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Habitat for Humanity gets families into two new East Hartford homes
EAST HARTFORD, CT (WFSB) - Habitat for Humanity and the Town of East Hartford worked together to get families into new homes in town.
Thursday morning, they handed over the keys to two families who can look forward to a new life.
The grass hadn’t come in yet and a bobcat’s tracks lined the dirt.
The two new houses were on the corner of Forbes and Chester in East Hartford.
Each welcomed someone new.
The two families were given homes built by Habitat for Humanity of North and Central Connecticut.
Two different stories, two different backgrounds.
“My family was growing, so we need more space,” said Abdelaaziz El Hajji, one of the new homeowners.
“You know, where we came from, it’s just a lot of noise, a lot of ruckus,” said Cheryl Soares, new homeowner.
Yet, there’s something about the dream of owning a house that’s just universal.
“I need somewhere where my kids can play safe,” El Hajji said. “Somewhere to call home.”
“I wanted my kids to be stable enough and have something that they can call home,” Soares said.
East Hartford officials said they’re working with Habitat for Humanity with plans to build 10 to 12 new properties on Burnside Ave as well.
“They are good people and they teach you something you cannot learn everywhere,” El Hajji said.
Habitat for Humanity representatives said the families also received financial classes and skills to help them pay back the 30-year zero interest loan.
“[I] have like a little desk right here and then my TV on the wall,” said Unique Burny, who lives in one of the homes.
East Hartford’s newest neighbors are at the beginning of a shared dream.
“It’s a light at the end of the tunnel and we’re really, really seeing it,” Soares said.
“That light was you, Habitat for Humanity,” El Hajji said.
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Mohegan Animal Rescue Owner Pleads Guilty to Stealing $18K
By Rick Pezzullo
The owner and founder of a non-profit dog rescue organization in Mohegan Lake pled guilty last week to stealing nearly $18,000 from the group.
According to Westchester District Attorney Mimi Rocah, Lisa Marie Birdsall, 56, of Yorktown, admitted on March 23 that between January and December 2020, she stole $17,956 from money that was donated to Recycled Paws Rescue for the care of animals and used the money for her own personal purposes.
As part of her agreement to pleading guilty to grand larceny in the fourth degree, a felony, and petit larceny, a misdemeanor, Birdsall will be required to pay full restitution for the stolen funds to another organization that cares for animals. She is scheduled to be sentenced on March 22, 2023.
The SPCA of Westchester’s Humane Law Enforcement Unit arrested Birdsall on July 13, 2021, following a joint investigation with District Attorney’s Economic Crimes Bureau.
According to its website, Recycled Paws Rescue, Inc., which was started in 2017, rescued dogs “from all over the world and all walks of life. From orphaned puppies, to abandoned pregnant mothers, to deserted senior dogs, and more.”
“Our goal is to provide every rescued pup with a loving forever home. We have amazing volunteers for all surrounding counties who help us provide temporary or sometimes permanent homes to our rescued pups! We save all breeds it doesn’t matter if they are big or small, Chihuahua to fluffy Newfoundland’s and everything in between! Many were abandoned at high kill shelters, some were turned in by owners who could not properly care for them, and others we rescued from adds online such as craigslist. Regardless of their past, our mission is to provide a happy home where each dog is a well-loved member of the family!”
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ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — Federico Motka’s abductors greeted him in English after he and his colleagues were kidnapped near a refugee camp on the Turkish border: “Welcome to Syria, you mutt.”
For the Italian aid worker, it was the beginning of 14 months of brutality at the hands of the Islamic State.
Motka testified about the ordeal Thursday at the terrorism trial of El Shafee Elsheikh, a British national charged with taking a leading role in an Islamic State kidnapping scheme that took more than 20 Westerners hostage between 2012 and 2015.
Four Americans — journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff and aid workers Peter Kassig and Kayla Mueller — were among them. Foley, Sotloff and Kassig were decapitated. Mueller was forced into slavery and raped repeatedly by the Islamic State’s leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, before she too was killed.
Motka is the first surviving hostage to testify at Elsheikh’s trial in Alexandria, Virginia.
Born in Trieste, Italy, Motka said he spent much of his childhood in the Middle East and went to boarding school in England. He was an aid worker surveying the needs of refugee camps in March 2013 when he and a colleague, Briton David Haines, were captured and taken hostage.
Motka testified that for the first month of captivity, he was only occasionally mistreated, but that mistreatment frequently came at the hands of three captors whom hostages dubbed “the Beatles” because of their British accents. They learned to speak surreptitiously about their captors, who wore masks and took pains to conceal their identity, since they never knew what would set them off. A dispute over bathroom hygiene prompted a particularly intense beating, he said.
“They said I was a posh wanker because I went to boarding school,” Motka testified. “They said I was arrogant, and they were going to take me down a peg.”
Motka’s use of the term “posh wanker” set off a brief period of uncomfortable laughter in the courtroom, when the judge interrupted and asked what the phrase means, forcing Motka to explain the term’s vulgar meaning of the British idiom.
The British accents and phraseology are an important part of the case, though, as prosecutors seek to prove that Elsheikh is indeed one of the Beatles who tortured hostages, even though the Beatles took great pains to conceal their faces. Motka testified that there were at least three Britons in the group of captors, and the hostages nicknamed them “John,” “George” and “Ringo.”
Prosecutors have said in court that Elshiekh is the one who was nicknamed Ringo.
One way Motka distinguished the three was their preferences for inflicting punishment.
“George was more into boxing,” Motka testified. “John, he kicked a lot. Ringo used to talk how he liked wrestling. He would put people in headlocks.”
He described one instance when Ringo put James Foley in a headlock so tight that he passed out.
Motka also recounted a time in the summer of 2013 when the hostages were held in a facility they nicknamed “the box.” The Beatles excitedly put Motka and his cellmate David Haines in a room with Foley and British hostage John Cantlie for what they called a “Royal Rumble.”
“They were super excited about it,” Motka said of the Beatles about the tag-team style fight they imposed on the foursome. “We were so weak and shattered we could barely lift our arms.”
The group was told that the losers would be waterboarded. Two of the four passed out during the hour-long battle, Motka said. The Beatles deemed him the loser but never waterboarded him, inflicting a beating instead.
As they were transferred to different facilities, Motka said the hostages were sometimes separated from the Beatles for weeks at a time. Those periods were welcome, relatively speaking, because the Beatles were unique in their cruelty, he said.
When they were transferred again to a place they nicknamed “the dungeon” and saw that the Beatles were there, “we crapped our pants,” Motka said. “We had just started to relax a little” as the mistreatment had eased in their absence.
“The box,” where the Beatles were a regular presence, was one of the worst stretches of captivity. Motka said he and other hostages there endured a lengthy “regime of punishment” that included regular beatings and forced stress positions. “George,” another man named Abu Mohamed and a third nicknamed “the punisher” regularly tortured them, Motka said.
“They played lots of games with us,” Motka said, maintaining composure as he clearly struggled with the emotions of describing his captivity. “They gave us dog names. We needed to come and immediately respond” to the dog name to avoid a beating.
Motka was not released until May 25, 2014. His 14 months in captivity were the longest of any hostage in the group.
Defense lawyers, though, have highlighted the difficulties that hostages have in formally identifying each of their captors, who routinely wore masks that covered all but their eyes.
In opening statements, prosecutors referenced only three British nationals — Elsheikh, his longtime friend Alexenda Kotey, and Mohammed Emwazi, who frequently carried out the role of executioner and was known as “Jihadi John.”
Emwazi was killed in a drone strike, and Kotey was captured alongside Elsheikh and also brought to Virginia to face trial. Kotey pleaded guilty last year in a plea bargain that calls for a life sentence.
Jurors also heard testimony Thursday from Danish hostage negotiator Jens Serup, who testified about prolonged efforts to secure the release of Daniel Rye Ottosen in exchange for 2 million euros.
The jury saw photos of huge bruises on Ottosen’s arm and back after he was finally released. Serup testified that the captors told Ottosen the beating was a “farewell present not to forget them.”
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BREAKING: Storm deal Dolphins ANOTHER blow as Grant signs monster new deal
The Melbourne Storm have officially landed the signature of future Kangaroo hooker Harry Grant until the end of 2026.
In a major win for the Purple Reign of Melbourne, Grant has recommitted to the Storm for the next four seasons on a deal believed to be worth almost $1 million per season.
The Dolphins were also heavily chasing Grant and had offered the gun no.9 a four-year deal valued around $4.4 million.
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The Storm will now switch focus to the retention of Kiwi Test halfback Jahrome Hughes with the management of the no.7 currently in Melbourne trying to finalise the deal.
The Storm how have Grant and fullback Ryan Papenhuyzen signed as key position players and need only lock down Hughes or Cameron Munster to have the nucleus of the club’s new Big Three.
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Sandals celebrate employees in style at the Masquerade Ball | Loop Barbados
The masks have been eliminated because the heroes emerged from the shadows final Friday night on the Sandals Royal Barbados Ballroom, as Sandals Barbados celebrated worker excellence on the seventh annual Sandals Prestige Awards and Grand Masquerade Ball.
The ballroom’s beautiful decor was equally adorned with friends of their most interesting night apparel, individuals equivalent to cultural ambassador Dr the Most Honourable Anthony “Gabby” Carter.
Masters of ceremonies for the night Mark Anthony and Sophia Allsopp harmoniously delivered a presentation of magnificence, eloquence and sheer high quality which captivated the viewers all through the night.
“We still have a way to go, this team has shown me that they are ready to make Sandals Barbados and Sandals Royal Barbados the best in the entire chain of Sandals Resorts. This year is very special for us as we celebrate our 40th anniversary”.
Managing Director of Sandals Resorts Carl Beviere applauded the 1531 devoted workers of Sandals Barbados for his or her beautiful service and dedication throughout what he described as a difficult 12 months as a result of pandemic, the ash fall and the opposite points which affected the tourism business.
“We still have a way to go, this team has shown me that they are ready to make Sandals Barbados and Sandals Royal Barbados the best in the entire chain of Sandals Resorts. This year is very special for us as we celebrate our 40th anniversary”.
MVP of the Year David Monrose (L) and Hotel Manager Charles Langard
Sixteen awards have been distributed on the night, capturing the qualities and values of the world-renowned establishment: magnificence, thriller, triumph and excellence.
Information Technology Manager David Monrose and Dwayne Walkes of the meals and beverage division claimed the 2 main awards of the night: the MVP of the Year award and the Diamond Team member of the Year award respectively.
The viewers was handled to performances by Barbadian worldwide entertainers Mighty Gabby and Betty “Betty B” Payne.
Resort Manager Patrick Drake (L), Diamond Team Member of the Year winner Dwayne Walkes (heart) and Earth Guardian awardee Ronnie Walkes
Awards:
Sandals Spirit Award
Mover & Shaker of the Year- Ezra Worrell
Legendary Team Member of the Year- George Johnson
Circle of Joy Award- Allista Cumberbatch
Make a Difference Award
Earth Guardian Award- Ronnie Walkes
Foundation Sentinel Award- Zoanesha John
Hall of Fame Award
Standing Ovation Award- Melissa Hope
Money Maker Award- Cherie-Ann Charles
Heart of the House Award- Harold Belgrave
Pace Setter Award- Brian Shepherd
People’s Choice Award- Glenroy Cadogan
The All-Star Awards
All Rounder Award- Nekoda Hamilton
MVP of the Year Award- David Monrose
A-Team of the Year Award- Landscaping
Platinum Team Member of the Year Award- Mario Barrow
Diamond Team member of the Year Award- Dwayne Walkes
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The third of four FC Dallas teams in the 2022 Dallas Cup U19 Division. Coach by Chris Che, Justin Che’s Dad, they play in the Dallas Classic League Division 1.
All the non-Academy teams are outside my radar, some more so than others. I do my best with the info I can find but if you have any to share please reach out. Twitter @3rdDegreeNet.
FCD Youth 03 West
Coach: Chris Che
Bracket F: Prepa Tec Mty (Mexico), Louisville City Academy 03 Purple, Black Rock FC Residential Academy Northwood U19.
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Letters to the editor: Jackson qualified for court; gas rebate equals cost of votes
Jackson displays decorum
Re: Scott Douglas Gerber’s March 26 guest column, “Judge Jackson’s troubling take on her judicial philosophy”:
Thank you for printing Scott Douglas Gerber’s excellent description and definitions of judicial philosophy and six principal theories for interpreting the Constitution.
This article was both enlightening and informative. If only these factors had been the foundation for the basis of the judicial committee’s hearing questioning of Judge Jackson’s qualifications and suitability to be the next Supreme Court Justice of the United States.
These are the factors that will determine how she will participate in deciding the legal future of the country. Instead of an existential discussion of her legal philosophy and methodology, we were treated to a partisan discussion of pedophilia, individual case sentencing, and CRT from the right and what amounted to a fawning fest on the left building to a crescendo performance by Cory Booker.
The good news is Judge Jackson displayed outstanding decorum during the assault from the right and provided a scandal-free hearing without a need go down a rabbit hole to unearth an unflattering college history as we had to endure with Judge Kavanaugh’s confirmation.
I am confident that Judge Jackson will be a welcome addition to the court if confirmed based on her judicial experience and on her merits regardless of race, color, or gender.
She is not just a highly qualified black woman candidate, she’s highly qualified. Period.
John Goodman, Oak Park
Now you know the cost of votes
Re: The Associated Press’ March 24 story, “California car owners could get up to an $800 rebate”:
I found this article very interesting. Apparently Democratic Gov. Newsom is proposing to rebate up to $400 per vehicle (capped at 2 vehicles) to help offset the record high cost of gasoline.
He even proposes to give the rebate to electric vehicle owners and others (bicycle riders?) who don’t use gasoline.
The more I thought about this I began to realize that since we are in an election year, we now know what a vote is worth in California.
Jim Allyn, Thousand Oaks
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Not everything has to come to a logical conclusion; not everything needs to be about something. In her lecture “The Sentence Is a Lonely Place,” the writer Garielle Lutz explains her fondness for language where “the sentence is a complete, portable solitude, a minute immediacy of consummated language.” By that, she means that language, for some, is at its best when it can be isolated, when it takes on a sort of synesthetic, acoustic resonance. You can apply this terminology to the songwriting of New Zealand’s Aldous Harding, who, for four albums, has made folk music with a conceptual weight that’s difficult to categorize or assign to any established narrative. Her latest album, Warm Chris, is a record of the portable solitude that Lutz writes about: It is opaque, surreal, and above all, lonely.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The House on Thursday passed a bill capping the monthly cost of insulin at $35 for insured patients, part of an election-year push by Democrats for price curbs on prescription drugs at a time of rising inflation.
Experts say the legislation, which passed 232-193, would provide significant relief for privately insured patients with skimpier plans and for Medicare enrollees facing rising out-of-pocket costs for their insulin. Some could save hundreds of dollars annually, and all insured patients would get the benefit of predictable monthly costs for insulin. The bill would not help the uninsured.
But the Affordable Insulin Now Act will serve as a political vehicle to rally Democrats and force Republicans who oppose it into uncomfortable votes ahead of the midterms. For the legislation to pass Congress, 10 Republican senators would have to vote in favor. Democrats acknowledge they don’t have an answer for how that’s going to happen.
“If 10 Republicans stand between the American people being able to get access to affordable insulin, that’s a good question for 10 Republicans to answer,” said Rep. Dan Kildee, D-Mich., a cosponsor of the House bill. “Republicans get diabetes, too. Republicans die from diabetes.”
Public opinion polls have consistently shown support across party lines for congressional action to limit drug costs.
But Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash., complained the legislation is only “a small piece of a larger package around government price controls for prescription drugs.” Critics say the bill would raise premiums and fails to target pharmaceutical middlemen seen as contributing to high list prices for insulin.
Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, said Democrats could have a deal on prescription drugs if they drop their bid to authorize Medicare to negotiate prices. “Do Democrats really want to help seniors, or would they rather have the campaign issue?” Grassley said.
The insulin bill, which would take effect in 2023, represents just one provision of a much broader prescription drug package in President Joe Biden’s social and climate legislation.
In addition to a similar $35 cap on insulin, the Biden bill would authorize Medicare to negotiate prices for a range of drugs, including insulin. It would penalize drugmakers who raise prices faster than inflation and overhaul the Medicare prescription drug benefit to limit out-of-pocket costs for enrollees.
Biden’s agenda passed the House only to stall in the Senate because Democrats could not reach consensus. Party leaders haven’t abandoned hope of getting the legislation moving again, and preserving its drug pricing curbs largely intact.
The idea of a $35 monthly cost cap for insulin actually has a bipartisan pedigree. The Trump administration had created a voluntary option for Medicare enrollees to get insulin for $35, and the Biden administration continued it.
In the Senate, Republican Susan Collins of Maine and Democrat Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire are working on a bipartisan insulin bill. Georgia Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock has introduced legislation similar to the House bill, with the support of Sen. Majority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York.
Stung by criticism that Biden’s economic policies spur inflation, Democrats are redoubling efforts to show how they’d help people cope with costs. On Thursday, the Commerce Department reported a key inflation gauge jumped 6.4% in February compared with a year ago, the largest year-over-year rise since January 1982.
But experts say the House bill would not help uninsured people, who face the highest out-of-pocket costs for insulin. Also, people with diabetes often take other medications as well as insulin. That’s done to treat the diabetes itself, along with other serious health conditions often associated with the disease. The House legislation would not help with those costs, either. Collins says she’s looking for a way to help uninsured people through her bill.
About 37 million Americans have diabetes, and an estimated 6 million to 7 million use insulin to keep their blood sugars under control. It’s an old drug, refined and improved over the years, that has seen relentless price increases.
Steep list prices don’t reflect the rates insurance plans negotiate with manufacturers. But those list prices are used to calculate cost-sharing amounts that patients owe. Patients who can’t afford their insulin reduce or skip doses, a strategy born of desperation, which can lead to serious complications and even death.
Economist Sherry Glied of New York University said the market for insulin is a “total disaster” for many patients, particularly those with skimpy insurance plans or no insurance.
“This will make private insurance for people with diabetes a much more attractive proposition,” said Glied.
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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Jeff Walz has had a lot of success getting players to transfer to Louisville over the last few years, including three starters on his Final Four team this season.
He's not the only coach in the Final Four who has bolstered the roster by using the transfer portal as both South Carolina and UConn have found supplemental players from it.
Still Walz, Dawn Staley and Geno Auriemma think the amount of players looking to change schools is getting out of control.
“I always like to say, ‘The grass is greener on the other side because it’s fertilized with a bunch of bull,’” Louisville coach Jeff Walz said. “I think there are a lot of players that will jump into the portal after one year that don’t really have a good grasp of why they’re doing it.”
Staley likened the portal to Twitter, Instagram or TikTok.
“It’s a big ol’ fad that just keeps continuing,” she said. “Is it out of hand? It absolutely is. I don’t know how you control it. But it’s their way. It’s their way of controlling their own destinies.”
Both Staley and Auriemma noted that there were currently more players seeking to transfer than there were scholarships available across the country.
“You know those 850 people in the portal? Three hundred of them are not going to find a school to go to because they’re going to realize it’s not the school they just left,” Auriemma said.
Despite the reservations, they're still playing along. Emily Engstler (Syracuse), Kianna Smith (California) and Chelsie Hall (Vanderbilt) have been key for Louisville. Engstler and Hall just joined the program this season.
When Engstler was considering the Cardinals, Walz went to Mykasa Robinson to discuss how her role would likely shrink if Engstler were to come and gauge her comfort level.
“She looked at me, and she’s like, ‘I’m tired of guarding her. If we can get her, yes, because she likes to win, and she wants to play with other good players,’” Walz said.
SOUTH CAROLINA SUPPORT
The Gamecocks have led the nation in average attendance for seven straight years, buoyed by a base of more than 10,000 season tickets. Despite the 1,200-mile distance from campus to downtown Minneapolis, there will be plenty of garnet-and-black-clad South Carolina fans voicing their support on Friday night when the Gamecocks take on Louisville.
“They’ve been with us when we weren’t a popular team or we weren’t a whole lot to cheer about,” Staley said. “This is my 14th year being at South Carolina, but the last probably 10, the fans have given us a ride that’s kind of irreplaceable.”
One of the catalysts for the attendance boom was giving fans as much as access to the program as they could, to build relationships and let the locals get to know the players as people.
“You really feel the love in the community,” guard Brea Beal said. “You can go to the store and run into somebody and they’re like, oh my gosh, just freaking out. It’s like a family.”
FOND MEMORY
Walz spent one season at Minnesota on his climb up the coaching ladder, serving as an assistant under current Maryland coach Brenda Frese.
That was 20 years ago, when Hall of Fame finalist Lindsay Whalen was a sophomore for the Gophers on a breakthrough team that reached the Final Four two seasons later. The women's team at that time played in a smaller gym, the Pavilion, next door to Williams Arena where the Minnesota men's team has played since 1928.
A water pipe burst that winter, moving the women's team into the bigger venue. The Gophers were on a roll, and the first game in the building known as “The Barn” was packed to the rafters.
“From that point on, we continued the rest of the season playing in the Barn in front of unbelievable crowds,” Walz said.
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More AP coverage of March Madness: https://apnews.com/hub/march-madness and https://apnews.com/hub/womens-college-basketball and https://twitter.com/AP_Top25
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Aunt of St. Louis child who was shot by brother is charged
ST. LOUIS (AP) — St. Louis police say a 36-year-old woman has been charged with a misdemeanor after her 12-year-old nephew was shot and killed by his younger brother. Aja Johnson was charged Thursday with second-degree endangering the welfare of a child. A probable cause statement says that on Tuesday, three children were playing unattended in a bedroom where a loaded gun was lying on a bed. According to the statement, a 10-year-old picked up the gun, pointed it at his brother thinking it was unloaded and pulled the trigger. Johnson is being held without bail at the City Justice Center.
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PR Newswire
SALT LAKE CITY, March 31, 2022
SALT LAKE CITY, March 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Extra Space Storage Inc. (the "Company") (NYSE: EXR) announced today it will release financial results for the three months ended March 31, 2022 on Tuesday, May 3, 2022 after the market closes. The Company will host a conference call at 1:00 p.m. Eastern Time on Wednesday, May 4, 2022 to discuss its financial results. Hosting the call will be Extra Space Storage's CEO, Joe Margolis. Joining him will be Scott Stubbs, Executive Vice President and CFO.
During the conference call, company officers will review operating performance, discuss recent events, and conduct a question-and-answer period. The question-and-answer period will be limited to registered financial analysts. All other participants will have listen-only capability.
The playback can be accessed beginning on May 4, 2022 at 4:00 p.m. ET through May 11, 2022 at 4:00 p.m. ET.
The conference call will also be available on the Company's website under Investor Relations at www.extraspace.com. To listen to a live broadcast, go to the site at least 15 minutes prior to the scheduled start time in order to register, download and install any necessary audio software. A replay of the call will also be available for 30 days on the Company's website.
Full Text of the Earnings Report and Supplemental Data
The full text of the earnings report and supplemental data will be available at the Company's website at http://ir.extraspace.com immediately following the earnings release to the wire services after the market close on Tuesday, May 3, 2022.
For those without Internet access, the earnings release will be available by mail or fax, on request. To receive a copy, please call Extra Space Storage Investor Relations at (801) 365-1759.
About Extra Space Storage Inc.
Extra Space Storage Inc., headquartered in Salt Lake City, is a fully integrated, self-administered and self-managed real estate investment trust, and a member of the S&P 500. As of December 31, 2021, the Company owned and/or operated 2,096 self-storage properties, which comprise approximately 1.5 million units and approximately 160.9 million square feet of rentable storage space offering customers conveniently located and secure storage units across the country, including boat storage, RV storage and business storage. The Company is the second largest owner and/or operator of self-storage properties in the United States and is the largest self-storage management company in the United States.
For more information, please visit www.extraspace.com.
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Home values drop in Melbourne and Sydney as buyer demand eases
By Rachel Clun
Home values fell in Sydney and Melbourne in March amid signs the Australian property market is slowing, with sales down by a third in those cities after strong growth over the past year.
Listings are higher in Melbourne and Sydney, according to Corelogic, but there is less stock on the market in Brisbane, Adelaide and regional Australia suggesting selling conditions remain strong across large parts of Australia.
Data from Corelogic’s home value index showed the value of houses and apartments rose 2.4 per cent in the first quarter of the year, less than half the 5.8 per cent increase in the same quarter last year.
The fall comes off the back of the strongest yearly growth in home prices as prices jumped nearly 28 per cent in the 12 months to December, according to data released earlier this year by the Australian Bureau of Statistics.
CoreLogic research director Tim Lawless said nearly all capital cities and major state regions passed the peak rate of growth at some point earlier this year or last year, and the annual growth trend will fall sharply in the coming months.
“The sharpest slowdown has been in Sydney, where housing prices are the most unaffordable, advertised supply is trending higher and sales activity is down over the year.”
In Sydney home values fell 0.2 per cent in March, taking home price growth over the quarter to 0.3 per cent. The median value of homes in Sydney is $1.1 million. It’s the largest fall in the rate of growth, which peaked at 9.3 per cent in the three months to May 2021.
Melbourne home prices fell by 0.1 per cent in the month taking quarterly growth to 0.1 per cent – far below the peak growth rate of 5.8 per cent in the three months to April 2021. The median value of Melbourne dwellings is now $805,232.
Sales volumes are also down compared to the same time last year – 14.3 per cent lower compared to the March 2021 quarter – but remain higher than the five-year average.
“Nationally, the volume of housing sales is coming off record highs but there is some diversity across the capital cities in these figures as well,” Mr Lawless said.
“Our estimate of sales activity through the March quarter is 39 per cent lower than a year ago in Sydney and 27 per cent lower in Melbourne, while stronger markets like Brisbane and Adelaide have recorded a rise in sales over the same period.”
There were higher levels of stock in both Melbourne and Sydney compared to the previous five-year average, due to a higher than average increase in listings and a drop in buyer demand. Auction clearance rates have also softened in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane.
“With higher inventory levels and less competition, buyers are gradually moving back into the driver’s seat. That means more time to deliberate on their purchase decisions and negotiate on price,” Mr Lawless said.
Higher supply and affordability issues mean home prices may continue to fall, Mr Lawless said, but a stronger economy and low unemployment rate, plus new incentives for first home buyers announced in the budget on Tuesday will offset a major drop in price.
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This article has been updated to correct the fact it was not the first time home values have fallen since September 2020.
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The U.S. Virgin Islands sold its rum-tax collections to bondholders for $955 million, closing a securitization deal intended to refinance existing debt and replenish an ailing government pension fund.
The territory's debt sale was priced to yield 4.73% on a longest-dated maturity of 2039, according to a person familiar with the matter.
Proceeds from the deal would refinance existing rum-tax bonds, freeing up short-term savings by capitalizing interest payments through 2025. Those savings would be used to prop up the Government Employees Retirement System, which faces insolvency as soon as 2024 without a cash infusion.
The securitization debt provides bondholders with stronger collateral rights over the rum taxes, a key public asset of the Virgin Islands.
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Republican members of Congress have announced a new investigation of social media companies Twitter and Facebook over their censorship of factual reporting, just before the 2020 election, about a scandal involving Hunter Biden, his overseas business deals, and Joe Biden's possible involvement.
Those reports, first by the New York Post, were censored by the social media companies, despite their having no evidence they were false.
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In fact, the reports have been verified multiple times now, with even skeptics at the Washington Post, CNN and the New York Times conceding their accuracy.
But one survey by the Media Research Center suggested that had the information from the New York Post been more widely distributed, as would an ordinary story, enough Democrat voters would have withheld their support from Joe Biden that he would have lost the 2020 election.
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Just the News confirmed, "At the time, Facebook and Twitter suppressed the Post's article detailing of how Hunter Biden appeared to use his father's position and influence for his and his family's financial gain."
Now, GOP members of the House Committee on the Judiciary, have written to both Facebook and Twitter calling on them to explain their actions to "interfere in free and fair election-related public discourse" on their platforms that worked "to the benefit of President Biden and the detriment of former President Trump."
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The letters charge the companies with knowingly "suppressing" First Amendment-protected activity.
The reporting detailed "how Hunter Biden used the position and influence of his father, now-President Biden, for personal gain, with the apparent awareness of President Biden," the letters charge.
The companies, meanwhile, are accused of avoiding "any meaningful accountability."
"As far as we know," the lawmakers wrote, the compani9es never have "identified or explained" what was false about the reports.
"The Post article was likely to have significant implications for the presidential election. It detailed how Hunter Biden leveraged his father's influence as then-Vice President for personal gain. When Hunter Biden served on the board of Burisma, a Ukrainian company, a company executive asked him to 'use [his] influence' to stop a domestic Ukrainian investigation into Burisma. Another time, the same executive thanked Hunter Biden for arranging a meeting with then-Vice President Biden. Eight months after that, Vice President Biden pressured the Ukrainian government to fire a prosecutor who was investigating Bjurisma, a firing about which Vice President Biden later bragged. The Post article challenged President Biden's claim that he had 'never spoke to [his] son about his overseas business dealings," the letter said.
