent of the Company. Samples submitted through PAL and ALS are run through standard prep methods and analysed using FA-Pb30-ICP (Au; 30g fire assay) and 48MA-MS (48 element Suite; 0.5g 4-acid digestion/ICP-MS) methods for PAL and Au-AA23 (Au; 30g fire assay) and ME-ICP41 (35 element suite; 0.5g Aqua Regia/ICP-AES) for ALS. ALS and PAL also undertake their own internal coarse and pulp duplicate analysis to ensure proper sample preparation and equipment calibration. i-80 Gold Corp's QA/QC program includes regular insertion of CRM standards, duplicates, and blanks into the sample stream with a stringent review of all results.
Tim George, PE, Mine Operations Manager, reviewed the technical and scientific information contained in this press release and is a Qualified Person within the meaning of NI 43-101.
i-80 Gold Corp. is a well-financed, Nevada-focused, mining company with a goal of achieving mid-tier gold producer status through the development of multiple deposits within the Company's advanced-stage property portfolio to complement existing gold production from the Ruby Hill open pit.
Certain statements in this release constitute "forward-looking statements" or "forward-looking information" within the meaning of applicable securities laws, including but not limited to, the expansion or mineral resources at Granite Creek and the potential of the Granite Creek project. Such statements and information involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause the actual results, performance or achievements of the company, its projects, or industry results, to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements or information. Such statements can be identified by the use of words such as "may", "would", "could", "will", "intend", "expect", "believe", "plan", "anticipate", "estimate", "scheduled", "forecast", "predict" and other similar terminology, or state that certain actions, events or results "may", "could", "would", "might" or "will" be taken, occur or be achieved. These statements reflect the Company's current expectations regarding future events, performance and results and speak only as of the date of this release.
Forward-looking statements and information involve significant risks and uncertainties, should not be read as guarantees of future performance or results and will not necessarily be accurate indicators of whether or not such results will be achieved. A number of factors could cause actual results to differ materially from the results discussed in the forward-looking statements or information, including, but not limited to: material adverse changes, unexpected changes in laws, rules or regulations, or their enforcement by applicable authorities; the failure of parties to contracts with the company to perform as agreed; social or labour unrest; changes in commodity prices; and the failure of exploration programs or studies to deliver anticipated results or results that would justify and support continued exploration, studies, development or operations.
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HOUSTON —Larry Harris recently retired after more than 29 years with North Mississippi Medical Center’s Ambulance Service.
A lifetime resident of Chickasaw County, Harris graduated in 1977 from Houlka High School, where his mother was a teacher. He studied architectural drafting and design at Itawamba Community College before becoming a nurse’s assistant at Floy Dyer Manor, a nursing home in Houston, around 1980.
“The medical field wasn’t my first career choice,” he says. “My initial plan was for an architectural career. I still do freelance architectural drafting as LDHome Designs.”
Harris’s career was launched around 1983 when Henry Weir, then ambulance director at the Houston hospital, saw him at Floy Dyer Manor and proposed a job opportunity with the hospital’s ambulance service. “My EMS career actually began by chance and has been a challenging, learning, very rewarding and successful career spanning over 35 years,” he says. “I got into this field by chance, and I stayed in it because I enjoyed the challenge of it and helping people. Over these years I have worked under and had several mentors that I still appreciate.”
He earned his Emergency Medical Technician certification through East Mississippi Community College in Mayhew and worked several years at the Houston hospital before joining the NMMC staff in the fall of 1993. With encouragement from Tonya Sanderson, “who believed in me and pushed me to succeed in this field,” Larry earned his Paramedic certification from Itawamba Community College in 1999.
Other mentors include Mary Ann Sanderson, who gave him his first EMS supervisory role with MA&K Ambulance Company in Houston; the late Jim Spruiell, who imparted much medical knowledge and skills; Butch Williams and Steve Kitchen, who invited Harris to join them on C-Shift, where he remained for more than 29 years; and Vince Langford and Chris Elliott, his partners, from whom he gained a lot of insight and expertise.
Harris retired March 11 as supervisor on C-shift. “I had a great shift to supervise, and the shift was very supportive of me. It has been a memorable and remarkable achievement to have worked for and been a part of one of the largest and busiest ambulance services in north Mississippi,” he says. “I loved not knowing day to day what the next hour would bring.”
With 40 years of medical and EMS experience, he has worked in various roles for several different departments and agencies, including preceptor/mentor, dispatcher and flight paramedic. He is a certified instructor in CPR, Basic Life Support, Prehospital Trauma Life Support and Pediatric Advanced Life Support. He also represented Chickasaw County on the Executive Board of North Mississippi EMS Authority.
He was elected as Chickasaw County Coroner/Chief Medical Examiner in November 2021, having previously served as Interim Coroner and six years as Deputy Coroner.
Harris is a member of the National Association of Emergency Medical Technicians, Mississippi State Department of Health’s Emergency Planning and Response Team, Houston Volunteer Fire Department and Bethlehem M.B. Church in Houston.
He works with youth in his community to recognize and prevent violence, and he helps educate local students about safety and accident prevention. When not working or volunteering, Larry enjoys deejaying for small ventures and family events.
In retirement, he looks forward to spending more time with his family, LeQuinton (Sherry) Harris and Jameica (Fulumi) McCoy; two grandchildren, Faiden McCoy and Tonyia Williams, a great-grandchild, Aubree Rose Williams; and a god-daughter, Alexandra Walker.
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HOULKA -- Two Easter-related events will be held on the Houlka town square later this month, officials said this week.
---On Easter, April 17, Resurrection Sunday — an annual dawn community sunrise service put on by area churches — will be held starting at 7 a.m. on the square. Services are led by different ministers each year. This year, they’ll be led by Torie Naugle of His Grace Ministry.
---Helping Hands will sponsor a Easter Egg hunt Saturday, April 16 from 11-2 p.m. at the square.
It was reliably reported the the Easter Bunny will be on hand.
The egg hunt is open to the public, and there is no charge for anything, Houlka Mayor David Huffman said this week.
Plans are to offer hot dogs and hamburgers cooked by Houlka volunteer firefighters, along with chips and drinks.There are also plans to have ribs and coleslaw.
There are also plans for the youngsters to have a parade around the square after the egg hunt.
Some of the hidden eggs will contain prize money, and several Easter baskets will be given away, according to Mayor Huffman.
Several bouncy houses will also be available for youngsters.
Helping Hands will also raffle off a quilt at the egg hunt at 2 p.m., with the proceeds going to the community service organization TEAM Houlka.
Raffle tickets can be purchased at City Hall or during the Easter Egg hunt. They are $2 each or three for $5, and can also be bought 11 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. that day.
A second quilt will be raffled off during the Cornbread Festival later this year, with TEAM Houlka receiving the proceeds.
The quilts are made by Mayor Huffman’s cousin Tricia Huffman of Sardis.
The egg hunt has been held for years —except for 2020, when Covid fears caused the event to be canceled — and usually draws a large turnout of youngsters and their parents from Houston, Houlka and Bruce.
Variable clouds with thunderstorms, especially during the afternoon hours. A few storms may be severe. High 73F. SW winds shifting to NNW at 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 40%..
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- Dr. Mackey formerly served as Senior Vice President of Pfizer Worldwide Research and Development and as Director of Pfizer's La Jolla Laboratories
SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., April 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- IDEAYA Biosciences, Inc. (NASDAQ: IDYA), a synthetic lethality focused precision medicine oncology company committed to the discovery and development of targeted therapeutics, announced the appointment of Catherine Mackey, Ph.D., to its Board of Directors.
Dr. Mackey brings over 30 years of life sciences research, development and operational experience to IDEAYA. As Senior Vice President of Pfizer Worldwide Research and Development and Director of Pfizer La Jolla Laboratories, she established a premier research and development capability and a robust drug pipeline of oncology therapeutics, including sunitinib (Sutent), axitinib (Inlyta), crizotinib (Xalkori) and palbociclib (Ibrance). She earlier served as Pfizer's Head of Strategic Alliances and Genomic and Proteomic Sciences.
Dr. Mackey also has considerable relevant experience as a Board Director of several public and private companies. She currently serves as a Director of AVID Bioservices, Rady Children's Hospital and Rady Children's Institute of Genomic Medicine, and as Chairman of the Board of Directors of Cour Pharma, a privately held, clinical stage immunology company. She previously served as a Director on the Boards of Trillium Therapeutics, Poseida Therapeutics, GW Pharma, Evolve Biosystems, Sequenom, Viventia Bio, YM Biosciences and Althea Technologies.
"Catherine's extensive oncology research and development experience will be invaluable to IDEAYA as we enhance our industry leading synthetic lethality platform and advance our first-in-class synthetic lethality pipeline targeting genetically-defined patient populations," said Yujiro S. Hata, President and Chief Executive Officer, at IDEAYA Biosciences.
"I am pleased to join IDEAYA as it targets multiple clinical milestones, including advancing its Phase 1 MAT2A inhibitor IDE397 into monotherapy expansion and clinical combination cohorts, and obtaining regulatory feedback for its Phase 2 PKC inhibitor darovasertib on a potential registration-enabling study," said Dr. Mackey. "IDEAYA's late-stage preclinical pipeline is also maturing with potential first-in-class PARG and Pol Theta programs targeting IND-enabling studies."
About IDEAYA Biosciences
IDEAYA is a synthetic lethality-focused precision medicine oncology company committed to the discovery and development of targeted therapeutics for patient populations selected using molecular diagnostics. IDEAYA's approach integrates capabilities in identifying and validating translational biomarkers with drug discovery to select patient populations most likely to benefit from its targeted therapies. IDEAYA is applying its early research and drug discovery capabilities to synthetic lethality – which represents an emerging class of precision medicine targets.
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements, including, but not limited to, statements related to (i) monotherapy expansion and clinical combination of IDE397, (ii) obtaining regulatory feedback for darovasertib, and (iii) IND-enabling studies for PARG and Pol Theta. IDEAYA undertakes no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements. For a further description of the risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ from those expressed in these forward-looking statements, as well as risks relating to the business of IDEAYA in general, see IDEAYA's Annual Report on Form 10-K filed on March 18, 2022, and any current and periodic reports filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
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Main Event CEO Chris Morris to be named CEO of the combined entity upon closing
DALLAS, April 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Main Event Entertainment, Inc. ("Main Event" or the "Company") today announced that Ardent Leisure Group Limited (ASX: ALG) ("Ardent Leisure") and RedBird Capital Partners ("RedBird") have entered into an agreement with Dave & Buster's Entertainment, Inc. (NASDAQ: PLAY) (Dave & Buster's) to acquire Main Event. Upon closing of the transaction (the "Closing"), Main Event's current Chief Executive Officer Chris Morris will be named Chief Executive Officer of Dave & Buster's.
Main Event is one of the fastest-growing family entertainment brands in the country, with 50 operating locations nationwide. Main Event offers the most fun under one roof with state-of-the-art bowling, laser tag, hundreds of arcade games and virtual reality, making it the perfect place for families to partake in shared and memorable experiences.
"We are thrilled to join the Dave & Buster's family," said Chris Morris, Main Event's Chief Executive Officer. "We will undoubtedly benefit from the collective expertise and strong culture of both brands, particularly as we continue to accelerate Main Event's aggressive expansion plans."
The transaction represents a total enterprise value of $835 million and is projected to close later this year, with specific timing subject to customary closing conditions, including approval by Ardent Leisure shareholders and the expiration of the waiting period under the HSR Act. The acquisition is a transformational opportunity to merge two thriving brands that target uniquely different demographics and enhance the breadth of offerings and experiences to each brand's guests. Main Event will continue to operate as a distinct brand serving families of all ages under Dave & Buster's.
Dr Gary Weiss, Chairman of Ardent Leisure, said "Ardent Leisure has partnered with the Main Event brand since 2006 as the company has grown from its Dallas foundations to 50 locations nationwide today. We are particularly proud of our significant involvement in the rejuvenation of Main Event over the last four years and this transaction reflects the culmination of significant value creation that has been achieved by Ardent Leisure and the Main Event management team over this time."
Gerry Cardinale, Managing Partner of RedBird, said "The transaction with Dave & Buster's is a great outcome for Ardent Leisure and for Main Event. We have valued our partnership with Gary Weiss and the Ardent Leisure team as they have worked to create value for shareholders. Our Dallas team worked closely with the Main Event leadership team over the last two years and we are exceptionally pleased that Chris Morris will be appointed CEO of Dave & Buster's when the transaction is completed. We look forward to their continued growth and success as a combined company."
Upon Closing, the combined company will be led by Chris Morris and will create enhanced synergy and unique opportunity of growth for both brands. Chris joined Main Event in 2018 and brought more than 20 years of experience with multisite businesses, including over six years in the family entertainment business. Over Morris' four-year tenure with the brand, Main Event has expanded its center footprint by over 30% and more than doubled EBITDA.
"During my tenure with the brand, I have experienced firsthand the fantastic mission and enormous potential Main Event offers and see this as a transformational opportunity to further strengthen the brand," said Chris Morris, adding, "I'm looking forward to enhancing the offerings and experiences of each brand and providing even more opportunity for our team members. Main Event is a perfect complement to Dave & Buster's, and I feel very honored to lead the growth of both brands."
"As we have come to know Chris Morris, we have been very impressed by his execution capabilities and focus on profitable growth," said Kevin Sheehan, Dave & Buster's Board Chair and Interim Chief Executive Officer. "Chris is a proven and successful transformational leader who is capable of taking the combined organization to the next level. It is clear Main Event has a strong culture that shares many values in common with our own. We very much look forward to joining these two great teams together."
Sheehan will return to his role as Board Chair following the completion of the acquisition.
About Main Event Entertainment, Inc.
Founded in 1998, Dallas-based Main Event operates 50 centers in 17 states across the country. Main Event offers the most fun under one roof with state-of-the-art bowling, laser tag, hundreds of arcade games and virtual reality, making it the perfect place for families to connect and make memories. Main Event is a premier sponsor of Special Olympics International, supporting via fundraising and serving as a venue for Special Olympics events nationwide. Main Event also is a proud partner of the Dallas Cowboys. For more information, visit mainevent.com.
About Dave & Buster's Entertainment, Inc.
Founded in 1982 and headquartered in Coppell, Texas, Dave & Buster's Entertainment, Inc., is the owner and operator of 145 venues in North America that combine entertainment and dining and offer customers the opportunity to "Eat Drink Play and Watch," all in one location. Dave & Buster's offers a full menu of entrées and appetizers, a complete selection of alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages, and an extensive assortment of entertainment attractions centered around playing games and watching live sports and other televised events. Dave & Buster's currently has stores in 40 states, Puerto Rico, and Canada. For more information, visit daveandbusters.com.
About Ardent Leisure Group Limited
Ardent Leisure (ASX: ALG) is one of Australia's most successful leisure and entertainment groups. The owners and operators of premium leisure assets including Dreamworld, WhiteWater World & SkyPoint theme parks and attractions, as well as Main Event, which is a growing portfolio of family entertainment assets in the United States. Ardent Leisure's businesses occupy dominant positions in affordable, family-friendly, leisure and entertainment categories. As a group, Ardent Leisure has well over 3 million customers annually and has developed extensive communication opportunities to interact and transact with these customers. For more information, visit www.ardentleisure.com
About RedBird Capital Partners
RedBird Capital Partners is a private investment firm focused on building high-growth companies alongside entrepreneurs in its four areas of domain expertise: sports, media, consumer and financial services. Founded by former Goldman Sachs Partner Gerry Cardinale in 2014, RedBird today manages over $6 billion of capital on behalf of a highly curated group of blue-chip global institutional and family office investors. RedBird's network of entrepreneurs is central to its investment sourcing and company-building strategy that helps founders achieve their business objectives and long-term vision. Since inception, RedBird has invested in over 30 platform companies and 80 add on acquisitions with total enterprise value exceeding $30 billion. For more information, please go to www.redbirdcap.com.
Forward-Looking Statements
The Company cautions that this release contains forward-looking statements, including, without limitation, statements relating to the impact on our business and operations of the coronavirus pandemic and our pending acquisition of Main Event (the "Acquisition"). These forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties and, consequently, could be affected by the uncertain and unprecedented impact of the pandemic and new coronavirus variants (including Alpha, Beta, Delta, Omicron and BA.2) on our business and operations and the related impact on our liquidity needs; our ability to continue as a going concern; our ability to consummate the Acquisition on terms favorable to us or at all; our ability to realize the expected benefits of the Acquisition: the possibility that shareholders of Ardent Leisure may not approve the merger agreement; the risk that a condition to closing of the Acquisition may not be satisfied, that either party may terminate the merger agreement or that the closing of the Acquisition might be delayed or not occur at all; potential adverse reactions or changes to business or employee relationships, including those resulting from the announcement or completion of the Acquisition; the diversion of management time on transaction-related issues; the ultimate timing, outcome and results of integrating the operations of the Company and Main Event; the effects of the Acquisition, including the combined company's future financial condition, results of operations, strategy and plans; the ability of the combined company to realize anticipated synergies in the timeframe expected or at all; changes in capital markets and the ability of the combined company to finance the Acquisition and go-forward operations in the manner expected; regulatory approval of the transaction, including the expiration or termination of the waiting period under the HSR Act; the fact that operating costs and business disruption may be greater than expected following the public announcement or consummation of the Acquisition; our ability to obtain waivers, and thereafter continue to satisfy covenant requirements, under our revolving credit facility; our ability to access other funding sources; the implementation and duration of government-mandated and voluntary shutdowns and restrictions; the speed with which our stores safely can be reopened and fully operated and the level of customer demand following reopening and full operations; the economic impact of the pandemic and related disruptions on the communities we serve; our overall level of indebtedness; general business and economic conditions, including as a result of the pandemic; the impact of competition; the seasonality of the Company's business; adverse weather conditions; future commodity prices; guest and employee complaints and litigation; fuel and utility costs; labor costs and availability; changes in consumer and corporate spending, including as a result of the pandemic; changes in demographic trends; changes in governmental regulations; unfavorable publicity, our ability to open new stores, and acts of God. Accordingly, actual results may differ materially from the forward-looking statements, and the Company therefore cautions you against relying on such forward-looking statements. Dave & Buster's intends these forward-looking statements to speak only as of the time of this release and does not undertake to update or revise them as more appropriate information becomes available, except as required by law.
For Investor Relations Inquiries:
Main Event Entertainment, Inc.
Rob Bronfeld
160over90
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rbronfeld@160over90.com
Dave & Buster's Entertainment, Inc.
Michael Quartieri
SVP & Chief Financial Officer
(972) 813-1151
michael.quartieri@daveandbusters.com
RedBird Capital Partners
Dan Gagnier
Gagnier Communications
(646) 569-5897
redbird@gagnierfc.com
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Editor’s note: With Vietnam Veterans Recognition Day celebrated late last month, and me being a Vietnam War veteran, this recollection column seemed timely.
Also, this column seems appropriate in light of seeing the televised faces of countless homeless and distraught children who are innocent victims of the fighting in the Ukraine.
Children have always been victims of war. I guess in some ways, this column is as current as the Ukraine fighting, and as old as man’s first conflict after Adam and Eve left the Garden of Eden.
Slogan on the back of one of my most meaningful T-shirts: “Before ill of me you speak, remember who kept the monsters from the weak…”
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I remember Tam Ky as a ramshackle little coastal village squatting on the sandy plains and rice paddies that meet the South China Sea along the northern coast of South Viet Nam.
Thatched straw huts and rude buildings, mostly built with lumber from American ammunition crates, crowded the rutted dirt roads that ran through the town. Depending on the season, those structures and their several hundred inhabitants either baked in 115-plus degree heat or shivered under the cold hammering gale-driven horizontal rains of the winter monsoons.
The little dirt-floor stores offered live chickens, rice, fish, hogs, and crabs -- all basic staples of the nation's diet. And in Tam Ky, as in countless other towns throughout the country, the stacks of American-made blankets, ponchos, liners, quilts, and other field gear were evidence of the booming black market business that was a national pasttime.
Until late in my 1969-1970 taxpayer-financed 13-month tour of South Vietnam, Tam Ky held no importance to me other than its tactical significance, likely as an aiming point for the bad guys’ mortars and rockets.
It was simply another small town that would be clogged with little people riding bicycles, Hondas, pedal carts or walking during the day, and abandoned when our patrols came in from the surrounding fields at night.
I went into a school — made of bamboo with a palm leaf roof— near the town one baking afternoon with several other Marines from the Civil Affairs section; for once on a mission of peace.
During the war years life for children was very hard. Houses and schools were bombed and destroyed.
Many children became homeless and their schools had to be moved around or lessons had to take place after dark to avoid being targeted by the VC or NVA.
What with the lethal, determined VC (Viet Cong) or NVA (North Vietnamese Army) killing teachers before their students’ eyes, and laying their bloody, shattered bodies alongside the road before dawn, the term “devoted teacher” took on a whole new meaning..
We financed a year of education to a skinny 10 year old girl with waist length jet black hair. Her black eyes had seen the war first-hand when the Viet Cong came in out of the night and killed her father several years before.
The funds several Marines from my unit and I donated went to buy books, clothes and pay for a teacher to teach the little girl along with several other youngsters.
I will forever remember the look in the little girl's face, and her teacher’s face, as the unit translator told them that if they could manage to stay alive another year, the girl would be educated during it.
We set numerous ambushes to protect the youngsters and their teacher during the next few months, trading the deafening racket of close-in exploding grenades and heavy automatic weapons fire for the lives of the children and their teacher.
The attacks ended when the mangled bodies laid out on the road became VC and NVA, not teachers.
I rotated out of country shortly after that, so quickly that I never saw the little girl or her teacher one final time.
But I heard through the battalion S-2 (intelligence) they had survived, thanks in large part to our efforts.
There are a lot of things I wish I could forget about that war and can’t. Among the few memories I’m thankful to recall are the hug the little girl and her teacher gave me the last time I saw them, and the fact they had survived to face another year.
Several years after I rotated out of country, I read a four paragraph filler article on an inside page of the Raleigh (N. C.) News and Observer saying that the little village of Tam Ky had been overrun by the Viet Cong one night in hand-to-hand fighting.
I hope some day, in this world or another, to meet that little girl and her teacher again, and learn the rest of their story…
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- Agreement will see Japan-based Mitsui take 49% stake in the project
- ReNew signed 400 MW round-the-clock (RTC) PPA last year to supply electricity to Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI)
- For the 400 MW PPA, the company will install 1,300 MW of renewable energy capacity and up to 100 MWh of battery storage
GURGAON, India, April 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- ReNew Power ("ReNew", RNW, RNWWW: NASDAQ), India's leading renewable energy company, has finalized a partnership with Mitsui & Co., Ltd. ("Mitsui", 8031.T-JP: Tokyo Stock Exchange), a leading global general trading and investment firm.
The partnership will see Mitsui invest in the RTC renewable energy project being developed by ReNew.
The RTC project will consist of three newly built wind farms and one solar plus battery storage farm (1,300 MW in total plus up to 100 MWh battery storage) across the states of Rajasthan, Karnataka, and Maharashtra, and provide 400 MW electricity to SECI, an Indian central government-owned entity with an AA+ domestic debt rating by ICRA, a subsidiary of Standard & Poor's.
The project's commercial operations are expected to start in the third calendar quarter of 2023. ReNew, through its affiliates, will also undertake EPC, O&M, and project management for the RTC project.
The 25-year PPA for the project, the first-of-its-kind renewable energy PPA in India, was signed last year with SECI for supplying electricity at ₹2.90/kWh (~US 3.8¢), which will increase by 3% annually for 15 years after which it will stabilise for remaining period of the project.
India, being the third-largest emitter of greenhouse gases globally, made commitments at the Glasgow COP26 summit last year to reach 500 GW of non-fossil fuel-based installed capacity by 2030, and to source 50% of all its energy from renewables by then. The RTC project will feed into this target and support the Government of India's policy of scaling up the renewable energy sector as part of the country's historic clean energy transition.
Speaking about this partnership with Mitsui, Mr. Sumant Sinha, Founder, Chairman and CEO of ReNew Power said, "The RTC project, the first of its kind in India, provides the lowest cost and emission-free 24 X 7 renewable electricity. We are proud to partner with Mitsui, a leading global conglomerate, to support India's green energy transition and look forward to strengthening this partnership in the future."
Ryoichiro Uno, General Manager in charge of infrastructure projects in India, Middle East, and Africa of Mitsui, said, "Our mission is to build brighter futures for people around the world through infrastructure development. We view India as an extremely promising market for many reasons, including its high economic growth and strong commitment towards decarbonization. Through this project, Mitsui will accelerate India's clean energy transition together with ReNew, and contribute to the project's successful development by leveraging our extensive global experience in power project development, as well as our wide-ranging business network across industries. We look forward to expanding Mitsui's further collaboration with ReNew beyond this RTC project in India."
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About ReNew
ReNew is one of the largest renewable energy Independent Power Producers (IPPs) in India and globally. ReNew develops, builds, owns, and operates utility-scale wind and solar energy projects, and hydro projects . As of February 1, 2022, ReNew had a total portfolio of 10.2 GW of renewable energy projects across India, including commissioned and committed projects
About Mitsui:
Mitsui & Co., Ltd. is one of the leading Japanese general trading and investment firms, established in 1947, with global presence in various business fields and across 63 countries/regions with approximately 45,000 employees. Mitsui's core strategic aim is to pursue sustainable growth, and through its business activities contribute to the development of countries and regions around the world while addressing climate change and other global issues. As part of this, Mitsui has set a target to reduce its GHG impact by 2030 to half of what it was in 2020 and achieve net-zero emissions by 2050. Mitsui currently has 65 power assets in 22 countries, with a gross capacity of 39.6 GW and a net capacity (Mitsui's share) of 10.8 GW.
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B.B. King was dubbed “King of the Blues." This Mississippi-born singer rose to international fame. He started his career in 1949 and toured with his famed guitar Lucille.
The song "Let The Good Times Roll," featuring BB King and Bobby "Blue" Bland, was released on January 1, 1976.
Bobby "Blue" Bland was known as a storyteller. This Tennessee-born performer did not play any instruments. However, he sizzled crowds with his electric delivery, thrilling orchestrations, and baritone voice. Countless fans remember him for his curious norm of snorting between lines while singing.
This Southern duo announced, "Hey, everybody, let's have some fun. You only live, but once and when you're dead, you're done. So let the good times roll. Let the good times roll. I don't care if you're young or old. Get together. Let the good times roll!"
When I hear this song, I think of having "a good old time!" My mind slides back to fun, sunlit moments with my family and my H-Town community. Whether it was an energetic game of kickball, a barbecue with blaring music and people sitting under shade trees or even a reminiscent ride down the roads of neighboring counties, we had fun together. We were not focused on the amount of money we had or our level of education. We came together as one and created unified lifelong memories.
Times have certainly changed, but we should still enjoy life. Teaming up wisdom and safety to deliberately sketch out time for our loved ones is necessary. There are resourceful ways to meet with family and friends across all time zones. From Mississippi to Tennessee and all geographic locations around the world, garner your smiles and appreciation for each second as we "let the good times roll on."
Dr. LaShawna Fant, formerly of Houston, resides in Jackson.
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KOVE Inc. to Distribute the MolecuLight Product Suite to Large South Korean Wound Care Market
TORONTO and SEOUL, South Korea, April 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - MolecuLight Inc., the leader in point-of-care fluorescence imaging for real-time detection of wounds containing elevated bacterial loads, and KOVE Inc., announce that the MolecuLight i:X® device has successfully received regulatory clearance and is now commercially available to the wound care market in South Korea. In addition, the MolecuLight device has also received reimbursement in Korea from the Ministry of Health and Welfare enabling clinician reimbursement for performing the medically necessary MolecuLight procedure.
Reimbursement for the MolecuLight procedure was granted by the Ministry of Health and Welfare of Korea, as per the notification number 259-858. This was announced based on Reimbursement data from the Korea New Medical Technology - Stability and Effectiveness Evaluation.
MolecuLight is exclusively distributed in South Korea by KOVE, Inc., a company specializing in providing novel products that assist in the treatment of diabetes foot ulcers in Korea including medical devices that assist with the diagnosis and treatment of wounds. KOVE's team of clinical and technical support specialists have more than 30 years of experience in medical devices and wound care. KOVE also performs clinical research with many university hospitals in Korea.
The South Korean market for wound care is significant and can be understood through the pervasiveness of diabetes and diabetic foot ulcers. There are over 5 million Koreans with diabetes1, or 1 diabetic in every 30 adults. 25% of all diabetics also have a diabetic foot ulcer.
"The market for the MolecuLight device is significant in South Korea as there is a comprehensive and progressive health care system that quickly adopts new and clinically useful technologies", says JUNHYOUNG LEE, CEO of KOVE, Inc. "Because of the high national insurance coverage for medical procedures, Korean patients readily visit hospitals to treat ailments and physicians are motivated to treat and monitor wounds until they are fully healed. The MolecuLight technology provides real-time actionable information on wound bioburden and allows clinicians to make bedside decisions quickly. It will be well-received by the South Korean medical community. Significant demand for the MolecuLight device has been verified through market research conducted over the last 12 months as part of the registration and reimbursement process."
