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LOS ANGELES, March 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Arixa Capital Advisors, LLC is pleased to announce that Eric Cooper has joined the company as Vice President of Construction. In this role, Mr. Cooper is responsible for enhancing Arixa's construction risk management, through further development of Arixa's funds control program and construction underwriting, as well as building the scalable infrastructure that will allow Arixa to continue to grow its construction lending platform. Mr. Cooper comes to Arixa with over a decade of onsite construction project management experience and five years of construction lending experience.
Prior to joining Arixa, Mr. Cooper was the Vice President of Construction Operations at Genesis Capital. During his five years with that company, he oversaw the development of a nationwide residential construction underwriting program and was responsible for managing the in-house funds control team.
Eric Cooper shares, "As I suspected, Arixa Capital has an incredible culture, talented staff and a fantastic borrower base. I feel lucky and excited to further build out the construction department to best serve both borrowers and investors."
Earlier in his career, Mr. Cooper was the onsite supervisor and project manager for a two-year project, building an ultra-luxury custom home for a celebrity client in the Trousdale Estates neighborhood of Beverly Hills, with the highly regarded general contractor Corbin Reeves. From 2013 to 2015, Mr. Cooper was a project manager for ANR Industries, where he oversaw all aspects of luxury single-family residential construction projects in the Los Angeles area, from conceptual design through final sale. From 2010 to 2013, Mr. Cooper worked as a project manager for Anchor Loans where he oversaw all aspects of remodeling for single-family residential projects with resale values between $700,000 and $3,000,000.
Arixa Capital's Managing Director, Greg Hebner, said, "We are excited to bring someone like Eric onto the Arixa team. Eric's deep construction experience and his passion for client service is an ideal fit for our team. As Arixa continues to grow its lending business across larger construction projects and new geographies, Eric's extensive industry knowledge will allow us to execute on our growth plans and maintain the high level of service that our clients expect, while also mitigating risk for our fund investors."
Contact:
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Vice President, Construction Operations
M 818-692-9646
E ecooper@arixacapital.com
About the Company
Arixa Capital is one of the premier private real estate lenders and credit fund managers in the Western U.S., providing small balance loan solutions to lower middle-market residential and commercial investors and developers. Visit www.arixacapital.com for more information on investing or borrowing.
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BraunAbility’s Chris Carlisle to serve on Carmel disability advisory committee
Carmel Mayor Jim Brainard has appointed Chris Carlisle of BraunAbility, the Carmel-based global leader in the manufacture of mobility transportation solutions for the disabled, to serve on the City of Carmel’s Advisory Committee on Disability. Carlisle leads the marketing efforts for the firm, which opened its new corporate headquarters in Carmel...
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Increased Revenue by 48% Year-Over-Year; Finished the Year with Two Consecutive
Quarters of Positive Cash Flow (Exclusive of Non-Recurring Items)
Mt. Olive, NJ, March 31, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Vislink (Nasdaq: VISL), a global technology leader in the capture, delivery and management of high quality, live video and associated data in the media & entertainment, law enforcement and defense markets, announced its results for the year ended December 31, 2021. Company management will host a live video conference call to discuss its 2021 results on Friday, April 1, 2022, at 10:00 a.m. Eastern (9:00 a.m. Central) which will be followed by Q&A. The conference call will be accessible at the following link: https://marketscale.com/live/vislink/. An archived replay will be made available following the conclusion of the call.
Financial Update:
- For the year ended December 31, 2021, revenue was $33.8 million, compared to $22.9 million for the year ended December 31, 2020.
- Gross margins were 55.2% of revenue for the year ended December 31, 2021, compared to 39.4% of revenue for the year ended December 31, 2020.
- For the year ended December 31, 2021, net loss attributable to common shareholders was $15.4 million, or $(0.35) per share, compared to net loss of $17.6 million, or $(1.19) per share for the year ended December 31, 2020.
- Non-recurring items accounted for $13.5 million of the $15.4 million net loss. These included the following:
- Two non-cash items, a write-off of goodwill necessitated by accounting rules, and a charge for the value of vested options and restricted shares associated with the company’s long-term employee incentive plan, together represented $11.9 million, or $(0.27) per share.
- One-time advisory fees associated with the Mobile Viewpoint acquisition represented $1.6 million, or $(0.04) per share.
- EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes depreciation and amortization) for December 31, 2021 was negative $14 million compared to negative $16 million for the year ended December 31, 2020.
- Ended the fourth quarter 2021 with $36.2 million in cash, compared to $5.2 million at the end of the fourth quarter of 2020.
“We are pleased to report that revenues for the full year 2021 were 48% higher than in the previous year,” said Mickey Miller, CEO of Vislink. “We also ended the year on a strong note, with revenue reaching $11 million in the fourth quarter, which represented a 64% increase over the prior year. In addition, our quoting activity accelerated during the year, with new bookings growing over 100% in 2021 compared to the corresponding period in 2020. This solid sales growth, together with our commitment to controlling costs and judicious use of our finances, helped us end the year with two consecutive quarters of positive cash flow, exclusive of non-recurring items.”
Mr. Miller continued, “In 2021, we finalized the acquisition of Mobile Viewpoint and successfully completed the integration of its personnel, products and technology platform into Vislink’s operations. We also delivered technology to key worldwide events and customers during the year, including the U.S. Department of Defense, the Tokyo Summer Olympics, the NFL Super Bowl, Alabama Public Television, and the Extreme-E Racing Circuit. Our focus on technology leadership continued to drive strategic investment in new products, and we released several key products in 2021 that comprised almost 25% of our revenue for the entire year.”
He concluded, “Looking forward, we foresee expanding growth opportunities in the sports, media and entertainment sectors. In these markets, our 5G and AI-powered solutions have the potential to drive the creation, distribution and monetization of completely new event content. In addition, there is the potential for significant opportunities in large-scale surveillance and reconnaissance projects in the MilGov space. In this sector, our real-time video transmission capabilities deliver the actionable information and situational awareness required by law enforcement and defense personnel. As a result, we believe we are well-positioned to capitalize on opportunities across our key markets throughout 2022, with the goal of realizing profitable and sustainable growth in our business.”
Non-GAAP Financial Measure: EBITDA
To supplement our financial results presented in accordance with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), we are presenting EBITDA in this earning release and the related earning conference call. EBITDA is a non-GAAP financial measure that is not based on any standardized methodology prescribed by GAAP and is not necessarily comparable to similarly titled measures presented by other companies. We define EBITDA as our net income (loss), excluding the impact of depreciation and amortization expense and interest income (expense). We have presented EBITDA because it is a key measure used by our management and board of directors to understand and evaluate our operating performance, to establish budgets and to develop operational goals for managing our business. In particular, we believe that excluding the impact of these expenses in calculating EBITDA can provide a useful measure for period-to-period comparisons of our core operating performance.
About Vislink Technologies, Inc.
Vislink is a global technology business specializing in the collection, delivery, and management of high quality, live video and associated data from the scene of the action to the viewing screen. For the broadcast markets, Vislink provides solutions for the collection of live news, sports, and entertainment events. Vislink also furnishes the surveillance and defense markets with real-time video intelligence solutions using a variety of tailored transmission products. The Vislink team also provides professional and technical services utilizing a staff of technology experts with decades of applied knowledge and real-world experience to the areas of a terrestrial microwave, satellite, fiber optic, surveillance, and wireless communications systems, to deliver a broad spectrum of customer solutions. Vislink’s shares of Common Stock are publicly traded on the Nasdaq Capital Market under the ticker symbol “VISL.” For more information, visit www.vislink.com.
Note on Forward-looking Statements
Certain statements in this press release are forward-looking statements that involve substantial risks and uncertainties for purposes of the safe harbor provided by the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. This press release contains forward-looking statements that involve substantial risks and uncertainties for purposes of the safe harbor provided by the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Any statements, other than statements of historical fact included in this press release, including those regarding the Company’s strategy, future operations, future financial position, projected expenses, prospects, plans, objectives of management, new capabilities, product and solutions launches, expected contract values, acquisitions integration, and expected market opportunities across the Company’s operating segments, the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, the sufficiency of the Company’s capital resources to fund the Company’s operations and any statements regarding future results are forward-looking statements. Vislink may not actually achieve the plans, carry out the intentions or meet the expectations or projections disclosed in any forward-looking statements such as the foregoing and you should not place undue reliance on such forward-looking statements. Such statements are based on management’s current expectations and involve risks and uncertainties, including those discussed in Vislink’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2021, filed with the SEC on March 31, 2022 and in subsequent filings with, or submissions to, the SEC.
The statements made in this press release speak only as of the date stated herein, and subsequent events and developments may cause the Company’s expectations and beliefs to change. While the Company may elect to update these forward-looking statements publicly at some point in the future, the Company specifically disclaims any obligation to do so, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as required by law. These forward-looking statements should not be relied upon as representing the Company’s views as of any date after the date stated herein.
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Media Relations:
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Charlotte.vanhertum@vislink.com
VISLINK TECHNOLOGIES, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS AND COMPREHENSIVE LOSS
(IN THOUSANDS EXCEPT NET LOSS PER SHARE DATA)
The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.
VISLINK TECHNOLOGIES, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS
(IN THOUSANDS EXCEPT SHARE AND PER SHARE DATA)
The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.
Reconciliation of GAAP to Non-GAAP Results
VISLINK TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
RECONCILIATION OF GAAP to NON-GAAP RESULTS
YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 31, 2021
(IN THOUSANDS)
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Biden outlines new benefits for Iraq, Afghanistan veterans exposed to burn pits
President Biden on Tuesday traveled to Texas to discuss expanding benefits for veterans exposed to toxic chemicals from burn pits.
In a speech at Resource Connection of Tarrant County in Fort Worth, Texas, Biden lauded the veterans who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, calling them “an incredible generation” of service members.
“This is an incredible generation, the 9/11 generation that fought. They served in a way I think that maybe they’re right up there with the greatest generation because they not only got deployed once, but sometimes twice, three, four times into harms’ way,” Biden said.
“They come home and go back and, after knowing that they cleaned off the blood of the seat of that up-armored Humvee that they ran where they lost somebody, they had to saddle up and go back up again.”
“No other generation has been deployed, redeployed and redeployed and redeployed,” he said, raising his voice.
He called on Congress to pass a law to ensure care for veterans exposed to toxic chemicals while serving in Iraq and Afghanistan. And, he announced a new rule that will add several rare respiratory cancers to the list of presumptive conditions for certain veterans.
“Not only did they face the dangers of the battlefield, but they were breathing toxic smoke and burn pits,” the president said of service members who served in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The issue of burn pits strikes a personal note for the president, who believes the chemicals from burn pits may have contributed to the brain cancer that ultimately killed his son, Beau Biden.
“When our troops came home, the fittest among them, the greatest fighting force in the history of the world, too many of them were not the same. Headaches, dizziness, numbness, dizziness, cancer,” Biden said. “We don’t know yet enough about the connection between burn pits and each of these diseases so many of our veterans are now facing, but I’m committed, I’m committed to … make the commitment to find out anything we can.”
Biden said his administration is building a more comprehensive database that will help officials get a better picture of which veterans were exposed to burn pits or other toxins. And he urged veterans to sign up for the VA burn pit registry.
“You know what I found about veterans as we work for those who are trying to deal with the mental health problems is, they’re used to always giving. You don’t think you have a right to ask for anything. You don’t think you have a right to ask. We’re asking you, asking you, to tell us, tell us where you’ve been. Tell us what your needs are. Nothing to be ashamed of, it’s to be proud of. We owe you,” he said.
Biden’s trip was a part of the “unity agenda” he proposed at the State of the Union address last week. The agenda includes items he urged Congress to pass on a bipartisan basis, including supporting veterans, as well as addressing the opioid epidemic, providing resources for children’s mental health and ending cancer.
“These are issues that unite us because they impact Americans in every single solitary state, issues that go beyond partisan politics because they’re about people, people, our neighbors,” he said on Tuesday. “Caring for our veterans has been a central focus of my administration since day one.”
Earlier on Tuesday, Biden toured the Fort Worth VA Clinic with Secretary of Veterans Affairs Denis McDonough and Texas Reps. Colin Allred (D), Marc Veasey (D) and Jake Ellzey (R).
“Jake’s a Republican but I like the hell out of him. No, I’m serious, he’s the real deal,” Biden said during his remarks, calling out Ellzey, who served as a Navy fighter pilot in Afghanistan and Iraq.
The president met veterans at the clinic, who demonstrated for him different devices, including an exoskeleton device that allows people in wheelchairs to stand up and a power wheelchair with an off-road and elevation feature.
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Nevada County police blotter: Under the influence golfers cause for concern
NEVADA COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE
Wednesday
12:29 a.m. — A caller from Wildflower Drive reported hearing a man scream three times, then it went quiet. The scream came from the right side of his house. No one was able to be located.
1:37 a.m. — A 911 caller from Boulder Street, slurring his words, couldn’t find his pot pipe, then found it. Caller, under the influence, spoke about fraud in 1993, stated he was OK and did not need law enforcement. The call was cleared by contact.
8:07 a.m. — Grand theft was reported along Brooks Road after a caller reported a vehicle and trailer were stolen. The call was handled by dispatch.
8:35 a.m. — A caller reported a woman with blue hair walking down the road along the Donner Summit Bridge crying with one shoe on. The caller thought the female was in distress and may need help. CHP was unable to locate her.
1:37 p.m. — A disturbance was reported along Norlene Way after a caller reported her daughter was suicidal, freaking out, and physical. The caller requested pressing charges against the juvenile and boyfriend. The caller locked herself in her bedroom and the boyfriend possibly picked up the juvenile in a vehicle.
1:43 p.m. — A suspicious circumstance was reported along Oak Tree Road near a school. The caller referenced suspected drug sales.
2:30 p.m. — A caller off Horton Street reported a raccoon that possibly had rabies and was walking in circles.
3:58 p.m. — A trespasser on NID property near Taylor Crossing Road was arrested.
4:01 p.m. — A caller off Pine Knoll Court reported ongoing threats over the phone while at work in Grass Valley and while at home.
4:25 p.m. — A caller off Harvey Road reported locating a bat during the daytime and wanted contact from animal control. A report was taken.
5:21 p.m. — A burglary was reported off Mayflower Drive after a vehicle was broken into.
5:33 p.m. — A caller reported a dog bite off Banner Lava Cap and Old Tunnel Road. Per reporting party, a woman’s arm was covered in blood and so was the dog. Cal Fire was staging due to the dog still being at large in an NID ditch on the south side of Banner Lava Cap. A report was taken.
7:14 p.m. — A caller off Tammy Way reported a group of subjects coming off the golf course under the influence and barely able to walk. The caller was concerned they would drive away when they completed their round in about 30 minutes.
NEVADA CITY POLICE DEPARTMENT
Wednesday
9:51 a.m. — A caller reported a black-and-white pit pull running loose in the area of Broad Street and Union Alley. The call was cleared by contact.
12:52 p.m. — A caller reported a bicycle rider on the Golden Center Freeway near Broad Street. The call was handled by dispatch.
7:36 p.m. — A bus line reported a disabled vehicle with a man and woman on the shoulder, about 1.5 miles north of the junction of Highways 20 and 49. The call was transferred to CHP.
— Elias Funez
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WASHINGTON — 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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Moscow [Russia], April 1 (ANI/Sputnik): A 5.3 magnitude earthquake was registered on Friday near Russia's Southern Kuril Islands, the regional branch of the Geophysical Survey of the Russian Academy of Sciences (GS RAS) told Sputnik.
"The 5.3 magnitude earthquake took place at 05:19 local time [18:19 GMT on Thursday] with the epicenter located 119 kilometers [about 74 miles] southwest of the the island of Simushir at a depth of 103 kilometers," the geologists said.
There is no information about any victims or damage caused by the earthquake. No tsunami alert has been declared.
The Kuril Islands are located in a seismically active zone known as the Ring of Fire, which is regularly affected by powerful earthquakes. On November 5, 1952, the 9.0 magnitude earthquake triggered a huge tsunami that devastated the town of Severo-Kurilsk, leaving more than 2,300 people killed. (ANI/Sputnik)
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Cloudflare, Inc. (NYSE:NET – Get Rating) has earned an average recommendation of “Hold” from the twenty-five ratings firms that are currently covering the company, Marketbeat.com reports. One equities research analyst has rated the stock with a sell rating, twelve have assigned a hold rating and ten have assigned a buy rating to the company. The average 12-month target price among analysts that have issued ratings on the stock in the last year is $153.88.
Several analysts have recently issued reports on NET shares. KeyCorp upped their price objective on Cloudflare from $132.00 to $150.00 and gave the stock an “overweight” rating in a report on Friday, February 11th. Morgan Stanley upped their price objective on Cloudflare from $91.00 to $100.00 and gave the stock an “equal weight” rating in a report on Friday, February 11th. Zacks Investment Research cut Cloudflare from a “buy” rating to a “hold” rating in a report on Saturday, February 12th. JMP Securities started coverage on Cloudflare in a report on Tuesday, February 22nd. They set a “buy” rating and a $175.00 price objective on the stock. Finally, Stifel Nicolaus decreased their price objective on Cloudflare from $126.00 to $120.00 and set a “hold” rating on the stock in a report on Monday, March 21st.
In other news, CEO Matthew Prince sold 52,384 shares of the stock in a transaction on Monday, March 7th. The stock was sold at an average price of $94.68, for a total transaction of $4,959,717.12. The transaction was disclosed in a filing with the SEC, which is accessible through this hyperlink. Also, CAO Paul D. Underwood sold 2,000 shares of the stock in a transaction on Tuesday, January 18th. The stock was sold at an average price of $95.06, for a total value of $190,120.00. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. Insiders sold a total of 518,590 shares of company stock worth $53,856,213 in the last ninety days. 20.69% of the stock is currently owned by corporate insiders.
Shares of NET traded down $4.70 during mid-day trading on Friday, hitting $119.70. 4,273,516 shares of the stock were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 6,216,155. The company has a market cap of $38.79 billion, a PE ratio of -144.22 and a beta of 0.71. Cloudflare has a 52-week low of $63.25 and a 52-week high of $221.64. The firm has a 50-day moving average of $104.09 and a two-hundred day moving average of $135.22. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.41, a quick ratio of 6.78 and a current ratio of 6.78.
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Turkey Point teen shoots for the stars
Sarah Dolina makes cut for Miss Teen Ontario pageant
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Sarah Dolina expects to stick out this weekend among the 20 competitors at the Miss Teen Ontario pageant in Toronto.
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Dolina, 17, of Turkey Point, says the average dress size will be in the range of zero. For her part, Dolina wears a size 8. She hopes that works to her advantage as she heads to the city bearing a message of body-positivity.
“I’m OK being like that,” Dolina said Thursday in an interview at Simcoe Composite School. “If someone like me sees that, maybe they’ll say ‘Wow – maybe I can do something like that too.’”
Dolina applied to be a contestant last week and was interviewed during a Zoom call on the weekend. She was elated to receive news that she had made the short list. If she prevails at the Sheraton Hotel in Toronto, she advances to the all-Canadian pageant later this year.
Dolina wanted to enter last year’s Miss Teen Ontario pageant but begged off when her friends were less than enthusiastic. A year later, Dolina took the plunge anyway because it all sounds like a big adventure.
“They said ‘Why would you want to do something like that?’” she said. “They were a little closed-minded about it. But it is an opportunity to try something new. It sounds like fun.”
Aside from expanding her horizons, Dolina is attracted by the possibility of scholarship money for post-secondary studies. Dolina has the entrepreneurial spirit and would like to start her own business once she graduates.
Another motivation is a memory Dolina has from elementary school where she was cut from the wrestling team because she was larger than the other girls. Dolina didn’t think that was fair and is determined to demonstrate that her full figure is an asset and not a liability.
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In the speech she has prepared, Dolina will take all media to task for constant, unrealistic messaging that a woman cannot succeed unless she is rake thin and hungry all the time.
Dolina also hopes to inspire others about the possibilities of moving on after devastating tragedies and living your life to the fullest.
Last October, her father David Dolina, 57, had a heart attack while driving on Highway 6 near Hagersville. His vehicle left the road and entered a farmer’s field. First-responders worked on Dolina at the scene but he later died in hospital.
“I want to show that there is life after the hurt,” Dolina said.
Aside from a public-speaking segment, contestants this weekend will take to the cat-walk in evening gowns and a shorts-and-tank-top competition to gauge physical fitness. Dolina has been given to understand that modeling scouts will be in attendance but she also likes the idea of having “bragging rights” should she distinguish herself from the rest of the pack.
The Miss Teen Canada website says contestants throughout the pageant process will be judged on “personality, your ability to communicate, stage presence, charm, academics, commitment to the community, beauty, fitness and confidence.”
“We’re looking for delegates who have the ‘it’ factor. They light up a room with their poise and confidence and lead as role models to other youth.”
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Gentex down 10% on earnings miss
- Gentex (NASDAQ:GNTX) reports Automotive net sales down 2% to $442.8M in Q4.
- Total auto-dimming mirror shipment units +2% Y/Y to 10,225.
- Gross margin rate fell 130 bps to 37.9%.
- Operating margin rate declined 150 bps to 27.7%.
- The company repurchased 3.3M shares during the quarter at an average price of $21 per share.
- FY2019 Guidance: Net sales: $1.83B to $1.93B; Gross margin rate: 36% to 37%; Operating expense: $195M to $200M; Tax rate: 16% to 18%; Capex: $90M to $100M; D&A: $105M to $115M.
- GNTX -10.35% premarket.
- Previously: Gentex misses by $0.02, misses on revenue (Jan. 30)
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One of the most enduring coaches in a community loaded with them is stepping away from that all-consuming scene.
Glenn Wilson, who has coached middle school and high school basketball and track and field for 27 years, announced Thursday that he wlil put down his clipboard and walk away from the bench at the end of this school year.
He plans to take on an even more important role on the sporting scene -- spectator and dad to his children's activities.
"After 27 years of working with the youth, i am going to focus my time with my family," Wilson said. "I am excited to spend more time with my kids and their extracurricular activities."
A coach ever since he graduated from Georgetown College, Wilson said he is several years overdue on a promise to his wife, Karma, to wrap up his coaching endeavors.
Wilson's daughter, Kiersha, and son, Brayden, will be a senior and freshman, respective, at Bryan Station High School next school year.
After a brief, successful fight with prostate cancer last year, Wilson said his health is "100 percent" but that the ordeal did put the importance of family time in perspective.
Wilson will finish the season as head coach of track and field at Great Crossing High School, where he has also been girls' basketball head coach during the first three years of the new school.
"There will only be one first for Great Crossing High School, and Glenn Wilson is it," GCHS principal Joy Lusby said. "I am deeply appreciative of his hard work and efforts in helping us get our programs off the ground."
Prior to his dual duties with the Warhawks, Wilson was an assistant for 21 seasons with the husband and wife team of Steve and Tara Helton at Scott County High School, contributing to more than 400 wins and numerous district and region championships.
Wilson was an assistant with Tara Helton for two seasons before joining Steve Helton's staff when he took over the program for the 2000-01 season.
Great Crossing reached the 11th Region tournament in all three years of Wilson's leadership.
Athletic director Austin Haywood said the vacant basketball position will be posted Friday.
"Even though it's in the same district as (nine-time reigning champion Franklin County), it's a pretty enticing job," Haywood said.
Haywood added that Wilson "has been an integral part of building a strong foundation for girls' athletics at Great Crossing High School."
For an in-depth look at Wilson's coaching career in the county, please see the Tuesday, April 5 print edition of the News-Graphic.
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Scott Willis was a student at Purdue University when Operation Desert Storm began in 1991.
With a family history of U.S. Marines Corps service, Willis decided he also wanted to serve.
Willis, 52, joined the Marines after earning his degree in civil engineering. He attended officer candidate school after college
“I was committed at that point (1991 Gulf War),” said Willis, a Westfield City Council member. “I wanted to serve. I wanted to be a Marine.”
Thirty years after enlisting, he retired March 1 as a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Marine Corps Reserves.
“I didn’t expect to stay 30 years,” Willis said. “I did four years of active duty and loved it, but I knew that wasn’t a lifestyle conducive to raising a family.”
After his four years of active duty, Willis entered the reserves. That was when he met his wife, Stacey Willis, through an online dating service. They were engaged within two months after meeting. Being in the reserves brought its own challenges to the couple.
Stacey said she didn’t truly understand what her husband went through until he spent a weekend drilling at Fort Knox, and she asked if, on his way home, he could stop by the store for her.
“He always called me on the way home to let me know he was on his way. This time I asked him if he could pick up a couple things for me at the store. He said he couldn’t,” Stacey said. “I said, ‘Please, it’s right on your way home. It will be real quick.’ He said, ‘I can’t. I’m in uniform.’ I laughed and said, ‘Honey, you look great in uniform, I’m sure no one will care.’ He said, ‘No, Stacey, I can’t wear this uniform in public. This is my killing uniform.’”
Marines are not allowed to wear their camouflage uniforms outside a military installation.
“This really shook me. At that moment, I realized Scott had the lives of men in his hands, be it an enemy or his Marines’ lives,” Stacey said. “This brought the realization that he also could be in harm’s way by other men in their killing uniforms.”
Because Scott was a reservist, his family wasn’t stationed at a military base. Stacey said she didn’t truly appreciate what it meant to be a Marine spouse until 2005. Until then, Scott trained one weekend a month and two to three weeks a summer but was home the rest of the time until August 2005, when he was deployed to Iraq. Although he wasn’t activated, Willis volunteered to go.
“At the time, they had plenty of officers and they didn’t need Scott to accompany his
unit,” Stacey said. “He said there was no way he could face his Marines or live with knowing that he could have been there to help them and our country.”
Prior to Scott’s deployment, the couple spent weeks recording VHS tapes of Scott reading children’s books to show to their daughters each night. At the time, Sophia Willis was around 2 years old, and Brenna was 3 months old. Since his return, the couple has had a third child, Graden.
“One of the hardest things for Scott was the fear of being forgotten,” Stacey said. “Our girls were so young we feared it may be very hard for them to remember him, and it was especially (true) for Brenna, and she didn’t warm up to Scott for over a year after he returned.”
The family also planned Scott’s funeral, where he wanted to be buried and what he would wear.
“It’s not the usual stuff you do when you go on a business trip,” Stacey said.
Scott’s job overseas was to set up a blocking position between Iraq and Syria, where Al Qaeda frequently entered Iraq to conduct terrorist activities.
“I volunteered to go with my unit, but they didn’t have a job for me to do with my unit, so when we arrive in the country, my Marines went one direction and they grabbed me at the Syrian border,” Scott said. “We swept through three cities to clear the cities of all insurgents in preparation for the constitutional referendum for the national elections (in Iraq). They would set up polling stations, but (terrorists would intimidate voters), so no one would come back, or they’d kill them. So, we set up a safe haven for voting.”
When Scott deployed to Iraq, he wrote individualized letters for both his daughters in case he didn’t return.
“I wrote letters for their sweet 16, graduating high school, graduating college, getting married, first kid,” Scott said. “I tried to hit all the major events that a dad not being there would be impactful.”
Scott also wrote letters to Stacey, his parents and his brothers and sister.
Scott burned the letters when he returned home. No one in his family read them.
“That’s what families in the military deal with, especially in a time of war,” Scott said. “Our situation was unique for some people, but every single family or Marine or soldier that left was facing similar things. It’s what we do. I’m incredibly proud of my service and I have zero regrets, but I certainly put Stacey and the kids in a tough position. Divorce rates, especially in the Marine Corps, are extremely high.
“The fact she stuck it out and not only stuck it out but was so supportive, I wouldn’t have been able to make it to 30 years.”
A timeline of service
May 1992: Graduated Purdue University with a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering
July 1992: Joined Marines and attended officer candidate school, then basic school and field artillery officer basic course. Graduated with honors in all three.
1993: Entered a fleet in Hawaii in 1993 as a second lieutenant. He served as a scout forward observer, liaison officer, executive officer and battery commander. He spent time in Australia, Japan and six months in the Pacific area.
1996: Now a captain, he enters the Reserves and joins an artillery base in Reading, Penn.
1999: Returned to Indiana and joined a tank company serving as platoon commander and executive officer. He is then promoted to major.
2005: Spent 12 months in Iraq.
2007: Now a lieutenant colonel, he returned to the artillery community serving as the regimental staff communications and operations officer before being assigned to Marine Forces Northern Command as an emergency preparedness liaison officer.
2015: Reassigned within Marine Forces Northern Command as the liaison officer to Air Force Northern Command.
2018: Joined 4th Marine Division as the inspector general. His awards include Meritorious Service Medal (2nd Award), Navy Commendation Medal (2nd Award), Navy and
Marine Corps Achievement Medal, Select Marine Corps Reserve Medal, Global War on Terrorism Service Medal, Iraqi Campaign Service Medal and National Defense Medal.
March 31, 2022: Retirement is mandatory at 30 years of service for colonels. Willis retires as a Marine reservist
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WASHINGTON — 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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BRENTWOOD, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee woman convicted in the death of a police officer has been sentenced to 8 to 12 years in prison.
Ashley Kroese of Thompson's Station was 24 years old on June 18, 2020, when she drove on the wrong side of the road in Brentwood, killing Brentwood police officer Destin Legieza, 30, authorities said.
She was previously found guilty of four charges, including vehicular homicide by intoxication. She was sentenced Wednesday for charges in the crash that killed Legieza, The Tennessean reported.
A blood test after the crash found her blood alcohol content was 0.166%, which is twice the legal limit.
Members of Legieza's family spoke at the hearing.
“Ashley. I don’t think you intended to kill anyone that day,” said Heather Legieza, the officer’s widow. “But you moving forward with the trial when you know what you did was with intention, you should have just taken accountability for your actions."
Kroese, who did not testify at the February trial, read from a statement.
“I can’t pretend to understand what you have been going through. I’ve never lost a husband, a son or a brother, and nothing I can say is able to ease your pain, but I am truly and deeply sorry,” Kroese said.
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England will be searching for their group stage opponents in Qatar 2022 when the World Cup draws on this Friday.
Gareth Southgate’s men enter a draw between the favorites reaching the semi-finals in 2018 and the final of Euro 2020.
