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VANCOUVER, BC, April 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - B2Gold Corp. (TSX: BTO) (NYSE AMERICAN: BTG) (NSX: B2G) ("B2Gold" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that it has published the Company's inaugural Climate Strategy Report (the "Report") and its Water Risk Statement (the "Statement"), both of which are available to view or download on B2Gold's website at www.b2gold.com.
B2Gold recognizes that climate change is a critical global challenge and understands that it must act accordingly. B2Gold is fully dedicated to providing its stakeholders with the necessary information to make informed decisions regarding its climate risks and opportunities, and the Company's management and performance relating to these risks. Accordingly, the Company has completed this Report describing its progress against implementation of the recommendations of the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures.
In addition, B2Gold acknowledges that access to clean and reliable water supplies is fundamental to the success of its operations and the wellbeing of its stakeholders, and the Company recognizes the need to use water efficiently, protect water resources, and collaborate with stakeholders to effectively manage this shared resource. The Statement outlines the Company's approach to identifying and managing the water risks at each of its operations.
Climate Strategy Report Highlights
- The Report outlines B2Gold's climate risk management strategy, governance, risk management approach and prioritized risks, and performance data.
- B2Gold's updated Climate Strategy includes assessing and mitigating our physical and transitional climate-related risks, assessing and reducing our carbon footprint, setting emissions reduction targets, and keeping our stakeholders informed of our performance. B2Gold has developed a set of actions to achieve this Climate Strategy.
- B2Gold developed climate scenarios in 2021, utilizing the Network for Greening the Financial System scenario outputs, including both physical- and transition-related variables, and exploring 2030 and 2050 timescales. In 2022, the Company will take the outputs from the scenario analysis and further evaluate the potential financial and other material implications for B2Gold.
- Other significant milestones in 2021 include:
Full details are outlined in the Report, which is available to view or download at www.b2gold.com.
Water Risk Statement Highlights:
- B2Gold is implementing its water management approach over three phases: (1) completion of a formal Water Risk Assessment; (2) development of a Global Water Strategy, based on the results of the Water Risk Assessment; and, (3) development and implementation of site-specific Water Action Plans to understand and mitigate key water risks.
- The Statement presents the results of a formal Water Risk Assessment of B2Gold's operations conducted in 2021. The Water Risk Assessment is aligned with International Council on Mining and Metal's Water Stewardship Framework, which is based on a watershed approach to water management.
- In 2022, as the Company formalizes its updated Global Water Strategy, it will develop and implement treatment actions for its identified water risks through site-specific water strategies.
Full details are outlined in the Statement, which is available to view or download at www.b2gold.com.
About B2Gold Corp.
B2Gold is a low-cost international senior gold producer headquartered in Vancouver, Canada. Founded in 2007, today, B2Gold has operating gold mines in Mali, Namibia and the Philippines and numerous exploration and development projects in various countries including Mali, Colombia, Finland and Uzbekistan. B2Gold forecasts total consolidated gold production of between 990,000 and 1,050,000 ounces in 2022.
ON BEHALF OF B2GOLD CORP.
"Clive T. Johnson"
President & Chief Executive Officer
For more information on B2Gold, please visit the Company website at www.b2gold.com or contact:
The Toronto Stock Exchange and NYSE American LLC neither approve nor disapprove the information contained in this news release.
Production guidance presented in this news release reflect total production at the mines B2Gold operates on a 100% project basis. Please see our Annual Information Form dated March 30, 2021 for a discussion of our ownership interest in the mines B2Gold operates.
This news release includes certain "forward-looking information" and "forward-looking statements" (collectively forward-looking statements") within the meaning of applicable Canadian and United States securities legislation, including: projections; outlook; guidance; forecasts; estimates; and other statements regarding future or estimated financial and operational performance, gold production and sales, revenues and cash flows, and capital costs (sustaining and non-sustaining) and operating costs, and including, without limitation: total consolidated gold production of between 990,000 and 1,050,000 ounces in 2022. All statements in this news release that address events or developments that we expect to occur in the future are forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements are statements that are not historical facts and are generally, although not always, identified by words such as "expect", "plan", "anticipate", "project", "target", "potential", "schedule", "forecast", "budget", "estimate", "intend" or "believe" and similar expressions or their negative connotations, or that events or conditions "will", "would", "may", "could", "should" or "might" occur. All such forward-looking statements are based on the opinions and estimates of management as of the date such statements are made.
Forward-looking statements necessarily involve assumptions, risks and uncertainties, certain of which are beyond B2Gold's control, including risks associated with or related to: the duration and extent of the COVID-19 pandemic, the effectiveness of preventative measures and contingency plans put in place by the Company to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic, including, but not limited to, social distancing, a non-essential travel ban, business continuity plans, and efforts to mitigate supply chain disruptions; escalation of travel restrictions on people or products and reductions in the ability of the Company to transport and refine doré; the volatility of metal prices and B2Gold's common shares; changes in tax laws; the dangers inherent in exploration, development and mining activities; the uncertainty of reserve and resource estimates; not achieving production, cost or other estimates; actual production, development plans and costs differing materially from the estimates in B2Gold's feasibility and other studies; the ability to obtain and maintain any necessary permits, consents or authorizations required for mining activities; environmental regulations or hazards and compliance with complex regulations associated with mining activities; climate change and climate change regulations; the ability to replace mineral reserves and identify acquisition opportunities; the unknown liabilities of companies acquired by B2Gold; the ability to successfully integrate new acquisitions; fluctuations in exchange rates; the availability of financing; financing and debt activities, including potential restrictions imposed on B2Gold's operations as a result thereof and the ability to generate sufficient cash flows; operations in foreign and developing countries and the compliance with foreign laws, including those associated with operations in Mali, Namibia, the Philippine and Colombia and including risks related to changes in foreign laws and changing policies related to mining and local ownership requirements or resource nationalization generally, including in response to the COVID-19 outbreak; remote operations and the availability of adequate infrastructure; fluctuations in price and availability of energy and other inputs necessary for mining operations; shortages or cost increases in necessary equipment, supplies and labour; regulatory, political and country risks, including local instability or acts of terrorism and the effects thereof; the reliance upon contractors, third parties and joint venture partners; the lack of sole decision-making authority related to Filminera Resources Corporation, which owns the Masbate Project; challenges to title or surface rights; the dependence on key personnel and the ability to attract and retain skilled personnel; the risk of an uninsurable or uninsured loss; adverse climate and weather conditions; litigation risk; competition with other mining companies; community support for B2Gold's operations, including risks related to strikes and the halting of such operations from time to time; conflicts with small scale miners; failures of information systems or information security threats; the ability to maintain adequate internal controls over financial reporting as required by law, including Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act; compliance with anti-corruption laws, and sanctions or other similar measures; social media and B2Gold's reputation; risks affecting Calibre having an impact on the value of the Company's investment in Calibre, and potential dilution of our equity interest in Calibre; as well as other factors identified and as described in more detail under the heading "Risk Factors" in B2Gold's most recent Annual Information Form, B2Gold's current Form 40-F Annual Report and B2Gold's other filings with Canadian securities regulators and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC"), which may be viewed at www.sedar.com and www.sec.gov, respectively (the "Websites"). The list is not exhaustive of the factors that may affect B2Gold's forward-looking statements
B2Gold's forward-looking statements are based on the applicable assumptions and factors management considers reasonable as of the date hereof, based on the information available to management at such time. These assumptions and factors include, but are not limited to, assumptions and factors related to B2Gold's ability to carry on current and future operations, including: the duration and effects of COVID-19 on our operations and workforce; development and exploration activities; the timing, extent, duration and economic viability of such operations, including any mineral resources or reserves identified thereby; the accuracy and reliability of estimates, projections, forecasts, studies and assessments; B2Gold's ability to meet or achieve estimates, projections and forecasts; the availability and cost of inputs; the price and market for outputs, including gold; foreign exchange rates; taxation levels; the timely receipt of necessary approvals or permits; the ability to meet current and future obligations; the ability to obtain timely financing on reasonable terms when required; the current and future social, economic and political conditions; and other assumptions and factors generally associated with the mining industry.
B2Gold's forward-looking statements are based on the opinions and estimates of management and reflect their current expectations regarding future events and operating performance and speak only as of the date hereof. B2Gold does not assume any obligation to update forward-looking statements if circumstances or management's beliefs, expectations or opinions should change other than as required by applicable law. There can be no assurance that forward-looking statements will prove to be accurate, and actual results, performance or achievements could differ materially from those expressed in, or implied by, these forward-looking statements. Accordingly, no assurance can be given that any events anticipated by the forward-looking statements will transpire or occur, or if any of them do, what benefits or liabilities B2Gold will derive therefrom. For the reasons set forth above, undue reliance should not be placed on forward-looking statements.
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STOCKHOLM, April 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- RaySearch's CFO, Torbjörn Wingårdh, leaves RaySearch effective immediately. The process to recruit a new CFO has been initiated. The company's deputy CEO Björn Hårdemark has been appointed as interim CFO.
Johan Löf, founder and CEO, RaySearch, concludes:"We have, after five months, decided that Torbjörn quits as CFO, and we wish him the best of luck in the future."
For further information, please contact CEO Johan Löf.
About RaySearch
RaySearch Laboratories AB (publ) is a medical technology company that develops innovative software solutions for improved cancer treatment. RaySearch markets the RayStation®* treatment planning system (TPS) and the oncology information system (OIS) RayCare®*. The most recent additions to the RaySearch product line are RayIntelligence® and RayCommand®. RayIntelligence is an oncology analytics system (OAS) which enables cancer clinics to collect, structure and analyze data. RayCommand, a treatment control system (TCS), is designed to link the treatment machine and the treatment planning and oncology information systems.
RaySearch software is used by more than 800 clinics in more than 40 countries. The company was founded in 2000 as a spin-off from the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm and the share has been listed on Nasdaq Stockholm since 2003. More information is available at raysearchlabs.com.
* Subject to regulatory clearance in some markets.
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The home builder is planting two trees for every estimated tree used for home construction in 2021
MARYVILLE, Tenn., April 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Clayton, a national builder of off-site and site-built homes, and the Arbor Day Foundation®, the largest non-profit membership organization dedicated to planting trees, have launched a significant partnership to plant 2.33 million trees* in forests around the country, helping to restore vital ecosystems, foster biodiversity, improve water and air quality and combat climate change.
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"To have a new partner like Clayton come in from the outset with a desire to plant more than 2.3 million trees is inspiring," said Dan Lambe, CEO of the Arbor Day Foundation. "That level of commitment shows that they get it. Our climate, our environment, and our planet need trees more than ever, and it's going to take partners like Clayton with real courage and vision if we're going to solve these big issues."
Clayton will plant two trees for every estimated tree used to build a Clayton home in 2021*. Planting projects will take place to help restore and revitalize critical ecosystems and habitats in Georgia, Pacific Northwest Watersheds, Michigan State lands and at Tyndall Air Force Base. Trees are a vital component of our planet's wellbeing, helping ecosystems flourish and strengthening a region's overall health.
"Clayton is dedicated to improving lives and building a better tomorrow," said Kevin Clayton, Clayton CEO. "For our team, this means building more than 60,000 homes with energy efficient features for families across the U.S. in 2021, while doing good in our local communities. Planting these trees with the Arbor Day Foundation will help rejuvenate forest ecosystems to support the communities we serve."
Arbor Day Foundation planting projects include:
- Georgia: Longleaf pine, once the dominant tree species in the South, has now dwindled to cover only small patches of land. That loss of ecosystem has devastated the nearly 600 animal and plant species that depend on it. These trees will be planted in the southern region, helping to reduce forest fragmentation and protecting endangered wildlife.
- Pacific Northwest Watersheds: The watersheds of the Pacific Northwest are a potent source of life. Over time, deforestation, flood control measures and irrigation have degraded these important rivers – and record-level heat waves and wildfires have worsened the crisis significantly. Planting trees along the Lower Columbia, Willamette, Upper Willamette, North Santiam, South Santiam, McKenzie, and Spokane rivers helps restore these vital watersheds.
- Michigan State Lands: This project will replant native Jack pines and red pines to help return the area to its natural state. As the forests mature, they will provide a wide variety of ecosystem services, but most importantly, these trees mean forests across Michigan will see improved habitat for a wide variety of wildlife.
- Tyndall Air Force Base: In 2018, Category 5 hurricane Michael caused major wind and surge damage — including 12,000 acres of mature trees that were snapped in half. A healthy longleaf pine ecosystem will help improve habitat for two federally listed plant species as well as wildlife species.
"Clayton's purpose extends beyond the homes we build to the planet we call home - it includes creating a better future through responsible building practices and impactful philanthropic partnerships," said William Jenkins, Clayton Home Building Group® Director of Environment and Sustainability. "It is our responsibility as a builder to drive change in our industry. This partnership allows us to re-examine our role as home builders and expand the scope of our environmental efforts. Our reforestation efforts will contribute to clean air and water, combat climate change, and support the communities we serve today and in the future."
Clayton team members understand the decisions we make today will impact the lives of those 50 years from now. The same goes for the communities where we work, where our homeowners live and where forests grow. Visit the Clayton and The Arbor Day Foundation webpage to learn more about how this partnership will create a legacy of trees for years to come.
About Clayton
Founded in 1956, Clayton is committed to opening doors to a better life and building happyness® through homeownership. As a diverse builder committed to quality and durability, Clayton offers traditional site-built homes and off-site built housing – including modular homes, manufactured homes, CrossMod™ homes, tiny homes, college dormitories, military barracks and apartments. All Clayton Built® homes are proudly designed, engineered and assembled in America. In 2021, Clayton built 60,701 homes across the country. Clayton is a Berkshire Hathaway® company. For more information, visit claytonhomes.com.
CrossMod is a trademark of the Manufactured Housing Institute.
*Based on two trees planted by the Arbor Day Foundation for every estimated tree used in our home building process in the previous year; assuming estimated board feet used at 754 board feet per tree and average square footage of our homes built by type. Arbor Day Foundation is a registered service mark of Arbor Day Foundation Corporation.
About the Arbor Day Foundation
Founded in 1972, the Arbor Day Foundation has grown to become the largest nonprofit membership organization dedicated to planting trees, with more than one million members, supporters and valued partners. Since 1972, almost 500 million Arbor Day Foundation trees have been planted in neighborhoods, communities, cities and forests throughout the world. Our vision is to lead toward a world where trees are used to solve issues critical to survival.
As one of the world's largest operating conservation foundations, the Arbor Day Foundation, through its members, partners and programs, educates and engages stakeholders and communities across the globe to involve themselves in its mission of planting, nurturing and celebrating trees. More information is available at arborday.org.
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Using community-generated review data rankings, Cruiseline.com names best cruise lines and ships of the past year.
WILMINGTON, Mass., April 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Cruiseline.com is pleased to announce the winners of the 2022 Member Choice Awards. These award ratings come from the review rankings submitted by over 4,000 Cruiseline.com members who sailed in cruises in 2021. This year's awards have been given in a variety of categories to top cruise lines and cruise ships.
The 2022 Member Choice Awards captured review rankings of travelers who sailed during the COVID-19 pandemic, spanning from when cruise lines resumed operations from the United States (this past June) through the end of 2021. The data in these awards include ratings received with new health and safety protocols in place. The ratings give a picture of how lines have adapted to procedures set in place for cruising to resume in a safe manner.
2022 Member Choice Awards reflect ratings given only for cruise ships that resumed operations last year. As most cruise lines slowly staggered the number of ships they brought into service, our member reviews and ratings only reflect the cruise lines and ships actively sailing in this time period.
"In the span of only six months, we received over four thousand member reviews from travelers who cruised in 2021. Although cruising looked a little different than years past, the main theme in the feedback we received from our community was how excited everyone was to be back out on the high seas and cruising once again," said Jamie Cash, General Manager of Cruiseline.com and Shipmate. "Our 2022 Member Choice Awards recognize the cruise lines and ships receiving top rankings from our community. We congratulate these winners for their ability to adapt to the 'new world' of cruising, while at the same providing a fun and safe experience for travelers."
Royal Caribbean International led the pack in this years' Member Choice Awards with ten best-in-category recognitions. Celebrity Cruises also received high marks from our members with multiple awards. Other cruise lines receiving top ratings include mainstream lines Carnival Cruise Line and Princess Cruises, and luxury brand Oceania Cruises.
These are the official winners of the 2022 Cruiseline.com Member Choice Awards:
Cruise Line: Overall
This category includes the highest member rankings of top-performing cruise lines of the year. Awards have been named for overall mainstream cruise line, top premium cruise line, best river/luxury line, highest ranked cruise line for first-timers, top cruise line for couples, and best line for families:
Best Mainstream Cruise Line Score
- Royal Caribbean 4.471
- Disney Cruise Line 4.482
- Norwegian 4.431
- Carnival 4.388
- MSC 4.356
Best Premium Cruise Line Score
- Celebrity Cruises 4.535
- Princess Cruises 4.495
- Virgin Voyages 4.489
- Holland America 4.488
Best Luxury/River Cruise Line Score
- Oceania Cruises 4.204
- AmaWaterways 4.158
- Viking Cruises 4.017
- Silversea 3.798
- Regent Seven Seas 3.788
Best Cruise Line for First-Timers Score
- Royal Caribbean 4.563
- Carnival Cruise Lines 4.374
- Norwegian Cruise Line 4.274
- MSC Cruises 3.871
- Celebrity Cruises 3.740
Best Cruise Line for Couples Score
- Royal Caribbean 4.568
- Celebrity Cruises 4.558
- Holland America Line 4.520
- P&O Cruises 4.489
- Disney Cruise Line 4.485
Best Cruise Line for Families Score
- Royal Caribbean 4.448
- Carnival Cruise Lines 4.413
- Princess Cruises 4.376
- Silversea Cruises 4.350
- Disney Cruise Line 4.339
Cruise Line: Onboard Experience
These awards cover rankings for overall cruise lines that members ranked highest for onboard experience elements. Following are the 2022 Member Choice Award winners for the best cruise lines in food and dining, onboard activities, and staff/service:
Best Cruise Line - Food & Dining Score
- Celebrity Cruises 4.622
- Royal Caribbean 4.519
- Disney Cruise Line 4.468
- Regent Seven Seas Cruises 4.465
- AmaWaterways 4.451
Best Cruise Line for Onboard Activities Score
- Royal Caribbean 4.346
- Celebrity Cruises 4.284
- Princess Cruises 4.023
- Oceania Cruises 4.021
- Carnival Cruise Lines 4.019
Best Cruise Line for Service and Staff Score
- Princess Cruises 4.832
- Royal Caribbean 4.797
- Celebrity Cruises 4.778
- Oceania Cruises 4.760
- Silversea Cruises 4.751
Cruise Ship: Overall
This awards category covers member review rankings of the top-performing cruise ships for the year. Awards have been given in this sector for best cruise ship and the best new cruise ship of 2021:
Best Overall Cruise Ship Score
- Mariner of the Seas 4.482
- Oasis of the Seas 4.469
- Allure of the Seas 4.468
- Freedom of the Seas 4.455
- Mardi Gras 4.419
Best New Cruise Ship of 2021 Score
- Mardi Gras 4.337
- Odyssey of the Seas 4.281
- Celebrity Apex 4.193
- Norwegian Encore 4.049
- Carnival Panorama 3.908
Cruise Ship: Onboard Experience
These awards cover onboard ship experience elements. Following are the 2022 Member Choice Awards winners for the best cruise ships of the year in food and dining, onboard activities, and staff/service:
Best Cruise Ship for Food & Dining Score
- Celebrity Edge 4.776
- Celebrity Summit 4.707
- Symphony of the Seas 4.682
- Freedom of the Seas 4.633
- Norwegian Escape 4.631
Best Cruise Ship for Onboard Activities Score
- Freedom of the Seas 4.537
- Oasis of the Seas 4.525
- Celebrity Summit 4.505
- Symphony of the Seas 4.444
- Allure of the Seas 4.440
Best Cruise Ship for Service & Staff Score
- (TIE) Celebrity Edge and 4.900
Celebrity Summit - Norwegian Bliss 4.891
- Serenade of the Seas 4.882
- Norwegian Escape 4.872
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Finding the right cruise is not an easy task so Cruiseline.com is here to simplify the process. Everyone from first-time cruisers to seasoned sailors can find their dream vacation using Cruiseline.com's reviews, cruise advice articles, advanced deal search features, user-submitted photos, and an authentic community ready to talk about all things cruising.
What sets Cruiseline.com apart are the 200,000 + verified reviews from community members – that means real reviews by real people. These reviews cover every aspect of their cruise experience from the onboard dining, to service, entertainment, and ports. Through a partnership with major cruise agencies, Cruiseline.com is able to gather real reviews from actual cruisers who have sailed on the ships they are reviewing.
For more information visit: Cruiseline.com.
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CAMBRIDGE, England, April 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Darktrace, a global leader in cyber security AI, today announced that its Autonomous Response technology, Antigena, successfully stopped an in-progress ransomware attack that recently targeted a financial services company in South Africa.
The company, a growing firm providing various financial services to customers across South Africa, was trialing Darktrace AI when it was targeted by a ransomware attack. The AI technology had formed a unique understanding of the company's 'normal' behavior across its digital estate so it could spot the subtle signs of a threat and fight back at machine speed.
In the early morning hours in mid-March 2022, Darktrace AI detected that a mail server within the company was making unusual HTTP connections to an external endpoint, indicating communication with a malicious server on the internet. Equipped with an understanding of the organization's 'normal' operations, the AI instantly identified that this behavior was abnormal and potentially threatening.
The compromised mail server subsequently attempted to perform reconnaissance and lateral movement. Attackers were using 11 employees' credentials during the incident, including those belonging to C-level executives. Following this, additional machines in the organization began communicating with the malicious external server.
Darktrace's Autonomous Response technology then took action to interrupt further communication with the malicious server on the internet across the organization, while allowing the previously learned, regular behavior of machines to continue. The response was targeted and proportionate, avoiding disruption to normal business operations. After the attack was contained, the company's security team and dedicated Darktrace experts were able to conduct a full investigation to ensure that the attack was fully contained.
"The speed and scale of ransomware attacks today makes it absolutely critical that organizations are armed with technology capable of interrupting in-progress, sophisticated attacks without relying on humans to take the sledgehammer out and interrupt wider business operations in the incident response process," commented Max Heinemeyer, VP of Cyber Innovation, Darktrace. "It is inevitable that attackers will strike, often out-of-hours, and stories like these elucidate the power of handing over the keys to AI as the first responder to maintain business as usual while freeing up human teams to focus on high-level work like strategy and cyber hygiene."
About Darktrace
Darktrace (DARK:L), a global leader in cyber security AI, delivers world-class technology that protects over 6,500 customers worldwide from advanced threats, including ransomware and cloud and SaaS attacks. Darktrace's fundamentally different approach applies Self-Learning AI to enable machines to understand the business in order to autonomously defend it. Headquartered in Cambridge, UK, the company has more than 1,700 employees and over 30 offices worldwide. Darktrace was named one of TIME magazine's 'Most Influential Companies' for 2021.
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Partnership introduces bioactives to global beauty and personal care markets
BERKELEY, Calif., April 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Demetrix and German global specialty chemicals company Evonik, announce a supply agreement for cannabinoids to be used in beauty and personal care products. The first product, CBG (cannabigerol) will be entering the market in 2022.
Coupling Demetrix's proven production technology and Evonik's leadership position as a sustainable specialties partner to the top beauty and personal care brands, this multi-year relationship focuses on bringing cannabinoids to global markets.
"Evonik is a global leader in supplying innovative solutions to the beauty and personal care markets in more than 100 countries," says Cynthia Bryant, Demetrix CBO. "This partnership speaks to the growing demand for high purity cannabinoids because of the benefits they can provide for consumers."
"Evonik Care Solutions is the sustainability specialties partner. Sustainability drives our development of products and processes, and we are furthering our mission by choosing solutions from biotechnology companies like Demetrix. The industry-leading team at Demetrix and their deep experience in producing bioactives sustainably complements our formulation and market expertise in beauty and personal care," says Franck Michoux, Director of Strategy for Cosmetic Actives Ingredients. "We are eager to work with Demetrix and bring more of the over 100 cannabinoids to market."
Demetrix provides access to rare bioactive ingredients that its research has shown to hold promise for health and wellness benefits. The company is initially focusing on cannabinoids, a class of natural compounds that hold tremendous potential for the health and beauty industry. Demetrix ingredients do not have many of the common impurities found with plant extraction that can create undesirable effects in consumer products.
For more information about Demetrix's bioactive products and sustainability goals, visit www.demetrix.com.
For more information about Evonik's sustainability goals for the beauty and personal care industry, visit www.evonik.com/personal-care.
About Demetrix
Demetrix is a biotechnology company that believes in the power of science to make the world a better place. The company produces health and wellness products backed by science, including rare, ultra-high purity cannabinoids for pharmaceutical and consumer applications. Demetrix's team of industry-leading experts has enabled the company to bring its first ingredient to market in less than 5 years from startup – the fastest achieved in the industry. The company is pioneering the study of the more than 100 rare cannabinoids and their interactions with the human body. Demetrix is venture-backed and headquartered in Berkeley, California.
About Evonik
Evonik is one of the world leaders in specialty chemicals. The company is active in more than 100 countries around the world and generated sales of €15 billion and an operating profit (adjusted EBITDA) of €2.38 billion in 2021. Evonik goes far beyond chemistry to create innovative, profitable and sustainable solutions for customers. About 33,000 employees work together for a common purpose: We want to improve life today and tomorrow. The focus of the business of the Nutrition & Care division is on health and quality of life. It develops differentiated solutions for active pharmaceutical ingredients, medical devices, nutrition for humans and animals, personal care, cosmetics, and household cleaning. In these resilient end markets, the division generated sales of €3.56 billion in 2021 with about 5,300 employees.
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Email: miriam@demetrix.com
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VANCOUVER, BC, April 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - DESERT MOUNTAIN ENERGY CORP. (the "Company") (TSXV: DME) (OTC: DMEHF) (Frankfurt: QM01) From the President of the Company.
As DME continues on its path to production, the Company would like to make an update on the progress through to the start of Q3.
CRITICAL GLOBAL HELIUM SHORTAGE:
1. The Russian Amur Complex fires and explosion has removed a projected source of up to 25% of global helium demand.
2. The US Government (BLM) has suspended production at their Amarillo, TX plant that operates and maintains a helium storage reservoir, enrichment plant, and pipeline system. This plant was responsible for over 40% of the domestic demand for helium.
3. Helium sources from Algeria and Qatar have also had issues.
* Due to this critical shortage, the Specialty Gas Suppliers have declared Force Majeure and cancelled all supply contracts resulting in helium increasing 300% in price over the last 6 weeks.
PATH TO PRODUCTION
· In 2022, DME has set and cemented casing in 3 holes, Wells 5, 6 & 7
- Wells 4, 5, 6 & 7 have outlined the perimeters of the McCauley Helium Field, the Company is confident that we own all necessary leases
- The court case, specifically the Temporary Restraining Order (TRO), launched by the City of Flagstaff has been successfully overturned unanimously by the appellate court in DME's favor
- The AGM confirmed shareholder confidence in the Management and Board over 26 million shares voted over 98% in favor.
- The Company still has over $18 million in the treasury and is confident in achieving positive cash flow without further financing
Q2, 2022
- Completion of the gathering system for wells in the McCauley Helium Field is scheduled to begin at the end of April 2022
- Testing and publishing the results of Wells 5, 6 & 7 is scheduled for the end of April 2022
- The modular buildings that will house the finishing facility have been fabricated and delivered to the contractor. All the materials for the mechanical portion of the processing facilities have been delivered, and assembly of the plant is scheduled to begin by the end of the month. We anticipate delivery of the remaining components of the electronic controls to be delivered by mid-May.
"We continue to move forward on the road to production with our world-class, zero-carbon processing facility," says Robert Rohlfing, CEO of Desert Mountain Energy Corp. "In a world experiencing critical shortages of helium supply, our team is excited to be moving forward and become part of the solution by supplying helium to domestic end-users. We anticipate and look forward to cash flow generation and rewarding our shareholders for their continued support."
Desert Mountain Energy Corp. is a publicly traded resource company primarily focused on exploration, development and production of helium, hydrogen and noble gases. The Company is primarily looking for elements deemed critical to the renewable energy and high technology industries.
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"Robert Rohlfing"
Robert Rohlfing
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Neither the TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in polices of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release. The statements made in this press release may contain certain forward-looking statements that involve a number of risks and uncertainties. Actual events or results may differ from the Company's expectations.
This news release contains "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the United States Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and "forward-looking information" within the meaning of applicable Canadian securities legislation. Such forward looking statements and information herein include but are not limited to statements regarding the Company's anticipated performance in the future the planned exploration activities, receipt of positive results from drilling, the completion of further drilling and exploration work, and the timing and results of various activities.
Forward-looking statements or information involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause the actual results, level of activity, performance or achievements of the Company and its operations to be materially different from those expressed or implied by such statements. Such factors include, among others, changes in national and local governments, legislation, taxation, controls, regulations and political or economic developments in Canada and the United States; financial risks due to helium prices, operating or technical difficulties in exploration and development activities; risks and hazards and the speculative nature of resource exploration and related development; risks in obtaining necessary licenses and permits, and challenges to the Company's title to properties.
Forward-looking statements are based on assumptions management believes to be reasonable, including but not limited to the continued operation of the Company's exploration operations, no material adverse change in the market price of commodities, and such other assumptions and factors as set out herein. Although the Company has attempted to identify important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in forward-looking statements or information, there may be other factors that cause results to be materially different from those anticipated, described, estimated, assessed or intended. There can be no assurance that any forward-looking statements or information will prove to be accurate as actual results and future events could differ materially from those anticipated in such statements or information. Accordingly, readers should not place undue reliance on forward-looking statements or information. The Company does not intend to, and nor does not assume any obligation to update such forward-looking statements or information, other than as required by applicable law.
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Acquisition signals the first step in Equinix's long-term strategy to become a leading African carrier-neutral digital infrastructure company, enabling organizations to accelerate digital transformation throughout the continent
REDWOOD CITY, Calif., April 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), the world's digital infrastructure company™, today announced it has completed its deal to acquire West African data center and connectivity solutions provider MainOne for an enterprise value of US$320M, marking the beginning of its expansion into the African continent.
The completion of this acquisition augments Equinix's long-term strategy to become a leading African carrier-neutral digital infrastructure company by being able to bring a full range of transformative technologies and connectivity to Nigeria, Ghana and Cote d'Ivoire.
This acquisition will extend Platform Equinix® into West Africa, giving organizations based inside and outside of Africa access to global and regional markets. Nigeria has both the largest population and the largest economy of any country in Africa, with approximately 142 million active internet subscribers.i Home to new innovative digital ecosystems in fintech and content and digital media, it has great opportunity for expansion of digital services.
Equinix believes MainOne, headquartered in Lagos, to be one of the most exciting technology businesses to emerge from Africa, and Lagos is rapidly becoming a key connectivity hub for the wider West Africa region. Founded by Funke Opeke in 2010, the company has enabled connectivity for the business community of Nigeria and now has digital infrastructure assets, including three operational data centers, with an additional facility in Lagos expected to open in April 2022.
Fast Facts
- MainOne's assets include:
Closure of the MainOne acquisition marks the latest in a series of strategic acquisitions for the world's digital infrastructure company. Following the announcement of intent to acquire MainOne in December 2021, Equinix recently announced expansions in South America with its intended acquisition of three Entel data centers to accelerate digital transformation opportunities for local businesses and multinational companies. Both acquisitions followed announcements to acquire 13 Bell data centers in Canada and two highly interconnected data centers in Mumbai through the acquisition of GPX India in October 2020 and September 2021, respectively.
Additional Resources
- Equinix to Expand into Chile and Peru with US$705 Million Acquisition of 4 Entel Data Centers
- Equinix Expands to India with Acquisition of GPX India
- Equinix Completes US$780 Million Acquisition of 13 Bell Data Centers in Canada
- Equinix Completes Acquisition of Two Data Centers in India
- Equinix Fabric™ [website]
- Platform Equinix [website]
- Equinix 2020-21 Global Tech Trends Survey [e-book]
Equinix (Nasdaq: EQIX) is the world's digital infrastructure company, enabling digital leaders to harness a trusted platform to bring together and interconnect the foundational infrastructure that powers their success. Equinix enables today's businesses to access all the right places, partners, and possibilities they need to accelerate advantage. With Equinix, they can scale with agility, speed the launch of digital services, deliver world-class experiences, and multiply their value.
This press release contains forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties. Actual results may differ materially from expectations discussed in such forward-looking statements, including statements related to the acquisition of MainOne and the expected benefits from the acquisition. Factors that might cause such differences include, but are not limited to, risks to our business and operating results related to the COVID-19 pandemic, unanticipated costs or difficulties relating to the integration of data centers or companies we have acquired or will acquire into Equinix, including MainOne; the challenges of acquiring, operating and constructing IBX® data centers and developing, deploying and delivering Equinix services, including in the MainOne data centers; a failure to receive significant revenue from customers in recently built out or acquired data centers, including those acquired from MainOne; competition from existing and new competitors; the ability to generate sufficient cash flow or otherwise obtain funds to repay new or outstanding indebtedness; the loss or decline in business from our key customers; and other risks described from time to time in Equinix filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission In particular, see recent Equinix quarterly and annual reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, copies of which are available upon request from Equinix. Equinix does not assume any obligation to update the forward-looking information contained in this press release.
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BARCELONA, Spain, April 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- EBS once again will host a jam-packed convention with some of the biggest names in the global drinks industry over three days… Guests include; Ian Burrell, Charlotte Voisey and Giacomo Gianotti, plus our esteemed partners Hennessy, Hendrick's and Patrón.
Instructors and key influencers will congregate in Mallorca for a weekend of training and workshops, to share new methods and trends allowing them to connect and learn.
Highlights include; training on new flavours and techniques, a tequila- pairing dinner with Patrón, and our annual speed-bartending competition. Plus, we are excited to announce that Global Rum Ambassador, Ian Burrell, is our latest recruit to join the EBS Board of Education
A legend in the world of rum, Ian was voted 10th most influential person in the World Drinks industry by Drinks International in 2020, and has transformed the brand ambassador landscape since he started out.