"We are most impressed with KOVE, Inc., with their very experienced and responsive team and with their close relationship with the wound care community in South Korea", says Anil Amlani, MolecuLight's CEO. "We believe that the speed with which the MolecuLight i:X received both registration and reimbursement shows the quality of our clinical evidence and the proven clinical outcomes that clinicians can achieve using the MolecuLight device. We are confident that South Korea will become a major market for MolecuLight".
MolecuLight's broad body of clinical evidence includes 55+ peer-reviewed publications, including over 1,400 patients under study, showing the significant benefit of the MolecuLight i:X® to wound care clinicians in all care settings.
To request a quotation or a clinical demonstration of the MolecuLight i:X in South Korea, please email junhglee1211@gmail.com or call +82.55.384.2600.
About MolecuLight Inc.
MolecuLight Inc. is a privately-owned medical imaging company that has developed and is commercializing its proprietary fluorescent imaging platform technology in multiple clinical markets. MolecuLight's suite of commercially released devices, including the MolecuLight i:X® and DX™ fluorescence imaging systems and their accessories, provide point-of-care handheld imaging devices for the global wound care market for the real-time detection of wounds containing elevated bacterial burden (when used with clinical signs and symptoms) and for digital wound measurement. MolecuLight procedures performed in the United States can benefit from an available reimbursement pathway including two CPT® codes for physician work to perform "fluorescence imaging for bacterial presence, location, and load" and facility payment for Hospital Outpatient Department (HOPD) and Ambulatory Surgical Center (ASC) settings through an Ambulatory Payment Classification (APC) assignment. The company is also commercializing its unique fluorescence imaging platform technology for other markets with globally relevant unmet needs including food safety, consumer cosmetics and other key industrial markets.
About KOVE, Inc.
KOVE, Inc. is a company specializing in the diagnosis and treatment of diabetic foot ulcers and wound-related medical devices. It has been conducting continuous clinical research and presentations with many university hospitals in Korea.
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Last week, the nation recognized National Vietnam War Veterans Day, created to honor and celebrate the service of millions of Vietnam era veterans — men and women — who fought in that war.
It’s a fitting time to remember those men and women, and closer to home, the 10 young men from Chickasaw County who died in that war.
All who took part in that long, costly, divisive conflict from 1964-1973 in Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos gave some, but 58,220 Americans gave all.
National Vietnam War Veterans Day was a day to celebrate the service of a generation: ‘Welcome Home’ those who made it back and keep the candle lit for those who haven’t.
Although the official date of National Vietnam War Veterans Day was March 29, it was celebrated in different locations on several different days last week.
There were no local celebrations of the day in Houston, however, according to local officials.
Of the 2,709,918 Americans who served in Vietnam, Less than 850,000 are estimated to be alive today, with the youngest American Vietnam veteran's age approximated to be 60 years old. Those living veterans include 57,958 Vietnam War veterans from Mississippi.
The figure for American soldiers killed in the war includes 637 Mississippians, while 12 are still listed as missing in action.
The day holds a special place in history to the men and women who wore our nation’s cloth a generation ago.
March 29, 1973, was the day the last U.S. combat troops departed Vietnam, as well as the same timeframe which Hanoi released the last of its acknowledged prisoners of war.
Although America’s direct eight-year intervention in the Vietnam War ended in 1973, some 7,000 U.S. Department of Defense civilian employees remained behind to aid South Vietnam in conducting what looked to be a fierce and ongoing war with communist North Vietnam.
National Vietnam War Veterans Day honors not only the U.S. military men and women who served in Vietnam as well as the larger southeast Asian theater of operations, it also celebrates all who served during the Vietnam war, both at home and abroad. They answered the nation’s call and served with distinction.
This celebration of service was not the case more than 50 years ago. America was not a united country.
Political division, civil strife, and the Vietnam War itself put many at odds with one another. Many of those who served during that time have had to face, and overcome, harsh criticism, insults and rejection.
As we commemorate the service of those from the Vietnam era, remember there are some that haven’t made it back from where their nation sent them.
According to the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA), nearly 1,600 service members remain unaccounted-for from the Vietnam War.
Experts at DPAA are in a race against time as the elements, soil acidity and the local population’s fading recollections make the task of finding and identifying the remains of those missing more challenging as the years go by.
With that in mind, let’s keep the POW/MIA flag flying high and keep the candle lit for their return.
This National Vietnam War Veterans Day has passed. But every day, take the opportunity to give a hearty “Welcome Home” to those who made it back from the Vietnam War and a “Thank you for your service” to all from the era.
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Realtor.com® Listapalooza – the best time to list – is now a national holiday, according to National Day Archives
SANTA CLARA, Calif., April 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- As the final countdown begins to Realtor.com® Listapalooza (April 10-16), a new national holiday, the company today released survey data that shows homeowners are gearing up to sell this Spring and Summer. According to the report, 64% of prospective 2022 sellers anticipate doing so within the next six months, and with high expectations for making a profit. Still, the potential uptick in newly-listed homes indicates some much-needed relief could be on the horizon for buyers – especially first-timers. Today's sellers expect to ask for relatively affordable prices and include a higher share of millennials than last Spring, suggesting that more Americans plan to upgrade from their starter homes.
The Realtor.com® survey of 3,000 consumers, which was conducted online by HarrisX in February 2022, also asked about the experiences of recent sellers, who said determining the right time to list was the longest stage of the process.
"Our survey data illustrates the importance of helping empower homeowners to take control of the listing process, by providing information about market conditions, prices and seasonal trends, like the best dates to list your home. While sellers are expected to hold the upper hand in 2022, navigating the listing process remains a challenge – particularly for those also buying in today's fast-paced market," said George Ratiu, Senior Economist & Manager of Economic Research at Realtor.com®. "Homeowners who are ready to move forward with pandemic-delayed plans will find plenty of opportunity this Spring and Summer. Although accelerating inflation is leading to higher housing costs and living expenses, many buyers remain interested in finding a home. At the same time, recent housing trends suggest demand is beginning to moderate as higher mortgage rates push monthly payments out of some buyers' budgets, underscoring the long-term need for more affordable inventory."
Homeowners are ready to take advantage of the Spring and Summer buying seasons
Survey data suggests some relief is on the horizon for Americans grappling with one of the worst housing shortages of all-time. Almost two-thirds (64%) of prospective 2022 sellers anticipate listing a home within the next six months. Whether these sellers follow-through with their plans will be key to the forecasted 2022 inventory recovery and critical for buyers hoping to find a home before mortgage rates climb even further. In a positive sign that homeowners are serious about listing, many sellers are already getting their home ready. However, they're doing so with great expectations of the current market, which means buyers should prepare for sellers asking for high offer prices, quick closes, waived contingencies and more.
- The majority of 2022 prospective sellers plan to list within the next six months, with 9% already listed and the remaining getting ready to list within the next 30 days (11%), 1-3 months (24%) or 4-6 months (20%).
- Compared to those who planned to list last Spring, this year's prospective sellers have higher expectations of the hot housing market, including asking for more than their home is worth (42% vs. 29%) and refusing to pay for repairs or improvements (28% vs. 24%).
- When asked why they're planning to list in 2022, surveyed sellers' top reason was wanting to profit off the current market, tied with their home no longer meeting their families needs (each at 31%).
- Homeowners' motivating factors behind moving also reflect the impact of pandemic trends, such as wanting different features after spending so much time at home (15%) and no longer needing to live near their office (14%).
Millennials are moving on up, signaling more starter homes for first-time buyers
With the oldest millennials already 40-years-old, these homeowners are playing an important role in adding to the supply of starter homes. Millennials represent nearly half (49%) of sellers who plan to list within the next six months and many anticipate selling at relatively affordable prices. This is welcome news for first-time buyers, who face fierce competition for limited available starter homes. Combined with rising affordability issues as home prices and mortgage rates climb, survey data offers some hope for first-time buyers, based on:
- More millennials plan to list within the next six months than in March 2021 (75% vs. 66%), and account for a higher share of all 2022 prospective sellers (42.0% vs. 26.0%).
- In a further sign that older millennials are moving on up from their starter homes, the share of surveyed millennials who have sold a home before was nearly as high as the overall rate (61% vs. 64%).
- Millennials have plenty of financial motivation to stick to their plans, with top reasons for selling reflecting the pressures of rising inflation and economic uncertainties. Compared to all survey respondents, higher shares of Gen Y sellers want a more affordable home (34% vs. 21%) and need the sale money ASAP (14% vs. 11%).
- In a potential sign of more starter homes coming onto the market, the majority of 2022 prospective sellers expect to list in relatively affordable price ranges: $350,000 or less (43%) and $351,000-$500,000 (22%).
Recent experiences highlight the importance of preparation, even in a seller's market
The COVID housing market has largely favored sellers and many who recently sold were able to take advantage of bidding wars, fast closings, waived contingencies, inspections and appraisals, and more. At the same time, sellers' experiences highlight the importance of preparation, especially as buyer demand is beginning to moderate. Even among recent sellers who found success, the majority took steps to get their home ready to list, such as making repairs, cleaning and decluttering. Additionally, although many sellers were able to list quickly, 41% said the process took longer than they originally anticipated.
- Over half (53%) of sellers spent less than a month preparing their home for listing, while another 26% said the process took 1-3 months.
- Forty-one percent of recent sellers said getting their home ready to list took longer than they expected. Determining the right time to enter the market took longer than any step of the home prep process, with 38% of respondents reporting that this decision took more than 3 months.
- Among steps successful sellers took to prepare their home for listing, top responses included repairs and updates (59%) and cleaning and decluttering (67%). While minor cosmetic updates were the top repair sellers made before listing, at 53% of respondents, nearly as many fully repainted interiors and replaced flooring (47% each).
- The majority (80%) of recent sellers sold at or above their asking price. Other top benefits of the competitive market included: buyers forgoing repair concessions (28%), offers within a week (27%), and waived contingencies like inspections (25%).
Methodology
This Realtor.com® survey was conducted online within the United States from February 16-18, 2022 among 3,000 adults in the United States by HarrisX. The sampling margin of error of this poll is plus or minus 1.8 percentage points. The results reflect a nationally representative sample of U.S. adults. Results were weighted for age by gender, region, race/ethnicity, and income where necessary to align them with their actual proportions in the population.
About Realtor.com®
Realtor.com® makes buying, selling, renting and living in homes easier and more rewarding for everyone. Realtor.com® pioneered the world of digital real estate more than 25 years ago, and today through its website and mobile apps offers a marketplace where people can learn about their options, trust in the transparency of information provided to them, and get services and resources that are personalized to their needs. Using proprietary data science and machine learning technology, Realtor.com® pairs buyers and sellers with local agents in their market, helping take the guesswork out of buying and selling a home. For professionals, Realtor.com® is a trusted provider of consumer connections and branding solutions that help them succeed in today's on-demand world. Realtor.com® is operated by News Corp [Nasdaq: NWS, NWSA] [ASX: NWS, NWSLV] subsidiary Move, Inc. For more information, visit Realtor.com®.
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CHICKASAW COUNTY -- When last week’s round of severe storms rolled through, it left it’s mark in the form of downed trees and some structure damage.
“We had sporadic trees down all over county,” said Emergency Management Director Linda Griffin. “We had a few power outages due to trees down on lines and few roads temporarily blocked by downed trees. I believe we faired very well due to the winds we had. A big factor is we didn't have a long period of rain prior to winds, or we would have had many more trees down.”
There was only one structure with damage reported as of Thursday, March 31, and it was on County Road 413.
All roads were opened, and all power was restored by mid-morning on Thursday, according to Griffin.
She also added that the storm shelters are always open, the county does not lock their shelters.
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OSLO, Norway, April 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Notice is given that the Annual General Meeting of Nordic Nanovector ASA will be held on 28 April 2022, at 14:00 hours CEST at Advokatfirmaet Selmer, Tjuvholmen Allé 1, 0252 Oslo. The full notice with appendices and the recommendation from the Nomination Committee are attached. The notice and the documents to which it refers are also available on www.nordicnanovector.com.
Shareholders wishing to attend the Annual General Meeting, in person or by proxy, must complete and return the attendance form or power of attorney form attached to the notice to Nordea Bank Abp, Issuer Service, Postboks 1166 Sentrum, N-0107 Oslo, or by e-mail to nis@nordea.com no later than 26 April 2022, 16:00 CEST. Attendance or proxies may also be registered electronically through Euronext Securities Oslo (formerly VPS) Investor Services.
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Nordic Nanovector is committed to develop and deliver innovative therapies to patients to address major unmet medical needs and advance cancer care. The Company aspires to become a leader in the development of targeted therapies for haematological cancers. Nordic Nanovector's lead clinical-stage candidate is Betalutin®, a novel CD37-targeting antibody-radionuclide-conjugate designed to advance the treatment of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL). NHL is an indication with substantial unmet medical need, representing a growing market forecast to be worth nearly USD 29 billion by 2026. Nordic Nanovector retains global marketing rights to Betalutin® and intends to actively participate in the commercialisation of Betalutin® in the US and other major markets.
Further information can be found at www.nordicnanovector.com.
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Garrett Weaver received a pair of Beats Solo3 Wireless Headphones as a reward for investing his time in the virtual Imagine the Possibilities Career Expo.
HOUSTON – Houston High School sophomore Garrett Weaver was rewarded for his participation in the virtual Imagine the Possibilities Career Expo.
He earned a minimum of 220 points, which made him eligible for the drawing for a pair of Beats Solo3 Wireless Headphones, which he won.
He was presented with his prize in a small ceremony at HHS on Tuesday, March 29.
Weaver is interested in construction as a career, and that was the focus of his involvement in the expo.
“I’m very proud and the career expo helped me choose my opportunities,” he said.
This was the second year that the virtual expo has been held.
“The Toyota Wellspring Education Fund (TWEF) at the CREATE Foundation has been the lead sponsor for an interactive Imagine the Possibilities (ItP) Career Expo, which is in its second year of virtual resources via a website and app,” read the official press release about the event.
According to the release, they handed out prizes at 16 different schools across eight different counties.
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OSLO, Norway, April 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- On 5 April 2022, the Board of Directors of Nordic Nanovector ASA approved the Company's financial statements for 2021. The Company's 2021 Annual Report and ESEF file are attached.
The reports are also available on Nordic Nanovector ASA's website: www.nordicnanovector.com
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Nordic Nanovector is committed to develop and deliver innovative therapies to patients to address major unmet medical needs and advance cancer care. The Company aspires to become a leader in the development of CD37-targeted therapies for haematological cancers and immune diseases. Nordic Nanovector's lead clinical-stage candidate is Betalutin®, a novel CD37-targeting radioimmunotherapy designed to advance the treatment of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL). NHL is an indication with substantial unmet medical need, representing a growing market forecast to be worth nearly USD 27 billion by 2029. Nordic Nanovector retains global marketing rights to Betalutin® and intends to actively participate in the commercialisation of Betalutin® in the US and other major markets. Further information can be found at www.nordicnanovector.com.
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“It just affects different people in different ways.”
Shelia Summerford was referring to the physiological effects of COVID-19 with that statement. But the same has certainly been true for how the virus has affected people in different fields and walks of life.
As one might expect, the coronavirus has had quite the impact on Summerford’s own line of work as coroner for Itawamba County. Over the course of the pandemic, Summerford has run the gamut of COVID deaths, from those who died as a direct result of health complications from the virus to those whose existing conditions were worsened by the virus.
“You could be perfectly healthy. It’s just how it hits you,” Summerford said. “Some people can handle it fine, don’t bother them at all, and some people just got it and they’re gone.”
She holds COVID responsible in part for a busy 2021 at the coroner’s office. Usually, 175 would represent an average year for death pronouncements by the county’s coroner. In 2021, the number was 214.
“Last year was a record year, the biggest number we’ve ever had,” she said. “I can’t say that they’re all due to the coronavirus. There’s a lot that contributes to that. I’ve only pronounced 16 or 17 that I’ve actually had to suit up for. I have had other ones that had underlying conditions with a secondary cause as COVID, but they may die of something else.”
The nuance of cause of death has been a source of controversy since the first confirms cases of COVID-19 in the U.S. in January 2020, followed shortly thereafter by the first deaths attributed to the virus in early February 2020. The coronavirus often exacerbates underlying health conditions, contributing the death without being the primary cause. In other cases, however, the virus itself causes severe symptoms that can cause hospitalization and even death. But even in those cases, the conditions the virus causes are recorded as the official cause of death rather than the virus itself.
“We can’t list COVID-19 as the primary thing,” Summerford said. “We have to do upper respiratory distress, pneumonia or whatever ‘due to onset of COVID-19,’ or ‘as a result of COVID-19.’”
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The Mantachie softball team has hit a handful of speedbumps along the way in their 2022 season.
But the Lady Mustangs (15-4, 2-1 in Region 1-3A) haven't taken their foot off the gas heading into the final stretch of the regular season.
Mantachie 2, Booneville 0
After dropping a 1-0 heartbreaker to the Lady Blue Devils on March 29 at home, the Lady Mustangs traveled to Booneville for their second meeting against their region rival on Friday, April 1.
Mantachie earned payback as Ramsey Montgomery pitched a no-hitter in the Lady Mustangs' 2-0 victory. The sophomore ace struck out 12 Lady Blue Devils and walked none in seven scoreless, hitless innings in the circle.
Montgomery led Mantachie at the plate as well, notching a double and a single. Lillianna Cates, Abbey Johnson and Allie Ensley contributed a single apiece.
Mantachie 18, New Site 4
The Lady Mustangs next hit the road for a matchup with New Site.
The Lady Royals kept things close early, but Mantachie ultimately ran away with this one in six innings for a run-rule victory.
Montgomery earned the win, holding New Site to two runs on four hits in three innings of work. Hannah Gillean took over in the circle for the final three innings and held the Lady Royals to two runs on four hits.
Multiple Lady Mustangs had big days at the plate. Allysa Gray notched three doubles, while Blayne Sturgeon knocked three singles. Montgomery added a pair of doubles, Allie Ensey smacked a single and a triple and Gillean had a single and a double.
Mantachie 3, Alcorn Central 2
Mantachie returned to region play on Monday night in a game rescheduled due to the threat of rain on Tuesday, hosting Alcorn Central.
The Lady Mustangs came out of the evening with a dramatic walk-off victory over the Lady Bears that pushed their region record above .500 for the first time this season.
Montgomery tallied another victory in the circle, surrendering two runs on five hits and two walks with 13 strikeouts as she pitched the full seven innings.
Montgomery also led the Lady Mustangs at the plate, going 3-for-4 on the day to account for almost half of Mantachi's seven hits. Ensey added two hits of her own, while Cates and Gray added a hit apiece.
With the game tied in the bottom of the seventh, an error allowed the Lady Mustangs to plate the game-winning run.
Mantachie head coach Kristi Montgomery credits the tough competition her team faced playing exhibition games in Pigeon Forge, Tenn., and other non-region competition for helping prepare the Lady Mustangs for a tough region slate.
"I think we've grown some in the field, grown some under pressure situations," Coach Montgomery said. "The game plan from the beginning was to be better tomorrow than you were the first day, and they've handled the challenge."
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The Lady Mustangs continue region play with the road half of their series with Alcorn Central at 6:30 p.m. Thursday.
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Further Identifying Nova Space Professional Development Programs as the Industry Leader in Digital Space Training and Education
MINNEAPOLIS, April 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Pure Capital Solutions (OTC:PCST) is pleased to announce its subsidiary, Nova Space Inc. (https://www.novaspaceinc.com/), has received the Space Foundation Space Certification – Education™. The mission of Space Foundation (https://www.spacefoundation.org) is "To be the preeminent advocate and gateway for lifelong education, trusted information and seamless collaboration for all people and organizations engaging in space exploration and space-inspired industries that drive the global space ecosystem.' Through this recognition, the Nova Space Professional Program is recognized as directly supporting the Space Industry and Ecosystem, providing a formal training and professional development pipeline for individuals and organization.
Nova Space CEO, Joseph Horvath explains, "The Nova Space platform provides the ideal solution for organizations focused on developing their internal talent to meet the increasing demands of the space industry. Whether commercial or government focused, developing the human element is critical to enabling the growth that is occurring across the space environment. The Space Foundation Space Certification furthers the mission of Nova Space to support this growth through our cutting edge training and education platform."
Nova Space is already well-known for its signature space professional development programs, designed to support the growth of space industry professionals, entrepreneurs and business leaders, commercial companies and governmental organizations. The founders of the company have more than five decades of combined experience in space operations, astronautics, and custom learning development in both commercial and government settings.
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TUPELO • When Wayne and Margaret VanLandingham retired, they set their sights on hiking all 2,193 miles of the Appalachian Trail.
The New Albany couple achieved that goal in March 2022 after hiking through 14 states in four seasons across all 12 months of the year.
Having each read several books about hiking the trail, Margaret, 59, and Wayne, 64, made their own plans to take on the trail in 2018, the year Wayne VanLandingham retired. The couple researched and purchased their gear in 2019, the year Margaret VanLandingham retired.
The VanLandinghams started their long hike on March 15, 2020, following a family vacation in Gatlinburg, Tennessee. But just four days into their hike, the journey was cut short when the spread of COVID-19 across the country forced trails to close.
Their dream was put on hold for more than a year.
The VanLandinghams restarted their trek on April 17, 2021, and finished March 4, 2022. They did six-and-a-half months of active walking during that time.
They resumed their trek at Neels Gap in Georgia, the place they'd stopped when the pandemic began. Heading north, they hiked to Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, and got off the trail.
To avoid weather-related closures towards the end of their journey, they traveled from Harpers Ferry up to Maine, crested the summit of Mount Katahdin and worked their way south until they got back to their stopping point in West Virginia.
After that, they only had a small section of the hike to complete — the portion they'd completed before having to stop for the pandemic.
For the second time, the VanLandinghams hiked the first 40 miles of the trail and descended the 604 steps at Amicalola Falls State Park in Dawsonville, Georgia, to complete their journey.
"We weren't experienced hikers," Wayne VanLandingham said. "We weren't experienced campers. There wasn't anything extraordinary about us, but we did it."
Prepping for the trek
When the VanLandinghams began their hike, it was a first for the couple. Although they'd biked the Tanglefoot Trail, they’d never hiked it. And aside from the occasional 1-mile trail on trips to Gatlinburg, the VanLandinghams had no hiking experience.
"We were not hikers or campers or backpackers," Wayne VanLandingham said.
According to the Appalachian Trail Conservancy, more than 3,000 people attempt a thru-hike of the Appalachian Trail each year, with only about a quarter finishing it.
In the beginning, it seemed they might be among those that wouldn’t finish the feat.
"That first 8 miles from Amicalola Falls to Spring Mountain, that's called the approach trail," Wayne said. "It's not even included in the AT. I told Margaret, 'If it's all like this, we'll never make it.'"
But following guidance they'd given their children years earlier, the VanLandinghams were determined to finish what they'd started. After all, they'd spent months and months preparing for this.
They each carried a backpack filled with hundreds of dollars of gear. They stopped for food, supplies and overnight stays in hostels throughout the journey.
The couple encountered most everything they'd been warned about in the books before setting out: Heat, sweat, cold, wet, mud, bugs, snakes and bears.
But there are some things no hiker can prepare for.
The long and winding road
The VanLandinghams decided during their preparation for the hike that they would only get off the trail because of injury, illness or a family emergency.
By the end of their thru-hike, they came off the trail a total of four times for various reasons: doctor’s appointments and rehab; the birth of a grandson and the death of a nephew; the admittance of a Wayne VanLandingham’s sister into hospice care; and two cataract surgeries for Margaret VanLandingham.
The couple had their share of milestones during the hike as well. Each celebrated a birthday on the trail; the couple celebrated their 35th wedding anniversary; and they spent Thanksgiving, Christmas Day and New Year's Day hiking.
"It made you realize, 'I did that. I climbed that mountain. I came off that mountain, and we made it," Margaret VanLandingham said.
They made memories hiking in the snow, waking up inside a frost-covered tent and spending an entire day sheltered in the tent during a round of thunderstorms.
Along the way, the VanLandinghams ran into many friendly hikers — from meeting a fellow hiker from Massachusetts who later picked them up and took them to his house for showers and a meal to people making "trail magic," which is setting up to provide snacks, meals and drinks for thru-hikers.
The VanLandinghams found everyone they met along the trail more than willing to help their fellow hikers. Wayne VanLandingham joked that stopping to talk with strangers along the way added a month-and-a-half to their journey.
When the VanLandinghams reached the end of the trail at Amicalola Falls in March 2022, all of the aches and weariness faded away, replaced by excitement by the accomplishment.
"Somebody asked us, 'How are you going to celebrate when you get to the end? Are you going to have champagne on ice?'" Wayne VanLandingham said.
He paused, then added with a laugh, "I said, 'Well, I was thinking more about knees on ice.'"
Finishing the trail was a bittersweet moment, Margaret VanLandingham said.
"You're happy to be through because you can come home," she said. "But you're going to miss it. Because it was good exercise. You felt good."
Sharing the experience together
Despite all of the breathtaking scenery and friends they made along the way, the couple's favorite part of hiking the Appalachian Trail was sharing the experience together.
"It was a partnership," Margaret VanLandingham said.
Some couples split up on the trail, with the husband or wife walking ahead at their own pace. But not the VanLandinghams. They spent nearly on the trail hiking at least within sight of each other.
"We've always done things together," Wayne VanLandingham said. "From going to college football games when the kids were growing up to white water rafting, snow skiing, skydiving."
The couple's next adventures include kayaking the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway and hiking the Natchez Trace.
Whether people decide to hike from Georgia to Maine or vice versa, Wayne VanLandingham encourages others to find their own Appalachian Trail.
"That might be taking care of a sick loved one. It's the same thing," he said. "It's something hard, you stick with it, you get it done. If that's hiking, being a caregiver or walking around you block — don't focus on what you can't do. Focus on what you can do."
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Top universities in 51 disciplines revealed
LONDON, April 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- QS Quacquarelli Symonds – the international higher education think-tank – released the twelfth edition of the QS World University Rankings by Subject: an independent comparative analysis of the performance of 15,200 individual university programs taken by students at 1543 universities in 88 locations across the world, across 51 academic disciplines.
They are part of the annual QS World University Rankings portfolio, which was consulted over 147 million times in 2021 on TopUniversities.com and covered 96,000 times by media and institutions.
Global Highlights
· US institutions lead in 28 of the 51 subjects ranked. Harvard University and MIT remain the strongest-performing institutions, ranking number one in twelve subjects.
· Fifteen subject tables are topped by a British university, with the University of Oxford leading in six.
· ETH Zurich is continental Europe's top university, achieving number-one spots in three subjects. Moreover, based on its share of top-10 ranks, Switzerland is the world's third-best higher education sector.
· Australia is the fourth most represented country for the number of entries
· China (Mainland) ranks fifth globally for the number of programs (100), achieving a top-50 rank.
· No university has a larger number of top-50 than Canada's University of Toronto (46).
· The National University of Singapore – Asia's best-performing university – is the world's best for Petroleum Engineering. NUS ranks among the top-10 in sixteen disciplines.
· Japanese higher education is still in relative decline after decades of underfunding for research and PhD students.
· Universidad de Chile achieves Latin America's highest rank, 8th globally in Engineering - Mineral & Mining, followed by UNAM (Mexico) 13th in Modern Languages and Universidade de São Paulo (USP) 15th in Dentistry.
· The University of Cape Town remains Africa's most competitive institution, placing 9th globally in Development Studies.
· King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, 6th globally for Petroleum Engineering, achieves the Arab region's highest rank.
Ben Sowter, QS Research Director, said: "Observing performance trends across over 15,000 university departments enables us to see which factors influence success. First, an international outlook – both in terms of faculty body and research relationships – correlates strongly with improved performance. Second, rising universities received targeted investment from governments for over a decade. Third, strengthening relationships with industry correlates with better employment, research, and innovation outcomes."
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This 2018 file photos shows a stray dog resting inside a Tupelo-Lee County Humane Society kennel. Plantersville officials have delayed the enforcement deadline of a new dog registration program they believe will help problems with the town's canine population and help with the shelter's overcrowding.
TUPELO • Officials in Plantersville have loosened the leash on their deadline to enforce a new dog licensing program to bolster participation.
Although a new law requiring residents of Plantersville to license their dogs would have taken effect at the end of March, officials have pushed back the deadline because so few people had actually registered their pets.
According to Plantersville police officer Jason Lessel, who oversees the town’s new animal control wing, roughly 50 people had registered their pets by the March 31 deadline. Lessel said he believes the low turnout may have resulted from a lack of familiarity with the program.
Town officials hope extending the deadline and putting more emphasis on raising awareness of the program will increase residents’ support.
Lessel said the ordinance is intended to help control the town’s animal population.
“We are trying to implement this because we have a problem with dogs roaming the city,” Lessel said. “This will help us keep from getting overpopulated because it helps determine if dogs are pets or strays.”
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The program, which Plantersville officials approved in January, requires owners to register their dogs by going to town hall, filling out a form and paying a $2 registration fee. The fee, Lessel said, is to offset the cost of tags that the city provides as proof of registration. Proof of rabies inoculation is also required.
Dog owners who don’t register their pets with the town face a series of potential fines. The fine scales from $25 after the first offense, $50 for the second offense, and $75 for the third offense. Lessel said there will also be a possibility a judge could order the dog seized from their owner.
“The main thing is we are trying to get the public aware of our ordinances,” Lessel said. “You have to take care of the animals you own.”