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"It appears that Facebook knowingly and deliberately used its platform to control election-related information accessible to the American people shortly before the 2020 election, and that
Facebook did so to the primary benefit of then-Vice President Biden. Facebook’s actions helped shield Vice President Biden from increased scrutiny about the impropriety detailed in the Post article. In addition, Facebook’s actions gave rise to other news outlets, tech platforms, and even Biden himself dismissing the Post story as disinformation or untrue—when, in fact, it had never been rebutted. This irresponsible conduct demands a thorough investigation so that we may
understand how Big Tech wields its enormous power over the free flow of information to the detriment of free and fair elections."
The letters include a list of questions to be answered, including a request for access to "all documents and communications" relating to the decision to censor the report.
The companies were given a deadline of April 14.
Signing the letter were Reps. Jim Jordan, Steve Chabot, Louie Gohmert, Darrell Issa, Ken Buck, Matt Gaetz, Mike Johnson, Andy Biggs, Tom McClintock, W. Gregory Steube and others.
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- City of Toronto Social Bond wins Social Bond of the Year, Local Authority/Municipality category – BMO Joint-Lead Manager
- World Bank Sustainability Bond wins Sustainability Bond of the Year, Supranational category – BMO Joint-Lead Manager
- City of Vancouver Sustainability Bond wins Sustainability Bond of the Year, Local Authority/Municipality category – BMO Joint Bookrunner
TORONTO, March 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - The City of Toronto Social Bond, the World Bank Sustainability Bond, and the City of Vancouver Sustainability Bond were recognized today by Environmental Finance's 2022 Bond Awards in the categories of Social Bond of the Year – Local Authority/Municipality, Sustainability Bond of the Year – Supranational, and Sustainability Bond of the Year – Local Authority/Municipality. BMO Financial Group (BMO) acted as Joint-Lead Manager on the City of Toronto and World Bank bond issuances, and Joint Bookrunner on the City of Vancouver Sustainability Bond issuance.
The City of Toronto's Social Bond is the city's second Social Bond, following on their inaugural issue in June 2020 – the first-ever Social Bond from a Canadian Government issuer – which BMO also led. The Social Bond, issued under Toronto's Social Debenture Framework, is part of a program to promote positive socioeconomic outcomes, from affordable housing and access to essential infrastructure and services, to socioeconomic advancement and empowerment.
The World Bank Sustainability Bond is an $8 billion 2-year and 7-year Dual-Tranche Fixed-Rate Global Sustainability Bond launched in April 2021. The World Bank has been issuing sustainable development bonds in the international capital markets for over 70 years to fund programs and activities that achieve a positive impact. BMO is proud to be a joint lead-manager on this issuance. World Bank bonds are aligned with the Sustainability Bond Guidelines published by the International Capital Market Association and support the financing of a combination of green and social projects, programs, and activities.
The inaugural City of Vancouver Sustainability Bond was the first Sustainability Bond from a Canadian governmental issuer. Proceeds of the bond are supporting eligible projects such as green buildings, renewal and upgrade of the main sewer and a fire hall, street and bridge infrastructure, an accessibility program to provide access to essential services, a climate emergency response program and a seawall maintenance program.
"As Joint-Lead Manager we're pleased with the recognition the City of Toronto Social Bond, the World Bank Sustainability Bond, and the City of Vancouver Sustainability Bond have received from Environmental Finance," said Jonathan Hackett, Head, BMO Sustainable Finance. "These transactions are leading examples in sustainable financing that we believe will act as a catalyst to others as they explore social and sustainability labeled financing and BMO is excited to be a leader working with our clients in this space -- one that so closely aligns with our Purpose to Boldly Grow the Good, in business and life."
BMO is a recognized sustainability leader
Carbon neutral in its own operations since 2010, BMO announced its Climate Ambition in March 2021 with a commitment to deploy $300 billion in sustainable lending and underwriting to companies pursuing sustainable outcomes by 2025. BMO is focused on being its clients' lead partner in their transition to a net zero world and, since December 2019, has completed green and sustainability-linked loans for companies in a range of sectors, with targets including decarbonization, diversity & inclusion, and health and safety. To support clients' pursuit of opportunities driven by the increasing momentum of the global economy's shift in production and consumption of energy, in 2021 BMO established a dedicated Energy Transition Group and the BMO Climate Institute.
BMO's leadership on sustainability has been recognized by the Wall Street Journal's 100 Most Sustainably Managed Companies in the World, Corporate Knights' Global 100 Most Sustainable Corporations, Dow Jones Sustainability Indices World Index, and Ethisphere Institute's list of the World's Most Ethical Companies.
For more information on BMO's commitment to a sustainable future, please visit the bank's latest Sustainability Report. To learn more about sustainable finance at BMO click here. For BMO's climate ambition, visit its Climate page.
About BMO Financial Group
Serving customers for 200 years and counting, BMO is a highly diversified financial services provider - the 8th largest bank, by assets, in North America. With total assets of $1.02 trillion as of January 31, 2022, and a team of diverse and highly engaged employees, BMO provides a broad range of personal and commercial banking, wealth management and investment banking products and services to more than 12 million customers and conducts business through three operating groups: Personal and Commercial Banking, BMO Wealth Management and BMO Capital Markets.
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TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) _ Ellomay Capital Ltd. (ELLO) on Thursday reported a loss of $15.7 million in its fourth quarter.
On a per-share basis, the Tel Aviv, Israel-based company said it had a loss of 75 cents.
The renewable energy provider posted revenue of $13.6 million in the period.
For the year, the company reported that its loss widened to $22.9 million, or $1.39 per share. Revenue was reported as $50.7 million.
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With the capacity to produce approximately 15 million COVID-19 Home Tests per month, the flagship facility furthers the company's commitment to supporting America's pandemic response.
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FREDERICK, Md., March 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Digital diagnostics company Ellume, a producer of at-home COVID-19 test kits, today officially opened its new, 215,000 square foot production facility in Frederick, Maryland. Joined by Maryland Governor Larry Hogan, Ellume Founder and Chief Executive Officer Dr. Sean Parsons inaugurated the new facility, which has the capacity to produce approximately 15 million COVID-19 Home Tests per month and will create hundreds of new jobs.
"From the very onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, Ellume has been committed to supporting the U.S. government's response. With this new facility, we now have the capacity to substantially scale production to meet any future surge in demand for home tests, while also accelerating innovation in developing solutions for the public health needs of today and tomorrow," said Dr. Sean Parsons, Ellume Founder and CEO. "We are grateful for the support of the US Department of Defense, US Department of Health and Human Services, our partnerships with the State of Maryland, the Governor's office and Frederick County, as well as the highly skilled workforce in Maryland's Biotech Corridor who have helped make this facility a reality."
"Maryland truly is open for business, and we are seeing further proof of that here today as Ellume, a respected, global digital diagnostics company opens its very first U.S.-based facility right here in Frederick County," said Governor Larry Hogan. "I want to congratulate the entire team at Ellume, and thank you for investing in the future of our state and helping to build on the already strong mateship between our two great nations."
"The pandemic and the economic disruptions it has caused underscore the need to improve our supply chains and make more in America – especially critical medical equipment," said Senator Chris Van Hollen. "With a federal investment of more than $230 million, Ellume is joining us in our efforts to bring more American manufacturing jobs to our state as they produce the tests we need to stay on top of the ongoing fight against COVID-19. This investment in Western Maryland will strengthen the region and its economy."
"I am delighted to welcome Ellume's flagship facility to Frederick County," said Congressman Jamie Raskin. "Keeping the COVID-19 pandemic at bay requires sustained investment in our public health infrastructure. I am proud that Maryland's Eighth District continues to serve as an economic and public health engine for our nation."
Ellume's COVID-19 Home Test, the first over-the-counter (OTC) rapid antigen test to receive emergency use authorization from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, is a best-in-class product that Americans count on to keep their families safe. One of the most reliable at-home antigen tests on the market, it is also the only at-home antigen test to use fluorescent detection technology – usually reserved for healthcare professionals and clinical laboratories – and one of the only tests to incorporate sample quality controls to support accurate results. Ellume COVID-19 Home Tests are currently available through a variety of major retailers and in partnership with Federal and local governments.
Test assembly operations were initiated at the Frederick facility in February 2022. The facility will initially bring 200 jobs to the community and up to 1,500 when operating at full capacity.
An innovator in infectious disease digital diagnostics and global health preparedness, Ellume continues to work with the U.S. government to respond to COVID-19 and prepare for and mitigate future pandemics.
About Ellume
Ellume is a digital diagnostics company that develops, manufactures, and commercializes high-performance, connected products for healthcare professionals and consumers. It is at the forefront of accurate, rapid and accessible testing that is integral to today's COVID-19 response and will help ensure the world is prepared for the next infectious disease pandemic. Ellume's key focus is on the detection of common infectious diseases which affect the global population across all diagnostic settings; at-home, point-of-care and in-laboratory. Ellume has a global COVID-19 and TB partnership with QIAGEN, and a range of professional products under its ellume·lab brand. Ellume is committed to developing high-quality digital diagnostics that the world can rely on in a health crisis.
For further information visit ellumehealth.com.
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In the USA, this product has not been FDA cleared or approved; but has been authorized by FDA under an EUA. This product has been authorized only for the detection of proteins from SARS-CoV-2, not for any other viruses or pathogens; and, the emergency use of this product is only authorized for the duration of the declaration that circumstances exist justifying the authorization of emergency use of in vitro diagnostics for detection and/or diagnosis of COVID-19 under Section 564(b)(1) of the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act, 21 U.S.C.360bbb-3(b)(1), unless the declaration is terminated or authorization is revoked sooner.
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Tense moment Anthony Albanese refuses to answer when asked if he'll raise taxes on working Aussies FIVE TIMES by Karl Stefanovic in live TV standoff
- Anthony Albanese deflected five questions about whether he would raise taxes
- Instead of giving a yes or no, he talked about tax evasion and climate policies
- It comes the morning after the opposition Leader delivered budget reply
- Promised to reduce cost of living, but did not say how he would secure funding
Anthony Albanese has refused to answer a question about whether Aussies will pay more tax under his election plan five times in a breakfast TV interview.
During a spectacular showdown with Karl Stefanovic on the Today Show on Friday, the Labor opposition leader refused to give a straight answer to whether he will be increasing taxes.
During his Budget Reply speech last night, Mr Albanese had promised to reduce the cost of living and pay back the 'trillions of dollars of debt' amassed by the Liberal government, but failed to explain whether he would hike taxes to fund those ventures.
On Friday morning, Mr Stefanovic and co-host Allison Langdon repeatedly asked the Labor leader about whether working Australians would pay more under his government.
'You won't be increasing taxes to pay back debt?' Mr Stefanovic asked.
Karl Stefanovic and Allison Langdon (pictured) drilled Anthony Albanese about higher taxes
Instead of providing a clear response, Mr Albanese talked about new jobs, a crackdown on multinational tax evasion, and accused the current government of being dishonest about waste management and its use of taxpayer funds.
'Look, what we're doing is two things, Karl,' he began.
'One is that we'll stop the waste and rorts, the other thing is we have a plan for growth through our national reconstruction fund.'
'Our climate change reconstruction fund. Our climate change policy will create 604,000 new jobs by 2030.'
His response, which sounded very much like a repeat of his budget speech on Thursday night, was only interrupted when Ms Langdon asked again: 'But you won't increase taxes?'
The opposition leader continued talking about the need for political transparency, while dodging the question.
'We've made it very clear we have all of our policies out there for all to see, for all to see, and we have a plan for growth,' he started, but Mr Stefanovic interrupted.
'Albo, Albo, I don't know that you're answering the question,' the host said.
'Yes, I am,' the opposition leader objected.
Anthony Albanese (pictured) dodged questions about higher taxes five times in a TV interview
Mr Stefanovic asked again: 'Is it a yes or a no?'
Mr Albanese again insisted he was answering the question, but refused to address the question directly.
'Is it a yes or a no? Will you be increasing taxes?' Mr Stefanovic asked for the fifth time.
'We will be announcing our measure on multinational tax evasion,' the Labor leader replied in another lengthy rant about lowering the cost of living.
'We're not doing anything on the other measures that we've put forward during the last election campaign. All of our policies are fully costed.'
Anthony Albanese (pictured during his budget reply on Thursday) promised to reduce the cost of living
With an election set to be called within days, Mr Albanese used his budget reply on Thursday night to outline his 'real plan for a better future' and accused current Prime Minister Scott Morrison of having no vision.
Mr Albanese described the Coalition's Budget as long on politics, short on plans and spoke for a wasted decade as he made a bold prediction.
'No help or hope for young Australians. No vision for the future,' he said.
'Just one-off handouts to get through an election, with all the sincerity of a fake tan.
'I think Australians will see this for what it is. Actually, I don't think, I know. '
Taking pressure off the cost of living by making child care and power bills cheaper is high on Mr Albanese's agenda, along with an economy offering stronger wages and more secure work.
'After all the challenges and the sacrifices made during the pandemic, floods, and bushfires, Australians need and deserve a better Budget for a better future,' Mr Albanese said.
'A future where no one is held back, and no one is left behind.'
'Labor has a real plan for growth and prosperity – a plan to get incomes rising and costs under control.'
Household power bills will be slashed by $275 within three years, along with lower electricity costs for businesses under a Labor government.
Its $2.5 billion pledge to 'put the care back into aged care' and fix the current crisis were also revealed.
Other plans include cheaper energy, more manufacturing and training, fee-free TAFE places and renewed focus on Medicare.
Earlier on Thursday, Mr Morrison accused Labor of running with a small-target strategy going into the election.
He described the Opposition as a 'tired old opposition with no economic plan' and called on the Opposition Leader to detail an alternative budget.
'I'm very used to the leader of the opposition thinking sledging the government is an alternative for an economic plan,' Mr Morrison told parliament.
'They've put up the white flag on the (government's) budget … because they know this is the economic plan Australians need that delivers real relief for real problems right now,'
'It's not an economic plan, what he thinks is that he can breeze into government ... without being upfront with the Australian people about what he would put in the budget.'
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Vijayawada: Andhra Pradesh will set up Mobile Tribunals to solve land issues. Chief Minister Jaganmohan Reddy has asked officials to initiate the process, resolve previous problems of web lands in a most transparent manner and finalise the procedures (SOPs) in this regard.
The chief minister said land records should be prepared in such a way that they can’t be changed or tampered. Physical records should be prepared along with electronic ones.
Jagan held a review meeting on YSR Jagananna Saswatha Bhu Hakku – Bhu Raksha scheme and inspected the drones designed for comprehensive land survey using advanced technology.
During the meeting held at the camp office in Tadepalli on Thursday, the chief minister said physical records should be updated regularly and ensure the survey is done immediately after the applications came in.
The CM said the system should be corruption-free. Stringent action should be taken against the corrupt and registrations should be done at village/ward secretariats. Mobile Tribunals would help resolve the issues locally.
He said there should be no controversies by the time clear title deeds are given to the land owners. Officials should involve the Law Department in the process and prepare a road map.
The officials informed the chief minister that 51 advanced drones will be operational for the land survey by April 5. Another 20 drones are being procured to expedite the process. A total of 154 drones will be used for land survey.
The drone survey was completed in 1441 villages so far and more areas will be covered before the monsoon season. Purification of land records is being done along with the comprehensive land survey.
The officials said they would give web land application, village land register application, and village account register, along with land title deed. They would update the land records as per records with the village secretariats so that the issues raised due to web land will be resolved.
The officials said they laid out plans to complete the land survey and issue clear titles in 5200 villages by the end of July 2023; some 5700 villages by the end of August 2023; and 6460 villages by the end of September 2023.
The first phase of taking Orthorectified Radar Image (ORI) images in villages will be completed by November, the second phase by December and the third phase by January 2023.
Deputy chief minister (revenue ) Dharmana Krishna Das, Panchayat Raj and rural development minister Peddireddy Ramachandra Reddy, municipal administration and urban development minister Botsa Satyanarayana, CM's principal adviser Ajeya Kallam, chief secretary Sameer Sharma, CCLA special chief secretary Sai Prasad, revenue special chief secretary Rajat Bhargav, revenue commissioner Siddarth Jain and other officials were present.
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Appeals court says asylum seekers may be deported
When the existence of a communicable disease in a foreign country presents a serious danger of the introduction of such disease into the United States, and that danger would be increased by the introduction of persons or property from such country, 42 U.S.C. § 265 permits the Executive Branch to prohibit people from that country from entering the U.S.
The Trump administration used this authority to prohibit people from entering the United States by land from Mexico or Canada, and the Biden administration has continued the practice. The original order applies primarily to migrants attempting to enter the United States without valid entry documents who otherwise would be subjected to immigration processing at crowded border patrol processing centers.
A group of asylum-seeking migrants sued the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in a U.S. District Court, claiming — among other things — that the order violates their right to apply for asylum. In a preliminary decision issued on Sept. 16, 2021, the District Court granted a temporary injunction requiring DHS to suspend the order pending the outcome of the suit. DHS appealed to the D.C. Court of Appeals.
On Friday, March 4, the appeals court issued a decision permitting DHS to expel covered migrants pending the outcome of its suit in the District Court, but only to places where they will not be persecuted or tortured.
Decision
The asylum seekers claimed that section 265 applies to third parties who “introduce” other people or property into the country, not to the individuals who are introduced.
The court observed that section 265 might have been clearer if Congress has used a word like “entry” instead of “introduce,” but Congress did refer to the “suspension of entries” in its title for the section. The use of the word “introduction” rather than a word like “entry” makes sense in view of the fact that Congress intended the prohibition to cover both “persons” and “property.” Property can’t make an entry.
The asylum seekers also claimed that section 265 does not authorize expulsions.
But the court observed that the authority to prohibit the introduction of people into the United States would be meaningless if the border patrol could not take action against a covered migrant who manages to set foot on American soil. The border patrol has no authority over illegal crossers until they are in the United States.
Moreover, section 265 applies to migrants who enter illegally, and INA section 1227(a)(1)(B) provides that any migrant who is present in the United States in violation of law is deportable.
The asylum seekers also claimed that immediate expulsion prevents them from exercising their right under INA section 1158(a) to apply for asylum.
The court observed that section 265 has to be reconciled with INA section 1158(a) — which can be done on the basis of the discretionary nature of asylum. The administration may grant asylum, or it may not. It is a matter of executive discretion.
The administration has decided, for public-health reasons, to exercise that discretion by foreclosing asylum for the specific subset of border crossers covered by the section 265 order, which also forecloses the statutorily mandated procedures that migrants use to apply for asylum. But when the administration has decided, as it has here, that it is going to deny asylum as a matter of discretion, the proceedings would be futile.
Such harmonization might explain why Congress has explicitly excluded aliens in specified categories from receiving asylum, such as applicants who have persecuted others, but it has not categorically excluded applicants with communicable diseases. Congress may have trusted that the administration would only use section 265 to protect the country from the introduction of a communicable disease from abroad when the danger warrants it.
Nevertheless, DHS cannot expel migrants who claim that they fear persecution or torture without considering the credibility of their claims in expedited removal proceedings. If they can establish a credible fear of persecution or torture in these proceedings, they would be entitled to a hearing on an application for withholding of removal under INA section 1231(b)(3)(A) or for protection under the Convention Against Torture. Relief under these provisions is not discretionary. It’s mandatory.
The court emphasized, however, that these provisions just prohibit sending a migrant to the country where he would face the persecution or torture; they do not provide a path to asylum or any other legal status in the United States — and they do not prevent DHS from expelling the migrant to a country where he would not be persecuted or tortured.
Not an acceptable solution
Expedited removal proceedings would require CBP to hold the migrants in crowded detention facilities for a considerable amount of time while their claims are being considered, which is what the order was intended to prevent. It would subject the migrants to an increased likelihood that they will contract COVID-19 if they don’t already have it — or spread it to others if they do.
And if the migrant is going to be expelled in any case, there is no point to conducting proceedings of any kind. Just don’t send him to the country where he claims he would be subjected to persecution or torture.
The most significant precedent this decision sets is that the administration can refuse to accept asylum applications so long as it does not deport the asylum seekers to the country where they claim they would be persecuted.
As a purely technical matter, this does seem to be correct — and there are other situations in which it would be very useful to be able suspend consideration of asylum applications. For instance, no administration has ever found a way to reduce the immigration court backlog significantly. It was only 129,505 cases in fiscal 1998; it rose to 1,457,615 cases in fiscal 2021; and, as of the end of January, it had reached 1,636,999 cases.
Would a suspension of asylum applications make it possible to bring the backlog down to a manageable level?
Nolan Rappaport was detailed to the House Judiciary Committee as an executive branch immigration law expert for three years. He subsequently served as an immigration counsel for the Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security and Claims for four years. Prior to working on the Judiciary Committee, he wrote decisions for the Board of Immigration Appeals for 20 years. Follow his blog at https://nolanrappaport.blogspot.com.
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BILLINGS — Former Rocky Mountain College women's basketball player N'Dea Flye was among the initial list of 88 players from colleges and universities who have formally filed for inclusion as candidates for the 2022 WNBA Draft.
The WNBA announced the list on Tuesday. The draft is scheduled for April 11 in New York. Flye is currently in Minneapolis for a WNBA and overseas combine.
Flye, a 5-foot-8 guard, was named a first-team NAIA All-American and the Frontier Conference player of the year after leading Rocky to its best season in program history. The Bears went 29-5, won the Frontier's regular-season and postseason championships for the first time in 34 years and advanced to the Round of 8 at the national tournament in Sioux City, Iowa.
Flye averaged 20.6 points, 9.7 rebounds, 3.8 assists and 3.2 steals per game during her senior season. She was also named the Frontier defensive player of the year and newcomer of the year.
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Investor Conference Call to be Held Today at 5:00 PM Eastern Time (2:00 PM PT)
SAN DIEGO, March 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Nuvve Holding Corp. (Nuvve) (Nasdaq: NVVE), a global cleantech company electrifying the planet at the intersection of energy and transportation through its intelligent energy platform, today announced a fourth quarter and full-year 2021 update.
Fourth Quarter Highlights and Recent Developments
- Deployed first vehicle-to-grid (V2G) charging solution with a school bus in Colorado in partnership with Blue Bird
- Won inaugural Next Big Things in Tech Award from Fast Company
- Entered into a strategic engagement with Swell Energy to offer solar and stationary battery storage combined with Nuvve's intelligent electric vehicle charging solution for residential and commercial customers
- Announced plans to form a joint venture with 2021.AI to integrate artificial intelligence with Nuvve's V2G platform
- Levo announced a 10-year contract awarded by the school district in Troy, Illinois to support its effort to fully electrify its fleet
- Cash and cash equivalents of $32.4 million, as of December 31, 2021
Management Discussion
Gregory Poilasne, chairman and chief executive officer of Nuvve, said, "V2G technology is increasingly gaining recognition across the myriad of stakeholders that stand to benefit from its adoption. Nuvve's dedicated focus to date on pioneering and evolving its proprietary V2G solution has resulted in our offering a holistic solution to intelligently integrate EVs into the grid that we believe is unmatched by others. As a result, we are seeing increased interest in our products and services, and in the fourth quarter of 2021, we saw momentum continuing to build. This is evidenced by key partnership announcements, such as our plans to create a first-of-its-kind V2G hub with Blue Bird, a 20% growth in megawatts under management from the third quarter, and a significant increase in orders for our chargers. Looking ahead, we are thrilled to be off to a strong start in 2022 as we continue to find ways to broaden and differentiate our unique offering through additional new partnerships and with our joint venture, Levo. We see a robust pipeline of potential project wins, which we expect will translate to healthy growth in megawatts under management and backlog over time."
2021 Fourth Quarter Financial Review
Total revenue was $1.2 million for the three months ended December 31, 2021, compared to $1.5 million for the three months ended December 31, 2020, a decrease of $0.2 million, or 14.6%. The decrease is attributed to $0.3 million decrease in grants revenue.
Cost of product and service revenues primarily consisted of the cost of charging station goods sold. Cost of product and service revenues for the three months ended December 31, 2021, increased by $0.7 million, primarily due to the sales of charging stations in the United States, with no similar activity in the comparable period. Product and services margin decreased by 53.5% to 2.8% from 56.3% compared to the same prior year period mostly due to a higher mix of hardware charging stations sales and a lower mix of engineering services in the current quarter.
Selling, general and administrative expenses consist of selling, marketing, advertising, payroll, administrative, finance, and professional expenses. Selling, general and administrative expenses were $6.5 million for the three months ended December 31, 2021, as compared to $2.4 million for the three months ended December 31, 2020, an increase of $4.1 million, or 172.3%. The increase was primarily attributable to an increase in compensation expenses, including share-based compensation and non-recurring severance costs related to departures of former employees, and $0.5 million of professional fees related to internal operational reviews, and governance costs associated with the completion of the Business Combination and the Company becoming a recapitalized publicly traded company in March 2021, $0.3 million representing expenses resulting from the consolidation of Levo's Mobility LLC's (Levo) activities beginning in the third quarter 2021. Levo is Nuvve's recently formed joint venture with Stonepeak Partners LP (Stonepeak), and Evolve Transition Infrastructure LP (Evolve) enabling customers to lease V2G electric school buses, related charging infrastructure, and energy management for an attractive flat monthly fee with no upfront costs.
Research and development expenses increased by $1.0 million, or 113.9%, from $0.9 million for the three months ended December 31, 2020 to $1.9 million for the three months ended December 31, 2021. The increase was primarily attributable to an increase in compensation expenses and subcontractor expenses used to advance Nuvve's platform functionality and integration with more vehicles.
Other income (expense) increased by $33.5 thousand of expense, from $0.24 million of other expense for the three months ended December 31, 2020, to $0.3 million in other expense for the three months ended December 31, 2021. The increase during the three months ended December 31, 2021, was primarily attributable to the change in fair value of the private warrants liability.
Net loss includes the net loss attributable to Stonepeak and Evolve, the holders of non-controlling interests in Levo, on our condensed consolidated statements of operations. We began consolidating the results of operations of Levo during the quarter ended December 31, 2021.
Net loss increased by $6.1 million, or 238.9%, from $2.6 million for the three months ended December 31, 2020, to $8.6 million for the three months ended December 31, 2021. The increase in net loss was primarily due to increase in expenses of $5.8 million and increase in other expense of $33.5 thousand for the aforementioned reasons.
Net Loss Attributable to Non-Controlling Interest
Net loss attributable to non-controlling interest was $0.1 million for the three months ended December 31, 2021.
Net loss is allocated to non-controlling interests in proportion to the relative ownership interests of the holders of non-controlling interests in Levo, an entity formed by us with Stonepeak and Evolve. We own 51% of Levo's common units and Stonepeak and Evolve own 49% of Levo's common units. We have determined that Levo is a variable interest entity in which we are the primary beneficiary. Accordingly, we consolidated Levo and recorded a non-controlling interest for the share of the entity owned by Stonepeak and Evolve during the three months ended December 31, 2021.
During the three months ended March 31, 2021, Nuvve raised net proceeds of $62.0 million from the business combination and PIPE (Private Investment in Public Equity) offering. As of December 31, 2021, Nuvve had a cash balance of $32.4 million.
Conference Call Details
Nuvve will hold a conference call to review its financial results for the fourth quarter of 2021, along with other company developments at 5:00 PM Eastern Time (2:00 PM PT) today, Thursday, March 31, 2022.
To participate in the call, please register for and listen via a live webcast, which is available in the 'Events' section of Nuvve's investor relations website at https://investors.nuvve.com/. In addition, a replay of the call will be made available for future access.
About Nuvve Holding Corp.
Nuvve Holding Corp. (Nasdaq: NVVE) is leading the electrification of the planet, beginning with transportation, through its intelligent energy platform. Combining the world's most advanced vehicle-to-grid (V2G) technology and an ecosystem of electrification partners, Nuvve dynamically manages power among electric vehicle (EV) batteries and the grid to deliver new value to EV owners, accelerate the adoption of EVs, and support the world's transition to clean energy. By transforming EVs into mobile energy storage assets and networking battery capacity to support shifting energy needs, Nuvve is making the grid more resilient, enhancing sustainable transportation, and supporting energy equity in an electrified world. Since its founding in 2010, Nuvve has successfully deployed V2G on five continents and offers turnkey electrification solutions for fleets of all types. Nuvve is headquartered in San Diego, California, and can be found online at nuvve.com.
Nuvve and associated logos are among the trademarks of Nuvve and/or its affiliates in the United States, certain other countries and/or the EU. Any other trademarks or trade names mentioned are the property of their respective owners.
