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NEW YORK, April 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Shincheonji, Church of Jesus, the Temple of the Tabernacle of the Testimony hosted a press conference April 2nd via Zoom. In total, 1,500 pastors from various countries participated. Reporters from different media outlets also attended.
Shincheonji Church hosted the event to present results from its recent online seminars. Pastors who signed MOUs with Shincheonji shared testimonials.
"In the past, all I preached was that everyone must believe in Jesus and by sharing grace in this way would lead to salvation," said Dongsu Kim, pastor of Peace Church. "Without fulfillment, I thought heaven was somewhere one went to after death. I thought there was resurrection after death."
Pastor Kim is currently teaching Shincheonji Church's revealed word to his congregation. "The time has come for all the pastors to come and learn so that they may live a life of faith in the correct truth," he said.
To date, 2,155 pastors, 22 seminary schools and 958 churches in 67 countries have signed MOUs with Shincheonji Church. In exchange for their cooperation, Shincheonji is providing churches and seminary schools with theology materials and access to Bible instructors. In the United States, a Shincheonji instructor was invited to teach 100 members from The Early Church of the New Era. A seminary school in Pakistan is offering Shincheonji course curriculum after its dean signed an MOU with the church.
Shincheonji Church Chairman Lee Man-hee also spoke during the press conference, explaining how he has come to share the word and the role of pastors today.
"Let's fight and overcome the devil with the blood of Jesus and the word of testimony and create the people of God's kingdom so that God may finally come and reign over the world after 6000 years," Chairman Lee said. "This is what [God] has made known to us through the Bible. I hope that everyone engraves the words of all the chapters of Revelation—which is the law of heaven—in their hearts."
Shincheonji Church has taught Revelation and the secrets of the kingdom of heaven through online seminars since October 2021. The lectures have millions of YouTube views and are available in 24 different languages. The church is also broadcasting content from its intermediate-level course through June 27th. The lessons and the April 2nd press conference are available on Shincheonji Church's official YouTube channel.
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Financial advisor Aaron Hoffman joins rapidly growing Christian-focused registered investment advisor, Inspire Advisors, seeking greater vocational fulfillment by aligning his Christian beliefs with his professional life.
BOISE, Idaho, April 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- "Many advisors are aware of the hypocrisy of the woke culture that permeates their current firms, and they are actively looking for new platforms to practice." That's how Aaron Hoffman—the newest financial advisor to join Christian advisory firm, Inspire Advisors—defined the current state of the investment community.
Hoffman manages $20M of client assets and is a native Texan and Louisiana transplant, currently residing near the city of Ruston, LA with his wife Sunni and their three daughters. "My experience working for one of the larger investment firms was good at the onset, but the longer I continued, the more I felt upper management was out of touch and sold out to ideals I disagree with. I finally realized that I couldn't continue at a firm in constant contradiction with my values."
Working in an environment that contradicts your beliefs is a condition often referred to as "cognitive dissonance." This mental conflict occurs when your beliefs don't align with your actions. In an article medically reviewed by Randy Bressler, PsyD, author Jennifer Tzeses writes, "Cognitive dissonance can cause discomfort, stress, and anxiety. And the degree of these effects often depends on how much disparity there is between the conflicting beliefs, how much the beliefs mean to that person, as well as with how well the person copes with self-contradiction."
Inspire Advisors' CEO, Robert Netzly shared his thoughts about the transition. "The conflict Christian financial advisors face having their deeply-held beliefs and convictions constantly contradicted by the firms they work for can be cause for intense mental and spiritual turmoil." Netzly continued, "That was my experience. When I learned about biblically responsible investing, I lost the ability to function in my practice at a major bank because I didn't know how I could continue investing in companies that profited off atrocities like abortion, let alone continue at a firm that advocated for these issues and provided no alternative solutions. It's the exact reason we started Inspire Advisors, to allow Christian advisors to bring their whole selves to work and live in harmony with their religious beliefs and actions."
Mark 3:25 says, "A house divided against itself cannot stand." Firms that repeatedly take political or social stances on divisive issues that ostracize their Christian advisors and clients, and heap burdens of cognitive dissonance on their staff, will find themselves struggling to retain quality talent as advisors move to platforms like Inspire Advisors that enable them to align their work with their beliefs.
Hoffman shared his experience since making his transition, "It's liberating to move into a firm that offers greater flexibility in how I run my practice and more freedom to align investments with conservative biblical values."
About Inspire Advisors
Inspire Advisors is the wealth management division of the Inspire Investing family of companies, an enterprise with $1.9 billion in assets under management (as of 3/25/22), ranked as the third fastest growing investment firm in the nation in the Financial Advisor Magazine annual report and top-quartile member of the Inc. 5000 list of fastest growing private companies in the United States.
The Inspire Advisors platform is purpose-built from the ground up to support Christian financial advisors who want to run their practices with diligent biblically responsible investing (BRI) alignment, a growing conviction among financial advisors and their clients.
Christian financial advisors interested in exploring a relationship with Inspire Advisors can email inspire@inspireadvisors.com or visit www.inspireadvisors.com to learn more.
*Disclaimer: Investment advisory services offered through Inspire Advisors, LLC and Inspire Investing, LLC, both being Registered Investment Advisors with the SEC. Inspire Investing, LLC and Inspire Advisors, LLC are affiliates.
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HANGZHOU, China and SHAOXING, China, April 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Ascletis Pharma Inc. (HKEX: 1672) today announces that the first sale of its ritonavir tablets in Zhejiang Province has been completed.
On April 3, 2022, Ascletis' distributor, Zhejiang Int'l Medicine Co., Ltd. ("Zhejiang Int'l"), completed the first sale of Ascletis' ritonavir tablets in Zhejiang Province. Zhejiang Int'l is a major company engaged in the wholesale and retail of pharmaceuticals and medical equipment in Zhejiang Province.
As a leading antiviral company in China, to date, Ascletis owns the only authorized ritonavir tablet in China, which has passed bioequivalence study. Ascletis' ritonavir tablet was approved in September 2021 by China National Medical Products Administration (国药准字 H20213698).
Ritonavir tablet is a pharmacokinetic booster of multiple oral antiviral drugs targeting viral proteases. Diagnosis and Treatment Protocol for Novel Coronavirus Pneumonia (Trial Version 9) released on March 15, 2022 by the National Health Commission of the People's Republic of China includes PF-07321332/ritonavir (Paxlovid) as an antiviral therapy for COVID-19.
Ascletis has further expanded its ritonavir tablet production capacity to approximately 530 million tablets per year to secure the supplies. Ascletis has submitted marketing authorization applications for ritonavir (100 mg film-coated tablet) in 12 European countries (Germany, France, Ireland, the United Kingdom, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Belgium, Poland, Sweden, the Netherlands and Denmark) and Hong Kong, China.
Dr. Jinzi J. Wu, Founder, Chairman and CEO of Ascletis, said, "It's a great pleasure that the first sale of Ascletis' ritonavir tablets in Zhejiang Province has been completed. Ascletis' antiviral pipeline includes two novel oral drug candidates against COVID-19, ASC10 (targeting RNA dependent RNA polymerase (RdRp)) and ASC11 (targeting 3-chymotrypsin like protease (3CLpro)), with global intellectual property. We hope to contribute to 'Healthy Zhejiang' and 'Healthy China' as well as the fights against COVID-19 and other infectious diseases."
About Ascletis
Ascletis is an innovative R&D driven biotech listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (1672.HK), a global platform covering the entire value chain from discovery and development to manufacturing and commercialization. Ascletis is committed to developing and commercializing innovative drugs in the areas of viral diseases, NASH/PBC, and cancer (oral cancer metabolic checkpoint and immune checkpoint inhibitors) to address unmet medical needs both in China and globally. Led by a management team with deep expertise and a proven track record, Ascletis targets those therapeutic areas with unmet medical needs from a global perspective, and efficiently advances the developments of pipelines with an aim of leading in global competition. To date, Ascletis has three marketed products and 20 robust R&D pipelines of drug candidates with global competitiveness, and is actively exploring new therapeutic areas.
1. Viral Diseases: (1) Hepatitis B Virus (functional cure): focus on breakthrough therapies for CHB functional cure with a subcutaneously-injected PD-L1 antibody – ASC22 and Pegasys® as cornerstone drugs. (2) COVID-19 pipeline: currently includes (i) ritonavir oral tablet (100 mg), an authorized product, (ii) ASC10, an oral RNA dependent RNA polymerase (RdRp) inhibitor and (iii) ASC11, an oral 3-chymotrypsin like protease (3CLpro) inhibitor. (3) HIV/AIDS: ASC22, an immune therapy to restore HIV-specific immune responses and eventually lead to a functional cure of HIV-infected patients. (4) Hepatitis C: successfully launched an all-oral regimen of combining ASCLEVIR® and GANOVO® (RDV/DNV regimen).
2. Non-alcoholic Steatohepatitis/Primary Biliary Cholangitis: Gannex, a wholly-owned company of Ascletis, is dedicated to the R&D and commercialization of new drugs in the field of NASH. Gannex has three clinical stage drug candidates against three different targets – FASN, THRβ and FXR, three fixed-dose combinations for NASH and one PBC program targeting FXR.
3. Cancer (oral cancer metabolic checkpoint and immune checkpoint inhibitors): a pipeline of oral inhibitors targeting FASN, which plays a key role in cancer lipid metabolism, and a pipeline of oral PD-L1 small molecule next generation immune checkpoint inhibitors.
4. Exploratory Indications: Acne: Following NASH and recurrent GBM, the third indication for ASC40 has been approved to enter Phase 2 clinical trial. For more information, please visit www.ascletis.com.
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Sim Racers Can Now Choose Between Extreme Performance Hydraulic or Advanced Load-Cell Brake Pedals from Asetek for Immersive Sim Racing
AALBORG, Denmark, April 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Asetek, sim racing gear innovator, the creator of the all-in-one liquid cooler, and the global leader in liquid cooling solutions for gaming PCs and DIY enthusiasts, today unveiled its high-performance Forte™ Throttle and Brake Pedal Set for immersive sim racing. Forte means "strong" and with the Forte™ Pedal Set from Asetek SimSports™, aspiring sim racers will be able to experience high-end pedals for immersive racing at a very competitive price point, while still providing a true racecar feel.
The high-end, high-value Forte™ sim racing pedals with Asetek's proprietary 2-stage MLCPC™ (Mechanical Load Cell Powered Cylinder) load-cell braking technology provide precise braking and incorporate the sleek design from the Invicta™ pedals, along with custom-made RaceHub™ software for quick and easy adjustments and calibration. The Forte™ Throttle and Brake pedals are compatible with the optional Invicta™ Clutch pedal and include several aspects of the premium-performance Invicta™ Throttle and Brake Pedal Set from Asetek SimSports™.
Forte™ Throttle and Brake Pedals Feature Set:
- Custom designed load-cell solution measuring pedal force
- MLCPC™ technology ensures the 2-stage braking system enabling perfect trail braking and gained lap time
- Identical high-performance design to Asetek SimSports™ Invicta™ pedals
- High-precision, hall-effect sensor-based throttle
- Forte™ pedals feature smooth pedal plates for a more comfortable feeling for sim racing without shoes
Learn more about the high-performance Forte™ Throttle and Brake Pedal Set in the video entitled "First Look Asetek SimSports Forte Load Cell Pedals," with Will Ford of Boosted Media.
If desired, Forte™ pedal owners will be able to upgrade their pedals to the Invicta™ T.H.O.R.P.™ (Twin Hydraulic Opposing Rapid Pistons) system and replace the Forte™ pedal plates with Invicta™ pedal plates, for the ultimate experience of driving a real racecar. The Forte™ to Invicta™ Pedal Upgrade Kit is expected to be available for purchase in 2022.
Sim racers can place their pre-orders by going to https://www.asetek.com/simsports/webshop.
- Asetek Forte™ Throttle and Brake Pedal Set is available for pre-order purchase now. Extremely competitively priced and fully immersive, the Forte™ pedals including the load-cell brake offer the performance level and quality of much higher priced solutions. The Forte™ Pedal Set with its custom-made RaceHub™ software will be available for €499.00 including VAT ($499.00 excluding sales tax when available for sale in the U.S.). Asetek expects to be shipping the Forte™ pedal set in June 2022.
- The optional Invicta™ Clutch Pedal is currently being sold for €349.00 including VAT ($349.00 excluding sales tax when available for sale in the U.S.).
"When expanding our offering of sim racing pedals, it was key that we innovate a high-quality product that provides many of the benefits of our premium performance Invicta™ pedals, at a price point accessible to many more sim racers," said André Sloth Eriksen, CEO and founder of Asetek. "With Forte™ pedals, sim racers can experience the thrill and feel of a real racecar, as well as simple customization and personalization, with a high-quality load-cell brake that will put them through their paces."
In addition to the Invicta™ and Forte™ sim racing pedals, Asetek SimSports™ will also offer wheel bases, steering wheels, shifters, and other end-user customization options.
Asetek prides itself on its credibility. Working with reviewers and influencers is an integral part of letting customers know our products will live up to everything they are designed and tested to do. When it comes to racing hardware reviews, advertising and ethics, Asetek joined the Conscious Advertising Network, a voluntary coalition of over 70 organizations to ensure that industry ethics catches up with modern advertising technology. More information can be found here: Asetek's Ethical Guidelines.
About Asetek
Asetek (ASTK.OL), a global leader in mechatronic innovation, is a Danish garage-to-stock-exchange success story. Founded in 2000, Asetek established its innovative position as the leading OEM developer and producer of the all-in-one liquid cooler for all major PC & Enthusiast gaming brands. In 2013, Asetek went public while expanding into energy-efficient and environmentally friendly cooling solutions for data centers. In 2021, Asetek introduced the first of its products for next-level immersive SimSports gaming experiences. Asetek is headquartered in Denmark and has operations in China, Taiwan, and the United States.
www.asetek.com
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LONDON, April 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- CentralNic Group PLC (AIM: CNIC), the online marketplace for domain names and online presence and customer acquisition tools, is pleased to announce that the Audited Annual Report for the financial year 2021 is now available on the Company's website at the following link: https://investor.centralnicgroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Annual-Report-2021.pdf.
The Annual Report contains the company's confirmed financial results, demonstrating record revenue growth and profitability in 2021, including:
- Revenue increased by 71% to USD 410.5m (FY2020: USD 240.0m)
- Organic revenue increased by 39% (FY2020: 9%)
- Net revenue (gross profit) increased by 58% to USD 118.5m (FY2020: USD 75.1m)
As a result of CentralNic Group's outstanding financial performance, in March 2022 the company was listed among the top-250 fastest-growing companies and among the top-50 fastest-growing Technology companies in Europe in the Financial Times' sixth annual FT 1000 report.
CentralNic Group's Annual Report 2021 also includes a more comprehensive presentation of CentralNic Group's strategy on ESG and how its initiatives feed into that strategy. The company expanded the number and scope of its environmental, social and governance initiatives and practices in 2021, while maintaining its carbon neutral status since 2020.
Ben Crawford, CEO of CentralNic, said:
"We are delighted to report that CentralNic demonstrated a very strong performance in 2021, achieving record organic growth of 39%. Our significant and consistent investment in world-class talent and industry-leading products has greatly contributed to the Group's continued success.
CentralNic's results for 2021 demonstrate the potential of its strong marketplace model for Online Presence and Online Marketing services. With the completion of the acquisition of VGL in March 2022, we have recently enriched our Online Marketing marketplace with a perfectly complementary asset. Strong earnings, excellent cash conversion and a sound balance sheet will allow us to add more curated acquisitions to our two marketplaces, further supplementing our strong organic growth. Whilst it remains early into the new financial year, we remain confident in our outlook for this year and beyond."
About CentralNic Group plc
CentralNic (AIM: CNIC) is a global tech company listed on the London Stock Exchange, which drives the growth of the global digital economy by providing businesses around the world with tools to build their online presence and to win customers and earn revenues online. The Company complements its organic growth with target acquisitions of cash-generative businesses in its industry with annuity revenue streams and exposure to growth markets and migrating them onto the CentralNic software and operating platforms. CentralNic operates globally with customers in almost every country in the world. It earns recurring revenues from the worldwide sales of online presence and online marketing services on a subscription or pay per use basis. For more information please visit: www.centralnicgroup.com
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Gemini's 2022 Global State of Crypto report uncovers trends in adoption, barriers to entry, and attitudes toward crypto among nearly 30,000 respondents in 20 countries
NEW YORK, April 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, crypto platform Gemini released its 2022 Global State of Crypto report, finding that 2021 was a transformative year for crypto, with nearly half of all current crypto owners in the United States (44%), Latin America (46%), and Asia Pacific (45%) first buying crypto in 2021. The report also surfaced that concerns around inflation were a primary driver of adoption, the crypto gender gap may be narrowing in the coming year, and that globally education remains the greatest barrier to investing in crypto.
Additionally, developing countries Brazil and Indonesia led the way in crypto adoption with more than two in five (41%) respondents in each country reporting owning crypto, compared to just 17% across developed countries and regions including the U.S. (20%), Europe (17%), and Australia (18%). Venture capital (VC) investment also appeared to drive adoption, with high rates of adoption in Singapore (30%) and Israel (28%), which also saw the highest per capita venture capital funding globally in 2021.
Other key findings include:
- 2021 Was Crypto's Breakout Year: Forty-one percent of crypto owners surveyed globally purchased crypto for the first time in 2021. More than half of crypto owners in Brazil (51%), Hong Kong (51%), and India (54%) got started in 2021. Globally, 41% of respondents said they are crypto-curious. The crypto-curious are defined as consumers who do not currently own crypto, but are either interested in learning more or say they are likely to acquire cryptocurrency in the next year.
- The Crypto Gender Gap May Be Narrowing: Among the crypto curious who plan to purchase crypto for the first time in the next year, 47% were women globally. Among crypto owners, women in developing nations led the way with women representing at least half of crypto owners in Israel (51%), Indonesia (51%), and Nigeria (50%). Conversely, in developed countries and regions only a third (33%) of current crypto owners are women, including in the United States (32%), Europe (33%), and Australia (27%).
- Inflation a Primary Driver for Crypto Adoption: Respondents in countries that have experienced 50% or more devaluation of their currency against the USD over the last 10 years were more than 5 times as likely to say they plan to purchase crypto in the coming year**, including South Africa (32%), Mexico (32%), India (40%), and Brazil (45%). In Brazil, where the local currency has been devalued by more than 200% against the USD, 41% of respondents own crypto. In the U.S., two in five (40%) crypto owners see crypto as a hedge against inflation.
- Crypto Regulation A Top Concern Globally: Regulation is a concern globally. Among non-owners, 39% in Asia Pacific, 37% in Latin America, and 36% in Europe say there is legal uncertainty around cryptocurrency. In addition, for 30% of respondents in the Middle East, 24% in Asia Pacific, and 23% in Latin America, the tax complexities of owning cryptocurrency have kept them from investing in crypto.
- Education is the Greatest Barrier to Ownership: Globally, respondents were nearly twice as likely to say that more educational resources on cryptocurrency would help them get started with crypto (40%), compared to recommendations from friends (22%). More than half of respondents in Latin America (51%) and Africa (56%) said that educational resources would make them more comfortable purchasing cryptocurrency. Forty-four percent in Asia Pacific and 42% of those in the United States said the same.
"Crypto adoption reached a true tipping point last year, becoming an established economic driver and a valued investment across the globe," said Noah Perlman, Chief Operating Officer at Gemini. "We expect to see the influx of crypto investors continue into this year with concerns about inflation in the U.S. and globally driving interest. Education also remains a global barrier to adoption, and providing investors additional resources is key to bringing new users into the crypto ecosystem, especially women who make up a majority of the crypto-curious audience."
Methodology
The survey was conducted online between November 23, 2021 and February 4, 2022 on behalf of Gemini by Data Driven Consulting Group. The total sample has been balanced and is generally representative of the adult population in each country ages 18 to 75 with household incomes of $14,000 USD or more.
About Gemini
Gemini is a platform that allows customers to buy, sell, store, and earn cryptocurrencies like bitcoin, ether, and DeFi tokens. Gemini's simple, reliable, and secure products are built to unlock the next era of financial, creative, and personal freedom. Gemini was founded in 2014 by twin brothers Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss.
*Definitions of developed and developing nations reference United Nations data.
**Currency devaluation is defined as the percent change between the average exchange rate for a local currency to USD in 2011 and 2021 using historical exchange rate data available from the Federal Reserve.
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Principal, Institutional Communications
press@gemini.com
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AMSTERDAM, April 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Crystal Blockchain analytics, today announced that John van Tessel has been appointed as Chief Revenue Officer (CRO). In this role, Mr. van Tessel will lead Crystal's global commercial functions and strategy as Crystal Blockchain moves into a significant period of accelerated growth. In this role, he will report to Chief Executive Officer Marina Khaustova.
John brings more than 20 years of solution-based sales skills and senior leadership to Crystal. His business intelligence and analytics experience include lead management, pipeline management, marketing, high-performance team development, sales, and executive leadership. Before joining Crystal, John was responsible for Accruent's European business, acting as Vice President, Europe. He also held senior sales management positions at Business Objects, Hewlett Packard, SAP, and SAS Institute.
"We are delighted to welcome John Van Tessel to the team as Chief Revenue Officer. At Crystal, we are committed to providing security and transparency in the cryptocurrency markets through top-class blockchain transaction analytics for AML and CFT. Considering that cryptocurrency markets and the blockchain are still emerging technologies, accountability for driving better integration and alignment between all revenue-related functions, including marketing, sales, customer support, pricing, and revenue management, is crucial for us.
We look forward to working with John in our shared mission, to parallel a strategy for profitable revenue generation alongside the organization's long-term mission to make the global financial markets safer and trusted for banks and FIs." Marina Khaustova, CEO of Crystal Blockchain.
"I am thrilled to join Crystal Blockchain Analytics which is operating in one of the most exciting tech trends at the moment with its goal to make the cryptocurrency industry safer for everyone. I look forward to joining Crystal's world-class leadership and sales team at this important moment continuing and accelerating exponential growth." - John Van Tessel, CRO.
About Crystal Blockchain (https://crystalblockchain.com/)
Crystal is the all-in-one blockchain analytics platform, providing a comprehensive view of the public blockchain ecosystem. Crystal is available as a SaaS, API, or as an on-premise installation. Crystal is engineered by the Bitfury Group, the world's leading full-service blockchain technology company.
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CHICAGO, April 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- In the final week of Women's History Month, Democrats in the Illinois House took a stand for women across the state with the passage of House Bill 1464– codifying the state's unwavering support for access to reproductive health and a woman's right to choose.
States across the country including neighboring states of Missouri, Wisconsin, and Ohio are passing bans on women's rights and penalizing physicians for performing and/or assisting with abortions. Democrats made it clear that Illinois will always protect women's rights to choose. Illinois will remain a safe haven for reproductive rights. House Republicans voted no.
"I think it's pretty clear who stands with women in this state," said House Speaker Emanuel 'Chris' Welch, appalled by the number of Republican votes to deny these protections, "Who will stand with women? Democrats stand for women in this state."
The Speaker went on to share that it is more important than ever that Illinois remains a safe haven standing strong for women's reproductive rights.
Women's rights groups across Illinois spoke up in support of the bill. ACLU Executive Director, Colleen Connel, says a woman's right to choose is under attack across the country and Illinois has worked to make reproductive healthcare a fundamental right.
"The Illinois House of Representatives today reaffirmed that our state will not let others undermine this commitment," she said. "That message is welcome – for people in Illinois and those in other states who need to access health care, including abortion care."
According to a statehouse press release, House Democrats also voted for House Resolution 789 to raise awareness of the importance of reproductive rights and promote Illinois as a role model for other states as they strive toward full reproductive justice. They voted for House Resolution 790 reaffirming the support of Roe v. Wade. They also passed House Resolution 94 which opposes efforts by extremists to defund Planned Parenthood.
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If approved, Dupixent would be the first medicine available in the U.S. indicated to treat eosinophilic esophagitis
There are approximately 160,000 patients in the U.S. living with eosinophilic esophagitis who are currently treated, of whom approximately 48,000 have failed multiple treatments
TARRYTOWN, N.Y. and PARIS, April 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: REGN) and Sanofi today announced the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has accepted for Priority Review the supplemental Biologics License Application (sBLA) for Dupixent® (dupilumab) 300 mg weekly to treat adult and pediatric patients aged 12 years and older with eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE), a chronic and progressive type 2 inflammatory disease that damages the esophagus and impairs the ability to swallow. The target action date for the FDA decision on this investigational use is August 3, 2022.
The sBLA is supported by data from two Phase 3 trials evaluating the efficacy and safety of Dupixent 300 mg weekly in patients aged 12 years and older with EoE (Part A and Part B), and data from an active long-term extension trial. Dupixent 300 mg weekly significantly improved the signs and symptoms of EoE at 24 weeks compared to placebo, including the ability to swallow and reduction in eosinophil count in the esophagus. The safety results of these trials were generally consistent with the known safety profile of Dupixent in its approved indications. The most common adverse event observed with Dupixent, in Part A and Part B, was injection site reactions.
In September 2020, the U.S. FDA granted Breakthrough Therapy designation to Dupixent for the treatment of patients aged 12 years and older with EoE. Dupixent was also granted Orphan Drug designation for the potential treatment of EoE in 2017. Priority review is granted to therapies that have the potential to provide significant improvements in the treatment, diagnosis or prevention of serious conditions. Regulatory filings around the world are also planned in 2022. The potential use of Dupixent in EoE is currently under clinical development, and the safety and efficacy have not been fully evaluated by any regulatory authority.
About Eosinophilic Esophagitis (EoE)
EoE is a chronic, progressive type 2 inflammatory disease that damages the esophagus and prevents it from working properly. For people with EoE, swallowing the smallest amount of food can be a painful and worrisome choking experience. Those with EoE live with anxiety and frustration from having a constantly evolving list of foods to avoid. This disease can also cause narrowing of the esophagus and dilation (physical expansion) of the esophagus may be needed, which is often painful. In severe cases, a feeding tube is the only option to ensure proper caloric intake and adequate nutrition. People with EoE may have poor quality of life and are more likely to experience depression than people without EoE. There are approximately 160,000 patients in the U.S. living with EoE who are currently treated, of whom approximately 48,000 have failed multiple treatments.
About Dupixent
Dupixent, which was invented using Regeneron's proprietary VelocImmune® technology, is a fully human monoclonal antibody that inhibits the signaling of the interleukin-4 (IL-4) and interleukin-13 (IL-13) pathways and is not an immunosuppressant. By demonstrating significant clinical benefit together with a decrease in type 2 inflammation following IL-4 and IL-13 blockade with Dupixent, the Dupixent Phase 3 clinical program has established that IL-4 and IL-13 are key drivers of the type 2 inflammation that plays a major role in multiple related and often co-morbid diseases for which Dupixent is approved including atopic dermatitis, asthma and chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyposis (CRSwNP), as well as investigational diseases such as EoE and prurigo nodularis, which have been studied in Phase 3 trials.
In the U.S., Dupixent is approved in patients aged 6 years and older with uncontrolled moderate-to-severe atopic dermatitis; as an add-on maintenance treatment of patients aged 6 years and older with moderate-to-severe asthma characterized by an eosinophilic phenotype or with oral corticosteroid-dependent asthma; and for use with other medicines for the maintenance treatment of chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyposis (CRSwNP) in adults whose disease is not controlled.
Dupixent is also approved in Europe, Japan and other countries around the world for use in specific patients with moderate-to-severe atopic dermatitis and certain patients with asthma or CRSwNP in different age populations. Dupixent is approved in one or more of these indications in more than 60 countries around the world, and more than 400,000 patients have been treated globally.
About Regeneron's VelocImmune Technology
Regeneron's VelocImmune technology utilizes a proprietary genetically engineered mouse platform endowed with a genetically humanized immune system to produce optimized fully human antibodies. When Regeneron's President and Chief Scientific Officer George D. Yancopoulos was a graduate student with his mentor Frederick W. Alt in 1985, they were the first to envision making such a genetically humanized mouse, and Regeneron has spent decades inventing and developing VelocImmune and related VelociSuite® technologies. Dr. Yancopoulos and his team have used VelocImmune technology to create approximately a quarter of all original, FDA-approved or authorized fully human monoclonal antibodies currently available. This includes Dupixent, REGEN-COV® (casirivimab and imdevimab), Libtayo® (cemiplimab-rwlc), Praluent® (alirocumab), Kevzara® (sarilumab), Evkeeza® (evinacumab-dgnb) and Inmazeb™ (atoltivimab, maftivimab, and odesivimab-ebgn).
Dupilumab Development Program
Dupilumab is being jointly developed by Regeneron and Sanofi under a global collaboration agreement. To date, dupilumab has been studied across more than 60 clinical trials involving more than 10,000 patients with various chronic diseases driven in part by type 2 inflammation.
In addition to the currently approved indications, Regeneron and Sanofi are studying dupilumab in a broad range of diseases driven by type 2 inflammation or other allergic processes, including eosinophilic esophagitis (Phase 3), pediatric atopic dermatitis (6 months to 5 years of age, Phase 3), chronic rhinosinusitis without nasal polyposis (Phase 3), chronic obstructive pulmonary disease with evidence of type 2 inflammation (Phase 3), prurigo nodularis (Phase 3), chronic spontaneous urticaria (Phase 3), bullous pemphigoid (Phase 3), chronic inducible urticaria-cold (Phase 3), allergic fungal rhinosinusitis (Phase 3), allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis (Phase 3) and peanut allergy (Phase 2). These potential uses of dupilumab are currently under clinical investigation, and the safety and efficacy in these conditions have not been fully evaluated by any regulatory authority.
U.S. Indications
DUPIXENT is a prescription medicine used:
- to treat adults and children 6 years of age and older with moderate-to-severe atopic dermatitis (eczema) that is not well controlled with prescription therapies used on the skin (topical), or who cannot use topical therapies. DUPIXENT can be used with or without topical corticosteroids. It is not known if DUPIXENT is safe and effective in children with atopic dermatitis under 6 years of age.
- with other asthma medicines for the maintenance treatment of moderate-to-severe eosinophilic or oral steroid dependent asthma in adults and children 6 years of age and older whose asthma is not controlled with their current asthma medicines. DUPIXENT helps prevent severe asthma attacks (exacerbations) and can improve your breathing. DUPIXENT may also help reduce the amount of oral corticosteroids you need while preventing severe asthma attacks and improving your breathing. DUPIXENT is not used to treat sudden breathing problems. It is not known if DUPIXENT is safe and effective in children with asthma under 6 years of age.
- with other medicines for the maintenance treatment of chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyposis (CRSwNP) in adults whose disease is not controlled. It is not known if DUPIXENT is safe and effective in children with chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyposis under 18 years of age.
IMPORTANT SAFETY INFORMATION FOR U.S. PATIENTS
Do not use if you are allergic to dupilumab or to any of the ingredients in DUPIXENT®.
Before using DUPIXENT, tell your healthcare provider about all your medical conditions, including if you:
- have eye problems
- have a parasitic (helminth) infection
- are scheduled to receive any vaccinations. You should not receive a "live vaccine" right before and during treatment with DUPIXENT.
- are pregnant or plan to become pregnant. It is not known whether DUPIXENT will harm your unborn baby.
- are breastfeeding or plan to breastfeed. It is not known whether DUPIXENT passes into your breast milk.
Tell your healthcare provider about all the medicines you take, including prescription and over-the-counter medicines, vitamins and herbal supplements.
Especially tell your healthcare provider if you are taking oral, topical, or inhaled corticosteroid medicines; have asthma and use an asthma medicine; or have atopic dermatitis or CRSwNP, and also have asthma. Do not change or stop your corticosteroid medicine or other asthma medicine without talking to your healthcare provider. This may cause other symptoms that were controlled by the corticosteroid medicine or other asthma medicine to come back.
DUPIXENT can cause serious side effects, including:
- Allergic reactions. DUPIXENT can cause allergic reactions that can sometimes be severe. Stop using DUPIXENT and tell your healthcare provider or get emergency help right away if you get any of the following signs or symptoms: breathing problems or wheezing, swelling of the face, lips, mouth, tongue or throat, fainting, dizziness, feeling lightheaded, fast pulse, fever, hives, joint pain, general ill feeling, itching, skin rash, swollen lymph nodes, nausea or vomiting, or cramps in your stomach-area.
- Eye problems. Tell your healthcare provider if you have any new or worsening eye problems, including eye pain or changes in vision, such as blurred vision. Your healthcare provider may send you to an ophthalmologist for an exam if needed.
- Inflammation of your blood vessels. Rarely, this can happen in people with asthma who receive DUPIXENT. This may happen in people who also take a steroid medicine by mouth that is being stopped or the dose is being lowered. It is not known whether this is caused by DUPIXENT. Tell your healthcare provider right away if you have: rash, chest pain, worsening shortness of breath, a feeling of pins and needles or numbness of your arms or legs, or persistent fever.
- Joint aches and pain. Some people who use DUPIXENT have had trouble walking or moving due to their joint symptoms, and in some cases needed to be hospitalized. Tell your healthcare provider about any new or worsening joint symptoms. Your healthcare provider may stop DUPIXENT if you develop joint symptoms.
The most common side effects include:
- Atopic dermatitis: injection site reactions, eye and eyelid inflammation, including redness, swelling, and itching, sometimes with blurred vision, and cold sores in your mouth or on your lips.
- Asthma: injection site reactions, pain in the throat (oropharyngeal pain), high count of a certain white blood cell (eosinophilia), and parasitic (helminth) infections.
- Chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyposis: injection site reactions, eye and eyelid inflammation, including redness, swelling, and itching, sometimes with blurred vision, high count of a certain white blood cell (eosinophilia), trouble sleeping (insomnia), toothache, gastritis, and joint pain (arthralgia).
Tell your healthcare provider if you have any side effect that bothers you or that does not go away. These are not all the possible side effects of DUPIXENT. Call your doctor for medical advice about side effects. You are encouraged to report negative side effects of prescription drugs to the FDA. Visit www.fda.gov/medwatch, or call 1-800-FDA-1088.
Use DUPIXENT exactly as prescribed by your healthcare provider. It's an injection given under the skin (subcutaneous injection). Your healthcare provider will decide if you or your caregiver can inject DUPIXENT. Do not try to prepare and inject DUPIXENT until you or your caregiver have been trained by your healthcare provider. In children 12 years of age and older, it's recommended DUPIXENT be administered by or under supervision of an adult. In children under 12 years of age, DUPIXENT should be given by a caregiver.
Please see accompanying full Prescribing Information including Patient Information.
About Regeneron
Regeneron (NASDAQ: REGN) is a leading biotechnology company that invents life-transforming medicines for people with serious diseases. Founded and led for nearly 35 years by physician-scientists, our unique ability to repeatedly and consistently translate science into medicine has led to nine FDA-approved treatments and numerous product candidates in development, almost all of which were homegrown in our laboratories. Our medicines and pipeline are designed to help patients with eye diseases, allergic and inflammatory diseases, cancer, cardiovascular and metabolic diseases, pain, hematologic conditions, infectious diseases and rare diseases.
Regeneron is accelerating and improving the traditional drug development process through our proprietary VelociSuite technologies, such as VelocImmune, which uses unique genetically humanized mice to produce optimized fully human antibodies and bispecific antibodies, and through ambitious research initiatives such as the Regeneron Genetics Center, which is conducting one of the largest genetics sequencing efforts in the world.
For additional information about the company, please visit www.regeneron.com or follow @Regeneron on Twitter.
About Sanofi
We are an innovative global healthcare company, driven by one purpose: we chase the miracles of science to improve people's lives. Our team, across some 100 countries, is dedicated to transforming the practice of medicine by working to turn the impossible into the possible. We provide potentially life-changing treatment options and life-saving vaccine protection to millions of people globally, while putting sustainability and social responsibility at the center of our ambitions.
Sanofi is listed on EURONEXT: SAN and NASDAQ: SNY.
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These statements concern, and these risks and uncertainties include, among others, the impact of SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that has caused the COVID-19 pandemic) on Regeneron's business and its employees, collaborators, and suppliers and other third parties on which Regeneron relies, Regeneron's and its collaborators' ability to continue to conduct research and clinical programs, Regeneron's ability to manage its supply chain, net product sales of products marketed or otherwise commercialized by Regeneron and/or its collaborators or licensees (collectively, "Regeneron's Products"), and the global economy; the nature, timing, and possible success and therapeutic applications of Regeneron's Products and product candidates being developed by Regeneron and/or its collaborators or licensees (collectively, "Regeneron's Product Candidates") and research and clinical programs now underway or planned, including without limitation Dupixent® (dupilumab) for the treatment of eosinophilic esophagitis; the likelihood, timing, and scope of possible regulatory approval and commercial launch of Regeneron's Product Candidates and new indications for Regeneron's Products, such as Dupixent for the treatment of eosinophilic esophagitis (including potential approval by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration based on the supplemental Biologics License Application discussed in this press release), chronic obstructive pulmonary disease with evidence of type 2 inflammation, pediatric atopic dermatitis, bullous pemphigoid, prurigo nodularis, chronic spontaneous urticaria, chronic inducible urticaria-cold, chronic rhinosinusitis without nasal polyposis, allergic fungal rhinosinusitis, allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis, peanut allergy, and other potential indications; uncertainty of the utilization, market acceptance, and commercial success of Regeneron's Products (such as Dupixent) and Regeneron's Product Candidates and the impact of studies (whether conducted by Regeneron or others and whether mandated or voluntary), including the studies discussed or referenced in this press release, on any of the foregoing or any potential regulatory approval of Regeneron's Products (such as Dupixent) and Regeneron's Product Candidates; the ability of Regeneron's collaborators, licensees, suppliers, or other third parties (as applicable) to perform manufacturing, filling, finishing, packaging, labeling, distribution, and other steps related to Regeneron's Products and Regeneron's Product Candidates; the ability of Regeneron to manage supply chains for multiple products and product candidates; safety issues resulting from the administration of Regeneron's Products (such as Dupixent) and Regeneron's Product Candidates in patients, including serious complications or side effects in connection with the use of Regeneron's Products and Regeneron's Product Candidates in clinical trials; determinations by regulatory and administrative governmental authorities which may delay or restrict Regeneron's ability to continue to develop or commercialize Regeneron's Products and Regeneron's Product Candidates, including without limitation Dupixent; ongoing regulatory obligations and oversight impacting Regeneron's Products, research and clinical programs, and business, including those relating to patient privacy; the availability and extent of reimbursement of Regeneron's Products from third-party payers, including private payer healthcare and insurance programs, health maintenance organizations, pharmacy benefit management companies, and government programs such as Medicare and Medicaid; coverage and reimbursement determinations by such payers and new policies and procedures adopted by such payers; competing drugs and product candidates that may be superior to, or more cost effective than, Regeneron's Products and Regeneron's Product Candidates; the extent to which the results from the research and development programs conducted by Regeneron and/or its collaborators or licensees may be replicated in other studies and/or lead to advancement of product candidates to clinical trials, therapeutic applications, or regulatory approval; unanticipated expenses; the costs of developing, producing, and selling products; the ability of Regeneron to meet any of its financial projections or guidance and changes to the assumptions underlying those projections or guidance; the potential for any license, collaboration, or supply agreement, including Regeneron's agreements with Sanofi, Bayer, and Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (or their respective affiliated companies, as applicable) to be cancelled or terminated; and risks associated with intellectual property of other parties and pending or future litigation relating thereto (including without limitation the patent litigation and other related proceedings relating to EYLEA® (aflibercept) Injection, Dupixent, Praluent® (alirocumab), and REGEN-COV® (casirivimab and imdevimab)), other litigation and other proceedings and government investigations relating to the Company and/or its operations, the ultimate outcome of any such proceedings and investigations, and the impact any of the foregoing may have on Regeneron's business, prospects, operating results, and financial condition. A more complete description of these and other material risks can be found in Regeneron's filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, including its Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2021. Any forward-looking statements are made based on management's current beliefs and judgment, and the reader is cautioned not to rely on any forward-looking statements made by Regeneron. Regeneron does not undertake any obligation to update (publicly or otherwise) any forward-looking statement, including without limitation any financial projection or guidance, whether as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise.
Regeneron uses its media and investor relations website and social media outlets to publish important information about the Company, including information that may be deemed material to investors. Financial and other information about Regeneron is routinely posted and is accessible on Regeneron's media and investor relations website (http://newsroom.regeneron.com) and its Twitter feed (http://twitter.com/regeneron).
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The acquisition is the first instance of a pure-play fintech company acquiring a majority stake in a local Indonesian bank
JAKARTA, Indonesia and CHICAGO, April 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- PT FinAccel Teknologi Indonesia, a directly controlled subsidiary of FinAccel Pte Ltd, the parent company of Kredivo, has announced today the acquisition of a majority stake in PT Bank Bisnis Internasional, Tbk. (Bank Bisnis), an IDX listed entity (ticker BBSI). This acquisition represents a very significant step in FinAccel's expansion strategy of serving customers with a wide variety of financial services, from digital credit and BNPL (buy now pay later) today to digital banking and larger-ticket loans in the future.
At the end of the acquisition process, slated for completion at the end of this week, PT FinAccel Teknologi Indonesia will own 75% of Bank Bisnis, with the Suriadi family, the previous majority owners, still retaining a significant minority stake. All regulatory approvals for this acquisition have been obtained, including from Indonesia's Financial Services Authority (OJK).
Akshay Garg, Group CEO & Co-founder of FinAccel, said, "While Kredivo has been at the forefront of consumer credit digitization via our BNPL business over the last several years, the digitization of Indonesian banking services is only getting started. In line with our mission to serve customers with products that are fast, affordable and widely accessible, we look forward to serving customers with world-class banking products in the future. We are also very grateful to the Suriadi family for their support and cooperation during this year-long acquisition process."
Purnawan Suriadi, Lead Shareholder Representative for the Suriadis added, "Bank Bisnis has a long and proud heritage. As the banking sector rapidly digitizes, we are very excited to bring in FinAccel Teknologi as the new majority shareholder of the bank, and look forward to working with them in their vision of building the leading digital bank franchise in Indonesia."
About FinAccel
FinAccel is a financial technology company focused on making financial services fast, affordable and accessible for the under-banked population of Southeast Asia. FinAccel's products and entities include Kredivo, the leading BNPL platform in Indonesia and Vietnam, KrediFazz, the leading digital credit platform in Indonesia and Bank Bisnis Indonesia. FinAccel is backed by leading venture capital firms and corporate investors such as Victory Park Capital Advisors, LLC ("VPC"), Mirae Asset, Naver, Square Peg, Jungle Ventures, Telkom Indonesia, Singtel and GMO, among others. To know more about FinAccel, visit www.finaccel.co.
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OSLO, Norway, April 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Gaming Innovation Group Inc. (GiG) has today via its subsidiary Sportnco Gaming SAS (Sportnco) signed an agreement with existing partner GM Gaming Limited (GM Gaming), who operates the Betway brand in Portugal, for the provision of Sportnco's Sportsbook and player account management (PAM) for Betway.pt (Portugal).
This is the second sportsbook and PAM agreement between Sportnco and GM Gaming, the first of which saw the successful launch of the tier one operator in France. The new agreement will see GM Gaming migrate from its current sportsbook and platform.
The Portuguese market has demonstrated high growth across both Sportsbetting and casino with annual growth in 2021 of 32.1% and 29.9% respectively (H2 data). Sportnco have extensive knowledge and experience in delivering complex and highly regulated markets successfully, making them a top choice for operators like GM Gaming looking to migrate platforms or launch in such markets.
Hervé Schlosser, Managing Director of Sportnco, said "Sportnco is delighted to be working with the Betway brand in Portugal. It makes us very proud when an existing partner places the trust and confidence in our technology to help continue to power their expansion within multiple jurisdictions. We are looking forward to strengthening our relationship with our long-term partner."
Raquel Gonçalves at GM Gaming said: "We're really excited to continue our great relationship with Sportnco, a leading provider in the latest platform and technologies within the gaming sector, with this agreement. We're looking forward to this venture which will strengthen our product offering for the Betway brand in Portugal."
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Hessi Mocca, Head of IR, +46 737039820, hessi.mocca@gig.com
About Gaming Innovation Group (GiG)
Gaming Innovation Group is a leading iGaming technology company, providing solutions, products and services to iGaming Operators. Founded in 2012, Gaming Innovation Group's vision is 'To be the industry-leading platform, sportsbook and media provider delivering world-class solutions to our iGaming partners and their customers. GiG acquired leading sportsbook provider, Sportnco in 2022. Sportnco operates the leading B2B betting networks in France and Spain and is active in other European jurisdictions (Belgium, Portugal and Greece), as well as in South America and the US. Sportnco has been active since 2010, building strong partnerships with leading betting and gaming brands with its flexible platform, customisable offering, expertise in risk management and trading and speed to market. GiG's mission is to drive sustainable growth and profitability of our partners through product innovation, scalable technology and quality of service. Gaming Innovation Group operates out of Malta and is dual-listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol GIG and on Nasdaq Stockholm under the ticker symbol GIGSEK. www.gig.com.
About Betway
Betway is part of Super Group: the global digital company which provides first class entertainment to the worldwide betting and gaming community. Super Group (SGHC) Limited is the holding company for leading global online sports betting and gaming businesses: Betway, a premier online sports betting brand, and Spin, a multi-brand online casino offering. Listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE ticker: SGHC), the group is licensed in multiple jurisdictions, with leading positions in key markets throughout Europe, the Americas and Africa. The group's successful sports betting and online gaming offerings are underpinned by its scale and leading technology, enabling fast and effective entry into new markets. Its proprietary marketing and data analytics engine empowers it to responsibly.
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NACKA STRAND, Sweden, April 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Hexagon AB, a global leader in digital reality solutions combining sensor, software and autonomous technologies, today announced the acquisition of Innovatia Accelerator Inc., a developer of SaaS-based digitalisation solutions that transform operations and modernise fieldwork in the manufacturing and process industries.
For an industrial organisation to truly automate the full scope of its operations – from processes and equipment to worker performance – the operational content and procedures of its assets must be digital and connected. Innovatia Accelerator's flagship solution, AcceleratorKMS, is an AI-based infield knowledge management platform that expedites the digital transformation of paper-based, high-risk operational procedures and work processes. It enables organisations to easily manage, govern and distribute the up-to-date critical operational content field workers require to keep operations running optimally and smoothly.
"We are very excited to bring another innovative solution into our operations and maintenance portfolio and accelerate our vision of facilitating autonomy in industrial plant operation," says Hexagon President and CEO Ola Rollén. "AcceleratorKMS has a proven track record with many Fortune 500 companies to address a real business need in digitalising the paper-based ecosystem of operations and maintenance, turnaround/shutdown, and emergency procedures."
The AcceleratorKMS solution includes Procedure Lifecycle Management (PLCM), a Connected Worker Platform (CWP), a Learner Experience Platform (LXP) and a Component Content Management System (CCMS). The combined capabilities create an integrated digital content ecosystem to enhance the execution of procedures requiring collaboration and inputs from multiple users and data sources to reduce risk and increase overall worker productivity.
"Hexagon has long been a leader in delivering smart digital realities that go beyond the digital twin, offering a visual, single source of truth of location-based asset intelligence – available anywhere, anytime, on any device," continued Rollén. "This acquisition adds operational insights to support the connected worker in eliminating operational incidents caused by missing, out-of-date, or inaccessible information. The combination of AcceleratorKMS with our asset information solutions and Smart Digital Reality™ backbone will help more customers achieve efficiencies faster, improve operations and increase ROI."
Headquartered in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada, with offices in India and the United States, Innovatia Accelerator will operate within Hexagon's PPM division. The acquisition has no significant impact on Hexagon's earnings and is expected to be completed over the coming weeks.
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GURUGRAM, India, April 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- In a bid to enable India's decarbonization push, Indian Oil Corporation Ltd., (IndianOil), the country's top refiner and fuel retailer, Larsen & Toubro (L&T), India's premier engineering & construction conglomerate, and ReNew Power ("ReNew") (NASDAQ: RNW) (NASDAQ: RNWWW), India's leading renewable energy company, announced signing of binding term sheet for the formation of a Joint Venture (JV) company to develop the nascent green hydrogen sector in India.
The tripartite venture is a synergistic alliance that brings together the strong credentials of L&T in designing, executing, and delivering EPC projects, IndianOil's established expertise in petroleum refining along with its presence across the energy spectrum, and the expertise of ReNew in offering and developing utility-scale renewable energy solutions.
Additionally, IndianOil and L&T have signed a binding term sheet to form a JV with equity participation to manufacture and sell Electrolyzers used in the production of Green Hydrogen.
Speaking about the joint venture, Mr. SN Subrahmanyan, CEO & MD, L&T, said, "India plans to rapidly march ahead in its decarbonization efforts and production of Green Hydrogen is key in this endeavour. The IndianOil-L&T-ReNew JV will focus on developing Green Hydrogen projects in a time-bound manner to supply Green Hydrogen at an industrial scale. While L&T will bring its strong EPC credentials to the table, IOC being India's premier oil refiner with extensive capabilities in chemical processes and refining has established deep R&D capabilities in many aspects of green hydrogen value chain, and ReNew Power has in a short time established itself as a leading renewable energy supplier and has built itself a very strong reputation. We consider this partnership as a significant step in India's quest for alternative energy.
Addressing another gap in the Green Hydrogen manufacturing chain, IndianOil-L&T JV will focus on production and sale of Electrolyzer."
"Both these JVs aim to enable the nation's 'Aatmanirbhar Bharat' mission to rapidly build, expand and bring in economies of scale to make green hydrogen a cost-effective energy carrier and a chemical feedstock for many sectors."
Commenting on the occasion, Mr. Shrikant Madhav Vaidya, Chairman, IndianOil, said, "Being the Energy of India, we are committed to powering India's drive towards carbon neutrality by leveraging the power of green hydrogen. IndianOil is forging this alliance to realise India's green hydrogen aspirations, which is in sync with the Hon'ble Prime Minister's vision of making India a Green Hydrogen generation and export hub. To start with, this partnership will focus on green hydrogen projects at our Mathura and Panipat refineries. Alongside, other green hydrogen projects in India will also be evaluated. While the usage of hydrogen in the mobility sector will take its due time, however the refineries will be the pivot around which India's green hydrogen revolution will materialize in a substantial way."
"The partnership forged today will thus catalyse the greening of India's energy basket."
Mr. Sumant Sinha, Chairman and CEO of ReNew Power said, "In alignment with the government's broader strategic climate goals for 2030 and 2070 set by honourable Prime Minister Narendra Modi, ReNew looks forward to working with L&T and IndianOil to build the green hydrogen business in India. ReNew, as a leader in intelligent energy solutions and with advanced capability across renewable energy technologies, is well poised to complement the capabilities of our partners."
"The timing for these proposed JVs is excellent as they will help support Government of India's recently announced green hydrogen policy to boost India Inc.'s decarbonization journey."
The planned JVs aim to enable India's transition from a grey hydrogen economy to a greener economy that increasingly manufactures hydrogen via electrolysis powered by renewable energy.
The central government in February notified the Green Hydrogen policy aimed at boosting production of green hydrogen and green ammonia to help the nation become a global hub for the environmentally friendly version of the element.
For countries like India, with its ever-increasing oil and gas import bill, green hydrogen can also help provide crucial energy security by reducing the overall dependence on imported fossil fuels.
While nearly all hydrogen produced in India today is grey, it is estimated that demand for Hydrogen will be 12 MMT by 2030 and around 40% of the element produced in the country (around 5 MMT) will be green, as per the draft National Hydrogen Mission guidelines.
By 2050, nearly 80% of India's hydrogen is projected to be 'green' – produced by renewable electricity and electrolysis. Green hydrogen may become the most competitive route for hydrogen production by around 2030. This may be driven by potential cost declines in key production technologies and in clean energy technologies such as solar PV and wind turbines.
Today, hydrogen is mainly used in the refining, steel and fertilizer sectors, which will be the focus of the JVs' initial efforts. The country's refining sector consumes approx. 2 MMT of grey hydrogen every year, with IndianOil owning one of the largest shares of its refining output.
To help decarbonize Indian industry, the new green hydrogen policy provides for the waiver of Inter-State transmission charges for a period of 25 years and a banking provision of up to 30 days, which will help reduce the cost of green hydrogen significantly. This will, therefore, push the replacement of grey hydrogen with green. The Ministry of Power has also provided a single -window-clearance portal for all clearances and open access on priority to green hydrogen projects.
About ReNew Power
ReNew is one of the largest renewable energy Independent Power Producers (IPPs) in India and globally. ReNew develops, builds, owns, and operates utility-scale wind and solar energy projects, and hydro projects. As of February 1, 2022, ReNew had a total portfolio of 10.2 GW of renewable energy projects across India, including commissioned and committed projects. For more information, please visit: www.renewpower.in.; Follow ReNew Power on Twitter @ReNew_Power
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TEL AVIV, Israel, April 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- On April 3, 108 countries across the globe participated in International Good Deeds Day 2022, including U.S.A., Zambia, India, Portugal, Mexico, Congo, Armenia, Poland, Italy, UK, Venezuela, Haiti, Argentina, Cambodia, and more. Enthusiasm around this international event of good increases every year, with millions of people joining in to volunteer and do something positive for others on Good Deeds Day, which was launched 16 years ago in Israel and has since crossed borders to become an internationally unifying day of good.
Businesswoman and philanthropist Shari Arison, initiator of Good Deeds Day, said:
"This day, which I initiated 16 years ago, is a peak event of doing good activities that take place all year round, and I believe that if we think good, speak good, and do good, our world will look different, every day. All of us together have the power to lead the world to a better place, each in their own way and according to their heart's desire. It is heartwarming to see the outpour of responses from people across the globe who extend a helping hand at this time, in any way possible, either face-to-face or by faming on social media, and in numerous other ways that do good for the benefit of others."
Here are some of the events that took place on Good Deeds Day 2002 across the globe:
USA: Almost all 50 states participated, led by Points of Light, IAVE, Hillel, and other organizations.
Uganda: 5,000 people nationwide, in diverse projects from care for the elderly to a marching brass band.
India: Six cities participated in projects, including a three-day volunteers camp and school renovation project.
Greece: A massive beach cleanup, inviting people to take action and protect the oceans from single-use plastics.
Honduras: Opening festival in the capital Tegucigalpa, full of performances that raised funds for marginalized communities, and additional projects nationwide.
Mexico: Kite Festival, alongside sports activities and workshops that raised awareness about environmental issues.
Israel: In the country where Good Deeds Day first started 16 years ago, two million people took part in this annual celebration that crosses all cultures, religions, and ages.
Croatia: Unveiling of 'The School of Good Deeds project', with 500 projects made by students from 100 primary schools across the country about nature, animals, and marginalized populations.
Cambodia: More than 1000 participants in 21 cities, all united around releasing 16 million fish, one for each citizen in a country with a population of 16 million, symbolizing happiness, wealth, luck, and positive long-term impact.
Tanzania: Over 5,000 people and 80+ organizations came together in a Good Deeds Day fair involving 1,000 people sharing information and ways to get involved with nonprofits, alongside activities that raised donations to charity.
Democratic Republic of Congo: 10,000 people took part in a series of week-long projects in Kinshasa, mobilizing volunteers and organizations, including the United Nations Volunteers Program, with radio appearances, tree planting to fight against climate change, sanitation of universities, photo exhibition, and more.
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BERLIN, April 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The nomination phase of the newly established Virchow Prize for Global Health has begun. This major international award honours outstanding achievements towards addressing today's complex health challenges. The Prize is awarded annually in Berlin, with the inaugural ceremony held 15 October 2022, on the eve of the World Health Summit.
The Virchow Prize for Global Health aims to incentivize and spur great minds in their commitment to global health. Laureates will be awarded an endowment of €500,000 for their longstanding contributions towards improving health and well-being for all.
Eligible are individuals, organisations, or institutions who have made significant contributions towards strengthening health worldwide – whether through long-standing scientific, academic, political, humanitarian, social, research or economic engagement, in line with the United Nations 2030 Agenda Sustainable Development Goals.
Each year, the official announcement of the Virchow Prize for Global Health laureates is released on 13 October, the birthday of Rudolf Virchow. Virchow united in one person the interdisciplinary and humanistic concept of well-being, while serving as a role model in overcoming complexity and bridging challenges to improve health at a global scale.
By establishing and granting the Virchow Prize for Global Health, the Virchow Foundation for Global Health strives to raise awareness of current global health issues and to award achievements which significantly improve the impact on the broad health challenges we face today. The Foundation was established with support of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina and Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, alongside civil society and leading experts within global health.
Details on nomination process: https://virchowprize.org/nominations/
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- ETESIAN Phase 2b study of ION449 (AZD8233) met its primary and secondary endpoints; ION449 was generally well tolerated
- ION449 demonstrated potential best-in-class efficacy profile for a self-administered subcutaneous monthly dose regimen
- Study findings warrant further clinical development of ION449 for patients with hypercholesterolemia at high cardiovascular risk
CARLSBAD, Calif., April 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Ionis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: IONS), the leader in antisense therapeutics, and its partner, AstraZeneca, today announced positive data from the ETESIAN Phase 2b study of ION449 (AZD8233), an investigational antisense medicine designed to reduce blood cholesterol levels in patients with hypercholesterolemia by targeting proprotein convertase subtilisin/kexin type 9 (PCSK9). These data were presented at the American College of Cardiology's 71st Annual Scientific Session & Expo.
The ETESIAN Phase 2b study's objective was to assess the efficacy, safety and tolerability of ION449 in patients with high-risk hypercholesterolemia. The study met its primary endpoint in reducing serum LDL-C levels by up to 79%. Both the 50mg and 90mg doses reached statistically significant and clinically meaningful reductions in LDL-C levels from baseline of 73% (95% confidence interval [CI]: 77%, 68%) and 79% (95% CI: 83%, 76%), respectively, versus 2% (95% CI: 17%, -15%) for placebo. The reductions in LDL-C were maintained until week 14 (6 weeks after the last dose).
The trial also met the secondary endpoints, including significantly reducing PCSK9 levels by up to 94%. The 50mg and 90mg doses achieved reductions in PCSK9 levels of 89% (95% CI: 91%, 86%) and 94% (95% CI: 95%, 92%), respectively, versus 5% (95% CI: 23%, -18%) for placebo. The sustained reductions in PCSK9 levels were maintained until week 14 (6 weeks after last dose). Reducing PCSK9 levels leads to lower LDL-C levels in the bloodstream, which is known to reduce the risk of developing coronary heart disease.
ION449 was generally well tolerated during the 12-week treatment period and the 12-week follow up period in the study.
"The positive results of the ETESIAN study, along with the clinical studies to date, reinforces our confidence that ION449 (AZD8233) is a potential new treatment option that may be able to change the current standard of care for patients affected by hypercholesterolemia who have cardiovascular disease," said Brett P. Monia, Ph.D., Ionis' chief executive officer.
"Today, we are pleased to announce that ETESIAN Phase 2b for ION449 (AZD8233) demonstrated a clear dose-response for both PCSK9 and LDL-C levels. The results underscore ION449's (AZD8233) potential best-in-class efficacy profile and support further development of ION449 (AZD8233) as a next-generation PCSK9 inhibitor that is self-administered monthly," said Mene Pangalos, executive vice president and president, BioPharmaceuticals R&D at AstraZeneca.
ION449 is being developed by AstraZeneca as part of a collaboration between Ionis and AstraZeneca.
About ION449
ION449 (AZD8233) dosed once monthly via subcutaneous administration, is an investigational medicine that uses Ionis' advanced LIgand-Conjugated Antisense (LICA) technology platform. It is designed to reduce plasma levels of proprotein convertase subtilisin/kexin type 9 (PCSK9). PCSK9 is integrally involved in the regulation of LDL-cholesterol. Genetic studies have shown that individuals with life-long reduction of LDL-C due to reduced function of PCSK9 have substantially reduced risk of cardiovascular disease. Pharmacological inhibition of PCSK9 substantially lowers LDL-C. ION449 is designed to reduce the liver production of PCSK9 and lower the plasma level of LDL-C and thus reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease.
Elevated levels of LDL-C are a key risk factor in the development of cardiovascular disease, including heart attack, stroke and peripheral arterial disease. Higher levels of LDL-C in the blood are directly related to greater risk of vascular disease, while reduction of LDL-C leads to a significant decrease in risk. Despite the presence of several lipid-lowering agents, many patients are unable to achieve recommended LDL-C levels and remain at increased risk for cardiovascular disease. The development of additional, highly potent LDL-C lowering drugs can address this persistent unmet need.
About ETESIAN
ETESIAN is a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, dose-ranging Phase 2b study in patients with hypercholesterolemia. The primary objective was to assess the effect of different doses of ION449 (AZD8233) on LDL-C compared to placebo at Week 12 in patients on statin therapy. Secondary endpoints included change in PCSK9 levels and the assessment of safety and tolerability of ION449.
The study had 119 participants, aged 18-75, who had LDL-C levels between 70 and 190mg/dL and were receiving moderate or high-intensity statin therapy.
Three dose levels of ION449 were evaluated (15mg, 50mg, 90mg), given monthly by sub-cutaneous injection over the 12-week dosing period. All active arms demonstrated reductions in LDL-C and PCSK9 levels at week 12 compared to placebo.
The percent changes from baseline to week 12 in LDL-C at the 15mg, 50mg and 90mg monthly dose were –39% (95% confidence interval [CI] –48%, –29%), –73% (95% CI: –77%, –68%), –79% (95% CI: –83%, –76%), respectively. The percent changes from baseline to week 12 in PCSK9 levels at the 15mg, 50mg and 90mg monthly dose were –58% (95% CI, –66%, –48%), –89% (95% CI: –91%, –86%), –94% (95% CI: –95%, –92%), respectively. ION449 was generally well-tolerated. The adverse events (AEs) were similar between the 15mg, 50mg and placebo groups. Most AEs were mild to moderate including transient, moderate treatment-emergent elevations in liver enzyme levels in the 90mg group.
About Ionis Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
For more than 30 years, Ionis has been the leader in RNA-targeted therapy, pioneering new markets and changing standards of care with its novel antisense technology. Ionis currently has three marketed medicines and a premier late-stage pipeline highlighted by industry-leading neurological and cardiometabolic franchises. Our scientific innovation began and continues with the knowledge that sick people depend on us, which fuels our vision of becoming a leading, fully integrated biotechnology company.
To learn more about Ionis, visit www.ionispharma.com and follow us on Twitter @ionispharma.
Ionis' Forward-looking Statements
This press release includes forward-looking statements regarding Ionis' business and the therapeutic and commercial potential of Ionis' technologies, ION449 and other products in development. Any statement describing Ionis' goals, expectations, financial or other projections, intentions or beliefs is a forward-looking statement and should be considered an at-risk statement. Such statements are subject to certain risks and uncertainties, including those related to the impact COVID-19 could have on our business, and including but not limited to, those related to our commercial products and the medicines in our pipeline, and particularly those inherent in the process of discovering, developing and commercializing medicines that are safe and effective for use as human therapeutics, and in the endeavor of building a business around such medicines. Ionis' forward-looking statements also involve assumptions that, if they never materialize or prove correct, could cause its results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements.
Although Ionis' forward-looking statements reflect the good faith judgment of its management, these statements are based only on facts and factors currently known by Ionis. As a result, you are cautioned not to rely on these forward-looking statements. These and other risks concerning Ionis' programs are described in additional detail in Ionis' annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended Dec. 31, 2021, which is on file with the SEC. Copies of these and other documents are available from the Company.
In this press release, unless the context requires otherwise, "Ionis," "Company," "we," "our," and "us" refers to Ionis Pharmaceuticals and its subsidiaries.
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HOUSTON, April 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- KBR (NYSE: KBR) announced today that Umberto della Sala will not seek re-election to the company's board of directors at the annual shareholder meeting in May. Sir John A. Manzoni KCB has been nominated to fill the board position and will stand for election at the May meeting.
Della Sala has been a member of KBR's board of directors since 2015, serving on the Compensation and Sustainability and Corporate Responsibility Committees.
Manzoni currently serves as the Chair of SSE, a UK utilities company, and is Chairman of the Atomic Weapons Establishment, a non-departmental UK government body central to the country's nuclear defense strategy. In addition, he is as a nonexecutive director of Diageo plc, a British multinational beverage company, and serves on the Global Leadership Council of the Said Business School at the University of Oxford. Past industry experience includes tenure as Chief Executive of the UK Civil Service and as Permanent Secretary of the Cabinet Office from 2013 to 2020. Manzoni spent 25 years at BP, including as Chief Executive of Gas and Power and later as Chief Executive of Refining and Marketing. He also joined BP plc's main board in 2003. From 2007 to 2012, he was President and Chief Executive of Talisman Energy, a global exploration and production company based in Canada. And he also served on the board of SABMiller from 2005 to 2014.
"We look forward to Sir John joining the KBR family and welcome his guidance and diverse experience to the KBR Board of Directors," said General Lester Lyles, USAF (Ret.), Chairman of KBR's board. "And I would like to thank Umberto for his dedication to KBR over the past seven years. It has been an honor to serve alongside him, and we wish him well for the future."
About KBR
We deliver science, technology and engineering solutions to governments and companies around the world. KBR employs approximately 28,000 people performing diverse, complex and mission critical roles in 34 countries.
KBR is proud to work with its customers across the globe to provide technology, value-added services, and long- term operations and maintenance services to ensure consistent delivery with predictable results. At KBR, We Deliver.
Visit www.kbr.com
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The statements in this press release that are not historical statements, including statements regarding future financial performance, are forward-looking statements within the meaning of the federal securities laws. These statements are subject to numerous risks and uncertainties, many of which are beyond the company's control that could cause actual results to differ materially from the results expressed or implied by the statements. These risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to: the significant adverse impacts on economic and market conditions of the COVID-19 pandemic and the company's ability to respond to the resulting challenges and business disruption; the recent dislocation of the global energy market; the company's ability to manage its liquidity; the outcome of and the publicity surrounding audits and investigations by domestic and foreign government agencies and legislative bodies; potential adverse proceedings by such agencies and potential adverse results and consequences from such proceedings; changes in capital spending by the company's customers; the company's ability to obtain contracts from existing and new customers and perform under those contracts; structural changes in the industries in which the company operates; escalating costs associated with and the performance of fixed-fee projects and the company's ability to control its cost under its contracts; claims negotiations and contract disputes with the company's customers; changes in the demand for or price of oil and/or natural gas; protection of intellectual property rights; compliance with environmental laws; changes in government regulations and regulatory requirements; compliance with laws related to income taxes; unsettled political conditions, war and the effects of terrorism; foreign operations and foreign exchange rates and controls; the development and installation of financial systems; the possibility of cyber and malware attacks; increased competition for employees; the ability to successfully complete and integrate acquisitions; and operations of joint ventures, including joint ventures that are not controlled by the company.
The company's most recently filed Annual Report on Form 10-K, any subsequent Form 10-Qs and 8-Ks, and other U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filings discuss some of the important risk factors that the company has identified that may affect its business, results of operations and financial condition. Except as required by law, the company undertakes no obligation to revise or update publicly any forward-looking statements for any reason.