Ian will share his deep knowledge and enthusiasm while discussing his new rum section for the EBS compendium. He is joined by our other illustrious board members, world-renowned gin connoisseur and Global Head of Ambassadors for William Grant & Sons, Charlotte Voisey, and Giacomo Gianotti, founder of Bar El Paradiso and expert mixologist, who will attend virtually.
EBS partners Hennessy, Hendrick's and Patrón are also here to ensure it's not all 'work, work work', and will host sundown beach parties, tequila-pairing and chill-out brunches to ensure everyone is refreshed and ready to continue with the hard work.
Don't miss the opportunity to see the best and brightest at work, helping to set the path for the future of hospitality!
"In an ever-evolving industry - it's imperative at EBS that we train our trainers.
"The EBS convention elevates and improves our alignment and contribution to the drinks business, ensuring we remain at the forefront of bartending education"
- Gavin Wrigley, Head of Education, European Bartender School
Website: https://www.barschool.net/
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MADRID, April 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Farma13.com, a Spanish pharmacy, is uniting a network of solidarity pharmacies to send medicines and medical supplies to NGOs that distribute medical supplies to hospitals, clinics and people in conflict zones.
This online parapharmacy has created a page to help Ukraine, where pharmacies can register and receive instructions on how they can collaborate and help Ukraine at this time.
Farma13 joins Ukraine in these hard times
In collaboration with the Nadiya Organization, Farma13 which is a Spanish online parapharmacy and that is involved in social issues, has sent treatment material to Poland and children's hygiene products for all children who have had to seek refuge in this country.
All kinds of products have been sent from this online parapharmacy for children's nutrition, such as baby food, cereals and supplements such as Meritene, whose milkshakes provide all the necessary nutrients to get through the day.
Nadiya is the result of the solidarity of a group of people who feel the need to help the Ukrainian people, which Farma13 joins, with the sole purpose of facilitating the Ukrainian community the transfer of their loved ones to Spain and providing them with all the help they need.
Latest data from the Russian war against Ukraine
Weeks after the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, more than three million Ukrainian citizens have had to flee the country and are refugees in other territories, according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).
Today, Ukraine is the third country with the highest number of people who have been forced to take refuge outside its borders. According to the UN, this displacement crisis is being the fastest exodus in Europe since the Second World War.
It's time to collaborate, all help is necessary
Ukraine needs more help and support than ever. It is necessary for the world to show its most supportive side.
Therefore, Farma13 together with Comunicare, their marketing agency, have launched another way to help, they have set up a page to facilitate the recruitment of Ukrainians for remote jobs: find here remote Ukrainian workers.
From Farma13 they encourage citizen collaboration, through the #convoyesperanza project, or through any humanitarian association whose mission is to offer medical, food, asylum, work, transport, or economic aid to Ukraine.
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LONDON, April 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Fastmarkets, the industry-leading cross-commodity price reporting agency (PRA), announced the launch of its battery raw materials (BRM) risk matrix. The electric vehicle (EV) is critical to automakers' growth and the global transition to a low-carbon economy. But varied, dynamic BRM risks may hinder EV market growth. The Fastmarkets' BRM risk matrix is a graphical representation of the risks arising from the BRM supply chain. It has been developed to help planners and decision-makers understand, anticipate and mitigate business planning risks.
The Fastmarkets' BRM risk matrix assesses ten risks that can impact the battery and automotive markets in the 2022-2025 and 2025-2030 periods. It assesses the likelihood and possible impact of risks, and how those risks are expected to change over time. The ten risks are:
- Price volatility at elevated levels complicates financial performance
- Supply deficits hold back overall EV growth
- ESG concerns complicate local supply
- Geographic concentrations create supply and logistics risk
- Limited scrap holds back recycling as a supply source
- Insufficient charging infrastructure slows EV adoption
- Aged price mechanisms hinder investment
- Growth in the use of indexing complicates the path to $100/kWh
- Inability to clean up supply chains creates reputational risk
- Geopolitical tensions disrupt production and logistics
The success of EVs is a key determinant of whether automakers can thrive, survive, or fall behind in the next 10 years. Battery raw materials will play a central part in that dynamic. Fastmarkets' BRM risk matrix is a working, living framework to help battery makers and automakers proactively and systematically understand, anticipate, and mitigate risks.
"Business leaders need to be extremely attentive to the risks in the BRM market in making decisions on battery composition, how to hedge against price volatility, and how to gain leverage on the supply chain," said Fastmarkets CEO Raju Daswani. "Building and winning in the EV market will increasingly be determined by the ability to actively manage the risks that will undoubtedly shape this market."
To dig deeper into these risks and engage with our experts, please participate in our BRM risk matrix discussion on May 4, 2022.
ABOUT FASTMARKETS
Fastmarkets is the industry-leading Price Reporting Agency (PRA) for global commodities, providing price data, news, analytics, and events for the metals and mining, forest products, and agriculture markets. Fastmarkets' data is critical for customers seeking to understand and predict dynamic, sometimes opaque markets, enabling trading and risk management. Fastmarkets is a global business with a 130-year history built on trust and deep market knowledge. Its team of more than 450 people are located in global offices including London, Helsinki, Boston, New York, Shanghai, Beijing, Singapore, Brussels and São Paulo. Fastmarkets is part of Euromoney Institutional Investor PLC (LSE:ERM), a listed company on the London Stock Exchange. Euromoney is a leading international business-to-business information group focused primarily on the global commodities, banking and asset management markets.
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Saperica Inc., Dr. Konstantin Frank Winery & trendy chama mama restaurant from NYC present the 1st annual Saperavi Festival in the Finger Lakes region of New York.
HAMMONDSPORT, N.Y., April 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Saperica Inc, is pleased to announce that the 1st annual Saperavi Festival will take place at Dr. Konstantin Frank Winery in Hammondsport, New York on Saturday, May 14, 2022. The festival will bring together producers of Saperavi and Rkatsiteli wines from the Finger Lakes region of New York along with their counterparts from the country of Georgia. Authentic Georgian cuisine with a modern twist will be featured from New York City restaurant, Chama Mama.
Saperavi Festival attendees will have the opportunity to taste a wide variety of wines crafted from Saperavi and Rkatsiteli grape varieties native to the country of Georgia. These tastes will be paired with Georgian food specialties like Khachapuri, Lobiani, Khinkali, Pkhali and the special dish, duck kalia. Cooking demonstrations will be presented throughout the afternoon.
The Saperavi Festival will take place on Saturday, May 14, 2022 from 2pm to 5pm, on the grounds of Dr Konstantin Frank Winery located at 9683 Middle Rd, Hammondsport, NY 14840. More details and tickets are available for purchase at Eventbrite via this link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/saperavi-festival-tickets-274172135237?aff=ebdssbeac
The event can also be found on Eventbrite by using the search words "saperavi festival".
Members of the trade and media are invited to participate in educational seminars and events which will occur prior to the festival from 11am to 1pm. For more information about attending as a member of trade or media, please send an email to saperavi@saperica.org
The 1st annual Saperavi Festival is organized by Saperica Inc, a 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation, featuring Chama Mama restaurant from New York City and hosted by Dr. Konstantin Frank winery. Saperica's mission is to promote Saperavi and other Georgian grape varieties along with Georgian gastronomy and culture in the Finger Lakes, NY and around the U.S., by organizing and facilitating educational seminars and exchange programs between the regions, for wine and culinary professionals and enthusiasts. Any proceeds from the festival will help to fund future Saperica programs.
For additional info, please visit www.saperica.org
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LONDON, April 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Six weeks after Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the impact on travel freedom and mobility has been more dramatic than even the most pessimistic commentators predicted at the war's outset. The latest results from the Henley Passport Index — the original ranking of all the world's passports according to the number of destinations their holders can access without a prior visa — clearly illustrate the war's profound and perhaps irreversible impact on freedom of movement within the region as a new Iron Curtain descends.
The invasion has triggered the worst refugee crisis in Europe since World War II, with more than 4 million Ukrainians having fled to neighbouring countries. The EU, US, Canada, and other Western countries have closed their airspaces to Russia, imposed stiff travel bans on individual Russian citizens, and in many cases have stopped processing visa applications altogether, effectively condemning the Russian passport to junk status throughout much of the developed world.
In stark contrast, the EU has approved an emergency plan allowing Ukrainians to live and work in any of its 27 member states for up to three years while other Western countries have adjusted their visa policies in favor of Ukrainian passport holders or waived visa requirements altogether. According to the latest Henley Passport Index, which is based on exclusive data from the International Air Transport Association (IATA), Ukraine currently has a visa-free/visa-on-arrival score of 143, a record high for the country, which now ranks 34th on the index (having climbed 26 places since 2012), while Russia trails behind in 49th place, with a score of 117 — a gap that is likely to widen in the coming months.
Elsewhere on the ranking, Japan and Singapore continue to share number one spot, with their passport holders able to access 192 destinations around the world visa-free, not taking temporary Covid restrictions into account. Germany and South Korea hold joint-2nd place, with a visa-free/visa-on-arrival score of 190, while Finland, Italy, Luxembourg, and Spain share 3rd place, with their passport holders able to access 189 destinations around the world without having to acquire a visa in advance. The UK, which recently dropped all remaining Covid-related restrictions, now sits in 5th place, with a score of 187, with the US just one place behind in 6th spot, with a score of 186. Afghanistan remains at the bottom of the index with its nationals only able to access 26 destinations visa-free.
Dr. Christian H. Kaelin, Chairman of Henley & Partners, says the latest update provides a unique snapshot of a volatile and rapidly changing world. "As the value of the Russian passport rapidly declines and the world opens its doors to Ukrainians, it is abundantly clear that the passport you hold determines your fate and dramatically impacts the opportunities you have. While it is impossible to predict what the world will look like in the shadow of a new Cold War, the latest index suggests that the divide between Russia and much of the Western world will only increase."
Commenting in the Henley Global Mobility Report 2022 Q2, released today along with the latest Henley Passport Index, Dr. Parag Khanna, bestselling author and Founder of FutureMap says creative solutions will be needed as mass migration becomes the norm. "When faced with war or climate disruptions our fight or flight instinct kicks in and the sensible response has been to move in search of more suitable conditions. We are becoming a migratory species again. In the coming decades climate disruptions threaten to make some regions of our planet uninhabitable, and millions, if not billions, of people will need to find new homes."
According to exclusive research by Henley & Partners and Deep Knowledge Analytics into the correlation between passport power, and climate change vulnerability and preparedness, wealthy and developed nations with the greatest visa-free access also score highly when it comes to their readiness to adapt to the climate crisis. Charles Phillips of the Oxford Business Group says, "We can see close correlations between climate adaptation performance and international travel freedom. It brings into stark reality the fact that your citizenship and passport really do matter when it comes to mitigating climate risk".
Sebastian Mikosz, Vice President of Environment and Sustainability at IATA, says forecasts indicate demand for 10 billion passenger journeys by 2050 (up from around 4 billion pre-pandemic). "Much of this growth will come from passengers who have never had the opportunity to fly before: in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. We owe it to this next generation of flyers to find sustainable solutions, so they can enjoy and benefit from air travel as we have done so far."
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GUANGZHOU, China, April 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Recently, news from its official website heralds the opening of 131st Canton Fair.
One can analyze the heatmap and see that Consumer Electronics and Information Products is perennially the most-visited area of the Fair. To mitigate the impact of COVID-19 on China's foreign trade and the world economy, the Canton Fair has paused the on-site business and innovated an online trading platform, starting from the 127th session, which has led to an upsurge of consumer electronics exports.
China is the world's leading manufacturer and exporter of electronics and information products, holding a foremost position in enterprise quantity, employment scale and business revenue. Yet, long has China been subdued to the assembly role, where foreign multinationals dominate the industrial and value chain and foreign trade. Worse still, consumer electronics always face fierce market competition due to rising homogeneity and industry concentration.
Since the reform and opening up in the late 1970s, Chinese brands have tapped into independent innovation to turn the situation around. According to a survey, the median R&D investment of Chinese consumer electronics and electrical companies was RMB102 million in 2021, indicating that half of them have invested over RMB100 million in R&D. China also has the most patent applications in the consumer electronics and electrical industry.
The Internet of Things (IoT) steals over the consumer market, making smart consumer electronics and IoT products the "new blood" of China's consumer electronics and electrical industry. You can find cross-industry creation of intelligent living scenarios in living rooms, balconies, kitchens, and bathrooms, meaning a richer experience and increased interactivity for global users. According to Maggie Pu, Deputy Director General of Foreign Affairs Office of Canton Fair, the number of intelligent and personalized consumer electronics at the Canton Fair is increasing year by year. China's consumer electronics brands now have to win the global competition through technological innovation instead of price efficiency, as has been the case during the past decades.
China is also a huge consumer market for consumer electronics and information products. China contributes more than 50% of the world's production of complete appliances such as phones, computers, and LCD TVs, and key components such as LCDs and integrated circuits. Chinese entities, backed by a huge home market, are enhancing their presence in the international market through technological innovation and more energy-efficient and eco-friendly products.
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GUANGZHOU, China, April 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Guangzhou is expecting the 131st Canton Fair. At present, many hardware manufacturers are preparing for the world-renowned trade event.
Each session of Canton Fair welcomes many top hardware sellers including Tianjin Minmetals, Shanghai Minmetals, and Chaozhou Three-Circle , who, as regular exhibitors, went global quite early via the Fair. Their small items such as tools, locks, faucets, lighters, zippers, and razors are not eye-catching but essential for the international market. The ubiquitous locks sold around the world are as popular as the globe's most well-known brands, reflecting the momentum of the " Hardware & Tools " category at the Canton Fair in accessing the massive international market.
Regular buyers still recall that there were only around 40 categories of Chinese hardware products at the beginning of the reform and opening up in the late 1970s, far less than today's 10,000 categories. China's hardware and tools industry has experienced tough decades: starting from scratch, it has transformed production from underdeveloped manual workshops to intelligent ones, transitioning from isolated development to innovation and opening up.
Structural imbalance in production leads to an oversupply of cheap hardware accessories. Fierce competition and changes in consumer perceptions make the extensive production model unsustainable. As the market demands finer products, leading Chinese hardware manufacturers, benefiting from new digital infrastructure such as 5G, are tapping into productivity gains with digitalization. Local governments also encourage SMEs to invest in R&D and make branding and differentiation permanent solutions.
According to the official Canton Fair official website, more than 129,600 hardware and tools have been uploaded as of now. "With higher enterprise innovation awareness and capabilities, light, thin, short, and small products are beginning to trend," said Alan Liu, Deputy Director General of the Foreign Affairs Office of the Canton Fair. For example, there are hand tools of bold, creative, and ergonomic design, made of exquisite materials, possessing aesthetic and functional values. When it comes to production, advanced processes such as digital control, one-time clamping, and multi-station integrated machine completion offer great progress in accuracy. Products such as pneumatic tools and gardening tools have gradually outperformed well-known European and American brands.
China is the world's giant hardware producer, processor, and exporter. Driven by innovation, characteristic industry bases have been established in coastal provinces including Zhejiang, Guangdong, Jiangsu, Shanghai, and Shandong. With the further tapping of industrial clusters, China is becoming the global center for intelligent hardware manufacturing.
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GUANGZHOU, China, April 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The 131st Canton Fair is around the corner. According to China Foreign Trade Centre (CFTC), the New Product Launch at Canton Fair will be unveiled this session. New products, technologies, brands, services will be selected and showcased in the event. As the electric era heats up, much of the attention goes to New Energy Vehicle (NEV) innovations.
Though frustrated by COVID-19 and plummeting subsidies, the NEV market in China has shown strong momentum as both production and selling surpassed 3.5 million in 2021, topping the world for 7 consecutive years. The penetration rate of NEV sales in China is also increasing, which will reach 22% in 2022, predicted by China Passenger Cars Association (CPCA).
Overseas buyers have expressed their amazement that China's auto industry has become as good as some centuries-old established markets in just a few decades. The core components of NEV, such as power batteries, drive motors, and electronic control systems, are all emerging products. The concerted efforts of the Chinese government and companies have given themselves a pole position on NEV market competition.
The rapid growth of China's NEV industry is clear in the scale and focus of the displays. At the 130th Canton Fair, nearly 20 NEV exhibitors brought 186 products, including cars, trucks, sightseeing vehicles, buses, vans, and accessories & components of NEVs. The exhibition section was under the spotlight with new technologies capturing much attention. Premier Li Keqiang inspected the exhibition halls and remarked that China is the largest market for traditional vehicles and NEVs. He encouraged companies to seize opportunities, rise to market competition, follow business rules, and invest more in R&D, thus leading an innovative and sustainable NEV industry.
For consumers, NEVs bring a new mode of transportation. China is a leader in NEVs with advantages in battery charging/switching stations, 5G communications, and mega markets. These merits will facilitate national NEV industrial advancement. According to Alan Liu, Deputy Director General of Foreign Affairs Office of Canton Fair, As "Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) countries are investing in infrastructure, and the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) is boosting export volumes, it's a perfect time to overtake the competitors. At the 131st Canton Fair, we will encourage NEV exhibitors to self-innovate and deliver a more enjoyable, convenient, and smart driving experience to customers at home and abroad.
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GUANGZHOU, China, April 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- This April, merchants in Guzhen Town, Zhongshan City, will be hustling hard during the 131st Canton Fair. The town is famous for occupying a 70% market share of the domestic lighting industry and sells to more than 130 countries and regions, making it a vital participant of the Lighting Equipment section of the Canton Fair.
As a window of China's foreign trade, the Canton Fair has witnessed firsthand the transformation of Guzhen Town, where farming was replaced by decorative lighting manufacturing, simple table lamps by high-end products sold at home and abroad. It also has attested to the transformation of China's lighting industry from traditional manufacturing to a smart one. According to the China Association of Lighting Industry, the Chinese lighting industry showed strong resilience and potential in 2021 despite COVID-19. The export of lamps in 2021 amounted to US$65.47 billion, an increase of 24.5% year-on-year and of 44.09% over that in 2019, indicating a two-year average growth of 12.95%. The rising share of intelligent, integrated, networked lighting products boosted exports to hit a new high.
With overseas demand for diversified products, the innovation of China's lighting industry is accelerating with improved service. New products showcased at the Canton Fair include the space station series, APP remote controlled solar lawn lights, alternative energy-saving lamps for high-powered products, smart lighting without main light, and solar spotlights. The Fair also brings plant lighting, UV lighting, immersive lighting, and cultural tourism lighting into people's horizons. Considering various situations, the supplier offers user-friendly and all-in-one solutions through automated control and smart home connectivity.
The success of the winter games in Beijing refreshed the world's memory, with hashtags such as #300millionWinterSportsParticipants and #Countdownfrom24SolarTerms trending on social media. Various market-sensitive manufacturers put traditional Chinese cultural elements into their designs, creating high-end 'Chinese retro' lighting that is of interest to overseas buyers.
Smart Manufacturing in China aims to illuminate every corner of the world with its intelligence. According to Alan Liu, Deputy Director General of Foreign Affairs Office of Canton Fair, well-known Chinese lighting brands have registered for the 131st Canton Fair and will release their new smart lighting products online. Exhibitors also said they expected to secure more overseas orders via the Canton Fair.
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- Report to be released at approximately 7:00 AM CEST on April 14, 2022
- One live video webcast for analysts, investors and journalists at 9:00 AM CEST
STOCKHOLM, April 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Ericsson's (NASDAQ: ERIC) financial report for the first quarter 2022 will be published at approximately 7:00 AM CEST on April 14, 2022.
The company will issue a press release with the complete financial report attached, including tables, in PDF format.
Following publication of the press release, the financial report will be available on Ericsson's website: www.ericsson.com/en/investors/financial-reports/interim-reports
President and CEO Börje Ekholm and CFO Carl Mellander will comment on the report and take questions at a live video webcast at 9:00 AM CEST (8:00 AM BST London, 3:00 AM EDT New York).
Join the webcast or please go to www.ericsson.com/investors
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GÖTEBORG, Sweden, April 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- On Monday, 25 April at 8:00 a.m. (CET), Castellum will publish its Q1 report for 2022. Investors, analysts and journalists are invited to a live webcast of the report at 9:00 a.m. (CET), where CEO Rutger Arnhult and CFO Maria Strandberg will be commenting on the results.
The report will be published at 8:00 a.m. (CET) and will be available here: https://www.castellum.se/en/Investorrelations/financial-reports/
The presentation will be available on the same page from 8:45 a.m. (CET).
You can access the live presentation (webcast) of the report at 9:00 a.m. on this link:
https://castellum.creo.se/220425
The presentation will be in English. A recording of the presentation will be available on our website after the event.
Following the presentation, Rutger Arnhult and Maria Strandberg will be available to answer questions. Analysts, investors and journalists are welcome to dial in to our teleconference. You can also write your questions in the webcast player during the presentation.
Telephone numbers for the teleconference:
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About Castellum
Castellum is one of the largest commercial listed property companies in the Nordic region that develops flexible workplaces and smart logistics solutions. As of 31 December 2021, the property value totalled approximately SEK 176 billion, including the ownership share of the Norwegian company Entra ASA. We are active in attractive Swedish growth regions as well as in Copenhagen and the Helsinki area. Through Castellum's associated company, Entra ASA, the company is also exposed to the Norwegian commercial property market. One of our sustainability goals is to become entirely climate neutral by 2030 at the latest. Castellum is the only Nordic property and construction company elected to the Dow Jones Sustainability Indices (DJSI). The Castellum share is listed on Nasdaq Stockholm Large Cap.
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SANDVIKEN, Sweden, April 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Sandvik will publish its first quarter results on Wednesday, April 20, 2022 at approximately 11:30 AM CEST.
A combined webcast and conference call for investors, analysts and financial media will be held at 13:00 PM CEST.
The report will be presented in a webcast and conference call by Stefan Widing, President and CEO as well as by Cecilia Felton, CFO.
The presentation will be broadcasted live on our website home.sandvik
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Infor ERP cloud solution will help the Bulgarian metal products manufacturer to improve syncronisation among departments
SOFIA, Bulgaria, April 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Infor, the industry cloud company, today announced that Lesto Products, a Bulgarian manufacturer of metal products, is migrating to Infor CloudSuite Industrial Enterprise to help improve overall business processes. The project is managed by IPL Consulting Group, an Infor Gold channel partner and a provider of manufacturing consultancy and software implementation in Eastern Europe.
Learn more about Infor CloudSuite Industrial Enterprise: https://www.infor.com/products/cloudsuite-industrial-enterprise
Lesto Products plans to implement Infor OS operating services cloud platform, which will provide integration to essential capabilities for finite production scheduling and quality control. With these cloud solutions, all powered by Amazon Web Services (AWS), the customer expects to achieve a more efficient execution of business processes and further improve synchronisation among departments. In addition, the document management capabilities will allow users to accumulate and effectively manage such documents as drawings, specifications, instructions as a part of the business processes.
Infor has been supporting the successful development of the company since 2012 through the Infor LN on-premises ERP (enterprise resource planning) application. The system has covered all aspects of the company's business and helps to increase efficiency, allows synchronised business processes of all the departments and boosts data analyses.
"Over the years of using Infor LN, we got an excellent result and established a great partnership with Infor. Now, we see all the benefits and perspective of using Infor's multi-tenant cloud solution, so it was obvious for us to continue extending our business with Infor," Ivaylo Gladnishki, CEO of Lesto Products. "We decided to migrate to the new cloud version, Infor CloudSuite Industrial Enterprise, because it's valuable for our company to use continually updated functional and technological improvements with no need to upgrade — effectively always-current technology. This cloud-based ERP solution will help us focus on the production processes and provide us with visibility of productivity and cost controls across the organization. We expect that Infor CloudSuite will allow us to spend less time and money managing our IT infrastructure and provide us with the security and reliability we need."
Lesto is planning to go live with Infor CloudSuite Industrial Enterprise in July. Infor CloudSuite will help support the automation across the organisation, optimising business processes of sales and procurement, production planning and scheduling, production management, warehousing and finance management.
About Lesto Products
Lesto Products is headquartered in Bulgaria with over 28 years of experience in the manufacturing of metal products for a number of industries, such as railway transport systems, road construction equipment, air compressors, automated access systems, production equipment and gaming stations. The company conducts projects in many European countries, Lesto's clients are such large industrial enterprises as Ingersoll Rand, Liebherr Transport systems, Komax AG, Husqvarna, FAAC Group, Euro Games Technology, and Kuhler GmbH & Co. KG. Visit http://www.lestoproduct.bg/en/
About Infor
Infor is a global leader in business cloud software specialized by industry. We develop complete solutions for our focus industries, including industrial manufacturing, distribution, healthcare, food & beverage, automotive, aerospace & defense, and high tech. Infor's mission-critical enterprise applications and services are designed to deliver sustainable operational advantages with security and faster time-to-value. We are obsessed with delivering successful business outcomes for customers, and we are continually innovating to quickly solve emerging business and industry challenges. Over 65,000 organizations in more than 175 countries rely on Infor's 17,000 employees and their deep industry expertise to help overcome market disruptions and achieve their business goals. As a Koch company, our financial strength, ownership structure, and long-term view empower us to foster enduring, mutually beneficial relationships with our customers, employees and partners. Visit www.infor.com.
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PASSAIC, N.J., April 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Stephanie Lokker, CEO of Lockerbie and Co., a strategy and management consulting firm composed of former Big Four and Big Three (MBB) advisory leaders who provide transformational advising and solutions inclusive of people, processes, data and technology, was named to the ROI-NJ "power" list for her leadership, business acumen, and her role in overseeing the New Jersey Pride Chamber of Commerce's Supplier Diversity and Certification initiatives for the state.
Lockerbie proudly holds 11 diverse-supplier certifications on both the state and federal level – including the national LGBTBE certification– and now is Hub-Zone certified. Lokker has positioned Lockerbie into a business strategy and planning powerhouse for corporations interested in developing successful supplier diversity, procurement, change management, and PMO/project management programs.
"I am grateful to the ROI-NJ editorial board for this prestigious recognition. It's a privilege to help business leaders, from various sectors, understand how to diversify their supply chains in today's global marketplace. We celebrate the opportunity to build inclusive networks that will shape the future of enterprise forever," said Stephanie Lokker, CEO of Lockerbie and Co.
Recently, Lokker was appointed to the Board of Directors for the New Jersey Pride Chamber of Commerce, the only statewide organization that advances the business interests of LGBTQ+ and allied professionals in the tri-state area. It does so through promotion of economic growth and development of the Chamber's members by providing LGBT Business Enterprise certification, networking opportunities, and a range of other business and professional development resources.
Lokker is currently leading a joint program initiative that will convene NJ's 28 Fortune 1000 corporations' procurement and supply diversity leaders. CPO's and CSCO's will have streamlined access to certified LGBT+ vendors. Through this program, LGBTBE certified businesses will gain greater awareness on how to utilize their certification and better position themselves for contracts as top suppliers to corporate partners.
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Lokker is the CEO and founder of Lockerbie and Co. She earned a Master of Science in Supply Chain Management from Rutgers University in Newark, NJ, and a Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology from Montclair State University in Montclair, NJ, and is a Lean Six Sigma Green Belt. She champions bringing greater diversity and upward mobility for professionals who identify as disABLEd, women, and people from disadvantaged communities in Corporate America. She serves on the Board of Directors for the NJ Pride Chamber of Commerce.
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Lockerbie is entering its fourth year in business since it opened its doors in 2019, after its Managing Partner left positions at a Big 4 and Big 3 management consultancy firms to better equip organizations to fulfill their missions and advocate for good. Their clients are Fortune 1000 and Private Equity clients. They are headquartered in a Hub-Zone and have eleven federal and state supplier diversity-owned certifications. The firm is owned, operated, and managed by a woman, Stephanie E. Lokker, and a team of former big 3 and 4 consultants on staff.
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SOLNA, Sweden, April 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Loomis' Annual Report and Sustainability Report for 2021 is now available at www.loomis.com.
Upcoming information to be released:
Interim Report January - March May 4, 2022
Interim Report January - June July 22, 2022
Interim Report January - September October 28, 2022
This press release is also available on the company's website, www.loomis.com.
April 5, 2022
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LONDON, April 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- MGC Pharmaceuticals Ltd. (LSE: MXC, ASX: MXC, OTC:MGCLF), a European based bio-pharma company specializing in the production and development of phytomedicines, has signed an exclusive distribution agreement with Sciensus Rare, a part of UK health care group, Sciensus, for the distribution of CannEpil® and CogniCann® in key European territories and the UK.
The agreement is for the distribution in key European territories and the UK for CannEpil®, used to treat Drug Resistant Epilepsy, and CogniCann®, used to treat patients with Dementia and Alzheimer's disease.
Sciensus Rare is an international pharmaceutical company based in the Netherlands, specializing in the provision of rare disease medicines through decentralised clinical trials and medical early access programs, with over 30-year of experience in providing health care services, and expanding medical access for products in Western Europe.
Under the terms of the distribution agreement, Sciensus Rare has been appointed the exclusive distributor of CannEpil® and CogniCann® in Denmark, France, Italy, Spain, Luxembourg, and the United Kingdom, some of the most advanced pharmaceutical markets in the world, for an initial 4-year term. After the initial 12 months of the agreement, Sciensus Rare will be subject to minimum purchase order requirements to maintain its exclusive distributor status. The Parties have agreed that MGC Pharma will continue to be responsible for seeking Market Authorization in these territories, while Sciensus Rare will be responsible for applications to Early Access Programmes and Named Patient Programmes.
Roby Zomer, Managing Director and CEO of MGC Pharma, commented:
"Sciensus Rare is an excellent pharmaceutical service company, with the experience and expertise necessary to increase clinical access for both CannEpil® and CogniCann® to those patients who are most in need.
This is another important step in widening patient access to our pharmaceutical products, and puts in place a long term plan to build the distribution networks required in Western Europe, one of the most important pharmaceutical markets in the world."
Gareth Williams, President of Sciensus Rare, commented:
"We are extremely pleased to be working in partnership with MGC Pharmaceuticals within the exciting global medical cannabis market and look forward to supporting clinicians with access to both CannEpil® and CogniCann®."
CannEpil® is a phytocannabinoid derived Investigational Medicinal Product designed to treat Drug Resistant Epilepsy with a high CBD, low THC formula, and was made available for distribution and prescription in Ireland in 2019 as part of the Ireland's Medical Cannabis Access Programme. A research report prepared by Alacrita, a life sciences consulting company, suggested potential market in the agreement territories of 150,000 adults and children suffering from refractory epilepsy1.
CogniCann® is a phytocannabinoid derived Investigational Medicinal Product designed to treat patients with Dementia and Alzheimer's disease, and is undergoing a Phase II clinical trial at the University of Notre Dame in Perth, Western Australia, which has been designed to evaluate the potential behavioural benefits of CogniCann® on patients suffering from these ailments.
MGC Pharmaceuticals Ltd (LSE: MXC, ASX: MXC, OTC: MGCLF) is a European based bio-pharma company developing and supplying affordable standardized phytomedicines to patients globally. The Company's founders were key figures in the global medical cannabis industry and the core business strategy is to develop and supply high quality phytocannabinoid derived medicines for the growing demand in the medical markets in Europe, North America and Australasia. MGC Pharma has a robust product offering targeting two widespread medical conditions – Epilepsy and Dementia – and has further products in the development pipeline.
Employing its 'Nature to Medicine' strategy, MGC Pharma has partnered with renowned institutions and academia to optimize cultivation and the development of targeted phytocannabinoid derived medicines products prior to production in the Company's EU-GMP Certified manufacturing facility.
Recent research highlights the positive impact of using specific phytocannabinoid formulations developed by MGC Pharma in the treatment of glioblastoma, the most aggressive and so far therapeutically resistant primary brain tumour.
MGC Pharma has a growing patient base in Australia, the UK, Brazil and Ireland and has a global distribution footprint via an extensive network of commercial partners meaning that it is poised to supply the global market.
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Sciensus Rare is a speciality pharmacy focused on rare diseases, providing turnkey services for emerging and medium-sized biotech organizations, achieving market access for their products in Europe and beyond. Sciensus Rare offers five main services; decentralized clinical trials, medicines access, tailored supply chain management, patient and family support and outcome monitoring.
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New POS Station with Epson Thermal Printer Offers Full Mobile All-in-One Solution for Retail and Hospitality Environments
LOS ALAMITOS, Calif., April 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- In today's retail and hospitality settings, frictionless check-out is a must-have to remain competitive and ensure customer satisfaction. Epson, a supplier of industry-leading Point of Sale (POS) solutions, and Newcastle Systems, a leading provider of industrial mobile-powered carts designed to make retail floors more efficient, have partnered to deliver a new, fully mobile all-in-one line-busting POS solution.
Enabling businesses to create flexible and safe check-out locations from anywhere in the store – indoor or outdoor – the new Mobile Powered POS Station combines an Epson receipt printer and a lightweight, yet durable Newcastle POS powered cart. The Mobile Powered POS Station can use one of many Epson printers, including the OmniLink® TM-T88 series, TM-m30II-NT , OmniLink TM-m50, as well as the award-winning OmniLink TM-m30II-SL compact thermal with built-in tablet mount, and the recently released OmniLink TM-L100 liner-free compatible thermal label printer.
"I think everyone has been in a situation in which they've abandoned a purchase, or at least considered it, because the checkout line was too long," said Kevin Ledversis, director of sales, Newcastle Systems, Inc. "The ideal solution to quickly eliminate long lines during peak periods, this new mobile powered POS station with an Epson printer gives businesses the flexibility to add mobile POS locations whenever and wherever they are needed, and further help to facilitate a positive customer shopping experience."
The Mobile Powered POS Station offers remote power, eliminating dangerous extension cords and costly ceiling drops. Designed specifically with high-traffic retail and hospitality markets in mind, the new solution helps ensure customer and employee safety by allowing for safe distancing, with flexible check-out locations almost anywhere indoor or outdoor, making it ideal for curbside pick-up, parking lot events or garden centers. The station can also be customized to match a business's brand.