Forward Looking Statements
The information in this press release includes "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. All statements, other than statements of present or historical fact included in this press release, regarding Nuvve and Nuvve's strategy, future operations, estimated and projected financial performance, prospects, plans and objectives are forward-looking statements. When used in this press release, the words "could," "should," "will," "may," "believe," "anticipate," "intend," "estimate," "expect," "project," the negative of such terms and other similar expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements, although not all forward-looking statements contain such identifying words. These forward-looking statements are based on management's current expectations and assumptions about future events and are based on currently available information as to the outcome and timing of future events. Except as otherwise required by applicable law, Nuvve disclaims any duty to update any forward-looking statements, all of which are expressly qualified by the statements in this section, to reflect events or circumstances after the date of this press release. Nuvve cautions you that these forward-looking statements are subject to numerous risks and uncertainties, most of which are difficult to predict and many of which are beyond the control of Nuvve. In addition, Nuvve cautions you that the forward-looking statements contained in this press release are subject to the following factors: (i) risks related to the rollout of Nuvve's business and the timing of expected business milestones; (ii) Nuvve's dependence on widespread acceptance and adoption of electric vehicles and increased installation of charging stations; (iii) Nuvve's ability to maintain effective internal controls over financial reporting, including the remediation of identified material weaknesses in internal control over financial reporting relating to segregation of duties with respect to, and access controls to, its financial record keeping system, and Nuvve's accounting staffing levels; (iv) Nuvve's current dependence on sales of charging stations for most of its revenues; (v) any impact of the analysis of the accounting and reporting of warrants related to the extension of filing the Form 10-Q for the first quarter; (vi) overall demand for electric vehicle charging and the potential for reduced demand if governmental rebates, tax credits and other financial incentives are reduced, modified or eliminated or governmental mandates to increase the use of electric vehicles or decrease the use of vehicles powered by fossil fuels, either directly or indirectly through mandated limits on carbon emissions, are reduced, modified or eliminated; (vii) potential adverse effects on Nuvve's backlog, revenue and gross margins if customers increasingly claim clean energy credits and, as a result, they are no longer available to be claimed by Nuvve; (viii) the effects of competition on Nuvve's future business; (ix) risks related to Nuvve's dependence on its intellectual property and the risk that Nuvve's technology could have undetected defects or errors; (x) the risk that we conduct a portion of our operations through a joint venture exposes us to risks and uncertainties, many of which are outside of our control; (xi) that our joint venture with Levo Mobility LLC may fail to generate the expected financial results, and the return may be insufficient to justify our investment of effort and/or funds; (xii) changes in applicable laws or regulations; (xiii) the COVID-19 pandemic and its effect directly on Nuvve and the economy generally; (xiv) risks related to disruption of management time from ongoing business operations due to our joint ventures; (xv) risks relating to privacy and data protection laws, privacy or data breaches, or the loss of data; (xvi) the possibility that Nuvve may be adversely affected by other economic, business, and/or competitive factors, including increased inflation and interest rates, and the Russian invasion of Ukraine; and (xvii) risks related to the benefits expected from the $1.2 trillion dollar infrastructure bill passed by the U.S. House of Representatives (H.R. 3684). Should one or more of the risks or uncertainties described in this press release materialize or should underlying assumptions prove incorrect, actual results and plans could differ materially from those expressed in any forward-looking statements. Additional information concerning these and other factors that may impact the operations and projections discussed herein can be found in the Annual Report on Form 10-K filed by Nuvve with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on March 31, 2022, and in the other reports that Nuvve has, and will file from time to time with the SEC. Nuvve's SEC filings are available publicly on the SEC's website at www.sec.gov.
Use of Projections
This press release contains projected financial information with respect to Nuvve. Such projected financial information constitutes forward-looking information, and is for illustrative purposes only and should not be relied upon as necessarily being indicative of future results. The assumptions and estimates underlying such financial forecast information are inherently uncertain and are subject to a wide variety of significant business, economic, competitive and other risks and uncertainties. See "Forward-Looking Statements" above. Actual results may differ materially from the results contemplated by the financial forecast information contained in this press release, and the inclusion of such information in this press release should not be regarded as a representation by any person that the results reflected in such forecasts will be achieved.
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Stafford County residents can weigh in on the county’s proposed $700 million operating budget for the coming fiscal year at 7 p.m. Tuesday during a public hearing.
Last month, Stafford County Administrator Fred Presley presented the proposed fiscal year 2023 budget to supervisors. The budget is 8.5% higher than the current budget, and includes increases of about $9 million for public safety, $8.4 million for public schools and $4.9 million for transportation projects.
Although Presley’s budget is built on a lower real estate tax rate—88.5 cents per $100 of assessed value compared to the 97-cent rate of this year’s budget—that amount will still cost the average homeowner more money due to escalating home values. At the 88.5 cent rate, the average real estate bill would increase about $422 per year, according to county officials.
The latest county real estate assessment revealed a 24% increase in residential property values in Stafford, along with an 11% rise in commercial property values since the last countywide assessment was conducted two years ago. Kim McClellan, public policy director for the Fredericksburg Area Association of Realtors, said 2021’s end-of-year median home price in Stafford was $445,000, up nearly 16% from the previous year.
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Stafford’s proposed budget also contains a 2.5% rate increase for county utilities to cover system expansion and rehabilitation. The budget also proposes dropping the personal property tax rate mainly levied on vehicles from $6.10 per $100 of assessed value to $5.49.
Highlights of the proposed budget include 2% pay raises for all non-public safety scale employees and additional money to fully fund public safety step-plan employees. To retain and attract employees for work in the county, the new budget also includes a 4.5% increase in salary scales for general government employees and a 3.75% increase for public safety step-plan employees. It also includes 12 new emergency services personnel, three new fire and rescue battalion chiefs, five new sheriff’s deputies and a family services specialist. The budget calls for $150,000 for county vehicle replacements and $330,000 for an electric vehicle initiative with the county’s school system.
Presley told supervisors in February he fully supports Stafford Superintendent Thomas Taylor’s requested $8 million budget increase for schools, which is 6.1% more than last year. The schools’ budget includes $4.4 million for teacher step salary increases as well as $1.5 million for bus driver salaries, $1 million for school pay increases and $1.1 million in per-pupil cost increases.
The county’s Capital Improvement Program includes both county and school projects totaling $856 million over a 10-year period. One of the largest expenditures in that package is $51 million toward High School No. 6, planned to be built on an 83 acres along U.S. 17 across from Village Parkway.
County officials estimate the construction cost of the new school will be $150.4 million, up nearly 223% from the cost to build Mountain View High School, the last high school in the county to be built from scratch nearly 17 years ago.
Other CIP work includes $5.5 million to rebuild the Aquia and Rock Hill fire and rescue stations as well as $2.7 million for renovating the county courthouse annex.
Following Tuesday’s public hearing, two budget work sessions for supervisors are tentatively scheduled to allow officials to fine-tune the budget. Supervisors plan to adopt the fiscal 2023 budget April 19 and tax bills will be sent to residents May 5. Real estate and personal property payments are due June 6.
To provide public comments on the proposed budget electronically, visit staffordcountyva.gov/publichearing. To access details of Stafford County’s proposed fiscal year 2023 budget, visit staffordcountyva.gov/proposedbudget.
James Scott Baron: 540/374-5438
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I-Team Investigation: Bill could mean those overpaid from unemployment may not have to repay
HARTFORD, CT (WFSB) - Overpaid from unemployment?
It happened to 24,000 Connecticut workers, and the state says that number will only go up.
But, there’s a chance people who got overpaid may not have to repay a dime.
The I-Team is looking closer at a bill that could keep thousands of dollars in your pockets.
When the pandemic hit, unemployment claims skyrocketed.
The Department of Labor says it would usually take 10 years to see the volume we saw in just 12 months.
It was a hectic time for the department and a hectic time for workers who suddenly weren’t working.
Many were applying for unemployment for the first time ever.
The state confirms it resulted in at least 24,000 people being overpaid.
Eyewitness News is looking at what happens to them now that the state wants the money back.
“I got about $2,500 in total,” said Christine Fortenberry.
Fortenberry is a cafeteria worker at a Wallingford Elementary School.
When schools shut down in March of 2020, she wasn’t working.
“I waited a couple of weeks and filed for unemployment on April 7 when it seemed like we weren’t going back to school,” Fortenberry said.
For three months, from the middle of April until June, she says she collected a total of $2,500.
“I paid for groceries, they were so expensive for my kids and my father who is elderly, so it went directly to food each week,” she said.
Then, in October 2021, more than a year after the unemployment benefits stopped, Fortenberry says she got a letter alerting her that she had been overpaid.
The state wanted the money back, and then some.
“They were looking for $3,444.68,” Fortenberry said.
Fortenberry paid it and filed an appeal.
Like so many others, Fortenberry spent her unemployment benefits.
Asking for it back is putting families in a tough spot.
“There’s families that still haven’t recovered from COVID, from the loss of their jobs or their homes and I can’t imagine paying thousands of dollars back to the state on top of living through this emergency,” said Fortenberry.
Senator Julie Kushner is looking to wipe the slate clean with a bill she introduced.
If you got overpaid, you would keep the money.
If you already paid it back, you would be reimbursed.
“To ask those families to repay it, it could set them back for years and we just don’t think that’s fair,” Kushner said.
If the bill passes, people who received paperwork saying they were overpaid could apply for a repayment waiver.
The Department of Labor had granted those waivers when it found mistakes were made by the state and for people who went bankrupt or had a mental or physical condition that would make it hard for them to get a job.
“We want to give amnesty, open a window so that people can once again, even if they missed the deadline, apply for that waiver,” said Kushner.
What if your waiver application gets denied?
“We want to set up a fund to pay for those overpayments, so they won’t cause working families everything they’ve got,” Kushner said.
According to the Department of Labor, of the 628,000 people who applied for unemployment during the pandemic, 24,000 or 3.8% were overpaid, and the state determined it was a genuine mistake, no fraud involved.
Of those 24,000, 14,000 people either paid back what was owed or had their overpayments waived.
This is a rolling number that will go up because it does not account for current cases, like Fortenberry’s, which are still in the pipeline.
“It would be an enormous help. Not just on my behalf but thousands of families who did exactly what they were supposed to when they answered the questions,” Fortenberry said.
The Department of Labor has concerns, citing: “The governor’s budget does not include the $50 million in funding required by the bill.”
They also have questions about determining eligibility for those who were initially denied a repayment waiver by the state.
“We feel like there’s been a lot of money spent to ensure the recovery of Connecticut is complete and we think this is part of the recovery efforts,” said Kushner.
The bill is still in committee.
If it gets out of committee, it’ll be heard by the Senate, then the House.
It would need to be voted on before the session ends in early May.
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Local farmer named president-elect of national pork council
MONROE CITY, Mo. (WGEM) - A Monroe City, Missouri, farmer has been chosen to lead the National Pork Producers Council.
The National Pork Producers Council (NPPC) will now have some more Tri-State representation, with Scott Hays being designated President-elect.
Scott Hays, formerly Vice President of the council, operates with Two Mile Pork based in Monroe City.
The council’s former vice president, Hays was elected at a board meeting earlier this month in Louisville, Kentucky.
Hays said he is honored to hold the title and eager to get to work on the many issues that face the pork industry in the United States.
“We’re going to get to argue our case against the state of California to the Supreme Court this year, we’re still working to keep African Swine Fever out of the country and keep the US herd healthy, and working on trade deals” said Hays.
The case is regarding California’s Proposition 12, which would tighten animal confinement regulations.
The proposition states that California, which has a large pork market, would not accept pork products from any consumers that do not follow regulations as set forth in Proposition 12.
Hays, along with many other pork producers and the National Pork Producers Council, are arguing against this rule in the Supreme Court.
He said he hopes to have written arguments submitted this summer and for oral arguments to begin in the fall.
You can find more information about California’s Proposition 12 from the state government website here.
You can also find out more information about the position taken by Hays and the National Pork Producers Council here.
In the meantime, Hays said there are numerous other projects that he and the council will be focused on in the coming months.
“We’re working on the 2023 farm bill that’s starting to be written, the 2023 budget...the president released his version of that last week so that’s being talked about,” Hays said.
He said for the budget they are focusing on getting protection from foreign animal disease and continued funding for labs.
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SOTA Finance (SOTA) traded 0.6% higher against the dollar during the 24 hour period ending at 19:00 PM ET on March 31st. SOTA Finance has a total market capitalization of $177,140.98 and $467.00 worth of SOTA Finance was traded on exchanges in the last day. One SOTA Finance coin can now be bought for about $0.0044 or 0.00000010 BTC on major cryptocurrency exchanges. Over the last week, SOTA Finance has traded up 4.1% against the dollar.
Here is how other cryptocurrencies have performed over the last day:
- Binance USD (BUSD) traded down 0% against the dollar and now trades at $1.00 or 0.00002189 BTC.
- Polygon (MATIC) traded down 3.8% against the dollar and now trades at $1.63 or 0.00003558 BTC.
- Polygon (MATIC) traded up 1% against the dollar and now trades at $1.65 or 0.00004286 BTC.
- Crypto.com Coin (CRO) traded up 5% against the dollar and now trades at $0.41 or 0.00001075 BTC.
- Dai (DAI) traded down 0% against the dollar and now trades at $1.00 or 0.00002185 BTC.
- Chainlink (LINK) traded down 1.4% against the dollar and now trades at $16.99 or 0.00037158 BTC.
- Parkgene (GENE) traded flat against the dollar and now trades at $25.59 or 0.00045023 BTC.
- DREP (DREP) traded flat against the dollar and now trades at $1.96 or 0.00003398 BTC.
- DREP [old] (DREP) traded flat against the dollar and now trades at $1.96 or 0.00003399 BTC.
- FTX Token (FTT) traded 4.4% lower against the dollar and now trades at $49.00 or 0.00107164 BTC.
SOTA Finance Coin Profile
According to CryptoCompare, “SOTA is a multi-chain digital content NFT platform where users can create, sell and buy digital content NFTs. Users follow their favorite creators, buy and sell their collectibles in the SOTA market.Creators can select to create NFTs on different blockchain networks. The platform starts with Ethereum, then adds TomoChain and other chains gradually. SOTA is the governance token of the SOTA platform that provides users with benefits when using it. “
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Special Ks’ stunning run snapped; Osaka celebrates emotional win — Miami Open Wrap
The Special Ks run at the Miami Open has come to an end in the semi-finals, with Nick Kyrgios and Thanasi Kokkinakis defeated 4-6, 3-6 by Hubert Hurkacz and John Isner on Friday.
The Australian Open doubles champions had won nine of their 10 matches playing together this year before Friday’s defeat.
Hurkacz and Isner scored the first break in the opening set, capitalising on a clever return from the former to leave Kyrgios and Kokkinakis with little hope of saving the point.
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“What a point that was,” Arvind Parmar said in commentary.
“What a clever return that was from Hurkacz to just dink in the lob. He realised pretty quickly he couldn’t hit through the return and quick thinking.”
Kyrgios and Kokkinakis looked destined to drop the first set at that point before a booming forehand from the former saw the Australian pair break back.
“I think when Hurkacz and Isner broke and then had Isner trying to serve the set out, they must have thought it was as good as done but the Aussies had another thing in mind,” Parmar added.
In the end though, Hurkacz and Isner would break Kyrgios and Kokkinakis once more to hold on and take out the first set.
The Australian duo answered early by breaking their rivals in the first game of the second set but were immediately broken back and Hurkacz and Isner did not look back from there.
“Just absolutely flying right now these two. You kind of expected them to serve well but they returned brilliantly,” Adam Fielder said in commentary.
“A couple of missed opportunities for these two, they had the early break in the second set but got broken immediately,” Parmar added of Kyrgios and Kokkinakis.
“Some very good tennis from their opponents. It was tough for them.”
Hurkacz and Isner finished the match winning 74 per cent and 53 per cent of their first and second serves respectively.
They will face Neal Skupski and Wesley Koolhof in the doubles final.
It was an impressive effort from Hurkacz, who only a few hours prior had defeated Daniil Medvedev to move through to the men’s semi-final.
EMOTIONAL OSAKA SURGES THROUGH TO FINAL
Japan’s Naomi Osaka advanced to the WTA Miami Open final by rallying to defeat Olympic champion Belinda Bencic of Switzerland 4-6, 6-3, 6-4 on Friday.
Bencic had won three of her four prior matches against the four-time Grand Slam champion, but Osaka fought back to reach her first final on the Miami hardcourts.
Neither player had dropped a set before the match but Bencic was impressive in opening exchanges to quickly put Osaka on the backfoot.
“I didn’t feel like I figured her out at all and somehow I managed to win,” Osaka said.
“She’s an amazing player. I wish I had her return.” O
saka, 24, will face either American Jessica Pegula or new world number one Iga Swiatek of Poland.
Osaka, who left Indian Wells in tears after being heckled by a fan, was similarly emotional at the end on Friday, but in a happier way.
“I just wanted to say thanks to everyone. The atmosphere was really good,” Osaka told spectators after the match.
“Damn, I’m always crying, but this tournament means a lot to me.”
DJOKOVIC STILL NO.1 AS MEDVEDEV STUMBLES
Daniil Medvedev said physical struggles destroyed any chance of a victory to reclaim the world number one ranking on Friday after falling to Poland’s Hubert Hurkacz 7-6 (9/7), 6-3 at the Miami Open.
Medvedev fell to second with a third-round loss to Gael Monfils at Indian Wells but would have taken back the top spot from Serbia’s Novak Djokovic had he defeated Hurkacz, the defending Miami Open champion.
Instead, 10th-ranked Hurkacz advanced to the semi-finals by ousting the reigning US Open champion at Hard Rock Stadium and 20-time Grand Slam champion Djokovic stays number one.
Hurkacz, now 2-2 all-time against the Russian, faces either Spain’s Carlos Alcaraz or Serbian Miomir Kecmanovic for a berth in the final.
Medvedev said he found it hard to breathe at times and was cramping so badly in the locker room he was like “a fish on a sofa.”
“All match, I wasn’t feeling my best,” Medvedev said. “After the tough points I was struggling to get my breath. I wasn’t recovering fast enough. You just have to fight but in the second set I felt strange.
“I don’t often feel like this but it happens sometimes when it’s hot. Maybe it was the heat but I was feeling dizzy and tired and there was one game where I couldn’t serve anymore. In the locker room I was cramping.”
Medvedev called for medical trainers in the second set.
“The physio gave me something,” he said. “You never know. You’re hoping it will be like a magic thing but it doesn’t always work like this. Normally I don’t call for the physio but I really wasn’t feeling good.”
Hurkacz played well, taking full advantage of Medvedev’s struggles, which lasted well after he walked off the court.
“Normally I would just sit for a bit in the locker room but then I started cramping,” he said. “I had a shower and felt a bit better. That was good advice because I was sitting down, was really tired and every muscle started going cramp, cramp, cramp. I was like a fish on the sofa.
“It’s nothing serious. I’ll wake up and probably be fine, but that’s no good if I’m out of the tournament.” Medvedev was having trouble with his service games throughout -- his first serve percentage was just 43 per cent as he attempted to stay in the first set at 2-5 down, but there was hope when he broke back and managed to draw level at 5-5.
But he was unable to stem the tide as Hurkacz, whose serve was key, powered into the last four.
“I knew Hubert could play great tennis and it was more important to win the game than become number one,” Medvedev said. “That would have been a bonus.” The previous three matches between the pair had all gone the distance yet that was never on the cards here.
“Hubert is a great player,” top seed Medvedev said. “He doesn’t play like this against other players. Against me, he doesn’t miss. But I still think I’m going in the right direction.” Hurkacz said his return of serve was crucial.
“I was able to make a lot of returns and get some free points on my serve, because having rallies with Daniil is fun, but they get long,” Hurkacz said. “It’s good I was able to get some free points.”
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At 41, Ventura resident David Tubbs has found a new lease on life in the boxing ring
It is 5 a.m. and David Tubbs crawls out of bed, ready to tackle the day. After an eight-hour day as an electrician for Midtown Electric, Tubbs makes his way to Knuckleheadz Gym in Ventura for a two-hour training session.
Whether it is working with tools on projects during the day or shadow boxing and hitting the heavy bag in the gym in the evening, Tubbs exerts himself to the max every day.
The structure he has now is like night and day compared to the life he lived roughly 20 years ago. Tubbs can say he found solace in boxing, but maybe boxing found Tubbs.
Tubbs will face late-sub Emmanuel Sanchez in a four-round fight Friday night at the Chumash Resort Casino in Santa Ynez.
The 41-year-old last fought on July 23, 2021, in Windham, New Hampshire, knocking out Thomas Haney in the opening round. Tubbs (5-1, 5 knockouts) has won his last four bouts since losing by knockout to Roman Lopez in November 2019.
Tubbs is enjoying life now compared to his teenage years. He was a football and track star at Moorpark High School before being expelled for getting into trouble and hanging out with the wrong crowd. He attended a boot camp-like school for teenagers.
“I did really well there because I liked the military-like structure of the program,” Tubbs told The Star on Tuesday. “It was either that or the Youth Authority (YA). I’m glad I made the choice to go to boot camp.”
Tubbs went on to Ventura High, where he also played football. After graduating high school, Tubbs worked several jobs, but he found himself in and out of jail.
“I was a good person but I was making bad choices on how to make money,” said Tubbs, who resides in Ventura. “My dad was a functioning (drug) addict and he had a job in construction. I thought I could do the same, but I followed his bad habits and wound up in county jail and in prison.
“I tried MMA. I went to West Coast Jiu Jitsu because I felt I could do that. At the same time, I was in a sober-living house. I was getting help through a 12-step program. I was fighting every couple of months through mixed martial arts. I was getting focused.”
An incident involving the boyfriend of his daughter’s mother landed him back in jail. Felony charges, going in and out of jail again and going back to drugs disrupted a consistency in his life. A few years later, after having trained there before, Tubbs walked into Knuckleheadz Gym and wanted to give boxing a go.
Tubbs hit it off with trainer Joseph “Hoss” Janik at the gym. Tubbs would turn pro in August 2019. Janik sees a lot of promise in Tubbs.
“We would love to see how far David could go in the sport,” Janik told The Star. “One thing about him is that he’s a freakish athlete. He had MMA under his belt but wanted to go into boxing 4-5 years ago. He’s made the transition well thus far.
“He’s late to the game. He gets offers to fight undefeated fighters who are 8-0 or former Olympians. We’re taking small steps with David. What helps is that he’s very disciplined and wants to learn in the gym. We’ll see what the next piece is in the puzzle.”
Tubbs is grateful for the new lease on life. He has been sober for the last six years and is doing his part to help others. In his off time, he assists those in sober-living homes and trains youngsters at Knuckleheadz Gym.
“Knuckleheadz is a good environment,” said Tubbs. “It’s my sanctuary. It’s my passion. Boxing is a lifestyle and a way of life. Boxing has helped me help others. Boxing has helped me with my life. It’s played an important role and it has saved me. It’s given me a purpose.
“Working with Hoss has been great. I’m thankful for what he has done for me. On a personal level, he’s like a father-figure to me. He’s closer to me than some members of my family. I try to do things to impress him. I respect what he says and then I pass it on to those who I work with.”
Despite working a full-time job, Tubbs has found his passion and is willing to see how far he goes in the sport. With the support of his wife, family and friends, Tubbs is confident he can find success in a sport that found him at the worst point in his life.
“I would love to make it in boxing. I would love to fight on ESPN or that type of platform. I’m going to give it my all. I’m not in boxing for the money,” he said. “I’m glad I found this passion. I feel whole for the first time since I was a kid. I’m finally feeling like I’m finishing something in my life that I started. I have my life together.”
Sanchez (7-15-1, 1 KO), who resides in Jackson, Michigan, took the fight on Thursday morning after original opponent Lucious Johnson was reportedly arrested early this week on a domestic violence charge. Sanchez has lost his last 13 of his last 15 fights.
The main event of the World Fighting Championship card is John Dato (14-1-1, 9 KOs) of Santa Maria against former world junior bantamweight titleholder Rodrigo Guerrero (26-13-2, 13 KOs) of Mexico City in an eight-round featherweight bout.
Four more fights round out the card.
A few tickets remain and can be purchased at Chumashcasino.com. COVID-19 protocols are to be followed. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. with first bell scheduled for 7.
Saavedra falls short
Fernando Saavedra of Santa Paula lost by majority decision to Puerto Rico’s Carlos Caraballo last Saturday night at the Resorts World Las Vegas.
One judge scored the bout 76-76, while the other two judges scored the bout 79-73 and 77-75 for Caraballo, who improves to 15-1, 14 KOs.
Saavedra, who is trained by his father Fernando Sr. and works with Oxnard strength and conditioning coach Federico Mendoza, drops to 9-7, 3 KOs.
Francisco A. Salazar covers boxing for The Star. Francisco also writes for Ring Magazine and Boxingscene. He can be reached on Twitter at FSalazarBoxing
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ADOT to extend SR 24 east to Williams Field Road on Friday, April 1
PHOENIX – An initial segment of a state highway project under construction in the southeast Valley is scheduled to open on Friday, April 1, several months ahead of schedule, according to the Arizona Department of Transportation (editor's note: an exact time for opening the new segment isn't available at this time - ADOT will provide an update when it opens).
ADOT, the city of Mesa and Legacy Sports USA have partnered on the early opening of the one-mile stretch of State Route 24 (Gateway Freeway) between Ellsworth and Williams Field roads to improve access to and from nearby Bell Bank Park, a new sports and entertainment complex. Bell Bank Park, operated by Legacy Sports USA, is located southeast of a new intersection connecting SR 24 and Williams Field Road.
The segment opening Friday is part of ADOT’s ongoing $77 million project to build SR 24 as a four-lane divided roadway between Ellsworth Road in Mesa and Ironwood Drive in Pinal County. Work started in November 2020 and the entire five-mile-long project is scheduled for completion by late summer (2022).
Friday’s accelerated opening also will allow for travel to or from neighborhoods near the Williams Field Road intersection along SR 24. SR 24 traffic will not be allowed east of Williams Field Road until the remainder of the four-lane roadway is completed.
As part of the SR 24 construction, crews have added highway bridges over Ellsworth Road. New SR 24 on- and off-ramps on the east side of the Ellsworth Road interchange are scheduled to open within the next week.
The first stretch of SR 24 between Loop 202 (Santan Freeway) and Ellsworth Road opened to traffic in 2014.
More information about SR 24 is available here.
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FC Dallas at the Academy and Premier level does run a U18 team but in the broader Youth spectrum, they do. This is the only team from FCD Youth locally to be in the Dallas Cup U18 Division.
All the non-Academy teams are outside my radar, some more so than others. I do my best with the info I can find but if you have any to share please reach out. Twitter @3rdDegreeNet. A team pic would be nice.
FC Dallas Youth 04
Coach: Jose Perez
Bracket A: Sporting FC Academy 04 Premier, Tableview FC (South Africa), Everton College (England)
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(KTLA) – The IRS on Wednesday reminded tax filers to claim any missing third-round stimulus payment on their 2021 income tax return.
The tax season gives eligible people who never got the $1,400 payment the chance to claim it.
Since the IRS is no longer issuing the Economic Impact Payments, people who are missing a stimulus payment, or got less than the amount they’re eligible for, will have to claim a Recovery Rebate Credit on their 2020 or 2021 federal tax returns, according to the Internal Revenue Service.
Most eligible people have already received their stimulus payments and won’t need to include anything about the payment when they file their 2021 tax return.
The IRS says it has issued more than 175 million third-round payments worth more than $400 billion to people across the country. Most of those payments were sent out in the spring and early summer of 2021.
Still, there are many who haven’t gotten their payments.
Authorities have identified 644,705 potentially eligible people who had not received payments totaling $1.6 billion, according to a report issued last week by the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration.
What to do if you never received the third payment
The IRS encourages residents to double check their bank accounts first to make sure they never got the third payment, especially in early spring and summer of 2021.
People can also access their IRS Online Account to view the total amount of the third-round Economic Impact Payment issued to them. For married couples filing jointly, each person will need to log into their own online account.
Once people confirm they never got the payment, and their IRS online accounts show a payment amount greater than $0, or if they got a Notice 1444-C or Letter 6475, they should contact the IRS as soon as possible to see if a payment trace is needed.
But they do not need to wait until their trace is complete to file their 2021 tax return, officials said.
When completing the Recovery Rebate Credit worksheet, taxpayers have two options: either use the amount on the Letter 6475 (or EIP 3 amount from the online account) to calculate the recovery rebate credit amount on line 30, or use the amount of stimulus payment the taxpayer believes they received to calculate the rebate credit amount on line 30. (Details on that can be found here.)
Those who contact the IRS to trace the stimulus payment amount will receive notification of the results. If it is found that the taxpayer didn’t get the money, the IRS will adjust the recovery rebate credit amount on the tax return and issue any refund.