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SUZHOU, China, April 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Kintor Pharmaceutical Limited (Kintor Pharma, HKEX: 9939), a clinical-stage biotechnology company developing innovative small molecules and biological therapeutics, today announced two poster presentations at the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Annual Meeting 2022, including proxalutamide to treat COVID-19 and a c-Myc Degrader to treat blood cancer and small cell lung cancers (SCLC). This year's AACR annual meeting will be held in the city of New Orleans, United States, on April 8-13, 2022.
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Mechanisms of action (MOA) for proxalutamide, an androgen receptor (AR) antagonist, for the treatment of mild, moderate and severe COVID-19 patients
Abstract#: 5274
Session Title: COVID-19 and Cancer
Session Time: April 8, 2022, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Abstract Link: https://www.abstractsonline.com/pp8/#!/10517/presentation/18533
Discovery and evaluation of GT19630, a c-Myc/GSPT1 cereblon E3 ligase modulator(CELMoD) , for targeting Myc-driven blood cancers and small cell lung cancers(SCLC)
Abstract#: 5479
Session Title: Small Molecule Therapeutic Agents
Session Time: April 8, 2022, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Abstract Link: https://www.abstractsonline.com/pp8/#!/10517/presentation/18624
Please refer to the website of AACR for more details.
About Kintor Pharmaceutical Limited
Kintor Pharmaceutical Limited is developing and commercializing a robust pipeline of innovative small molecules and biological therapeutics for androgen-receptor-related disease areas with unmet medical needs, including COVID-19, prostate, breast and liver cancer, alopecia, and acne. For more information, visit www.kintor.com.cn.
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PriceRunner will bring new features to the Klarna app globally to help consumers save time and money, and make informed decisions to take control of their finances
STOCKHOLM, April 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Klarna, a leading global retail bank, payments, and shopping service today announced the completion of its acquisition of PriceRunner, the leading comparison shopping service in the Nordic region with operations in Sweden, Denmark, Norway and the United Kingdom.
PriceRunner will bring new features to the Klarna app globally in the form of rich product discovery, price comparisons and product reviews to help consumers save time and money, and make informed decisions so they can take control of their finances. Klarna's 400k+ global retail partners as well as PriceRunner's retail partners will benefit from increased website traffic from high intent consumers and optimized marketing opportunities to further drive their growth.
All 200+ PriceRunner employees in Sweden, Denmark and Norway are now officially part of the Klarna family.
David Fock, Klarna's Chief Product Officer commented: "Together with PriceRunner we already have some exciting plans on how we can swiftly integrate our teams and technology stacks to launch products that enhance the shopping experience for Klarna's 147m global consumers. We look forward to welcoming our new colleagues to Klarna.
"The acquisition will serve to strengthen our consumer offering and that Klarna will not be a marketplace but a viable and competitive alternative for retail partners vs Amazon, Google and Facebook. Klarna and PriceRunner are united in our fundamental belief that tech companies, no matter where they operate, compete on the basis of their own merit with the best products and services to gain consumers' trust."
Mikael Lindahl, CEO of PriceRunner, said: "We are really excited about this next chapter in PriceRunner's journey, continuing it with a strong, global player like Klarna. I know that we can create the very best shopping experience for consumers together and am really excited for how our company will grow in the future together with Klarna."
Klarna will assume complete ownership from previous main owners Karl-Johan Persson, chairman of the board at H&M, Eequity, former PriceRunner CEO Nicklas Storåkers and current CEO Mikael Lindahl.
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Klarna
Candice Macdonald
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Mikael Lindahl
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T: +46 (0) 70 744 74 43
About Klarna
Since 2005 Klarna has been on a mission to revolutionize the retail banking industry. With over 147 million global active users and 2 million transactions per day, Klarna is meeting the changing demands of consumers by saving them time and money while helping them be informed and in control of their personal finances. Over 400,000 global retail partners, including H&M, Saks, Sephora, Macys, IKEA, Expedia Group, and Nike have integrated Klarna's innovative technology to deliver a seamless shopping experience online and in-store. With over 5,000 employees, Klarna is active in 45 markets and is one of the most highly-valued private fintechs globally, with a valuation of $45.6 billion. For more information, visit Klarna.com
About PriceRunner
PriceRunner is the largest independent comparison shopping service in the Nordics. The company operates in four countries and compares 3.7 million products from 22,500 stores in 25 different countries. At PriceRunner, consumers can compare products, prices, specifications, read professional product tests and find out how other customers reviewed products and stores. We have roughly 200 employees in Denmark, Norway and Sweden. PriceRunner is a completely independent company. We are not owned by any merchants and are not dependent on them, retailers or other organizations with an interest to spread biased information. Our goal is to help consumers find the right products at a better price. We help millions of consumers every month to find better and cheaper products while they at the same time save money by using PriceRunner's services.
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STOCKHOLM, April 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Mycronic AB (publ) today publishes its Annual and Sustainability Report 2021, which can be downloaded as a PDF from the company's website www.mycronic.com.
A printed version of the Annual and Sustainability Report will be available mid-April and distributed to those shareholders who have requested a copy.
For additional information, please contact:
Sven Chetkovich
Director Investor Relations
Tel: +46 70 558 39 19
E-mail: sven.chetkovich@mycronic.com
This information is information that Mycronic is obliged to make public pursuant to the Securities Market Act. The information was submitted for publication on April 4, 2022 at 10:00 a.m. CEST.
About Mycronic
Mycronic is a Swedish high-tech company engaged in the development, manufacture and marketing of production equipment with high precision and flexibility requirements for the electronics industry. Mycronic's headquarters are located in Täby, north of Stockholm and the Group has subsidiaries in China, France, Germany, Japan, the Netherlands, Singapore, South Korea, United Kingdom, United States and Vietnam. Mycronic is listed on Nasdaq Stockholm. www.mycronic.com
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DANVERS, Mass., April 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Plexus team at ITW Performance Polymers is introducing Plexus MA8105 as its newest adhesive, continuing to push the limits of what is possible with MMA (methyl methacrylate) adhesives and addressing the challenges of earlier generations.
MMA structural adhesives offer distinct advantages over other adhesives: Fast room temperature curing, excellent mechanical properties, and a broad range of adhesion. Older MMA adhesives bond a wide range of materials but struggle with "difficult to bond" metals like hot dipped galvanized steel, or tough semi-crystalline plastics like polyamides (nylons).
Challenges and Requirements
Broad Adhesion – Customers need to bond a full range of materials. Older generations of adhesives had difficulty bonding galvanized steel, nylons to composites, other metals and plastics.
High Temperature Resistance – Certain applications require high strength even at 180°F (82°C) or higher.
Fast Throughput – The adhesive strength development must match expectations. Making more parts per hour improves efficiency and lowers cost.
Toughness Requirement – Users need high strength adhesives with good elongation handling impact and fatigue.
Cure Tack-Free, Sandable & Paintable – Adhesive squeeze out happens. It's beneficial to have an adhesive that cures tack-free and accepts most paints.
Non-Sag on Vertical Surfaces – It stays where you put it.
Handle Off-Ratio Mixing – Older adhesives require exact mix ratios.
Expanding the Plexus MA8100 Brand
Enter MA8105, a 5-minute working time product with fixture times between 12-15 minutes. MA8105 takes the robust adhesion of other MA8100 series products and adds quicker product throughput.
The Results
MA8105 has excellent primerless adhesion to a wide range of substrates. Composites, painted metals, and amorphous thermoplastics are often bonded with little to no surface preparation. MA8105 adhesive even bonds oily metals. MA8105 withstands long-term environmental exposure. Parts can be bonded and survive in typical outdoor environments with significantly higher heat resistance than competitive structural adhesives. MA8105 cures quickly in a range of temperatures, enabling fast throughput. Quick dispensing and part joining mean manufacturing and assembly are optimized, producing more parts per hour. Labor shortages mean manufacturers can turn to the creative solutions of adhering their parts in a fast, efficient manner.
About Plexus:
A brand of ITW Performance Polymers. Plexus industrial adhesives create durable bonds in a variety of applications providing dependable solutions across multiple markets. Used to improve processes and techniques in manufacturing and assembly, these products are available around the world.
About ITW Performance Polymers:
A world leader in the research, development and manufacturing of grouting and chocking compounds, structural and semi-structural adhesives, sprayable syntactic materials, and wear-resistant coatings and repair compounds. These value-added solutions are widely used in several markets including wind, transportation, marine, electronics, and other industrial OEM & MRO applications.
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BANGKOK, April 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- SeaX Ventures (Southeast Asia Exponential Ventures) announced today the close of its second fund to help accelerate the growth of global startups throughout Southeast Asia. The fund is dedicated to investing in companies working on truly transformational opportunities in sectors including blockchain & web3, foodtech, biotech & life science, artificial intelligence, robotics, and IoT & hardware.
Although the original fund target size was $50 million, the raise was oversubscribed, and the total was increased to $60 million. SeaX Ventures will make investments of between $500,000 – $5 million in pre-seed, seed, and Series A financings.
"Southeast Asia is a region of 650 million people with a combined GDP of $3 trillion," said Dr. Supachai "Kid" Parchariyanon, the Founder and Managing Partner of SeaX Ventures. "We can help innovative startups from across the world grow exponentially in this large and dynamic area through our relationship with over 400 corporates."
A vital component is the deep and cooperative relationships that SeaX maintains with its investors and corporate partners at RISE. Also founded by Dr. Kid, RISE is a corporate innovation consulting firm that works with the largest companies in Southeast Asia by empowering them to achieve transformative change in the digital realm. SeaX Ventures will tangibly add value to its portfolio companies by helping to grow their businesses. This goal will be accomplished by connecting these startups to its investors and RISE clients, thus also assisting the larger entities in their quests to pursue innovative initiatives, launch new businesses, or reduce operating costs.
Corporations that invested as Limited Partners include PTT OR International Holdings (Singapore) Pte. Ltd., Central Pattana PCL, Singha Ventures Corporation, Ramkhamhaeng Hospital PCL, MC Group PCL, The Vacharaphol Co., Ltd. (Thairath News), T.K.S. Technologies PCL, Modernform PCL, and BCH Ventures, among others.
Ms. Jiraphon Kawswat, President and Chief Executive of OR, states, "At OR, we value innovation and are always searching for new ways to serve our customers. Investing in SeaX Ventures broadens our horizons and connects us with a few of the most innovative companies in the world."
Notable individual investors include Jareeporn Jarukornsakul (Co-founder & Chairman of WHA), Banyong Pongnanich (Chairman, Kiatnakin Phatra Financial Group), Thiraphong Chansiri (CEO, Thai Union Group PCL), Chai Srivikorn, (Board member, Gaysorn Group), Anujtha Jaovisidha (Director, Toyota Tsusho Thai Holding), Yothin Dumnernchanvanit (Executive Director, Double A 1991 PCL), Verawat Ongvasith (CEO, Veranda Resort Group PCL), Nattaphol Vimolchalao (CEO, Siamrajathanee PCL), among others.
Ms. Jareeporn said, "Dr. Kid has a proven track record in identifying promising opportunities and scaling businesses with pioneering technology. I am excited to partner with him and SeaX."
Despite SeaX Ventures raising only its second fund, it already has invested in the seed rounds of three unicorns. "We want to continue the momentum," said Dr. Kid, "especially because there is so much potential for innovative companies here in Southeast Asia."
About SeaX Ventures
SeaX Ventures is a venture capital fund investing globally in early-stage companies with game-changing "exponential" technologies. SeaX delivers unique access to a highly selective group of innovative companies from around the globe. SeaX leverages RISE's relationship with over 400+ listed companies, MNCs, and huge family businesses in Southeast Asia to explore business opportunities together with our portfolio companies.
About RISE
RISE is a corporate innovation consulting firm based out of Southeast Asia. With the mission to lift up 1 percent of GDP of this region, RISE works closely with Fortune 500, large family businesses, and government agencies across the region to help set up and scale innovation initiatives from outside and within the organization. RISE is known for Global Accelerator Program, Intrapreneur University, Venture Builder, and Corporate Innovation Summit - Asia's Largest Experiential Conference. We have been creating the global ecosystem for corporate innovation with a network of more than 400 corporations, 2,000 startups, and over 20,000 corporate innovators and partners in 40 countries around the world, contributing to a combined impact of over US$2 billion
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NEW YORK, April 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Pomerantz LLP is investigating claims on behalf of investors of FAT Brands Inc. ("FAT" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: FAT). Such investors are advised to contact Robert S. Willoughby at newaction@pomlaw.com or 888-476-6529, ext. 7980.
The investigation concerns whether FAT and certain of its officers and/or directors have engaged in securities fraud or other unlawful business practices.
On February 22, 2022, FAT disclosed in a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that its Chief Executive Officer Andy Wiederhorn has been under federal investigation for several months "concerning, among other things, the Company's December 2020 merger with Fog Cutter Capital Group Inc., transactions between these entities and Mr. Wiederhorn, and compensation, extensions of credit and other benefits or payments received by Mr. Wiederhorn or his family."
On this news, FAT's stock price fell $2.42 per share, or 22.92%, to close at $8.14 per share on February 22, 2022.
Pomerantz LLP, with offices in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Paris, and Tel Aviv, is acknowledged as one of the premier firms in the areas of corporate, securities, and antitrust class litigation. Founded by the late Abraham L. Pomerantz, known as the dean of the class action bar, Pomerantz pioneered the field of securities class actions. Today, more than 85 years later, Pomerantz continues in the tradition he established, fighting for the rights of the victims of securities fraud, breaches of fiduciary duty, and corporate misconduct. The Firm has recovered numerous multimillion-dollar damages awards on behalf of class members. See www.pomlaw.com.
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NEW YORK, April 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Pomerantz LLP is investigating claims on behalf of investors of Graphite Bio, Inc. ("Graphite" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: GRPH). Such investors are advised to contact Robert S. Willoughby at newaction@pomlaw.com or 888-476-6529, ext. 7980.
The investigation concerns whether Graphite and certain of its officers and/or directors have engaged in securities fraud or other unlawful business practices.
On or around June 25, 2021, Graphite conducted its initial public offering ("IPO"), issuing 14 million shares of common stock priced at $17.00 per share. Then, on March 21, 2022, Graphite issued a press release providing business updates and announcing is fourth quarter and fiscal year 2021 financial results. Among other items, Graphite disclosed that the early proof-of-concept data from the Phase 1/2 CEDAR clinical trial for GPH101 in sickle cell disease are now expected in 2023, attributing the delay "to impacts of the recent COVID-19 Omicron variant surge on patients and site resources and operations[.]"
On this news, Graphite's stock price fell $1.23 per share, or 15.15%, to close at $6.89 per share on March 21, 2022.
Pomerantz LLP, with offices in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Paris, and Tel Aviv, is acknowledged as one of the premier firms in the areas of corporate, securities, and antitrust class litigation. Founded by the late Abraham L. Pomerantz, known as the dean of the class action bar, Pomerantz pioneered the field of securities class actions. Today, more than 85 years later, Pomerantz continues in the tradition he established, fighting for the rights of the victims of securities fraud, breaches of fiduciary duty, and corporate misconduct. The Firm has recovered numerous multimillion-dollar damages awards on behalf of class members. See www.pomlaw.com.
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NEW YORK, April 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Pomerantz LLP is investigating claims on behalf of investors of Kingsoft Cloud Holdings Limited ("Kingsoft" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: KC). Such investors are advised to contact Robert S. Willoughby at newaction@pomlaw.com or 888-476-6529, ext. 7980.
The investigation concerns whether Kingsoft and certain of its officers and/or directors have engaged in securities fraud or other unlawful business practices.
On or around May 8, 2020, Kingsoft conducted its initial public offering ("IPO"), selling 30 million American Depositary Shares ("ADSs") priced at $17.00 per ADS. Then, on March 14, 2022, a J.P. Morgan analyst downgraded Kingsoft stock from neutral to underweight, cutting its price target from $8.00 per ADS to $3.50 per ADS.
On this news, Kingsoft's stock price fell $2.35 per share, or 47.86%, to close at $2.56 per share on March 14, 2022.
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NEW YORK, April 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Pomerantz LLP is investigating claims on behalf of investors of Kiromic BioPharma, Inc. ("Kiromic" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: KRBP). Such investors are advised to contact Robert S. Willoughby at newaction@pomlaw.com or 888-476-6529, ext. 7980.
The investigation concerns whether Kiromic and certain of its officers and/or directors have engaged in securities fraud or other unlawful business practices.
On or around October 16, 2020, Kiromic conducted its initial public offering, selling 1.25 million shares of common stock priced at $12.00 per share. Then, on July 16, 2021, Kiromic issued a press release disclosing that, following the May 2021 submission of two Investigational New Drug Applications ("INDs") to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration ("FDA") "for the first-in-human off-the-shelf allogeneic CAR-T for Solid Tumors", the "FDA returned with comments on the Company's allogeneic CAR-T products with respect to . . . Tracing of all reagents used in manufacturing . . . Flow chart of manufacturing processes . . . [and] Certificate of Analysis (COA) for the Company's CAR-T products (allogeneic CAR-T)."
On this news, Kiromic's stock price fell $0.63 per share, or 16.76%, to close at $3.13 per share on July 16, 2021.
The Pomerantz Firm, with offices in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, and Paris is acknowledged as one of the premier firms in the areas of corporate, securities, and antitrust class litigation. Founded by the late Abraham L. Pomerantz, known as the dean of the class action bar, the Pomerantz Firm pioneered the field of securities class actions. Today, more than 80 years later, the Pomerantz Firm continues in the tradition he established, fighting for the rights of the victims of securities fraud, breaches of fiduciary duty, and corporate misconduct. The Firm has recovered numerous multimillion-dollar damages awards on behalf of class members. See www.pomerantzlaw.com.
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NEW YORK, April 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Pomerantz LLP is investigating claims on behalf of investors of Li-Cycle Holdings Corp. ("Li-Cycle" or the "Company") (NYSE: LICY). Such investors are advised to contact Robert S. Willoughby at newaction@pomlaw.com or 888-476-6529, ext. 7980.
The investigation concerns whether Li-Cycle and certain of its officers and/or directors have engaged in securities fraud or other unlawful business practices.
On March 24, 2022, Blue Orca Capital published a report (the "Report") characterizing the Company as "a near fatal combination of stock promotion, laughable governance, a broken business hemorrhaging cash, and highly questionable Enron-like accounting." According to the Report, "Li-Cycle recognizes revenues using an Enron-like mark-to-model accounting gimmick.
Li-Cycle recognizes revenues months prior to the actual sales of its recycled black mass, based on its own provisional estimate of the future value of the product. This accounting treatment is plainly vulnerable to abuse, giving Li-Cycle discretion over its reported revenues. We suspect that under this framework, LiCycle marks up the value of its receivables on unsold products and runs the gains through its revenue line."
On this news, Li-Cycle's stock price fell $0.47 cents per share, or 5.60% to close at $7.93 per share on March 24, 2022.
Pomerantz LLP, with offices in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Paris, and Tel Aviv, is acknowledged as one of the premier firms in the areas of corporate, securities, and antitrust class litigation. Founded by the late Abraham L. Pomerantz, known as the dean of the class action bar, Pomerantz pioneered the field of securities class actions. Today, more than 85 years later, Pomerantz continues in the tradition he established, fighting for the rights of the victims of securities fraud, breaches of fiduciary duty, and corporate misconduct. The Firm has recovered numerous multimillion-dollar damages awards on behalf of class members. See www.pomlaw.com.
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NEW YORK, April 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Pomerantz LLP is investigating claims on behalf of investors of Lilium N.V. ("Lilium" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: LILM). Such investors are advised to contact Robert S. Willoughby at newaction@pomlaw.com or 888-476-6529, ext. 7980.
The investigation concerns whether Lilium and certain of its officers and/or directors have engaged in securities fraud or other unlawful business practices.
On March 14, 2022, Iceberg Research published a short report entitled "Lilium NV – The Losing Horse in the eVTOL [electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft] Race" (the "Iceberg Report"). The Iceberg Report asserted, among other issues, that "[m]any experts have raised serious doubts about" the viability of the Company's Lilium Jet reaching its objective of "fly[ing] up to 155 miles[,]" citing "its configuration of 36 ducted fans (recently reduced to 30) that devour power during takeoff and landing (hovering), and leaves little power for actual flight." The Iceberg Report also noted that while "Lilium promises its Jet has ready access to battery cells with energy density of 320-330 Wh/kg[,]" "[o]ne of the sources it relies on to show these batteries are within reach is . . . a 34.8% Lilium-owned associated company whose CEO Sujeet Kumar was accused by General Motors of misrepresenting battery performance, while at his previous company Envia Systems." The Iceberg Report further noted that Lilium's Chief Executive Officer "had no meaningful professional aerospace experience before starting Lilium in 2015" and "estimate[d] that Lilium has about 18 months before its cash runs dry."
On this news, Lilium's stock price fell $1.25 per share, or 33.88%, to close at $2.44 per share on March 14, 2022.
Pomerantz LLP, with offices in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Paris, and Tel Aviv, is acknowledged as one of the premier firms in the areas of corporate, securities, and antitrust class litigation. Founded by the late Abraham L. Pomerantz, known as the dean of the class action bar, Pomerantz pioneered the field of securities class actions. Today, more than 85 years later, Pomerantz continues in the tradition he established, fighting for the rights of the victims of securities fraud, breaches of fiduciary duty, and corporate misconduct. The Firm has recovered numerous multimillion-dollar damages awards on behalf of class members. See www.pomlaw.com.
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NEW YORK, April 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Pomerantz LLP is investigating claims on behalf of investors of Lockheed Martin Corporation ("Lockheed" or the "Company") (NYSE: LMT). Such investors are advised to contact Robert S. Willoughby at newaction@pomlaw.com or 888-476-6529, ext. 7980.
The investigation concerns whether Lockheed and certain of its officers and/or directors have engaged in securities fraud or other unlawful business practices.
On March 16, 2022, Bloomberg reported that the U.S. Department of Defense will request 61 Lockheed F-35 fighter jets in its next budget, 33 fewer than previously planned. Bloomberg reported that the proposed reduction follows the "flawed execution of a crucial upgrade of [the F-35's] software and hardware capabilities that's estimated to cost $14 billion."
On this news, Lockheed's stock price fell sharply during intraday trading on March 16, 2022.
Pomerantz LLP, with offices in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Paris, and Tel Aviv, is acknowledged as one of the premier firms in the areas of corporate, securities, and antitrust class litigation. Founded by the late Abraham L. Pomerantz, known as the dean of the class action bar, Pomerantz pioneered the field of securities class actions. Today, more than 85 years later, Pomerantz continues in the tradition he established, fighting for the rights of the victims of securities fraud, breaches of fiduciary duty, and corporate misconduct. The Firm has recovered numerous multimillion-dollar damages awards on behalf of class members. See www.pomlaw.com.
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NEW YORK, April 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Pomerantz LLP is investigating claims on behalf of investors of Natera, Inc. ("Natera" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: NTRA). Such investors are advised to contact Robert S. Willoughby at newaction@pomlaw.com or 888-476-6529, ext. 7980.
The investigation concerns whether Natera and certain of its officers and/or directors have engaged in securities fraud or other unlawful business practices.
On March 9, 2022, Hindenburg Research published a short report addressing Natera, entitled "Natera: Pioneers In Deceptive Medical Billing." Among other allegations, Natera stated that "[b]ased on more than 2 dozen interviews with former Natera employees, patients and industry experts, a review of hundreds of online complaints, FOIA requests to state Medicaid offices and state Attorneys General, and the company's financial filings, we show how Natera's revenue growth has been fueled by deceptive sales and billing practices aimed at doctors, insurance companies and expectant mothers."
Following publication of the Hindenburg Research report, Natera's stock price fell $17.95 per share, or 32.79%, to close at $36.80 per share on March 9, 2022.
Then, on March 15, 2022, CareDx, Inc. ("CareDx") announced that it had won a $44.9 million false advertising lawsuit against Natera after a federal jury found that Natera and its senior executives falsely advertised its Prospera kidney transplant rejection assessment test and made false comparisons to CareDx's competing product, AlloSure.
On this news, Natera's stock price fell $5.57 per share, or 15.52%, to close at $30.32 per share on March 15, 2022.
Pomerantz LLP, with offices in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Paris, and Tel Aviv, is acknowledged as one of the premier firms in the areas of corporate, securities, and antitrust class litigation. Founded by the late Abraham L. Pomerantz, known as the dean of the class action bar, Pomerantz pioneered the field of securities class actions. Today, more than 85 years later, Pomerantz continues in the tradition he established, fighting for the rights of the victims of securities fraud, breaches of fiduciary duty, and corporate misconduct. The Firm has recovered numerous multimillion-dollar damages awards on behalf of class members. See www.pomlaw.com.
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NEW YORK, April 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Pomerantz LLP is investigating claims on behalf of investors of Tattooed Chef, Inc. ("Tattooed Chef" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: TTCF). Such investors are advised to contact Robert S. Willoughby at newaction@pomlaw.com or 888-476-6529, ext. 7980.
The investigation concerns whether Tattooed Chef and certain of its officers and/or directors have engaged in securities fraud or other unlawful business practices.
On August 12, 2021, Tattooed Chef issued a press release announcing its financial results for the second quarter of 2021. Among other results, the Company disclosed revenue of $50.7 million, missing consensus estimates by $3.35 million.
On this news, Tattooed Chef's stock price fell $3.30 per share, or 16.25%, to close at $17.01 per share on August 13, 2021.
Then, on March 11, 2022, Tattooed Chef issued a press release stating that on March 7, 2022, the Company's Board of Directors "concluded that the Company's unaudited interim condensed consolidated financial statements for the quarters ended March 31, 2021, June 30, 2021 and September 30, 2021, each as previously filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission ('SEC'), should no longer be relied upon because the Company did not properly record the tax effects associated with the Company's issuance of 825,000 shares of its common stock to Harrison Co. in June 2021 as partial consideration for services rendered in connection with the Company's de-SPAC transaction that occurred in October 2020." Accordingly, Tattooed Chef advised that "[t]he Company will restate the unaudited consolidated financial statements" at issue.
On this news, Tattooed Chef's stock price fell $1.03 per share, or 9.07%, to close at $10.33 per share on March 14, 2022.
Pomerantz LLP, with offices in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Paris, and Tel Aviv, is acknowledged as one of the premier firms in the areas of corporate, securities, and antitrust class litigation. Founded by the late Abraham L. Pomerantz, known as the dean of the class action bar, Pomerantz pioneered the field of securities class actions. Today, more than 85 years later, Pomerantz continues in the tradition he established, fighting for the rights of the victims of securities fraud, breaches of fiduciary duty, and corporate misconduct. The Firm has recovered numerous multimillion-dollar damages awards on behalf of class members. See www.pomlaw.com.
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NEW YORK, April 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Pomerantz LLP is investigating claims on behalf of investors of Vertiv Holdings Co ("Vertiv" or the "Company") (NYSE: VRT). Such investors are advised to contact Robert S. Willoughby at newaction@pomlaw.com or 888-476-6529, ext. 7980.
The investigation concerns whether Vertiv and certain of its officers and/or directors have engaged in securities fraud or other unlawful business practices.
On February 23, 2022, at 6:00 a.m. Eastern, Vertiv reported disappointing financial results, including $0.06 earnings per share for fourth quarter 2021, missing analyst estimates of $0.28 per share. Vertiv's Chief Executive Officer attributed the poor results to management "consistently underestimat[ing] inflation and supply chain constraints for both timing and degree, which dictated a tepid 2021 pricing response."
On this news, the Company's stock price fell $7.19 per share, or 37%, to close at $12.38 per share on February 23, 2022, on unusually heavy trading volume.
Pomerantz LLP, with offices in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Paris, and Tel Aviv, is acknowledged as one of the premier firms in the areas of corporate, securities, and antitrust class litigation. Founded by the late Abraham L. Pomerantz, known as the dean of the class action bar, Pomerantz pioneered the field of securities class actions. Today, more than 85 years later, Pomerantz continues in the tradition he established, fighting for the rights of the victims of securities fraud, breaches of fiduciary duty, and corporate misconduct. The Firm has recovered numerous multimillion-dollar damages awards on behalf of class members. See www.pomlaw.com.
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NEW YORK , April 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Pomerantz LLP is investigating claims on behalf of investors of Yext, Inc. ("Yext" or the "Company") (NYSE: YEXT). Such investors are advised to contact Robert S. Willoughby at newaction@pomlaw.com or 888-476-6529, ext. 7980.
The investigation concerns whether Yext and certain of its officers and/or directors have engaged in securities fraud or other unlawful business practices.
On March 8, 2022, Yext issued a press release announcing its fourth quarter and full year fiscal 2022 results. Among other items, Yext reported revenue of $100.9 million for the quarter, falling well short of consensus estimates, as well as revenue outlooks for the first quarter and full year fiscal 2023 that likewise missed consensus estimates. Yext further announced the departure of the Company's Chief Executive Officer, Chief Financial Officer, and Chief Operating Officer.
On this news, Yext's stock price fell $0.55 per share, or 9.29%, to close at $5.37 per share on March 9, 2022.
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ÖSTERSUND, Sweden, April 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Skanska has signed a contract with Bon Secours - St. Francis Medical Center, Inc. to renovate and expand an acute care services facility in Midlothian, Virginia, USA. The contract is worth USD 78M, about SEK 720M, which will be included in the US order bookings for the first quarter 2022.
The expansion aspect of the project includes a vertical two-floor addition above the existing surgical department on the second floor. The new third floor will house a med-surg nursing unit with observation rooms and the new the fourth floor will be used for critical care ICU beds and NICU rooms.
As part of the renovation of the existing building, a former ICU unit will be renovated to accommodate an observation unit. The fourth floor of the adjacent building will be reconfigured to accommodate a new Mother-Infant Unit. Additional renovations will include a new retail pharmacy, MRI suite, physicians dining and central plant upgrades.
Construction began December 2021, and completion is scheduled for April 2024.
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John Eland Appointed Chief Executive Officer, STACK EMEA
Adam Tamburini Appointed Chief Hyperscale Officer, STACK EMEA
DENVER, April 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- STACK Infrastructure ("STACK"), the digital infrastructure partner to the world's most innovative companies, today announced that it has appointed two experienced data center industry professionals to its EMEA leadership team. John Eland has joined as Chief Executive Officer, STACK EMEA and Adam Tamburini has joined as Chief Hyperscale Officer, STACK EMEA.
"We're thrilled to welcome John to the STACK team to drive our strategy and operations in the EMEA region," said Phil Koen, Chairman of the Board of STACK. "John is a proven leader who brings over two decades of strategy, development and management experience in the data center industry, including extensive regional expertise that we believe will be highly valuable as we continue to expand STACK's already successful European business."
John joins STACK with over 22 years of experience across the data center, telecom and investment sectors. Most recently, he served as Chief Strategy Officer of the Global Data Centers division at NTT Ltd., a London-based global technology services company. In this role, John led strategy and corporate development in existing and new markets. He also oversaw NTT's ongoing expansion efforts through M&A, joint ventures, strategic partnerships and development.
John commented, "I have been impressed by STACK's accelerating momentum both globally and in Europe, where we have created a strong operating platform and team now operating under the STACK brand. I look forward to driving continued growth across the EMEA region and further strengthening STACK's market position as a trusted global digital infrastructure partner with significant resources, capacity and development expertise."
Mr. Koen added, "We are also excited to welcome Adam, another proven leader in the data center industry. We are confident he will be successful in supporting John and the EMEA leadership team on growing and enhancing relationships with key hyperscalers."
Adam has decades of experience in the data center industry in sales and development and construction. Most recently, he served as SVP Hyperscale Sales at NTT where he was responsible for sales and customer relationships globally with the hyperscale accounts. While at NTT, Adam held various other positions in construction and development in EMEA.
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TORONTO, April 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The following is a statement from Scott Vanderwel, CEO of PointsBet Canada, on the official launch of Ontario's sports wagering market.
"Today is a great day for Ontario sports fans! On behalf of the entire PointsBet Canada team, I'd like to share how thrilled we are to see the province's sports wagering market officially open. Just 50 seconds after 12:00am ET, PointsBet Canada became one of the first private sportsbooks to take a legal wager, and shortly after accepted a $500 two-leg parlay of UNC over Kansas and the Toronto Maple Leafs over the Tampa Bay Lightning.
Over the past few months, our team has been scaling and preparing for today. We have quadrupled in size since the beginning of the year and continue to build partnerships with the athletes, teams, and organizations that matter to Canadians and share great alignment with our core brand values. Whether you are a curling fan in Windsor or an Ottawa REDBLACKS season ticket holder in our nation's capital, PointsBet Canada's innovative, in-house technology platform will deliver you a fast, safe, dynamic, and tailored experience. We know our customers will appreciate our unmatched in-play betting, great odds, depth of offering, and local Canadian support teams ready to assist when they need it. We will offer an unrivalled experience to sports bettors and gaming enthusiasts.
The steps taken by Premier Ford, Attorney General Downey, Minister Bethlenfalvy, and iGaming Ontario are to be commended. The framework in Ontario allows for necessary competition, continued investment, job creation, and importantly helps fund a stronger Ontario through tax revenue. We look forward to doing our part at PointsBet Canada in proving the model works while inspiring other provinces to consider a legal regulated framework.
To Ontarians, welcome! To the rest of Canada, we hope to see you soon!"
About PointsBet:
PointsBet is a corporate bookmaker listed on the Australian Stock Exchange with operations in Australia, the United States, Canada, and Ireland. PointsBet has developed a scalable cloud-based wagering platform through which it offers its clients innovative sports and racing wagering products, advance deposit wagering on racing (ADW) and iGaming.