Thirty-two teams will be divided into eight groups of four, with teams divided into four pots, depending on their position in the FIFA world rankings updated on Thursday.
England’s fifth-ranked FIFA ranking means they are placed in Pot 1, which means they should, in theory, be awarded a draw of sorts.
When is the World Cup 2022 draw?
The World Cup 2022 draw will take place on Friday 1st April at 5PM BST. It is being held at the Doha Exhibition and Convention Center.
You can watch the draw live on BBC One from 4.45pm to 6.00pm when coverage switches to BBC Two…
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The way authors write and readers read has changed dramatically since the day of quill and ink pot. But the ability of words to educate, evoke emotion or take readers on journeys to another time and place remains the same.
This power of words is celebrated every year by the Shuswap Association of Writers in the annual Word on the Lake Writers’ Festival – this year at the beautiful Sorrento Centre.
From April 29 to May 1, 12 presenters will share their talent in relaxed sessions that include both skill development workshops and open forums.
This year’s stellar cast includes:
• National and international award-winning author Gail Anderson-Dargatz writes best-selling books in several different genres, teaches and mentors. She will be a keynote speaker and present two workshops.
• Kelley Armstrong has published 31 fantasy novels, three middle-grade fantasy novels and is the author of three crime novels. She has also written several serial novellas and short stories.
• With nearly 20 years experience in the publishing industry, Anna Comfort O’Keeffe is publisher at Douglas & McIntyre, directing the development of the company’s national publishing program.
• Charles Demers is a comedian, author and voice actor. He is a regular performer on CBC radio’s “The Debaters,” is one of the stars of two Emmy-winning Netflix animated series and his iTunes Canada #1-selling stand-up album was nominated for a 2018 Juno Award.
• A much-anticipated presenter and keynote speaker, Dr. Norma Dunning is a proud Inuk writer, scholar, researcher and grandmother. She is a professor at the University of Alberta and in 2021, won the Governor General’s Award for her short story collection Tainna: The Unseen Ones.
• Scott Fitzgerald Gray is a writer of fantasy and speculative fiction, a fiction editor, a story editor and an editor and designer of roleplaying games.
Anne Fleming is a B.C. fiction writer, poet, and children’s author whose writing has been shortlisted for the Governor-General’s Award, among others. She teaches at UBC’s Okanagan Campus.
Kat Montagu‘s latest book dropped in paperback in December 2020 and was an Amazon Bestseller in three categories within a few days. It is now being used to teach screenwriting all over the world.
• TMusician Ed Peekeekoot takes people on a wildly varied musical journey. His blazing guitar work to foot-stomping fiddle and haunting Native flute are sprinkled with his Cree humour and philosophy.
• Jacqueline Turner is the author of a book of poetic philosophy that critics call, “a quiet tornado: riveting, expansive, and profoundly moving on multiple levels.”
She is a writing specialist at Emily Carr University of Art + Design.
• Ian Weir is a multiple award-winning playwright, screenwriter, TV showrunner and novelist.
• Sam Wiebe is the award-winning author of the Wakeland novels. His original film/tv projects have been optioned and his short stories have appeared in a variety of places.
Learn more about all the presenters and get details of the festival online at wordonthelakewritersfestival.com.
Early registration and the savings that go with it end on April 10. Those who register before the April 10 deadline will be entered in a draw for a gift basket containing $200 worth of local products. The draw will take place on April 11. Regular Registration continues until April 24.
Read more: Author, mentor: Shuswap’s Gail Anderson-Dargatz to host pair of workshops at writers’ fest
Read more: ‘You are my hope’: Author Norma Dunning presenter at Shuswap writers’ festival
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When the pandemic emerged, the Trump administration saw a chance to build a different sort of wall. Using authority it claimed under U.S. Code Title 42, the government began immediately turning away thousands of people at the southern border instead of allowing them to undergo a process of adjudication or seek asylum. The presumptive rationale was that the government wanted to cut down the number of coronavirus-infected individuals entering the United States, but, in testimony before Congress, one official admitted that this move was not based on the statistics at the time. Instead, the quick-removal policy “may have been initiated for other purposes” — a fair assumption.
As a candidate, Joe Biden campaigned in direct opposition to Trump’s immigration policies. But Title 42 was an exception. It persisted, month after month, despite outcry from activists on the left and even despite resignations of administration officials in protest.
This week, the administration announced it would end the policy. One reason for doing so is that the government’s capacity to handle migrants has increased, allowing more people to enter the country to seek residency. But it seems clear that another reason for doing so is that there’s no political benefit to maintaining the policy — but, perhaps, political damage.
All of this centers on numbers. If 200 people were seeking to migrate to the United States per month, there would be little political consternation. But when 200,000 do, things get tricky. And since Biden took office, there have been multiple months in which that mark was surpassed, at least as measured in the number of stops made at the U.S.-Mexico border.
It’s important to note here that measuring the number of people entering the United States is necessarily cloudy. Some people enter illegally and are not detected, meaning they are not included in the government’s released totals. But the increase in barriers at the border after the passage of legislation in 2006 pushed more migrants to monitored crossing points where they could be stopped. So, while the numbers of people apprehended at the border doesn’t measure every entrant, it measures many if not most.
Those monthly figures — and in particular their growth relative to Trump’s presidency — were repeatedly touted by Biden’s opponents as indicating a laxity at the border. In January, for example, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) criticized the administration over the “1.9 million illegal immigrants” apprehended at the border last year. This is inaccurate and misleading for several reasons, as I explained at the time: For one thing, not all of those apprehensions were “illegal immigrants,” and for another, most of those who were apprehended were quickly slated for removal under Title 42.
On a month-by-month basis, you can see the difference between the two administrations under Title 42. When Trump was president, nearly all migrants were set for quick removal. Under Biden, that policy was less strict; children, for example, were allowed to remain. But it was still an important part of the administration’s approach to immigration.
In 2021, only about 300,000 people who were stopped at the border were granted humanitarian release into the country while waiting for their immigration hearings to progress — many, but far fewer than the 1.9 million Jordan cited.
That’s important. The administration faced a real challenge in handling the increase in migrants, making the removal policy useful. But that most of those who were stopped at the border were quickly removed from the country did not diminish any hand-wringing about the number of migrants who were coming to the United States. Jordan and other critics of the administration drew no distinction between those people who spent little to no time on U.S. soil and those who might be on a path to legal residency. It was all presented as “millions surging into the country.”
At the same time, Title 42 probably made those numbers worse. The quick-removal process meant that thousands of people each month would be stopped, removed — and would try again, only to again be stopped. The number of apprehensions was inflated by people being caught more than once, so the government began releasing data on repeat apprehensions. From June of last year through December, more than a quarter of apprehensions were people who’d already been stopped once, inflating the number of people stopped during that period from fewer than 1 million to more than 1.3 million; many of those people were the same people more than once.
These considerations were probably significant in the administration’s decision-making process, but it’s also likely to be the case that the administration is responding to months of anger from an important part of the Democratic base. Immigration activists have been understandably furious that Biden would continue a policy instituted by Trump that kept people seeking asylum in the United States from being able to do so. Removing the policy is also politically useful simply because it eases those criticisms. That Biden gained no credit from the political right for keeping the policy in place makes this easier.
Then, of course, there’s the ostensible rationale for the policy: the pandemic. It has waned, but even before it did, there was no reason to think that migrants were a significant source of new infections in the United States. Migrants were blamed for spreading the virus, yes, but that was rhetoric. The biggest factor in the country’s surges in new infections continues to be what it always was: Americans.
The administration expects by May to have enough capacity to hold migrants as needed. At that point, it plans to end Title 42 — and with it another of Trump’s strategies for limiting migration to the United States.
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The Queensland government will not order new land valuations in areas devastated by recent floods after the regulator hiked values by 20 per cent in some areas.
Valuer-General Neil Bray on Thursday raised land values in 30 local government areas, including flood-hit Brisbane, Ipswich, Logan, the Gold Coast, Moreton Bay, the Sunshine Coast, Noosa, the Lockyer Valley, Scenic Rim, Somerset, Gympie and the North and South Burnett.
Valuations, which were determined last October, rose up to 20 per cent in parts of Brisbane, where thousands of homes were impacted by the February-March floods.
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Brisbane Lord Mayor Adrian Schrinner says the state government should freeze valuation changes like the Bligh Labor government did during the 2011 floods and reassess them.
But State Resources Minister Scott Stewart said the values are determined independently and take in data from previous floods.
He sidestepped questions about intervening, saying local governments had the power to decide whether or not to subsequently hike council rates.
"It's really up to them to make those determinations and if they have any compassion, this is their opportunity to be able to freeze or give those discounts to those flood affected victims," Mr Stewart told ABC Radio on Friday.
The minister said most people wanted to see the value of land they've invested in appreciate over time, however, people did have the opportunity to object to their valuations.
Individual landowners had 60 days to object, and some may think their land value was actually lower than it should be, Mr Stewart added.
"There is the ability for objections particularly for those properties where there have been adverse effects of their property," he said.
"For example, if parts of the property have been washed away by creeks or the floods, they can actually apply for an adjustment there."
Mayor Schrinner said the government should make the Valuer-General go back the drawing board.
Queensland's most intense rain event on record impacted 23,000 homes in Brisbane and residents deserved a new valuations.
"The right thing to do is to simply withdraw all the valuations taken last year and start again."
Meanwhile, the state's peak farming body AgForce urged landholders to object or risk being lumped with higher rates or rent.
New valuations have also been released for Boulia, Burke, Cairns, Carpentaria, Cassowary Coast, Croydon, Douglas, Etheridge, Fraser Coast, Goondiwindi, Livingstone, Mareeba, Redland, Rockhampton, Toowoomba, and Townsville.
Valuations soared 350 per cent in Boulia, 328 per cent in Burke, 335 per cent in Carpentaria, 222 per cent in Croydon and 192 per cent in Etheridge.
AgForce valuer John Moore said it was up to landholders to ensure correct values and his group was ready to help members object.
"Unimproved values are done by mass appraisal, meaning your property isn't individually valued so errors can occur," Mr Moore said.
"It's important you object to your new valuation if you believe the unimproved value is too high, because it could result in large savings in rates or rent."
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‘Traumatized’ Fans Sound Off About Resurfaced Images Of Kody Brown In Tiny Speedo!
Fans were shocked when a clip of Kody Brown wearing a Speedo recently resurfaced online. The Sister Wives patriarch has been under fire in recent months, so when still shots from an old episode were shared on Reddit, fans were quick to rip into the cringe-worthy images.
Kody stomps from the shore into a body of water wearing only a teeny tiny black Speedo, in the footage. Fans did not appreciate the view from Kody’s backside and dissed the closed caption which read—”It’s just getting better and better.”
The Reddit thread, which was captioned “Funny I had the exact opposite feeling about this episode..,” soon lit up with opinions.
Kody speaking in a confessional spot from the episode was also shared.
“Listen, you can’t unsee what you’re about to see,” Kody said per the closed captions.
Kody appeared overjoyed—but Reddit users were not impressed by the TLC dad’s remarks.
One user wrote—“Seeing Kody in his little underwear was traumatizing.”
Another commented—“Imagine how traumatizing it was for his kids who did not have the benefit of any blurring.”
“What a terrible day to be the camera person,” a commenter noted.
“What a terrible day to have eyes,” another snarked.
Kody isn’t the only Sister Wives personality to get roasted on social media in recent days.
Kody’s only legal wife, Robyn Brown, became a subject of online ridicule after a TikTok user reposted a Sister Wives scene featuring home film footage of the TLC mom busting a move.
A commenter joked—“Robyn knowing she has Kody 24/7, vibing out while the nanny takes care of her kids.”
Fans have slammed Robyn for hiring a nanny to help out with her children while the other wives have raised their kids with no hired help.
Fans reacted to the posted clip of Robyn, who rocked a white cap and a polo shirt as she showed off her awkward dance moves.
“This gets weirder every time I see it,” one said.
“You know she practiced this in front of the mirror,” another wrote.
“This is so awful. Its awkward, unappealing, and unattractive,” a user chimed in.
Christine Brown took Kody to task over the duo’s nanny during an episode that aired in December 2021. She wondered why Robyn’s nanny was allowed in their home amid Kody’s strict Covid rules, while their shared children were shut out.
“You have a nanny over. She’s over all the time,” Christine told Kody. “I don’t understand why Ysabel can’t come over and hang out. She’s devastated.”
Viewers know that Christine announced her split from Kody in November. She has since landed a TLC cooking web series.
Robyn shared that she was “frustrated and angry and devastated by Christine’s choice..” during the finale Tell All special.
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Shares of Pioneer Natural Resources Co.
PXD,
-3.06%
slipped 3.06% to $250.03 Thursday, on what proved to be an all-around poor 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. The stock's fall snapped a two-day winning streak. Pioneer Natural Resources Co. closed $9.97 short of its 52-week high ($260.00), which the company reached on March 30th.
The stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors Thursday, as EOG Resources Inc.
EOG,
-1.54%
fell 1.54% to $119.23, Concho Resources Inc.
CXO,
-6.02%
fell 6.02% to $65.60, and APA Corp.
APA,
+0.32%
rose 0.32% to $41.33. Trading volume (2.0 M) remained 819,935 below its 50-day average volume of 2.8 M.
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Sonic The Hedgehog 2: The Movies Won't Follow The Games Timeline
Video game movies have always had a tougher time making their way to the big and small screens. They have to go through the process of going from an interactive medium to an inactive medium, and oftentimes, it just doesn't work. For Paramount Pictures, they seemed to have found a pretty decent sweet spot for Sonic the Hedgehog. The first movie was a damn near-disaster where the title character had to be redesigned in the eleventh hour, but it paid off, and now the second movie is getting very good reviews. However, if fans are hoping that Sonic the Hedgehog 2 and the already greenlit third movie are going to directly follow the timeline of the games, according to director Jeff Fowler in an interview with IGN, that won't be the case.
"It's not always going to be a linear progression of like 'Oh, this was in Sonic 2 so it's going to be in the Sonic 2 film'. It's going to be a little bit of a cherry picking, a little bit of a melting pot. There's so much great, inspiring imagery to pull from the 30 years of games. So if we didn't get it in one film, there's always the chance that we'll revisit it somewhere else."
That doesn't mean that eagled-eyed fans won't be able to make any guesses about what comes next after Sonic the Hedgehog 2, but Fowler likes that people don't know exactly where they are going.
"I think it's teased in this film, and I can't say more than that," Fowler said. "The character is teased. I don't want to give away any spoilers, but that definitely is something I'd be very excited about telling a story with. … It's also exciting for the fans to not know what's going to come in where rather than just knowing we're going down a checklist from A to B to C to D."
The review and social embargos for Sonic the Hedgehog 2 are both down, so you can check those out if you want to know what people think of the movie. We here at Bleeding C0ol are seeing it on Saturday, and we'll try to get our review up as soon as possible.
"After settling in Green Hills, Sonic is eager to prove he has what it takes to be a true hero. His test comes when Dr. Robotnik returns, this time with a new partner, Knuckles, in search for an emerald that has the power to destroy civilizations. Sonic teams up with his own sidekick, Tails, and together they embark on a globe-trotting journey to find the emerald before it falls into the wrong hands. From the filmmakers behind The Fast and the Furious and Deadpool, SONIC THE HEDGEHOG 2 stars James Marsden, Ben Schwartz as the voice of Sonic, Tika Sumpter, Natasha Rothwell, Adam Pally, and Jim Carrey returning, alongside new additions Shemar Moore, with Idris Elba as the voice of Knuckles, and Colleen O'Shaughnessey as the voice of Tails."
Sonic the Hedgehog 2 is directed by Jeff Fowler and stars James Marsden, Ben Schwartz, Tika Sumpter, Natasha Rothwell, Adam Pally, Shemar Moore, Colleen O'Shaughnessey with Idris Elba and Jim Carrey. It will be released on April 8, 2022.
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Driver in shoot-out, chase with Buffalo police arraigned
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) - A driver who engaged Buffalo police in a lengthy gunfight, striking and injuring three officers during a haphazard chase that spanned the city, pleaded not guilty Thursday to attempted murder.
Kente Bell, 28, was arraigned from his hospital room, where he is recovering from several gunshot wounds sustained during Tuesday's chase and a final hail of gunfire as it ended in front of a police station at a Buffalo intersection.
Bell was shot in his neck, arm, leg and hand and underwent surgery at Erie County Medical Center, where he appeared before a judge after regaining consciousness, said Erie County District Attorney John Flynn, who offered dramatic new details of the events.
"You have a high-speed chase... you've got a guy firing out the driver's side window. You've got blockades, you've got speed on highways, a girl jumping out of the car," he said at a news conference.
Bell is accused of fleeing two police officers who approached his parked vehicle after noticing its tinted windows around 6 p.m. Tuesday, Flynn said. He cooperated at first but did not get out of the car because he was partially paralyzed in a 2012 shooting and uses medical equipment to walk, the prosecutor said.
When it appeared there was an issue with his registration, Bell drove off. Armed with an illegal handgun with an extended magazine of ammunition, he fired on police as they pursued him through city neighborhoods and on highways for more than 20 minutes, Flynn said.
A Buffalo police vehicle blocks the area where three police officers were shot, Tuesday. March 29, 2022, in Buffalo, New York. The Buffalo Police Department says the officers' injuries don't appear to be life-threatening. (AP Photo/Carolyn Thompson)
Early in the chase, before shots were fired, the passenger exited the moving vehicle.
"He was making a turn and had slowed down at some point. She opened the front passenger door and jumped out of the car while it was moving and ended up rolling on the ground and hit up against a pole of some kind," he said, "like right out of a movie."
"She was obviously freaking out probably, to say the least, and wanted to have nothing to do with this," Flynn said.
In the minutes that followed, Bell drove through a police barricade, entered and exited highways and drove wildly through several Buffalo neighborhoods, briefly entering the suburb of Cheektowaga, before turning back toward Buffalo with police officers radioing his route to each other and warning of the danger.
"They´re still shooting. Multiple officers hit!" an officer is heard shouting in a transmission captured by Broadcastify.com.
Three police officers were struck in separate vehicles. All are recovering.
By the time it was over, nine police vehicles were damaged by gunfire, Police Commissioner Joseph Gramaglia said.
Investigators have yet to determine how many shots were fired by Bell, or how many officers fired their weapons, Flynn said.
Bell is due to appear before a county judge at the hospital Friday for an alleged probation violation related to a 2020 illegal firearms charge in the town of Amherst. While on probation, he was prohibited from carrying a weapon.
The attorney who represented Bell at Thursday's arraignment did not return a call seeking comment on his behalf.
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Hargreave Hale AIM VCT plc (LON:HHV – Get Rating)’s stock price passed below its fifty day moving average during trading on Tuesday . The stock has a fifty day moving average of GBX 77.17 ($1.01) and traded as low as GBX 71.60 ($0.94). Hargreave Hale AIM VCT shares last traded at GBX 74.75 ($0.98), with a volume of 13,131 shares changing hands.
The business’s 50 day moving average is GBX 76.99 and its 200-day moving average is GBX 85.98. The firm has a market capitalization of £201.69 million and a price-to-earnings ratio of 2.48.
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Which auto-follow drone is best?
Capturing magnificent scenes with a high-flying drone is a common method used by videographers to create content. The drones are steered with a flight stick or controller and go wherever the pilot directs them.
But sometimes, you want the drone to capture you in action. If there is nobody else to control the drone, you’re going to have a problem. That is where an auto-follow drone comes in, and as the name implies, it will automatically follow you as you run, bike or ski. One of the best auto-follow drones is the DJI Air 2S Quadcopter Drone.
What to know before you buy an auto-follow drone
Know the difference between auto-follow and tracking
The two terms might sound the same, and some companies use them interchangeably, but there is a subtle difference. An auto-follow drone doesn’t need a camera and can follow a signal. On the other hand, a tracking drone can memorize a face or object and track it. It will stay a certain distance away and continuously keep the object in the frame.
The size of the drone matters
Not all drones are built the same, and generally larger ones will have bigger batteries and more features. But that’s not to say that smaller, more affordable drones aren’t up to the task. Consider what kind of footage you want to capture and where you’ll be flying, and determine which size drone will be best for your needs.
Preferred method of control
You can operate drones through different control mechanisms. While professional drones use remote controllers and a screen, others operate easily with a mobile phone or a tablet. Consider which controlling method will be the easiest for you, as you can always upgrade to a headset when you get more comfortable.
What to look for in a quality auto-follow drone
Gimballed camera for stability
Under normal circumstances, you operate the drone through remote control. The pilot can steady the drone and capture any footage. But when it follows you, it is doing so automatically. Some stability is built into the flight, but a good-quality drone will have a gimballed camera. This prevents the camera from excessive shaking and will smoothly track the subject.
Obstacle sensing to prevent crashing
You don’t have any control over an auto-follow drone when it is in flight. To prevent the gadget from crashing into trees or buildings, a good-quality drone includes obstacle-sensing technology. This allows it to fly around or over anything that could block its flight path. It also allows the drone to keep track of you without breaking the line of sight.
Great camera for the best footage
If you use an auto-follow drone to capture images while running or going horse riding, you’ll want the footage to be as good as possible. A good-quality drone will capture 4K footage at 60 frames per second and take still photos with at least a 20-megapixel camera. Just bear in mind that you’ll need a suitable data storage device and enough battery power to fly some distance while recording.
How much you can expect to spend on an auto-follow drone
The average cost of an auto-follow drone will largely depend on the capabilities and functions of the device. An entry-level drone that can follow you retails for $150-$200, while professional drones can retail for $800-$1,500.
Auto-follow drone FAQ
How long is the flight time of a drone?
A. That will depend on the drone’s capabilities and the weather condition. On a sky, windless day, a typical drone can fly for around 35 minutes. Having to contend with wind can reduce the flying time to approximately 25 to 35 minutes.
What happens when the drone loses sight of you?
A. Most drones have a return-to-home function where they will fly back to their base station if they lose connectivity to the controller. Some drones go through several processes to re-establish a connection by themselves, like retracing their steps.
What’s the best auto-follow drone to buy?
Top auto-follow drone
What you need to know: For professional-quality footage, this drone will follow you wherever you go.
What you’ll love: This drone has an amazing 1-inch image sensor, making it capable of capturing footage at 5.4K at 30 frames per second or 4K at 60 frames per second. For auto-following, it features DJI’s Spotlight 2.0, ActiveTrack 4.0, and Point of Interest 3.0. It can track an object from as high as 1,600 feet and avoids collisions through environment sensing.
What you should consider: While it is one of the best drones available, the steep price tag could place it out of reach for most.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top auto-follow drone for the money
What you need to know: This affordable drone features a follow-me mode where it will hover automatically and record your movements.
What you’ll love: Capable of recording footage in 2K resolution, this drone has a 120-degree field of vision. It can follow you by GPS tracking, or you can let it fly a custom route. The drone has a control range of 980 feet and comes with two 1,000 mAh batteries.
What you should consider: Some users have indicated that the included batteries only provide for about 10 minutes of flying time.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
Holy Stone HS720 Foldable GPS Drone
What you need to know: This drone is perfect for shooting 4K content, as it comes with a shock absorption holder to minimize vibrations.
What you’ll love: Capturing footage at a maximum resolution of 3840 x 2160, this drone has an adjustable lens that you can rotate 90 degrees. It has three auto-follow options to circle a specific point, fly on a pre-set course or follow your movements while recording. It comes with two batteries that provide 25 minutes of flying time each.
What you should consider: It doesn’t come with an SD card to save footage on, so you’ll have to provide your own.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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NEW YORK, March 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Nashville, TN-based abstraction painter Gina Julian, who explores energy and motion through the use of flat color, and ArtSugar, the female-founded e-tailer pioneering art curation for the Instagram generation, have partnered on an exclusive collaboration. For the first time ever, Julian has translated the striking, vibrant and multicolored Op Art paintings she is known for into high end home decor: two beautiful catch-all dishes available in her signature Op Art designs, which double as statement art pieces ($350 each). A luxe and unique Mother's Day gift and wedding present, these two dishes are currently available for pre-order on ArtSugar.co and will also be available on wedding planning and registry site Zola.com in May 2022.
"Every household needs a good candy dish or catch-all dish. But when it's not being used as a dish, each of these new pieces serves as a bold and cheerful piece of art! Why not give mothers something useful that will make them smile and brighten their home at the same time?" said Julian. "My Op Art designs are a direct reflection of my years spent as an interface designer, coupled with my love of playing with color. Most of my Op Art shapes are symmetrical in nature and these new dishes allow me to play with asymmetrical color combinations."
Made of food safe BPA free acrylic and measuring 8.5 x 8.5 inches, these dishes are ideal for holding candy, keys, rings, and more, while giving the celeb-loved 60s trend a chic spin for the home. Plus, ArtSugar donates proceeds from every purchase to a selection of notable charities, such as Moms for Moms NYC, YourMomCares and Dress for Success.
ArtSugar today unveils an exclusive discount code for 15% off site-wide at www.artsugar.co, for an added shopping bonus: MOTHERSDAY15. Packaged in a sleek, co-branded white box, the dishes arrive ready to gift and are etched with Julian's signature.
"I am personally passionate about this collaboration because I love when artists today look to art history to inform their artistic choices, and Op Art is one of my favorite movements," said fine artist and ArtSugar founder & CEO, Alix Greenberg.
"Op Art came into prominence in the 1960s as artists were using geometric forms to render optical effects that drew on perception, color theory and psychology. Gina, clearly a color theory expert, looks to this movement as she systematically renders lines of bold colors that create dynamism when placed side by side; an actual pulsation can be perceived by the human eye. Anything that Gina creates jumps right off the wall, and in this case with the dish, right off your table, shelf or nightstand."
About ArtSugar: ArtSugar is the female-founded e-commerce retailer pioneering art curation for the Instagram generation. ArtSugar solves the challenges millennials and Gen Z face when buying art, successfully bridging the gap between mass-produced wall art & home decor and the high-end original art market with an exclusive selection of eye-catching, affordable art prints & decor by popular artists on Instagram, expertly curated by founder & fine artist Alix Greenberg. Plus, ArtSugar donates proceeds from every purchase to a selection of notable charities.
About Gina Julian: Gina Julian is a hard-edge abstraction painter who seeks to explore energy and motion through the use of flat color. She has long been fascinated by the effects of color on the human psyche and enjoys exploring the emotions that can be evoked by varying colors according to hue, saturation and value. Her color palettes are often experimentations of how colors interact with each other, and how the perception of color can be altered based on its surroundings. Gina also uses color variations to suggest movement in her works, often giving the viewer multiple perspectives on the direction of her crisp lines. She classifies her work as Optical Art.
Media Contact: Jourdann Lubliner, jourdann.lubliner@electrify-pr.com
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Fox Marble Holdings PLC (LON:FOX – Get Rating) shares passed below its two hundred day moving average during trading on Tuesday . The stock has a two hundred day moving average of GBX 1.32 ($0.02) and traded as low as GBX 1.10 ($0.01). Fox Marble shares last traded at GBX 1.18 ($0.02), with a volume of 620,420 shares trading hands.
The company has a market capitalization of £4.28 million and a PE ratio of -1.68. The business’s 50-day moving average is GBX 1.25 and its 200-day moving average is GBX 1.32. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 81.33, a quick ratio of 0.50 and a current ratio of 1.51.
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Pentagon: Polish proposal to send MiG fighters to US air base not ‘tenable’
The Pentagon on Tuesday rejected Poland’s proposal to transfer MiG-29 fighter jets to a U.S. air base in Germany amid the intensifying Russian war in Ukraine.
Pentagon press secretary John Kirby released a statement Tuesday evening calling the proposal untenable.
Poland proposed a plan Tuesday to transfer the jets to the Ramstein Air Base to then go to Ukraine to help their fight against Russia.
“The prospect of fighter jets ‘at the disposal of the Government of the United States of America’ departing from a U.S./NATO base in Germany to fly into airspace that is contested with Russia over Ukraine raises serious concerns for the entire NATO alliance,” Kirby said.
“It is simply not clear to us that there is a substantive rationale for it. We will continue to consult with Poland and our other NATO allies about this issue and the difficult logistical challenges it presents, but we do not believe Poland’s proposal is a tenable one,” he added.
Poland’s plan came after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky pleaded with the U.S. to transfer the MiG-29 jets to the country on Saturday.
In Poland’s statement Tuesday, it called on other NATO allies with those types of jets, which Ukrainian soldiers are trained to use, to transfer them to Ukraine.
Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland said the offer by Poland was not “preconsulted” with the U.S.
“We are now in contact with the Polish government following the statement issued today. As we have said, the decision about whether to transfer Polish-owned planes to Ukraine is ultimately one for the Polish government,” Kirby said. “We will continue consulting with our Allies and partners about our ongoing security assistance to Ukraine, because, in fact, Poland’s proposal shows just some of the complexities this issue presents.”
Updated at 6:58 p.m.
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Europe’s refugee double standard leaves it vulnerable
Bashar Deeb is an investigative journalist who works with Lighthouse Reports.
If there’s one optimistic end result of the struggle in Ukraine, it’s that the response to the greater than 3 million refugees who’ve left the nation is setting a benchmark for what a humanitarian response can and may seem like. In international locations like Poland, refugees are being greeted not with tear gasoline and batons however heat sausages, blankets, wi-fi passwords, free Uber rides and room in individuals’s properties.
But at the same time as we cheer this response, it’s vital to not ignore its darker elements. European politicians, like Greece’s Minister of Migration and Asylum Notis Mitarakis, have been fast to welcome what they describe as “real refugees” from Ukraine. But then, one should ask, who’re the fakes? Are they the Syrians, Afghans, Iraqis and others from around the globe who’ve been so usually described as weapons or hybrid threats?
Indeed, dangerous actors like Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko have sought to blackmail the European Union with threats of permitting migrants to freely cross over from their international locations. But what the response to Ukraine exhibits is that it’s not migrants who’re being weaponized; it’s the EU’s personal xenophobia. After all, nobody can blackmail you with unarmed coloured individuals except you’re frightened of them. Only a Europe that’s so frightened of its far proper that it finally ends up adopting its racist agenda will be held hostage by individuals in search of a greater life, a secure setting wherein to lift their households.