If people make a mistake calculating the recovery rebate credit and claim an amount on line 30 for the 2021 Recovery Rebate Credit, the IRS will have to correct the amount and send a notice about the changes made. If that happens, there may be a delay in processing the return, officials said.
What if I already filed my taxes?
An amended return may be needed to claim the credit if IRS records show no payment was issued.
For eligible people who didn’t claim a recovery rebate credit on their 2021 tax return (so line 30 is blank or $0), they will need to file a Form 1040-X, Amended U.S. Individual Income Tax Return to claim the remaining amount of stimulus money — if IRS records don’t show that they were issued a payment.
This includes people who think they didn’t get the full amount of their third-round Economic Impact Payment because their circumstances in 2021 were different than they were in 2020.
People trying to figure out if they should amend their original tax return can use this online tool.
More details on claim the 2021 Recovery Rebate Credit can be found here.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is naming actor Taraji P. Henson and the NBA’s Chris Paul to a presidential advisory board on historically Black colleges and universities.
They are among nine men and nine women Biden is appointing to the President’s Board of Advisors on Historically Black Colleges and Universities, the White House announced Thursday.
Several HBCU presidents, the president of United Airlines and the first Black woman to become administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency are among Biden’s selections.
They will join Tony Allen, the president of Delaware State University, and Glenda Glover, the president of Tennessee State University, who are serving, respectively, as chairperson and vice chairperson of the board, which was established during the Carter administration.
Henson is a Washington, D.C., native who studied acting at Howard University, a historically Black school and the alma mater of Vice President Kamala Harris. Paul is a 12-time NBA All-Star with the Phoenix Suns and two-time Olympic gold medalist.
Besides Allen and Glover, the presidents of five other HBCUs will also join the board. They are Virginia State University, Norfolk State University in Virginia, Alabama State University, Prairie View A&M University in Texas and Dillard University in New Orleans.
Lisa Jackson, who became the EPA’s first Black administrator in the Obama administration, and United Airlines President Brett Hart will also join the board.
Biden also intends to appoint Paige Blake, a 20-year-old junior at Bowie State University, an HBCU in Maryland.
The White House said the administration has committed $5.8 billion in support to these historically Black colleges and universities through a combination of pandemic relief funding, grants and forgiving capital improvement debt.
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — NCAA President Mark Emmert said investigations into allegations of major violations against several high-profile men's college basketball programs — including 2022 Final Four participant Kansas — have taken “way too long.”
What solutions might be on the table to speed it up, Emmert did not say, but there appears to be increasing acknowledgement that the current process is broken.
“It’s just been really slow in getting through that new independent process that’s wound up reinvestigating the entire case,” Emmert said, referring to the Independent Accountability Resolution Process (IARP).
The IARP was created out of proposals from the commission led by former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in 2018 to reform the sport. It began looking into allegations against Kansas, Arizona, LSU, Louisville and North Carolina State on the heels of a federal investigation into corruption in college sports that resulted in convictions of shoe company executives, a middle man who worked with them and some assistant college coaches.
Of those FBI cases nearly five years ago, only one -- North Carolina State, tied to its recruitment of one-and-done star Dennis Smith Jr. -- has actually gone through the IARP system to completion and received a ruling that resulted in probation for one year, some vacated victories and penalties for previous coaches.
The four other cases are still pending in the IARP structure, while Auburn went through the more traditional process and received four years of probation in December from an NCAA infractions committee panel.
In the meantime, this year's NCAA Tournament could be tainted should Kansas win the national championship and subsequently have an unfavorable decision come down in a now half-decade-old investigation.
Created to handle complex cases, the IARP includes independent investigators and decision-makers with no direct ties to NCAA member schools, and rulings cannot be appealed.
Emmert said NCAA institutions need to come up with a process that has “got to be fair. It’s got to be swift. And it’s got to not punish the innocent. ... That’s where the membership’s got to be in all of this, as they shape a new process or rebuild the one that’s in place.”
The Kansas case hinges on whether Adidas representatives were considered boosters — the school contends they were not — when two of them arranged payments to prospective recruits. Kansas does not dispute the payments. Kansas asked for referral to the IARP instead of having the NCAA's infractions committee handle the matter.
While the lengthy IARP process has been going on, Self agreed to a new contract on April 2, 2021, that will keep him with the school until he retires.
The five-year deal adds one additional year after the conclusion of each season — in effect, making it a lifetime contract. It guarantees him $5.41 million per year with a base salary of $225,000, professional services contract of $2.75 million and an annual $2.435 million retention bonus.
The contact also includes a clause that says the school cannot terminate him for cause “due to any current infractions matter that involves conduct that occurred on or prior to” the signing of the new contract. Instead, he would forfeit half of his base salary and professional services pay while serving any Big 12 or NCAA suspension.
Emmert declined to weigh on on Kansas' decision to double down on Self.
“I’ll leave it to the school to make decisions about their coaches’ contracts,” said Emmert, who also spoke at the women's Final Four on Wednesday. “That’s their business, obviously. They can do that as they see fit.”
The infractions process has also come up with the Division I Transformation Committee, which is working to recommend ways to modernize and reform NCAA governance and regulatory policies.
Southeastern Conference Commissioner Greg Sankey, who chairs the committee along with Ohio athletics director Julie Cromer, said the group is looking at both the overall infractions process and the IARP structure as part of its work.
“I don’t know fully what was envisioned and what wasn’t envisioned,” said Sankey, who has served on the NCAA infractions committee. “But we have to have timely outcomes, both for those accused and for those competing against those who are accused. That has to be a point of emphasis.”
Later, Sankey added: “I was on an implementation working group, and I disagreed with elements of the approach. So I think some of these problems were foreseeable. We have an opportunity to correct and enhance the process. That doesn’t mean everybody will like the process.”
Among other topics Emmert addressed:
NATIONAL NIL RULES
Emmert offered an urgent plea to Congress to craft what he said was needed, uniform national legislation governing financial endorsements for athletes know known as name, image and likeness (NIL) deals.
“This tournament’s put on full display the beauty of college sport,” Emmert said. "People love it and enjoy it, and we’ve got to work with the schools and with Congress to make sure we can continue that.
“We’ve got again a relatively short window of time — in my estimate, one and two years,” Emmert continued. “These decisions have to be made because of the dynamics that are underway right now that are far beyond the control of schools, coaches, (athletic directors) or presidents.”
Currently, more than 30 states have been working on their own NIL laws.
TRANSGENDER LEGISLATION
With a number of states considering or passing legislation restricting participation of transgender athletes, Emmert was asked whether the NCAA would bar those states from hosting championship events.
The NCAA has largely followed the Olympic model that allows transgender athletes to compete if they've had certain biomedical treatments, including hormone therapies, meant to promote fairness.
Emmert said the NCAA currently requires communities which wish to host events “to explain how it is that they’re going to make sure that the participants in that sport will be allowed to do that in a nondiscriminatory way. ... If they can do that, then we’ll be in those states."
TRANFER RULES
Emmert said the current transfer rules continue to draw a lot of scrutiny and complaints from coaches and could be adjusted over time.
“The only thing that I can say right now is that it’s clear that students are getting more opportunities to play. They’re getting more freedom of movement in some respects,” Emmert said.
But he added that officials are keeping an eye on how the rules affect “students being able to finish their degrees in a timely fashion and go on and lead productive lives, because we know how few of them will be professional basketball players. It’s a constant point of discussion. I don’t anticipate it going away too soon.”
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AP Sports Writers Aaron Beard, Dave Skretta and John Marshall contributed to this report.
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PR Newswire
MORGAN CITY, La., March 31, 2022
MORGAN CITY, La., March 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Conrad Industries, Inc. (OTC Pink: CNRD) today announced its 2021 results and backlog.
The Company had net income of $6.5 million and earnings per diluted share of $1.29 for the twelve months ended December 31, 2021 compared to net loss of $4.0 million and loss per diluted share of $0.80 for the twelve months ended December 31, 2020. Net income for 2021 includes other income related to Payment Protection Plan loan forgiveness and Employee Retention Credit. The Company's financial reports are available at www.otcmarkets.com.
Our backlog as of December 31, 2021 was $148.5 million, compared to $183.7 million at December 31, 2020, and $79.2 million at December 31, 2019.
Johnny Conrad, Chairman and CEO stated, "Our results for 2021 reflect a continued challenging operating environment. The improving but uneven pace of pandemic recovery in 2021 was accompanied by sharp increases in steel prices, inflationary price increases in other materials and equipment, supply chain disruptions and a tight labor market."
Mr. Conrad continued, "Although we face substantial uncertainties in our markets, we believe we are well-positioned to take advantage of opportunities when market fundamentals improve. We believe customers have delayed orders due to high steel prices and pandemic uncertainties, and that some of these orders will move forward when steel prices decline or our customers' business opportunities or fleet replacement needs require the vessels. We have seen a continued strong market for dredging and other infrastructure-related vessels, which we expect may continue, supported by the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act enacted in 2021. We are also optimistic about opportunities in our repair and conversions segment."
Mr. Conrad concluded, "We are optimistic about our long-term prospects including the recent award of a contract by the U.S. Navy for the design and construction of a Yard, Repair, Berthing and Messing ("YRBM") barge, with options for an additional seven barges. This contract along with the infrastructure and repair markets are encouraging signs for the future of our business."
Conrad Industries, Inc., established in 1948 and headquartered in Morgan City, Louisiana, designs, builds and overhauls tugboats, ferries, liftboats, barges, offshore supply vessels and other steel products for both the commercial and government markets. The company provides both repair and new construction services at its five shipyards located in southern Louisiana and Texas.
Cautionary statement: This press release contains forward-looking statements, which are all statements other than those of historical facts, and reflect our expectations as of the date of this press release about future events. Forward-looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties, including risks and uncertainties related to the COVID-19 pandemic, current high steel prices and constrained availability, competition, our reliance on cyclical industries, ability to perform contracts at costs consistent with estimated costs utilized in bidding, and ability to replenish our backlog and compete in changing markets. These and other risks are discussed in more detail in our Annual Report and subsequent reports available on www.otcmarkets.com. Should one or more of these risks materialize, achievement of anticipated results may differ materially from those anticipated. We do not intend to update these forward-looking statements, other than through our regular quarterly and annual reports.
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Colorado couple charged in toddler’s fentanyl death
BRIGHTON, Colo. (AP) — A Colorado couple face felony charges in connection with the fentanyl death of their 1-year-old child. Prosecutors say the girl died after ingesting enough of the extremely lethal drug to kill an adult. Alonzo Montoya and Nicole Casias of suburban Denver were charged Thursday with child abuse resulting in death and distribution of a controlled substance. The 17th Judicial District’s Office says the Adams County Coroner has determined that the child died in January after ingesting fentanyl and that the couple “participated in illicit drug activity” in the child’s presence at home. An attorney for Casias didn’t immediately respond to requests for comment.
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Asia
Saudi Arabia blacklists 25 individuals, entities for easing financing of Houthis
Saudi Arabia’s Presidency of State Security blacklisted 25 people and entities for facilitating the financing operations of Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi militia, state information company (SPA) reported on Thursday.
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Rangers could face legal action after Sydney Super Cup snub
By Vince Rugari
The organisers of the Sydney Super Cup have hit back at Rangers, who could be hit with legal action for pulling out of the NSW government-backed tournament and a planned Old Firm derby against Ange Postecoglou’s Celtic.
Following weeks of speculation over their involvement, the Scottish champions have confirmed they will not take part in the four-team event in November, for which tickets have already gone on sale.
In a statement released overnight, the club accused tournament organisers of being “unwilling to fulfil their commitments to Rangers” and said they’d terminated their agreement to play in the Sydney Super Cup with immediate effect. According to Sky Sports News, those commitments involved the non-use of the term ‘Old Firm’ in official communications, which Celtic avoids in deference to parts of their fanbase who believe the ‘Old Firm’ ceased to exist when Rangers went bust in 2012.
But TEG and Left Field Live, the co-promoters of the event, have returned serve, accusing Rangers of bowing to fan pressure and letting down their Australian-based supporters, and rejecting any claim they had gone back on their commitments to the club.
“We were disappointed to wake up this morning to Rangers FC’s statement that it will not be participating in the Sydney Super Cup,” the promoters said in a statement.
“The Rangers Board committed to these matches following extensive negotiations over eight months. Seemingly in response to negative fan reaction, they have pulled out of their contracted commitment.
“We have worked closely with all stakeholders to bring this exciting event to Sydney, and we refute any suggestion that we were unwilling to fulfill our commitments to Rangers. We have acted in good faith and have put the event on sale with a great response from fans here.
“In changing their minds, the Rangers Board has let down many, many fans in Australia and the Asian region. We will now consult with our stakeholders before determining our response.”
The decision to withdraw from the Sydney Super Cup will come at a hefty cost for Rangers, with overseas reports indicating they would be hit with a legal bill for breach of contract in the event of a withdrawal.
It does, however, end any fears of fan violence in Sydney between Celtic and Rangers supporters. Representatives of the Sydney-based fan clubs of both teams had expressed serious concern over policing, logistics and the lack of segregation at not only Accor Stadium but pubs, trains and buses across the city during the week leading up to the November 20 fixture.
Never before have Celtic and Rangers played a match against each other on foreign soil, and it may be some years before such a plan is revisited after this false start.
It’s unclear whether organisers will seek a replacement team for the Sydney Super Cup - which is also slated to involve A-League teams Sydney FC and Western Sydney Wanderers - or if Rangers’ withdrawal puts the entire project in jeopardy. TEG Live was contacted for further comment.
The tournament, announced only last month, was not well-received by Celtic and Rangers fans, some of whom believed the venture would cheapen their age-old rivalry - even though an executive from Rangers said the trip to Sydney would earn them more money in eight days than they would through an entire Scottish Premiership season.
Rangers fans have been staging protests at games to make their displeasure clear to the club’s board, throwing tennis balls and toilet rolls onto the pitch at an away fixture a fortnight ago to express their angst against the Sydney Super Cup, as well as the positioning of their club as a ‘foil’ for Celtic and Postecoglou on his planned homecoming tour.
Celtic, who are three points clear on top of the Scottish Premiership ladder, travel to Ibrox to face Rangers on Sunday night (AEDT) in a match that could be decisive in the title race.
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Shares of Uber Technologies Inc. UBER shed 2.46% to $35.68 Thursday, on what proved to be an all-around rough trading session for the stock market, with the NASDAQ Composite Index COMP falling 1.54% to 14,220.52 and Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA falling 1.56% to 34,678.35. This was the stock's second consecutive day of losses. Uber Technologies Inc. closed $25.82 short of its 52-week high ($61.50), which the company reached on April 14th.
The stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors...
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TORONTO (AP) _ Loncor Gold Inc. (LONCF) on Thursday reported a loss of $1.6 million in its fourth quarter.
The Toronto-based company said it had a loss of 1 cent per share.
For the year, the company reported that its loss widened to $3.7 million, or 3 cents per share.
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OK. So, Joe Biden was "selected not elected," to borrow an old Democratic talking point.
Anyone who went to bed on Election Day 2020, glad of a Trump victory, and woke up to Biden's Selection Day, has long since recorded the relevant facts. Oh, well. Spilt milk, stolen elections; it's all the same, right? Rep. Mo Brooks may have gotten booed at a Trump rally for his, don't-look-back-let's-go-forward line, but he was just saying out loud what most of his colleagues have long since been whispering. Well, they stole it fair and square. But we're watching them now. They'll have to be a lot cleverer than your average Republican congressperson to pull off another one of those!
There's a comforting thought!
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People will continue to investigate all aspects of The Steal, but dreams of correcting the Selection without another vote or two seem to be fading into the fog of war, along with the rest of Biden's bag of deplorable crises. But now we are wondering just who is Biden's consigliere, as the Putin mob goes to the mattresses (allegedly leaked this week from a "high ranking Moscow source": "Putin and his high command have decamped to secret bunkers, following a Kremlin statement that Russia would use nuclear weapons to counter an 'existential threat.'")
Keep an eye on the White House. Who will be the first to leave? What will we do if Joe decides to squat in the hallway or under his desk and put his head between his legs? Would Joe make it inside the bunker, or have the five-ton door slammed shut in his face and be left outside to join in with his country's fate? This is one question that begs another.
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We all know Joe Biden is an illegitimate president. The half that saw the theft of the citizens' right to choose certainly knows it. But so does the side that sees a hundred plain indications that Joe is not the one in charge. They can't say anything because, while it may not be Joe at the head of the nation, at least it's surely someone or ones from their side pulling the strings.
That is the question. That is the 500-pound gorilla in the room. Not "How did this guy get to be president?' But "Who is our president?" You know? All joking aside!
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Is it Obama behind the curtain, playing at being the Wizard of Oz? Or did even Barack have his directives given to him through Valerie Jarrett? Is Susan Rice the Valerie Jarrett of this "Presidency"? Who owns Susan? Who owned Obama? Who is the puppet master? Who owns America?
More important now, while we tread water waiting for the midterms, is our need to ask, "Who really is our president?" Is it a committee of high-ranking leftists? Is it an elite group of oligarchs? Joe has testified thoroughly and frequently as to who's in charge through mentioning what "they" will or will not allow him to do or say. It's quite a bit more than questions about protocols. It's more along the lines of, "How high should I jump?" Could a whistleblower live long enough to tell us, if he or she had a verifiable answer to who is the actual dictator? Yes, there was a coup. But thenceforth, why is everyone still focused on the barely standing figurehead?
Hello! Joe is not our president! Never was and never will be. All we need to know is exactly who our fearless leader is. Are we living under a proper dictatorship of one unsung strongman, or is it more like a collective junta, comprised of many? Victory comes to those who define the terms. So long as we exasperate ourselves picking nits from poor old Joe's hair plugs, we cannot acknowledge that he is nothing at all but a faded, broken puppet. We need to know who dictates his follies.
It would be nice to know who it is, after all, that is flirting with a nuclear Armageddon. Are they nice people? Sincere? Irritable? Schizoid-sociopathic megalomaniacs? Very few of us can grasp, or dare to ask, the measure of evil that is blanketing the globe. A virus (from an enemy) that rarely kills (if treated) is used as an excuse for shutting down the world's one sure beacon of freedom and prosperity. A vaccine that is not at all a vaccine, but a long-term crippler and killer, meant to invade and corrupt our very DNA, is put forth by some of the richest people in the world, who have voiced their assent to the notion that the earth's population must be reduced by 90%. Such once-upon-a-time crazy conspiracy theories are now crowding the edges our pleasant dreams. How dark is this darkness we wonder? Is there somewhere, deep in the bowels of our multi-trillion-dollar government, humankind's Golem, who finds no joy in the pale results of the pandemic and its worsening cure? What good is a mere 5 or 10 million, among the billions, in the face of this contagion of humanity that plagues his/her/their Earth (incorrect pronouns being the second-most dire threat of the age)?
Wars don't start by accident. Wars start because someone wants them to happen.
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Now, hopefully, commenters will come to our assistance and explain, clearly, why this is all just so much stuff and nonsense. Not all of us enjoy the option of retiring to a well-stocked bunker, so it would be dearly appreciated. We would much rather confess ourselves to be the fools that God made us to be, than to have these wild speculations proven to bear even a grain (or megaton) of truth.
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December 2021 IPO Provides Capital to Accelerate Growth Strategy
2021 Revenues Increase 681% While Fourth Quarter Revenues Grew 19% Sequentially Compared to the Third Quarter, Reflecting an Acceleration in Momentum and an Inflection Point in the Company's Growth Trajectory – With Most Growth Occurring Prior to IPO Funding
IPO Proceeds Deployed to Grow the Brand, Increase Awareness, and Procure Inventory to Sustain Strong Sequential Momentum in 2022
Over 1,000 New Points of Distribution Added in First Quarter, More Than All of Last Year
Celebrities Nina Dobrev and Julianne Hough, Initial and Ongoing Investors, Continue to Enthusiastically Endorse FVW Celebrating Partners and Product Launches Among Their More Than 30 Million Social Media Followers
MINNEAPOLIS, March 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Fresh Vine Wine, Inc. (NYSE American: VINE), the premier producer of premium lower carb, lower sugar, and lower calorie wines in the United States, today reported strong financial results for the three months and fiscal year ended December 31, 2021, including year-over-year annual revenue growth of 681% from $217 thousand in 2020 to $1.700 million in 2021.
Janelle Anderson, CEO of Fresh Vine Wine, Inc., said, "I am extremely proud of our team, which grew the business both for the year and sequentially in the fourth quarter by executing on extremely aggressive marketing and go-to-market strategy, while concurrently completing our IPO. This reflects an inflection in the company's growth trajectory and is indicative of the results we expect this year. We have already put the IPO proceeds to work building our brand, investing in our people, and procuring inventory. In the first quarter of 2022, we added over 1,000 new points of distribution (PODs), which is more than twice the 900 PODs we had at time of IPO. We believe that this leading indicator, coupled with our increased inventory levels, suggest accelerating revenue growth and strong first quarter results."
Ms. Anderson continued, "The speed of our expansion is remarkable, which speaks to the quality of our sales and marketing strategy and the pedigree of our organization. Our success reinforces the viability of consumer demand for our category-defining, premium tasting brand of lower carb, lower sugar, lower calorie wines. We plan to continue this positive trajectory in 2022 by introducing new product offerings and expanding our marketing efforts, in part by leveraging the 30 million-plus social media followers of our celebrity spokespeople and co-founders, Nina Dobrev and Julianne Hough. It is encouraging and rewarding to begin this year with significant positive momentum."
Recent Business Highlights
- In December 2021, the Company closed its Initial Public Offering, raising net proceeds of $19.2 million
- Added 1,000 Points of Distribution in the first quarter
Retail
- Launched in our first national "C-Store" where we have been authorized at their more than 1,600 California locations
- Securing a top national convenience store chain to carry our wines in the state of California is a true breakthrough for Fresh Vine Wine and further validates the demand for our lower carb, lower calorie, lower sugar premium wines
- Secured placement at the newest resort on the Famous Las Vegas Strip
- FVW wines premium Cabernet Sauvignon, Chardonnay and other varietals will be featured at 22 various venues at the newly launched Resorts World Las Vegas
- Expanded partnership with retail grocer, Hy-Vee, for the distribution of our premium Limited Reserve Napa Cabernet
- To be featured at all Hy-Vee stores in the Upper Midwest
- Announced a partnership with CRAVE American Kitchen & Sushi Bar
- Featured as a premium wine pairing and frequently recommended as the perfect complement to their special lunch and dinner menus
Geographic Expansion
- Expanded into 6 new states in the first quarter of 2022, including Nevada coincident with the Resorts World launch
- FVW now available nationwide, one of the Company's key strategic priorities.
Direct to Consumer
- Experienced record-breaking single day sales on two separate occasions, reflecting the impact of our social media marketing strategy
- Record demand after major shareholders Nina Dobrev and Julianne Hough appeared across national media following VINE IPO day and then again after their appearance on The Ellen Show https://bit.ly/36VuRd4. Expect more exciting appearances representing Fresh Vine Wine by these highly influential celebrities
New Product Release
- Released a fifth varietal, a Limited Reserve Napa Cabernet Sauvignon
- The introduction of this premium wine represents further progress in our business objectives to leverage our presence at retail to increase distribution and fuel future growth.
- Announced the bottling of our 2021 Vintage Rosé at 21 times the quantity of 2020 Rosé bottled
- After selling out the entire 2020 Rosé Vintage within months of bottling, now bottling the 2021 Vintage Rosé at 21 times the amount of Rosé bottled for the 2020 vintage.
Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2021 Financial Results and Commentary
Net revenue in fiscal 2021 was $1.70 million, up from $217,000 in fiscal 2020. Growth was primarily attributable to our increased presence in the wholesale market, where we significantly expanded our distributor network and geographic presence, and the introduction of our wine club, which drove direct-to-consumer sales. Of total 2021 revenue, $773,000 was from our wholesale distribution channel and $774,000 was from our direct-to-consumer sales channel. As fourth quarter revenues were affected by an inventory drawdown precipitated by very strong demand, the Company used this period to accelerate the timing of the launch of its Strategic Services segment, which netted over $150,000 of revenue in the quarter, and is expected to continue quarterly in fiscal 2022. Selling, general and administrative expenses were $4.79 million for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2021, compared to $1.33 million for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2020, largely driven by increases in Selling, Marketing and General & Administrative expenses. The year-over-year increase in Marketing expenses primarily resulted from our sports marketing partnerships while the increase in General & Administrative expenses is the result of increased salaries and wages needed to support the growth in sales. Selling expenses generally follow our sales volume growth. The Company reported a net loss of $9.97 million, or ($1.12) per share, for fiscal 2021, compared to a net loss of $1.29 million, or ($0.21) per share in fiscal 2020.
Liquidity and Capital Resources
- The Company's cash and cash equivalents balance as of December 31, 2021, was $16.1 million. The Company has no material debt.
About Fresh Vine Wine, Inc.
Fresh Vine Wine, Inc. (NYSE American: VINE) is a premier producer of lower carb, lower calorie premium wines in the United States, kicking off a 2022 growth plan following its IPO in mid-December 2021. Fresh Vine Wine's brand vision is to lead the emerging natural and accessible premium wine category, as health trends continue to accelerate in the US marketplace. The 2020 US wine market was a $69 billion category. Fresh Vine Wine plans to accelerate growth in 2022 by amplifying its marketing, expanding product offerings, and expanding its team. Fresh Vine Wine positions its core brand lineup as an affordable luxury, retailing between $14.99-$22.99. Fresh Vine Wine's varietals currently include its Cabernet Sauvignon, Chardonnay, Pinot Noir, and Rosé.
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release includes forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements generally can be identified by the use of words such as "anticipate," "expect," "plan," "could," "may," "will," "believe," "estimate," "forecast," "goal," "project," and other words of similar meaning. These forward-looking statements address various matters including statements regarding the timing or nature of future operating or financial performance or other events. Each forward-looking statement contained in this press release is subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such statement. Applicable risks and uncertainties include, among others, the Company's ability to hire additional personnel and to manage the growth of its business; the Company's reliance on its brand name, reputation and product quality; the Company's ability to adequately address increased demands that may be placed on its management, operational and production capabilities; the effectiveness of the Company's advertising and promotional activities and investments; the Company's reliance on celebrities to endorse its wines and market its brand; general competitive conditions; fluctuations in consumer demand for wine; overall decline in the health of the economy and consumer discretionary spending; the occurrence of adverse weather events, natural disasters, public health emergencies, or other unforeseen circumstances that may cause delays to or interruptions in the Company's operations; risks associated with disruptions in the Company's supply chain for grapes and raw and processed materials; the impact of COVID-19 and its variants on the Company's customers, suppliers, business operations and financial results; disrupted or delayed service by the distributors the Company relies on for the distribution of its wines; the Company's ability to successfully execute its growth strategy; the Company's success in retaining or recruiting, or changes required in, its officers, key employees or directors; the Company's ability to protect its trademarks and other intellectual property rights; the Company's ability to comply with laws and regulations affecting its business, including those relating to the manufacture, sale and distribution of wine; claims, demands and lawsuits to which the Company may be subject and the risk that its insurance or indemnities coverage may not be sufficient; the Company's ability to operate, update or implement its IT systems; the Company's ability to successfully pursue strategic acquisitions and integrate acquired businesses; the Company's potential ability to obtain additional financing when and if needed; the Company's founders' significant influence over the Company; and the risks identified in the Company's other filings with the SEC. The Company cautions investors not to place considerable reliance on the forward-looking statements contained in this press release. You are encouraged to read the Company's filings with the SEC, available at www.sec.gov for a discussion of these and other risks and uncertainties. The forward-looking statements in this press release speak only as of the date of this document, and the Company undertakes no obligation to update or revise any of these statements. The Company's business is subject to substantial risks and uncertainties, including those referenced above. Investors, potential investors, and others should give careful consideration to these risks and uncertainties.
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MISSOULA — Big Sky is looking to take the next step in trying to reclaim its position as Missoula’s top softball program.
The Eagles began laying the foundation last year under first-year head coach Trevor Subith, a longtime baseball coach who took over a winless team. They went 5-18 for their most wins since 2017 while playing with a roster of primarily first-year varsity athletes and only one senior.
Big Sky added a junior varsity team this year as its numbers have increased. The Eagles have installed a permanent outfield fence thanks to donors. They also brought on former Montana Grizzly Maddy Stensby to guide their pitchers after former Frenchtown and Ohio State pitcher Morgan Ray provided some help last year. Most important to Subith was making sure girls who should be attending Big Sky did so instead of transferring to another school for softball.
With only one senior this year and 10 more freshmen expected to come in next year, Subith expects to have to go through tryouts and cut players, which he sees as a sign of a real program. As this season begins, things are at least looking like they could be more competitive between Big Sky and Sentinel, which has taken over as the top Missoula team in recent years.