Plantersville isn’t the only Northeast Mississippi town adopting such an ordinance. In Baldwyn, officials are working on a similar program, according to Aston Alexander, who oversees the city’s code enforcement.
“It is something that the city is working on and has been for a while,” he said. “It will help both parties as far as residents and the city.”
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New Facility Expected to More Than Double Production Capacity and Accelerate Margin Improvement
CHERRY HILL, N.J., April 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Real Good Food Company, Inc. (Nasdaq: RGF) ("Real Good Foods" or the "Company"), an innovative, high-growth, branded, health- and wellness-focused frozen food company, today announced the opening of its state-of-the-art manufacturing facility in Bolingbrook, Illinois. This USDA, gluten free certified plant is Real Good Foods' second production facility and is a critical part of the Company's growth plans. This facility is expected to more than double the Company's manufacturing capacity to keep up with the rapidly growing demand for its products, while also reducing the Company's cost structure to accelerate its margin improvement agenda.
The Bolingbrook facility has high-throughput, flexible production lines that will support the production of Real Good Foods' current products, as well as planned innovation platforms including grain-free breaded poultry and zero-sugar Asian entrees. Production capacity will be phased throughout 2022 and is expected to add an additional $200 million in capacity by the end of the year. At full capacity, Bolingbrook is expected to support approximately $250 to $300 million in net sales.
Located only 30 miles outside of Chicago, Bolingbrook is an ideal location for the Company's second manufacturing facility because of the proximity to raw materials and distribution hubs. The highly automated facility is expected to reduce the Company's overall cost structure, increase margins, and accelerate profitability.
"As we continue to work to increase capacity to meet demand for our products, Bolingbrook represents the next step in our growth journey," said Gerard Law, Chief Executive Officer of Real Good Foods. "Opening the Bolingbrook facility within six months of signing the lease demonstrates the speed, agility, and experience of our organization. I am proud of our dedicated team and supplier partners that have worked long hours to open this plant on time and on budget."
Bryan Freeman, Executive Chairman of Real Good Foods, added, "Our mission is to make our craveable, nutritious comfort foods accessible to everyone across the United States and, eventually, throughout the world. Opening Bolingbrook is a significant milestone for the Company as we build capacity and expand our reach."
About The Real Good Food Company
Founded in 2016, Real Good Foods believes there is a better way to enjoy our favorite foods. Its brand commitment, "Real Food You Feel Good About Eating," represents the Company's strong belief that, by eating its food, consumers can enjoy more of their favorite foods and, by doing so, live better lives as part of a healthier lifestyle. Its mission is to make nutritious comfort foods that are low in carbohydrates, high in protein, and made from gluten and grain free real ingredients more accessible to everyone, improve human health, and, in turn, improve the lives of millions of people. Real Good Foods offers delicious options across breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snacking occasions available in over 16,000 stores nationwide, including Walmart, Costco, Kroger, and Target, and directly from its website at www.realgoodfoods.com. Learn more about Real Good Foods by visiting its website or on Instagram at @realgoodfoods, where it has one of the largest social media followings of any brand within the frozen food industry today with nearly 420,000 followers.
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the safe harbor provisions of the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, which statements are subject to considerable risks and uncertainties. Forward-looking statements include all statements other than statements of historical fact contained in this press release, including statements regarding the demand for the Company's products and the impact of the new facility on its production capacity, cost structure, margins and profitability. The Company has attempted to identify forward-looking statements by using words such as "believe," "estimate," "expect," "intend," "may," "plan," "predict," "project," "should," "will," or "would," and similar expressions or the negative of these expressions.
Forward-looking statements represent management's current expectations and predictions about trends affecting the Company's business and industry and are based on information available as of the time such statements are made. Although the Company does not make forward-looking statements unless it believes it has a reasonable basis for doing so, it cannot guarantee their accuracy or completeness. Forward-looking statements involve numerous known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause its actual results, performance or achievements to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements predicted, assumed or implied by the forward-looking statements. Some of the risks and uncertainties that may cause the Company's actual results to materially differ from those expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements are described in the section entitled "Risk Factors" in its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the period ended December 31, 2021, as well as the other reports it files with the Securities and Exchange Commission from time to time.
In addition, readers are cautioned that the Company may make future changes to its business and operations in response to the challenges and impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, or in response to other business developments, which changes may be inconsistent with the Company's prior forward-looking statements, and which may not be disclosed in future public announcements.
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STARKVILLE • Since 1992 and at earlier points in the state’s history, Mississippi voters have been able to bypass the Legislature and engage in what has been called “direct democracy” in proposing constitutional amendments and getting them decided at the ballot box rather than at the state Capitol Building.
But it appears that Mississippi lawmakers have been unable to reach agreement on new rules to resurrect Mississippi’s voter initiative rights during the waning days of the 2022 regular session.
State Sen. John Polk, R-Hattiesburg, chairman of the Senate Accountability, Efficiency and Transparency Committee, and State Rep. Fred Shanks, R-Brandon, chairman of the House Constitution Committee, have been so far unable as lead conferees to get their respective committees and the legislative leadership together on key points necessary to revive the state's ballot initiative process.
What put the two legislative chambers at odds? Primarily it is the signature threshold necessary to place a matter on the ballot. The House wanted 12% of those who voted in the last statewide election or about 100,000 signatures. The Senate was 12% of registered voters on the day of the last presidential election in the state or about 240,000.
Obviously, the Senate signature threshold is significantly higher and more difficult for those seeking to change state laws to attain.
In the 2020 election, Mississippi voters approved a voter initiative authorizing a medical marijuana program outlined in Initiative 65 over expressed objections from majority legislative leaders. Mississippi voters approved Initiative 65 with 73.7% of the vote.
But the results of that referendum were annulled by the Mississippi Supreme Court. The state’s High Court ruled that the state’s 1992 ballot initiative process was flawed because the Legislature had spent several years without addressing the impact of Mississippi's loss of a congressional district in 2001 on the constitutional provision governing that process.
The court ruled that the state's initiative process was broken and that because Initiative 65 was put in motion through that flawed process and procedures, the medical marijuana initiative could not stand despite overwhelming voter support.
As noted in previous columns on this topic, there has existed a sort of iron triangle between the voters, the Mississippi Legislature, and the state Supreme Court for more than a century on the issue of ballot initiatives. The voters have struggled to hold on to their ability to bypass the Legislature in changing public policy in the state.
Why? Because the Legislature designed the former initiative process in Mississippi to be difficult for those who wish to circumvent lawmakers and get into the business of directly writing or changing laws for themselves.
Since 1993, there have been 66 instances where various Mississippi citizens or groups have attempted to utilize the state's initiative process. Some 52 of those attempts simply expired for lack of certified signatures or other procedural deficiencies.
In the fallout from the Supreme Court's decision to throw out the political result of Initiative 65, it became clear that many lawmakers were prepared to shift the ballot initiative process away from constitutional changes as allowed by the 1991 initiative process to a process that will enable statutory changes only.
But even if lawmakers do what's necessary to enable statutory ballot initiatives, state voters will have far less power than they had before. There is a fundamental difference between being able to change the state's constitution and changing a statute.
Some 26 states have the right to ballot initiative or referendum processes, excluding most Southern states. If Mississippi can reclaim the right of ballot initiative, even if for statutes only, it will represent a victory of sorts compared to most of our neighboring states.
Florida is the only remaining Southern state that has a very similar voter initiative process to that which Mississippi voters possessed until the Miss. Supreme Court struck it down
With the apparent failure of both legislative chambers to reach agreement on reviving Mississippi’s voter initiative process, our state would join Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, South Carolina, and Tennessee as states that do not have either the right of voter initiative or referendum. However, Alabama, Georgia voters must approve constitutional amendments proposed by the legislature.
Neighboring Arkansas voters have initiative and referendum processes that enable them to directly propose and vote on both statutes and constitutional amendments.
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TORONTO, April 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Restaurant Brands International Inc. (TSX: QSR) (NYSE: QSR) (TSX: QSP) will release its first quarter 2022 financial results on Tuesday, May 3, 2022 and will host an investor conference call that morning at 8:30 a.m. Eastern Time.
The earnings call will be webcast on the company's investor relations website (http://rbi.com/investors) and a replay will be available for 30 days following the release. Investors may also access the conference call via the following dial-in numbers: (844) 200-6205 for U.S. callers, (833) 950-0062 for Canadian callers, and (929) 526-1599 for callers from other countries. For all dial-in numbers please use the following access code: 016518.
The company will also host a Tim Hortons Canada Investor Day on Tuesday, May 3, 2022, starting at 11:00 a.m. Eastern Time. The event will provide investors an opportunity to hear the Tim Hortons Canada leadership team discuss the brand's business strategy and growth in detail. A live webcast of the investor day will be available on the company's investor relations website and will be available for 30 days following the event.
About Restaurant Brands International Inc.
Restaurant Brands International Inc. ("RBI") is one of the world's largest quick service restaurant companies with approximately $35 billion in annual system-wide sales and over 29,000 restaurants in more than 100 countries. RBI owns four of the world's most prominent and iconic quick service restaurant brands – TIM HORTONS®, BURGER KING®, POPEYES®, and FIREHOUSE SUBS®. These independently operated brands have been serving their respective guests, franchisees and communities for decades. Through its Restaurant Brands for Good framework, RBI is improving sustainable outcomes related to its food, the planet, and people and communities. To learn more about RBI, please visit the company's website at www.rbi.com.
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Discussions over taxes — specifically the state income tax — dominated this legislative session. Almost unnoticed, however, were a handful of bills seeking to raise local sales taxes for tourism purposes.
Among those was House Bill 1747, a local option sales tax bill for the city of Clinton that Speaker Philip Gunn championed for his hometown. We brought the bill to light because Senate Local and Private Chairman Chad McMahan, R-Guntown, was holding up the bill in committee. The reason: Gunn and House leaders last year killed a local option sales tax bill for Lee County that McMahan championed. At that time, Gunn’s income tax elimination bill included sales tax increases that would offset the loss in revenues, and Gunn didn’t want any local and private bills that increased sales taxes any further.
Of course, McMahan’s bill also did not have the support of Lee County’s House delegation. The unwritten, general rule is that no local and private tax bill will pass without support of the local delegation.
All of that sound over-complicated by politics? It is. Furthermore, it is unnecessary. The Legislature should give more control to local governments and voters by adopting a local option sales tax program that removes the legislative barrier, at least from the front-end.
Mississippi is one of about 10 states that does not have a true local option sales tax program. Five of those states don’t even have sales taxes, which leaves Mississippi in an even smaller minority.
Under current state law, the Legislature has to first approve any local option sales tax. If that happens, the local governing body seeking the tax can put it on the ballot for the local voters to decide. Only if 60% of voters approve the tax would it go into effect.
That the Legislature has to approve the ability for a local government and its citizens to decide a local taxing issue is an outdated model. It is simply the legislative leaders in Jackson wanting to control all taxing authority while paying nothing more than lip-service to the idea of home rule, which so many of them claim to back.
For many years the Mississippi Municipal League fought for a new program. They got nowhere. So what we have now is a patchwork of special local taxes passed under the heading of tourism (like the one to be considered in Clinton). But they are limited in scope, usually affecting only restaurants, hotels and similar hospitality-related businesses.
Lawmakers should make changing this system a priority next year. They have plenty of time to study the issue between now and then, and not that much study is needed. Good programs exist, and even old MML proposals are still relevant.
In fact, what lawmakers do now for tourism taxes could be easily expanded. A good local option sales tax program will require 60% approval of voters and should be for only a limited time, with another vote required for renewal of the program.
Likewise, such a program would require the uses for the taxes to be clearly defined, just like with a bond issue vote. It should not be simply a way to create additional revenue for general operating costs.
Tupelo is a perfect example of how this model can work and how successful it can be. The Major Thoroughfare Program was first adopted in 1991, when voters approved a quarter percent addition to the local sales tax. The funds generated go to a specific account designated for road infrastructure projects. The program is overseen by a committee that studies various projects and makes recommendations to the city council. The program has been so successful that voters have renewed it six times since it was adopted more than 30 years ago.
Other cities and counties should have the same ability. But it can only happen if the Legislature will get out of the way and allow local elected officials and citizens to make their own decisions about taxes and how to spend them.
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NEW YORK, April 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Gross Law Firm issues the following notice to shareholders of Acutus Medical, Inc..
Shareholders who purchased shares of AFIB during the class period listed are encouraged to contact the firm regarding possible lead plaintiff appointment. Appointment as lead plaintiff is not required to partake in any recovery.
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CLASS PERIOD: This lawsuit is on behalf of all purchasers of Acutus common stock between May 13, 2021 and November 11, 2021, inclusive.
ALLEGATIONS: The complaint alleges that during the class period, Defendants issued materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (a) a material percentage of the Company's AcQMap imaging and mapping systems under evaluation had been randomly installed at sites with little, if any, consideration given to whether the healthcare providers at the selected locations were likely to adopt, or desire, the Company's products; (b) a material percentage of the AcQMap systems under evaluation had been installed in locations where the Company did not possess the infrastructure necessary to appropriately educate, train, and support medical service providers on the system's operations; (c) as a result of (a) and (b) above, defendants were in the process of designing a strategic plan to terminate and relocate approximately 20% of then-existing AcQMap systems evaluation arrangements; (d) the Company's management discussion and analysis was materially false and misleading and failed to disclose that the termination and relocation of approximately 20% of existing AcQMap systems evaluation arrangements was reasonably likely to have a material adverse effect on the Company's 2021 financial results; and (e) the Company's risk factor discussions were materially false and misleading and made reference to potential risks without disclosing that such risks were then-existing or adequately describing the specific nature of the risks then facing the Company.
DEADLINE: April 18, 2022 Shareholders should not delay in registering for this class action. Register your information here: https://securitiesclasslaw.com/securities/acutus-medical-inc-loss-submission-form/?id=25555&from=4
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Editor’s note: With Vietnam Veterans Recognition Day celebrated late last month, and me being a Vietnam War veteran, this recollection column seemed timely.
Also, this column seems appropriate in light of seeing the televised faces of countless homeless and distraught children who are innocent victims of the fighting in the Ukraine.
Children have always been victims of war. I guess in some ways, this column is as current as the Ukraine fighting, and as old as man’s first conflict after Adam and Eve left the Garden of Eden.
Slogan on the back of one of my most meaningful T-shirts: “Before ill of me you speak, remember who kept the monsters from the weak…”
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I remember Tam Ky as a ramshackle little coastal village squatting on the sandy plains and rice paddies that meet the South China Sea along the northern coast of South Viet Nam.
Thatched straw huts and rude buildings, mostly built with lumber from American ammunition crates, crowded the rutted dirt roads that ran through the town. Depending on the season, those structures and their several hundred inhabitants either baked in 115-plus degree heat or shivered under the cold hammering gale-driven horizontal rains of the winter monsoons.
The little dirt-floor stores offered live chickens, rice, fish, hogs, and crabs -- all basic staples of the nation's diet. And in Tam Ky, as in countless other towns throughout the country, the stacks of American-made blankets, ponchos, liners, quilts, and other field gear were evidence of the booming black market business that was a national pasttime.
Until late in my 1969-1970 taxpayer-financed 13-month tour of South Vietnam, Tam Ky held no importance to me other than its tactical significance, likely as an aiming point for the bad guys’ mortars and rockets.
It was simply another small town that would be clogged with little people riding bicycles, Hondas, pedal carts or walking during the day, and abandoned when our patrols came in from the surrounding fields at night.
I went into a school — made of bamboo with a palm leaf roof— near the town one baking afternoon with several other Marines from the Civil Affairs section; for once on a mission of peace.
During the war years life for children was very hard. Houses and schools were bombed and destroyed.
Many children became homeless and their schools had to be moved around or lessons had to take place after dark to avoid being targeted by the VC or NVA.
What with the lethal, determined VC (Viet Cong) or NVA (North Vietnamese Army) killing teachers before their students’ eyes, and laying their bloody, shattered bodies alongside the road before dawn, the term “devoted teacher” took on a whole new meaning..
We financed a year of education to a skinny 10 year old girl with waist length jet black hair. Her black eyes had seen the war first-hand when the Viet Cong came in out of the night and killed her father several years before.
The funds several Marines from my unit and I donated went to buy books, clothes and pay for a teacher to teach the little girl along with several other youngsters.
I will forever remember the look in the little girl's face, and her teacher’s face, as the unit translator told them that if they could manage to stay alive another year, the girl would be educated during it.
We set numerous ambushes to protect the youngsters and their teacher during the next few months, trading the deafening racket of close-in exploding grenades and heavy automatic weapons fire for the lives of the children and their teacher.
The attacks ended when the mangled bodies laid out on the road became VC and NVA, not teachers.
I rotated out of country shortly after that, so quickly that I never saw the little girl or her teacher one final time.
But I heard through the battalion S-2 (intelligence) they had survived, thanks in large part to our efforts.
There are a lot of things I wish I could forget about that war and can’t. Among the few memories I’m thankful to recall are the hug the little girl and her teacher gave me the last time I saw them, and the fact they had survived to face another year.
Several years after I rotated out of country, I read a four paragraph filler article on an inside page of the Raleigh (N. C.) News and Observer saying that the little village of Tam Ky had been overrun by the Viet Cong one night in hand-to-hand fighting.
I hope some day, in this world or another, to meet that little girl and her teacher again, and learn the rest of their story…
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The Pontotoc County Supervisors voted last Thursday, March 31, to opt out of allowing Medical Marijuana to be sold, distributed or cultivated in Pontotoc County.
The board unanimously voted not to sell medical marijuana and the other options- cultivating and distributing the board voted 3-2, with Dan McKnight and Ernie Wright voting to remain in while Brad Ward, Mike McGregor and Wayne Stokes voted to opt out.
The board heard 10 people speak on the matter at the public forum that was held after opening of bids Thursday, March 31. Patrick Montgomery, Jason Jones, David Tranberg, Elise Richmond, Wanda Rutledge, T.J. Clayton, Edward Moorman, Mitchell Burk, Pete Gregory and Dickie Austin were the citizens who spoke to a room of some 30 people that came to the public forum in the chancery courtroom.
Patrick Montgomery told the supervisors he has had many health problems and found that medical marijuana was the only thing that helped him, “It took the place of all the other medications that I was taking. I’ve worked with cannabis in Colorado. This brought in revenue and created industries that did not exist out there. I’ve seen it make people functional again.
Jason Jones, who is co-owner of Southern Harvest in Pontotoc said that the board should consider the will of the people. “Seventy-four percent of the residents of Mississippi voted for this, and you as or elected officials were voted in by the residents.
“I know you are concerned about cannabis,” he noted. “But each and every plant is regulated. The person who gets it must meet with their doctor then go the department of Health for a card and then you can only get a limited amount of it.”
[Editor’s note: In Pontotoc compared to the number of registered voters there are in the county, only thirty-three percent of the voters approved the measure, with 6,792 voting for it and 5,906 voting against it.]
David Tranberg said he doesn’t know anything about medical marijuana, his basic concern was the growing of the plant and how it will affect the citizens. “The greenhouses are lit up all night long. The smell is overpowering. You have odor coming from it whether you like it or not. Please consider these things. I’d encourage you to opt out.”
Elise Richmond, who is president of the Republican Women’s Club said staying in would be detrimental to the community. “I moved her four years ago from California and I saw what it did to my town after it was legalized. Crime went up. Control was lax. People were driving stoned. Please consider the children and grandchildren,” she said.
Wanda Rutledge asked to the board to consider the long term effect staying in would have on the community. “Don’t vote in something that would be bad for us just because of the money it would generate,” she said.
T.J. Clayton said he carried his wife to have chemo treatments and if there was something that would have relieved her pain he would have wanted her to have it. “My dad pushed for it because his arthritis, is so bad. This is for medical reasons.”
Ed Moorman said his wife had MS [multiple sclerosis] for 25 years. “I carried her once month for an infusion. If we could have gotten a prescription for marijuana it would have received her nausea, pain and anxiety. This will be regulated and it will be tax money this county will lose out on.”
Mitchell Burk said he is for it because he wants to build a green house. “The green house that I want to build is state of the art. I live in a rural area. I don’t think the smell will make any difference. The people is what you have to worry about; you know the guy who gives his card to somebody else.”
Bro. Pete Gregory expressed a concern for the children. “I can’t see voting for this. There’s been only one mention about our kids. We’ve got a lot of kids in this county. And it seems like you are not thinking about our kids and grandkids. I’d appreciate if you would vote it out.”
Bailbond businessman Dickie Austin said he didn’t think it was a hard decision for the supervisors to make. “What about the kids that have epilepsy and don’t have a quality of life. This is a plant and it is not going to be abused.
“I hope you feel guilty about the kids that have to move to another state to get help. I hope you consider these kids.
“This is not going to keep people from abusing it. I’m sorry we have a drug problem; but the majority have spoken.”
After hearing all the speakers the supervisors returned to their board room and discussed the matter. Board president Brad Ward spoke first. “Whatever we do we are going to do what we think is best for our county,” he said. “I’ve done a lot of looking into it. I believe we should opt out. We aren’t going to make any money out of the growing of it. And the county won’t make any tax revenues from the sell of it, that will go to the municipalities.”
First district supervisor Wayne Stokes said he saw too many loopholes. “Say somebody grew 1,000 pounds and we only needed 500 for our medical marijuana use. I asked what would be done with the other 500 and was told that they would be burned by the state. But I see too many loopholes around that.”
Second district supervisor Mike McGregor said he believed the board should opt out of all of it as well.
Fourth district supervisor Ernie Wright and fifth district supervisor Dan McKnight both contended that they didn’t have a problem with the marijuana being grown or distributed in the county, just not sold in the county.
Since the county has voted to opt out of the program, the general public can bring petitions to force it to a vote by the citizens to override their decision.
The next meeting of the board of supervisors will be Thursday, April 14, 10 a.m. in the board room because the county offices will be closed Friday, April 15.
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NEW YORK, April 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Gross Law Firm issues the following notice to shareholders of Affirm Holdings, Inc..
Shareholders who purchased shares of AFRM during the class period listed are encouraged to contact the firm regarding possible lead plaintiff appointment. Appointment as lead plaintiff is not required to partake in any recovery.
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CLASS PERIOD: This lawsuit is on behalf of all investors who purchased or otherwise acquired Affirm Holdings, Inc. securities on February 10, 2022 after the Company sent a Tweet concerning its Second Quarter 2022 financial results at approximately 1:15 p.m. EST.
ALLEGATIONS: (i) Affirm's "buy now, pay-later" service facilitated excessive consumer debt, regulatory arbitrage, and data harvesting; (ii) the foregoing subjected Affirm to a heightened risk of regulatory scrutiny and enforcement action; (iii) Affirm maintained inadequate disclosure controls and procedures and internal control over financial reporting; (iv) accordingly, Affirm's tweet for its second quarter 2022 financial results contained selected metrics that made it appear that the Company had performed better than it actually did; and (v) as a result, the Company's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.
DEADLINE: April 29, 2022 Shareholders should not delay in registering for this class action. Register your information here: https://securitiesclasslaw.com/securities/affirm-holdings-inc-loss-submission-form/?id=25562&from=4
NEXT STEPS FOR SHAREHOLDERS: Once you register as a shareholder who purchased shares of AFRM during the timeframe listed above, you will be enrolled in a portfolio monitoring software to provide you with status updates throughout the lifecycle of the case. The deadline to seek to be a lead plaintiff is April 29, 2022. There is no cost or obligation to you to participate in this case.
WHY GROSS LAW FIRM? The Gross Law Firm is nationally recognized class action law firm, and our mission is to protect the rights of all investors who have suffered as a result of deceit, fraud, and illegal business practices. The Gross Law Firm is committed to ensuring that companies adhere to responsible business practices and engage in good corporate citizenship. The firm seeks recovery on behalf of investors who incurred losses when false and/or misleading statements or the omission of material information by a company lead to artificial inflation of the company's stock. Attorney advertising. Prior results do not guarantee similar outcomes.
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This past week, I met with Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson in my office to discuss her nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court. I entered that meeting with serious concerns about her record and judicial philosophy, having voted against her appointment to a federal appeals court just last year. Our meeting was cordial, and I appreciated hearing about her professional journey and her family. Yet she did not alleviate my concerns that she has a far-left judicial philosophy and would legislate from the bench. I will be voting “no” on her confirmation.
Jackson Would Not Disavow Court Packing
President Biden has pledged to appoint activist judges, and Judge Jackson has given us no reason to doubt she is that kind of judge. Throughout the Senate confirmation process, she has refused to answer basic questions about her record and her approach to the law. At one point, she indicated that she would restrict religious freedom when it comes to same-sex marriage. She was also totally unable to define what a “woman” is, a sign that she is likeminded with the far left on issues involving the transgender movement.
Significantly, she would not reject the idea of court packing. Left-wing groups have been pushing Congress and President Biden to add seats to the Supreme Court to guarantee favorable rulings, even though liberal Justices Stephen Breyer and the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg have openly opposed the idea. When asked directly about court packing, Judge Jackson dodged the question entirely. This was troubling, but not surprising, given that she was the top choice of extreme left groups who are pushing to rig the courts.
Jackson’s Record Is Too Thin
Judge Jackson has an unusually thin judicial record for someone being appointed to our nation’s highest court. In her brief time as an appellate judge, she has authored only two opinions, providing almost no insight into her thinking. By comparison, President Trump’s first two Supreme Court nominees had authored more than 200 opinions each during their time as appellate judges. Making matters worse, much of Jackson’s record from her time as Vice Chair of the U.S. Sentencing Commission is sealed and has not been disclosed to Congress. Senate Democrats have long acknowledged the importance of examining a nominee’s record, yet this nominee’s paper trail is largely hidden. Americans should not be left guessing as to how Judge Jackson will do her job as a lifetime member of our highest court.
A Pattern of Judicial Overreach
Brief as it is, Judge Jackson’s record raises serious red flags. It is telling that some of her most significant rulings have been reversed by the D.C. Circuit Court, hardly a bastion of conservatism. In one instance, Judge Jackson ruled that House Democrats could force President Trump’s chief counsel to testify before congressional investigators. That ruling was promptly overturned. She also blocked the Department of Homeland Security from expanding deportation efforts, a ruling that was dismissed out of hand. Additionally, she struck down parts of President Trump’s executive orders aimed at making it easier to fire poorly performing federal employees. When she was unanimously overruled, the appeals court said she had “no power” to wade into the matter. These cases indicate that Judge Jackson does not appreciate the limits of her role as a judge.
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NEW YORK, April 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Gross Law Firm issues the following notice to shareholders of Akebia Therapeutics, Inc..
Shareholders who purchased shares of AKBA during the class period listed are encouraged to contact the firm regarding possible lead plaintiff appointment. Appointment as lead plaintiff is not required to partake in any recovery.
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CLASS PERIOD: June 28, 2018 to September 2, 2020
ALLEGATIONS: The complaint alleges that during the class period, Defendants issued materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (i) the Company's lead investigational product candidate, vadadustat, was not as safe in treating non-dialysis dependent chronic kidney disease patients with anemia as defendants had represented; (ii) as a result, defendants overstated the clinical prospects of a Phase 3 clinical program for vadadustat; (iii) accordingly, defendants also overstated vadadustat's overall commercial and regulatory prospects; and (iv) as a result, the Company's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.
DEADLINE: May 13, 2022 Shareholders should not delay in registering for this class action. Register your information here: https://securitiesclasslaw.com/securities/akebia-therapeutics-inc-loss-submission-form/?id=25568&from=4
NEXT STEPS FOR SHAREHOLDERS: Once you register as a shareholder who purchased shares of AKBA during the timeframe listed above, you will be enrolled in a portfolio monitoring software to provide you with status updates throughout the lifecycle of the case. The deadline to seek to be a lead plaintiff is May 13, 2022. There is no cost or obligation to you to participate in this case.
WHY GROSS LAW FIRM? The Gross Law Firm is nationally recognized class action law firm, and our mission is to protect the rights of all investors who have suffered as a result of deceit, fraud, and illegal business practices. The Gross Law Firm is committed to ensuring that companies adhere to responsible business practices and engage in good corporate citizenship. The firm seeks recovery on behalf of investors who incurred losses when false and/or misleading statements or the omission of material information by a company lead to artificial inflation of the company's stock. Attorney advertising. Prior results do not guarantee similar outcomes.
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Dr. Sandy Childs-Jones was the first doctoral graduate to receive the Mississippi Association of Colleges of Teacher Education’s (MACTE) Award for Belhaven University.
Dr. Childs-Jones was also a finalist for The McLean Distinguished Paper Award at the Mississippi Educational Research Association (MSERA) Conference in New Orleans, LA.
Her dissertation entitled “White Teachers in Predominately Black Schools in Mississippi: The Relationship Between Teachers’ Level of Cultural Connectivity and Mississippi Department of Education’s Accountability Ratings” found statistical significance in several of the variables tested.
Dr. Childs-Jones’ research has implications both statewide and nationally. Dr. Childs-Jones created her own instrument to measure the levels of Cultural Connectivity in teachers: Teacher’s Level of Cultural Connectivity Questionnaire (TLCCQ Instrument) that was based on the research of Gloria Ladson-Billings who coined the term “culturally responsive teaching.”
Dr. Childs-Jones has been with the Benton County School District for the past 11 years. She served as Principal of Ashland High School during the 2021-2022 school year.
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NEW YORK, April 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Gross Law Firm issues the following notice to shareholders of Astra Space Inc. f/k/a Holicity Inc..