And it’s not simply these fleeing violence who are suffering when the EU raises its drawbridges. It’s the EU’s personal pursuits as properly. When Europe waves in Ukrainians whereas leaving others floating at sea on engineless life rafts, or executes brutal pushbacks that go away individuals robbed and stripped bare at its land borders, it’s immediately supplying the Kremlin and its different enemies with propaganda.
News of double requirements travels far, and it inevitably finds an viewers. When Ukrainian college students are relocated to different universities whereas their classmates from Africa are put in detention facilities, this feeds the Russian propaganda machine with badly wanted ammunition in a struggle that it’s in any other case shedding.
Discriminating between refugees primarily based on their ethnicity offers information businesses equivalent to Sputnik and RT with grist for his or her disinformation mills. As any observer of Syria is aware of, Russia is a state with no sympathy for individuals of shade, however such examples play into its palms within the info struggle.
Some Western commentators have added gasoline to that fireside, with journalists describing Ukrainians as civilized Europeans with white pores and skin and blue eyes, unaccustomed to the horrors of struggle. Commentary like that provides nothing to the story, however it does dehumanize the displacement experiences of black and brown individuals.
When I heard these feedback, as a Syrian, I couldn’t assist however really feel insulted, however due to my work, I can see the place the issue lies.
Compared to different conflicts, one cause there was a lot extra reporting round Ukraine is that there are such a lot of reporters there, with full entry to either side of the nation’s border. This stands in stark distinction not simply with different, less-well-covered wars but additionally with reporters’ capacity to inform the tales of individuals in search of refuge in Europe. It’s a lot simpler to dehumanize individuals when you’ll be able to’t bear witness to their experiences.
In right this moment’s EU, there are giant swathes — particularly across the bloc’s borders — the place reporters can not go and from which tales can’t be reported. These blind spots maintain a few of the darker facets of the EU’s border administration out of sight.
One of those so-called exclusion zones was recently erected in Poland, the nation rightfully being feted as a mannequin of compassion right this moment, after Belarus pushed migrants to cross into the nation. Others have been put in place in Greece, alongside its border with Turkey and in Croatia, close to Bosnia.
In these areas, reporters had no freedom of motion, or capacity to inform the tales of individuals risking their lives to enter the EU. Any investigative effort relied on digital proof gathering and different distant reporting methods to inform credible tales.
This sort of reporting is my job, and I’ve sat with colleagues by way of numerous hours of video livestreams, of footage of shootings and riots pieced collectively utilizing digital methods to reconstruct occasions. During the Poland-Belarus disaster, for instance, the forbidden zone meant we may solely discover out who had died by in search of Facebook posts of mourning kinfolk. In Croatia, my colleagues needed to disguise themselves as native hunters and lay within the bushes for days to offer video proof of maximum violence in opposition to migrants.
The tales of individuals on the transfer shouldn’t be so onerous to inform. We make decisions about whose tales we inform, and these decisions reveal our prejudices. Europe ought to perceive that it’s this prejudice — not the migrants — that’s the weapon it has handed its enemies. And the very best protection in opposition to it’s the kind of humanizing, intimate storytelling that has provoked such a welcome wave of sympathy for Ukrainians.
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On Monday, President Joe Biden unveiled his proposal for the next federal budget.
Though Congress has the final say in the annual budget, presidents create a proposal highlighting their fiscal priorities. Then, the president typically spends time advocating for their plan to the public, arguing for those priorities.
While promoting his latest proposal, Biden tweeted, “This year, my administration is on track to cut the deficit by more than $1.3 trillion… that would be the largest one-year reduction in the deficit in U.S. history.”
THE QUESTION
Would a $1.3 trillion reduction in the deficit be the largest single-year reduction ever?
THE SOURCES
THE ANSWER
Yes, if the deficit shrinks by $1.3 trillion this year, that will be the largest single-year reduction in history.
WHAT WE FOUND
Both the Federal Reserve and the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) track how much money the federal government takes in each year, and how much it spends. The Fed has records dating back to 1901, and the CBO dating to 1962.
If the government makes more than it spends, there’s a budget surplus. Since 1962, there have only been five years with a surplus, and none since 2001.
More commonly, the government spends more than it takes in. That’s a deficit, and it results in the U.S. borrowing money to make up the difference, which in turn adds to the federal debt.
According to the Fed and the CBO, the year in which the deficit shrank the most was 2013. In 2012, the budget was nearly $1.08 trillion in the hole, and in 2013, it was just under $679.8 billion. The deficit decreased by roughly $396.8 billion, more than in any other year in history.
If the deficit drops by $1.3 trillion in 2022 like Biden projected, it would indeed be the largest deficit reduction in American history, by a big margin.
The Fed and CBO track numbers on a fiscal-year basis, with the fiscal year ending on Sept. 30. So we won’t really know if Biden’s projections for 2022 are accurate until at least October.
But budget experts VERIFY spoke with agreed it’s likely the deficit reduction could wind up being more than a trillion dollars. However, they said that drop is mostly due to COVID-related spending programs expiring.
“It's not really due to any particularly aggressive policy action to, say, raise more revenue than we would have otherwise, or spend less. It's mostly just a factor of temporary things,” said Alex Muresianu, a federal policy analyst for the Tax Foundation.
“We had deficits that were over $3 trillion [in 2020], and one that was $2.8 trillion [in 2021]. That was as a result of a huge recession, and trillions of dollars that we were spending to fight COVID. So we will be dropping for sure. The deficit will be closer to a trillion dollars this year,” said Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, a non-profit group. “But that doesn't come from policies to reduce the deficit.”
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Washington [US], April 1 (ANI): White House Director of Communications Kate Bedingfield on Thursday (local time) rubbished the allegations of Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan regarding Washington's role in an alleged "foreign conspiracy" to oust him from power.
"There is absolutely no truth to that allegation," Bedingfield told reporters.
Bedingfield's assessment is in line with the Department of State. Earlier, a US State Department spokesperson told ANI, that "there is no truth to these allegations. We are closely following developments in Pakistan. We respect and support Pakistan's constitutional process and the rule of law." Later, US State Department spokesperson Ned Price reiterated the same in his press briefing.
The Pakistan Prime Minister on Thursday reiterated his claims of "foreign conspiracy" in the country, saying that a foreign nation is trying to oust him over the "independent" foreign policy choices made by him.
Addressing the people of Pakistan, ahead of the no-confidence motion, Imran claimed a foreign nation sent a message that Imran Khan needs to be removed else the country will suffer consequences."
"The United States", Imran Khan said in a slip of the tongue and then stated that "a foreign country" had sent a "threatening memo" which was against the Pakistani nation.
"On March 8 or before that on March 7, the US sent us a...not the US but a foreign country sent us a message. The reason why I am talking about this...for an independent country to receive such a message... this is against me and the country," he said.
Imran Khan said the memo was against him, not against the government. "...it stated that if the no-confidence motion passes, Pakistan will be forgiven, if not, there will be consequences."
Pakistan PM earlier shared the contents of a secret letter that was in news last week when he informed a public meeting that his government had received threats from abroad.
Imran Khan had claimed that the threatening letter had been sent to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Pakistan media reports said that letter is the word-for-word transcript of a conversation between the diplomats of Pakistan and another country sent to Pakistan's Foreign Ministry.
The relationship between US and Pakistan has been on the edge since the US withdrew from Afghanistan last summer. The increasing alignment between China and Pakistan also casts a shadow over US policy towards Pakistan.
In October last year, Wendy Sherman, the deputy secretary of state and the highest placed US official to visit Pakistan since Biden took over, told reporters her trip to Pakistan was aimed at accomplishing a 'specific and narrow purpose', referring to Afghanistan.
In September, Secretary of State Antony Blinken in a hearing on Afghnaistan told the House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee that Pakistan has a "multiplicity of interests some that are in conflict with ours." In congressional hearings, U.S. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Mark Milley said that "we need to fully examine the role of Pakistan sanctuary" in understanding how the Taliban prevailed.
In the Senate, 22 Republican lawmakers have proposed a bill calling for Afghanistan's new Taliban government to be sanctioned, along with governments that have supported the Taliban. The bill also calls for a report that will include "an assessment of support by state and non-state actors, including the government of Pakistan, for the Taliban between 2001 and 2020." (ANI)
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H,S. baseball: Cardinals' road swing turns rocky in losses at Franklin, Dunbar
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FRANKFORT — Fifty weeks ago, the last time Scott County paid a visit to Franklin County, the Cardinals tore through the Flyers to the tune of 10 first-inning runs that essentially didn't count when torrential rain canceled the remainder of the game.
Rather than an opening frame that couldn't have gone any better, SC would have been hard pressed to serve up a start more disastrous than the one the Cards endured in Monday's mulligan.
After running itself out of another potential monster inning and putting only one run in the opening box, Scott County committed four of its seven errors on the night right out of the gate in a 9-3 loss.
Franklin County (3-6) took advantage of those miscues for a rare four-run windfall against SC ace Joseph Garrison.
While Garrison battled back and gave the Cardinals a puncher's chance until hitting his pitch count wall after five innings, SC never fully recovered from its early shenanigans.
The Flyers fashioned four more runs against SC' reliever Trey Courtney, two unearned, to put it out of reach in the sixth.
Cameron McDonald and Bennett Myers, the latter signed with the University of Tennessee, each went 3-for-4 atop the order for Franklin County. Brady Hockensmith was 2-for-4 with a double and two RBI. Lynden Moore also was a repeat hitter.
That top-heavy attack was ample support for sophomore Kylon Penn, who allowed only five hits over the complete-game route. Penn struck out six and walked two.
SC’s challenging week continued Wednesday with an 8-2 loss at Paul Laurence Dunbar.
Landon Whitson (2-for-3, RBI) was the lone repeat hitter against Franklin County. Jay Wilson and Thomas Feickert drove in the other Cardinal runs.
Garrison, who won his first two starts in impressive fashion over Great Crossing and Lexington Catholic, still wields an ERA below one after the defeat. The senior righty struck out four and was charged with only one earned run.
SC started with promise when Luke Valencia reached on an error and Paul Garner doubled to right field. Franklin County caught Valencia in a rundown when he tried to score on the play, however, with Penn making the tag.
Garner alertly took third on the back end of that sequence and scored on a ground ball by Wilson. The Cards' consistent contact continued with a double by Jacob Blair and a single from Whitson before Penn clawed back from a 3-1 count to strike out Jack Willhite and silence the threat.
McDonald led off the Franklin first with a single and Myers reached on an error before Hockensmith pulled the Flyers even with a base hit. A mishandled grounder off the bat of Moore plated two to put the hosts in front.
Penn helped his own cause with a hit to make it 4-1.
Franklin County padded that lead when Kaelin Farr, McDonald and Myers singled consecutively to start the second.
Moore later loaded the bases with a single. Garrison knocked down a comebacker from Jeremy Walters to start an inning-ending double play with Wilson behind the plate and Whitson at first.
SC seized upon that momentum with a single run in the third. Wilson walked and courtesy runner Sebastian Arden took second on a passed ball before scoring on Whitson's single to right.
Penn sandwiched a pair of strikeouts around the Whitson hit to minimize the damage.
The Cards were still very much alive after slicing the gap to 5-3 in the fourth. Shawn Rowe rounded the bases after a leadoff single with the help of groundouts by Aiden Lopez and Feickert.
Garrison struck out a pair to shake off two singles in the Franklin County fourth and worked around another infield miscue and a pair of sacrifice bunts in his final frame.
But SC couldn't close the gap thanks to Penn's 1-2-3 fifth and a double play off a sinking line drive to end the sixth.
Hockenmith's double and a two-run error furnished the Flyers' sixth-inning insurance.
Scott County's four-game winning streak in the series screeched to a halt. The Cards had won eight of the past nine meetings, including 11th Region tournament contests in 2014, 2016 and 2018.
PLD puts it away early
Playing from ahead has been a crucial component in a smattering of early-season successes for Scott County baseball.
Unfortunately for the Cardinals, rocky first innings have increasingly become the norm. SC saw the first-inning goose egg cracked Wednesday for its fourth game in a row and its third consecutive loss, 8-2, at Paul Laurence Dunbar.
The Bulldogs tallied three runs in the first, one in the second and four more in the third, coasting from there on a night when the Cards collected seven hits but couldn’t string them together.
SC (3-6) scored first in its wins over Great Crossing and Lexington Catholic. The Cards jumped ahead 1-0 in both their games to start this week, only to watch Franklin County and PLD (6-2) storm back in the bottom half of the first.
Wilson and Lopez each went 2-for-3. Wilson belted an RBI double in SC’s modest, promising start.
Valencia, Blair and Willhite notched the other hits for Scott County against the Dunbar tandem of Cam Ringler and Keith Conrad.
Dunbar scored all its runs off SC starter Evan MacCallum. Arden kept the Bulldogs quiet over three relief innings, allowing only one hit while striking out two.
Michael Nicoulin, Scott Kendrick and Tyler Gadd were repeat hitters for Dunbar. Kendrick and Nick Griffith each drove in two runs.
Garner reached second on a pair of PLD errors prior to Wilson’s double. Ringler walked Whitson with two out before getting Rowe on a grounder to third.
Nicoulin drew a four-pitch walk to put the Bulldogs in business. He scored the tying run on Kendrick’s single to right.
Kendrick advanced to second on a passed ball and raced home on a double by Logan Pittmon. Gadd punctuated the inning with another two-bagger.
SC started the second with promise thanks to Blair’s walk, a Lopez single and a sacrifice bunt from Willhite. That threat ended abruptly when Nicoulin snared Valencia’s line drive to second base and flipped to shortstop Grifith, doubling up Lopez.
Nicoulin hustled out an infield single to start Dunbar’s next commotion. He moved up on a passed ball, a groundout, and finally a sacrifice fly by Kendrick.
Dunbar turned another double play, Griffith to Gadd, scrubbing an error that put Garner on base to open the third. Ringler fanned Connor Ramsey to end that inning in short order.
The Bulldogs exacted their third-inning toll with two out. Gadd and Cole Shanks each singled, and Benjamin Haggard was hit by a pitch to load the bases. Nicoulin and Griffith followed with the run-producing hits.
Consecutive singles by Blair, Lopez and Willhite produced a two-out tally in the SC fourth. The Cards were held to two hits for the duration.
Scott County had won three of the past four games in the series with Dunbar. The Bulldogs’ wins was only their second over the Cardinals since 2014.
The road got no easier Thursday, when SC hosted No. 17 Mercer County before heading to Vero Beach, Florida, for its first out-of-state spring break trip since 2019.
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The sudden development of very strong winds across the region prompted a weather warning from Environment Canada on Thursday morning.
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Issued around 9 a.m., the warning was in effect for Windsor-Essex and Chatham-Kent for several hours, with meteorologists advising speeds of up to 90 km/h.
According to Environment Canada, powerful southwesterly winds were the result of a cold front, and this condition persisted through the early afternoon.
“Damage to buildings could occur, as could damage to roofs and windows,” the warning said.
“Loose objects can be tossed through the air and cause injury or damage.”
There was also the potential for tree damage – as evidenced by a large tree that fell on a vehicle in the Walkerville area, bringing the municipal…
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The Public Health Agency of Canada has declared an outbreak of norovirus linked to the consumption of raw B.C. oysters.
The outbreak has impacted people in B.C., Alberta, Saskatchewan and Ontario — though as of March 30, 262 of the 279 reported cases are in B.C. There have been no deaths associated with the outbreak.
Individuals became sick with norovirus after ingesting raw oysters farmed on B.C.’s west coast. Health Canada recalled certain brands of oysters that were believed to be related to the norovirus outbreak on Feb. 18, March 20, March 23, and March 27, 2022.
READ MORE: Health Canada recalls certain B.C. oysters due to norovirus contamination
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency is continuing an investigation into the outbreak which could lead to further recalls. Any recall notices will be shared publicly.
To avoid norovirus infection from oysters, make sure they are cooked thoroughly to an internal temperature of 90 degrees celsius for 90 seconds before eating. Public health agencies do not recommend consuming raw oysters.
If you believe you became sick from consuming the recalled oysters, Health Canada recommends contacting a doctor. Anyone who believes they purchased the product should check to see if they have it in their home or business. Do not consume the recalled oysters — either throw them away or return them to the place of purchase.
When people become sick with norovirus they typically develop symptoms of gastroenteritis within 24 to 48 hours, but symptoms can start within 12 hours after exposure. Even after becoming infected with norovirus, you can become re-infected. The main symptoms include nausea, diarrhea, vomiting and stomach cramps. Other symptoms may include a low-grade fever, headaches, chills, muscle aches and fatigue.
Most people start to feel better after a day or two, however in severe cases, some patients require hospitalization. Those most at risk of severe outcomes from norovirus infection include pregnant women, people with compromised immune systems, young children and seniors.
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Biden appeared to not only have license to take that step — he could also use it to reinforce the narrative that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine bore blame for the ugly crooked numbers people were seeing at the pump. The White House even debuted a new talking point: the “Putin price hike.”
The reality, though, was never going to be so neat. Inflation and gas prices were already bad, and it’s a difficult task to pin their rise on a war that isn’t front-and-center for most Americans.
Evidence now suggests the narrative is coming up well short. Domestic pricing concerns are far outpacing Ukraine on Americans’ list of priorities, and Biden’s poll numbers on his handling of the economy continue to hit new lows. Whatever stomach Americans had for higher prices to support the war in Ukraine, it doesn’t appear particularly strong.
The result: The administration has now taken some extraordinary measures to stem the tide, including a massive release from the strategic reserves and a “use it or lose it” approach to unused permits for drilling on federal land. Biden also had some choice words Thursday for oil companies he accused of putting profits before production.
The impetus is pretty clear.
A poll released Thursday from the Kaiser Family Foundation found 55 percent of Americans say inflation and rising prices are the biggest problem right now — far more than the 18 percent who name the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Even Democrats pick inflation and gas prices by a 2-to-1 margin. Another poll from Quinnipiac University on Thursday found twice as many name “inflation” (30 percent) as “Russia/Ukraine” (14 percent) as their No. 1 issue.
And a poll last week from NBC News straight-up asked people which should be Biden’s top priority: reducing inflation and improving the economy, or working to end the war in Ukraine. Americans chose the former by an overwhelming 68-29 margin.
That last one is perhaps the most telling. It’s logical that people would consider inflation to be the bigger problem in this country, given this country isn’t directly involved in the war. But it’s striking that even amid the brutality of the Russian invasion — and after Americans initially signed off on paying a little more to help out — domestic prices are still far-and-away No. 1 on people’s priority list.
And when it comes to gas prices, specifically, Putin isn’t bearing a ton of the blame.
There’s a real argument to be made that Russia’s invasion is indeed the chief factor, at least of late. As PolitiFact noted this month, the biggest recent spike in prices occurred after the invasion, and most of the increase during Biden’s tenure has taken place in the six-or-so months since Russia’s buildup on Ukraine’s border began working its way into the collective consciousness. Other factors could have contributed in the meantime, but it’s a big one.
Americans don’t necessarily see it that way, though. The Quinnipiac poll shows just 24 percent say the war in Ukraine is “the most responsible for the recent rise in gas prices” — compared with 24 percent who blame oil companies and 41 percent who blame the Biden administration. (Another 5 percent blamed increasing demand from the easing of pandemic restrictions.)
If there’s a kernel of good news in there for Biden, it’s that more people blame some combination of oil companies and the war (48 percent) for gas prices than blame the administration (41 percent). The same is true for inflation, where the NBC poll showed 38 percent blamed Biden, while 28 percent blamed the pandemic, 23 percent blamed corporations and 6 percent blamed the war.
But practically speaking, the impact has been a drag on Biden. His approval rating on the economy dropped to 33 percent in the NBC News poll, and 31 percent in a poll last week from renowned pollster J. Ann Selzer for Grinnell College. Polling on Biden and the economy varies widely, but these are some of the very first quality polls to show his economic reviews hitting the low 30s — and at virtually the same time. (Quinnipiac pegged it at 34 percent.)
And that’s certainly Democrats’ biggest problem ahead of the 2022 midterms. People might have said they were willing to pay more. But when that becomes the new — and then — lasting reality, you tend to seek accountability from the things you have some measure of control over.
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GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) — The pain was sharp and familiar. It reminded David Price of where he has been. It also told him he still might be able to be the pitcher the Los Angeles Dodgers thought they had nearly 26 months ago.
Price’s quiet spring began the way others have in the five-time All-Star’s 13-year career: His left elbow hurt after his first live batting practice a couple of weeks ago, and he knew the resumption of an old routine was underway.
“Always the elbow,’’ Price said. “It happens every year, all the way back to 2010. Now, everything feels good – arm, elbow and shoulder.’’
It was good enough to impress Dodgers manager Dave Roberts and anybody else who watched Price make his first spring appearance against Cleveland on Wednesday night. The left-hander worked only an inning, but he had two strikeouts and was clocked at 93 mph.
In an abbreviated camp, it wasn’t enough to determine his role. It did remind the Dodgers that Price is still in the mix.
From starter to bullpen, Price’s role with the Dodgers has been uncertain since they acquired the 2012 American League Cy Young Award winner from the Boston Red Sox in a three-team deal that included right-fielder Mookie Betts in February 2020.
Price didn’t pitch at all that year, opting out because of concerns about COVID-19. In 2021, he bounced between the starting rotation and the bullpen with 11 starts and 28 appearances as a reliever. His overall ERA was 4.03.
He arrived at camp in mid-March ready to do anything. Then Roberts mentioned him as a possible starter.
“I’m preparing that way, yeah,” said Price, who is in the final year of a seven-year, $217 million contract. “I think it’d be silly of me to prepare to be a reliever if I’m asked to start. So, I’m preparing to be a starter until otherwise.”
Otherwise looks to be the case. Roberts projects his starting rotation will be Walker Buehler, Julio Urias, Clayton Kershaw, Andrew Heaney and Tony Gonsolin. He cautioned that nothing is set in stone, mostly because pitchers were limited in a camp cut short by major league baseball’s lockout.
The Dodgers signed career starter Tyler Anderson in mid-March, just in case. As for Price, Roberts said: “I just think that David, right now, is not an option in the sense of, he’s not built up. It just doesn’t seem feasible right now.”
The 36-year-old left-hander could still have an immediate role, like one inning in relief early in the season, Roberts said, and moving up to multiple innings as he gets stronger.
“I’m confident in David in any role,’’ Roberts said. “I like his versatility. The role doesn’t matter. It’s just knowing that he’s going to pitch valuable innings in whatever role.”
NOTES
Cody Bellinger took batting practice Thursday on the minor-league side of the Dodgers’ camp. The 2019 National League MVP is 4 for 27 with 17 strikeouts this spring.
“I wouldn’t say I’m alarmed,’’ Roberts said. “I think ‘progressing’ is the word. We’ve got to continue to log at-bats to make him feel as comfortable as possible when the season starts.’’
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On Monday, President Joe Biden unveiled his proposal for the next federal budget.
Though Congress has the final say in the annual budget, presidents create a proposal highlighting their fiscal priorities. Then, the president typically spends time advocating for their plan to the public, arguing for those priorities.
While promoting his latest proposal, Biden tweeted, “This year, my administration is on track to cut the deficit by more than $1.3 trillion… that would be the largest one-year reduction in the deficit in U.S. history.”
THE QUESTION
Would a $1.3 trillion reduction in the deficit be the largest single-year reduction ever?
THE SOURCES
THE ANSWER
Yes, if the deficit shrinks by $1.3 trillion this year, that will be the largest single-year reduction in history.
WHAT WE FOUND
Both the Federal Reserve and the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) track how much money the federal government takes in each year, and how much it spends. The Fed has records dating back to 1901, and the CBO dating to 1962.
If the government makes more than it spends, there’s a budget surplus. Since 1962, there have only been five years with a surplus, and none since 2001.
More commonly, the government spends more than it takes in. That’s a deficit, and it results in the U.S. borrowing money to make up the difference, which in turn adds to the federal debt.
According to the Fed and the CBO, the year in which the deficit shrank the most was 2013. In 2012, the budget was nearly $1.08 trillion in the hole, and in 2013, it was just under $679.8 billion. The deficit decreased by roughly $396.8 billion, more than in any other year in history.
If the deficit drops by $1.3 trillion in 2022 like Biden projected, it would indeed be the largest deficit reduction in American history, by a big margin.
The Fed and CBO track numbers on a fiscal-year basis, with the fiscal year ending on Sept. 30. So we won’t really know if Biden’s projections for 2022 are accurate until at least October.
But budget experts VERIFY spoke with agreed it’s likely the deficit reduction could wind up being more than a trillion dollars. However, they said that drop is mostly due to COVID-related spending programs expiring.
“It's not really due to any particularly aggressive policy action to, say, raise more revenue than we would have otherwise, or spend less. It's mostly just a factor of temporary things,” said Alex Muresianu, a federal policy analyst for the Tax Foundation.
“We had deficits that were over $3 trillion [in 2020], and one that was $2.8 trillion [in 2021]. That was as a result of a huge recession, and trillions of dollars that we were spending to fight COVID. So we will be dropping for sure. The deficit will be closer to a trillion dollars this year,” said Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, a non-profit group. “But that doesn't come from policies to reduce the deficit.”
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Altice acquiring stake in OTT startup - TechCrunch
- Altice (OTCPK:ALTCY) is close to acquiring a majority stake in over-the-top streaming startup Molotov, according to TechCrunch sources.
- The sources didn't discuss financial terms, but the move will act more like an investment round than an acquisition.
- Molotov CEO Jean-David Blanc says Altice will take 60% of Molotov and that existing investors will remain shareholders.
- Molotov's OTT streaming platform is popular in France and includes all major TV channels plus optional subscriptions like premium channels and cloud recording.
- Altice Europe shares are down 29% to $10 at market open.
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Jim Carrey Is Not Sure How He Feels About Paul Dano's Riddler
Jim Carrey portrayed The Riddler in 1995's Batman Forever, one of the more underrated superhero films. He was campy fun in it, more in line with Frank Gorshin's portrayal in the Batman TV series from the '60s. Decidedly NOT like Gorshin is the current Riddler, played by Paul Dano in The Batman, currently in theaters. This new version is a dramatic departure from what has come before, as this Riddler's love of puzzles is more about madness and him being a psychopath. When asked what he thought of this version, Jim Carrey was not quite sure how to feel about it, though he admits he has not seen it to Unilad.
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"I've not seen it. It's a very dark version. I have mixed emotions about it. To each his own and all that. I love him as an actor; he's a tremendous actor," Jim Carrey told Unilad. "There's a spot of worry in me over gaffer-taping people's faces and encouraging people to do the same. Some sickos out there that might adopt that method. I do have a conscience about the things I choose. Robotnik has cartoon bombs, and no-one gets hurt. I know there's a place for [The Batman], and I don't want to criticize it, but it's not my kind of thing… it's very well done; those movies are very well done."
Carrey has long held those views on using weapons and the responsibility of portraying violence in a responsible manner in media, so this is no surprise that he would not be as into this current version. It is not for everybody. I have talked to many people who feel the same way as Jim Carrey these past few weeks in my comic shop, so his point is valid, even if he has not seen the film.
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By Kyle Morris
Plaza Centers NV said Thursday that it booked a pretax loss for 2021, mainly due to finance expenses on bonds.
The real-estate company said that its pretax loss was 27.1 million euros ($30.2 million) compared with a loss of EUR33.5 million in 2020, as net finance costs increased to EUR24.2 million from EUR8.1 million in 2020 mainly due to foreign currency losses on bonds.
Revenue for the period was nil compared with EUR1.5 million a year earlier.
"Our active focus has continued to center on asset disposals, accordingly we have managed to execute the sale of our project in Chennai, India following which the company received an amount of approximately EUR4.25 million," executive director Ron Hadassi said.
Regarding the plot in Bangalore, India, Plaza Centers continues to take all necessary steps to protect its interest while continuing efforts to realize a sale, Mr. Hadassi added.
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Evin Lewis struck an unbeaten 55 off 23 balls as Lucknow Super Giants stunned Chennai Super Kings by six wickets to clinch their maiden Indian Premier League win.
Quinton de Kock scored 61 off 45 balls as Lucknow reached 4-211 to chase down Chennai's 7-210 at Mumbai's Brabourne Stadium on Thursday.
Put in to bat, Chennai got off to a poor start as Ruturaj Gaikwad was run out for one, but new opening partner Robin Uthappa scored 50 off 27 balls to resurrect the innings.
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Uthappa put on 56 runs with Moeen Ali (35) for the second wicket before falling in the eighth over. Shivam Dube then hit 49 off just 30 balls, including five fours and two sixes.
His partnership with Ali was worth 22 runs and he then put on another 60 runs off 37 balls with Ambati Rayudu.
The latter scored 27 off 20 balls as Chennai's batsmen rectified their mistakes from the first game against Kolkata Knight Riders.
MS Dhoni provided the finishing touch with 16 not out off six balls as Chennai crossed the 200-run mark.
In reply, Lucknow got off to a fantastic start. De Kock and Lokesh Rahul (40) put on 99 for the first wicket, helped by Chennai's fielders spilling easy chances.
Chennai grabbed two quick wickets with Rahul and Manish Pandey (5) falling in the space of six deliveries, but De Kock then put on 33 with Lewis as they set the base for this tall chase.
The runs kept flowing as the Lucknow batters took full advantage of dewy conditions. After de Kock's dismissal, Lewis added 32 runs off only 16 balls with Deepak Hooda (13).
Lewis smacked six fours and three sixes to help Lucknow close the gap as Shivam Dube's penultimate over went for 25 runs.
Young Ayush Badoni once again stole the show with two sixes in the final over, taking Lucknow across the finish line with three balls to spare.
"We had a good start with the bat and batted brilliantly in the middle overs. It was a very good wicket to bat on," said Chennai captain Ravindra Jadeja.
"But in fielding, we need to take our chances, only then we will win matches."
It is the first time Chennai Super Kings have failed to win either of their first two games of an IPL season.