"The pandemic has re-shaped the retail and hospitality market, creating a rapid shift in demand for quick and seamless check-out transactions, leaving businesses with a need for durable and flexible POS solutions that better meet their customers' needs," said Frank Anzures, product manager, Business Systems, Epson America, Inc. "Epson receipt printers are designed to save much needed space and users can choose a model to be configured for tabletop or kiosk self-service use. Leveraging the printer with a Newcastle POS powered cart, retail and hospitality businesses are provided with a fully mobile line-busting solution their busy environments demand."
The Newcastle POS powered cart is equipped with an integrated power system designed to hold and power up to four devices for at least eight hours of normal use. When power is running low, businesses can swap out a battery for continuous AC Power.
Newcastle Systems has previously integrated Epson ColorWorks® on-demand color label printers into its mobile-powered workstations to create ideal solutions for on-demand finished goods labeling, as well as Epson WorkForce® Pro WF-M5299 monochrome inkjet printers for battery-powered mobile workstations for round-the-clock warehouse shifts.
Availability
The new Mobile Powered POS station with the Epson OmniLink TM-m30II-SL thermal receipt printer is available now through BlueStar, a global solutions distributor. For more information, visit https://www.bluestarinc.com/index.php?id=5439.
About Epson
Epson is a global technology leader dedicated to co-creating sustainability and enriching communities by leveraging its efficient, compact, and precision technologies and digital technologies to connect people, things, and information. The company is focused on solving societal issues through innovations in home and office printing, commercial and industrial printing, manufacturing, visual and lifestyle. Epson's goal is to become carbon negative and eliminate use of exhaustible underground resources such as oil and metal by 2050.
Led by the Japan-based Seiko Epson Corporation, the worldwide Epson Group generates annual sales of around JPY 1 trillion. global.epson.com/
Epson America, Inc., based in Los Alamitos, Calif., is Epson's regional headquarters for the U.S., Canada, and Latin America. To learn more about Epson, please visit: epson.com. You may also connect with Epson America on Facebook (facebook.com/Epson), Twitter (twitter.com/EpsonAmerica), YouTube (youtube.com/epsonamerica), and Instagram (instagram.com/EpsonAmerica).
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- Core Material Used for Targeted Alpha Therapy (TAT) Expected to Be Novel Treatment for Cancer -
TOKYO, April 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Nihon Medi-Physics Co., Ltd. (NMP), a leading radiopharmaceutical company in Japan, announced on April 5, 2022, that the company has successfully manufactured actinium-225 (Ac-225), a core material used for Targeted Alpha (*1) Therapy (TAT), on a GBq (*2) scale at its drug production facility (*3). The success represents the world's first (*4) manufacturing of Ac-225 with cyclotron at a quality level of materials for investigational drugs on a GBq scale.
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TAT, in a form of Theranostics (*5), is a new therapeutic concept to attack cancer cells in the body, applying a therapeutic agent in which alpha particle-emitting radionuclides that can kill cancer cells are bound to antibodies selectively accumulated in protein in cancer cells. In particular, following the report on its high therapeutic effects in patients with prostate cancer with systemic metastases in 2016 (*6), clinical studies on TAT with alpha particle-emitting Ac-225 have been globally and increasingly conducted.
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Active development and manufacturing of Ac-225, a radionuclide not naturally present, are ongoing accordingly. The manufacturing technology developed by NMP applies a commercially used small accelerator using radium-226 (Ra-226) as a material. This method using (p, 2n) nuclear reaction (*7) is economically efficient and ensures more stable production than other methods with an electron accelerator similarly using Ra-226 as a material because the former uses less Ra-226.
NMP aims at early commercialization of Theranostics by promoting a research project (*9) adopted in 2017 in (the second) Cyclic Innovation for Clinical Empowerment (CiCLE (*8)) conducted by the Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development (AMED). NMP's manufacturing technology allows production of sufficient Ac-225 required for clinical development at its production facility. Thus, the company can further accelerate the research and development of TAT with collaboration among industry, academia and government.
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About Nihon Medi-Physics Co., Ltd.
Nihon Medi-Physics is engaging in ensuring stable supply and research and development of the products as a leading manufacturer of radiopharmaceuticals in Japan. Based on the technological proficiency and trust built over the years, the company is also working on research and development of "Theranostics (a combination of therapy and diagnosis)," which is a novel medical technology to provide optimal medical service to each patient, as well as on the dissemination of nuclear medicine in Asian countries by licensing its products. The company will continue contributing to society by creating values as a life science company.
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TOKYO, April 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Nippon Express (Malaysia) Sdn, Bhd. (hereinafter "NX Malaysia"), a Group company of Nippon Express Holdings, Inc., opened a new warehouse in the Free Commercial Zone (FCZ) of Malaysia's Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) on Friday, April 1, to expand its work and cargo storage space.
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NX Malaysia has heretofore been operating out of a 3,800m2 warehouse in the MAS Freight Forwarders Complex (Lot A-9, Lot A-10) in KLIA's FCZ, but growing cargo demand over recent years prompted it to open a new 5,900m2 warehouse (NX Malaysia KLIA DFTZ Center) in the same FCZ, giving it a combined warehouse space of approximately 9,700m2.
The more efficient work flow lines available at the new warehouse will allow NX Malaysia to ensure safer and more rapid handling and to better satisfy the needs of its customers.
Going forward, the NX Group, formerly the Nippon Express Group which renamed its corporate group name following transition to a holding company system in January, will continue utilizing its networks and functions to enhance services to meet the increasingly sophisticated and diversified logistics needs of its customers.
Profile of new warehouse facility
- Name: KLIA DFTZ Center, Nippon Express (Malaysia) Sdn, Bhd.
- Address: Cainiao Aeropolis eWTP Hub, Free Commercial Zone (FCZ KLIA Cargo Village), Jalan Klia S3, Kuala Lumpur International Airport, 64000 Sepang, Selangor Darul Ehsan
- Warehouse area: 5,896m2
Profile of pre-existing warehouse facility
- Name: KLIA Branch, Lot A-9, Lot A-10, Nippon Express (Malaysia) Sdn, Bhd.
- Address: Lot A-10, MAS Freight Forwarders Complex, KLIA Free Commercial Zone, Southern Zone, Kuala Lumpur International Airport, 64000 Sepang, Selangor Darul Ehsan
- Warehouse area: 3,746m2
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VANCOUVER, BC, April 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Planet Based Foods Global Inc. (CSE: PBF) (OTCQB: PBFFF) (FRA: AZ0) ("PBFG", "Planet Based Foods" or the "Company") is pleased to announce a new distribution partnership with US Foods Inc. ("US Foods"), a leading supplier of foodservice products throughout the United States.
The Company's popular plant-based options will be initially distributed by two of US Foods' most important divisions, La Mirada and Corona, which supply a variety of products to restaurants, business and industry, healthcare and many key independent and multi-unit operators throughout the Southern California region. Both divisions will stock The Original Burger, Mild Breakfast Sausage Patties and The Italian Sausage Crumble, while the Green Chili Southwest Burger and Hot Breakfast Sausage Patties will also be available via special order.
"As our new distribution partner, we are thrilled that US Foods will be debuting the Planet Based Foods brand to their significant customer base, highlighting us as a premier and unique offering in their substantial plant-based and healthy-eating portfolio," said Planet Based Foods' President and CEO Braelyn Davis. "We are very excited to be working with one of America's leading food distributors, and look forward to expanding our product reach through this evolving partnership."
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US Foods® is one of America's great food companies and a leading foodservice distributor, partnering with approximately 300,000 restaurants and foodservice operators to help their businesses succeed. With nearly 28,000 employees and more than 70 locations, we provide our customers with a broad and innovative food offering and a comprehensive suite of e-commerce, technology and business solutions.
PBFG, through its wholly-owned subsidiary in San Diego, California, Planet Based Foods, is a producer of sustainable plant-based meat substitutes., Planet Based Foods was founded in 2019 in San Diego, California. With a mission to build a better food system by providing hemp-formulated superfood products to people today that support our planet tomorrow, all Planet Based Foods products are 100% vegan.
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This image shows a page from Tupelo's proposed ordinance governing the growth and sale of medical marijuana with the city's limits on March 22, 2022. The ordinance was approved by the Tupelo Planning Committee on March 21 and will the topic of a City Council work session on March 24.
This image shows a page from Tupelo's proposed ordinance governing the growth and sale of medical marijuana with the city's limits on March 22, 2022. The ordinance was approved by the Tupelo Planning Committee on March 21 and will the topic of a City Council work session on March 24.
TUPELO • Tupelo elected officials are poised to solidify how the city will regulate the growth and sale of medical marijuana during tonight’s council meeting.
The Tupelo City Council will hold a public hearing to gauge public opinion on the city’s proposed medical cannabis order prior to its regularly scheduled meeting, set for 6 p.m. After the hearing, the board is expected to vote on whether to adopt the ordinance.
The ordinance builds on the regulations laid out by the Legislature and uses liquor stores and pharmacies as a base for how Tupelo will oversee dispensaries within city limits. As is, the ordinance would prohibit cannabis facilities from locating 1,000 feet from churches, schools and childcare centers.
Originally, the list of prohibited locations included funeral homes and correctional facilities. During a pre-council meeting on Monday afternoon, council attorney Ben Logan said the proposed ordinance had been changed to permit cannabis facilities to open near these locations.
The buffer can be reduced by 500 feet with the permission of the protected place. Dispensaries are further prohibited from establishing within 1,500 feet of other dispensaries and barred from locating within the Fairgrounds subdistrict.
The ordinance also regulates processing and cultivation facilities depending on their growing space. Anything over 15,000 square feet would need planning committee approval. Signage is also regulated and prohibits the use of cartoon imagery or cannabis plants, including buds and leaves.
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Copies of the ordinance overlay maps and a draft of the ordinance are available at City Hall.
The council has multiple options. It could vote to approve or reject the ordinance as written or to opt out of medical cannabis facilities within city limits. It could reject the ordinance and go with state guidelines alone, or it could vote to accept the ordinance and still opt out.
If the council opts out, residents can petition for a referendum vote to allow facilities within city limits. Opting out of facilities does not bar residents from obtaining medical cannabis certificates or bar the use of medical cannabis within the city.
Though the option to opt-out is present, officials previously said they do not expect the council to move in that direction.
“I don’t think that the city will opt out unless we have something major come up,” Ward 2 Councilman Lynn Bryan said during a work session last week.
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BLUE MOUNTAIN • Blue Mountain throttled Rust in Game 1 Monday in non-conference action, winning easily 16-6 behind a pair of home runs.
The Toppers struck early, scoring four in the first inning behind an RBI single by Dylan Hale (JR/Southaven, Miss.) to score Reiley Tate (JR/West Point, Miss.), a two-run homer by Anthony Lipsey (SR/Myrtle, Miss.) to left off Rust's Malik Berrien and an RBI double by Easton Rainer (SR/Meridian, Miss.) to score Kelton Hall (JR/Ingomar, Miss.).
Blue Mountain would kick its offense into second gear in the second inning, scoring nine runs. The inning was highlighted by a three-run double from Alex Frillman (JR/Southaven, Miss.) and a two-run homer by Hall in the third inning giving BMC a 15-1 lead at that point.
The Bearcats would get two runs in the fourth one in the fifth, while BMC starter Pate Phillips (JR/Guntown, Miss.)' (2-0) day ended after three innings, good enough for the pitching victory in the seven-inning game. Phillips would give up three runs on four hits and strike out three.
Lipsey finished with two hits, three RBI and three runs scored, while Hillhouse had two hits for Blue Mountain in the victory
Game 2
The Toppers completed the two-game sweep in the nightcap, along with the four-game series on the season, winning 5-4.
Rust would plate a run in the third against Topper starter Weston Fuller (FR/Hernando, Miss.), but Blue Mountain answered with a two-run double by Dylan Hale and an RBI single from Kelton Hall in the bottom of the third to take a 3-1 lead.
The Bearcats fought back for three runs in the fourth to take a 4-3 lead highlighted by an RBI single by Khalil Robinson.
The Toppers would regain the lead in the bottom of the fifth on an RBI single by Josh Smith (JR/Tupelo, Miss.) that scored Raymond Gonzalez (SR/Miami, Fla.) and another score on a passed ball that plated J.T. Hillhouse (JR/Fulton, Miss.), enough to give the Toppers the victory.
Fuller (2-0) gave the Toppers his best outing of the season, throwing 6.2 innings, giving up three runs on four hits with six Ks. Grant Johnson (SR/Smithville, Miss.) (2) would come on a get the save, striking out Jalin Thomas with runners on second and third in the seventh.
Hale led the way with two hits, two RBI and a run scored for Blue Mountain.
BMC (20-17, 4-8 SSAC) returns to SSAC action Friday and Saturday in a three-game series against Brewton-Parker at 3 & 5 p.m. Friday and noon Saturday.
Showers with the chance of some thunder during the morning hours, then skies turning partly cloudy during the afternoon. High 74F. SE winds shifting to W at 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 100%. Rainfall may reach one inch..
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Partly cloudy skies. A stray shower or thunderstorm is possible. Low 62F. Winds SSE at 5 to 10 mph.
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Armintie Herrington announced a “step back” from her role as Ole Miss assistant women’s basketball coach on Sunday.
She says she’ll prayerfully consider her next opportunity, whatever that may be, in this non-retirement.
If married names fool you, as they sometimes fool me, folks in Northeast Mississippi may remember her as Armintie Price, whose dominant run with the Myrtle girls in the early 2000s ended with the state championship as a senior.
Price, a two-time Daily Journal Player of the Year (2002-03), enjoyed success at every level.
She left Ole Miss as one of only two Division I women’s basketball players to ever record 2,000 points, 1,000 rebounds, 400 assists and 400 steals. The other was Cheryl Miller, the former Southern Cal star.
Price went on to the WNBA where she was Rookie of the Year in 2007. She played for nine seasons and shot 45.4 percent for her career mostly through her uncanny ability to get to the rim.
Her game was fast and exciting and made casual observers pay close attention.
Women’s basketball has many casual observers.
An advertising campaign by Buick during men’s games for this March Madness says that more than 40 percent of athletes are women, but women’s sports receives less than 10 percent of media coverage.
It further states that Buick is committed to raising that percentage.
Perhaps that’s through sponsored content.
Those coverage numbers, if accurate, don’t represent some grand conspiracy.
Coverage decisions align with reader interests.
The women’s game has pockets of great support, not surprisingly, around campuses that have highly successful programs.
Women’s athletic programs have to win at an extremely high level to receive consistent media coverage.
It’s that market demand thing.
There are different guesses as to why fan interest often doesn’t match that of men’s teams.
One factor, it’s been speculated, is that the women’s game lacks the play above the rim.
Simply put, it could be that the American sports fan has too much on his or her plate. If you’re a ticket buyer for college football, men’s basketball and baseball that’s a big financial investment.
So is the time commitment in getting to games.
Those who do support the ladies see speed and athleticism with good shooting, passing and fundamentals and high levels of competition.
The greater concern in women’s athletics right now is not media coverage but the presence of transgender competitors in some sports.
Every individual deserves respect, compassion and the opportunity to pursue dreams.
Those dreams should not cancel out the dreams of other women or girls.
Aside from achievements as a player Armintie Herrington has been a positive influence as a coach, wife and mother.
Her’s has been a career worth noting.
It will be good to see the next turn it takes.
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- New diagnostics solutions will be presented that help clinicians improve patient care and support healthcare systems.
- Participants can join virtually or onsite to learn about timely healthcare topics related to value-based healthcare, digital health and diagnostic technologies.
- Study results from an evaluation of the newly launched AVENIO Tumor Tissue Comprehensive Genomic Profiling Kit for oncology research will be presented.
- For the first time internationally, GenMark, a subsidiary within the Roche Diagnostics division, will showcase the ePlex® System portfolio.
ROTKREUZ, Switzerland, April 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Roche (SIX: RO, ROG; OTCQX: RHHBY) today announced that it will be showcasing next generation diagnostics solutions that will deliver fast and accurate results to help clinicians improve patient care and help reduce the healthcare burden at the 24th IFCC-EFLM European Congress of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicines (EuroMedLab) in Munich, Germany (rescheduled dates 10 - 14 April 2022). These include the cobas® 5800 System that expands access to PCR testing with meaningful and timely results to more patients across the globe, and a new handheld glucose management device, the cobas® pulse, powered by the cobas® infinity edge suite, that equips healthcare professionals with expanded digital capabilities at the point of care.
An evaluation of the recently launched AVENIO Tumor Tissue Comprehensive Genomic Profiling (CGP) Kit for oncology research will be presented. The kit helps expand access to genomic profiling globally, supporting researchers in navigating the complex landscape of cancer research. The findings assess genomic results generated across multiple CGP workflows for variants that are known to cause and drive cancer.
"Roche is committed to developing innovative solutions that equip healthcare professionals with the tools that allow for earlier diagnosis and more personalised treatment, optimising patient care and leading to better outcomes," said Ann Costello, Global Head, Roche Diagnostics Solutions. "We are proud to work in partnership with healthcare professionals across many disease areas and disciplines to enable better healthcare decisions."
Roche will also host its very own highly interactive booth, where attendees can visit and experience how Roche is helping to improve healthcare. Highlights from the booth include an integrated diagnostics lab and data analytics tools that guide the decision-making process toward optimising lab operations, customer delivery, and overall lab performance in a targeted and efficient manner. There will also be a special interactive area at the booth highlighting Roche's COVID-19 response.
"Lab medicine has always played a key role in healthcare, as proven during the Covid-19 pandemic," emphasised Moritz Hartmann, Global Head of Roche Information Solutions. "We are working with industry leaders worldwide on digital health solutions to facilitate data-driven decision-making in any setting. This includes labs, clinics and homes with the ultimate goal to improve care for each patient and reduce inefficiencies in healthcare delivery."
Those unable to attend the congress in person will be able to view and engage in the virtual booth via an online portal, with Ro_Bot, a virtual character, as host: Roche EuroMedLab 2021. Those joining online will be able to follow key sessions via livestream, at no cost.
During the congress, Roche will facilitate discussions on the key topics in diagnostics today, including three scientific symposia. Please find more information here.
About Roche
Founded in1896 in Basel, Switzerland, as one of the first industrial manufacturers of branded medicines, Roche has grown into the world's largest biotechnology company and the global leader in in-vitro diagnostics. The company pursues scientific excellence to discover and develop medicines and diagnostics for improving and saving the lives of people around the world. We are a pioneer in personalised healthcare and want to further transform how healthcare is delivered to have an even greater impact. To provide the best care for each person we partner with many stakeholders and combine our strengths in Diagnostics and Pharma with data insights from the clinical practice.
In recognising our endeavor to pursue a long-term perspective in all we do, Roche has been named one of the most sustainable companies in the pharmaceuticals industry by the Dow Jones Sustainability Indices for the thirteenth consecutive year. This distinction also reflects our efforts to improve access to healthcare together with local partners in every country we work.
Genentech, in the United States, is a wholly owned member of the Roche Group. Roche is the majority shareholder in Chugai Pharmaceutical, Japan.
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VANCOUVER, BC, April 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Rock Tech Lithium Inc. (TSXV: RCK) (OTCQX: RCKTF) (FWB: RJIB) (WKN: A1XF0V) (the "Company" or "Rock Tech") is pleased to announce that the Company has been named to the 2022 TSX Venture 50, an annual ranking of the top performers on the TSX Venture Exchange (the "Exchange").
Markus Bruegmann, CEO of Rock Tech Lithium, comments: "We are very pleased to be recognized as one of the best performers on the TSX Venture Exchange. We have made great progress over the past twelve months in financially equipping Rock Tech. We have also made significant progress on the development of our Georgia Lake lithium project and the pre-construction of our converter in Guben, Brandenburg. Our team has done a great job."
The 2022 TSX Venture 50 winners were selected based on year-over-year performance across three equally weighted criteria: growth in the market capitalization, share price appreciation and value traded for the year ended December 31, 2021.
On June 24, 2021, Rock Tech graduated to Tier 1 of the Exchange. The Exchange classifies issuers into different tiers based on standards, including historical financial performance, stage of development and financial resources of the issuer. Tier 1 is the Exchange's premier tier and is reserved for the Exchange's most advanced issuers with the most significant financial resources.
Rock Tech Lithium is a cleantech company with operations in Canada and Germany that aims to supply the automotive industry with high quality lithium hydroxide "made in Germany". As early as 2024, the Company intends to commission Europe's first lithium converter with a nameplate production capacity of 24,000 tonnes per year. This is equivalent to the volume needed to equip around 500,000 electric cars with lithium-ion batteries.
The Company has set itself the goal of creating the world's first closed loop for lithium, thus closing the raw material gap on the road to clean mobility. Rock Tech owns the Georgia Lake Project in Ontario, Canada and, as early as 2030, around 50 percent of the raw materials used are expected to come from the recycling of batteries.
On behalf of the Board of Directors,
Dirk Harbecke
Chairman
Neither the TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.
The following cautionary statements are in addition to all other cautionary statements and disclaimers contained elsewhere in, or referenced by, this press release.
Certain information set forth in this press release contains "forward-looking information" and "forward-looking statements" (collectively, "forward-looking information") within the meaning of applicable securities laws, which are based on Rock Tech's current expectations, estimates, and assumptions in light of its experience and is perception of historical trends. All statements other than statements of historical facts may constitute forward-looking information. Often, forward-looking information can be identified by the use of words or phrases such as "estimate", "project", "anticipate", "expect", "intend", "believe", "hope", "may" and similar expressions, as well as "will", "shall" and all other indications of future tense. All forward-looking information set forth in this press release is expressly qualified in its entirety by the cautionary statements referred to in this section.
In particular, this new release contains forward-looking information pertaining to: the features and location of the proposed Converter, including the costs and benefits thereof; statements regarding future plans, estimates, and schedules relating to the Company's Converter strategy; statements regarding future activities; anticipated production of lithium hydroxide and related processing methods; statements and expectations regarding the electric vehicle industry; Rock Tech's planning, approval and decision-making process, including relevant factors taken into consideration by the Company; Rock Tech's opinions, beliefs and expectations regarding the Company's business strategy, development and exploration opportunities and projects, and plans and objectives of management for the Company's operations and properties.
Forward-looking information contained in this press release is based on certain assumptions, estimates, expectations, analysis and opinions of the Company and in certain cases, third party experts, that are believed by management of Rock Tech to be reasonable at the time they were made. Such assumptions, estimates and other factors include, among other things: the supply and demand for, deliveries of, and the level and volatility of prices of, feedstock and intermediate and final lithium products, expected growth, performance and business operations, future commodity prices and exchange rates, prospects, growth opportunities and financing available to the Company, general business and economic conditions, results of development and exploration, Rock Tech's ability to procure supplies and other equipment necessary for its business. The foregoing list is not exhaustive of all assumptions which may have been used in developing the forward-looking information. While Rock Tech considers these assumptions, estimates and factors to be reasonable based on information currently available, they may prove to be incorrect. Forward-looking information should not be read as a guarantee of future performance or results.
In addition, forward-looking information involves known and unknown risks and uncertainties and other factors, many of which are beyond Rock Tech's control, that may cause Rock Tech's actual events, results, performance and/or achievements to be materially different from that which is expressed or implied by such forward-looking information. Risks and uncertainties that may cause actual events, results, performance and/or achievements to vary materially include the Company's ability to access funding required to invest in available opportunities and projects (including the proposed Converter) and on satisfactory terms, the current and potential adverse impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and recent geopolitical hostilities; the risk that Rock Tech will not be able to meet its financial obligations as they fall due, changes in commodity and other prices, Rock Tech's ability to attract and retain skilled staff and to secure feedstock from third party suppliers, unanticipated events and other difficulties related to construction, development and operation of the proposed Converter, the cost of compliance with current and future environmental and other laws and regulations, title defects, competition from existing and new competitors, changes in currency, exchange rates and market prices of Rock Tech's securities, Rock Tech's history of losses, impacts of climate change and other risks and uncertainties described from time to time in Rock Tech's public disclosure documents available on the Company's SEDAR profile at www.sedar.com, including those discussed under the heading "Financial Instruments and Other Risks" in Rock Tech's most recently filed Management Discussion and Analysis. Such risks and uncertainties do not represent an exhaustive list of all risk factors that could cause actual events, results, performance and/or achievements to vary materially from the forward-looking information.
We cannot assure you that actual events, results, performance and/or achievements will be consistent with the forward-looking information and management's assumptions may prove to be incorrect. Forward-looking information reflects Rock Tech management's views as at the date the information is created. Except as may be required by law, Rock Tech undertakes no obligation and expressly disclaims any responsibility, obligation or undertaking to update or to revise any forward-looking information, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, to reflect any change in Rock Tech's expectations or any change in events, conditions or circumstances on which any such information is based.
Given these uncertainties, readers are cautioned not to rely on the forward-looking information set forth in this press release.
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Properties Spanning Three Prestigious California AVAs Further Solidify the Family-Owned Winery's Estate Fruit Sourcing and Commitment to Quality
ST. HELENA, Calif., April 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Rombauer Vineyards today announced the acquisition of three premium vineyards totaling 154 vine acres in the prestigious California appellations of Carneros-Sonoma, Sonoma Valley and Fiddletown. The acquisitions include the Haire Vineyard in Carneros-Sonoma, the Carriger Vineyard in Sonoma Valley, and an historic vineyard in the Fiddletown AVA of Amador County, bringing the family-owned winery's estate and leased vineyards to a total of 830 planted vine acres.
"The Rombauer family's goal has always been to produce the highest quality wines possible. Having control over our own vineyards and consistent access to premium fruit is key to our philosophy of continual improvement in wine quality and style" said President and Chief Executive Officer Bob Knebel. "The acquisition of these long-established premium vineyards also gives us the resources to satisfy the increasing demand for our world class portfolio of wines."
The 52-acre Haire Vineyard in Carneros has been a source of Chardonnay for Rombauer for nearly two decades, ever since Koerner Rombauer shook hands with owner Jim Haire on a deal to acquire the fruit. Planted by the Haire family in 2000 and farmed by them ever since, this historic block near the San Pablo Bay features Haire clay loam soils. Fruit from the vineyard is described by Rombauer Vice President of Viticulture and Winemaking Richie Allen as having the classic characteristics of melon, peach, and nectarine. It is a prized source for Rombauer's Carneros Chardonnay.
The Carriger Vineyard sits in a small pocket on the southwestern reach of Sonoma Valley, an historical AVA with a tradition of winegrowing dating back over 150 years. With well-drained soils of high rock content, the vineyard has been a source for Rombauer's popular Sauvignon Blanc, with 45 acres planted to the variety. Climatically the site is a "sweet spot" between Rombauer's other Sauvignon Blanc sources in the warmer Napa Valley and cooler Russian River Valley, and the fruit brings punchy varietal intensity to the wine. Rombauer plans to replant 45 additional acres at Carriger to Sauvignon Blanc to meet demand for this wine.
The Rombauer family has long been a fan of the Sierra Foothills and the Fiddletown AVA in Amador County where it owns a winery, tasting room and vineyards. This new acquisition of 90 acres – 13 planted to old vine Zinfandel – further solidifies its commitment to the growing region. Sitting at an elevation ranging from 1,600-1,700 feet, this new Fiddletown vineyard features multiple sloping hillsides with different aspects and sandy loam soils from decayed granite. With plans to plant an additional 50 acres to Zinfandel and Barbera, Rombauer has begun preparing the land and laying out new blocks destined to become part of the winery's classic California Zinfandel.
"Owning and farming our own vineyards is essential to the high-quality winemaking we are dedicated to, and these three sites are destined to become jewels in Rombauer's portfolio," said Vice President of Viticulture and Winemaking Richie Allen. "It's especially gratifying to see properties like Haire and Fiddletown pass from family to family. Rombauer is determined to be an excellent, long-term steward of these premium sites."
About Rombauer
Rombauer Vineyards is a Napa Valley based, family-owned winery founded in 1980 by Koerner and Joan Rombauer. Dedicated to providing gracious hospitality, the Rombauer family and staff take pride in creating joyful moments for their customers across the country and at their Napa Valley and Sierra Foothills tasting rooms. Rombauer owns and sustainably farms 830 acres of vineyards in Carneros, Atlas Peak, Stags Leap, St. Helena, Calistoga, Sonoma Valley, and the Sierra Foothills. Rombauer's Chardonnays, Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignons, Barbera, Zinfandels and Sauvignon Blanc are beloved by wine enthusiasts around the world. www.rombauer.com
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Data being presented at the EHRA 2022 shows Cardiologs' deep neural network model is better than Apple Watch ECG 2.0 algorithm at detecting & classifying irregular heart rhythms
PARIS and BOSTON, April 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Cardiologs, a global leader in artificial intelligence (AI) cardiology diagnostics, today announced the results of a new clinical study that showed Cardiologs' deep learning AI dramatically reduces inconclusive results returned by the latest Apple Watch ECG companion app (Apple ECG 2.0) while maintaining performance (sensitivity and specificity).
"Wearable devices, such as the Apple Watch, are capable of recording a single-lead ECG to determine cardiac rhythm. However, a large proportion of the smartwatch readings come back as inconclusive. This problem was solved using Cardiologs' AI algorithm. The data showed Cardiologs' AI performed equally as well but, remarkably, the results were almost never inconclusive," said Dr. Laurent Fiorina, Cardiac Electrophysiologist at the Institut Cardiovasculaire Paris-Sud (ICPS).
The study included 101 patients in a typical tertiary care hospital who were assessed for atrial arrhythmia (AA). It was conducted using simultaneous ECGs: one 12-lead ECG along with single lead smartwatch ECGs taken from the wrist. The smartwatch recordings were then processed to compare the two algorithms' performances against 12-lead ECG readings by physicians, which is considered to be the gold standard method.
Overall, the Apple Watch ECG 2.0 App yielded inconclusive diagnoses for 19% (19/101) of all SmartWatch recordings. In comparison, Cardiologs' deep neural network model reduced that number to 0% (0/101) while maintaining performance in accuracy, specificity and sensitivity.
"These results offer great promise for using smartwatches to screen for irregular heart rhythms. Even the latest Apple Watch algorithm returns inconclusive results for one in five patients, which physicians must then review. By eliminating inconclusive results, we can save physicians significant time spent on triage and analysis, and reduce the risk of missed, delayed, or incorrect arrhythmia detection," said Cardiologs CEO and Co-Founder Yann Fleureau.
Cardiologs' ePoster presentation, "Smartwatch-based detection of atrial arrhythmia using a deep neural network in a tertiary care hospital," will be presented on Tuesday, April 5th (from 8:30 to 15:00 CET) at the European Heart Rhythm Association (EHRA) 2022 Congress in Copenhagen, Denmark.
For more information visit www.cardiologs.com or visit booth #D100.
About Cardiologs
Cardiologs is a medical technology company committed to transforming cardiac diagnostics using medical-grade artificial intelligence and cloud technology. Developed in partnership with leading physicians, the Cardiologs Holter Platform empowers clinicians worldwide to deliver expert cardiac care faster and more efficiently. CE-Marked and FDA cleared for detection of 14 cardiac arrhythmias, the Cardiologs Holter Platform is built on a growing database of more than 20 million ECG recordings and is supported by a number of clinical publications.
In November 2021, Cardiologs announced that they were being acquired by Philips to expand their cardiac portfolio.
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Adaptive service assurance is critical for ultra-reliable low latency communications
QUEBEC CITY, QC, April 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - EXFO, the communication's industry's test, monitoring and analytics experts, announced a Tier 1 U.S. mobile network operator (MNO) has chosen to deploy EXFO's Nova Active testing capabilities across their 5G network from core to edge to last mile, helping provide ultra-fast, ultra-reliable connections for customers. Results of synthetic network tests from Nova Active will be paired with EXFO's Nova SensAI software—already deployed with the MNO—to diagnose customer-impacting performance issues in real time and to reduce troubleshooting mean time to repair (MTTR).
Integral to 5G, edge computing is essential for delivering ultra-reliable low latency communications (URLLC) by bringing compute and network functions closer to users. This in turn enables service and applications that require ultra-low latency and high throughput. However, it is challenging to deliver a seamless user experience when multiple handoffs are required between cell sites, edge cloud platform locations, distributed network functions and application hosting services. To isolate and resolve issues that impact customer quality of experience, MNOs need a new kind of service assurance technology that can adapt in real time to dynamic, constantly evolving services.
To overcome these 5G performance challenges, EXFO will equip the Tier 1 U.S. MNO with adaptive service assurance technology to deliver the quality of experience that customers expect from its leading 5G network. EXFO's Nova Active and Nova SensAI test solutions close the visibility gap in the 5G core and edge networks and cloud infrastructure by testing network layers 2 through 7 as well as applications and services like over-the-top (OTT) video. EXFO's solution will provide the MNO with actionable insights from across the network by integrating with service orchestration platforms, data lakes, telemetry data and other tools. Equipped with EXFO's adaptive service assurance technology, the MNO's operations team will get the right data at the right time, which will allow them to make real-time decisions and improve network performance.
"EXFO is proud to partner with service providers dedicated to excellent customer experience, like this Tier 1 U.S. mobile network operator. The service assurance technology we provide adapts in real time to dynamic 5G networks, equipping MNO operations teams to rapidly identify and troubleshoot customer-impacting issues," said Philippe Morin, EXFO's Chief Executive Officer. "EXFO's solutions are designed to scale dynamically as the network grows, automating testing of new last mile connections and service slices. I look forward to seeing how this new deployment will continue to produce innovations and allow the MNO to provide ultra-fast, ultra-reliable connections for people, businesses and communities."
EXFO develops smarter test, monitoring and analytics solutions for the global communications industry. We are trusted advisers to fixed and mobile network operators, hyperscalers and leaders in the manufacturing, development and research sector. They count on us to deliver superior visibility and insights into network performance, service reliability and user experience. Building on our 35 years of innovation, EXFO's unique blend of equipment, software and services enable faster, more confident transformations related to 5G, cloud-native and fiber optic networks.
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- Plans for roll-out in the MENA and CEE regions underway through joint venture with global investment conglomerate Dubai Holding
PASADENA, Calif. and DUBAI, UAE, April 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- PopID, a consumer authentication service, and Visa (NYSE: V), the world's leader in digital payments, announced a partnership to collaborate on launching facial verification payment acceptance in the Middle East region. The goal of the partnership is to provide cardholders with new safe, secure, and innovative ways to pay.