Shareholders who purchased shares of ASTR during the class period listed are encouraged to contact the firm regarding possible lead plaintiff appointment. Appointment as lead plaintiff is not required to partake in any recovery.
CONTACT US HERE:
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CLASS PERIOD: February 2, 2021 to December 29, 2021
ALLEGATIONS: The complaint alleges that during the class period, Defendants issued materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) Astra cannot launch "anywhere"; (2) Astra significantly overstated its addressable market; (3) Astra overstated the effectiveness of its designs and reliability; (4) Astra significantly overstated its plans for diversification and its broadband constellation plan; and (5) as a result, Defendants' public statements were materially false and/or misleading at all relevant times.
DEADLINE: April 11, 2022 Shareholders should not delay in registering for this class action. Register your information here: https://securitiesclasslaw.com/securities/astra-space-inc-f-k-a-holicity-inc-loss-submission-form/?id=25553&from=4
NEXT STEPS FOR SHAREHOLDERS: Once you register as a shareholder who purchased shares of ASTR during the timeframe listed above, you will be enrolled in a portfolio monitoring software to provide you with status updates throughout the lifecycle of the case. The deadline to seek to be a lead plaintiff is April 11, 2022. There is no cost or obligation to you to participate in this case.
WHY GROSS LAW FIRM? The Gross Law Firm is nationally recognized class action law firm, and our mission is to protect the rights of all investors who have suffered as a result of deceit, fraud, and illegal business practices. The Gross Law Firm is committed to ensuring that companies adhere to responsible business practices and engage in good corporate citizenship. The firm seeks recovery on behalf of investors who incurred losses when false and/or misleading statements or the omission of material information by a company lead to artificial inflation of the company's stock. Attorney advertising. Prior results do not guarantee similar outcomes.
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Northeast Mississippi Community College's Division of Workforce and Economic Development is offering area workers a chance to get a leg up on the competition with its 52-hour Production Technician course.
Northeast's Production Technician course is designed to prepare workers for a high-demand, entry-level production position by recognizing those workers who show a proficiency in core competencies of advanced manufacturing.
Classes are available in Booneville, Corinth, New Albany and Ripley and designed to fit the needs of any individual.
Booneville's course will meet Monday through Thursday in Holiday Hall from 3:30 p.m. until 4:30 p.m. beginning on April 4 and culminating on June 20 with Anthony Hardin as the instructor.
Corinth is offering a pair of courses with Brent Johnson teaching a course from 6 p.m. until 8 p.m. beginning on April 5 through June 21 on Tuesday and Thursday nights inside the Workforce Lab at the Northeast at Corinth campus.
Tyler Whitehead will manage the late afternoon/early evening course with a four-day a week class inside the Workforce Lab at the Northeast at Corinth campus from April 13 until June 30 from 3 p.m. until 4 p.m.
Northeast's New Albany campus will be a buzz with activity as it will host five courses of Production Technician certifications throughout the late spring.
Chad Nolan will oversee three courses while Kyle Carpenter will teach two of the courses.
Nolan will teach Production Technician courses on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday at the college's Union County campus. Monday's courses will run from March 21 until June 27; Tuesday courses will go from March 22 until June 28 while the Wednesday courses will start on March 23 and end on June 29.
Carpenter's two courses in New Albany will see a Tuesday and Wednesday class run throughout May and a Wednesday and Thursday course take place in June.
May's course will meet on Tuesday and Wednesdays from 8 a.m. until 1 p.m. while the June course will start on June 1 and culminate on June 29. Class times for the June course are 8 a.m. until 1 p.m.
Chris Colucci will teach two Production Technician courses in Ripley on Monday and Tuesdays at the Northeast at Ripley campus. Monday's course will start on March 21 and end on June 27 while Tuesday classes start on March 22 and end June 28. Both classes in Ripley will run from 3 p.m. until 6 p.m.
Northeast's Workforce Production Technician program is a 52-hour course designed with input from local industries that includes training and hands-on application of skills, that is preferred by industry leaders.
Students in the Northeast Production Technician course will receive knowledge and understanding in the application of safety as it concerns a job site or workplace, workplace effectiveness, production documentation, precision measurements and high-performance manufacturing principles such as lean, 5S, value stream, quality tools, Statistical Process Controls, quality management systems and operating systems.
Those that finish the Production Technician program will receive credentials and a Northeast Mississippi Community College Workforce Production Technician certificate.
Students who complete the Production Technician program and receive Workforce certification will be able to apply for a "Z credit" in Manufacturing Skills Basic - IMM 1933, that will count as a technical elective for many of the career and technical education programs at Northeast.
Thanks to funding partners and sponsors, those wishing to enroll in the Production Technician program, can obtain their certification at no cost to the student. For those wanting to add the certification to their official college transcript, a small fee will be incurred.
To get started in Northeast's Production Technician program or to learn about any of the other offers by the college's Division of Workforce and Economic Development, visit http://www.nemcc.edu/workforce/courses.
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NEW YORK, April 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Gross Law Firm issues the following notice to shareholders of Butterfly Network, Inc. f/k/a Longview Acquisition Corp..
Shareholders who purchased shares of BFLY during the class period listed are encouraged to contact the firm regarding possible lead plaintiff appointment. Appointment as lead plaintiff is not required to partake in any recovery.
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CLASS PERIOD: This lawsuit is one behalf of: (a) all persons or entities that purchased or otherwise acquired Butterfly securities between February 16, 2021 and November 15, 2021, both dates inclusive and/or (b) all holders of Butterfly common stock as of the record date for the special meeting of shareholders held on February 12, 2021 to consider approval of the merger between Longview Acquisition Corp. and Butterfly.
ALLEGATIONS: The complaint alleges that during the class period, Defendants issued materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (i) Butterfly had overstated its post-merger business and financial prospects; (ii) notwithstanding the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, Butterfly's financial projections failed to take into account the pandemic's broad consequences, which included healthcare logistical challenges, and medical personnel fatigue; (iii) accordingly, Butterfly's gross margin levels and revenue projections were less sustainable than the Company had represented; (iv) all the foregoing was reasonably likely to have a material negative impact on Butterfly's business and financial condition; and (v) as a result, the Company's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.
DEADLINE: April 18, 2022 Shareholders should not delay in registering for this class action. Register your information here: https://securitiesclasslaw.com/securities/butterfly-network-inc-f-k-a-longview-acquisition-corp-loss-submission-form/?id=25556&from=4
NEXT STEPS FOR SHAREHOLDERS: Once you register as a shareholder who purchased shares of BFLY during the timeframe listed above, you will be enrolled in a portfolio monitoring software to provide you with status updates throughout the lifecycle of the case. The deadline to seek to be a lead plaintiff is April 18, 2022. There is no cost or obligation to you to participate in this case.
WHY GROSS LAW FIRM? The Gross Law Firm is nationally recognized class action law firm, and our mission is to protect the rights of all investors who have suffered as a result of deceit, fraud, and illegal business practices. The Gross Law Firm is committed to ensuring that companies adhere to responsible business practices and engage in good corporate citizenship. The firm seeks recovery on behalf of investors who incurred losses when false and/or misleading statements or the omission of material information by a company lead to artificial inflation of the company's stock. Attorney advertising. Prior results do not guarantee similar outcomes.
CONTACT:
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Beth's Bungalow on Ripley's Historic Town Square is growing and expanding.
Owner Beth Benson not only runs the boutique, but also hosts birthday parties, showers, club meetings, and get-togethers there.
Benson has started a podcast, Every Day’s an Event — a part of the Mississippi Hillscast Podcast. The podcast is about ways to celebrate the big & small events of everyday life.
Now, Beth’s Bungalow is expanding the Bungalow's party lines at the store to include wedding invitations, wedding decorations, backdrops, event rentals, and flower arrangements.
"Our first step is to offer balloon arches for upcoming events," Benson said. "Not only will we offer these event add-ons for parties at the store, but we will travel to you!"
Suzanne Rolison is a balloon decorator and party planner, and is working with the creative team at the Bungalow on designing balloon arches and centerpieces for parties. Prices will range from $50 to $150 for balloon arches. More offerings for parties and events will be made in the coming weeks on Beth's Bungalow's Facebook page and website, https://www.bethsbungalow.com.
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NEW YORK, April 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Gross Law Firm issues the following notice to shareholders of C3.ai, Inc..
Shareholders who purchased shares of AI during the class period listed are encouraged to contact the firm regarding possible lead plaintiff appointment. Appointment as lead plaintiff is not required to partake in any recovery.
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CLASS PERIOD: This lawsuit is on behalf of a class consisting of all persons and entities other than Defendants that purchased or otherwise acquired: (a) C3.ai Class A common stock pursuant and/or traceable to the documents issued in connection with the Company's initial public offering conducted on or about December 9, 2020; and/or (b) C3.ai securities between December 9, 2020 and February 15, 2022, both dates inclusive.
ALLEGATIONS: The complaint alleges that during the class period, Defendants issued materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (i) C3.ai's partnership with Baker Hughes was deteriorating; (ii) C3.ai was employing a flawed accounting methodology to conceal the deterioration of its Baker Hughes partnership; (iii) C3.ai faced challenges in product adoption and significant salesforce turnover; (iv) the Company overstated, inter alia, the extent of its investment in technology, description of its customers, its total addressable market, the pace of its market growth, and the scale of alliances with its major business partners; and (v) as a result, the Company's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.
DEADLINE: May 3, 2022 Shareholders should not delay in registering for this class action. Register your information here: https://securitiesclasslaw.com/securities/c3-ai-inc-loss-submission-form/?id=25565&from=4
NEXT STEPS FOR SHAREHOLDERS: Once you register as a shareholder who purchased shares of AI during the timeframe listed above, you will be enrolled in a portfolio monitoring software to provide you with status updates throughout the lifecycle of the case. The deadline to seek to be a lead plaintiff is May 3, 2022. There is no cost or obligation to you to participate in this case.
WHY GROSS LAW FIRM? The Gross Law Firm is nationally recognized class action law firm, and our mission is to protect the rights of all investors who have suffered as a result of deceit, fraud, and illegal business practices. The Gross Law Firm is committed to ensuring that companies adhere to responsible business practices and engage in good corporate citizenship. The firm seeks recovery on behalf of investors who incurred losses when false and/or misleading statements or the omission of material information by a company lead to artificial inflation of the company's stock. Attorney advertising. Prior results do not guarantee similar outcomes.
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NEW YORK, April 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Gross Law Firm issues the following notice to shareholders of Cabaletta Bio, Inc..
Shareholders who purchased shares of CABA during the class period listed are encouraged to contact the firm regarding possible lead plaintiff appointment. Appointment as lead plaintiff is not required to partake in any recovery.
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CLASS PERIOD: This lawsuit is on behalf of persons and entities that purchased or otherwise acquired: (a) Cabaletta common stock pursuant and/or traceable to documents issued in connection with the Company's initial public offering conducted on or about October 24, 2019; and/or (b) Cabaletta securities between October 24, 2019 and December 13, 2021, both dates inclusive.
ALLEGATIONS: The complaint alleges that during the class period, Defendants issued materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (i) top-line data of the Phase 1 Clinical Trial indicated that Cabaletta's lead product candidate, DSG3-CAART, had, among other things, worsened certain participants' disease activity scores and necessitated additional systemic medication to improve disease activity after DSG3-CAART infusion; (ii) accordingly, DSG3-CAART was not as effective as the Company had represented to investors; (iii) therefore, the Company had overstated DSG3-CAART's clinical and/or commercial prospects; and (iv) as a result, the Company's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.
DEADLINE: April 29, 2022 Shareholders should not delay in registering for this class action. Register your information here: https://securitiesclasslaw.com/securities/cabaletta-bio-inc-loss-submission-form/?id=25563&from=4
NEXT STEPS FOR SHAREHOLDERS: Once you register as a shareholder who purchased shares of CABA during the timeframe listed above, you will be enrolled in a portfolio monitoring software to provide you with status updates throughout the lifecycle of the case. The deadline to seek to be a lead plaintiff is April 29, 2022. There is no cost or obligation to you to participate in this case.
WHY GROSS LAW FIRM? The Gross Law Firm is nationally recognized class action law firm, and our mission is to protect the rights of all investors who have suffered as a result of deceit, fraud, and illegal business practices. The Gross Law Firm is committed to ensuring that companies adhere to responsible business practices and engage in good corporate citizenship. The firm seeks recovery on behalf of investors who incurred losses when false and/or misleading statements or the omission of material information by a company lead to artificial inflation of the company's stock. Attorney advertising. Prior results do not guarantee similar outcomes.
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NEW YORK, April 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Gross Law Firm issues the following notice to shareholders of Celsius Holdings, Inc..
Shareholders who purchased shares of CELH during the class period listed are encouraged to contact the firm regarding possible lead plaintiff appointment. Appointment as lead plaintiff is not required to partake in any recovery.
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CLASS PERIOD: August 12, 2021 to March 1, 2022
ALLEGATIONS: The complaint alleges that during the class period, Defendants issued materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) the Company had improperly recorded expenses for non-cash share-based compensation for second and third quarters of 2021; (2) as a result, the Company's financial statements for those periods would be restated, including to report a net loss for the third quarter of 2021; (3) there was a material weakness in Celsius's internal controls over financial reporting; and (4) as a result of the foregoing, defendants' positive statements about the Company's business, operations, and prospects were materially misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis.
DEADLINE: May 16, 2022 Shareholders should not delay in registering for this class action. Register your information here: https://securitiesclasslaw.com/securities/celsius-holdings-inc-loss-submission-form/?id=25569&from=4
NEXT STEPS FOR SHAREHOLDERS: Once you register as a shareholder who purchased shares of CELH during the timeframe listed above, you will be enrolled in a portfolio monitoring software to provide you with status updates throughout the lifecycle of the case. The deadline to seek to be a lead plaintiff is May 16, 2022. There is no cost or obligation to you to participate in this case.
WHY GROSS LAW FIRM? The Gross Law Firm is nationally recognized class action law firm, and our mission is to protect the rights of all investors who have suffered as a result of deceit, fraud, and illegal business practices. The Gross Law Firm is committed to ensuring that companies adhere to responsible business practices and engage in good corporate citizenship. The firm seeks recovery on behalf of investors who incurred losses when false and/or misleading statements or the omission of material information by a company lead to artificial inflation of the company's stock. Attorney advertising. Prior results do not guarantee similar outcomes.
CONTACT:
The Gross Law Firm
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Phone: (646) 453-8903
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NEW YORK, April 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Gross Law Firm issues the following notice to shareholders of Cerence Inc..
Shareholders who purchased shares of CRNC during the class period listed are encouraged to contact the firm regarding possible lead plaintiff appointment. Appointment as lead plaintiff is not required to partake in any recovery.
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CLASS PERIOD: February 8, 2021 to February 4, 2022
ALLEGATIONS: The complaint alleges that during the class period, Defendants issued materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) the global semiconductor shortage had a materially negative impact on demand for Cerence's software licenses; (2) defendants masked the impact of the semiconductor shortage on demand for the Company's software licenses by pulling forward sales; and (3) as a result of the above, defendants' statements about Cerence's business, operations, and prospects were false and misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis.
DEADLINE: April 26, 2022 Shareholders should not delay in registering for this class action. Register your information here: https://securitiesclasslaw.com/securities/cerence-inc-loss-submission-form/?id=25561&from=4
NEXT STEPS FOR SHAREHOLDERS: Once you register as a shareholder who purchased shares of CRNC during the timeframe listed above, you will be enrolled in a portfolio monitoring software to provide you with status updates throughout the lifecycle of the case. The deadline to seek to be a lead plaintiff is April 26, 2022. There is no cost or obligation to you to participate in this case.
WHY GROSS LAW FIRM? The Gross Law Firm is nationally recognized class action law firm, and our mission is to protect the rights of all investors who have suffered as a result of deceit, fraud, and illegal business practices. The Gross Law Firm is committed to ensuring that companies adhere to responsible business practices and engage in good corporate citizenship. The firm seeks recovery on behalf of investors who incurred losses when false and/or misleading statements or the omission of material information by a company lead to artificial inflation of the company's stock. Attorney advertising. Prior results do not guarantee similar outcomes.
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NEW YORK, April 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Gross Law Firm issues the following notice to shareholders of Fennec Pharmaceuticals Inc..
Shareholders who purchased shares of FENC during the class period listed are encouraged to contact the firm regarding possible lead plaintiff appointment. Appointment as lead plaintiff is not required to partake in any recovery.
CONTACT US HERE:
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CLASS PERIOD: May 28, 2021 to November 26, 2021
ALLEGATIONS: The complaint alleges that during the class period, Defendants issued materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (i) Fennec had not successfully remediated, and overstated its efforts to remediate, issues with the manufacturing facility of its drug product manufacturer for PEDMARK, a new compound developed to reduce the incidence of hearing loss in children undergoing chemotherapy; (ii) as a result, the Food and Drug Administration likely to approve the Resubmitted Pedmark New Drug Application ("NDA"); (iii) accordingly, the regulatory and commercial prospects of the Resubmitted Pedmark NDA were overstated; and (iv) as a result, the Company's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.
DEADLINE: April 11, 2022 Shareholders should not delay in registering for this class action. Register your information here: https://securitiesclasslaw.com/securities/fennec-pharmaceuticals-inc-loss-submission-form-2/?id=25554&from=4
NEXT STEPS FOR SHAREHOLDERS: Once you register as a shareholder who purchased shares of FENC during the timeframe listed above, you will be enrolled in a portfolio monitoring software to provide you with status updates throughout the lifecycle of the case. The deadline to seek to be a lead plaintiff is April 11, 2022. There is no cost or obligation to you to participate in this case.
WHY GROSS LAW FIRM? The Gross Law Firm is nationally recognized class action law firm, and our mission is to protect the rights of all investors who have suffered as a result of deceit, fraud, and illegal business practices. The Gross Law Firm is committed to ensuring that companies adhere to responsible business practices and engage in good corporate citizenship. The firm seeks recovery on behalf of investors who incurred losses when false and/or misleading statements or the omission of material information by a company lead to artificial inflation of the company's stock. Attorney advertising. Prior results do not guarantee similar outcomes.
CONTACT:
The Gross Law Firm
15 West 38th Street, 12th floor
New York, NY, 10018
Email: dg@securitiesclasslaw.com
Phone: (646) 453-8903
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NEW YORK, April 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Gross Law Firm issues the following notice to shareholders of Gatos Silver, Inc..
Shareholders who purchased shares of GATO during the class period listed are encouraged to contact the firm regarding possible lead plaintiff appointment. Appointment as lead plaintiff is not required to partake in any recovery.
CONTACT US HERE:
CLASS PERIOD: This lawsuit is on behalf of persons and entities that purchased or otherwise acquired Gatos: (a) common stock pursuant and/or traceable to documents issued in connection with the Company's initial public offering conducted on or about October 28, 2020; and/or (b) securities between October 28, 2020 and January 25, 2022, inclusive.
ALLEGATIONS: The complaint alleges that during the class period, Defendants issued materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) the technical report for Gatos's primary mine, the Cerro Los Gatos deposit, contained certain errors; (2) among other things, the mineral reserves had been overestimated by as much as 50%; and (3) as a result of the foregoing, Defendants' positive statements about the Company's business, operations, and prospects were materially misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis.
DEADLINE: April 25, 2022 Shareholders should not delay in registering for this class action. Register your information here: https://securitiesclasslaw.com/securities/gatos-silver-inc-loss-submission-form/?id=25558&from=4
NEXT STEPS FOR SHAREHOLDERS: Once you register as a shareholder who purchased shares of GATO during the timeframe listed above, you will be enrolled in a portfolio monitoring software to provide you with status updates throughout the lifecycle of the case. The deadline to seek to be a lead plaintiff is April 25, 2022. There is no cost or obligation to you to participate in this case.
WHY GROSS LAW FIRM? The Gross Law Firm is nationally recognized class action law firm, and our mission is to protect the rights of all investors who have suffered as a result of deceit, fraud, and illegal business practices. The Gross Law Firm is committed to ensuring that companies adhere to responsible business practices and engage in good corporate citizenship. The firm seeks recovery on behalf of investors who incurred losses when false and/or misleading statements or the omission of material information by a company lead to artificial inflation of the company's stock. Attorney advertising. Prior results do not guarantee similar outcomes.
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NEW YORK, April 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Gross Law Firm issues the following notice to shareholders of Grab Holdings Limited.
Shareholders who purchased shares of GRAB during the class period listed are encouraged to contact the firm regarding possible lead plaintiff appointment. Appointment as lead plaintiff is not required to partake in any recovery.
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CLASS PERIOD: November 12, 2021 to March 2, 2022
ALLEGATIONS: The complaint alleges that during the class period, Defendants issued materially 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, the Company'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 the Company's business, operations, and prospects were materially misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis.
DEADLINE: May 16, 2022 Shareholders should not delay in registering for this class action. Register your information here: https://securitiesclasslaw.com/securities/grab-holdings-limited-loss-submission-form/?id=25570&from=4
NEXT STEPS FOR SHAREHOLDERS: Once you register as a shareholder who purchased shares of GRAB during the timeframe listed above, you will be enrolled in a portfolio monitoring software to provide you with status updates throughout the lifecycle of the case. The deadline to seek to be a lead plaintiff is May 16, 2022. There is no cost or obligation to you to participate in this case.
WHY GROSS LAW FIRM? The Gross Law Firm is nationally recognized class action law firm, and our mission is to protect the rights of all investors who have suffered as a result of deceit, fraud, and illegal business practices. The Gross Law Firm is committed to ensuring that companies adhere to responsible business practices and engage in good corporate citizenship. The firm seeks recovery on behalf of investors who incurred losses when false and/or misleading statements or the omission of material information by a company lead to artificial inflation of the company's stock. Attorney advertising. Prior results do not guarantee similar outcomes.
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NEW YORK, April 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Gross Law Firm issues the following notice to shareholders of Homology Medicines, Inc..
Shareholders who purchased shares of FIXX during the class period listed are encouraged to contact the firm regarding possible lead plaintiff appointment. Appointment as lead plaintiff is not required to partake in any recovery.
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CLASS PERIOD: June 10, 2019 to February 18, 2022
ALLEGATIONS: The complaint alleges that during the class period, Defendants issued materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (i) the Company had overstated the efficacy and risk mitigation of its lead product candidate, HMI-102; (ii) accordingly, it was unlikely that the Company would be able to commercialize HMI102 in its present form; and (iii) as a result, the Company's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.
DEADLINE: May 24, 2022 Shareholders should not delay in registering for this class action. Register your information here: https://securitiesclasslaw.com/securities/homology-medicines-inc-loss-submission-form/?id=25572&from=4
NEXT STEPS FOR SHAREHOLDERS: Once you register as a shareholder who purchased shares of FIXX during the timeframe listed above, you will be enrolled in a portfolio monitoring software to provide you with status updates throughout the lifecycle of the case. The deadline to seek to be a lead plaintiff is May 24, 2022. There is no cost or obligation to you to participate in this case.
WHY GROSS LAW FIRM? The Gross Law Firm is nationally recognized class action law firm, and our mission is to protect the rights of all investors who have suffered as a result of deceit, fraud, and illegal business practices. The Gross Law Firm is committed to ensuring that companies adhere to responsible business practices and engage in good corporate citizenship. The firm seeks recovery on behalf of investors who incurred losses when false and/or misleading statements or the omission of material information by a company lead to artificial inflation of the company's stock. Attorney advertising. Prior results do not guarantee similar outcomes.
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NEW YORK, April 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Gross Law Firm issues the following notice to shareholders of Lucid Group, Inc..
Shareholders who purchased shares of LCID during the class period listed are encouraged to contact the firm regarding possible lead plaintiff appointment. Appointment as lead plaintiff is not required to partake in any recovery.
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CLASS PERIOD: This lawsuit is on behalf of a class of all persons and entities who purchased or otherwise acquired Lucid common stock between November 15, 2021, and February 28, 2022, inclusive.
ALLEGATIONS: The filed complaint alleges that defendants made materially false and/or misleading statements and failed to disclose material adverse facts about Lucid's business and operations. Specifically, the Company overstated its production capabilities while concealing that "extraordinary supply chain and logistics challenges" were hampering Lucid's operations. As a result of the defendants' wrongful acts and omissions, and the significant decline in the market value of Lucid's common stock, Lucid investors have suffered significant damages.
DEADLINE: May 31, 2022 Shareholders should not delay in registering for this class action. Register your information here: https://securitiesclasslaw.com/securities/lucid-group-inc-loss-submission-form/?id=25574&from=4
NEXT STEPS FOR SHAREHOLDERS: Once you register as a shareholder who purchased shares of LCID during the timeframe listed above, you will be enrolled in a portfolio monitoring software to provide you with status updates throughout the lifecycle of the case. The deadline to seek to be a lead plaintiff is May 31, 2022. There is no cost or obligation to you to participate in this case.
WHY GROSS LAW FIRM? The Gross Law Firm is nationally recognized class action law firm, and our mission is to protect the rights of all investors who have suffered as a result of deceit, fraud, and illegal business practices. The Gross Law Firm is committed to ensuring that companies adhere to responsible business practices and engage in good corporate citizenship. The firm seeks recovery on behalf of investors who incurred losses when false and/or misleading statements or the omission of material information by a company lead to artificial inflation of the company's stock. Attorney advertising. Prior results do not guarantee similar outcomes.
CONTACT:
The Gross Law Firm
15 West 38th Street, 12th floor
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NEW YORK, April 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Gross Law Firm issues the following notice to shareholders of Meta Platforms, Inc..
Shareholders who purchased shares of FB during the class period listed are encouraged to contact the firm regarding possible lead plaintiff appointment. Appointment as lead plaintiff is not required to partake in any recovery.
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CLASS PERIOD: March 2, 2021 to February 2, 2022
ALLEGATIONS: The complaint alleges that during the class period, Defendants issued materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) Apple's iOS privacy changes were having a material impact on Meta's ability to provide the kind of targeted advertising that its customers wanted and, as a result, customer ad spending was dropping precipitously; (2) Meta's mitigation efforts were either not properly implemented or ineffective; (3) measurement of ads was not accurate as mitigation efforts were failing; and (4) Meta did not have a plan in place to properly address the impact of the iOS privacy changes.
DEADLINE: May 9, 2022 Shareholders should not delay in registering for this class action. Register your information here: https://securitiesclasslaw.com/securities/meta-platforms-inc-loss-submission-form/?id=25567&from=4
NEXT STEPS FOR SHAREHOLDERS: Once you register as a shareholder who purchased shares of FB during the timeframe listed above, you will be enrolled in a portfolio monitoring software to provide you with status updates throughout the lifecycle of the case. The deadline to seek to be a lead plaintiff is May 9, 2022. There is no cost or obligation to you to participate in this case.
WHY GROSS LAW FIRM? The Gross Law Firm is nationally recognized class action law firm, and our mission is to protect the rights of all investors who have suffered as a result of deceit, fraud, and illegal business practices. The Gross Law Firm is committed to ensuring that companies adhere to responsible business practices and engage in good corporate citizenship. The firm seeks recovery on behalf of investors who incurred losses when false and/or misleading statements or the omission of material information by a company lead to artificial inflation of the company's stock. Attorney advertising. Prior results do not guarantee similar outcomes.
CONTACT:
The Gross Law Firm
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NEW YORK, April 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Gross Law Firm issues the following notice to shareholders of MP Materials Corp. f/k/a Fortress Value Acquisition Corp..
Shareholders who purchased shares of MP during the class period listed are encouraged to contact the firm regarding possible lead plaintiff appointment. Appointment as lead plaintiff is not required to partake in any recovery.
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CLASS PERIOD: May 1, 2020 to February 2, 2022
ALLEGATIONS: The complaint alleges that during the class period, Defendants issued materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (i) Fortress Value Acquisition Corp. ("FVAC") had overstated its due diligence efforts and expertise with respect to identifying target companies to acquire; (ii) FVAC performed inadequate due diligence into Legacy MP Materials prior to the business combination, or else ignored significant red flags regarding, inter alia, Legacy MP Materials' management, compliance policies, and Mountain Pass's profitability; (iii) as a result, the Company's future business and financial prospects post-business combination were overstated; (iv) MP Materials engaged in an abusive transfer price manipulation scheme with a related party in the People's Republic of China to artificially inflate the Company's profits; (v) MP Materials' ore at the Mountain Pass Rare Earth Mine and Processing Facility was not economically viable to harvest for rare earth metals; and (vi) as a result, the Company's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.
DEADLINE: April 25, 2022 Shareholders should not delay in registering for this class action. Register your information here: https://securitiesclasslaw.com/securities/mp-materials-corp-f-k-a-fortress-value-acquisition-corp-loss-submission-form/?id=25559&from=4
NEXT STEPS FOR SHAREHOLDERS: Once you register as a shareholder who purchased shares of MP during the timeframe listed above, you will be enrolled in a portfolio monitoring software to provide you with status updates throughout the lifecycle of the case. The deadline to seek to be a lead plaintiff is April 25, 2022. There is no cost or obligation to you to participate in this case.