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DUBAI, UAE, April 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The second edition of the global FoodTech Challenge, that seeks to find the next wave of technology innovations on the cusp of transforming traditional agriculture practices, efficiently and sustainably, was launched at the EXPO2020 Dubai, and today unveils the competition's pooled prize amount of US $2 million.
Targeted at early-stage start-ups, ranging from international university-based research teams to individual entrepreneurs and small firms, the competition invites innovations related to two critical tracks: 'food production' to address the availability and abundance of food and explore 'next gen', nutrient rich alternatives, and 'food loss and waste' to ensure sustainability across the food supply chain and the planet more broadly.
With a pooled prize of up to US $2 million, the winners will be offered an opportunity to scale-up their business model within the UAE, supported with R&D, start-up acceleration, commercial incentives and mentorship to take winning concepts from lab-to-market. Applications are being encouraged from around the world, with a priority on agri-tech concentrated nations.
The FoodTech Challenge is organised by the UAE Ministry of Climate Change and Environment and Tamkeen, an Abu Dhabi entity that partners with leading local and international institutions to deliver projects that enrich the UAE's social, cultural and educational landscape. For this edition of the competition, they are joined by ASPIRE, the programme management pillar of the Advanced Technology Research Council (ATRC), which oversees technology related R&D funding for Abu Dhabi and the wider UAE. Each track is also being supported by a local champion, with ADQ and Silal being the track partners for increasing food production, and Emirates Foundation the track partner for reducing food loss and waste.
Commenting on the launch, Her Excellency Mariam Almheiri, Minister of Climate Change and Environment, said: "The importance of food security has never been more pertinent, with supply chain challenges and climate change disrupting the world as we know it. The pressure is on for us to rethink food for the future, to rethink resilient agricultural practices, and to leverage the best of technological advancements in doing so. The FoodTech Challenge brings us closer to finding some of those solutions, acknowledging the critical role that innovation has to play in addressing our shared challenges".
Rima Al Mokarrab, Chair of Tamkeen, added: "Responding to the UAE's long-term and far-reaching food security ambitions requires bold approaches that foster creative ideas, newfound models and extensive coordination with the global agri-tech ecosystem. The FoodTech Challenge brings together a powerful consortium of multi-sector partners who drive progress – supporting sustainable, technology-driven, commercially viable solutions to thrive here in the UAE".
With a focus on breakthrough technologies, His Excellency Faisal Al Bannai, Secretary General of ATRC, said: "The UAE is one of the most exciting places in the world right now when it comes to innovation and harnessing the power of cutting-edge technology to help find the answers to some of society's most pressing issues. The FoodTech Challenge is yet another fantastic example of this with the UAE hosting the brightest minds on the planet as they come together to collaborate, explore, and push the boundaries in agri-tech."
The competition is additionally supported by Abu Dhabi Global Market, Abu Dhabi Residents Office, The Catalyst Accelerator, and Khalifa Fund for Enterprise Development.
Applications for the Challenge will remain open until June, when submissions will be shortlisted and the top 10 teams given an opportunity to present their business cases at the Awarding Ceremony in November. Entrants can submit their applications via www.foodtechchallenge.com.
The first edition of the FoodTech Challenge saw 437 applications from across 68 countries, with winners announced from Australia, Saudi Arabia, the UAE and the UK.
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KINGSTON, Jamaica, April 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- On March 29, 2022 the Parliament of Papua New Guinea approved an amendment to the Income Tax Act which introduces a new Additional Company Tax ("ACT") on the telecommunications and banking sector. The ACT imposes a one-time PGK 350 million (approximately US$100 million) tax liability on Digicel (PNG) Limited with a further penalty of a further PGK 50 million (approximately US$14 million) for non-payment.
Introduction of the new arbitrary, company-specific tax Act on March 25, 2022 without any consultation is perplexing not just for Digicel, but also for the Papua New Guinea economy given the reputational and credit rating implications of this sudden, bizarre and unprecedented tax. Under the ACT the disputed tax was payable on March 30, 2022
At a meeting last week between Denis O'Brien and Prime Minister Marape and two of his regional Governors, the Prime Minister assured Digicel that the new tax would not proceed and Digicel is now engaged in discussions with the Papua New Guinea Government and other relevant stakeholders to ensure this commitment is honoured.
This matter requires urgent resolution given its implications for the sale of Digicel's Pacific operations to Telstra but also given the knock-on consequences for all foreign direct investment exiting Papua New Guinea and the wider reputational and credit rating implications for Papua New Guinea internationally. In parallel with these discussions Digicel is also considering its legal options in the event that this discriminatory tax is not removed.
These matters will affect the timing of the previously announced sale of Digicel Group Holdings Limited's wholly owned subsidiary Digicel Pacific Limited ("DPL") to a wholly owned subsidiary of Telstra Corporation Limited. Prior to the introduction of the ACT, all but one of the required regulatory approvals to complete the transaction had been obtained.
Digicel will provide a further update in due course.
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About Digicel
As a Digital Operator, Digicel is in the business of delivering powerful digital experiences 1440 minutes of each day to customers – that's every minute, all day, every day.
Through its world-class LTE and fibre networks, together with its suite of 8 apps spanning sports (SportsMax), music (D'Music), news (Loop), local radio and podcasts (GoLoud), TV streaming (PlayGo), enhanced messaging and marketplaces (BiP), cloud storage (Billo) and self-care (MyDigicel app), Digicel is the only operator in its markets that can deliver that.
Serving consumer and business customers in 32 markets in the Caribbean, Central America and Pacific, its investments of over US$7 billion and a commitment to its communities through its Digicel Foundations in Haiti, Jamaica, Papua New Guinea and Trinidad & Tobago have contributed to positive outcomes for over 3 million people to date.
With its Better Together brand, Digicel is making a promise of simply more to customers and communities and its 7,000 employees worldwide work together to make that a powerful reality day in, day out. Visit www.digicelgroup.com for more.
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Because of these risks, uncertainties and assumptions, you should not place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements. Furthermore, forward-looking statements speak only as of the date they are made. We do not undertake any obligation to update or review any such forward-looking information, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.
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VANCOUVER, BC, April 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - The Very Good Food Company Inc. (NASDAQ: VGFC) (TSXV: VERY.V) (FSE: OSI) ("VERY GOOD" or the "Company"), a leading plant-based food technology company, today announced that Mitchell Scott's employment as Chief Executive Officer has been terminated effective immediately. The Company also announced that James Davison has resigned as Chief Research & Development Officer and as a member of the board of directors as of April 1, 2022.
In lieu of immediately filling the role of Chief Executive Officer, VERY GOOD has temporarily created an Executive Committee consisting of senior executives from within the Company. The Executive Committee structure will be used by the organization to review and approve key organizational, financial, operational and strategic decisions for the Company, by drawing upon the collective knowledge, experience, business acumen and skills of the senior management team.
A search for a new Chief Executive Officer is being initiated by the Nomination Committee with the help of a leading Vancouver based recruiting agency.
"VERY GOOD is at an important juncture, and we are taking decisive steps. Our focus is to continue to build on our brand and reputation and grow our market share in the plant-based meat segment while optimizing our operations towards a path to profitable growth", stated Ana Silva, President of VERY GOOD, who is also a member of the Executive committee.
Ms. Silva continued: "As announced on March 16, 2022, VERY GOOD is implementing cost improvement measures as it transitions from a focus on top line growth, to a focus on achieving sustainable, profitable growth. These measures include:
Improve the economics of the e-commerce business. The digital marketing costs to acquire new customers through our e-commerce business have increased over the last year such that it impedes the profitability of this channel. The Company is shifting the focus from digital marketing campaigns that are aimed at acquiring new customers to our existing subscribers and those customers that are driven to our website because of our existing brand awareness and equity.
Right-size the organization through a workforce reduction. A workforce reduction will occur across multiple business operations which will result in a sizable reduction in total annual salaries. The Company is also evaluating different options for consolidating its production facilities to improve efficiencies.
"As we go forward, we will continue to execute against a strong set of strategies that will help us to further drive our top line growth by expanding our distribution points and improving our customer and consumer marketing model. And while we expect some volatility in the next couple of quarters as we set up cost improvement initiatives and work to streamline our operations, our long-term growth thesis remains intact as we continue to lead and innovate within the plant-based food industry", said Ana Silva, President.
The Q4 and Fiscal Year End 2021 Conference Call has been scheduled for Wednesday, April 6, 2022 to discuss the business outlook. This conference call includes a live Q&A session hosted by the members of the Executive Committee.
The Very Good Food Company Inc. is an emerging plant-based food technology company that produces nutritious and delicious plant-based meat and cheese products under VERY GOOD's core brands: The Very Good Butchers and The Very Good Cheese Co. www.verygoodfood.com.
OUR MISSION IS LOFTY, BADASS BUT BEAUTIFULLY SIMPLE: GET MILLIONS TO RETHINK THEIR FOOD CHOICES WHILE HELPING THEM DO THE WORLD A WORLD OF GOOD. BY OFFERING PLANT-BASED FOOD OPTIONS SO DELICIOUS AND NUTRITIOUS, WE'RE HELPING THIS KIND OF DIET BECOME THE NORM.
ON BEHALF OF THE VERY GOOD FOOD COMPANY INC
Ana Silva
President and Interim CFO
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This news release contains "forward-looking information" within the meaning of applicable securities laws in Canada and "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the United States Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (collectively referred to as "forward-looking information"), for the purpose of providing information about management's current expectations and plans relating to the future. Readers are cautioned that reliance on such information may not be appropriate for other purposes. Forward-looking information may be identified by words such as "plans", "proposed", "expects", "anticipates", "intends", "estimates", "may", "will", and similar expressions. Forward-looking information contained or referred to in this news release includes, but is not limited to: the Company's implementation of cost improvement measures and the components thereof as they relate to the Company's e-commerce business, workforce reductions and the consolidation of production facilities; management's ability to execute on the cost improvement measures and achieve the benefits to be derived therefrom; management's ability to optimize operations towards a path to profitable growth, drive top line growth, build brand awareness, increase market share, lead and innovate in the plant-based industry; the formation and intended function of the Company's executive committee and the search for a new Chief Executive Officer. Forward-looking information is based on a number of factors and assumptions which have been used to develop such information, but which may prove to be incorrect including, but not limited to, material assumptions with respect to the Company's ability to successfully implement the cost improvement measures and achieve their intended benefits, the availability of sufficient financing on reasonable terms or at all to fund VERY GOOD's capital and operating requirements, the Company's ability to accurately forecast customer demand for its products and manage its inventory levels, continued demand for VERY GOOD's products, continued growth of the popularity of meat alternatives and the plant-based food industry, no material deterioration in general business and economic conditions, the successful placement of VERY GOOD's products in retail stores, the Company's ability to remain listed on the Nasdaq, VERY GOOD's ability to successfully enter new markets and manage its international expansion, VERY GOOD's ability to obtain necessary production equipment and human resources as needed, VERY GOOD's relationship with its suppliers, distributors and third-party logistics providers, and management's ability to position VERY GOOD competitively. Although the Company believes that the expectations reflected in such forward-looking information are reasonable, undue reliance should not be placed on forward-looking information because VERY GOOD can give no assurance that such expectations will prove to be correct. Risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results, performance or achievements of VERY GOOD to differ materially from those expressed or implied in such forward-looking information include, among others, the impact of, uncertainties and risks associated with negative cash flow and future financing requirements to sustain and grow operations, limited history of operations and revenues and no history of earnings or dividends, competition, risks relating to the availability of raw materials, risks relating to regulation on social media, expansion of facilities, risks related to credit facilities, dependence on senior management and key personnel, availability of labour, general business risk and liability, regulation of the food industry, change in laws, regulations and guidelines, compliance with laws, risks related to third party logistics providers, unfavorable publicity or consumer perception, increased costs as a result of being a United States public company, product liability and product recalls, risks related to intellectual property, risks relating to co-manufacturing, risks related to expansion into the United States; risks related to our acquisition strategy, taxation risks, difficulties with forecasts, management of growth and litigation as well as the risks associated with the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. For a more comprehensive discussion of the risks faced by VERY GOOD, please refer to VERY GOOD's most recent Annual Information Form filed with Canadian securities regulatory authorities at www.sedar.com and as an exhibit to the Form 6-K filed with the SEC on April 1, 2022 and available at www.sec.gov. The forward-looking information in this news release reflects the current expectations, assumptions and/or beliefs of the Company based on information currently available. Any forward-looking information speaks only as of the date of this news release. VERY GOOD undertakes no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking information whether because of new information, future events or otherwise, except as otherwise required by law. The forward-looking information contained in this news release is expressly qualified by this cautionary statement.
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HANGZHOU, China, April 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Weidai Ltd. (the "Company" or "Weidai") (NYSE: WEI), a leading auto-backed financing solution provider in China, is issuing this press release in light of the unusual trading activity related to the American depositary shares (the "ADSs") of the Company on the New York Stock Exchange (the "NYSE") on April 1, 2022.
Normally, Weidai does not comment on market activity or rumors. However, Weidai confirms that it is not aware of any undisclosed material change or development in its business and operations or rumors in the market that would account for the recent increase in trading activity, and related increase in trading price, of its ADSs on the NYSE.
About Weidai Ltd.
Weidai Ltd. is a pioneer and leading auto-backed financing solution provider in China supported by sophisticated and effective risk management system and technology. The Company transforms used automobiles, a type of "non-standard" collateral, into investable assets, to provide accessible credit for China's small and micro enterprises, and connects the borrowers with institutional funding partners through its platform.
For more information, please visit http://weidai.investorroom.com/.
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At the rate they're going, IAHS baseball will be hard-pressed to make the postseason.
The Indians (4-11, 2-4 in Region 1-4A) dropped a pair of midweek region contests to Caledonia before losing two more in a non-region doubleheader Saturday.
"Our back's against the wall," head coach Steve Kerr said. "Our wiggle room is getting really slim if we're gonna make the playoffs. We've got to make a move."
Caledonia 13, IAHS 5
On the road against Caledonia March 29, the Indians were looking to continue their hot streak in region play after taking two straight from Tish County.
IAHS went three up three down in the top of the first. After retiring the Indians, the Cavaliers put the ball in play early, and IAHS couldn’t make the plays. Two errors and a bases loaded walk allowed Caledonia to take an early 3-0 lead. They added to their lead in the second with a couple of RBI singles.
Trailing 5-0 in the third, the Indians finally got on the board thanks to a couple of Caledonia throwing errors. But Caledonia responded with four runs in the fourth to extend the lead to 9-2. The Indians could never recover, and Caledonia picked up a big 13-5 Region 1-4A win.
Solomon Smith went 2-for-4 at the plate to lead the Indians.
Caledonia 6, IAHS 4
IAHS got a chance for payback on Thursday when they hosted the Cavaliers for their second meeting of the week.
The first inning looked promising for the Indians. Starting pitcher Dylan Walters forced a popup and two grounders in the top of the first to keep Caledonia off the bases and off the scoreboard. In the bottom half, Cooper Waddle smacked a double to left-centerfield. An errant throw to third on Waddle's ensuing steal allowed the freshman to score, giving the Indians a 1-0 lead.
But the lead would be short-lived. Caledonia chased Walters with a triple, an infield single and three walks that added up to a 2-1 lead for the Cavaliers. William Blake stepped onto the mound in relief with the bases loaded. A passed ball, a pair of singles and an Indian error later, Caledonia had plated three more runs before Blake could escape the inning.
Following the Cavaliers' big inning, Blake pitched well through the final five innings. He surrendered only one more Caledonia run the rest of the way, adding three strikeouts to the two he notched in the second.
The Indians' bats came alive as well. IAHS added single runs in the second, third and sixth innings, totaling 10 hits on the day against Cavaliers starter Zach Gorum.
Where IAHS struggled, however, was timely hitting. The Indians stranded eight runners in the contest.
"We left a lot of baserunners," Kerr said. "We did not get that big, timely hit, and we needed it."
The loss dropped the Indians' Region 1-4A record to 2-4.
Sulligent 11, IAHS 1
The Indians traveled to Alabama for a twin bill with Sulligent and Belmont.
In the top of the first, Carson Shells was hit by the first pitch of the game. Stone collier got an RBI single to give the Indians an early 1-0 lead.
But walks plagued the Indians in the bottom of the first as the Blue Devils loaded the bases on two walks and a hit batter. Sulligent led 4-1 after one and 9-1 after two.
The Indians couldn’t get any offense going in the six-inning, run-rule defeat.
Belmont 7, Itawamba AHS 3
One bad inning spelled doom for IAHS in the second game vs. Belmont.
Davis Phillips keep the Cardinals off the board through the first two innings, but in the third a couple of errors and a few hits led to a Belmont 6-0 lead. The Indians never could string together enough quality at-bats and fell 7-3.
"We have to be able to move on and play the next play," Kerr said following the second loss the Caledonia. "If you stay down when bad things happen, you're gonna stay there. You have to be able to move on to the next pitch. Hopefully we will do that. We just have to keep working."
Next up
IAHS travels to Corinth Monday to continue region play, then hosts the Warriors Friday.
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Recycling
Tupelo residents living north of Main Street will have recycling pickup Wednesday. Residents south of Main Street will have pickup next Wednesday.
Government calendar
• The Lee County Board of Supervisors meet on the first and third Monday of every month at 9 a.m. at the Board of Supervisors office at 300 W. Main St., Tupelo, MS 38804.
• The Tupelo City Council meets on the first and third Tuesday of every month at 6 p.m. in the City Council chambers at Tupelo City Hall at 71 E. Troy St., Tupelo, MS 38804
All board of aldermen meetings at respective city halls:
Baldwyn • First Tuesday of the month at 6 p.m.
Guntown • First Tuesday of month
at 5:30 p.m.
Nettleton • First Monday of the month at 6:30 p.m.
Plantersville • First Tuesday of the month at 6 p.m.
Saltillo • First Tuesday of the month at 6 p.m.
Shannon • First Thursday of the month at 6 p.m.
Sherman • First Tuesday of the month at 6 p.m.
Verona • First Tuesday of the month at 6 p.m.
Meetings
• The AARP Chapter of Tupelo will meet the first Wednesday of each month in the Helen Foster Auditorium of the Lee County Library in Tupelo. The meeting is open to residents of Tupelo, Lee County and surrounding counties. Call Henry Cobb at (662) 231-3507 or Lonnice C. Mitchell at (662) 566-7818.
• Al-Anon is a mutual support group of peers who share their experience in applying the Al-Anon principles to problems related to the effects of a problem drinker in their lives. The Peace Seekers Al-Anon group meets at noon every Wednesday at Calvary Baptist Church Family Life Center, 501 W. Main St., in Tupelo. For more information, contact Bob W. at (662) 401-8094.
• American Legion Post 51 in Fulton meets at 6:30 p.m. the second Tuesday of each month. Bring a covered dish for supper. Call (662) 862-9230.
• BSF will begin its study on the Book of Genesis on Sept. 17, but because of COVID-19, we will begin online. Group leaders will contact you and help get you connected. Interested? Call 662-844-0427.
• Bible Study Fellowship for women meets Thursdays from 9 until 10:30 a.m. from September to May. Host church is The Orchard, 1379 Coley Road in Tupelo. For information, call (662) 844-0427 or visit bsfinternational.org.
• Biggersville Dulcimer Club meets at 5:30 p.m. the first and third Wednesday of each month at the Biggersville Pentecostal Church on Hwy. 45 N., Biggersville. Call (662) 287-1054.
• Boone Country Dulcimers meets at 6 p.m. the second and fourth Mondays of each month at the Landmark Community Assisted Living Center in the old high school at 701 W. Church St., Booneville. Call (662) 728-5448 or email forsmith@bellsouth.net.
• Concerned Citizens For Justice meets at 6 p.m. the second and fourth Thursday of each month at The A.M. Strange Library, North Spring Street, Tupelo. Call James Brim (662) 871-2531.
• Conservative Women In Action (CWIA) meets from noon to 2 p.m. the second Tuesday of each month at McAlister’s Deli of Tupelo. CWIA is a group of women dedicated to “Making a Difference, One Change at a Time.”
• Crosstown Dulcimer Guild meets from 6 to 8 p.m. the first and third Mondays of each month at Tupelo Baptist Church, 1406 Eckford St. Call (662) 842-8318.
• The Fairfield Dulcimer Club meets at 6 p.m. the first and third Thursday of each month at the Fairfield Presbyterian church in Blue Springs. For more information, call (662) 534-8822.
• The Gathering is held at the Carolina United Methodist Church Fellowship Hall on the first Tuesday of each month from 9 a.m. until 2 p.m. There are community speakers, devotions, potluck lunch, and bingo and dominoes. Contact Patti Powell at (662) 760-7308.
• The Green Tee Neighborhood Association meets from 6 to 7 p.m. the second Monday of each month at the Boys and Girls Club on Willie Moore Road. For more information, call Gladys Betts (662) 566-2075.
• GumTree Quilters Guild meets at 6:30 p.m. the first Tuesday of each month at All Saints’ Episcopal Church, 608 W. Jefferson St., Tupelo. All those interested in the art of quilting are encouraged to attend. For more information, contact president Carolyn Terry at (512) 864-4018 or gumtreequilters@gmail.com; or Marcelle Bethany aat (662) 680-3160.
• Gum Tree Woodworkers Club meets the first Tuesday of each month at 6 p.m. at Old West Fish and Steak Restaurant. All area woodworkers are invited to attend.
• Indivisible Northeast Mississippi: Non-partisan, grass-roots organization of politically progressive voters in the First Congressional District. We follow the Indivisible.com guide. Indivisible meets the second Tuesday of each month at the Link Center (West entrance off Douglas Street) at 5:30 p.m. Meeting begins at 6 p.m. Call MJ at (251)-597-7979 for information.
• The Kiwanis Club of Tupelo meets at noon every Friday at the Tupelo Country Club. For more information, visit http://www.tupelokiwanis.org/.
• The Lee Acres Neighborhood Association meets the third Thursday of every month, except in December. Meetings are held at Lawndale Presbyterian Church in Tupelo at 6 p.m. For more information, call Donna Wardlaw at 662-372-1277.
• The Lee County Community Civitan Club meets at 9 a.m. the second Saturday of each month at Verona City Hall. For more information, contact Sherry Garrett at (662) 231-4377.
• The Lee County Republican Club meets at 6 p.m. the second Monday of each month (except December) at Bar-B-Q by Jim restaurant, 203 Commerce St., in Tupelo.
• The Lee County Section of the National Council of Negro Women meets at 6 p.m. the second Monday of each month at the A.M. Strange Library on North Spring Street in Tupelo.
• The Lee County Shriners meets the first Tuesday of each month at the Shrine Club in Tupelo. Meetings include a meal and a program.
• The Magnolia Dulcimer Club meets at 6 p.m. the first and third Monday of each month at the First Presbyterian Church, 919 Shiloh Road, Corinth. Call Larry Kendall at (662) 728-4675 or Jan Pike at (662) 665-1871 or email janicepike85@yahoo.com.
• The Marine Corps League, G.H. Vaughn Detachment, meets at 7 p.m. the second Monday of each month. Call (662) 272-5292 or (662) 327-4016.
• Mindful Moments Mindfulness Group meets from 6 until 7:30 p.m. every Tuesday in the group room at Conscious Healing Therapies, 302 S. Spring St., in Tupelo. Free, but love offerings are accepted for donations to the community. For more information, call (662) 841-8020.
• National Active and Retired Federal Employees will not meet again until September.
• Newborns in Need meets from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. the second Saturday of each month at the Saltillo City Hall and the fourth Friday of each month at the Lee County Baptist Association. They provide sleepers, gowns, handmade quilts and blankets, burial layettes and other necessary items for babies facing health or economic crisis. Open to the public, the group asks that people bring sewing machines, sergers and scissors, and a covered dish and drink for lunch.
• Northeast Mental Health-Mental Retardation Commission meets at noon the last Thursday of each month at the Chemical Dependency Unit, 920 Boone St., in Tupelo.
• Oxford Dulcimer Club meets at 6 p.m. the second and fourth Thursday of each at Peace Lutheran Church in Oxford. Call (662) 234-3571.
• Pontotoc Ridge Dulcimer Club meets at 6 p.m. the first and third Thursday of each month at the Pontotoc Library. Call (662) 489-5724.
• The Presley Heights Neighborhood Association meets at 6:30 p.m. the second Tuesday of each month at the J.T. Neely Building at Veterans Park.
• The Ratliff R.C.D.C. meets at 7 p.m. the first Monday of each month. A potluck supper will be held at the beginning of the meeting. Visitors are welcome.
• Richmond Lodge 97 Free and Accepted Masons meets at 7 p.m. the first Tuesday of each month at the Lodge Hall in the Evergreen community.
• Rotary Club of Tupelo meets every Monday at noon, except for holidays, at Calvary Baptist Church, 501 Main Street, Tupelo. Contact (662) 231-2995 or info@tupelorotary.com.
• Rotary Satellite Meeting is from 5:30 until 6 p.m. the first and third Tuesdays at Bulldog Burger in Tupelo. Contact (662) 231-1401 or info@tupelorotary.com.
• Senior citizens meet at 10 a.m. the first Monday of each month at the New Site Volunteer Fire Department.
• Tippah Dulcimer Guild meets at 6 p.m. the second and fourth Tuesday of each month at the Ripley Public Library. Every fifth Tuesday, the guild meets at 6 p.m. at Shirley’s Restaurant in Ripley. Call (731) 609-9349.
• The Tupelo Ballroom Dance Club meets from 7:30 to 9 p.m. every Monday at The Dance Studio at 108 N. Spring St., next to Sprint Print. The dances, which are at the beginning level, are free and open to the public.
• Tupelo Christian Women’s Club, sponsored by Stonecroft Ministries of Kansas City, Mo., is a club where women connect with God, each other and their communities through meetings and Bible studies. The club meets at 11:30 a.m., with a lunch buffet at 11 a.m., the second Tuesday of each month at the Tupelo Country Club. Call (662) 844-5258 or (662) 869-5784.
• Tupelo Duplicate Bridge Club meets at 1 p.m. every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at the Bel-Air Center in Tupelo. Call Suzi Rogers at (662) 346-4284 or Jeremy Herndon at (662) 321-1261.
• Tupelo Evening Civitan Club meets at 6:30 p.m. the first and third Tuesday of each month at American Legion Post 49. Call (662) 871-8994 or (662) 213-3024 or email kppro77@gmail.com.
• The Tupelo Kennel Club meets at 6 p.m. the second Tuesday of each month at McAlister’s Restaurant in Tupelo. For more information, call Tere Woody at (662) 416-1392.
• The Tupelo Lions Club meets at noon every Tuesday at New China Buffet, 3877 N. Gloster St., in Tupelo. For more information, call (662) 231-2565.
• Tupelo Luncheon Civitan Club meets at 11:30 a.m. every Thursday at The Anchor Church in Verona. Call Marla Elmore at (662) 397-6747 for more information.
• Tupelo Parks and Recreation Department’s Young at Heart Club meets from 6:30 to 9 p.m. at the Bel-Air Center in Tupelo every Thursday, except on 5th Thursdays. Casual dress. The meeting includes live music and dancing. Admission is $5 for a regular meeting and $7 for a catered meeting. No smoking or drinking allowed. For additional information, call (662) 587-3514.
• Veterans of Foreign Wars will meet the second Tuesday of each month at 6:30 p.m. at 1748 Mitchell Road in Tupelo, for a free meal followed by meeting. For more information, call (662) 842-8732. We need your involvement.
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Jon Batiste had the most Grammy Award nominations and his five wins outpaced everyone, yet he somehow seemed the biggest surprise on a joyous night for music that washed away some of the bad taste left by the Oscars a week earlier.
Batiste’s “We Are” won the prestigious album of the year award Sunday over music heavyweights like Tony Bennett, Billie Eilish, Taylor Swift and Ye, who changed his name from Kanye West. Batiste ended his dance-filled performance of “Freedom” during the show by jumping on Eilish’s table.
Silk Sonic won four Grammys, including song and record of the year for the duo’s smooth soul hit, “Leave the Door Open.” Olivia Rodrigo’s three awards included best new artist. Foo Fighters, Chris Stapleton and CeCe Winans also won three each.
Yet Batiste captured the mood of a night where, despite some somber moments, the live performance skills of music’s best artists were on full display after COVID-19 had put much of the concert industry on pause.
“I was having such a good time,” Batiste said backstage after the show, describing the moment when Lenny Kravitz announced his best album victory. “I was hanging with my family, when my name came and the ‘We Are’ title was said by Lenny — such a full circle moment because we played together when I was 16. It was surreal.”
The versatile Batiste, music director on Stephen Colbert’s “Late Show,” also won Sunday for his song “Cry,” the video for “Freedom” and his work with Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross on the soundtrack for “Soul.”
Kravitz had performed “Are You Gonna Go My Way” in a duet with H.E.R., his guitar skills and wardrobe unchanged since the song came out in 1993.
H.E.R. was still on a high backstage when she relived the moment.
“I watched Lenny growing up,” she said. “I literally studied all his videos of his performances. He’s one of the reasons why I wanted to play guitar.”
While sometimes-awkward performance partnerships have become a Grammy Award signature, Sunday’s show featured mostly sparkling performances by artists on their own. BTS high-stepped their way through “Butter,” rapper Nas fronted a big band, Rodrigo and Eilish powerfully channeled youthful angst, Stapleton delivered a bluesy version of “Cold” and Brandi Carlile, introduced by the formidable duo of Joni Mitchell and Bonnie Raitt, lived up to the challenge.
“I think we’re all having a great time,” host Trevor Noah said.
The show was a clear contrast to the bad vibes from the Oscars a week earlier, which will forever be remembered for Will Smith smacking comedian Chris Rock after taking offense at one of his jokes.
There were a few quick references to that moment at the Grammys. Noah said that “we’ll be keeping names out people’s mouths,” a reference to Smith’s profane order to Rock not to talk about Smith’s wife. Questlove, onstage Sunday to present an award, said he trusted that people will keep their distance from him. The maker of the “Summer of Soul” film, which won a Grammy Sunday, received an Oscar last week moments after the Slap.
In a more ham-fisted exchange during the untelevised portion of the Grammys, actor LeVar Burton told the audience to “remain in your seat and keep your hands to yourself” in introducing comic Nate Bargatze, who came onstage wearing a helmet.
The Academy Awards had also decided against giving time on its show to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy last week, even as some actors had advocated for it. The Grammys on Sunday played a special message from the wartime leader, who soberly reminded the audience that “our musicians wear body armor instead of tuxedos.”
His taped message was followed by a John Legend performance of “Free,” with accompaniment from three Ukrainian artists — a musician, singer and poet.
The Grammys also paid tribute to Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins, who died a week ago while on tour. The band had been booked to play the Grammys. Eilish wore a shirt with Hawkins’ face as she performed her Grammy-nominated song, “Happier Than Ever.”
The Foo Fighters won Grammys for best rock performance, song and album — the latter for a record-setting fifth time in the category.
Bruno Mars made history as half of Silk Sonic with Anderson .Paak. He tied Paul Simon as the only artist to win record of the year three times. Mars won with his own “24K Magic” in 2018 and in duet with Mark Ronson on “Uptown Funk” in 2016.
The victory for “Leave the Door Open” in song and record of the year was a mild upset in a year where Rodrigo’s “Drivers License” was ubiquitous and Eilish was bidding for her third straight record of the year following “bad guy” and “Everything I Wanted.”
.Paak was giddy following Silk Sonic’s fourth award of the night, telling the Las Vegas audience that drinks were on him.
“We are really trying our hardest to remain humble at this point,” .Paak said. “But in the industry, we call that a clean sweep.”
Bennett won in the traditional pop vocal album category for a staggering 14th time, this year with duet partner Lady Gaga. Now 95 and retired from performing because of Alzheimer’s disease, he introduced a Gaga performance via taped message.
The Grammys paid tribute to behind-the-scenes concert tour employees who had been largely out of work during the pandemic, inviting four of them on to introduce performances by Eilish, Stapleton, H.E.R. and Carrie Underwood. The show also spotlighted artists in more specialized categories like gospel and bluegrass by having them perform before commercial breaks from the roof of the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. It was the first time the Grammys, which had been delayed due to rising COVID-19 cases, was held outside Los Angeles or New York.
The location change allowed rap artist Baby Keem to enjoy a hometown Grammy in best rap performance for his collaboration, “Family Ties,” with cousin Kendrick Lamar.
“This is a dream,” he said.
Rodrigo, who starred in the “High School Musical” television series, thanked her parents for letting her follow dreams that briefly included being an Olympic gymnast. Alongside song, record and album of the year, best new artist is considered among the Grammys’ four most prestigious awards.
After some pre-show handwringing that included cancelling a planned performance by Ye due to some of his concerning online behavior. Ye wasn’t on hand to pick up either of the two Grammys he shared in on Sunday.
Mitchell won a best historical album Grammy for a project tracing her early work, while late Beatle George Harrison was honored for the 50th anniversary box of “All Things Must Pass.”
Louis C.K. won an award for best comedy album, five years after several women accused him of sexual misconduct.
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Tracking light, scattered showers to begin your Monday morning! Showers will create a damp and cool start to the morning rush hour. Rainfall amounts will remain light through the early afternoon then end altogether, as clouds being to break. Some limited sunshine will brighten your afternoon and early evening, as temperatures bump back into the lower 60s, near seasonal.
Tonight, some clearing skies and patchy fog could develop before clouds begin to increase in the overnight. Lows will drop back into the middle 40s by Tuesday’s sunrise.