The first operators to welcome PopPay (PopID's facial biometric payment solution) in the market will be Costa Coffee, MMI, and grocery chain Géant, in addition to Cove Beach at Caesars Palace Dubai and Coca-Cola Arena Dubai, both of which belong to the portfolio of Dubai Holding, the diversified global investment company headquartered in Dubai, UAE.
In addition to select brick-and-mortar businesses of Dubai Holding adopting PopPay as a new way to accept payments, PopID has recently signed an agreement with Dubai Holding to soon establish a joint venture that will support the roll-out of PopPay in the CEE and MENA regions.
During the initial phase of the partnership, Dubai Holding will deploy PopPay at some of its assets across its leading destinations and attractions, which will be followed by the adoption of the payment technology across Dubai Holding's wider ecosystem and through partners across CEE and MENA region.
According to the Economist Intelligence Unit, 85% of executives believe biometrics will be used to authenticate the vast majority of payments in the next ten years. "Facial biometric payments are at the forefront of payments innovation, providing cardholders a fast, seamless and most importantly, secure way to authenticate and make a payment," said Akshay Chopra, Head of Visa CEMEA Innovation & Design. "From across our partner network, we've seen heightened interest in co-creating new facial and biometric payments moments. Through this partnership with PopPay, we are keen to help clients roll out biometric payment capabilities faster and with more success."
Under the alliance with Visa, issuing banks will be invited to join the platform and give their customers the ability to link their facial biometrics to their debit or credit cards to make payments; and acquiring banks will be offered the opportunity to distribute PopID's proprietary face pay terminals to brick and mortar businesses. "We expect face pay to become the global standard for payments, and we are determined to make PopPay the consumer brand that is used and trusted by people all over the world," said John Miller, CEO of PopID.
Throughout 2022, the platform will look to further scale across the Middle East region by partnering with key merchants to provide this leading payments technology to consumers. This second international deployment follows the launch of PopPay Japan through a joint venture with a subsidiary of SoftBank Corp.
PopID provides a trusted and secure platform that enables businesses to give their customers and employees the option of authenticating their identity using advanced facial verification.
Visa Inc. (NYSE: V) is the world's leader in digital payments. Our mission is to connect the world through the most innovative, reliable and secure payment network - enabling individuals, businesses and economies to thrive. Our advanced global processing network, VisaNet, provides secure and reliable payments around the world, and is capable of handling more than 65,000 transaction messages a second. The company's relentless focus on innovation is a catalyst for the rapid growth of connected commerce on any device, and a driving force behind the dream of a cashless future for everyone, everywhere. As the world moves from analog to digital, Visa is applying our brand, products, people, network and scale to reshape the future of commerce. For more information, visit About Visa and @VisaNews.
Dubai Holding is a diversified global investment company with operations in over 13 countries and employing over 20,000 people. Established in 2004, Dubai Holding touches the lives of millions of Dubai residents and visitors through its extensive portfolio of over AED 130 billion worth of assets that support the diversification and sustainable growth of Dubai's economy across 10 key sectors: Real Estate, Hospitality, Leisure & Entertainment, Media, ICT, Design, Education, Retail, Manufacturing & Logistics and Science.
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Ukraine says Russia preparing offensive in southeast
BUCHA, Ukraine (AP) - Russian forces on Tuesday were preparing for an offensive in Ukraine’s southeast, the Ukrainian military said, as President Volodymyr Zelenskyy prepared to talk to the U.N. Security Council amid outrage over evidence Moscow’s soldiers deliberately killed civilians.
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s government is pouring soldiers into Ukraine’s east to gain control of the industrial heartland known as the Donbas. That follows a Russian withdrawal from towns around the capital, Kyiv, which led to the discovery of corpses, prompting accusations of war crimes and demands for tougher sanctions on Moscow.
Russian forces are focused on seizing the cities of Popasna and Rubizhne in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions and the Black Sea port of Mariupol, the General Staff said on its Facebook page. Donetsk and Luhansk are controlled by Russian-backed separatists and recognized by Moscow as independent states. The General Staff said access to Kharkiv in the east, Ukraine’s second-largest city, was blocked.
“The enemy is regrouping troops and concentrating its efforts on preparing an offensive operation in the east of our country,” the statement said. “The goal is to establish full control over the territory of Donetsk and Luhansk regions.”
Zelenskyy, speaking from Ukraine, planned to address Security Council diplomats Tuesday amid demands for an investigation of possible war crimes.
Germany and France reacted by expelling dozens of Russian diplomats, suggesting they were spies. President Joe Biden said Putin should be tried for war crimes.
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“This guy is brutal, and what’s happening in Bucha is outrageous,” Biden said, referring to the town northwest of the capital that was the scene of some of the horrors.
In another show of support, European Union Commission President Ursula von der Leyen plans to travel to Kyiv to meet with Zelenskyy this week, her spokesman Eric Mamer announced.
Before Zelenskyy speaks, the most powerful U.N. body is due to be briefed by Secretary-General Antonio Guterres; his political chief, Rosemary DiCarlo; and U.N. humanitarian chief Martin Griffiths, who is trying to arrange a cease-fire. Griffiths met with Russian officials in Moscow on Monday and is due to visit Ukraine.
Associated Press journalists in Bucha counted dozens of corpses in civilian clothes and apparently without weapons, many shot at close range, and some with their hands bound or their flesh burned.
After touring neighborhoods of Bucha and speaking to hungry survivors lining up for bread, Zelenskyy pledged in a video address that Ukraine would work with the European Union and the International Criminal Court to identify Russian fighters involved in any atrocities.
“The time will come when every Russian will learn the whole truth about who among their fellow citizens killed, who gave orders, who turned a blind eye to the murders,” he said.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov dismissed the scenes outside Kyiv as a “stage-managed anti-Russian provocation.” Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said the images contained “signs of video forgery and various fakes.”
Russia has rejected previous allegations of atrocities as fabrications by Ukraine.
Ukrainian officials said the bodies of at least 410 civilians have been found in towns around Kyiv that were recaptured from Russian forces.
The Ukrainian prosecutor-general’s office described one room discovered in Bucha as a “torture chamber.” In a statement, it said the bodies of five men with their hands bound were found in the basement of a children’s sanatorium where civilians were tortured and killed.
The bodies seen by AP journalists in Bucha included at least 13 in and around a building that local people said Russian troops used as a base. Three other bodies were found in a stairwell, and a group of six were burned together.
The dead witnessed by the news agency’s journalists also included bodies wrapped in black plastic, piled on one end of a mass grave in a Bucha churchyard. Many of those victims had been shot in cars or killed in explosions trying to flee the city. With the morgue full and the cemetery impossible to reach, the churchyard was the only place to keep the dead, Father Andrii Galavin said.
Tanya Nedashkivs’ka said she buried her husband in a garden outside their apartment building after he was detained by Russian troops. His body was one of those left heaped in a stairwell.
“Please, I am begging you, do something!” she said. “It’s me talking, a Ukrainian woman, a Ukrainian woman, a mother of two kids and one grandchild. For all the wives and mothers, make peace on Earth so no one ever grieves again.”
Another Bucha resident, Volodymyr Pilhutskyi, said his neighbor Pavlo Vlasenko was taken away by Russian soldiers because the military-style pants he was wearing and the uniforms that Vlasenko said belonged to his security guard son appeared suspicious. When Vlasenko’s body was later found, it had burn marks from a flamethrower, his neighbor said.
Russia’s U.N. ambassador, Vassily Nebenzia, insisted Monday at a news conference that during the time that Bucha was under Russian control, “not a single local person has suffered from any violent action.”
However, high-resolution satellite imagery by commercial provider Maxar Technologies showed that many of the bodies have been lying in the open for weeks, during the time that Russian forces were in Bucha. The New York Times first reported on the satellite images showing the dead.
Western and Ukrainian leaders have accused Russia of war crimes before. The International Criminal Court’s prosecutor has already opened an investigation. But the latest reports ratcheted up the condemnation.
German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said the images from Bucha reveal the “unbelievable brutality of the Russian leadership and those who follow its propaganda.”
French President Emmanuel Macron said there is “clear evidence of war crimes” in Bucha that demand new punitive measures.
“I’m in favor of a new round of sanctions and in particular on coal and gasoline. We need to act,” he said on France-Inter radio.
Though united in outrage, the European allies appeared split on how to respond. While Poland urged Europe to quickly wean itself off Russian energy, Germany said it would stick with a gradual approach of phasing out coal and oil imports over the next several months.
Russia withdrew many of its forces from the area around Kyiv after being thwarted in its bid to swiftly capture the capital. It has instead poured troops into southeastern Ukraine.
About two-thirds of the Russian troops around Kyiv have left and are either in Belarus or on their way there, probably getting more supplies and reinforcements, said a senior U.S. defense official who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss an intelligence assessment.
More than 1,500 civilians were able to escape Mariupol on Monday, using the dwindling number of private vehicles available to leave, Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk said. The besieged southern port city has seen some of the heaviest fighting of the war.
But amid the fighting, a Red Cross-accompanied convoy of buses that has been thwarted for days on end in a bid to deliver supplies and evacuate residents was again unable to get inside the city, Vereshchuk said.
Elsewhere, Russian shelling killed 11 people in the southern city of Mykolaiv, regional governor Vitaliy Kim said in a video message on social media.
Zelenskyy appealed for more weaponry as Russia prepares new offensives.
“If we had already got what we needed — all these planes, tanks, artillery, anti-missile and anti-ship weapons — we could have saved thousands of people,” he said.
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Yuras Karmanau in Lviv, Ukraine; Edith Lederer at the United Nations; Lolita Baldor in Washington and Associated Press journalists around the world contributed to this report.
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BUCHA, Kyiv Oblast — Russian forces on Tuesday were preparing for an offensive in Ukraine’s southeast, the Ukrainian military said, as President Volodymyr Zelenskyy prepared to talk to the U.N. Security Council amid outrage over evidence Moscow’s soldiers deliberately killed civilians.
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s government is pouring soldiers into Ukraine’s east to gain control of the industrial heartland known as the Donbas. That follows a Russian withdrawal from towns around the capital, Kyiv, which led to the discovery of corpses, prompting accusations of war crimes and demands for tougher sanctions on Moscow.
Russian forces are focused on seizing the cities of Popasna and Rubizhne in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions and the Black Sea port of Mariupol, the General Staff said on its Facebook page. Donetsk and Luhansk are controlled by Russian-backed separatists and recognized by Moscow as independent states. The General Staff said access to Kharkiv in the east, Ukraine’s second-largest city, was blocked.
“The enemy is regrouping troops and concentrating its efforts on preparing an offensive operation in the east of our country," the statement said. “The goal is to establish full control over the territory of Donetsk and Luhansk regions."
Zelenskyy, speaking from Ukraine, planned to address Security Council diplomats Tuesday amid demands for an investigation of possible war crimes.
Germany and France reacted by expelling dozens of Russian diplomats, suggesting they were spies. President Joe Biden said Putin should be tried for war crimes.
“This guy is brutal, and what’s happening in Bucha is outrageous,” Biden said, referring to the town northwest of the capital that was the scene of some of the horrors.
In another show of support, European Union Commission President Ursula von der Leyen plans to travel to Kyiv to meet with Zelenskyy this week, her spokesman Eric Mamer announced.
Before Zelenskyy speaks, the most powerful U.N. body is due to be briefed by Secretary-General Antonio Guterres; his political chief, Rosemary DiCarlo; and U.N. humanitarian chief Martin Griffiths, who is trying to arrange a cease-fire. Griffiths met with Russian officials in Moscow on Monday and is due to visit Ukraine.
Associated Press journalists in Bucha counted dozens of corpses in civilian clothes and apparently without weapons, many shot at close range, and some with their hands bound or their flesh burned.
After touring neighborhoods of Bucha and speaking to hungry survivors lining up for bread, Zelenskyy pledged in a video address that Ukraine would work with the European Union and the International Criminal Court to identify Russian fighters involved in any atrocities.
“The time will come when every Russian will learn the whole truth about who among their fellow citizens killed, who gave orders, who turned a blind eye to the murders,” he said.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov dismissed the scenes outside Kyiv as a “stage-managed anti-Russian provocation.” Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said the images contained “signs of video forgery and various fakes.”
Russia has rejected previous allegations of atrocities as fabrications by Ukraine.
Ukrainian officials said the bodies of at least 410 civilians have been found in towns around Kyiv that were recaptured from Russian forces.
The Ukrainian prosecutor-general’s office described one room discovered in Bucha as a “torture chamber.” In a statement, it said the bodies of five men with their hands bound were found in the basement of a children’s sanatorium where civilians were tortured and killed.
The bodies seen by AP journalists in Bucha included at least 13 in and around a building that local people said Russian troops used as a base. Three other bodies were found in a stairwell, and a group of six were burned together.
The dead witnessed by the news agency's journalists also included bodies wrapped in black plastic, piled on one end of a mass grave in a Bucha churchyard. Many of those victims had been shot in cars or killed in explosions trying to flee the city. With the morgue full and the cemetery impossible to reach, the churchyard was the only place to keep the dead, Father Andrii Galavin said.
Tanya Nedashkivs’ka said she buried her husband in a garden outside their apartment building after he was detained by Russian troops. His body was one of those left heaped in a stairwell.
“Please, I am begging you, do something!” she said. “It’s me talking, a Ukrainian woman, a Ukrainian woman, a mother of two kids and one grandchild. For all the wives and mothers, make peace on Earth so no one ever grieves again."
Another Bucha resident, Volodymyr Pilhutskyi, said his neighbor Pavlo Vlasenko was taken away by Russian soldiers because the military-style pants he was wearing and the uniforms that Vlasenko said belonged to his security guard son appeared suspicious. When Vlasenko’s body was later found, it had burn marks from a flamethrower, his neighbor said.
Russia's U.N. ambassador, Vassily Nebenzia, insisted Monday at a news conference that during the time that Bucha was under Russian control, “not a single local person has suffered from any violent action.”
However, high-resolution satellite imagery by commercial provider Maxar Technologies showed that many of the bodies have been lying in the open for weeks, during the time that Russian forces were in Bucha. The New York Times first reported on the satellite images showing the dead.
Western and Ukrainian leaders have accused Russia of war crimes before. The International Criminal Court’s prosecutor has already opened an investigation. But the latest reports ratcheted up the condemnation.
German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said the images from Bucha reveal the “unbelievable brutality of the Russian leadership and those who follow its propaganda.”
French President Emmanuel Macron said there is “clear evidence of war crimes” in Bucha that demand new punitive measures.
“I’m in favor of a new round of sanctions and in particular on coal and gasoline. We need to act,” he said on France-Inter radio.
Though united in outrage, the European allies appeared split on how to respond. While Poland urged Europe to quickly wean itself off Russian energy, Germany said it would stick with a gradual approach of phasing out coal and oil imports over the next several months.
Russia withdrew many of its forces from the area around Kyiv after being thwarted in its bid to swiftly capture the capital. It has instead poured troops into southeastern Ukraine.
About two-thirds of the Russian troops around Kyiv have left and are either in Belarus or on their way there, probably getting more supplies and reinforcements, said a senior U.S. defense official who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss an intelligence assessment.
More than 1,500 civilians were able to escape Mariupol on Monday, using the dwindling number of private vehicles available to leave, Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk said. The besieged southern port city has seen some of the heaviest fighting of the war.
But amid the fighting, a Red Cross-accompanied convoy of buses that has been thwarted for days on end in a bid to deliver supplies and evacuate residents was again unable to get inside the city, Vereshchuk said.
Elsewhere, Russian shelling killed 11 people in the southern city of Mykolaiv, regional governor Vitaliy Kim said in a video message on social media.
Zelenskyy appealed for more weaponry as Russia prepares new offensives.
“If we had already got what we needed — all these planes, tanks, artillery, anti-missile and anti-ship weapons — we could have saved thousands of people,” he said.
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Yuras Karmanau in Lviv, Ukraine; Edith Lederer at the United Nations; Lolita Baldor in Washington and Associated Press journalists around the world contributed to this report.
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Katy Perry, Lionel Richie, and Luke Bryan watched the performances from a balcony above the stage to make their final judgments. Next week, the audience begins making the judgment.
Now here are your top 24 Idol contestants:
1. Leah Marlene
"You were definitely the guitar queen," Katy Perry said after Leah's showstopping performance. The woman from Normal, Illinois has a style all her own.
2. Jay Copeland
He gave up grad school for a shot at American Idol and it's paying off!
3. Nicolina Bozzo
Nicolina channeled her inner Adele to roll into the top 24.
4. Emyrson Flora
This Cleveland teen has gone from singing in her bedroom to the top 24 on Idol!
5. Katyrah Love
This one earned a spot in the top 24 with a golden voice but still needs a little polish.
"You just need to smooth out and hold out the notes," Katy Perry said after Katyrah's performance. "You sing like Whitney and Whitney's the GOAT."
6. Fritz Hager
Fritz performed an original song that he wrote for his little sister called 'Inconsequential Love.' He got pretty worked up before learning whether he would move forward.
7. Jacob Moran
8. Allegra Miles
9. Cameron Whitcomb
The back-flipping singer is moving on despite leaving the judges scratching their heads.
10. Ava Maybee
"That was her best performance," Katy Perry said from the balcony, but she had to take another step to earn this spot.
Yoli Mayor also gave what Lionel Richie said was a "brilliant" performance.
For the first time ever, Ava and Yoli participated in an on-the-spot "sing-off."
Ava made it through after singing "Roxanne."
"This was one of my favorite experiences of my life," Mayor said. "All I want is their success because that's a beautiful group of humans."
Douglas Mills, Sam Moss, Betty Maxwell, and Dontrell Briggs are also among the contestants who did not make the cut to the top 24.
Kelsie Dolin, the shy one from the south who had a difficult childhood, had never sung in public before Idol. She sang "Before You Go" as her showstopper and drew a standing ovation from the judges for her performance.
Despite that, the judges did not put Kelsie in the top 24.
"The best thing we saw was that light come on inside you," Lionel Richie told her.
"I have something I didn't have coming here," she told the judges. "I think American Idol changed my life."
11. Sir Blake
Songwriter from Chicago who has been struggling to make it is another step close to his dream.
12. Mike Parker
13. Ellie Rowe
14. Tristen Gressett
He's been told to tone down his incredible energy, but in performing "Come Together" for his showstopper, Tristen used his energy to his advantage.
"He's a wild man," Luke Bryan said.
"You have been a work in progress," Lionel Richie said. "I think you are turning into the artist you wanted to be. I didn't want you to be a gimmick. You found your identity."
15. Christian Guardino
This Long Island native made a bold song choice to try to earn a spot in the top 24. It paid off!
16. Noah Thompson
Another bold choice came from this country singer who took on Rihanna's "Stay."
"You got a magic quality going on in your voice," Luke Bryan said.
17. Cadence Baker
She auditioned with her dad but her mom was in the audience for this performance.
18. Huntergirl
"She's the best country singer I've heard," Luke Bryan said while watching this Platinum ticket winner perform.
She drew a standing ovation from all 3 judges.
"If she plays her card right, she could win it," Katy Perry said.
19. Sage
"You have shown us something unique every time," Katy said after her performance.
20. Danielle Finn
This high school student never performed with a band before but she rose to the occasion.
21. Kenedi Anderson
Another Platinum ticket winner advanced with her rendition of "Talking to the Moon" by Bruno Mars, but Lionel Richie warned that she needs to up her game.
"It wasn't her finest," he said.
22. Scarlet
The singer who stormed off during the duet rehearsals after her partner could not remember his lines came back with a strong performance of "You Oughta Know."
"One of the best performances that I have ever done," she said afterward, and the judges agreed.
23. Lady K
This Alabama native has had a long road to the Idol stage.
"Growing up in poverty has definitely been a challenge. I've been homeless. I've been carless. I've been jobless," she said. "I'm at the breaking point where hopefully this changes everything."
Lady K delivered one of the best performances of the night singing "I'd Rather Go Blind" by Etta James.
24. Dan Marshall
The former college football player at Virginia Tech showed a lot of energy on stage performing "Hard Workin' Man" but he faced a challenge from Dakota Hayden, a high school student from Kentucky. He gave an equally strong performance with "Pretty Heart."
The final spot in the top 24 came down to a country boy sing-off.
"Dan is more developed, but I like Dakota's attitude," Katy said.
In the end, Dan's experience put him over the top.
The next stop for these contestants is Disney's Aulani Resort in Hawaii for two nights of performances.
𝐒𝐔𝐑𝐏𝐑𝐈𝐒𝐄!
— American Idol (@AmericanIdol) April 5, 2022
The judges are bringing the 𝗧𝗢𝗣 𝟮𝟰 to @DisneyAulani in 𝐇𝐚𝐰𝐚𝐢𝐢 🌺 to perform and meet with guest mentors @JimmieAllen & @BebeRexha!#AmericanIdol continues next Sunday & Monday! pic.twitter.com/Dji97DuMHD
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BUCHA, Ukraine -- Russian forces on Tuesday were preparing for an offensive in Ukraine's southeast, the Ukrainian military said, as President Volodymyr Zelenskyy prepared to talk to the U.N. Security Council amid outrage over evidence Moscow's soldiers deliberately killed civilians.
Russian President Vladimir Putin's government is pouring soldiers into Ukraine's east to gain control of the industrial heartland known as the Donbas. That follows a Russian withdrawal from towns around the capital, Kyiv, which led to the discovery of corpses, prompting accusations of war crimes and demands for tougher sanctions on Moscow.
Russian forces are focused on seizing the cities of Popasna and Rubizhne in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions and the Black Sea port of Mariupol, the General Staff said on its Facebook page. Donetsk and Luhansk are controlled by Russian-backed separatists and recognized by Moscow as independent states. The General Staff said access to Kharkiv in the east, Ukraine's second-largest city, was blocked.
"The enemy is regrouping troops and concentrating its efforts on preparing an offensive operation in the east of our country," the statement said. "The goal is to establish full control over the territory of Donetsk and Luhansk regions."
Zelenskyy, speaking from Ukraine, planned to address Security Council diplomats Tuesday amid demands for an investigation of possible war crimes.
Germany and France reacted by expelling dozens of Russian diplomats, suggesting they were spies. President Joe Biden said Putin should be tried for war crimes.
"This guy is brutal, and what's happening in Bucha is outrageous," Biden said, referring to the town northwest of the capital that was the scene of some of the horrors.
In another show of support, European Union Commission President Ursula von der Leyen plans to travel to Kyiv to meet with Zelenskyy this week, her spokesman Eric Mamer announced.
Before Zelenskyy speaks, the most powerful U.N. body is due to be briefed by Secretary-General Antonio Guterres; his political chief, Rosemary DiCarlo; and U.N. humanitarian chief Martin Griffiths, who is trying to arrange a cease-fire. Griffiths met with Russian officials in Moscow on Monday and is due to visit Ukraine.
Associated Press journalists in Bucha counted dozens of corpses in civilian clothes and apparently without weapons, many shot at close range, and some with their hands bound or their flesh burned.
After touring neighborhoods of Bucha and speaking to hungry survivors lining up for bread, Zelenskyy pledged in a video address that Ukraine would work with the European Union and the International Criminal Court to identify Russian fighters involved in any atrocities.
"The time will come when every Russian will learn the whole truth about who among their fellow citizens killed, who gave orders, who turned a blind eye to the murders," he said.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov dismissed the scenes outside Kyiv as a "stage-managed anti-Russian provocation." Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said the images contained "signs of video forgery and various fakes."
Russia has rejected previous allegations of atrocities as fabrications by Ukraine.
Ukrainian officials said the bodies of at least 410 civilians have been found in towns around Kyiv that were recaptured from Russian forces.
The Ukrainian prosecutor-general's office described one room discovered in Bucha as a "torture chamber." In a statement, it said the bodies of five men with their hands bound were found in the basement of a children's sanatorium where civilians were tortured and killed.
The bodies seen by AP journalists in Bucha included at least 13 in and around a building that local people said Russian troops used as a base. Three other bodies were found in a stairwell, and a group of six were burned together.
The dead witnessed by the news agency's journalists also included bodies wrapped in black plastic, piled on one end of a mass grave in a Bucha churchyard. Many of those victims had been shot in cars or killed in explosions trying to flee the city. With the morgue full and the cemetery impossible to reach, the churchyard was the only place to keep the dead, Father Andrii Galavin said.
Tanya Nedashkivs'ka said she buried her husband in a garden outside their apartment building after he was detained by Russian troops. His body was one of those left heaped in a stairwell.
"Please, I am begging you, do something!" she said. "It's me talking, a Ukrainian woman, a Ukrainian woman, a mother of two kids and one grandchild. For all the wives and mothers, make peace on Earth so no one ever grieves again."
Another Bucha resident, Volodymyr Pilhutskyi, said his neighbor Pavlo Vlasenko was taken away by Russian soldiers because the military-style pants he was wearing and the uniforms that Vlasenko said belonged to his security guard son appeared suspicious. When Vlasenko's body was later found, it had burn marks from a flamethrower, his neighbor said.
Russia's U.N. ambassador, Vassily Nebenzia, insisted Monday at a news conference that during the time that Bucha was under Russian control, "not a single local person has suffered from any violent action."
However, high-resolution satellite imagery by commercial provider Maxar Technologies showed that many of the bodies have been lying in the open for weeks, during the time that Russian forces were in Bucha. The New York Times first reported on the satellite images showing the dead.
Western and Ukrainian leaders have accused Russia of war crimes before. The International Criminal Court's prosecutor has already opened an investigation. But the latest reports ratcheted up the condemnation.
German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said the images from Bucha reveal the "unbelievable brutality of the Russian leadership and those who follow its propaganda."
French President Emmanuel Macron said there is "clear evidence of war crimes" in Bucha that demand new punitive measures.
"I'm in favor of a new round of sanctions and in particular on coal and gasoline. We need to act," he said on France-Inter radio.
Though united in outrage, the European allies appeared split on how to respond. While Poland urged Europe to quickly wean itself off Russian energy, Germany said it would stick with a gradual approach of phasing out coal and oil imports over the next several months.
Russia withdrew many of its forces from the area around Kyiv after being thwarted in its bid to swiftly capture the capital. It has instead poured troops into southeastern Ukraine.
About two-thirds of the Russian troops around Kyiv have left and are either in Belarus or on their way there, probably getting more supplies and reinforcements, said a senior U.S. defense official who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss an intelligence assessment.
More than 1,500 civilians were able to escape Mariupol on Monday, using the dwindling number of private vehicles available to leave, Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk said. The besieged southern port city has seen some of the heaviest fighting of the war.
But amid the fighting, a Red Cross-accompanied convoy of buses that has been thwarted for days on end in a bid to deliver supplies and evacuate residents was again unable to get inside the city, Vereshchuk said.
Elsewhere, Russian shelling killed 11 people in the southern city of Mykolaiv, regional governor Vitaliy Kim said in a video message on social media.
Zelenskyy appealed for more weaponry as Russia prepares new offensives.
"If we had already got what we needed - all these planes, tanks, artillery, anti-missile and anti-ship weapons - we could have saved thousands of people," he said.
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Yuras Karmanau in Lviv, Ukraine; Edith Lederer at the United Nations; Lolita Baldor in Washington and Associated Press journalists around the world contributed to this report.
Ukraine says Russia preparing offensive in southeast
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Amber Alert issued for 3-year-old girl abducted from Washington state
Published: Apr. 5, 2022 at 7:02 AM EDT|Updated: 15 minutes ago
(Gray News) - An Amber Alert has been issued for Faith Collins, 3, who authorities say was abducted from outside her home in Bothell, Washington.
Faith’s mother returned home and took her first child into her apartment. While she was inside, she heard a “screeching sound” from tires and when she went outside, she realized that her car was gone. Faith was still inside the car.
Faith is described as a white female with blonde hair and blue eyes. She is 4 foot 1 inches tall and weighs 38 pounds.
She was last seen weating a black dress and beige pants with black stars.
Authorities are also looking for a 2001 gold Honda Accord with front end damage and Washington license plate BWW8403.
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Biden-Obama: White House reunion to celebrate health law
WASHINGTON (AP) - The last time President Barack Obama was in the White House was on Jan. 20, 2017, when he left to escort his successor — bent on overturning “Obamacare” — to the Capitol to be inaugurated.
Obama returns to the White House on Tuesday for a moment he can savor. His signature Affordable Care Act is now part of the fabric of the American health care system, and President Joe Biden is looking to extend its reach. Sign-ups under the health law have increased under Biden’s stewardship, and more generous taxpayer subsidies have cut costs for enrollees, albeit temporarily.
Biden and Obama are marking the 12th anniversary of the law that back in 2010 the then-vice president had memorably called a “big (expletive) deal.” Its staying power has been enhanced by three Supreme Court victories and an emphatic thumbs-down vote by the late Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., which took the wind out of President Donald Trump’s efforts to repeal and replace it.
The law was such a bugaboo in 2010 that Democrats rarely invoked it as they went into a midterm election that turned out to be, in Obama’s own words, a “shellacking.” Now, Democrats are hoping the political equation will work to their advantage, and that a focus on shoring up the tween-age health law can help them avoid a debacle at the polls this November.
In addition to talking health care at the White House, Biden and Obama plan to meet for lunch, recalling their weekly ritual when Biden served as Obama’s vice president.
“They are real friends, not just Washington friends,” said White House press secretary Jen Psaki. She indicated that the two presidents would also discuss Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and other world events.
Obama likes to refer to his health care law as a “starter home” that Americans can build upon, gradually reducing the 9% share of the population that remains uninsured. The rate was nearly 15% in 2013, before the coverage provisions of the law took effect. Between the health law’s Medicaid expansion and its health insurance markets, more than 30 million people are now estimated to be getting coverage.
Shortly after taking office, Biden opened up the health insurance markets to anyone seeking coverage during the COVID-19 pandemic, and his coronavirus relief bill provided a significant, though temporary, increase in financial assistance. The result was a record 14.5 million people signed up for subsidized private coverage.
When it comes to how to keep that trend going, Obama and Biden have no shortage of options to discuss.
The Biden administration has been working on a fix to what’s known as the law’s family glitch, a quirk estimated to be keeping about 5 million people from getting coverage under the law. The White House announced the new policy proposal Tuesday.
People tripped up by the family glitch are dependents of workers who have an offer of employer coverage that the government interprets as being affordable. As a rule, people with affordable employer coverage are not eligible for taxpayer-subsidized ACA plans.
But the issue with the current interpretation is that affordability is determined by the cost for employee-only coverage, and not more expensive family policies. Workers able to afford their own share may not be able to cover premiums for the entire family. So the family is cut out of ACA coverage.
A Biden administration regulation addressing the issue recently cleared White House review. The intent of the original policy was to prevent people with employer coverage from going into the health law’s subsidized markets, but advocates say it has proven too restrictive.
The White House estimates that the fix would help 200,000 people get insurance and bring costs down for nearly 1 million more.
There are more fundamental issues for the two presidents to consider as well, both policy-wise and politically.
Unless Democrats in Congress finally coalesce around a version of Biden’s social legislation, his enhanced financial assistance for millions purchasing ACA plans will expire at the end of this year. A return to higher premiums would likely trigger an increase in the number of uninsured people, a political embarrassment for Democrats committed to expanding coverage.
The Biden legislation, which passed the House but sputtered in the Senate, also includes a mechanism for providing coverage to as many as 4 million uninsured low-income adults in states that have refused the health law’s Medicaid expansion. It would deliver on Biden’s campaign promise to build on existing government programs to move the U.S. closer to coverage for all.
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Florida universities send political viewpoint survey to staff, students
A union representing faculty at Florida’s state universities is discouraging members from participating in a survey meant to suss out the political leanings of students and employees and the political climate on their campuses.
The measure passed by the Republican-controlled Legislature and signed into law last year by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis requires public universities to conduct an annual assessment of viewpoints and freedom of expression on campuses. The Board of Governors and State Board of Education will be required to compile and publish the results.
The proposal also mandates that students be exposed to a variety of political viewpoints and that they not be “shielded” from those arguments. Supporters of the legislation accused universities of drowning out conservative student voices.
A federal judge last week denied an emergency request to stop the survey, though opponents can still file an appeal.
The survey differs between students and faculty, with students being asked 21 questions and employees 24 questions.
Answers range from “strongly agree” to “strongly disagree” on statements such as “I feel that it is important to be able to express my political viewpoints without fear of negative consequences” and “I feel comfortable speaking up and giving my viewpoints on controversial topics.”
Other questions ask students whether they think their professor is liberal or conservative.
The schools are required to send out the questionnaire, but participation is optional and anonymous.
In a letter to its members, the United Faculty of Florida urged faculty, staff and students to ignore the survey, saying it would create a chilling effect on free speech and freedom of association on campuses.
“Florida’s government has no right to know the thoughts, feelings, or political or religious beliefs of anyone, including the higher education community,” the letter said. “Privacy is the bedrock of democracy and a safeguard against autocratic control.”
The union says that while the surveys are supposed to be anonymous, faculty members can be identified and targeted through questions about their demographic background and where they work.
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CDC may recommend 3rd COVID booster. Is it really needed?
Amid growing skepticism from the scientific community over the need for repeated COVID-19 vaccine booster shots, the head of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is already talking about recommending a third booster does in the Fall.
In an interview with NJ.com, Dr. Rochelle Walensky urged those 50 and those with underlying health conditions to get a second booster dose of the Pfizer or Moderna vaccine. Walensky also suggested a fourth dose would be needed.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration will begin meeting with CDC officials on April 6 to consider authorizing a third booster dose.
Scientists, researchers and the medical community almost universally supported efforts to get Americans vaccinated against COVID when the vaccines first became available in December of 2020.
However, there has been growing resistance to what some see as potentially endless series of booster doses against a virus that does not cause severe illness in most people.
When the FDA approved the second booster dose last month, they did so at the behest of the vaccine manufacturers and without much scientific evidence to back up the need for another booster.
Some noted medical researchers say they is even less evidence to suggest yet another booster is needed for otherwise healthy adults and children.
The New York Times noted multiple studies have shown the majority of those already vaccinated remain well protected from severe illness, even if they have not received a booster dose and even amidst multiple variants of the virus that are more transmissible.