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US military must do more to avoid civilian deaths
WASHINGTON (AP) - The U.S. military needs to adjust its planning, training, targeting and use of weapons in order to better avoid widespread civilian deaths and damage such as the devastating 2017 battle to liberate the Syrian city of Raqqa from Islamic State militants, a new RAND report said Thursday.
The report requested by the Pentagon reflects criticism of the military's airstrike campaign that, according to some estimates, killed more than 1,600 civilians in Raqqa, as the U.S.-led coalition worked to destroy the Islamic State caliphate that wrested control of large swaths of Iraq and Syria.
Pentagon press secretary John Kirby said the report, which lays out a series of recommendations to improve military procedures and strategy, will be used as the department develops its own broader plan to reduce civlian harm.
"No other military works as hard as we do to mitigate civilian harm, and yet we still cause it," said Kirby. "We're going to continue to try to learn from past issues."
RAND concluded that the battle for Raqqa provided important lessons.
Michael McNerney, lead author of the RAND report, called Raqqa "a cautionary tale about civilian harm in urban combat." He said it "should serve as an extra incentive to the DoD to strengthen its policies and procedures to mitigate, document and respond to civilian harm."
Pentagon spokesman John Kirby speaks during a briefing at the Pentagon in Washington, Thursday, March 31, 2022. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
The RAND report noted that there has been a wide range of estimated civilian casualties during the seige, but also said it believes that 60%-80% of Raqqa was left uninhabitable by the time the city was liberated in October 2017.
Initially the U.S.-led coalition estimted that it was responsible for 38 incidents involving 240 civilian casualties - including 178 who were killed. A consortium of local Syrian and international groups, including Amnesty International and Airwars, put the number of casualties at a "high estimate" of 1,600, but said that about 774 of them could specifically be "verified" by data as the result of coalition action.
The report makes it clear that several thousand more civilians likely died, based on the number of bodies uncovered by U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces, but many were probably killed by IS or other fighters on the ground.
"Our report focuses on U.S. actions in Raqqa, but the actions of the Syrian government and its Russian and Iranian partners undoubtedly contributed far more to civilian harm and suffering in Syria overall," McNerney said.
The report noted that the challenges in Raqqa were compounded by limits on the number U.S. troops that could be there, as well as where they could be positioned. U.S. troops on the ground could have provided better targeting and civilian information, including on Islamic State militants' efforts to use civilians as human shields, the report said.
RAND recommended that the U.S. military provide more extensive training and guidance on the need to avoid civilian harm, and plan and execute operations in ways to achieve those goals. Changes could include improved planning, better assessments of potential collateral damage, increased mission rehearsals, improved intelligence gathering, and more selective use of air strikes and munitions that minimize bomb fragmentation.
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Analog Devices (ADI) Stock Moves -0.78%: What You Should Know
In the latest trading session, Analog Devices (ADI) closed at $165.18, marking a -0.78% move from the previous day. This move was narrower than the S&P 500's daily loss of 1.57%. Elsewhere, the Dow lost 1.56%, while the tech-heavy Nasdaq added 0.1%.
Coming into today, shares of the semiconductor maker had gained 4.17% in the past month. In that same time, the Computer and Technology sector gained 4.23%, while the S&P 500 gained 5.37%.
Analog Devices will be looking to display strength as it nears its next earnings release. The company is expected to report EPS of $2.08, up 35.06% from the prior-year quarter. Meanwhile, the Zacks Consensus Estimate for revenue is projecting net sales of $2.81 billion, up 68.98% from the year-ago period.
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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.
The Zacks Rank system, which ranges from #1 (Strong Buy) to #5 (Strong Sell), has an impressive outside-audited track record of outperformance, with #1 stocks generating an average annual return of +25% since 1988. The Zacks Consensus EPS estimate remained stagnant within the past month. Analog Devices is holding a Zacks Rank of #2 (Buy) right now.
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Members of the Greater Killeen Chamber of Commerce are working with the Killeen Housing Authority and local first responders to provide hygienic products for those in need. The chamber is asking the public to donate whatever they products they can.
The hygienic items needed are waterless soap, shampoo or conditioner, antibacterial wipes, feminine hygiene items, individually wrapped or travel sized toothbrush and toothpaste, pocket-sized tissues, bandages and lip balm.
All items must be unopened and in the original packaging by the manufacturer.
Hygienic products can be dropped off at any Killeen fire station, Killeen Police Department’s headquarters at 3304 Community Blvd. or the Fire marshal’s office at 802 N. 2nd St
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Which composting toilet is best?
If you’re looking to live off-grid or spend more time camping far away from facilities, the number one question is all about number two: what do you do with human waste? If you are looking to conserve resources and maybe even produce something useful for the garden, a composting toilet is the way to go.
For its odor control, ease of use and expanded capacity, the Nature’s Head Self-Contained Composting Toilet is the best choice.
What to know before you buy a composting toilet
Size
Composting toilets are a great solution when you need a bathroom on a boat, in a van or in a cabin, but size matters. Because many commercial composting toilets store the waste, they can be larger than even the smallest plumbed toilets. Measure carefully to make sure the composting toilet you choose fits in the space you have.
Capacity
Capacity concerns how much waste the toilet can hold before needing to be emptied. Larger families need a high-capacity toilet, but singles and couples can get away with smaller holding tanks.
The larger the composting toilet, the less frequently you will need to empty it. Keep that in mind if you want to cut down on basic maintenance tasks.
Portable or built-in
The beauty of a composting toilet is that it can go anywhere you want it to. It’s not tied to plumbing or water supply. However, even composting toilets can be built-in and more permanent. If you are adding a bathroom to an off-grid cabin, you might consider a built-in toilet that is fixed to the floor or the wall, but for travel or camping, a portable one is best.
What to look for in a quality composting toilet
Separate liquid waste tank
The main concern most people have with composting toilets is odor. A primary cause of odor is liquid waste. To keep odor down, a separate liquid waste tank is a good idea. This can also be emptied before solid waste is emptied, diluted with water and poured directly onto nitrogen-loving plants.
Composting crank
As with outdoor garden composting, turning the material results in faster decomposition. Some composting toilets feature a composting crank that moves the waste around to hasten its breakdown.
Leakproof and odorless
Especially for vans, boats and RVs, the last thing you want is a leaky composting toilet. While it’s always advisable to empty your waste tank before moving the toilet, sometimes that’s just not possible. Look for toilets with leakproof seals or single-body construction. This also helps trap any odors inside of the toilet until it can be emptied.
How much you can expect to spend on a composting toilet
True composting toilets are more complex than simply collecting waste in a plastic bag and throwing it out. Expect to spend $150-$1,500 on a good system.
Composting toilet FAQ
How does a composting toilet work?
A. Composting toilets follow the same principles as a garden compost pile. Gardeners add food scraps, leaf matter and plant material to a bin, rotating it and adding water. Natural bacteria (and worms in many cases) attack the pile and slowly break it down, creating a rich humus that adds nutrients back to the soil when used in the garden.
Composting toilets use solid and liquid waste, plus bulking materials like peat moss, sawdust or coconut coir, as the raw materials to create usable organic material. As with the garden compost, turning the material in the toilet helps aerobic bacteria quickly break down waste.
The process is simple.
- Add a bulking agent to the toilet (if needed; some toilets do not require this).
- Use the toilet as usual.
- Add more bulking agents if required.
From there, composting toilets differ. Some have a button that operates a heater and a fan to speed up the composting process, while others trigger a sealing feature after each use. Regardless, the waste will begin to break down and eventually become safe for disposal.
Can you use composted waste on plants?
A. As a general rule, human waste should not be used on any type of plant unless it is composted properly. This means that all of the material has broken down and is essentially sanitized by bacteria. After that, composted human waste is safe to use on plants that are not destined for human consumption.
If you are interested in using human waste for growing food, it’s best to add composted waste to an outdoor compost pile and allow it to process for a year. At that point, it is exactly the same as other types of compost and can be used to fertilize plants.
What’s the best composting toilet to buy?
Top composting toilet
Nature’s Head Self-Contained Composting Toilet
What you need to know: This is a good option for more permanent, mounted installations.
What you’ll love: It is high capacity — two people using this full-time will only need to empty it once a month. There is no odor, but it comes with a fan. This is also covered by a five-year warranty.
What you should consider: It’s expensive for only occasional use.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top composting toilet for the money
What you need to know: Choose this for camping, boating and other short outdoor trips.
What you’ll love: It holds nearly 6 gallons total, so use this up to 60 times without emptying. It has a carrying handle and is easy to set up. A water gun uses fresh water for cleaning after you use the toilet (like a portable bidet).
What you should consider: Some users report leaking when moved, so be sure to empty and clean this before packing up.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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What you need to know: This is another option for more permanent, full-time use off-grid.
What you’ll love: Mount this on a wall for stable, regular use. It needs a 12-volt battery but can also run on an AC adapter to power a ventilation fan. It’s easy to install and comes with everything you need to set it up.
What you should consider: It’s a high-quality choice but comes with a hefty price tag.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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BUCHAREST, Romania and SANTA CLARA, Calif., March 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Bitdefender, a global cybersecurity leader, today announced it achieved among the top scores of the 30 participating cybersecurity vendors in MITRE Engenuity's recent independent ATT&CK® Evaluations for Enterprise cybersecurity solutions. Bitdefender scored 97 percent in overall analytics insights and 95 percent in technique-level descriptions, the most in-depth detection metric identifying specific steps of how attackers breached the environment and moved laterally.
"This achievement, in identifying the precise techniques adversaries use to move through networks, validates Bitdefender's position as an industry leader in threat prevention and detection technology," said Dragos Gavrilut, director of cyber threat intelligence at Bitdefender. "Excelling in these capabilities is vital for enterprises to counter the sophisticated multi-stage attacks carried out by today's cybercriminal groups and nation-state actors. Independent tests like the MITRE ATT&CK Evaluations are essential for helping organizations evaluate the effectiveness of cybersecurity technologies against complex attacks."
The 2022 ATT&CK Evaluations tested cybersecurity vendors for their ability to detect techniques and tactics used by Wizard Spider and Sandworm, two advanced threat groups that employ ransomware and wiper malware targeting businesses and government organizations worldwide. Vendor participants were evaluated using emulations of the Data Encrypted For Impact technique used by Wizard Spider to deploy ransomware including Ryuk and Sandworm to encrypt and destroy data with their NotPetya malware. Each participant was evaluated based on detection rates across 19 total steps and 109 sub-steps in the framework's attack kill chain from initial compromise through final stage of execution.
MITRE Engenuity evaluated Bitdefender GravityZone Ultra, the company's unified security platform incorporating endpoint protection (EPP) and endpoint detection and response (EDR) including cross-endpoint threat correlation and advanced risk analytics. The platform delivers deep context to detections and offers a direct path to Bitdefender managed detection and response (MDR) services.
Bitdefender results include:
- Exceptional Detection of Attack Techniques -- Bitdefender GravityZone was among the leaders of vendor solutions tested at identifying 'Technique', the highest-level of context associated with the sub-steps on how the attack was performed. Scoring 95 percent, Bitdefender identified 103 of 109 sub-steps.
- Outstanding Analytics Performance -- Bitdefender was among the top vendors scoring 97 percent overall in total analytics coverage, providing deep analysis and rich context for 106 of 109 total sub-steps.
- Strong Linux Coverage -- Bitdefender achieved 100 percent analytics coverage of attack techniques against Linux systems.
"This latest round indicates significant product growth from our vendor participants. We are seeing greater emphasis in threat informed defense capabilities, which in turn has developed the infosec community's emphasis on prioritizing the ATT&CK Framework," said Ashwin Radhakrishnan, acting general manager of ATT&CK Evaluations at MITRE Engenuity.
To view the full MITRE Engenuity ATT&CK Evaluations Enterprise 4 report results, visit https://attackevals.mitre-engenuity.org/enterprise/wizard-spider-and-sandworm/.
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Father of the House farewells parliament
The longest-serving present member of the House of Representatives has delivered his farewell speech to parliament.
Kevin Andrews – first elected to the Victorian seat of Menzies in 1991 – stated he entered politics three many years in the past to make a distinction.
“It was a concern that government was not acknowledging and responding adequately to the needs of families, particularly those with children, that motivated me to stand for election in the first place,” the Liberal MP stated in his valedictory speech on Thursday.
Mr Andrews served as a cupboard minister within the Howard and Abbott governments and is called the Father of the House for having the longest steady service of all sitting MPs.
He referenced his time as minister within the aged care, immigration and defence portfolios as having made a distinction.
But Mr Andrews stated Australia faces vital challenges domestically and geopolitically that have to be addressed.
The COVID pandemic revealed “fault lines” throughout the Federation construction, he stated.
“I encourage all who sit in this parliament in the next session to begin the long conversation about the constitutional and other arrangements that will best ensure (Australia) remains … one people with one destiny,” he stated.
Mr Andrews additionally referred to as on his parliamentary colleagues to have interaction extra with members of different parliaments within the Indo-Pacific.
“The security of our region is in greater peril today than it has been for generations,” he stated.
“Not since World War II – some 80 years ago – have we had to contemplate, defending Australia, but we do.
“We should stand economically, strategically and militarily with these nations and states – nevertheless imperfect – that search to uphold the dignity and the liberty of the person, and towards totalitarian regimes.”
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Equities analysts expect IMAX Co. (NYSE:IMAX – Get Rating) to post $57.97 million in sales for the current fiscal quarter, according to Zacks Investment Research. Four analysts have made estimates for IMAX’s earnings, with the highest sales estimate coming in at $59.44 million and the lowest estimate coming in at $57.10 million. IMAX posted sales of $38.75 million in the same quarter last year, which suggests a positive year-over-year growth rate of 49.6%. The business is expected to report its next quarterly earnings results on Monday, January 1st.
According to Zacks, analysts expect that IMAX will report full-year sales of $338.42 million for the current year, with estimates ranging from $319.10 million to $349.72 million. For the next fiscal year, analysts forecast that the company will report sales of $378.53 million, with estimates ranging from $359.10 million to $391.88 million. Zacks’ sales calculations are an average based on a survey of sell-side research firms that that provide coverage for IMAX.
IMAX has been the subject of a number of recent analyst reports. Benchmark reaffirmed a “buy” rating and set a $28.00 target price on shares of IMAX in a report on Thursday, February 24th. StockNews.com started coverage on IMAX in a report on Thursday. They set a “hold” rating for the company. One analyst has rated the stock with a sell rating, three have assigned a hold rating and seven have assigned a buy rating to the stock. According to MarketBeat, IMAX currently has an average rating of “Buy” and a consensus price target of $24.86.
In related news, EVP Jacqueline Bassani sold 6,000 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Wednesday, March 16th. The stock was sold at an average price of $18.13, for a total transaction of $108,780.00. The sale was disclosed in a filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available at this link. 21.10% of the stock is owned by corporate insiders.
Institutional investors have recently made changes to their positions in the stock. Victory Capital Management Inc. bought a new position in shares of IMAX during the third quarter valued at approximately $179,000. Captrust Financial Advisors raised its holdings in shares of IMAX by 4.0% during the third quarter. Captrust Financial Advisors now owns 67,190 shares of the company’s stock valued at $1,275,000 after acquiring an additional 2,615 shares in the last quarter. Massachusetts Financial Services Co. MA raised its holdings in shares of IMAX by 49.0% during the third quarter. Massachusetts Financial Services Co. MA now owns 1,831,294 shares of the company’s stock valued at $34,758,000 after acquiring an additional 602,434 shares in the last quarter. Mizuho Markets Americas LLC raised its holdings in shares of IMAX by 6.4% during the third quarter. Mizuho Markets Americas LLC now owns 251,999 shares of the company’s stock valued at $4,783,000 after acquiring an additional 15,185 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Barclays PLC grew its stake in IMAX by 95.8% in the third quarter. Barclays PLC now owns 25,839 shares of the company’s stock worth $490,000 after purchasing an additional 12,641 shares during the period. Institutional investors own 90.28% of the company’s stock.
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IMAX Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, operates as an entertainment technology company worldwide. It offers cinematic solution through proprietary software, theater architecture, intellectual property, and specialized equipment. The company offers IMAX Digital Re-Mastering (DMR), a proprietary technology that digitally enhances the image resolution, visual clarity, and sound quality of motion picture films for projection on IMAX screens; IMAX theater systems to exhibitor customers through sales, leases, and joint revenue sharing arrangements; and digital projection systems.
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‘MasterChef’ winner chef Kelsey Murphy opens new food concept inside Fishers Test Kitchen
MasterChef Legends Season 11 winner Kelsey Murphy officially opened her new food concept, Inspo, inside the Fishers Test Kitchen on Monday. Inspo will feature food and flavors that have inspired Murphy throughout her culinary journey thus far. The menu consists of...
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Newegg Commerce (NASDAQ:NEGG – Get Rating) and Star Group (NYSE:SGU – Get Rating) are both retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, analyst recommendations, dividends, profitability, risk and valuation.
Valuation and Earnings
This table compares Newegg Commerce and Star Group’s top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.
Profitability
This table compares Newegg Commerce and Star Group’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
Risk and Volatility
Newegg Commerce has a beta of 0.05, suggesting that its stock price is 95% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Star Group has a beta of 0.57, suggesting that its stock price is 43% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Institutional & Insider Ownership
0.3% of Newegg Commerce shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 34.3% of Star Group shares are held by institutional investors. 22.9% of Newegg Commerce shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 20.4% of Star Group shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
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Summary
Star Group beats Newegg Commerce on 7 of the 9 factors compared between the two stocks.
Newegg Commerce Company Profile (Get Rating)
Newegg Commerce, Inc. operates as a tech-focused e-commerce company in North America, Asia, the Middle East, and internationally. The company offers computer systems, components, electronics, gaming products, networking and smart home products, office solutions, software and services, automotive and industrial products, home and tool products, health and sport products, apparel and accessories, home furnishings, and personal goods. It also provides a portfolio of technology, marketing, logistics, and other partner services. The company was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in City of Industry, California. Newegg Commerce, Inc. is a subsidiary of Hangzhou Lianluo Interactive Information Technology Co.,Ltd.
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Star Group LP is a home heating oil and propane distributor and services provider, which engages providing heating related services to residential and commercial customers. It also sells diesel fuel, gasoline, and home heating oil on a delivery only basis. The company was founded on October 16, 1995 and is headquartered in Stamford, CT.
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H.S. baseball: Pilot, Warhawks stick landing in seventh-inning comeback
- By Kal Oakes Georgetown News-Graphic
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With his trademark, colorful language, the late baseball philosopher and former major league manager Earl Weaver once submitted that his sport was the greatest of all games because a team with a sizable lead couldn't run out the clock. You have to throw the ball over the plate, he said, and give the other team its chance.
Great Crossing took advantage of that opportunity in unforgettable fashion Wednesday night. Down three runs with two out and the bases empty in the bottom of the seventh inning, the Warhawks' refusal to go away paid off with a walk-off win they'll never forget, 8-7, at the expense of 11th Region giant Madison Central.
Pilot Lukacsko was the caboose in a freight train of heroes at the finish, slicing an opposite-field line drive down the right field line to deliver Brennan Liebenauer and Carson Walls with the tying and winning tallies.
“I was looking for a fastball coming at me, something to take into the right gap, because there was nobody over there,” Lukacsko said. “Just needed to hit it to the right side, and I knew it would do the job. Sit back and wait on it and score some runs.”
A third comeback was the charm for GC (5-3), which erased prior deficits of 1-0 and 4-1 before Madison Central (7-3) scored three tie-breaking runs with two out in the top of the sixth.
“What that proves is when we don't quit, no matter what the scoreboard says, we can come back and win big games like that,” GC coach Greg Stratton said. “That's what it tales to win in this region especially, and district too, is not quitting.”
Madison Central freshman reliever Sam Coleman escaped a jam against the heart of the Great Crossing lineup with the potential tying run at the plate in the sixth, then retired Grant Stewart on a pop-up and Jacob Steele via line drive to start the final frame.
Matt Lacy, who was 3-for-3 on the night, needed to get on base again by any means necessary, and he eyed a 3-2 pitch not far out of the zone.
“All year our coaches have been preaching next guy up,” Lacy said. “It doesn't matter if you're an eighth grader, freshman or senior. If you're next in line, you'd better be ready, and it really showed tonight.”
Unsung heroes waited their turn. Chase Coulter fell behind 1-2 in the count and fouled off two more offerings before following Lacy's lead and drawing a walk.
Liebenauer, previously 0-for-4 at the varsity plate on the season, was summoned to pinch hit for Dustin Hoffman. Stratton said it was a hunch.
After fouling off one pitch and watching Lacy advance to third on Coleman's errant pickoff attempt, Liebenauer singled sharply up the middle to make it a two-run gap.
“Our goal was to get the tying run to the plate. Brennan came in and got a hit,” Stratton said. “I had him and somebody else getting ready. All along I felt like he was the one. I knew he would battle, but again they all did.”
Most importantly, Liebenauer flipped the lineup card to the top of the order. A passed ball put that tying run in scoring position, and Walls — who had two hits and at least two fielding gems at third base — drew a four-pitch walk to load the bases and chase Coleman.
Hard-throwing Hayden Robbins checked in for the Indians, but that choice was in the Warhawks' wheelhouse. Mason Wiley hit Robbins' first pitch briskly to second base, and Madison Central booted it to leave everyone safe in a 7-6 game.
Lukacsko worked his count to 3-1 before taking advantage of the Tribe's defensive shift and setting off a wild celebration for his shade of blue.
“We needed to attack more,” Lukacsko said. “We were able to fight, keep coming back, just keep driving that fastball, keep the bats going. That's all we've got to do, and make the plays in the field, keep it going all around.”
Walls, Lukacsko and Peyton Harris all joined Lacy as repeat contributors to the Warhawks’ 11-hit attack. Lacy preceded Lulacsko with a pair of RBI.
Aidan Schorsch, the third GC pitcher, recovered from three unearned runs in the sixth inning with a perfect seventh to give his club a chance.
“They were swinging it well. Matt battled all night. Carson played well at third,” Stratton said. “As we keep telling them, we're gonna hit the ball, but pitching and defense is where it is. You play that in this region, you've got a chance against anyone.”
It was the first home victory for Great Crossing, which owned previous signature wins against Lexington Christian and Whitley County.
The loss continued a tough run in Georgetown for Madison Central, which also gave away a four-run lead in a loss to Scott County two weeks ago, not long after suffering a region quarterfinal loss in overtime to GC in boys' basketball.
Matthew Bryan and Bradley Poynter combined for four of Madison Central's seven hits along with six RBI.
Bryan's three-run home run off Myles Lawrence piggybacked a walk by Matt Johns and Poynter's ground-rule double to give the Indians a 4-1 lead in the top of the fifth.
Back stormed GC. Lukacsko was hit by a pitch between singles by Wiley and Harris. Stewart drew a bases-loaded walk to push home one run.
After falling behind 0-2 with two out, Lacy lined into left to knot it at four.
“It really gives us momentum going into spring break down in Florida, and I think it carries over into district play,” Lacy said of his team's never-say-die heroics.
Schorsch retired the first two batters he faced in the sixth before Robbins walked and Johns reached on an error, leading to Poynter's two-run stroke to center.
Gunnar Rhodus tacked on a hit for another insurance run. Like a couple of untested hitters who would be heard from later, Stratton put two young pitchers in a big spot behind junior right-hander Micah Mullins' quality start.
“Aidan threw really well,” Stratton said. “Myles left a couple pitches up, but that's what happens at this level. That's a learning experience.”
Mullins struck out five to offset five walks, allowing two hits and one run over four innings in perhaps the finest start of his young career.
Madison Central did take advantage of two first-inning free passes with Bryan's two-out RBI single.
Great Crossing left the bases loaded after hits by Walls and Lukacsko and a Stewart walk in the first. The Warhawks pulled even in the second, albeit on the back end of a double play after Lacy doubled and the Indians mishandled Coulter's sacrifice bunt.
Lacy, Stewart and Jacob Steele turned a double play in the third. Mullins struck out Bryan to slam the door on that inning.
A single and a walk put Mullins on the ropes in the fourth, but he handled a comebacker and fired to Steele at first to end his stint with authority.
“We've got to cut down on his walks still. He knows that. But he made a couple of adjustments on his own out there tonight,” Stratton said. “He wanted to pump it up a little bit, and then he kind of backed down again and then he kind of got back in that groove. He's learning. His ball moves. He doesn't have to pump it in there all the time. When he can do that, he's going to be very effective against anybody.”
Remarkably, Great Crossing followed by winning the junior varsity game by the same 8-7 final in eerily similar fashion. The Warhawks scored six runs in the bottom of the final inning, punctuated by a game-winning hit from Lukacsko.
“It feels good after coming off (Tuesday, a loss at Tates Creek),” Lukacsko said. “We had to get the energy coming back through and just keep it going on, because we're going to Florida next week. Got to keep that pace up and carry it over. We've beaten some good teams. It's all about how we go out in the game, how we pace ourselves, how we approach the game. If we come out slow, we're gonna finish slow. It's just all about how we put ourselves in what position we're in.”
GC will start a five-game stint in Vero Beach on Sunday afternoon against a Kentucky opponent, Greenup County. The Warhawks also will face challengers from the Sunshine State as well as Virginia.
“That's a big win, big time,” Stratton said. “ That's a good send-off for us, a little momentum.”
Creek less forgiving in 11-2 rout
The Warhawks didn’t look as much like themselves Tuesday, a step slow at the plate and in the field while falling to an 11-2 defeat at Tates Creek.
Creek starter David Castleberry held GC to one hit until the fourth inning, when Lukacsko drew a leadoff walk and Harris followed with a home run to left field.
That merely made it 5-2, and the Commodores (5-6) answered with five runs in the bottom of that frame to put it away and snap a five-game losing streak.
Three of those TC losses were against Tennessee opponents. The other two were one-run games against Lexington rivals, including No. 2 Frederick Douglass.
“Being really successful and then coming back and not having a good game, you grow up a little bit and understand that this game is just a little bit bigger than we are,” Stratton said.
Harris had three of Great Crossing’s five hits for seven total bases. Walls joined Harris with a double. Coulter notched the Warhawks’ other base knock.
Isaac Tencza, Braxton Brinegar, Jacob McDonald and Jamison Craig each delivered two of Tates Creek’s 11 hits. Tencza’s home run and Brinegar’s triple were the big shots.
Nathan Beaven worked three innings in his first loss of the season after two prior decisions on the plus side of the ledger. Three GC errors and the Warhawks’ impatient approach against Castleberry didn’t help matters.
“In these type of games, first of all we’ve got to put the baseball in play instead of fly balls and pop-ups,” Stratton said. “And when you make the errors like that, they capitalize on those errors. That’s what good teams do. That’s something we’ve got to learn from. That’s the little things that can win and lose games.”
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Overnight Defense & National Security — More help headed Ukraine’s way
It’s Tuesday, welcome to Overnight Defense & National Security, your nightly guide to the latest developments at the Pentagon, on Capitol Hill and beyond. Subscribe here: thehill.com/newsletter-signup.
Poland said it is handing over its old, Russian-made MiG-29 jets to the United States, a move that would set the stage for an eventual transfer to Ukraine’s military to help in the brutal attack on the country by Russia, but the Pentagon doesn’t think it’s a great plan.
We’ll lay out what Poland has said, the complications around such a transfer and the Biden administration’s response. Plus: Details on a the multibillion-dollar Ukraine aid package deal reached by Congress, what intelligence officials are warning about the Kremlin and Biden’s newly announced benefits for veteran victims of burn pits.
For The Hill, I’m Ellen Mitchell. Write to me with tips at emitchell@thehill.com.
Let’s get to it.
Poland, Pentagon disagree over MiG transfer
The Polish government on Tuesday said it is ready to “immediately” deploy its entire fleet of MiG-29 fighter jets to a U.S. air base in Germany, giving Washington the chance to then send the planes to Ukrainian forces.
“After consultations between the President and the Government,” Poland is “ready to deploy – immediately and free of charge – all their MIG-29 jets to the Ramstein Air Base and place them at the disposal of the Government of the United States of America,” Poland said in a statement.
“The Polish Government also requests other NATO Allies – owners of MIG-29 jets – to act in the same vein.”
Why this matters: The transfer of the Soviet-era fighter jets is notable as Ukraine for days has pleaded with Western officials to help it counter the brutal Russian assault on the country with either a “no-fly zone” over its airspace or the transfer of aircraft that Ukrainian pilots could fly.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Saturday implored U.S. lawmakers to send the Russian-made MiGs, which Ukrainian pilots are already trained to fly.
The issues: But the deal initially seemed unlikely, as the United States and other nations have been reluctant to draw the ire of Russia with such a major arms transfer. Moscow has warned that any nation that gives Ukraine aircraft to use to fight Kremlin forces could be seen as participating in the conflict.
On Sunday, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the plan had gotten “the green light” from the U.S. and that the Biden administration would then work to backfill the Polish military, reportedly with F-16 fighter jets.
But the White House on Monday tempered expectations, with press secretary Jen Psaki on Monday pointing to the complicated logistics of backfilling planes for its allies.
NO PRIOR NOTICE
Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland said that Poland’s offer to transfer the jets wasn’t “preconsulted” with the United States prior to the Tuesday announcement.
“I saw that announcement by the government of Poland as I was literally driving here today,” Nuland told lawmakers at a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing.
“So to my knowledge, it wasn’t pre-consulted with us that they plan to give these planes to us,” she said.
Not a ‘tenable’ proposal: Later on Tuesday, the Pentagon appeared to close the door on Warsaw’s plans, announcing in a statement that it does “not believe Poland’s proposal is a tenable one.”
“Poland’s proposal shows just some of the complexities this issue presents. The prospect of fighter jets ‘at the disposal of the Government of the United States of America’ departing from a U.S./NATO base in Germany to fly into airspace that is contested with Russia over Ukraine raises serious concerns for the entire NATO alliance,” press secretary John Kirby said in the statement.
“It is simply not clear to us that there is a substantive rationale for it. We will continue to consult with Poland and our other NATO allies about this issue and the difficult logistical challenges it presents, but we do not believe Poland’s proposal is a tenable one.”
Kirby allows that it’s ultimately Poland’s decision to transfer the aircraft and that defense officials are in contact with the Polish government to discuss the issue.