Tomorrow brings more rain by late morning and throughout the afternoon. Scattered showers will keep us from warming significantly for the day, with highs in the upper 50s for most. The Indians have their home opener at 7:05 p.m. against Omaha and showers will likely be around. It’s going to be a close call to that 60° guarantee…
Additional rain arrives on Wednesday with a stronger cold front! This will bring the steadiest rainfall of the week and bring some wind too. Colder air will advance by Thursday and into Friday…this will result in additional flurries and snow showers to end the workweek!
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WASHINGTON -- Democrats are launching a whirlwind of votes and Senate floor action Monday with the goal of confirming Ketanji Brown Jackson as the first Black woman on the Supreme Court by the end of the week.
The Senate Judiciary Committee kicks off Monday morning with a vote on whether to move Jackson's nomination to the Senate floor. Democrats will then wind the nomination through the 50-50 Senate, with a final vote in sight for President Joe Biden's pick to replace retiring Justice Stephen Breyer.
After more than 30 hours of hearings and interrogation from Republicans over her record, Jackson is on the brink of making history as the third Black justice and only the sixth woman in the court's more than 200-year history. Democrats - and at least one Republican - tout her deep experience in her nine years on the federal bench and the chance to for her to become the first former public defender on the court.
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Dick Durbin said Thursday that the high regard for Jackson after a combative four days of hearings is "evidence of the strength that she brings to this nomination and the value that she will bring to the Supreme Court."
The Judiciary panel could deadlock on Monday's vote, 11-11, meaning Democrats will have to spend additional hours on the Senate floor to "discharge" her nomination from committee. While it won't delay the process for long, it's another blow for Democrats who had hoped to confirm Jackson with bipartisan support.
A deadlocked vote would be "a truly unfortunate signal of the continued descent into dysfunction of our confirmation process," said Delaware Sen. Chris Coons, a Democrat on the Judiciary panel.
The committee hasn't deadlocked on a nomination since 1991, when a motion to send Justice Clarence Thomas' nomination to the floor with a "favorable" recommendation failed on a 7-7 vote. The committee then voted to send the nomination to the floor without a recommendation, meaning it could still be brought up for a vote.
Either way, Democrats are ready to spend time on the discharge Monday afternoon, if necessary. The Senate would then move to a series of procedural steps before a final confirmation vote later in the week.
While none of the Republicans on the Judiciary panel is expected to support Jackson, Democrats will have at least one GOP vote in favor on the floor - Maine Sen. Susan Collins, who announced last week that she will support the nominee. Collins said that even though she may not always agree with her, Jackson "possesses the experience, qualifications and integrity to serve as an associate justice on the Supreme Court."
It's unclear so far whether any other Republicans will join her. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell set the tone for the party last week when he said he "cannot and will not" support her, citing GOP concerns raised in the hearing about her sentencing record and her support from liberal advocacy groups.
Collins and Sens. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina were the only three to vote for Jackson when the Senate confirmed her as an appeals court judge last year. Graham said Thursday he won't support her this time around; Murkowski says she's still deciding.
Collins' support likely saves Democrats from having to use Vice President Kamala Harris' tie-breaking vote to confirm President Joe Biden's pick, and Biden called Collins on Wednesday to thank her after her announcement, according to the senator's office. The president had called her at least three times before the hearings, part of a larger push to win a bipartisan vote for his historic nominee.
It is expected that all 50 Democrats will support Jackson, though one notable moderate Democrat, Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, hasn't yet said how she will vote.
Senate panel to vote on Ketanji Brown Jackson nomination to Supreme Court
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BUCHA, Ukraine -- As foreign outrage mounts over evidence of possible executions and other atrocities by Russian forces in Ukraine, Germany's defense minister says Europe must consider stepping up penalties for Moscow by boycotting its gas exports, an economically painful step European leaders previously avoided.
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said Monday that "we strongly condemn attacks on civilians" following reports of bodies found with signs of torture in areas abandoned by Russian forces. New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern called reports of rape and other atrocities by Russian soldiers "beyond reprehensible."
Meanwhile, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy appealed in a video shown during the Grammy Awards in Las Vegas for musicians and other artists to help tell the story of Russia's invasion. "Support us in any way you can," Zelenskyy said.
Also Sunday, at least seven people were killed and 34 wounded, including three children, by Russian shelling of Kharkiv in the northeast, Ukraine's second-biggest city, according to the regional prosecutor's office. In the Black Sea port of Mykolaiv, regional Gov. Vitaliy Kim said at least one person died in shelling and 14 were wounded.
Ukrainian officials said bodies of 410 civilians were found in towns around the capital, Kyiv, that were recaptured from Russian forces.
In Bucha, northwest of the capital, Associated Press journalists saw 21 bodies. One group of nine, all in civilian clothes, were scattered around a site that residents said Russian troops used as a base. They appeared to have been shot at close range. At least two had their hands tied behind their backs.
Zelenskyy called the killings evidence of genocide, but Russia's Defense Ministry rejected the accusation. It said photos and videos of dead bodies "have been stage managed by the Kyiv regime for the Western media."
The ministry said "not a single civilian" in Bucha faced any violent military action and the mayor did not mention any abuses a day after Russian troops left.
Russian President Vladimir Putin's Feb. 24 invasion has killed thousands of people and forced more than 4 million Ukrainians to flee their country. Putin has said the attack is aimed at eliminating a security threat after Ukraine's government pursued membership in the U.S.-European NATO military alliance.
The head of Ukraine's delegation in talks with Russia said Moscow's negotiators informally agreed to most of a draft proposal discussed during talks in Istanbul, but no written confirmation has been provided. Russian demands include Ukraine declaring itself neutral and renouncing membership in military alliances.
Russian forces retreated from some areas around Kyiv after Moscow said it was focusing its offensive on the country's east, where two regions are controlled by Russian-backed separatists. Russian troops had rolled into Bucha in the early days of the invasion and stayed up until March 30.
The reports of atrocities are severe enough that European officials "would have to talk about halting gas supplies from Russia," German Defense Minister Christine Lambrecht said on public broadcaster ARD. "Such crimes must not go unanswered."
Europe gets 40% of its gas and 25% of its oil from Russia, while such sales are the Kremlin's main source of export revenue.
Governments have been scrambling to find ways to reduce that reliance. Estimates of the impact of a gas boycott on European countries vary but most involve a substantial loss of economic output.
For its part, Russia is temporarily enjoying a windfall as global prices surge due to anxiety over possible supply disruptions.
Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko called on nations to end Russian gas imports. He said they were funding the killings.
On Saturday, Lithuania announced it had stopped imports of Russian gas and urged other European governments to do the same.
"If we can do it, the rest of Europe can do it too!" President Gitana Nauseda said on Twitter, referring to Russia as "the aggressor."
Some European leaders said the killings in the Kyiv area amounted to war crimes.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken called images of what happened near Kyiv "a punch to the gut" on CNN's "State of the Union." The United States has previously said that it believes Russia committed war crimes.
"It is a brutality against civilians we haven't seen in Europe for decades," NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said on the same broadcast.
Russia asked for a meeting Monday of the U.N. Security Council to discuss events in the city. The United States and Britain have recently accused Russia of using Security Council meetings to spread disinformation.
One resident of Bucha, who refused to give his name out of fear for his safety, said Russian troops went building to building and took people out of the basements where they were hiding. The resident said soldiers checked their phones for evidence of anti-Russian activity and took them away or shot them.
The AP also saw two bodies, that of a man and a woman, wrapped in plastic that residents said they had covered and placed in a shaft until a proper funeral could be arranged.
"He put his hands up, and they shot him," said the resident who refused to be identified.
Oleksiy Arestovych, an adviser to Zelenskyy, claimed some of the women had been raped before being killed and the Russians then burned the bodies.
On Monday, the Ukrainian military said its forces had retaken some towns in the Chernihiv region and humanitarian aid was being delivered. The road between Chernihiv and Kyiv was to reopen to some traffic later in the morning, according to the news agency RBK Ukraina.
The mayor of Chernihiv, which has been cut off from food and other supplies for weeks, said Russian shelling has destroyed 70% of the northern city.
In a video address posted online Sunday, Zelenskyy said Russian soldiers who killed and tortured civilians were responsible for "concentrated evil."
"It is time to do everything possible to make the war crimes of the Russian military the last manifestation of such evil on earth," he said in remarks translated by his office.
The president directed some of his remarks at the mothers of Russian soldiers.
"Even if you raised looters, how did they also become butchers?" he said. "You couldn't overlook that they are deprived of everything human. No soul. No heart. They killed deliberately and with pleasure."
In Motyzhyn, some 50 kilometers (30 miles) west of Kyiv, residents told AP that Russian troops killed the town's mayor, her husband and her son and threw their bodies into a pit in a pine forest behind houses where Russian forces had slept.
Inside the pit, AP journalists saw four bodies of people who appeared to have been shot at close range. The mayor's husband had his hands behind his back, with a piece of rope nearby, and a piece of plastic wrapped around his eyes like a blindfold.
Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk confirmed the mayor was killed while being held by Russian forces.
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Qena reported from Motyzhyn, Ukraine. Yuras Karmanau in Lviv, Ukraine, and Associated Press journalists around the world contributed.
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Parkland, Florida, school shooter’s jury selection to begin
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) - Jury selection in the deadliest mass shooting ever to go to trial will begin Monday with preliminary screening for the panel that will determine whether Nikolas Cruz will be put to death for murdering 17 students and staff members at a Parkland, Florida, high school.
Court officials say 1,500 candidates or more could be brought before Circuit Judge Elizabeth Scherer, prosecutors and Cruz’s public defenders for initial screening over the next several weeks. The final panel will comprise 12 jurors plus eight alternates. Cruz, 23, pleaded guilty in October to the Feb. 14, 2018, massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, meaning the jury will only decide if he receives a death sentence or life without parole.
Seven other U.S. killers who fatally shot at least 17 people died during or immediately after their attacks, either by suicide or at the hands of police. The suspect in the 2019 massacre of 23 at an El Paso, Texas, Walmart is still awaiting trial.
Death penalty trials in Florida and much of the country often take two years to start because of their complexity, but Cruz’s was further delayed by the COVID-19 pandemic and extensive legal wrangling.
Tony Montalto, whose 14-year-old daughter, Gina, died in the attack, said the trial “has been a long time coming.”
“I just hope everyone remembers the victims,” he said. Cruz, he said, “told the world his plans on social media, carried out those plans in a cold and calculated manner and murdered my beautiful daughter, 13 of her classmates and three of her teachers.”
The parents and spouses of victims who have spoken publicly said they are in favor of Cruz’s execution. Montalto has not answered the question directly, but has said on multiple occasions that Cruz “deserves every chance he gave Gina and the others.”
On Mondays through Wednesdays for most of the next several weeks, prospective jurors will be brought into the courtroom in groups of 60, about four per day.
They will be asked if they can put aside any animosity toward Cruz and judge the case fairly. They will then be asked if they are available from June through September. Out of each group, Scherer is hoping five remain.
Candidates who pass those hurdles will be taken into another room, where they will fill out a questionnaire on their backgrounds and beliefs for the lawyers to later review. They will be brought back in several weeks for individual questioning. To qualify for the jury, they must say they can vote for the death penalty if the evidence supports that verdict, but also don’t believe it should be mandatory for murder.
Both prosecutors and the defense can challenge any prospective juror for cause. Scherer will eliminate candidates who lawyers from either side have convinced her would be prejudiced against their side. Each side will also get at least 10 peremptory strikes, where either can eliminate a candidate for any reason except race or gender.
For Cruz, a former Stoneman Douglas student, to get the death penalty, the jury must unanimously agree that aggravating factors such as the number of people he killed, his planning and his cruelty outweigh such mitigating factors as his lifelong mental illness and the death of his parents.
If any juror disagrees, Cruz will receive a life sentence.
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Senate panel to vote on Jackson nomination to Supreme Court
WASHINGTON (AP) - Democrats are launching a whirlwind of votes and Senate floor action Monday with the goal of confirming Ketanji Brown Jackson as the first Black woman on the Supreme Court by the end of the week.
The Senate Judiciary Committee kicks off Monday morning with a vote on whether to move Jackson’s nomination to the Senate floor. Democrats will then wind the nomination through the 50-50 Senate, with a final vote in sight for President Joe Biden’s pick to replace retiring Justice Stephen Breyer.
After more than 30 hours of hearings and interrogation from Republicans over her record, Jackson is on the brink of making history as the third Black justice and only the sixth woman in the court’s more than 200-year history. Democrats — and at least one Republican — tout her deep experience in her nine years on the federal bench and the chance to for her to become the first former public defender on the court.
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Dick Durbin said Thursday that the high regard for Jackson after a combative four days of hearings is “evidence of the strength that she brings to this nomination and the value that she will bring to the Supreme Court.”
The Judiciary panel could deadlock on Monday’s vote, 11-11, meaning Democrats will have to spend additional hours on the Senate floor to “discharge” her nomination from committee. While it won’t delay the process for long, it’s another blow for Democrats who had hoped to confirm Jackson with bipartisan support.
A deadlocked vote would be “a truly unfortunate signal of the continued descent into dysfunction of our confirmation process,” said Delaware Sen. Chris Coons, a Democrat on the Judiciary panel.
The committee hasn’t deadlocked on a nomination since 1991, when a motion to send Justice Clarence Thomas’ nomination to the floor with a “favorable” recommendation failed on a 7-7 vote. The committee then voted to send the nomination to the floor without a recommendation, meaning it could still be brought up for a vote.
Either way, Democrats are ready to spend time on the discharge Monday afternoon, if necessary. The Senate would then move to a series of procedural steps before a final confirmation vote later in the week.
While none of the Republicans on the Judiciary panel is expected to support Jackson, Democrats will have at least one GOP vote in favor on the floor — Maine Sen. Susan Collins, who announced last week that she will support the nominee. Collins said that even though she may not always agree with her, Jackson “possesses the experience, qualifications and integrity to serve as an associate justice on the Supreme Court.”
It’s unclear so far whether any other Republicans will join her. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell set the tone for the party last week when he said he “cannot and will not” support her, citing GOP concerns raised in the hearing about her sentencing record and her support from liberal advocacy groups.
Collins and Sens. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina were the only three to vote for Jackson when the Senate confirmed her as an appeals court judge last year. Graham said Thursday he won’t support her this time around; Murkowski says she’s still deciding.
Collins’ support likely saves Democrats from having to use Vice President Kamala Harris’ tie-breaking vote to confirm President Joe Biden’s pick, and Biden called Collins on Wednesday to thank her after her announcement, according to the senator’s office. The president had called her at least three times before the hearings, part of a larger push to win a bipartisan vote for his historic nominee.
It is expected that all 50 Democrats will support Jackson, though one notable moderate Democrat, Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, hasn’t yet said how she will vote.
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UNC came into the NCAA tournament with few expectations. The Heels were an 8 seed that just weeks before the tournament were not even assured a birth into the big dance.
But now--after beating their archrival twice, last year's defending champions and this year's biggest Cinderella story--North Carolina can nearly taste its seventh national championship.
For all that was made this year of Coach Mike Krzyzewski's retirement tour, the championship game is a sort of retirement party for Roy Williams, who retired as UNC head coach on April 1, 2021.
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Williams made his name as an assistant coach under Dean Smith at UNC, but he then went out on his own as head coach at Smith's alma mater: the University of Kansas.
In 2003, Williams returned to his own alma mater and led the Tar Heels back to basketball dominance with five Final Fours and three national championships.
In addition, Williams' hand-picked protégé--who played basketball under Dean Smith--is now at the helm of the UNC basketball program. Coach Hubert Davis is looking to be the second coach to ever win a men's basketball national title in their first year as a head coach. Steve Fisher accomplished that task at Michigan in the 1988-89 season.
In fact, you can't really tell the story of basketball without Kansas and North Carolina.
The story of basketball begins with its invention by James Naismith who reportedly tacked up peach baskets at created the game at a YMCA in Massachusetts. Naismith himself founded the basketball program at the University of Kansas, becoming its first ever head coach.
One of the assistant coaches and disciples of Naismith was Forrest "Phog" Allen. He eventually took over as head coach at Kansas where one of his players, a young man named Dean Smith, helped deliver him a national championship before beginning his own coaching career at North Carolina.
Smith would become a Tar Heels' legend during his tenure in Chapel Hill, leading North Carolina to a pair of national championships. And one of his disciples, that dadgum Roy Williams, would not only lead the Jayhawks to four Final Fours but the Tar Heels to three titles of his own.
On and on it goes, the ties binding two of college basketball's bluebloods forming a rich tapestry over time, and another layer to come Monday night when the schools square off for the national championship at the Superdome.
"Both teams are as blue as you can get when you talk about bluebloods," said Kansas coach Bill Self, whose Jayhawks are chasing a third national championship. "But to play a Carolina program that's intertwined with Kansas history, in large part because Coach Smith played at Kansas and won a national championship in '52 and then he goes on and is thought to be as good a basketball coach that's ever coached the sport over a period of time - I think that's special. "
Self has his own ties to the Tar Heels.
He was just an eager young college student trying to make a buck as a camp counselor at Kansas in the early 1980s when he caught the eyes of the Jayhawks' coach. It turned out to be Larry Brown, who two decades earlier had played for Smith and the Tar Heels before embarking on his own coaching career as an assistant in Chapel Hill.
"So I'm very proud to be a part of this game," Self said.
So is his North Carolina counterpart, Hubert Davis, who also played for Smith in the late 1980s and early '90s. After his own college career, and more than a decade spent in the NBA, Davis returned to North Carolina as Williams' assistant, then was picked to take over the Tar Heels when the Hall of Fame coach retired last spring.
Davis ruefully remembers playing against Williams and the Jayhawks in the 1991 national semifinals, when he went 9 of 16 from the field and scored 25 points in a losing effort. Kansas later lost to Duke in the title game.
"Prior to us winning the national championship in 2017, from 1991 to 2017, I had watched that game at least once every year. It was the best team I ever played with," Davis recalled Sunday. "And we really felt like we had a chance to win the national championship and we came up short. And that was a game that Coach Smith got two technical fouls and got kicked out, and it was an emotional game and an emotional end to a season."
Davis still considers that 79-73 defeat in Indianapolis "the toughest loss that I've ever experienced in my entire life."
"And playing at Carolina, the thing, for me, that I always wanted was to cut down those nets as a player," he said, "and we were so close and weren't able to be able to have that experience."
Davis ultimately had that experience as an assistant coach, though never at the Jayhawks' expense. Kansas has won four of their six meetings in the NCAA Tournament, including a second-round matchup in 2013 with Davis in his first year on the Tar Heels' bench.
And then there's Williams, who retired a year ago Friday after a Hall of Fame career. His first 15 seasons came at Kansas, along with a very famous "no thanks" when his alma mater first came calling for him to come home in 2000.
Three years later, Williams couldn't disappoint Smith a second time and returned to save a program in turmoil. He spent the next 18 seasons in Chapel Hill and claimed the national titles that had eluded him in his stellar tenure in Lawrence.
"I loved it, loved the people, loved the players, loved Allen Fieldhouse, and I wanted them to win every single game," Williams said. "But (Monday) night's a little different."
He's been attending UNC games all season to support Davis and his former players after "pushing so hard" for Davis to be his successor. That includes Saturday's win against Duke here at the Superdome.
"I've seen people on Bourbon Street and they say "Rock Chalk!" and I'll say, 'Go KU" because that is my love for that school, and that'll never change," Williams said. "But it's a different story tomorrow night, and it's an uncomfortable one for me.
"But at the same time, the connections with Coach Smith and myself and KU and the relationship we've had over the years between those two great basketball program is something that's extremely special. And Roy Williams is extremely flattered to say that I was able to coach at both schools."
Despite their intertwined history and all the games they have played - 6,394 to be exact - Monday night will be just the 12th meeting between them. This will be the sixth postseason meeting to come in a regional final or later.
By comparison, the Jayhawks have played Kentucky 34 times.
The first meeting between the Tar Heels and Jayhawks was a triple-overtime NCAA title game in 1957, with UNC capping an unbeaten season by outlasting Wilt Chamberlain and Kansas 54-53. After Davis' painful loss in '91, the Tar Heels won a rematch in the national semifinals on the way to Smith's second championship.
But the Jayhawks have won the past three meetings, all in the tournament, most notably in the 2008 Final Four on the way to Self's lone national title.
Most of the players that ultimately will decide the latest showdown between the historic programs know only of the past through stories and memories. Some of them weren't even born when Williams was coaching at Kansas, let alone Davis playing for the Tar Heels, and it's been up to their coaches to instill upon them the importance of this moment.
Kansas and North Carolina for the national championship.
"I've told them this: The best experience that I have had as a player, hands down, was going to the Final Four," Davis said. "I told them, 'I played 12 years in the NBA and that was my finest as a basketball player, finest moment, just being part of the Final Four.' I was trying to convey to them how special it is to be here. Now that they're being able to experience it is great."
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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INDIANAPOLIS — A Taco Bell location on the west side is closed Monday after a driver crashed into the building.
A structure collapse call came in just before 6:30 a.m. in the 5300 block of W. Washington Street near S. Lynhurst Drive.
The Wayne Township Fire Department tweeted photos from the scene showing a dark SUV partially inside the store after crashing through a window just past through the drive-thru window.
Only cosmetic damage is expected, and no one is hurt.
The Taco Bell will be closed on Monday. It’s unclear how long that closure will last.
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(The Hill) – Former President Trump endorsed former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) just days after the ex-vice presidential candidate announced her run for Congress.
“Sarah Palin is tough and smart and will never back down, and I am proud to give her my Complete and Total Endorsement, and encourage all Republicans to unite behind this wonderful person and her campaign to put America First,” Trump said in a statement on Sunday.
“Sarah shocked many when she endorsed me very early in 2016, and we won big,” the former president added. “Now, it’s my turn!”
Palin announced her candidacy to replace the late Alaska Rep. Don Young (R) on Friday, just 45 minutes before the filing deadline for the race.
“I realize that I have very big shoes to fill, and I plan to honor Rep. Young’s legacy by offering myself up in the name of service to the state he loved and fought for,” Palin said in a statement Friday.Thousands of flights canceled amid severe Florida weatherObama to make White House return to tout ACA successes
Trump also referenced Palin’s campaign on the presidential ticket with late Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), saying she “lifted the McCain presidential campaign out of the dumps despite the fact that she had to endure some very evil, stupid, and jealous people within the campaign herself.”
Trump referred to Palin as a “wonderful patriot” and said her congressional bid “means that there will be a true America First fighter on the ballot.”
The special election to replace Young is set to take place this summer, with primaries on June 11 and the general election on Aug. 16.
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(NEXSTAR) – Spring is the time to start fresh, open up the windows and clear out the dust — along with all the other junk you have lying around. What do you do with all the stuff you can no longer bear to see piled up in the depths of your closet or the corner of your garage? Donating is one of the best ways to keep that extra stuff out of the landfill.
But can you really donate a single sock that doesn’t have a match? What about a chipped plate? We asked Goodwill what they’d take and what they’d turn away — and it turns out they’ll accept a shocking amount of your stuff.
“We appreciate any donation that somebody is willing to give to us, but there are some things that we’re always looking for, especially clothing, shoes and small household goods,” said Courtney Nelson, senior director of marketing and communications at Goodwill.
Appliances, kitchen gadgets, utensils, vases, any small decor are also very appreciated at Goodwill, Nelson said.
When it comes to clothing, Goodwill will accept anything and everything. If it has a stain or a tear, that’s OK. They may not put it out on the sales floor, but they’ll try and find a use for it, Nelson said. A clothing item with a large hole in it could be sent over to a partner company that repurposes old clothing to make rags or insulation, for example. A run-down pair of shoes could be handed off to a dealer that will use the rubber in their soles to make the material for backyard sports courts, she said.
Nelson said they even have a way to reuse a single shoe missing its pair.
“We work with a dealer here that finds those shoes, and they actually match shoes that are the same size and have the most similar look,” she said. The dealer then distributes the rematched shoes to charities in other countries, giving them to people in need.
About 50% of donated items end up on the sales floor, Nelson said. Of those items, only about 60% end up being sold. Everything that isn’t resold is brought to a clearance outlet, where it’s sold by the pound. In other cases, the organization makes an effort to salvage or recycle the items.
The only thing Nelson said the Goodwill branch she works with in Arizona can’t accept is toxic waste. Pretty much everything else is fair game.
“We know that when somebody is choosing to donate their items to Goodwill, or choosing to donate to any organization, they’re making an effort, especially if it’s during spring cleaning. They spent a lot of time going through those items. Those items at one point meant something special and dear to them. — So if it doesn’t work for, you donate it to Goodwill, and we’ll make sure that we get the best use of it.”
Your local Goodwill locations may have additional restrictions, so be sure to check with the individual store before donating.
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Ormond officials seek $600K ECHO grant for performing arts center upgrade
ORMOND BEACH — Calling it a treasure to the community, city officials recently submitted an application for a $600,000 ECHO grant for renovations to the performing arts center.
Commissioners unanimously approved a resolution to apply for the grant during a commission meeting on March 22.
The ECHO grant request will be for the maximum allowed of $600,000 with the city of Ormond Beach providing $810,384 in cash match from the general fund reserves for the project. The renovations are estimated to cost a total of $1.4 million.
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Loretta Moisio, grants coordinator with the city of Ormond Beach said the application was submitted March 24.
“From this point on they will review it for any deficiencies,” said Moisio. “If they determine there are any deficiencies to be corrected they will let us know. And that will have to be submitted by April 28. The ECHO Advisory Committee will hold a tour and eligibility meeting and that's going to be on May 25.”
Moisio said the ECHO Advisory Committee will determine what the recommendations for funding will be on June 16.
If approved, the project would include renovation of the center's lobby; creation of a donor wall, improving the appearance of the exterior façade; modifications to the lobby stairway for both public safety and aesthetics; modifications to the restrooms to ensure full accessibility; the addition of a major art installation; upgrades of floor, window, and wall coverings in the lobby, concession and hallways; and a canopy for shelter at the entrance during inclement weather.
Volusia ECHO is a property tax-funded program that channels money into protecting the county's environmental, cultural, historical, and outdoors resources. Voters first approved the popular program by referendum in 2000, renewing it for another 20 years in the last general election.
'Artistic outlet'
Mayor Bill Partington said the performing arts center is a cultural asset to the community.
“We’re so lucky to have this amazing, cultural and artistic outlet for people in the community,” said Partington. “It has such a comfortable feel. You feel close as an audience member to what's happening on the stage. But it can hold about 500 people.
“The biggest thing is that it's for the whole community. There's really all kinds of entertainment opportunities (at the PAC) and people can in an affordable way have a date night with their spouse, significant other, or family members. That's why I think it's such an integral part of our Leisure Services.”
'Community effort'
The Friends of the PAC is a community group dedicated to making sure the renovations take place while working closely with the city.
“We're just a group of eight people who are volunteers who love the performing arts center,” said Lucy Jackman, president of the Friends of the PAC. “We’re in a partnership with the city. We selected the architect and paid those expenses. It’s an extensive project and we may have to close down for eight months to a year to do this. That's sort of the drawback. But we have to do it in order to get it done.”
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Treasure Island: Demolition to begin Monday in Daytona Beach Shores
Jackman said this project is a community effort and even after the project gets underway fundraising will continue.
“So many folks have supported this project in a unanimous way which is amazing,” she said. “When the building is closed The Friends of PAC will continue to do fundraising. Now we'll have to do it somewhere else, perhaps the senior center. One of our biggest goals is to bring in performers. We want to bring in folks that we feel would be beneficial for the PAC. Another goal is to hopefully bring in performances that younger folks will also attend.”
'Modern feel'
Marc Schwartz, supervisor of the day-to-day operations of the center said the renovations will help give it a more updated and modern feel.
“It opened in 1991 and you can kind of get a feel for the fact that it kind of has that '90s sort of look,” said Schwartz. “We really want to create that guest experience that you want to have when people come to a performing arts venue which is that they're entering into a grand space where the big dreams of performers come to life.”
Erica Van Buren covers general assignment and Ormond Beach government for The Daytona Beach News-Journal and USA TODAY Network. Connect with her at EVanBuren@News-Jrnl.com or on Twitter: @EricaVanBuren32
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B-CU stakeholders begin a 'reimagining' of 118-year-old school's educational delivery
Coming out of a five-year downward spiral of financial, legal, accreditation and enrollment troubles, Bethune-Cookman University is emerging amid new signals of renewal.
Revenues are up, student enrollment appears to be headed in the right direction and the 118-year-old Daytona Beach school's Board of Trustees has untangled some of the most challenging court cases. But a new existential hazard has emerged: the changing landscape of higher education.
University officials addressed that issue at "Re-imagining B-CU: Now, Next and Beyond," a kickoff event for what they expect will be a revolution in what the school offers and how it gets delivered.
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To B-CU interim President Hiram Powell, the signals are all around. The student-consumer is increasingly demanding flexibility in course delivery — whether that be more online course options or moving away from a system of credit hours toward credentialing.
"One of the things that is taking place is that there are new entrants into the higher education marketplace. Amazon has entered into the marketplace and delivered education at cost. Walmart is engaged in a process to enter the marketplace. There will be others," Powell said. "Coursera, who used to support education, is now a competitor in offering courses."
Reversing downward trend of enrollment
Enrollment at B-CU was about 30% lower in 2020 than it had been six years earlier, a reflection of some of the university's troubles, but also the product of wider societal trends.
The National Center for Education Statistics has reported that between 2009 and 2019, total undergraduate enrollment in degree-granting postsecondary institutions dropped from 17.5 million to 16.6 million, or 5%.
The COVID-19 pandemic hasn't helped schools like B-CU, either.
Anthony Jones, vice president of enrollment and the student experience, said this year enrollment appears to be stabilizing and there are good signs ahead.
“We have put together a very aggressive recruitment and outreach program for this upcoming fall and we’re already seeing results. Applications are up over 176% over where they were at this same time last year," Jones said. "And deposits are up by 11% over last year.”
School officials have discussed the possibility of doubling B-CU's enrollment "in the next several years," expanding to approximately 6,000, Jones said.
Retired Judge Belvin Perry, chairman of the Board of Trustees, said better days are ahead.
“There is no doubt in my mind and there should be no doubt in your minds, that together we will move B-CU to its rightful place in the academy and the global community.”
But that doesn't happen without change, officials said, encouraging students, faculty, staff, alumni and the wider community to participate in B-CU's strategic planning process.
Powell, who describes himself as a "voracious reader" of higher education trends, said in addition to looking at course delivery options and academic programs that address the 21st century consumer, the school will have to bolster its technology.
"If we don’t recognize all of those signals and we ignore them and we stay in the traditional mode, we will be gone,” he said.
Enrollment pro, business dean head effort
The project sponsors for "Re-imagining" are two relative newcomers to B-CU: Jones, who arrived from Howard University last summer, and the new dean of the College of Business and Entrepreneurship, Lawrence Drake.
Drake's career has spanned both academia and the business world, where he helped found three private enterprise firms and served 21 years with The Coca-Cola Company, including a stint as division president/CEO of its Nigeria and Equatorial Africa division.
He reflected on another world-traveling B-CU ambassador, its founder, Mary McCleod Bethune, quoting a speech she had given in Switzerland in 1954, one year before her death.
"She said the fateful decision of our day is whether or not we will change. She said, 'I’ve always worked for the betterment of my people. Today, however, we must upturn the world,'" Drake said. "... 'We must remake the world. The task is nothing less than that.'"
Fast-forwarding to 2022, Drake said her words remain relevant.
"We are in a moment of remaking the world. Our student learners, those who come here, come here to live upon this legacy by faculty who are dedicated to that purpose," he said. "... The word reimagining means rethinking. It means we have to get out of what we did before in order to think about what we can do now and much longer afterwards."
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From Bubba to Tiger to Jack ... all the way back to Byron, some Masters anniversaries
Among the sidelights to every Masters Tournament are the anniversaries celebrated.
This week’s tournament marks the 25th anniversary of Tiger Woods’ historic and lopsided victory in 1997. Much will be made of that ’97 tournament and rightly so, not just for what it represented at the time, but in retrospect how it served as the launch pad for Tiger’s 15 major championships.
But, as always, other anniversaries are worthy of remembrance, so we tee up a decade-by-decade roll call of some historic Masters — some memorable for one particular shot, others for their overall significance.
10 Years Ago
If only CBS had been able to use shot-tracer technology at the 2012 Masters, where Bubba Watson’s wedge from the woods led to a playoff victory over Louis Oosthuizen.
After both golfers parred the first playoff hole — the par-4 18th — Bubba rope-hooked his tee shot deep into the pines to the right of the fairway on the par-4 10th. “Off the tee, I thought we were done,” he said later.
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Instead, he found a good lie and a gap in the trees. Still, he was 164 yards away from the pin and had to hook his 52-degree wedge somewhere between 40 and 55 yards, depending on whose estimate you trust.
The quirky left-hander, who moves the ball more than anyone in golf, called upon all of his shot-making abilities to find the green for an eventually easy 2-putt par while Oostheuzen missed the green and made bogey.
20 Years Ago
No real drama, no major theatrics, but all in all, the 2002 Masters captured the essence of Tiger Woods’ dominance during his peak years. If you needed an example of how the biggest tournaments unfolded on weekends during the Age of Tiger, this was it.
Tiger began the fourth round tied with reigning U.S. Open champ Retief Goosen. Overall, six of the world’s top seven golfers were within four shots of the lead.
One by one, they stumbled and gave up any hope of catching Tiger, who climbed the board with a third-round 66 and basically held serve on Sunday afternoon as the others found trees and water and rarely found the bottom of the cup when most needed.