“When I took this program over, it was a scrap heap and bare bones,” he said. “We’ve seen a lot of progress in one year. It just takes a little bit of time. I think the shift is on.”
Big Sky returns two second-team all-conference players in sophomore catcher Grace Hood and sophomore designated hitter Logan Baack, who bring power bats to the lineup. So too does sophomore Delaney Laird, a Hellgate transfer who is expected to be the team’s ace pitcher. Those big hitters will complement Subith’s small-ball offense that includes slap hits, bunts, hit and runs and aggressive baserunning designed to put pressure on the defense.
The Eagles have eight sophomores on their 15-team roster, with infielders Sadie Nei and Brooke Schaffer and pitcher Liberty Rogers projected to see time. Syerra Peterson and Annika Loewen round out the second-year group.
“We’re still young, but we’re an experienced young,” Subith said. “That’s a weird term because we started seven freshmen last year. All are back, so they’ve all had varsity experience, all played a ton, all got a ton of at-bats.”
Even the two juniors, starting outfielders Jordan Whitmire and Breanna Hewitt, will be in just their second high school season after 2020 got postponed. Big Sky has only one senior on its team: Kaysen Brown.
Subith is expecting big things out of his freshmen: outfielder Kyler Latrielle and infielders Sadie McGuinn, Irene Griswold and Gianna Janacaro. While they’re new to varsity softball, he noted that they’ve all played high-level travel softball.
“If we do the things that I expect, we play catch and throw strikes and put balls in play, we’re going to be pretty good,” he said. “The West is, I think, a little bit down from last year. The East is loaded. The three Billings schools are really good. I think the West is Capital, Glacier and then everybody else besides the bottom two in Flathead and Hellgate. I expect us to be right there with Helena and Butte and Sentinel. It should be good.”
The season format will have a new look this year. Doubleheaders are gone, with the rare exception, so that varsity and JV games aren’t being played at the same time.
The divisional tournament has been eliminated, meaning the top six teams from each conference in the regular-season standings will go straight to state. The state tournament will be 12 teams this year instead of eight and will take place in Missoula.
“It’s a huge motivator not only for me but for the girls to play in front of a lot of home fans,” Subith said of trying to qualify for state, which Big Sky hasn't done since 2017.
The Eagles open the season by hosting Billings West at 3 p.m. Friday in a doubleheader, Billings Senior at 10 a.m. Saturday and Billings Skyview at 1 p.m. Saturday.
Sentinel Spartans
Sentinel will need to replace six seniors, including five starters who were four-year varsity players, from a team that took third place at the state tournament last spring.
The Spartans’ biggest loss is arguably all-stater Grace Hardy, who is now with the Montana Grizzlies softball team after having one of the best bats in the state while playing shortstop and pitcher. All-state center fielder Mac Wright is now at Utah State University Eastern, while second baseman Keena Kay is at Columbia Basin. They also need to replace first baseman Morgan Holmes and right fielder Addy Gaub, who were both second-team all-conference picks.
Sentinel returns two all-state players in senior shortstop/catcher/outfielder Kodi Fraser and junior utility player Haley Wolsky. Junior pitcher/utility player Charlee Hoover earned second-team all-conference honors. Junior catcher Emma Ries was all-conference honorable mention.
Sentinel lists four seniors on its roster, with the other three being outfielder Raquel Reed, infielder/pitcher Amy Taylor and catcher/first baseman Cassidy Schweitzer.
They have seven juniors, with the other four being infielder Stella Summerfield, pitcher Rylee Crane, catcher/first baseman Morgan Olson and pitcher/infielder/utility player Jayden Gagner
Sentinel’s lone sophomore on varsity is utility player Kennedy Dypwick.
Dustin Delridge, the head coach since 2017, returns for another season.
The Spartans opened the season Wednesday at Belgrade with a 9-8 loss. They host Billings Skyview at 3 p.m. Friday for a doubleheader, Billings West at 10 a.m. Saturday and Billings Senior at 1 p.m. Saturday.
Hellgate Knights
Hellgate will look to build upon last year’s winless season under the guidance of first-year coach Gavin Booi. He replaced Brad Shaffer, who had been the head coach since 2016.
The Knights need to replace five seniors from last season’s squad. They didn’t have any players earn all-state or all-conference recognition.
Hellgate begins the season by hosting Billings Senior in a doubleheader at 3 p.m. Friday, Billings Skyview at 10 a.m. Saturday and Billings West at 1 p.m. Saturday. All four games will take place at Grizzly Softball Field on the UM campus.|
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TORRANCE, Calif., March 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Emmaus Life Sciences, Inc. (OTCQX: EMMA), a commercial-stage biopharmaceutical company and leader in the treatment of sickle cell disease, today reported financial results for the year ended December 31, 2021 and an update on recent activities.
Recent Highlights
- March 2022: Announced that the Florida Medicaid Pharmaceutical & Therapeutics Committee has added Endari® to the Florida Medicaid Preferred Drug List, effective April 1, 2022, eliminating the need for prior authorization for Medicaid patients.
- March 2022: Received full marketing authorization for Endari from the United Arab Emirates (U.A.E.) Ministry of Health after a five-month review of the company's marketing authorization application.
- December 2021: Presented positive transfusion data from a post-hoc analysis of the phase 3 clinical study of Endari, the company's prescription L-glutamine oral powder, in patients with sickle cell disease, at the 63rd American Society of Hematology (ASH) Annual Meeting. Data confirmed that Endari meaningfully reduces both pain crises and hospitalizations.
- November 2021: Announced collaboration with UpScript to offer telehealth solutions to sickle cell disease patients, expanding access to Endari. The partnership allows patients to see a doctor remotely and receive same-day physician authorization and prescriptions for Endari, which will be delivered directly to their home within just a few days.
- November 2021: Entered into an agreement with Asembia to provide expanded patient and provider support services to simplify access to Endari. Asembia provides a single point of contact for benefits investigation and financial and co-pay assistance, as well as patient and provider education.
- October 2021: Signed an agreement with Kainos Medicine, Inc., granting Emmaus an exclusive license to patent rights, know-how and other intellectual property relating to Kainos' novel IRAK4 inhibitor (KM10544) for the treatment of cancers, including leukemia, lymphoma and solid tumors.
"Recently, we have made substantial progress in expanding access to Endari for sickle cell disease patients in need," stated Yutaka Niihara, M.D., M.P.H., Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Emmaus. "Although our financial results for 2021 were below our expectations, we anticipate that the full roll-out of our new telehealth solution in the coming weeks will improve patient access and efficiency in the delivery of Endari to sickle cell patients throughout the United States. Internationally, we are pleased to have recently received marketing approval of Endari in the U.A.E. and our first major order from our exclusive distributor there. We are actively pursuing additional marketing approvals of Endari to treat the approximately 225,000 sickle cell disease patients throughout the Middle East North Africa (MENA) region and we expect this expanded distribution, along with our telehealth solution, to help generate increased sales of Endari during 2022."
Dr. Niihara continued, "In addition to our focus on increasing patient access to Endari, we have expanded our clinical pipeline. In particular, we have seen promising results from our ongoing preclinical studies of the IRAK4 inhibitor licensed from Kainos Medicine, Inc. in October 2021, which may prove to be a novel, potential treatment option for hard-to-treat lymphomas such as Waldenström's Macroglobulinemia with MYD88 mutation. We also eagerly anticipate results from an additional proof-of-concept study of Endari as a treatment for diverticulosis, expected in mid-2022. If positive, we should be able to move directly into a registration trial. The current year is shaping up to be an exciting one for Emmaus and we look forward to providing updates throughout the year."
Net Revenues. Net revenues for the year ended December 31, 2021 were $20.6 million, compared to $23.2 million for 2020. Although sales volume as measured by number of boxes of Endari sold held steady compared to 2020, net revenues were adversely affected by somewhat higher and more frequent discounts afforded distributors on bulk pre-orders in 2021 compared to 2020.
Operating Expenses. Total operating expenses for the year were $23.4 million, compared with $21.0 million for 2020. Of the increased expenses, $1.7 million was attributable to increased research and development expenses primarily related to license fees paid to Kainos Medicine, Inc. relating to Kainos' novel IRAK4 inhibitor in research and development expenses associated with the company's pilot/phase 1 diverticulosis sub-study in which enrollment was completed in December 2021. The company also incurred a $1.0 million increase in selling expenses resulting from more frequent travel associated with the lifting of COVID-19 related travel restrictions in the U.S. and foreign countries.
Operating Income (Loss). Operating loss for the year ended December 31, 2021 was $6.1 million, compared with operating loss of $32,000 in 2020.
Other Income (Expense). Other expense increased by $10.8 million, or 1,074%, to $9.8 million for the year ended December 31, 2021, compared to other income of $1.0 million in 2020, which included a $7.7 million gain from sale of marketable securities. The company did not realize a similar gain in 2021. The increase in other expense in 2021 included a $3.5 million increase in foreign exchange loss and a $2.0 million increase in change in fair value of conversion feature derivatives, partially offset by a $2.9 million decrease in interest expense.
Net Income (Loss). For the year, the company reported a net loss attributable to common stockholders of $15.9 million, or $0.32 per share, based on approximately 49.3 million weighted average basic and diluted common shares. This compares to net income of $1.4 million, or $0.03 per share, based on approximately 49.0 million weighted average basic and diluted common shares, for 2020. The increased net loss was primarily attributable to the operating loss for the year and increase in other expense discussed above.
Liquidity and Capital Resources. At December 31, 2021, the company had cash and cash equivalents of $2.3 million, compared with $2.5 million at December 31, 2020.
About Emmaus Life Sciences
Emmaus Life Sciences, Inc. is a commercial-stage biopharmaceutical company and leader in the treatment of sickle cell disease. The company currently markets U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Endari® (L-glutamine oral powder), indicated to reduce the acute complications of sickle cell disease in adults and children 5 years and older. The company is also engaged in the discovery and development of innovative treatments and therapies for certain rare and orphan diseases as well as those affecting larger populations, such as diverticulosis. For more information, please visit www.emmausmedical.com.
About Endari® (prescription grade L-glutamine oral powder)
Endari®, Emmaus' prescription grade L-glutamine oral powder, was approved by the FDA in July 2017 for treating sickle cell disease in adult and pediatric patients five years of age and older. Sales of Endari® began in the United States in 2018.
Indication
Endari® is indicated to reduce the acute complications of sickle cell disease in adult and pediatric patients five years of age and older.
Important Safety Information
The most common adverse reactions (incidence >10 percent) in clinical studies were constipation, nausea, headache, abdominal pain, cough, pain in extremities, back pain, and chest pain.
Adverse reactions leading to treatment discontinuation included one case each of hypersplenism, abdominal pain, dyspepsia, burning sensation, and hot flash.
The safety and efficacy of Endari in pediatric patients with sickle cell disease younger than five years of age has not been established.
For more information, please see full Prescribing Information of Endari at: www.ENDARIrx.com/PI.
Forward-looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, as amended, including statements regarding possible increased access to Endari in the U.S. through telemedicine and potential increased sales of Endari following full marketing authorization for Endari in the U.A.E. and, possibly, other countries in the Middle East North Africa region. These forward-looking statements are subject to numerous assumptions, risks and uncertainties which change over time, including uncertainties related to the company's working capital and ability to carry on its existing operations and obtain needed financing, risks inherent in the commercialization of Endari in the U.S. and abroad, and other factors disclosed in the company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for 2021 filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 31, 2022, and actual results may differ materially. Such forward-looking statements speak only as of the date they are made, and Emmaus assumes no duty to update them, except as may be required by law.
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MSNBC host Chuck Todd calls out Republican Senator Cramer for saying Putin should turn over any dirt on Hunter Biden and calls him 'lazy' for saying the the left would be asking if it was Don Jr. or Eric Trump
- The host asked Cramer about Trump's comment earlier this week
- Trump called on Putin to release any information he has on Hunter Biden
- 'I think he should release it,' said Trump, bringing up one of a campaign charge
- Trump had previously asked Ukraine for dirt on the Bidens
- Cramer echoed Trump, calling on Putin to 'reveal' dirt on Biden if he has it
- Todd called asking an enemy of the free world for propaganda 'horrendous'
- Cramer compared it to the Russia probe, then said he was being 'sarcastic'
- Came on a day when White House fielded questions about Hunter's business
- Said the treatment would be different if he were talking about Eric or Don Jr.
MSNBC host Chuck Todd tore into North Dakota Sen. Kevin Cramer for parroting former President Donald Trump's comments asking Russian President Vladimir Putin to provide any dirt he has on Hunter Biden.
The longtime TV journalist pressed Cramer in an interview for his comments captured by C-SPAN and CNN earlier this week – where he said Russian President Vladimir Putin should 'reveal' any information he has on Biden's son.
That comment echoed one by Trump, who solicited information from Putin even as his forces were carrying out a brutal invasion of Ukraine that has displaced millions of refugees.
“She gave him $3.5 million so now I would think Putin would know the answer to that. I think he should release it,” Trump told journalist John Solomon in an interview at his own Mar-a-Lago home. 'I think we should know that answer,' Trump said. He was raising an allegation from the 2020 campaign when he accused Hunter of taking money from the wife of the late mayor of Moscow, Yury Luzhkov.
MSNBC host Chuck Todd clashed with Sen. Kevin Cramer after the lawmaker echoed former President Donald Trump's call for Vladimir Putin to hand over any dirt he has on Hunter Biden
'Well I don’t know if he has dirt on Biden. If he does, he should reveal it, but he is a war criminal so I don’t expect that he’s right now sitting around thinking about ways he can,' Cramer said in what appeared to be the latest example of an elected Republican playing to Trump's tune.
Cramer had familiarity with the subject when he first answered the question, saying 'Yeah, I heard that.'
Todd was having none of it. 'Why would you want to trust anything Putin had to say about Hunter Biden,' asked Todd, only hinting at Putin and his regime's reputation for disinformation.
Cramer at first called it 'sort of interesting because Russian collusion – we were gonna believe everything that was coming out of Russia a few years ago when it was about Donald Trump,' in reference to the Russia probe.
Then Cramer claimed his answer was 'was more sarcastic than anything,' than it was anything because I said this is a war criminal that he suggested provides evidence that there's been a crime committed by Hunter Biden.'
'Well I don’t know if he has dirt on Biden. If he does, he should reveal it, but he is a war criminal so I don’t expect that he’s right now sitting around thinking about ways he can,' Cramer said, in comments in the Senate broadcast by CNN
Sen. Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.) echoed Donald Trump's call for Vladimir Putin to turn over any information he has on Hunter Biden
Todd called it 'horrendous' to seek information on Hunter from an 'enemy of the free world'
Todd referenced his claimed sarcasm, then said, 'It comes across as almost a bit unpatriotic to ask, literally, the enemy of the free world right now for propaganda. For a political opponent. I mean, it just seemed like a horrendous thing to do by the former president. No?' he asked.
'Here's the reality. If if Hunter Biden's name was Donald Trump, Jr., Eric Trump, you guys would be treating the war in Ukraine like ...' Cramer pushed back.
Todd then hit him for making ''the laziest attack - it's not about the media.'
'It's also honest,' Cramer responded, as the two talked over each other.
It all came on a day when White House fielded numerous questions about Hunter's business dealings with China following a Washington Post report, which followed a long series of reports on business activities of the now-president's son.
Cramer is a former House member who was elected to the Senate in 2018.
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STAMFORD, Conn., March 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Stamford, CT based private equity firm Olympus Partners has acquired Omega Environmental Technologies ("Omega"), the market leading aftermarket distributor of climate control products and other mission-critical components across the light and heavy-duty automotive sectors, from AEA Investors, which will remain a minority equity investor and retain a board position in the Company. Omega serves thousands of customers globally across the wholesale distribution, OE service, and automotive retail channels. The Company is headquartered in Irving, Texas and has over 20 distribution centers across the United States and Canada.
"The replacement air conditioning market is very attractive, with steadily growing demand and high barriers to entry due to the technical nature and SKU intensity of the product. Omega is the leader in this category with a portfolio of powerful brands and complete end market coverage. We look forward to working with Peter, Randy, and the rest of the management team to continue grow the Company," said Jason Miller, Partner at Olympus.
Peter Butterfield, Chairman of Omega, added, "I would like to thank AEA for their support over the past few years and look forward to partnering with the Olympus team. I have never been more excited about the prospects of the Company."
Founded in 1988, Olympus Partners is a private equity firm focused on providing equity capital for middle market management buyouts and for companies needing capital for expansion. Olympus is an active, long-term investor across a broad range of industries including business services, consumer products, healthcare services, financial services, industrial services, and manufacturing. Olympus manages in excess of $8.5 billion mainly on behalf of corporate pension funds, endowment funds and state-sponsored retirement programs.
The Olympus team included Jason Miller, Matt Bujor, and Alex Pollera. Olympus was represented by Ben Clinger, Adam Wexner, and Kat Murphy from Kirkland & Ellis LLP. Antares Capital LP led debt financing for the transaction.
AEA Investors LP was founded in 1968 by the Rockefeller, Mellon and Harriman family interests and S.G. Warburg & Co. as a private investment vehicle for a select group of industrial family offices with substantial assets. AEA has an extraordinary global network built over many years which includes leading industrial families, business executives and leaders; many of whom invest with AEA as active individual investors and/or join its portfolio company boards or act in other advisory roles. Today, AEA's approximately 100 investment professionals operate globally with offices in New York, Stamford, San Francisco, London, Munich and Shanghai. The firm manages funds that have over $14 billion of invested and committed capital including the leveraged buyouts of middle market companies and small business companies, growth capital and mezzanine and senior debt investments. AEA Small Business is a strategy within AEA that currently manages $1.9 billion of invested and committed capital. The team seeks to help grow and transform companies at the lower end of the middle market by sponsoring growing companies with proven management teams and superior business models.
Olympus Partners is a private equity firm focused on providing equity capital for middle market management buyouts and for growing companies. Olympus manages in excess of $8.5 billion mainly on behalf of corporate pension funds, endowment funds and state-sponsored retirement programs. Founded in 1988, Olympus is an active, long-term investor across a broad range of industries including business services, food services, consumer products, healthcare services, financial services, industrial services and manufacturing.
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Police: 13-year-old runaway girl dies at hospital after found unresponsive at motel
D’IBERVILLE, Miss. (WALA/Gray News) - A 13-year-old girl has died in a Mississippi-area hospital after being reported as a runaway from Alabama earlier this month.
WALA reports the Mobile Police Department first reported Keyanna Sylvester as a runaway on March 21. She was then found unresponsive in a motel room in D’Iberville, Mississippi, on March 24, according to D’Iberville Police Capt. Jason King.
Sylvester was taken to the hospital but later died, according to police.
The 13-year-old spent time in Ocean Springs and Moss Point, Mississippi, according to reports.
King said it was too early in the investigation to decide whether foul play was involved in the girl’s death.
“We’re making sure we’re careful about not saying whether it’s criminal or not criminal,” he said.
King also said police are waiting for a report by the medical examiner.
“This hurts me real bad because Keyanna was my baby,” said neighbor Alexie Thames. “You all need to help find whoever did this to my baby. "
Anyone with further information on this case was urged to contact the D’Iberville Police Department at 228-396-4252.
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Hyderabad: The city police are bearing the brunt of the constant increase in narcotic and cybercrime cases as it has only 1,800 personnel who are responsible for the safety of 70 lakh citizens spread over the city’s five zones. In effect, the ratio translates to one police officer for 4,000 citizens.
Following new recruitments, the ratio could be one police personal for 2,000 citizens. “Though our strength is less, our police tops the country when it comes to controlling crime and detecting cases,” city police commissioner C.V. Anand told Deccan Chronicle here on Thursday.
“We are hoping that the Telangana State Level Police Recruitment Board would be calling for applications to posts like Stipendiary Cadet Trainee (SCT) sub-inspectors and constables by an early date,” he said. Towards this, they have already started pre-recruitment training to the aspirants by providing study material, preparing them for physical measurement tests (PMT) and physical efficiency test (PET), physical training. These are being overseen by the in-charge zonal DCPs.
It may be noted that the state government, while announcing 80,000 government posts, had stipulated that at least 18,343 vacancies in the city police department had to be accommodated on a priority basis. A majority of the new recruits will be for lower cadre posts.
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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "All or Nothing Evening" game were:
03-06-12-13-16-17-18-19-20-21-23-24
(three, six, twelve, thirteen, sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, nineteen, twenty, twenty-one, twenty-three, twenty-four)
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After years of US population growth, it’s time for a pause
In the long run, no substantial benefits will result from the further growth of America’s population. The gradual stabilization of the U.S. population through voluntary means would contribute significantly to America’s ability to solve its problems.
That statement from a half-century ago was the unequivocal central finding of the groundbreaking report by the U.S. Commission on Population Growth and the American Future, submitted to the president and Congress on March 27, 1972.
However, rather than moving toward a gradual stabilization, as was clearly recommended, America’s population over the past 50 years has grown to 334 million, an increase of 123 million (about 60 percent) since 1972.
In addition, America’s population is projected to continue growing over the coming decades. According to its main projection series, the Census Bureau expects the nation’s population to be close to 400 million around mid-century.
Preceding the commission’s establishment by several years, former President Richard M. Nixon remarked that “One of the most serious challenges to human destiny in the last third of this century will be the growth of the population… Whether man’s response to that challenge will be a cause for pride or for despair in the year 2000 will depend very much on what we do today.”
Nixon’s observations are even more prescient today. Given climate change, environmental degradation, biodiversity loss, pollution and congestion, population growth in America and the rest of the world remains among the serious challenges to human destiny in the 21st century.
Similarly and more recently, naturalist Sir David Attenborough remarked, “It’s not just climate change; it’s sheer space, places to grow food for this enormous horde. Either we limit our population growth, or the natural world will do it for us, and the natural world is doing it for us right now.”
Without a doubt, America’s population growth is a major factor affecting domestic demand for resources, including water, food and energy, and the worsening of the environment and climate change. There is hardly any major problem facing America with a solution that would be easier if the nation’s population were larger. On the contrary, population stabilization would help to resolve several.
Stabilizing the population would reduce pressures on the environment, climate and the depletion of resources and gain time for America to find solutions to its pressing issues. If the United States intends to address climate change, biodiversity loss, pollution, etc., it must consider how its population affects each issue.
In contrast to the commission’s central finding, some do not recognize the need to stabilize the population. Their reasons are largely based on profit, politics and power. They give little attention to the consequences of population growth on the nation’s future.
For instance, many economists contend that continued population growth is needed to fuel economic growth. Their “bigger-is-better” arguments simply ignore or dismiss the negative consequences for the country, which are threats to the wellbeing of today’s Americans as well as the long-term sustainability of the nation.
Others argue the nation would be “more happy” with more people. Slow population growth, they claim, hurts not only America’s economic growth but also the national mood. Concerns about climate change and the environment are omitted from their rhetoric.
Some advance nationalistic appeals for continued population growth, maintaining that the more patriotic one is the more one ought to believe in a large and growing America.
Another argument is the view that “America isn’t full” and can accommodate many more people, particularly more immigrants. Those advocates, however, rarely ever specify how large the population must become to be considered full nor do explain why America needs to be full.
Thousands of scientists worldwide take an opposing view. Among their major recommendations for governments to address the climate emergency is a call for the stabilization of the world population, or ideally, a gradually reduced population within a framework that ensures social integrity.
Gradually stabilizing America’s population will provide an exemplary model for other countries to emulate. Rather than racing to increase the size of their respective populations in a world with 8 billion humans and growing, nations would see America moving away from the unsustainable demographic strategy.
As American couples are having fewer children than in the past for a host of social, economic and personal reasons, the nation’s fertility rate is unlikely to return to the replacement level any time soon. And pro-growth calls for Congress or the administration to establish pro-natalist policies to raise fertility appear unlikely to be adopted.
So, with the nation’s fertility below the replacement level, stabilizing America’s population will necessarily involve substantially reducing immigration levels, estimated at approximately 1.1 million per year. If immigration levels were, for example, close to zero, America’s projected population in 2060 would be 320 million versus 405 million if immigration continued at the same pace.
After 50 years since the commission presented its central finding, it is well past the time for the White House, Congress and the American public to embrace the gradual stabilization of the population, which is essential for ensuring the country’s vitality, prosperity and sustainability.
Joseph Chamie is a consulting demographer, a former director of the United Nations Population Division and author of numerous publications on population issues, including his recent book, “Births, Deaths, Migrations and Other Important Population Matters.”
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Wednesday's Top Prep Performers from baseball, softball, volleyball and track
Ventura County Star
Highlights from Wednesday in high school sports:
BASEBALL
- Josh Woodworth pitched a seven-hit shutout with 12 strikeouts and hit a solo home run, Dash Lopez was 2 for 3 with a double, Mateo Romero was 1 for 2 with two RBIs, and Finn Hoover had a sacrifice fly to lead Ventura to a 4-0 win over Pacifica in a Pacific View League game.
- Jarod Uridel was 2 for 3 with a walk, run scored, stolen base and an RBI, Ivan Becerra went 1 for 2 with two RBIs, and Jesus Avila was 1 for 3 with two RBIs to lead Fillmore to an 11-2 win over Carpinteria in a Citrus Coast League game.
- Joshua Chavez had two doubles and two RBIs and Bryce Zavala finished with two hits to lead Santa Paula to a 6-3 win over Malibu in 13 innings in a Citrus Coast League game.
More:Tuesday's Top Prep Performers from seven spring sports
SOFTBALL
- Arden Miller was 3 for 4 with a homer, Paige Henry hit a two-run homer, Emma Pontacq was 1 for 1 with two RBIs, Bailey Miller went 2 for 3, and Katie Larson pitched six innings to lead Newbury Park to a 7-6 win over Camarillo in a nonleague game.
- Rio Mesa lost to Vista Murrieta 3-0 and Saugus 5-1 at the Michelle Carew Classic. Jasmine Reyes, Ciara Lopez and Honest Watson each had two hits for the Spartans.
BOYS VOLLEYBALL
- Andrew “Jerry” Schuberg finished with 24 assists and three aces, Ben Greenberg had nine kills, three aces and two blocks, Oliver Herron had eight kills, two blocks and four aces, Braden Gonzales had five aces and eight digs, and Shawn Massoudi added two blocks to lead Thousand Oaks (16-6, 6-0) to a 25-13, 25-7, 25-10 sweep of Agoura in a Marmonte League match. On Tuesday, Tyler Linville had nine kills, two aces and seven digs, Joseph Edington had five kills, Greenberg had six kills and three blocks and Schuberg had 16 assists in a 25-13, 25-16, 25-19 sweep of Camarillo in a nonleague match.
- Charlie Rosenfeld finished with nine kills and John Nicks had seven kills for Oak Park in its 25-18, 25-19, 25-23 loss to San Marcos in a nonleague game.
BOYS TRACK AND FIELD
- Ventura defeated Channel Islands 108-19 in a Pacific View League meet. Nick DeGeorge won the 1,600 (4:33.07). Azure Willard won the 110 hurdles (16.59) and 300 hurdles (43.56). Mason Jekogian won the 400 (52.63) and 3,200 (10:41.62). AJ Monarres won the 100 (11.10) and long jump (19-07). Wyatt Mojo won the 800 (2:05.85). Finn Fancher won the high jump (5-08). Makanalani Arndt won the triple jump (40-02.25). Erik MuroMurillo won the shot put (47-08.25). Wyatt Schrader won the discus (130-02). For Channel Islands, Alejandro Gomez won the 200 (23.99).
GIRLS TRACK AND FIELD
- Ventura defeated Channel Islands 107-15 in a Pacific View League meet. Sadie Engelhardt won the 400 (58.63). Violet Hurguy won the 1,600 (5:48.78). Donnea Prehn won the 100 hurdles (17.01) and 300 hurdles (48.34). Kami Rodriguez won the 100 (13.14). Ryan Mendez won the 200 (26.32) and high jump (4-08). Chelsea Ochoa won the 800 (2:28.14). Carla Nava won the 3,200 (13:05.88). Isabella Di Silvestri won the long jump (15-04.75) and triple jump (31-10.25). Ellie Anestos won the shot put (28-05). Daphne Raymond won the discus (83-06).
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When You Can Expect Your Favorite TV Shows To Return
By Yashira C.
March 31, 2022
It's been a long wait for the next seasons of TV shows like Stranger Things and Westworld, but there's an end in sight! From dramas like Outer Banks to reality TV like Love Is Blind, here's when you can expect your favorite TV shows back on your screens - whether they're currently in production or have a release date at the ready.
Stranger Things: Season 4
Release Date: Volume 1: May 27, 2022, Volume 2: July 1, 2022. Stream on Netflix.
Official Synopsis: In 1980s Indiana, a group of young friends witness supernatural forces and secret government exploits. As they search for answers, the children unravel a series of extraordinary mysteries.
Love Is Blind: Season 3
Release Date: Within the next year; filming recently wrapped up in Dallas, TX. Stream on Netflix.