WHY GROSS LAW FIRM? The Gross Law Firm is nationally recognized class action law firm, and our mission is to protect the rights of all investors who have suffered as a result of deceit, fraud, and illegal business practices. The Gross Law Firm is committed to ensuring that companies adhere to responsible business practices and engage in good corporate citizenship. The firm seeks recovery on behalf of investors who incurred losses when false and/or misleading statements or the omission of material information by a company lead to artificial inflation of the company's stock. Attorney advertising. Prior results do not guarantee similar outcomes.
CONTACT:
The Gross Law Firm
15 West 38th Street, 12th floor
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NEW YORK, April 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Gross Law Firm issues the following notice to shareholders of Rivian Automotive, Inc..
Shareholders who purchased shares of RIVN during the class period listed are encouraged to contact the firm regarding possible lead plaintiff appointment. Appointment as lead plaintiff is not required to partake in any recovery.
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CLASS PERIOD: This lawsuit is on behalf of investors that purchased or otherwise acquired Rivian common stock pursuant and/or traceable to Rivian's initial public offering on November 10, 2021 and/or between November 10, 2021, and March 10, 2022.
ALLEGATIONS: Documents issued in connection with the initial public offering contained representations that were materially inaccurate, misleading, and/or incomplete because they failed to disclose, among other things, that the R1T electric pickup truck and R1S electric SUV were underpriced to such a degree that Rivian would have to raise prices shortly after the IPO and that these price increases would tarnish Rivian's reputation as a trustworthy and transparent company and would put a significant number of the existing backlog of 55,400 preorders, along with future preorders, in jeopardy of cancellation.
DEADLINE: May 6, 2022 Shareholders should not delay in registering for this class action. Register your information here: https://securitiesclasslaw.com/securities/rivian-automotive-inc-loss-submission-form/?id=25566&from=4
NEXT STEPS FOR SHAREHOLDERS: Once you register as a shareholder who purchased shares of RIVN during the timeframe listed above, you will be enrolled in a portfolio monitoring software to provide you with status updates throughout the lifecycle of the case. The deadline to seek to be a lead plaintiff is May 6, 2022. There is no cost or obligation to you to participate in this case.
WHY GROSS LAW FIRM? The Gross Law Firm is nationally recognized class action law firm, and our mission is to protect the rights of all investors who have suffered as a result of deceit, fraud, and illegal business practices. The Gross Law Firm is committed to ensuring that companies adhere to responsible business practices and engage in good corporate citizenship. The firm seeks recovery on behalf of investors who incurred losses when false and/or misleading statements or the omission of material information by a company lead to artificial inflation of the company's stock. Attorney advertising. Prior results do not guarantee similar outcomes.
CONTACT:
The Gross Law Firm
15 West 38th Street, 12th floor
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NEW YORK, April 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Gross Law Firm issues the following notice to shareholders of SunPower Corporation.
Shareholders who purchased shares of SPWR during the class period listed are encouraged to contact the firm regarding possible lead plaintiff appointment. Appointment as lead plaintiff is not required to partake in any recovery.
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CLASS PERIOD: August 3, 2021 to January 20, 2022
ALLEGATIONS: The complaint alleges that during the class period, Defendants issued materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) certain connectors used by SunPower suffered from cracking issues; (2) as a result, the Company was reasonably likely to incur costs to remediate the faulty connectors; (3) as a result of the foregoing, SunPower's financial results would be adversely impacted; and (4) as a result of the foregoing, defendants' positive statements about the Company's business, operations, and prospects were materially misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis.
DEADLINE: April 18, 2022 Shareholders should not delay in registering for this class action. Register your information here: https://securitiesclasslaw.com/securities/sunpower-corporation-loss-submission-form/?id=25557&from=4
NEXT STEPS FOR SHAREHOLDERS: Once you register as a shareholder who purchased shares of SPWR during the timeframe listed above, you will be enrolled in a portfolio monitoring software to provide you with status updates throughout the lifecycle of the case. The deadline to seek to be a lead plaintiff is April 18, 2022. There is no cost or obligation to you to participate in this case.
WHY GROSS LAW FIRM? The Gross Law Firm is nationally recognized class action law firm, and our mission is to protect the rights of all investors who have suffered as a result of deceit, fraud, and illegal business practices. The Gross Law Firm is committed to ensuring that companies adhere to responsible business practices and engage in good corporate citizenship. The firm seeks recovery on behalf of investors who incurred losses when false and/or misleading statements or the omission of material information by a company lead to artificial inflation of the company's stock. Attorney advertising. Prior results do not guarantee similar outcomes.
CONTACT:
The Gross Law Firm
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NEW YORK, April 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Gross Law Firm issues the following notice to shareholders of Taskus, Inc..
Shareholders who purchased shares of TASK during the class period listed are encouraged to contact the firm regarding possible lead plaintiff appointment. Appointment as lead plaintiff is not required to partake in any recovery.
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CLASS PERIOD: June 11, 2021 to January 19, 2022
ALLEGATIONS: The complaint alleges that during the class period, Defendants issued materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) TaskUs was experiencing severe financial strain and business challenges, particularly with its most important customer, Facebook; (2) the Content Security market was smaller than defendants represented and defendants' representations were based on outdated market data; (3) TaskUs improperly recognized revenue from certain key contracts; (4) defendants overstated the size of TaskUs' workforce as well as employee retention rates, and understated attrition rates; and (5) as a result of the foregoing, defendants' positive statements about the Company's business, operations, and prospects were materially false and misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis.
DEADLINE: April 25, 2022 Shareholders should not delay in registering for this class action. Register your information here: https://securitiesclasslaw.com/securities/taskus-inc-loss-submission-form/?id=25560&from=4
NEXT STEPS FOR SHAREHOLDERS: Once you register as a shareholder who purchased shares of TASK during the timeframe listed above, you will be enrolled in a portfolio monitoring software to provide you with status updates throughout the lifecycle of the case. The deadline to seek to be a lead plaintiff is April 25, 2022. There is no cost or obligation to you to participate in this case.
WHY GROSS LAW FIRM? The Gross Law Firm is nationally recognized class action law firm, and our mission is to protect the rights of all investors who have suffered as a result of deceit, fraud, and illegal business practices. The Gross Law Firm is committed to ensuring that companies adhere to responsible business practices and engage in good corporate citizenship. The firm seeks recovery on behalf of investors who incurred losses when false and/or misleading statements or the omission of material information by a company lead to artificial inflation of the company's stock. Attorney advertising. Prior results do not guarantee similar outcomes.
CONTACT:
The Gross Law Firm
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NEW YORK, April 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Gross Law Firm issues the following notice to shareholders of Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson.
Shareholders who purchased shares of ERIC during the class period listed are encouraged to contact the firm regarding possible lead plaintiff appointment. Appointment as lead plaintiff is not required to partake in any recovery.
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CLASS PERIOD: April 27, 2017 to February 25, 2022
ALLEGATIONS: The complaint alleges that during the class period, Defendants issued materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (i) Ericsson overstated the extent to which it had reformed its business practices to eliminate the use of bribes to secure business in foreign countries; (ii) Ericsson had paid bribes to the terrorist group the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria to gain access to certain transport routes in Iraq; (iii) accordingly, the Company's revenues derived from its operations in Iraq were, in at least substantial part, derived from unlawful conduct and thus unsustainable; and (iv) as a result, the Company's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.
DEADLINE: May 2, 2022 Shareholders should not delay in registering for this class action. Register your information here: https://securitiesclasslaw.com/securities/telefonaktiebolaget-lm-ericsson-loss-submission-form/?id=25564&from=4
NEXT STEPS FOR SHAREHOLDERS: Once you register as a shareholder who purchased shares of ERIC during the timeframe listed above, you will be enrolled in a portfolio monitoring software to provide you with status updates throughout the lifecycle of the case. The deadline to seek to be a lead plaintiff is May 2, 2022. There is no cost or obligation to you to participate in this case.
WHY GROSS LAW FIRM? The Gross Law Firm is nationally recognized class action law firm, and our mission is to protect the rights of all investors who have suffered as a result of deceit, fraud, and illegal business practices. The Gross Law Firm is committed to ensuring that companies adhere to responsible business practices and engage in good corporate citizenship. The firm seeks recovery on behalf of investors who incurred losses when false and/or misleading statements or the omission of material information by a company lead to artificial inflation of the company's stock. Attorney advertising. Prior results do not guarantee similar outcomes.
CONTACT:
The Gross Law Firm
15 West 38th Street, 12th floor
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NEW YORK, April 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Gross Law Firm issues the following notice to shareholders of Telos Corporation.
Shareholders who purchased shares of TLS during the class period listed are encouraged to contact the firm regarding possible lead plaintiff appointment. Appointment as lead plaintiff is not required to partake in any recovery.
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CLASS PERIOD: November 19, 2020 to November 12, 2021
ALLEGATIONS: The complaint alleges that during the class period, Defendants issued materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) the Transportation Security Administration ("TSA") and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services ("CMS") contracts, which constituted a majority of the Company's future revenues, were not on track to commence as represented at the end of 2021 and in 2022; (2) Defendants lacked a reasonable basis and sufficient visibility to provide and affirm the Company's 2021 guidance in the face of the uncertainty surrounding the TSA and CMS contracts; (3) COVID-19- and hacking scandal-related headwinds were throwing off the timing for performance of the TSA and CMS contracts and their associated revenues; (4) as a result, the guidance provided by Defendants was not in fact "conservative"; (5) as a result of the delays, Telos would be forced to dramatically reduce its revenue estimates; and (6) as a result of the foregoing, Defendants' statements about Telos' business, operations, and prospects, were materially false and/or misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis.
DEADLINE: April 8, 2022 Shareholders should not delay in registering for this class action. Register your information here: https://securitiesclasslaw.com/securities/telos-corporation-loss-submission-form/?id=25552&from=4
NEXT STEPS FOR SHAREHOLDERS: Once you register as a shareholder who purchased shares of TLS during the timeframe listed above, you will be enrolled in a portfolio monitoring software to provide you with status updates throughout the lifecycle of the case. The deadline to seek to be a lead plaintiff is April 8, 2022. There is no cost or obligation to you to participate in this case.
WHY GROSS LAW FIRM? The Gross Law Firm is nationally recognized class action law firm, and our mission is to protect the rights of all investors who have suffered as a result of deceit, fraud, and illegal business practices. The Gross Law Firm is committed to ensuring that companies adhere to responsible business practices and engage in good corporate citizenship. The firm seeks recovery on behalf of investors who incurred losses when false and/or misleading statements or the omission of material information by a company lead to artificial inflation of the company's stock. Attorney advertising. Prior results do not guarantee similar outcomes.
CONTACT:
The Gross Law Firm
15 West 38th Street, 12th floor
New York, NY, 10018
Email: dg@securitiesclasslaw.com
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NEW YORK, April 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Gross Law Firm issues the following notice to shareholders of Vertiv Holdings Co.
Shareholders who purchased shares of VRT during the class period listed are encouraged to contact the firm regarding possible lead plaintiff appointment. Appointment as lead plaintiff is not required to partake in any recovery.
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CLASS PERIOD: April 28, 2021 to February 23, 2022
ALLEGATIONS: The complaint alleges that during the class period, Defendants issued materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) the Company could not adequately respond to supply chain issues and inflation by increasing its prices; (2) as a result of the increasing costs, Vertiv's earnings would be adversely impacted; and (3) as a result of the foregoing, defendants' positive statements about the Company's business, operations, and prospects were materially misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis.
DEADLINE: May 23, 2022 Shareholders should not delay in registering for this class action. Register your information here: https://securitiesclasslaw.com/securities/vertiv-holdings-co-loss-submission-form/?id=25571&from=4
NEXT STEPS FOR SHAREHOLDERS: Once you register as a shareholder who purchased shares of VRT during the timeframe listed above, you will be enrolled in a portfolio monitoring software to provide you with status updates throughout the lifecycle of the case. The deadline to seek to be a lead plaintiff is May 23, 2022. There is no cost or obligation to you to participate in this case.
WHY GROSS LAW FIRM? The Gross Law Firm is nationally recognized class action law firm, and our mission is to protect the rights of all investors who have suffered as a result of deceit, fraud, and illegal business practices. The Gross Law Firm is committed to ensuring that companies adhere to responsible business practices and engage in good corporate citizenship. The firm seeks recovery on behalf of investors who incurred losses when false and/or misleading statements or the omission of material information by a company lead to artificial inflation of the company's stock. Attorney advertising. Prior results do not guarantee similar outcomes.
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NEW YORK, April 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Gross Law Firm issues the following notice to shareholders of Volta Inc..
Shareholders who purchased shares of VLTA during the class period listed are encouraged to contact the firm regarding possible lead plaintiff appointment. Appointment as lead plaintiff is not required to partake in any recovery.
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CLASS PERIOD: August 2, 2021 to March 28, 2022
ALLEGATIONS: The complaint alleges that during the class period, Defendants issued materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) Volta had improperly accounted for restricted stock units issued in connection with the business combination of Volta Industries, Inc. ("Legacy Volta") and Tortoise Acquisition Corp. II; (2) as a result, the Company had understated its net loss for third quarter 2021; (3) there were material weaknesses in the Company's internal control over financial reporting that resulted in a material error; (4) as a result of the foregoing, the Company would restate its financial statements; (5) as a result of the foregoing, Legacy Volta's founders would imminently exit the Company; (6) as a result, the Company's financial results would be adversely impacted; and (7) as a result of the foregoing, defendants' positive statements about the Company's business, operations, and prospects were materially misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis.
DEADLINE: May 31, 2022 Shareholders should not delay in registering for this class action. Register your information here: https://securitiesclasslaw.com/securities/volta-inc-loss-submission-form/?id=25573&from=4
NEXT STEPS FOR SHAREHOLDERS: Once you register as a shareholder who purchased shares of VLTA during the timeframe listed above, you will be enrolled in a portfolio monitoring software to provide you with status updates throughout the lifecycle of the case. The deadline to seek to be a lead plaintiff is May 31, 2022. There is no cost or obligation to you to participate in this case.
WHY GROSS LAW FIRM? The Gross Law Firm is nationally recognized class action law firm, and our mission is to protect the rights of all investors who have suffered as a result of deceit, fraud, and illegal business practices. The Gross Law Firm is committed to ensuring that companies adhere to responsible business practices and engage in good corporate citizenship. The firm seeks recovery on behalf of investors who incurred losses when false and/or misleading statements or the omission of material information by a company lead to artificial inflation of the company's stock. Attorney advertising. Prior results do not guarantee similar outcomes.
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Specialized Data Gives New Insights into Potentially Fraudulent Behaviors
BOSTON and PARIS, April 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Shift Technology, a provider of AI-driven decision automation and optimization solutions for the global insurance industry, and Legentic, a provider of real-time and historic data used for fraud detection, today announced the two companies have entered a technology partnership. Through seamless integration between the two companies' solutions insurers who are using Shift Claims Fraud Detection to mitigate the risk of fraud will have access to specialized data from Mohawk to fuel their models.
Using artificial intelligence (AI) to uncover potential fraud in the claims process is fast and efficient and typically presents claims professionals with fewer false positives. It is also well known that AI is most effective when tapping into vast amounts of high-quality data. The partnership between Legentic and Shift addresses this reality by making a new source of third-party data available for use in advanced fraud detection models.
"The power of AI to not only see what's hidden in the data but also help make sense of it is incredibly compelling," said Philip Van Waning, partner and channel manager, Legentic. "By providing the data available in our Mohawk solution to Shift's fraud detection technology we are giving claims professionals and investigators a powerful way to spot more potential fraud, with incredible accuracy, to the benefit of both insurers and policyholders."
Mohawk's data gives Shift users access to no longer publicly accessible data by turning historical unstructured data from multiple sources into actionable insights. Mohawk also helps to reduce claim processing time by limiting false positives. Shift Claims Fraud Detection is a best-in-class, AI fraud-fighting solution which can detect possible claims fraud in real-time or in scheduled workflows and typically delivers 3X the detection hit rate compared to manual or rules-based implementations. The solution also delivers transparent findings to users with detailed rationale for all its conclusions, allowing investigators to make fraud decisions with speed, accuracy and confidence. Having Legentic's Mohawk data for use in Shift's models provides another compelling way to determine if a claim is suspicious and why.
"In the realm of AI, data is king. Having access to the best mix of data means you can trust the results and be confident that you are making the best decision about what to do with a suspicious claim," explained Drew Whitmore, Global Head of Partnerships, Shift Technology. "What Legentic is doing with data, especially in the area of social media selling, offers an exciting new way to help determine if a claim is suspicious or legitimate."
About Legentic:
Legentic offers a genuinely unique and innovative solution focused on validation, recovery of assets, and the exposure of fraud. We collect big data from multiple sources all over the world, enriched through AI and machine learning, and converting it into easily accessible, understandable – and actionable information. For more information visit: www.legentic.com
About Shift Technology
Shift Technology delivers AI decisioning solutions to benefit the global insurance industry and its customers. Our products enable insurers to automate and optimize decisions from underwriting to claims, resulting in superior customer experiences, increased operational efficiency, and reduced costs. The future of insurance starts with Decisions Made Better. Learn more at www.shift-technology.com.
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Corporate Communications
Shift Technology
+1.617.416.9216
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Legentic
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DUBLIN, April 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Theravance Biopharma, Inc. (NASDAQ: TBPH) will present at the 21st Annual Needham Virtual Healthcare Conference on Wednesday, April 13, at 1:30 pm ET (10:30 am PT/6:30 pm IST).
A webcast of the event may be accessed by visiting Theravance.com, under the Investors section, Presentations and Events. Replay of the webcast will be archived on the Company's website for 30 days.
About Theravance Biopharma
Theravance Biopharma, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company primarily focused on the discovery, development and commercialization of respiratory medicines. Its core purpose is to create medicines that help improve the lives of patients suffering from respiratory illness.
In pursuit of its purpose, Theravance Biopharma leverages decades of respiratory expertise to discover and develop transformational medicines that make a difference. These efforts have led to the development of FDA-approved YUPELRI® (revefenacin) inhalation solution indicated for the maintenance treatment of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Its respiratory pipeline of internally discovered programs is targeted to address significant patient respiratory needs.
Theravance Biopharma has an economic interest in potential future payments from Glaxo Group Limited or one of its affiliates (GSK) pursuant to its agreements with Innoviva, Inc. relating to certain programs, including TRELEGY.
For more information, please visit www.theravance.com.
THERAVANCE BIOPHARMA®, THERAVANCE®, and the Cross/Star logo are registered trademarks of the Theravance Biopharma group of companies (in the US and certain other countries).
YUPELRI® is a registered trademark of Mylan Specialty L.P., a Viatris Company. Trademarks, trade names or service marks of other companies appearing on this press release are the property of their respective owners.
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Contact: Gail B. Cohen
Corporate Communications / 917-214-6603
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VANCOUVER, BC, April 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Trilogy Metals Inc. (TSX: TMQ) (NYSE American: TMQ) ("Trilogy Metals" or "the Company") announces its financial results for the first quarter ended February 28, 2022. Details of the Company's financial results are contained in the interim unaudited consolidated financial statements and Management's Discussion and Analysis which will be available on the Company's website at www.trilogymetals.com, on SEDAR at www.sedar.com and on EDGAR at www.sec.gov. All amounts are in United States dollars unless otherwise stated.
The following selected financial information is prepared in accordance with U.S. GAAP.
For the three-month period ended February 28, 2022, overall cash costs related to general and administrative expenses, investor relations, professional fees and salaries were primarily tracking to budget. For the three-months period ended February 28, 2022, Trilogy reported a net loss of $5.0 million (or $0.03 basic and diluted loss per common share). For the comparable period in 2021, we reported a net loss of $4.5 million (or $0.03 basic and diluted loss per common share). This difference is primarily due to the Company's equity pickup of Ambler Metals' comprehensive loss, offset by a reduction in stock-based compensation. Our 50% pro rata share of Ambler Metals' comprehensive loss increased by $0.8 million when compared to the prior year comparative as the current quarter includes pre-development costs for the Ambler Access Project for which there are no prior year comparatives. Salaries and directors expense - stock based-compensation decreased by $0.2 million in comparison to the prior year comparative mainly due to a reduction of 0.9 million units in overall stock-based awards granted during the current quarter.
In a press release dated February 23, 2022, the Company announced that the United States Department of the Interior ("DOI") filed a motion on February 22, 2022 to remand the Final Environmental Impact Statement ("FEIS") and suspend the right-of-way permits issued to the Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority ("AIDEA") for the Ambler Access Project. The DOI stated that the suspension of the road permits will allow it to carry out additional supplemental work on the FEIS. The motion also indicated that the DOI has requested that the lawsuits filed in 2021 against the DOI by a coalition of national and Alaska environmental non-government organizations be suspended. The lawsuits had been filed in response to the United States Bureau of Land Management's ("BLM") issuance of the Joint Record of Decision ("JROD"), that authorized a right-of-way across federally managed lands for AIDEA and the Ambler Access Project.
The Company has commenced discussions with its partners, including NANA Regional Corporation, Inc. ("NANA"), AIDEA, the Northwest Arctic Borough, the State of Alaska and South32 Limited to understand the potential impact of the above decision by the DOI on AIDEA's proposed plan and budget for the 2022 summer field season activities that were previously announced.
In mid-March 2022, the BLM and the DOI suspended the right-of-way grant and the right-of-way permit ("ROW permits") to AIDEA relating to the Ambler Access Project over federal land while the DOI conducts further analysis and consultation. While the suspension decisions are in place: AIDEA may not conduct any activities that rely on the authority of the ROW permits; the terms and conditions of the ROW permits are tolled; and all rental fee obligations are suspended. The suspension does not preclude AIDEA from applying for special use permits to conduct activities on the lands subject to the ROW permits or granted pursuant to applicable law or authority other than the suspended ROW permits.
On March 22, 2022, the Intervenor Defendants (the State of Alaska, NANA, AIDEA, and Ambler Metals LLC ("Ambler Metals")) filed briefs in opposition to the DOI's motion for a voluntary remand. In its brief, Ambler Metals stated that it does not oppose the voluntary remand motion subject to the following conditions: (i) no vacatur or termination of the permits; (ii) the remand must be completed within nine months; (iii) that there must be status updates to the court every 60 days during the remand period; and (iv) the federal defendants (DOI) must lodge the administrative record within 30 days of issuing any new decision. Also on March 22, 2022, the plaintiffs filed a motion asking the court to deny the motion for voluntary remand without vacatur of the permits and either allow merits briefing to proceed or simply vacate the Federal Defendants reviews and decisions.
On April 5, 2022, the Federal Defendants responded to the plaintiffs' arguments against voluntary remand and argued that vacatur of the decisions was not appropriate. Federal Defendants also argued that the court should retain jurisdiction, but disagreed with arguments requesting a court-imposed schedule. The Federal Defendants propose filing a status report every 90 days.
We expended $1.5 million on operating activities during the first quarter of 2022 which is consistent with the prior year comparative. The majority of cash spent on operating activities during the quarter was on corporate salaries, annual fees paid to the Toronto Stock Exchange and the NYSE American Exchange and professional fees related to our annual regulatory filings with the American and Canadian securities commissions.
At February 28, 2022, we had $4.8 million in cash and cash equivalents and working capital of $4.3 million. The Company continues to manage its cash expenditures through its working capital. Management has begun a review of the fiscal 2022 budget for cash preservation opportunities and has reduced cash expenditures where feasible, including but not limited to, reductions in marketing and investor conferences and office expenses. The Company's Board of Directors are considering taking of the cash component of their fees in shares of the Company in an effort to preserve cash and increase share ownership. The Company's senior management team are also considering taking a portion of their base salaries in shares or other equity based compensation of the Company to preserve cash. Management believes that these cost reduction efforts will result in sufficient cash to fund the Company's operations for the next twelve months.
All project related costs are funded by the joint venture. Amber Metals is well funded to advance the UKMP with $58.2 million in cash and a $53.2 million loan receivable from South32 as at February 28, 2022. There is sufficient funds at the joint venture to fund the previously announced budgets for the UKMP of $28.5 million and the Ambler Access Project of $15.4 million for fiscal 2022. Trilogy does not anticipate having to fund the activities of Ambler Metals until the initial contribution of $145 million is expended.
Richard Gosse, P.Geo., Vice President Exploration for Trilogy Metals Inc., is a Qualified Person as defined by National Instrument 43-101. Mr. Gosse has reviewed the technical information in this news release and approves the disclosure contained herein.
Trilogy Metals Inc. is a metals exploration and development company which holds a 50 percent interest in Ambler Metals LLC which has a 100 percent interest in the UKMP in northwestern Alaska. The UKMP is located within the Ambler Mining District which is one of the richest and most-prospective known copper-dominant districts. It hosts world-class polymetallic volcanogenic massive sulphide ("VMS") deposits that contain copper, zinc, lead, gold and silver, and carbonate replacement deposits which have been found to host high-grade copper and cobalt mineralization. Exploration efforts have been focused on two deposits in the Ambler mining district - the Arctic VMS deposit and the Bornite carbonate replacement deposit. Both deposits are located within land package that spans approximately 172,636 hectares. The Company has an agreement with NANA Regional Corporation, Inc., a Regional Alaska Native Corporation that provides a framework for the exploration and potential development of the Ambler mining district in cooperation with local communities. Our vision is to develop the Ambler mining district into a premier North American copper producer.
This press release includes certain "forward-looking information" and "forward-looking statements" (collectively "forward-looking statements") within the meaning of applicable Canadian and United States securities legislation including the United States Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. All statements, other than statements of historical fact, included herein, including, without limitation, perceived merit of properties, expectations regarding the 2022 field seasons and budgets for the UKMP and Ambler Access Project, the Company's intention to provide updates on the Ambler Access Project permitting situation and the timing thereof, potential outcomes of discussions between Ambler Access Project stakeholders and the DOI, the willingness of the Company's director and executives to receive their compensation in equity, the Company's plans to look for opportunities to reduce its cash spend for the year, Management's expectations regarding the effects of cash conservation efforts and the sufficiency of cash for the next twelve months and the Company's plans to provide further updates and the timing thereof are forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements are frequently, but not always, identified by words such as "expects", "anticipates", "believes", "intends", "estimates", "potential", "possible", and similar expressions, or statements that events, conditions, or results "will", "may", "could", or "should" occur or be achieved. Forward-looking statements involve various risks and uncertainties. There can be no assurance that such statements will prove to be accurate, and actual results and future events could differ materially from those anticipated in such statements. Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from the Company's expectations include the uncertainties involving our assumptions with respect to the impact of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) and other risks and uncertainties disclosed in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended November 30, 2021 filed with Canadian securities regulatory authorities and with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission and in other Company reports and documents filed with applicable securities regulatory authorities from time to time. The Company's forward-looking statements reflect the beliefs, opinions and projections on the date the statements are made. The Company assumes no obligation to update the forward-looking statements or beliefs, opinions, projections, or other factors, should they change, except as required by law.
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CAMBRIDGE, England, April 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Darktrace, a global leader in cyber security AI, today announced that two National Health Service (NHS) trusts in the UK have signed million-dollar renewal contracts with Darktrace as threat levels continue to rise in the sector.
The two trusts, which between them cover five hospitals in the UK and provide emergency treatment and medical care for millions of patients every year, have chosen to continue using Darktrace's Self-Learning AI in the face of a growing number of sophisticated cyber-attacks targeting healthcare organizations. Both trusts use Darktrace's Enterprise Immune System and Darktrace Antigena to spot and stop unpredictable and in-progress cyber-threats before they can disrupt the delivery of critical services or lead to potentially severe consequences for hospital patients.
The healthcare sector has been increasingly targeted by adversaries both in the UK and globally in recent years as attackers have sought to gain access to sensitive patient data and to maximise disruption to the critical infrastructure on which so many people depend. The current geopolitical climate has led government bodies, such as NHS England in the UK, to caution hospitals and healthcare organizations to strengthen their defenses as threat levels have become even more acute.
"We are proud to be protecting organizations like the NHS which form the backbone of our society by keeping people safe and providing critical care to patients," said Poppy Gustafsson OBE, CEO at Darktrace. "It is more important than ever that our critical national infrastructure has robust defenses in place, and Darktrace remains focused on ensuring our customers are equipped to fight back against malicious actors as the threat landscape evolves."
About Darktrace
Darktrace (DARK:L), a global leader in cyber security AI, delivers world-class technology that protects over 6,500 customers worldwide from advanced threats, including ransomware and cloud and SaaS attacks. Darktrace's fundamentally different approach applies Self-Learning AI to enable machines to understand the business in order to autonomously defend it. Headquartered in Cambridge, UK, the company has more than 1,700 employees and over 30 offices worldwide. Darktrace was named one of TIME magazine's 'Most Influential Companies' for 2021.
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Pair sentenced to probation after pleading guilty to arson of Hanson restaurant
PLYMOUTH — A man and a woman have pleaded guilty to setting fire to an abandoned restaurant in Hanson in 2018, prosecutors said.
On Monday, Patricia Harrison, 63, and Wayne Cummings, 52, both of Buzzards Bay, pleaded guilty in Plymouth Superior Court to one count of burning of a building.
Judge Maynard Kirpalani sentenced the pair to two years of probation.
The fire occurred at the old JJ's Pub, at 16 Liberty St., on July 6, 2018.
Harrison, who at the time was the owner of the abandoned Liberty Street property, and Cummings, described by officials as an acquaintance, "conspired and assisted in the arson of the building," the Plymouth County district attorney's office previously said.