Tiger won by three for his seventh major and third Masters.
30 Years Ago
Fred Couples’ lone major didn’t come easily. How difficult was it? Where do you rank defying the laws of gravity?
“If he makes 3 here,” said Ken Venturi on CBS, “it might be the luckiest 3 I’ve seen on this hole in my life.”
Couples had stepped up to the most dramatic tee shot on the course — at the par-3 12th, the middle leg of Amen Corner — with a two-shot lead. With the traditional Sunday pin position, if you’re gonna miss your tee shot at 12, you simply can’t miss it to the right, because that lengthens the carry and brings the green-fronting Rae’s Creek very much into play.
Freddy came up short and right, and the ball began rolling back off the bank toward the water, likely taking that two-shot lead with it. But then … what’s this? No way! The ball stopped just short of the water’s edge.
Never, ever happens. But it did. From there, Couples had a fairly easy pitch, made his par, and was back on his way.
Funny sidelight. Before walking up the bank after his pitch, Couples looked into Rae’s Creek and dipped his wedge into the water to retrieve someone else’s errant ball. He lobbed it with his wedge about 5 feet up the bank, and it started rolling down.
Then it stopped, almost exactly where his own tee ball had miraculously stopped.
40 Years Ago
The ’82 Masters elevated Craig Stadler’s status from “merely” a 13-time PGA Tour winner with an obvious nickname — “Walrus” — to major champion. But it wasn’t pretty.
Tough weather on Thursday and Friday led to the highest cut in Masters history — 10-over-par 154. Stadler and Curtis Strange were co-leaders at even par. Stadler entered Sunday with a three-shot lead and built it to six through 11 holes, before playing the final seven holes in 6 over par, including a 3-putt bogey on 18.
Dan Pohl, the PGA Tour’s biggest hitter of the day, shot a pair of 67s on the weekend to land in a tie, but bogeyed the first playoff hole to squeeze Stadler into a green jacket.
50 Years Ago
The first Masters played without Augusta National co-founder Bobby Jones belonged to Jack Nicklaus, who became the third wire-to-wire Masters winner.
Wire-to-wire and three-shot margin of victory suggests a relative cakewalk for the Golden Bear, but his fourth Masters win, which tied Arnold Palmer’s total, wasn’t without a moment of drama late on Sunday.
Nicklaus was three shots clear, and four ahead of playing partner Tom Weiskopf, when his approach to the par-4 17th found the right-front bunker and gave Jack a fried-egg lie. Weiskopf, Jack’s fellow Ohio State Buckeye, planted a wedge to 12 inches for tap-in birdie.
Nicklaus was looking at bogey, at best, from his lie, which would make the tee shot at 18 much tighter than normal.
But Nicklaus’ blast from the bunker landed in the fringe between bunker and green and ran just 8 feet past the cup. The par putt had about 12 inches of right-to-left break and slipped into the left side of the cup.
Jack took a three-shot lead to 18, where he could safely hit 3-wood from the tee and leave the green a bit later with a three-shot win.
60 Years Ago
Arnold Palmer might not have invented the charge, but he definitely made it a household word. At least in club houses.
But sometimes the charge was necessary due to Arnie’s penchant for watching his go-for-broke style go sideways. Such was the 1962 Masters, where the King had it won, gave it away, had it won, gave it away, and eventually won.
A year after blowing the ’61 Masters with a double-bogey on the 72nd hole, Palmer took a two-shot lead in Sunday, only to dump it away by playing the first 10 holes in 5 over par.
Eventually, birdies on 16 and 17 (Charge!) got him back in form and into a three-way tie with Gary Player and Dow Finsterwald. On Monday, Palmer went out in 37 and was three down at the turn, only to shoot 31 coming home (Charge! again) to win by three.
70 Years Ago
Think about Ben Hogan's career before and after his horrendous 1949 car crash. He won the two majors prior to the accident, and after his triumphant return, won three of the four he entered in 1950-51.
So entering the 1952 Masters, he'd won five of his six previous majors (and finished fourth in the other). Also in '52, it was his urging that convinced Bobby Jones and Clifford Roberts to begin the annual Champions Dinner, which over the decades has become the most famous supper not painted by da Vinci.
All of that makes the '52 Masters somewhat shocking, because the great Hogan fell apart on Sunday. He was tied for the lead with Sam Snead after 54 holes but shot 79 in the blustery final round while Snead cruised to a four-shot win over Jackie Burke.
How'd Hogan respond to that collapse? The next year, he won all three majors he entered.
80 Years Ago
Many call the ninth Masters, in 1942, the most important ever. It certainly had star power, with Byron Nelson and Ben Hogan going an extra 18 holes to decide things.
But without that star power, some wondered if it might've become the last Masters ever. World War II was under way, the club would soon close and become a farm for the war effort, and there were serious doubts about what would happen when the war ended and, hopefully, the good guys won.
Having two of golf’s Big Three (Sam Snead was the other) tie after 72 holes, and go to a Monday playoff, gave the Masters a huge jolt of importance that carried over to the tournament’s return in 1946.
As for the official details, Nelson was three down after four holes but played the final 14 holes in 5 under par and won by a shot over Hogan, the man with whom he shared a caddy yard as a kid in Fort Worth.
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Douglas Mills Jr. and Scarlet seemed like a total mismatch and provided some of the most dramatic moments of the show.
"We are pretty much nothing alike," Scarlet said.
Douglas could not remember his lines to their song "Rewrite the Stars" and at one point, Scarlett stormed off.
"It's hard for me to learn songs really quickly," he said.
Scarlet blamed her reaction to his struggles on bad past experiences with other singers.
While they worked it out, when the couple hit the stage Douglas stumbled through the song.
"Death by song," Katy Perry said. "That song was not the right song. We could tell you didn't really know it."
Despite their struggles, Katy said they were moving forward thanks to "some moments in the past and how beautiful they were."
Christian Guardino and Nicolina delivered what might have been the duet of the night with their performance of "The Prayer."
"I have to tell you when you can stand on a stage under pressure and we're mesmerized just watching how you play off each other, it has all the makings of something so special," Lionel Richie told them after the performance.
The contestants don't have a lot of time to prepare for the duet once they learn who is their partner. Some of the contestants worked late into the night trying to get their act together.
"I am so tired," Cole Hallman said after a long night of rehearsing with Cadence Baker.
They sang 'How Sweet It Is' by James Taylor, but their performance was, in Luke Bryan's opinion, "underwhelming" compared to their previous appearances.
Cole admitted his voice is going and the judges decide that he has reached the end of his Idol journey.
Perhaps the most inspiring moment of the night came when Kelsie Dolin, who is harmonizing for the first time and has no experience on stage, was partnered with former Miss America Betty Maxwell.
Kelsie has lacked confidence throughout the season despite continuing to advance.
"You are such a diamond in the rough. All you've gotta do is shake off that dust," Katy Perry told her.
Betty worked with Kelsie on choreography and harmonizing hoping to build up her confidence, but was admittedly nervous going into the performance.
Their duet of Pink's "Just Give Me a Reason" moved Lionel Richie to tears.
"I was worried for a moment because I thought you were not going to rise to the occasion," he said. "You broke through. You were harmonizing and attitude and choreography and who the heck are you now?"
Katy Perry applauded Betty for drawing out the best that Kelsie could be.
You can see more of the duets from the show streaming now on Hulu.
The search for the next Idol continues Monday night with the showstoppers round as contestants take the stage for the first time with a band and the field narrows to the top 24.
Watch the next American Idol on Monday at 8 p.m. ET/PT | 7 p.m. CT on your local ABC station and the next day on Hulu.
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RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) -- Many shared their condolences to the family of Millbrook High School's principal Dana King Sunday. King passed away Saturday morning, a month before her planned retirement.
"Our deepest thoughts and prayers and sympathies are with her husband Rick and her family. We're thinking about them first and foremost and making sure that they feel loved and supported," Northern Area Superintendent, Chris McCabe said. "She poured her heart and soul into this community. And the best way to honor that is to continue to make sure that the number of communities stay strong, healthy and does what is right for every kid each day."
The announcement was sent Saturday to all principals in the Wake County Public School System described King as " a leader whose unwavering dedication left a long-lasting impact on students, staff and the community."
"We had the opportunity to celebrate her this past Monday. I knew she was coming when we were in the gym. Even though there were a couple hundred people in the gym chatting, you could hear her laugh coming down the hall. It's a beautiful laugh and it also just shows her vibrance for life," said McCabe
School leaders say they do not want cameras on campus Monday when teachers and staff return to work. They would like to give those who knew King the opportunity to mourn her privately.
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Cuban plays himself as Connor's friend during a high-stakes poker game that Tom and Sarah decide to crash.
"This season we got to do more and better," said Topher Grace, "Tom." "I'm such a huge fan of 'Shark Tank,' I think I've seen every episode of that show, and to be able to then sit next to him for a couple of days and ask him any question I wanted about 'Shark Tank,' or his life, or whatever, it was such a thrill."
He went on to say that they got along great during filming.
"He was the guy that you want him to be," he said. "He's exactly who you want him to be."
"Home Economics" has now seemingly hit its stride well into its second season. Grace says the cast has gelled together and they really feel like siblings sometimes.
"We're spending so much time together, probably more time together than we do with our real families during the season and they're such a pleasure," Grace said, "Actually, I don't know if they are fanning out on me, but I am fanning out on them all the time!"
He said the chemistry among the cast can't be faked and it reminds him of a feeling he had in the past.
"I've been on a dream team before, and I know how rare that is," Grace said referencing his "That '70s Show" days. "There's just such a feeling of family. You are supposed to lie as an actor, but over this many episodes you can't lie, you actually have to love the people to portray that kind of thing."
Don't miss the next episode of "Home Economics" on Wednesday at 9:30 p.m. ET on ABC.
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Jurors to weigh conspiracy charges in alleged Whitmer plot
(AP) - A jury in Michigan will begin its deliberations Monday in the trial of four men accused of designing a plan to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.
The jury picked a leader late Friday afternoon, following hours of closing arguments from lawyers, then said it would start discussing the case after the weekend.
Adam Fox, Barry Croft Jr., Daniel Harris and Brandon Caserta can be found guilty of conspiracy, even if it wasn’t possible to pull off the kidnapping in fall 2020, U.S. District Judge Robert Jonker said during jury instructions.
A key factor, if the jury finds it, would be a “mutual understanding either spoken or unspoken” between two or more people in the group, the judge said.
Fox, Croft and Harris also face charges related to weapons.
“Deciding what the facts are is your job, not mine,” Jonker told the jury.
Prosecutors said the plot was simmering for months, leavened by anti-government extremism and anger over Whitmer’s COVID-19 restrictions. With undercover FBI agents and informants embedded in the group, the men trained with a crudely built “shoot house” to replicate her vacation home, prosecutors allege.
There is no dispute that the alleged leaders, Fox and Croft, traveled to Elk Rapids, Michigan, to scout the governor’s property and a nearby bridge that same weekend in September 2020.
Ty Garbin and Kaleb Franks, who pleaded guilty and testified against the four men, were on the same road trip, along with covert investigators.
Garbin said the goal was to get Whitmer before the fall election and create enough chaos to create a civil war and stop Joe Biden from winning the presidency. Much of the government’s case came from secretly recorded conversations, group messages and social media posts.
“You heard them in their own voices over and over again,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Nils Kessler told jurors, “talking about kidnapping her, murdering her, blowing up bridges and people and anybody who could get in their way. And it wasn’t just talk.”
The men were arrested in October 2020.
Defense lawyers, especially those representing Fox and Croft, attacked the government’s investigation and the use of a crucial informant, Dan Chappel. They claimed Chappel was the real leader, taking direction from the FBI and keeping the group on edge while recording them for months.
“Dan Chappel makes everything happen,” attorney Christopher Gibbons said in his closing remarks.
Attorney Joshua Blanchard repeatedly called the scheme “smoke and mirrors.”
“There was no plan. There was no agreement,” he said.
Croft is from Bear, Delaware, while the others are from Michigan.
Whitmer, a Democrat, rarely talks publicly about the plot, though she referred to “surprises” during her term that seemed like “something out of fiction” when she filed for reelection on March 17.
She has blamed former President Donald Trump for fomenting anger over coronavirus restrictions and refusing to condemn right-wing extremists like those charged in the case.
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Place of Hope expands charity for foster kids and families to the Treasure Coast
A well-known charity that houses foster kids and families at risk of abuse is expanding to the Treasure Coast.
Place of Hope currently has foster homes in Boca Raton and Palm Beach Gardens.
Now, it's opening an 11-acre campus off of Cove Rd. in Stuart.
The charity is taking over the land from the Samaritan Center for Boys, a charity with a similar mission that has since fallen into despair.
Place of Hope Founding CEO Charles Bender said each day 200 kids in this region are housed in foster care.
He said the new outreach center on the campus will help benefit as many as 5-10 thousand families with items like diapers, cribs, and pack and plays.
"There's more to come and we're going to see as the needs present themselves there is additional space here that hasn't been used yet, and like I said there is a tremendous need, so we'll see where we go with it," said Bender.
Bender said the outreach center will open within a matter of weeks.
He said the other cottages used to house children and families will begin being renovated and reopened shortly after.
"Can you imagine overnight, taking on 2 to 3 additional kids into your family, and sometimes you need some financial support with that," said Bender. "You need the diapers, the car seats, the cribs, the pack and plays, all those things, and so as a community we're going to provide those things to them almost immediately."
Bender said the pandemic coupled with recently inflation spikes have led to an increase in foster cases.
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US seizes yacht owned by oligarch with close ties to Putin
PALMA DE MALLORCA, Spain (AP) — The U.S. government seized a mega yacht in Spain owned by an oligarch with close ties to the Russian president on Monday, the first in the government’s sanctions enforcement initiative to “seize and freeze” giant boats and other pricey assets of Russian elites.
Spain’s Civil Guard and U.S. federal agents descended on the yacht at the Marina Real in the port of Palma de Mallorca, the capital of Spain’s Balearic Islands in the Mediterranean Sea. Associated Press reporters at the scene saw police going in and out of the boat on Monday morning.
The seizure was confirmed by two people familiar with the matter. The people could not discuss the matter publicly and spoke to AP on condition of anonymity. A Spanish Civil Guard spokesman confirmed that officers from the Spanish police body and from the FBI were at the marina searching the vessel Monday morning and said further details would be released later.
A Civil Guard source told The Associated Press that the immobilized yacht is Tango, a 78-meter (254-feet) vessel that carries Cook Islands flag and that Superyachtfan.com, a specialized website that tracks the world’s largest and most exclusive recreational boats, values at $120 million. The source was also not authorized to be named in media reports and spoke to AP on condition of anonymity.
The yacht is among the assets linked to Viktor Vekselberg, a billionaire and close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin who heads the Moscow-based Renova Group, a conglomerate encompassing metals, mining, tech and other assets, according to U.S. Treasury Department documents. All of Vekselberg’s assets in the U.S. are frozen and U.S. companies are forbidden from doing business with him and his entities.
The move is the first time the U.S. government has seized an oligarch’s yacht since Attorney General Merrick Garland and Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen assembled a task force known as REPO — short for Russian Elites, Proxies and Oligarchs — as an effort to enforce sanctions after Russia invaded Ukraine in late February.
Vekselberg has long had ties to the U.S. including a green card he once held and homes in New York and Connecticut. The Ukrainian-born businessman built his fortune by investing in the aluminum and oil industries in the post-Soviet era.
Vekselberg was also questioned in special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election and has worked closely with his American cousin, Andrew Intrater, who heads the New York investment management firm Columbus Nova.
Vekselberg and Intrater were thrust into the spotlight in the Mueller probe after the attorney for adult film star Stormy Daniels released a memo that claimed $500,000 in hush money was routed through Columbus Nova to a shell company set up by Donald Trump’s personal attorney, Michael Cohen. Columbus Nova denied that Vekselberg played any role in its payments to Cohen.
Vekselberg and Intrater met with Cohen at Trump Tower, one of several meetings between members of Trump’s inner circle and high-level Russians during the 2016 campaign and transition.
The 64-year-old mogul founded Renova Group more than three decades ago. The group holds the largest stake in United Co. Rusal, Russia’s biggest aluminum producer, among other investments.
Vekselberg was first sanctioned by the U.S. in 2018, and again in March of this year, shortly after the invasion of Ukraine began. Vekselberg has also been sanctioned by authorities in the United Kingdom.
The U.S. Justice Department has also launched a sanctions enforcement task force known as KleptoCapture, which also aims to enforce financial restrictions in the U.S. imposed on Russia and its billionaires, working with the FBI, Treasury and other federal agencies. That task force will also target financial institutions and entities that have helped oligarchs move money to dodge sanctions.
The White House has said that many allied countries, including German, the U.K, France, Italy and others are involved in trying to collect and share information against Russians targeted for sanctions. In his State of the Union address, President Joe Biden warned oligarch that the U.S. and European allies would “find and seize your yachts, your luxury apartments, your private jets.”
“We are coming for your ill-begotten gains,” he said.
Wednesday’s capture is not the first time Spanish authorities have been involved in the seizure of a Russian oligarch’s superyacht. Officials there said they had seized a vessel valued at over $140 million owned by the CEO of a state-owned defense conglomerate and a close Putin ally.
French authorities have also seized superyachts, including one believed to belong to Igor Sechin, a Putin ally who runs Russian oil giant Rosneft, which has been on the U.S. sanctions list since Russia annexed Crimea in 2014.
Italy has also seized several yachts and other assets.
Italian financial police moved quickly seizing the superyacht “Lena” belonging to Gennady Timchenko, an oligarch close to Putin, in the port of San Remo; the 65-meter (215-foot) “Lady M” owned by Alexei Mordashov in nearby Imperia, featuring six suites and estimated to be worth 65 million euros; as well as villas in Tuscany and Como, according to government officials.
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Para reported from Madrid and Balsamo reported from Washington.
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Local Girl Scout troops are back out in local communities selling Girl Scout cookies. While nationwide supply chain issues and workforce shortages caused disruptions to business as usual for this year’s Girl Scout cookie program, supply has been replenished and Girl Scout Cookies are back and available for purchase.
Girl Scouts Heart of the South extended the typical cookie season until April 17.
Today’s Girl Scout sets out to sell delicious cookies while also building entrepreneurial and business skills that are imperative for leadership and future success.
“Girl Scout cookies are a fantastic and fun way for girls to learn essential life skills like goal setting, decision making, money management, people skills and business ethics,” said Melanie Schild, CEO of Girl Scouts Heart of the South. “It’s not just a chance for them to sell a product and raise funds, it’s a chance for them to learn true entrepreneurship, leadership and financial literacy while providing the public with a tasty treat that after more than a century, has become an American tradition.”
Almost one million Girl Scouts nationally participate in the cookie program each year, generating nearly $800 million in sales during the average season. And all the net revenue raised – 100 percent of it – stays within the area. Councils use cookie earnings to power amazing experiences for girls through their programming, while girls and their troops decide how to invest in impactful community projects, personal enrichment opportunities, and more.
Further, skills girls learn in the cookie program also influence later success: data shows more than half (57 percent) of Girl Scout alumnae in business say the cookie program was beneficial to skills they possess today, such as money management, goal-setting and public speaking.
Every level of Girl Scouts from a 5-year-old Daisy to a 17-year-old Ambassador has the chance to earn badges in financial literacy and cookie business each year during the once-a-year Girl Scout cookie season.
Girl Scout Daisies (grades K – 1st) can earn their money counts badge with three others. Girl Scout Brownies (grades 2nd – 3rd) can earn up to six badges. Girl Scout Juniors (grades 4th and 5th) can earn up to five badges. Girl Scout Cadettes (grades 6th – 8th) can earn up to six badges. Girl Scout Seniors (grades 9th – 10th) can earn up to seven badges, and Girl Scout Ambassadors (grades 11th – 12th) can earn up to four badges all related to financial literacy
From Memphis to Starkville, Girl Scouts are doing amazing things made possible by each and every cookie sale. Troops can use their profits in a wide variety of ways. They can offset costs of items such as vests, badges the girls earn and other Girl Scout-related items.
They can go to educational events where they can earn more badges and learn about new careers or ideas that affect change in their world. Troops can and have taken trips to places such as Savannah, Georgia, which is the birthplace of Girl Scouts, to trips throughout the world, including Japan, France, England and South America.
Some troops even decide to take their hard-earned money and use portions of it to give service to causes they regularly volunteer with such as homeless shelters or animal shelters. However, girls’ cookie earnings alone aren’t enough to power the Girl Scout Movement – investing in girls is important year-round, not just during cookie season.
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ABERDEEN – At the end of the school year, Belle-Shivers Middle School Principal Karen Howard will retire after serving four years in the position, on top of 17 years as an Aberdeen High School algebra teacher and two and a half years as a district academic coach.
Given Aberdeen School District Superintendent Jeff Clay’s last day with the district is June 30, he asked for school board direction March 21 in finding Howard’s replacement.
“Initially, we talked about my successor would probably have the better opportunity to hire somebody,” Clay said of previous talks with school board officers. “I went back and looked at the timeline with MSBA [Mississippi School Boards Association], and the [superintendent’s] application process closed Friday (March 18). Their round of interviews starts in two weeks. I don’t know their turnaround from the time they speak to candidates to the time they speak to the board.”
He said it could potentially be mid-May before there’s a better understanding of who the next superintendent will be, prompting his request for the board’s wishes on how to proceed with the search for a new principal at Belle-Shivers Middle School.
“It’s not unheard of. When I came here five years ago, we had three new principals,” Clay said.
He has already sent out a survey to Belle-Shivers Middle School staff members about what qualities they’d like to see in the next principal. Clay added he could facilitate a committee for the next principal if it’s the wish of the school board.
“The later we wait, the higher the likelihood a potential candidate will be hired by another school district. Your best option now who will probably be a great fit may not be available by late June,” said school board member Tonny Oliver.
As far as the superintendent search, school board president Jim Edwards said some candidates who previously went through the MSBA’s initial screening process have been interviewed, but there are additional candidates.
The school board expected to receive more information from the MSBA about the timeline of the superintendent search. It will address a plan regarding Howard’s successor after it has a better idea of that timeline.
Aerospace academy
At previous school board meetings this semester, talks have been more thorough about a potential Aberdeen Aerospace Academy, and Clay spoke last week about ongoing plans, focusing on the potential of drone soccer.
“It’s something we were looking at to try to get students involved,” he said. “We can have a very comprehensive plan laid out, but it’s what the board wants to do. If the board wants to continue, I can have a plan in place with curriculum.”
He said AHS JROTC instructor Maj. Allen Williams is expected to present more details about the proposed aerospace academy during the school board’s April meeting.
Earlier in the meeting, Clay noted the AHS JROTC received a drone with photo and infrared capabilities from the Air Force JROTC’s headquarters.
“It’s not like one of the drones you buy at Walmart or Best Buy,” Clay said. “I just wanted to let you know they’re providing more opportunities for students.”
In other business
Clay reported on a recent survey pertaining to hopes and dreams through bravEd framework, which measures progress based on students’ need.
“There were a lot of students who responded and said they wanted to be doctors. If they want to be doctors, we might need to look at more science- and math-based curriculum. If they want to be doctors, we should start pushing for the higher levels of science and math,” he said.
Student average daily attendance is trending back up after COVID-19 disruptions. The districtwide average is 92.3 percent. The teacher average daily attendance is just above 94 percent.
As far as meal reimbursements, the district received $41,922.26 for breakfast claims and $80,382.12 for the month of February.
In recapping the enrollment report, Clay said there were 1,030 students districtwide.
The school board approved requests for proposals for contracts pertaining to voice over Internet protocol phone service, janitorial services, lawn and grounds care and copier services throughout the district.
As far as finances, the ending balance for the school district for February was $8,574,584.36.
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Kelly Martin of the Monroe County Chamber of Commerce, middle, was the recipient of the 2022 Brenda Lathan Award during the recent Mississippi Economic Development Council (MDEC) awards. Also pictured, from left, Pablo Diaz, president of the MEDC Board of Directors and president/CEO of Vicksburg Warren County Partnership; MDEC Executive Director Gwen Howard; Brenda Lathan, senior consultant of VisionFirst Advisors and the founder of the award/scholarship; Monroe County Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Chelsea Baulch; and Misty Hutcheson, Monroe County Chamber of Commerce member relations director.
JACKSON – The Mississippi Economic Development Council (MEDC) and the Golden Triangle Development LINK announced Monroe County Chamber of Commerce Community Development Director Kelly Martin as the winner of the Brenda Hardaway Lathan Scholarship for Women in Economic Development at the 2022 Awards Luncheon at the Westin in Jackson.
This scholarship opportunity was created in October 2020 and will annually provide funds to a woman continuing her education in the economic development field with a preference given to minority practitioners. Next year’s qualifications and application process will be announced in September through the MS Economic Development Council.
MEDC and the Golden Triangle Development LINK are proud to carry on Lathan’s legacy through this scholarship.
Martin has served in varying roles since joining the GoMonroe team in 2011. She is known for her experience in forming a collaborative approach to addressing community needs, as well as education and workforce initiatives.
In her role with the chamber, she spends her time between project management, prospect liaison, website and social media management and design, supporting local businesses by providing varying services and forging relationships between local educators and industry partners through initiatives such as Industry Insider WAE (Workforce-Advancing-Education).
Martin has led Monroe County through the process of becoming an ACT Work-Ready Certified Community, the first in Itawamba Community College’s consortium to earn this certification.
As a lifelong resident of Monroe County, Kelly has previously served as president of the Junior Auxiliary of Aberdeen, secretary of Amory Main Street and secretary of the Amory Railroad Festival, one of the state’s largest community festivals.
She has been recognized for her participation in the Tennessee Valley Community Livability Program, Valley Workforce Institute and is approaching her final year with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Institute for Organizational Management.
She is married to her high school sweetheart, Matt. Together they live as hostages to a teenage daughter, Ann Elise, and grown sons, Matthew and Corbin, all still at home. When not at a soccer field, you can find her at a different soccer field or repairing something a soccer ball broke.
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In this file photo from December 2021, Belle-Shivers Middle School Principal Karen Howard, right, is recognized as the Aberdeen School District Administrator of the Year. She is retiring at the end of the current school year.
ABERDEEN • Aberdeen school officials are searching for a replacement for one of the district's principals.
Belle-Shivers Middle School Principal Karen Howard will retire at the end of the school year after serving four years in the position, on top of 17 years as an Aberdeen High School algebra teacher and two and a half years as a district academic coach.
Given Aberdeen School District Superintendent Jeff Clay’s last day with the district is June 30, he has asked for district school board guidance in finding a replacement.
“Initially, we talked about my successor would probably have the better opportunity to hire somebody,” Clay said of previous talks with school board officers. “I went back and looked at the timeline with MSBA [Mississippi School Boards Association], and the [superintendent’s] application process closed Friday (March 18). Their round of interviews starts in two weeks. I don’t know their turnaround from the time they speak to candidates to the time they speak to the board.”
Clay said it could potentially be mid-May before there’s a better understanding of who the next superintendent will be, prompting his request for the board’s wishes on how to proceed with the search for a new principal at Belle-Shivers Middle School.
“It’s not unheard of. When I came here five years ago, we had three new principals,” Clay said.
He has already sent out a survey to Belle-Shivers Middle School staff members about what qualities they’d like to see in the next principal. Clay added he could facilitate a committee for the next principal if it’s the wish of the school board.
“The later we wait, the higher the likelihood a potential candidate will be hired by another school district. Your best option now who will probably be a great fit may not be available by late June,” said school board member Tonny Oliver.
As far as the superintendent search, school board president Jim Edwards said some candidates who previously went through the MSBA’s initial screening process have been interviewed, but there are additional candidates.
The school board expected to receive more information from the MSBA about the timeline of the superintendent search. It will address a plan regarding Howard’s successor after it has a better idea of that timeline.
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Bridgewater-Raritan, NJ, school district issues warning about child’s game
The Bridgewater-Raritan school district is warning parents about a game a number of students are apparently playing after-hours.
It's called "Assassins," and it involves teams of kids each trying to eliminate members of the other teams. A team member is eliminated when they are shot with a water gun or other device.
The game has also caught the attention of police, since the kids often wear ski masks and the guns can look realistic.
The school is urging parents to talk to their kids about the game, and to insist they do not run from police.
"If your child does in fact participate in this," the post reads, "Please reinforce that under no circumstances should they run or avoid the police, as the police are trying to ensure that no illegal activity is taking place."
School officials say the game is primarily played by seniors at the high school, but the activity is banned on school property.
"We are asking parents to please speak to your child about this activity," the district posted on Facebook, "So we can help keep the Bridgewater-Raritan Students and Community safe."
The game is not new. It's been played for years and the internet is full of "official rules" and videos of the contest.
You can view some of the clips here and here.
Police have also been warning about the game for years as well, concerned about the potential for officers to mistake game players for a genuine threat.
Eric Scott is the senior political director and anchor for New Jersey 101.5. You can reach him at eric.scott@townsquaremedia.com
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First lawsuits filed over tainted milk in Camden, NJ, schools
The first lawsuits have been filed against a Connecticut Dairy for allowing tainted milk to be served to young children in the Camden School District last Wednesday.
Milk from the Guida-Seibert Dairy was contaminated with a sanitizer and sickened as many as 30 children who attended Early Childhood Development Centers at the Yorkship Family School and Veterans Memorial Family School.
The Lento Law Group in Mount Laurel is representing three mothers whose children drank the milk and had to be taken to the hospital for "severe stomach pain and cramping," according to the lawsuit.
Lawyers are seeking to have the suit declared a class action, so it may be joined by the parents or guardians of the other children who were sickened by the contaminated milk.
A spokesman for the law firm told NJ.com no parent should have to worry whether the food being served to their children at school is safe and the suit should "be a wake-up call for all milk processors and food service companies serving schools that their negligence could injure young children and cause long-term negative health issues.”
The suit was filed last Friday in federal court.
Officials from Guida-Seibert Dairy have not responded to the suit, but confirmed in a statement last week that "a food-grade sanitizer diluted with water was inadvertently introduced during production."
School district officials made a series of posts on social media after the incident, claiming the substance was "a non-toxic consumable sanitizer that runs through the vendor machines."
Parents who have concerns should contact their primary care physician or visit a medical clinic, according to the Camden County Department of Health. They can also call the county hotline at 856-549-0530 with any questions.
Eric Scott is the senior political director and anchor for New Jersey 101.5. You can reach him at eric.scott@townsquaremedia.com
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Here is the date to expect NJ’s last snowfall of the season
We have already seen signs of spring across New Jersey: Temperatures are warming, days are getting longer, the trees are budding, and bugs are buzzing. But - as eager as we may be for the big seasonal transition - we're not quite out of the woods for wintry weather just yet.
So when is snow season "supposed to" wrap up in New Jersey?
Last fall, I wrote a very popular article that analyzed early season snowfall in the Garden State. The conclusion was that our average snow season began in December. (Although wintry weather has been noted as early as October.)
I want to once again dig into the state's historical snowfall record to extract some facts and statistics. I think it's also interesting and useful to look at some big late-season storms through history. To be clear, we are not talking about an actual weather forecast here - this is a historical, climatological analysis of when the transition from winter to spring has happened in the past.
To be even clearer, the "answer" to the headline of this article? On average, for most of the state, final flakes fall in April. (Keep reading for more.)
Final flakes: When does snow season end in NJ?
Dan Zarrow is Chief Meteorologist for Townsquare Media New Jersey and strongly dislikes shoveling, driving in, and forecasting snow. Catch his latest forecast on the radio anytime. Or follow on Facebook or Twitter for the latest news and weather forecasts.
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Jersey Cash Codes: How you can win up to $10,000 this spring
Spring means warmer temperatures, and we're beating the early heat with cold, hard cash. Want to get your hands on up to $10,000? Here's what you need to know.
Listen to New Jersey 101.5 from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. for the code words you need to enter Jersey Cash Codes. We're hooking you up with TEN Jersey Cash Codes every weekday. When you hear a code word, type it below to enter the contest.
We're choosing one daily winner to receive $2,000. You can keep that cash or spread the love with your friends and fam, and with a $2k payout that's more money to spend, more money to share, and more money to show you care.
Every time you enter a code word below, you also have a shot at scoring the $10,000 Grand Prize. Talk about a major bag alert! We'll announce the Grand Prize winner after the contest wraps on April 29, 2022.
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Unpopular New Jersey opinions: How many do you agree with? (Opinion)
There’s truly never a dull moment on the New Jersey subreddit, it’s a consistent source of entertainment.
Over the weekend one user posed the question “What is your unpopular opinion about New Jersey?” and the responders did hold back.
(Note: for the truly spicy takes you should sort the comments in the thread by ‘controversial’ as opposed to ‘best’ or ‘top’.)
Are these opinions as unpopular as the Redditors believe? You decide.
“Most of the pizza sucks.”
“MOST?” “SUCKS?” This is the hottest take of all!
Is this person only going to weird chains? Only eating pineapple covered pizza slices? What happened to this person to make them think this way?
“Pork roll sucks and it’s why your cholesterol is so high.”
Ouch… but also.. fair point?
While I’ll continue to enjoy a good ol’ pork roll, egg, and cheese, I’m definitely going to be thinking about this comment for a while.
“I moved here three months ago and so far the bagels aren’t that great.”
NOW it’s personal. This Reddit user says they’re from Montreal where they’re “passionate about their bagels.” How could they possibly be more passionate than the Garden State? What could they possibly do to be better than our bagels?
My favorite comment in response to this take is a classic Jersey “Hey f*** you.” Take that for passionate.
“Having someone fill up the gas for me is stupid.”
This is the poll I’m most excited to see the results of because it seems like people feel differently about this based on the day.