Official Synopsis: Singles try to find a match and fall in love -- without ever seeing each other face-to-face, as emotional connection attempts to conquer physical attraction.
Ted Lasso: Season 3
Release Date: Currently filming, rumored to release in late summer/fall. Stream on AppleTV+.
Official Synopsis: An American football coach is hired to manage a British soccer team; what he lacks in knowledge, he makes up for in optimism, determination, and biscuits.
The Boys: Season 3
Release Date: June 3, 2022. Stream on Amazon Prime.
Official Synopsis: A group of vigilantes set out to take down corrupt superheroes who abuse their superpowers.
Westworld: Season 4
Release Date: Summer 2022. Stream on HBO Max.
Official Synopsis: Set at the intersection of the near future and the reimagined past, explore a world in which every human appetite can be indulged without consequence.
Outer Banks: Season 3
Release Date: Currently filming, with a predicted release date of late 2022-early 2023. Stream on Netflix.
Official Synopsis: A teenager enlists his three best friends to hunt for a legendary treasure linked to his father's disappearance.
Better Call Saul: Season 6
Release Date: April 18, 2022. Stream on AMC.
Official Synopsis: The trials and tribulations of criminal lawyer Jimmy McGill in the time before he established his strip-mall law office in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Euphoria: Season 3
Release Date: Speculated to return from late 2023-early 2024. Stream on HBO Max.
Official Synopsis: A look at life for a group of high school students as they grapple with issues of drugs, sex, and violence.
Only Murders In The Building: Season 2
Release Date: June 28, 2022. Stream on Hulu.
Official Synopsis: Three strangers who share an obsession with true crime suddenly find themselves caught up in one.
Yellowjackets: Season 2
Release Date: Filming begins later this year, with an expected release date of early 2023. Stream on Showtime.
Official Synopsis: A wildly talented high school girl soccer team becomes the (un)lucky survivors of a plane crash deep in the Canadian wilderness.
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Taylor Hawkins died with a heavy heart, but what does that mean?
By Sarah Berry
People can die of a broken heart, but what about a heavy heart?
A toxicology report following the death of Foo Fighters drummer, Taylor Hawkins, last Friday, revealed that the 50-year-old had at least 10 different substances in his body including THC (marijuana), tricyclic antidepressants, benzodiazepines and opioids.
An autopsy also found Hawkins’ heart was about double the size of a normal healthy heart and weighed at least 600 grams, as reported by Colombian publication, Semana.
A heavy heart is “not out of the ordinary” says Professor Tom Marwick, the director of Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute.
Athletes can have enlarged hearts which is a healthy adaptation to increased blood circulation during exercise. But a heavy heart is typically not a good thing.
Just about anything that damages the heart muscles can enlarge the heart as it gets bigger to compensate for impaired function, says Heart Foundation chief executive Garry Jennings: “People can get fat hearts too. There is a relationship between body size and heart size.”
And although high blood pressure is a common cause and COVID-19 can also increase the size of the heart, illicit drugs and some prescription drugs carry a significant cardiac risk.
“Cocaine, for example, can cause the arteries of the heart to spasm and that can produce scarring and cause blood pressure to increase. That can increase load on the heart,” Marwick says, pointing out that “old-style” antidepressants like tricyclics also carry a risk.
“Stimulants at high doses can kill heart muscle cells,” adds Jennings. “Or injecting [any type of drug] can introduce bacteria into circulation which can settle on the valves and damage the heart valves - that’s a common cause of heart problems too.”
Heart attacks are increasingly common in people aged under 50 and experts believe substance use may be contributing to the problem.
People who smoke cigarettes are nearly twice as likely to have premature heart disease; cocaine or cannabis users are about 2.5 times as likely to have premature heart disease, while those who use amphetamines increase their risk three-fold. The more substances a person uses the greater the risk.
And while Jennings explains that the heart has “a great reserve” and can cope with a lot of damage before giving out, meaning people are not always symptomatic before a heart attack, if someone has a heart as heavy as Hawkins’, there is likely to be a sign.
“They may have exercise intolerance or shortness of breath,” Marwick says, explaining that a heavy heart can be a symptom of problems, or exacerbate existing problems.
“An enlarged heart carries with it a risk of heart rhythm disorders because the electrical impulses that drive the heart become disrupted as the heart is damaged and scarred,” he explains, “so it can be a cause of death.”
About 20 per cent of people with a coronary blockage die before they get to the hospital and, Jennings estimates, for half of those who know they have high blood pressure or another heart issue there’s another one who doesn’t.
“There is a problem with unrecognised heart problems out in the community,” he says.
Marwick agrees: “These prominent people who have died in the last month or so have been a reminder to the Australian community that as much as we have appropriately focused on COVID over the last two years… probably 100 times the number of people who got into trouble with COVID have been getting into trouble with cardiovascular disease.”
An echo test or an ultrasound of the heart can show the size of the heart, but the first step is a cardiac check-up.
“This is a disease of women as much as men and once people get to the age of 40 they should have blood tests for cholesterol, they should have a blood pressure check and somebody should listen to their heart,” Marwick says.
Some people may require further testing and possibly medication. For many, however, addressing lifestyle is enough to prevent the development of heart problems and can help even those with a genetic predisposition.
“No matter how bad your genes are, there is always a benefit of lifestyle - healthy nutrition, physical activity, not smoking tobacco, not getting diabetes,” Jennings says. “You should never give up on the possibilities that lifestyle can put off the problems.
“The earlier you find out about it the less damage will be there and therefore the better the outcome in the longer term.”
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Bruce Willis’ Daughter Scout, 30, Calls Dad’s Illness ‘Surreal’: I’m ‘Grateful’ For His Love
Bruce Willis’ daughter Scout Willis has shared her own statement about his aphasia diagnosis since she and her other four sisters broke the news that he’d be leaving acting due to it.
Scout Willis has spoken out once again about her father’s illness. Bruce Willis was recently diagnosed with aphasia, a condition that causes brain damage and impacts the ability to express or understand speech. She signed off on the announcement made by her and her sisters, Rumer, 33, Tallulah, 28, Mabel Ray, 9, and Evelyn Penn, 7, regarding his diagnosis on March 30. However, she has now spoken out with her own individualized message to her dad.
She uploaded a sweet picture of herself sitting in an armchair with her father. She rocked a grey turtleneck and pair of orange pants as she and Bruce smiled at each other. She addressed the heartfelt message to her “papa” and addressed how “surreal” it was “sharing something so personal.” She expressed how she “NEVER could have anticipated the depth and breadth of the love we received as a family yesterday.”
“It kept hitting me yesterday how much love, energy, and prayers were now being sent to my daddio and just humbling me in a way that’s brings tears as I write this,” she added of the outpouring of love. “I am so grateful for your love, I’m so grateful to hear about what my papa means to you. Thank you so much to everyone who reached out to me yesterday, i love and I appreciate you with all my heart.”
She added that it might take her time, but she plans on getting back to the fans who sent her and her family those sweet messages. Other celebrities have started to weigh in on Bruce’s diagnosis, which has caused him to step away from acting. John Travolta also paid tribute to his longtime friend. John, who starred in Pulp Fiction and Look Who’s Talking with Bruce, wrote that his co-star was a “generous soul” and that he loved him.
Bruce Willis is an action movie legend who has had a long and successful career. In addition to Pulp Fiction, he’s best known for his roles in Die Hard, Moonlighting and The Sixth Sense. Most recently, he has appeared in many films in the last year. Most notably was Cosmic Sin. He had been awarded a Razzie for the film but it was rescinded just after his condition was revealed.
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Chris Rock breaks silence on Will Smith Oscars slap
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Chris Rock, at his sold-out show in Boston, says he is not ready to wade into the controversy as he is still processing what happened. The Academy says they have now begun their disciplinary proceedings for Smith.March 31, 2022
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Ukraine’s war survivors in Vinnytsia
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Ukraine officials: Russian forces have left Chornobyl site
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Ukraine takes back village outside Kharkiv from Russian soldiers
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The race to evacuate Ukraine’s older population
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White House: Putin receives misinformation about the war
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Williamsport, Pa. — Williamsport Police Officers said they observed red marks and bruising on the left side of a woman’s face as they spoke with her about a domestic call.
Officer Ryan Brague said as they spoke with the woman on the night of March 26, they could see marks on her neck. According to an affidavit, the woman said Corey Tyrone Stewart-Richardson, 22, of Williamsport struck her on the left side of the face several times.
The accuser allegedly told police she was choked to the point of not breathing during the assault.
Steward-Richardson was charged with second-degree felony strangulation, second-degree misdemeanor simple assault, and harassment. Steward-Richardson was given $50,000 monetary bail during a March 27 arraignment with Judge Aaron Biichle.
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https://www.northcentralpa.com/news/felony-strangulation-charge-after-officers-observe-marks-on-a-woman-s-neck/article_b731cbb0-b100-11ec-98b6-0bdc34180495.html
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ALBANY, N.Y. (NEWS10) – On Thursday, Governor Kathy Hochul announced an award of $1.6 million that will go to eight addiction services providers statewide, allowing them to establish Mobile Medication Units (MMUs). The MMUs will dispense medications to treat substance use disorder, including methadone and buprenorphine.
Officials said this would allow individuals easier access to treatments and receive those medications without the need to travel to a brick-and-mortar facility. These MMUs will be the first in New York State to be allowed to be operated by existing Opioid Treatment Program Providers, made possible by a Federal Drug Enforcement Administration rule change
“The lack of transportation or the distance from a treatment facility should not act as a barrier to receiving necessary care for addiction, including lifesaving medication such as methadone,” Office of Addiction Services and Supports Commissioner Chinazo Cunningham said. “These new mobile medication units will offer comprehensive addiction services and bring important help directly to individuals in need, giving them another avenue to receive important help in their recovery.”
MMUs are designed to provide New Yorkers seeking treatment for a substance use disorder with access to multiple services in one location, addressing the ongoing need for comprehensive treatments statewide. Various services will be offered including admission assessments, medication induction, medication administration and observation, toxicology tests, and other medical services.
Additionally, MMUs will supplement existing mobile services throughout the state offered by various Opioid Treatment Program Providers including assessment of services, counseling, medications other than methadone for addiction treatment, telepractice, and transportation services. Awards are being administered through OASAS, which is funded through the Federal Substance Abuse Prevention & Treatment Block Grant Supplemental.
The following providers are each receiving $200,000 in funding through this program:
Capital Region
- PROMESA, Inc.
Central NY
- Helio Health, Inc.
Finger Lakes
- Strong Memorial Hospital
Mohawk Valley
- Helio Health, Inc.
New York City
- Vocational Instruction Project (VIP) Community Services, Inc.
North Country
- Credo Community Center for the Treatment of Addictions, Inc.
Southern Tier
- Ithaca Alpha House Center Inc. DBA Cayuga Addiction Recovery Services
Western NY
- BestSelf Behavioral Health, Inc.
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https://www.mychamplainvalley.com/news/new-york/1m-to-establish-mobile-units-for-addiction-treatment/
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Having wrapped up the boy’s Academy sides for FCD yesterday, we move on to the FC Dallas Youth teams for the Dallas Cup. FC Dallas Premier teams play in the ECNL.
All the non-Academy teams are outside my radar, some more so than others. I do my best with the info I can find but if you have any to share please reach out. Twitter @3rdDegreeNet.
FC Dallas Youth 04 Premier (ECNL)
Coach: Casey Cantor
Bracket E: NIFL Scholarship Academy, FC Florida Preparatory Academy, Liverpool FC International Academy 03/04 Showcase
Though it’s not Academy, this is a really good team. It’s ostensibly the #2 team in the FCD pyramid for U19 but when they scrimmage the Academy they have their share of wins. ECNL/Premier players are allowed to play High School soccer so players do choose to play at this level for that reason.
FC Dallas Youth 04 Premier plays in the ECNL under the name FC Dallas ECNL U18/U19. They currently sit atop the Texas Conference with a 12-2-1 record and a +40 goal differential. The ECNL playoffs are in June and July.
A fair number of these players have been Academy players in the past for various lengths of time.
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https://3rddegree.net/fc-dallas-youth-04-premier-for-2022-dallas-cup
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Mikel Arteta spoke to the press ahead of Monday’s clash against Crystal Palace, and opened up on the status of Aaron Ramsdale, Bukayo Saka and Takehiro Tomiyasu.
The Japan international has been out for much of 2022, with him last being at 100% on January 1 when starting against Manchester City, with his only other competitive outing coming against Liverpool in the League Cup when we were short of numbers, before later succumbing to further issues.
Arteta claims that he is close to a return however when speaking to Arsenal Media for his pre-match press conference, although many of his most recent interviews he has said the same, so whether he will make the team is anybody’s guess at this point.
“I think it will be close. He’s been training more and more. He has the boys back now, so he will be joining some sessions this week, and let’s see how it is.”
He continued: “He had a recurring injury, but in the other calf, which was a strange and difficult to predict. He’s been through a lot in the last two years with all the Covid and the amount of games that he’s played. The transition to a different league with the intensity – it’s completely different. We can find the right reasons and hopefully don’t go through that situation again because especially for him it’s been tough.”
The boss also admitted that neither Saka or Ramsdale had returned to training after being ruled out for England during the international break, although he was expecting our academy graduate to be included in today’s sessions assuming he hadn’t suffered any setbacks.
Arteta said: “Bukayo is feeling good, he’s training today hopefully, if he is still feeling as he was yesterday and Aaron is a doubt. He’s still feeling not great. He hasn’t trained yet so we don’t know what he will be able to do on Monday. He wanted to play against Aston Villa but it was a significant injury and he had to take his time. The physios are doing everything they can to make him available but we will see in the next few days when he starts to do more real training.”
With the expectation of a physical game against a high-impact side in Palace, we could really profit from Saka’s running and ability to pressure our rivals on Monday, but I’m sure we will deal with any absences well enough, not that Arteta sounds as though he is expecting to be without our young winger.
Patrick
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https://www.justarsenal.com/arteta-unable-to-confirm-the-availability-of-arsenal-trio-ahead-of-crystal-palace/306862
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Title IX has been a passionate subject for Candace Parker ever since she learned of its impact while doing a paper on it in the eighth grade.
So, it is no surprise her first documentary as an executive producer is about the landmark legislation. On Saturday, “Title IX: 37 Words That Changed America,” will open coverage of the men’s Final Four on TBS at 1 p.m. EDT.
“I sit here because of Title IX. Although we have so many wins, we have so much further to go. That’s why we went with having the Title IX story told through my eyes so that you can see if Title IX didn’t exist, I wouldn’t exist,” Parker said.
Parker considers herself a first-generation benefactor of Title IX, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. It states: “No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance.”
Parker’s mother, Sara, attended Iowa before Title IX became law. Candace’s 12-year old daughter, Lailaa Nicole Williams, will have more opportunities.
“It means a lot to be able to have my mom and my daughter be a part of this,” Parker said. “I have inspiration from my mom and her story. And then as well for my daughter, I want to continue to open up doors, and I don’t want her to see limitations.”
The documentary also comes as inequities between the NCAA men’s and women’s basketball tournaments are coming under intense scrutiny.
“Something as simple as March Madness, right? Like, now women can use that. That’s unbelievable. It’s 2022,” Parker said. “But things are changing. But it still doesn’t take away that we still have so much farther to go. I think that’s the whole point of doing this documentary is if you invest, it’s not a charity, it’s an investment. And it’s an honest investment of trying to make it work. And I think for so long, we just existed; women’s sports existed as something that had to be there. And now we look at it as an investment, and then I think we can start moving things forward."
Parker won a pair of NCAA championships at Tennessee while being coached by one of the pioneers of Title IX, the late Pat Summitt. Parker has parlayed that experience into a successful career as a two-time WNBA champion and MVP and two gold medals in the Olympics.
Parker is also an accomplished analyst for Turner Sports on its NBA and NCAA Tournament coverage since 2018. During discussions about a contract extension at Turner, Parker and her representatives first pitched the idea of a documentary. It got the green light for production last November.
The documentary includes interviews with Billie Jean King, Peyton Manning, Lisa Leslie, NBA Commissioner Adam Silver, and former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.
“There’s a number of influential voices that I think I have to pinch myself to realize that they’re a part of it,” Parker said. “To have Billie Jean King, like the 10-year-old girl that did a biography project on her, I just think it’s just so special.
“Title IX doesn’t just impact women. To watch Peyton Manning talk about how Pat really influenced his life, as a competitor and just as an individual. To see somebody that is an icon to say that I think speaks to how valuable women in leadership positions are.”
Having the documentary tip-off Turner’s Final Four coverage on Saturday should give it a broader audience. “The Arena” will air following the documentary and focus on the impact of Title IX on sports and society.
This is also the first project for Parker’s production company — Baby Hair Productions — and was also produced with Scout Productions.
“Having a diverse audience, that’s not just the women and girls, we want everyone to see how impactful and powerful women are in society,” Parker said. “To have this be something that we talk about, especially after with ‘The Arena' show, I think it speaks to just how important it is.”
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More AP coverage of March Madness: https://apnews.com/hub/march-madness and https://apnews.com/hub/womens-college-basketball and https://twitter.com/AP_Top25
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https://www.theheraldreview.com/sports/article/Parker-hopes-Title-IX-documentary-serves-as-17049750.php
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‘The Flash’ actor Ezra Miller arrested
HONOLULU (AP) — An actor known for playing “The Flash” in “Justice League” films was arrested after an incident at a Hawaii karaoke bar, where police say Ezra Miller yelled obscenities, grabbed a mic from a singing woman and lunged at a man playing...
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CALABASAS, Calif., March 31, 2022
CALABASAS, Calif., March 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- American Homes 4 Rent (NYSE: AMH) (the "Company") today announced that its operating partnership, American Homes 4 Rent, L.P. (the "Operating Partnership"), has priced an offering of $600 million aggregate principal amount of 3.625% Senior Notes due 2032 (the "2032 Notes") and $300 million aggregate principal amount of 4.300% Senior Notes due 2052 (the "2052 Notes" and together with the 2032 Notes, the "Notes"). The 2032 Notes will be issued at 97.517% of par value with a coupon of 3.625% per annum. The 2052 Notes will be issued at 97.237% of par value with a coupon of 4.300% per annum. Interest on the Notes is payable semi-annually in arrears on April 15 and October 15 of each year, commencing October 15, 2022. The 2032 Notes will mature on April 15, 2032 and the 2052 Notes will mature on April 15, 2052. The offering is subject to the satisfaction of customary closing conditions and is expected to close on or about April 7, 2022.
The Operating Partnership intends to use the net proceeds from the offering to repay amounts outstanding on its revolving credit facility and any remaining net proceeds for general corporate purposes, including, without limitation, property acquisitions and developments, the expansion, redevelopment and/or improvement of existing properties in its portfolio, other capital expenditures, the redemption of its Series F preferred shares, the redemption of its other preferred shares, the repayment of outstanding indebtedness, working capital and other general purposes.
BofA Securities, J.P. Morgan and PNC Capital Markets LLC are acting as joint book-running managers for the offering, and Wells Fargo Securities, BMO Capital Markets, Citigroup, Morgan Stanley and Raymond James are acting as book-running managers for the offering. Mizuho Securities, Scotiabank, US Bancorp, Regions Securities LLC, Ramirez & Co., Inc. and RBC Capital Markets are acting as co-managers for the offering.
This press release shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy, nor shall there be any offer or sale of these securities in any state or jurisdiction in which such an offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful before registration or qualification thereof under the securities laws of any such state or jurisdiction.
The offering is being made pursuant to an effective shelf registration statement filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") and only by means of a prospectus and prospectus supplement. Copies of the preliminary prospectus supplement relating to the offering and the final prospectus supplement, when available, may be obtained by visiting EDGAR on the SEC's website at www.sec.gov or from BofA Securities, Inc., 200 North College Street, NC1-004-03-43, Charlotte, NC 28255-0001, Attn: Prospectus Department, by telephone at 1-800-294-1322 or by email at [email protected]; J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, Attn: Broadridge Financial Solutions, 1155 Long Island Avenue, Edgewood, NY 11717, or by telephone at 1-866-803-9204; and PNC Capital Markets LLC, The Tower at PNC Plaza, 300 Fifth Avenue, Floor 10, Pittsburgh, PA 15222, or by telephone at 1-855-881-0697.
About American Homes 4 Rent
American Homes 4 Rent (NYSE: AMH) is a leader in the single-family home rental industry and "American Homes 4 Rent" is a nationally recognized brand for rental homes, known for high-quality, good value and resident satisfaction. We are an internally managed Maryland real estate investment trust, or REIT, focused on acquiring, developing, renovating, leasing, and operating attractive, single-family homes as rental properties. As of December 31, 2021, we owned 57,024 single-family properties in selected submarkets in 22 states.
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The top-ranking Ukrainian Catholic cleric in the United States warned Thursday that religious minorities in the Eastern European country stand to be “crushed” if Moscow gains control, as fighting raged on more than a month after the Russian invasion began.
Groups at risk include Catholics, Muslims and Orthodox who have broken away from the patriarch of Moscow, Archbishop Borys Gudziak said. He also cited reports that Russian forces have damaged two Holocaust memorials and Moscow’s false portrayal of Ukraine, which overwhelmingly elected a Jewish president in Volodymyr Zelenskyy, as a “Nazi” state.
“What is at stake for the people of faith is their freedom to practice their faith,” Gudziak said during an online panel discussion on the war, hosted by the Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life at Georgetown University.
“Ukrainian Catholics, over the last 250 years, every time there’s been a Russian occupation where they live and minister, they’ve been strangled,” he continued.
Gudziak is head of the Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Philadelphia and president of Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv, Ukraine. He also oversees external relations for the Kyiv-based Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church. The name of the church, whose members account for an estimated 10% of Ukraine’s population, refers to its loyalty to the pope and its use of Greek or Byzantine liturgy, which is similar to that of Ukraine’s majority Orthodox population.
The archbishop predicted that the Orthodox Church of Ukraine — which broke from the Moscow Patriarchate and was recognized in 2019 by the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople over fierce opposition from Moscow — “will undoubtedly be crushed if there’s a Russian occupation.”
Guziak did not specifically mention the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, which is separate from the Orthodox Church of Ukraine and has remained loyal to Moscow Patriarch Kirill, a strong supporter of Russian President Vladimir Putin. Despite that historic fealty, Ukrainian Orthodox Church leaders have fiercely denounced the Russian invasion and in some cases are refusing to mention Kirill’s name in public prayers, a ritually potent snub.
Kirill has backed Putin’s justifications for the war, saying both countries are part of a “Russian world” and alleging that the U.S. and other foreign forces have sought to foster enmitybetween them.
Gudziak also cited the plight of Muslim Tatars who “have been persecuted for these last eight years” since Russia annexed the Crimean Peninsula in southern Ukraine in 2014.
The U.S. State Department has similarly denounced intimidation and harassment of Tatars and other religious groups in Crimea and areas of eastern Ukraine under control of Russia-backed separatists. The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom said this month that Moscow’s “aggression toward religious freedom (in those territories) is an indicator that much worse will follow … as Russia expands into Ukraine.”
Gudziak rejected Russia’s claims that it is on a mission to denazify Ukraine, where the Jewish Zelenskyy won election with 73% of the vote. Such altruistic assertions also ring hollow, he argued, given the reported damage to the Holocaust memorials in Kyiv and near Kharkiv.
“All those who desire to live in freedom will lose a lot or everything. If there is an occupation, that is what is at stake for Ukrainians,” Gudziak said. “What is at stake for Europe, for the broader world, is will there be an advance of systems, ideologies and worldviews that crush people?”
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Associated Press religion coverage receives support through the AP’s collaboration with The Conversation US, with funding from Lilly Endowment Inc. The AP is solely responsible for this content.
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Washington state creates nation’s first alert system for missing Indigenous people
By Paradise Afshar, CNN
Democratic Gov. Jay Inslee of Washington state signed a bill Thursday that creates the nation’s first alert system for missing Indigenous people.
The bill, which was passed unanimously in both the House and the Senate, highlights that “indigenous people experience disproportionate rates of violence in Washington state,” and calls for the creation of an advisory system, like the AMBER Alert system.
“Compared to the rest of the state’s population, indigenous women comprise a disproportionate number of missing people,” Inslee said during a signing ceremony. “In cases where an individual has died, this bill will help families recover the remains of their loved ones while also honoring and respecting indigenous cultural practices. For women who are found, this bill will provide treatment so that they can start to recover from the trauma of their experience.”
Inslee signed the bill, along with several other tribal-related bills, at the Tulalip Resort Casino.
Democratic Rep. Debra Lekanoff, a sponsor of the bill, spoke during the ceremony and said missing and murdered indigenous women and people “is not just an Indian issue, it’s not just an Indian responsibility. Our sisters, our aunties, our grandmothers are going missing every day.”
The bill “removes the hand so we can hear the unheard screams, it removes the hand from the Washington State Patrol. It brings together all of our governing bodies to collaborate, to take care (of) those who have been taken, those who’ve been lost, and those yet to come,” Lekanoff said.
For years, families and activists have demanded that authorities direct more attention and resources to cases involving missing and murdered Indigenous women, arguing their cases are often overlooked or dismissed.
Federal and state officials have recently publicly acknowledged that there is a crisis of violence against Native Americans, and have launched efforts to address it, but advocates say their response is not enough.
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Shares of TScan Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ:TCRX – Get Rating) have been given a consensus rating of “Buy” by the six brokerages that are presently covering the company, Marketbeat.com reports. One analyst has rated the stock with a hold rating and five have assigned a buy rating to the company. The average twelve-month target price among brokers that have issued a report on the stock in the last year is $21.50.
Several research analysts have issued reports on the company. Zacks Investment Research lowered TScan Therapeutics from a “buy” rating to a “hold” rating in a research report on Tuesday, March 15th. HC Wainwright restated a “buy” rating and set a $21.00 target price on shares of TScan Therapeutics in a research report on Thursday, March 10th.
NASDAQ TCRX traded down $0.11 during trading hours on Friday, hitting $2.80. 31,120 shares of the company were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 40,744. The stock has a 50-day moving average price of $4.27 and a 200 day moving average price of $5.94. TScan Therapeutics has a 52 week low of $2.74 and a 52 week high of $14.71.
Institutional investors have recently bought and sold shares of the business. Caas Capital Management LP acquired a new position in shares of TScan Therapeutics during the third quarter worth $626,000. Schonfeld Strategic Advisors LLC acquired a new position in shares of TScan Therapeutics during the third quarter worth $185,000. Wellington Management Group LLP acquired a new position in shares of TScan Therapeutics during the third quarter worth $1,163,000. Goldman Sachs Group Inc. acquired a new position in shares of TScan Therapeutics during the third quarter worth $96,000. Finally, LPL Financial LLC acquired a new position in shares of TScan Therapeutics during the fourth quarter worth $59,000. Institutional investors own 37.54% of the company’s stock.
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TScan Therapeutics, Inc, a preclinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, focuses on developing a pipeline of T cell receptor-engineered T cell, or TCR-T, therapies for the treatment of patients with cancer. It is developing TSC-100 and TSC-101 for the treatment of patients with hematologic malignancies to eliminate residual leukemia and prevent relapse after hematopoietic stem cell transplantation; and TSC-200, TSC-201, TSC-202, and TSC-203 for the treatment of solid tumors.
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Prince Andrew took over $1m from Turkish ‘fraudster’
By Hayley Dixon, Robert Mendick and Victoria Ward
London: Prince Andrew was given more than a million pounds by an alleged Turkish fraudster and is now embroiled in a High Court battle over missing money.
Andrew and his former wife, Sarah, Duchess of York, both received “suspicious” payments on the orders of Selman Turk, a former Goldman Sachs banker, as part of an international £40 million ($70 million) fraud, it is alleged.
This included a £750,000 “gift” paid to the Prince by Nebahat Evyap Isbilen, a 76-year-old Turkish millionairess, who was told that she was paying for help with a passport so she could flee political persecution in her homeland.
The first payment was made days after Turk won an award at the Prince Andrew’s Pitch@Palace competition at St James’ Palace.
Isbilen has told the High Court that she believes the payment to Andrew was connected to Turk’s appearance at the event.
Further payments linked to Turk of £350,000 were made to Andrew through a third-party account that also gave £225,000 to the Sarah Ferguson.
The revelation comes days after Andrew escorted the Queen at a memorial service for his father, Prince Philip, in what was seen as an attempt to begin a rehabilitation of his image.
It also comes weeks after he paid a purported £12 million to settle a case with his sex abuse accuser.
Isbilen is pursuing Turk and various businesses associated with him in the High Court for the return of an estimated £40 million.
Jonathan Tickner, head of fraud and commercial disputes at Peters and Peters, who is representing Isbilen, last night said she was the victim of a “serious fraud” and was “determined to prosecute her claims against all those involved”.