Congress reaches deal on billions for Ukraine
Congressional leaders have reached a deal to provide roughly $14 billion in Ukraine-related aid, which they expect to include in a massive government funding package.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) announced the deal, which will include humanitarian assistance and military aid in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
“Where we’ve ended up is at $14 billion,” McConnell said, though an aide confirmed there was a deal but tagged the figure closer to $13.5 billion.
A massive package: The spending is being dropped into a massive government funding package that congressional leaders are aiming to unveil on Tuesday.
The spending is higher than the $6.5 billion initially requested by the administration and the $10 billion in the White House’s formal request to Congress.
‘Like pulling teeth’: But congressional leaders had signaled they were likely to build on that, in part to give the administration more flexibility in providing additional assistance to Ukraine. The final deal is even higher than the $12 billion floated by Schumer on Monday.
Even as the figure steadily ballooned, McConnell knocked Democrats, accusing them of wanting to decrease security assistance and loan guarantees to Eastern European allies.
“It’s been like pulling teeth,” McConnell said.
Still needed: Congress needs to pass the government funding bill and have President Biden sign it by the end of Friday to prevent a government shutdown.
Congressional leaders decided to attach the Ukraine aid to the government funding bill in order to speed up its path through Capitol Hill, but are also hopeful of the opposite — that attaching the Ukraine package will help shore up support for the larger funding bill.
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Biden outlines new benefits for vets
President Biden on Tuesday traveled to Texas to discuss expanding benefits for veterans exposed to toxic chemicals from burn pits.
In a speech at Resource Connection of Tarrant County in Fort Worth, Texas, Biden lauded the veterans who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, calling them “an incredible generation” of servicemembers.
“This is an incredible generation, the 9/11 generation that fought. They served in a way I think that maybe they’re right up there with the greatest generation because they not only got deployed once, but sometimes twice, three, four times into harms’ way,” Biden said.
A new rule: He called on Congress to pass a law to ensure care for veterans exposed to toxic chemicals while serving in Iraq and Afghanistan. He also announced a new rule that will add several rare respiratory cancers to the list of presumptive conditions for certain veterans.
“Not only did they face the dangers of the battlefield, but they were breathing toxic smoke and burn pits,” the president said of servicemembers who served in Iraq and Afghanistan.
A personal mission: The issue of burn pits strikes a personal note for the president, who believes the chemicals from burn pits may have contributed to the brain cancer that ultimately killed his son, Beau.
“When our troops came home, the fittest among them, the greatest fighting force in the history of the world, too many of them were not the same. Headaches, dizziness, numbness, dizziness, cancer,” Biden said. “We don’t know yet enough about the connection between burn pits and each of these diseases, so many of our veterans are now facing but I’m committed, I’m committed to…make the commitment to find out anything we can.”
Read more about the speech here.
Intel chiefs: Putin set to ‘double down’
Intelligence experts Tuesday painted a picture of an increasingly determined Vladimir Putin set to “double down” on his invasion of Ukraine despite being ill-prepared for the consequences to Russia’s economy and with little prospect for long-term success.
“I think Putin is angry and frustrated right now. He’s likely to double down and try to grind down the Ukrainian military with no regard for civilian casualties,” CIA Director William Burns told lawmakers on the House Intelligence Committee during the yearly worldwide threats hearing.
“But the challenge that he faces, and this is the biggest question that’s hung over our analysis of his planning for months now…is he has no sustainable political end game in the face of what is going to continue to be fierce resistance from Ukrainians.”
The dominating topic: Russia’s intervention in Ukraine dominated an annual hearing designed to review a vast number of threats facing the U.S., unifying a committee, whose members have at times been critical of the intelligence community, in heaping praise on the five officials assembled before them.
Miscalculations: Intelligence officials outlined numerous miscalculations by Putin as Russia continues its devastating assault on Ukraine.
Putin has been “stewing in a combustible combination of grievance and ambition for many years,” Burns said, and his inner circle of advisors has shrunk as he has created “a system in which it’s not proven career enhancing for people to question or challenge his judgment.”
“So he’s gone to war I think on the basis, Mr. Chairman, of a number of assumptions which led him to believe that Russia faced a favorable landscape for the use of force against Ukraine this winter,” he said.
“He’s been proven wrong on every count.”
Chances of an escalation: Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines said that while Putin anticipated sanctions, he did not foresee the degree that the U.S., other nations, and private companies would “undermine his capacity to mitigate Western actions.”
“We assess Putin feels aggrieved the West does not give him proper deference and perceives this as a war he cannot afford to lose but what he might be willing to accept as a victory may change over time given the significant costs he is incurring,” she said.
“Nevertheless, our analysts assess that Putin is unlikely to be deterred by such setbacks and instead may escalate, essentially doubling down,” Haines said.
THE WAR, BY THE NUMBERS
Russia’s war in Ukraine is taking a devastating toll on the Ukrainian civilian population as Moscow accelerates attacks on nonmilitary targets.
The fighting has led to a historic flight from Ukraine by refugees, some of whom have been caught in the crossfire.
The war has no end in sight despite talks between Kyiv and Moscow about ending the fighting, which have had no success. Ukraine’s forces have limited the Russian onslaught, but many foreign observers remain skeptical they will be able to hold out against Russia’s much larger army.
Read about the war by the numbers as it closes its second week.
ON TAP FOR TOMORROW
- The House Armed Services Committee will hold a hearing on “National Security Challenges and U.S. Military Activities in the Indo-Pacific Region,” at 9 a.m.
- The Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies will host a virtual event with Audrey Schaffer, director for space policy at the National Security Council, at 10 a.m.
- The Wilson Center, will hold a discussion on “The Russian War in Ukraine: The Situation After Two Weeks,” at 10 a.m.
- The Stimson Center and Washington Foreign Law Society will hold a virtual discussion on “Acts of War? Accountability for Cyberattacks in Ukraine,” at 12:30 p.m.
- The Atlantic Council will host a virtual discussion on “Navigating the New Strategic Realities of Space,” with U.S. Space Command head Army Gen. James Dickinson, at 1 p.m.
- The American Security Project will discuss the crisis in Ukraine, with former European Union High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Catherine Ashton, at 2 p.m.
WHAT WE’RE READING
- Ukraine claims second Russian general killed in battle
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The Flemish Agency for Roads and Traffic has warned of potentially slippery roads from Thursday evening to Friday morning due to the forecast snowfall. Earlier in the day, RMI issued a ‘yellow code’ for the entire country except the coast.
According to Roads and Traffic, snow can temporarily remain on roads and cycle paths. “In most of Flanders, road surface temperatures are hovering near freezing point tonight. Slippery due to frost and snow tonight and tomorrow morning.”
Road users have been asked to be extra careful. Gritting services are monitoring the situation, it still seems. This winter season, the Flemish Regional and the Manager of Highways has already used 15,800 tonnes of road salt, a quantity less than the annual average of 40,000 tonnes, it seems. The winter season of Flemish greeting services will last until 25 April.
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RMI issued yellow code for easing from evening to Friday.
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“The problem that we have in Washington, D.C., right now is that there's too much talk, there's too much grandstanding and there's too much quitting,” said state Sen. Chuck Edwards at a Sunday congressional candidate forum in Flat Rock, N.C.
“I believe in truth over theatrics. I believe in no lies,” said Wendy Nevarez, a veteran and paralegal supported by an anti-Cawthorn PAC.
“I'm not the Washington, D.C., Instagram politician,” said Michele Woodhouse, a former local party chair. “I'm a patriot who literally answered the call when Congressman Cawthorn left this district for Charlotte and asked me to step in and run.”
Halfway into his first term, Cawthorn is one of several high-profile, anti-establishment members of Congress from both parties who won upset victories to get there — and now face primary challengers who want them gone.
None look vulnerable in a general election, after redistricting kept them in seats their party should easily win. All of them look beatable to challengers who believe their notoriety has backfired, especially with the new voters added to their seats when the lines were redrawn.
“We’re seeing our freedoms being slowly stolen across the country, and we don’t have a voice in the process,” said Jennifer Strahan, a health-care consultant challenging Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), criticizing the freshman for being removed from congressional committees last year.
“If people are so busy critiquing everything you say, and not willing to actually hear you because you don't have a message that resonates, then it's distracting from really bringing results back to the district,” Strahan added.
Like Cawthorn, Greene won a crowded open-seat primary in 2020; both prevailed in runoff elections against conservative candidates less fluent in the language of the MAGA electorate. Both states still require runoffs if no candidate gets a certain share of the vote on primary day — 50 percent in Georgia, and 30 percent in North Carolina.
That has emboldened their opponents inside the party, even though both Greene and Cawthorn are among the GOP’s strongest fundraisers. On Tuesday, the Republican Jewish Coalition endorsed Strahan over Greene, saying that it would help northwest Georgia to elect someone who “who doesn’t traffic in antisemitic conspiracy theories, doesn’t speak to white nationalist organizations and doesn’t applaud and cheer on” Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Both seats were also altered by redistricting, with Georgia’s 14th Congressional District absorbing Democratic precincts outside Atlanta so that other Republican precincts could shore up another district. And those new voters, said Strahan, were “excited” to learn about their options.
Cawthorn’s 11th Congressional District, which ties liberal Asheville together with deep-red Appalachia, also grew slightly more Democratic, from a place Donald Trump carried by 16 points to one he carried by 14. But the bigger problem for Cawthorn was the one Woodhouse hammered at the candidate forum — his decision to run in a new district near Charlotte that Republicans had drawn as an even safer seat, with state House Speaker Tim Moore seen as a likely candidate.
When the state Supreme Court threw out that map, Cawthorn returned to the 11th Congressional District, but not without consequences. Candidates like Woodhouse and Edwards were already building campaigns, both saying that the congressman had failed to meet his potential.
“The U.S. House floor is not a training camp for folks to learn how to lead legislatively,” Edwards told Jewish Insider on Monday. An internal poll shared by the Edwards campaign put Cawthorn well ahead of the field, but that was before he told the conservative podcast “Warrior Poet Society” that the real Washington was just as corrupt as the one in “House of Cards.”
The 26-year old congressman had offered up fish stories before, telling one crowd in the district that he’d confirmed “rumors of alcoholism” about House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), who does not drink. But this time, Cawthorn had implicated Republican colleagues, and couldn’t defend himself when House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy asked him to, McCarthy said.
A lurid story of watching anti-addiction advocates “doing a key bump of cocaine right in front of you” was downgraded, according to McCarthy, to “maybe” seeing a staffer snort cocaine from far away, in a parking garage. As for Cawthorn's podcast claim that a lawmaker had invited him to an “orgy,” McCarthy declared that Cawthorn “did not tell the truth.”
“I told him you can't make statements like that, as a member of Congress, that affects everybody else and the country as a whole,” McCarthy told Axios after the meeting. Both of North Carolina's Republican senators criticized Cawthorn; on Thursday, Moore joined Edwards, who has scooped up endorsements from fellow state legislators, at a fundraiser in Raleigh.
Some of the House's most prominent left-wing Democrats are facing primary challenges too, thanks in part to the new maps. In New York City, a number of Democrats filed to challenge Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-N.Y.), hoping to take advantage of his vote against last year's infrastructure bill, and of his argument with Democratic Socialists of America over his refusal to support a boycott of Israel. There's no runoff law in New York, but Bowman's opponents were strategic, dropping out until county legislator Vedat Gashi was the only challenger.
“I didn’t like a number of the votes he took,” Gashi told the Somers Record this week. “I thought it didn’t represent the views of the party.”
In Missouri, where state legislators are still debating the next set of House maps, Rep. Cori Bush (D-Mo.) got an experienced challenger right before the filing deadline — state Sen. Steven Roberts Jr., who told local media that Bush was hurting the district with positions like slashing the defense budget.
“It's become pretty apparent to me that Congresswoman Cori Bush is not interested in serving as a U.S. Representative,” Roberts said.
Karthik Ganapathy, a spokesman for the Bush campaign, said in an email that voters would get to choose “between their Congresswoman who loves them and delivered hundreds of millions of dollars to St. Louis, and a host of ego-driven men who seem to think all that Black women leaders do is never good enough.” He pointed to allegations made against Roberts by fellow lawmaker Cora Faith Walker, who died 20 days ago, to add that the senator had been “credibly accused of rape.” (The candidate didn't respond to a question from The Trailer but earlier denied he had raped Walker.)
None of Cawthorn's challengers came with that kind of baggage. On Thursday, his campaign released a primary ad making no reference to any other candidate, saying instead that “smears and attacks” wouldn't bring down the “unstoppable” congressman. At the weekend forum, when each Republican was asked if they would support any winner of the primary, Cawthorn talked like he couldn't imagine losing.
“Absolutely,” Cawthorn said. “If you don’t, you’re a traitor.”
Reading list
All-party primaries — is there anything they can't do?
“Debate-dodging takes off in midterm campaigns,” by David Siders
Voters who don't trust the media may support candidates who avoid it.
“Inside Hunter Biden’s multimillion-dollar deals with a Chinese energy company,” by Matt Viser, Tom Hamburger and Craig Timberg
The laptop and the damage done.
“As election workers face increased threats and intimidation, some states are trying to protect them,” by Barbara Rodriguez
Defending members of a female-dominated profession from harassment.
How post-Jan. 6 MAGA mind-set plays in a swing seat.
“House Republicans tire of Madison Cawthorn’s antics. Some in his district have, too,” by Trip Gabriel
A rough welcome home.
Annapolis Democrats fight to keep a 7-to-1 advantage in Washington.
“One-on-one with Silicon Valley’s enemy No. 1,” by Theodore Schleifer
Chesa Boudin defends himself.
Culture wars
The new Florida law that prohibits discussion of “sexual orientation or gender identity” in public schools below fourth grade has a name: the Parental Rights in Education Act. Opponents who couldn't stop Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) from signing it call the law something else: “Don't Say Gay.” To conservatives' frustration, that name has stuck — but it hasn't changed the politicking around gender ideology at all, with Republicans taking aim at Disney this week after the company condemned the law.
That's partly because conservatives believe the media is out of step with voters on gender and LGBT issues, and that voters recoil once they see and hear about sex education in early grade school. The conservative firm Public Opinion Strategies included questions about the Florida law in its rolling national poll, giving voters a summary of the law: “Classroom instruction by school personnel or third parties on sexual orientation or gender identity may not occur in Kindergarten through third grade or in a manner that is not age appropriate or developmentally appropriate for students in accordance with state standards.”
When it's put like that, 61 percent of voters approved of the legislation, including a majority of Democrats and people who voted for President Biden in 2020. The firm added other questions about whether gender should be removed from birth certificates and whether transgender women should be allowed to play women's sports. Just 8 percent of registered voters said “yes” to the first question, and by a 36-point margin, most said people should “only be allowed to play on sports teams that match their birth gender.”
The numbers reminded POS pollster Robert Blizzard of the discourse around Georgia's 2021 voting law, which led to several corporate boycotts of the state, endorsed by Democrats, but which ended up being supported by most voters once Republicans sold it as an anti-fraud measure. A law that generated outrage among Democrats, and brutal media coverage, could have majority support if Republicans explained it correctly.
“This matches what I've seen over the last year or two, especially in focus groups and qualitative research I've done,” said Blizzard. “People think we're going too far left. Too woke. On the quote-unquote ‘Don't Say Gay' bill, Democratic voters support it 2-1, which kind of flies in the face of the conventional wisdom. On the transgender athlete question, they're not sure. It's almost like they're looking for their partisan cue.”
Ad watch
USA Freedom Fund, “Real Work.” It's been more than a week since Ohio GOP U.S. Senate candidates Josh Mandel and Mike Gibbons got into a near-physical argument at a forum, after Gibbons correctly said that Mandel had never worked in the private sector. Mandel and his allies have continued to say what the candidate said that night: that Gibbons was demeaning a veteran, saying what he did hadn't been real work. This ad uses Gibbons's quote — “Josh doesn't understand this, because he's never spent a day in the private sector” — but puts text on-screen saying that Gibbons was insulting veterans, and has Marine veteran Brian Sizer, who served with Mandel, calling it “disgraceful” and demanding an apology. “For this guy to imply fighting, getting shot at, dying is not work? It's more than work,” he says.
Tim Ryan for Ohio, “One Word.” A favorable Fox News write-up, condemnation from an Asian American political group: This ad for Rep. Tim Ryan's (R-Ohio) U.S. Senate bid got them both. The “one word” of the title, and the first word from Ryan's mouth, is “China,” and the ad plays a few overlapping clips of the candidate telling voters that America must defeat “Communist China” economically by “investing in Ohio workers.” That's not a new message for Ohio Democrats, but the state chapter of Asian American Midwest Progressives quickly condemned it, urging Ryan to “pull the One Word ad and eliminate all inflated anti-Asian messaging from his campaign.” He didn't pull the ad.
DSCC, “It's in the Plan.” In a 30-second digital spot, the Democrats' Senate campaign arm sums up the least-popular portions, told in scary headlines, of the “Rescue America” plan proposed by Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.). It would “raise taxes,” “end Medicare” and “end Social Security,” warn Democrats — all technically true, as the plan would tax people who don't currently pay income taxes, and require all legislation to be reapproved every five years.
Perez and Sneed for Maryland, “Tireless.” Barack Obama hasn't endorsed a candidate for governor of Maryland, but he did endorse Tom Perez to run the Democratic National Committee after the 2016 election. Perez's first spot with running mate Shannon Sneed cuts down the audio from Obama's end-of-year news conference that year, when Perez was putting his DNC campaign together; asked about it, Obama talked about Perez's record as labor secretary. The ad splices in a clip of Obama calling Perez “a son of immigrants who worked on the back of a trash truck to pay for college.”
Sarah for Governor, “Educate.” No other Republican is challenging Sarah Huckabee Sanders in Arkansas's May 24 primary, but she has stayed on the air, releasing direct-to-camera spots full of conservative campaign promises. Here, she largely promises to keep Arkansas education running the way it is, including “keeping schools open” and pledging not to “indoctrinate” children “with the left's agenda.” (Last year, state Attorney General Leslie Rutledge issued an opinion condemning “critical race theory” and saying that teaching it would violate the law.) The goal: “Prepare students for the workforce, not government dependency,” and let them build lives in Arkansas.
Kevin Rinke for Governor, “Rise.” The Republican candidate for governor of Michigan put $10 million of his own money into his campaign, and $500,000 of it is going behind this ad, a 30-second spot describing how he took over the Rinke Automotive Group after his brother died in a plane crash. The candidate appears in smiling b-roll footage as a narrator sells him as the right man for “a time when our economy, education and government are broken” — with a shot of empty store shelves representing the economy.
The Committee to Elect Rebecca Dow, “True Grit.” Dow, a conservative New Mexico state legislator, didn't enter the race for governor with as much buzz or name recognition as her primary opponent, former TV meteorologist Mark Ronchetti. She takes a whack at him here, lumping him together with Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham (D) as a phony as she rides along a stretch of border wall. “I'm not here to put on a show. I'm here to fight radical socialists, defend our constitutional rights and finish President Trump's wall,” she says. (New Mexico runs along the Mexican border for a bit less than 180 miles.)
Poll watch
“Do you approve or disapprove of the way Republican and Democratic Senators are handling the confirmation process of Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson?” (Quinnipiac, March 24-28, 1462 adults)
How Republicans handled it
Approve: 27%
Disapprove: 52%
Don't know/no answer: 21%
How Democrats handled it
Approve: 43%
Disapprove: 34%
Don't know/no answer: 23%
How can you tell if a Supreme Court nomination strategy has backfired? In the moment, it's not clear; several Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee were reportedly worried about how Ketanji Brown Jackson handled days of questions about the sentencing of child sex offenders. But the first national poll on the question, taken during and after the hearings, suggests that the GOP strategy to attack her past sentences flopped. Every demographic group views the GOP's role in the hearings negatively, including White adults without college degrees; just 52 percent of self-identified Republicans approve of how their party handled the hearings.
Democrats, who made little news during the hearings, are viewed more positively, and so is Jackson — 51 percent of all adults support confirming her, to just 30 percent who don't. Just 36 percent of adults, in the same poll, approve of the president's job performance, so Jackson gets significant support from voters who are otherwise sour on Democrats.
“If the 2024 election for president were held today, who would you vote for?” (Marquette Law School, March 14-24, 1004 adults)
Joe Biden: 41%
Donald Trump: 37%
Someone else: 15%
Wouldn't vote: 7%
Joe Biden: 37%
Mike Pence: 33%
Someone else: 21%
Wouldn't vote: 8%
Joe Biden: 38%
Ron DeSantis: 33%
Someone else: 20%
Wouldn't vote: 9%
The president's job approval rating comes in at 44 percent in Marquette's national poll, higher than some other recent surveys but comparable to his numbers in the Gallup poll. No Republican candidate tested by the pollster is in a great position to take advantage of that. Sixty-one percent of Americans have an unfavorable view of Trump, and sure enough, 63 percent of voters pick either Biden, nobody or some hypothetical other option when asked about a 2020 rematch. Just 31 percent of voters view Pence favorably, and 25 percent view Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) favorably; both, like Trump and Biden, are underwater. (Thirty-nine percent of voters say they don't yet have an opinion of DeSantis.)
That's a change from the Trump's presidency, when Trump consistently had job approval ratings in the 40s or lower, and pollsters found a number of Democrats running far ahead of him. Before the 2016 and 2020 elections — i.e., before pollsters realized that Trump's support was underestimated — the idea that nearly any Democrat could beat Trump was rampant among party activists, and polling that showed Biden leading Trump by landslide margins helped power him to the nomination. But now, the key figures in the GOP, who candidates are asking for endorsements and modeling their own agendas on, are less popular than an unpopular president.
“Would you prefer the government to continue to adjust covid guidelines and mandates in response to different variants as they arise, to settle on a consistent set of covid guidelines and mandates that we will use from this point forward, or to have no covid regulations and mandates?” (Monmouth, March 10-14, 809 adults)
Continue to adjust guidelines/mandates: 50%
Have no guidelines/mandates: 34%
Settle on a consistent set of guidelines/mandates: 14%
The rollback of mask and vaccine mandates in states that had implemented strict ones happened quickly, and public opinion moved along with it. In another section of Monmouth's national poll, 73 percent of voters now agree with this statement: “It’s time we accept that covid is here to stay and we just need to get on with our lives.” The new consensus is more nuanced. A third of all adults, but two-thirds of Republicans, share the view that there should be no mandates or rules whatsoever. White voters without college degrees are split, with a plurality of 44 percent saying there should be “no guidelines/mandates.” Most other adults say that the rules can be adjusted, not ruling out the return of some precautions, if they're convinced that they're necessary.
In the states
Michigan. On Tuesday, former Detroit police chief Ralph Godbee dropped out of the Democratic primary for the new 13th Congressional District, where Black politicians have worried that a glut of candidates will allow self-funded Indian American state Rep. Shri Thanedar (D) to win the Detroit-based seat with a plurality of the vote. “I have enough support to split the African American vote or siphon off votes that could be codified behind a consensus candidate,” Godbee explained in a statement.
Tennessee. The Republican supermajority in Nashville advanced legislation that would create residency requirements for federal races, which if implemented would make it impossible for former State Department official Morgan Ortagus to seek a House seat. If the law holds up in court, candidates for Congress would be required to prove that they've lived for at least three years in the district they want to represent; Ortagus relocated from D.C. to Nashville just last year.
“No one questioned my residency when I served our country in the intelligence community, the Trump Administration, nor in the U.S. Navy Reserves,” Ortagus told the Tennessean in a statement. “And President Trump certainly didn't question my residency when he endorsed me for this seat.”
Wisconsin. Chippewa Falls attorney Karen Mueller joined the GOP race for attorney general this week, telling the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel's Molly Beck that she could use the powers of the office to investigate hospitals where Ivermectin was not prescribed for covid-19 sufferers. (A large study published Wednesday found, as others previously have, that Ivermectin did not help those suffering from covid.)
“I am running for attorney general because of potential homicides in hospitals, because of vaccines — so-called vaccines,” said Mueller, the founder of the conservative Amos Center for Justice and Liberty. “I would open investigations into those deaths and if the facts were substantiated; I would probably bring charges against the people that were responsible for this.” Previously, Mueller wrote a memo to state legislator Timothy Ramthun, now a candidate for governor, arguing that the legislature could and should invalidate the 2020 election.
Redistricting
On Wednesday afternoon, Republican legislators in Louisiana overrode a veto from Gov. John Bel Edwards (D) and approved a congressional map that maintained the party's 5-to-1 seat advantage. Just hours later, plaintiffs supported by the National Democratic Redistricting Committee sued to get the map thrown out.
“Black Louisianians are sufficiently numerous and geographically compact to constitute a majority of eligible voters in a second congressional district stretching from Baton Rouge to the delta parishes along the Mississippi River,” attorneys for four Black voters wrote in their complaint, filed in the Middle District Court. “The new congressional plan has the effect of denying Black voters an equal opportunity to participate in the political process and to elect candidates of their choice, in violation of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act.”
In Missouri, the candidate filing deadline came and went this week while legislators in Jefferson City rejected the new congressional map — maintaining a 6-to-2 GOP advantage, and shoring up one Republican seat — in favor of further negotiations. That came after Senate Republicans had finally overcome a filibuster by conservatives who wanted a map that would eliminate a Kansas City-based seat that Democrats always win.
“When you have a lot of people who are fighting for what they want, eventually you may have to some kind of compromise,” Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft (R) told 93.9 The Eagle on Wednesday. “I think that's what the Senate tried to do.”
Campaigning continued anyway, for the current district lines, and the legislative session isn't over until May. But there are already lawsuits in district court of Cole County (which contains the capital), asking a judge to intervene and draw maps, arguing that it's unconstitutional for candidates to run inside the old lines after 10 years of population changes.
Q&A
On Wednesday, House Democrats' super PAC announced $100 million in ad reservations across the country. None of the first reservations were in New York state. That surprised some Republicans, and Democrats, who see several New York seats as potentially vulnerable, including the 18th Congressional District that Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee chair Sean Patrick Maloney has represented for nine years. Maloney himself has said that the Hudson Valley seat, which has trended left but been redrawn to include more Republican precincts, could be in play, but the House Majority PAC hadn't reserved ads there yet.
“If I wasn’t managing the Frontline program, I’d be on the program,” Maloney said at this month's House Democratic retreat, referring to the DCCC's effort to protect its most vulnerable members.
Republicans see plenty of seats won by President Biden as winnable this year. Dan Conston, the president of the Congressional Leadership Fund — the GOP's PAC counterpart — said in an interview that the House Majority PAC's reservations were “a recognition that Democrats have already lost the House” and have “traditionally blue districts in real peril.” New York State Assemblyman Colin Schmitt (R), a 31-year old National Guard member, is running against Maloney on that theory. Ahead of the first quarter fundraising deadline — it's today, if a hundred campaigns haven't texted to tell you already — he talked about his race and why he thought Maloney could lose.
The Trailer: Why are you running, and why do you think you can win?
Colin Schmitt: This is my fourth year in the Assembly. I've been heavily involved in the community for a long time now. Sean Maloney is nowhere to be found. I don't think he was representing our values to begin with, but this is a guy who's not doing retail politics like I am. He's not at the Memorial Day parades or the Fourth of July parades. He’ll pop in for a press conference once a quarter in one of the cities in the district.
Then he gets made the chairman of the DCCC. This is a district that consistently has been good for Republicans in a gubernatorial year. And we've got a guy who can no longer triangulate his politics because of his job with the party. This is generally a working-class district, with some Westchester parts that are a little different. And he didn't check any of those boxes anymore.
In Middletown, one of the cities here, one day, there was no meat and no chicken on the shelves. A constituent sent us the photos, and they went viral. This is real life. The supply chain problems go right back to these big spending packages, which were unacceptable. And he voted for all of that. He's out of touch.
TT: Before this year, the district was trending away from Republicans. Why was that?
CS: In my own races, I’ve operated independently. I'm not relying on another elected official above me. I'm not reliant on any party committee operation. We obviously accept their help and whatever they want to offer, but we’ve been able to overperform.
I think that was there's a mix of factors for why we've slipped. There's obviously been demographic changes. You've had traditional conservative supporters who have moved out of the state at a growing rapid pace. Not too long ago, in the Hudson Valley, you could have “Republican” next to your name, wake up on Election Day, and get elected to what? That’s not the way it is anymore.
TT: Why is it winnable now?
CS: He was sending attack mailers about me before I started running, so this guy clearly thinks they have a winnable race here. I think that we're a juggernaut. No offense to previous opponents, but we're the first opponent, since he became a member of Congress, with a political base, name recognition and the ability to run a real campaign.
The district moved north and picked up new areas in Ulster County and Dutchess County, which Maloney has never represented. There are places where he’s had a kind of legacy of overperformance, running ahead of other Democrats, but they’re out of the district now. When we've polled it, we're both in the 30s — that's a canary in the coal mine. A lot of people don't know who Maloney is, and the polls may be underestimating the anti-Biden sentiment out there.
TT: Maloney has distanced himself from the “defund the police” slogan, but we've seen Republicans and some Democrats running against bail reform and blaming it for high crime. How does that play in the race? What do you actually do on it, at the federal level, if you win?
CS: It's probably the top issue that we're dealing with in the Hudson Valley: The crime issue, the lack of support for law enforcement. I've been fighting cash bail on the statewide level. It's something that my opponent has supported — he’s spoken glowingly of it; he wanted it in the race for attorney general. [Maloney ran for attorney general in 2018, losing the Democratic primary while seeking reelection to his House seat.]
And he’s hired advisers at the DCCC who made a wide range of anti-law enforcement comments. The one that sticks out in my mind was an adviser saying we should burn police precincts to the ground. That’s not acceptable to me. There’s a kind of nickname we have here: the land of guns and hoses. We’ve got so many cops, so many firemen, that work in New York City and live up here. I'm going to take my experiences here in New York and ensure that that is not something that gets advanced in Washington. I want to block the nationalization of our failed cash bail law.
TT: A lot of Republicans have talked about launching investigations into the Biden administration if you win, on everything from the withdrawal from Afghanistan to Hunter Biden's business career. Would you support that?