"The investigation found that Harrison, along with Cummings, enlisted the aid of (Alfred) Russo to set fire to the pub," the DA's office said in a written statement Tuesday. "On the day of the fire, Cummings provided Russo with the key to the restaurant, along with a blow torch. Russo entered the pub and dragged a rubber tire into the establishment and placed the lit blow torch in the middle of the tire. On the day after the fire, Harrison filed a $415,000 insurance claim with her provider."
The third person charged in the arson, Alfred C. Russo, 79, of Bourne, is scheduled to go on trial on April 11 on one count of burning of a dwelling and two counts of arson causing injury to a firefighter.
Russo, a member of the Boston Fire Department from 1969 to 1995, when he retired as a firefighter assigned to the Marine Unit, was arrested by State Police on a warrant in late August 2018 following an investigation into the three-alarm fire that sent two Hanson firefighters, Lt. Sherilyn Mullin and Timothy Roye, to the hospital for heat exhaustion. They each missed several days of work due to their injuries.
Investigators said they were able to identify Russo through witness statements and video surveillance from a business located across the street from the former pub.
"Viewing of the video revealed that a party parked a vehicle on the B side and entered the building through the B side entry door," State Police Trooper Thomas M. Berteletti, who is assigned to the state fire marshal's office, wrote in a police report. "That party remained in the building for approximately 7 minutes and 45 seconds. The party then exits, enters a vehicle a drives away."
Just six minutes later, smoke can be seen venting from the roof, court documents state, and three minutes after that fire is visible from the roof.
Police spoke to the owner of the property, Harrison, who told investigators she was at her home in Bourne with Russo when she received the call that there was a fire at the pub. Cummings told police he was out walking his dog when Harrison received the call about the fire.
Harrison told investigators she hadn't been at the building in about two weeks, when she was there trying to clean it out "in hopes of selling the property," court documents state.
Russo, in an interview with police two weeks after the fire, "spontaneously stated that he was driving his Jeep in Hanson on the day of the fire," Berteletti wrote in his report. Police say the vehicle seen on surveillance video leaving the pub shortly after the fire was set was a Jeep.
Russo told police he went to Hanson to attend a cookout at Harrison's sister-in-law's house the day of the fire, but decided not to go because he wasn't feeling well, the police report states. He admitted to driving onto the JJ's Pub property to move a generator with his utility trailer, but said he never went inside, court documents state.
The property owner identified the vehicle seen leaving JJ's on video as the Jeep owned by Russo.
"It is this officer's opinion that the fire was either ignited in multiple locations or that the fire was accelerated by use of an ignitable liquid or heavy concentration of combustibles throughout the interior," Berteletti wrote.
Investigators could not enter the building to investigate further due to a partial collapse. Soon after, the building was completely demolished. JJ's Pub closed in 2013 and has remained vacant since.
Hanson Fire Chief Jerome Thompson said he was pleased with Monday's outcome.
"This fire occurred on a blazing hot summer afternoon and sent two of my firefighters to a hospital with heat-related illnesses," he said in a written statement. "A third-alarm response drew dozens of firefighters and pieces of fire apparatus from neighboring towns to help safely extinguish this blaze. This couple’s selfish actions to defraud their insurance company of hundreds of thousands of dollars put a significant number of lives at risk."
Assistant District Attorney Alex Zane prosecuted the case, which was investigated by Hanson police, Hanson firefighters and the Massachusetts State Police Fire and Explosion Investigation Section.
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Q: Ira, will the Heat get a banner for finishing first in the East? — Billy.
A: No, and it is just another way the NBA has marginalized its regular season. The team that advances to the NBA Finals is considered the conference champion, as is the case with the Heat’s 2020 Eastern Conference banner that hangs from the rafters at FTX Arena, after the Heat finished that regular season fifth in the East. In some ways, that is where traditional soccer standings have the edge on the NBA, giving the regular season proper due, considering the grueling 82-game grind, compared to needing to win just 12 games to become conference champion in the playoffs. It also is why you have seen some teams backing off at the top of the East. Basically, the regular-season conference championship is a celebration for about a day. Then you move on to the playoffs, planning for what ultimately matters in the NBA.
Q: The demise of Duncan Robinson (by the “fans”) seems to have been greatly exaggerated. Maybe he won’t be starting, but every team needs a 3-point man like him. — David, Plantation.
A: And I also think the Heat made a statement by not playing Victor Oladipo on Tuesday night, as if to quiet any further debate about Vic’s value compared to Duncan Robinson’s. The Heat have a commitment to Duncan, and games such as Tuesday night show why. That’s not to say there won’t be games where his role is marginalized, such as when Max Strus is on a roll. But it appears the opportunity very much will remain ongoing.
Q: As I stated last week, bring ‘em on. I’m still not worried about Brooklyn one bit. As long as we play our game, I still believe Heat in 5. That’s with Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving averaging a combined 65 points per game. This isn’t optimistic Heat fan talk, either. This is just me telling you Mr. Winderman exactly what’s going to happen before it happens, Nostradamus style. — Swann.
A: And yet for all the possible consternation about what could happen if the Heat open against Kevin Durant, Kyrie Irving and the Nets, we still won’t know what happens until the play-in tournament. And that could require the Nets winning two games. But it certainly would be more than your typical No. 1-vs.-No. 8 playoff series if it does come to that. I believe most would agree at least with that element.
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Ravens general manager Eric DeCosta believes his team is positioned to take advantage of a deep draft class, with nine picks in the first four rounds and flexibility to move up or down. Here are five things we learned from the team’s predraft news conference Tuesday:
Day 3 could be the Ravens’ time of jubilee in the 2022 draft.
DeCosta and director of player personnel Joe Hortiz can’t stop praising the depth of a 2022 draft class that’s thought to be a touch short on superstar prospects. If they are correct, they’re sitting on a winning hand, with five picks between 110 and 141 overall.
“It makes it fun on Friday night,” Hortiz said, looking ahead to the time when the Ravens will finalize their plans for the last day of the draft.
He said the glut of prospects who stayed on campus for an extra year because of COVID-19 “allowed our board to beef up near the bottom of the draft.” The Ravens believe they might help themselves at positions ranging from offensive tackle to cornerback to edge rusher.
With nine picks over the first four rounds, they will have the flexibility to move up or down as they please.
As excited as DeCosta sounded at this prospect, he’s also a realist who understands the draft is a volume game more than a sharpshooting exercise. A look at recent history tells us to temper our expectations for what the Ravens will achieve on day three.
The last time they had so many fourth-round picks, in 2016, they came away with cornerback Tavon Young, wide receiver Chris Moore, guard Alex Lewis, defensive tackle Willie Henry and running back Kenneth Dixon. All showed flashes of promise in Baltimore, but not one turned into a star and not one remains on the team’s roster. Of the 23 players they picked in the fourth over their last 10 drafts, only Za’Darius Smith became a major force, though the list includes quality players such as Anthony Averett and Kyle Juszczyk.
This will be a fun year for the Ravens draft junkies who consider seven-round mocks a little slice of heaven. But we should understand DeCosta will be lucky to come away with a starter or two from his fourth-round bonanza.
The Ravens will likely draft an offensive tackle in their quest to avoid a repeat of 2021.
DeCosta has said several times that the Ravens were caught off-guard by left tackle Ronnie Stanley’s slow and ultimately unsuccessful recovery from ankle surgery. They did not set up enough contingency plans at tackle and paid for it by allowing 57 sacks, second most in the league.
DeCosta does not intend to make the same mistake again, even though he’s maintaining optimism about Stanley’s pace of recovery. “The fact remains we’re not sure how Ronnie’s going to rebound,” he said Tuesday.
He did not guarantee the Ravens will draft a tackle to go along with free-agent addition Morgan Moses, but he came close. “There are good players all throughout this year; it’s a very, very deep position class,” DeCosta said. “So, there are a lot of different ways for us to skin the cat, and we’ll do that at some point.”
He and Hortiz suggested the Ravens could land a quality tackle anywhere from the first round, where they’ve been linked to Trevor Penning of Northern Iowa, to the fourth round. That player would not need to compete for a starting job if Stanley is anywhere close to his 2019 All-Pro form, but the Ravens know this is the time to stockpile protectors for Lamar Jackson.
Edge rusher and cornerback are the other positions the Ravens seem certain to address.
When Smith backed away from a deal to return to Baltimore, he left a significant hole in DeCosta’s offseason shopping plan. The Ravens have yet to add a veteran edge defender, and the draft will be their best chance to add a high-end talent at the position.
“We expect there will be a run on those guys, probably in the top 10,” DeCosta said. The depth of first-round prospects took a hit when Michigan’s David Ojabo tore his Achilles tendon during his pro day workout. But DeCosta allowed that a quality outside rusher could fall to pick No. 14. Florida State’s Jermaine Johnson has become a popular mock pairing for the Ravens.
Hortiz made an interesting point when asked about the prevalence of interior pass rushers in this draft class. He said there are a few but that the easier approach might be to draft an edge rusher with the power to slide inside. Johnson, for example, would fit that profile, but so would others. “Personally, I think it’s a deep class of edge guys,” Hortiz said.
The Ravens are less desperate for an immediate starter at cornerback, where they expect to have former All-Pros Marlon Humphrey and Marcus Peters for the start of the season. DeCosta did not mince words, however, in describing how thin they are behind their stars. “I think we’re definitely concerned,” he said.
Given the attrition the Ravens always seem to face in the secondary, it would be surprising if they do not draft multiple defensive backs later this month.
“There are opportunities for us, again, in the first round, second round, third round,” DeCosta said. “Coach [Harbaugh] has been watching the corners as well, and we feel like we have the opportunity to take one or two corners in the draft that could come in and contribute right away. We’re excited about that.”
If the Ravens draft a center, don’t expect it to be in the first round.
Iowa center Tyler Linderbaum was popular choice for the Ravens in early mock drafts. They need a starter to replace Bradley Bozeman, and he’s considered an unusually polished prospect at the position.
But analysts have turned their eyes elsewhere, noting that Linderbaum is a better fit for a zone blocking scheme and that at 296 pounds, he does not match the Ravens’ preference for burly linemen. Bozeman played at 325 pounds last season.
“Our philosophy, honestly, is we want big guys,” DeCosta said. “We want big guys at every position.”
He also noted the scarcity of potential starters in each draft class. Does that mean the Ravens will simply roll with Patrick Mekari and Trystan Colon and use their capital elsewhere?
Not necessarily. “I think one of the cool things about this draft at the center position is we see four or five guys that we like that might not be first round-type picks and that might be second-, third- or fourth-round guys that we think would be good players at center this year,” DeCosta said.
Hortiz said there are also candidates who played other positions in college; he noted the Ravens’ success in converting Ryan Jensen from a guard/tackle to one of the league’s best centers.
So it’s not Linderbaum or bust.
The Ravens will remain a draft-oriented team as long as Eric DeCosta is in charge.
All-in is all the rage after the Los Angeles Rams rode a roster heavy on veteran star power to victory in the Super Bowl.
The Ravens, by contrast, are known for hoarding draft picks and reserving most of their big spending for extensions rather than free agents from other teams. DeCosta does not seem in any hurry to change the philosophy he learned from Ozzie Newsome.
He recalled the franchise’s early days in Baltimore, when outbidding flashier rivals was not an option. “The draft really became our lifeblood,” he said. “It will always be the foundation of what we do, what we believe in.”
Coach John Harbaugh noted that the Ravens have spent freely at times, most recently on safety Marcus Williams, a young star who filled a clear need. “It’s not an either-or type of deal,” he said, assessing the balance between drafting and signing established players.
But DeCosta watched and participated as Newsome built the Ravens’ identity around players such as Ray Lewis, Jonathan Ogden, Ed Reed and later Lamar Jackson. “I’ve just seen how it can be when it’s done the right way,” he said. “You bring in these young players, and they really do become part of the culture of the city.”
In other words, April will continue to be one of the most important months on the Ravens’ calendar.
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The weekend’s grisly revelations — of bodies of civilians strewn across the streets of Bucha (a Kyiv suburb), some with their hands tied behind their back, left to rot after Russian troops retreated from the town — have rightly shocked the conscience of people around the world. These grim discoveries have generated increasing attention to the specter of genocide underway in Ukraine. Is it fair to do so?
Genocide has a very specific (and, compared to crimes against humanity and war crimes, reasonably short) definition. It is the commission of any of a specific set of delineated acts (including murder, “causing serious bodily or mental harm,” and three others) “with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such.” In essence, that means genocide is when a perpetrator is trying to eliminate the existence of a group, and undertakes acts of violence against members of a group because they are members of that group.
Recent developments in Ukraine do not contradict this definition — but nor do they conform with it directly and on their own. Neither the carnage in the streets in Bucha nor the casualties at the schools and hospitals of Mariupol are in and of themselves acts of genocide.
To be sure, some of the rhetoric coming out of the Kremlin suggest that the term genocide could be appropriately applied to the situation. For example, Francis Scarr, a media monitor for BBC, recently reported on an editorial piece that ran on a state media outlet in Russia in which a commentator, Timofei Sergeitsev, declared:
“Ukraine, as history has shown, is unviable as a national state, and attempts to ‘build’ one logically lead to Nazism…The Banderite elite [a phrase for neo-Nazis in Ukraine] must be liquidated, its reeducation is impossible. The social ‘swamp’ which actively and passively supports it must undergo the hardships of war and digest the experience as a historical lesson and atonement.”
While “Banderite” suggests a political distinction, pro-war Russians have been using the term to apply to all Ukrainians who reject subjugation within a greater Russian imperial project. “Liquidation” implies intent to destroy by killings, and “hardships of war…as a historical lesson” fits squarely within the language of “causing serious bodily or mental harm.”
Perhaps the only thing keeping this statement from serving as prima facie evidence of genocide is that Sergeitsev presumably does not count as an architect of Russian policy; rather he plays the role of a mere cheerleader from the media sidelines.
To pin genocidal intent on the violence in Ukraine, one would need to find sources of such sentiment more closely affiliated with the Kremlin, perhaps from Putin himself. The point is though, that the intent standard embedded within the definition of genocide requires the collection of evidence that goes beyond the carnage itself. If the evidence does emerge, though, what would happen next?
A key purpose of the international Genocide Convention is that it provides tools for pursuing justice against those who have committed genocide. It also offers guidance, albeit minimal, for preventing the crime before it has been fully committed. The job of determining whether a genocide is underway or not is one for national governments and other concerned parties around the world, so that they can respond accordingly.
While it is clearly appropriate, therefore, for a public discussion about Russia’s intent and actions, it is less clear what is to happen should the determination be made that genocide is in progress.
The Convention itself only states that “competent organs of the United Nations [may] to take such action under the Charter of the United Nations as they consider appropriate for the prevention and suppression of acts of genocide.” The UN, particularly with Russia itself as a veto-wielding member of the Security Council, has little capacity to move quickly.
Outside of the United Nations’ institutions, there is no real road map for responding. It nonetheless becomes an important rhetorical tool that may — and undoubtedly should — lead to robust and coordinated actions to stop a genocide underway.
A final note is worth adding on the legal front, which is that while a genocide finding would be weighty, it is not the only matter at hand. There is a larger vocabulary of violence – “atrocities,” “war crimes,” “ethnic cleansing” and “crimes against humanity,” that bears consideration in the war in Ukraine, and each have undoubtedly occurred already in massacres in Bucha, the bombardment of Mariupol, and elsewhere.
Genocide may rightfully be considered the worst crime of all. Yet neither an appropriate response to the atrocities that have been committed in the course of the Russian war on Ukraine nor eventually accountability for the commission of those atrocities hinges on whether that is what Russia is attempting to get away with in Ukraine.
Simon is a senior lecturer in political science and director of the Genocide Studies Program at Yale.
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When the Ravens first moved to Baltimore in 1996, the lifeline of the organization was the annual NFL draft because the team didn’t have enough cash to land the best players in free agency.
Sixteen years later, that philosophy hasn’t changed.
With the draft three weeks away, the Ravens held their annual predraft luncheon at The Castle on Tuesday, and it is safe to say there won’t be any big splashes when the first round begins April 28 in Las Vegas.
The Ravens have 10 total picks, including nine in the first four rounds and four in the top 100. After making a few big signings in free agency, they still have glaring holes at pass rusher, interior defensive line, middle linebacker and offensive line. They’d also like to acquire more depth at outside linebacker and cornerback.
The Ravens might move up or down a few slots to draft a particular player, but they’d prefer to remain status quo.
“I think we do have a lot of flexibility, which is something that we covet — having the chance to move up and down,” general manager Eric DeCosta said Tuesday. “Sometimes, you get into a situation, we see it with other teams, where they want to do a trade with us and they want to maneuver, but they don’t have the picks to do it. Sometimes, you can’t find the combinations to do that. So, having picks in the first, second, third and fourth round, and then also a sixth-round pick, I think, gives us the flexibility to do whatever we want to do.”
The Ravens are bucking a recent trend by the Los Angeles Rams and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, the last two Super Bowl champions. Before winning the title in 2020, Tampa Bay signed quarterback Tom Brady, running back Leonard Fournette and receiver Antonio Brown in free agency and traded for tight end Rob Gronkowski.
Before the start of last season, the Rams traded for quarterback Matthew Stafford, then acquired outside linebacker Von Miller and receiver Odell Beckham Jr. later in the year.
The Ravens are in a different situation. Brady was calling the shots for the Bucs and the Rams were willing to toss away draft picks in their “win now” campaign.
The Ravens are more than a player or two away from winning the Super Bowl, and DeCosta won’t abandon the approach used by his predecessor, former general manager Ozzie Newsome.
In 1996, DeCosta was hired as a personnel intern and later became a Midwest scout before eventually taking over as GM in 2019.
“I really think it speaks to the culture that we’ve established over the years,” DeCosta said. “We weren’t a big team. I was here, we weren’t a big spender in free agency back in 1996 and back in 1997. We didn’t have the funds to do that, so the draft really became our lifeblood. I had a chance to watch Ozzie and [former director of player personnel] Phil Savage before me and see how those guys operated and see the value of the draft and what that does for a franchise, what that does for a community and how that also allows you to be competitive every single year, regardless of the salary cap. So, for us, it works.
“There are a lot of different ways to do it, certainly. I have tremendous respect for teams that have a way of doing it differently and can succeed, but for us, the draft will always be … as long as I’m here, will always be the foundation of what we do and what we believe in, and we think it works for us.”
It is hard to argue against the Ravens’ philosophy. They’ve been one of the NFL’s most consistent and top franchises since winning the Super Bowl in 2000.
But since the DeCosta era began three years ago, they haven’t been able to draft a rookie who has made a significant impact. They’ve had some success, but there hasn’t been a major difference-maker on the field and in the community except for perhaps running back J.K. Dobbins, who was taken in the second round in 2020 but missed all of last season with a knee injury.
DeCosta knows the difference a player like Jonathan Ogden, Ray Lewis, Ed Reed or Terrell Suggs can make on a franchise. The Ravens are overdue.
They have quarterback Lamar Jackson, about to enter his fifth year, but few know about his definitive long-term plans these days.
It’s a guessing game with the draft as well. The predraft luncheon is always interesting because it is filled with deception. Members of the front office staff will say some things to persuade other teams about possible picks, and it’s hard to determine the truth.
But the consensus from most of the draft experts is that this class has a surplus of pass rushers and cornerbacks and a good crop of offensive linemen and interior defenders.
The Ravens agree and didn’t rule out selecting a cornerback despite the expected returns of starters Marlon Humphrey and Marcus Peters, both of whom suffered major injuries last season.
“I think we’re definitely concerned,” DeCosta said about the cornerback depth. “We feel like Marlon is going to come back with a vengeance. We feel like Marcus is going to come back with a vengeance. But we feel like behind those two guys, the depth is thin. There are opportunities for us in the first round, second round, third round.
“Coach [John Harbaugh] has been watching the corners. We feel like we have the opportunity to take one or two corners in the draft that can come in and contribute right away, we’re excited about that.”
The same can be said about the Ravens’ lack of depth on the offensive line and the possible return of Pro Bowl left tackle Ronnie Stanley (ankle), but at least they have possible starters in Ja’Wuan James and Morgan Moses. The Ravens are desperate for pass rushers, and Florida State’s Jermaine Johnson II would form quite a pair with second-year outside linebacker Odafe Oweh.
Any one of those Georgia defensive linemen, Travon Walker or Jordan Davis, would fit nicely into the Ravens’ front line, too.
Regardless, the Ravens should be able to fare well with so many picks. The last time they made 10 selections was in 2020, and there are still a number of those picks in position to start.
But again, there were no game-changers. DeCosta hasn’t produced any with his first-round selections, including receiver Marquise Brown in 2019 and linebacker Patrick Queen in 2020.
The verdict is still out on Oweh, the No. 31 overall pick in last year’s draft, and receiver Rashod Bateman, the No. 27 overall selection. This year brings a new opportunity to find a star.
“I think the last couple years we’ve had more guys,” DeCosta said of the team’s evaluation of draft-worthy players. “I don’t know if our scouts were more optimistic or if it was just more players. But we have approximately … and it’ll change, because we have another set of meetings coming up next week, but we have about 180 players, I think, give or take, on the front board that we think are draftable players for the Ravens. That number will probably be somewhere between 170 to 195 players when it’s all said and done.”
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Of all the ways to enjoy a meatball, you could say they’re at their most comforting bobbing in broth.
Not that there’s anything wrong with spaghetti and red sauce, miso and Ritz crackers, or any of the other 45 million or so meatball variations that exist.
It’s just that spooning up a morsel of meatballs — whether they’re as tiny as marbles or as big as a baseball — in steaming soup feels immensely soothing in a tidy, calm kind of way, the very opposite of a chaotic and joyfully messy sub.
This lemony Greek meatball soup, a riff on youvarlakia avgolemono, looks especially quiet in the pot. Yet every spoonful vibrates with flavor: the brightness of citrus and dill, the depth of the chicken stock, the velvety richness of egg yolk.
In the United States, we tend to think of avgolemono as a soup made with chunks of chicken and grains of rice. But, in Greece, adding meatballs to the broth is just as traditional. This recipe substitutes ground chicken for the usual beef, making the whole thing a bit lighter. Ground turkey works just as well.
As whenever you make meatballs, using a gentle touch keeps them from turning rubbery. This is because the more you knead and press ground meat, the more it adheres to itself. While forceful kneading is essential for some recipes (like kebabs, where you want the meat to cling to its skewer so it doesn’t fall into the fire), it’s the enemy of fluffy, soft meatballs that float nicely in broth.
Here’s another tip: Chill the meatballs thoroughly before adding them to the simmering liquid to help keep them from falling apart. You can even make the meatballs a few days ahead, storing them in the refrigerator until you’re ready for soup.
But don’t try to make the avgolemono mixture much in advance. The delicate emulsion of eggs and lemon can separate as the mixture sits. It’s best whisked together, then poured directly into the broth just before serving. This egg emulsion also means that leftovers do not freeze well.
If you’re looking to add vegetables to the pot, a handful of baby spinach (or other tender greens) is excellent stirred in about five minutes before the avgolemono mixture is added. This also gives the greens a chance to soften, without any risk of curdling. Because while versatile meatballs can withstand the heat, taking care with your avgolemono is what guarantees the silkiest, most elegant broth.
Youvarlakia Avgolemono (Lemony Greek Meatball Soup)
By Melissa Clark
Avgolemono is a Greek egg and lemon mixture that’s tangy and silky, and used to thicken sauces and soups. In the United States, most versions of avgolemono soup brim with grains of rice and chunks of chicken. In this recipe, a riff on youvarlakia avgolemono, ground chicken and rice are rolled into meatballs, then simmered in the broth, making the whole thing heartier without losing the soup’s characteristic brightness. Many recipes for youvarlakia call for ground beef, and, if you like you can substitute that here. Note that because of the eggs in the broth, leftovers do not freeze well.
Yield: 4 servings
Total time: 1 hour
- 1 pound ground chicken (or ground turkey or beef), very cold
- 3/4 cup chopped fresh dill or parsley, plus more for garnish
- 1/2 cup grated yellow onion (from about 1 small onion)
- 1/4 cup grated carrot (from about 1 carrot)
- 1/4 cup uncooked long-grain rice, such as basmati or Carolina, well rinsed and drained
- 1 garlic clove, finely grated, pushed through a garlic press, or minced
- 1 teaspoon fine sea salt, plus more as needed
- 1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper, plus more as needed
- 1/2 teaspoon finely grated lemon zest
- 6 cups chicken stock
- 2 large eggs, at room temperature
- 1/3 cup fresh lemon juice (from about 2 lemons)
- Freshly grated nutmeg, for serving (optional)
1. In a large mixing bowl, combine ground chicken, 1/4 cup dill, onion, carrot, rice, garlic, salt, pepper and lemon zest. Gently mix with your hands until well combined.
2. Gently form the mixture into 24 meatballs, each about 1 1/4 inches in diameter, placing them on a plate or baking pan. Cover and chill for at least 20 minutes or up to 24 hours. This helps the meatballs keep their shape while cooking.
3. In a large pot, bring stock to a boil over high heat. Reduce to medium and use a slotted spoon to carefully add meatballs to the pot. The broth should cover the tops of the meatballs by about 1/2 inch. If not, add a little water. Simmer gently, adjusting the heat so the broth doesn’t boil, until meatballs are cooked through and rice is tender, 25 to 35 minutes. (Break open a meatball to test it.) Remove pot from heat.
4. In a medium bowl, whisk together eggs and lemon juice until just mixed. Slowly add a ladle of warm broth to egg-lemon mixture, whisking constantly. Whisk in another two ladles of broth to temper the egg mixture.
5. Slowly drizzle the egg-lemon mixture back into the pot with the meatballs, stirring gently so you don’t break apart the meatballs. Return the pot to medium-low heat until it just starts to simmer. (Wait for a bubble or two to appear, but don’t let the pot boil.) The broth should be silky. Remove from heat, stir in remaining 1/2 cup dill. Taste and add salt and pepper, if needed. (It may need quite a bit of salt if you are starting with unsalted broth.) Garnish with nutmeg, if you like, and dill, and serve.
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I am not Muslim. So when I thought about Iftar, I’m afraid I had some misconceptions.
Iftar is the evening meal that breaks the daily fast during the month of Ramadan. The ninth month of the Muslim calendar, Ramadan is a time of prayer and reflection and restraint from sin and pleasures of the flesh. The holy month begins with the first sighting of the crescent moon, around April 2, and ends around May 2.
Those Muslims who are able are obligated to refrain from eating and drinking between dawn and sundown every day throughout the month. The predawn meal, called suhur, is counted on to provide energy to get through the day. The evening meal, iftar, is meant to satisfy the day’s hunger.
I had assumed that a certain group of dishes would be served for iftar, at least for cultural reasons if not specifically religious ones. This is why assuming is generally a bad idea. It turns out that for iftar you can serve basically whatever you feel like eating.
And now that I think about it, that makes sense. Ramadan is 29 or 30 days long, depending on the year. No one wants to eat the same few prescribed meals for that long. You could serve cheeseburgers for iftar, or a bucket of fried chicken.
Still, many families serve food from their cultural backgrounds for at least some meals during Ramadan. It’s the food they grew up with. It’s comfort food. It tastes like home.
Most of the Muslim families in the United States came from the Middle East and Southeast Asia. For my iftar meals, I focused on recipes from those regions.
I began with the familiar baba ghanoush, a smoky eggplant dip beloved throughout the Middle East — and in more recent years, throughout the world. More complex in flavors than hummus, it is served in much the same ways: with wedges of pita, as a dip for vegetables or, frankly, licked off the finger you just dunked into it.
Don’t be embarrassed. Everybody does it. The finger adds flavor.
Eggplant is the primary ingredient in baba ghanoush, of course, but what makes it so silky and addictive are the other ingredients that are blended into it: yogurt, but not too much, garlic, tahini and lemon juice.
I made it two ways, by running the eggplant under a broiler and by cooking it on a grill. If you have one, the grill is definitely the way to go — the actual smoke from the fire is far more pungent than the vaguely smoky taste that comes from charring the eggplant skin in the broiler.
If you do not have a grill, then by all means broil the eggplant. You will not be unhappy. You just won’t be in the same state of transcendent bliss that comes from cooking the eggplant on a grill.
I stayed in the Middle East for my next iftar dish, mujadarrah, which is lentils and rice with fried onions.
This is the most comforting of comfort foods. Though it is made up of only four simple ingredients, plus salt and pepper, the way they combine together is just stunning.
Mere lentils and rice, while perfectly acceptable for a dish, is a little dull. But fried onions bring unexpected depth to the flavor, along with the irresistible sweetness that comes from a long, slow caramelization.
It takes a long time to properly brown onions, but the results are spectacular. I made a double batch so I could keep some in the refrigerator until needed. Besides, the house is going to smell like onions every time you do it, anyway, so you may as well make more than you need.
The fourth and final ingredient of mujadarrah is yogurt (browned onions are made from onions and olive oil, but I’m counting it as a single ingredient). The creamy tanginess of the yogurt cuts through the umami-heavy undertones of the other ingredients. It is a masterful stroke that brings cohesion to the dish.
I’ve seen recipes that say the use of yogurt is optional. Don’t listen to them.
I headed to Southeast Asia for my next iftar dish, potato bread patties, which come to us from a food blogger in Pakistan.
These delightful little packets are a quick way to make samosas, those stuffed fried appetizers that are a must at any restaurant serving food from India, Nepal, Bangladesh and Pakistan.