The £750,000 was transferred to Andrew on November 15, 2019, days after he presented Turk with a “people’s choice award” for Heyman AI, a digital bank aimed at millennials that went bust a year and a half later.
Court documents show that Tickner wrote to Andrew in March last year, but he “declined” to respond to questions or give any account of his relationship with Turk. He has repaid the £750,000.
In her witness statement, Isbilen said she had attended the Pitch@Palace event, which she believes may have been at the invitation of Turk. “I can only wonder if there is any connection between this event and the Duke of York transfer,” she said.
Turk’s claim that she needed to pay the Prince for her passport “or for any other purpose” was “false”, details of the High Court civil claim reveal.
Since the case began, her legal team has secured court orders allowing it to search Turk’s bank accounts and those of companies linked to him, which have revealed the further payments to Prince Andrew and Sarah.
Andrew received transfers of up to £350,000 in regular instalments through Alphabet Capital. Tickner said in documents lodged with the court: “The pattern of payments is... consistent with a calculated attempt to facilitate transfers to Prince Andrew and to mask the source of funds.”
He said that “given the circumstances” of the £750,000 payment, and the timings and references of the payments to Andrew and Sarah, there are “strong grounds for inferring” the payments were all made at Turk’s direction.
Ferguson received payments after she was announced as a brand ambassador for Pegasus Group Holdings, a renewable energy firm, in July 2019.
Bank records show that on November 28 2019, £19,000 was transferred to Turk from Las Vegas-based Pegasus, under the reference “Duchess fee pop service”.
At least £225,000 was transferred to an account in the name of Ferguson from Alphabet in regular instalments, and in most cases under the reference “PEG001”, documents allege.
Alphabet was described as “a fraudulent and covert front” in court documents to make payments to those “associated” with Turk, including Andrew, and Isbilen says that she had no knowledge of them.
The Turkish woman said she had trusted Turk “completely, if not blindly” with the management of almost all of her financial affairs after he helped her flee Turkey at a time when she feared she would be arrested and have $US90 million in assets seized.
Ilhan Isbilen, her husband and the former deputy of the ruling AK party, was imprisoned in 2015 after an attempted coup in the country.
Isbilen said she was still in the dark about the extent of her losses but alleges that Turk may have caused her “as much £39.37 million of loss”.
Turk, who has a worldwide freezing order on his assets and has surrendered his passport, denies the allegations against him.
The case involves a complex web of businesses and payments to accounts set up in the UK and abroad, including the Cayman and British Virgin Islands.
David Halpern QC, sitting as a Deputy High Court Judge, granted a search of his premises earlier this month saying there was a “strong prima facie case” for “major fraud” through “undue influence by a trusted adviser over a woman who was vulnerable because of her age, her inability to speak English and her status as a refugee from abroad, and who trusted him as if he were a family member”. The Prince declined to comment when he was approached by The Telegraph.
A spokesman for Sarah Ferguson said: “The Duchess was completely unaware of the allegations that have since emerged against Mr Turk. She is naturally concerned by what has been alleged against him.”
Tickner said: “Mrs Isbilen is the victim of serious fraud and financial wrongdoing carried out at the hands of Selman Turk, a man she trusted to help her through extremely difficult circumstances. He abused her trust and she has brought her claim in the High Court to recover the money taken from her.
“The court documents and decisions given in her case to date speak for themselves. She is determined to prosecute her claims against all those involved.”
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Shares of UDR Inc.
UDR,
-1.12%
slipped 1.12% to $57.37 Thursday, on what proved to be an all-around rough trading session for the stock market, with the S&P 500 Index
SPX,
-1.57%
falling 1.57% to 4,530.41 and Dow Jones Industrial Average
DJIA,
-1.56%
falling 1.56% to 34,678.35. This was the stock's second consecutive day of losses. UDR Inc. closed $3.69 below its 52-week high ($61.06), which the company achieved on January 4th.
The stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors Thursday, as Equity Residential
EQR,
-1.73%
fell 1.73% to $89.92, Avalonbay Communities Inc.
AVB,
-1.42%
fell 1.42% to $248.37, and Essex Property Trust Inc.
ESS,
-0.93%
fell 0.93% to $345.48. Trading volume (2.6 M) eclipsed its 50-day average volume of 1.8 M.
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Saudi Arabia to localize jobs at theme parks, entertainment centers
Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Human Resources and Social Development issued a choice that stipulates localizing jobs at standalone and seasonal theme parks and household leisure facilities by 70 p.c and at theme parks in malls by 100%, state information company (SPA) reported on Thursday.
The resolution, which is able to go into impact on September 23, 2022, goals to offer job alternatives to residents throughout the Kingdom and improve the Saudis’ participation within the labor market.
The professions localized based on the choice embrace department and division managers, division supervisors, assistant department managers, fund accounting supervisors, customer support staff and gross sales and advertising and marketing specialists.
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The resolution, nevertheless, excluded some professions from the localization resolution reminiscent of loading and unloading staff and recreation operators as the roles have particular necessities.
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TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) _ SuperCom Ltd. (SPCB) on Thursday reported a loss of $5.4 million in its fourth quarter.
The Tel Aviv, Israel-based company said it had a loss of 32 cents per share. Losses, adjusted for non-recurring costs, came to 1 cent per share.
The traditional and digital identity solutions provider posted revenue of $3 million in the period.
For the year, the company reported a loss of $10.1 million, or 38 cents per share. Revenue was reported as $12.3 million.
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Citing internal communications, a member of Disney's "Imagineering" team of creative talent wrote under a pseudonym for the independent publisher Quillette that the iconic entertainment giant has been "rotting from the inside for quite some time."
Disney's fierce opposition to a Florida parental rights law barring any discussion of sexual orientation or gender identity in schools through the third grade is merely "the last straw," wrote the employee under the pen name Ethan L. Clay.
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Earlier this week, as WND reported, a Disney producer acknowledged in a virtual leadership meeting called to react to the Florida law that her team has implemented her "not-at-all-secret gay agenda."
Latoya Raveneau said she and her colleagues are regularly "adding queerness" to children's programming. During the same meeting, Disney corporate president Kathy Burke said that "as the mother [of] one transgender child and one pansexual child," she supports having "many, many, many LGBTQIA characters in our stories." She said she wants a minimum of 50% of characters to be LGBTQIA and racial minorities.
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In his article, the Disney Imagineer pointed out that since Disneyland opened in 1955, the company's employees have been required to abide by "Four Keys" to success, Safety, Courtesy, Show and Efficiency.
"The sexual revolution, the Civil Rights movement, the Vietnam War, the assassinations of JFK, RFK, MLK, and Malcom X, the Cold War, stagflation, the Stonewall Riots, Watergate, Roe v Wade, the space race, the Los Angeles riots, September 11th, Hurricane Katrina—every major event that took place in American society since Disneyland first opened its gates in 1955 rolled by and the Four Keys remained unaltered," he wrote.
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But in April 2021, the Fifth Key of Inclusion was added.
"Why now? Why at all?" Clay asked.
"The short answer is institutional capture, a term that once belonged to economic theory as regulatory capture," he said.
Regulatory capture, Clay explained, happens when a regulatory agency becomes corrupt and serves the interests of the entities it is supposed to regulate instead of the people.
"In business institutions, the process is much the same, only the goal is not to change a regulatory policy, but to turn the business itself into a mouthpiece for an ideology," he said.
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"Disney has been rotting from the inside for quite some time, but the speed with which its public transformation took place is truly breathtaking. Florida was the final straw."
Clay cited Disney CEO Bob Chapek's statement to "fellow colleagues" and "especially our LGBTQ+ community" on March 11.
Chapek thanked those who had shared with him their "pain, frustration and sadness over the company’s response to the Florida 'Don't Say Gay' bill."
"Speaking to you, reading your messages, and meeting with you have helped me better understand how painful our silence was. It is clear that this is not just an issue about a bill in Florida, but instead yet another challenge to basic human rights," Chapek wrote
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Clay explained why the leadership of Disney, "a company famous for family-friendly content which finds broad reception in nearly every country in the world," ended up "taking a side in such a heated political battleground."
In less than two weeks in early March, he said, Disney "moved from principled neutrality to open advocacy."
"This new messaging, intended to mollify the company’s internal critics, accelerated Disney’s meltdown instead," Clay wrote.
"'Brave Space Conversations' are now held at regular intervals – an absurd euphemism for struggle sessions designed to allow activists to vent their frustrations while drowning out dissenting voices. All regularly scheduled company meetings are cancelled to make room for these meetings, and park leadership opens the floor to hours-long performative recitations of grievances by hand-picked cast members."
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The meetings, he added, "conclude with grandiose statements about inclusion and fairness and understanding pain and listening, but not a single nonconforming viewpoint is heard, either from those who support the bill or those who think Disney has no business getting involved in this dispute in the first place."
Clay pointed out that the company's website promises "inclusion" and "fairness" are values "for everyone."
But in reality, they apply only to "historically oppressed groups."
"The only pain worth understanding is that felt by the subsection of LGBT cast members who believe that sex education ought to begin in kindergarten," he wrote.
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"Listening and seeing is restricted to the approved narratives, and even excludes those LGBT cast members who support the Florida legislation. I know many of them personally, and nearly without exception, they are all parents."
He found it astonishing that a "family-friendly" company "would oppose the perfectly reasonable view that sexual topics are not appropriate for six-year-olds in a public school setting."
CEO Chapek's March 11 email, he wrote, contained these ominous words: "Starting immediately, we are increasing our support for advocacy groups to combat similar legislation in other states. We are hard at work creating a new framework for our political giving that will ensure our advocacy better reflects our values."
Clay concluded that "time will tell whether or not Imagineering, and the Disney brand overall, can survive this internal revolution."
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LINCOLNSHIRE, Ill., March 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Frigo® Cheese Heads® announced the winning schools in its "Build a Bright Future" program, which is aimed at helping schools improve their learning experience and environment through funding for equipment, materials and renovations. Schools across the country had the opportunity to be nominated for the chance at a grand prize of $10,000, followed by 10 runner-up awards. The grand prize-winning school, Desert Star Elementary in Goodyear, Arizona, was revealed today during a morning student assembly that included a surprise visit and a check presentation from the Frigo® Cheese Heads® mascot.
During the period of August 2021 to October 2021, parents, teachers and other adults across the country were invited to submit a video or written nomination explaining why their school deserved to win. All entries were evaluated by a panel of judges for the overall quality of the nomination and the proposed benefit to the school's educational needs. A total of 945 nominations from K-8 schools nationwide were received this year. The judges then narrowed down the list to 11 finalists, and community members, school supporters and fans were invited to vote on social media to determine the grand prizewinner. Winning entries can be viewed at CheeseHeadsBrightFuture.com.
The runner-up schools receiving $2,000 each include:
- Angie Debo Elementary – Edmond, Oklahoma
- Atlantis Academy – Coral Springs, Florida
- Birdilee V. Bright Elementary School – Los Angeles
- Boulder Creek Elementary School – Boulder Creek, California
- Cambridge Elementary School – Jeffersonville, Vermont
- Dunham Elementary School – Petaluma, California
- Elmwood Elementary School – Baltimore
- Meadowlark Elementary School – Billings, Montana
- Valley Elementary School – Poway, California
- Woodland Hills Elementary – Woodland Hills, California
"Giving children the tools and environment to thrive in school starts with the little things like proper equipment, access to nutritious food and other needed supplies and upgrades to help the incredible teachers and school staff who guide their learning," said Saputo Dairy USA Vice President, Marketing and Innovation David Cherrie. "We are proud to support education through the Frigo® Cheese Heads® 'Build a Bright Future' program and look forward to seeing the impact this funding will have to benefit the schools, their teachers and their students."
"We are extremely proud of our community and the support we received during the voting period for the Frigo® Cheese Heads® Build a Bright Future program. Our students deserve the best and that is what we plan to do with our new lab — give them the best science experience so that they can grow as thinkers, problem-solvers and communicators," said Desert Star Principal Jessica Worthington.
Thank you to all who nominated their school or voted, and congratulations to the winning schools!
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About Saputo Dairy USA
Saputo Dairy USA is part of Saputo Inc., one of the top 10 dairy processors in the world. Through the Dairy Division (USA), Saputo produces, markets and distributes a vast assortment of cheeses. Furthermore, the company converts, markets and sells a broad range of specialty cheeses and holds an important portfolio of import licenses for specialty cheeses manufactured abroad. Saputo Dairy USA also produces a variety of dairy and non-dairy extended shelf-life products. Additionally, Saputo produces, markets and distributes dairy ingredients in the U.S. and on the international market. Products are sold under a variety of the company's brand names, as well as under customer brand names.
Saputo Dairy USA is among the top mozzarella, string cheese, domestic blue and goat cheese producers and is one of the largest producers of extended shelf-life and cultured dairy products in this region.
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Kellyanne Conway's husband George suggests Russia under new leadership could hand over the 'files on Donald Trump' after ex-president urged Putin to release information on the Biden family
- George Conway said Thursday he'd like to see the 'files on Donald Trump' released if jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny ever came to power
- Conway's comments came after Trump said he wanted Russian President Vladimir Putin to release information on Hunter Biden's business dealings
- 'This is a man for whom there is no bottom and Republicans are afraid to call him out,' Conway said of Trump's ask of Putin, amid the invasion of Ukraine
George Conway, the husband of former Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway, said Thursday he'd like to see the 'files on Donald Trump' released if jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny ever came to power.
'I wonder some day that maybe we won't have a president in Russia who actually acts in the best interest of the Russian people and behaves himself before the world. Maybe President Navalny. Pray to God somehow that some how could happen,' Conway told CNN's Brianna Keilar. 'And maybe we'll see the Russian files on Donald Trump. I think those would be interesting.'
Conway's comments came on the heels of Trump saying he wanted Russian President Vladimir Putin to release any information he has on Hunter Biden's business dealings.
George Conway (right), the husband of former Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway, told CNN's Brianna Keilar (left) Thursday he'd like to see the 'files on Donald Trump' released if Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny ever came to power
George Conway pointed to Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny (pictured), who is imprisoned, as a potential future leader of Russia in the aftermath of Russian President Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine
Speaking to Just The News Tuesday, Trump pointed to a 2020 Senate report that said the wife of the former mayor of Moscow, oligarch Yelena Baturina, gave millions to a company co-founded by Hunter Biden.
'She gave him $3.5 million so now I would think Putin would know the answer to that. I think he should release it,' the ex-president said. 'I think we should know that answer.'
George Conway is the husband of Kellyanne Conway, who served as Counselor to the President for Former President Donald Trump
The demand - similar to one Trump made of Putin during the 2016 election cycle to get dirt on his opponent, Democrat Hillary Clinton - comes amid Russia's invasion of Ukraine, which has resulted in deaths in the thousands.
'This is Donald Trump leading the Republican Party off a cliff,' said Conway, a Republican, but a top Trump critic. 'This is a man for whom there is no bottom and Republicans are afraid to call him out.'
'We are in the middle of this war where Putin, who can't be trusted for a moment, who murders political opponents, who slaughters women and children, and Donald Trump is focused on, what? Himself,' Conway continued.
'Because he wants revenge for losing the 2020 election,' Conway added.
Keilar had initially asked Conway about reports out this week regarding Hunter Biden.
The Wall Street Journal reported that a federal tax probe into Hunter Biden's foreign business dealings was advancing.
Additionally, Sens. Chuck Grassley and Ron Johnson, who wrote the 2020 report Trump mentioned, started releasing new financial documents tied to Hunter Biden's business accounts.
Keilar asked Conway how bad he thought it was for Hunter Biden - and also for President Joe Biden.
Republicans have suggested Hunter Biden's foreign business dealings could mean the president is 'compromised.'
Conway said he didn't know what the political ramifications could be.
'I suspect they're not going to be that great,' he said. 'But the point is, we don't have a president who is saying "this is fake news, these prosecutors are corrupt." We don't have a president who is trying to disrupt the process of an investigation in the Justice Department to help somebody in his family.'
Conway added that he didn't think President Biden would try to pardon anybody ensnarled in the DOJ's investigation into his son.
The president kept the U.S. Attorney for Delaware David Weiss in place due to the probe, despite Weiss being a holdover from the last administration.
During Trump's term in office, he fired FBI Director James Comey - as the bureau was investigating Russian interference in the 2016 election and ties to the Trump campaign.
The Mueller report found additional ways the ex-president tried to meddle with the probe.
It was never confirmed what motivated Trump to try to scuttle the investigation, though there have long been rumors that the Russian government held 'kompromat' on the former American leader.
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GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) Stock Moves -0.32%: What You Should Know
In the latest trading session, GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) closed at $43.56, marking a -0.32% move from the previous day. This change was narrower than the S&P 500's 1.57% loss on the day. At the same time, the Dow lost 1.56%, and the tech-heavy Nasdaq lost 0.09%.
Prior to today's trading, shares of the drug developer had gained 3.97% over the past month. This has lagged the Medical sector's gain of 5.64% and the S&P 500's gain of 5.37% in that time.
GlaxoSmithKline will be looking to display strength as it nears its next earnings release. In that report, analysts expect GlaxoSmithKline to post earnings of $0.73 per share. This would mark year-over-year growth of 15.87%. Our most recent consensus estimate is calling for quarterly revenue of $12.28 billion, up 20.07% from the year-ago period.
For the full year, our Zacks Consensus Estimates are projecting earnings of $3.26 per share and revenue of $49.02 billion, which would represent changes of +4.82% and +4.54%, respectively, from the prior year.
Investors might also notice recent changes to analyst estimates for GlaxoSmithKline. These recent revisions tend to reflect the evolving nature of short-term business trends. As such, positive estimate revisions reflect analyst optimism about the company's business and profitability.
Based on our research, we believe these estimate revisions are directly related to near-team stock moves. Investors can capitalize on this by using the Zacks Rank. This model considers these estimate changes and provides a simple, actionable rating system.
Ranging from #1 (Strong Buy) to #5 (Strong Sell), the Zacks Rank system has a proven, outside-audited track record of outperformance, with #1 stocks returning an average of +25% annually since 1988. Within the past 30 days, our consensus EPS projection has moved 0.91% lower. GlaxoSmithKline is holding a Zacks Rank of #3 (Hold) right now.
Looking at its valuation, GlaxoSmithKline is holding a Forward P/E ratio of 13.42. For comparison, its industry has an average Forward P/E of 12.9, which means GlaxoSmithKline is trading at a premium to the group.
We can also see that GSK currently has a PEG ratio of 1.77. The PEG ratio is similar to the widely-used P/E ratio, but this metric also takes the company's expected earnings growth rate into account. The Large Cap Pharmaceuticals industry currently had an average PEG ratio of 2.34 as of yesterday's close.
The Large Cap Pharmaceuticals industry is part of the Medical sector. This industry currently has a Zacks Industry Rank of 159, which puts it in the bottom 38% of all 250+ industries.
The Zacks Industry Rank gauges the strength of our individual industry groups by measuring the average Zacks Rank of the individual stocks within the groups. Our research shows that the top 50% rated industries outperform the bottom half by a factor of 2 to 1.
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DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Daily 3" game were:
8-2-1
(eight, two, one)
DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Daily 3" game were:
8-2-1
(eight, two, one)
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Elton John, Vladimir Putin and my last conversation with Colin Powell
During one of my last conversations with my friend General Colin Powell, he told me I needed to watch one of his favorite music videos — the 1985 hit song Nikita where Elton John serenades a beautiful East German soldier on the other side of the wall from his red limousine.
Powell was reminiscing on America’s role in the world and it was clear that the singer’s words had inspired him for years to come: “Guns and gates no longer hold you in, And if you’re free to make a choice, Just look towards the west and find a friend.”
Over this past week, I have been thinking about what Powell would be saying right now about America and the state of the world. For Powell — who served as the chair of my organization for nearly 16 years — U.S. global leadership wasn’t a Republican or a Democratic issue, but instead, it was an American issue.
As a leader who served both long before and long after the wall fell, he wrote that “many had assumed the Cold War’s end would allow us to retreat from the world.” Yet he was relentless in his belief that the interests of Americans required continued engagement “not just [with] a military that is second to none, but also well-resourced, effective and empowered diplomats and aid workers.”
With all the turmoil on the world stage, the administration just called for a new round of urgently needed emergency resources to confront acute global threats in line with bipartisan discussions on Capitol Hill. America now faces a critical choice on whether we stand up for our values and protect the interests of American families by truly investing on the global stage at a time of great disruption. While the grave threat of Vladimir Putin is rightly front and center, we must also confront the full array of global challenges — from Ukraine to COVID to China — threatening America’s health, economic and security interests.
I am deeply worried that if we ignore these global threats, we do so at our own peril.
First, in Ukraine, the number of refugees fleeing is rising every day with more than 1.5 million Ukrainians fleeing to neighboring countries adding to what is already the largest refugee crisis in world history. Humanitarian, economic and security assistance for the Ukrainian people is vital to address the escalating needs and to promote stability.
As the crisis deepens, the invasion of Ukraine is not just a moral crisis for the world, but also has a profound impact on us as Americans. Bipartisan senators like Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) and Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) have been calling for increased aid and making clear what’s at stake for Americans — from protecting sovereignty and democracy to rising food and energy prices to the competition with China — particularly when Ukraine exports 15 percent of the world’s corn.
On the COVID-19 front — which respects borders about as well as Putin — the pandemic hasn’t skipped a beat just because Russia started a war. A group of former U.S. combatant commanders recently rang alarm bells on the risks of paying now or paying more later. They write that COVID-19 is driving “growing threats from authoritarianism, conflict, hunger, and migration” and called for additional emergency global resources for the U.S. global response to the pandemic.
From the business community, top American corporate leaders — including from UPS, Procter & Gamble, Johnson & Johnson, Citigroup, Google and Cargill — have also spoken out on the growing economic risks to our nation, writing to Congress that “we believe that if the U.S. does not get this right and fully step up the global response at this critical moment, the economic costs for our own nation will only increase in the coming days and months.” As the leaders point out, failure to vaccinate communities in developing countries could cost the global economy $5.3 trillion over the next five years, according to the International Monetary Fund.
While the administration has proposed an additional $4.25 billion emergency package for the global response to the pandemic, many global health experts have already said that this level of resources would barely meet a quarter of the emergency global needs identified by USAID to confront the spread of new variants, save lives and fight the growing economic and humanitarian aftershocks. The stakes are immense to get this right, particularly when World Food Program chief David Beasley has called for $6.6 billion from the world with more than 45 million people on the verge of starvation.
Of all the U.S. emergency funding mobilized to address the pandemic, only 0.3 percent has gone to the global response. While one could argue what the exact right balance is, I am certain it is not less than one percentage point when every variant that has emerged overseas has wreaked havoc on our shores taking the lives of our fellow citizens.
It’s not lost on most Americans or policymakers that all of these crises are playing out against the backdrop of the rapid expansion of our greatest competitor, China. Prior to COVID-19, more than half of all U.S. exports went to the developing world. Yet in just the first nine months of 2021, bilateral trade between Africa and China grew by 40 percent — widening an already escalating trade and investment gap between China and the U.S. on the continent. While we can’t and won’t match China dollar for dollar on the global stage, America certainly can’t sit on the economic sidelines.
From Ukraine to COVID to China, we’re living in a new era in which global health, economics and security have all become kitchen table issues — impacting Americans at the gas pump and the grocery store. While I have no doubt that America has the capability and ingenuity to confront this perilous time, doing so doesn’t happen in a vacuum.
Last week, we heard President Volodymyr Zelensky — the grandson of a Holocaust survivor — from inside a bunker reminding us of what’s at stake in the world. As policymakers make critical budget decisions ahead of a March 11 fiscal deadline, we can’t shortchange critical global emergency resources if we are going to meet this moment and protect the interests of American families.
The words of General Powell ring true once again: “Being a great nation has always meant a commitment to building a better, safer world — not just for ourselves, but for our children and grandchildren.”
Liz Schrayer is president and CEO of the U.S. Global Leadership Coalition.
Editor’s note: This story was updated on March 7 at 12:50 pm EST.
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Hueneme's Angelina Renteria is The Star's Girls Wrestler of the Year for 2021-22 season
Angelina Renteria knows what would happen if that awkward sophomore was put in front of her today.
“I’d destroy her,” the Hueneme High senior said.
Two years after giving up the basketball court for the wrestling mat, Renteria has transformed herself into a stronger, quicker and more confident version of herself.
“I feel like I’ve completely changed everything,” Renteria said. “Before I was trying to outmuscle people and use my height and strength. I wouldn’t use any skill and technique. Now I’m way more technical.”
She’s turned herself into a wrestler, one of the best in the state.
Renteria can hardly believe she’s just completed a senior season that included a CIF-Southern Section championship, a runner-up finish at the CIF Masters Meet and a sixth-place finish at the CIF-State championships.
“She’s kind of a special story,” said Hueneme coach Ray Rivera.
Renteria, The Star’s All-County Girls Wrestler of the Year, was the only area wrestler, male or female, to place at state.
“It means a lot,” Renteria said. “I didn’t think that would happen. I didn’t think that would ever happen to me. I wouldn’t have believed that.”
Renteria was a freshman basketball player who would come to the Hueneme wrestling room to wait for her older brother Armando, who wrestled for the Vikings.
A shade under 6-feet tall, Renteria was “every basketball coach’s dream,” Rivera said.
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She had grown up playing sports like basketball and volleyball, which took advantage of her height.
But there was something about wrestling which drew her to the mat as a sophomore.
“It was very intense,” Renteria said. “Before that, I had never done sports that were so physical.”
It wasn’t an easy transition.
“She was a little gawky and awkward,” Rivera said. “She did OK, although she didn’t win a whole lot.”
But it was enough to hold her attention.
“I liked it,” Renteria said. “It was fun. I wanted to challenge myself and get better.”
But an unforeseen obstacle interrupted her junior season. The COVID-19 pandemic limited Hueneme’s schedule to just a handful of matches.
“All summer, she’s working, she’s lifting and then COVID hits and our season is all thrown out of whack,” Rivera said. “Her and her brother started traveling to any tournament that will take them.”
She responded by working on her own and testing herself at out-of-state tournaments in Arizona, Nevada and Idaho.
“It was frustrating, “Renteria said. “I didn’t know what to expect. I was very uncertain about the future.”
The payoff arrived this season.
“She starts doing really well, beating people who a couple years ago were head and shoulders above her,” Rivera said. “We said, ‘Angie has a chance to do something this year.' ”
Renteria won the CIF-Southern Section Central Division championship at 170 pounds.
She won her quarterfinal and semifinal matches by fall in little more than two minutes, before shutting out Dominguez senior Lamia Benn, 11-0, in the final.
“CIF was where we really thought we had something special going,” Rivera said. “She starts wrestling these ranked girls and she’s beating them.”
Renteria finished second at the Masters meet, going 4-1. Her only loss came in the final to No. 1-ranked Mariyah Casados of Vista Murrieta, the eventual state champion.
“It was a hell of a match in the finals,” Rivera said. “So we’re riding that train.”
In Bakersfield, Rivera didn’t like the look of the brackets at the CIF-State championships.
“We get to state and see they kind of disrespected Angie a little,” Rivera said. “They put her against the No. 1 seed if she wins her first match. But we’re not talking to her about any of that. We’re keeping her positive, keeping her working.”
Renteria responded by upsetting the top seed, San Fernando’s Alyssa Arana, 10-7 in the second round.
“At first, I didn’t know she was the top seed,” Renteria said. “They said to be ready, because this girl is really tough. Right after, it was, ‘You just beat the No. 1-ranked wrestler!’ I didn’t even know.”
Renteria pinned Selena Cubias of Riverside-Hillcrest to reach the state semifinal before falling to Haley Gumpfer of Casa Roble.
She dipped to a sixth-place finish on the second day of competition, which is why Rivera believes her best wrestling is ahead of her.
“Overall, Angie’s inexperience is what held her back,” Rivera said. “She started late her sophomore year, didn’t get a junior year because of COVID and then placed at state her senior year.
“She’s still really green in the sport. She’s kind of a diamond in the rough, which is my selling point (to college coaches). She’s coachable, she’s positive and she’s the hardest worker I’ve coached in a long time. She deserves all the success she’s had.”
Joe Curley is a staff reporter for The Star. He can be reached at joe.curley@vcstar.com. Follow him @vcsjoecurley on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.
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NAPLES, Fla., March 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Enveric Biosciences Inc. (NASDAQ: ENVB) ("Enveric" or the "Company"), a neuroscience-focused biotechnology company developing next-generation, psychedelic-inspired mental health medicines, today reported its financial results for the full year ended December 31, 2021, and provided a business update.
"2021 was a foundational year that set the stage for Enveric to execute on its strategy in the future," said Dr. Joseph Tucker, Enveric's Chief Executive Officer. "With the acquisition of MagicMed in September 2021, we immediately began moving forward with the clinical development strategy of our next-generation treatments and therapies for mental health. We find ourselves strategically positioned with an experienced team of industry professionals, collaborative partners including the University of Calgary, a growing intellectual property portfolio, and a robust Central Nervous System pipeline of promising drug candidates. As we build upon the three core pillars of our success, Drug Development, Drug Discovery, and Intellectual Property, we are focused on creating effective mental health medicines."