CS: I think that the situation in Afghanistan was a turning point. I served in the Army National Guard. A lot of my battle buddies were being deployed over there. And it's a real personal issue for a lot of the servicemen — it felt like a real failure. When we win, I'm going to look back at that as the pivot point where Biden and the Democrats started to lose the support of a lot of the people who probably were going to stick with him.
So we need to have the full story on that. The Hunter Biden thing, that's … well, my main focus would be Afghanistan.
TT: If you'd been in Congress last year, not Maloney, would you have voted to challenge the electoral results from Arizona and Pennsylvania on Jan. 6?
CS: Look, the violence that happened on that day is unacceptable. Anybody who illegally entered the Capitol that day or committed any of the crimes should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. Joe Biden won the election, and that's what we've got to deal with for now. I support legislation that ensures equal access to voting for everybody and equal confidence in voting for everybody.
TT: But did you agree with the legal questions there? And would you have voted for or against impeachment afterward?
CS: I was a state legislator at the time, so I only saw what's going on in my state. That issue should be left to state legislators in those states. It’s not my place to tell any other state what they should or shouldn't do. No, I would not have voted to impeach him. I didn’t support the impeachment of him either time. In 2021, he had already lost the election, he was leaving office and it was an unnecessary step.
TT: And how would you rate the Biden administration's response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine? What would you be arguing for if you were in Congress?
CS: It's just another failure of the Biden administration on foreign policy and international security matters. Should this escalate, I mean, it would affect me personally. I'm the last person who wants anything to go worse for American soldiers on the ground. But I think we waited too long and there've been weaknesses that have been exploited. I think we need to continue to provide everything and anything we can provide, without putting our boots on the ground in Ukraine, at this point.
Countdown
… five days until the special primary in California's 22nd Congressional District
… 33 days until the next primaries
… 56 days until Texas runoffs and the special primary in Minnesota's 1st Congressional District
… 74 days until the special House primary in Alaska
… 216 days until the midterm elections
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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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AURORA, Colo. — The 9NEWS 'Swag Chain' is for stars...And Regis Jesuit senior Tristan Christofferson is absolutely that.
Christofferson dominated on the court in the Raiders' 5-game victory over the undefeated defending state champions to earn his spot as the Colorado High School athlete of the week.
Christofferson is the first-ever boy's volleyball player to ever win the award and the 20th winner ever in 'Swag Chain' history.
Scotty Gange surprised him in his math class on Thursday morning.
"It's just a lot of fun, I really love my team and it's all just really joyful," Tristan said in his mid-class surprise interview.
Stay tuned to see who wins the Swag Chain next!
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Frax (FRAX) traded 0.1% lower against the US dollar during the 24-hour period ending at 18:00 PM E.T. on March 31st. In the last seven days, Frax has traded 0% higher against the US dollar. Frax has a total market capitalization of $2.69 billion and approximately $26.15 million worth of Frax was traded on exchanges in the last 24 hours. One Frax coin can currently be purchased for $1.00 or 0.00002181 BTC on cryptocurrency exchanges.
Here’s how related cryptocurrencies have performed in the last 24 hours:
- Tether (USDT) traded 0% lower against the dollar and now trades at $1.00 or 0.00002185 BTC.
- XRP (XRP) traded 4.4% lower against the dollar and now trades at $0.82 or 0.00001786 BTC.
- Polkadot (DOT) traded down 4.1% against the dollar and now trades at $21.48 or 0.00046930 BTC.
- Shiba Inu (SHIB) traded down 5.3% against the dollar and now trades at $0.0000 or 0.00000000 BTC.
- Wrapped TRON (WTRX) traded up 4.1% against the dollar and now trades at $0.0749 or 0.00000164 BTC.
- Lido stETH (STETH) traded down 3% against the dollar and now trades at $3,280.00 or 0.07164876 BTC.
- EarnX (EARNX) traded 396,248.3% higher against the dollar and now trades at $0.0008 or 0.00000002 BTC.
- Bitcoin BEP2 (BTCB) traded 2.6% lower against the dollar and now trades at $45,829.18 or 1.00109818 BTC.
- stETH (Lido) (STETH) traded flat against the dollar and now trades at $3,479.19 or 0.06807369 BTC.
- Filecoin (FIL) traded down 4.9% against the dollar and now trades at $24.55 or 0.00053623 BTC.
Frax Profile
According to CryptoCompare, “Frax attempts to be the first stablecoin protocol to implement design principles of both to create a highly scalable, trustless, extremely stable, and ideologically pure on-chain money. The Frax protocol is a two token system encompassing a stablecoin, Frax (FRAX), and a governance token, Frax Shares (FXS). The protocol also has pool contracts which hold collateral (at genesis USDT and USDC). Pools can be added or removed with governance. “
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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: Meet Dr. M'Benga, Nurse Chapel & Hemmer
A new day means another opportunity to meet the cast making up Paramount+'s Anson Mount, Rebecca Romijn & Ethan Peck-starring Star Trek: Strange New Worlds ahead of its May 5 premiere. In the series of intro videos that we've been treated to so far, we've met Celia Rose Gooding's Starfleet Cadet Nyota Uhura, Christina Chong's Chief of Security Lt. La'an Noonien-Singh, and Melissa Navia's Navigator Lt. Erica Ortegas. This time around, we have the trifecta of Babs Olusanmokun's Dr. M'Benga, Jess Bush's Nurse Christine Chapel, and Bruce Horak's Engineer Hemmer.
Now here's your chance to meet the three newest (well, two newest and one new-ish) members of the crew:
And here's a look back at the cast reveal announcement video first released back in September 2021:
With Paramount+'s Star Trek: Strange New Worlds set to lift off on May 5th, here's a look back at the teaser trailer that was recently released:
STAR TREK: STRANGE NEW WORLDS is based on the years Captain Christopher Pike manned the helm of the U.S.S. Enterprise. The series will feature fan favorites from season two of STAR TREK: DISCOVERY: Anson Mount as Captain Christopher Pike, Rebecca Romijn as Number One and Ethan Peck as Science Officer Spock. The series will follow Captain Pike, Science Officer Spock and Number One in the years before Captain Kirk boarded the U.S.S. Enterprise, as they explore new worlds around the galaxy.
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds stars Anson Mount as Christopher Pike, Rebecca Romijn as Una Chin-Riley / Number One, Ethan Peck as Spock, Babs Olusanmokun as M'Benga, Christina Chong as La'an Noonien-Singh, Celia Rose Gooding as Nyota Uhura, Jess Bush as Christine Chapel, Melissa Navia as Erica Ortegas, and Bruce Horak as Hemmer. Paul Wesley (The Vampire Diaries, Tell Me A Story) had joined the second season as James T. Kirk. The series premiere was written by Akiva Goldsman with the story by Akiva Goldsman, Alex Kurtzman, and Jenny Lumet. Goldsman and Henry Alonso Myers serve as co-showrunners, with Goldsman directing the premiere episode. Goldsman, Kurtzman, and Lumet serve as executive producers in addition to Alonso Myers, Heather Kadin, Frank Siracusa, John Weber, Rod Roddenberry, Trevor Roth, and Aaron Baiers. Akela Cooper and Davy Perez serve as co-executive producers. Nami Melumad (An American Pickle, Absentia) has been tapped as the score composer for the series original score. Jeff Russo (Star Trek: Discovery & Picard, Legion) composed the main and titles music. The series is produced by CBS Studios, Secret Hideout, and Roddenberry Entertainment.
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https://bleedingcool.com/tv/star-trek-strange-new-worlds-meet-dr-mbenga-nurse-chapel-hemmer/
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Russia’s blocking of humanitarian aid to Ukraine and its bombing of medical facilities should be the subjects of an international war crimes investigation, says Canada’s international development minister.
Harjit Sajjan offered that view as a half dozen extra RCMP investigators head to The Hague to assist in the International Criminal Court investigation of alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity by Russia in its invasion of Ukraine.
“I have worked enough conflict areas and war zones to understand what international humanitarian law is. This is something that does need to be investigated. Civilians are not supposed to be harmed. That also includes when civilians need medical support, food support,” Sajjan said in an interview.
Sajjan, a former defence minister and Canadian Armed Forces veteran of the war in Afghanistan, was speaking ahead of the International Committee of the Red Cross announcement Thursday that it would be ready to start evacuating citizens from the besieged port city of Mariupol on Friday.
“For logistics and security reasons, we’ll be ready to lead the safe passage operation tomorrow, Friday, provided all the parties agree to the exact terms, including the route, the start time, and the duration,” the ICRC said in a statement on Thursday.
“It’s desperately important that this operation takes place. The lives of tens of thousands of people in Mariupol depend on it.”
Relentless Russian attacks on Mariupol have reduced massive sections of the city to rubble and have blocked efforts to get food, water and medicine to its estimated 430,000 residents, amid reports that some may have been abducted by invading troops.
Canada’s Parliament and others recognize as a genocide the acts perpetrated by Joseph Stalin that killed millions of Ukrainians in the 1930s, a tragic chapter of which Sajjan is mindful.
“The Ukrainians already have seen another Holocaust in their past with the Holodomor where the population was starved to death,” he said.
“This is just another time now, Russians using kind of a different tactic here. So, I hope that everything will be investigated thoroughly in this regard.”
Sajjan said carving out the corridors needed to get humanitarian supplies into Ukraine has been a difficult undertaking. Even when routes have been cleared, convoys have had to deal with booby traps and other hazards, he said.
“Every time you try and co-ordinate something, it’s been used for the Russians to start targeting folks in the corridor itself.”
Sajjan has travelled throughout eastern Europe to liaise with Canadian allies and international agencies, including the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and the World Food Program. The food program reported recently it had helped feed its one millionth displaced Ukrainian.
An estimated 10 million Ukrainians have been forced out of their homes, while almost four million have sought asylum as refugees in the worst humanitarian disaster in Europe since the Second World War.
In a separate interview, Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino said the RCMP officers dispatched to assist the prosecutor’s office of the ICC — joining Mounties already deployed there on various investigations — will be seized with documenting the atrocities that are “continuing to occur in real time” in Ukraine.
Mendicino said he expected them to focus on digitally recording the destruction while eventually gathering testimony from the Ukrainians who have fled attacks.
“They are all living witnesses to what’s happened in Ukraine,” said Mendicino.
“Even while we continue to provide military aid and impose economic sanctions and (create) humanitarian corridors to allow those who are fleeing those atrocities to survive, we have to preserve the record.”
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Thursday that Russia should be kicked out of the G20, the group of leading nations charged with steering the world economy, echoing U.S. President Joe Biden’s call last week.
Trudeau said the G20, which also includes China, might include different countries with different approaches and “political structures” but its main function is to “manage and encourage economic growth.”
“Russia, right now, has with its illegal invasion of Ukraine upended economic growth for everyone around the world and can’t possibly be a constructive partner in how we manage in part the crisis created by Russia’s illegal invasion of Ukraine,” he said.
“The bottom line is it can’t be business as usual to have Vladimir Putin just sitting around the table pretending that everything is OK, because it’s not OK and it’s his fault.”
Trudeau and Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland welcomed a delegation of five Ukrainian MPs for further discussions on what Canada can do to help Ukraine’s democratically elected government survive the Russian invasion.
“We want to be a symbol of victory, for democratic growth, for democratic values,” said Lesia Zaburanna, the delegation chair. She said it was a difficult decision “for us to leave our home, our people … but we have to because it’s our duty.”
—Mike Blanchfield, The Canadian Press
RELATED: $128 million raised for war-stricken people in Ukraine through Red Cross donations
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https://www.thegoldenstar.net/news/canadian-federal-ministers-cite-need-for-international-war-crimes-probe-of-russia/
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Shares of Plug Power Inc.
PLUG,
+0.77%
inched 0.77% higher to $28.61 Thursday, on what proved to be an all-around rough trading session for the stock market, with the NASDAQ Composite Index
COMP,
-1.54%
falling 1.54% to 14,220.52 and Dow Jones Industrial Average
DJIA,
-1.56%
falling 1.56% to 34,678.35. Plug Power Inc. closed $17.89 short of its 52-week high ($46.50), which the company achieved on November 22nd.
The stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors Thursday, as Ballard Power Systems Inc.
BLDP,
-1.94%
fell 1.94% to $11.64, Methanex Corp.
MEOH,
-1.41%
fell 1.41% to $54.56, and Enviva Inc.
EVA,
+1.49%
rose 1.49% to $79.15. Trading volume (19.2 M) remained 3.2 million below its 50-day average volume of 22.4 M.
Editor's Note: This story was auto-generated by Automated Insights, an automation technology provider, using data from Dow Jones and FactSet. See our market data terms of use.
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https://www.marketwatch.com/story/plug-power-inc-stock-outperforms-market-on-strong-trading-day-01648761330-86f64b222550
| 2022-04-01T00:02:27Z
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After a hit-and-miss international apprenticeship, the runs are now flowing for Ben McDermott as he sets his sights on being one of Australia's main men at the 2023 World Cup.
The Hobart Hurricanes blaster was left reflecting on a "bittersweet" maiden ton for Australia as it came in a losing cause when they were sunk by six wickets in their second ODI against Pakistan in Lahore on Thursday.
Yet McDermott, who's cracked 55 and 104 - his two highest scores in international cricket - in the space of three days in the Pakistan series, feels he's perhaps now being rewarded for some years of hard yakka.
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He reckons he was perhaps a little fortunate to get his opportunity in what has the feel of a second-string Australian white-ball squad but he's grasped his chance emphatically, doubtless with an eye on next year's World Cup in India.
"I'd love to be in the best team moving forward," admitted McDermott, after landing his first three-figure score after 22 T20s and now four ODIs for Australia, stretching back to his international debut in October 2018.
"This is probably not our best team, there's a few guys resting after a pretty long summer and a pretty long Test series.
"I got my opportunity because of injury to Mitch Marsh and COVID cases, so it's really good to get a chance and even better when you probably weren't supposed to be in the playing XI.
"But you take these opportunities when they present themselves.
"I've had a lot of chances in international cricket now, so it's really nice to start seeing some results from the hard work we've been putting in."
McDermott played a superb knock at No.3 after Aaron Finch's first-ball duck, scoring 104 off 108 balls with 10 fours and four sixes only for Australia's imposing 8-348 to be successfully chased down by the Babar Azam-inspired home team.
After being the BBL's top scorer and hitting a T20 half-century against the Sri Lankans, he again looked at home in the 50-over format, like a man who could put pressure on even star batters like the resting David Warner and injured Steve Smith.
Marsh (injured hip) and COVID cases Josh Inglis and Ashton Agar are grounded too.
What McDermott really wants in the short-term is to be a winner in Saturday's ODI decider in Lahore, 32 years since his paceman dad Craig inspired an Aussie win at the same Gaddafi Stadium.
Asked what they needed to improve, he said: "Just to bowl better (and) maybe we could look at batting second, potentially.
"The dew does play a little bit of a factor, you saw a couple of our bowlers slip a little bit, and I slipped in the outfield, missed a couple of runs. We might look to change there.
"I don't think it's inexperience (in the bowling attack). There's a few inexperienced players in the batting line-up as well but you've got to step up. I think we've got the depth to fill in for those guys when they're away.
"If we take some learnings out of this loss and bowl a little bit better like we did in game one with exactly the same team, we should be all right for game three."
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HOUSTON (Nexstar) — A computer system glitch in Houston led to the release of hundreds of people being held in jails there on Wednesday.
The glitch kept people who had been arrested waiting in custody for more than two days, without having their case processed. That’s longer than state law allows, leading to those defendants being released.
At least one judge blamed a backlog in cases, making it nearly impossible to hold defendants any longer.
That draws attention to a larger statewide issue.
You could expect an average of 186 criminal jury trials to be held across Texas every week before the pandemic. In 2020, that number dropped to four. This is according to Texas 2036, a nonprofit that tracks this kind of information to help with data-motivated strategies.
“The pandemic obviously, kept us from resolving cases for a year and a half or so,” Hays County District Attorney Wes Mau said.
Mau said all courts at various levels across the state are now playing catchup with little room for error or system glitches, like Houston saw, adding to its overall backlog.
Texas lawmakers are doing some behind-the-scenes work to address how to speed up that process, but that could take up to five years according to Texas 2036.
“It’s not anything that’s going to be simply fixed by creating courts, more judges … it’s going to take a lot of working on efficiencies on those cases,” said Joe Moody, District 78 state representative.
Moody is the vice chair of the interim committee on criminal justice reform. He’s prepping for the next legislative session and said addressing the court backlog is top of mind.
“If people need to be in that system, we understand that. But if they don’t need to be there, let’s figure out how to track them out,” Moody said. “And let’s make sure that we’re not clogging the system unnecessarily, so that when we have unprecedent events like this, it doesn’t create a crisis.”
Improving technology could be one way to address the court backlogs. Last session, lawmakers approved spending a half-million dollars each fiscal year to implement a technology modernization program.
The funding could increase beyond $4 million per year depending on how effective the program is at reducing court backlogs.
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https://www.myhighplains.com/news/top-stories/houston-computer-glitch-leads-to-hundreds-being-released-from-jail-shines-light-on-bigger-issue/
| 2022-04-01T00:02:28Z
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MATCHDAY: Full stadiums as Bundesliga resumes in Germany
A look at what´s happening in European soccer on Friday:
GERMANY
The Bundesliga resumes to a full house as Union Berlin is allowed a capacity crowd for the first time in months for Cologne´s visit. Coronavirus restrictions are being scrapped in Berlin from Friday, part of a wider trend under national guidelines that will see full stadiums across the league. It´s going to be a special game for Cologne coach Steffen Baumgart, a fan favorite at Union for the two seasons he played at the club before its relegation to the third division in 2004. Baumgart played in Union´s heaviest ever second-division defeat, a 7-0 loss to Cologne in October 2002. Union´s record since it gained promotion to the Bundesliga in 2019 is far better. Of five games against Cologne in the top division, the Köpenick-based club has won four and drawn the other. Union has also won its last three Friday night games, in contrast to Cologne, which lost its last three. Another win would let Union replace Cologne in seventh place.
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Killeen city officials announced in a news release that a planned boil-water notice will be issued 9 a.m. Wednesday for certain properties.
The affected properties are 512 to 600 North Fort Hood Street, 504 to 514 Rhode Island Street and 1001 to 1129 York Avenue, according to the city.
“On April 6, water crews will be replacing a fire hydrant and will have to isolate the water main to complete the project,” Killeen spokesman Marcus Hood said in the release. “Water crews will remain on site until all repairs are complete and water services are restored. Water quality samples will be taken the following morning with results being available within 24 to 48 hours.”
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https://kdhnews.com/news/local/killeen-issues-boil-water-notice-to-start-wednesday/article_09ae4be0-b13b-11ec-8b26-d32b0cd11255.html
| 2022-04-01T00:02:28Z
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Shares of PNC Financial Services Group Inc.
PNC,
-3.29%
slipped 3.29% to $184.45 Thursday, on what proved to be an all-around poor 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 fourth consecutive day of losses. PNC Financial Services Group Inc. closed $43.69 below its 52-week high ($228.14), which the company achieved on January 13th.
The stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors Thursday, as JPMorgan Chase & Co.
JPM,
-3.00%
fell 3.00% to $136.32, Wells Fargo & Co.
WFC,
-3.29%
fell 3.29% to $48.46, and Fifth Third Bancorp
FITB,
-2.80%
fell 2.80% to $43.04. Trading volume (3.3 M) eclipsed its 50-day average volume of 2.3 M.
Editor's Note: This story was auto-generated by Automated Insights, an automation technology provider, using data from Dow Jones and FactSet. See our market data terms of use.
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| 2022-04-01T00:02:28Z
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Which induction range is best?
In order to create a culinary masterpiece, you need to have the best tools. Induction ranges have come a long way since they hit the market in 1933. While there were initial complaints of slow and uneven cooking, today’s induction ranges are some of the best ranges available.
The Samsung 4-Element Induction Range with Air Fry has a variety of features that bring a professional flair to any at-home cuisine.
What to know before you buy an induction range
Slide-in vs. freestanding
Induction ranges are like any other cooking range in that you can either slide them into a space on the countertop or add it to any other area of the kitchen. Freestanding ranges tend to be slightly less expensive than their slide-in counterparts. They are also more finished on the sides, offering a more aesthetic appeal.
Size of the range
The size of your kitchen will determine what size induction range you can buy. If you have the luxury of designing a kitchen around a stove, you can choose from widths that range from 30-48 inches. Larger induction ranges typically have more burners and may also include other features.
Size and number of elements
The size of your range will determine the number of elements you can cook on. However, there is some variety within this. Look for cooktop elements that fit the pots you generally cook in. Some induction ranges have size-sensing ability, which allows them to detect pot size and heat the appropriate number of coils.
Most standard induction ranges have four elements, but some have a few extra spots. These extra elements are helpful when you need to create complicated dishes.
What to look for in a quality induction range
Pre-programmed settings
Imagine never having to guess if your baked potato is fully cooked or determining the heat setting for boiling a pot of rice. These pre-programmed settings are incredibly helpful, especially for beginner chefs. Make sure to look for an induction stove with pre-programmed settings if you think this would be helpful in your home.
Safety features
You may want to have additional safety features like automatic shut-off or pot detection. These settings keep the stove burners off until they are needed, and turn them off if you leave them unattended. This is a great option for families with small children.
Ample power
One of the ways that manufacturers addressed previous issues with induction ranges was to increase the amount of power in the cooktop. Most induction ranges run 1,000-2,000 watts, but professional-grade appliances can use up to 3,500 watts.
How much you can expect to spend on an induction range
Induction ranges vary in price depending on the brand, size and additional features. You can expect to spend between $1,500-$4,500.
Induction range FAQ
How do induction ranges differ from other ranges?
A. The major difference between an induction range and other ranges is how it heats up. Instead of heating the range’s surface, which then heats a pot, induction ranges only heat the pot. These stovetops use magnetic coils to create a current that heats specialized cookware. This cookware must have a magnetic element in it. Cast iron and stainless steel are compatible with these ranges, but copper, aluminum and glass are not.
Are induction ranges fast?
A. Induction ranges typically heat around 50% faster than electric and gas ranges. This is because it heats the interior of the cookware directly instead of the surface.
Do induction ranges require special care?
A. One of the best parts of this appliance is how easy it is to clean. Spilled food does not bake onto the cooktop’s surface, which makes cleanup easy.
On the downside, the ceramic surface of the cooktop can become scratched if it’s not cleaned properly. There are a few tips to make it easier.
- Make sure the stove is turned off and that the stovetop is cool.
- Use a special cooktop scraper to remove dry food or crumbs.
- Wipe liquid spills off with a damp sponge.
- Used specialized cleaner and a non-abrasive sponge to gently scrub away stubborn dried food.
- Buff the surface with a clean paper towel.
What’s the best induction range to buy?
Top induction range
Samsung 4-Element Induction Range with Air Fry
What you need to know: You can tailor this intelligent, highly functional stove to your preferences.
What you’ll love: It’s a slide-in range featuring smartphone controls. The fingerprint-resistant black stainless steel finish looks great in a variety of kitchens. It has a built-in air fry function for fatless frying. The oven learns how you cook and programs your settings.
What you should consider: Some cooks felt it was a bit loud and expensive compared to other options.
Where to buy: Sold by Home Depot
Top induction range for the money
Frigidaire Front Control Induction Range with Air Fry
What you need to know: If you want an induction range with plenty of features at an affordable price, this is a great option.
What you’ll love: The oven has a convection fan and a third heating element to evenly circulate air. The stovetop automatically gauges the size of the pan and heats the appropriate number of coils. Spills won’t burn on the surface, making it easy to clean. The stainless steel finish is smudge-proof and beautiful.
What you should consider: It’s easy to turn on if you lean on the stove accidentally.
Where to buy: Sold by Home Depot
Worth checking out
Cafe Smart Slide-In Induction Range with Convection
What you need to know: The smart tech of this stove and connectivity make this a fun appliance to experiment with.
What you’ll love: The cooktop has five elements, one of which boils water in under two minutes. It connects to Amazon Echo or Google Assistant for all of your cooking questions, too. The oven has three racks and an in-oven camera to help you keep an eye on what’s inside.
What you should consider: It can be challenging to connect it to your Wi-Fi.
Where to buy: Sold by Wayfair
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Federal Agriculture Minister granted new veto powers
Federal Agriculture Minister David Littleproud will quickly have the ability of veto to cease native forest regeneration initiatives that might have an “adverse impact” on agricultural manufacturing or regional communities.
The new powers, which take impact on April 8, will apply to Emissions Reduction Fund native forest regeneration initiatives protecting greater than 15 hectares or greater than one-third of a farm.
Such initiatives would additionally must report on their compliance with State, Territory and native authorities necessities for managing pests and weeds.
Mr Littleproud stated it was vital to make sure carbon farming remained a internet constructive for agriculture, and that the advantages “stay in the hands of rural communities”.
“We want carbon farming projects to benefit Australian agriculture and regional communities, to reward farmers for good environmental stewardship, and provide drought resilient income that is spent in town,” he stated.
“Unfortunately, what we’ve seen instead in some cases are projects that negatively impact the neighbours and the town.
“We don’t want to see entire farms locked up, becoming havens for weeds and feral animals as families leave the land.”
The minister would solely have the ability to veto proposed new initiatives or expansions of current initiatives.
Mr Littleproud stated he would nonetheless assist “well-planned projects that involve the farmer and manage the land”.
“But I will not hesitate to act to protect community and agricultural interests over corporates and passive investors,” he stated.
Federal Industry, Energy and Emissions Reduction Minister Angus Taylor stated the brand new rules have been an vital safeguard for rural and regional communities.
“As the Emissions Reduction Fund continues to grow, it’s important that we get the balance right between managing land, storing carbon and ensuring the ERF has a positive impact on agricultural production,” he stated.
“Carbon service providers and project proponents have an important role to play in safeguarding the ERF’s licence to operate.
“The higher the standard industry sets, the more confidence the Government and regional communities can have in this scheme.”
Mr Taylor stated the Government was dedicated to making sure farmers retained management over their properties and had freedom to participate in ERF actions.
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Delivers another record quarter for design-related revenue for IoT, both sequential and year over year billings growth for Cybersecurity, as well as positive operating cash flow and net profit
Fourth Quarter Fiscal 2022:
- Total company revenue of $185 million.
- IoT revenue of $52 million.
- Cybersecurity revenue of $122 million.
- Licensing & Other revenue of $11 million.
- Net cash generated from operations of $10 million.
- Non-GAAP basic earnings per share of $0.01, GAAP basic earnings per share of $0.25 and GAAP diluted loss per share of $0.03.
Fiscal Year 2022:
- Total company revenue of $718 million.
- Non-GAAP basic loss per share of $0.10, GAAP basic earnings per share of $0.02 and GAAP diluted loss per share of $0.31.
WATERLOO, ON, March 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- BlackBerry Limited (NYSE: BB; TSX: BB) today reported financial results for the three months and fiscal year ended February 28, 2022 (all figures in U.S. dollars and U.S. GAAP, except where otherwise indicated).
"We're pleased with the progress that BlackBerry made this quarter. The IoT business recorded its first $50m-plus revenue quarter since the start of the pandemic. In addition to overcoming a number of industry-wide challenges, such as supply chain constraints and the war in Ukraine, the QNX business set another record for quarterly design-related revenue, demonstrating both strong fundamentals and momentum for the business," said John Chen, Executive Chairman & CEO, BlackBerry. "We're also excited about the prospects for the Cybersecurity business given another quarter of billings growth and further strengthening of the team with industry expertise in both sales and product development. The key components are in place, and we expect continued billings momentum this year. Following the demonstration of our BlackBerry IVY edge-to-cloud data platform on auto-grade hardware at CES, we have secured a number of Proof-of-Concept trials."
Fourth Quarter Fiscal 2022 Financial Highlights
- Total company revenue was $185 million.
- Total company non-GAAP gross margin was 68% and GAAP gross margin was 67%.
- IoT revenue was $52 million, with gross margin of 85% and ARR of $93 million, an 11% increase year-over-year.
- Cybersecurity revenue was $122 million, with gross margin of 61% and ARR of $347 million.
- Licensing and Other revenue was $11 million, with gross margin of 55%.
- Non-GAAP operating profit was $8 million. GAAP operating profit was $146 million.
- Total cash, cash equivalents, short-term and long-term investments were $770 million.
- Total net cash position was $405 million.
- Net cash generated from operating activities was $10 million.
Business Highlights & Strategic Announcements
IoT:
- BlackBerry QNX records a record number of new design wins in a quarter: 17 in Auto and 28 in the General Embedded Market (GEM).
- BlackBerry announces first BlackBerry IVY™ proof-of-concept, or POC, trial with PATEO, a leading Chinese tier 1 supplier, and a Chinese electric vehicle automaker to integrate IVY into a digital cockpit.
- BlackBerry and Marelli expand collaboration in China with BlackBerry QNX® Neutrino® RTOS and BlackBerry QNX® Hypervisor selected to power next generation cockpit technology.
- BlackBerry® QNX® real time operating system selected by Critical Software as the foundation for a railway protection system for Portugal's national rail network.
- BlackBerry® Jarvis® enhanced to include standardized reporting that enables compliance with the U.S. government's recent Executive Order relating to the software bill of materials.
Cybersecurity:
- BlackBerry receives maximum AAA rating from SE Labs following their Enterprise Advanced Security Test that used real-world hacking tactics against BlackBerry® Protect and BlackBerry® Optics.
- BlackBerry® SecuSUITE® encrypted communication solution endorsed for NATO use by the NSAB.
- BlackBerry® AtHoc® is being deployed, in partnership with TELUS, by all municipalities and the regional police in Niagara, Canada, displacing a key competitor's solution.
- BlackBerry releases annual threat report, highlighting a cybercriminal underground which has been optimized to better target small local businesses.
Outlook
BlackBerry will provide fiscal year 2023 outlook in connection with the quarterly earnings announcement on its earnings conference call. The earnings call transcript will be made available on our website and on SEDAR.
Use of Non-GAAP Financial Measures
The tables at the end of this press release include a reconciliation of the non-GAAP financial measures and non-GAAP financial ratios used by the company to comparable U.S. GAAP measures and an explanation of why the company uses them.