University of Washington immunologist Marion Pepper was concerned about the short-lived nature of the booster doses, telling The Times, "If it’s not going to create a long-term, better quality immune response, then you question the value a little bit."
Yet even the researchers who are questioning the need for mass boosting of the general population say there are exceptions.
The elderly, those with underlying health conditions and people with compromised immune systems could all benefit from the extra protections of a third or fourth vaccine dose, even if the benefits are short lived.
In New Jersey, more than 6.8 million individuals have completed their primary vaccination course. Fewer than half that number have received a booster dose. It is estimated that fewer still would return for a fourth dose.
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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NJ weather: Two big pushes of rain and thunderstorms ahead
The Bottom Line
Umbrellas up again! Rainfall this week will range from April showers to springtime soakers. Along the two big pushes of rain over the next four days, we'll also contend with persistent cloud cover and consistently cool temperatures.
Soaking rain would be a good thing, as we are running a rainfall deficit on the year. About a quarter of New Jersey - to the south - is still classified as being in "Moderate Drought".
Now, if you're looking for a spring-tastic warmup, you'll like the forecast for next week. I think we're about 5 or 6 days away from our next big warmup. Thermometers will probably push past 70 degrees again as we approach the midpoint of April.
Tuesday
Turning increasingly unsettled and wet.
It is a cool April morning, with temperatures mainly in the 30s. (There is even a swath of light freezing temperatures across inland New Jersey.) Closer to the coast, we start your Tuesday in the 40s.
Baseline, it will be mostly cloudy and cool. High temperatures will be similar to Monday, around 50 to 55 degrees. That is slightly below normal for early April.
In addition, rain chances will increase as a warm front approaches from the southwest. Spotty rain showers will bubble up from the south starting around mid-morning. So the best chance of raindrops during the daytime hours will be across the southern half of the state. But don't expect much - just some light rain and damp weather.
Tuesday night, we all get soaked. At least a few hours of steady to heavy rain will likely impact the entire state overnight (centered around Midnight). There could be some ponding issues and big puddles. Low temperatures will only dip a few degrees, into the upper 40s.
Wednesday
Drying out.
We'll probably still have some rain around for the Wednesday morning commute. But by mid-morning, rain showers should exit, and the rest of your Wednesday looks fine.
It will be cloudy and calm, with seasonable high temperatures in the mid 50s. Plenty of opportunity for outdoor activities once we dry out.
Thursday
Our next storm system will approach from the west on Thursday. And throughout the daytime hours, we'll see waves of scattered showers and thunderstorms roll through the Garden State.
This round of rain does look a bit more convective - hence the chance for thunder and lightning. There could be some embedded downpours there too, as our atmosphere taps into some richer moisture.
Highs on Thursday will again hit mid 50s. 60 is a possibility if we see a peek of sun at some point.
Friday
I am cautiously optimistic that Friday will be a mainly dry day. Our only opportunity for rain would be a stray late-day shower chance.
Partly sunny, breezy, and near 60. Sounds nice.
The Extended Forecast
I'm going for a dry forecast for the second weekend of April. With mixed sun and clouds and highs in the 50s, it should also be pleasant. (Although possibly "jacket weather," depending on cloud cover and wind speed.)
Our next big warmup should kick in next week. Monday will make a run for 60s at least. Our weather will turn much less unsettled too, with minimal rain chances.
Dan Zarrow is Chief Meteorologist for Townsquare Media New Jersey. Follow him on Facebook or Twitter for the latest forecast and realtime weather updates.
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INDIANAPOLIS — The City-County Council gave the final go ahead Monday night for an area on the west side to be rezoned for a wastewater treatment facility.
The land is along Tibbs Avenue just down from Morris Street. Currently, it’s used as a medal scrap yard.
Neighbors near the site have been fighting it along the way. Jessica Saenz is the vice president of the West Indy Neighborhood Congress, She says WINC has gathered more than 400 signatures of nearby neighbors worried about the effects of the facility.
”We’ve historically been neglected and dumped on,” Saenz said.
She and other concerned west side residents showed up to the Monday night City-County Council Meeting. The council approved the proposal to rezone the area of Tibbs Ave. for the wastewater facility. Several in the audience against the facility stood up and left when that happened.
”We cannot hook up to the station, we just bear the burden of it,” Saenz said. “Which is a major problem for us. It’s just in our boundaries and doesn’t serve us.”
Saenz and others live in District 16, represented by Councilor Kristin Jones. Jones said the facility is set to serve about a thousand people in her district and about 16,000 in District 22, represented by Councilor Jared Evans.
”When they talk about consequences, there are no consequences to this,” Evans said. “It’s going to clean up the site. The conservancy office made really good commitments to this including cleaning up the frontage on Tibbs Avenue.”
Ben Davis Conservancy District will build the wastewater treatment facility. Evans said by having its own facility, this will save BDCD customers money.
Rendering of future facility Metal yard on Tibbs Avenue
”One of those options is to build their own treatment facility that could be utilized in a way that could keep prices from being maxed out,” Evans said.
That does not change the fact the Saenz and others worried wouldn’t use it, but Evans said they won’t even notice it.
”You’re just going to drive by and you’re just going to see trees, you’re going to see a green space, you’re going to see something that is aesthetically much better looking for the community than what is currently there and what has been there for the last 70 years,” Evans said.
Along with the treatment facility, the portion of Tibbs Ave would get a new sidewalk, berm, trees, a wrought iron fence and streetlights. The area the facility would sit on would also go to more green space.
Jones said this would also decrease truck traffic in the area.
”One thing that I hear constantly from my neighbors constantly is about the truck traffic that is tearing up our roads along this development,” she said.
One of the biggest concerns for Saenz and neighbors is what the facility would smell like.
”It’s going to be hard to convince people that sewage doesn’t stink,” Saenz said.
But Jones and Evans said this facility will have state of the art technology limiting the odor. Evans said he went to a similar facility nearby to see for himself.
”I stood two feet above these open containers, and you don’t just smell what they’re saying you smell,” Evans said. “It’s not a bad smell. Utilizing today’s technology we think its a very good facility to put there.”
Saenz and others aren’t so sure about that.
Even with the rezoning proposal passing Monday and the treatment facility going forward, they say they’ll keep pushing.
”We’re going to keep going forward the best that we can with whatever options we can exercise,” she said.
Councilors Evans and Jones said they have been told construction will start on the wastewater treatment facility later this summer and the facility should be finished in about two years.
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GREENCASTLE, Ind. — A Greencastle teen has started a non-profit to help teach financial literacy to younger students.
Right now his organization, “Students Teaching Finance“, is just in his community, but he has plans for it to reach as many people as possible.
“The main goal is to fill this need. Mend a gap in our education,” said Isaac Hertenstein.
Isaac is a high school sophomore, and while he has all the makings to be the world’s next billionaire, he says it’s not about building wealth but about sharing the knowledge.
“It’s important to me that these kids learn that and hopefully, we can reach more and more kids,” Hertenstein said.
Recently, Isaac taught a lesson at his old middle school to the 6th grade class. He says it has more of an impact coming from a peer.
“That breaks up monotony of the classroom obviously, and many kids are interested in seeing an older role model sort of person interested in what they’re talking about,” said Hertenstein.
It’s something the students agreed with.
“Because it can really help when you’re older and it can help you make better decisions if you didn’t know about it,” said Kenadie Bieniek.
Isaac says he wants to teach them enough to know a little but also be interested in learning more.
“When you’re older, you want to be able to put your money in the bank, know [how] much interest and how interest works,” said Kaylee Ames.
He covers a variety of topics in his lessons.
“Anything from three buckets, whether you’re saving or giving, or compound interest,” Hertenstein said.
Hertenstein says a lack of financial literacy can be linked to things like poverty and other problems.
“We look at money more as providing as choices for people, options for their lives. So they’re not necessarily hindered by not having as much money or financial choices and decisions they can make.”
He’s also doing careers lessons to help kids explore different opportunities.
“Just the various options of what they can relate to and we incorporate supply and demand in that, so people can pursue jobs that are in demand if they work so hard for a certain job they want and how it all relates in the economic world.”
His former business teacher, Brittany Labheart, says she was excited when he asked to come to teach her class, and he’s welcomed back anytime.
“I think it’s important just to educate students on the importance of saving at an early age,” said Labheart.
“I would love to have him as much as he is available to come to the schools. I would love to have him in my class. He is just wise beyond his years, and he’s such a great kiddo.”
He has lessons scheduled with 4th graders in May and is looking to partner with other local organizations.
The hope is for this to stretch nationwide.
“It means to me, helping others and trying to make the world a better place in a lot of sense, make everyone a more equitable society, and everyone be more knowledgeable about these problems and issues, as well as using personal finance to overcome a lot of them.”
The lesson plans are online. You can find them and more information about his organization here.
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GALVESTON, Ind. — Two thieves nabbed a cash jar from a liquor store in Cass County. Whether they knew it or not, the money inside was being raised for a man battling cancer.
“How would you feel if your mother or your father was in pain every single day? It’s a theft from someone who needs it,” said Jennifer Wolfenbarger, owner of Lucky Dog Liquors. “It’s what pays for his prescriptions, his pain meds, his copays with the doctors.”
Lucky Dog Liquors has had the jar out for a while. It had been used to raise money for local school charities, but Wolfenbarger never thought her family would need to use the jar for themselves.
Her daughter’s father came down with stage four prostate cancer and multiple forms of myeloma. The jar money was to help pay his medical bills.
“That’s what all this money goes for,” said Wolfenbarger. “‘My daughter isn’t going to let her dad go without. It helps with food if he’s in the hospital with my daughter or his wife, and they need to stay at the hospital with him, then they can eat. My daughter is raising four kids, so it’s hard to raise four kids and not let your parents go without.”
Wolfenbarger says two thieves distracted the store clerk at her shop and stole the jar of money. Their surveillance cameras caught the two in the act.
“How would you feel if someone stole that from your family that you know probably won’t be here?” questioned Wolfenbarger, tearing up. “They are not going to be here forever. Cancer is pretty much a death sentence. It’s sad to say.”
The store was able to get surveillance of the duo’s getaway vehicle.
Luckily, the thieves were not able to steal the $1,400 that the family has already raised at the shop. Each night they remove the money from the jar and stash it away.
“Theft is theft. I don’t care if it’s $20 or $200, it’s still theft,” remarked Wolfenbarger.
If you recognize either of these suspects please contact local law enforcement. If you want to help the family you can donate to their cause here.
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Best. Comeback. Ever. Sounds pretty good next to Rock Chalk, Jayhawk.
What looked like a lost cause turned into one of the sweetest wins ever for Kansas.
The Jayhawks brought their fourth NCAA title back to Allen Fieldhouse on Monday thanks to a second-half flurry that erased a 16-point deficit and eventually overcame North Carolina 72-69 in an epic battle of power programs.
It was the largest comeback in national championship history, surpassing the 1963 title game when Loyola overcame a 15-point deficit to beat Cincinnati at the buzzer, 60-58.
“We just locked in as a family, as a team, and that’s what we do,” said Kansas big man David McCormack, after making last two baskets of the game. “We overcome the odds. We overcome adversity. We’re just built for this.”
McCormack scored the go-ahead bucket from close range with 1:21 left, then another at the 22-second mark to put the Jayhawks ahead by three.
North Carolina missed its final four shots, including Caleb Love’s desperation 3 at the buzzer. His heave came up short after officials ruled that Kansas guard DaJuan Harris Jr., stepped out on an inbounds pass with 4.3 seconds left.
The Tar Heels went scoreless over the final 1:41. They couldn’t find an answer for KU over the final 20 minutes.
“They were penetrating and doing whatever they wanted,” Love said.
After McCormick’s go-ahead bucket, Love drove to the basket but his shot got blocked. North Carolina grabbed an offensive rebound and got the ball to Armando Bacot under the bucket. But he lost his footing and turned it over, then limped off the court, unable to return.
“I thought I really got the angle that I wanted and then I just rolled my ankle,” Bacot said.
That put Brady Manek, not as good a defender, on McCormack, and the Kansas big man backed in Manek for the shot that put the Jayhawks ahead by three.
“When we had to have a basket, we went to Big Dave, and he delivered,” said Kansas coach Bill Self, who has two of the program’s four championships.
McCormack and Jalen Wilson led KU with 15 points each. Christian Braun scored 10 of his 12 in the second half and transfer Remy Martin had 11 of his 14 over the final 20 minutes. The Jayhawks outscored Carolina 47-29 in the second half.
“When we saw our own blood, we didn’t panic and we came out the second half coming in hot,” Self said. “I was thinking at the 14-minute mark, ‘There’s no way these guys can play for 20 minutes defense like this,’ but they did.”
The Tar Heels shot 11 for 40 in the second half.
But it was Kansas that couldn’t buy a basket late in the first half, as Carolina ran over and around the Jayhawks during a 16-0 run. The Tar Heels led 40-25 at the break. Then, top-seeded KU (34-6) started trapping and pressing more, moving the ball around on offense, and Carolina started getting a taste of what everyone else has this season: You can’t stop ’em all.
The Jayhawks went on a 31-10 run to take a six-point lead at the 10-minute mark and set up a fantastic finish.
Bacot had 15 points and 15 rebounds to become the first player to record double-doubles in all six tournament games. He finished the season with 31 double-doubles, but it was not enough. Carolina was trying to join 1985 Villanova as only the second 8 seed to win March Madness.
Instead, the Tar Heels (29-10) fell one win short and dropped to 6-6 all-time in title games. This was their record 21st — and possibly most unlikely — trip to the Final Four. They made it to the final by beating Duke in a back-and-forth thriller and sending Blue Devils coach Mike Krzyzewski into retirement.
“I can’t remember a time in my life where I should be disappointed,” said rookie UNC coach Hubert Davis, who was trying to become the first person to lead a team to a title in his first full year as head coach. “But I am filled with so much pride.”
A great season — but the banner will hang in Lawrence.
And McCormack, thanks to his late-game heroics, will go down in KU lore, along with Mario Chalmers (2008), Danny Manning (and the miracles in 1988) and the rest of the Kansas greats.
This title was three years in the making. KU was 28-3 and the odds-on favorite heading into March of 2020. Then, the COVID-19 pandemic hit and stopped both the Jayhawks, and the season, in their tracks.
Seven players from that roster are on this one, as well. In some of their minds there were no “what-might-have-beens” about 2020 — they knew they would have won it. They won this one instead, and showed, once again, it’s never good to count them out.
While this wasn’t quite the 47-15 beatdown they put on Miami over the final 20 minutes in the Elite Eight, it was still darn impressive given the circumstances.
Ochai Agbaji, who was named the Final Four’s most outstanding player, finished with 12 points and found breathing room after UNC’s lockdown guard, Leaky Black, got his fourth foul 6 minutes into the second half.
“This is a special group of guys,” Agbaji said. “We’re going down in history. All I got to say is, ‘Rock Chalk, baby.’”
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Clouds increasing this morning but the rain remains south for your morning rush hour. Although clouds are thickening, showers should not arrive until the afternoon and early evening. This will result in a cooler, cloudier day, while winds remain light from the southeast at 5-10mph.
There will be plenty of dry gaps today to get outside for a walk before steadier rain returns on Wednesday morning.
The Indianapolis Indians home opener is tonight at 7:05! A few showers will be in and around downtown this evening but not necessarily at Victory Field. Be sure to have your rain gear handy and plan on a cool night at first pitch! Here is your forecast temperatures through the game:
Rainfall returns tomorrow with the steadiest in the morning hours before easing through the afternoon. Expect breezy conditions through the day with cooling temperatures and increasing sunshine to end your day!
A colder shift arrives Thursday and into Friday, as spotty showers return before changing to a wintry mix (rain and snow showers) on Friday! Winter cold still lingers for Saturday before a warmer surge builds Sunday and into Monday.
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Although spring has just sprung, it’s never too early to think about summer vacation.
Many families are looking to book their first big trip since the start of the pandemic and are doing so on a budget.
Scott Jones sits down with travel expert Jet Set Sarah to get tips on summer travel locations, planning, and discounts.
For more information, go to AARP.
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(The Hill) – President Biden and first lady Jill Biden will host a wedding reception at the White House for their granddaughter in November, the East Wing confirmed on Monday.
“The President and First Lady will host the wedding reception for their granddaughter Naomi Biden and her fiancée Peter Neal at the White House on November 19, 2022,” Elizabeth Alexander, the first lady’s communications director, said in a statement
“The First Family, the couple, and their parents are still in the planning stages of all of the wedding festivities and look forward to announcing further details in the coming months,” Alexander added.
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Naomi Biden will be the first presidential family member to hold their wedding reception at the White House since Jenna Bush Hager, daughter of then-President George W. Bush, did so in June 2008 after having a ceremony in Texas.
“Peter and I are endlessly grateful to my Nana and Pop for the opportunity to celebrate our wedding at the White House. We can’t wait to make our commitment to one another official and for what lies ahead,” Naomi Biden tweeted.
Naomi will be the latest Biden family member to tie the knot. The president last October attended the wedding of his nephew, Cuffe Owens, to former “Real Housewives of Orange County” cast member Meghan King. The couple split two months later.
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(NEXSTAR) – If you use Twitter you’ve likely found yourself face to face with a spelling error in one of your tweets but, with no way to edit it, you couldn’t do anything about it. Could that be changing?
Twitter does offer an “undo” button to its Twitter Blue subscribers, which allows users to cancel a tweet before anyone else sees it. But even being a paying subscriber doesn’t give you access to a simple edit button. Currently, if you want to change a tweet, you’d have to delete and rewrite it, or correct it in a thread.
On Monday, after becoming the social media platform’s largest outside stakeholder, Elon Musk tweeted a poll asking followers if they wanted an edit button. Within an hour of the poll being posted, the majority of voters selected “yse” rather than “on” (misspellings courtesy of Mr. Musk).
Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal retweeted Musk’s poll, saying, “The consequences of this poll will be important. Please vote carefully,” copying a March tweet by Musk.
Tweets and polls aside, Twitter did tweet on Friday, April 1 that they “are working on an edit button.” Unfortunately, considering the tweet came on April Fools’ Day, it’s unclear if Twitter is actually working on a highly requested feature.
According to Reuters, when asked whether it was real, a Twitter spokesperson told them, “We cannot confirm or deny but we may edit our statement later.”
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey said in a 2020 interview with Wired that the company would “probably never” create an edit button, noting that while it would be helpful for some errors, it could give way to malicious changes to tweets.
“You might send a tweet and then someone might retweet that, and then an hour later you completely change the content of that tweet and that person that retweeted the original tweet is now retweeting and rebroadcasting something completely different,” Dorsey said. “So that’s something to watch out for.”
Twitter finally getting an edit button may also be something to watch out for.
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Several existing small businesses are growing across Monroe County despite the challenges of the economy and the pandemic. Keeping business close to home not only helps local communities to flourish but also benefits business owners by providing more opportunities to involve their families in the operations.
“We’re optimistic regardless of what we’ve walked through the last couple of years. Whether in our cities or in the county, we’re a business-friendly county. Through various entities, we support and reinvest in one another. We’re grateful for project development we see happening,” said Monroe County Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Chelsea Baulch.
Luis Ojeda came to Aberdeen in 2018 following the advice of his father, who operates their family’s flagship restaurant, El Jefe, roughly 50 miles away in Pittsboro.
“I had no intentions to follow in the same business. My father scouted out the opportunity in Aberdeen, and I took two years to decide about it,” he said. “It was a little crazy at first.”
Ojeda said that business is steadily growing despite the challenges of the pandemic. He expanded the family business to Smithville now.
“We received word about four months ago about that opportunity. We purchased the former Cages and Cones business and are remodeling it into a Mexican restaurant,” he said.
All the while, Ojeda set up a food truck in Smithville as well.
He emphasizes that being a business owner and operator requires total dedication.
“I didn’t have a day off for a year,” he said after launching the Aberdeen restaurant. “I had to let go of working out at the gym, which I loved to do in my spare time. You’ve got to be all in for this business or you’re out.”
Kimber Alexis Kyle originally opened a salon nine years ago in Tupelo but responded to the inner prompting to return to her roots in Nettleton a few years later.
“I moved my business to Nettleton in the middle of the pandemic in 2020, renting a place for my boutique called Wild Roots Salon,” she said. “My mother, Janice Bishop, and I had an opportunity to buy a location in Nettleton last year and opened business on Will Robbins Highway in August. Mom and I are side-by-side,” she said.
Kyle’s business serves clientele with hair care, cosmetology, waxing, manicures and pedicures, while her mother operates Wild Flowers, specializing in fresh flowers, home décor and gifts.
“We love being back in Nettleton and being part of the business community,” Kyle said.
Lydia Pearson began her boutique, All That & A Little More, in 2019 at a small corner location in Amory as a side venture to her job as a teacher at Hatley Attendance Center. A year ago, she reopened at a different location further down Main Street four times as large as where she started. She has also stepped away from teaching to devote to her business and family full time.
“I’m growing my kids along with my business. It was a good move,” she said. “We prayed a lot about making the move. It was initially a little scary – it still is some days.”
Pearson’s business has grown, reaching several brides with her core emphasis of offering a bridal registry, home décor and gifts.
“We’re the only local retailer to offer dinnerware by Annie Glass and Sky Rose. They’re really big names,” she said of businesses in Amory.
Her overall philosophy remains upbeat.
“Always go for it. You don’t know until you try,” Pearson said.
Emily Kennedy and her husband, Joseph, repurposed a former corner grocery in Hamilton to house her business, Maggi Jo’Ani Home & Apparel, which began as a home-based pottery studio. They opened for business in November 2020, and the name came from a combination of the names of her children.
“It doesn’t represent the order in which they were born. It was just the way the names came out of my mouth when I would call them,” she said.
Progress toward remodeling the historic building, along with building a new church across Hamilton Road, suffered a set back when a tornado roared through the community in April 2019, but it only delayed things a little. Cleanup was completed nearly five months later.
“The old building was the local Durwood Grocery that was a popular hangout for the kids when they got out of school. We’re doing the same thing that they did,” Emily said.
In the back of the clothing boutique, Emily and Joseph started their coffee shop called Cup of JOE by MJA.
“I wanted a coffee shop that offered the same atmosphere of the old neighborhood grocery that was an anchor for the local community,” she said.
Emily still does pottery and crafts in the back of the building while operating the other facets of her growing business.
Hope Simmons purchased a local franchise of Merle Norman in 2016, opening a boutique – Willow at Merle Norman – alongside Main Street in 2016 that offered lines of ladies’ and children’s clothing, accessories and gifts to compliment the Merle Norman inventory of cosmetics.
Simmons’ business grew to need more space than the original location could provide, and she was able to acquire the building alongside Highway 278 previously used by Wilkerson Furniture and Appliances.
“Our business has increased even more with more drop-in customers at the new location, which has higher traffic,” she said.
Not only has the new location provided more room to display the merchandise customers are accustomed to, Simmons moved the children’s department around to make way for a new men’s department, in addition to baby registry tables.
“We’re offering lines of men’s fashions such as Columbia, Huk, Old Row and Ariat,” she said.
Another new area of accessories customers will find at Willow will be several lines of sunglasses to meet every fashion taste for the summer days to come.
Emily Mattox and her crew at Eclips Hair Salon and Full Service Spa in Amory expanded the business in 2021 while garnering more community awards for their services.
“We’re completely humbled that the people of Monroe County voted Eclips Salon and Full Service Spa as Best Salon, Best Spa and Best Nail Salon,” Mattox said.
The business added six treatment rooms and another office to accommodate expanded services.
“We added facials, massage, eyelash lifts and tint. We also do Botox and fillers once a month when I can work it in. We’re collaborating with Drs Clint Washington and Shannon Ballard on those,” Mattox said.
She also added two more stylists to her staff.
“We’re looking forward to a busy year,” she said.
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From beating his father nearly to death, stealing his sister’s honeymoon money on her wedding day, serving jail time for 13 felony convictions and having 40 crimes on his record, Orange Park, Florida native Kyndal Edwards has wrestled with various inner-demons throughout his life.
To overcome his troubled past while helping others, he is currently walking across the United States to spread awareness about mental health through his journey, A Walking Testimony.
“The last 12 years of my life have been nothing but depression, addiction and crime. I have tried to take my life twice and have overdosed on drugs and lost my heartbeat for two minutes at a party, woke back up and went right back to the same thing. I’ve been in county jail 11 times, prison twice and in-patient rehab all in the last 10 years,” he said.
Edwards’ biggest success story, however, is the unconditional love he and his family have as he talks to his father and sister every day.
A Walking Testimony began at Jacksonville Beach, Florida, and he expects it to end in September or October in La Push, Washington. His recent Monroe County leg of the walk included a lesson on the 2011 Smithville tornado, seeing camels in Wren and bass fishing on the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway in Amory with local host, Elizabeth Reeves of Wren.
Reaching others
While serving jail time in 2013, Edwards read a newspaper article about a man who walked across America, which inspired him to do the same. After connecting with the man on Facebook after serving his sentence, Edwards decided it was better to walk for a cause when he took his own journey.
At the time, however, he was still engaged in his addictions and criminal activities, which led to more jail time.
“I just got out November 6 and two and a half years through that prison sentence, something snapped in my head and said, ‘Kyndal, change your life,’” he said.
During his last year in prison, he was involved in a work release program, which included having a real job but still having to wear an ankle monitor and live at the correctional facility.
He earned enough money through the work release program to fund the beginning of his journey but has since lived strictly off donations, which provide for needs such as food and hotel stays.
“Over the year of back being on social media, all I’m seeing is drug overdoses and suicides left and right,” Edwards said.
Every day on his walk, he wears a T-shirt with 90 names on the front and 90 names on the back of people who lost their lives due to drug overdoses and suicides.
“Even though they are not with us, they are getting one more journey and are being remembered. But this is also a mission on top of a dream to prevent names from being on this shirt or any shirt like this in the future,” he said. “The 180 names represent making that 180-degree turn in life going the total opposite way from things that are destroying you.”
He personally knew some of the people on the shirt and received other names from social media requests.
“On the most minor scale or the most major scale, every single person deals with mental health in one way or another. Everybody has a bad day at one point, and those bad days are going to bring about thoughts you may not normally think on a good day – not suicidal thoughts, but bad thoughts,” he said. “A lot of people don’t realize you can strengthen your mind by putting in work and doing the actions and making sacrifices of things that are melting your mind to take on the things you can use to elevate your mind,” he said.
Edwards walks with a cart with a mannequin head and a sign about mental health to get people’s attention while on his journey.
“When they come, I can say, ‘I’m talking about mental health,’ and I’ll tell them about my story and how I was a scumbag and addicted to drugs, how I pointed a gun at my head and pulled the trigger and it jammed. I tell them that your past doesn’t define you,” he said.
By being so open to others, Edwards has been able to hear people open up about their issues to him.
To keep up with Edwards’ journey, check out A Walking Testimony on Facebook and follow kyndalrayy on TikTok and Instagram. He also set up A Walking Testimony GoFundMe page, and 90 percent of money raised at the end of the walk will benefit two charities dealing with recovery and suicide prevention.
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ABERDEEN – Among a number of topics such as bullying and anxiety disorders addressed in breakout sessions during March 17’s Mental Health Matters event, one of its organizers, the Rev. James Cook, focused on the need for suicide awareness and prevention.
“I don’t think we realize how vulnerable we are in society today. It’s easy for parents to think that everything is okay with our children because that’s what we want to believe. It would be easy for one to overlook signs and signals that the child needs help but in the child’s mind, he or she is being ignored,” he said.
The event was co-sponsored by the Aberdeen/Monroe County chapter of the NAACP and the Aberdeen Park and Recreation Department.
The kickoff event was the first of more planned in the future.
“We’re going to keep plucking away at this until we get the public to realize the seriousness of what can become an epidemic in Aberdeen. What I find is when one kid commits suicide, it could lead to more,” Cook said. “We want to encourage every clergy, every father, every mother, every grandparent that loves a child to seek greater awareness in suicide prevention.”
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Obama returns to the White House on Tuesday for a moment he can savor. His signature Affordable Care Act is now part of the fabric of the American health care system, and President Joe Biden is looking to extend its reach. Sign-ups under the health law have increased under Biden's stewardship, and more generous taxpayer subsidies have cut costs for enrollees, albeit temporarily.
Biden and Obama are marking the 12th anniversary of the law that back in 2010 the then-vice president had memorably called a "big (expletive) deal." Its staying power has been enhanced by three Supreme Court victories and an emphatic thumbs-down vote by the late Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., which took the wind out of President Donald Trump's efforts to repeal and replace it.
The law was such a bugaboo in 2010 that Democrats rarely invoked it as they went into a midterm election that turned out to be, in Obama's own words, a "shellacking." Now, Democrats are hoping the political equation will work to their advantage, and that a focus on shoring up the tween-age health law can help them avoid a debacle at the polls this November.
In addition to talking health care at the White House, Biden and Obama plan to meet for lunch, recalling their weekly ritual when Biden served as Obama's vice president.
"They are real friends, not just Washington friends," said White House press secretary Jen Psaki. She indicated that the two presidents would also discuss Russia's invasion of Ukraine and other world events.
Obama likes to refer to his health care law as a "starter home" that Americans can build upon, gradually reducing the 9% share of the population that remains uninsured. The rate was nearly 15% in 2013, before the coverage provisions of the law took effect. Between the health law's Medicaid expansion and its health insurance markets, more than 30 million people are now estimated to be getting coverage.
Shortly after taking office, Biden opened up the health insurance markets to anyone seeking coverage during the COVID-19 pandemic, and his coronavirus relief bill provided a significant, though temporary, increase in financial assistance. The result was a record 14.5 million people signed up for subsidized private coverage.
When it comes to how to keep that trend going, Obama and Biden have no shortage of options to discuss.
The Biden administration has been working on a fix to what's known as the law's family glitch, a quirk estimated to be keeping about 5 million people from getting coverage under the law. The White House announced the new policy proposal Tuesday.
People tripped up by the family glitch are dependents of workers who have an offer of employer coverage that the government interprets as being affordable. As a rule, people with affordable employer coverage are not eligible for taxpayer-subsidized ACA plans.
But the issue with the current interpretation is that affordability is determined by the cost for employee-only coverage, and not more expensive family policies. Workers able to afford their own share may not be able to cover premiums for the entire family. So the family is cut out of ACA coverage.
A Biden administration regulation addressing the issue recently cleared White House review. The intent of the original policy was to prevent people with employer coverage from going into the health law's subsidized markets, but advocates say it has proven too restrictive.
The White House estimates that the fix would help 200,000 people get insurance and bring costs down for nearly 1 million more.
There are more fundamental issues for the two presidents to consider as well, both policy-wise and politically.
Unless Democrats in Congress finally coalesce around a version of Biden's social legislation, his enhanced financial assistance for millions purchasing ACA plans will expire at the end of this year. A return to higher premiums would likely trigger an increase in the number of uninsured people, a political embarrassment for Democrats committed to expanding coverage.
The Biden legislation, which passed the House but sputtered in the Senate, also includes a mechanism for providing coverage to as many as 4 million uninsured low-income adults in states that have refused the health law's Medicaid expansion. It would deliver on Biden's campaign promise to build on existing government programs to move the U.S. closer to coverage for all.
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BUCHA, Kyiv Oblast — Ukraine's president planned to address the U.N.'s most powerful body on Tuesday after even more grisly evidence emerged of civilian massacres in areas that Russian forces recently left. Western nations expelled dozens more of Moscow's diplomats and weighed further sanctions as they expressed their revulsion at what they say are war crimes.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's speech to the Security Council will be rich with symbolism, but the invite and other displays of Western support are unlikely to alter the situation on the ground. He says his forces desperately need more powerful weaponry, some of which the West has been reluctant to give. Russia's veto guarantees the body will take no action, and it was unclear whether its representatives would even remain in the chamber for the video address.
Ukrainian officials said the bodies of at least 410 civilians have been found in towns around Kyiv that were recaptured from Russian forces and that a “torture chamber” was discovered in the town called Bucha, from which some of the grimmest details have emerged.
Associated Press journalists in Bucha have counted dozens of corpses in civilian clothes. Many appeared to have been shot at close range, and some had their hands bound or their flesh burned. A mass grave in a churchyard held bodies wrapped in plastic. The Ukrainian prosecutor-general’s office said the bodies of five men with their hands bound were found in the basement of a children’s sanatorium where civilians were tortured and killed.
High-resolution satellite imagery by commercial provider Maxar Technologies showed that many of the bodies had been lying in the open for weeks, during the time that Russian forces were in the town. The New York Times first reported on the images showing the dead.
Russia has repeatedly rejected the allegations, with Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov dismissing the scenes outside Kyiv as a “stage-managed anti-Russian provocation.”
Russia has sought to refute similar accusations against its forces in the past by accusing its enemies of forging photos and video, and of using so-called crisis actors. Western officials and independent reporters say Russia spreads disinformation to mask its actions.
As Western leaders condemned the killings in Bucha, Germany, France, Italy and Denmark expelled dozens of Russian diplomats on Monday and Tuesday, saying they were spies. U.S. President Joe Biden said Russian President Vladimir Putin should be tried for war crimes.
In another show of support, European Union Commission President Ursula von der Leyen plans to travel to Kyiv to meet with Zelenskyy this week. The 27-nation EU has been a steadfast backer of Ukraine since the Russian invasion began on Feb. 24 and has already pushed through four rounds of sanctions. A fifth round is being considered this week.
But Western nations are divided over how far to go. Some are calling for a boycott of Russian oil and gas imports, while Germany and others fear that such a move could plunge the continent into a severe economic crisis. And countries from the NATO alliance have refused to hand over some of the most powerful weaponry Zelenskyy has asked for, like fighter jets.
Their provision of other weapons and equipment has been credited with helping Ukraine mount a stiffer than expected resistance to Russia's superior firepower.
That resistance stopped Russian forces from overrunning the capital, and their troops are now in retreat from areas around Kyiv. About two-thirds of the Russian troops around the city have left and are either in Belarus or on their way there, said a U.S. defense official who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss an intelligence assessment.