The filling is the familiar potato stuffing that can be found in samosas; it’s what makes the flatbread aloo paratha so good. Plain mashed potatoes are highly spiced with coriander, cumin, turmeric and a tangy spice mixture called chaat masala (I bought it at an international food store; if you don’t want to go to the trouble you can do without it).
Into the mixture also go onion, garlic, mint, peas, lemon juice and cilantro. No single ingredient stands out; it is the singular combination of all the tastes mashed together that provides the signature note.
What makes these patties stand out is the wrapping. Instead of a dough you make yourself, then knead and then let rest for an hour, this dish uses plain old sandwich bread. You just roll it flat, place some filling in the middle and fold it over into a triangle. Dip it in egg, dredge it through breadcrumbs and fry it in hot oil.
Voilà. You’ve got yourself a potato bread patty.
I saved a main course for last, Sticky Malaysian Chicken With Pineapple Salad. Once again, the warming, comforting flavors belie how easy it is to make.
This dish has two parts — three if you count the chicken, but that’s just chicken.
The first part is the glaze for the chicken. It is a mixture of honey, soy sauce, garlic and ginger, with sesame oil, fish sauce and a chile for heat. It all comes together in a food processor in a matter of minutes.
While the glaze-covered chicken is cooking in the oven, you can make the second part of the dish, the pineapple salad. This is a remarkably refreshing concoction of pineapple, cucumber, red onion and lime juice.
The sprightly salad is a lovely contrast to the chicken, but to be honest, either part of the dish would be great on its own.
And for iftar? Nothing could be better.
BABA GHANOUSH
Yield: 6 servings
Adapted from a recipe in Saveur
- 2 (1-pound) eggplants, halved lengthwise
- 1/3 cup fresh lemon juice
- 3 tablespoons tahini
- 2 garlic cloves, minced
- 1/2 cup plain, full-fat yogurt
- Salt and pepper, to taste
- 1/4 cup extra-virgin olive oil
- 1/4 cup pomegranate seeds, see notes
- Mint leaves, for garnish, optional
Notes: Pomegranate seeds are harder to find than they used to be. I bought mine at Whole Foods. They are a lovely addition to this recipe but are not essential.
— If you do not have a grill, skip to step 2.
1. Prepare a fire in a grill. When coals are hot, prick eggplant skins all over with a fork or knife and cook on grate, turning once, until cut side is just beginning to lightly blacken and skin is charred. Let cool. Skip to step 3.
2. If you do not have a grill, heat broiler to high; prick eggplant skins with a knife or fork and place on a baking sheet on the top rack of your oven. Broil, flipping once, until the cut side is just beginning to blacken and the skin is charred. Let cool.
3. Scoop eggplant out of its skin with a large spoon, and set aside. Place lemon juice, tahini and garlic in a food processor; let sit 10 minutes. Add the reserved eggplant, yogurt, salt and pepper, and pulse until slightly smooth. Transfer to a shallow dish. Make a well on the surface and drizzle with oil. Garnish with pomegranate seeds and mint.
Per serving: 165 calories; 15 g fat; 3 g saturated fat; 3 mg cholesterol; 4 g protein; 7 g carbohydrate; 3 g sugar; 2 g fiber; 403 mg sodium; 40 mg calcium
LENTILS AND RICE WITH FRIED ONIONS (MUJADARRAH)
Yield: 4 servings
Recipe by Melissa Mueller, via allrecipes.com
- 1/4 cup olive oil
- 1 large white onion, sliced into rings
- 1 1/3 cups green lentils
- 3/4 cup uncooked long-grain white rice
- Salt and pepper to taste
- 1/2 cup plain yogurt
1. Heat the oil in a large skillet over medium heat. Stir in the onions and cook, stirring occasionally, until they turn a rich mahogany brown, about 45 minutes to 1 hour or longer. Do not allow to turn black; this will make them bitter. Browned onions can be kept in an airtight container in the refrigerator for several days or can be frozen for several months.
2. Place lentils in a medium saucepan and cover with 1 1/2 inches of lightly salted water. Bring to a boil, reduce heat and simmer about 15 minutes.
3. Add rice and enough water to cover by 1/2 inch or a little more. Add at least 1/4 teaspoon salt and pepper to taste. Bring to a boil, cover and turn heat to low. Simmer 15 to 20 minutes, until rice and lentils are tender. Let sit off the heat, covered, at least 5 minutes.
4. Add 1/2 of the onions and stir with a fork to mix well and fluff rice. Taste and season if necessary. To serve, top with remaining onions and yogurt on each portion.
Per serving: 460 calories; 10 g fat; 2 g saturated fat; 5 mg cholesterol; 22 g protein; 73 g carbohydrate; 4 g sugar; 8 g fiber; 167 mg sodium; 76 mg calcium
POTATO BREAD PATTIES
Yield: 8 servings (32 patties)
Recipe by yesicancook.pk
- 2 medium potatoes
- 1 tablespoon oil
- 1 small onion, chopped
- Salt
- 1/2 teaspoon minced garlic
- 1/2 teaspoon crushed red chiles, or to taste
- 1/4 teaspoon coriander
- 1/2 teaspoon crushed cumin seeds (or dried cumin)
- Pinch of turmeric
- 1/4 teaspoon chaat masala, see note
- 1 green chile
- 6 mint leaves, finely chopped
- 1/4 cup frozen peas
- Juice of 1/2 lemon
- 1 tablespoon cilantro leaves, chopped
- 32 slices sandwich bread
- Oil for deep frying
- 4 eggs, beaten
- 3 cups breadcrumbs
Note: Chaat masala is a spice mixture. It is available at international food markets. If you can’t find it, you can leave it out.
1. Peel potatoes and cut them into quarters. Place in boiling water and cook until tender, about 10 minutes. Drain and mash.
2. Heat oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Add onion and salt to taste, and cook until translucent, about 3 to 5 minutes. Stir in garlic and cook 30 seconds.
3. Add crushed red chiles, coriander, cumin, turmeric and chaat masala, and stir until combined. Add mashed potatoes, green chile, mint and peas, and stir until mixed well. Add lemon juice and cilantro and mix well. Remove from heat.
4. Remove crusts from bread and roll each slice with a rolling pin until thin. Place a heaping teaspoon of filling in middle of one slice. Lightly wet edges of the bread all the way around with water, fold one corner over to meet the opposite corner and form a triangle. Press sides together to seal. Repeat with remaining slices and filling.
5. Pour oil 1 1/2 inches deep in a large pot and bring to 350 degrees Fahrenheit. While it is heating, place eggs in 1 bowl and breadcrumbs in another. Dip each triangle first into eggs to coat, then into breadcrumbs to cover; remove to a plate. Fry triangles in oil a few at a time, without crowding, until golden brown on both sides. Remove to a platter lined with paper towels to drain.
Per serving: 600 calories; 13 g fat; 3 g saturated fat; 93 mg cholesterol; 20 g protein; 98 g carbohydrate; 11 g sugar; 7 g fiber; 1,211 mg sodium; 267 mg calcium
STICKY MALAYSIAN CHICKEN WITH PINEAPPLE SALAD
Yield: 4 to 5 servings
Slightly adapted from a recipe by Rachel Khoo, via food52.com
For the glaze and chicken:
- 3 garlic cloves, peeled
- 1 (1 1/4-inch) piece ginger, peeled and coarsely chopped
- 1/3 cup runny honey
- 1/3 cup light soy sauce or tamari
- 1 red chile (remove seeds if you prefer it less hot)
- 2 tablespoons sesame oil
- 2 tablespoons fish sauce
- 2 pounds chicken thighs
- 2 pounds chicken legs
- 1 tablespoon sesame seeds, toasted
For the pineapple salad:
- 1 cucumber
- 1/2 small pineapple, see note
- 1 small red onion
- 1 lime, juiced
- 1 pinch salt
Note: You can use fresh pineapple that has already been cored, or even canned pineapple if you wish.
1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees Fahrenheit.
2. To make the glaze: In a food processor, blend garlic, ginger, honey, soy sauce, chile, sesame oil and fish sauce until fairly smooth. Place the chicken pieces in a large roasting pan along with the glaze, tossing them well to coat. Roast for 45 minutes, remove from the oven and sprinkle with the toasted sesame seeds.
3. To make the salad: Halve the cucumber lengthwise; remove seeds with a spoon and discard the seeds. Slice each piece lengthwise, then slice on an angle and put in a large bowl. Chop the pineapple into small cubes and add to the bowl. Peel and thinly slice the onion. Add to bowl along with the lime juice.
4. Taste salad just before serving; add salt if necessary.
Per serving (based on 5): 310 calories; 11 g fat; 2 g saturated fat; 102 mg cholesterol; 25 g protein; 31 g carbohydrate; 24 g sugar; 1 g fiber; 1,600 mg sodium; 53 mg calcium
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PHILADELPHIA -- An additional 42 genes connected to the development of Alzheimer's disease have been uncovered in the largest study of genetic risk for Alzheimer's to date.
"This is a landmark study in the field of Alzheimer's research and is the culmination of 30 years' work," study co-author Julie Williams, center director at the UK Dementia Research Institute at Cardiff University, said in a statement.
"Lifestyle factors such as smoking, exercise and diet influence our development of Alzheimer's, and acting to address these now is a positive way of reducing risk ourselves," she added. "However, 60-80% of disease risk is based on our genetics and therefore we must continue to seek out the biological causes and develop much-needed treatments for the millions of people affected worldwide."
The previously unknown genes point to additional pathways for disease progression besides the well-known APOE e4 gene or the development of amyloid beta and tau, two hallmark proteins that build up in the brain with devastating results as Alzheimer's progresses.
"Creating an extensive list of Alzheimer's disease risk genes is like having the edge pieces of a puzzle put together, and while this work doesn't give us the full picture, it provides a valuable framework for future developments," said Susan Kohlhaas, director of research at Alzheimer's Research UK, who was not involved in the research.
A number of the newly discovered genes focus on very detailed reactions between proteins in the body that govern how inflammation and the immune system might damage brain cells, the study found.
"The new risk variants identified in the present study are significantly associated with progression" to Alzheimer's disease, says the study, published Monday in the journal Nature Genetics.
The discovery will provide scientists with potential new targets for treatments, medications and lifestyle changes that might reduce the risk of the deadly brain disease, experts say.
"The future of Alzheimer's disease is precision medicine and prevention," said Dr. Richard Isaacson, director of the Alzheimer's Prevention Clinic in the Center for Brain Health at Florida Atlantic University's Schmidt College of Medicine.
"This paper gives us so many more tools in our toolbox to, eventually, more precisely target Alzheimer's disease," said Isaacson, who was not involved in the study.
New disease pathways
The global study analyzed the genomes of 111,326 people with clinically diagnosed Alzheimer's and compared those with genes from 677,663 cognitively healthy people. The genomes were supplied by clinics in over 15 members of the European Union, Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Iceland, Nigeria, New Zealand, the UK and the United States.
The study identified 75 genes that are linked to an increased risk of Alzheimer's, 33 of which were already known. It also confirmed years of research into the roles of amyloid beta and tau.
Of the 42 new genes found to be connected to Alzheimer's, many clustered into several suspected but unconfirmed pathways for disease development. One such pathway is the body's immune system, designed to protect us from germ invaders.
A number of genes were associated with an immune regulator called LUBAC, which the body needs to activate genes and prevent cell death. The study also found that microglia, immune cells in the brain that are tasked with "taking out the trash" -- clearing away damaged neurons -- play a key role in people with diagnosed Alzheimer's disease.
Some of the newly discovered genes may cause microglia to be less efficient, "which could accelerate the disease," Williams said.
Another key pathway, according to the study, involves genes associated with inflammation. The body uses inflammation as a defense mechanism to kill off pathogens, but it also plays a role in removing damaged cells.
One protein that stood out in the study was tumor necrosis factor alpha, which is made by the immune system to regulate inflammation. The study found a cluster of genes associated with TNF, as it is called. Though the chemical's true role is to gather the body's defenses for a fight, it is also a culprit in many autoimmune diseases in which the body turns upon itself, such as rheumatoid and psoriatic arthritis, Crohn's disease and type 1 diabetes.
Additional complicated gene interactions were found by the study, all of which illustrate that "Alzheimer's disease is a multifactorial disease, made up of different pathologies, and each person has their own road," Isaacson said.
"Clinicians always say, 'once you've seen one person with Alzheimer's, you've seen one person with Alzheimer's.' The disease presents differently and progresses differently in different people," he said.
A common cause?
Another key insight of the study was that brain disorders such as Parkinson's, frontotemporal dementia, Lewy body disease and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis may have the same underlying genetic basis: "Taken as a whole, these data may thus emphasize a potential continuum between neurodegenerative diseases," the study said.
"The scientific and medical community view neurodegenerative disease processes as very different and distinct, and that's how we've been studying them for a long time," said Dr. Kellyann Niotis, a neurologist specializing in Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease prevention at Weill Cornell Medicine and NewYork-Presbyterian.
"This emphasizes that there may be a larger continuum between these disease processes than we really understood before," said Niotis, who was not involved in the study.
"Young people may have similar underlying genetic risks, and they might lead to Parkinson's in one person and Alzheimer's in the other," she said. "In reality, it is less relevant. What matters is understanding that this is what is going wrong in their body, so let's start early and target this pathway."
By generating this more complete picture of genetic risk -- which needs to be fleshed out and defined in future studies -- the study authors also developed "a new scoring system to predict the risk of Alzheimer's disease," Tara Spires-Jones, deputy director of the Centre for Discovery Brain Sciences at the University of Edinburgh, said in a statement.
"This tool will be useful for researchers but will not likely be used any time soon for people who are not participating in clinical trials," said Spires-Jones, who was not involved in the study.
Clinician researchers like Isaacson and Niotis know that a tool like that is precisely what patients want who are worried about their brain health.
"People want to know, 'what are my chances?' and then 'what can I do about it?' " Isaacson said. "Not today, but in the near future, we'll be able to calculate a person's likelihood of developing Alzheimer's or another brain disorder in a more precise way, and that will help with precision medical and lifestyle management."
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42 previously unknown genes discovered for Alzheimer's disease in 'landmark study'
"This is a landmark study in the field of Alzheimer's research and is the culmination of 30 years' work," the co-author said.
ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE
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KNIGHTDALE, N.C. (WTVD) -- A man posing as a pastor scammed an older man out of $10,000, according to Knightdale Police Department.
Investigators released a photo of the accused scammer.
Knightdale Police Department hopes someone can help them identify the man, so they can bring him to justice.
The picture shows the man leaving the State Employees Credit Union on North Smithfield Road. Investigators said that's where at around 1:15 p.m. Tuesday he made off with $10,000 that did not belong to him.
Anyone who recognizes the man in the photo should call police at 919-217-2261.
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FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. -- A new park is now open in Fayetteville.
Montclair Neighborhood School Park had its ribbon cutting ceremony Tuesday.
The new park can be used by students while school is in session or by anyone during after school hours.
The park covers 4.25 acres near Cross Creek Mall. It has a playground with several slides, a picnic shelter, a walking train and six basketball goals.
The park can also be accessed by FAST bus route 15.
Voters in 2016 approved the Parks and Recreation bond project. That project is responsible for the $300,000 it took to build the park.
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Frank Dumas won a trip to Washington D.C. to compete in the spelling bee after winning the Duke Regional Spelling Bee.
Bethesda Principal Dr. Shaneeka Moore-Lawrence had the honor of notifying fourth-grader Frank Dumas that he has advanced to the national Scripps Spelling Bee on June 2 in Washington, D.C. Frank will join 200 other regional winners in the competition. Congratulations! #DPSProud pic.twitter.com/RJjcmu3Xa2
— Durham Public Schools (@DurhamPublicSch) March 30, 2022
Frank's mother challenged him and his twin sister to take their education a step further after she saw them studying Spanish and French words in Duolingo. The siblings were using the language app to uncover new words and learn about their spellings and etymology.
"I challenged them to step out of their comfort zone," their mother recalled.
Frank really took to the challenge because, in his words, "I thought that I could do it." And do it he did, he's now landed himself among a pool of just 200 peers across the country who earned the privilege to participate in this year's spelling bee.
The success is no surprised to Frank's fourth grade teacher Nicole Thompson.
"Frank is extremely hard-working, always putting 100 percent into his work. He really is a team player. He wants everyone to do well together," she said.
"He doesn't like to mess up so he will put in a lot of effort to study and come up with strategies that help him reach his goals. He's always seeking to find out how he can overcome any challenges that he faces so he can be successful," Frank's mother said.
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Arizona Puppies
Bodycam video showed police officers in Glendale, Arizona saving a litter of puppies who were trapped inside on Monday.
Police arrived at the scene around 2 a.m. and were told by neighbors that puppies were inside the garage.
Officers used a shovel to pry open the garage door and followed the sound of the crying pups.
They found a dog and her seven puppies cowering and crying just feet away from the flames.
Officers scooped them up and carried them out to safety.
The pups were suffering from smoke inhalation. They were given oxygen and taken to the vet for treatment.
Sadly, one of the pups did not make it.
The homeowners were not at home at the time.
The Glendale Fire Department says the fire was believed to have been started by a swamp cooler that malfunctioned.
California Puppies
Another litter of puppies was recovered from a burning home in Coalinga, California.
Fire crews were called out to a home Monday when one of the firefighters heard yelping.
They discovered six puppies.
Paramedics quickly gave them oxygen and bandaged their singed paws.
When they were unable to contact the residents of the home, crews drove the puppies to a vet hospital more than 80 miles from Coalinga to make sure they would get the care they needed.
Authorities say once the puppies are medically cleared, they will be reunited with their owners.
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Scheduled for its debut to the general public April 21 at the Oklahoma History Center is the second volume of award-winning author John J. Dwyer’s history of Oklahoma, "The Oklahomans: The Story of Oklahoma and Its People."
The first volume, which ran from prehistoric times to statehood, was awarded the Will Rogers Medallion Award, with retired Oklahoma government and history professor Dr. James Caster lauding it “as fine a treatment of the subject and period as we are likely to witness in our lifetime.”
If anything, the second volume, which picks up the story at statehood and takes it up to the present with the COVID pandemic, is even better.
I have carefully read both volumes, as I was the general editor for both works. John and I were both journalism students at Duncan High School in the 1970s.
Oklahoma’s history comes alive in the hands of Dwyer, an historian and a novelist. While Dwyer makes good use of the novelist’s craft to make this 600-page book a page-turner, he does not accomplish this at the expense of the historical facts.
His treatment of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre — or War, as Dwyer calls it, or Riot as it has also often been termed — makes the reader feel almost like he is there as the progressive Black section of Tulsa, Greenwood, is virtually destroyed.
One can feel the tension mounting as respected African American deputy Barney Cleaver gamely tried to assure the crowd of armed Black residents outside the jailhouse that accused rapist Dick Rowland was perfectly safe on the top floor of the courthouse, as armed deputies were protecting him and the elevator to get to that floor was disabled.
Dwyer’s choice of “war” to describe the tragic events is appropriate for the early part of the unhappy episode, as many of the men, of both races, were veterans of the recent Great War we now call World War I.
In the next war, World War II, Oklahoma’s 45th Division of Thunderbirds liberated Dachau. Other tragic events Oklahoma history are also covered — the dust bowl, the Murrah bombing and the elementary teachers who shielded their young pupils with their own bodies when an F-5 tornado struck in Moore.
The Oklahoma oil industry’s history is well-documented with such names as Erle P. Halliburton, Robert S. Kerr and Phillips and Conoco. Readers will be amazed at the oil boom, followed by the oil bust and the collapse of Penn Square Bank in 1982.
The story of Norman’s own oil tycoon, Robert McFarlin, is detailed with his philanthropic endeavors, which included the building of McFarlin Methodist Church.
Political scandals — the county commissioner scandal, for example — are well-covered, along with the impeachment and removal of two Oklahoma governors in the 1920s, and how both men tried to prevent the legislature from meeting.
The end of legal segregation, the role Oklahoma played in the space and many other inspiring stories mark this book. This is a book you will read, and probably re-read, for years to come.
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Norman Animal Welfare Pets of the Week: Bonnie and Clyde
Bonnie & Clyde are highlighted this week! They are pure Blue heelers, 9 months old and Black Roan.
Bonnie is a female and weighs 35 lbs. Clyde is a male and weighs 43 lbs.
They are both available for adoption at the Norman Animal Welfare Shelter, 3428 Jenkins Ave. in Norman, pet ID 22070. Contact the shelter at 405-292-9736 or animal.welfare@normanok.gov to set up an appointment.
Bonnie's pet ID is 22187; Clyde's is 22186.
Second Chance Pet of the Week: Lviv
Lviv is ready for a change of scenery. Lviv enjoys car rides that end in chicken nuggies. He is great in the car, but will want to sniff out all the treats from his window. Lviv is eager to please and ready to learn anything, with the help of some treats of course. He can get distracted from commands if he hears sudden noises, but promises to do tricks once he figures out the noise.
This sensitive pup loves to be with other dogs and cats, but will leave the cats alone if they hurt his feelings. Lviv always wants to be by your side as he is very gentle and gives great kisses. Lviv is ready to sit by you and enjoy the view.
All of our adoptable pets are spayed or neutered, microchipped, given age appropriate vaccines and are current on their flea, tick and heartworm prevention. All dogs are heartworm negative and all cats are tested negative for FIV/FELV prior to hitting our adoption floor. Already have a dog? Bring 'em by for a meet and great with our adoption candidates. Our trained matchmakers love playdates, and it's a great way to make sure everyone gets along at home too.
Stop by our facility noon to 5 p.m. Wednesday to Sunday to meet any of our adoptable friends. Our address is 4500 24th Ave. NW, Norman, OK 73069.
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CAUGHT ON CAMERA: Ax-wielding man attacks drummer in California
CANYON CO., Calif. (KCAL/KCBS) - A shocking incident was caught on camera in California: A man says he was playing his drums along one of the trails in Canyon County when an ax-wielding man came out of nowhere.
In an instant, Andy Torres’ Saturday morning jam session turned violent.
The man struck the drumkit several times, frightening the 36-year-old musician.
“He just came up swinging already,” Torres said. “He didn’t announce himself or say get out of the way. Or, ‘Are you making the noise?’ No, he knew what he was going to do. I happened to just get out of the way.”
Torres says after the man nearly destroyed the drumkit, he threatened him again.
“It took everything in me not to want to launch at the guy, but I knew I couldn’t do that,” he said.
The attack was recorded on his GoPro camera.
It’s not shown in the video, but Torres says the man also pulled a gun on him.
As soon as he announced that he recorded the entire violent outburst on video, the man appears to change his attitude.
He turned and left, but not before Torres caught images of the man’s car and license plate.
Speaking at Todd Longshore Park near the scene of the attack, he says since the incident he’s been struggling emotionally.
“I get stuck thinking about that, and I have to pull myself out of it,” Torres said. “I know I will move ahead, because look I’m still here.”
Torres said he has been learning the drums for a while. He comes to the park at sunrise and sunset to play while wearing a mask as part of his persona.
Before the ax attack, no one had complained about the noise. He says this will not ruin his love for music, and he will find a way to fix the drums.
“It’s not destroyed. They’ll have to do better than that,” he said.
Torres says he’s filed a police report and turned over the video. He shared it in hopes someone turns the man in, since it’s a place a lot of parents bring their kids.
Copyright 2022 KCAL/KCBS via CNN Newsource. All rights reserved.
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SALISBURY, Mass. — A second woman charged in connection with a mid-day street fight on Broadway nearly two years ago avoided jail time Monday after admitting to a Newburyport District Court judge she could be found guilty by a jury.
Neyleisha Marquez, 21, of Framingham, was charged with disorderly conduct, affray (fighting in a public place in a way that disturbs the peace) and assault and battery. The first two offenses were continued without a finding for six months while the assault and battery charge was dismissed.
In early March, her combatant, Isis Dominguez, 22, of Fitchburg,- pleaded guilty in the same courthouse to disorderly conduct and affray and was ordered to pay $300 in fees and fines. Her assault and battery charge was dismissed.
The May 27, 2020, fight was shot on video and quickly posted on social media. Within hours, the video garnered more than 11,000 views. The brawl took place during an extremely busy day at Salisbury Beach that, despite stringent COVID-19 restrictions in place at the time, drew a slew of people from New Hampshire and Massachusetts.
About 1:15 p.m. that day, police responded to an "active fight" next to beach pizza stands on Broadway.
By the time then-Detective Keith Forget and others responded, the fight had broken up. As Forget looked for witnesses, a woman told him that one of the combatants wanted to speak to an officer.
Forget and then-Sgt. Richard Dellaria spoke to the woman, who turned out to be Dominguez. She told the officers she was jumped by Marquez as she and her friends were walking on Broadway.
"When we asked who else was involved, Isis stated that she did not know. It was obvious that Isis did not want to cooperate with the police or provide us any useful information in the investigation," Forget wrote in his report.
By 4 p.m., police had seen a video of what was described as a "violent struggle" posted online and quickly recognized Dominguez. The other participant was later identified as Marquez, according to police.
The video shows Dominguez assuming a combat stance and trying to pick a fight with Marquez. After a few minutes of taunting each other, Marquez took the first swing.
"A violent fight then ensued where Isis and Neyleisha were assaulting and battering each other in a tumultuous, reckless and disorderly manner by punching, kicking and pulling each other's hair. They were being cheered on and almost refereed and coached by their family members, friends and bystanders," Forget wrote in his report.
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Pope Francis holds the Ukrainian flag that was sent to him from the town of Bucha where tied bodies were shot at close range, a mass grave and other signs of executions were found, during the weekly general audience at the Paul VI Hall at the Vatican on Wednesday.
VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis on Wednesday condemned "the massacre of Bucha" and held up a Ukrainian flag sent to him from the town where tied bodies shot at close range, a mass grave and other signs of executions were found.
"Recent news from the war in Ukraine, instead of bringing relief and hope, brought new atrocities, such as the massacre of Bucha," he said at the end of his weekly audience in the Vatican's auditorium.
"Cruelty that is increasingly horrendous, even against civilians, defenseless women and children. They are victims whose innocent blood cries out up to heaven and implores: 'Stop this war! Let the weapons fall silent! Stop sowing death and destruction'," he said.
The Kremlin said on Tuesday that Western allegations Russian forces committed war crimes by executing civilians in Bucha were a "monstrous forgery" aimed at denigrating the Russian army.
"Yesterday, precisely from Bucha, they brought me this flag," he said, unfolding it and holding it up for the audience of several thousand, which broke into applause. The flag looked darkened and stained and had writing on it.
"It comes from the war, precisely from that martyred city, Bucha," he said, before asking a group of children war refugees who arrived on Tuesday from Ukraine to come up to him.
"These children had to flee in order to arrive in a safe land. This is the fruit of war. Let's not forget them and let's not forget the Ukrainian people," he said, before giving each child a gift of a chocolate Easter egg.
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How would you spend $3 billion in NJ?
New Jersey government hasn't been this flush with cash since, well, ever.
Billions of dollars in federal pandemic relief funds have been flowing into the Garden State. So much of it, in fact, lawmakers and Gov. Phil Murphy haven't been able to spent it all.
As legislative budget hearings continue this week, who controls all that money has become a source of increasing tension between Murphy and fellow Democrats.
There is over $3 billion in unspent relief money.
An agreement was struck in this current budget that the legislature and Murphy would jointly control distribution of that money, with the Joint Budget and Oversight Committee having to approve any spending.
However, lawmakers are furious at what they see as a power grab by the governor. His new budget proposal erases the oversight and any accountability Murphy would have to the legislature for how he chooses to spend the federal funds.
That made for an uncomfortable appearance before the senate budget committee for Murphy's treasurer, Elizabeth Muoio.
Muoio stumbled as she was pressed hard by chairman Paul Sarlo (D-Bergen) to account for the money and why the oversight language was removed from the proposed budget.
Sarlo told the treasurer Senate President Nicholas Scutari (D-Linden) was not happy to learn the language was removed, and neither was he.
The budget chairman was then more direct, telling Muoio oversight was a "non-negotiable item," and budget talks would stop until it was restored.
Having the extra money has become more critical amid already record spending in the proposed budget. With inflationary pressures potentially impacting the state's sluggish economic recovery and the very real threat of a recession, a solid reserve would ensure continued solvency.
Yet few are talking about keeping the money in reserve. Democrats and Republicans are eager to spend it, they just can't agree how. GOP lawmakers want to use it to stimulate the economy to try and stave off recession. Democrats seems to favor increasing social programs, but that creates recurring spending that could be difficult to support if the economy slows down.
Lawmakers and the governor have until July 1 to enact a new spending plan.
Eric Scott is the senior political director and anchor for New Jersey 101.5. You can reach him at eric.scott@townsquaremedia.com
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Republican primary opponents pounced Tuesday on 1st Congressional District candidate Matt Mowers after voting records showed he voted in two different states during the 2016 presidential primary cycle.
Even 2020 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton weighed in, accusing Mowers, an aide in former President Donald Trump’s State Department, of committing voter fraud despite the national GOP’s use of that claim as a “flimsy pretense” to restrict voting.
“Republican officials are so determined to transform voter fraud from a flimsy pretense for suppressing votes to an actual phenomenon, they keep committing it themselves,” Clinton posted on Twitter.