Conference Call and Webcast
A conference call and live webcast will be held today beginning at 5:30 p.m. ET, which can be accessed by dialing +1 (877) 761-5600 or by logging on at BlackBerry.com/Investors.
A replay of the conference call will also be available at approximately 8:30 p.m. ET by dialing +1 (800) 770-2030 and entering Conference ID #1566649 and at the link above.
About BlackBerry
BlackBerry (NYSE: BB; TSX: BB) provides intelligent security software and services to enterprises and governments around the world. The company secures more than 500M endpoints including more than 195M vehicles. Based in Waterloo, Ontario, the company leverages AI and machine learning to deliver innovative solutions in the areas of cybersecurity, safety and data privacy, and is a leader in the areas of endpoint security, endpoint management, encryption, and embedded systems. BlackBerry's vision is clear - to secure a connected future you can trust.
BlackBerry. Intelligent Security. Everywhere.
For more information, visit BlackBerry.com and follow @BlackBerry.
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This news release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of certain securities laws, including under the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and applicable Canadian securities laws, including statements regarding BlackBerry's plans, strategies and objectives including its expectations with respect to increasing and enhancing its product and service offerings.
The words "expect", "anticipate", "estimate", "may", "will", "should", "could", "intend", "believe", "target", "plan" and similar expressions are intended to identify these forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements are based on estimates and assumptions made by BlackBerry in light of its experience and its perception of historical trends, current conditions and expected future developments, as well as other factors that BlackBerry believes are appropriate in the circumstances, including but not limited to, BlackBerry's expectations regarding its business, strategy, opportunities and prospects, the launch of new products and services, general economic conditions, the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the Russia Ukraine conflict, competition, and BlackBerry's expectations regarding its financial performance. Many factors could cause BlackBerry's actual results, performance or achievements to differ materially from those expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements, including, without limitation, risks related to the following factors: BlackBerry's ability to enhance, develop, introduce or monetize products and services for the enterprise market in a timely manner with competitive pricing, features and performance; BlackBerry's ability to maintain or expand its customer base for its software and services offerings to grow revenue or achieve sustained profitability; the intense competition faced by BlackBerry; the occurrence or perception of a breach of BlackBerry's network cybersecurity measures, or an inappropriate disclosure of confidential or personal information; the failure or perceived failure of BlackBerry's solutions to detect or prevent security vulnerabilities; BlackBerry's continuing ability to attract new personnel, retain existing key personnel and manage its staffing effectively; litigation against BlackBerry; BlackBerry's dependence on its relationships with resellers and channel partners; acquisitions, divestitures and other business initiatives; the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic; network disruptions or other business interruptions; BlackBerry's ability to foster an ecosystem of third-party application developers; BlackBerry's products and services being dependent upon interoperability with rapidly changing systems provided by third parties; BlackBerry's ability to obtain rights to use third-party software and its use of open source software; failure to protect BlackBerry's intellectual property and to earn expected revenues from intellectual property rights; BlackBerry being found to have infringed on the intellectual property rights of others; the substantial asset risk faced by BlackBerry, including the potential for charges related to its long-lived assets and goodwill; BlackBerry's indebtedness; tax provision changes, the adoption of new tax legislation or exposure to additional tax liabilities; the use and management of user data and personal information; government regulations applicable to BlackBerry's products and services, including products containing encryption capabilities; environmental, social and governance expectations and standards; the failure of BlackBerry's suppliers, subcontractors, channel partners and representatives to use acceptable ethical business practices or comply with applicable laws; regulations regarding health and safety, hazardous materials usage and conflict minerals; foreign operations, including fluctuations in foreign currencies; adverse economic, geopolitical and environmental conditions; the fluctuation of BlackBerry's quarterly revenue and operating results; the volatility of the market price of BlackBerry's common shares; and rising inflation.
These risk factors and others relating to BlackBerry are discussed in greater detail in BlackBerry's Annual Report on Form 10-K and the "Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements" section of BlackBerry's MD&A (copies of which filings may be obtained at www.sedar.com or www.sec.gov). All of these factors should be considered carefully, and readers should not place undue reliance on BlackBerry's forward-looking statements. Any statements that are forward-looking statements are intended to enable BlackBerry's shareholders to view the anticipated performance and prospects of BlackBerry from management's perspective at the time such statements are made, and they are subject to the risks that are inherent in all forward-looking statements, as described above, as well as difficulties in forecasting BlackBerry's financial results and performance for future periods, particularly over longer periods, given changes in technology and BlackBerry's business strategy, evolving industry standards, intense competition and short product life cycles that characterize the industries in which BlackBerry operates. Any forward-looking statements are made only as of today and the company has no intention and undertakes no obligation to update or revise any of them, except as required by law.
Reconciliations of the Company's Segment Results to the Consolidated Results
The following table shows information by operating segment for the three months ended February 28, 2022 and February 28, 2021. The Company reports segment information in accordance with U.S. GAAP Accounting Standards Codification Section 280 based on the "management" approach. The management approach designates the internal reporting used by the Chief Operating Decision Maker for making decisions and assessing performance of the Company's reportable operating segments.
The following table reconciles the Company's segment results for the three months ended February 28, 2022 to consolidated U.S. GAAP results:
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The following table reconciles the Company's segment results for the three months ended February 28, 2021 to consolidated U.S. GAAP results:
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Reconciliation of Non-GAAP Measures with the Nearest Comparable U.S. GAAP Measures
In the Company's internal reports, management evaluates the performance of the Company's business on a non-GAAP basis by excluding the impact of certain items below from the Company's U.S. GAAP financial results. The Company believes that these non-GAAP financial measures and non-GAAP ratios provide management, as well as readers of the Company's financial statements with a consistent basis for comparison across accounting periods and is useful in helping management and readers understand the Company's operating results and underlying operational trends. In the first quarter of fiscal 2022, the Company discontinued its use of software deferred revenue acquired and software deferred commission expense acquired adjustments in its non-GAAP financial measures due to the quantitative decline in the adjustments over time. For purposes of comparability, the Company's non-GAAP financial measures for the three months ended and year ended February 28, 2021 have been updated to conform to the current year's presentation.
Readers are cautioned that adjusted gross margin, adjusted gross margin percentage, adjusted operating expense, adjusted net income (loss), adjusted income (loss) per share, adjusted research and development expense, adjusted selling, marketing and administrative expense, adjusted amortization expense, adjusted operating income (loss), adjusted EBITDA, adjusted operating income (loss) margin percentage, adjusted EBITDA margin percentage and free cash flow (usage) and similar measures do not have any standardized meaning prescribed by U.S. GAAP and are therefore unlikely to be comparable to similarly titled measures reported by other companies. These non-GAAP financial measures should be considered in the context of the U.S. GAAP results.
Reconciliation of non-GAAP based measures with most directly comparable U.S. GAAP based measures for the three months ended February 28, 2022 and February 28, 2021
A reconciliation of the most directly comparable U.S. GAAP financial measures for the three months ended February 28, 2022 and February 28, 2021 to adjusted financial measures is reflected in the table below:
Reconciliation of U.S. GAAP operating expense (income) for the three months ended February 28, 2022 and February 28, 2021 to adjusted operating expense is reflected in the table below:
Reconciliation of U.S. GAAP net income (loss) and U.S. GAAP basic earnings (loss) per share for the three months ended February 28, 2022 and February 28, 2021 to adjusted net income and adjusted basic earnings per share is reflected in the table below:
Reconciliation of U.S. GAAP research and development, selling, marketing and administration, and amortization expense for the three months ended February 28, 2022 and February 28, 2021 to adjusted research and development, selling, marketing and administration, and amortization expense is reflected in the table below:
Adjusted operating income, adjusted EBITDA, adjusted operating income margin percentage and adjusted EBITDA margin percentage for the three months ended February 28, 2022 and February 28, 2021 are reflected in the table below. These are non-GAAP financial measures and non-GAAP ratios that do not have any standardized meaning as prescribed by U.S. GAAP and are therefore unlikely to be comparable to similar measures presented by other companies.
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Reconciliation of non-GAAP based measures with most directly comparable U.S. GAAP based measures for the years ended February 28, 2022 and February 28, 2021
A reconciliation of the most directly comparable U.S. GAAP financial measures for the years ended February 28, 2022 and February 28, 2021 to adjusted financial measures is reflected in the table below:
Reconciliation of U.S. GAAP net income (loss) and U.S. GAAP basic earnings (loss) per share for the years ended February 28, 2022 and February 28, 2021 to adjusted net income (loss) and adjusted basic earnings (loss) per share is reflected in the table below:
Reconciliation of U.S. GAAP research and development, selling, marketing and administration, and amortization expense for the years ended February 28, 2022 and February 28, 2021 to adjusted research and development, selling, marketing and administration, and amortization expense is reflected in the table below:
Adjusted operating income (loss), adjusted EBITDA, adjusted operating income (loss) margin percentage and adjusted EBITDA margin percentage for the years ended February 28, 2022 and February 28, 2021 are reflected in the table below.
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The Company uses free cash flow when assessing its sources of liquidity, capital resources, and quality of earnings. The Company believes that free cash flow is helpful in understanding the Company's capital requirements and provides an additional means to reflect the cash flow trends in the Company's business.
Reconciliation of U.S. GAAP net cash provided by operating activities for the three months ended February 28, 2022 and February 28, 2021 to free cash flow is reflected in the table below:
Reconciliation of U.S. GAAP net cash provided by (used in) operating activities for the years ended February 28, 2022 and February 28, 2021 to free cash flow (usage) is reflected in the table below:
Key Metrics
The Company regularly monitors a number of financial and operating metrics, including the following key metrics, in order to measure the Company's current performance and estimate future performance. Readers are cautioned that annual recurring revenue ("ARR"), dollar-based net retention rate ("DBNRR"), and recurring revenue percentage do not have any standardized meaning and are unlikely to be comparable to similarly titled measures reported by other companies.
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FLIP (FLP) traded flat against the U.S. dollar during the 24-hour period ending at 19:00 PM Eastern on March 31st. One FLIP coin can now be purchased for about $0.0122 or 0.00000019 BTC on major cryptocurrency exchanges. In the last week, FLIP has traded flat against the U.S. dollar. FLIP has a market capitalization of $683,828.84 and approximately $818.00 worth of FLIP was traded on exchanges in the last day.
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Six teenage students killed in a collision with a semi were riding in a small car with only four seats, the Oklahoma Highway Patrol said Wednesday.Only the 16-year-old car's driver and front-seat passenger were wearing seat belts when the 2015 Chevrolet Spark collided with the truck Tuesday afternoon in Tishomingo, a rural city of about 3,000 located about 100 miles (160 kilometers) southeast of Oklahoma City, the highway patrol said.The highway patrol says those killed include the 16-year-old driver, three 15-year-olds, and two 17-year-old passengers. The victims' names weren't released because they are juveniles. Tishomingo Public School Superintendent Bobby Waitman said in a Facebook post that the district had “a great loss” involving students from the district’s high school.“Our hearts are broken, and we are grieving with our students and staff,” said Waitman. Read More Putin spokesman refuses to rule out nuclear weapons – liveWhy has Russia invaded Ukraine? The conflict simply explainedSign The Independent’s petition to help the people of Ukraine
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H.S. softball: One-sided win. loss in tale of two Louisville trips for Warhawks
- By Kal Oakes Georgetown News-Graphic
- Updated
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There aren't many soft spots on the Great Crossing softball schedule, and Butler surely didn't figure to unravel into one Tuesday evening in Louisville.
In fact, if someone handed a savvy observer a copy of that slate and asked which date was the least likely to end up with the Warhawks shattering their school record for most runs in a game and matching their largest winning margin ever, the Bearettes might have been it.
So imagine GC's surprise when they dropped a football number on the reigning state champions, 21-2, in a business trip shortened to three innings by the mercy rule.
Brooke Miller, Kendall Meade and Destiney Reed each cranked a home run for No. 15 Great Crossing, which knocked out No. 24 Butler with nine runs in the first inning, two more in the second and a 10-spot to bar the door.
By comparison, GC scored a total of three runs in two complete games at home against Butler last spring, both losses. And Butler gave up only 18 in a 10-game winning streak at the triumphant end of its 2021 campaign.
Alas, this week was a tale of two trips to Louisville: No. 7 Assumption avenged a road loss last year with a 12-1 rout of GC on Wednesday.
Miller (2-for-3, three RBI), Michalee Clay (2-for-4, five RBI) and Reed (2-for-2, three runs scored) were repeat hitters for Great Crossing in the first installment. Ashtyn Holbrook contributed a double and four RBI. Meade and Layne Ogle each knocked in three runs.
Making her first appearance in the circle since pitching for Scott County in 2019, Clay scattered five hits and walked two in the abbreviated complete game.
Delaney Hilpp was the only repeat hitter for Butler (1-5). Hilpp and Kelsey Davis drove in the Bearettes' two runs.
Delani Sullivan, who scored three runs on the evening, reached on an error to begin the GC onslaught. Miller followed with a double. Another Butler miscue produced the first run, and walks by Bianca Ward, Meade and Ogle pushed two more across the plate.
That set up a two-run double to left by Holbrook. GC plated another pair on a throwing error before Miller punctuated the inning with her first home run of the season. Butler notched one in reply with two out in the bottom of the first on a single by Emily Williams, followed by Hilpp's double.
GC wasted no time pushing the lead to double digits, however. Ward led off the second inning with a single. Two batters later, Meade left the yard in straightaway center field for an 11-1 advantage.
Two walks, a hit and an error produced Butler's solo run in the second frame, although catcher Ward minimized the damage with a strong throw to Meade at third to cancel a would-be base thief.
Reed christened the third inning by depositing a 2-0 pitch to center. Sullivan's single and Miller's walk led to their double steal ahead of a two-run single. Ogle tacked on a two-run double later in the inning. GC scored two more when Butler mishandled Holbrook's grounder.
Miller embellished the total with an RBI groundout, and Clay drove home two with a double to complete the hit parade. Sullivan turned a double play at shortstop to snuff out Butler's last stand.
Great Crossing achieved its previous offensive high-water marks in a 19-0 rout at Bourbon County last May 10.
Rockets launch three over fence
Assumption delivered the three home run attack to dampen the spirits Wednesday. Emily Shearer, Raegan Gibson and Regan Monroe played long ball for the Rockets (5-2), who backed it up by allowing only one run for the fourth consecutive game.
Gibson held Great Crossing (2-2) without a hit until Holbrook’s two-out home run in the fourth inning. Ward’s single in the sixth and final frame was the only other significant noise against Gibson, who struck out six and walked four.
Monroe’s two-run launch ended the game via mercy rule, the second time the Warhawks have been dealt that hand in their first four contests.
Miller and Clay walked consecutively in the top of the first, but Monroe threw out Miller’s attempted steal of second to lighten Gibson’s early workload.
Rylee Sandifer drew a walk and Landrey Sipes doubled to ignite Assumption. Ogle struck out Samantha Schaefer and quickly had two strikes on Shearer before the junior went deep to left field for a 3-0 lead.
GC had an opportunity to respond but left the bases loaded in the second. Meade and Ryann Livingston drew walks, the latter with two out, sandwiched around an error. Gibson coaxed a fly ball to left from Sullivan to escape the fracas.
Assumption padded the lead in the third on doubles by Sipes and Shearer. GC caught a break when Schaefer, who walked between the two hits, failed to tag up on Monroe’s fly ball, resulting in an inning-ending double play to keep the margin at 4-0.
Holbrook’s home run snapped a streak of six consecutive Warhawks retired by Gibson, and the Rockets retorted with three more in their half of the fourth frame for a 7-1 cushion.
A single by Gibson, followed by a two-base error, set the table for consecutive doubles by Speaker and Sandifer. Sipes added a sacrifice fly.
Shearer doubled and Monroe walked ahead of Gibson’s three-run blast in the fifth. Schaefer’s single preceded the game-ender from Monroe.
Ogle, Reed and Brenna Parker shared the pitching duties for Great Crossing. Assumption pounded out 13 hits and struck out only twice.
Assumption achieved payback for a 3-2 loss at Great Crossing last May 19. GC won 11 consecutive games after a 1-3 start a year ago.
Great Crossing hosted Anderson County on Thursday and travels to Huntsville, Alabama, for a tournament this weekend.
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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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The answer isn’t just a matter of curiosity; it could matter legally. Coverups, after all, can be used to prove criminal intent. And the Jan. 6 investigation is trending in that direction, with some recent validation.
All of the above-mentioned options are viable, given what we know so far. We know for a fact that the gap wasn’t the result of Trump staying off his phone, as we have at least five phone calls in the public record that aren’t accounted for in the call log. One of them appears in the White House daily diary — a retrospective summary of the president’s actions — but, for some reason, not the call log. And it, for some reason, lacks the detail of the other calls in the diary, including the other party to the call.
Since the news of the gap broke Tuesday, we’ve been able to connect a couple of key dots:
- That final call before the 7½-hour gap — at 11:17 a.m. — appears to have been with then-Sen. Kelly Loeffler (R-Ga.), based on another document. And according to the same document, it was apparently followed shortly thereafter by a Trump call with Vice President Mike Pence at 11:20 a.m. — a call that isn’t recorded at all in either the diary or call log.
- Another of the unaccounted-for calls — a 2:26 p.m. call mistakenly made to Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) but meant for Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) — appears to have come from a White House device.
That latter revelation comes courtesy of the Guardian’s Hugo Lowell, who confirmed that the call to Lee came from a number listed as 202-395-0000. That number signifies it originated on an official White House phone.
Both of these suggest the gap didn’t result from the use of untraceable burner phones. If the idea was to shield communications as the plot to overturn the election unfolded, why would the 7½-hour gap feature a call from a White House device — smack in the middle, at 2:26 p.m.?
As for the idea that there was some kind of real-time effort to obscure Trump’s actions, a valid question is why it would begin that early — in the 11 a.m. hour, three hours before the insurrection. There’s very little reason for such an effort to obscure the calls to Loeffler and Pence, since they were calls you might well have expected Trump to make. Loeffler, after all, had just been defeated in a runoff, and the call logs show Trump had also called the other defeated Georgia GOP senator, David Perdue. That Trump would talk to Pence wouldn’t be out of the ordinary, either. (True, the content of the call was Trump asking Pence to overturn the election, but he had engaged in that kind of talk very publicly.)
The counterpoint is that those calls simply could have been wrapped up in a larger effort to cover Trump’s tracks. And that’s where the 11:17 a.m. call is particularly intriguing.
This call stands out. Not only did it omit the other party and other details — which all the other calls included — it also was listed in the daily diary but, for some reason, not in the call log. The other calls are listed in both.
It’s possible the lack of detail on that call and its exclusion from the call log simply reflected the beginning of 7½ hours of sloppiness. But it could also point to tampering after the fact.
As Lowell notes, the daily diary is a retrospective record put together by aides “who have some sway to determine whether a particular event was significant enough to warrant its inclusion.” Piecing together that record could involve reviewing call logs. So how would a call that doesn’t appear in the call logs find its way into the daily diary? It seems possible that someone knew about the call but couldn’t piece together who it was with or details, such as how long it lasted.
And why wouldn’t that information have been available in the call log? One possibility that hasn’t gotten enough attention is that a page of the call logs might be missing, for whatever reason.
As we observed Tuesday, the format of the call log and the gap it contains are notable. The final recorded call before the gap — the 11:04 a.m. call to Perdue — happens to come at the end of a page, and the next recorded call — a request for White House aide Dan Scavino at 6:54 p.m. — is at the top of the next one. If the gap were to have appeared in the middle of one of those pages, it wouldn’t rule out tampering, but the tampering would have been more involved (i.e., going into the document and editing it, rather than simply getting rid of a page).
This, of course, proves nothing; we simply don’t know. But Trump made a habit of not complying with record-keeping rules, notably ripping up papers and removing the very documents that the Jan. 6 committee has sought. His first impeachment included testimony that an unseemly document — the transcript of the call in which he tried to pressure Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to provide political dirt for his reelection campaign — was moved to a classified server. With someone who so cavalierly flouts record-keeping requirements, it’s difficult to rule such things out.
Stay tuned. The gap is important; the reason for it is more important.
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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Daily 4 Evening" game were:
4-1-9-1, FIREBALL: 1
(four, one, nine, one; FIREBALL: one)
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Daily 4 Evening" game were:
4-1-9-1, FIREBALL: 1
(four, one, nine, one; FIREBALL: one)
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The Walking Dead: Here's a Look at Daryl Dixon's Last TWD Ride (Video)
If you're reading this then by now you know two things. First, AMC's The Walking Dead has officially wrapped filming its final episode. Second, Angela Kang, Greg Nicotero, Norman Reedus & Angela Kang have been doing their part to kick the living crap out of our "feels" with their posts honoring the occasion. But is it really any surprise that DoP Duane Charles Manwiller (who has gone above and beyond keeping fans updated on the final days' filming), someone whose professional life is committed to the perfect shot, would be the one to hit us the hardest. Especially when you caption your post with "Daryl Dixon's last ride" and then show us a brief clip of that very thing? Ouch. Yeah, that one's gonna leave a mark…
Here's a look at Manwiller's clip of Reedus making his last ride before filming on AMC's The Walking Dead wrapped for good, followed by a look at Melissa McBride and Nicotero sharing a moment on that final day:
This weekend's penultimate episode of Season 11 Part 2 "Trust" (directed by Lily Mariye and written by Kevin Deiboldt) has a lot on its plate after how things ended between our heroes and the Commonwealth in the last episode of AMC's The Walking Dead (check out our review here). We have a very strung-out Hornsby (Josh Hamilton), Daryl (Reedus), and Commonwealth troopers coming a-callin' on Maggie (Cohan) at Hilltop- and it's not for coffee and to catch up on old times. Meanwhile, Rosita (Christian Serratos), Connie (Lauren Ridloff), Kelly (Angel Theory), and Eugene (Josh McDermitt) continue digging deeper into the Commonwealth, especially Pamela Milton (Laila Robins). And Ezekiel (Khary Payton) looks to do some good with his new lease on life but that might end up leading "The King" down a very dark path when more truths about the Commonwealth come to light.
The Walking Dead returns with many of our heroes fighting imminent hellfire under Reaper attack; while others battle Mother Nature's torrential wrath in Alexandria. For all, their world is literally crashing down around them. Meanwhile, life in the Commonwealth is not as idyllic as it seems. For some, hope will be renewed. Others will be pushed past the point of no return. One truth holds tight: Lives hang in the balance with each decision drastically changing their future, their chances of survival, and the state of each community.
In AMC's April Highlights email, we had the following listed as an overview for the April 10th midseason finale (streaming on April 3rd on AMC+): "In the very last midseason finale for 'The Walking Dead,' our heroes are trapped in situations beyond their control. Everyone they've worked so hard to protect is at risk as danger baits them at every turn. All is at stake. Now, they must decide who and what are worth saving. Each decision comes with its own deadly ramifications." Considering how stretched out our heroes are now across the landscape and how their priorities are beginning to shift, it appears there will be threats coming from a number of different directions. And there's still that teased stand-off between Maggie and Daryl still to come so there's a lot to read into that description.
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A dozen very fresh faces arrived in Princeton last weekend, volunteers with Mennonite Disaster Services (MDS), to help with the town’s flood recovery.
Twelve members of a youth group, from a Winnipeg Mennonite congregation, gave up a week of their spring school break to rebuild houses in the flood devastated community, supervised by five church leaders. They range in age from 15 to 19.
“I felt really called,” said Lizzie Rochon, 17.
“I saw it a lot on the news and we talked about it a lot in our family.”
Rochon acknowledged she has no construction experience.
“I’m prepared to learn a lot. I’m prepared to do whatever.”
With a smile, she added that seeing British Columbia’s mountainous beauty is a great treat.
“I’m here because I like helping people and I really didn’t have anything better to do on my spring break,” said Shane Duff, also 17.
“I want to hear people’s stories, and I want to learn to help people with more than just words. I want to make a difference.”
Monday morning, one of the first assignments for the young crew members was to crawl into flooded basements, remove debris and preparing the spaces for insulation.
Brian Causte is the Meeting Mennonite Brethren Church youth pastor.
He said the group made the decision to come to Princeton in January, and the trip took about six weeks to organize.
He described this week as “a blessing” for the young people in his charge, to be able to provide service.
Mennonite Disaster Services has been a cornerstone of flood recovery in Princeton since volunteers arrived in early December 2021.
“I cannot express how thankful I am to the MDS, and all their amazing volunteers who are in our community, for their help,” said Mayor Spencer Coyne in a March 2 interview. “Without their efforts it would be hard to think of where we would be in our recovery.
“‘Thank you’ does not seem like adequate enough words to express just how grateful we all are.”
MDS volunteers pay their own travel costs, and receive lodging and food when they arrive on scene. In Princeton they are housed at Rock Ridge Canyon, and generally come for one week at a time.
Some of the same people answered the call in Williams Lake, after the 2018 wildfire, and following the flood in Grand Forks in 2019. The group also responds to international crises, especially hurricanes and tornado events in the United States.
While the labour is free, generally homeowners pay for materials.
However there are also MDS funds available for especially vulnerable people, for example people without insurance, the elderly, and those without financial means to recover.
Related: Mennonite group helps Princeton flood victims rebuild
Related: ‘It’s just unbelievable’: Public Safety Minister Mike Farnworth tours Princeton flood
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Los Angeles suing Monsanto over PCB contamination of waterways
The city of Los Angeles has filed a lawsuit against agrochemical giant Monsanto and two other companies over PCB contamination in city waterways.
In a statement on Friday, Los Angeles City Attorney Mike Feuer (D) said the lawsuit, filed on Friday in the L.A. County Superior Court, seeks to force Monsanto to abate its PCB pollution and reimburse the city for costs it has already incurred to address the pollution.
“It’s time for Monsanto to clean up and pay up,” Feuer said in a statement. “The health and environmental impacts of PCBs — impacts the City has been working hard to reduce in waters throughout L.A. — are just jaw dropping. We allege Monsanto knew decades ago that PCBs are toxic and inevitably would cause widespread contamination. It’s infuriating that Monsanto continued to manufacture and sell them — and, we allege, deceive the public about them.”
PCBs, or Polychlorinated Biphenyls, are a group of human-made chemicals that were used for a wide range of commercial and industrial purposes before being banned in 1979 under the Toxic Substances Control Act.
According to Feuer’s lawsuit, Monsanto manufactured 99 percent or more of all PCBs used or sold within the U.S. between 1929 and 1977, including chemical mixtures sold under numerous trade names in Los Angeles.
The lawsuit also alleges that Monsanto never told the city or the public of the environmental hazards of PCBs, which contaminated the city’s stormwater and wastewater systems, surface waters, and other resources.
PCBs were deployed for uses including hydraulic fluids, fireproofing, and paper products.
In a statement to the Los Angeles Times, Bayer Co., which owns Monsanto, said it is reviewing the lawsuit, which it believes is without merit.
“Monsanto voluntarily ceased its lawful manufacturing of PCBs more than 40 years ago, and never manufactured, used, or disposed of PCBs into Los Angeles’ waters, and therefore should not be held liable for the contamination alleged by the city,” Bayer said in its statement.
“Where it has been determined that those cleanups are necessary, federal, and state authorities employ an effective system to identify dischargers and allocate clean-up responsibilities,” Bayer added. “Litigation of the sort brought by the city risks undermining these efforts.”
The Hill has reached out to Bayer for comment.
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Wests Tigers forward James Tamou is keeping faith in the benevolence of the NRL footy gods despite being forsaken against Gold Coast.
The luckless Tigers were seemingly on their way to a first win of 2022 on Thursday, holding a four-point lead going into the final minute of a largely forgettable and scrappy affair with the Titans at CBUS Super Stadium.
Unfortunately for Tamou and his teammates, destiny wasn't on their side as a chaotic play, involving a Toby Sexton kick rebounding off a post before being dropped in-goal by Tiger Jock Madden, allowed AJ Brimson to steal an 8-6 win for the hosts.
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It's a situation Tamou has seen before and he knows first-hand how quickly situations can change at a club, having been part of a North Queensland team which lost their first three matches in 2015 before going on a run that eventually ended in the Cowboys' first premiership.
"There's 22 rounds to go," Tamou said.
"For us to keep going we've got to follow that path. We can't let it go.
"The footy gods, they praise effort. The boys put a lot of effort out there (on Thursday) and I'm proud of them."
The 33-year-old has also leapt to the defence of under-fire coach Michael Maguire amid speculation he has lost the dressing room.
Tamou pointed to the example of suspended Jackson Hastings paying for his own plane ticket to be in the coach's box at CBUS Super Stadium as a symbol of the togetherness within the group.
The experienced front-rower also knows Maguire is wholly committed to turning around the ailing Tigers' fortunes.
"If Madge could, mate, he'd strap up and he'd get out there with you," Tamou said.
"Around everything that he talks about, you can just feel the passion and you want to play for him because you can feel it.
"He gets you up, mate, he really does."
Next up is a trip to PointsBet Stadium next weekend to face highly-fancied Cronulla but it's not a challenge that shakes Tamou's belief.
"We've got to bring that effort," Tamou said.
"No doubt the Sharks have obviously been talked about as one of the pinnacle clubs in the comp so we've got to bring that effort and we'll look back and see where we could be better.
"We'll keep working and keep growing ... for us to keep going forward, we've got to stick around each other."
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AP PHOTOS on Day 36: Russian tanks destroyed outside Kyiv
Destroyed Russian tanks line a road on the outskirts of Ukraine's capital, where Ukrainian troops pose for selfies atop the shell of one vehicle after their forces overran a Russian position. An 81-year-old man bicycles alone past one burned-out tank on the muddy road.
Close to Kyiv, in Irpin, Ukrainian soldiers carry the bodies of civilians killed by Russian forces over a destroyed bridge. Other soldiers assist an elderly woman who has hidden from Russian shelling in a shelter for weeks without food and water.
In the town of Bashtanka, people who have fled nearby villages attacked by the Russian army shelter in a church among the pews and in the basement bomb shelter.
During a break for lunch, a Ukrainian soldier keeps a machine gun close at hand, next to pickles and condiments on the table.