“Our gun laws are f***ing stupid.”
I don’t necessarily agree with U/TheFuzziestDumpling, but I’ll admit I’ve never felt inclined to own a firearm. Is it as bad as he or she says?
“There’s way too much Italian food. Would love more diversity.”
I whole heartedly disagree on this one, I think NJ has great diversity when it comes to different food options. From Indian, to Polish, to Mexican, there’s always something tasty waiting for you in the Garden State.
And finally, “the high taxes are worth it.”
I’m just going to let the poll speak for itself.
The post above reflects the thoughts and observations of New Jersey 101.5's Kylie Moore. Any opinions expressed are Kylie's own. You can follow Kylie on Instagram.
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(KTLA) – Where can you find the best burritos in America? The answer is highly personal, but Yelp has given us a place to start.
The popular review website identified businesses in every state that serve burritos, then ranked those spots based on the number and quality of reviews between January 2019 and February 2022.
Joliza’s Tacos in Long Beach earned the top spot in California, a state with an especially crowded and competitive burrito market.
“We think our customers like our burritos, because every component within it … is [so] meticulously prepared individually that when combined, makes it a wonderfully delicious burrito,” Joliza’s Tacos told Nexstar’s KTLA in an email.
La Victoria in Dallas ranked as No. 1 in Texas. The restaurant is famous for its “Zack Attack” breakfast burrito that’s so big, one reviewer said it was the length of her forearm.
The burrito size at Javi’s Tacos in Omaha, Nebraska, was also impressive, wrote Chad B. in his Yelp Review. “I don’t know how anyone can finish the meal,” he wrote. “The creamy habanero salsa is very spicy, but tastes so good. I recommend adding a little to your burrito if you want a kick.”
If those descriptions have you craving a burrito, here’s where Yelp says you can find the best one in your state:
- Alaska (Anchorage): Oscar’s Taco Grande
- Alabama (Hoover): Taqueria Juarez
- Arkansas (Little Rock): The Fold: Botanas & Bar
- Arizona (Phoenix): Testal
- California (Long Beach): Joliza’s Tacos
- Colorado (Denver): Santos Cafe & Mexican Grill
- Connecticut (Stratford): Ay Güey Comida Mexicana
- Delaware (Wilmington): El Diablo Burritos
- Florida (Panama City Beach): Diego’s Burrito Factory
- Georgia (Flowery Branch): Big Burritos Mexican Grill
- Hawaii (Haleiwa): Surf N Salsa
- Iowa (Sioux City): La Juanita Restaurant
- Idaho (Coeur d’Alene): El Paisa Mexican Food
- Illinois (Chicago): Mixteco Mexican Grill
- Indiana (Fishers): Burritos & Beer
- Kansas (Overland Park): La Fuente Mexican Street Food
- Kentucky (Louisville): New Wave Burritos
- Louisiana (New Orleans): Juan’s Flying Burrito
- Massachusetts (Franklin): Santa Fe Burrito Grill
- Maryland (Bethesda): Fish Taco
- Maine (Yarmouth): Bruce’s Burritos
- Michigan (Troy): Oaxaca Mexican Food
- Minnesota (Minneapolis): Brito’s Burrito
- Missouri (Kansas City): Burrito Bros
- Mississippi (Horn Lake): West Coast Burrito
- Montana (West Glacier): La Casita
- North Carolina (Charlotte): Mal Pan
- North Dakota (Minot): El Azteca
- Nebraska (Omaha): Javi’s Tacos
- New Hampshire (Nashua): California Burritos
- New Jersey (Hackensack): Bro-Ritos
- New Mexico (Albuquerque): El Paisa
- Nevada (Las Vegas): Raging Tacos
- New York (New York): Summer Salt
- Ohio (Cincinnati) : Jorge’s Taco Food Truck
- Oklahoma (Tulsa): Calaca Fresh Mex
- Oregon (Portland): Saint Burrito
- Pennsylvania (Philadelphia): El Purepecha
- Rhode Island (Newport): Tijuana Burrito Grill
- South Carolina (Hilton Head Island): Java Burrito Company
- South Dakota (Sioux Falls): Tortilleria Hernandez
- Tennessee (Knoxville): Victor’s Taco Shop
- Texas (Dallas): La Victoria
- Utah (Green River): Tacos La Pasadita
- Virginia (Richmond): Pepe’s Mexican Restaurant
- Vermont (Burlington): New World Tortilla
- Washington (Seattle): Gordito’s
- Washington, D.C.: The Well Dressed Burrito
- Wisconsin (Madison): El Rancho Mexican Grill
- West Virginia (Lansing): The Burrito Bar at Breeze Hill
- Wyoming (Casper): Pancho’s
See photos of the burritos and links to restaurant reviews from Yelp.
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ZIONSVILLE, Ind. — A Zionsville mom is raising money to help children with autism with an Easter ‘Egg My Yard’ fundraiser.
She wants to collect enough money to buy a family a communication device for a non-verbal child. It’s something she has firsthand experience with.
“To never hear your little boy say, ‘Mama.’ To never know what he wants. To just sit there and wonder, ‘I wonder what his little voice sounds like.’ As a mom, that hits you on a completely ‘nother level,” said Meagan Rodgers.
Rodgers’ 2-year-old son Crew has autism and is non-verbal, so she’s doing this to help people like him.
“To just know that you are helping other families stand up and be able to speak up and use their voice and how powerful that is,” said Rodgers.
“I don’t take that lightly and to be able to give back to these families like helping their child use their voice. What can be more beautiful than that?”
For the fundraiser, you can order candy-filled eggs to be delivered and scattered in your front yard for Easter morning.
Ten dollars of every order gets donated to a family impacted by autism and in need of a communication device.
Meagan says the first time his speech therapist introduced a device to help him communicate she learned just how important it was.
“It means so much to me because I think being in the shoes. You feel the struggles,” Rodgers said.
“You are giving this child a way to use their voice. And he has taught me how having a voice and being able to use it is a privilege.”
So far in different fundraisers, she’s collected about $500. Each communication device costs a little more than $800. Their goal is to raise enough money to at least buy their first device to give away.
She’s asking that all orders be placed by April 12th.
If you’d like to place an order or make a donation you can email her at lmwesley@icloud.com.
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INDIANAPOLIS — It can be an intimidating question for parents to handle: “Where do babies come from?”
LifeSmart Youth provides school based and community programs to schools across the state of Indiana. They teach human growth and development, reproductive health, life skills and other risk behavior prevention programs.
Britt Baker sits down with the group to discuss the right age to talk your children about puberty, the “birds and bees” and also fight misinformation.
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INDIANAPOLIS– Something new is brewing in Butler-Tarkington, and it’s breathing new life into a former fire station. Sherman is giving us a look at where you can get coffee in the morning and drinks in the evening.
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LAS VEGAS (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy appeared in a video message at the Grammy Awards to ask for support in telling the story of Ukraine’s invasion by Russia.
During the pre-recorded message that aired on the show Sunday, he likened the invasion to a deadly silence threatening to extinguish the dreams and lives of the Ukrainian people, including children.
“Our musicians wear body armor instead of tuxedos. They sing to the wounded in hospitals, even to those who can’t hear them,” he said in English. “But the music will break through anyway.”
The Recording Academy, with its partner Global Citizen, prior to the ceremony highlighted a social media campaign called “Stand Up For Ukraine” to raise money and support during the humanitarian crisis.
“Fill the silence with your music. Fill it today to tell our story. Tell the truth about the war on your social networks, on TV, support us in any way you can any, but not silence. And then peace will come to all our cities,” Zelenskyy said.
Following Zelenskyy’s message, John Legend performed his song “Free” with Ukrainian musicians Siuzanna Iglidan and Mika Newton, and poet Lyuba Yakimchuk, as images from the war were shown on screens behind them.
The war in Ukraine had taken a particularly gruesome turn Sunday when Ukrainian forces entering the town of Bucha, recently held by Russian soldiers, found bodies of people who had been shot, some after being bound and tortured. Ukrainian authorities accused the Russians of war crimes, and European leaders called for tougher sanctions against Moscow. Russia said the atrocities had been committed by Ukrainians.
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(The Hill) – Comedian Louis C.K. took home a Grammy award Sunday, sparking a social media backlash as it came five years after accusations of sexual misconduct temporarily derailed his career.
The disgraced comedian won the award for best comedy album for his comedy special, “Sincerely Louis C.K.,” which poked fun at claims brought against C.K. by five women in 2017 — including allegations that he masturbated in front of them.
“Louis C.K. serially abused women but gets to keep his career and even get a Grammy,” tweeted political strategist Atima Omara.
Moira Donegan, a columnist for The Guardian, noted that the comedian’s career seems to have bounced back.
“I wonder if the careers of the women comedians Louis C.K. forced to watch him masturbate—who were allegedly threatened by C.K.’s manager—have recovered from the stigma of coming forward,” she tweeted.
Marlow Stern, an entertainment editor for The Daily Beast, tweeted, “So much for “cancel culture!”
C.K.’s win comes just days after actor Will Smith resigned from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences after striking comedian Chris Rock.
The Academy said it would still continue its disciplinary proceedings against the Hollywood star.
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The Recording Academy, which organized the Grammys, previously defended Louis C.K.’s nomination amid criticism at the time.
“We won’t look back at people’s history, we won’t look at their criminal record, we won’t look at anything other than the legality within our rules of, is this recording for this work eligible based on date and other criteria,” Recording Academy CEO Harvey Mason, Jr. told The Wrap.
“What we will control is our stages, our shows, our events, our red carpets.”
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BEIJING (AP) — China has sent more than 10,000 health workers from around the country to Shanghai, including 2,000 from the military, as it struggles to stamp out a rapidly spreading outbreak in its largest city under its zero-COVID strategy.
Shanghai was conducting a mass testing of its 25 million residents Monday as what was announced as a two-phase lockdown entered its second week. Most of eastern Shanghai, which was supposed to re-open last Friday, remained locked down along with the western half of the city.
While many factories and financial companies have been allowed to keep operating if they isolate their employees, concern was growing about the potential economic impact of an extended lockdown in China’s financial capital, a major shipping and manufacturing center.
The highly contagious omicron BA.2 form of the virus is testing China’s ability to maintain its zero-COVID approach, which aims to stop outbreaks from spreading by isolating everyone who tests positive, whether they have symptoms or not. Shanghai has converted an exhibition hall and other facilities into massive isolation centers where people with mild or no symptoms are housed in a sea of beds separated by temporary partitions.
China on Monday reported more than 13,000 new cases nationwide in the previous 24 hours, of which nearly 12,000 were asymptomatic. About 9,000 of the cases were in Shanghai. The other large outbreak is in northeastern China’s Jilin province, where new cases topped 3,500.
The Shanghai lockdown has sparked numerous complaints, from food shortages to limited staff and facilities at hastily constructed isolation sites. Some people who tested positive have remained at home for extended periods because of a shortage of isolation beds or transportation to take them to a center, the business news publication Caixin said.
Asked about the anxiety of parents separated from their children, Shanghai health commission official Wu Qianyu said Monday that they are required to be kept apart if the child tests positive and the parent tests negative, according to the Paper, an online news outlet.
If both test positive, the parent is allowed to stay with the child at an isolation site for children and receive any treatment there, Wu was quoted as saying at a news conference on Monday.
The China Daily newspaper said nearly 15,000 medical workers from neighboring Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces left for Shanghai early Monday from their hospitals by bus. More than 2,000 personnel from the army, navy and a joint logistics support force arrived on Sunday, a Chinese military newspaper said.
At least four other provinces have also dispatched doctors, nurses and other medical workers to Shanghai, the state-owned China Daily said.
Workers wearing blue protective clothing held up signs saying “Keep one meter distance” and “Do not crowd” as people lined up for testing in one part of western Shanghai. The testing was being done in batches, 10 people at a time. If the sample comes back positive, all 10 are tested individually.
While most shops and other businesses in Shanghai are shut down, major manufacturers including automakers General Motors Co. and Volkswagen AG say their factories are still operating. VW has reduced production because of a disruption in supplies of parts.
Businesses that are operating are enforcing “closed loop” strategies that isolate employees. Thousands of stock traders and other people in financial industries are sleeping in their offices, according to the Daily Economic News newspaper.
Three out of five foreign companies with operations in Shanghai say they have cut this year’s sales forecasts, according to a survey conducted last week by the American Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai and the American Chamber of Commerce in China. One-third of the 120 companies that responded to the survey said they have delayed investments.
Shanghai has set up temporary vegetable warehouses to boost supplies, and an online grocery delivery service has doubled the staff at one of its warehouses to try to keep up with demand, the official Xinhua News Agency said. City officials have apologized for the government’s handling of the lockdown.
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DETROIT (AP) — BMW has halted production at two German factories. Mercedes is slowing work at its assembly plants. Volkswagen, warning of production stoppages, is looking for alternative sources for parts.
For more than a year, the global auto industry has struggled with a disastrous shortage of computer chips and other vital parts that has shrunk production, slowed deliveries and sent prices for new and used cars soaring beyond reach for millions of consumers.
Now, a new factor — Russia’s war against Ukraine — has thrown up yet another obstacle. Critically important electrical wiring, made in Ukraine, is suddenly out of reach. With buyer demand high, materials scarce and the war causing new disruptions, vehicle prices are expected to head even higher well into next year.
The war’s damage to the auto industry has emerged first in Europe. But U.S. production will likely suffer eventually, too, if Russian exports of metals — from palladium for catalytic converters to nickel for electric vehicle batteries — are cut off.
“You only need to miss one part not to be able to make a car,” said Mark Wakefield, co-leader of consulting firm Alix Partners’ global automotive unit. “Any bump in the road becomes either a disruption of production or a vastly unplanned-for cost increase.”
Supply problems have bedeviled automakers since the pandemic erupted two years ago, at times shuttering factories and causing vehicle shortages. The robust recovery that followed the recession caused demand for autos to vastly outstrip supply — a mismatch that sent prices for new and used vehicles skyrocketing well beyond overall high inflation.
In the United States, the average price of a new vehicle is up 13% in the past year, to $45,596, according to Edmunds.com. Average used prices have surged far more: They’re up 29% to $29,646 as of February.
Before the war, S&P Global Mobility had predicted that global automakers would build 84 million vehicles this year and 91 million next year. (By comparison, they built 94 million in 2018.) Now it’s forecasting fewer than 82 million in 2022 and 88 million next year.
Mark Fulthorpe, an executive director for S&P, is among analysts who think the availability of new vehicles in North America and Europe will remain severely tight — and prices high — well into 2023. Compounding the problem, buyers who are priced out of the new-vehicle market will intensify demand for used autos and keep those prices elevated, too — prohibitively so for many households.
Eventually, high inflation across the economy — for food, gasoline, rent and other necessities — will likely leave a vast number of ordinary buyers unable to afford a new or used vehicle. Demand would then wane. And so, eventually, would prices.
“Until inflationary pressures start to really erode consumer and business capabilities,” Fulthorpe said, “it’s probably going to mean that those who have the inclination to buy a new vehicle, they’ll be prepared to pay top dollar.”
One factor behind the dimming outlook for production is the shuttering of auto plants in Russia. Last week, French automaker Renault, one of the last automakers that have continued to build in Russia, said it would suspend production in Moscow.
The transformation of Ukraine into an embattled war zone has hurt, too. Wells Fargo estimates that 10% to 15% of crucial wiring harnesses that supply vehicle production in the vast European Union were made in Ukraine. In the past decade, automakers and parts companies invested in Ukrainian factories to limit costs and gain proximity to European plants.
The wiring shortage has slowed factories in Germany, Poland, the Czech Republic and elsewhere, leading S&P to slash its forecast for worldwide auto production by 2.6 million vehicles for both this year and next. The shortages could reduce exports of German vehicles to the United States and elsewhere.
Wiring harnesses are bundles of wires and connectors that are unique to each model; they can’t be easily re-sourced to another parts maker. Despite the war, harness makers like Aptiv and Leoni have managed to reopen factories sporadically in Western Ukraine. Still Joseph Massaro, Aptiv’s chief financial officer, acknowledged that Ukraine “is not open for any type of normal commercial activity.”
Aptiv, based in Dublin, is trying to shift production to Poland, Romania, Serbia and possibly Morocco. But the process will take up to six weeks, leaving some automakers short of parts during that time.
“Long term,” Massaro told analysts, “we’ll have to assess if and when it makes sense to go back to Ukraine.”
BMW is trying to coordinate with its Ukrainian suppliers and is casting a wider net for parts. So are Mercedes and Volkswagen.
Yet finding alternative supplies may be next to impossible. Most parts plants are operating close to capacity, so new work space would have to be built. Companies would need months to hire more people and add work shifts.
“The training process to bring up to speed a new workforce — it’s not an overnight thing,” Fulthorpe said.
Fulthorpe said he foresees a further tightening supply of materials from both Ukraine and Russia. Ukraine is the world’s largest exporter of neon, a gas used in lasers that etch circuits onto computer chips. Most chip makers have a six-month supply; late in the year, they could run short. That would worsen the chip shortage, which before the war had been delaying production even more than automakers expected.
Likewise, Russia is a key supplier of such raw materials as platinum and palladium, used in pollution-reducing catalytic converters. Russia also produces 10% of the world’s nickel, an essential ingredient in EV batteries.
Mineral supplies from Russia haven’t been shut off yet. Recycling might help ease the shortage. Other countries may increase production. And some manufacturers have stockpiled the metals.
But Russia also is a big aluminum producer, and a source of pig iron, used to make steel. Nearly 70% of U.S. pig iron imports come from Russia and Ukraine, Alix Partners says, so steelmakers will need to switch to production from Brazil or use alternative materials. In the meantime, steel prices have rocketed up from $900 a ton a few weeks ago to $1,500 now.
So far, negotiations toward a cease-fire in Ukraine have gone nowhere, and the fighting has raged on. A new virus surge in China could cut into parts supplies, too. Industry analysts say they have no clear idea when parts, raw materials and auto production will flow normally.
Even if a deal is negotiated to suspend fighting, sanctions against Russian exports would remain intact until after a final agreement had been reached. Even then, supplies wouldn’t start flowing normally. Fulthorpe said there would be “further hangovers because of disruption that will take place in the widespread supply chains.”
Wakefield noted, too, that because of intense pent-up demand for vehicles across the world, even if automakers restore full production, the process of building enough vehicles will be a protracted one.
When might the world produce an ample enough supply of cars and trucks to meet demand and keep prices down?
Wakefield doesn’t profess to know.
“We’re in a raising-price environment, a (production)-constrained environment,” he said. “That’s a weird thing for the auto industry.”
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats are launching a whirlwind of votes and Senate floor action Monday with the goal of confirming Ketanji Brown Jackson as the first Black woman on the Supreme Court by the end of the week.
The Senate Judiciary Committee kicks off Monday morning with a vote on whether to move Jackson’s nomination to the Senate floor. Democrats will then wind the nomination through the 50-50 Senate, with a final vote in sight for President Joe Biden’s pick to replace retiring Justice Stephen Breyer.
After more than 30 hours of hearings and interrogation from Republicans over her record, Jackson is on the brink of making history as the third Black justice and only the sixth woman in the court’s more than 200-year history. Democrats — and at least one Republican — cite her deep experience in her nine years on the federal bench and the chance for her to become the first former public defender on the court.
The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., said Thursday that the high regard for Jackson after a combative four days of hearings is “evidence of the strength that she brings to this nomination and the value that she will bring to the Supreme Court.”
The committee could deadlock on Monday’s vote, 11-11, meaning Democrats will have to spend additional hours on the Senate floor to “discharge” her nomination from committee. While it won’t delay the process for long, it’s another blow for Democrats who had hoped to confirm Jackson with bipartisan support.
A deadlocked vote would be “a truly unfortunate signal of the continued descent into dysfunction of our confirmation process,” said Delaware Sen. Chris Coons, a Democrat on the committee.
The committee hasn’t deadlocked on a nomination since 1991, when a motion to send the nomination of current Justice Clarence Thomas to the floor with a “favorable” recommendation failed on a 7-7 vote. The committee then voted to send the nomination to the floor without a recommendation, meaning it could still be brought up for a vote.
Either way, Democrats are ready to spend time on the discharge Monday afternoon, if necessary. The Senate would then move to a series of procedural steps before a final confirmation vote later in the week.
While none of the Republicans on the committee is expected to support Jackson, Democrats will have at least one GOP vote in favor on the floor — Maine Sen. Susan Collins, who announced last week that she will support the nominee. Collins said that even though she may not always agree with her, Jackson “possesses the experience, qualifications and integrity to serve as an associate justice on the Supreme Court.”
It’s unclear so far whether any other Republicans will join her. Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky set the tone for the party last week when he said he “cannot and will not” support her, citing GOP concerns raised in the hearing about her sentencing record and her support from liberal advocacy groups.
Collins and Sens. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina were the only three to vote for Jackson when the Senate confirmed her as an appeals court judge last year. Graham said Thursday he won’t support her this time around; Murkowski says she’s still deciding.
Collins’ support likely saves Democrats from having to use Vice President Kamala Harris’ tiebreaking vote to confirm President Joe Biden’s pick, and Biden called Collins on Wednesday to thank her after her announcement, according to the senator’s office. The president had called her at least three times before the hearings, part of a larger push to win a bipartisan vote for his historic nominee.
It is expected that all 50 Democrats will support Jackson, though one notable moderate Democrat, Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, hasn’t yet said how she will vote.
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INDIANAPOLIS — In perhaps the hottest game of the 2022 NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament, the eight seeded North Carolina Tar Heels took out their longtime rival Duke University in the Final Four, ending Coach Mike Krzyzewski’s 47-year career.
North Carolina now faces No. 1 seed Kansas in the title game on Monday.
UNC’s rookie coach Hubert Davis is looking for all the support he can get as the university posted a letter excusing fans from work on Monday.
It reads in part, “Please excuse ______________ from work on Monday, April 4, 2022. As you are probably aware, it is officially an unofficial national holiday, as the Tar Heels are playing in the National Championship.”
In the letter, Davis invites anyone who does not have a team to root for to cheer the Tar Heels.
The tipoff time for the title game is 9:20 p.m. (Eastern) on TBS.
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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — At the tail end of the third quarter, Paige Bueckers picked up her first personal foul and plopped down on Connecticut’s bench for her only break of the night — a whole 53 seconds of game time.
The Huskies had to lean on their sophomore star as hard as they could against superior South Carolina on Sunday, and against any other team in the country she might have been enough.
But despite another all-out effort by Bueckers, UConn still came up well short — the first loss in program history in the title game — and fell 64-49 to the Gamecocks for the national championship.
“I don’t think from the beginning of the game our offense ever looked like it was in any kind of rhythm, any kind of flow,” coach Geno Auriemma said. “Then Paige tried to take it upon herself — that never works, when one person is trying to.”
Bueckers, playing just 10 miles from where she honed sharp-shooting, slick-passing and ace-ballhandling skills at Hopkins High School, finished with a team-leading 14 points on 6-for-13 shooting with six rebounds, two assists, one block and one steal.
“Now we know how to get here and how hard it is and how hard we have to work all throughout the season and how much we have to overcome,” Bueckers said at the interview podium afterward, her voice wavering and her eyes reddened.
After grinding through an unwelcomed midseason rehab following the left knee injury that cost her 19 games and hitting her stride in the NCAA Tournament, the 2021 AP National Player of the Year had 14 points and five assists in UConn’s semifinal victory over Stanford.
The Target Center lobby was packed two hours before tipoff, several rows deep on both sides of the red carpet rolled out for the players to stroll down upon their entry into the arena. Judging by the handheld signs from the adoring kids and teens, Bueckers was by far the VIP of the entourage, even with Auriemma and his 11 national championships.
The Gamecocks have one of the fiercest defenses in the game, and they promised to send multiple defenders at Bueckers to keep her from getting comfortable.
She never struggled, really, but she couldn’t find any kind of a rhythm, either, because of all the rebounds that were gobbled up by the Gamecocks and all the turnovers and misses by her teammates. The rest of the Huskies were 16 for 41 from the floor and totaled 14 turnovers.
Azzi Fudd had an illness that kept her away from the morning shootaround and had only three points in 17 minutes. Olivia Nelson-Ododa, who had four points and four fouls, played through a groin injury. South Carolina had a whopping 49-24 rebound advantage.
“We wanted to box out really well, push the ball in transition to get them running, get them tired,” Bueckers said. “But South Carolina is a great team. They had a great game.”
After South Carolina sprinted to a 13-2 lead, Bueckers didn’t get a shot off until a jumper that bounced off the back rim with 3:21 left in the first quarter — her only attempt of the opening period. She didn’t score until midway through the second quarter.
“We usually don’t have any problem getting Paige shots, but tonight it was a problem, and I think South Carolina had everything to do with that,” Auriemma said.
Brea Beal and Destanni Henderson spent most of the night guarding Bueckers. She tried to scrape off screens for catch-and-shoot opportunities or find space for her favored pull-up jumpers, but there wasn’t much room in the half court for the Huskies to maneuver. All six of her makes were jump shots. She made one of three tries from 3-point range.
“I knew I had to use my speed and make sure I stayed with her,” Henderson said. “I think that’s what we’ve been practicing all along. The first time we played them, that really worked out well for us, so I knew I needed to come into this game and bring that same momentum.”
Bueckers had 19 points on 8-for-19 shooting on Nov. 22 in UConn’s 73-57 loss to South Carolina.
With the imposing Aliyah Boston, who succeeded Bueckers as the Player of the Year award winner, and her friends patrolling the paint, getting to the basket was tough for the Huskies — unless they found a backdoor pass from Bueckers to a cutting teammate.
As if that wasn’t enough, Bueckers also spent much of her night chasing around Henderson on the other end, as the Gamecocks senior went out on quite the high note with a career-high 26 points.
The Huskies lost to Arizona in the Final Four last year. Bueckers was denied the chance to play for a championship in 2020 by the COVID-19 pandemic that halted the Minnesota state high school tournament before Hopkins made it to the title game. Bueckers led the Royals to the 2019 title during her junior season, a few miles away at Williams Arena, but Hopkins lost in the 2018 championship at Target Center.
“Just being able to be here with my team and spend more time with each other, build more memories, and to do it at home was amazing,” Bueckers said. “Nobody in my position would be happy right now, so I’m obviously upset just with the way things ended. Super proud of this team for how far we’ve come and all the adversity we’ve dealt with and all we’ve overcome to get to this point. But at UConn, it’s national championship or nothing.”
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BUCHA, Ukraine (AP) — Russia faced a fresh wave of condemnation on Monday after evidence emerged of what appeared to be deliberate killings of civilians in Ukraine. Some Western leaders called for further sanctions in response, even as Moscow continued to press its offensive in the country’s east.
Germany’s defense minister suggested the European Union discuss a ban on Russian gas imports, but more senior officials indicated an immediate boycott was not possible — a sign that leaders could struggle in the short-term to ramp up already severe sanctions on Russia.
Ukrainian officials said the bodies of 410 civilians were found in towns around the capital, Kyiv, that were recaptured from Russian forces in recent days. In Bucha, northwest of the capital, Associated Press journalists saw 21 bodies. One group of nine, all in civilian clothes, were scattered around a site that residents said Russian troops used as a base. They appeared to have been shot at close range. At least two had their hands tied behind their backs.
In Motyzhyn, to the west of Kyiv, AP journalists saw the bodies of four people who appeared to have been shot at close range and thrown into a pit. Residents said the mayor, her son, and her husband — who had been bound and blindfolded — were among them.
The images of battered corpses lying in the streets or hastily dug graves unleashed a wave of outrage that could signal a turning point in the nearly 6-week-old war. But sanctions have thus far failed to halt the offensive, and rising energy prices along with tight controls on the Russian currency market have blunted their impact, with the ruble rebounding strongly after initially crashing.
Western and Ukrainian leaders have accused Russia of war crimes before, and the International Criminal Court’s prosecutor has opened a probe to investigate the conflict. But the latest reports ratcheted up the condemnation even further, with Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and some Western leaders going so far as to accuse Russia of genocide.
In a video shown during the Grammy Awards in Las Vegas for musicians and other artists, Zelenskyy implored them to support his nation and “fill the silence with your music.”
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov rejected the allegations, describing the scenes outside Kyiv as a “stage-managed anti-Russian provocation.” He said the mayor of Bucha made no mention of atrocities a day after Russian troops left last week, but two days later scores of bodies were photographed scattered in the streets.
He said Russia is pushing for an urgent meeting of the United Nations Security Council to discuss the matter, but the U.K., which currently chairs the body, has refused to convene it. The United States and Britain have accused Russia in recent weeks of using Security Council meetings to spread disinformation.
European leaders, meanwhile, left no doubt about who they thought was behind the killings.
EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said “the Russian authorities are responsible for these atrocities, committed while they had effective control of the area.”
“The perpetrators of war crimes and other serious violations as well as the responsible government officials and military leaders will be held accountable,” he added.
French President Emmanuel Macron said Monday that there is “clear evidence of war crimes” in Bucha that demand new measures. “I’m in favor of a new round of sanctions and in particular on coal and petrol. We need to act,” he said on France-Inter radio.
Poland’s Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki described Russia as a “totalitarian-fascist state,” saying “the bloody massacres perpetrated by Russian soldiers deserve to be called by name: This is genocide.” Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez also used the word “genocide,” saying those responsible should answer for their crimes.
The crime of genocide is difficult to prove, as prosecutors would have to show that the killers or their commanders had a “specific intent” to partially or wholly destroy a group of people.
In the meantime, the U.S. and its allies have sought to punish Russia for the invasion by imposing sweeping economic sanctions. But they may be reluctant to impose measures that cause further harm to a global economy still recovering from the coronavirus pandemic. As a major oil and gas exporter, Russia stands to benefit from any rise in already high global energy prices.
Europe is in a particular bind, since it gets 40% of its gas and 25% of its oil from Russia. Governments have been scrambling to find ways to reduce that reliance without causing a substantial loss of economic output.
German Vice Chancellor Robert Habeck, who is also the economy minister and responsible for energy, said Europe can go “significantly further” in imposing sanctions against Russia. But he said Germany is right to take a longer-term approach to abandoning Russian energy imports.
Germany has faced criticism for opposing an immediate halt to Russian energy deliveries. The country says it hopes to end Russian coal imports this summer and oil imports by the end of the year, but halting gas will take longer.
“We are working every day on creating the conditions for and steps toward an embargo,” Habeck said. “We are on the right track.”
Wolfgang Buechner, a German government spokesman, meanwhile said Putin and his supporters “will feel the consequences,” of additional measures to be approved in the coming days, without elaborating.
Asked on ARD television Sunday evening whether there should be a halt to gas deliveries, German Defense Minister Christine Lambrecht replied that “exactly that” should be discussed by EU ministers.
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s Feb. 24 invasion has killed thousands of people and forced more than 4 million Ukrainians to flee their country. Putin has said the attack is aimed at eliminating a security threat and demanded that Ukraine drop its bid to join the NATO military alliance of Western countries. Ukraine insists it never posed any threat but has offered to officially declare itself neutral.
The head of Ukraine’s delegation in talks with Russia has said Moscow’s negotiators informally agreed to most of a draft proposal discussed during talks in Istanbul, but no written confirmation has been provided.
While Western officials initially said they believed Putin’s goal was to take Kyiv and potentially install a Kremlin-friendly government, Russian forces faced stiff resistance outside the capital and on other fronts, and have now retreated from some areas. Moscow says it is currently focusing its offensive on the Donbas in the country’s east, where Russian-backed separatists have been fighting Ukrainian forces for years.
Britain’s Defense Ministry said Monday that Russia continued to flood soldiers and mercenaries from the Wagner private military group into the Donbas. It said Russian troops are still trying to take the region’s strategic port city of Mariupol, which has seen weeks of heavy fighting and some of the worst suffering of the war.
“Mariupol is almost certainly a key objective of the Russian invasion,” the ministry said, “as it will secure a land corridor from Russia to the occupied territory of Crimea,” in the south, which Moscow annexed in 2014.
On Monday, the Ukrainian military said its forces had retaken some towns in the northern Chernihiv region and humanitarian aid was being delivered.
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(The Hill) — Ukraine’s intelligence agency on Saturday said that two Russian soldiers have died and 28 others were placed in intensive care after being poisoned by Ukrainian civilians.
The Ministry of Defense’s intelligence unit said in a Facebook post on Saturday that civilians in Kharkiv baked poisoned cakes for troops from Russia’s 3rd Motor Rifle Division. Two Russian soldiers died after eating the food and 28 others were taken to intensive care, the agency said.
The condition of the hospitalized soldiers remains unclear.
“Ukrainians are resisting the occupiers by all available means,” the agency said.
The agency also claimed that about 500 more soldiers are in hospital suffering from heavy alcohol poisoning “of unknown origin,” and that the Russian command is writing off these cases as “not combat losses.”
The reported poisonings come after Ukrainian officials said civilians were executed and buried in mass graves in Bucha, officials said.
Reports on Russian casualties in Ukraine vary widely, with Russia reporting some 1,400 deaths, while Western intelligence says losses could be well over 10,000 troops.
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SAN FRANCISCO -- Tesla CEO Elon Musk is taking a 9.2% stake in Twitter. Musk purchased approximately 73.5 million shares, according to a regulatory filing Monday.
Musk has been raising questions about the ability to communicate freely on Twitter, tweeting last month about free speech and the social media platform.
"Free speech is essential to a functioning democracy. Do you believe Twitter rigorously adheres to this principle?" he tweeted. In a separate tweet, Musk said that he was "giving serious thought" to creating a new social media platform.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk takes 9% stake in Twitter
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14-year-old teen prepares for college graduation and medical school
BOSSIER PARISH, La. (KSLA) - Most 14-year-olds are making the transition into high school, but Isak Schmidley is preparing for his college graduation.