Election records show Mowers, state director of 2016 presidential candidate Chris Christie’s campaign, voted in the New Hampshire primary by absentee ballot in February 2016.
Christie dropped out a day after his disappointing sixth-place finish here.
Mowers left the state and returned to his native New Jersey, gave his parents’ address to register to vote there in March and then voted for Donald Trump in New Jersey’s presidential primary on June 7.
Federal law bars voting more than once in any election, including in separate states for the same contest like a presidential primary, but the statute of limitations for voter fraud is five years, which has run out in this case.
When the Associated Press first reported on Mowers’ voting record, the candidate didn’t comment other than to issue a campaign statement that didn’t directly address the issue. Meanwhile a lawyer connected with the campaign belittled the controversy.
But after the story surfaced Tuesday, Republican foes Karoline Leavitt of Hampton, Gail Huff Brown of Rye, Timothy Baxter of Seabrook and Julian Acciard of Salem all attacked Mowers.
“My opponent @mowers potentially violated election law and he is hiding behind his attorney, calling the report ‘silly,’” said Leavitt, who served in Trump’s White House communications office.
“This is a very, very serious allegation. Election integrity matters. Voters deserves truth and @mowers owes them an honest answer.”
Integrity questioned
Brown said the GOP would abandon a signature issue if it nominates Mowers to challenge U.S. Rep. Chris Pappas again this November. The Manchester Democrat beat Mowers by 5% in 2020.
“The Republican Party is the party of election integrity, and we cannot nominate someone who has engaged in voter fraud and expect to be taken seriously on the topic,” Brown said. “We can do better.”
Mowers responded Tuesday afternoon with a detailed defense against the claim he had broken federal election law.
“I was proud to work for President Trump as the GOP establishment was working to undermine his nomination and accepted a job with his campaign in 2016, registered to vote and casted my vote in accordance with the law, and served as an elected Trump delegate to the Republican National Convention,” Mowers said in his statement.
“I was proud to be part of the historic effort to prevent Hillary Clinton from re-entering the White House, and we shouldn’t be surprised she’s joined in smearing my record.”
The Mowers campaign said New Jersey law requires someone to live in the state 30 days before voting, which he did.
“Being young and mobile is not a crime in New Hampshire and the fact is he had a lease at the time and had clearly established an intention to stay in the Granite State for the foreseeable future means that he easily met the requirements to cast a ballot in our elections,” said state Rep. Ross Berry, R-Manchester.
The Mowers campaign said the candidate moved to take a job with Trump’s campaign and ended up as a full-time national field coordinator and director of battleground states working at Trump Tower in Manhattan.
‘Raises a huge question mark’
Like other GOP contenders in this race, Mowers said voter fraud is a legitimate concern and he supports legislation to conduct audits to confirm election results.
“We need to make sure we have confidence in our elections,” Mowers told WMUR in January. “It is one of the most sacred obligations that we have.”
Former Democratic Party Chairman Kathy Sullivan of Manchester called the controversy a “game-changer” that could cost Mowers a Trump endorsement.
“It’s so hypocritical and raises a huge question mark about his judgment or lack thereof and his sincerity when he talks about voting,” Sullivan said.
“I think it’s a huge game-changer because it reveals him to be the arrogant phony that leading Democrats have always known he is.”
Possible reason offered
Others contend there is another legal defense for Mowers’ actions: June 7, 2016 was also the date New Jersey held its state primary election for other elective offices, large and small, up and down the ballot.
“You can make the argument that’s not the same election if, in addition to Trump, you are voting for candidates for state rep or Congress who might have solicited you to vote for them,” said Greg Moore, state director of Americans for Prosperity, a fiscally conservative group that has taken no position in the 1st District race.
Wayne Lesperance, provost with New England College, said the matter is a potential “vulnerability” Mowers needed to confront.
“On paper, you can imagine the attack ads the Democrats will run if this has any legs,” he began.
But Lesperance said it remains to be seen whether this is a significant controversy that deeply harms his chances for a primary victory.
“It would strike me as highly unlikely that Matt Mowers would intentionally vote illegally,” Lesperance said.
“It would be such a reckless decision to do otherwise for a young man who, by 2016, obviously had a bright political future.”
The story emerged the morning after former United Nations ambassador and South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley campaigned here for Mowers.
Mowers has already won the endorsement of five Republican state senators.
“All the other candidates aren’t getting any traction right now,” Lesperance said.
“The real goal for Matt Mowers is how to make this a one-day story, and that may be by plainly addressing it once, and then moving on.”
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Watch: Daring ladder rescue by Millville, NJ, firefighters
With fire and smoke blocking their exit from an apartment in Millville, a family of four knew they were running out of time.
Thick smoke was coming into their living space just after midnight on Monday.
Fire fighters were on the scene, but their way into the apartment was also blocked.
In a dramatic rescue caught on video by a neighbor, and posted to the Millville Fire Department Facebook page, a ladder was raised to the window of the apartment, and two of Millville's bravest coaxed the terrified family outside.
The rescue included two small children, who were carried down the ladder to safety. Smoke can be seen billowing out of the window as the family exited.
Firefighter Kevin Hall told 6 ABC Action News that he had trained for this type of rescue, but it was his first time every doing it for real. His goal was to keep himself calm, and keep the family calm as they exited the window.
All four family members were treated for smoke inhalation.
Fire officials say by keeping the apartment door closed, the family prevented the fire from spreading and bought enough time for a rescue.
There is no word on what caused the fire.
Eric Scott is the senior political director and anchor for New Jersey 101.5. You can reach him at eric.scott@townsquaremedia.com
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A decade ago, David Baldwin wrote his first $5,000 check to the Academy Prep Center of St. Petersburg.
Lacey Nash Miller, the academy’s director of development, didn’t recognize Baldwin’s name. But she invited him to a breakfast, thinking he might want to learn more and become a regular donor. That’s exactly what happened. By the time he died at 96 in March 2021, Baldwin was giving about $17,000 per year, enough to fund a scholarship.
Miller didn’t know if Baldwin would leave Academy Prep a bequest. But he was a man of some means, so she thought he might. Something like $10,000, she thought, “would be lovely.”
Last month, the check came in from Baldwin’s estate: $9.5 million. By far the largest gift in Academy Prep’s history.
“I’ve never even seen that number on paper and it’s been real,” Miller said.
It was real. And there was more where that came from.
A year after Baldwin’s death, his estate last month began pouring an estimated $63 million into a half-dozen Tampa Bay nonprofits — in several cases becoming the largest single donation in the organization’s history.
“We had no idea the generosity, the scale, the scope of it,” said Tim Marks, CEO of Metropolitan Ministries, which got more than $9 million. “We see this gift as being transformational, but also one that’s going to have an impact for years if not decades to come.”
The St. Petersburg Free Clinic received $9.5 million, and R’Club Child Care Inc. received around $6 million. Community Action Stops Abuse received a “generous” and “meaningful” donation, said CEO Lariana Forsythe, but the organization declined to disclose the amount. Lighthouse of Pinellas also received a donation; calls there were not returned.
To put the bequests in perspective: The two most recent Tampa Bay grants from philanthropist Mackenzie Scott, one of the world’s wealthiest people, were for $11 million and $7.5 million, both to local chapters of Habitat for Humanity. Baldwin’s gifts to Tampa Bay organizations are in that range.
“It’s an astounding amount of money,” said R’Club executive director Debra Ballinger. “I think we’re in a state of shock. It’s just an amazing gift. We’re a small local charity, and we’re so happy.”
Baldwin also left a substantial amount to his own foundation, which since 2014 has been managed by the Community Foundation of Tampa Bay. That group’s president and CEO, Marlene Spalten, declined to say how much he left, but said it would be invested and dispersed “over the years to organizations along the same lines as what David cared about.”
In all, Miller said that according to Baldwin’s trust, some $63 million has been given out thus far.
“He knew exactly what he was doing,” Miller said. “None of us did. But I think he scouted out different nonprofits in the area that aligned with his values and things that he felt were important. We are one of seven organizations that he put in his estate, and it’s an unbelievable, transformational gift.”
Baldwin was known in local philanthropic circles, Spalten said, but to most of the world, he carried himself with little pretense. He showed up to nonprofit events in an old Lincoln Town Car, but even into his 90s, he liked to bike around St. Petersburg when he could. He played bridge, drank red wine and gin martinis and loved a good, cheap meal.
Debbie Sokolov, the St. Pete Free Clinic’s former director of development, who became a close friend — she inherited and still cares for his cat Louise — recalled one meal with Baldwin at Munch’s Sundries where the total bill came out to $9. He was particularly pleased by that, she said.
“He was sort of a secret millionaire,” said Sokolov, now the director of development at the James Museum of Western and Wildlife Art. “You wouldn’t think he had two pennies to rub together. He had, in his closet, I think five pieces of clothing. His furniture was tattered. I had no idea, really.”
Baldwin came into philanthropy from a career in electronics. A New Hampshire native and Case Western Reserve University graduate with a master’s from Columbia, he had developed a bit of microwave radio technology that didn’t fit in with the work he was doing for his then-employer, so he used $4,000 of his own money to start his own company in his basement. Before long, he sold that company for seven figures and started another successful software company.
He and his wife, Virginia, who died in 2008, donated millions over the years to Case Western Reserve, most recently by redirecting $4 million from a previous grant to fund a new interdisciplinary program. But it was in their adopted home of St. Petersburg that Baldwin became a more visible part of the philanthropic landscape.
“He wanted to give his money away,” Sokolov said, “and he wanted to be around to see it.”
Most of his local giving started relatively small, Spalten said, as he researched causes he thought good fits. But there were exceptions. About nine years ago, he gave the St. Pete Free Clinic a then-undisclosed amount — $1.5 million, Sokolov said recently — to fund a shelter named the Virginia and David Baldwin Women’s Residence. He quietly gave another $500,000 shortly thereafter, Sokolov said. And in 2019, he made a rare public donation, giving the clinic $1 million to establish an endowment.
“He had a real soft heart for people that had a challenging life, and especially women and girls,” Spalten said. “He had earned the money, and now he had the fun of watching that money make a difference in people’s lives. It meant a lot to him and made him a happy person, because he was that way; people wanted to be around him.”
In 2014, he handed management of the David and Virginia Baldwin Foundation over to the Community Foundation — not an uncommon move for philanthropists who no longer have the time or capacity to manage the day-to-day business of their nonprofits, Spalten said. The Community Foundation vetted charities, distributed payments and took charge of compliance; while Baldwin was free to direct money, attend breakfasts and luncheons and check in on projects close to his heart — which he often did, right up until the pandemic.
“He was just a very quiet, humble, kind man, and he really enjoyed the kids,” said R’Club’s Ballinger. “He loved seeing what was happening with the children, and wanted to see that they had a good trajectory for life.”
David and Virginia Baldwin had three children of their own. The family and the estate’s trust officer did not respond to requests for an interview placed through the Community Foundation.
It can take months to liquidate a donor’s investments to prepare for posthumous giving, Spalten said, which is why Baldwin’s bequests are just now being dispersed. That delay contributed to the shock recipients felt at the size of each gift. Some aren’t yet sure what to do with the money. Others aren’t sure how to respond publicly, fearing it could lead other donors to send their money elsewhere.
At Academy Prep, Baldwin’s gift will fund a new endowment “safeguarding us and ensuring that we are here to stay,” Miller said. At Metropolitan Ministries, directors will use it “as an investment in the long-term sustainability in our work,” Marks said.
“You don’t ever plan for a gift that size,” Marks said. “It will sustain us for years if not decades to come, to do things and help more people and more communities. We know our community is hurting, but we will make a long-term investment strategy with these funds to whatever is on the horizon for us. We now know that we have capital dollars and operational dollars to do things that maybe we wouldn’t have been able to do.”
Spalten said Baldwins’ gift to his own nonprofit at the Community Foundation will be invested and paid out over time to causes he held dear. She said it was “too early to say” if additional gifts in the $6 million to $10 million range would be coming. But she is well aware of the impact such gifts would have.
“It causes leadership to pause and think bigger, like, ‘OK, now we don’t have to come from scarcity, but from abundance,’” she said. “All sorts of solutions emerge that you don’t dare think of when you’re scratching for every nickel to keep the doors open.”
The gifts, Spalten said, should enable these causes to “leapfrog” recurring roadblocks and think bigger, potentially even about solving some of the core issues at the heart of what they do.
“What we always hope is that the leadership of the organization takes full advantage of that opportunity and decides creatively and wisely how they can be different now as a result of this,” she said. “That’s what David would want for them.”
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Wednesday NJ weather: From wet to dry to wet again
The Bottom Line
It's raining. It's pouring. Our soggy, unsettled weather week has really ramped up here. One batch of soaking rain is pushing through New Jersey as I type this Wednesday morning. The wet weather will make for a very wet ride to work or school, and some spots have already picked up over an inch in the bucket.
After this first batch of rain wraps up around late morning, we'll catch a dry period of almost 24 hours. Then our next storm system will once again drive in pouring rain, although with some rumbles of thunder.
If you're looking to see the sun again, you'll have to wait until Friday. That will be the start of a brighter, drier, and (eventually) warmer weather pattern.
Wednesday
As of this writing (6 a.m.), it is pouring across all corners of New Jersey. We have several more hours of wet weather ahead for Wednesday morning. While there may be some big puddles impeding your AM commute, widespread flooding is not an issue. Nor are big wind gusts or severe weather.
I expect rain to taper off between about 9 a.m. and Noon, generally from southwest to northeast.
Wednesday afternoon will be dry. It is going to stay cloudy and a bit "blah". Temperatures will climb from the 40s early on, into the mid 50s through the afternoon. (Almost identical to the last two days.)
Wednesday night looks mainly dry too. I could see a few rain showers clipping NW NJ after Midnight. Otherwise, it will be cool and mostly cloudy, with patchy fog possible. Lows will dip into the mid 40s by Thursday morning.
Thursday
Another super soaker. I wouldn't call it a "total" washout, as we'll catch some pockets of dry weather (especially early and late). But your outdoor plans during the daytime hours are going to be in serious trouble.
Expect periods of rain from mid-morning Thursday through at least early evening. There will almost certainly be pockets of heavy stuff out there. And probably some rumbles of thunder developing in the afternoon and evening hours. (I am somewhat concerned about severe wind gusts developing late-day too.)
By the end of Thursday's rain, we'll have a fresh inch or two of rainfall in the bucket. That will give us a grand total of 2 to 3 inches for most of the state for the week. Very good news, given our drought concerns - reservoirs and vegetation are getting a nice, long drink this week.
Friday
Finally turning brighter, drier, and warmer.
I can't rule out a stray shower or two, especially in the early morning and late evening hours. Friday daytime looks good. Partly sunny, with a light breeze. High temperatures should push into the lower 60s. It has the potential to be our nicest day of the week.
The Weekend & Beyond
I like what I see for the weekend too, although a few raindrops may clip the state from the northwest early Saturday. Both Saturday and Sunday will feature a mix of sun and clouds, with barely-below-normal high temps somewhere in the 50s.
If you're craving warmer, spring-tastic temperatures, you'll like the forecast for next week. 60s on Monday, 70s on Tuesday. Mainly dry weather should make for a nice stretch of weather heading into the big Passover/Easter holiday weekend.
Dan Zarrow is Chief Meteorologist for Townsquare Media New Jersey. Follow him on Facebook or Twitter for the latest forecast and realtime weather updates.
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WINCHESTER, Ind. — Police in Winchester, Indiana alerted the public about a man suspected of messaging and texting an underage decoy.
In a Facebook post, police said they were seeking information on Zachary Thomas. They said Thomas is believed to have sent sexually explicit photos of himself to a decoy posing as a 14-year-old.
According to the post, Thomas had also “taken significant steps in meeting the decoy in person.”
Police also shared text messages between Thomas and the decoy where he said he was 27. When asked if he minded if the decoy was 14, he responded, “Lol ok and yes I’m ok with it.”
Any information can be sent to Capt. Bradley Cottrell at bradley.cottrell@winchester-in.gov or by telephone at (765)584-6845 ext. 2002.
In a comment on the Facebook post, the department said, “We would like to thank the community for a flood of information. We have the information that we needed.”
Thomas has not been charged with anything.
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Easter is just a few days away!
If you don’t know what to fill your kids baskets with that’s not candy, Britt Baker talks with toy expert Chris Byrne to talk about the perfect toys for Easter baskets!
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If you don’t know what to fill your kids baskets with that’s not candy, Britt Baker talks with toy expert Chris Byrne to talk about the perfect toys for Easter baskets!
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SPEEDWAY, Ind. – IMS and MJJ Recruiting are hosting a hiring event Saturday to look for more diverse candidates to work the Indy 500 and events leading up to it.
They are looking for more minorities and people who are underrepresented in racing.
They are looking to fill around 500 positions. Jobs include IMS safety patrol, maintenance, parking operations, ushers and more.
They want to encourage a more diverse crowd to come to the race, and they say that starts with staffing.
“It’s important to start with staffing cause that’s where it all starts at. And that creates a culture, and that culture leaks out into the rest of society,” said MJJ recruiting partner James Waldon Jr.
“We’re trying to get organizations and individuals involved that normally wouldn’t have had access to this opportunity because they didn’t know about it. And we just want to help aid their race to equality and change.”
The hiring event is this Saturday from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the New Direction Church’s east campus. The pastor of the church says this is important for them to help with.
“I think it’s important to get minorities to be part of this race because this is all of our city, and this is something that we host annually. And so, it’s important for us to raise awareness about what takes place here in the city of Indianapolis that people all over the world travel to this place to be a part of and to see,” said Pastor Kenneth Sullivan Jr.
“It’s important for us because we understand diversity, equity and inclusion are important. Every organization is striving to do better in regard to this particular area. So, we are happy to see the motor speedway doing the same thing.”
For more information about the event or about the open positions, you can contact them here at info@mjjrecruiting.com.
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INDIANAPOLIS — IMPD took one person into custody after engaging in a chase that started near IU Methodist Hospital Wednesday morning.
Police received reports of a reckless driver just before 7 a.m. in the area of W. 16th Street and N. Senate Avenue. The reports said the driver was pointing a firearm at other drivers and blocking traffic.
IMPD spotted the vehicle near the 2900 block of Martin Luther King Jr. Drive and tried to pull the driver over. The driver took off, and police followed.
We’re told the driver crashed into a barricade, then get out of the car and ran off.
Officers were able to catch up with him and take him into custody in the 3400 block of Arsenal Avenue.
Police have not released any information about possible charges. It also has not been confirmed if the man was armed.
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CHICAGO (NewsNation) — A newly-released Pentagon report says some witnesses who reported UFO sightings also experienced injuries including radiation burns, brain problems and damaged nerves.
While the memo from the Defense Intelligence Agency, or DIA, is not the hard evidence needed to confirm life on other planets, Nick Pope — a journalist who used to run the British Government’s UFO Project — says we’re closer than we’ve ever been.
“If they’re out there, we’re closing in on them and it will be the biggest discovery in human history,” he said Tuesday night during “On Balance with Leland Vittert.”
Titled “Anomalous Acute And Subacute Field Effects on Human and Biological Tissues,” the memo was part of more than 1,500 pages of DIA documents related to the Pentagon’s secretive UFO program called the Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program.
The document, which was requested in 2017 under the Freedom of Information Act, was finally released Tuesday. It confirms, at least according to Pope, what pilots have been reporting for years.
“We’ve seen multiple videos — U.S. Navy videos — of jets chasing these things tracked on radar and it’s not just UFOs,” Pope said. “Frankly, they’ve been looking at other things which sound like they come straight out of an “X-Files” script.”
In 2019, the U.S. government declassified, released and confirmed videos showing encounters between UFOs and U.S. Navy pilots in 2004 and 2015. Similarly, leaked Pentagon footage of a spherical flying object seen flying off the coast of San Diego was later confirmed as authentic by the Pentagon, as well.
But because there aren’t definitive confirmations on what these objects actually are, the possibilities are endless.
Pope says one theory he’s heard is that the occurrences are no more than next generation aerospace tech — secret prototype aircraft and drones.
Pope also says he’s heard people say it might be U.S. tech secretly tested on one part of the military by another to see how we react. Then, of course, there’s the theory that this is adversary technology from Russia or China.
“All of this is why Congress is now taking very close note of this. There are multiple UFO provisions in the the latest defense bill. So people are taking this seriously,” Pope said.
Pope, who used to be in the minority in terms of official figures following this phenomenon, says public and government interest is one of necessity.
“I think there has been a realization that this is a serious defense and national security issue,” he said.
But the new interest is also because UFOs have become just that undeniable.
“The other thing is, we’ve just got a lot more evidence than was previously the case. We always knew pilots … saw these things. But it’s the DoD themselves that have recently put some of this on their website,” he continued.
Either way, Pope says the chances of us finding out what these UFOs are is “stronger than it ever was.”
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WASHINGTON (AP) — As gruesome videos and photos of bodies emerge from the Kyiv suburb of Bucha, Kremlin-backed media are denouncing them as an elaborate hoax — a narrative that journalists in Ukraine have shown to be false.
Denouncing news as fake or spreading false reports to sow confusion and undermine its adversaries are tactics that Moscow has used for years and refined with the advent of social media in places like Syria.
In detailed broadcasts to millions of viewers, correspondents and hosts of Russian state TV channels said Tuesday that some photo and video evidence of the killings were fake while others showed that Ukrainians were responsible for the bloodshed.
“Among the first to appear were these Ukrainian shots, which show how a soulless body suddenly moves its hand,” a report Monday on Russia-1’s evening news broadcast declared. “And in the rearview mirror it is noticeable that the dead seem to be starting to rise even.”
But satellite images from early March show the dead were left out on the streets of Bucha for weeks. On April 2, a video taken from a moving car was posted online by a Ukrainian lawyer showing those same bodies scattered along Yablonska Street in Bucha. High-resolution satellite images of Bucha from commercial provider Maxar Technology reviewed by The Associated Press independently matched the location of the bodies with separate videos from the scene. Other Western media had similar reports.
Over the weekend, AP journalists saw the bodies of dozens of people in Bucha, many of them shot at close range, and some with their hands tied behind them. At least 13 bodies were located in and around a building that residents said was used as a base for Russian troops before they retreated last week.
Yet Russian officials and state-media have continued to promote their own narrative, parroting it in newspapers and on radio and television. A top story on the website of a popular pro-Kremlin newspaper, Komsomolskaya Pravda, pinned the mass killings on Ukraine, with a story that claimed “one more irrefutable proof that ‘the genocide in Bucha’ was carried out by Ukrainian forces.”
An opinion column published Tuesday by the state-run news agency RIA Novosti surmised that the Bucha slayings were a ploy for the West to impose tougher sanctions on Russia.
Analysts note it isn’t the first time in its six-week-old invasion of Ukraine that the Kremlin has employed such an information warfare strategy to deny any wrongdoing and spread disinformation in a coordinated campaign around the globe.
“This is simply what Russia does every time it recognizes that it has suffered a PR setback through committing atrocities,” said Keir Giles, senior consulting fellow with the Russia and Eurasia program at the Chatham House think tank. “So the system works almost on autopilot.”
Before the war, Russia denied U.S. intelligence reports that detailed its plans to attack Ukraine. Last month, Russian officials tried to discredit AP photos and reporting of the aftermath of the bombing of a maternity hospital in the Ukrainian port city of Mariupol, which left a pregnant woman and her unborn child dead.
The photos and video from Bucha have set off a new wave of global condemnation and revulsion.
After his video appearance Tuesday at the U.N. Security Council, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy enumerated the killings in Bucha by Russian troops and showed graphic video of charred and decomposing bodies there and in other towns. Russian U.N. Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia dismissed them as staged.
Across social media, a chorus of more than a dozen official Russian Twitter and Telegram accounts, as well as state-backed media Facebook pages, repeated the Kremlin line that images and video of the dead were staged or a hoax. The claims were made in English, Spanish and Arabic in accounts run by Russian officials or from Russian-backed news outlets Sputnik and RT. The Spanish-language RT en Español has sent more than a dozen posts to its 18 million followers.
“Russia rejects allegations over the murder of civilians in Bucha, near Kiev,” an RT en Español post said Sunday.
Several of the same accounts sought to discredit claims that Russian troops carried out the killings by pointing to a video of Bucha Mayor Anatoliy Fedoruk, taken March 31, in which he talked about the suburb being freed from Russian occupation.
“He confirms that Russian troops have left Bucha. No mentioning of dead bodies in the streets,” top Russian official Mikhail Ulyanov tweeted Monday.
But Fedoruk had publicly commented on the violence before the Russian troops left in an interview with Italian news agency Adnkronos on March 28, where he accused them of killings and rapes in Bucha.
In an AP interview March 7, Fedoruk talked about dead bodies piling up in Bucha: “We can’t even gather up the bodies because the shelling from heavy weapons doesn’t stop day or night. Dogs are pulling apart the bodies on the city streets. It’s a nightmare.”
Satellite images by Maxar Technologies while Russian troops occupied Bucha on March 18 and 19 back up Fedoruk’s account of bodies in the streets, showing at least five bodies on one road.
Some social media platforms have tried to limit propaganda and disinformation from the Kremlin. Google blocked RT’s accounts, while in Europe, RT and Sputnik were banned by tech company Meta, which also stopped promoting or amplifying Russian-state media pages on its platforms, which include Facebook and Instagram.
Russia has found ways to evade the crackdown with posts in different languages through dozens of official Russian social media accounts.
“It’s a pretty massive messaging apparatus that Russia controls — whether it’s official embassy accounts, bot or toll accounts or anti-Western influencers — they have many ways to circumvent platform bans,” said Bret Schafer, who heads the information manipulation team at the Alliance for Securing Democracy, a nonpartisan think tank in Washington.
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CAUGHT ON CAMERA: Ax-wielding man attacks drummer in California
CANYON CO., Calif. (KCAL/KCBS) - A shocking incident was caught on camera in California: A man says he was playing his drums along one of the trails in Canyon County when an ax-wielding man came out of nowhere.
In an instant, Andy Torres’ Saturday morning jam session turned violent.
The man struck the drumkit several times, frightening the 36-year-old musician.
“He just came up swinging already,” Torres said. “He didn’t announce himself or say get out of the way. Or, ‘Are you making the noise?’ No, he knew what he was going to do. I happened to just get out of the way.”
Torres says after the man nearly destroyed the drumkit, he threatened him again.
“It took everything in me not to want to launch at the guy, but I knew I couldn’t do that,” he said.
The attack was recorded on his GoPro camera.
It’s not shown in the video, but Torres says the man also pulled a gun on him.
As soon as he announced that he recorded the entire violent outburst on video, the man appears to change his attitude.
He turned and left, but not before Torres caught images of the man’s car and license plate.
Speaking at Todd Longshore Park near the scene of the attack, he says since the incident he’s been struggling emotionally.
“I get stuck thinking about that, and I have to pull myself out of it,” Torres said. “I know I will move ahead, because look I’m still here.”
Torres said he has been learning the drums for a while. He comes to the park at sunrise and sunset to play while wearing a mask as part of his persona.
Before the ax attack, no one had complained about the noise. He says this will not ruin his love for music, and he will find a way to fix the drums.
“It’s not destroyed. They’ll have to do better than that,” he said.
Torres says he’s filed a police report and turned over the video. He shared it in hopes someone turns the man in, since it’s a place a lot of parents bring their kids.
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Lazar unseats Evers appointee Kornblum from Court of Appeals
Voters in southeastern Wisconsin elevated a conservative-backed Waukesha County judge to a state Court of Appeals seat in a race that took a sharp partisan turn and featured ads referring to the Waukesha Christmas parade killings
WAUKESHA, Wis. (AP) — Voters in southeastern Wisconsin elevated a conservative-backed Waukesha County judge to a state Court of Appeals seat on Tuesday in a race that took a sharp partisan turn and featured ads referring to the Waukesha Christmas parade killings.
Maria Lazar defeated incumbent Court of Appeals Judge Lori Kornblum, appointed by Democratic Gov. Tony Evers in November, for a six-year term on Wisconsin's second-highest court.
Though the race was nonpartisan on the ballot, support for the candidates broke along party lines. Kornblum had the backing of the state Democratic Party and labor unions. Republicans lined up behind Lazar, including three conservative Wisconsin Supreme Court justices, four former Republican congressmen and several county Republican parties.
Kornblum spent more than 20 years as a prosecutor in Milwaukee County before going into private practice in 2014. Lazar was in private practice for 20 years before joining the state Department of Justice in 2010 under Republican Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen.
She ran unopposed for Waukesha County Circuit Court in 2015.
Lazar ran TV and radio spots attacking Kornblum as “a liberal, appointed by Gov. Tony Evers to legislate from the bench." The spots also highlighted that Kornblum worked in the district attorney's office under John Chisholm, a Democrat.
An outside group supporting Lazar also ran a spot linking Kornblum to Chisholm and blaming him in part for the Waukesha Christmas parade attack where Darrell Brooks Jr. is charged with killing six people and injuring more than 60.
One of Chisholm’s assistant prosecutors recommended what Chisholm called “inappropriately low” $1,000 bail for Brooks, which he posted days before the parade. Kornblum left Chisholm's office seven years before the parade deaths.
One of Kornblum’s ads attacked Lazar for a sentence she imposed that was lower than prosecutors recommended for David Scharlat, a former Brookfield police officer and federal agent who was found guilty in 2019 of sexually assaulting a woman with whom he’d had an ongoing sexual relationship.
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