Destroyed Russian armored vehicles sit on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, March 31, 2022. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
People hide in a basement of a church which is used as a bomb shelter, after fleeing from nearby villages, that have been attacked by the Russian army, in the town of Bashtanka, Mykolaiv district, Ukraine, on Thursday, March 31, 2022. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)
Ukrainian soldiers carry a body of a civilian killed by the Russian forces over the destroyed bridge in Irpin close to Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, March 31, 2022. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)
A machine gun of a Ukrainian soldier rests next to condiments for lunch in the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, March 31, 2022. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
Ukrainian soldiers pass on top of armored vehicles next to a destroyed Russian tank in the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, March 31, 2022. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
People hide in a basement of a church which is used as a bomb shelter, after fleeing from nearby villages that have been attacked by the Russian army, in the town of Bashtanka, Mykolaiv district, Ukraine,on Thursday, March 31, 2022. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)
The arm of a dead Russian soldier is seen next to a tank on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, March 31, 2022. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
Oleksandr, 81, rides a bicycle next to a destroyed Russian tank in the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, March 31, 2022. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
Ukrainian soldiers assist an elderly woman who has hidden from the Russian shelling in a shelter for weeks without food and water, in Irpin close to Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, March 31, 2022. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)
People take shelter inside a church after fleeing from nearby villages that have been attacked by the Russian army, in the town of Bashtanka, Mykolaiv district, Ukraine, on Thursday, March 31, 2022. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)
A Ukrainian serviceman takes a selfie standing on a destroyed Russian tank after Ukrainian forces overran a Russian position outside Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, March 31, 2022. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)
A damaged gas mask lies on the pavement at a Russian position which was overran by Ukrainian forces, outside Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, March 31, 2022. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)
Ukrainian soldiers carry bodies of civilians killed by the Russian forces over the destroyed bridge in Irpin close to Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, March 31, 2022. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)
Territorial Defense of the Armed Forces, 21-year-olds Svitlana, right, and Myroslava, pose for a photograph, in Lviv, western Ukraine, Thursday, March 31, 2022. Both Svitlana, and Myroslava, who studied at the same university in Kyiv, decided to leave academia and serve their country by joining the TDF only one month ago. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)
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With spring in full swing in Central Texas, now is the time to enjoy the mild weather before the summer months bring high temperatures. Gather family or friends to participate in one of the upcoming golf events, enroll the kids in a soccer clinic, grab some adult beverages at the Spirit of Santa Fe Trail, or enjoy some live music on a patio. Information on these and more provided below.
Local Events
The 30th anniversary of the Temple College Jazz Fest will be from March 31 to April 2 at the Mary Alice Marshall Performing Arts Center, 2600 S.First St., Temple. This three-day event is open to the public and student tickets are $5 and adults are $20 each. Go to https://tcjazzfestival.com/event-schedule/ for a full schedule of performances.
The Spirit of Santa Fe Trail will be April 1- 3 at seven wineries and four breweries in the local area. Ticket holders can experience exclusive offers at each location at their own pace over the course of three days for $25 per ticket. Go to https://bit.ly/3LvMfEe for a complete list of locations and to purchase tickets in advance.
The Garrison Commander’s Scramble will be at 9 a.m. April 1 at The Courses of Clear Creek, 52381 Legends Way, Fort Hood. This four-person team event is open to all and cost is $40 per person with optional $5 mulligans. Call 254-287-4130 to register and for more information. There will also be a Thursday Scramble at 5:30 p.m. April 7 at the course, with registration open April 4- 7. Cost is $25 for individual player sign ups.
The Just Between Friends Bell County Children's and Maternity Consignment Pop-Up Sale will be open to the public from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. April 1, 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. April 2, and 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. April 3 at the Bell County Expo Center, 301 W. Loop 121, Belton. General admission tickets are free and pre-sale tickets range from $10 to $20 for special access. Go to https://bit.ly/3tU5m5h for more information.
The Veteran and Military Spouse Business Expo will be from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. April 2 at the Fort Hood Exchange, 4250 Clear Creek Road. In addition to veteran-owned business vendors, there will be live entertainment, food trucks, contests, and more. NASCAR Xfinity Series Driver Colin Garrett will also be in attendance.
The Texans Helping Texans Donation Drive and Car Meet will be from 6 to 9 p.m. April 2 at Lonestar Mopar, 4301 E. Central Texas Expressway, Killeen. Car enthusiasts are invited to attend and bring items like livestock feed, cattle cubes, horse feed, ranch fencing supplies, feed troughs, dog and cat food, personal hygiene items, non-perishable food, blankets, children's toys, and bottled water to donate to those impacted by recent wildfires and tornadoes.
The V.I.B.E. Spring Pop-Up Shop will be from noon to 5 p.m. April 2 at the Killeen Civic and Conference Center, 3601 S. W.S. Young Drive. A number of local small business vendors will be in attendance for customers to shop with.
The 28th annual Central Texas College Foundation Golf Tournament fundraiser will be at 9 a.m. April 22 at the Stonetree Golf Club, 1600 Stonetree Drive, Killeen. Registration for this four-person scramble is open until April 8. Entry fee is $340 per team and includes a golf cart, green fee, tournament fee, two drinks on course, and lunch. Go to https://ctc4.me/CTCGolf22 to register. A portion of the proceeds will benefit the CTC Foundation Scholarship program and events. Emailwendy.martel@ctcd.edu or call 254-526-1662 for more information.
Twice as Funny Comedy Lounge, 4505 E. Veterans Memorial Blvd., Killeen, is hosting comedian D’Lai at 9 p.m. April 1, and 7:30 and 10 p.m.April 2. Tickets start at $20 per person. Go to https://twiceasfunnycomedylounge-com.seatengine.com for more information and to purchase tickets.
Liv and Let Live Yoga, 3803 Levy Lane in Killeen, hosts Yoga for Those Who Serve from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. every second Thursday of the month. This free class is open to all skill levels who are military, first responders, healthcare workers, and teachers.
The Sammons Community Center, 2220 W. Avenue D in Temple, hosts its Country and Western Dance from 6 to 9 p.m. every second and fourth Tuesday of the month. Admission is $5 per person and is open to adults only. Coffee and punch are provided. Guests are invited to bring a snack to share.
The Mayborn Science Theater at Central Texas College, 6200 W. Central Texas Expressway in Killeen, hosts a variety of laser shows, movies, and other events based on astronomy.For show descriptions, a full schedule, and ticket prices go to www.starsatnight.org or call 254-526-1800.
Family Fun
The Intro to Sports: Soccer Clinic will be April 2 and 3 at Summit Soccer Complex, 301 N. Amy Lane, Harker Heights. This two-day clinic will feature drills for soccer skills and speed foundations for kids in grades third to sixth. Cost is $20. Go to https://secure.rec1.com/TX/harker-heights-tx/catalog for more information and registration.
Registration for the Youth Golf Clinic is open now through April 9 for the event taking place from 9 a.m. to noon April 23 at The Courses of Clear Creek, 52381 Legends Way, Fort Hood. The clinic is free and open to all youth ages 6 to 17 that hold a Department of Defense ID card and will include lunch, t-shirts, and tee packages. Go to https://bit.ly/36XUU3t to register.
Harker Heights Parks and Recreation is accepting poem submissions for a chance to exhibit work at the Art in the Park event April 9 at Carl Levin Park. Submit poems and contact information to atrujillo@harkerheights.gov and include age if under 18. Submissions are due by April 4.
The Harker Heights Public Library, 400 Indian Trail, will host its Friends of the Library meeting at 6 p.m. April 4 to discuss the upcoming Booksale,which will be April 28 and 29. The first Chess Club meeting will be from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. April 7 and is open to all ages and experience levels. The library also posts a variety of livestreams, children’s programs, story times, crafts, and other activities throughout the week on the library’s Facebook page, www.facebook.com/harkerheightspubliclibrary/.
The Killeen Public Library, 205 E. Church Ave., hosts Children’s Story Time at 5:30 p.m. Tuesdays, 10:30 a.m. Wednesdays and Thursdays, and Spanish-language Story Time at 11 a.m. Saturdays. There is also a Lego Block Party at 3:30 p.m. Wednesdays and Children’s Game Time at 2 p.m. Thursdays. Go to https://www.killeentexas.gov/171/Libraries for more information.
The Lampasas Public Library, 201 S. Main St., is hosting a preschool-age STEAM Stories Day at 10:30a.m. April 2. Stories and experiments related toEarth Day will be the focus at this free event.
The Last Drive-In Picture Show, 2912 S. Highway 36, Gatesville, hosts a double-feature movie every night of the week. This week’s drive-in lineup, showing nightly from April 1- 6, will be “Morbius” at 8 p.m. and “Spider Man: No Way Home” at 9:30 p.m. Admission is $10 per car.
Local Music
Johnny’s Steaks and Bar-Be-Que, 301 Thomas Arnold Road in Salado, is hosting live music by Casey Donahew at 6 p.m. April 2. General admission tickets are $20 in advance and $25 at the door. Reserved tables range from $300 to $500. Go to https://bit.ly/3wSqfzG for tickets and more information.
Schoepf’s BBQ, 702 E. Central Ave., Belton, is hosting the Shooter FM Acoustic Lunch featuring live music by Wilder Blue at noon April 1, with radio hosts Crowman and Nash. This event is free. Glen Templeton will also live acoustic music at Schoepf’s Backroom at 6:30 p.m. April 7. Tickets are $30 and can be purchased at https://bit.ly/3Nt5UXk.
Bo’s Barn Dance Hall and Club is hosting live music by Branded Heart from 8 p.m. to midnight April 1. Cover: $10. Fast Movin’ Train will perform from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. April 2. Cover: $10. The dance hall is at 4984 W. Farm-to-Market 93, Temple. Catch karaoke from 8:30 to 11:30 p.m. every Thursday. Happy Hour is from 5 to 10 p.m. every Thursday, and 5 to 8 p.m. every Friday and Saturday. Check out a free dance lesson from 6:30 to 8 p.m. every first and third Thursday of the month. For more information, go to www.bosbarndancehall.com, or call 254-939-7131.
Barrow Brewing Company, 108 Royal St. in Salado, is hosting its Sixth Anniversary Celebration from 11 a.m. to 10:30 p.m. April 2 with live music by Lady in the Men's Room, Wayworn Traveler, The Haulers, and Lilly and the Implements.
Chupacabra Craft Beer and Salado Lonestar Winery, 401 S. Main St. in Salado, hosts free live music by local artists every Friday and Saturday night. Chupacabra also hosts Open Mic Night for acoustic music and comedy every Monday from 7 to 10 p.m.
Fire Street Pizza, 10310 Farm-to-Market 439 in Belton, is hosting free live music by Chris Max from 6 to 9 p.m. April 1, the Oxford Comma Duofrom 6 to 9 p.m. April 2, and an acoustic show by Martian Folk from noon to 3 p.m. April 3.
Fire Base Brewing Company, 8 S. First St. in Temple, is hosting live music by Martian Folk at 6:30 p.m. April 1.
Obrien’s Irish Pub, 11 E. Central Ave. in Temple, is hosting live music by the Tequila Songbirds at 9 p.m. April 1. Admission is $10.
The VFW Post 3892, 201 VFW Drive in Harker Heights, hosts Music and Karaoke Night with DJ Time from 7 to 10 p.m. every Wednesday. Call 254-213-3350 for more information.
Fred T. Venable VFW Post 3393, 424 County Road 4931 in Kempner, hosts live karaoke with Michael Gordon from 8 p.m. to midnight every Friday. No cover.
Bold Republic Brewing Company, 206 N. Penelope St. in Belton, is hosting live music by Britton Pyeatt at 7 p.m. April 1.
Local Markets
The Farmers Market at Barrow Brewing Company, 108 Royal St. in Salado, is from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. every Saturday from April to September. There will be local produce, handmade products, art, coffee, food trucks, and more available. Interested vendors should email kd@barrowbrewing.com.
The Central Texas Farmers Market happensevery Saturday from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. and every Sunday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Kempner Farm, 4616 Farm-to-Market 2808, Kempner. There are local growers, artisans, vendors, food trucks, and more available. Interested vendors can go to http://www.kempnerfarm.com to find more information and an application.
Lampasas Trade Days will be from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. every first Saturday of the month at 2646 E. Highway 190. There will be vendors, antique dealers, craftsmen, artists, and more available. Call 512-734-1294 for more information.
Museums and Exhibits
The Temple Railroad and Heritage Museum,315 W. Avenue B, is open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday. Every first Saturday of the month, the museum hosts a free, themed Family Day. This month’s theme is “Storytime” and will be from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. April 2. It will feature reading programs, journaling, campfire stories, and more. Go towww.templerrhm.org for more information. Admission is $4 for adults, $3 for seniors, $2 for kids ages 5 to 12, and free for children under 5.
The Bell County Museum, 201 N. Main St. in Belton, is hosting award-winning author S.C. Gwynne for a presentation, "The Bitterness and Brutality of the Civil War's Final Years," from 6 to 8 p.m. April 1. Call 254-933-5243 to reserve a free ticket. The museum is open from noon to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Friday and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday.
The Mayborn Museum at Baylor University, 1300 S. University Parks Drive, Waco, is open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Saturday, and 1 to 5 p.m. Sunday. A special exhibition, “Dinosaur Train: The Traveling Exhibit,” based on the television series, is on display now to May 1. Admission is $10 for adults, $9 for seniors, and $8 for kids 12 and under.
The Texas Ranger Hall of Fame and Museum, 100 Texas Ranger Trail in Waco, is open daily from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission is $8 for adults, $7 for seniors and military, $4 for kids 6 to 12, and kids under 6 are free.Go towww.texasranger.org for more information.
The Lampasas County Museum, 303 S. Western Ave., is open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays. Call 512-556-2224 for more information.
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By Maria Armental
PNC Financial Services Group Inc. revised financial projections to account for current expectations, including expected federal funds rate increases.
The company said it now expects fee income, which reflects an updated categorization, to be down approximately 14% to 16% from the previous quarter, reflecting lower capital markets revenue and business activity. It expects noninterest income, which reflects the updated categorization and excludes integration costs, net securities and Visa activity, to range from $175 million and $225 million.
It had previously projected fee income to decline 4% to 6%, and other noninterest income to range from $375 million and $425 million.
Total revenue is expected to decline about 8% to 10%, compared with its earlier view of a 3%-to-5% decline.
PNC expects 2022 revenue to increase 9% to 11%, reflecting the revised projection for the amount and magnitude of increases to the federal funds rate for the rest of the year. It had previously expected an 8% to 10% increase.
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HubSpot, Inc. (NYSE:HUBS – Get Rating) was the target of a large drop in short interest during the month of March. As of March 15th, there was short interest totalling 1,810,000 shares, a drop of 22.6% from the February 28th total of 2,340,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 814,600 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 2.2 days. Currently, 4.0% of the shares of the company are short sold.
HUBS stock traded down $30.58 during midday trading on Thursday, hitting $474.94. The stock had a trading volume of 620,197 shares, compared to its average volume of 851,206. The firm has a market cap of $22.44 billion, a P/E ratio of -284.40 and a beta of 1.67. The company has a current ratio of 2.35, a quick ratio of 2.35 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.44. HubSpot has a 1-year low of $378.88 and a 1-year high of $866.00. The business has a fifty day moving average price of $479.55 and a two-hundred day moving average price of $629.33.
HubSpot (NYSE:HUBS – Get Rating) last released its earnings results on Thursday, February 10th. The software maker reported $0.58 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $0.53 by $0.05. HubSpot had a negative net margin of 5.98% and a negative return on equity of 7.63%. The business had revenue of $369.31 million for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $357.52 million. During the same quarter in the previous year, the business earned ($0.19) earnings per share. HubSpot’s revenue for the quarter was up 46.5% on a year-over-year basis. On average, equities analysts anticipate that HubSpot will post -2.7 EPS for the current year.
A number of institutional investors and hedge funds have recently bought and sold shares of HUBS. PYA Waltman Capital LLC bought a new stake in shares of HubSpot during the fourth quarter worth about $26,000. Winch Advisory Services LLC increased its position in shares of HubSpot by 86.4% during the third quarter. Winch Advisory Services LLC now owns 41 shares of the software maker’s stock worth $28,000 after acquiring an additional 19 shares in the last quarter. Glassman Wealth Services increased its position in shares of HubSpot by 141.2% during the fourth quarter. Glassman Wealth Services now owns 41 shares of the software maker’s stock worth $27,000 after acquiring an additional 24 shares in the last quarter. Confluence Wealth Services Inc. bought a new stake in shares of HubSpot during the fourth quarter worth about $30,000. Finally, Covestor Ltd bought a new stake in shares of HubSpot during the fourth quarter worth about $51,000. 93.34% of the stock is owned by hedge funds and other institutional investors.
Several research analysts have recently commented on the stock. Barclays lowered their target price on shares of HubSpot from $800.00 to $550.00 and set an “equal weight” rating on the stock in a report on Thursday, January 27th. UBS Group lowered their target price on shares of HubSpot from $845.00 to $675.00 in a report on Monday, February 14th. TheStreet cut shares of HubSpot from a “c” rating to a “d+” rating in a report on Friday, February 11th. Raymond James decreased their price objective on shares of HubSpot from $900.00 to $700.00 and set a “strong-buy” rating on the stock in a research note on Friday, February 11th. Finally, Cowen raised shares of HubSpot from a “market perform” rating to an “outperform” rating and lifted their price objective for the company from $600.00 to $750.00 in a research note on Friday, February 11th. Two investment analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating, twenty-one have assigned a buy rating and one has given a strong buy rating to the company. Based on data from MarketBeat, the stock presently has a consensus rating of “Buy” and a consensus target price of $739.04.
HubSpot Company Profile (Get Rating)
HubSpot, Inc develops Internet marketing software solutions. The firm operates through the following geographical segments: Americas, Europe and Asia Pacific. The company was founded by Brian Patrick Halligan and Dharmesh Shah on April 4, 2005, and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.
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Lua Swap (LUA) traded flat against the dollar during the twenty-four hour period ending at 19:00 PM ET on March 31st. During the last seven days, Lua Swap has traded flat against the dollar. One Lua Swap coin can currently be purchased for approximately $0.0626 or 0.00000158 BTC on major cryptocurrency exchanges. Lua Swap has a market cap of $5.20 million and approximately $32,385.00 worth of Lua Swap was traded on exchanges in the last 24 hours.
Here’s how other cryptocurrencies have performed during the last 24 hours:
- Binance USD (BUSD) traded 0% higher against the dollar and now trades at $1.00 or 0.00002188 BTC.
- Polygon (MATIC) traded down 3.9% against the dollar and now trades at $1.63 or 0.00003555 BTC.
- Polygon (MATIC) traded 1% higher 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 0.00002184 BTC.
- Chainlink (LINK) traded 1% lower against the dollar and now trades at $17.01 or 0.00037169 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 down 4.3% against the dollar and now trades at $49.03 or 0.00107140 BTC.
Lua Swap Coin Profile
According to CryptoCompare, “LuaSwap.org is a multi-chain liquidity protocol for emerging token projects with no seed investment, founder’s fees, or pre-mining. “
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Which Josie Maran products are best?
Josie Maran, the eponymous brand founded by the model and entrepreneur, made its name by formulating rich, nourishing products that look great on the skin and add moisture and a youthful glow. With a full range of options, from body butters to eye creams and cosmetics, it’s hard to choose just one. But if you’re looking for a popular all-purpose product that lets you sample this bestselling line, the Josie Maran The Glow Duo Kit is the top choice.
What to know before you buy a Josie Maran product
Face vs. body
Josie Maran has a great array of products for face and body, each formulated to be effective but gentle. If you’re looking to refine the skin on your face to prepare it for makeup application, or if you wear cosmetics every day, lean into their face oils and butters. If you’re finding the skin on your body consistently ashy or flaky, choose a body product instead.
Your skin’s needs
Josie Maran tends to include rich, hydrating oils in their formulations, including argan oil, the cornerstone of many of their products. If you have oily or acne-prone skin, lean into their lighter products made for oily skin.
Travel size vs. full size
If you’re just getting started learning about this cult favorite skin care line, you can test out the products for less with their travel-sized offerings. Bonus: They fit in your makeup bag for when you need to take your skin care on the go.
What to look for in a quality Josie Maran product
Hydration
One of Josie Maran’s key qualities is the rich moisturizing ingredients they infuse into their products. So if you’re dealing with dry or flaky skin, Josie Maran has a lot of terrific options that go on thick but absorb fully, like their signature argan oil.
SPF
We all know we should wear SPF daily to protect our skin, but so often these formulas have a chemical smell and feel too heavy on the face. Not Josie Maran’s — all products with SPF are light, clean and easy to layer on under makeup, making them a great choice when you want to get serious about your sun protection.
Gentle exfoliation
Exfoliating doesn’t have to be harsh and tough on the skin, as demonstrated by the variety of Josie Maran products that offer gentle skin rejuvenation for glowing, healthy-looking skin. Try their retinol or enzyme products for a mild clean.
How much you can expect to spend on a Josie Maran product
Josie Maran products range from as low as $17 to upward of $50 for kits and larger sizes.
Josie Maran products FAQ
Are Josie Maran products cruelty-free?
A. Per the brand’s website, their products are cruelty-free, phthalate-free, formaldehyde-free and don’t contain synthetic fragrances, mineral oil or gluten.
What’s the best way to apply Josie Maran moisturizing products?
A. First, get your skin clean and well-exfoliated. Then, while skin is still damp, apply your preferred Josie Maran moisturizer. The reason it’s preferable to apply moisturizers on damp skin is that the product can seal in the natural moisture already present in the skin, leading to a healthy, natural feel.
Do Josie Maran products expire?
A. Because Josie Maran products are made with natural ingredients and a minimum of preservatives, you’ll want to replace them every 12 to 18 months to ensure their freshness.
What’s the best Josie Maran product to buy?
Top Josie Maran product
What you need to know: This combination of the brand’s favorites, including their Whipped Argan Oil Face Butter, Bright Skin Vitamin C Serum, and signature 100% Pure Argan Oil, offers brightening and soothing for most skin types.
What you’ll love: If you’ve got any dullness, dryness, or even dark spots, this combo smooths out your skin and evens out tone while giving you a healthy glow. The company suggests using the vitamin C serum first, allowing it to absorb fully before applying the face butter and then the argan oil.
What you should consider: The three-step process can seem lengthy to some. If you don’t deal with dark spots, or want an on-the-go routine, opt for just the face butter on most days, with the full application on weekends when you have extra time to let products absorb.
Where to buy: Sold by Sephora
Top Josie Maran product for the money
Josie Maran Mini 100% Pure Argan Oil Light
What you need to know: Get started with the benefits of argan oil with this light formulation that soaks in even faster than the original.
What you’ll love: This oil absorbs into skin with the speed of a light cream and leaves your face feeling hydrated and glowing. Ideal for even oilier and sensitive skin types, as well as those prone to breakouts, it’s formulated to provide all the benefits of regular argan oil while absorbing quickly into a matte base.
What you should consider: This is a mini size, and if you’re an avid user, you’ll need to restock quickly.
Where to buy: Sold by Sephora
Worth checking out
What you need to know: Josie Maran’s roots as a skincare company show even in their cosmetics, as this moisture-rich color stick demonstrates. It goes on smooth and creamy and feels great on your skin.
What you’ll love: Versatile and sunny, this color brightens up most complexions. Use it on cheeks or lips to bring a touch of summer to your look any time of the year. The creamy stick blends easily and goes on sheer for a dash of color that’s not overpowering.
What you should consider: If you’re sensitive to smells, you should know this has a distinct menthol aroma, which can feel especially strong if you apply it on lips.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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Gameswap (GSWAP) traded down 7.2% against the dollar during the 1-day period ending at 17:00 PM Eastern on March 31st. One Gameswap coin can currently be purchased for approximately $1.12 or 0.00002454 BTC on major cryptocurrency exchanges. During the last week, Gameswap has traded up 5.9% against the dollar. Gameswap has a total market capitalization of $12.60 million and $48,784.00 worth of Gameswap was traded on exchanges in the last day.
Here is how similar cryptocurrencies have performed during the last day:
- Binance USD (BUSD) traded 0.1% lower against the dollar and now trades at $1.00 or 0.00002183 BTC.
- Polygon (MATIC) traded down 4.9% against the dollar and now trades at $1.63 or 0.00003556 BTC.
- Polygon (MATIC) traded 1% higher against the dollar and now trades at $1.65 or 0.00004286 BTC.
- Crypto.com Coin (CRO) traded 5% higher against the dollar and now trades at $0.41 or 0.00001075 BTC.
- Dai (DAI) traded 0% lower against the dollar and now trades at $1.00 or 0.00002181 BTC.
- Chainlink (LINK) traded down 1.1% against the dollar and now trades at $17.05 or 0.00037182 BTC.
- Parkgene (GENE) traded flat against the dollar and now trades at $25.59 or 0.00045023 BTC.
- FTX Token (FTT) traded down 4.5% against the dollar and now trades at $49.16 or 0.00107231 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.
About Gameswap
According to CryptoCompare, “GameSwap is a P2P in-game asset exchange leveraging Ethereum standards for fungible and non-fungible tokens (NFTs) that enables millions of gamers to easily trade and cash-out in-game assets with crypto, in a neutral platform that they govern and own. Powered by DeFi and the GSWAP token. “
Buying and Selling Gameswap
It is usually not possible to purchase alternative cryptocurrencies such as Gameswap directly using U.S. dollars. Investors seeking to acquire Gameswap should first purchase Ethereum or Bitcoin using an exchange that deals in U.S. dollars such as Coinbase, GDAX or Changelly. Investors can then use their newly-acquired Ethereum or Bitcoin to purchase Gameswap using one of the aforementioned exchanges.
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SANTA BARBARA, Calif., March 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Bloomios, Inc. (OTCQB: BLMS), a leading manufacturer and wholesaler of hemp-derived cannabinoid nutraceuticals and cosmetics, has been selected as the exclusive cannabidiol (CBD) product manufacturer for DRYWORLD (OTC: IBGR), a maker of purpose-driven sports products designed to give athletes a performance edge.
DRYWORLD engaged Bloomios to co-develop and produce the company's branded, high-bioavailability CBD product line especially formulated for today's athletes.
"We've partnered with Bloomios because of their extensive experience with CBD brand development and high-quality, high-volume manufacturing," stated DRYWORLD president, Claudio Escobar. "Their vertical manufacturing process enabled us to rapidly create and launch this important addition to our portfolio of leading-edge athletic performance products."
The initial lineup comprises seven products featuring hemp-derived CBD, including gel capsules, tinctures, powdered drinks, heat gels and pain-relief creams:
- CBD Repair + Recovery Gel Capsule - 750 mg
- CBD Tincture - 1500mg
- CBD Complete Hydration powdered drink crystals - 150mg
- CBD Complete Recovery powdered drink crystals - 375mg
- CDB Complete Pre-Workout powdered drink crystal - 750mg
- CBD Muscle Heat Gel - 3000mg
- CBD Pain Relief Cream - 1000mg
The new DRYWORLD CBD products are based on all natural ingredients, premium CBD extracts, and are packed with vitamins, minerals, and herbs.
"Our exclusive partnership with DRYWORLD, an exciting premium fitness brand, represents our first entry into the fast-growing sports nutrition and performance market," commented Bloomios CEO, Michael Hill. "This valuable engagement highlights our exceptional manufacturing process, premium packaging, and efficient in-house testing and sourcing solutions for brands looking to take advantage of today's booming market for hemp-derived products."
The products target a North American CBD market that is projected to grow at a 33% compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) to reach $61.3 billion by 2027.
The growing demand by athletes has been driven by the elimination of CBD restrictions and penalties for their use by major sports sanctioning bodies. There is also a growing body of science showing significant benefits of CBD for athletes, including the reduction of inflammation and aiding in recovery.
Barrett Evans, the president and a director of Bloomios also serves as CFO and director of DRYWORLD. While he was instrumental in bringing the companies together, he was not involved in the negotiations of the new relationship.
To purchase DRYWOLRD's CBD products for athletes, go to Shop CBD Now!
About DRYWORLD
DRYWORLD is a premium performance sports brand offering innovative, superior quality apparel and gear for the athlete in all of us. Its build purpose-driven products give all athletes the edge. Engineered by athletes, proven by science. Keep up to date with DRYWORLD's latest announcements by signing up for the company newsletter at thedryworld.com/contact.
To learn more, visit www.thedryworld.com
Connect with DRYWORLD: Website Shop Instagram Facebook Twitter
About Bloomios
Bloomios, Inc. researches, manufactures, markets and distributes U.S. hemp-derived cannabinoid supplements and cosmetic products through wholesale distribution channels and its wholly owned subsidiary, Bloomios Private Label. The company provides custom formulation, brand development, manufacturing and order fulfillment to a wide variety of customers, including small and major brands, chain stores, vape shops and distributors. It offers private- and white-label customers a collection of more than 80 customizable hemp products across 7 categories.
Bloomios is headquartered in Santa Barbara, California, with manufacturing and distribution in Daytona Beach, Florida.
To learn more, visit bloomios.com.
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Matters discussed in this press release contain forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. When used in this press release, the words "anticipate," "believe," "estimate," "may," "intend," "expect" and similar expressions identify such forward-looking statements. Actual results, performance or achievements could differ materially from those contemplated, expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements contained herein. These forward-looking statements are based largely on the expectations of the Company and are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties. These include, but are not limited to, risks and uncertainties associated with: the sales of the company's identity protection software products into various channels and market sectors, the issuance of the Company's pending patent applications, COVID-19, and the impact of economic, competitive and other factors affecting the Company and its operations, markets, product, and distributor performance, the impact on the national and local economies resulting from terrorist actions, and U.S. actions subsequently; and other factors detailed in reports filed by the company.
Food and Drug Administration Disclosure
The product and formulation featured in this release is not for use by or sale to persons under the age of 12. This product should be used only as directed on the label. Consult with a physician before use if you have a serious medical condition or use prescription medications. A doctor's advice should be sought before using this and any supplemental dietary product. These statements have not been evaluated by the FDA. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease.
Dryworld Contact:
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Investor Relations Contact:
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