The official said they were probably getting more supplies and reinforcements. Other Western and Ukrainian officials have warned many are merely regrouping. Some are already redeploying to the east, where Russian-backed separatists have been battling Ukrainian forces in the Donbas region since 2014.
Zelenskyy appealed again Monday for more weaponry to face down this coming offensive.
“If we had already got what we needed — all these planes, tanks, artillery, anti-missile and anti-ship weapons — we could have saved thousands of people,” he said.
The president’s video addresses to European capitals have become near daily affairs and have helped to rally military, financial and diplomatic support for his country — but the speech to the Security Council could be even more dramatic, with all eyes the reaction of any Russian representatives present.
The Ukrainian military says that, in the Donbas, Russia is focused on seizing the cities of Popasna and Rubizhne in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions and the Azov Sea port of Mariupol, which has seen weeks of heavy fighting at a staggering cost to the city and its residents.
“The enemy is regrouping troops and concentrating its efforts on preparing an offensive operation in the east of our country," it said in a statement. “The goal is to establish full control over the territory of Donetsk and Luhansk regions," which Russia has recognized as independent.
Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk said seven humanitarian corridors will be open on Tuesday, including from besieged Mariupol, where 1,500 civilians were able to escape in private vehicles on Monday, as well as the Russian-controlled Berdyansk.
But it was not immediately clear whether Russia has agreed to halt the fighting along the corridors. Previous efforts to bring civilians to safety through humanitarian corridors have failed because of renewed fighting.
An international Red Cross team gave up on entering Mariupol at least for Tuesday, after several days of trying to deliver aid to the besieged city and help escort civilians out.
The International Committee of the Red Cross said the team was held overnight held by police in Manhush, west of Mariupol, but later released. It did not identify the nationality of the police, but Manhush has been under Russian control for weeks.
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Yuras Karmanau in Lviv, Ukraine; Edith Lederer at the United Nations; Lolita Baldor in Washington and Associated Press journalists around the world contributed to this report.
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Georgia college professor calls police on students who arrived late to class
ATLANTA (WGCL) - A professor at Georgia State University Perimeter College is no longer in the classrom after she called the police because two students arrived late to class, WGCL reported.
Bria Blake, a student at the college, posted about the incident on TikTok. The post has been liked more than 165,000 times.
“They’re both extremely traumatized to say the least. This is not something we’re going to let them sweep under the rug,” Blake said.
In the video, Blake says two of her classmates were only two minutes late for class when the professor asked them to leave.
Blake says one of the students said they “paid to be here” and refused to leave. The professor then left the classroom and returned with two armed campus police officers, according to Blake.
“Especially as a Black woman, for her to do that is extremely heinous because she herself should understand what it means to call police on Black youth in America,” Blake said.
Georgia State University confirmed the incident and said the professor is no longer teaching in-person classes at this time. The two students were invited to meet with the school provost and police chief.
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Palm Beach County raises awareness for sexual violence survivors
Palm Beach County's Victim Services and Certified Rape Crisis Center wants to bring hundreds of community members together to show their support for victims of sexual violence.
On Tuesday, from 5 to 7 p.m., they will be hosting the sixth annual “Field of Hope.”
According to the Victim Services Director Nicole Bishop, one in six women have been sexually assaulted. She says in Palm Beach County they served 604 victims in 2021. However, she says sexual assault is one of the most underreported crimes. They want to change that.
“I would really like to see a wide range of people from our community, from all groups, ages, to come forward and show support," Bishop said. "So that someone who has been assaulted sees someone that looks like them in our crowd of people showing their support."
They hope to bring 604 community members and survivors together Tuesday to represent the number of adult and child survivors assisted by Victim Services in 2021.
“I think that most of us know someone in our lives who has been effected by this crime," Bishop said. "And it's so, so important that people know they are supported, so that they can come forward, [and know] that there is a place to go here in Palm Beach County."
The event will take place at the SART Center, 4210 N. Australian Avenue, West Palm Beach.
Everyone is welcome to attend. To register for the event, click here.
Victim services will be available on site.
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Port St. Lucie, Waste Pro calling it quits; city leaders now taking bids
City leaders in Port St. Lucie are scheduled to head back to court with Waste Pro, the city's waste contractor, on Tuesday.
For months, the two parties have been at odds over delays in waste pickup.
Waste Pro officials have gone before the city council several times stating the company remains short staffed.
City leaders said Waste Pro is planning to exit the city's contract by September and that the city is in the process of taking bids from new contractors.
They said they hope to have a new contract finalized by May with a new start date by September.
"We're looking to get the highest level of service at the best possible price and, given the state of affairs with the way the economy is right now and the way employment is, we expect that to come at a higher cost, because we haven't bid this contract since 2006," said Carmen Capezzuto, director of neighborhood services.
The city has received thousands of complaints from residents since last year.
Capezzuto said the city's waste contractor is responsible for servicing roughly 81,000 households and 1,100 businesses.
According to Capezzuto, the city is looking to streamline the waste pickup process.
He said the city is in the process of purchasing new, larger carts for garbage pickup for residents. He said residents are also being asked to schedule pickups for bulky waste items.
Until Waste Pro can sufficiently provide services at the existing contract's level, Capezzuto said, the city has hired Optimum Services as a sub-contractor to help with yard waste pickup.
He said the company has about 20 pieces of equipment.
Public works crews have also been pulled to assist with yard waste pickup.
"Because Waste Pro isn't sufficiently providing that service up to the contract levels, we will then compensate our contractor within the current payment structure that we have in place," said Capezzuto.
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OKLAHOMA CITY — The Oklahoma City Dodgers take the field for the first time this year, kicking off their 24th season at Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark and a six-game Opening Week series with a 7:05 p.m. game tonight against the Albuquerque Isotopes.
Gates open at 6 p.m. for opening night on the first $2 Tuesday, featuring $2 select beer, soda and bottled water from a line of Budweiser and Pepsi products. COOP Ale Works draft beer will be available for $3.
Postgame fireworks are scheduled to follow the game between Pacific Coast League foes.
The teams meet nightly at 7:05. Wednesday through Saturday before closing the series at 2:05 p.m. Sunday. Other promotional highlights include:
• Friday — Tyler’s Amazing Balancing Act takes place throughout the evening. Postgame fireworks will follow the game for the first Friday Night Fireworks.
• Saturday — Scout troops and leaders in uniform will be invited to join in a pregame on-field parade and recognition as part of Scout Night. Special group tickets include a limited-edition OKC Dodgers baseball hat, and Scouts also receive a patch. Braum’s Friends and Family 4-Packs are available, offering four tickets, four Braum’s combo meal vouchers and four Dodgers hats at a discounted rate.
• Sunday — Following the afternoon series finale, kids can run the bases like the pros.
The OKC Dodgers will take the field under the guidance of third-year manager Travis Barbary.
Staff includes returning hitting coach Manny Burriss and returning bullpen coach Justin DeFratus. Pitching coach Dave Borkowski joins the team after spending the last three seasons in the same role with Double-A Tulsa.
Tickets for all April through June home games at Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark are on sale now and range in price from $12 to $33.
All tickets are digital and available for purchase at okcdodgers.com. Season and group tickets packages are available for the season.
To view the Dodgers’ complete schedule, visit okcdodgers.com. For additional information, call 218-2182 or visit okcdodgers.com.
Live radio coverage of each OKC Dodgers game begins 15 minutes before the first pitch on AM 1340 “The Game,” 1340thegame.com and through the free iHeartRadio or MiLB First Pitch apps. All games are streamed live on MiLB.TV with a subscription.
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Amber Alert issued for 3-year-old girl abducted from Washington state
(Gray News) - An Amber Alert has been issued for Faith Collins, 3, who authorities say was abducted from outside her home in Bothell, Washington.
Faith’s mother returned home and took her first child into her apartment. While she was inside, she heard a “screeching sound” from tires and when she went outside, she realized that her car was gone. Faith was still inside the car.
Faith is described as a white female with blonde hair and blue eyes. She is 4 foot 1 inches tall and weighs 38 pounds.
She was last seen weating a black dress and beige pants with black stars.
Authorities are also looking for a 2001 gold Honda Accord with front end damage and Washington license plate BWW8403.
Anyone with information should call 911 or the Bothell Police Department at 425-486-1254.
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Elon Musk to join the board of directors at Twitter
NEW YORK (AP) — Elon Musk is joining Twitter’s board of directors a day after disclosing that the Tesla CEO took a 9% stake in the social media platform.
Twitter Inc. said in a regulatory filing Tuesday that it entered into an agreement with Musk on Monday that will give the billionaire a seat on its board, with the term expiring at its 2024 annual shareholders meeting.
Musk, either alone or as a member of a group, won’t be allowed to own more than 14.9% of Twitter’s outstanding stock for as long as he’s a board member and for 90 days after.
Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal said in a tweet that the company had been talking to Musk in recent weeks and “it became clear to us that he would bring great value to our Board.”
“He’s both a passionate believer and intense critic of the service which is exactly what we need on @Twitter, and in the boardroom, to make us stronger in the long-term,” Agrawal continued.
Putting Musk on Twitter’s board and limiting the amount of stock he can acquire while as a director may be a strategic move on Twitter’s part, as Musk became its biggest shareholder and openly questioned the social media platform’s dedication to free speech and the First Amendment.
Musk, who has 80 million Twitter followers, purchased 73.5 million shares, worth about $3 billion. He has also raised the possibility with his massive and loyal Twitter following, that he could create a rival social media network.
Musk has not spoken specifically about any Twitter rule changes he might push. He tweeted Tuesday that he wants to make " significant improvements to Twitter in coming months! " Late Monday he launched a poll asking whether users want an edit button, misspelling “yes” as “yse.”
In March, Musk told his millions of 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.
Musk is locked into a bitter dispute with the SEC over his ability to post on Twitter. His lawyer has contended in court motions that the SEC is infringing on the Tesla CEO’s First Amendment rights.
Shares of Twitter rose more than 6% before the market open.
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Georgia college professor calls police on students who arrived late to class
ATLANTA (WGCL) - A professor at Georgia State University Perimeter College is no longer in the classrom after she called the police because two students arrived late to class, WGCL reported.
Bria Blake, a student at the college, posted about the incident on TikTok. The post has been liked more than 165,000 times.
“They’re both extremely traumatized to say the least. This is not something we’re going to let them sweep under the rug,” Blake said.
In the video, Blake says two of her classmates were only two minutes late for class when the professor asked them to leave.
Blake says one of the students said they “paid to be here” and refused to leave. The professor then left the classroom and returned with two armed campus police officers, according to Blake.
“Especially as a Black woman, for her to do that is extremely heinous because she herself should understand what it means to call police on Black youth in America,” Blake said.
Georgia State University confirmed the incident and said the professor is no longer teaching in-person classes at this time. The two students were invited to meet with the school provost and police chief.
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Kershaw Co. superintendent hired as superintendent of Dorchester District 2
KERSHAW COUNTY, S.C. (WIS) - Kershaw County School District’s Superintendent has been hired to become the Superintendent of Dorchester County School District 2.
Dr. Shane Robbins will become take up the position on July 1, according to a release from Kershaw County School District.
Board members voted 5-2 at a special called meeting Monday to hire Robbins after a debate about concerns brought to the board about his candidacy. DD2 Board Chair Gail Hughes telephoned Robbins during the meeting to inform him of the vote’s results, according to a report from WCSC.
Robbins has been the superintendent at KCSD since 2018.
“While I am excited about this new opportunity in Dorchester County, I am extremely proud to have served in KCSD and of all that we have achieved, especially during a pandemic,” he said. “I know that this school district will continue to thrive and be successful.”
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Ukraine’s Zelenskyy to brief top UN body on alleged massacres
BUCHA, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s president planned to address the U.N.’s most powerful body on Tuesday after even more grisly evidence emerged of civilian massacres in areas that Russian forces recently left. Western nations expelled dozens more of Moscow’s diplomats and proposed further sanctions as they expressed their disgust at what they say are war crimes.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s speech to the Security Council will be rich with symbolism, but the invitation and other displays of Western support are unlikely to alter the situation on the ground. He says his forces desperately need more powerful weaponry, some of which the West has been reluctant to give. Russia’s veto guarantees the body will take no action, and it was unclear whether its representatives would even remain in the chamber for the video address.
The head of NATO, meanwhile, warned that Russia is regrouping its forces in order to deploy them to eastern and southern Ukraine for a “crucial phase of the war,” as the European Union proposed new sanctions targeting Russia’s lucrative energy industry.
Ukrainian officials said the bodies of at least 410 civilians have been found in towns around Kyiv that were recaptured from Russian forces and that a “torture chamber” was discovered in the town called Bucha, from which some of the grimmest details have emerged.
GRAPHIC WARNING: Videos in this story may contain disturbing content.
Associated Press journalists in the town have counted dozens of corpses in civilian clothes. Many appeared to have been shot at close range, and some had their hands bound or their flesh burned. A mass grave in a churchyard held bodies wrapped in plastic. The Ukrainian prosecutor-general’s office said the bodies of five men with their hands bound were found in the basement of a children’s sanatorium where civilians were tortured and killed.
High-resolution satellite imagery by commercial provider Maxar Technologies, meanwhile, showed that many of the bodies had been lying in the open for weeks, during the time that Russian forces were in the town. The New York Times first reported on the images showing the dead.
U.S. President Joe Biden said Russian President Vladimir Putin should be tried for war crimes.
“Only non-humans are capable of this,” said Angelica Chernomor, a refugee from Kyiv who crossed into Poland with her two children, and who had seen the photos from Bucha. “Even if people live under a totalitarian regime, they must retain feelings, dignity, but they do not.”
Chernomor is among the more than 4 million Ukrainians who have fled the country in the wake of the Feb. 24 invasion. More than 7 million more people have been displaced inside Ukraine, the U.N. migration agency estimates.
Russia has rejected allegations of atrocities, with officials repeatedly saying without evidence that the scenes were faked. Moscow said it would speak about Bucha at the U.N. on Tuesday, indicating its representatives will attend at least part of the meeting.
Russia has sought to refute similar accusations against its forces in the past by accusing its enemies of forging photos and video, and of using so-called crisis actors. Western officials and independent reporters say Russia spreads disinformation to mask its actions.
As Western leaders condemned the killings in Bucha, Italy, Spain and Denmark expelled dozens of Russian diplomats on Tuesday, following moves by Germany and France. Hundreds of Russian diplomats have been sent home since the start of the invasion, many accused of being spies. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov called the expulsions a “short-sighted” measure that would complicate communication during the crisis and warned they would be met with “reciprocal steps.”
In another show of support, European Union Commission President Ursula von der Leyen plans to travel to Kyiv to meet with Zelenskyy this week. The 27-nation EU has been a steadfast backer of Ukraine since the Russian invasion began on Feb. 24 and has already pushed through four rounds of sanctions.
On Tuesday, the European Union’s executive branch proposed a ban on coal imports from Russia. Von der Leyen linked the ban on coal imports, worth 4 billion euros ($4.4 billion) per year, to the “heinous crimes” around Kyiv.
Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said that to prevent “new Buchas” the West must impose the “mother of all sanctions” — on Russian oil and gas. “Stop financing Putin’s war machine,” he tweeted. “A few months of tightening your belts are worth thousands of saved lives.”
But Western nations are divided over how far to go. Some are calling for a boycott of Russian oil and gas imports, while Germany and others fear that such a move could plunge the continent into a severe economic crisis. And countries from the NATO alliance have refused to hand over some of the most powerful weaponry Zelenskyy has asked for, like fighter jets.
Their provision of other weapons and equipment has been credited with helping Ukraine mount a stiffer than expected resistance to Russia’s overwhelming firepower. That resistance stopped Russian forces from overrunning the capital and other cities, and many Russian troops have now withdrawn from areas around Kyiv.
But Western and Ukrainian officials say Russia is merely regrouping for another offensive.
“Moscow is not giving up its ambitions in Ukraine,” NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg said Tuesday. “We expect a further push in the eastern and southern Ukraine to try to take the entire Donbas and to create a land bridge” to the Crimea Peninsula, which Russia annexed in 2014. Russia-backed separatists in the Donbas have been fighting Ukrainian troops for the last eight years.
Stoltenberg insisted the alliance will stand ready to help Ukraine with military equipment, a day after Zelenskyy appealed for more weaponry.
Zelenskyy’s video addresses to European capitals, in which he has sought to rally diplomatic, financial and military support for his country, have become near daily affairs, and he was expected to address the Spanish parliament on Tuesday.
But the speech to the Security Council could be even more dramatic, with all eyes on the reaction of any Russian representatives present.
The Ukrainian military says that, in the Donbas, Russia is focused on seizing the cities of Popasna and Rubizhne in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions and the Azov Sea port of Mariupol, which has seen weeks of heavy fighting at a staggering cost to the city and its residents.
The Ukrainian governor of Luhansk on Tuesday urged residents to stay inside, shut windows and doors, and prepare wet face masks after a Russian strike hit a storage tank holding nitric acid near Rubizhne, which the Russians have been trying to seize.
Serhiy Haidai warned that the chemical, which is used in fertilizer and explosives, “is dangerous if inhaled, swallowed and in contact with skin and mucous membranes.” The Russian military has not commented on the alleged strike, and it could not be independently verified.
Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk meanwhile said seven humanitarian corridors will be open on Tuesday, including from besieged Mariupol, where 1,500 civilians were able to escape in private vehicles on Monday, as well as the Russian-controlled Berdyansk.
But it was not immediately clear whether Russia has agreed to halt the fighting along the corridors. Previous efforts to bring civilians to safety through humanitarian corridors have failed because of renewed fighting.
An international Red Cross team gave up on entering Mariupol at least for Tuesday, after several days of trying to deliver aid to the besieged city and help escort civilians out.
The International Committee of the Red Cross said the team was held overnight held by police in Manhush, west of Mariupol, but later released. It did not identify the nationality of the police, but Manhush has been under Russian control for weeks.
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This story has been updated to correct that Mariupol is on the Azov Sea, not the Black Sea.
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Yuras Karmanau in Lviv, Ukraine; Edith Lederer at the United Nations; Lolita Baldor in Washington and Associated Press journalists around the world contributed to this report.
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US agency opens probe into electric vehicle batteries
DETROIT (AP) — U.S. safety regulators have opened an investigation into electric and hybrid vehicle batteries after five automakers issued recalls for defects that can cause fires or stalling.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration says the probe covers more than 138,000 vehicles with batteries made by LG Energy Solution of South Korea.
General Motors, Mercedes-Benz, Hyundai, Stellantis and Volkswagen have issued recalls since early 2020, most due to internal battery failures that can increase the risk of fires.
The agency says it will write to LG and other companies that might have bought similar batteries to make sure recalls are being done when needed.
A message was left Tuesday seeking comment from LG Energy Solution.
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More than 120 speakers. The top names in the cannabis space. 2 days. One event. All of your networking needs, satisfied.
DETROIT, April 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The 14th Benzinga Cannabis Capital Conference, the best-attended cannabis investing event in the world, which gathers the top decision makers in the industry, is returning to Florida on April 20 and April 21, 2022. Meet us at the Fontainebleau Miami Beach hotel to enjoy exclusive opportunities for curated networking and unparalleled access to private deal flow at an event hosted by Benzinga, a financial news and data company recently acquired at a $300 million valuation.
Hear directly from the executives of top-performing cannabis companies and get priceless insights from the world's leading cannabis investors, all in one place.
Get your tickets now, following this link.
Who's Speaking
The upgraded version of the Benzinga Cannabis Capital Conference, the biggest and best yet, will not only feature the traditional keynotes, panel discussions, fireside chats, networking, company presentations, and investor and celebrity appearances, but also a larger exhibit floor and enhanced industry networking opportunities.
Among the more than 120 speakers in our lineup, you'll hear from:
- Irwin Simon, CEO, Tilray
- Kim Rivers, CEO, Trulieve
- Jason Wild, CIO JW Asset Management & President of Terrascend
- Rep. Nancy Mace, Congresswoman, U.S. Congress
- Boris Jordan, Executive Chairman, Curaleaf
- Jen Drake, Co-COO, Ayr Wellness
- Ricky Sandler, CEO & CIO, Eminence Capital
- David Klein, CEO, Canopy Growth
- Troy Datcher, CEO, The Parent Company
- Aaron Miles, CIO, Verano
- Nancy Whiteman, CEO, Wana Brands
- Emily Paxhia, Managing Partner, Poseidon
- Jim Kirsch, Senior Managing Director, Alliance Global Partners
- Chad Bronstein, Founder & CEO, Fyllo
- Brett Novey, CEO, PharmaCann
- Rep. Davis Joyce, Congressman, U.S. Congress
- Mike Tyson, Founder, Tyson 2.0
- Isiah Thomas, CEO & Chairman, One World Products
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A Proven Model
After 13 extremely successful editions in Toronto, Chicago, Detroit, New York and Miami, the Benzinga Cannabis Capital Conference is going bigger than ever.
The April 20 and April 21 Benzinga Cannabis Capital Conference will include, for the first time ever, an expo floor to give more visibility to the brands that are shaping this space. In addition, attendees will enjoy private meeting areas, comfortable seating and premium food options.
"We've seen cannabis businesses raise tens of millions of dollars at our events and this year's meeting will be even larger, with a record level of investment capital and top-notch operators," said Chief Zinger Jason Raznick. "We'll also dive into key issues related to cannabis and capital markets with these incredible speakers."
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Seventh annual member spotlight program features business education's commitment to action
TAMPA, Fla., April 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, AACSB International (AACSB)—the world's largest business education alliance—announces 24 business schools highlighted in its Innovations That Inspire member spotlight program.
This annual program recognizes institutions from around the world that serve as champions of change in the business education landscape. In 2022, the highlights feature efforts to elevate diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (DEIB). Emphasis on DEIB is a key feature of AACSB's 2020 business accreditation standards and the focus of a recently released positioning paper. The paper illustrates AACSB's commitment to equitable access to high-quality business education globally and calls on the business education community to embed the tenets of DEIB into its strategies and cultures.
The featured innovations address challenges and opportunities across academia, businesses and workplaces, and communities. Examples include:
- The Egypt Women on Boards Observatory: Founded by a consortium initiated by the American University in Cairo School of Business, the effort supports the national objective of having women compose 30 percent of public and private company boards in Egypt by 2030.
- The Australian Digital Inclusion Index from Swinburne University of Technology's School of Business, Law and Entrepreneurship—Centre for Social Impact: This multiyear project that documents digital inclusion in Australia by both geography and demography is the only comprehensive index of its kind.
- IE Business School's LGBT+@Work: Delivered by IE Business School students, the conference is the longest running of its kind in Europe and is now a global event reaching up to 2,000 participants.
- Florida State University's Workforce Inclusion course: Within the College of Business, this transformative course prepares students to both accommodate and integrate persons with varying abilities into the workforce.
"Progress toward more welcoming, inclusive spaces requires action, and the highlights of the 2022 Innovations That Inspire initiative demonstrate leadership in this important effort," said Caryn Beck-Dudley, AACSB president and CEO. "Through collaborations—among business schools, businesses, and communities—we will create a strong global society and equip leaders for positive impact."
Now in its seventh year, the Innovations That Inspire initiative has highlighted nearly 200 business school efforts that exemplify forward-looking approaches to education, research, community engagement or outreach, entrepreneurship, and leadership. Support for the 2022 Innovations That Inspire member spotlight program is provided by the Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC).
More insights and examples are available at aacsb.edu/innovations-that-inspire.
Established in 1916, AACSB International (AACSB) is the world's largest business education alliance, connecting educators, learners, and business to create the next generation of great leaders. With a presence in more than 100 countries and territories, AACSB fosters engagement, accelerates innovation, and amplifies impact in business education. Learn how AACSB is transforming business education for a better society at aacsb.edu.
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Finance professionals identify the biggest risks ahead as supply chains volatility and renewed Covid restrictions
NEW YORK and MONTVALE, N.J., April 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The latest edition of the Global Economic Conditions Survey (GECS) from ACCA (the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants) and IMA® (Institute of Management Accountants) reveals worries about operating costs, with warnings of future economic shocks and increased risks.
The full report is available at https://www.imanet.org/insights-and-trends/global-economic-conditions-survey.
Conducted just before and at the onset of the war in Ukraine between February 14 and March 1, 2022, the results understandably point to economic turbulence in the coming months.
GECS's index of concern about operating costs jumped again in the latest survey by nine percentage points and is now at its highest level on record at 62%.
This dramatic rise has played out over the last year and tracks the effects of rising energy and transport costs caused by supply chain shortages and disruption.
In the Q1 survey, global confidence and global orders were little changed, up by four points to +9 for confidence and by two points to -3 for orders. Other economic activity indicators, such as employment and capital spending improved. Overall, the Q1 survey continues the trend of modest overall growth through to the middle of the year, following the strong post-pandemic recovery of 2021.
In Q1, the Middle East was the best performing region with jumps in confidence and orders, likely a reflection of the increase in the oil price. Confidence and orders fell back in North America, influenced by the effects of the spread of the Omicron COVID variant.
The level of orders in advanced regions remains above that in emerging regions, as it has throughout the post-pandemic recovery.
GECS's two "fear" indices – measured by concern that customers and suppliers may go out of business – were little changed in the Q1 survey, down by two points and one point respectively. Both indices have fallen back from extreme levels seen in 2020 but are still above pre-pandemic levels.
Economic conditions are expected to continue to shift as the full impact of the Russia-Ukraine conflict is felt this spring.
"Given the fast-moving and unpredictable nature of the war in Ukraine, it's important to note that the survey may not fully capture the likely effects of the invasion," said ACCA's chief economist Michael Taylor. "But we have a picture of the immediate economic costs of the war in Ukraine and the main conclusion is that the rise in commodity prices, especially for oil, natural gas, and wheat will push inflation even higher in most economies, further squeezing real incomes and slowing economic growth."
Compared with previous forecasts, global growth may be reduced by as much as one percentage point this year, to around 3.25%.
"We again asked respondents to name their two biggest economic risks – 51% said supply chain disruption and 50% said renewed COVID restrictions," said Loreal Jiles, vice president of research and thought leadership at IMA. "Compared with the Q4 survey, there was an increase in rising interest rates as a risk, up to 40% from 26%. We expect U.S. interest rates to rise steadily this year, and this may result in a tightening of global financial conditions."
Both ACCA and IMA warn of the risk of policy mistakes.
"Removing the exceptional policy ease introduced to mitigate the effects of the pandemic was always going to be tricky," Jiles continued. "Over the last year, supply shortages and now the Russia-Ukraine war have resulted in a stagflation scenario reminiscent of the 1970s which was a time of weak economic growth combined with high rates of inflation."
"The economic consequences of Russia's invasion of Ukraine are yet to fully emerge," concluded Taylor. "Central banks in advanced economies face a difficult judgement call that could result either in over-tight policy causing recession or too easy policy embedding inflation and inflation expectations. Policies need to be thought through and stress tested very carefully in the days, weeks, and months ahead."
About ACCA
ACCA is the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants. We're a thriving global community of 233,000 members and 536,000 future members based in 178 countries and regions that upholds the highest professional and ethical values.
We believe that accountancy is a cornerstone profession of society that supports both public and private sectors. That's why we're committed to the development of a strong global accountancy profession and the many benefits that this brings to society and individuals.
Since 1904 being a force for public good has been embedded in our purpose. And because we're a not-for-profit organization, we build a sustainable global profession by re-investing our surplus to deliver member value and develop the profession for the next generation.
Through our world leading ACCA Qualification, we offer everyone everywhere the opportunity to experience a rewarding career in accountancy, finance and management. And using our respected research, we lead the profession by answering today's questions and preparing us for tomorrow.
ACCA and CA ANZ have formed a strategic alliance for the benefit of members and to help shape the future of the profession. Find out more about us at accaglobal.com
About IMA® (Institute of Management Accountants)
IMA® is one of the largest and most respected associations focused exclusively on advancing the management accounting profession.
Globally, IMA supports the profession through research, the CMA® (Certified Management Accountant) and CSCA® (Certified in Strategy and Competitive Analysis) programs, continuing education, networking, and advocacy of the highest ethical business practices.
Twice named Professional Body of the Year by The Accountant/International Accounting Bulletin, IMA has a global network of about 140,000 members in 150 countries and 350 professional and student chapters. Headquartered in Montvale, N.J., USA, IMA provides localized services through its four global regions: The Americas, Asia/Pacific, Europe and Middle East/India. For more information about IMA, please visit www.imanet.org.
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Adjust Datascape empowers app marketers with time-saving reporting, visualization, and analysis tools across all data sources, on one screen
SAN FRANCISCO, April 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Mobile marketing analytics platform Adjust today launched Adjust Datascape, a new advanced analytics solution designed to deliver business-critical KPIs and performance metrics faster and easier. With unified data and expanded visual context, mobile app marketers can extract meaningful insights and make smarter strategic marketing decisions in real time.
Agility is more important than ever as app marketers are tasked with analyzing campaign data from an ever-increasing number of sources and acting on it immediately. Datascape helps solve this challenge by providing marketers with access to all of their data from network APIs, attributions, consented AppTrackingTransparency (ATT) installs and SKAdNetwork (SKAN) campaigns in one place — a unique approach among mobile measurement partners.
"A mobile app's success in this dynamic industry depends on smart and fast decision-making," said Simon "Bobby" Dussart, CEO of Adjust. "As an enterprise-ready solution, Datascape solves marketers' needs to easily view and analyze what's working, or what isn't, across multiple campaigns. Having this overview of their business performance and this level of insights, all in one place, allows marketers to optimize their strategy and focus on growth."
With Datascape, marketers can customize dashboards and reports to visualize user growth and cohorts, summarize extensive data sets, and analyze SKAN data, including:
- Performance marketing metrics at a glance, as well as a deeper view of more granular data when needed.
- Compare and contrast filters to view results across all apps, regardless of iOS or Android operating system.
- SKAdNetwork dashboard to learn which campaigns targeted to users acquired through Apple's SKAN framework are driving the most installs.
- Side-by-side network, attribution, SKAN, and ATT data in different combinations, in a single view.
- Monetization dashboard with full visibility of profit and revenue metrics through numerous partner integrations and data sources.
Datascape's expanded visualizations have been market-tested and show promising results for Adjust's clients.
"Datascape has drastically increased our ability to quickly review and optimize our campaigns for maximum efficiency," said Arthur Jun, Head of Performance Marketing at Duolingo. "And as we scale, our growing team can save customized visualizations to inform future decision-making, giving us the agility we need."
"Datascape allows our team to have complete, centralized visibility over all of our campaigns and apps to analyze marketing results," said David Ribeiro, Head of Growth at Voodoo. "This way, our team is able to spot trends, compare performance easily against previous time periods, and act quickly and efficiently to implement changes to our strategy."
To learn more about Datascape, visit: https://www.adjust.com/product/datascape.
Adjust is the mobile marketing analytics platform trusted by growth-driven marketers around the world, with solutions for measuring and optimizing campaigns and protecting user data. Adjust powers thousands of apps with built-in intelligence and automation, backed by responsive global customer support.
In 2021, Adjust was acquired by AppLovin (Nasdaq: APP), a leading marketing platform providing developers with a powerful, integrated set of solutions to grow their mobile apps. Learn more about Adjust at www.adjust.com.
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- VUITY is the first and only eye drop to treat presbyopia, or age-related blurry near vision, in adults and is FDA-approved for once-daily administration
- In the VIRGO trial evaluating twice-daily administration of VUITY, the primary endpoint of improving near vision without compromising distance vision at Day 14, Hour 9 was met
- Data from the VIRGO trial will be presented at upcoming medical congresses and serve as the basis for a supplemental U.S. New Drug Application submission in the second quarter of 2022
NORTH CHICAGO, Ill., April 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Allergan, an AbbVie (NYSE: ABBV) company, today announced that the Phase 3 VIRGO trial evaluating the safety and efficacy of investigational twice-daily administration of VUITY™ (pilocarpine HCl ophthalmic solution) 1.25% in adults with presbyopia met its primary efficacy endpoint, improving near vision without compromising distance vision at Hour 9 (3 hours after the second drop) on Day 14. Additional details of this trial will be presented at future medical congresses and will serve as the basis for a supplemental New Drug Application submission for an optional twice-daily administration to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in the second quarter of 2022. Approved by the FDA in October 2021 for once-daily use, VUITY is the first and only eye drop to treat age-related blurry near vision in adults.
"We are encouraged by the results from the VIRGO trial, which suggest that administering VUITY twice daily may provide an additional dosing option for people with presbyopia to improve their near vision without compromising their distance vision," said Christopher Lievens, O.D., clinical trial investigator and professor, Southern College of Optometry. "With similar safety results compared to the previous studies evaluating once-daily administration, VUITY administered twice daily may offer more flexibility in how blurry near vision is managed."
In the VIRGO Phase 3 trial, a total of 230 participants aged 40 to 55 years old with presbyopia were randomized in a one-to-one ratio of vehicle (placebo) to VUITY, receiving two drops in each eye per day for 14 days, with the second drop at Hour 6 (6 hours after the first drop). The study met its primary endpoint, showing a statistically significant proportion of participants treated with VUITY twice daily gained three lines (the ability to read three additional lines on a near vision chart) or more in mesopic (low light), high contrast, binocular Distance Corrected Near Visual Acuity (DCNVA) with no more than 5-letter loss in low light Corrected Distance Visual Acuity (CDVA) at Day 14, Hour 9 (3 hours after the second drop) versus the vehicle (placebo).
The safety profile was similar to that observed in studies with once-daily administration of VUITY; the most common adverse events occurring at a frequency of >5% were headache and eye irritation. The twice-daily use of VUITY is not approved and its safety and efficacy have not been evaluated by the FDA.
"We know that many people with age-related blurry near vision are interested in the potential use of VUITY beyond once-daily administration to help manage their condition," said Michael R. Robinson, M.D., vice president, global therapeutic area head, ophthalmology, AbbVie. "The results of the VIRGO trial showcase our continued effort to innovate for patients with age-related blurry near vision and commitment to expanding our leading portfolio of treatments for eye care providers and patients."