Corporate Updates During and Subsequent to the Fourth Quarter 2021:
Clinical Trials
- Announced collaboration with the University of Calgary on a groundbreaking clinical trial for EVM-201 in cancer-related distress. A clinical trial, expected to launch in 2023, of EVM-201, a second-generation psychedelic treatment, for Cancer Related Distress will be led by HBI researcher, Dr. Valerie Taylor, Head of the Department of Psychiatry, in Calgary, Canada.
- Announced positive preclinical data for EV102 radiodermatitis drug candidate. EV102 has demonstrated a significant and meaningful reduction in dermatitis severity, skin redness, and duration in a preclinical rodent model.
- PsyAITM, an artificial intelligence platform, successfully identified viable psychedelic molecules for further drug discovery from Enveric's initial list of 500 psychedelic molecular compounds within its "Psybrary." We believe it is a first of its kind to employ this machine-learning technology against an extensive psychedelic molecule library to evaluate higher-likelihood molecules that treat conditions that include cancer-related distress, PTSD, and other central nervous system (CNS) indications.
IP Portfolio
- Filed and published four patent applications for psychedelic-inspired drug candidates by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). The four patent applications are focused on the tryptamine family of novel molecules.
- Filed its 10th Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) patent application directed to tryptamine-based derivative molecules, completing the Company's broad series of PCT applications covering this family of compounds.
- Successfully synthesized and filed a provisional patent for EV104, the Company's cannabinoid, and celecoxib conjugate. EV104a and EV104b are the Company's new molecular conjugates for Osteoarthritis ("OA") and other pain indications.
- Filed an additional provisional patent application based on new discoveries by the company. The patent application and claimed drug candidates fall into the Company's EVM201 second-generation, psychedelic-derived drug development program.
Leadership Team
- Appointed Bob Dagher, MD, as Chief Medical Officer. Dr. Dagher is a Board-certified neurology and psychiatry physician, bringing over 15 years of clinical experience and extensive therapeutic knowledge in the neuroscience space.
Capital Markets
- Closed a $10 million public offering. The Company intends to use the net proceeds from this offering for working capital and to fund other general corporate purposes.
- Included in the new AdvisorShares Psychedelics ETF, trading under the ticker symbol "PSIL" on the NYSE Arca exchange. PSIL is an ETF that focuses on investments in biotechnology, pharmaceutical, and life sciences companies that are leading the nascent but advancing psychedelic industry.
Financial Results for the Full Year Ended December 31, 2021:
Comprehensive net loss was $48.8 million for the year ended December 31, 2021, including $36.3 million in net non-cash expenses, with basic and diluted loss per share of $2.07, as compared to a comprehensive net loss of $7.0 million with basic and diluted loss per share of $1.19 per share for the year ended December 31, 2020.
Net cash used in operations for the year ended December 31, 2021, was $11.5 million consisting of the net loss, adjusted by a net of $36.3 million in non-cash expenses and changes in asset and liability balances of $1.2 million.
As of December 31, 2021, the Company had cash and cash equivalents of $17.4 million and working capital of $15.3 million. Subsequent to December 31, 2021, the Company raised an additional $10 million and expects to use the funds to help advance its new drug discovery platform, robust IP portfolio, and a growing pipeline of promising drug candidates.
About Enveric Biosciences
Enveric Biosciences (NASDAQ: ENVB) is a neuroscience company developing next-generation psychedelic-inspired mental health medicines. Enveric's robust pipeline supports drug development from the clinic to commercialization for millions of patients in need around the world suffering from conditions that include cancer-related distress, PTSD, and more. For more information, please visit www.enveric.com.
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements and forward-looking information within the meaning of applicable securities laws. These statements relate to future events or future performance. All statements other than statements of historical fact may be forward-looking statements or information. Generally, forward-looking statements and information may be identified by the use of forward-looking terminology such as "plans", " expects" or "does not expect", "proposed", "is expected", "budgets", "scheduled", "estimates", "forecasts", "intends", "anticipates" or "does not anticipate", or "believes", or variations of such words and phrases, or by the use of words or phrases which state that certain actions, events or results may, could, would, or might occur or be achieved. Forward-looking statements consist of statements that are not purely historical, including any statements regarding beliefs, plans, expectations, or intentions regarding the future. Such forward-looking statements are based on the beliefs of management as well as assumptions made by and information currently available to management. Actual results could differ materially from those contemplated by the forward-looking statements as a result of certain factors, including, but not limited to, the ability to achieve the value creation contemplated by technical developments; the impact of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) on Enveric's ongoing and planned clinical trials; the geographic, social and economic impact of COVID-19 on Enveric's ability to conduct its business and raise capital in the future when needed; delays in planned clinical trials; the ability to establish that potential products are efficacious or safe in preclinical or clinical trials; the ability to establish or maintain collaborations on the development of therapeutic candidates; the ability to obtain appropriate or necessary governmental approvals to market potential products; the ability to obtain future funding for developmental products and working capital and to obtain such funding on commercially reasonable terms; Enveric's ability to manufacture product candidates on a commercial scale or in collaborations with third parties; changes in the size and nature of competitors; the ability to retain key executives and scientists; and the ability to secure and enforce legal rights related to Enveric's products, including patent protection. A discussion of these and other factors, including risks and uncertainties with respect to Enveric, is set forth in Enveric's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), including the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K and its Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q. Enveric disclaims any intention or obligation to revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as required by law.
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Hyderabad: IT minister K.T.Rama Rao on Thursday took potshots at Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the rising fuel prices and for claiming credit for the TRS government's ‘Mission Bhagiratha’ despite the Centre not contributing to the project.
The minister posted old tweets of Modi when he was Chief Minister of Gujarat on the fuel price hike, including one from May 23, 2012, in which Modi had termed the massive hike in fuel prices as a prime example of the failure of the Congress-led UPA government. Rao also posted a tweet of Modi in October 2014: "Since we formed the government, petrol & diesel prices came down. We are committed to removing the obstacles our nation is facing."
Rao said, "Reiterating some of your previous statements Modiji. Failure of Union Govt, Burden on States, Arrogance of Power, Unsympathetic to needs of poor (sic)."
Rao took strong exception to the advertisement of the BJP government on Jal Jeevan Mission-Har Ghar Jal. He urged the PM to tell the people the Centre's contribution to the Mission Bhagiratha scheme of the Telangana government.
Rao tweeted, "Appropriating a flagship programme of Telangana Govt where your Govt has Zero contribution is not befitting the stature of a PM (sic)." The advertisement had claimed that more than 38 lakh households in Telangana had got tap water connections in just three years since 2019.
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Customer-facing departments participated in expert-led educational sessions, underscoring commitment to promoting responsible gambling habits
DENVER, March 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- For the third year in a row, PointsBet and its employees participated in Problem Gambling Awareness Month, a national campaign designed to increase awareness of problem gambling and offer prevention, treatment, and recovery services.
In the spirit of this year's theme, Awareness + Action, PointsBet hosted educational sessions for all its customer-facing departments. The trainings were designed to generate awareness of problem gambling and empower staff with clear strategies on how to identify and address problem gambling. Sessions were led in consultation with department heads to ensure staff would have a clear understanding of how their roles uniquely position them to recognize problem gambling red flags through a path of escalation regarding observed red flags.
"Responsible and problem gambling education for our staff is far more than just fulfilling a regulatory requirement," said Johnny Aitken, PointsBet USA Chief Executive Officer. "It is about sparking genuine dialogue and empowering our teams to discuss responsible gambling with our customers. We are proud to participate in Problem Gambling Awareness Month for the third consecutive year and look forward to our continued support of this important initiative in the years to come."
This month's trainings were part of an ongoing responsible gambling education plan, which includes an introductory level training for all new hires as part of the onboarding process, lived experience training, and responsible gambling presentations delivered during company-wide town hall meetings.
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The non-Premier FCD Youth team in the U17 Division of the Dallas Cup.
All the non-Academy teams are outside my radar, some more so than others. I do my best with the info I can find but if you have any to share please reach out. Twitter @3rdDegreeNet.
FC Dallas Youth 05 North Blue
Coaches: Jorge Molina and Genaro Castillo Ortiz
Bracket B: Steven Gerrard Academy, Santa Clara Sporting 05 Green, Inwood SC ID Texas Nemesis 05 NLFC
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Oscars producer Will Packer is unfolding details of the events that occurred at the 2022 Oscars. In a preview clip of an upcoming "Good Morning America" interview, which was obtained by Variety, the producer reportedly shared that the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) was there and ready to arrest Will Smith if Chris Rock chose to press charges after the "King Richard" star slapped him.
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Thursday ordered the release of 1 million barrels of oil per day from the nation’s strategic petroleum reserve for six months, a bid to control energy prices that have spiked after the United States and allies imposed steep sanctions on Russia over its invasion of Ukraine.
NEW YORK (AP) — An independent group formed by former and current Amazon workers is trying to organize a company warehouse in New York City, a David and Goliath scenario that could lead to the retail giant’s first unionized facility in the U.S. Workers at an Amazon fulfillment...
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Gay rights advocates sued Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Thursday to block a new law that forbids classroom instruction on sexual orientation and gender identity in kindergarten through third grade. The law has catapulted Florida and DeSantis, a potential 2024 Republican presidential candidate, to the...
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said on Thursday that he will oppose Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s nomination to the Supreme Court, marking the first time the GOP senator will vote against a nominee for the high court since joining the Senate. “I will oppose her and I will vote no,”...
WASHINGTON, March 31 (Reuters) - Americans will be allowed to choose an X for gender on their passport applications and select their sex on Social Security cards, the Biden administration said on Thursday in announcing measures to support transgender Americans against wave of state laws targeting them. The State Department...
Well wishes are pouring in for Bruce Willis after his family revealed he was diagnosed with aphasia, a medical condition that can affect his cognitive abilities, and will be stepping away from acting. NBC’s Joe Fryer reports for TODAY.March 31, 2022.
(CNN) — Two people are dead and two others are hurt after a tornado struck in the Florida Panhandle on Thursday morning, authorities said -- part of a series of storms that have laid waste to buildings around the South since Wednesday. A tornado struck Washington County, north of...
Lviv, Ukraine (CNN) — Russian forces have withdrawn from Chernobyl, the site of the world's worst nuclear disaster, the state enterprise overseeing Ukraine's nuclear power plants said on Thursday. "It was confirmed that the occupiers, who seized the Chernobyl nuclear power plant and other facilities in the Exclusion Zone,...
A judge struck down New York’s new congressional and legislative maps on Thursday as an illegal gerrymander, dealing a setback to Democrats who were expected to benefit heavily from the new political lines. In a ruling, State Supreme Court Judge Patrick McAllister in Steuben County ordered state lawmakers to...
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Akerna Corp (KERN, Financial)(30-Year Financial) files //www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1755953/000121390022016675/0001213900-22-016675-index.htm'' rel='nofollow' target='_blank'>its latest 10-K with SEC for the fiscal year ended on December 31, 2021.
For the last quarter Akerna Corp reported a revenue of $6.63 million, compared with the revenue of $4.11 million during the same period a year ago. For the latest fiscal year the company reported a revenue of $20.7 million, an increase of 64.5% from last year. For the complete 30-year financial data, please go here..
The reported loss per diluted share was $1.31 for the year, compared with the loss per share of $0 in the previous year. The Akerna Corp had an operating margin of -91.72%, compared with the operating margin of -137.37% a year before. The 10-year historical median operating margin of Akerna Corp is -115.61%. The profitability rank of the company is 1 (out of 10).
At the end of the fiscal year, Akerna Corp has the cash and cash equivalents of $13.9 million, compared with $24.2 million in the previous year. The long term debt was $4.11 million, compared with $10.2 million in the previous year. Akerna Corp has a financial strength rank of 4 (out of 10).
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NW Redmond ditch burn gets away when winds pick up; crews stop 3-acre grass fire
REDMOND, Ore. (KTVZ) – A legal ditch burn in northwest Redmond got away when winds picked up Thursday afternoon, causing a grass fire that raced across three acres of pasture land before fire crews could stop it, an official said.
Redmond Fire & Rescue crews responded to the fire, reported shortly before 3 p.m. in the 3600 block of Canal Boulevard, near the BNSF Railway tracks, putting up tall flames and a large column of black smoke, Fire Marshal Tom Mooney said.
Crews arrived to find the wind-driven brushfire moving quickly across several pastures, Mooney said. Limited access and the gusty winds challenged crews, who eventually were able to make a quick stop and hold the fire to about three acres.
No injuries were reported and no damage to structures. All animals in the pasture were safely moved elsewhere, the fire marshal said.
The investigation found a landowner was burning a ditch when the winds increased, carrying the fire beyond their control.
Redmond Fire & Rescue was assisted by Crooked River Ranch Fire & Rescue, Mooney said.
“Reminder, if you are planning to burn to first call 541-504-5035 to determine if burning is open,” Mooney said. “Those planning to burn are required to have on hand a shovel, garden hose or water truck to control any small fires that may get out of control.”
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By Colin Kellaher
Shares of UiPath Inc. tumbled nearly 25% and hit a record low Thursday after the enterprise automation software company posted disappointing revenue guidance, prompting a raft of analysts to cut their price targets on the stock.
The New York company, which also reported a wider-than-expected fourth-quarter loss, said it expects first-quarter revenue of $223 million to $225 million and full fiscal 2023 revenue of $1.075 billion to $1.085 billion, shy of the $247 million and $1.18 billion, respectively, that analysts polled by FactSet were expecting.
UiPath said its guidance reflects its exposure in Eastern Europe and Russia, as it is pausing its business in Russia as a result of the invasion of Ukraine, as well as foreign-exchange headwinds and a leadership transition in its go-to-market strategy.
Analysts at Truist cut their price target on UiPath shares to $55 from $75 but maintained their "buy" rating on the stock, saying they believe the company's issues are episodic. Truist also said investors should use weakness in the stock as a buying opportunity.
Mizuho analysts slashed their price target to $40 from $70 but also kept a "buy" rating on the stock, saying they remain positive on UiPath's long-term growth potential.
Several other Wall Street firms also cut their price targets but maintained their current ratings.
UiPath shares were recently changing hands at $22.03, down 24.1%, after falling to $21.85--their lowest level since the company went public last April--earlier in the session. The stock is down more than 75% from its all-time high of $90 reached last May.
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Federal officials slated millions of dollars for rural water projects in several states, with the Biden administration looking to shore up infrastructure needs made more urgent by long-term drought conditions that have been exacerbated by climate change.
The U.S. Interior Department announced Thursday that $420 million will be spent on projects in New Mexico, Minnesota, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota and Iowa. The work includes construction of water treatment plants, pipeline connections, pump systems and reservoirs to provide drinking water to rural and tribal communities.
The West is experiencing a more than 20-year megadrought. Scientists say the region has become much warmer and drier in recent decades and that climate change will continue to make weather more extreme, wildfires more frequent and destructive, and water supplies less reliable.
From Idaho and Montana south to New Mexico and Arizona, even soil moisture levels have hit record lows as major reservoirs along the Colorado River have plummeted. Earlier this month, Lake Powell hit a record low, spurring concerns about the ability to crank out more hydropower from the dam that holds it back.
Native American tribes that are finally seeing federal money after years of being underfunded are working to get at water they long had rights to but could not access without funds to build the infrastructure. On the Navajo Nation, tens of thousands of people still live without running water, while tribes in the upper Midwest are awaiting pipeline extensions that would tap into reliable sources.
In all, the infrastructure measure included $5 billion for Western water programs, with 20% of that dedicated to rural projects.
Federal officials said the allocations were based on project plans and significant goals that are projected to be reached with the funding.
The largest share — $160 million — will go toward a project decades in the making that will eventually provide water for about 70,000 people who live in communities along the New Mexico-Texas state line, where the Ogallala aquiferis being pumped at a faster rate than it’s being replenished.
The Eastern New Mexico Water Utility Authority will receive additional money from the Bureau of Reclamation and the state of New Mexico. When combined with matching money from the utility, the total for this year will be more than $228 million.
“This will take us far in the construction of this critically important project,” said Michael Morris, chairman of the water authority and mayor of Clovis, a rural community in eastern New Mexico.
Other allocations include $75.5 million for the Lewis & Clark Rural Water System, which spans parts of South Dakota, Iowa and Minnesota. The system is designed to pipe water from the Missouri River to areas as far as 60 miles (97 kilometers) away that have less plentiful resources.
In North Dakota, $51 million will go to a section of the Pick-Sloan Missouri Basin Program.
More than $57 million will go to the Rocky Boys/North Central Montana Rural Water System, which serves the Rocky Boy’s Reservation and numerous municipalities. The Fort Peck Reservation in Montana will benefit from $7 million for the water system there.
Tanya Trujillo, assistant Interior secretary for water and science, was flanked by water managers in Albuquerque when she made the announcement.
“The department is committed to bringing clean, reliable drinking water to rural communities to help strengthen resilience to climate change,” Trujillo said.
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NEW YORK (AP) —The following list shows the Nasdaq stocks that have gone up the most and down the most based on percent of change for 2021. No securities trading below 1000 shares are included. Net and percentage change are the difference be- tween last year's closing price and this year's closing. Changes for issues added during the year are calcu- lated from closing prices on the first trading day. UPS Name PEHighLowLastChg.Pct. 1CiscoSys 19 46.74 44.15 46.25 +1.38 + 3.1 2AppleIncs 33 128.72 117.57 121.42 +.16 + .1 3Intel 12 63.14 57.91 60.74 — .04 — .1 4Microsoft 37 237.47 224.26 231.60 — .78 — .3 DOWNS Name PEHighLowLastChg.Pct. 1Microsoft 37 237.47 224.26 231.60 — .78 — .3 2Intel 12 63.14 57.91 60.74 — .04 — .1 3AppleIncs 33 128.72 117.57 121.42 +.16 + .1 4CiscoSys 19 46.74 44.15 46.25 +1.38 + 3.1 —————————
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Schutt: Semi-final loss in 2017 World Cup the ‘kick up the butt’ we needed
“What that defeat brought was a form of professionalism and accountability that we didn’t have back then”
“And what that [defeat] introduced was a type of professionalism and accountability that we did not have again then. And now we have now plans A via to F and that was the kick up the butt that we form of wanted. So, as a lot as we will speak about that being a failure and whatnot, that really created a very good dynasty for us and it is good 5 years later to lastly be in a ultimate.”
“That was my first thought once we heard she was having again spasms that absolutely she’s not lacking one other World Cup ultimate. It’s a troublesome break for somebody who’s had such a protracted and profitable profession. It’d be loopy if she could not take the sector on Sunday.
“But one plus is we have a whole bench to back that up. So as much as I would love Pez to be on that field and she would love that, too, we know we’ve got the replacements for that, but hopefully that doesn’t come [to that].
“She’s a supportive participant. We’re all fairly fortunate that we get alongside fantastically and love one another’s firm. So it is simply ensuring we rally round Pez who’s not enjoying, so it is extra in order that function however all of us had a little bit of amusing and he or she’s a relaxed head.
“For someone like Belsy (Sutherland), who she really takes under her wing, they both come in and bowl pretty hard. I can see a lot of Belsy and Pez and I think that’s a beautiful sight.”
Schutt stated she was notably happy with how medical Australia had been on this World Cup, by no means dropping a recreation regardless of the stiff problem posed in patches by a few of their opponents.
“It’s a dream start,” she stated about Australia’s unbeaten run main into title conflict on Sunday. “We’ve had some tough games there. I mean, this tournament has been so tightly contested and to come away with eight straight [wins], I think speaks volumes of the cricket we’ve been playing.
“I believe at present [Wednesday] was positively a extra medical efficiency [in the semi-final against West Indies] and one we would be extra pleased with once we’re going via our opinions which is loopy to have that form of type coming in.
“We’ve been playing consistent cricket for a very long time now and I genuinely believe we deserve to be in this position but to do eight straight so far, is great. But we know that there’s one more game to go and whoever our opponent may be hopefully we can just play our best cricket.”
Annesha Ghosh is a sub-editor at ESPNcricinfo. @ghosh_annesha
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Several weeks into the war in Ukraine, ABC's George Stephanopoulos asked President Joe Biden if he agreed with those who call Russian President Vladimir Putin "a killer."
"I do," said Biden.
Since calling Putin a killer, Biden has progressed to calling him "a war criminal," "a murderous dictator," "a pure thug" and "a butcher."
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It is difficult to recall an American president using such a string of epithets about the leader of a nation with which we were not at war.
What is Biden's rationale? What is his purpose here?
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Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry Truman, to their eternal embarrassment, called Josef Stalin, a far greater monster than Putin, "good old Joe" and "Uncle Joe" when they sought his cooperation in World War II and the early postwar era.
Richard Nixon toasted the century's greatest mass murderer, Mao Zedong, in the Great Hall of the People during his historic trip to China in 1972. His purpose: establish relations with America's most hostile adversary – to help Nixon advance a "generation of peace."
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But when it comes to depicting Putin, who launched this invasion of Ukraine, Biden repeatedly reaches for the nastiest of insults.
But why?
"Putin deserves it," say the champions of a Cold War II. We need more truth and candor in diplomacy. When Biden referenced Putin in the closing remarks of his address in Warsaw, Poland – "For God's sake, this man cannot remain in power" – they were elated.
Biden was calling for regime change in Russia, calling for the people of Russia to administer to the "killer" and "butcher" the fate he deserves and remove him from power by any means necessary.
Within minutes of hearing their president go off-script with his call for regime change in Russia, White House aides and Cabinet officers were scrambling to assure reporters that the president of the United States did not mean what the president of the United States had just said.
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Biden was expressing his "moral outrage" at the carnage Putin has unleashed on Ukraine, they said – and not making a change in U.S. policy.
For days, the president and his advisers argued over whether Biden had meant it literally when he said, "This man cannot remain in power."
Sunday in Jerusalem, Secretary of State Antony Blinken sought to shut down the argument:
"As you know, and as you've heard us say repeatedly, we do not have a strategy of regime change in Russia or anywhere else, for that matter. In this case, as in any case, it's up to the people of the country in question. It's up to the Russian people."
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One problem with Blinken's statement is that the U.S. has been deeply involved, both during the Cold War and afterward, in "color revolutions" to effect the overthrow of autocrats we did not like.
Indeed, when Biden characterizes America's cause in the world as leading the global struggle between democracy and autocracy, what is the desired and predetermined fate of the autocrats we oppose, if not their forcible ouster?
In 2014, the U.S. helped finance the Maidan Revolution that ousted a democratically elected president, Viktor Yanukovych, in Kyiv. Sen. John McCain and the State Department's Victoria Nuland had both been seen in the square cheering on the rebels.
A second problem is that Putin is many things other than the terms Biden used to describe him.
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He commands the largest nuclear arsenal on earth and 10 times as many battlefield nuclear weapons as the U.S. military. He is the man we must look to if we hope to end the war in Ukraine. For Putin alone can order the Russian army to stand down or withdraw, presumably a goal of U.S. foreign policy.
If the president of the United States is the most powerful man in the world, Putin is up there alongside him, disposing of an arsenal of intercontinental ballistic missiles that could bring an end to Western civilization.
Without Putin's cooperation, the bloodletting goes on in Ukraine.
How does it advance the goal of getting his agreement to end the war in Ukraine for the U.S. president to repeatedly call him vile names?
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Already, we have paid a price.
Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley are finding their secure phones to their opposite numbers in the Russian government have gone silent.
Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu and Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces Valery Gerasimov have not been picking up the phone.
In Moscow, there is talk of severing diplomatic relations with the United States because of Biden's name-calling.
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None of the aspiring peacemakers seeking to broker a cease-fire or truce in the Ukraine war are acting like this or using language like that.
President Emmanuel Macron of France, President Recep Erdogan of Turkey and Prime Minister Naftali Bennett of Israel have not used the kind of public language on Putin as has Biden.
We see the cost of what Biden is doing; wherein lies the benefit?
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OLYMPIA, Wash., March 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Heritage Financial Corporation ("Company" or "Heritage") (Nasdaq: HFWA) anticipates issuing its first quarter earnings release on Thursday, April 21, 2022 before the market opens. The Company has scheduled a telephone conference call to discuss the first quarter on Thursday, April 21, 2022 at 11:00 a.m. Pacific time (2:00 p.m. Eastern time).
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Barnaby Joyce boasts about buying his first house for $67k as he urges Aussies to move to regional areas - before Jacqui Lambie brutally shuts him down and says the home ownership dream is OVER for millions
- Barnaby Joyce ridiculed for boasting about buying first home for $67,000
- Deputy prime minister was responding to complaints about high house prices
- Mr Joyce suggested first home buyers move away from cities and look regional
- Stunned Independent senator Jacqui Lambie quickly interrupted Mr Joyce
Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce has been ridiculed for defending rising house prices after saying he managed to buy his first home for $67,000.
Members of the audience complained they were unable to afford a house in the city because of sky-high prices before Mr Joyce suggested they invest in regional areas, on ABC's Q&A on Thursday night.
Low and above-average income earners have been left struggling to buy their first home, with the average price for a house reaching nearly $1.5million in some cities.
'First house I bought cost me $67,000,' Mr Joyce said.
Mr Joyce was immediately interrupted by stunned panellist and Independent Tasmanian senator Jacqui Lambie.
Barnaby Joyce has been ridiculed for defending rising house prices after saying he managed to buy his first home for $67,000
Members of the audience complained they were unable to afford a house in the city because of sky-high prices before Mr Joyce suggested they invest in regional areas
'Jesus Barnaby,' Ms Lambie said. 'I don't know what planet you're on. You're looking at $600,000 now. And that's on a good day. Fair dinkum.'
Shadow treasurer Jim Chalmers joined in the debate, joking: 'It's good news everybody. Because Barnaby bought a cheap house a long time ago, you'll all be sweet.'
Median house prices stand at $1.41million in Sydney, $998,356 in Melbourne and $828,175 in Queensland.
Ms Lambie said the Australian dream of owning a home was well and truly over for millions of residents.
'The stark reality is this: you can't get a tradie for the next two years, shipping is going through the roof, materials are costing more,' she said.
'Even if you're putting money away now, if you think you're in reach of building a house now, give it another three or four years, on the trajectory we're in, good luck to you.
'Your owning an Aussie house, your dream of doing that is going out the window. You can't pay rent and save.'
Mr Joyce was immediately interrupted by stunned panellist and Independent Tasmanian senator Jacqui Lambie
The federal government announced during the Budget on Tuesday that it would double the number of places in the Home Guarantee Scheme to 50,000
The federal government announced during the Budget on Tuesday that it would double the number of places to 50,000 in the Home Guarantee Scheme.
Couples will only need a five per cent deposit while a single parent will only need 2.5 per cent.
Host David Speers questioned whether Mr Joyce would recommend a single parent to take out a loan with a measly 2.5 per cent deposit - amid forecasts that interest rates will increase.
Mr Joyce said he knew 'a lot of people' who had made the decision after they took into account their finances.
'You would have to look at the circumstances are in,' Mr Joyce said.
'The debt they're taking, what their forward cash flow position is like. You've got to know what you're earning, and what you're spending.'
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89-Year-Old Woman's Washington Home Auctioned Off By Bank After Mix-Up
By Zuri Anderson
March 31, 2022
An 89-year-old Washington woman is facing homelessness following a misunderstanding over the home she lives in, according to KING 5.
Chieko Durham has in her Oak Harbor home with her husband and retired U.S. Navy master chief, John Durham. John now lives in a nursing home, but he took out a reverse mortgage to make sure his wife would be financially secure. A condition of that mortgage is that the borrower lives in the home. Since Durham's husband moved out, someone was sent to verify if she lived here.
Durham, who speaks English as a second language, never answered the door.
"If someone comes to the door, she's not answering it, especially if she doesn't know them. She's scared, you know," Paula Murphy, a longtime family friend, told reporters. "This is very devastating for them because she's worked all her life, her husband has worked all his life. They worked hard for this house."
Unfortunately, the bank determined no one lived inside the house and therefore foreclosed on it. Jeff Harding, a Lake Stevens resident, bought the home from an auction. KING 5 says Harding started eviction proceedings against the elderly woman but has since backed off, according to his attorney Paul Newmiller.
Despite this, it may not get better for Durham.
"There was a false assumption that she had moved out of the house," Oak Harbor banker Jason Joiner explains. "Unfortunately, there is no legal basis upon which she can get this overturned. There is no winner here."
Friends and family have started a fundraiser to buy back the house from the owner, which would cost over $100,000. Newmiller says his client is "willing to discuss any reasonable solution."
"She really wants to stay here until her last breath," Murphy says. "God willing, that will happen."
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