Isak tells KSLA that he will soon be graduating with his associate’s degree in general science from Bossier Parish Community College in Louisiana, and he already has his sights set on the future.
After his graduation, he begin a medical labratory science program at Louisiana State University Health Shreveport.
Isak began taking college classes when he was 13.
“By the time I was in middle school, I was able to take high school level classes,” he said. “My teachers felt like I should take the ACT to see how far I would be from college readiness.”
He says everyone was “surprised” when he received his scores that determined he was ready to take some college classes.
Isak wants to pursue a career in the medical field.
“I think it can be hard to see into the future, but I am taking it one step at a time,” Isak said. “I think the idea of gaining knowledge just really helps me and pushes me forward.”
Starting college can be a nerve-wracking experience, but Isak says the experience has actually helped him grow and mature in ways not found in textbooks.
“I’ve learned a lot of life lessons and the importance of time management; things people learn in college,” he said. “I think a lot of my classmates were really supportive of me and I think that helped make me feel more comfortable.”
Most importantly, Isak shares some advice for anyone getting ready to take that momentous step into college.
“Focus more on learning the subject instead of just trying to get a grade,” he said. “If you learn well, the grade will come naturally.”
Isak says his next big test is learning how to drive.
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Place of Hope expands charity for foster kids, families
A well-known charity that houses foster kids and families at risk of abuse is expanding to the Treasure Coast.
Place of Hope currently has foster homes in Boca Raton and Palm Beach Gardens.
Now, it's opening an 11-acre campus off of Cove Road in Stuart.
The charity is taking over the land from the Samaritan Center for Boys, a charity with a similar mission that has since fallen into despair.
Place of Hope Founding CEO Charles Bender said each day 200 kids in this region are housed in foster care.
He said the new outreach center on the campus will help benefit as many as 5,000 to 10,000 families with items like diapers, cribs, and pack and plays.
"There's more to come and we're going to see as the needs present themselves, there is additional space here that hasn't been used yet, and like I said, there is a tremendous need, so we'll see where we go with it," said Bender.
Bender said the outreach center will open within a matter of weeks.
He said the other cottages used to house children and families will begin being renovated and reopened shortly after.
"Can you imagine overnight, taking on two to three additional kids into your family, and sometimes you need some financial support with that," said Bender. "You need the diapers, the car seats, the cribs, the pack and plays, all those things, and so as a community we're going to provide those things to them almost immediately."
Bender said the pandemic coupled with recently inflation spikes have led to an increase in foster cases.
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Suddenly, Tesla’s Elon Musk is Twitter’s biggest stakeholder
(AP) - Tesla CEO Elon Musk has taken a 9% stake in Twitter to become its largest shareholder after raising questions about the social media platform’s dedication to free speech.
The ultimate aim of Musk’s 73.5 million share purchase worth $2.9 billion, based on the closing price Friday, is not clear. Yet in recent weeks Musk, who has 80 million Twitter followers and posts there often, has questioned free speech on Twitter and whether the platform is undermining democracy.
The regulatory filing Monday describes Musk as a long-term investor looking to minimize his buying and selling of the shares.
He has also pondered starting a rival social media network, and industry analysts are skeptical about whether the mercurial CEO would remain on the sidelines for long.
“We would expect this passive stake as just the start of broader conversations with the Twitter board/management that could ultimately lead to an active stake and a potential more aggressive ownership role of Twitter,” Dan Ives of Wedbush Securities said in a client note early Monday.
Twitter’s stock surged 20% before the opening bell Monday.
Musk told his more than 80 million followers on Twitter that he was " giving serious thought " to creating his own social media platform and has clashed repeatedly with financial regulators about his use of Twitter.
His Twitter stock purchase comes as Musk is locked into a bitter dispute with U.S. securities regulators over his ability to post on Twitter. Musk’s lawyer has contended in court motions that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is infringing on the Tesla CEO’s First Amendment rights.
In October of 2018, Musk and Tesla agreed to pay $40 million in civil fines and for Musk to have his tweets approved by a corporate lawyer after he tweeted about having the money to take Tesla private at $420 per share.
The funding was far from secured and the electric vehicle company remains public, but Tesla’s stock price jumped. The settlement specified governance changes, including Musk’s ouster as board chairman, as well as pre-approval of his tweets. The SEC brought a securities fraud charge, alleging that Musk was manipulating the stock price with his posts.
Musk’s lawyer is now asking a U.S. District Court judge in Manhattan to throw out the settlement, contending that the SEC is harassing him and infringing on his First Amendment rights.
Early in March, Musk asked Judge Alison Nathan to nullify an SEC subpoena and throw out the settlement agreement. His lawyer, Alex Spiro, said the SEC has used the court agreement “to trample on Mr. Musk’s First Amendment rights and to impose prior restraints on his speech.”
The SEC responded in a court motion, saying it has legal authority to subpoena Tesla and Musk about his tweets, and that Musk’s move to throw out the settlement is not valid.
The SEC disclosed that it is investigating Musk’s Nov. 6, 2021 tweets that asked followers whether he should sell 10% of his Tesla stake. The commission confirmed that it issued administrative subpoenas while investigating whether Musk and Tesla are complying with disclosure controls in the 2018 agreement.
The commission also is investigating whether Tesla described accurately in public filings with the agency whether it complied with the controls.
The commission maintains that the subpoenas were lawful, and that Musk isn’t following proper legal procedure to challenge them. SEC attorney Melissa Armstrong called Musk’s challenge “frivolous,” and pointed out that Musk and Tesla agreed to have his tweets pre-approved by other company officials.
“Courts have long recognized that ‘congress has vested the SEC with broad authority to conduct investigations into possible violations of federal securities laws and to demand production of evidence relevant to such investigations,’” Armstrong wrote.
The subpoenas, issued under seal, come from a formal order by the commission authorizing the investigation. They seek all written communications concerning the Nov. 6 tweets and whether they were shown to Tesla lawyers for pre-approval.
Musk attorney Spiro has asked for verbal arguments in the case.
Musk’s revelation about his stake in Twitter shares comes two days after Tesla Inc. posted first-quarter delivery numbers. While the company delivered 310,000 vehicles in the period, the figure was slightly below expectations.
Shortly after the November tweets about the Tesla stock sale Musk began selling off shares, and he wrote on Twitter that the sale would go to pay tax obligations on stock options. Analysts estimate his tax obligation at $10 billion to $15 billion. But some of the money could have been used to buy the Twitter stake.
So far he has sold more than 15 million shares worth roughly $16.4 billion. With some sales in late December, Musk is close to selling 10%.
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Krisher reported from Detroit.
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Who's who in penalty phase for Parkland school shooter
Jury selection begins Monday in the penalty phase of Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz's murder trial.
Cruz pleaded guilty in October to all 17 counts of premeditated murder and 17 counts of attempted murder stemming from the February 2018 massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.
Once a jury is seated, they'll be tasked with deciding whether Cruz should be sentenced to death or life in prison without the possibility of parole.
During a pretrial hearing last week, prosecutors suggested the trial could stretch into September as they present impact statements from families and friends of the 17 victims who lost their lives.
As the trial drags on, there will be plenty of recognizable — and maybe some unfamiliar — faces in the Broward County courtroom. Here are some of the key players:
Nikolas Cruz: The convicted murderer
Nikolas Cruz, now 23, pleaded guilty to all charges in October, saying the words "guilty" out loud as each count was read in open court. He then offered a jumbled and confusing apology to the families of the victims, even though he was facing Judge Elizabeth Scherer the entire time.
Elizabeth Scherer: The county judge
Broward County Judge Elizabeth Scherer became a household name when she began presiding over the Parkland school shooting case.
Scherer, who earned her bachelor's degree at Florida State University and her law degree at the University of Miami, was appointed to the circuit court bench in 2012 by then-Gov. Rick Scott, replacing retired Judge David Krathen. She was 36 at the time.
Before becoming a judge, Scherer previously worked as an assistant state attorney in Broward County under Mike Satz, who will appear before her in court as lead prosecutor.
Her father preceded her in fame. Noted Republican lawyer Bill Scherer, who is a founding partner at Fort Lauderdale-based Conrad & Scherer, represented former President George W. Bush in the Broward County recount during the 2000 presidential election.
Mike Satz: The prosecution team
Mike Satz was the longtime elected state attorney in Broward County, serving in that capacity from 1976 until stepping down in January 2021 after he decided not to seek re-election.
Although he's no longer the state attorney, Satz vowed to personally prosecute Cruz for the atrocities of Parkland -- and he's got plenty of experience.
Satz previously served as chief of the homicide unit at the Broward County state attorney's office.
Other notable trials that he successfully prosecuted were the three men convicted of killing Broward Sheriff's Office Deputy Brian Tephford (a lengthy trial that lasted nearly two years, the longest case ever tried in Broward County's history) and convincing a jury to recommend death for the man who forced two Waffle House employees in Davie into a walk-in freezer before executing them in 2002.
Melisa McNeill: The defense team
Often the most vocal member of the defense team, Melisa McNeill has been on the headline-making end of her office's quest to save Cruz's life.
An assistant public defender in Broward County, McNeill successfully argued that prosecutors and their witnesses shouldn't refer to Cruz as an "animal" or "that thing" and that he should only be called by his name or as "the defendant" during trial. Scherer sided with McNeill, though McNeill's attempts to prohibit the terms "killer" or "murdered" were deemed not to be derogatory in a murder trial.
McNeill has also successfully spared the life of convicted murderers over the course of her 20-year career, notably in the case of Fidel Lopez, who disemboweled his wife for screaming the name of her ex-husband during sex.
She has successfully spared the life of convicted murderers over the course of her 20-year career, notably Fidel Lopez, who disemboweled his wife after she screamed her ex-husband's name twice during sex. McNeill convinced Lopez to plead guilty to avoid the death penalty.
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Although the election for Governor of Mississippi and other statewide offices is not until November 7, 2023, politicos are already dropping names of potential candidates on the sounding board. Recently, nine names popped up on political speculation websites as gubernatorial candidates. Even now, some business leaders are thinking about whom to support, or may be thinking of being a candidate themselves.
In an effort to assist those thinking about making the plunge to run for statewide political office, I have crafted some advice to aid in their self-discovery. I do so with tongue firmly placed in cheek.
First, let’s consider why you might NOT be a candidate for public office. If any of these apply to you, it might be best to sit on the sidelines for a while:
- You send invitations to a fundraiser to all of the registered lobbyists and no one shows up;
- You ask your business partner how to call a press conference;
- You think a focus group meets at the photography store;
- You think your friends and family will vote for you: or
- Your spouse points at you and starts laughing when you say you are thinking of running for public office.
If you’re still thinking of running for statewide office, then you need to decide which office to run for.
You might be a candidate for governor if you:
- have a burning desire to live in a big house in downtown Jackson;
- believe that reporters always mis-quote politicians;
- love making proclamations;
- never met an issue about which you did not have a public opinion; or
- love riding in black Suburbans.
You might be a candidate for lieutenant governor if you:
- like being number two (for a while);
- enjoy “herding cats;”
- get satisfaction from interrupting important debates to recognize the Junior Potato Queen from a rural county;
- believe that reporters always quote politicians accurately: or
- never met an issue that couldn't be killed in a committee.
You might be a candidate for Attorney General if you:
- always wanted to head a large Jackson law firm;
- watch Law and Order regularly;
- want the best view in the state from your office; or
- never met a lawsuit you didn't like.
You might be a candidate for State Treasurer if you:
- read every name on the unclaimed property list;
- actually understand how to calculate the present value of a discounted tax cash flow;
- watch Wall Street Week religiously; or
- never met a deposit slip you didn't like.
You might be a candidate for Commissioner of Agriculture & Commerce if you:
- actually live on a farm;
- know the difference between pre-and post-emergent herbicide;
- have a plan to turn kudzu into the state’s largest cash crop;
- name FARMWEEK as your favorite TV show: or
- never met a fire ant you liked.
If you can’t wait until next year, the qualifying period for school district offices begins August 10, 2022.
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ELLISTOWN - Hayden Roberts threw a 2-hit shutout and contributed to his cause at the plate in East Union's 5-0 win on Friday. East Union kept their perfect record intact in Division 1-2 play and raised it to 10-0 on the season with one series left.
"Mostly the fastball and the slider were working for me tonight, but the change was working well there at the end," Roberts said. "Just trying to get them off-balance, but all three were working pretty good towards the end."
Roberts had the luxury of working with the lead as the Urchins scored two runs in the first as the top of the order hung a score up quickly.
Jude Treadaway singled, took second on a passed ball and scored on Rett Johnson's RBI single.
Johnson stole second and later scored on a throwing error by Pine Grove to stake Roberts to a 2-0 lead. Roberts also had a single in the frame, but was stranded at third.
East Union added two more runs in the bottom of the second to extend the lead to 4-0.
Chris Clayton and Daniel Whitfield reached on back-to-back errors by Pine Grove and Treadaway made the Panthers pay by hitting a ball to the fence that scored both runners, but he was thrown out at third trying to stretch his smash into a triple.
Roberts helped keep the Panthers at bay during the third and fourth innings as the lefty picked a runner off first in both frames.
"The were leading off a little wider than I usually see, but it was just huge outs there and you don't have to waste any pitches to get any more outs, so just trying to get those out there, just look at them and look back home and the rest is history," Roberts said.
Roberts added an insurance run for the Urchins in the bottom of the fifth as Johnson reached on a walk and Roberts smacked the RBI double to plate him for the final margin of 5-0.
"Hayden Roberts was very efficient, 80-something pitches, very efficient," East Union coach Jamie Russell said. "We didn't hit it great, but we had timely hitting and that is what we talked about in the huddle, but we've got to be more aggressive, if he's throwing fastballs early, we've got to be ready to hit fastballs.
"We've got to just get better, not get content and I think that gave us the division championship, but like I told them, we don't want to lose division games, we don't want to lose any games, but especially division games," Russell said. "I think Coach (Chris) Basil said we've not lost a division game in eight years."
Partly cloudy this morning, then becoming cloudy during the afternoon. High 77F. Winds SSW at 10 to 15 mph..
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Mostly cloudy this evening with thunderstorms developing after midnight. Low near 55F. Winds SE at 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 100%. Locally heavy rainfall possible.
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PORTLAND, Ore. — A woman is dead following a shooting early Monday morning in downtown Portland near Portland State University.
Central precinct police officers were dispatched at about 1 a.m. to a report of a shooting near the intersection of Southwest College Street and Southwest 6th Avenue, according to a news release from the Portland Police Bureau (PPB).
Officers arrived and found one woman deceased. The Portland Police Homicide Unit responded to investigate. Southwest College Street was closed for several hours during the investigation, police said.
Anyone with information about the incident is asked to contact Detective Jason Koenig at 503-823-0889 or Detective William Winters at 503-823-0466.
The incident is the latest in a long series of shooting deaths in Portland so far this year, continuing a recent trend closely linked to the city's gun violence epidemic.
There were 90 homicides in Portland last year, coupled with a surge in gun violence with more than 1,200 shootings by the end of the year, compared with fewer than 400 shootings in 2019. Most of the homicide victims were killed by someone with a gun.
There have been at least 24 homicides in Portland so far in 2022, not counting Monday morning's shooting death, which puts the city on track to surpass even last year's total if the trend continues.
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PORTLAND, Oregon — Starting Monday, April 11, 2022 through Friday, April 16, 2022, you could win 4 tickets to Cirque du Soleil - Alegria coming to Portland this summer.
Just watch KGW News at Sunrise for the Word of the Day. Get the word, then text it to us at 503-226-5088.
We’ll pick a winner in a random drawing at the end of each day. Watch and enter every day!
You have to be at least 18 and a legal resident of Oregon or Washington.
Click here for complete rules.
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VANCOUVER, Wash. — The building that formerly housed Joe's Crab Shack in Vancouver was damaged in a fire on Monday morning. No injuries were reported.
The waterfront restaurant to the east of the Interstate Bridge was a Vancouver mainstay until it closed permanently in 2020 due to challenges caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, according to The Columbian. The restaurant is no longer listed on the parent company's locator webpage.
Fire crews were dispatched at about 5:40 a.m. Monday and arrived about five minutes later to find the fire both outside the building and spreading inside, according to a news release from the Vancouver Fire Department.
The crews stretched several hose lines to fight the fire and shut down Columbia Way to extend a large diameter hose from a fire hydrant across the road. The closure was expected to last until about 8 a.m., the fire department said.
The fire was knocked back after about 10 minutes, according to the news release, but wasn't brought fully under control until about 50 minutes after the firefighters arrived. The building's sprinkler system was activated and helped bring the blaze under control.
About 20 firefighters were on the scene, along with the Vancouver Fire Marshal's Office, which will investigate the cause of the fire. The department's fire boat was also dispatched to help from the river, but was ultimately not needed.
The news release did not mention the extent of the damage to the building, but an included photo showed what appeared to be a heavily burned interior wall and doorway.
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SALEM, Ore. — Oregon voters approved a ballot measure in 2020 to decriminalize hard drugs after being told it was a way to establish and fund addiction recovery centers that would offer people aid instead of incarceration.
Yet in the first year after the new approach took effect in February 2021, only 1% of people who received citations for possessing controlled substances asked for help via a new hotline.
With Oregon being the first state in America to decriminalize possession of personal-use amounts of heroin, methamphetamine, LSD, oxycodone and other drugs, its program is being watched as a potential model for other states.
Some are questioning whether the approach is proving too lenient, but others say the new system has already had a positive impact by redirecting millions of dollars into facilities to help those with drug dependency issues. The funds come from taxes generated by Oregon’s legal marijuana industry and savings from reductions in arrests, jail time and probation supervision.
Under Ballot Measure 110, possession of controlled substances is now a newly created Class E “violation," instead of a felony or misdemeanor. It carries a maximum $100 fine, which can be waived if the person calls a hotline for a health assessment. The call can lead to addiction counseling and other services.
But out of roughly 2,000 citations issued by police in the year after decriminalization took effect, only 92 of the people who received them called the hotline by mid-February. And only 19 requested resources for services, said William Nunemann of Lines for Life, which runs the hotline.
Almost half of those who got citations failed to show up in court.
State health officials have reported 473 unintentional opioid overdose deaths from January to August 2021, the most recent month for which statistics are available, with the vast majority of those occurring after decriminalization took effect. That narrowly surpasses the total for all of 2020, and is nearly 200 deaths more than the state saw in all of 2019. The state reports that opioid overdose visits to emergency rooms and urgent care centers have also been on the rise.
The Oregon Health Authority cites as possible reasons the greater presence of fentanyl, which has increased overdose deaths across the country, as well as a downturn in reporting during the pandemic in 2020.
Sen. Floyd Prozanski, chair of the Oregon Senate’s Judiciary and Ballot Measure 110 Implementation Committee, said he's surprised more of those ticketed weren't taking advantage of the recovery options. Still, he believes it's too early to judge how the new approach is going.
“It’s a different model, at least for the U.S.,” Prozanski said, adding he'd want to wait at least another half-year before considering whether steps should be introduced to compel people to seek treatment.
Decriminalization advocates argued putting drug users in jail and giving them criminal records, which harms job and housing prospects, was not working.
“Punishing people and these punitive actions, all it does is saddle them with barriers and more stigma and more shame,” said Tera Hurst, executive director of Oregon Health Justice Recovery Alliance, which represents more than 75 community-based organizations and is focused on implementing Measure 110.
The Drug Policy Alliance spearheaded Oregon’s ballot measure. With no U.S. states to serve as examples, the New York-based group, which calls itself the leading organization in the U.S. promoting alternatives to the war on drugs, studied Portugal, which decriminalized drug possession in 2000.
Portugal's approach is more vigorous than Oregon's in getting people to treatment.
There, “dissuasion commissions” pressure anyone caught using drugs — even marijuana — to seek treatment. Those pressure points include fines, prohibiting drug users from visiting certain venues or from traveling abroad, seizure of personal property, community work and having to periodically report to health services or other places.
Drug Policy Alliance intentionally sought an approach that did not compel people to seek treatment, said spokesperson Matt Sutton.
"We have seen that when people voluntarily access services when they are ready, they have much more successful outcomes,” Sutton said.
Some 16,000 people accessed services through the ballot measure’s “Access to Care” grants in the first year of decriminalization, according to the Oregon Health Authority.
Most — 60% — accessed “harm reduction services,” like syringe exchanges and overdose medications, the health authority said. Another 15% were assisted with housing needs and 12% obtained peer support. Only 0.85% entered treatment.
Critics say that's simply not enough.
“The Oregon ballot initiative was presented to the public as pro-treatment but it has been a complete failure in that regard,” said Keith Humphreys, an addiction researcher and professor of psychiatry at Stanford University and former senior adviser in the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy.
Brian Pacheco of the Drug Policy Alliance, though, said people with drug problems need a range of options, including harm reduction services, housing assistance, peer support and, for those who can’t get insurance or Medicaid, access to treatment centers.
“Measure 110 funding has strengthened organizations in myriad ways, including getting mobile vehicles to provide services in communities, helped programs keep their doors open, and aided other organizations to purchase and distribute Naloxone (which reverses opioid overdose),” Pacheco said in an email.
The $31 million in grants distributed so far paid for thousands of doses of naloxone, thousands of syringe exchanges, recovery housing, vehicles and the hiring of dozens of staffers for care centers, including recovery mentors, according to the health authority.
An example of where some of the money is going is Great Circle, a nonresidential treatment center in Salem owned by the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde, which was awarded a $590,055 grant.
On a recent day, two Salem police officers checked on a homeless woman who had been assaulted days earlier. Still bearing a black eye, she confided she had a drug problem and needed help. Police Lt. Treven Upkes called Great Circle to see if they could help. Bring her right over, he was told.
“Just the fact that they had an open door for us at the moment that someone was saying they were ready for help, that’s such an incredible step for us," Upkes said. “That’s the kind of thing that we would hope comes out of Measure 110.”
If the response had been to schedule an appointment two weeks down the road, Upkes noted he might have been unable to reconnect with the woman.
At Great Circle, a staff doctor and nurses check a person’s vital signs and do a urinalysis with an in-house lab. A nurse dispenses doses of methadone, which can relieve terrible “dope sick” symptoms a person in opioid withdrawal experiences.
Peer specialists like Nick Mull describe their own life experiences to those with substance abuse disorders, and inspire them. Mull’s parents were addicts and he fell into drug use himself at a young age.
“About six years ago, I got in some trouble and ... I started to want to change my life," said Mull, wearing a black hoodie and jeans. "So I just started doing treatment, more treatment and more treatment. I learned a lot.”
Jennifer Worth, Great Circle’s operations director, said Mull plays an important role.
“What Nick brings to the work is a sense of hope,” Worth said. “And the patients who are struggling with where he was can see that hope is possible.”
But with so few people seeking help after receiving citations, the Legislature might need to consider requiring they do more than call a hotline or pay a small fine, Prozanski said.
Humphreys believes people should be pressured to seek treatment if they're committing crimes like shoplifting and burglary, but not if they're simply using drugs.
“It’s about the threats to public safety that some people pose because of their problematic drug use," Humphreys said. "And in those cases, pressuring people to seek treatment is absolutely legitimate.”
Oregon Secretary of State Shemia Fagan’s office will be auditing Oregon's program. Fagan said she has a personal interest: Her own mother had a lifelong battle with addiction and homelessness.
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BUCHA, Kyiv Oblast — Russia faced a fresh wave of condemnation on Monday after evidence emerged of what appeared to be deliberate killings of civilians in Ukraine. Some Western leaders called for further sanctions in response, even as Moscow continued to press its offensive in the country's east.
Western allies, though united in outrage, appeared split on how to respond. Poland, which is on Ukraine's border and has taken in large numbers of refugees, angrily singled out France and Germany for not taking more strident action and urged Europe to quickly wean itself off Russian energy, while Berlin said it would take a longer-term approach.
Ukrainian officials said the bodies of 410 civilians were found in towns around the capital, Kyiv, that were recaptured from Russian forces in recent days. In Bucha, northwest of the capital, Associated Press journalists saw 21 bodies. One group of nine, all in civilian clothes, were scattered around a site that residents said Russian troops used as a base. They appeared to have been shot at close range. At least two had their hands tied behind their backs.
In Motyzhyn, to the west of Kyiv, AP journalists saw the bodies of four people who appeared to have been shot at close range and thrown into a pit. Residents said the mayor, her son, and her husband — who had been bound and blindfolded — were among them.
“This is genocide, this is fascism. This is the extermination of people, innocent people, children, women, and the elderly,” said Olena Kolesnik, who fled Kharkiv for Poland. She described her hometown in Ukraine's north as being in a state of ruin after weeks of shelling.
The images of battered corpses lying in the streets or hastily dug graves unleashed a wave of outrage that could signal a turning point in the nearly 6-week-old war. But sanctions have thus far failed to halt the offensive, and rising energy prices along with tight controls on the Russian currency market have blunted their impact, with the ruble rebounding strongly after initially crashing.
Western and Ukrainian leaders have accused Russia of war crimes before, and the International Criminal Court’s prosecutor has opened a probe to investigate the conflict. But the latest reports ratcheted up the condemnation even further, with Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and some Western leaders going so far as to accuse Russia of genocide.
The crime of genocide is difficult to prove, as prosecutors would have to show that the killers or their commanders had a “specific intent” to partially or wholly destroy a group of people — but the use of the word has clear emotional resonance and could serve to draw even more attention to the conflict.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov rejected the allegations, describing the scenes outside Kyiv as a “stage-managed anti-Russian provocation.” He said the mayor of Bucha made no mention of atrocities a day after Russian troops left last week, but two days later scores of bodies were photographed scattered in the streets.
He said Russia is pushing for an urgent meeting of the United Nations Security Council to discuss the matter, but the U.K., which currently chairs the body, has refused to convene it. The United States and Britain have accused Russia in recent weeks of using Security Council meetings to spread disinformation.
European leaders, meanwhile, left no doubt about who they thought was behind the killings.
EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said “the Russian authorities are responsible for these atrocities, committed while they had effective control of the area.”
“The perpetrators of war crimes and other serious violations as well as the responsible government officials and military leaders will be held accountable,” he added.
French President Emmanuel Macron said Monday that there is “clear evidence of war crimes” in Bucha that demand new measures. “I’m in favor of a new round of sanctions and in particular on coal and petrol. We need to act,” he said on France-Inter radio.
But Poland’s prime minister, who described Russia under President Vladimir Putin as a “totalitarian-fascist state,” lashed out at German and French leaders by name for not doing more, while calling for actions “that will finally break Putin’s war machine."
“President Macron, how many times have you negotiated with Putin? What have you achieved? ... Would you negotiate with Hitler, with Stalin, with Pol Pot?” Mateusz Morawiecki asked. “Chancellor Scholz, Olaf, it is not the voices of German businesses that should be heard aloud in Berlin today. It is the voice of these innocent women and children."
He said “the bloody massacres perpetrated by Russian soldiers deserve to be called by name: This is genocide.” Spain's prime minister also used the word “genocide.”
The U.S. and its allies have sought to punish Russia for the invasion by imposing sweeping economic sanctions. But they may be reluctant to impose measures that cause further harm to a global economy still recovering from the coronavirus pandemic. As a major oil and gas exporter, Russia stands to benefit from any rise in already high global energy prices.
Europe is in a particular bind, since it gets 40% of its gas and 25% of its oil from Russia. Governments have been scrambling to find ways to reduce that reliance without causing a substantial loss of economic output.
German Vice Chancellor Robert Habeck, who is also the economy minister and responsible for energy, said Europe can go “significantly further” in imposing sanctions against Russia. But he said Germany is right to take a longer-term approach to abandoning Russian energy imports.
Germany has faced criticism for opposing an immediate halt to Russian energy deliveries. The country says it hopes to end Russian coal imports this summer and oil imports by the end of the year, but halting gas will take longer since it relies more heavily on it.
“We are working every day on creating the conditions for and steps toward an embargo,” Habeck said. "We are on the right track.”
Wolfgang Buechner, a German government spokesman, meanwhile, said Putin and his supporters “will feel the consequences” of additional measures to be approved in the coming days, though he provided no details.
Putin’s Feb. 24 invasion has left thousands of people dead and forced more than 4 million Ukrainians to flee their country. Putin has said the attack is aimed at eliminating a security threat and demanded that Ukraine drop its bid to join the NATO military alliance of Western countries. Ukraine insists it never posed any threat but has offered to officially declare itself neutral.
While Western officials initially said they believed Putin's goal was to take Kyiv and potentially install a Kremlin-friendly government, Russian forces faced stiff resistance outside the capital and on other fronts, and have now retreated from some areas. Moscow says it is currently focusing its offensive on the Donbas in the country’s east, where Russian-backed separatists have been fighting Ukrainian forces for years.
Britain’s Defense Ministry said Monday that Russia continued to flood soldiers and mercenaries from the Wagner private military group into the Donbas. It said Russian troops are still trying to take the region's strategic port city of Mariupol, which has seen weeks of heavy fighting and some of the worst suffering of the war.
“Mariupol is almost certainly a key objective of the Russian invasion," the ministry said, as it would provide a land corridor from Russia to the Crimean Peninsula, which Moscow annexed in 2014.
On Monday, the Ukrainian military said its forces had retaken some towns in the northern Chernihiv region and humanitarian aid was being delivered.
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Qena reported from Motyzhyn, Ukraine. Yuras Karmanau in Lviv, Ukraine, and Associated Press journalists around the world contributed.
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Recently, VERIFY confirmed that members of Congress did not in fact give themselves a 21% raise, as some viral posts claimed.
Some VERIFY viewers had follow-up questions regarding ethical conduct in Congress, including one who asked whether members are allowed to hire their relatives as staff.
THE QUESTION
Can members of Congress hire their family members?
THE SOURCES
THE ANSWER
No, members of Congress cannot hire their family members. Nepotism is banned throughout the federal government, but there are exceptions for the Executive Office of the President, as well as political campaigns.
WHAT WE FOUND
The anti-nepotism laws that currently cover the federal government are actually a relatively recent creation. They were passed in 1967, a few years after President John F. Kennedy nominated his brother Robert to be U.S. Attorney General, a position he held from 1961 to 1964.
Since 1967, the U.S. Code has banned nepotism in the federal government. 5 U.S. Code § 3110 reads in part, “A public official may not appoint, employ, promote, advance, or advocate for appointment, employment, promotion, or advancement, in or to a civilian position in the agency in which he is serving or over which he exercises jurisdiction or control any individual who is a relative of the public official.”
The law lists more than two dozen types of banned relatives. It applies to executive agencies, federal courts, and legislative offices (i.e. Congress).
Members of Congress must submit monthly reports showing no relatives are on their staff, according to the House Ethics Manual.
However, federal politicians can hire relatives to their campaigns. Members of both parties occasionally have spouses or other relatives as campaign staffers.
Campaigns are paid for by donations, not taxpayer money, so they’re governed by different laws. And the Federal Election Commission says that as long as the relative is doing bona fide work for the campaign, and not being paid more than fair market value, they’re following the rules.
Anti-nepotism laws came into focus during the Trump administration, after President Donald Trump hired his daughter Ivanka Trump and his son-in-law Jared Kushner. The issue had been raised in the past too, such as when President Bill Clinton appointed his wife Hillary to a health care task force.
Ivanka Trump and Kushner were not paid for their roles in the Trump White House, but that isn’t actually why their hires were permitted.
After Kushner’s initial controversial hiring, Trump’s White House asked the Department of Justice to weigh in on the issue, and the DOJ determined the Office of the President specifically is exempt from anti-nepotism provisions.
The DOJ lawyer argued a different law from 1978 carved out that exception. That law states, “the president is authorized to appoint and fix the pay of employees in the White House Office without regard to any other provision of law regulating the employment or compensation of persons in the government service.”
Some outside lawyers disagreed with that interpretation, but regardless, Kushner and Ivanka Trump were allowed to keep their posts.
There is also no law prohibiting members of Congress or the federal government from hiring their friends, as long as there’s no quid pro quo. In other words, they cannot promise a federal job in exchange for political support or donations.
More from VERIFY: No, Congress members did not give themselves a 21% pay raise in 2022
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Created: April 04, 2022 07:35 AM
ISLETA PUEBLO, N.M. – New Mexico State Police is investigating a shooting south of Albuquerque where an Isleta police officer fired their weapon Monday morning.
State Police say the officer is okay and a suspect is uninjured. However, I-25 northbound is closed at mile post 213 as the scene is active.
Details are limited. Further information will be released when it becomes available.
This is a developing story. Stay with KOB.com and KOB 4 Eyewitness News for more updates.
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Created: April 04, 2022 06:47 AM
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — The U.S. Army has reached an agreement with Zuni Pueblo, the Navajo Nation and the state of New Mexico to pay $1.5 million toward restoring environmental damage done at a former munitions depot.
The proposed settlement filed in federal court involves Fort Wingate, a former Army installation near Gallup that was used as a munitions storage and disposal site before being closed in 1993.
Both the pueblo and the Navajo Nation have long-standing historical ties to the lands in and around Fort Wingate. Pollution problems at the site include soil and water contaminated by hazardous waste and unexploded ordnance.
The cleanup work involves finding, disarming and removing explosives.
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Created: April 04, 2022 07:05 AM
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Monday is set to be a breezy day to start the week with some rain expected in the morning.
Temperatures will remain mild with more breezes working in. In southern New Mexico, especially, temperatures will warm up to the 80s and be in the 90s as the week progresses.
Steve Stucker has a look at the Monday morning forecast and how the weather will progress this week.
Click the video above to view Steve's full forecast.
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