An estimated 128 million people in the U.S. experience presbyopia or age-related blurry near vision, a common and progressive eye condition that reduces the eye's ability to focus on near objects and usually impacts people after age 40. In a non-presbyopic eye, the clear lens behind the iris can change shape and focus light to the retina, making it easier to see things up close. In a presbyopic eye, the clear lens hardens and does not change shape as easily, making it difficult to focus on near objects. Presbyopia can be diagnosed by an eye doctor (ophthalmologist/optometrist).
VUITY is an optimized formulation of pilocarpine, an established eye care therapeutic, specifically designed to treat age-related blurry near vision. It is delivered with proprietary pHast™ technology, which allows VUITY to rapidly adjust to the physiologic pH of the tear film. This was studied in simulated tear film, and the clinical significance is unknown. VUITY uses the eye's own ability to reduce pupil size and improves near and intermediate vision without compromising distance vision.
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VUITY™ (pilocarpine hydrochloride ophthalmic solution) 1.25% is a prescription eye drop used to treat age-related blurry near vision (presbyopia) in adults.
- Do not use VUITY if you are allergic to any of the ingredients.
- Use caution when driving at night or performing hazardous activities in poor lighting.
- Temporary problems when changing focus between near and distant objects may occur. Do not drive or use machinery if vision is not clear.
- Seek immediate medical care if you experience any sudden vision loss.
- If you wear contact lenses, they should be removed prior to VUITY use. Wait 10 minutes after dosing before reinserting contact lenses.
- Do not touch the dropper tip to any surface as this may contaminate the contents.
- If more than one topical eye medication is being used, the medicines must be administered at least 5 minutes apart.
- The most common side effects are headache and eye redness. These are not all the possible side effects of VUITY.
Please see full Prescribing Information at www.VUITY.com.
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.
As a leader in eye care, Allergan has discovered, developed, and delivered some of the most innovative products in the industry for more than 70 years. Allergan has launched over 125 eye care products and invested billions of dollars in treatments for the most prevalent eye conditions including glaucoma, ocular surface disease, and retinal diseases such as diabetic macular edema and retinal vein occlusion.
AbbVie's mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. We strive to have a remarkable impact on people's lives across several key therapeutic areas: immunology, oncology, neuroscience, eye care, virology, women's health and gastroenterology, in addition to products and services across its Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at www.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and LinkedIn.
Some statements in this news release are, or may be considered, forward-looking statements for purposes of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. The words "believe," "expect," "anticipate," "project" and similar expressions, among others, generally identify forward-looking statements. AbbVie cautions that these forward-looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties that may cause actual results to differ materially from those indicated in the forward-looking statements. Such risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, failure to realize the expected benefits from AbbVie's acquisition of Allergan plc ("Allergan"), failure to promptly and effectively integrate Allergan's businesses, competition from other products, challenges to intellectual property, difficulties inherent in the research and development process, adverse litigation or government action, changes to laws and regulations applicable to our industry and the impact of public health outbreaks, epidemics or pandemics, such as COVID-19. Additional information about the economic, competitive, governmental, technological and other factors that may affect AbbVie's operations is set forth in Item 1A, "Risk Factors," of AbbVie's 2021 Annual Report on Form 10-K, which has been filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, as updated by its subsequent Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q. AbbVie undertakes no obligation to release publicly any revisions to forward-looking statements as a result of subsequent events or developments, except as required by law.
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Next-Generation Vulcan Rocket to Launch Majority of Project Kuiper Satellite Constellation
CENTENNIAL, Colo., April 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- United Launch Alliance (ULA) announced today that Amazon has selected its next-generation Vulcan rocket for 38 launches supporting deployment for its ambitious Project Kuiper, Amazon's initiative to increase global broadband access through a constellation of 3,236 advanced satellites in low Earth orbit.
"We strongly believe in the mission of Project Kuiper. We are honored to be entrusted with the majority of Amazon's launches with a total of 47 missions, including the nine Atlas launches already on contract," said Tory Bruno, ULA's president and CEO. "At ULA we are focused on serving our customers and partnering with them to provide unmatched flight capabilities and mission operations and assurance, to provide the lowest risk and best-value launch solution."
The Vulcan missions will launch from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
"ULA has decades of experience and a proven track record across dozens of successful commercial and government missions, and we're proud to have them on our team," said Rajeev Badyal, Vice President of Technology for Project Kuiper at Amazon. "Our work together to enhance launch operations at Cape Canaveral stands to benefit the broader space industry and contribute to greater resilience in space operations."
"Vulcan Centaur's unique, single-core, heavy lift design, coupled with its industry-leading large payload fairing, makes it an excellent fit for Amazon's deployment of the majority of its Project Kuiper constellation," said Chris Ellerhorst, ULA director of Strategy, Business Development and Sales. "In addition to the launches, this partnership includes substantial investments made by both companies in high-rate production, launch vehicle improvements, and launch infrastructure, to support Amazon's long-term launch needs, which is great for the U.S. aerospace industry and supply chain."
Amazon's goal for Project Kuiper is to make high-speed, low-latency broadband more affordable and accessible for unserved and underserved communities around the world. The initiative is designed to serve individual households, as well as schools, hospitals, businesses, government agencies, and other organizations operating in places without reliable broadband services.
Leveraging a legacy of 100 percent mission success launching over 145 missions to explore, protect and enhance our world, ULA is the nation's most experienced and reliable launch service provider with world-leading reliability, schedule confidence, and mission optimization. The technologies we launch protect our country and troops in the battlefield, enable search and rescue, aid meteorologists in tracking severe weather, deliver cutting-edge commercial services, and expand our understanding of the Earth. We deliver value unmatched by any launch services company in the industry, a tireless drive to improve, and commitment to the extraordinary.
For more information on ULA, visit the ULA website at www.ulalaunch.com, or call the ULA Launch Hotline at 1-877-ULA-4321 (852-4321). Join the conversation at www.facebook.com/ulalaunch, twitter.com/ulalaunch and instagram.com/ulalaunch.
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WASHINGTON , April 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today the American Conservative Values ETF (ACVF) is celebrating its decision to boycott investing in The Walt Disney Company because the company's bankrupt values are damaging its brand and harming shareholder value.
"Disney's efforts to circumvent parental rights regarding discussing sex in the classroom with very young children is extremely concerning but it validates our decision to boycott investing in the company from both a values and investing perspective," said ACVF President and co-founder Tom Carter.
"Thankfully, our investors are inoculated from the financial consequences of Disney advocating the Left-wing desire for sexual indoctrination of children in classrooms," added Carter.
In an outrageous display of corporate wokeness, Disney is opposing the Florida "Parental Rights in Education" law that "prohibits classroom discussion about sexual orientation or gender identity in certain grade levels." Throwing fuel on the fire, Disney promised to use its corporate resources to lobby to repeal the law.
Disney is getting slammed by its customers with promises of boycotting its products and theme parks as well as commitments to cancel the Disney Plus streaming service. Additionally, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is looking into removing special privileges the company is enjoying in the state.
"The blowback against Disney is intense, ranging from parents across the country to elected officials in the state of Florida as well as some employees. Disney's self-inflicted wound is causing damage to its brand and shareholder value. Moreover, the possible removal of privileges, if enacted, will add to the cost of doing business in Florida," said ACVF CEO and co-founder William Flaig.
"Using shareholder money to lobby against parental rights is an outrageous abandonment of fiduciary responsibility. Importantly, ACVF's investors will not suffer from Disney's ill-advised wokeness since our ETF never invested in Disney," added Flaig.
"We are thrilled that ACVF is delivering for our investors," said Carter.
Founded in late 2020, ACVF has created a new community of savvy conservative investors by guiding them away from the worst offending woke corporations as well as the companies most hostile to conservative values. ACVF's investments are based on the idea that if a company is politically active it negatively impacts its shareholders' returns, and accordingly boycotted 27 major companies that account for approximately 26 percent of the S&P 500 over the course of 2021.
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PITTSBURGH, April 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Allegheny Technologies Incorporated (NYSE: ATI) will provide live Internet listening access to its conference call with the financial community scheduled for Wednesday, May 4, 2022 at 10:30 a.m. ET. The conference call will be conducted after the Company's planned release of first quarter results. The conference call will be broadcast, and accompanying presentation slides will be available, at ATImetals.com. To access the broadcast, visit ATImetals.com and select "Conference Call." Conference call replay will be available on ATImetals.com.
ATI (NYSE: ATI) is a $3 billion global producer of high performance materials and solutions for the global aerospace and defense markets, and critical applications in electronics, medical and specialty energy. We're solving the world's most difficult challenges through materials science. Our proprietary process technologies, unique customer partnerships and commitment to innovation deliver materials and solutions for today and the evermore challenging environments of tomorrow. We are proven to perform anywhere. We partner with our customers to deliver extraordinary materials that enable their greatest achievements: their products fly higher and faster, burn hotter, dive deeper, stand stronger and last longer. Learn more at ATIMetals.com.
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TORONTO, April 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Auvenir is excited to announce our partnership with Validis, an award-winning secure data ingestion platform that pulls your client's financial information in real-time, standardized for easy consumption. The partnership between Auvenir and Validis will integrate the Validis API solution within Auvenir's platform to enable integrated access to client financial data creating a seamless end-to-end audit, review, compilation, and preparation process.
Validis currently supports a wide range of larger audit firms that use its platform to instantly access business data from major accounting packages. The integration to Auvenir's workflow platform is designed to offer up this capability to the tens of thousands of small to mid-size accounting firms globally that are seeking to innovate their audit and assurance processes through a smart, scalable, cloud-based solution.
The latest integration will provide Auvenir platform users with granular level accounting data, including General Ledger, Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payable, that can be refreshed throughout the year and made accessible directly through Auvenir's workflow solution. For smaller firms, this will help streamline internal processes, improve the engagement experience, and deliver deeper financial reporting insights to their clients.
"We are delighted to partner with Validis leveraging their powerful API capabilities," said Alexandra Romanet, Director of Market Strategy and Partnerships at Auvenir. "Validis' integration enables our customers to seamlessly pull ledger, sub-ledger, and transactional level data from the largest assortment of accounting packages in an easy-to-use module directly into Auvenir's end-to-end workflow and reporting tools. We believe this will propel small to mid-size firms to deliver more efficiencies, higher quality, and a more enhanced experience for their clients."
Jeff Gramlich, Managing Director Accounting at Validis, said "The Validis integration to Auvenir's platform is very exciting, it will further enhance a sophisticated workflow platform and provide smaller audit firms with a powerful, ready-made solution that will replace manually driven data collection processes and analysis. Through Validis' market-leading, API, Auvenir customers will have on-demand access to a vast amount of accounting data, all standardized and at a level of granularity not found elsewhere. The partnership fits well into our vision and together, Validis and Auvenir are on a mission to help build a better, frictionless audit and assurance experience for auditors, their teams and their clients across the globe".
Anyone interested to learn more about the partnership between Auvenir and Validis can contact Alexandra Romanet at Alexandra@auvenir.com and Jeff Gramlich at Jeff.Gramlich@validis.com.
About Auvenir
Auvenir delivers smart, cloud-based financial audit & assurance solutions designed specifically for small to medium sized accounting firms. We have built an intelligent platform that enables accounting firms to leverage the best of today's technology to create a better engagement experience for practitioners and their clients. We are on a mission to help everyone Audit Smarter. Visit www.auvenir.com
About Validis
We manage the acquisition and curation of data through a single platform, driving value, business insight and operational efficiency for some of the world's biggest brands across accounting and financial services. Validis is an intelligent API that accesses and standardises financial information, powered within an easy-to-use interface. Visit www.validis.com
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Erin Souza brings 15+ years of HR experience to bolster Aware's human-centric workplace mantra
COLUMBUS, Ohio, April 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Aware, the leading enterprise-grade collaboration governance, compliance, and insights platform, today announced the appointment of Erin Souza as Chief People Officer (CPO). Throughout her career, Souza has distinguished herself with her approach to building teams and empowering them to do great work. In this newly created position, Souza brings a fresh leadership perspective to Aware during a time of incredible growth as the company strives to achieve its mission of empowering employees by creating more empathetic, flexible, and human-centric workplaces.
As CPO, Souza is charged with scaling a strong culture that prioritizes innovation, collaboration, and support, both internally and externally. She will oversee the company's hiring and talent attraction strategy, and design a system to inspire employees to do their best work, grow, and develop their careers. Souza will also focus on coaching and skill development to help managers and leaders cultivate high-performing teams. With work and life interconnected now more than ever, she favors a holistic approach to people development that supports diverse employee needs and helps employees overcome unique challenges.
"I'm excited to bring my entrepreneurial spirit together with my love of all things people and culture to Aware and partner with a leadership team that prioritized a people-first philosophy from day one," said Souza. "The last few years have shown businesses must reflect upon what is important and valued to the modern employee. We must listen, adapt and change our priorities to put people first and foremost to attract, develop and retain top talent."
"We are so fortunate to have Erin join our team and help us scale our culture as the company continues to have explosive growth," said Jeff Schumann, CEO of Aware. "Erin's incredible background and strong people-first mindset perfectly aligns with our values. We are confident that she is exactly what Aware needs to grow and give our employees the support they need to thrive."
"The fabric of organizations is woven by human beings who have a desire to belong and be part of something bigger than themselves. What greater challenge than to be responsible for the most important part of the business … the people," said Souza.
Souza brings over 15 years of human resources experience to Aware, with a natural drive to help employees develop strong careers, build a healthy workplace culture and connect with one another to establish high-performing teams. Previously, she was the VP of People Experience at Sonos where she led the company's recruitment, growth, and engagement strategies and cultivated the Sonos culture across 15 global offices. Before this, Souza was the VP of Human Capital at Charles River Associates (CRA), a global consulting firm, and worked in financial services.
This news comes on the heels of Aware's recent appointment of veteran Bill Strogis as Chief Revenue Officer and a $60 million Series C investment led by Goldman Sachs this past October.
For more information about Aware and its solutions, please visit www.awarehq.com.
About Aware
Aware is the only enterprise-grade collaboration governance platform making sense of human behavioral data for enterprise organizations deploying today's leading collaboration and messaging platforms, including Slack, Microsoft Teams, Zoom, Yammer, Workplace from Meta and more. Aware's comprehensive platform solves common challenges that legal, compliance, information security and IT departments face when rolling out collaboration, including archiving, monitoring, organization insights, DLP, eDiscovery, retention and legal holds. Aware is a Microsoft Gold Partner, Slack eDiscovery and compliance partner and a Workplace from Meta integration partner.
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PARIS, April 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- In 1827, Bélisaire Boissier left his province to conquer Paris, becoming the confectioner for the most discerning palates of his time. He had the brilliant idea of candying chestnuts to curb the decomposition process, and thus create the marron glacé, a new technique he applied to other confectionery products.
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Maison Boissier became part of our gourmet heritage thanks to its candy balls, lovely and smooth beads filled with fruit. Since always having candy on hand was customary at the time, Boissier's sweets became the benchmark candy at theatres and the opera.
Maison Boissier developed new products until the 1930s, taking care to consistently showcase quality packaging and store decorations, until metal boxes came along, which it turned into true works of art, now highly sought-after by collectors.
Four generations and three wars later, the story could have ended for this business, which laid dormant at the end of the 20th century. It was then awakened, saved, preserved and revamped by enthusiasts Sylvie Douce and François Jeantet, founders of the Salon du Chocolat and devoted fans of exceptional products.
This revived a gourmet heritage and unique know-how blends tradition and modern times. Marrons Glacés, Bonbons Boules, Froufrous, Perles Célestes, Pétales de Chocolat... Today, Boissier candies, still artisanal and natural, change with the seasons and preserve their ingredients' authentic flavours.
Luxury French confectionery is finally reborn, revisiting the candy of yesteryear for a whole new generation to discover.
Available online at www.maison-boissier.com
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- Located in Greater Cincinnati, where leasing activity tripled in 2021
FAIRFIELD, Ohio, April 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Brennan Investment Group ("Brennan"), a private real estate investment firm that acquires, develops, and operates industrial facilities throughout the United States, has acquired 34 acres of land at Seward Road and Symmes Road in Fairfield, Ohio. The plan is to develop two state-of-the-art distribution facilities of approximately 282,000 and 163,000 square feet, respectively, for a total of 445,000 square feet. The greater Cincinnati industrial market is 95% occupied, distinguished by its key geographical location and world class air freight capabilities.
"The land site we acquired is classic in-fill and will meet the expanding needs of both 3PLs and general retailers and wholesalers," commented Doug Lance, Brennan's Vice President who has responsibility for multiple midwestern markets, including Cincinnati, Columbus, Indianapolis, Dayton, and Louisville. "In addition to the site's access to I-75 and I-275, the Cincinnati-Northern Kentucky International Airport (CVG) is in close proximity. Because CVG is home to DHL and the new Amazon Air Hub, Air Cargo World recently ranked CVG as the top air cargo airport in the world."
Brennan has emerged as one of the leading developers in the United States with 15 million square feet planned or under construction. "Our allocation of capital to industrial development follows the secular trends of technology-induced demand. We've witnessed that through e-commerce driving distribution absorption, and increasingly from robotics pushing manufacturing space demand," observed Scott McKibben, Brennan's Chief Investment Officer. "We capitalize on these trends by selecting great in-fill sites, building only state-of-the-art buildings and staffing our regions with local market experts."
About Brennan Investment Group
Brennan Investment Group, a Chicago-based private real estate investment firm, acquires, develops, and operates industrial properties in select major metropolitan markets throughout the United States. Since 2010, Brennan Investment Group has acquired or developed $5 billion in industrial real estate in 30 states. The company's current portfolio spans 27 states and encompasses approximately 46 million square feet.
Brennan Investment Group co-invests with private and institutional capital to achieve outstanding risk-adjusted returns. The company has 11 regional offices throughout the United States and the firm's management team is among the most accomplished in its industry, having invested in over 5,000 properties covering more than 60 cities throughout the United States, Canada and Europe.
For more information on Brennan Investment Group, go to www.brennanllc.com
Contact: Ursula Walendzewicz, uwalendzewicz@brennanllc.com
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WASHINGTON, April 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Cancer Study Group, LLC is pleased to announce the launch of a cancer navigation service called "Cancer Navigator" backed by two years of proprietary research and claims data analytics. "Cancer Navigator" is designed to get every cancer patient to a fantastic expert for their care. The benefit is offered through employer and union health plans and delivers real time education and guidance to newly diagnosed cancer patients as they face key decisions early in their cancer journey.
Spencer and Adam Bradley founded Cancer Study Group in 2020 to learn what goes wrong for cancer patients and how large employers and unions might be able to help. In partnership with 30+ large employers and unions, Cancer Study Group embarked on a two-year research and analytics initiative, mapping exactly what goes wrong for cancer patients in commercial populations.
As part of this work, Cancer Study Group's team of researchers and data analysts studied where patients with every type of cancer should go to get fantastic care for their disease. The result of this work is the Cancer Navigation Database – the company's proprietary knowledge platform that answers two important questions for every cancer patient: "What matters in my disease?" and "Which centers in my area are best-equipped for my care?" This Cancer Navigation Database is the research and data engine of the "Cancer Navigator" service.
"A cancer diagnosis is extremely hard for patients" says Spencer Bradley, co-founder of Cancer Study Group, "but finding a great doctor and team for your specific type of cancer does not have to be."
Cancer Navigator leverages data feeds to identify cancer patients as quickly as possible after their diagnosis. Spencer explains the importance of this approach: "We are hyper focused on setting up the infrastructure to find newly-diagnosed patients in their moment of need – the burden cannot be on the patient to reach out to us for assistance." Oncology Nurses reach out directly to newly diagnosed patients to help them understand exactly what matters in their type of cancer and which centers nearby are best-equipped for their care.
Cancer Navigator launched first in Pennsylvania in partnership with three union health plans. Across the coming months, Cancer Navigator will begin serving national populations.
About Cancer Study Group
Cancer Study Group, LLC, is a cancer navigation and analytics startup on a mission to guide patients through cancer, helping them reach fantastic doctors for their care. Cancer Study Group offers its Cancer Navigator service as a benefit to patients through their employer and union health plans. Cancer Study Group serves as an impartial advisor to cancer patients and has no financial relationship with any hospital.
Contact: Spencer Bradley, Co-founder, spencer@cancerstudygroup.com
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Nationwide CBD Retailer Responds To Consumer Demand For Wellness Elixir
KANSAS CITY, Mo., April 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- CBD American Shaman, the nation's largest brick and mortar CBD retailer with over 360 locations nationwide, is thrilled to announce the launch of its newest product, CBDA CBGA Extract, a comprehensive immune support solution that aims to improve wellness and boost energy. The new wellness elixir comprises CBDA, CBGA, CBD, CBG, vitamin D3, zinc, and vitamin C.
The wellness benefits from this powerful combination stem from CBDA and CBGA, two hemp compounds identified in the recent Oregon State study, and known to be at the frontier of cannabinoid-based therapies; CBD, which works with the body's endocannabinoid system to help reduce inflammation and re-regulate the body overall; CBG, a compound best utilized for gut mobility and resetting the gut microbiome; and several vitamins known for providing immune support, including vitamin D3, C, and zinc.
The origin of this new product launch differs from others on CBD American Shaman's shelves because it was created specifically in response to high consumer demand. After the release of the Oregon State study, consumers were seeking a solution comprising the compounds listed in the study in an easy-to-use, high-quality, and digestible consumable.
"Our clients' overall wellness needs to be the priority," said Vince Sanders, Founder and President of CBD American Shaman. "My mission when starting this company has always been to help people feel better. The new CBDA CBGA Extract Immune Support solution takes wellness support to the next level. You're getting powerful hemp compounds, but also the benefits of CBD, CBG, and other super potent vitamins—and no one else is providing this comprehensive solution."
For more information on CBD American Shaman and all products for sale please visit https://cbdamericanshaman.com.
About Vince Sanders and American Shaman
Vince Sanders founded CBD American Shaman in March of 2015 in Kansas City, Missouri as a way to help with the discomfort many cancer patients experience. Since then, Sanders has built CBD American Shaman into a team of doctors, chemists, lawyers, and advocates. Sanders pioneered the use of nanotechnology in the hemp industry to enhance the plant's health-supporting effects and to increase the bioavailability of CBD.
CBD American Shaman produces high quality cannabinoid tinctures, creams, pet products and more. CBD American Shaman is certified by the US Hemp Authority for its manufacturing and quality control standards. Currently with 365 locations offering its premier CBD products, American Shaman is one of the largest CBD retailers in the United States.
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First Real-World, Randomized, Sham-Controlled Clinical Trial of 2-Hour External Trigeminal Nerve Stimulation (e-TNS) in Finds That the e-TNS CEFALY Device Is Effective in Treating Acute Migraine Pain
DARIEN, Conn., April 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- CEFALY Technology, a Belgium-based manufacturer of wearable medical devices for migraine, today announced the results of a clinical study demonstrating that two-hour treatment with the e-TNS CEFALY device is a safe and effective, non-pharmaceutical alternative for the acute treatment of migraine attacks in the out-of-hospital setting.
The Trial of e-TNS for the Acute treatment of Migraine (TEAM) study was the first, prospective, double-blind,randomized, sham-controlled clinical trial of 2-hour e-TNS treatment for acute migraine attack in an at-home scenario. The TEAM study is also the largest sham-controlled, clinical trial examining the use of any e-TNS therapy for the treatment of migraine headache.
A common and debilitating neurological disorder, migraine has been ranked by the World
Health Organization as the world's second leading cause of disability. There are several limitations to conventional anti-migraine medications. In addition, many patients prefer to avoid medications to treat their migraine headaches. As a result, up to 40% of migraine patients have unmet needs for this migraine treatment.
External trigeminal nerve stimulation (e-TNS) is a medical device treatment that offers a non-pharmacological, non-invasive approach for patients with migraine who prefer to avoid medications, have intolerances to medications or, require complementary therapy in their migraine management. Worn on the forehead, the CEFALY e-TNS device delivers a mild electric stimulation to reduce pain signals of the trigeminal nerve, a primary pathway for migraine pain.
The TEAM study spanned nine months and was conducted at 10 centers across the United States. The study enrolled 538 patients aged 18-65 with episodic migraine, with or without aura, who had moderate- to severe-intensity migraine attacks 2 to 8 times per month. Subjects who met all of the study criteria were randomly assigned to either the verum or sham group and were provided a headache diary and educated with how to use the CEFALY device.
During a 2 month period, patients were instructed to self-administer the e-TNS treatment, according to the training and instruction they received, within 4 hours of migraine onset or within 4 hours of awakening with migraine headache. Neurostimulation was applied with the CEFALY e-TNS device for a 2-hour, continuous session.
In the verum group, compared to the sham group:
- Pain freedom at 2 hours was 7.2% higher (25.5% compared to 18.3%; p = .043)
- Resolution of the most bothersome migraine-associated symptom was 14.1% higher (56.4% compared to 42.3%; p = 0.001)
- Pain relief at 2 hours was 14.3% higher (69.5% compared to 55.2%; p = 0.001)
- Absence of all migraine-associated symptoms at 2 hours was 8.4% higher (42.5% compared to 34.1%; p = 0.044)
- Sustained pain freedom and pain relief at 24 hours was 7.0% and 11.5% higher in verum (22.8% and 45.9%) than sham (15.8 and 34.4%; p = 0.039)
No serious adverse events were reported.
Study authors concluded that the use of self-administered 2-hour e-TNS therapy is a safe and effective therapeutic option, with or without the use of acute anti-migraine medications.
"The CEFALY device provides patients with a non-medication option for the prevention and acute treatment of migraine. It is especially helpful to add to a medication regimen or use for people who have had a negative experience with migraine medications," said Dr. Deena Kuruvilla, one of the study authors and Medical Director and Board Certified Neurologist, Westport Headache Institute.
"So many people who live with migraine pain are desperate for a solution that they can use safely at home," said Jen Trainor McDermott, CEO of CEFALY Technology. "As the TEAM study shows us, CEFALY provides the powerful, sustained pain relief they need."
About the CEFALY device:
CEFALY Technology is the maker of the CEFALY DUAL Enhanced, the FDA-cleared, over-the-counter wearable medical device clinically proven to help reduce migraine frequency and relieve migraine pain. CEFALY DUAL Enhanced is a non-invasive device placed on the forehead to modify pain sensation in the area research identifies as a center for migraine pain, the trigeminal nerve. The device offers two distinct treatment options -— a 60-minute ACUTE setting that serves as an abortive treatment for pain relief at the onset of a migraine, which is clinically proven to stop or reduce migraine pain during an attack; and a 20-minute PREVENT setting for daily use to help prevent future episodes.
About CEFALY Technology:
CEFALY Technology is a Belgium based company with U.S. offices based in Darien, Conn., specializing in electronics for medical applications. CEFALY Technology's mission is to provide the migraine community with forward-thinking treatments that are drug-free and clinically-proven to relieve and prevent future attacks.
Learn more about CEFALY by visiting www.CEFALY.com and following us on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Instagram.
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The new campaign directed by Cox celebrates the vibrancy and confidence that comes with age
MODESTO, Calif., April 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Leading Chardonnay brand Clos du Bois is boldly embracing the stereotype that Chardonnay is old people's wine by proudly taking a stance against ageism in alcohol advertising – and actively championing older people with the launch of its new Long Live brand platform. Making her creative campaign directorial debut, celebrated actor and producer Courteney Cox is partnering with Clos du Bois to help bring the campaign vision to life. Through her personal experience of openly embracing and celebrating all that comes with age, Cox embodies the individuality, wisdom and passion that this campaign champions.
Historically, the alcohol advertising industry over-represents younger demographics. A recent survey conducted by Clos du Bois found that only 37% of people who are 55 and older agree that their age group is authentically represented within alcohol advertising. Through this campaign, Clos du Bois wants to change that statistic by highlighting a more authentic image of people over 50; reflecting the reality of consumers in this age group who are lively, adventurous and wise. The Long Live campaign features people over the age of 50 in front of and behind the camera – who all exude confidence and have the life experience that we all hope to attain.
"I loved the concept for the Long Live Clos du Bois campaign. No matter what age, you can still be young at heart, and we should always embrace that part of ourselves," said Courteney Cox, Long Live campaign director. "I knew that I could create an original piece of content that would resonate with this large demographic. My overall goal with the spot was to distinguish the footage through casting, production design, styling, and cinematography. I am really proud of what we achieved. It feels fresh, energetic, and fun, and I think that we succeeded in bringing the spirit of the campaign to life."
"We are proud to address the ageism in the alcohol advertising industry with our new Long Live campaign and to partner with Courteney Cox to so artfully bring this issue to life," said Courtney O'Brien, Senior Marketing Director, Clos du Bois Wines. "Many see Chardonnay as a wine primarily enjoyed by an older generation and there are associations that come with that. We are proving through our Long Live campaign how the perception of age stereotypes is changing as we celebrate our customers who enjoy Clos du Bois Chardonnay."
The campaign debuted on Monday, April 4, 2022 across streaming platforms Roku, Hulu Originals, YouTube and across digital platforms and social media platforms. To learn more about Clos du Bois, please visit https://www.closdubois.com/ or on social @ClosduBois. Must be 21 and older to visit the site.
Known for its elegant French winemaking style under the California sun, Clos du Bois has crafted award-winning wines that showcase the best of Sonoma County and California for over 40 years. Working with a family of trusted growers from vineyards across California, each vintage is crafted to achieve refined elegance and true varietal character. Our Clos du Bois California Chardonnay exhibits ripe fruit flavors with balanced refreshing acidity to showcase the hallmarks of the Clos du Bois style. Available nationwide SRP $10.99.
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The survey was conducted March 14 - 23, 2022, among 1,001 wine drinkers 25 years of age and over, using an email invitation and an online survey.
Results of any sample are subject to sampling variation. The magnitude of the variation is measurable and is affected by the number of interviews and the level of the percentages expressing the results.
In this particular study, the chances are 95 in 100 that a survey result does not vary, plus or minus, by more than 3.1 percentage points from the result that would be obtained if interviews had been conducted with all persons in the universe represented by the sample. The margin of error of any subgroups will be slightly higher.
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LOS ANGELES, April 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Clubhouse Media Group, Inc. (OTCMKTS: CMGR) ("CMGR"), an influencer-based social media firm and digital talent management agency, today announced that HoneyDrip.com has seen month over month growth, continuing into March 2022. Honeydrip.com is a new digital platform designed and owned by CMGR with a focus on the empowerment of creators. The site allows creators to connect and engage with fans and monetize exclusive content.
HoneyDrip.com has experienced rapid growth in four main categories during the month of March 2022:
- Active users increased by 40%
- Active performers on the site (by Invite Only) increased by 34%
- Applications from creators wishing to join the site increased by 14%
- Content posts (photos and videos) to be sold increased by 24%
"HoneyDrip.com has continued to grow at a rapid pace", said Danche Prokopov, General Manager of HoneyDrip.com. "Each month of growth continues to close the gap between us and our main competitor, OnlyFans. We have and will continue to add enhancements that allow for increased revenue streams for our creators."
Creators can apply via email to join@honeydrip.com
About Clubhouse Media Group, Inc.
CMGR offers management, production, and deal-making services to its handpicked influencers, a management division for individual influencer clients, and an investment arm for joint ventures and acquisitions for companies in the social media influencer space.
Follow CMGR on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ClubhouseCMGR
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Examples of forward-looking statements include, among others, statements relating to future sales, earnings, cash flows, results of operations, uses of cash and other measures of financial performance.
Because forward-looking statements relate to the future, they are subject to inherent risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause CMGR's actual results and financial condition to differ materially from those expressed or implied in the forward-looking statements. Such risks, uncertainties and other factors include, among others such as, but not limited to economic conditions, changes in the laws or regulations, demand for CMGR's products and services, the effects of competition and other factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected or represented in the forward-looking statements. Any forward-looking information provided in this release should be considered with these factors in mind. We assume no obligation to update any forward-looking statements contained in this press release.
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Company previously received approval from swissethics, the umbrella organization of the cantonal Ethics Committees (EC) in Switzerland for the study
Execution of global patient enrollment continues to progress in pivotal study of Berubicin for the treatment of GBM, one of the most aggressive forms of brain cancer
HOUSTON, April 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- CNS Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: CNSP) ("CNS" or the "Company"), a biopharmaceutical company specializing in the development of novel treatments for primary and metastatic cancers in the brain and central nervous system, today announced it has received approval from Swissmedic, the Swiss Agency for Therapeutic Products, for the Company's potentially pivotal study of Berubicin for the treatment of recurrent glioblastoma multiforme (GBM). With approvals now received from both swissethics, the umbrella organization of the cantonal Ethics Committees (EC) in Switzerland, and Swissmedic, the Company can proceed with site initiation and patient enrollment in Switzerland.
"With the necessary regulatory approvals in Switzerland now in place, our team is diligently working to bring clinical sites online and quickly and efficiently drive patient enrollment in this potentially pivotal study. We are sincerely grateful to the Swiss Competent Authority and Ethics Committee and their positive feedback on what we continue to believe is an incredibly important clinical program. We are laser focused on advancing Berubicin to unlock its greatest potential as a possible critical treatment option for this devastating disease. As long as the unmet medical need in GBM remains, we will continue our fight to bring hope to patients and families," commented John Climaco, CEO of CNS Pharmaceuticals.
Professor Michael Weller, MD, University Hospital Zurich and National Coordinating Investigator for the potentially pivotal study, added, "The data Berubicin has shown to-date demonstrates encouraging promise in treatment of GBM. Patients and families are desperate for a viable treatment option that provides benefit and I look forward to further exploring Berubicin's potential. I am excited to be able to participate in this important clinical trial and join forces with CNS Pharmaceuticals in their effort to provide what could be an important, and crucial, treatment option."
Berubicin is a novel anthracycline and the first anthracycline to appear to cross the blood-brain barrier currently being evaluated in a potentially pivotal global study evaluating its efficacy and safety in the treatment of GBM. The potentially pivotal global trial is an adaptive, multicenter, open-label, randomized and controlled study in adult patients with recurrent glioblastoma multiforme (WHO Grade IV) after failure of standard first-line therapy. Approximately 243 patients with GBM after failure of standard first line therapy will be randomized in a 2:1 ratio to receive Berubicin or lomustine for the evaluation of Overall Survival, the primary endpoint of the study. Overall Survival is a rigorous endpoint that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has recognized as a basis for approval of oncology drugs when a statistically significant improvement can be shown relative to a randomized control arm.
A pre-planned, non-binding futility analysis will be performed after approximately 30 to 50% of all planned patients have completed the primary endpoint at 6 months. This review will include additional evaluation of safety as well as secondary efficacy endpoints. Enrollment will not be paused during this interim analysis.
The FDA recently granted CNS Pharmaceuticals Fast Track Designation for Berubicin which enables more frequent interactions with the FDA to expedite the development and review process. As previously announced, the Company also received Orphan Drug Designation from the FDA which may provide seven years of marketing exclusivity upon approval of an NDA.
For more information about the potentially pivotal Berubicin trial, visit clinicaltrials.gov and reference identifier NCT04762069.
About Berubicin
Berubicin is an anthracycline, a class of anticancer agents that are among the most powerful chemotherapy drugs and effective against more types of cancer than any other class of chemotherapeutic agents. Anthracyclines are designed to utilize natural processes to induce deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) damage in targeted cancer cells by interfering with the action of topoisomerase II, a critical enzyme enabling cell proliferation. Berubicin treatment of brain cancer patients appeared to demonstrate positive responses that include one durable complete response in a Phase 1 human clinical trial conducted by Reata Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Berubicin, was developed by Dr. Waldemar Priebe, Professor of Medicinal Chemistry at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center.
About CNS Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
CNS Pharmaceuticals a clinical-stage pharmaceutical company developing a pipeline of anti-cancer drug candidates for the treatment of primary and metastatic cancers of the brain and central nervous system. The Company's lead drug candidate, Berubicin, is a novel anthracycline and the first anthracycline to appear to cross the blood-brain barrier. Berubicin is currently in development for the treatment of a number of serious brain and CNS oncology indications including glioblastoma multiforme (GBM), an aggressive and incurable form of brain cancer.
Additionally, the Company is advancing the development of its WP1244 drug technology portfolio, which utilizes anthracycline and distamycin-based scaffolds to create small molecule agents and is believed to be 500x more potent than daunorubicin in inhibiting tumor cell proliferation. Preclinical studies of WP1244 demonstrated high uptake in the brain with antitumor activity. CNS Pharmaceuticals is evaluating the use of WP1244 in the treatment of brain cancers, pancreatic, ovarian, and lymphomas.
For more information, please visit www.CNSPharma.com, and connect with the Company on Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn.
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Some of the statements in this press release are forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, which involve risks and uncertainties. Forward-looking statements in this press release include, without limitation, the ability of the Company's cash runway to extend until Q1 2022 and the timing of patient dosing to commence. These statements relate to future events, future expectations, plans and prospects. Although CNS believes the expectations reflected in such forward-looking statements are reasonable as of the date made, expectations may prove to have been materially different from the results expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. CNS has attempted to identify forward-looking statements by terminology including ''believes,'' ''estimates,'' ''anticipates,'' ''expects,'' ''plans,'' ''projects,'' ''intends,'' ''potential,'' ''may,'' ''could,'' ''might,'' ''will,'' ''should,'' ''approximately'' or other words that convey uncertainty of future events or outcomes to identify these forward-looking statements. These statements are only predictions and involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors, including those discussed under Item 1A. "Risk Factors" in CNS's most recently filed Form 10-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") and updated from time to time in its Form 10-Q filings and in its other public filings with the SEC. Any forward-looking statements contained in this press release speak only as of its date. CNS undertakes no obligation to update any forward-looking statements contained in this press release to reflect events or circumstances occurring after its date or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events.
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NEW YORK, April 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Color Star Technology Co., Ltd. (Nasdaq: CSCW) ("Color Star" or the "Company"), an entertainment technology company with a global network that focuses on the application of technology and artificial intelligence in the entertainment industry has been receiving undivided attention from the public since announcing the international soccer star Iker Casillas ("Casillas") as a celebrity tutor for the Company's Color World metaverse platform, as well as interest in the progress of the cooperative project. Recently, Casillas completed the filming of his online course in Spain and it is now in the post production stage being worked on by the Color Star team.
Previously, Color Star has invited many international athletes onto the Color World metaverse platform, and the resulting celebrity courses and merchandise have convinced many fans to join in as well. Color World has now successfully transformed into a metaverse platform that will provide intelligent technical services to the growing number of online celebrity courses, merchandise and other similar products in the future, enhancing the immersive experience for users. As the greatest goalkeeper in Real Madrid's history, Casillas' soccer career and superb footballing ability are known all too well to the public. In order to allow fans and users to understand Casillas on a deeper, personal level and his love for the green pitch, the Color Star team eagerly invited him to join the platform, while rushing to Spain to film the course. Color Star hopes to present the best online course possible for users through an exclusive and professional perspective.
Mr. Lucas Capetian, CEO of Color Star, said: "The filming process went very well. Casillas' performance made us feel his incredible charisma as a soccer superstar. We hope that through our platform we can attract more people to become residents of our Color World, and lead more people appreciate Casillas for his glory and achievements in the soccer world. We hope to encourage young people to be brave and kind, and to not fear difficulties. Of course our cooperation is only just beginning; we will be cooperating in many other ways, not only online. Offline cooperation will also become a focus."
Color World is an immersive digital platform with man-made artificial intelligence as its core feature. Unlike other traditional software, Color Star will integrate even more artificial intelligence technology in the future. Next up, virtual reality ("VR") spaces and locations will be launched one after the other. The team will integrate VR technology wherever possible; celebrity videos will also be launched in VR, so that everyone can have a better sense of viewing and immersion. Furthermore, depending on the current environment and policies, the Company will also hold online and offline celebrity meets and greets. Broadcasting globally through the Color World metaverse platform will allow even more viewers to participate and interact. The launch of the Casillas masterclass together with future partnerships with star athletes will bring more revenue to the Company, allowing the Company to benefit from the billions of sports fans worldwide.
About Color Star Technology
Color Star Technology Co, Ltd. (Nasdaq: CSCW) is an entertainment and education company that provides online entertainment performances and online music education services. Its business operations are conducted through its wholly-owned subsidiaries, Color China Entertainment Ltd. and CACM Group NY, Inc. The Company's online education is provided through its Color World music and entertainment education platform. More information about the Company can be found at www.colorstarinternational.com.
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New Unit's White Space as a Service Offering Provides Comprehensive Package to Eliminate the Costs and Headcount Required to Add Incremental Capacity
DALLAS, April 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Compass Datacenters has launched a new business unit, Quantum, to deliver an elegantly-simple and budget-friendly White Space as a Service (WSaaS)™ solution for adding incremental local, remote or edge capacity. Quantum incorporates a modular data center within a comprehensive service package to eliminate the need to modify operational procedures or add the additional headcount normally associated with network expansion. The service's lease structure also negates corporate capital requirements to facilitate rapid deployment.
In Quantum's White Space as a Service (WSaaS) solution, Compass personnel perform the full range of installation and operation activities. This includes site selection, site preparation and permitting, installation, monitoring and operation for each of the company's full-function 100kW modular data centers' deployment.
"Companies want to be able to quickly, cost-effectively add small increments of white space exactly where they need it when they need it – without all the logistical, financial and operational headaches related to distributed IT infrastructure," said Chris Crosby, CEO of Compass Datacenters.
"Our White Space as a Service offering solves all of the most complex and frustrating aspects of deploying distributed digital infrastructure," said Tony Grayson, General Manager, Compass Quantum. "This is a comprehensive scalable data center and service offering for small capacity requirements anywhere you need it. From downtown in a metro area to the middle of the desert, our team can take care of every step in the process including site selection, permitting and operations. This approach enables our customers to structure this as a straightforward OpEx expense rather than a risky CapEx project."
"Compass Quantum's White Space as a Service model is a perfect fit for organizations like ours that are seeking to rapidly deploy a solution to address a specific need – in our case, maximizing the recent federal investment in broadband infrastructure by deploying facilities that bring neutral interconnection, cloud and content to smaller cities and rural areas," said Tom Ferree, Chairman and CEO of nonprofit Connected Nation. "Building out internet exchange points in smaller markets with a traditional capex model would be very difficult not only in terms of up-front investment but also in terms of the work involved in that scale of site selection, permitting, facility operations and maintenance. With the comprehensive package that Quantum provides, companies get exactly the IT capacity they need without the headache of managing those challenges. That is invaluable for us as we continue with our mission of closing the Digital Divide for all Americans."
For more information about Compass Quantum's White Space as a Service and for technical details about the Quantum units and related services, visit hwww.compassdatacenters.com/designs/white-space-as-a-service.
About Compass Datacenters
Compass makes lives better by providing the world's technology leaders a secure place to plug in wherever they grow. We provide custom, move-in ready data centers from edge deployments to core facilities serving hyperscale, cloud and enterprise customers. Since our inception, we have embraced sustainability with the efficient use of land, green energy, water free cooling and building materials. Our campus approach empowers customers with easily scalable capacity, high levels of control and ultimate flexibility with the long-term perspective and financial strength of private investors, RedBird Capital Partners, Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan and the Azrieli Group. For more information, visit www.compassdatacenters.com.
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New research reveals a "Compassionate Leadership Gap" in today's workplace and how to successfully close it while delivering results in "The Double Bottom Line"
OGUNQUIT, Mo., April 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Donato J. Tramuto, recognized CEO, business leader, innovator, and philanthropist, makes the case that embracing compassion and humanity to a greater degree will drive the workplace and your bottom line forward.
In his new book, THE DOUBLE BOTTOM LINE: How Compassionate Leaders Captivate Hearts and Deliver Results (Fast Company Press), Tramuto shares original research fielded among 1,500 US workers, and in-depth interviews with 40 successful leaders who practice compassionate leadership.
The research exposed a compassionate leadership gap—leaders express support for compassionate practices, but most workers don't perceive their leaders to be practicing compassion leadership adequately, if at all. Additional gaps were revealed, for example most workers believe a compassionate workforce leads to cooperation, which leads to greater productivity and profitability, however most workers believed their workplace more competitive than cooperative. Research also reveals that most leaders have an innate desire to be compassionate, but many don't know how. to put it into practice.
THE DOUBLE BOTTOM LINE puts forth proven strategies to close the compassionate leadership gap and drive results. Filled with first-hand examples from high-profile compassionate leaders such as founder and CEO of Sharecare and founder of WebMD, Jeff Arnold; Thasunda Brown Duckett, President & CEO of TIAA; Journalist & Entrepreneur, Katie Couric; Bruce Broussard, CEO of Humana; Dr. Sandro Galea, Dean at Boston University School of Public Health, THE DOUBLE BOTTOM LINE defines a new model of leadership and examines how to cultivate more compassionate people.
"We are finding that putting people first and delivering results are not two separate goals. Rather, a strong focus on people drives strong results, creating the double bottom line," argues Tramuto. "The double bottom line is the idea that a company can measure its success by producing 1) strong financial results and 2) a positive impact on their people and the community at the same time."
100% of the book's proceeds will be donated to compassion-driven organizations.
Donato J. Tramuto is a global health activist, entrepreneur, former CEO of Tivity Health, and founder of the TramutoPorter Foundation and Health eVillages. He has nearly four decades of business leadership experience and is most known for his ability to balance transactional and transformational leadership. He has launched two successful start-ups, successfully led the turnaround of a public healthcare company and has executed innovative programs leading to sustainable business results through his Compassionate Leadership approach. Tramuto was the recipient of the prestigious Robert F. Kennedy Ripple of Hope Award in 2014 and the 2017 Robert F. Kennedy Embracing His Legacy Award. The New York Times has recognized Tramuto as "a global health activist."
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Honoring the company as a top performing Digital Signage Partner to watch in 2022
LOUISVILLE, Ky. and DALLAS, April 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Creative Realities, Inc. ('CRI', NASDAQ: CREX, CREXW) a leading provider of digital signage solutions, announced today that it has been honored with two Samsung Smart Signage Awards during The Samsung Virtual Experience - Connection Redefined: an in-person event for the professional audiovisual and information communication industries. The in-person event on March 30th & 31th welcomed customers, channel partners, and fans to hear from industry experts and explore innovations that help companies get back to business.
This latest recognition as a leading Samsung reseller comes just weeks after the announcement that the company had closed its merger with Reflect Systems, positioning the combined company as a leader in digital signage – one of the few in the space able to provide customers with everything from award-winning design, to world-class software platforms, to exceptional deployment and day-two support.
"The Samsung Display Awards program celebrates the significant contributions our partners make to the visual display industry," said Chris Mertens, Vice President of US Sales, B2B Displays at Samsung Electronics America. "Winners were selected by identifying partners that have the highest growth rate, as well as select integrators who have creatively deploying Samsung Smart Signage solutions into several key industries. We're excited to recognize these deserving companies."
"We are thrilled to have been recognized by Samsung. Not only is Samsung a highly respected Brand, they are the market leader in the B2B digital signage display industry," said Rick Mills, CEO. "We previously announced we expect our organic growth this year to exceed 40% and much of that will be fulfilled with Samsung digital signage products", adds Mills.
Because of Samsung's market presence and expansive sales team and partner network, the recognition is a particularly important achievement as it raises awareness throughout the ecosystem of the unique capabilities that continue to help Creative Realities accelerate business growth.
The company won a second award from Samsung for Top Installation Partner for executing a 'store of the future' concept for Petco in the Retail vertical. The Retail Installation of the Year honors a project that helped solve a business challenge by successfully leveraging innovative digital signage hardware, complex systems and collaboration among partners to bring a powerful, all-encompassing retail solution to life.
"Digital within Retail has significantly accelerated since the COVID-19 pandemic, and we're poised to transform the in-store journey with omnichannel solutions that make it easier for people to shop" adds Beth Warren, SVP of Marketing and the Retail Partner lead for Samsung at Creative Realities. "Collaboration is critical in delivering best in class solutions and we rely on Samsung for their ability to open doors and get product we need to market, quickly and at the best possible price point for our clients."
When asked about his reaction to winning two awards at the same conference, Rick Mills commented, "These accolades are a direct result of our approach and model: we understand the business problem our clients are attempting to solve, and then utilize technology shaped specifically to the environment to achieve those goals. When we solve and service with precision and consistency, the resulting performance speaks for itself."
Creative Realities helps clients use place-based digital media to achieve business objectives such as increased revenue, enhanced customer experiences, and improved productivity. The company designs, develops and deploys digital signage experiences for enterprise-level networks, and is actively providing recurring SaaS and support services across diverse vertical markets, including but not limited to retail, automotive, digital-out-of-home (DOOH) advertising networks, convenience stores, food service/QSR, gaming, theater, and stadium venues.
With its recent acquisition of Reflect Systems, Inc., a leading provider of digital signage software platforms, the company is poised to extend its product and service offering and accelerate growth in SaaS revenue. While Reflect provided a broad range of digital signage solutions, the company's flagship products are the market-leading ReflectView digital signage platform and Reflect AdLogic ad management platform. ReflectView is the industry's most comprehensive, scalable, enterprise-grade digital signage platform, powering enterprise customer networks. Meanwhile, Reflect AdLogic has become the benchmark for digital signage powered ad networks, delivering nearly 50 million ads daily. The acquisition of Reflect also brought to the business a media sales division with the expertise and relationships to help any digital signage venue owner develop and execute a monetization plan for their network.
The combined company has operations across North America with active installations in more than 10 countries.
This press release contains "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, and includes, among other things, discussions of our business strategies, product releases, future operations and capital resources. Words such as "estimates," "projected," "expects," "anticipates," "forecasts," "plans," "intends," "believes," "seeks," "may," "will," "should," "future," "propose" and variations of these words or similar expressions (or the negative versions of such words or expressions) are intended to identify forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance, conditions or results. They are based on the opinions, estimates and beliefs of management as of the date such statements are made, and they are subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties, assumptions and other factors, many of which are outside of our control, that may cause the actual results, level of activity, performance or achievements to be materially different from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Some of these risks are discussed in the "Risk Factors" section contained in Item 1A of our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2021 and the Company's subsequent filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Important factors, among others, that may affect actual results or outcomes include: our ability to effectively integrate Reflect's business operations, our strategy for customer retention, growth, product development, market position, financial results and reserves, our ability to execute on our business plan, our ability to retain key personnel, potential litigation, supply chain shortages, and general economic and market conditions impacting demand for our products and services, including those as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Readers should not place undue reliance upon any forward-looking statements. We assume no obligation to update or revise the forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as required by law.
As a global technology leader, Samsung Displays provides a diverse portfolio of enterprise technologies including digital signage, LED, hospitality TVs, and Desktop displays. Samsung puts the customer at the core of everything we do by delivering comprehensive products, solutions and services across diverse industries including retail, healthcare, hospitality, education and government. Samsung Displays is committed to helping customers realize the promise of a digital business. For more information, please visit samsung.com/business, call 1-866-SAM-4BIZ or follow Samsung Business via Twitter @SamsungBizUSA.
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Partnership enabled customer to establish intelligent conversations with 150,000 customers in 10 days at the start of the pandemic
HOLMDEL, N.J., April 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Vonage (Nasdaq: VG), a global leader in cloud communications helping businesses accelerate their digital transformation, today announced that Australia-based startup Curious Thing is using the Vonage Communication Platform (VCP) to scale its solutions and improve customer experiences with automated and AI-enabled proactive customer engagement.
Curious Thing is a voice-based conversational AI startup. Its voice AI technology is currently used in proactive call outreach and inbound service augmentation, helping ecommerce, financial services and healthcare providers re-engage with customers and uncover deeper insights from conversations.
Vonage Communications APIs allow developers to easily enhance and build intelligent, intuitive customer experiences directly into their existing applications and devices. The combination of Curious Thing and Vonage APIs, including Vonage's Voice, SMS, Numbers and Reports, enables Curious Thing's customers to connect at scale, across geographies and channels.
Safely Establishing Contact During the Pandemic While Ensuring Business Continuity
At the beginning of the pandemic, a customer in the public sector approached Curious Thing with an urgent request to connect with service users and determine compliance with trading requirements. This information would impact public safety and people's livelihoods, but it was an insurmountable task if done manually. With Curious Thing and Vonage, the customer was able to establish intelligent conversations with 150,000 people in 10 days, in a reliable and secure manner. COVID-19 has fundamentally changed how businesses operate and how people interact with those organizations, underscoring the need for the customer to continue connecting with service users in multiple ways, in their preferred modality.
"With the Curious Thing engine, we can understand people in their own language," explains Rik Johnson, Head of Solutions, Curious Thing. "Without Vonage, we wouldn't be able to connect our customers with huge volumes of people at scale globally, while maintaining personalized connections. The combination of the Curious Thing engine and the near-limitless capability of Vonage APIs helps us solve a variety of problems for our customers."
The team behind Curious Thing is focused on building intelligent communications solutions that provide personalized experiences - from AI call outreach that mimics conversational interactions to automated conversational AI campaigns that have the capacity to handle thousands of calls per day. Backed by Vonage, Curious Thing is constantly innovating and re-imagining what it means to connect.
July, a direct-to-consumer travel brand, embarked on a conversational commerce AI project with Curious Thing and Vonage to understand cart abandonment and ways to encourage purchase completion.
"We are always looking for new channels to add to our marketing stack and conversational AI was a natural thing to try after the results we've seen with SMS and email marketing," said July co-founder Richard Li. "The real-time personalization of AI technology will get us a lot of cut-through compared to other channels. In the coming years, AI will continue to help e-commerce businesses scale and meet the demand of consumers, especially when it comes to customer experience."
"Through the Vonage Communications Platform, Curious Thing has been able to easily integrate scalable, international capabilities into its existing offering and improve customer experiences with automated and AI-enabled proactive customer engagement," said Savinay Berry, EVP of Product and Engineering for Vonage. "Businesses of all sizes are looking to engage with their customers more deeply by shifting from notifications and transactions to conversations and ultimately a future of immersive engagement."
Read the full case study to find out more about how Curious Thing is using Vonage Communications APIs to deliver more flexible, intelligent, and personal connections for its customers.
To find out more about Vonage, visit www.vonage.com.
About Vonage
Vonage (Nasdaq: VG), a global cloud communications leader, helps businesses accelerate their digital transformation. Vonage's Communications Platform is fully programmable and allows for the integration of Video, Voice, Chat, Messaging, AI and Verification into existing products, workflows and systems. Vonage's fully programmable unified communications and contact center applications are built from the Vonage platform and enable companies to transform how they communicate and operate from the office or anywhere, providing enormous flexibility and ensuring business continuity.
Vonage Holdings Corp. is headquartered in New Jersey, with offices throughout the United States, Europe, Israel and Asia. To follow Vonage on Twitter, please visit www.twitter.com/vonage. To become a fan on Facebook, go to facebook.com/vonage. To subscribe on YouTube, visit youtube.com/vonage.
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E-learning Leader Also Announces a New Visual Identity with the ILP Launch; Emphasizes its Innovative Mission to Transform the Way People Teach and Learn Worldwide
SAN FRANCISCO, April 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- CYPHER LEARNING, a leading provider of learning platforms for schools, universities and organizations around the world, today announced the launch of new capabilities that improve skill development, evolving into an intelligent learning platform (ILP). The company has paired the ILP launch with a rebrand — consisting of a new visual identity and a consolidated website that emphasize its vision for online education.
"Learning solutions are getting smarter," said Graham Glass, CEO of CYPHER LEARNING. "By adding more intelligence into learning technology, organizations can better meet the needs of today's learners and step into the future. Our platform takes the learning experiences to a new level by focusing on the individual learner and how to drive their learning growth."
With the launch of ILP, CYPHER LEARNING aims to emphasize the difference between a traditional learning management system (LMS) and an intelligent solution, by providing a mix of LMS and learning experience platform (LXP) functionalities, all integrated into a single platform. Moving beyond the static features of a traditional LMS, an intelligent learning platform is smarter and more proactive — blending automation, goals and recommendations, and empowering teachers and instructors to reimagine online education and deliver the best, personalized learning experiences.
The first set of intelligent features released by CYPHER LEARNING are related to skill development and include the following:
- The ability for learners to set learning goals (to achieve certain job roles or competencies) to help them upskill and foster professional development.
- Personalized recommendations that provide proactive assistance, enabling learners to see the next best actions in their journey to master goals (e.g., view a video, participate in a Q&A, enroll in a course, join a group, etc.).
- Goal tracking, to get an overview of the mastered goals and see progress through goals and competency levels.
- Community features that enable learners to connect with peers who have the same learning goals using tools such as Q&A forums, news and resources areas.
"CYPHER LEARNING's intelligent and user-centric approach puts us at the forefront of learning technology," Glass said. "We're pushing the boundaries of what a learning platform can be — empowering users to do and achieve more."
The new functionalities will be available for customers starting mid-April. Throughout 2022 and beyond, CYPHER LEARNING has planned to roll out additional intelligent features that will help schools and organizations better design personalized learning journeys for their learners.
To emphasize the company's new direction, CYPHER LEARNING has simultaneously refreshed its brand identity. The rebrand includes a new consolidated website, showcasing its award-winning solutions (NEO for K-20, MATRIX for Businesses, and INDIE for Entrepreneurs), a new corporate logo and new brand messaging, emphasizing the innovative vision of the company to change the way people teach and learn worldwide.
For more details about CYPHER LEARNING and the new functionalities, please visit www.cypherlearning.com or email info@cypherlearning.com.
About CYPHER LEARNING
CYPHER LEARNING provides an intelligent learning platform that is empowering schools, businesses, and entrepreneurs worldwide to reimagine online education and deliver the best learning experiences. CYPHER LEARNING has solutions for all major e-learning sectors: NEO LMS for K-20, MATRIX LMS for Businesses, and INDIE LMS for Entrepreneurs. Relied on by millions of users at more than 20,000 organizations, CYPHER LEARNING supports 40+ languages and has offices worldwide with global headquarters in San Francisco. For more information, please visit www.cypherlearning.com.
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DENVER, April 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Denver Commercial Property Services (DCPS), the leading provider of integrated commercial property services across Colorado, announced an expansion of its service offerings with the launch of a new dedicated commercial roofing division. The new division will offer a full suite of services including steep slope, low slope, sheet metal, gutters, and roofing repair and installation. Casey Colvin, the new division leader, is responsible for building a team of dedicated roofing professionals.
"The expansion of our services into roofing is a direct result of listening to our customer's needs. Our customers are at the root of everything we do, and we pride ourselves on providing unparalleled customer service. The addition of roofing to our portfolio will allow us to deliver a more comprehensive set of property services to our customers," said Dale Heims, Owner of DCPS. "Casey joins DCPS as the Roofing Division Manager to continue DCPS's success providing commercial property services throughout Colorado. His extensive experience in roofing will be a major asset to us as we continue to grow this division with a team of seasoned industry veterans."
Casey Colvin joins DCPS with over twenty years of experience in the roofing industry across the nation. Casey has earned over two dozen industry and manufacturer certifications, including the International Code Council's Building Contractor and Roofing Professional designations, and received numerous Top 100 Roofing Contractor awards, most recently in 2021. Casey is also a well-respected voice in the industry and was published in Common Ground Magazine.
"I am thrilled to be part of the DCPS team. The majority of my career has been spent in the roofing and renewable industries, and I look forward to continuing that tradition by utilizing my extensive experience in traditional and energy-efficient roofing for multi-family and commercial buildings providing best-in-class service and solutions to Colorado commercial property owners," said Colvin. "I am honored to be leading such an exciting enterprise."
About Denver Commercial Property Services
Founded in 2011, Denver Commercial Property Services (DCPS) provides commercial property services to over 1,100 clients across Colorado. DCPS leverages unparalleled customer service to be the dominant, one-stop provider of commercial property services in Colorado. With multiple offices, more than 500 employees, and 8 divisions - Asphalt and Concrete, Waterproofing and Specialty Coatings, Roofing, Commercial Cleaning, Snow Removal, Parking Lot Sweeping, Landscaping, Painting & Construction Services, and Interior Plantscapes & Holiday Décor DCPS provides specialized integrated service solutions to commercial property owner and managers.
For more information, visit www.denvercps.com or follow DCPS on Facebook at @denvercommercialpropertyservices or on LinkedIn.
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BIOSPECIMEN LEADER TO COMBINE GENTEST WITH RECENT IVAL ACQUISITION TO CREATE LEADING IN VITRO DRUG METABOLISM SERVICES OFFERING
HUNTSVILLE, Ala., April 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Discovery Life Sciences™ (Discovery), the biospecimen and biomarker specialists™, announced today that it has acquired the Gentest® business unit, part of Corning Incorporated's Life Sciences business. The acquisition of Gentest complements Discovery's recent acquisition of In Vitro ADMET Laboratories, LLC (IVAL) in December of last year and establishes Discovery as a leading provider of in vitro drug experimental systems to the pharmaceutical and life sciences industry.
The Gentest portfolio includes absorption and transport reagents, recombinant metabolic enzymes, tissue fractions, hepatocytes, other ADME toxicology products, and contracted research services. Their portfolio augments Discovery's existing ADME and toxicology solutions that include cryopreserved hepatocytes, enterocytes, and related services developed and managed by world-renowned hepatocyte expert Dr. Albert Li, Discovery's Chief Scientific Officer of Pharmacology and Toxicology.
Discovery's combination of these businesses strengthens its ability to provide science-based biospecimen drug and biomarker development expertise. It solidifies its position as the biospecimen market leader, as Discovery can now provide researchers access to one of the largest microsome and hepatocyte inventories in the world accompanied by associated leading-edge technologies and scientific services at scale. The result is a unique innovation engine that helps deliver actionable results to allow customers to navigate their drug development programs more efficiently and cost-effectively.
"We are excited to welcome the brilliant scientific experts and exceptional talent behind Corning's Gentest portfolio to the Discovery team," said Dr. Li. "Our combined decades of experience in the application of in vitro experimental approaches in the evaluation of drug metabolism, drug-drug interactions, toxicology, and pharmacology, plus our combined unparalleled technologies, allow Discovery to provide the most advanced and highest quality in vitro products and research services to the research communities and drug development laboratories."
About Discovery Life Sciences and HudsonAlpha Discovery
Discovery Life Sciences is the company of Biospecimen and Biomarker Specialists, combining the world's largest commercial biospecimen inventory and procurement network with preeminent multi-omic biomarker service laboratories to accelerate new therapies supported by biomarker and companion diagnostic programs for cancer, infectious disease, and other rare and complex conditions. We are a leading provider of highly characterized human cellular starting materials and expert multi-omic analytical services to advance cell and gene therapy research, development, and manufacturing programs.
HudsonAlpha Discovery® is Discovery's sequencing and bioinformatics division ─ a globally recognized service laboratory that leverages the most current genomic research technologies to support discovery, translational, and clinical research comprehensively.
Driven by leading scientific expertise and innovative use of current technologies, the Discovery team engages and consults with customers to overcome obstacles more rapidly and obtain results to make critical research and development decisions at market-leading speed. We are Science at your Service™! For more information, visit dls.com.
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- This is one of the highest bounties ever offered on Bugcrowd and 10x the highest reward previously offered by ExpressVPN
- ExpressVPN invites researchers to focus test its TrustedServer technology
- TrustedServer is the world's most advanced VPN server technology that has been providing essential privacy protections for ExpressVPN users since 2019
TORTOLA, British Virgin Islands, April 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Leading consumer privacy and security company ExpressVPN is offering US$100,000 via Bugcrowd's Bug Bounty solution to researchers who can find and demonstrate a critical security bug on ExpressVPN's in-house technology, TrustedServer.
It is the highest single bounty offered on the Bugcrowd platform and 10 times higher than the top reward previously offered by ExpressVPN, showcasing the company's commitment to providing essential privacy protections to its users.
Nick McKenzie, Chief Information & Security Officer, Bugcrowd, says, "We're uber excited to see a leader in the online privacy and security world stepping up collaborating with our community of cyber researchers, to ultimately work together to ensure a safe online experience for everyone. ExpressVPN's ongoing partnership with Bugcrowd since 2020 demonstrates its commitment to a strong security posture and a constant drive to improve the security of its products and services. We hope this incentivizes more researchers to join the crowd, and be a part of finding solutions to secure the digitally connected world."
ExpressVPN built TrustedServer technology to significantly minimize problems that traditional server management pose. On top of having an independent audit by PwC to confirm TrustedServer's security-enhancing claims, ExpressVPN is taking a further step by rewarding the people who help them improve their security.
Shaun Smith, Software Engineering Fellow at ExpressVPN and the architect behind TrustedServer, says, "TrustedServer is already the world's first and most advanced VPN server technology, and we want to work with the community to elevate it further. This means using the ingenuity of Bugcrowd's security researchers to help us further improve the security of TrustedServer. It was important for us to demonstrate how seriously we take this contribution and are excited to see what the community comes back with."
Smith continues, "Traditionally, VPN infrastructure may be vulnerable to several privacy and security risks. This is because most traditional approaches to managing server infrastructure cannot account for various security and privacy risks that are important for VPN service providers to mitigate. We built TrustedServer to address those risks, and make the same solution scalable, consistent, and secure across all our servers."
ExpressVPN is inviting Bugcrowd security researchers to test the following types of security issues within its VPN servers:
- unauthorized access to a VPN server or remote code execution
- vulnerabilities in ExpressVPN's VPN server that result in leaking the real IP addresses of clients or the ability to monitor user traffic
To find out more and participate in the bug bounty head to https://www.expressvpn.com/blog/bug-bounty-bonus-vpn-server-vulnerabilities/
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About ExpressVPN
Founded in 2009, ExpressVPN is one of the world's largest providers of VPN services, enabling users to protect their privacy and security online with just a few clicks. The company's award-winning software for Windows, Mac, iOS, Android, Linux, routers, and browsers secures user information and identities with best-in-class encryption and leak proofing. With servers across 94 countries, ExpressVPN provides a fast connection wherever users are and offers uncensored access to sites and services from around the world. To learn more about ExpressVPN's privacy and security solutions, visit expressvpn.com.
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Headless commerce platform received highest overall rating by customers across the Gartner Peer Insights™ Digital Commerce report
SEATTLE , April 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- fabric, a headless commerce platform purpose-built for growth, today announced that it has been named a Strong Performer in the 2022 Gartner Peer Insights™ 'Voice of the Customer': Digital Commerce report. The report is based on a culmination of feedback and ratings from end-user professionals who have experience purchasing, implementing and/or using a product or service, and fabric received the highest overall rating by customers on the Gartner Peer Insights™.
Drawn from a collective pool of 23 verified customer reviews and ratings, fabric secured an overall rating of 4.7 out of 5 stars in the Digital Commerce category, and a 91% approval rate from customers who expressed a willingness to recommend fabric to their peers, as of January 2022.
"Recognition in this year's Voice of the Customer report for Digital Commerce captures the commitment we have in delivering a world-class headless commerce solution to our customers," said Faisal Masud, CEO of fabric. "We have built the industry's best API-first modular commerce platform that is built for the needs of modern growing brands."
Today's recognition follows a historic period of growth for fabric, coming on heels of the company's $140 million Series C round, led by SoftBank, at an approximate valuation of $1.5 billion. With the new funds, fabric will accelerate product development of its headless commerce suite through automation and intelligence, as well as expand its global footprint. The past few years have already seen several retail and eCommerce executives join the company including leaders from Amazon, Afterpay, Google, and Restoration Hardware. In 2021, fabric achieved 4.5x year-over-year revenue growth.
You can download a complimentary copy of Gartner, Inc. March, 2022 "Voice of the Customer" report.
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About fabric
fabric is a key component of the modern commerce stack. By democratizing access to best-in-class digital commerce tooling, fabric allows merchants who aren't served well by Shopify, Oracle, or Salesforce (and other hosted platforms) to thrive in an e-commerce world. Customers like BuildDirect, GNC, and MSC trust fabric for its open and modular design that allows them to be live within just a few months without having to replatform. fabric is a force multiplier on retailers' existing technology investments proven to grow digital revenue by up to 3x. Headquartered in the Cloud Capital Seattle, Washington, with offices and customers around the world, fabric is backed by SoftBank, Glynn Capital, Forerunner Ventures, Stripes, B Capital Group, Greycroft, Norwest Venture Partners, Redpoint Ventures, Sierra Ventures, Innovation Global Capital, Ascend Venture Capital, and Expa. To learn more, visit https://fabric.inc.
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